ant_arias

sounds like a good course for ecommerce. Will look into it if it becomes available again.

realestate1022

Great to hear that you are plugging away and trying different things. A big part of your problem I suspect is not getting into the head of your customer.

My advice: Start thinking like your customer. What do they look for in a horse saddle?

Start drilling down. With horse riding saddles, there are quite a few subniches. The typical cowboy is might be more apt to buy in the general store rather than on that fancy internet thing. (complete assumption on my part). Horse competitions (like jumping horse) who might tend to use different keywords like equestrian rather than horse or tend buy things in bundles. Or polo riders who need to have quite a few horses but want nothing but the best in equipment.

You’re Still Using A Heavy Saddle? and you have the nerve to call yourself a polo player. For the first time there is an extremely lightweight saddle that yada yada yada….

In my opinion, there isn’t much on your webpage that makes you stand out from everyone else. Offering a lower price to differentiate yourself from others is not a good long term profit strategy.

Ranchers: Does riding on your saddle feel like you’ve sit on a log?

Or

Wyatt is Able To Sit in a Chair After a Long Day of Riding in his Saddle – Are You? It wasn’t always this way, you see Wyatt used any old saddle for his horse. That is until he discovered …….

Incidentally, articles take time to create traffic and need to be plentiful (Tim Gorman has great advice about articles). Did you find the number one site on Google for whatever it is you are selling and run whatever you were trying to sell through google adwords keyword tool to find out what keywords most people search on? Are there enough numbers for it (ie demand)? Is there enough profit to go around?

Are you going to stay with horse saddles or switch to something else?

My advice. Stay with a field, learn it and cultivate it, reinvest. Build that list and develop a relationship with your list. How do you develop a list? Are there lists that already exist in your field that you can offer free things (that actually have value) to the people on various lists? Make sure what you have to offer solves some problem. Then contact the list owner and make a deal.

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The Expert

I just wanted to share my current experience with everyone here on how this course has panned out for me.

I signed up for Niche Blueprint in early January. I had all the training by early February, but because of other things in my life was not able to put together and launch a NB ecommerce site until about March 15th.

It was indexed on 22nd of March and rang in at spot 345 out of 363,000 for my targeted keyword phrase.

I was very busy and not able to really promote it for almost a month other than submitting to a few high-PR directories. Regardless the site jumped to about spot 300 on the 29 March and then hung between 275-300 until the 18th of April when it jumped to spot 120.

This was right about the time when I started actually distributing articles and such. On April 29th the site jumped to spot 55.

I made my first sale right around then. Dunno how as I only had a few articles distributed, a few forum sig links and such...so I did not know how I got found.

At that point I really began to turn up the intensity on promoting the site. Paid someone to submit it to 1,000 directories, paid someone to hunt down a PR5 DoFollow blog comment, and wrote more articles.

For all my work the site was stuck in a serious rut. It hovered between the 40 and 50 mark for 3 weeks, regardless of all this work. Only yesterday did it start making adjustments.

I still managed to sell two more somehow. Net profit on each sale is about $23.

Did some quick research in awstats and found that over the last 30 days I had about 500 visitors to the site. Most came from google for various long-tail keyword phrases and not my target keyword.

This gives me a lot of hope, because after consulting with a few SEO experts they said they were impressed with the site and I was doing the right things off-page. If I can glean 3 sales, from 500 hits on non-buying keyword trickle-traffic, then I'm sure that I can probably make 4 or 5 sales for ever 500 hits on my targeted keyword phrase.

My niche has a 687 SEOT value for my target keyword in phrase match and 87,000 competing pages in phrase match.

With all the work I'm doing(articles, forums, Angela's Backlinks), I expect my site to "pop" over the next 21 days into the top 3 positions. I've had some of my ebay affiliate sites follow this same pattern and they had a "pop" into the top ten and I hardly EVER do any off-page work for my lite ebay affiliate sites.

This road has not been easy, but it's not "hard" either. Just frustrating, time intensive, and requires a lot of patience while rouding up links.

I've very excited about the direction this is going though. It's something my wife can do. She's good at selling/shipping things on ebay, so I can train her on how to manage the site on her own. From there I can build and promote the next one.

I really believe that this course was a major blessing for me. I would have NEVER considered an e-commerce site myself had I not been introduced to it through this course. The keyword hunting traininig was crazy good, and with a few tweaks I was able to better hunt keywords for my ebay affiliate sites.

Judging by past experience, I hope to be netting about $7,000 p/month between this Niche Blueprint e-commerce site and my fleet of ebay affiliate sites.

It all has come at the right time, because I'm going back to school full time in the fall, and it looks like I'll be able to have enough breathing room from my online business to be able to do it withough ripping an ulcer through my gut from financial stress.

I'll give a further update after I score a top-10 position for my targeted keyword.

INFOSEEKER-2009

Thanx "nursehoney" ... for taking the time ! ! !

solidsoul

anyone else buy this yet?

schnisz

I got it the first time around, built a site and have it on page 1 for my keyword. Its actually been there awhile. The training is excellent and the seo stuff works for sure. My problem is I picked the wrong item. I guess what I am selling, people dont buy online. The beauty of the program is you can start again with a new niche and keep building sites. I am still deciding whether or not to revamp my pricing on my current site, or just start a new one. Not wild about the site template though, some experts here have looked at my site it and said basically that it sucks.

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The Expert

Quick update guys.

My site is now ranking #3 for it's targeted keyword and #7 for a related (higher traffic) keyword. Traffic is averaging more than 350 uniques p/day and two days ago I almost cracked 500 uniques.

Bad news is that the site is not converting well at all. Nowhere NEAR the 5 sales p/day that I need to make in order to make $100 p/day as was my goal. I'm getting sales trickling in at less than one p/week since June kicked off.

Also, I had one lost customer call in a panic saying that the tried to buy an item three times and that Paypal rejected the sale all three times but that he had 3 charges showing on his end for $150 each yet there was nothing on my end...no abandoned shopping cart or anything.

They were just authorizations and cleared off next business day but it showed that at least ONE person who was trying to buy was not able to do so and I had NO record of it. How many more were going down like that?

Then another story came in. Guy emailed me and said he tried to buy but his card was rejected and he went to a different site to buy. Again...no record of his existence on my end.

The Niche Blueprint people were very helpful and tried to help me out...but dunno what's wrong at this point. I'm thinking there is a major malfunction in the software itself which is ghosting my customers without a trace.

I don't have time to try and integrate a different store platform so I think I'm going convert the site over to an Ebay affiliate site completely. Unless the traffic itself just does NOT convert, then I should be able to get close to $900 p/month profit out of the site which is way better than what I"m doing now as I am losing $45 p/month in hosting and merchant fees.

While I'm not happy with the way this turned out on the Ecommerce side of things...the SEO knowledge has carried over very well and I'm using skills gained from this course to build affiliate sites that are starting to rank well for their keywords.

The Expert

Coolio,

There is a way to set the software to "Sandbox" so that you can test the PayPal payment gateway...but that involves setting up two Sandbox Paypal accounts. I didn't want to do that so I just made a "dummy" product that was $1 and bought it from myself.

The checkout process worked find, so that puts me more in the dark as I have no idea how many orders are getting killed and how many are going through just fine. Every now and then an order trickles through...just not at what I'd expect with this level of traffic.

I'm crossing 500 uniques p/day now. I'm pretty sure I'm going to convert it over to an eBay affiliate site now. With that level of traffic it has the potential to go to $1000 p/month in commission.

djbory

Hey Expert,

I bought the Niche Blueprint Course as well the second time around but I haven't had the time to start with my first project yet. I see you're not happy with your conversions on the site and you said ebay sites rank faster in Google Search Engine and converts better; my question is this: Do you think is better to stay with ebay sites or would you still keep building Niche Blueprint Style sites.....

Your respond will be greatly appreciated, since I have to make a decision now on what to do...

DJBory

schnisz

I have similar traffic numbers however no sales. I have had some veterans on the board look at my site and they said the template is terrible and could be part of the reason for the no sales. Only advice I was givin was to hire somebody to "spruce" it up. Not what I wanted to hear.

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The Expert

djbory,

I'm now #1 for my keyword and sales are just trickling in still. If I was getting 2 sales p/day I would keep it as an E-Commerce Style site as that would add up to about $40 p/day in profit for 8 mintues work on my wife's part processing the orders. That would be a $1200 p/month income stream and I wouldn't mess with it. But it's not doing that.

If you search for my posts in the WSO section you'll see I'm selling a Ebay Jewelry Affiliate Site. It pulled down $380+ last month and it only ranks #1 in Yahoo...not Google. That site could EASILY have it's revenue doubled...maybe even tripled if I invested the time to get it ranking in Google.

So in my mind, that site is a $1,000 p/month site and it doesn't get 1/3 the traffic that this Niche Store site does!

My Ebay sites rank well in google because they are built on Wordpress and here's the goodies I put in to the base platform:

1) phpBay plugin to pull the items in for display from Ebay
2) All-In-One SEO pack for SEO.
3) Search-2-Post Plugin for auto-content generation
4) Automatic Social Poster for Bookmarking and Fast-Indexing
5) LinkBuildingSolutions.com for 3-Way Link Building
6) Half-Descent 3-Column theme that can be made to look like a basic e-commerce site

These sites rank FAST (the one I put up 2 weeks ago droped in at spot 267 out of 300,000 and is now at spot #67) and are easy to create maintain. Takes just as much time to promote them though.

I'm thinking that 10 sites that bring in $1,000 p/month in affiliate revenue might be a more realistic goal then these Niche Blueprint e-commerce sites which don't seem to be working as planned. At least I'm seeing consistent results across the 6 phpBay sites I've got going right now.

RyanPiccolo

I found that the templates they provide suck too. I took the time to design my site and now it looks pretty professional. Still trying to rank for my keywords and I still have a PR of 0. Hopefully things will turn around soon. I have a few more stores I want to create too but I want to see a little more progress on this first one before I start another.

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The Expert

Update:

My site has been #1 for it's targeted Keyword for a full week now. Strangely enough, there was NOT a big jump in traffic at all when I went from the #2-3 spots to #1. Maybe 10% more uniques p/day at best.

The site is pulling in anywhere from 350 unique visits p/day to 575 p/day. In the past week I've earned 5 sales which generated just under $100 in profit for the week.

At that rate the site is a $450 p/month site and that's no good for that level of traffic.

Again, I'm going to convert mine over, but as I'm working on 4 other Review Sites right now, and this one is currently producing money, I'll convert it when the others are done. It's going to be a bit of a pain with all the 301 redirects and all.

mmancha

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BrandonBourne

You've got the right idea, Angela's links and dofollow backlinks in general will help you rank faster. I saw that you rose to #1 with one of your sites and the traffic didn't increase much. Are you optimizing that site for a high traffic keyword?

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Niche Blueprint is incredible. I can't believe the rankings I have been able to achieve using their system. Thanks guys.

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