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Newbie Looking For Advice

by latrice17
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First off, hello, Everyone!

I am fairly new to the IM world but I have been working on a few projects for the last two months.

I have 7 Squidoo lenses live with articles pointing to them with anchor text in the articles as well as the lenses.

6 of the lenses are promoting Click Bank products and 1 is promoting a physical product. The lens that is promoting the physical product is getting way more views than the other even though the Click Bank related lenses have many more articles pointing to them.

I've also posted all articles and lenses on social bookmarking sites and all lenses are ranked high in Google with the majority of them on the first page within the first 5 results.

However, nothing is converting. I have not made any sales yet and am kinda confused as to why I haven't made any sales with what seems to be good stats so far.

I guess what I am asking is, is this normal to not have any sales yet? Or do you guys think that there is something more I should be doing?

I really appreciate the feedback and thanks for your replies!
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  • Profile picture of the author impact-productions
    Is it not something as simple as that a lot more people are searching for information about the physical product than the ClickBank products, so your traffic is going to be higher?

    One thing this might suggest is that the ClickBank products are just too tightly contested to rank for. Rather than continuing to fight for a very small piece of the pie, you could look at developing more lenses instead. By the sound of it, lenses for physical products could be good ones to go for.

    Thom
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    • Profile picture of the author latrice17
      Originally Posted by impact-productions View Post

      Is it not something as simple as that a lot more people are searching for information about the physical product than the ClickBank products, so your traffic is going to be higher?

      One thing this might suggest is that the ClickBank products are just too tightly contested to rank for. Rather than continuing to fight for a very small piece of the pie, you could look at developing more lenses instead. By the sound of it, lenses for physical products could be good ones to go for.

      Thom
      Thanks, Thom.

      So, you'd suggest creating more lenses for the 1 physical product I am promoting and linking those lenses together?
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  • Profile picture of the author ShaneBoyd
    How many views does your lens have? How long has your lens been online? Those are the two most important questions.

    However, you can always TEST.

    Test the headline and see if clicks go up.

    Test and see if videos help or hurt.

    Add more content to the lens and see if that helps.

    Provide a special discount (sent to their paypal after the trial period is over).

    The key to testing is doing ONE THING AT A TIME.

    If you change your headline...give it a week and track the results. Is it better? Good...keep it.

    Then test something else.

    However, right now I have no idea how long the lens has been up or how many eyes have been on it.

    My top producing lens was up for about 3 months before I got a sale.

    Peace,

    Shane
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    • Profile picture of the author latrice17
      Originally Posted by ShaneBoyd View Post

      How many views does your lens have? How long has your lens been online? Those are the two most important questions.

      However, you can always TEST.

      Test the headline and see if clicks go up.

      Test and see if videos help or hurt.

      Add more content to the lens and see if that helps.

      Provide a special discount (sent to their paypal after the trial period is over).

      The key to testing is doing ONE THING AT A TIME.

      If you change your headline...give it a week and track the results. Is it better? Good...keep it.

      Then test something else.

      However, right now I have no idea how long the lens has been up or how many eyes have been on it.

      My top producing lens was up for about 3 months before I got a sale.

      Peace,

      Shane
      Hi, Shane.

      The lens for my physical product has been up since 7/28/10 and only has a total of 80 visits with the help of 1 ezinearticle (309 views and 46 click throughs for this article posted on 7/28/10) and google and social site referrals.

      Also, according to google analytics, the bounce rate is very high for the physical product lens. I know that this is a bad thing, but the lens is only a review of the product without.

      This lens still has the most traffic out of all of my 7 lenses, but I think Thom covered the reason for that.

      So, overall would you say that this is typical and that it may be a few more months before any purchasing takes place? I have read that before, but just was wondering if this was in fact the case.

      I've been following PotPieGirls's One Week Marketing and what she basically hints at is that if you have enough relevant content online pointing to solutions people are looking for, you increase your chances of getting sales. Also, by having many lenses, blogs and site online, you cover a large array of things to sale so this also increases your odds of making sales.

      Also, after your lens or blog starts to convert sales, does it typically mean that more sales will start following the first sale? Or does it depends on what people are looking for to buy at that time?
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      • Profile picture of the author ShaneBoyd
        Originally Posted by latrice17 View Post


        Also, after your lens or blog starts to convert sales, does it typically mean that more sales will start following the first sale? Or does it depends on what people are looking for to buy at that time?
        Latrice,

        I know this sounds funny, but online marketing is NO different than face to face selling. In sales you need to "talk" to x amount of people per week to make x amount of sales.

        Your website is the same thing. You may need 100 people to visit your site before sale happens, maybe 200. It depends on the traffic generated.

        If your lens is on the 1st page of google you should get steady traffic. My most popular lens gets around 25 people a day. That's not a lot, but it is FREE traffic and I make a sale a week with it.

        Just keep doing what you are doing and keep measuring your results.

        Peace,

        Shane
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexander 2.0
    Do you have a website? You should think about getting one.

    Anyways, it's improtent to focus on one thing at a time. Make share you don't spread yourself out to thinly. Focus on one thing, when that makes you money. then move on to the next. Keep trying, and trying.

    Also, what I think is this, do something passionate about first. The gurus will tell you different but what I know is that you can market something you are passionate about easier then something you know little about. Start with your passion then move on from there.

    Hope this helps,
    Alexander John at SpeedThrough
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    • Profile picture of the author latrice17
      Originally Posted by SpeedThrough View Post

      Do you have a website? You should think about getting one.

      Anyways, it's improtent to focus on one thing at a time. Make share you don't spread yourself out to thinly. Focus on one thing, when that makes you money. then move on to the next. Keep trying, and trying.

      Also, what I think is this, do something passionate about first. The gurus will tell you different but what I know is that you can market something you are passionate about easier then something you know little about. Start with your passion then move on from there.

      Hope this helps,
      Alexander John at SpeedThrough
      Thanks, Alexander!

      I don't have my own site yet as I was waiting to see what items begin to convert before I go all out and create a web site.

      Right now, I am bum marketing and using all free methods with the exception of purchasing domain names to forward readers to my affiliate products in my articles.
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      • Profile picture of the author acidophulus
        Hi All. I am another newbie. Can anyone recommend a simple theme that has no menu bar, a header that can be changed, a right sidebar, footer and squeeze page inside. Trying to start niche websites.


        Also I have been going nuts with my visual editor. It does weird things so it is not always what you see is what you get. It has it;s own agenda and changes text etc on the page. I do not know how to work in html. I have been struggling for months trying to get help so I can get a sales page done but this technical issue is driving me nuts .

        I put in tiny mce but still problems. Should I remove all the h tags in theme so only tiny mce works. Someone mentioned that but I don't want to destroy theme. It is a flez squeeze theme. Any help would be so appreciated. thanks again.

        ALso can anyone explain how this site works. Confusing what to do with accumulating points etc. Would love to know the appropriate procedure.
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  • Profile picture of the author brettb
    ClickBank products are harder to shift than you might think. I'm promoting a dozen, but only 2 sell.

    Also competition for a niche with more than 2 related ClickBank products is very intense.

    Finally Squidoo is so over when it comes to ClickBank marketing.
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