Making progress but still no sales
I've been in this game since Nov 2010 and despite being a software developer by trade, I found it's a steep learning curve. Still, for the 1st time in my life I've found something I want to do with a passion so I shall persist.
I feel I am making progress and the mist is beginning to clear a little.
What I've learnt:
- 1st, keywords are everything: Do your research and target your page and backlinks for that keyword.
- 2 nd to keywords are backlinks: Whether it be a few high quality backlinks are low quality on mass - your choice.
- 3rd there is no 3rd until you've mastered 1 & 2
After 3 months of attempting to absorb everything there is to know about IM I've began to realise that keywords & backlinks are the only 2 things I should be concentrating on to get the things started.
My main site, Dumbbell Set Guide - Dumbbell workouts & exercises, is ranking about #7 for 'dumbbell set' which gets 1,300 exact searches a month and I'm upto about 30 visits per day and rising.
Recently, I've put in action the things I've learnt over the last few months:
- Revamped with a nice Woo theme.
- Rewrote some of the articles (some outsourced) to have them better target their main keyword (SEOPresser is superb for helping this).
- Purchased backlinking packages (Katrina).
If anybody can kindly offer any constructive advice on what they think could be done to improve this site I'd be most grateful.
I'm shifting my efforts slightly to make more use of outsourcing for articles and backlinking. I buy high quality articles for my main sites and cheaper ones for satellite sites (Hubpages, Squidoo etc).
Despite all the hype, it's becoming clear to me that success in IM is no different to success in any other business, it's takes hard work and persistence. Just like all other walks of life, you get nothing for nothing - don't believe that IM is any different.
Well I'm not seeing much success yet but I am working hard and I'm certainly persistent so hopefully success isn't to far round the corner. I am hoping to update this post in a few months with tales of some tangible success - watch this space.
I wanted to make this post now to empathise with others new to the game and not seeing any results. You're not alone, stick at it.
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