seo and affiliate marketing blog

If you haven’t already read steps 1 - 5, you might want to do that first:
Step 1 - Picking a domain name
Step 2 - Research the niche
Step 3 - Building your site template
Step 4 - Building a Product Page
Step 5 - Putting Your Site Together

Sitemap
Create a sitemap and keep it updated. Link to every section and page you put on your domain. Making a sitemap and linking to your own products or services, plus listing them again on your main page, should keep your all your pages indexed.

Product Map
If you sell products, like As Seen On Tv Affiliate Program, then make a product map for your site as well. Link to any pages you build that are just for the products. Also, link to the buy pages (your affiliate links). So you have a link directly to your page on your site, but then have a buy product now link as well.

Niche Map
If you have several niches or themes on your domain. Make a map of all your niches, link to each niche. You can even seperate niche maps if you have too many.

Link to every map you build on all your pages. Link back to the main index from all page (which you already did in your template and the head image of your template )

It is always good to link to internal pages within your site. If you can link to every page on every page, then do it. Thinking of it as showing even the most unfamiliar surfer (the dummy that thinks email@emailsite.com is a website), how to find things on your site. If they can find it, a bot can too.

___________________________
Written by Tanya Martin from Over The Mark. Keep an eye out for more great articles and tips at her SEO and Affiliate Marketing Blog. Interested in having your linking methods evaluated or your affiliate system evaluated? Contact Debbie Bonventre at debbie@overthemark.com. or call 1.888.987.7861