Newbie First Sale!

I started out by making a couple of sites about a month ago - one of them is a site that was reviewing physical products that I have actually bought and used and another one is a more content-heavy site that I do just for enjoyment.

It was only in the process of setting up my sites that I came across the idea of Internet Marketing and this forum. I put a couple of Amazon Affiliate links to the products that I had reviewed last week and I have sold 4 items yesterday (nothing to do with what I was reviewing, but hey!).

At first I was chuffed that people were even finding my site through Google and were actually spending time looking through the pages of my site and reading the reviews. There is an average of 8 mins when a person clicks onto my site where they are probably having a good read. It fealt great to have written something that people were actually reading. I was really excited.


And now, getting four Amazon sales has given me an extra boost. I may have only earned about $3 so far but still, it feels great. What was more exciting to me is that people are finding and reading my reviews especially when I am ranked no where near the top pages on Google. In fact, I'm so far back I can't even find myself for most of the keywords that people are finding my site with.

Oh well, I thought I would just make a post here to say that I am inspired by many of the stories that are here on this forum and that I'm starting to feel much more excitement about the whole process!