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Do you think my website has good potential?

by tjc348
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I have been working on a blog for a little while now, and I am getting a steady 40-50 visitors a day mainly from having a few articles published on others websites (syndication).

Right now I am promoting a website that I will receive 10% commission from for each sale that comes from my website, and an e-book from CB.

So far, I have made about two sales on my CB e-book in the past three months.

I just started promoting the website a few days ago so I haven't recieved any sales from that yet, but hopefully I will soon.

I would like some advice or tips on how I can monetize my site better.

I am working on writing more articles (content) atleast 2-3 a week.

I would like to build a list, but I am not sure what I could offer my readers if they were to sign up, maybe a few articles from the e-book? Or am I unable to do that?

Any advice or tips would be fantastic.

my website is: cichlid - fish dot com
#good #potential #website
  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    I tried to take a look at your web site but not found for cichliddashfish.com
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    • Profile picture of the author tjc348
      Sorry, I should have been more clear. its cichlid-fish.com
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  • Profile picture of the author Ga RedNeck
    Id go with making a list from those visits,
    Then send out bi weekly updates todo with whatever the topic of your site is.
    Dont want to send him a ad for insurance ,etc if he visits foe something else
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  • Profile picture of the author londoncoffee
    Hi there,
    i really like the tarski minimalist theme design. It suits your niche well, and allows the content to be well presented. You have a perfect position for adsense links - below your categories list in the secondary bar left hand side. I am gonna PM you about something else too.
    Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author tjc348
      Originally Posted by londoncoffee View Post

      Hi there,
      i really like the tarski minimalist theme design. It suits your niche well, and allows the content to be well presented. You have a perfect position for adsense links - below your categories list in the secondary bar left hand side. I am gonna PM you about something else too.
      Good luck!

      Thank you. I tried my best to make my page look clean and professional. I am somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to neatness.

      I have tried the adsense ads, and there just doesn't seem to be very well paying ads in my niche. I would get 5-10 cents every day sometimes every other day. It just wasn't adding up to much. In the past four or five months I have only earned nine dollars from adsense. I decided to switch out my good adsense ads with something more profitable such as the ads going to the website I am promoting.
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  • Profile picture of the author londoncoffee
    I think your niche has big potential. 45 visits per day wont do much for adsense, that's why you think its not worth it. If you had 2000 per week, it might begin to fill your pockets. Are you backlinking, writing articles about these fish and submitting to the big fish forums etc. Are you leaving blog comments on the big fish blogs, writing for digg, stumbleupon, squidoo. Write top notch articles and (do what i said pm) and they will come to your site. Google this 'do follow links' and read up on it
    Now go do it and good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author zmorris
      If you could work on your SEO a little bit and double the traffic, you could easily get up to a sale or two per day depending on how relevant your content is to the product you are trying to promote.
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      • Profile picture of the author tjc348
        Originally Posted by zmorris View Post

        If you could work on your SEO a little bit and double the traffic, you could easily get up to a sale or two per day depending on how relevant your content is to the product you are trying to promote.
        I think the SEO is my problem. I can't even find my website on google, I don't get it.

        The product (e-book) I am promoting is very relevant, it is all about cichlid fish keeping.

        The website I am promoting sells Cichlid fish, and also sells equipment and supplies for aquariums. It is one of the largest fish stores on the web, very reputable.
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    • Profile picture of the author tjc348
      Originally Posted by londoncoffee View Post

      I think your niche has big potential. 45 visits per day wont do much for adsense, that's why you think its not worth it. If you had 2000 per week, it might begin to fill your pockets. Are you backlinking, writing articles about these fish and submitting to the big fish forums etc. Are you leaving blog comments on the big fish blogs, writing for digg, stumbleupon, squidoo. Write top notch articles and (do what i said pm) and they will come to your site. Google this 'do follow links' and read up on it
      Now go do it and good luck!
      I kind of stopped working on my blog for a month or two but I'm starting to build backlinks and write more content now. I haven't really left any blog comments on other blogs. I have my blog setup so that whenever I update it, it submits my site to those social bookmarks. I do write some good articles I think.
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  • Profile picture of the author Duncan Munene
    SEO content creation is the way to get you ranking on search engines
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  • Profile picture of the author tjc348
    I know what it is, and I try to implement SEO on my site by placing specific keywords in my title, introduction, middle, and end of my posts. I also place my keyword in tags on each post. But it doesn't appear to do anything for my site.
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  • Profile picture of the author jmartinez
    As for SEO, I would remove the 'wordpress' link at the bottom of your pages. Your site isn't about wordpress and you don't want the search engines to think it is. Also, if your content is unique enough and provides something really useful then you can contact websites directly and try to get links from them. Some sites will give you a link if they think it's good for their visitors. This will help for SEO.

    Another suggestion is to optimize the titles of your pages. Right now the exact same keywords are in the url of your pages and the titles. Maybe variate it a bit. Your site name appears first before the actual page title too. All in one seo pack is a pretty good plugin if you aren't using it or something else already.
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  • Profile picture of the author monister
    well how is your keyword density for your targeted keywords?try checking it a bit.i sure tweaking it will help
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