Been busy

Well it seems like I have hit a wall.  Most weeks I am earning around $300 which is not bad for some extra spending money, but since I am unemployed at the moment it doesn't begin to cover my needs and I am writing all of the time.  I have wasted a lot of money trying to get PPC campaigns up and running.  PPC, for those that don't know, are where you pay search engines to place you ad when someone types in your selected keywords.  You only pay if someone clicks on the ad.

It is hard to get people to buy once they have clicked on an ad so you can end up losing a lot of money.  Anyway I have signed up for Jeremy Shoemaker's Shomoney program.  It cost around $200 a month, but if there is anyway to make a living as an affiliate, he will teach you.  This is simply the best program for the money.  You'd have to spend $1000 for this kind of coaching.  I'll let you know if I can break the $300 a week barrier soon.

By the way, if you visit Shoemoney and I recomend you do if you want to succeed, be paitent.  The Shoemoney page takes forever to load.

CW

Wierd Stuff

It is like someone turned a spigot off. Since about December 16 I have had almost no visitors and no sales. I am hoping that it is because of Christmas. I mean, who wants to buy anything but presents before Christmas. Since my product is mainly health related I hope the spigot will turn back on after the holidays.

This affiliate marketing business is weird. Anyway, like I have said before, I am going to succeed because I am not ever going to quit and I believe that short of death or disability that is the main key to success.

Merry Christmas!

$2000 mark and onward!

Things are beginning to go pretty well for me.  I have found some hot keywords to write about and I am getting this landing page creation down pretty well.  Excuse me but I am going to try something here just to see if it works.  If it does you should see a form for my free people search engine.





Cool, it actually worked. This is one of the projects I am working on to promote my free search engine. I figure if it works here it will work on my landing pages. Go ahead and give it a try!

Reached the $1000 plus mark!

Well things have finally gotten off the ground.  I still have a long way to go yet, but my first goals have been met.

1. Make My First Sale
2. Make My First $100
3. Make My First $100 Plus Day

I have learned how to get web pages listed in the natural search engines and now I am learning how to get them to stay there or rise higher.  Once you have a money making page that lists on the first page of Google for the key word you are focusing on you need to give it a little Google glue to get it to stick.

I write other articles that are more informative about the subject of my money making article.  I do not worry so much about key words and such with these articles.  I worry more about the quality of the content.  Then I submit these articles to as many high ranking article directories as I can.  I do not worry about changing any of the content since I am not really worried about whether these articles get listed or not.  These articles are written to get quality back links to my money making articles to keep them at the top of the search engine and maybe even boost them higher.

So there is my recipie for Google Glue.

Until Next Time!

More Sales!

Well, I have finally made multiple sales in one week.  I hope this is the future.  It is now Tuesday and I have made $116.00 since Sunday.  The one single change I have made to my money funnel is picking and writing about late cycle keywords.  This has jarred lose the funnel so it is starting to produce.

It turns out that there are keywords for each part of the buying cycle.  For instance when some one is first considering buying something he or she will probably be in the research part of the cycle.  If you write your articles with research type key words then you may get plenty of clicks but no sales.  Once I was made aware of this I switched to late cycle keywords, keywords that people search with when they are ready to buy.  So I will let you know how it goes.

Learn more at Wealthy Affiliate University.

Until next time,

CW

Fishing For Words

Just like my last entry stated about fishing for the right product, you also need to fish for the right  keywords.  This can be a pain, but each time you throw an article in to the pond so to speak you will have to watch to see if it gets nibbles or bites on its keywords.

Sometimes you can have brilliant copy but your keywords are words that no one is researching in search engines.  As you monitor your articles in places like http://www.articlesbase.com/ you should take note of those articles that start getting hits like crazy.  Check out the stats on such articles and see what keywords are getting the bites.  Once you have done that you now have those keywords to use in many different articles promoting your product.  All of this may seem confusing, but if you go to Wealthy Affiliate University and spend a measly $39 to check it out for a month you will be surprised at how much better you will understand it.  If you do, give me a shout.

Fishing

You know fishing isn't that hard to learn, especially bate fishing.  You put the bate on the hook, drop it in the water and wait.  You will catch fish if you do this where there are fish.  I am finding this to be true with affiliate marketing.  You can learn all of the techniques and execute them perfectly but if you have the wrong product you'll get nothing.

Part of the trick is trying different products with your techniques until you get a bite.  Remember not too many at once, just two or at most three.  Also if you do article marketing your testing only costs time.

Until next time