My First $100 Day... And Now I Need HELP!

I haven't had a $100 day yet, but I've made a handful of clickbank sales since september, so maybe I can help a little.

I haven't been submitting articles daily (as I know I should!), but what I've noticed is that most of my sales seem to come when I submit a few articles at once to ezine.

This leads me to believe that being on the "recently submitted" list is a HUGE help...the time you get on there is brief in most categories, but for that time it gets you a lot of exposure.

I used to think keyword research wasn't that hard, until I found out I was doing it all wrong by using "broad" rather than "exact" match type in the google keyword tool.

I realized that huge list of keywords I spent days building up was complete and utter crap and a waste of time once I saw their "true" searches. I was quite pissed to put it mildly lol

After that I just sorta forgot about keyword research altogether, I guess I'm sorta jaded from that bad experience.

But the funny thing is, once I forgot about keywords and started just throwing articles out there is when I got my first sales!

So my plan now is just to submit articles everyday, the more the better. I'm going to shoot for 10 a day, we'll see how it goes, maybe you can try it out yourself.....everyone I've read about here that submits that many each day seems to be doing pretty well.

Good luck!

-Jon

The links can help you, and you can outsource 80 of them for $9 or less, so it would be $270 to promote 30 articles. This is calculated at $1.50 per hour, and 6 hours work per 80 sites. Total work hours: 180. Wanna do it yourself? Whatever you say. Outsource? Use oDesk.

One thing I would recommend, since you're basically doing the same 80 sites over and over for this month, is to buy Brute Force Linking Loophole; it submits to about 60-70 Paul/Angela sites on autopilot pretty much.
It even fills in CAPTCHAs. An average run takes just over 2 hours, so you can promote 3-4 a day at least (you just need to be around to confirm emails).

This will save you 90% of the cost we figured out earlier.

I use it to promote posts on Yahoo! Answers, and just one run will ensure that my question gets to page 1 and stays there, even though other questions are asked with my keyword all the time. The one with the most backlinks seems to stay on top, even after many weeks.

Hi Jon. I also wasted my first three months in IM relying on the broad match due to bad advice.

I remember gleefully giggling at the money that would roll in after getting the #1 spot for a term searched 30,000 times in a month.

Exact search stats? 1,300 a month.

REAL search stats (by doing an Adwords test LAST WEEK [I've stopped that campaign, but was curious to see why I got off to such a bad start]): 13 a day, or just over 400 a month.

I wasted three months, but did learn a lot. It's good to get the failures out of the way.

Remember the backlinks you add today might not have any impact on the SERPS for a month or two, depending on how often Google spiders each site you post a link from, as well as the type of crawl it does.

I'm sure you know SEO doesn't happen overnight but I think you're doing the right thing. Best of luck to ya

HI branlan,

It seem rumored that the owner of authority sites on angela/paul backling packet is checking and banned each new account

Due the issue of the link spamming on every new account, perhaps you should contribute first a little on their site so the owners will not suspicious about you, then you back again and give your anchor link on your profile page..

Hope it will help you,

Cheers,
Vaan

appreciate all of the responses, always a good place to come for both constructive criticism and encouragement

You want to use exact match because broad includes similar phrases that a page ranking for the main keyword might not actually get ranked for. I actually did this too for a couple of weeks before realizing my terms were going to get me virtually no traffic.

To me it seems your heading in the right direction. As mentioned before, SEO takes time, give Google and Co time to trawl the sites your linked from and your articles will soon be ranking if you have researched your keywords correctly.

Another way of getting your articles ranked is to use social media sites too encourage people to bookmark your articles on social bookmarking websites. This would be a huge boost to your SEO efforts but is very time consuming and can be abit hit and miss, depending on your niche.

Yeah my plan of action right now is to add all of the 80 links per month (for this month and next month, so with the sites that go away prolly about 120 total links). After that I'm going to work a new campaign but outsource social bookmarking of those articles to gain additional backlinks from a different source.

The niche I'm in is very competitive and perhaps I should have stayed away but even with VERY low traffic (an average of 15-30 page visits per day) I'm somehow about to breach $500 for the month so I KNOW there is money to be made and my page converts... just have to crack it wide open!