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

The Clicks Rise

I have been concentrating on writing articles for a select landing page and the results are beginning to pour in.  This graph is showing me that my articles are successful at getting people to click over to the sales page that the products maker has constructed.  Even though this is good news, it is not the final part of the money funnel.  These people still need to decide to buy or not to buy the product.  All of this is now out of my hands.  It is like hitting a golf shot.  Once the club contacts the ball you have no more control over it--sigh! The only thing that no sales from an increased click through rate can suggest is that your articles lack relevancy to the final product, or the product's sales page is no good.

Write like your life depends on it.

If you can get a good landing page--there are some products that provide good landing pages for you, and if you find the right keywords then you are ready for writing.  There is a guy at wealthy affiliates that has written over 700 articles in 3 months, but he has made $13000.00 in the process.

I have not written that many articles yet, but using the tools at wealthy affiliates I am able to track the clicks I am recieveing and they are definantly rising.  My sales are rising also.  What I need to do now is write, write, write.  This is the way to go unless you are loaded then you could spend, spend, spend your money on PPC.

Until Next Time
CW

Don't Offer Too Much

Well the lesson I learned today was, do not offer too much on your web page. I have been lamenting the fact that I get a lot of hits, but very little sales. Kyle, one of the founders of Wealthy Affiliates, reviewed my web page and told me that I was offering to many options on my web page which only made potential customers go back to research mode. Hmmm? It makes sense. I am cruising to buy a new gigmobile and when I get to the page I find that there are three models of gigmobiles and they are offered by several different companies. Instead of buying my gigmobile I will scratch my head and go back to researching.

Until Next Time,
CW