Tried IM for A Year and Nothing... Advice Needed!

Hi travelvulture,

I've been there too.

I'm trying to understand what other people are going through and set up a short 10 question survey, the link is below.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-problems.html

Adsense is a low pay off method to make revenue from your site. If your site visitor doesn't find what their looking for, your hoping they will click on the Absence link. Its like sending the scraps to Absence, your left overs.

Depending on your traffic levels, you could sell banner space on your site, BuySellAds.com might be worth a look, but it all depends on your traffic.

Sending PPC traffic straight to a squeeze page, I hope you had a free offer to give away to encourage the visitor to enter their email.

Traffic Methods:
You have only mentioned 2 methods, SEO & PPC both require Google who only accounts for 30% of the global traffic.

There are about 12 methods which is a bit to write about here, PM me (private message) to get more information.

Travel & Personal Finance are both highly competitive niches as well as broad.
Could you knock them down into smaller niches, like avoid bankruptcy, debt reduction is pretty popular. Focus on solving someones problem.

Have you thought about sticking with one niche, then make a sales funnel.
The visitors enters their email for the 1st items, a low cost item, then up sell with related products.

Make a business process out of it, I had my biggest break through when I started to think of it like a normal business and think of the process, step 1 through to 10.
Its a sales process only the marketing channel is the internet.

The benefit of sticking with 1 niche is that you could spend between 50-75% of your efforts promoting the site. Doing that across many sites just leaves you spread too thin.

Lets look at the Guru launches for an example. Lets look at what they do not what they sell.

• 1 product with up sells for the tools then another up sell for the coaching.
• Promoted via email marketing as they get JV to promote to their lists.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...-problems.html

Maybe one of the mistakes it's the lack of focus on your strategy.

I regularly work on a single project until I make a sustainable income form it.

If you decide for Amazon, you must work in create a niche site that include really good content to pre-sell the products and build a niche around it.

You must test and track every single day, until you figure what work for you and then double your efforts on it.

Thanks guys, and I think you're both right. I feel really unorganized and spread thin by trying to monetize about 10 sites via different methods. I also think that the niches that I've picked are too broad, but I just can't seem to think of a way to scale them down to a more specific area.

I am in situation somewhat like yours, although I have not yet used PPC or Adsense yet. What seems to be helping me is getting some in-depth training through a very low cost membership site.

Part of the video training offered is on PPC and Adsense. The trainer advises not to try Adsense without doing thorough research, as your money will quickly go down the drain.

One thing that impressed me about this site was that I was able to view several free videos before I signed up. This gave me an idea of the quality of info that would be provided.

I'll share the site info with you if you're interested. E-mail me at mbseddie70 at gmail.com.

Cheers!

Also, I did have a free branded ebook on each of the squeeze pages I created. However, I don't know if my copy was just that bad, or my PPC skills are just awful but I seemed to pay a couple hundred bucks for about 10-20 signups on various niches from weight loss, to solar energy, to marriage advice, and many other Clickbank related niches.

I can tell you one reason you're not having much success. You're blogging about a too broad topic. Try finding a smaller topic within the Travel and Finance niche that you can speak extensively on and become an authority over

Hi Travelvulture,

Are you getting traffic from your top Google SE rankings? If so, are you targeting niches, topics and keywords relevant to ad clickers? i.e. People who are searching for more details about the different products and solutions they can purchase to solve their problems and satisfy their needs that they can neither solve nor satisfy on their own. Most sites configured to earn from CPC ad click profits need heaps of organic SE and direct traffic to gain substantial income for the owner..

For building your mailing lists, have you tried solo email ads in mailing lists of others comprised of people included in your target markets, private PPC/PPV/PPM ads placed in online places where your target markets frequently hang out (Facebook PPC is an example), syndicating your indexed onsite content in ezine channels and content syndication networks with large active publisher bases comprised of owners and administrators of heavily trafficked, high authority sites in your target niches, and sending guest posting proposals to owners and administrators of heavily trafficked, high authority sites in related niches with many active regular viewers, RSS readers and mailing list subscribers?

Have you tried steadily building the onsite content of your niche sites, posting free offers to generate a list of prospect mailing list subscribers, posting a paid offer to generate a buyer mailing list, including comparison charts with point by point details and comparisons of relevant Clickbank or Amazon products and other affiliate products in your free and paid offers and also in your onsite content, then doing the things I mentioned above to promote your site and offers?

Welcome to the forum. What PPC companies have you used? What kind of daily marketing plan do you have yourself on.

It took me almost 2 years to hit the 1000 a month mark. You have to stay focused on your goals and just keep learning and practicing. Eventually you will succeed in some way.

I think Tmoby is right ! All of this methods you've mentioned has learning curve year or even more ! You make 10 websites 50% = no money , You make one site 100%=$$$
Pick one method ( I would say micro niche blogs ) and stick to it . Learn everything about it
Get good at it , get better than the others , then you'll make some money !

Take a deep breath, take a step back and think about this...

You need to do something that has what I call the 3 Ps:

Passion
Profit
Practicality

Passion - do you CARE about the subject? If you don't, people will see right thru it and you need to personally connect with people.

Profit - is there MONEY to be made in the activity you're considering (banking - yes, general travel stuff - possibly if narrower)

Practical - is it PRACTICAL for you to be advising / informing people about something you know very little about or are on the same knowledge level as them on?

Good luck! :-)

It sounds like you've done okay with SEO if your niche sites are on page one. Apply the SEO principles you've learned to get more traffic to your travel and finance blogs. You don't need to make the niches more narrow. Just make each page target one keyword to start off and try to rank on the first page for each keyword you target. Make the keywords long tail with less traffic and competition than the keywords you targeted for your niche sites so you can be sure to rank for them. You might want to play around with the Adsense layout on your site as well in order to generate more revenue form that traffic.