Why IM is great- Something nice to share with you all!

Last night I opened my clickbank account which i had not touched in about 3 months and I discovered I had made 60 bucks (one sale) off a website which i had given up on completely as a project..I have to say I am pretty ecstatic.

My first IM experiment was with a html web template I got free with an ebook I purchased, it was very basic and quite crappy looking. Unfortunately my html is very limited so there was not much I could do, but for a while I thought it was great (first website I had ever made!).

I thought of a product i could write something about, did some keyword research and found something with over 3000/monthly searches ( i never knew of exact searches! Turned out to be around 1000) I liked with low comp on the first page (i didn't take into account broad, allintitle or exact searches either because I didn't know about them). I went to namecheap and found an exact match .org domain and then found a product which matched the criteria on clickbank.

I used bookmarking, maybe one or two ezines and some profile links which i copied off a similar affiliate website on the front page using yahoo explorer. Within a few weeks I was floating around no. 10 spot on google and I think i even made it to 7th, but then I discovered wordpress and came across some other ideas and I just lost track of it.

Maybe it was the fact that "I thought" the page couldn't convert or that I had screwed the keyword research up and I was never going to make any money from it (I was told over 3000 exact), but i forgot about it..until last night!

I checked it's position and it is ranked number 11, so with some more linking I should easily be able to push it back up to the front page.

Internet marketing truly is full of surprises! I am definitely here to stay!