I am quitting IM, 33 live Articles & No Single Sale

[ikepeace]

Please I need your help Fellow Warriors. I have been online full time for 7 months.During this period I have been engaging in just one niche , which is AFFILIATE MARKETING.These are my strategies:
1. I open free blogger accounts.
2. choose two products from Clickbank on relationship.
3. I have written more than 33 articles related to my product and submitted them all to Ezinearticles (but 33 articles were approved and are now live articles on EZA)and a few to articlesbase and articledashboard.
4. And i have most of these articles posted on my blogs.
5. Then i pinged them on pingler.com and pingoat.com.

But for the past seven months nothing have happened, NO SINGLE SALE. These are my blogs 500lovemakingtips4dmarried.blogspot.com, dmakingupmagic.blogspot.comand tips4haironfire.blogspot.com

PLEASE WHAT I AM DOING WRONG.

[Jason Perez O'Connor]

you have a clickbank link every two secs, and maybe you should cloak those , and it doesn't matter if you write articles if barelly anyone sees them. We need stats.

[Burtgummer]

Before I say anything. You have SUCCEEDED past the first obstacle of internet marketing...you took action! Give yourself a huge 'pat on the back' for that. You've done more than probably 60% of wannabee marketers out there.

Remember that quitting is a guarantee that you'll fail.

If you keep trying, you can still find success.

To me, it sounds like you are trying to do the approach of 1+1=2, or in other words, "If I submit articles and make a blogger landing page, I will make sales". That's not true at all, unfortunately.

Did you research your keywords for every single article? That's often a huge step that is skipped by many new article marketers. I know I skipped it for my first 40 articles. Some articles ranked (By some I mean 2....out of 40). The ones that are ranked get consistent daily views and clicks. Unfortunately, the Keywords they rank for are not buying keywords, so my sales are rare.

If I were you, I would take a step back, rethink what I'm doing, and come up with a PLAN of attack. Don't go through the motions. Create a plan that you can stick to.

And as far as your current articles.....are they getting views, and on top of that, are they getting clicks? What is your CTR in that case? What is your landing page's CTR? There are a ton of reasons that you might not be getting sales, and you need a way to track it down by using many of the available and free tracking resources, like Statscounter and Tracking202.

Do yourself a huge favor, and DO NOT quit. Just rethink your strategy.

[4freedom]

I applaud your focus. That is one of the first steps to making things happen. However, I question your niche. Let me explain. Great niche with lots of potential but also FLOODED with competition. So this begs two questions:

1. How are you differentiating yourself from the competition?
2. How are you winning traffic over the competition?

One way you can differentiate yourself is to offer a free ebook, free bootcamp or something like that. How about a BONUS if they purchase the product through your link. How about giving them OVER THE TOP information they can use today, right here... right now... as a tease of what is to come if they pick up the product. Or instead of creating "sniping sites" how about focusing on the building out of ONE main site with guest writers, bloggers, interviews and offer a multitude of products. In other words, become the AUTHORITY within your niche.

And what about keyword research? Are you targeting the keyword you have a chance of RANKING on the search engines for? Are both your article and blogs designed specifically to rank for a specific keyword phrase? If not and you are just doing a "get your ex back" type phrase - good luck getting any traffic because everyone and their ex is going after the same keywords.

I think you are on the right track - you just need to refine things abit.

[Troy_Phillips]

That little blogspot right before your dot com is not helping you any .

I haven't been to your site but I can promise you article marketing alone is not Internet marketing .

While you are trying to sell, a lot of people are just collecting emails and establishing relationships .

This is called list building . This model alone , although my favorite , is not Internet marketing .

You are wanting to give up on internet marketing and you are not really even in yet.

Sorry my friend... you are taking a dull knife to a gun fight .

[Istvan Horvath]

I am not an expert by any stretch of imagination... but after reading your posts and looking at the 3 sites you posted, I was thinking:

- if he misunderstands everything in this business in the same way as he misunderstood what a "niche" is, then we might have a problem
- "affiliate marketing" is NOT your niche, at least based on the websites/blogs presented
- your niche is something about relations, lovemaking and exback...
- your method (or business model) may be affiliate marketing = i.e. you are marketing other people's product as an affiliate

Another thing that got me thinking: 7 months full time and 33 articles? That's what? - One article per week? For a steady traffic in such a competitive niche you would need some more, I guess. And writing one article in every 6-7 day... I wouldn't really call "full time" working.

Do your articles generate any traffic? Are you tracking/measuring the traffic? Do you know the CTR of your articles?

These are just a few questions to think about.

Hope this helps (a bit).

[inter123]

Read the Terry Kyle experiment (post 601):

Terry Kyle’s Big 60-Day Backlink Experiment

He talks about loads of links from one site being ineffective. Perhaps distribute the 33 articles to other article directories.

Also Try creating backlinks through forums, web profile sites, etc. In the time it takes to write one 500 word article you can get about 10 backlinks from the forums, etc. Also ensure the backlinks you get are 'dofollow'.

I have been using a blogspot blogger to for one site, its difficult to know exactly how much traffic you are getting. You don't have the CPanel you get at website host places like hostgator where you can see exactly how many hits you are receiving. And you can't really use google analytics because it would involve having to add javascript code to you blogger HTML file which is not straight forward to do unless you are skilled at programming. You could try putting a counter on the blog but its again not great because you get a click everytime you visit the site.

[Deek3870]

Don't give up!!!

[yommys01]

Quitters never win and winners never quit. If you want to quit then do it but know it that you will still fail if you quit.

One of the people I respect most in life is Ben Carson, he has this believe that I like. He takes every 50/50 chance. I have read so many of his books where he said he had to carry out certain operations when he knew that there is a good chance of losing the patient but he had to do so many operations because the chances of some of the patient dying if they don't perform the operation is very high.

You have a 50% chance of succeeding online and that 50% can go up as high as 85% or even more if you take the time to learn what it takes to make money online.

It is good that you a member of this forum. This place presents an opportunity of making money without having to dig deep into your pocket.

Giving up is not the solution. The solution lies in keeping your head. See, I am a NIGERIAN and if you have been reading the papers for some time now, you will know that something is seriously wrong with this country and making money online from this part of world is almost impossible but here I am, making money online.

We have power supply for no more than 4 hours per day. My extremely slow dial up ( thank God I am now on broadband ) costs over $100 per month, clickbank does not accept us, paypal hates our face, people are curious and very scared to deal with any one from here.

All of the above are enough to make you want to quit but I never did and the story is now changing.

I understand your frustration. I have been there, I have seen it all but keeping my head made me what I am today. The best way to solve the problem is to take a look at what you have done so far and let warriors advice you on what and what you have done wrong or not too rightly.

[Steven Wagenheim]

I'm going to save you a lot of time. Your work ethic is horrible, probably
because you have NO clue what this business requires.

There is not one person here, who in the space of a forum post, can fix
your problem.

What you need to do is get a hold of a mentor and have them work out a
business plan with you.

I recommend Bev Clement.

That's all I have to say on this matter.

[Melanie Crouse]

First of all, good job taking action and sticking with it so far. You're a lot further ahead than most.

Here's my advice to you:

Take everything in the replies so far in this thread to heart and follow their advice. It is all good advice and they know what they are talking about.

For the articles that you submitted to directories: are you getting many views? have you chosen good keywords that you can rank for? Have you SEO'd your articles properly? One of the biggest things - is your resource box any good? Does it have a clear and strong call to action? Something like "If you want to {insert hyperlinked anchor text keyword here} click here." or something like that. What about backlinks? Have you built any backlinks to your articles?

As for the blogger blog, well, I guess most of the things I just mentioned apply there too.

Do yourself a favor and really work on your keyword research first to make sure you have good keywords with good traffic that you know you can rank well for.

And spend a little time each day building good backlinks.

If, after all that, you are getting good traffic but no sales, then maybe the product(s) you are promoting are no good or do not convert well.

[Jason Perez O'Connor]

Originally Posted by yommys01

Quitters never win and winners never quit. If you want to quit then do it but know it that you will still fail if you quit.

One of the people I respect most in life is Ben Carson, he has this believe that I like. He takes every 50/50 chance. I have read so many of his books where he said he had to carry out certain operations when he knew that there is a good chance of losing the patient but he had to do so many operations because the chances of some of the patient dying if they don't perform the operation is very high.

You have a 50% chance of succeeding online and that 50% can go up as high as 85% or even more if you take the time to learn what it takes to make money online.

It is good that you a member of this forum. This place presents an opportunity of making money without having to dig deep into your pocket.

Giving up is not the solution. The solution lies in keeping your head. See, I am a NIGERIAN and if you have been reading the papers for some time now, you will know that something is seriously wrong with this country and making money online from this part of world is almost impossible but here I am, making money online.

We have power supply for no more than 4 hours per day. My extremely slow dial up ( thank God I am now on broadband ) costs over $100 per month, clickbank does not accept us, paypal hates our face, people are curious and very scared to deal with any one from here.

All of the above are enough to make you want to quit but I never did and the story is now changing.

I understand your frustration. I have been there, I have seen it all but keeping my head made me what I am today. The best way to solve the problem is to take a look at what you have done so far and let warriors advice you on what and what you have done wrong or not too rightly.

You truly define a warrior


Jay.

[Spiritjoy]

I am a newbie but made sales hardly working at all last year. I did no SEO marketing of any kind or any real keyword and made sale working about an hour a day. i never had one backlink either. I can tell you exactly what you are doing wrong! I viewed your article on ezinearticles titled Christian-Marriage-Counseling-Getting-Solution-Through-God-Inspired-Guidance
The article is good but your product does not match the reader.

First off are you a Christian or not? Why because you are marketing to Christians in your article then you have a book about how to make love and have better sex.

This is not the Christian counseling that Christians are looking for. The christian market is huge! but Christians want spiritual advice. You need to write a real christian ebook that will help people(if you are a real Christian) From your ezine article people are expecting good christian counseling and are willing to pay for it but a book title 500 love making tips is not the christian counseling people are looking for. You also do not quote bible scriptures and you are selling a worldly non-christian book. Also you quote Oprah on your sales page and most christians see here as a new age freak. Not to beat you up but please take my advice, the internet user today is very smart.They

[fredjr1978]

Um, I hate to get down on you, but 33 articles in 7 months is not trying IMHO. If you did an article only every other day you would have 4 times the articles you have now and possibly a sale. IM is not something you can do once and get rich on (for most) it's something you do a little (or lot of if you have the time) and build on it. Also, Article marketing is not your only avenue of advertising. Have you tried video marketing or any other?

Once again, sorry to come down on you so hard, its just that this is exactly why so many IM do not see the green at the end of the tunnel!

Good luck with your new venture.

[Taylor French]

Originally Posted by ikepeace

Please I need your help Fellow Warriors. I have been online full time for 7 months.During this period I have been engaging in just one niche , which is AFFILIATE MARKETING.These are my strategies:
1. I open free blogger accounts.
2. choose two products from Clickbank on relationship.
3. C have written more than 33 articles related to my product and submitted them all to Ezinearticles (but 33 articles were approved and are now live articles on EZA)and a few to articlesbase and articledashboard.
4. And i have most of these articles posted on my blogs.
5. Then i pinged them on pingler.com and pingoat.com.

But for the past seven months nothing have happened, NO SINGLE SALE. These are my blogs 500lovemakingtips4dmarried.blogspot.com, dmakingupmagic.blogspot.comand tips4haironfire.blogspot.com

PLEASE WHAT I AM DOING WRONG.

For one thing, it appears as though English is not your first language. Did you have someone help you with the articles and the blog posts? If not, you might want to have someone help you with punctuation, spelling and grammar. It doesn't have to be perfect, but if you really want to makes sales, it needs to be a bit better than it is in this post.

Also, if you're serious about making a go of this business, you need to treat it like a business. A domain is only about $10, and you can get decent hosting for landing pages for $5-10 per month. I don't know what your finances are like, but if you can manage $20, I suggest getting a domain and some hosting as soon as possible. If you have to, you can try outsourcing to earn the money to buy a domain and some hosting.

[mlord10]

Steven is absolutely right. You have to find someone who is having success, and learn from them. If you cannot get a 1 on 1 mentor, then reverse engineer the process they are using. You will not get every piece of the puzzle, but you will learn a lot of valuable information this way.

Affiliate marketing is NOT a niche. Affiliate marketing is a business model, or at least part of one. Also, you are in a very competitive niche, which is dating. I believe in attacking competitive niches, but you must know what you are doing!

Make sure that you do keyword research before writing any more articles. Use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool; it is free and works great. Also, try to throw some backlinks at your articles by leaving relevant comments on blogs, DO NOT SPAM!

I would really recommend that you sell some services, invest a few hundred dollars, and learn from someone who is really having success online.

Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim

I'm going to save you a lot of time. Your work ethic is horrible, probably
because you have NO clue what this business requires.

There is not one person here, who in the space of a forum post, can fix
your problem.

What you need to do is get a hold of a mentor and have them work out a
business plan with you.

I recommend Bev Clement.

That's all I have to say on this matter.

[writeright]

Originally Posted by yommys01

Giving up is not the solution. The solution lies in keeping your head. See, I am a NIGERIAN and if you have been reading the papers for some time now, you will know that something is seriously wrong with this country and making money online from this part of world is almost impossible but here I am, making money online.

*bows* Bravo! Now, that's an inspirational post. Way to go! Cheers! Aravind.

[fredjr1978]

Originally Posted by Spiritjoy

I am a newbie but made sales hardly working at all last year. I did no SEO marketing of any kind or any real keyword and made sale working about an hour a day. i never had one backlink either. I can tell you exactly what you are doing wrong! I viewed your article on ezinearticles titled Christian-Marriage-Counseling-Getting-Solution-Through-God-Inspired-Guidance
The article is good but your product does not match the reader.

First off are you a Christian or not? Why because you are marketing to Christians in your article then you have a book about how to make love and have better sex.

This is not the Christian counseling that Christians are looking for. The christian market is huge! but Christians want spiritual advice. You need to write a real christian ebook that will help people(if you are a real Christian) From your ezine article people are expecting good christian counseling and are willing to pay for it but a book title 500 love making tips is not the christian counseling people are looking for. You also do not quote bible scriptures and you are selling a worldly non-christian book. Also you quote Oprah on your sales page and most christians see here as a new age freak. Not to beat you up but please take my advice, the internet user today is very smart.They

HAHA! I dont agree with 100% of what you say here, but the Oprah thing I do! haha I am a Christian and he is right. I would not buy a love making book from someone who quotes Oprah haha. Although, I would buy a marriage book and how to have a closer relationship with my spouse, spiritually, emotionally and physically, but it would have to be with someone that I know and respect as a Christian Author or be highly recommended. There are just to many people out there that are adding the lil fish to there marketing to catch the big Christian fish.....really erks me... Anyway, good luck and listen to the above advice..you'll get there....just have fun with it.

[sylviad]

You are making the same mistake of many marketers, including me, in thinking that posting articles to directories is sufficient to make sales.

Others have already pointed out the importance of finding great keywords with lots of searches and little competition. Find a LOT of those, rather than going after high-competition keywords. Once you find them, add up the search volume and it'll probably closely match one high comp. keyword - only you'll have a much better chance of getting attention with yours.

After posting your articles, drive traffic to those articles. Unless you do, your articles will slip into the depths of the archives, never to be seen again - except on the occasion when someone searches the database for your keywords. The more sites that come up, the deeper down the results you will appear.

Are you sending people from the articles direct to the affiliate sales page? They should be going to your own squeeze page so you can grab their contact info and pitch to them repeatedly, rather than putting in all that work for the affiliate product owner who most assuredly IS building a list on your traffic.

Does your landing page hold the visitor's interest? Even squeeze pages must entice your visitor to take action... sign up for your freebie. Does the freebie have perceived value that they cannot refuse? Is it something they just "have to have"? How you present it (sell them on the offer) and what you offer can have a drastic impact on your sign-up success.

Does your article take the reader right to the resource box and make them want to click for more info? If the article doesn't grab and keep their interest and leave them begging for more, you'll lose them. Remember... people scan articles online rather than read every word. Pepper your article with several subheads and bulleted lists to make it easy for the reader and keep them moving through the article.

These are just some of the elements that must be included to find success.

Others include how many others are promoting the same affiliate products? Is the market saturated with affiliates? Are you seeing their ads everywhere you turn?

This is what's happened to me. When I began marketing one product, not too many others were, so I was able to get sales. Recently, I see that many people are promoting it - their ads are everywhere - even the article directories are sticking their ads in and around my article promoting the same product. What chance does that leave me to make the sale? Apparently, not much, because my sales have stopped for one particular product. Way too many other people marketing it with AdWords.

Always remember that it's all about DRIVING TRAFFIC. Focus on that, and you will succeed. Drive traffic to your articles, to your squeeze page, to your affiliate sales page using every technique that works for you. Don't just stop at one.

Hope this helps.

Sylvia

[Steven Wagenheim]

Garrie, I see you removed your post so I'm just going to drop this one.

But for what it's worth, I agree with what you said.

[Branlan17]

33 Articles in 7 months? If your model is mass article marketing, I would think you'd want 30 articles per WEEK (or preferably more) to see any real results.

[inter123]

Hi.

I am no expert but I reckon the problem is the traffic or the lack of. This is a very competetive nieche, even long-tailed keywords such as "how to get my boyfriend back" have 6,000,000 web pages dedicated towards it!

Chances are the blog is somewhere way down in the search results with little or no visitors. And as for the ezine articles, the one with the maximum traffic is 110 (the Christian Article). Even if this brought 10 users to your site, its not enough to make a sale.

Jim.

[Kay King]

I'm happy to see others pointing out the obvious - the English on the blogs is not good enough to capture the attention of most readers.

The free blogs are filled with ads and links yet the text seems to be written by someone who has not read or tested the products he is promoting. Worse, the grammar and english usage is almost unreadable.

I know writing in English is difficult for those with English as a second or third language. Personally, I am totally unable to write anything readable in any language other than English. However, the writing must be better than what I read on those sites. You may need to hire someone to correct your English usage or to do the writing for you.

The biggest problem is that writing 33 articles in 7 months indicates you have written one article a week. That is not taking massive action and is not enough to build an income.

What many who are fluent in English don't realize is that it's not just the grammar and sentence structure that is difficult for someone who has difficulty writing in English. It is extremely hard to express opinions and thoughts when the words and phrases do not come easily to you.

I understand the problem but I know there is no easy solution to it. To appeal to the English speaking marketplace requires the ability to write fairly well in the language. You might consider forming a partnership with another new marketer from your area who is more comfortable with English and where you could contribute other marketing tasks.

Many warrior such as Yommy have faced similar difficulties and have overcome them. It's your choice to make. There is no guarantee of success if you keep trying but giving up does guarantee failure.

kay

[Donnie]

Ike, you tried something that didn't work. You have learned a valuable lesson. Though I'm sure it doesn't feel like it, that is a first step towards success.

Mr. Wagenheim is right when he tells you that no one can solve your problems with one post. You can be pointed in the right direction. Luckily you are a member of the best marketing forum, period.

You will have to learn from your early mistakes and simply revise your strategy. If your adjustments don't work, you must start anew and keep going forward. Never give up, learn from your mistakes and move forward with passion and fire.

Search this forum for experienced posters that are having success with their blogs (Andy Henry is one I know of). Use Andy and maybe two or three of these as your mentors. Read all of their posts, there is much to be learned. This is a good way of separating the wheat from the chafe.

If you simply want to retool your entire strategy I would suggest looking
at: Dan Kennedy, Allen Says, Marlon Sanders, Jeff Paul or Ryan Deiss' work. These guys are masters at setting up successful biz models.

Remember, you have learned what doesn't work, try a different approach. Best of luck to you

[aquablue]

Ikepeace,
You've been given some good advice here; please think about what's been said, try to come up with a basic plan of action with very specific steps, and start over.

I don't know what your financial situation is, but Steve's suggestion to find a mentor seems very appropriate in this case. If that is not a viable option, then start reading through this forum as much as you can. Also search the WSO section for article marketing info. I just purchased Sara Young's Article Income Blueprint for someone totally new to IM, and it is very good. She also uses Blogger, by the way. Good luck.

[Mr.Williamstn]

First I would Like to say that quitting won't get you anything. When things did't work for me i just started over from scratch and just keep trying you will find success

[txconx]

Well, someone here needs to be Simon Cowell.

OP, your English skills are terrible. If you're writing the articles yourself, then likely people are put off by your grammar and spelling. In fact, your post here is so awful I can barely make sense of it.

Quitters never win but that doesn't mean you're meant to be a winner in this particular business. Practice doesn't make perfect - perfect practice makes perfect.

[KevinDasilva]

I 2nd the "Quittters Never Win, And Winners NEVER Quit".

However, I will take the fact your in the Warrior Forum
as you NOT being a quitter and are just venting.

You are surrounded by 1000's of us who felt the same way
and went through the same learning curve.

Try submitting 1000's of articles and getting traffic but
no conversions... Which just mean YOU NEED TO TEST
& FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG!


I went over 1 year without much success.

If this was EZ everyone would be doing it and then
none of us would have the chance at being suuccessful.

I LOVE THE CHALLENGE!

It takes time to become an expert OR at least really good
at something... And I am so proud I have now been doing
something for 3 years that most would quit within 1st few months.

Here is what i would suggest for EZ MONEY...

1. Pick a market you are PASSIONATE
about and that info flows through you with excitement
and enthusiam.

2. I would start a REAL BLOG on YOURDOMAIN.com!

3. Giveaway Videos or Audios or Reports in exchange for
email address! BUILD YOUR PERSONAL BRAND!

4. I would get into some "Social Networks" like
Twitter & Facebook.

5. Create some free reports, videos , or audios
and give them away.

6. THEN send people from your list & social
networks to your blog and get them on a list!

7. Create Video or Blog Post about Product you
recommend and BOOM...

You Are Making Money & MOST IMPORTANTLY Have
A List Of People That Know ,Like & Trust you!

Everyone is trying to sell someone.

WHY NOT GIVE VALUE FIRST?

Build relationships first and THEN direct people
towards products your recommend and get PAID!


I hope this helps...

Your Friend,
Kevin DaSilva

[Marc Meole]

I'm going to try not to reiterate what has already been said..but here are a few observations:

1. The "Click Here" links have got to go...If you even just but "How to make love like a man" as a link you'll go much farther...try to be creative.

2. The point of your blog is not to sell...it's to draw people in...give them good info and they"ll click on your links

3. You are usng article marketing only so odds are you dont want to spend any money...not a problem...I dont either ...expand to forum marketing, posting on other peoples blogs, twitter, etc...hint...DONT SPAM

4. Don't want to turn this into an argument...but there is nothing wrong with using a blogger blog with certain niches...the common user wont know the difference

just a few tips...

hope that helps some

[Wakunahum]

I have had projects of 50+ articles without sales despite having previous success with other products.

What I have learned is to only put in some initial effort. If you don't get results, move on.

Some products don't sell well.

[zoobie]

you will need to do better, build your own list and follow up them so that you will make some sales.

By the way are you good at writing articles? Perhaps you can get a decent income by writing articles alone since most warriors need article writers. So you open another stream of income and at the mean time you can try your way to find your sweet spot in these niches.

[torrent]

I second Kevin's post, though without the "EZ Money" label. What he is suggesting is not easy, and even following the steps would leave many people frustrated! However, I do think it's a sound foundation for deeper exploration.

As a side note, producing 33 articles in 7 months, even with difficulty in English grammar and spelling might just be enough to produce a single sale, and I wonder what your expectations were with this level of effort?

Article marketing can work, but additional effort may be required. Alternatively, I would suggest that you can succeed producing (better) articles on a TLD (with a decent site design) with an eye to flipping the resulting websites. This produces income where the personal effort to generate affiliate sales just isn't there.

[DotComBum]

You must press on instead of giving up, it may takes some times to see the results from your articles, so instead of giving up, go submit more articles until you got a sale, good luck!

DCB

[Gavan]

Just try a new product. Not all products convert well. Instead of writing 33 articles at once, write 5-10 to see if you get any sales. If you do, write more. If you don´t, move on to the next product.

[Barry Unruh]

Maybe you should quit.

In 7 months, you could have created 30 blogs, over 1000 articles, social bookmarked all of them, pinged all of them, and probably be making some decent money.

That is only 1 blog per week, 5 articles per day. Even if you work a 40 hour work week at a full time job you could have accomplished this.

During those 7 months of working this hard, you would have learned a lot. You would have discovered many things which did not work, and found a few which did.

Since you appear to be doing everything on the free path, have you actually taken time to learn the right way to do it? Travis Sago's BUM Marketing course is free, and will at least get you on the right foot.

But, if you are not willing to work hard enough to pump out a blog a week, and 5 articles per day, your decision is sound. You should quit.

[RedHat39]

In a nutshell you have no plan. Article marketing is a part of a plan - not the whole plan. Gone are the days of relying just on article marketing to succeed.

Ultimately you need to seek further training and if I could give you one piece of advice that I'm sure everyone here will agree with:

Get an autoresponder service and start building a list.

I wish you the best of luck.

[DotComBum]

Go get some good ebooks on article writing and affiliate marketing, learn from the ebooks and try again. Never quit!! If you try hard enough you'll eventually succeed!!

DCB

[HigherPrThanGod]

#1. Find a niche that you know sells, or should be easy to sell.
#2. Find keywords that are not too competitive (using micro niche finder)
#3. Put up domain/blogger for the keyword phrase.
#4. Create content on your site.
#5. USE BACK-LINKING PACKAGES IN WSO's to build up PR and wait.

Isn't that pretty much it?

[Emily Meeks]

Originally Posted by KansasDragon

Maybe you should quit.

In 7 months, you could have created 30 blogs, over 1000 articles, social bookmarked all of them, pinged all of them, and probably be making some decent money.

That is only 1 blog per week, 5 articles per day. Even if you work a 40 hour work week at a full time job you could have accomplished this.

During those 7 months of working this hard, you would have learned a lot. You would have discovered many things which did not work, and found a few which did.

Since you appear to be doing everything on the free path, have you actually taken time to learn the right way to do it? Travis Sago's BUM Marketing course is free, and will at least get you on the right foot.

But, if you are not willing to work hard enough to pump out a blog a week, and 5 articles per day, your decision is sound. You should quit.

Excellent points. Many people really don't try as hard as they claim they are trying, or think they are trying: you have to cut through the mental fog.

What do you do when you're on the computer?

If you've got Facebook open in another tab, you're not working hard enough. If you're playing a game, you're not working hard enough. Even the Warrior Forum, great as it is with invaluable resources to be had, must be used wisely - if you're constantly reading instead of getting things done... you're not working hard enough!

Anyone who's successful will tell you that they experienced failure, sometimes for years, and then kept tweaking and changing until they found what WORKED.

Heed the advice from above. Whatever you're doing now, isn't working.

Learn from you mistakes.

APPLY WHAT YOU LEARN.

Lather, rinse, repeat until you achieve your goals.

[garyfromdurham]

The advice above is excellent and I don't want to repeat what has been said, however here is just one tip that will make a huge difference to your blogs.

BE A REAL PERSON TO YOUR VISITORS AND BUILD UP A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM....THEN THEY WILL BUY.

You need to build a fan base on your blog.

Here is an example of an excellent blog. It is by a lady called Fran (I don't know her or have no affiliation with her site...it was used in an example by Yaro Storak) and it is all about Acne:

Natural Acne Treatment And Skin Care — High on health

See how hers compares with yours. I don't mean the way it looks but the fact that she is a real person and hasn't just posted meaningless cold articles about Acne.

• She shares her experiences of living with acne.

• She tries new products herself and gives honest reviews.

• She posts genuinely interesting links and resources about things relating to acne that will appeal to her audience.

• She creates a relationship with her audience and we get to know her.

Your blogs are faceless, anonymous and you don't present yourself as a real person who shares your customers concerns or can relate to them.

Just following this one tip will really help your business enormously.

Gary
PS. Is that Travis Sago in the video on the Magic of making up site? If it is, see how he is creating a relationship with people in his niche by talking to them and getting them to write in with their questions and problems. If they are taking the time to write to him then you can be sure they will want to buy whatever he recommends on the subject.

[sloanjim]

well good luck in what you choose. I.Ming isn't for everyone and despite what many say. there's easier money elsewhere.

[TelegramSam]

Originally Posted by ikepeace

These are my blogs:


500lovemakingtips4dmarried.blogspot.com

dmakingupmagic.blogspot.comand

tips4haironfire.blogspot.com


PLEASE WHAT I AM DOING WRONG.

There is a lot of good advice above so I'll only cover one thing. That is the names of your blogs and sites.

They are probably as bad as any I have come across who has sought my help. They are REALLY horrible.

Get yourself some decent domain names in your niche, re work your articles and post them onto your sites.

Generate some traffic using your original articles.

I haven't even visited the sites as I probably know what to expect when I get there.

So get some much shorter and better domain names.

At the moment they are extremely spammy and are next to hopeless.

Sam

[garyfromdurham]

Originally Posted by TelegramSam

I haven't even visited the sites as I probably know what to expect when I get there.

That is not a neccesarily bad thing and could work in his favour but I agree with the rest of your post

Gary

[Ross Dalangin]

I think it is not so related to the topic you are discussing because your content is about how to get your ex back while the ads is about sex tips. How can you make sex to your ex if she don't like or love you anymore? See more focus on your dmakingupmagic.blogspot.com

[tryinhere]

I am quitting IM, 33 live Articles & No Single Sale

Why is it that people have to cry i am quitting when really they asking for help ? should they just not leave quietly.

[oneplusone]

In any market, you need to pay attention to what the successful people are doing.

In the dating/relationship market, check out one of the bigger players like Eben Pagan (David DeAngelo).

Look at his website:

http://www.doubleyourdating.com/

Then look at your sites.

Which one are people going to take seriously?

If 100 people were given $100 each to spend on a dating product and they visited one of your sites, and Double your Dating - where would they spend their money?

The truth is, you would be lucky to get 1 sale out of the 100 people.

[geoffcruz]

Dont give up bro, just keeping on pushing and doing what works and dumping the one thats not working.

[simba]

Great Response! Dont quit, you aint beat yet!

[Intrepreneur]

You've got affiliate marketing disease. A disease that attacks the brain with information that compells you to do stuff that is said to work when really it only wastes your time for the first 2 years.

The disease usually lasts up to 5 years for some people depending on how brainy they are as eventually their brain learns to figt it off. Unfortunately the 5 years is a very long time and I sincerely hope your disease doesn't last that long.

Though some quick cures are said to be buying ebooks from Clickbank that have big red headlines promising instant cash and whatnot. It is then said that once you buy an ebook you've got to buy the next one that is forced on you in your email inbox.

Genetically some people are immune to all this which is good for them because they don't gotta suffer from such a terrible disease.

To note the cause of the disease it usually starts out with a copywriter and some guy who's rich.

[Marius_Puluikis]

Originally Posted by Taylor French

For one thing, it appears as though English is not your first language. Did you have someone help you with the articles and the blog posts? If not, you might want to have someone help you with punctuation, spelling and grammar. It doesn't have to be perfect, but if you really want to makes sales, it needs to be a bit better than it is in this post.

Also, if you're serious about making a go of this business, you need to treat it like a business. A domain is only about $10, and you can get decent hosting for landing pages for $5-10 per month. I don't know what your finances are like, but if you can manage $20, I suggest getting a domain and some hosting as soon as possible. If you have to, you can try outsourcing to earn the money to buy a domain and some hosting.

I totally agree. English is not my first language either, but I always giving the article to my friend before submiting online.

Sobody said, "If you not willing invest in your business, you dont need a business you need a job" So think about getting a domain name + Hosting. Squeeze page you can find on internet.

But don't quit. As somebody said, quiting is not an option.

Marius