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stuck, frustrated, discouraged

by TAHERSYED34
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There have been questions plaguing me to move onto next steps with cpa and affiliate marketing but here are the following circumstances leading to my halt in the process:

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a. If I am getting ranked with low competitive keywords, then why am I not getting hundreds of organic search traffic and the site has been live for several months and some keywords on the first few pgs of google
b. Why am I getting spam comments from visitors that are fake trying to promote themselves

i. How do I delete them permanently forever

f. How do I get genuine responses in content posts

g. My posts are high in bounce rates
h. I look in search queries but there are nonsensical key phrases used to search and those that land on my site

i. I see no REAL clicks in search organic queries like literally zero how do I fix this?
j. My visitors are only 1 or 2 every few days and the difference is literally zero visitors but it says clicks but the chart shows ZERO clicks

k. I want to see a live audience visiting my site in real time how can I get them to do this
l. I am too lazy and bored writing unique content, if I hire someone else to do it instead of myself could I be just as successful (hey I am paying them you know)
m. How exactly do I start promoting cpa offers - the actual step by step becuz i have been accepted into 3 popular cpa sites its the promoting that is not making me take any action then the affiliate managers that are as close to useless as possible sending me automated msgs

Thanks for your feedback peoples
#discouraged #frustrated #stuck
  • Profile picture of the author TotalWebsiteControl
    are you sure that the keywords your are rankings for have search volume? if you want i can take a look and see...

    let me know buddy

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author TAHERSYED34
      Originally Posted by TotalWebsiteControl View Post

      are you sure that the keywords your are rankings for have search volume? if you want i can take a look and see...

      let me know buddy

      Thanks
      yeah definitely you could help id appreciate it.....why dont you PM me and we can talk more
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  • Profile picture of the author kilgore
    Obviously I haven't seen your site. But everything that you say makes me wonder:

    If you put yourself in the shoes of your target customer is your site any good? Almost everything that you mention has to do with search engines. Too often I see poorly implented sites, with nearly unreadable copy, laden with keywords, but devoid of any real value to human beings.

    But at least on my site, search engines don't buy all that much. People do. So if your site sucks, even if you do get some search engine traffic, it's unlikely to do you any good. Moreover, the best way to increase your search engine rankings is to have people linking to it -- and the best way to get people to link to your site is to actually have it be good.

    So if I were you, before I worried about writing or hiring someone to write new content, I'd do an honest assessment of what's already there. If the site wasn't yours and you had a friend who was in your target market, would you honestly recommend your site to them? If so, then you probably just need to focus on getting more traffic. But if not you've got a deeper issue that needs to be solved. And to be blunt, if you're "too lazy and bored" (your words, not mine) to create something of high quality, you might want to ask yourself whether you're just wasting your time. On the other hand, if you've truly got the drive and talent, it might just worth be putting in the effort to try to make it work. But only you can decide if that's the case.
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    • Profile picture of the author TAHERSYED34
      Originally Posted by kilgore View Post

      Obviously I haven't seen your site. But everything that you say makes me wonder:

      If you put yourself in the shoes of your target customer is your site any good? Almost everything that you mention has to do with search engines. Too often I see poorly implented sites, with nearly unreadable copy, laden with keywords, but devoid of any real value to human beings.

      But at least on my site, search engines don't buy all that much. People do. So if your site sucks, even if you do get some search engine traffic, it's unlikely to do you any good. Moreover, the best way to increase your search engine rankings is to have people linking to it -- and the best way to get people to link to your site is to actually have it be good.

      So if I were you, before I worried about writing or hiring someone to write new content, I'd do an honest assessment of what's already there. If the site wasn't yours and you had a friend who was in your target market, would you honestly recommend your site to them? If so, then you probably just need to focus on getting more traffic. But if not you've got a deeper issue that needs to be solved. And to be blunt, if you're "too lazy and bored" (your words, not mine) to create something of high quality, you might want to ask yourself whether you're just wasting your time. On the other hand, if you've truly got the drive and talent, it might just worth be putting in the effort to try to make it work. But only you can decide if that's the case.
      Yeah but why would you wanna write content when you could hire outsourcing companies to do that for you and you only focus on driving traffic.

      Just saying, you can't juggle multiple tasks at the same time, writing content is really time consuming.....all you have to do is market the site let the writers focus on their job to write content....*shrugs* IMO
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      • Profile picture of the author kilgore
        Originally Posted by TAHERSYED34 View Post

        Yeah but why would you wanna write content when you could hire outsourcing companies to do that for you and you only focus on driving traffic.
        Because unless you're willing to pay well, outsourcing companies are going to write crappy content too. Moreover, even if they did write well, you still need to have the vision to know what they need to write, to know what sorts of articles are going to be of use and interest to your customers, what tone is going to be most effective, what angle to take to differentiate yourself from your competition.
        Originally Posted by TAHERSYED34 View Post

        Just saying, you can't juggle multiple tasks at the same time, writing content is really time consuming.....all you have to do is market the site let the writers focus on their job to write content....*shrugs* IMO
        Of course you can juggle multiple tasks at the same time. That's exactly what an entrepreneur does every single day.

        And of course writing content is really time consuming. Work is time consuming -- that's life. And while you're right that you can outsource writing, when all is said and done you still have to answer the same question I asked above:

        "If the site wasn't yours and you had a friend who was in your target market, would you honestly recommend your site to them?"

        Is your outsourced writing going to get you to the point where you can honestly answer "Yes"?

        More to the point, why does the world need yet another site selling affiliate marketing techniques and what is it that you're providing that's going to make you stand out from the crowd? Because it's not enough to put up a mediocre website and hope that your keywords rank. What you're experiencing is exactly the result of that strategy.

        The way to succeed in business is to think about the customer. And then you think about the customer some more. And then you think about the customer again. And again. And again.

        And then you figure out how your own talents, abilities, skills, knowledge and interests can help you give your customers whatever they want in a way that's faster, cheaper, or better than your competition is doing.

        But take a look what you've done:
        1. You've focused almost exclusively on search engines, not the customer.
        2. You've picked a topic (affiliate marketing) that you obviously don't know very much about.
        3. You've chosen a business model that relies heavily on writing, though you obviously don't like writing very much.
        I'm not trying to be negative here. But I am trying to be realistic. While I don't believe for one second that "anyone" can succeed in online business if they just "take action" and "never give up" -- that's just a bunch of crap that MMO marketers spew to sell more of their products -- I do believe that a lot of people fail unnecessarily because they focus on business models that don't play to their strengths and because they aren't customer-focused. And I fear you are making this same mistake. I just don't see how outsourcing writing is going to fix it.
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  • Profile picture of the author reachintan
    Hi Taher,

    Please provide your website link so that I can analyze your site and recommend you with apt solutions?

    Thanks,
    Chintan
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  • Profile picture of the author TAHERSYED34
    my site is AffiliaTraining - Start Your Own Affiliate Business

    Took the advice from wealthyaffiliate as a paid member and implemented everything they wanted me to do to "promote them" and "make them money" teaching me how to "write content to sell their jaaxy keyword research program" and their "wealthy affiliate program"

    also i used their keyword research tool known as jaaxy that says that the keywords ive chosen helped me rank my particular pages on the first few pgs of google (eg pg 2 or 3) so why not no regular seo traffic?? I mean my site is 6 months or older and thats the length SEO takes to make it supposedly get me "hundreds of regular visitors"

    If you want additional data I guess I can give you my analytics sign in page so you can see the charts yourself.
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