I am missing something here please help...

It could be your linking strategy. It can help to use benefit statements to get people to click on your links and visit the merchant.

Also, it could be that you are targeting two very competitive niches. It may help to promote niches with less competition.

I was thinking about the competitiveness issue. That could be part of the problem but what do people do to stay profitable in a competitive niche?

I think part of the problem is your landing page. I clicked through and to be truthful, I wouldn't know which product I was supposed to be buying.

I'm in one of those niches and I find that selling outside of clickbank gives a better income.

From the sample article, my opinion is that it was boring, no reason to read through and that could also be a problem with people not getting to the resource box, which needs to be more compelling to get someone to click through.

For your next project, try a more obscure niche and see if that converts any better. It could just be the competitiveness of the niches you're trying to break into. You need to remember that with the relationship and weight loss niches, thousands of marketers with established websites are already in control of the major keywords and the top rankings in the search engines for both since they're extremely popular. They have hundreds, if not thousands of articles already submitted to the article directory sites. Compare that to your 55 or 110 articles, and the numbers alone completely blow them out of the water.

However, you should consider some of the advice already given to you in this thread and create a better landing page. Write more compelling articles as well, and make sure you're doing EVERYTHING you can to get the word out about your websites. If your articles don't capture your readers' interest from the start, they're not going to be apt to click through to your product. You need to be able to give them an incentive to want to click through. Or they won't.

You should be coming across to your readers as someone who wants to help them, and as an expert in the niches that you're in. A lot of visitors are probably seeing your articles as filler content. Adopting the mindset that you want to help people, and presenting them with the information that they need, will go a long way in ensuring that they come back for more - and ultimately spread your sites around. Don't be in such a hurry to make money at this point. Establishing yourself as a reputable expert in your fields that people can come to for knowledge and information should be one of your first goals.

Lucinda,

How old are the sites?

In my experience, it's not that hard to get a site indexed.

To see if your sites are indexed, type the domain name into Google and see if your site comes up in the results.

Now if you're talking about getting decent ranking for important keywords, that's a different issue altogether.

Hi Nursewriter.

You need help big time.

First you need to optimize each of your pages for one key word only, better yet do a search on Google for

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It's full of do's and don'ts and if you get this right and use Brads tips you should get your site up there and make more money even in those hard niches...

Have you got a site map in xml in your root folder? It's a must for Google...

If not, you can make one on Google, google will then spider your site and list all your pages.

If I was you I would read Brads book and Googles do's and don't then optimize your site pages for better ranking.

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Hope That Helped

Ken-g

An interesting thread, I think the answer lies in the quality of the landing page. The customer needs a clear explanation of what product they're buying (or bought) and how much and how its going to change their life for the better. Typically I think most people have a better success sellling outside clickbank than in clickbank itself. Sample article products need to be enticing and interesting, so offering quality content intially is very important. An author's resouce box should contain lots of quality relevent information, and a short description making it easier for the customer to make a decision. Just my 2 cents worth though! Cheers!

How would you go about a back link campaign? I have created squidoo lenses and submitted to multiple article directories but do you suggest commenting on forums as well? Am I missing something?