Newbie request for Site Review

Hi Pete,

Well for someone who is "very new to all this" you need to pat yourself on the back!

The site is an excellent start for your first project.

Jake has done an excellent job covering all the 'how the site should look' stuff, and to be honest there's nothing I can add there, other than you need to make sure your 'home' link remains in your navigation bar all the time.

We all know that clicking the site name in a wordpress site will take you home, but just assume that the world hasn't got a clue about anything and then everybody will be able to navigate your site.

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*Posts*

Pete, some of your blog posts are far too long.

I know you have used PLR articles (and have cleverly thought to include contextual links - well done) but putting three related articles into one post is not the best way to go about it, as there's just far too much to read in one go.

My suggestion?

Use Categories. Add a category called "Homeopathic Tinnitus Remedies" and then add the three articles as separate posts in that category.

The posts will then be easier to read, and the site will also have 'more' posts.

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*Dates*

Pete, it would be best to remove the date from your posts. As they are just articles, and not real blog posts, your site will 'date' very quickly. People want up to the minute info, and your site is already a month out of date!! Your last post was October 5th and the previous one was TWO whole months before that, so readers will think the site is neglected and won't have anything currently relevant to their needs. (You'll need to edit one of the wordpress files which you'll probably wont have a clue about so I'll happily do this for you if you don't know how - takes about 15secs, lol.)

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*Okay, lets get to the money!*

Well done on using ClickBank right off the bat. Most Newbies go for Adsense or Amazon, but you've worked out that 50% commission is way better that %10! Well Done.

Here some idea's for you that will up the income significantly.

1. Consider Your Niche.

At present you are positioning yourself in the micro-micro-micro-niche of "Tinnitus Maskers", and indeed at present, only one of them.

You have one (very good) site to promote one main product, and although an excellent start I think you'll be severely limiting your massive potential for multiple income streams from this one site.

I suggest you broaden your niche to 'Tinnitus', then you can cover may other tinnitus related issues, and your articles like "Homeopathic Tinnitus Remedies" won't seem 'out of place' as they currently do.

I love how you are coming at this from a very PERSONAL perspective, and that's what you can really capitlize on. So many Newbies just knock out crap 'dog' sites who don't even own a dog!

2. Create a list of Information Seekers.

Your story is personal, and people like to read stuff about how other people have dealt with personal issues. Now you and I both know that Tinnitus is the medical word for "Ringing in the Ears" (I have various ear problems too), but there will be others that don't. And you can help them to understand. They can read that you have the same problem as them, they'll connect with you, and if you build uop a realtionship with them and come across as an 'authority' on tinnitus, then they will buy stuff that you recommend, and believe me, they will keep buying!!!

But to sell stuff to these people, you need too things. Their Name and their Email Address.
Here's what I suggets, other than a quick intro like the profile bit in the side bar, remove ALL your 'personal' writing from the site, and literally just leave the articles.

-- What?!?!?!

Yes I can hear you screaming! But listen, that personal stuff is valuable and shouldn't be there. Why? Cause most of your vistors wont get to read it! They will skim and move on, and the important stuff you want to tell them will get missed.

Now, put all of that personal stuff into 'Word', and add to it, write up your story, from the beginning - what was it like for you when the ringing first started? How did it effect you? Were you concerned? Worried? What about your family? Your friends? Did it affect your enjoyment of life?

Then continue your story with what you did about it. How did you solve that problem? Remember there will be people on the internet who are embarrassed about this annoying ringing sound in their ears and are embarrassed to mention it. Talk about the things you tried and whats out there to help others (include contextual links too)

Finish off with a summary, how you feel now, how much better your life is, and that you were spurred on to create a website to help others suffering as you did.

Finally add a list of resources including your website, and of course links to other products and services - most of which should be affiliate links, but do include others like government health info type sites, help groups etc, if you know of any, or can find any on the web. Obviously you don't really want to link to sites doing the same as you, since they'll grab your potential customer from you!!!

Oh and lastly ENCOURAGE the reader to share the report with others, ask them to email it to a friend or relative that may be suffering too. (say this first and last)

You have a great story, your story! Now Save it as a PDF and you'll have your very own (viral) report/ebook constantly creating income for you AWAY from your site.

Next, at the top of your sidebar tell your visitors you've written about your Story. You've worked hard on site to get the traffic, now you want them on a list of Tinnitus Information Seekers - People who will happily pay to relieve that annoying ringing in there ears!

Sign up with Aweber - they make it very easy for you to create some HTML code that you drop into a text widget at the top of your side bar.

Then go to Fiverr.com and pay five bucks for someone to do an ebook graphic for you.

People will readily give you their name and email address to get your personal story about how you beat tinnitus. Then when you discover other products and services that can help, you can send your list and email telling them how wonderful its - some will buy meaning more income for you!!

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*New Name*

Right, I think that's enough to be getting on with, now just one last thing, the name of the eBook.

I'm going to recommend:

"How I Beat Tinnitus"
by Peter Levin

I've also done a check and the domain name "HowIBeatTinnitus.com" is free so would strongly suggest you grab it!!

Your newly named site will then be ready to make you some real money. And you'll be able to do what you want to do - help others in the same situation as you.

And remember, there's plenty of people out there that will be happy to pull out their credit cards and pay for stuff an 'expert' like you is recommending they try.


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Well, Pete, here endth your lesson on how to begin making some real money on the internet and - all from your personal struggle with all that ringing in your ears!!

The trick is, once you've got that going on auto-pilot, you just rince and repeat!!

Don't forget, you can set up more articles to be posted in the future, one a week maybe?

I hope that has been an interesting read for you!!

Any way, good luck Pete. I appreciate this may all be a bit too far out of your present comfort zone, but hopefully you can see where the money really comes from now, and I'll be happy to help you out if you need it.

Best Wishes,

Paul.
PaulFosterMarketing.com


PS: I've just searched my database of half a million PLR articles and came up with a list of 89 with the keyword of Tinnitus. There'll be some repeats obviously, but I'll happily zip them up and email them to you if you want. At one a week, that's at least a years, worth of posts, lol.

Hi Jake.

You are right on the money! (so to speak!)

Yup, this was my first attempt at a "sniper site" for the keyword "maskers for tinnitus".

Thanks for the kind words!

I was so excited after I read "google sniper" that I went right after it. The problem is that even though my keyword isn't that great, I looked like it would be easy to rank for and I thought it would be good experience.

Now I did this within days of "Panda" coming out, so maybe that was the problem... but I wrote article after article hoping/expecting to rise in the google rankings and nothing kept on happening.

Then I got so frustrated, I kind of put it on a shelf in disgust for a few months so I could clear my head and take a fresh look at it. (I got too close to it!)

Anyway, thanks for the advice Jake! I'll work it in and hopefully we can get those sales starting up!

- Pete

Thanks for the tips, Andy. Thats some great stuff.

I'll see what I can do!