MyAffSite.co.uk - New Ownership/ New Feedback Wanted

[Rhubarb]

You can now see all of these updates live at the demo store:

BMX Bikes

Still looking for feedback and feature suggestions...

cheers

 

[Systreg]

Hi Dave,

How did you manage to get BMX Bikes up to page to 2 of Google serps so quickly :shock: ? Because before I sold that to you, it was nowhere to be seen on Google when I had my own myaffsite store on it

When you say 'not showing up in SERPS' do you mean at all, or in a high position? Do you have an example of a site that is under-performing against a competitors webpage on a specific keyword with similar backlink quality?

As an example, I had the following domains as stores on myaffsite:

carbonbikes.co.uk
mountainbikeframe.co.uk
mountainbikeframes.co.uk (I redirect it to one above now)

Initially, after registering those 3 domains, like with the BMX domain, I put myaffsite stores on them and they were on page 1 of Google serps for a while, the traffic and sales were good, then gradually, they slipped further and further down serps and the sales dried up completely.

Doing a Google search for the exact term "carbon bikes" recently, I had to go all the way down to page 67 of serps for it to show up for that term, searching for "mountain bike frame" showed it somewhere around page 40, the best one of the 3 was "mountain bike frames", which is currently showing up on page 14 for the singular term "mountainbikeframe" domain, it was page 19 of serps before I put my own store on it, so it has improved slightly.

I was getting frustrated with how they were performing in serps, so in the past few weeks I removed those 3 domains from myaffsite to try them 2 of them as stand alone stores that I made, just to see if the serps would improve (it has with one of them as per above), but I wont know fully what they do until Google re-indexes them completely and updates my sitemap, as it's still showing them indexed on a lot of the old myaffsite store url's.

Annoyingly, 2 of them rank highly on Yahoo search, see links below, I wish it was the same on Google, as I know these would be good earners, like they were at the start:

mountain bike frame - search position #1
carbon bikes - search position #2 (it flips between #1 & #2)

I was really baffled by the serps problem, I thought that maybe Google was recognising the stores as being part of a network of affiliate myaff sites, like they recognise some parked pages and penalise them, except the stores were fully indexed, not de-indexed like parking pages can be, so I really have no idea why the bad serps results was happening.

An example competitors site would be carbonbike*/co*/uk which is also a fairly new site, that's on page 3 of Google serps, it has no backlinks at all, compared to my carbonbikes.co.uk site which was linked to my other myaffsite stores and a couple of my other non store websites, yet that competitor ranks page 3 and mine was on page 67

 

[Rhubarb]

Hi mate,

Yeah, basically, following feedback, we have already improved the SEO functionality of MyAffSite stores to include some of the on-page factors, but also things like adding content blocks, increased article functionality, sitemaps, privacy policies, copyright notice, etc all of which are now defaults on any MyAffSite store.

In addition, on the Buy BMX site, I didn't feel like it was well optimised to the 'BMX Bikes' keyterm so I tweaked the on-page content a little.

In answer to your question about some kind of Google penalty, I have to say I have found no evidence of this (further backed up by the results being discussed). Yes, we provide a CMS for quck store set-ups, but with all the new content features we have added and the on-page dynamically generated modules that are now in place, I don't see any reason why it should be penalised.

After all, You wouldn't expect sites using Vbulletin forums to be penalised for using the same basic software before content?

I ams till testing many of the factors around the SEO of MyAffSite and also the clickthrough and conversion factors so expect even better store performance in the future (hopefully you will come back! ).

Cheers

 

[Systreg]

In answer to your question about some kind of Google penalty

Hi Dave,

I wasn't asking a question regarding Google penalties, that was just one of the things I thought up when I was racking my brains trying to think why all my stores were dropping down on Google results.

I might try my mountainbikeframes domain back on myaffsite, as I'm just redirecting that to the other frame domain at the moment, might be worth trying it on your site again now that you have improved a lot of stuff, and see how it ranks next time, cheers.

 

[Systreg]

[edit]

Scratch all that, playing around some more with the settings.

 

[rush]

Thats bringing some great items onto the front page.

Have you tried using just the keywords:

Front Wheel
Rear Wheel
Wheel Set
Wheelset

I've had some problems with the negative keywords, the 1st 3 or so negative words work, after this it just ignores them...could this be happening on your site? Try re-allocating the negative words to see if there is any effect?

 

[Systreg]

@ Rush,

You know what, I was getting so wound up I didn't even think of the bleedin obvious wheelset, wheel sets, front and rear, but adding those just fills the page with road bike wheels as well, so that doesn't really solve the problem, unfortunately.

 

[Rhubarb]

Yeah, currently you are restricted to the positive/negative keyword combinations which isn't always ideal.

The good news though is that the update after the next one will have some kind of ability to select from which merchant category keywords apply to so you can differentiate between products much easier.

We are getting there!

Thanks.

 

[boxerdog]

eeeewwww whats gone wrong??
just added netbooksleeves.co.uk and down the bottom its got links to mobile phones/paypal etc and its not the colours i chose and my featured product isnt showing

 

[Rhubarb]

Hi,

Looks like you selected our new 'Smooth' (BETA) template which was being worked on yesterday and will be finished off today. This only currently comes in one colour.

Alternatively, select 'Custom' and choose your colours for the old templates.

 

[Dunk111]

Errors

Hi i have a problem with Fishing Jackets jacket coat waterproofs | Fishing Jackets jacket coat waterproofs deals on custom it shows this error Parse error.: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/affsite/public_html/includes/leftnav.php. on line 465.

on Beta when you click on go to Store you get another error

Dunk

[email protected]

All my sites are the same

 

[Rhubarb]

Hi Dunk.

Sincere apologies. We are aware of this (due to the new template integration) and it will be fixed this evening.

 

[boxerdog]

i cant change from smooth back to custom?

 

[Rhubarb]

i cant change from smooth back to custom?

Is this still happening?

p.s Please PM me any support issues so the thread can stay on-topic.

 

[Rhubarb]

UPdate:

We have now launched the first of our new templates (called 'Smooth').

Here is an example of the template in action:

buy desktops

We are already seeing much better bounce rates and other analytics supporting the new templates performance.

Please feel free to provide any feedback!

Cheers

 

[nikita]

Hi Dave,

I've just registered for MyAffSite today and I'm looking forward to getting things up and running. Can you confirm the nameservers that my domains must point to, as the information on the MyAffSite website contradicts that given on the welcome email.

Please confirm,

Thanks.

 

[Systreg]

@ Nikita, these are the nameservers you should use:

ns1.webtistic.co.uk
ns2.webtistic.co.uk

 

[boxerdog]

iv not made a penny and not getting any clicks

 

[nikita]

@ Nikita, these are the nameservers you should use:

ns1.webtistic.co.uk
ns2.webtistic.co.uk

Although today's welcome email and the FAQ's on the MyAffSite website state I should use:

ns814.ukserverhosting.net
ns815.ukserverhosting.net

These are the nameservers I used as I assumed the new owner would ensure the welcome email was up to date for new registrants.

Thanks for your reply systreg.

 

[nikita]

iv not made a penny and not getting any clicks

Sorry to hear that boxerdog. How long have you had your site up? What's your position in the SERPS?