by holly8
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Hi, please check out my site at the link below. Few days ago I put an ad widget on signup page to earn money but I wonder if it makes people angry?. I only have 2 members who signup before I put on that widget. I have done free and paid advertising. I gain a few referrals with my site but I only made less than $1 with my referrals . Few weeks ago I paid $67 something in Canadian money to be a vendor at Clickbank and to have an affiliate program. I made no sales . I'm thinking of giving away gift cards to get people to my site. I downloaded a plr package that has a nice OTO, sale pages, thank you pages and squeeze pages and i'm thinking of using them. I might have a new site in a few months.

1) Is my niche, How to start your own banner ad site good?

2) What else should I do to make at least 50$ per day? my advertising budget is $5-$10 per month.

3)Is my SEO good?.

4) Is the design good?



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  • Profile picture of the author emptee
    Originally Posted by holly8 View Post

    Hi, please check out my site at the link below. Few days ago I put an ad widget on signup page to earn money but I wonder if it makes people angry?. I only have 2 members who signup before I put on that widget. I have done free and paid advertising. I gain a few referrals with my site but I only made less than $1 with my referrals . Few weeks ago I paid $67 something in Canadian money to be a vendor at Clickbank and to have an affiliate program. I made no sales . I'm thinking of giving away gift cards to get people to my site. I downloaded a plr package that has a nice OTO, sale pages, thank you pages and squeeze pages and i'm thinking of using them. I might have a new site in a few months.

    1) Is my niche, How to start your own banner ad site good?

    2) What else should I do to make at least 50$ per day? my advertising budget is $5-$10 per month.

    3)Is my SEO good?.

    4) Is the design good?



    Start your own banner ad site!

    Thanks
    To be honest mate - I don't even know where to start...

    Please consider everything I say to be constructive criticism, not a personal attack.. I don't like to sugar coat what I say, people tend to miss the point when you try to be nice

    When I first visited your site, I had no idea what it was offering, and more importantly, why I would be interested in staying on there to learn more. It's difficult to read text on product pages as it is centered (good for parts of some pages... TERRIBLE to read paragraphs.). I'd suggest going back to the drawing board a bit there!

    Now.. on from that, let's go through your questions..

    1) Probably OK - I don't know what the demand is, but I'm sure there are enough people that would want to learn about banner ads, creating banner ads, advertising networks, etc...
    2) Fix the site - it's painful at the moment. Aside from that.. create some helpful articles and rank them. Add affiliate links in the articles to useful products that relate to the content of the article (eg. Photoshop, WP plugins, etc..) Also.. why on earth are you using ClickBank for your payment processing? The item value is far too low for any affiliates to be interested, and it's very expensive compared to other methods... Just use PayPal and be done with it!
    3) No. You don't have enough content to rank for anything that I can see.. aside from that, you've got a couple of backlinks that are OK.. without content you can't really rank for anything though.Permalink structure should be changed to site.com/page, rather than site.com/?page=page.
    4) Personally it's not to my taste.. I'm definitely not the right person to comment on design though

    Also, trying to get people to complete a PPI/PPD offer is probably going to leave a bitter taste in their mouths once they start getting popups wherever they browse.. I think most people are VERY wary of this nowadays.. If you MUST go down that path, it might be better to package a useful program with PPI/PPD and offer it as a free download for them, but not make it mandatory. I don't think you'll have loyal customers if you do this sort of nonsense though.

    Again - don't take this as an attack on you personally.. I just think you may want to take a big step back and develop a bit more of a plan..

    1) Figure out what it is you want the site to do
    2) Figure out the most cost effective way to do this
    3) Determine if it's profitable enough
    4) If it is, do it! If not.. find something else!

    Cheers,
    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author emptee
    Just had another look - and I get the impression you're trying to revinent the wheel a bit..

    Whatever software your using to create the shop/website.. throw it away and use something else (eg. WordPress). It's doing bizarre, bad stuff that should never be done...

    eg. product pages are only available by performing a POST to shop.php.

    This is plain messed up - it means:

    1) Search engines will NEVER be able to see your product pages...
    2) People CANNOT pass links around for the pages
    3) You can't link to pages if you wanted to in most places (eg. you can't post a link to a product on WF)
    4) Even if you can control HTML somewhere - creating a link is HARD. (you'd need to create a form and submit it via JS, or a submit input.. or something)

    Cheers,
    Michael
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    • Profile picture of the author holly8
      Originally Posted by emptee View Post

      Just had another look - and I get the impression you're trying to revinent the wheel a bit..

      Whatever software your using to create the shop/website.. throw it away and use something else (eg. WordPress). It's doing bizarre, bad stuff that should never be done...

      eg. product pages are only available by performing a POST to shop.php.

      This is plain messed up - it means:

      1) Search engines will NEVER be able to see your product pages...
      2) People CANNOT pass links around for the pages
      3) You can't link to pages if you wanted to in most places (eg. you can't post a link to a product on WF)
      4) Even if you can control HTML somewhere - creating a link is HARD. (you'd need to create a form and submit it via JS, or a submit input.. or something)

      Cheers,
      Michael
      Thanks for the help . I love it when people are honest!. I made the template and script myself. I have some web programming skills. I use Clickbank because I wanted them to pay my affiliates.
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      • Profile picture of the author emptee
        Originally Posted by holly8 View Post

        Thanks for the help . I love it when people are honest!. I made the template and script myself. I have some web programming skills. I use Clickbank because I wanted them to pay my affiliates.
        Hi Holly,

        No problem, glad to help

        I'm and old coder at heart as well, and I know it's often fun and exciting to try and make something yourself (I still do this )

        I learned a while ago that it's generally better to use an existing framework than try and make your own, even though you could do some really cool stuff with your own. In the case of your site, if the unique look is what you were after, you could recreate it as a WordPress theme relatively painlessly once you get your head around how WP is meant to work (eg. queue css/js, rather than just dropping it into the markup.)

        I'd suggest pulling your products off CB - it's too expensive (for you) and there's no money left in for affiliates to bother with.. The products I saw on there were $4 - $5, so...

        5 - (1 + 5 * 7.5%) = $3.62

        Even if you gave 100% to the affiliate, that's lower than some EPC's in the IM/MMO niche, and we're not talking about conversions yet.. WarriorPlus or JVZoo is cheaper than ClickBank, but the pricing is still too low to attract affiliates as it is.

        You could consider bundling several resources together with appropriate training material (video, PDF) and selling at a higher price point.. As long as the material is good and your sales page converts, you'll get affiliates on board then

        But.. before then, have another bash at your site.. and use an existing CMS - it'll save you a lot of time and effort.

        Cheers,
        Michael
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        • Profile picture of the author holly8
          Originally Posted by emptee View Post

          Hi Holly,

          No problem, glad to help

          I'm and old coder at heart as well, and I know it's often fun and exciting to try and make something yourself (I still do this )

          I learned a while ago that it's generally better to use an existing framework than try and make your own, even though you could do some really cool stuff with your own. In the case of your site, if the unique look is what you were after, you could recreate it as a WordPress theme relatively painlessly once you get your head around how WP is meant to work (eg. queue css/js, rather than just dropping it into the markup.)

          I'd suggest pulling your products off CB - it's too expensive (for you) and there's no money left in for affiliates to bother with.. The products I saw on there were $4 - $5, so...

          5 - (1 + 5 * 7.5%) = $3.62

          Even if you gave 100% to the affiliate, that's lower than some EPC's in the IM/MMO niche, and we're not talking about conversions yet.. WarriorPlus or JVZoo is cheaper than ClickBank, but the pricing is still too low to attract affiliates as it is.

          You could consider bundling several resources together with appropriate training material (video, PDF) and selling at a higher price point.. As long as the material is good and your sales page converts, you'll get affiliates on board then

          But.. before then, have another bash at your site.. and use an existing CMS - it'll save you a lot of time and effort.

          Cheers,
          Michael

          Great suggestions!. Thanks again .
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  • Profile picture of the author Bridgitte
    Hey dude your website is not working, you have problems with server. Try to set the issue so people can see what is about.
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    Oh, I can't visit your site mate.
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  • There's certainly a lot of room for improvement. Michael made a lot of great suggestions, you can start with those. I agree with what he said too. Before you proceed with the makeover, determine what the purpose of the site is. What is your aim in creating it? Knowing what the goal is will help move you forward as you make the modifications.

    Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author holly8
      Originally Posted by EverestOnlineMarketing View Post

      There's certainly a lot of room for improvement. Michael made a lot of great suggestions, you can start with those. I agree with what he said too. Before you proceed with the makeover, determine what the purpose of the site is. What is your aim in creating it? Knowing what the goal is will help move you forward as you make the modifications.

      Good luck!
      Thanks for your input!. I like drawing so I could use those skills to have unique banners to sell and a unique website. I wanted to have a website that uses art and advertising. I can't put up drawings now because I want to practice more. I'm always reading comics/mangas on the net and I hope to make my own comics some day .
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