I thought I was on the first page of Google the other Day. Now I'm on the Second. I Need some Money!

The question is what traffic is the search engine sending not what page/position.

You could have a keyword that get no searches.
You could have a keyword that is hard to monetize.

my keyword is good. it should definitely get buyers....

lol...do more work......sheesh...ok ok...just tired of being broke.

I can feel your pain. I've done a lot of work with no results, too, but I'm going to keep on trucking. I hope that you will, too, because I really believe IM will work.

I would love to hire you to do some more article writing for me because your quality was so good - I just can't really afford it at the moment though

Are you still writing? Can you get some writing jobs to keep some money coming in while you're building up these sites

We can help, but please answer the following questions:

1. How many visits a day?
2. Are you monetizing your site via AdSense, through an affiliate product, or both?
3. How many sales and/or ad dollars are you making per month at this point?

Knowing these three factors, it will be a bit easier for us to guess where the problem is:

1. Case A: You don't have enough traffic
2. Case B: Your theme keyword is hard to monetize

It's also important to set expectations right. How much money would you expect to earn from this one site? $100/1,000/10,000 a month? For micro-niches, $100 is very doable, $1,000 is doable but only if you know what you are doing. $10,000 is very rare.

Try to generate more backlinks.

I'm in kind of the same boat as you. :/ Just cant figure out the "why" and "when" of it. I'm ranking well on both Bing and Yahoo for my top keyword but Google (the only search engine that is indexing my site every single day) is refusing to budge!

Uggghhh!

Here's what is working for me:

Social media sites (Twitter, Digg, Yahoo Answers, some blogs) are getting me a healthy dose of traffic every day. You might want to try. Its hard work esp. if you are responsible for the content too.

I'm oscillating between one day of writing and one day of link/social media presence building. That way I don't get completely sick of the rinse, repeat thing.

Bon Chance!
Don't give up.

I wouldn't depend just on Google. There are so many other traffic generating methods other than SEO. You should take advantage of them.

"95% of the people who fail to make any money with IM, give up a day to early" This business is cut throat, u just have to keep pushing.

Been reading through this thread, and I'm surprised someone hasn't said anything about your mindset. You can't jump into this IM thing thinking that you should see money "by now". Making money in IM is very difficult and unpredictable, and there isn't a certain "time" to make money. It comes when it comes. Don't fall for that crap that says that you should see money within "the next 24 hours" or whatever. And if you're sick and tired of being broke, IM will NOT get you out of it quickly. It takes work and patience.

With the mental aspect out of the way, I had a look at your site and I must say that the product reviews aren't compelling enough in my eyes. They look all "Buy buy buy!" and not really providing any value. It sounds like something ripped off a sales pages. Allow Amazon to do the selling - they're good at that. I would search the forums around here for more information on how to write product reviews, though a basic formula is this:

Introduction
Features And Benefits
Pros And Cons
Who The Product Is For
Why They Should Buy The Product
Real Reviews
Conclusion

All of that with your affiliate links sprinkled in. I personally outsource it all myself, as it would be a major PITA to research the product in depth. Takes about two to three hours per product.

Oh yeah, make sure your keyword research techniques are up to par and your SEO and backlinking efforts are right. That is another ballgame that I don't wanna get into at the moment because I am yawning every five minutes haha. Not from reading this thread, but because I'm sleepy and I'm surprised I haven't made a typo.

But whatever you do - DON'T GIVE UP!

First of all, very nice site. I would work on it, though. Try tweaking it to make it look nicer, do full reviews on specific heaters. I make the best sales through Amazon when I have very high quality content and reviews.

Don't throw in the towel! As far as keywords.. just because it's a good keyword doesn't mean that's what the buyers are searching. Try targeting some very product specific keywords, as in brand names and types of electric heaters.

Hope that helps.

Your site is attractive and the articles are really great.

Maybe it's just me but I like to change up the print and pictures by moving every other picture to the right. That way there's more variety on the page. Also part of an article on the front page would be nice. Then they can read a little and then look at the heaters.

There's a lot of excellent SEO advice on this forum.

Best Regards,
Carole

ok thanks. this all sounds great! Looks like I have a lot more work to do though. lol

so wait does this site look bad too? Its my second site and I kind of modeled it after the first one http://electricscootersforadultssite.com/

oh sorry I know the header needs to be added
I just reinstalled the template. so I gotta put it back in.

I think you site looks fairly decent, and has the proper content for it to rank on the first page of Google. Now what you want to do is concentrate on building backlinks, make videos, etc. to push it up to page 1. Look at how many and what type of backlinks your competitors have on page 1, then just implement more backlinks of the same type to get ranked higher.

I feel the need to make a point here though - it sounds like you need money quite desperately, but unfortunately with Amazon sites they're really not going to generate quick cash for you. A trickle may come in at first, and sales will build as you improve your content and rankings, but your affiliate payments are going to take at least 1-2 months to arrive in your hand.

In other words, what I'm trying to say is that if you need money quickly, you had better think of other ways to generate it besides your Amazon sites.

Paul

You're on the bottom of page two for a keyword that has 11,000,000 competing web pages. Please don't hold your breath waiting to 'get paid'. You should though, congratulate yourself on your current position and continue to work 'quality' into all aspects of that site until you get the ranking you desire.

Good luck.

Patience is a virtue, my friend.

Without it you're gonna have a hell of a time starting out in this business.

Don't look at the number of competing pages. Look at the top 10 spots. Those are what you have to beat.