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I’ve seen a few people post support tickets about in-text links that go to bad Clickbank products or 404 pages. Unfortunately, there are many bad or discontinued products in the Clickbank marketplace. It’s nearly impossible to remove them all from the uContext system.

However, there is something you can do. Try setting your “Min. Gravity” to something very low, but still above zero.

For example: 0.1

To do this, go to the uContext members area and click on “Websites”. Then, click on “Filters” under your website’s settings.

Because gravity is linked to sales activity, this will help filter out products that no longer have affiliates promoting them or making sales at all.

If you’re still not seeing affiliate links by now, here are a few things to check:

• Do you have the uContext plug-in installed, activated, and configured with your API Key?
• Are your links a color that is easily visible and contrasts the other text on the page. Consider changing your stylesheet to make the links easier to see.
• Have you rolled your mouse over the links in your content looking for URL’s with “ucontext.com” in them?
• Is your content long enough? A minimum of 300 words is recommended. Anything less and uContext will struggle to find keywords.
• Do you even have keywords? In other words are there specific words or phrase that you use more than once throughout your content that best represent the primary topic of your blog post?
• Are you using uContext filters and are there enough Clickbank products left related to your website’s topic to promote? Look for the bold number highlighted in yellow in the filter settings of the uContext members area for your website. Its better to start out with all products available and slowly refine your filters over time.
• Clear your cache from the uContext plug-in settings area after you make changes to your filters. Access several pages on your website. Wait 5-10 minutes and reload those pages before looking for uContext links again.
• To see if the plug-in communicating correctly, go to “Pages” under your website in the members area. If you don’t see pages from your website listed after activating the plug-in, visiting a few pages, and then waiting 5-10 minute before refreshing those same pages, please contact support at the link below.

After you’ve evaluated the possible problems above, please use the support area if you continue to have problems.

http://uContext.com/support

You’ve got uContext installed. Links are showing up. But, you’re not getting any Clickbank sales yet? The problem is probably a combination of things.

• Not enough traffic
• Not enough quality of traffic
• Not enough buying traffic
• Your niche could be too general

There are literally thousands of ways to get traffic. We can buy it, we can trade for it, and we can optimize for it. But, there’s no doubt we need traffic to makes sales. But, that doesn’t mean we can’t make sales with low traffic numbers. That’s where quality, buying traffic is important.

If we had a blog on dog training and most visitors are teenagers looking for information about Snoop Dog’s next album, that’s very poor quality traffic. You need to make sure you’re tapping into audiences that match the niche. We probably want to locate people who either just got a puppy in the last several months or people who have dogs with behavior problems.

But, we also want buying traffic. With so much free information out on the Internet, we need to focus our traffic even more. Never underestimate the impatience of a person with a problem. Present them with a quick and easy solution to their problems and they’ll most likely buy the solution instead of wasting hours search around online. In other words, we like to think these are people sitting in front of their computers with their mouse in one hand and a credit card in the other.

This leads me to the quality of your website. And, the most important factor is whether or not your niche is too general. For example, does our dog training website have several posts about the classic car we bought last weekend? How about training parrots to talk? I’d say that’s still too general and off topic.

If you stray off the main topic, don’t go too far. Perhaps dog house plans and products for cleaning up urine stains would be a better choice. See how they might relate to someone with a new puppy or someone with a dog training problem? uContext tries to do this for you with the links it creates, but it needs the content on your website to give it hints.

Is the content on your website well organized and presented in a clear and profession manner? All too often I see websites that are crammed with advertisements surrounding and injected into the content of the website. Google Adsense here and there, random banners all around, and more Adsense scattered throughout the body of the content for good measure. Stop the madness! I doubt many people spend much time on a website like that, let alone actually click ads.

To summarize, get in front of the traffic by understanding who your audience is and what they want. When they visit your website, treat them right and many will trust you enough to buy. Put yourself in their shoes.

Upgrading your uContext account lets you see reports to help you understand your audience. What keywords are they clicking most and what offers are they seeing? You can also fine tune the exact Clickbank offers to best fit your visitors.

Go to “My Account” in the uContext members area to upgrade to get reports.

http://uContext.com/members

Yesterday I talked about keyword saturation and how to write content for humans and search engines. Balancing the two purposes might seem hard at first. The best thing you can do is write naturally for human visitors and then go back to make small changes and adjustments to get better ranking from the search engines.

Today, I’m going to talk about the length of blog posts. Many people will tell you many things about this topic. And again, its because this is not an exact science. My recommendation is a minimum of 500 words. Since the recent changes with Google’s formula, this is a safe minimum.

But, this is simply a guideline. The world won’t end if you only write a 490 word blog post from time to time. Sometimes there isn’t that much to say. On the other hand, how serious about blogging is a search engine going to think if you routinely write 1000+ word blog posts? Most search engines are going to think your VERY serious. Again, use your best judgement.

uContext needs content to find keywords and turn them into Clickbank affiliate links for you. If your content is too short, there’s a real good chance there aren’t that many keywords in your content to begin with. Your blog post won’t have any links if uContext can’t find keywords.

You’re probably saying, how am I going to get enough content for even just a 500 word blog post on a regular basis? There are actually countless ways to get inspiration and even borrow content. Here are a few of my favorites…

Article Directories – Places like ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com are huge directories of articles. By following their rules you can cut and paste these articles directly into your blog. But, the best way to use these articles is for inspiration or simply rewrite the entire article in your own words.

PLR – Public License Rights articles is content that you can get for free or buy. Much like the articles in article directories, you can use them as-is for free. Again, I recommend rewriting at least 20% of the PLR article to make it more unique. There is a lot of debate as to whether search engines care about duplicate content, but its best to take 15 minutes and avoid the issue altogether.

Google Alerts – I always knew about Google Alerts, but didn’t realize the power of this super simple tool until recently. This free service allows you to basically watch the entire Internet for keywords that you choose. When something new appears on the Internet, Google Alerts can send you an email digest or you can use your favorite RSS reader to watch as new content is found. This is a great way to get news and watch what other people are talking about in your niche.

Jeff Herring is the master of creating and re-purposing content quickly and easily. He has what he calls “Plug-n-Play” instant article creation templates. With more than 1,500 article on ezinearticles.com alone, who can argue with his authority on the topic!

Click here for more info…
http://uContext.com/articletemplates

Search engines use hundreds of factors to rank your blog posts in their directories. uContext uses a small subset of those same factors to find the best keywords and convert them into money-making affiliate links.

Today I’m going to discuss keywords saturation since its the most important factor all around. Too many keywords and search engines will think you’re trying too hard. Too few keywords and uContext won’t be able to create links. Not only that, but you’re much less likely to get the traffic from search engines you want.

So, what’s too much or too little? Unfortunately, knowing the answer to that question is not an exact science because search engines like Google and Bing won’t tell you their exact formula for ranking your website.

But, my recommendation is to pick one main keyword or phrase and 2 or 3 supporting keywords or phrases. For example, a main keyword might be “weight loss diets”. And, my supporting keywords might be “diet tips”, “low fat food”, and “weight loss recipes”. See how they all relate to each other?

The next task is to use them in your blog post. At minimum, you’ll want to use your main keyword in the title of your post. Also, use it in the first paragraph of your content, preferably in the first sentence. And, use it again in the last paragraph, preferably in the last sentence. To give it a little extra emphasis, I recommend bolding one use and italicizing the other.

And finally, use your related keywords throughout the body of your blog post. And, will all the keywords, don’t over-saturate your content. I recommend no more than once per paragraph. But, use your best judgement. Again, this isn’t an extact science.

Don’t forget about your human readers too! A good website is one that has enjoyable posts that entertain and/or inform. If visitors to your website find your content spammy and unreadable, they won’t stay long, might not ever come back, and are far less likely to click on your advertising links!

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