I have started to make some really good extra cash in recent months through my art affiliate program that i run online through my various art blogs.

They offer 30% on all purchases made on their website from customers who click through from mine, and the main advantage i found was the high percentage of those who then actually buy something each time, because of the strength of this brand involved (art.com).

It has offered me some extra revenue whilst i build my various art sites, which i enjoy doing anyway, and they pay me through Paypal which is mighty convenient.

SEO Tips to Promote your Blog

After signing up with my affiliate program the money won’t just roll in, unless you have a steady stream of traffic already. If you do, great! If not, particularly for new websites, you will need to do some SEO work on your pages in order to get people clicking through and purchasing art items to give you your high commission.

If you use the links to the affiliate program in this post i will earn a little extra commission myself. With this benefit i will be happy to help promote your pages through link backs and other SEO blog advice that i have to hand. Please contact me through this post if you need any advice for attracting visitors to your sites, and i will respond quickly. For now, to help you along your way, find below some good basic tips for starting up SEO work to give you an idea of where you should start first, and which options available to you should get the best results with least energy. Hope they help, these are the sort of tricks that have made this art blog so popular!!

I found the following article on Yoast, a useful site with plenty of web-related articles that may be of use. I find them to be pretty up to date with the latest design comings and goings.

WordPress SEO – The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog

I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.

If you’re more of a visual type, try this WordPress SEO video. It’s an hour long presentation I gave at A4UExpo London, that covers most of what’s in here too.

As search, SEO, and the Wordpress platform evolve I will keep this article up to date with best practices.

As I take quite a holistic view on SEO, this guide will cover quite a lot, here’s the contents (click through to read the detail from his post):

1. The basic technical optimization: simplest stuff, highest rewards
   • 1. Permalinks
   • 2. Optimize your Titles for SEO
   • 3. Optimize your Descriptions
   • 4. Optimize the More text
   • 5. Image Optimization
2. Template optimization
   • Breadcrumbs
   • Headings
   • Clean up your code
   • Aim for speed
   • Rethink that Sidebar
3. Advanced technical optimization: preventing duplicate content
   • Noindex, follow archive pages
   • Disable unnecessary archives
   • Pagination
4. Nofollowing unnecessary links
5. Altering your blog’s structure for high rankings
   • Pages instead of posts
   • New wine in an old bottle: use well ranking-posts to rank even better
   • Linking to related posts
6. Conversion optimization: get those readers to subscribe!
7. Comment optimization: get those readers involved
   • How should you get people to comment
   • Bond with your commenters
   • Keeping people in the conversation
8. Off site blog SEO
   • Follow your commenters
   • Use Twitter
   • Find related blogs, and work them
9. Conclusion