Am I been impatient?

Are you relying solely on google traffic, if you are, bug mistake. You need to actively seek traffic:-

PPC
PPV
ezine ads
website ads
article syndication
video traffic
JV's

The list goes on and on and on.

Additionally, your website in on drug addiction, why are trying to sell windows 7, driving test theory, you need to sort that out straight away,

Your subscribe box should be above the fold with a compelling off to entice your visitor to subscribe, again weightloss why are you trying to sell this. Find 4 relevant affiliate programs to fill your advertising boxes with.

You've got a long way to go yet before this website is right.

Thanks for the input guys. What's the best services to use which is the lowest cost, not got much of a budget to work from so anything free to use would be a bonus, I have an Ezine account up and running. I use Squidoo too. Just not sure on what to use for PPC & PPV

The bottom line - income (or lack of it) - is surely more important than traffic levels?

Your traffic levels aren't that great, it has to be said, but I honestly think you could be receiving five to ten times as much right now and still not be making a single red cent.

You need to ask yourself this question:



"If I - as a suffering/recovering drug addict or someone with a macabre interest in illegal mind-altering sustances - come to your site, what exactly are the odds of my being interested in purchasing any of the following products ... ?"

• Driving Test Success All Tests 2011
• Kaspersky Internet Security 2012
• Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
• Norton Internet Security 2011
• Amazon Kindle

(Those are the ads I see.)

Those odds are pretty low, I'm sure you'll agree.

And if it did just pop into my head whilst I'm on your site that I really needed to order something from Amazon, why would I use your affiliate search box rather than just head directly to Amazon as I usually do?

Your problem is that your monetisation is simply irrelevant to the topic of your site, and thus, by extension, my likely interests as a visitor.

if you have got 8056 visitors and you have made 0 bucks then your problem is not traffic, it is conversion. What have you done with these visitors?

You should have send them to a squeeze page, converted them into leads, then build a strong relationship with them by sending them quality information and then finally sold them your products.

...And if you're just selling them 1 product you're doing a big mistake. Have atleast 10 products in your funnel. Load them in your autoresponder with quality content and sales emails. Now track the conversion rate of your squeeze page and all the products in the funnel. See your email open rates and click throughs.

Once you do all this you will know which products are selling and which are DUD. You will know your squeeze page conversion and you will improve it to increase the CR. Once you do all this you will know which traffic source is converting visitors into money and then finally you will improve upon things. Hope this helps...

There's some really good suggestions here, I suggest you make some changes to your website, start using some more traffic generation strategies and come back to ask for more help.

Try social media. Get a Twitter and Facebook account and create a fan page. Join groups in Facebook in your area and post comments. Also, forums are great for tartgeted traffic. Create an account at a few forums and make posts. Not about your site but about the niche. Then put a signature with a link to your site. These are all free methods but can get you targeted traffic.

You need more aggressive SEO and a better link building structure. Try to get traffic from the most ways possible whether its direct traffic, seo or etc.

The site is not really designed to convert sales. That is the biggest problem. You need to make the site convert the traffic you currently have before worrying about more traffic. Get it to convert, then get more traffic.

First the site is far to busy looking, and cramped, and the text is too small and light. You are over doing it, especially with all the social media stuff. You have too much going on. The side bar is way over crowded. You really need to make it cleaner.

The bigger problem is that it is an information site about drug addiction. It has content, but doesn't offer good conversion options. First, many people visiting your site will be looking for information on drug addiction. The articles you have seem more informational, facts and figures, but there is nothing much in the way of helping them deal with addiction. Second, what you are selling is completely unrelated to what people were searching for. People searching on drug addiction aren't looking to buy advertising space, buy weight loss products, or new anti-virus software. You even waste space on a couple of banners that don't go anywhere. The twitter stuff in the toolbar looks horrible, and the links either redirect to your home page rather than what the twitter comment suggests, or it actually takes people off of your site, neither of which is helpful. Don't send your traffic somewhere else that isn't making you money. You got them on your site keep them there.

Most importantly, find appropriate products that will actually appeal to the type of visitors that a site like that would attract. Target your products to your visitors. Clean up the tool bar so that the related product offer(s) stand out, rather than being buried in a jumble of other adds and social media. Move that "recent posts" section down and move your primary product up there. While you are looking for products, I would clean out much of that junk from the tool bar and put in adsense at the top. At least it would be related to the niche, and you will likely be making more money than you are now.

Your market research is really where your money is made. If you model the 1 or 2 of your 10 top competitiors in your market you can have more success. What type of market research have you done? What is your competitors money keywords? Where do your website rank for those Keyword. These are some of the questions you need to consider.

There's no point in getting traffic if you can't figure out a way to turn that traffic into money. I'm sure you have a lot of good information on here, but there are no offers or ways for you to make money. Have you thought about adsense or trying to find an e-book to promote or creating your own? How much market research did you do? In all honesty, drugs aren't a topic I would create a niche blog about hoping to make money. I like the thought behind it, though.

Good luck,
Joey

How do you monetise the site?

As for the paid traffic, there's always a way to get it for FREE, i.e FREE PPC, it means you get FREE clicks.

Hi guys........anyone got any tips on backlinking strategies

Just updated my website with some amazon products which are now relevant to my website niche. Also added a store on there too thanks for all the input guys.

You should promote your website via social networks :Facebook,twitter...

you've fallen into the very common newbie trap of thinking the problem is that you need more traffic.

As pointed out by others, one SERIOUS problem was that you were promoting totally unrelated products.

Not to mention that this might not even be a profitable niche to be in (I have no idea if it is or isn't, but it something to consider). That's another common mistake in my opinion - assuming a topic you are passionate about is in fact profitable.

if nothing else, just make the site a labor of love and through some adsense on it.. with 8000 uniques, you would have at least made some money.

you know what? I think you have a great site, there are a lot of important information there. I started to learn about drugs that i did not know noting about, its a very good educational site.

Sometimes it must not be all about money, once you get good quality traffic and post quality content the money will start to roll in.

I start IM a year ago and is still not making as much money that i think i would be making. The thing is that we all ways see ads about making a ton of cash in a small period of time but newbies need to realize that they only say that because they want to sell their product hoever it took them at least 2 years for them to start making good money online.

Do people with drug and addiction problems have enough money to spend on self help?

You might want to market to their family members maybe rather then the people who suffer from it.

Thank you everyone. Made my first sale today via Amazon.

Warriors your all loved dearly by me!

Onwards & upwards!