Total Newbie Needs Help!

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I have been in the internet marketing business for a few months. I started a WordPress site with a ClickBank product and I am also offering a couple of CPA offers. I have been receiving advice from my brother-in-law (who is doing quite well) on getting started and getting ranked.

My site, solarenergykits.org, is currently ranked on page2 of google but I am not getting a lot of clicks on the product.

I have purchased a few backlinks and a linkwheel but I'm not sure what to do next.

Please, if anyone has any suggestions on getting more traffic or clicks, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Jay
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Page one is where it is at. I know page two of google sounds good but do you really go to page two when you search for something. I don't unless all the searches are irrelevant on the first page.

    We really need more info though. Is that original content on the site, how do you market. You can not just expect google to bring you the money. Too many variables without researching the site and knowing alot more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Christine Brady
      I don't know much about what else you are doing to market your site, but definitely focus more on generating traffic than what rank you are.

      Traffic = customers = sales

      I didn't see very many active forums for green products on Google, but I would get in with a blog community and start visiting green-focused blogs.

      Get your product out there.

      Oh, and put an auto responder on your site for people to subscribe - just a good idea to have.

      Hope that helps!
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  • Profile picture of the author theextreme36
    Yeah I realize that. Maybe I should have worded it differently. I have gotten to page 2 and I was on page 1 (at the bottom) last month briefly.

    Any suggestions on getting to page 1. I have all original content. Should I write more or spend more money on getting ranked?

    Thanks for the quick response! This is a great site for help and info and I appreciate all of the Warriors!
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Well all I can do is tell you my thoughts. Not one person outside of that corporate google conference room knows how they exactly get sites to the first page.

    I see you have about 198 different sites linking in, this can be different on diff. tools.
    I see you have one main keyword.
    Which is
    energy kits at number 15 on google.

    So here is what I do. I go for three keywords a page. I try for 1.8 percent to 2.5 percent of keyword saturation on the pages. 1000 words is what I use for my pages.

    I would slow down on the links. Its not even ranked on alexa Try for a few quality links from the old fashioned way a week. Be patient and take your time. I have alot more things I would do but I will stop there and let others tell you too. Remember all of us may not agree and you may be able to do different things to help.

    My thought is google may have pushed you back for a reason. Please look at the number 1 through five postions of your keyword, to see what they have that you don't.
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    • Profile picture of the author theextreme36
      Thanks everyone for the responses. I will consider all of this great advice and see what happens. Thanks,

      Jay
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  • Profile picture of the author AlonzoTJones
    Also, if you're not using an SEO plugin like the one from Yoast -get it from wp.org - and check all on page factors such as interlinking between your blog pages.

    On page SEO done right can easily boost your blog to page one with low and moderately competitive phrases.
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    • Profile picture of the author AndreasJacobsen
      Originally Posted by AlonzoTJones View Post

      Also, if you're not using an SEO plugin like the one from Yoast -get it from wp.org - and check all on page factors such as interlinking between your blog pages.

      On page SEO done right can easily boost your blog to page one with low and moderately competitive phrases.
      I will second that
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      • Profile picture of the author Ralph Moore
        Hello Jay,

        As Peter said, you are not going to have a lot of traffic based only on the solar energy kits keyword.

        That is also a very competitive niche. The good news is you can beat most of the page one sites if done correctly.

        And if you are wanting to promote a ClickBank product, I am not sure why you would want to use a blogging format where you basically need to keep pushing out fresh content to remain relevant.

        You might want to consider using pages instead of posts to place articles on your site and allow each article to target a single key phrase.

        The phrase solar energy facts, for example, gets 14800 GMS and 9900 LMS.

        And you want each of your articles to be long enough to be informative and to help your visitors. (Think 700+ words if possible.)

        If you insist on blogging, you might want to look for information on new developments related to your niche and just blog about those.

        You could also talk about the power of the sun as it relates to solar energy, solar panel construction, solar panel installation, etc.

        It shouldn't be difficult to come up with 20 or more articles related to your niche and if you want to dominate that category, think about 4 or 5 times that amount.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Keep in mind that your keywords get very low search volume.

    solar energy kits gets 390 GMS, 260 LMS
    energy kits gets 28 GMS, 16 LMS

    Even if you ranked your site at #1, you will be getting very little traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author murtuza
    What if you discovered the exact system you can use today that will not only drive traffic to your website but also help you to generate massive profits in the long run?

    The problem is that most people rely completely on the search engines for their bread and butter and completely avoid some direct and legitimate sources of traffic that can get them traffic on a guaranteed and predictable basis.

    Even though it requires some work to set up and fine tune such a traffic source it is predictable. You know for sure that for certain amount of work that you do today you will get a certain and guaranteed amount of traffic to your website.

    Such a traffic source I believe is article writing. Here's my example...

    I know for sure that one article I write and submit around the net will easily get me approximately 30 views, 3 visitors and 1 lead instantly to my site within next 48 hours.

    I also know that one article will get me approximately 3 leads in the long run.

    I have tested these stats writing over thousand articles and I confident about these results. I also know that one article will generate me a revenur of $30 in the long run. In the worst condition one article will earn me around $3 profits immediately when the traffic converts into leads and goes through my sales funnel.

    When you have these numbers in place and when you have tracked them driving traffic to your website should be a game. For example, if I want to drive 400 leads into my system I know I will have to write approximately 300 to 400 articles in this month or outsource this work.

    This will immediately end up earning me $1200 profits and approximately $3600 revenue in the long run.

    This completely eliminates the necessity for you to wait for the search engines to give you traffic where you don't know what you will be earning out of that traffic.

    Make sure that you focus in creating a sales funnel. Set up an autoresponder system, write quality content emails and then sell your products in this email. Have a system of building relationship with your leads and they will purchase your products for long time to come.

    If you apply the above plan you will not only predict your daily traffic but also your daily income that will finally tell you what you need to do every day to shoot your monthly and yearly income goal.
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  • Profile picture of the author Noel Cunningham
    Focus in on your on page SEO - you have a good domain name so try and and fill your home page with high quality, unique, keyword rich content.

    Aim high and try for 2-4% keyword density. If you have a strong main page with "solar energy kits" as one of your keywords you should be getting ranked a lot higher - but it can take a bit of time and Google can be tempermental at times so stick with it and you should get there sooner rather than later.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamuelUherek
    Man... There is no Social Buttons. Why? Go and create twitter, facebook, google+ accounts for this website. This is the first step and do it immediately! I don't know if you noticed, but google announced a new search that is personal search. This is based on google+ suggestions and +1 buttons. What does it mean?

    You need to add social networks to the website. Then do the steps mentioned above. And what is the most important rule for backlinks these days is RELEVANCY. Do not build crappy links to your site which have nothing to do with the niche.

    So if you want to go up in the rankings, build high quality and relevant backlinks and you will see a boost in the next month. Also add some more content so that Google see the site is up to date. That is one of the factors for good SEO. Hope it helps. I think you have enough work to keep you busy for some time.
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  • Profile picture of the author edwinms
    Hello how many click do you get from your banner at the right? why you dont track it using bit.ly ??

    so you can know how many conversion right?
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  • Profile picture of the author Borja Obeso
    hello, i´m also new to IM but have seen some success, have made a very few sales but i´m pretty good at SEO, two things, 1- engage a lot in social networking, link your site from social netwroks like FB youtube myspace etc, try to get google plus ones (go to fiverr dot com for that), create a video,add the share this plugin, add the goole xml sitemap. 2- don´t accept every comment you get to your blog 99% of the time will be spammers, look at the names( all product or keywords names). keep in mind that not all backlink services are good, there most be a specific way on doing this, be patient you have done a good job getting to the top of page two, keep working on your site and you´ll hit page 1.....this has all been just my experience with SEO, good look
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  • Profile picture of the author theextreme36
    Wow! Thanks to everyone for the great advice. Now it is time for action. Again, thanks to all of the Warriors who responded!
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    • Profile picture of the author Birdi
      For seo plug-in you can use 'platinum-seo' thats pretty good to help you rank in google, or use Yoast quite powerful. Main thing is having cutomers come to your site and converting them to purchase your product, also collecting their email address and build that 'list! - always be building your LIST !
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