100+ Visitors A DAY = *NO* Sales

Yep, but problem is I got banned from Google Adwords. I'm with 7search now but I've heard their traffic doesn't convert that well.

How targeted is the traffic you are getting? If you don't know, install Google Analytics and see where it is coming from. Online Marketing is just a sales funnel basically.

If you can get targeted traffic, who want what you are offering them, you will make sales. If you get traffic that are simply browsing, you won't. Focus on that for now.

To be honest I have zero sale to this site. Absolutely nada. So I guess my true conversion rate is 0.

Good point with the aff links. I was thinking of adding call to actions every couple of paragraphs that go something like this... "Try it for your self here..." or "Download your copy here..."

Any thoughts?

For over half a year now I suppose... Well most traffic comes from random long tail keywords (Google, Bing, Yahoo). Some comes from Stumble Upon.

Most of the traffic lands on the the articles not on the actual review pages. So I suppose I'm getting "free info hunters" instead of people who have their credit cards out and ready, right?

How can I change that? The keywords for the review pages are WAY too competitive.

I wish it was in Wordpress, but its my very first site I've build. I built it using SBI (Site Build It) So design isn't as free as WP.

Thanks for the honesty Andrew, I'm working with CPA right now with a different site. CPA IMO is way easier I'm getting free conversions almost on a daily basis. So it's no biggie if this site fails, I'll probably convert it to a CPA site or Adsense site like you mentioned.

But thank you I did learn that, it does matter where and how a buyer gets to my site from you. It's so obvious but I still missed it .

This is your big problem! If you can over come this by building trust you'll start making money. I've made quite a lot of money selling weight loss products from clickbank so please take this onboard and you'll start making money.

1. How many opt ins do you get per day? I'm guessing it's pretty low. You need to change the subscribe box to a more benefit related copy and give people an irresistible free offer to get them signed up. So for example write a report: "How I lost 10lbs in 14 days free report" or something like that. You can even just buy PLR and use that if you're short on time. Try to go for a "my journey" type of angle.

However, it's essential you bake your own personality into the emails and the report. Have a pic of you (or a model) and talk about your own weight loss journey and how you came to create this website. They will buy from you when they trust you.

Write follow up emails that are friendly and give really useful weight loss tips as well as telling real life stories of weight loss. Write it like you would write to a friend and only reference the ebooks - dont hard sell.

2. You MUST have an 'about me' page that rocks! Talk about why you will be the person to help them and what you'll help them achieve. Talk about your own struggles and how you ended up making the site. (because you love helping people of course). Make the 'about me' very easy to find. Affiliate marketing is all about building a relationship and right now by looking at your site I don't know whether you're male or female.

3. Have an opt in box after every article and on the 'about me' page and after every review. If someone has bothered to read your article to the bottom they definitely value your content. Give them the chance to subscribe right there.

4. This is one of the biggest conversion secrets you will ever put into action, and hardly anybody is doing it. In your first follow up email write:

5. I read one of your reviews and it just seemed too good to be true. Go and read through some reviews on Amazon and see how real reviews are written. Most people have pros and cons. The trick is to include some cons without them being too bad to put the reader off. So say "the program promises you'll lose 14lbs in 14 days but I only lost 10lbs."

There must be a ton of weight loss stuff on Amazon so use the reviews on there to craft a review/story that helps you to hit your prospects emotional hot buttons over and over again. Weight loss is an emotional subject so forget logic, people will buy because of their emotional response.

6. Video! Just hearing a voice will build instant trust. You can use CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software which is free and talk over a power point presentation on something. Maybe get a cool intro done on Fiverr.com.

Hope that helps! Just drive them to that opt in anyway you can and make them your friend before recommending a product.

Jimmy

Not all affiliate networks allow that. So make sure you check with your network before you do something like that.


When it comes to keywords, and how people get to your sites, you might want to see if you can find some keywords that have actual product names in them to target. If a person is searching for something like "product name review" or "product name scam" that person is already much more interested in buying the product than some one who just searches for "weight loss tips".

So maybe you could look for products that are so popular that there are people searching for it by name and then start targeting the keywords people use to search for info about that product.

Hi 3000,

As mentioned before, this is a pretty sceptical market and you are trying to sell ebooks that are normally much more expensive than actual books, so your copy has to be spot on.

If I owned your site, here are a few things that I would try:

1) Change the Pic on the front page.

I haven't worked in weight loss so I don't really know what the hot buttons are but my gut feeling about people typing "shrink belly fat" is that they aren't that fat. The fact that they are targeting the "belly" means that they are relatively happy with the rest of their body, but they want to shrink the belly part. So take out the really fat pic and put one more likely to be similar to your target audience. (Also, your before and after has to be realistic. Your current one, although might be true, just doesn't look realistic. Your visitors are going to write you off as a scam. Sorry to be harsh)

2) Pick a Gender

As I said earlier your copy has to be spot on. Men and Women want to lose weight for different reasons. You will alienate some of your visitors by picking a gender but you will relate much more to the rest. You need a certain level of connection to make a sale and in this industry I would be surprised if you could do that appealing to both Genders. A quick look at amazon.com suggests that the books for "shrink belly fat" are targeted at women. Might need a bit more research. So, if you go for women, take out the pics of the men.

3) Change Home Page

I would change your home page to include mini reviews of your product in order of quality. Make sure you have a Clear Winner. Without a clear winner you are confusing the visitor. They can't decide which book is best so they buy none. You want to do the work for them, so they don't have to. Most people scan websites and take what they want from it. They are not going to sit and read all your reviews and then make a reasoned decision on the matter. Make that decision for them (for example, choose the book with the lowest refund rate. That way you know that it is actually going to help them)

4) Opt in bait

You need to give the visitor a reason to opt in. Pick up some PLR and offer them something.

5) Copy

Go to amazon and find the books/products that are most relevant to your visitors. Find out the hot buttons that the best selling products are using and use them in your copy. I noticed you used health on your home page. For me that would not be what I would use. People looking to lose belly fat are more likely to be motivated by vanity rather than health.

Anyway, I have gone on for long enough. Hope this helps

Peter

This is in my opinion the best thing you coudl do here. Make a free gift offer related to shrink belly fat - that they can't pass up. Get building the list and you can market other CB or affliate products to them within the weight loss market. Make sure you continue to provide good content.

Content, Content, Content, Testimonial, Pitch, Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Jay

Yup, already doing that. I've gotten an opt-in box above the fold on every page I get a few here and there. Nothing to brag about though...

"Tire Kickers" for sure, I've concluded that yeah the keywords that the searchers are mostly that of people who just want free info.

I will definitely take your advice Gary of changing the verbiage. Once I get my other site in order.

I looked into that but there's a lot of my competition with the same main keywords doing that strategy. I just wanted something that was different but still helped that visitor.

Hey thanks Andrew!

Do you think using testimonials from the actual sales page of the product will give more credibility? What do you think?

Nope you weren't harsh at all . Your right I totally over looked the wording. I should of read the articles more closely. The girl I outsource the content to is actually from Canada, but I'll give other writers a look at.

Totally forgot how the word "fat" could be offensive. I used to just hate hearing the word "fat" when I was heavier myself. Good catch and thank you.

Really good tip there, yeah lol my call to action is weak sauce, like how people have said already. I will definitely implement this tip.

Cool thanks yeah I like doing SEO and stuff like that so linking everything was easy. But, like you said that's not what makes the sales lol.

Very motivating to hear that, 8% wow that's crazy! If I had a 8% I could seriously quit my day job and do this full time (my dream ). You know funny thing is I was just thinking of creating my own product.

The only thing that's holding me back is the new learning curve with learning how to create pdf files. Create ebooks. Sales page. Creating a copy that sales. Etc

But I guess it has to be done.

I was going for more of a "Soft" sale kinda feel, you know, not to pushy towards the visitor. Haha but I just shot myself in the foot doing that :p I guess.

Don't say sorry. You've just helped me . You should be saying "you're welcome in advance".

"I'm sure this will help". Hell yeah it will! Yeah you and everyone is absolutely correct. Finding my affiliate link is like finding a needle in a hay stack.

I definitely need to give my site a complete make over.

I went with ClickBank because the payouts are higher and you don't have to sell a lot to make a lot.