1. Last weeks Local SEO webinar by Brian Tucker (even if you dont do Local SEO) 2. Manual Penalty Recovery by Dan Thies (8-10 weeks) 3. Proven affiliate niche to attack: one of mine 4. Q&A Webinar Agenda: February 26 2014 (might not be an hour today but quality, not quantity) 1. Dan Thies & Leslie Rohde run SEO Brain Trust, formerly Stompernet 2. Takes 8-10 weeks 3. Costs thousands of $ 4. May not work at all 5. Involves an insane amount of link removal work 6. Overlooks alternate traffic vehicle options Manual Penalty Recovery by Dan Thies 1. Visitors usually ready to buy 2. No persuasion needed about the product (unlike CB) 3. Vast sub-niches (75,000?), loads of good longtail keywords 4. Originally came from a cheap WSO + added SEO, not CL 5. Consistent $1k earner, almost $4k in December 6. Ignored test site, accidental aff winner 7. 12.5% commission, paid following month in PP, transactions Pending>Approved few days, never not paid 8. BUT need to do this in a particular way A Proven Affiliate Marketing Niche (1 site = $3700 in Dec, you may not need another niche) So what are we selling? 1. We are selling tickets to all kinds of events: music concerts, musical shows like Spiderman, Phantom of Opera, Chicago etc, sports events, live events 2. This is all through TicketNetwork.com they have tickets for 75,000 events at moment (highest commissions) 3. UK ticket sales, including TN, through Affiliate Window 4. TN aff links NOT toxic to Google (I use uncloaked links by the truckload on each page) <show TN site> 5. Text links work much better than image links but make your site/s sizzle, depending on sub-niche <show e.g> A Proven Affiliate Marketing Niche 1. Search volumes are massive <show GKP results> 2. Longtail rankings are all that you need 3. But with STH blueprint, I have good Page 1 rankings on high volume terms e.g. 30-40k against the biggest names in Tickets (#2 with 1 month old new PR0 site) 4. Cant reveal my specific sites because theyre backlinked with my private blog sites 5. See TN aff report on 1 site here <show TN report> 6. Las Vegas show-related search terms have massive search volume A Proven Affiliate Marketing Niche 1. Join Ticket Network directly or through Commission Junction, LinkShare, Inuvo, or Impact Radius (may need a site for evaluation) 2. Keyword research for specific sub niches 3. Set up site as a Discount Tickets site (this violates TNs TOS but they dont care) 4. Add plenty of text links for X tickets e.g. Click here for MASSIVE 1 Direction Ticket Discounts 5. SEO: press release, PBN, High PR links, Monosilo go after loads of longtails with high degree of Anchor text variation thats it, this niche converts (unlike most CB) The Monetization/SEO Blueprint 1. Using STH tactics, you can target: 2. Specific shows 3. Specific sports 4. Specific teams 5. Specific artists 6. Specific cities (e.g. national tours) 7. Specific festivals (e.g. music festivals) 8. Specific music genre (e.g. authority site/s) 9. USA and/or UK shows The Monetization/SEO Blueprint Q & A?