Can I succeed?

you can succeed but you need to put in the work. Build a few websites and work on content and keywords and in the long run, it will be profitable.

Ask if articles are your best approach. Other ways to generate
traffic to affiliate products include videos, audios, reviews,
press releases, slideshows, interviews, etc.

You basically want to create a lot of content discussing the
problem, and then soft-sell your target affiliate product as a
solution to that problem.

Incorporate a lot of proof into your content.

I'm assuming that your efforts are primarily to sell affiliate
products???

Willie

Think outsourcing is important but since that is out of the equation, you will really need to put in the work. If you cannot write a lot of articles, maybe you can try other platforms of building links or use softwares to help you spread your website around the web?

I'm going to share with you a little quote that was said to me by my martial arts instructor years ago that's been sticking with me through my marketing ideas. "Failure can only happen when your drive to succeed succumbs to your yearning to quit." Take that and run with it. Best of luck to you and I hope your endeavors become successful.

Anthony

Hi Sid,

I found myself asking the same question earlier today. Hang in there. Many of us are in the same boat, just will be a matter of keeping on and not quitting and then continuing to evaluate and adjust what's not working. Of course you have to give it time to work and therein lies the rub. How do you determine when to move on and when to keep at the same thing?

I think a good mentor or coach would probably help - if you can find someone who's honest and that you can trust to truly help you. Barring that, I would diversify my efforts until you can narrow down which variable is going to make the difference - traffic, offer/conversion, subject-matter, etc. Good luck to you. And stay surrounded by positive encouragement!

Out of all the sites that you're working on pick one and focus all your energy into that. You probably want to pick the one where you see the most potential. The problem with working on 5 or 10 sites at a time without outsourcing is that your results will come very slowly and you are likely to throw in the towel by then. So, go with your best one.

Leverage the content you write. Make sure that it's unique content you're posting on your site. Use the site content and turn it into articles for directories, videos, press releases where possible. Also, use forum and blog commenting and any other methods of generating backlinks that you might be using currently.

You will see results in increasing traffic. How you convert depends on the content of the site.

Good Luck
SV

Don't ask me, ask yourself! You are the one can answer of your question.

As I personally believe, it's difficult to handle 7 websites in same time if you do not outsource your works.

My best advices is,

Select one site and work with it until the site starts generating some decent revenues. Thereafter, move to next site.

It is quite difficult in starting to make some good income. However, it is your mind and ask yourself where I am unique from millions of other people offering the same idea? It is more on how you represent yourself.

Another approach would be "Do It Yourself". When you are working on websites, you need to put in a lot of effort like 9 to 5 job. You have to create content, do SEO, and build email lists.

Lawrence

Of course you can, if you have a clear and proper mind set no doubt you can be a successful.

It's fine to register domain names while they are still available, but you should hold off on hosting until you have enough content prepared. That way you're up and running, and can make improvements while you're also adding content.

With 7 websites, I'd work overtime to get a basic. minimum content on all of them, and add two or three blog post or pages to each of them every week. BUT - and this is crucial from my perspective - focus on developing only website at a time. My reasoning is that this way you'll have a trickle of traffic to all 7 and the sooner you get one website fully decked out the sooner it will be making income. Rinse and repeat for the other 6.

Trying to develop all 7 at the same time does more than delay income though; assume each one is going to take a month - my way you'll have 6 months of income from the first website, five months from the second, etc; the other way, you won't have any income until they're finished. Do thee math! My way 21 website-months of income by the time the last one is finished; otherwise, precisely zero income. Huge difference, don't you agree?

Getting traffic needs long term work and you need to keep patience for this.Target some good keywords and build backlinks for them continuously but not quickly and keep posting good articles.

Hi Sid,

I admire your dedication to writing articles and launching 7 websites. That is a lot of work.
I feel I can help you a lot when it comes to monetizing them cause this is what I do ... stack up additional streams of revenue when it comes to my website and teaching others how to do it too among other things.

I'd love to set up a no obligation get to know each other coaching call - I'll learn more about you, you'll learn more about me, and we'll strategize about your goal. What do you say?

Thanks,
Lovely Sue

You probably might want to focus on one single site then, so you can see results faster.

Of course you can succeed. It will take dedication and focus. Don't ever give up. Anything is possible...

Don't give up. Perseverance does pay off, it just takes patience. Keep doing what your doing and continue to look for new avenues to create traffic. Good Luck!

If you really need the cash, build sites for other folks. Perform a service.

You could also look into low cost offline marketing techniques and strategies as well.

I would focus on one or two sites, not seven.

It's hard to be effective when you spread yourself so thin.

The only ones that fail stop trying. It's best to post original content to your own site than to use Squidoo or HubPages (Who are evil by the way dont bother with them..) or Article Directories.

I agree with the thoughts of many others above, I've not even come close to cracking it but dividing your attention across 7 sites has to be affecting the quality of the content you're providing.

Concentrate on one or two of your strongest areas and get those profitable first before dividing your attention.

Also, make sure you are extremely organized and know what roadblocks are going to come up and cause you problems, i'm a big fan of the Goldratt stuff in helping figure out what I need to do in my projects.

If possible, find something else to earn some money and save as much of it as you can.

When you have a few hundred together, go out and find some quality coaching. You don't have to outsource in the beginning, but you do have to know what you're doing, and part of that is finding your one thing and focusing on that one thing to the exclusion of everything else until you know for sure whether you can make it work or not.

Only after you are making money with it, or after you have proven to yourself that you can't (by knowing that you have done everything reasonably possible) should you go on to the next thing.

The best approach is to LEARN first..... success will eventually follow buddy...

Like some others have said, try to put some focus on one or two sites specifically. By putting more effort into them, you can (ideally) make money off them sooner. And if you can make money sooner, then you can begin putting money towards outsourcing.

You can succeed, if you want to carry on writing articles offer your services on fiverr! You would be able to make $40 per week or more!

Hello friend,

I completely understand your situation.

It sounds to me like you are a lean mean article machine! have you ever thought about free lancing article writing?

Its one of the hottest things people are looking to pay for nowadays.

40$ per month is not enough to wipe your a$$ (pardon my french).

I really think you should look for other ways to make side money and keep on focusing on getting your sites ranked.

As other have said here there are tons of ways to rank on google and you should absolutely read some of Craig Mako's WSO's which cost 10-20$ each and are amazing content.

Keep going and don't give up! I almost gave up a million times... If its your dream you owe it to yourself.

Cheers!
Ari

Sid,

I started IM like some 6 months back. I did the same what you are doing now. But Concentrated on 2 sites, created contents myself, built links myself and when they made some money, I outsourced content writing and got some tools to create links. I can see that the income is scaling up in proportion to my efforts. I have around 20 sites now.

I have myself gone throught this entire cycle. If you need any help/Idea with something drop me a mail @ arjun.tck(at)gmail.com. I will be really happy to help you with avoinding the mistakes that I did.

I have 6 sites I want to launch. I am focusing on my offline work as it pays the bills and launching 1 site and getting it up and running. I plan on continuing offline and letting each site funnel money into the next site. So as site A turns a profit, that profit goes into outsourcing and marketing for site B and then so forth for site C and D and etc. That way you can exponentially decrease the amount of time and resources it takes to get the next site going.