Creating landing pages for affiliate marketing
Affiliate marketing is a means to monetize your blog or website. You can recommend products on your site with a trackable link from your affiliate partner, or put that link in an ad. If someone clicks on the link and buys a product through your site, you’ll get a commission.
Especially if your site has many visitors and high credibility, you’ll have a good chance that your audience is willing to follow your recommendations. Still, it’s definitely a good idea to give some thought to how you implement affiliate marketing on your site. For instance, do you write blog posts to promote affiliate products, or create separate pages? And if you choose the latter option, what’s the best way to do that? Let’s discuss in today’s Ask Yoast!
Davide Roccato emailed his question on the subject:
I want to create a number of landing pages on my news blog, targeted for affiliate marketing. What’s the best way to do this from an SEO point of view? Should I create them as pages or should I create a new custom segment so these are parallel to my blog post and pages?
Watch the video or read the transcript for the answer!
The best way to create landing pages for affiliate marketing
“Honestly, from an SEO point of view, it doesn’t really matter. What works best for you in the backend it’s probably what works best. The only advantage that a custom post would give you is that you’d have a separate section in Yoast SEO to set the titles, a separate XML sitemap so you can see their indexing process in Google Search Console a lot better, so you’d get slightly better handling on the SEO side. But I don’t think that it has to be a problem so just choose what works best for you. Good luck.”
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Very clear video! somethimes it is easier to watch a video than reading about it.
HEY,
Great informative post. thanks for sharing it.
thank you.
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Hi Raj, Great to hear you’re enjoying our posts!
Please correct your spelling. The word is “Separate” not “Seperate”. If you don’t believe me…here’s your link:
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/separate-seperate/
Hi Korky, we do believe you! Just missed it. We’ve corrected it now.
A well-designed and attractive landing page is essential for converting visitors to buyers.
Thanks for the wonderful update.
What if you’re cloning pages and split testing headlines etc? What’s the best way to keep from being penalized due to duplicate content etc?
Hi Gene, If you’re testing for conversion you should either make sure that during the test the cloned version of the page isn’t indexed or you should use the canonical link element to point to the original version: https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/
Very useful post Joost. We have been using Yoast SEO on all of our clients’ websites for landing page optimization. It not only guides to write titles, meta descriptions, focus keywords but also helps to improve the readability of the content. So , it’s very true that Yoast SEO helps in creating effective landing pages.
Here are my suggestions on how to use Yoast SEO for better results: https://www.gwebpro.com/yoast-seo-helping-you-optimize-your-blog/
Thanks for these nice words, Mandeep! Glad you like our tool.
We have been using this tool for years and being a Toronto based SEO company, we use it on all our clients’ WordPress sites for better optimization. The plugin comes with so many features that we have never felt of using any other SEO plugin available in the market.