My New Years Resolution - Make Some Money!

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I have come to the conclusion that putting things down on paper will help motivate me and this is the main reason for making this post.

So here we go!

I've first joined this forum back in May of 2008 and have made a whopping 140 bucks! My first few month I spend on just reading and trying to figure out what the heck everyone is talking about. My first site was created based on Chris Rempel's Conduit Method. It was a dog related website and that's when I made my first few clickbank sales. Having said that, I really didn't do any major backlinking. I posted on some dog forums with a sig link and did some e-zine articles.

My whole site was (and still is) getting some very little traffic of only about 10 a day. My targeted page where the clickbank product is being targeted is only getting like 3 visitors a day and sometimes less. I see a sale or 2 every few weeks so the conversion is honestly great. Call me stupid for not really continuing with it but the idea of managing just one site (with more than just one niche) sounded more ideal.

So here is what I did:

I created one big site! My index page contains all the products that I've decided to promote (clickbank and commission junction) and I have about 14 products now. Each link from my homepage takes the visitor to my review landing page of that particular product.

What I'm also thinking about doing is writing some related articles and post links to them on each review page. For example, say I'm reviewing a clickbank exercise program. I'll have a review page and I'll also have some internal links to some exercise articles.

What do you guys think?

Also I'm still fairly new at linking and having a hard time with it but making some progress.

I've decided to write a schedule that will help keep me on track.

I will pick two products out of the many I'm promoting (right now it's rocket spanish and Sit Stay Fetch) and per day I will write one ezine article, one squidoo post and one blogger post. My squidoo and blogger will link back to my review site but not vise versa.

The rest of the time I have available (time is a scarce commodity!) I will use to build links from other blogs, social bookmarking, forums etc. The main road block I'm running into at this point it finding high PR blogs that will let me link to my site with a reasonable anchor text. Most of them will let you link with your name as an anchor text and I don't know how effective that is. Any ideas?

One I start to see some traffic I'll be able to compare the results of this site to my small pet related site (which I'm also promoting Sit Stay Fetch and seeing some sales). This will help me decide if one site is doable when it comes to clickbank products.

I will keep everyone posted on my progress and will give out more detail if everything works okay! After all, most of the knowledge I got was from this forum so why not share and let others learn from my success... or failure!.

Peter
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguel Oliveira
    I think the idea of commiting to do a little every day is good, however, since the products are all different from one another they should have a separate website for SEO and user-friendliness issues.

    For instance, you could do a pet training website for Sit Stay Fetch, with other related products, such as cat training or other dog training products (I'm assuming that's what Sit Stay Fetch is about). Then you would also make a language learning website, or just a spanish website, for Rocket Spanish.

    The reason to do this is that Google will look into your website and see theme diluting, thus lower its ranking. Also, users get to your homepage and see a bunch of different products and it will just look like you are trying to make money and not help them - users don't like that
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    • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
      Originally Posted by Miguel Oliveira View Post

      I think the idea of commiting to do a little every day is good, however, since the products are all different from one another they should have a separate website for SEO and user-friendliness issues.

      For instance, you could do a pet training website for Sit Stay Fetch, with other related products, such as cat training or other dog training products (I'm assuming that's what Sit Stay Fetch is about). Then you would also make a language learning website, or just a spanish website, for Rocket Spanish.

      The reason to do this is that Google will look into your website and see theme diluting, thus lower its ranking. Also, users get to your homepage and see a bunch of different products and it will just look like you are trying to make money and not help them - users don't like that
      My main concern is the Google ranking cause the site doesn't have one general theme (other then its a review stie). I'm not to concerned with people thinking that I'm just trying to make money and not help them. Why? For one, my reviews are really thorough and not just a paragraph or two so they do actually help. Second, people outside the IM world are not really tuned in as to what clickbank is or even what affiliates are or how they work.

      But I see your point and that was my original dilemma in the first place. I will give it a go for a few weeks and see what happens. If I gain some momentum, I will continue
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  • Profile picture of the author TLTheLiberator
    There is nothing wrong with getting busy with a definite purpose.

    There's a bunch of methods for use to begin to get a steady stream of visitors to your offers.

    Map out your work sched, get busy and monitor our results.

    TL
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  • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
    Ohh, I forgot to mention, that because my landing pages are extremely well targeted and have a very thorough review (not just an opinion), I'm hoping people will see it as an "authority site".

    Right now I will continue adding reviews at a rate of one product review per week so I can feed big G. I've seen similar sites around so by no means is this idea a breakthrough. I just don't know if those other sites are profitable of not.
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  • Profile picture of the author Johnnyboy83
    My number one New Year resolutions is to stop Procrastinating.
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  • Profile picture of the author msquared
    I just make a list everyday while I am at work for tasks that I need to complete in the evening. It works for me any way.
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  • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
    So I made my first sale with my new site yesterday. All I've been doing in the past few weeks is strictly link building. Its paying off as I'm seeing my site increase in the rankings. One of my keywords actually made it to the first page on google out of 2.5 million results.

    At the beginning I started a squidoo page and a blogger but after posting for like a week on both and seeing no results in terms of indexing or traffic I left it alone for now... maybe I'm missing something.

    Here is what I learned so far... Link Building Works! It may hard and tedious and you may not see immediate results but it works folks so get cracking.

    I'll keep everyone updated if any more sales come in
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    • Profile picture of the author sblackburn
      Congrats on making a sale on your new strategy.

      One of the biggest things I have seen that creates results is what you are doing - consistent action - yes it may be tedious, but you will see results.
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  • Profile picture of the author JWT
    Hi Hommi,

    How's it going with your progress with this site. Is it working out well for you?
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    • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
      Originally Posted by JWT View Post

      Hi Hommi,

      How's it going with your progress with this site. Is it working out well for you?
      Since I started the site I made a pathetic 2 sales

      Here is what happened: Some of the pages I had built made it to the first page of Google and stayed there for a couple of weeks. After that they dropped to the 5th page and my traffic got hurt. I have been working on getting backlinks but its a long on tedious task. The pages that were on the 5th and 6th page have increased in ranking and are now on the second page but still not seeing much traffic.

      I won't really be able to tell if the site will be successful until I make it back on the first page.
      Keeping in mind that my site is not targeted to a specific niche and reviews various products and I still don't know if this will be effective.
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      • Profile picture of the author vvv12
        Hommi_16,

        Keep updating us on your project and how you solve your issue. Would be interesting to see.

        Veronica
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  • Profile picture of the author forous
    Staying focus is the key and that is a exactly what youy are doing. Keep it up.
    Great job.
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  • Profile picture of the author hommi_16
    Hey everyone

    Thanks for the support. Just and update. I made my third sale on my site and it was actually a big one (commission was $117). Some of my pages have it made to the 1st page again but still at the bottom. I will continue to work on the back links and see what happens.

    I have one question for the experts...

    I found a blog which has a few thousand pages. Many of the posts have a PR1 + (some are even PR4 and PR5) and all comments are dofollow with anchor text. Can I keep building links to my pages from the same blog (different articles/posts) or is there a point where the links would become ineffective or even get me penalized?
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