How to find other affiliates most successful content patrick stox
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affiliates most successful
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How to find other affiliates’ most successful content
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Who is Patrick Stox?
– I wrote for many SEO blogs, currently writing for Ahrefs blog
– I speak at some conferences, such as SMX, Pubcon, UnGagged, TechSEO
Boost
– I am the organizer for the Raleigh SEO Meetup (most successful in US), the
Beer & SEO Meetup, and the Raleigh SEO Conference
Judge: 2017/18/19 US Search Awards, 2017/18/19 UK Search Awards, 2018/19
Interactive Marketing Awards
– Founder of the Technical SEO Slack Group
– Moderator of /r/TechSEO on Reddit
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You can do keyword research and create content, but remember:
Source: https://ahrefs.com/blog/search-traffic-study/
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So, learn from your competitors
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Site explorer > Backlinks
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Search for URLs of backlinks that include “=” or “?”
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Identify affiliate parameters
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Filter to include that parameter and switch to all links (sorted by traffic)
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Also check affiliate networks
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Instead of links to booking.com, check links to http://c84.travelpayouts.com/
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This is the most trafficked
affiliate content!!!
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I’m filtering further by language
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The top content pages are tools
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This type of content looks easier to create
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Here, I’m exporting the top 1,000 pages to categorize them
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We already saw the most successful - tools
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~1/3 of top content is about where to stay or hotels
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Here’s how I categorized
the successful content
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Research content
Best – top lists
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Research content
Weekend getaways
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Research content
Ski – beaches – cruise
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Research content
City vs. city
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Research content
Costs
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Research content
Couples – kids – honeymoon – backpacking – pet friendly
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Useful content
Tools
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Useful content
Where to stay
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Useful content
Terminal guides
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Useful content
Events
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Useful content
Things to do
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Useful content
Specific experiences
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Useful content
Maps
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Useful content
Where to eat – shop – bars – things to buy
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Why is this content successful?
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How many external links do you need?
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Types of links
Coupon/Groupon
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Types of links
News/magazines
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Types of links
Informational references
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Types of links
Other travel sites
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Types of links
Forums/Reddit
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Types of links
Niche specific (LGBT, women, pet)
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Types of links
Local (city specific magazines, newspapers, newsletters, podcasts)
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Types of links:
Photos
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Types of links:
Spam
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How many internal links do you need?
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The content is truly useful and covers what people are searching for
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Suites
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Hotels
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Seals
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Parking
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Beaches
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Address
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Kayaking and snorkeling
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Top content covers most of the top searched terms
The content also covers related content topics that many of the top pages
also talk about.
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Many articles talk about the same things
– They list many of the same things to do, places to stay, etc.
– They list many of the same things to do, places to stay, etc.
– They list many of the same things to do, places to stay, etc.
– They list many of the same things to do, places to stay, etc.
– They list many of the same things to do, places to stay, etc.
… It’s not that interesting
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The best ones add their own expertise and experience
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Plus their own photographs and videos
This allows them to differentiate themselves from other sites
and serves as another valuable form of content.
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They also write many articles on the topics and link them together
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– Find successful affiliate content
– Look at why it’s successful and copy that
– Make it better by adding your own content, experience, & expertise
– Add internal links between relevant content
– Look how competitors are getting links
Summing up
Editor's Notes
- Traditional keyword research process
- Add reference
- If they can do it, so can you. This is all about research at scale
- crop
- Or ?
- Some websites block crawling affiliate links, which means we wouldn’t see the links going to the main site like booking.com but we would see the links to the affiliate path.
- Identify the patterns that different sites use. Travelpayouts is c followed by numbers that match up to different sites
- When you combine the data
- Which makes sense for booking.com, but the top content will probably change depending on the affiliate website.
- There’s no right or wrong way to categorize them
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- This is where you go back to keyword research
- Write content about things people are searching
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- I didn’t want to take someone’s copyrighted photos, but here’s an example from Ahrefs where we create our own unique images and video stills