OK, Here Goes...It's Time To Turn the Corner!

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Hi Warriors,

OK, I'm ready , with your help, to turn the corner on my lack of success in my online marketing efforts. I'm here to spill my guts and do whatever it takes.

To begin, I've spent, at least, the last four or so years trying to get in a position of earning some sort of income to supplement the Social Security of my wife and myself. We're seniors and would just prefer not to wind up with 'Dog Food de Jour' in our "Golden Years".

I won't go into the previous 49 site and blogs. My earnings have been totally underwhelming. Instead, I will begin with the last in an effort to determine what I'm doing wrong and what, if anything, I might be doing right.

If I may, I would like to take a look at each element in the process and get the comments, critiques and suggestions from you warriors that have much more knowledge than me.

Under examination is my blog: surviving-an-affair dot org

The first element: niche

According to Travis, I need a "starving crowd" with "their hair on fire". To me, it seems like a person in the throes of dealing with an affair would fit this criteria. Correct or not?

Second: keywords

I'm under the impression that one wants keywords with some degree of monthly searches and not a great deal of competition. The keywords I've chosen have searches above 500 wih an R/S Ratio of 20 or under. Here is the list:

Surviving An Affair
emotional affair
how to survive an affair
infidelity signs
saving your marriage
getting over an affair
signs of an affair
marriage infidelity
emotional infidelity
after infidelity
signs of a cheating spouse
saving a marriage
catch a cheating spouse
save a marriage
wife caught cheating
wife having an affair
having an affair
affair proof marriage
marital affair

Third: domain

I understand that one should choose a .com .net or .org domain using your main keyword. I chose "surviving-an-affair.org". Have I run off the road as yet?

Fourth: product

I'm an affiliate for "marriagesherpa dot com" which pays approx $80 on a $197 sale.

What I've done so far:

Setup a wordpress blog on my domain.

Bought about 10 photos online to use for the blog and for the videos.

Had 1 article written professionally written and submitted original to EZA and spun versions to 6 or so other top directories. Titles, first sentence, last paragraph used one of the above KW. 3 or 4 instances in the body.

As I put up each post, I submitted to Onlywire connected to about 20 bookmarking sites. Each post was geared to a certain one of the above keywords.

Put up 10 videos on youtube with a link to website and/or optin page and distributed to 7 other video sites. About six of my videos come up under the phrase "getting over an affair". Under TheJDSanders.

Found about 20 blogs on .com .org and .edu and commented personally.

Created Squidoo lens, hub page, and blogger blog to point to main blog.

The blog is about six weeks old. Has finally made it to within Google's top 100. In the past couple of days, two KW are in the 70s, 'surviving an affair and getting over an affair'. None of the others are in the top 100.

I'm getting diddly as far as traffic is concerned.

OK, let me have it with your best shot. Anything I may have left out that you need to know? Really, I will be ever so grateful for any of you that helps me solve this problem and I will certainly pass it on down the road.

JD
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  • Profile picture of the author patey88
    I started out very much like you. In my case, sales finally started happening once I submitted multiple articles to EzineArticles to drive traffic to my site. You have one, but that's not enough. Get 20 out there, and then aim for 40. If you discover this brings you traffic that converts, that will give you incentive to submit even more.

    If the posts on your site are unique and article-like, you can submit them to EZA. All EZA looks for is that the author name you use in EZA for the article also shows up as the author name on your site. I always put articles on my site first, and EZA second.

    As for your site -- it seems to me you are wasting a lot of vertical space with your header and white space above and beside the ad. Why don't you experiment with some other templates? Position the ad so that article text wraps around it, for example. Use a header image that is not so tall. Looking at it with my screen resolution (1024x768, which is still pretty common) I don't see much besides a header and an ad when I go to your site. There's nothing to keep me from bouncing away.

    Good luck to you. -- Patey
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