​This course gives you a stripped down strategy to do your keyword research and start making money with your blog with affiliate marketing.

Do you really want to make a lot of money with your blog? Here is the first key ingredient.

Instead of creating multiple random blog posts, follow the strategy of less articles grouped into a content cluster. You will show to Google that you are an authority and get better rankings.

The key to website traffic is long-tail keywords that have low competition.

It’s important to know that competition scores should only be used as a filter to find possible keywords.

I am going to show you the best tools to do your keyword research.

Now let's do keyword research that will provide content ideas for the next two years.

One web page can rank for multiple keywords. So why don’t we focus on optimizing content to target dozens of similar and related keywords?

The next step is putting together an intelligent link building strategy.

Content marketing has changed. Writing more content no longer guarantees you more traffic simply because there are over 1 billion blogs competing.

Once you have a list of topics for your content clusters, it's time to create blog posts. The beauty of this strategy is that you don't need to create content endlessly, you can focus your time on making money.

Now I am going to break down the post that made me several thousand dollars.

This set of results come from the same long-tail strategy. There is blog traffic only, simply because these weren't really monetized well.

Once you have published your post, your job is not over. You will also need to jumpstart the traffic and get socialshares.

If you don't face the fact that you need links in order to rank and get traffic, you are wasting a lot of time.