For competitive key phrases such as “Poker Stars Bonus” many webmaster are in effect at war to obtain the top rankings. Breaking down off page SEO to the very basics, the more links on other websites to your sales page, which include your key phrase, the more you will increase your ranking for the key phrase.

So for our key phrases ideally we would like to get as many links to our website as per the example below.

If you intend to sign up to Poker Stars then ensure you claim a Poker Stars Bonus of up to $600. Some sites will even offer you a seat in a $1000 freeroll.

Note how the link above includes our exact key phrase and links to our sales page.

Again I’m just teaching you the very basics. All links are not equal. Many links carry very little or no value whilst other links have immense power. We will discuss link building in greater details in other articles.

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is simply the process of optimising a web site by improving both internal and external aspects to generate increased traffic from search engines such as Google.

On Page SEO – The Very Basics

To give you a basic understanding of SEO lets imagine we have a poker bonus site such as www.tonyspokerdeals . We have created hundreds of quality articles for this fictitious webs site that link to our sales pages which we hope will entice our readers to click our affiliate links. Let’s imagine our site has a Poker Stars sales page targeting the key phrases “Poker Stars Bonus”

The actual URL of this page should be the actual key phrase we are targeting so in this case

www.tonyspokerdeals

For SEO purposes the actual heading of the page should also start with the key phrase we are targeting. So in this case…..

Poker Stars Bonus

It’s also a good idea to start your main body text with the key phrase or at the very least include the key phrase in the first line of the body text. So for example…

Our Poker Stars Bonus code not only gives you a great deposit bonus of up to $600 but also gives you a seat in our monthly $1000 freeroll tournament.

The key phrase should also be repeated at least a few times on the sales page. This is known as keyword density.

For those who are building affiliate sites for perhaps the first time I strongly suggest you use the All In One SEO WordPress Plug-in. This makes it easier for you to enter meta descriptions & meta keywords.

Your key phrase should appear in both the meta description and meta keywords.

To test your on page SEO you can use online tools such as the SEO Doc. This tool will analyse your page and advise you of changes so that your page is fully optimised.

The above are only the basics of on page SEO. I would strongly advise you to use Google to research further in regards to on page SEO and Keyword density etc.

An affiliate is simple someone who runs a web site sending their web sites visitors to another web site in return for commissions. There are three way affiliates can earn commission:

For each click

For each sale

For each lead

To become an affiliate you simply visit the vendor’s website, enter your contact and payment details then wait for the vendor to approve your application. Once approved you are given a unique link that you can easily paste on your website. The links contains a unique tracking code so that the vendor can keep track of commissions owed to you. Signing up to an affiliate program should always be free. If you are asked to make any payment then steer well clear!