WOW I'm an idiot! (or a genius perhaps?)
So I've been away from affiliate marketing for awhile, not completely, but I've been mostly spending my time on building content for something that I am working on. But I used to post a bunch of blogs and try a bunch of stuff and nothing seemed to really work.
I wasn't ready to give up, but the current approach was all but done for.
Somehow I got my first adsense paycheck seemingly out of nowhere, I had like $40 over a couple of years, and then in 2 months I got a check for $115.43.
THat was my 2nd online check, my first being from clickbank for around $100.
But where ever my adsense ads were getting the most clicks from I didn't know, although I tracked 90% of my random blogs (or so I thought), 90% of the clicks were arriving from who knows where!
Now I spent some time searching but couldn't seem to find why, so I moved on.
Recently, in working on a new project I went on to ezine articles ready to post several articles. When I signed in, my total article views was off the walls. I only had 4 articles submitted for this article account, and yet I had well over 10k views. I checked one by one and the first one, under a hundred views, the second one, just over a hundred... then the third... over 10,000 for one article!
The funny thing is, I don't remember ever doing anything the article.
Now I check google and my article is number one, but this particular article used zero keyword research unlike my others. It merely took advantage of a trend that I noticed and idea I had.
The part that makes me an idiot, is because I stopped checking this article, forgot all about it, and now I realized I missed out BIG time.
Since I just have some blogger.com page up without private policy, it's probably smart priced in adsense. There's a few articles on the page, but no social bookmarking buttons, no affiliate links except some random affiliate widget titled "test" that I don't even know what affiliate account it leads to anymore. The site is basically ugly, but due to the volume of this #1 ranked article for a term that wasn't searched for back when I wrote it, but is now, it's still gotten enough views to enough clicks to actually earn something from adsense.
What makes things worse is I don't know the original blogger account that I used... I'm trying to remember it now. Fortunately I "added" another account as a blogger, so I can still go in and make posts but I don't have administrative access, so no changing the layout or the widgets or anything.
Anyone have any advice? I think I'm going to have to create a new page, change the link at the bottom of the article, and send any future traffic from that article over to a new site where I can actually capture subscribers. I really like the next project I'm working on, so I might not do much with the subscribers until this trend becomes relevent event again.
But this got me thinking, if this method can work this well, what opportunities could I have in the future?
I wasn't ready to give up, but the current approach was all but done for.
Somehow I got my first adsense paycheck seemingly out of nowhere, I had like $40 over a couple of years, and then in 2 months I got a check for $115.43.
THat was my 2nd online check, my first being from clickbank for around $100.
But where ever my adsense ads were getting the most clicks from I didn't know, although I tracked 90% of my random blogs (or so I thought), 90% of the clicks were arriving from who knows where!
Now I spent some time searching but couldn't seem to find why, so I moved on.
Recently, in working on a new project I went on to ezine articles ready to post several articles. When I signed in, my total article views was off the walls. I only had 4 articles submitted for this article account, and yet I had well over 10k views. I checked one by one and the first one, under a hundred views, the second one, just over a hundred... then the third... over 10,000 for one article!
The funny thing is, I don't remember ever doing anything the article.
Now I check google and my article is number one, but this particular article used zero keyword research unlike my others. It merely took advantage of a trend that I noticed and idea I had.
The part that makes me an idiot, is because I stopped checking this article, forgot all about it, and now I realized I missed out BIG time.
Since I just have some blogger.com page up without private policy, it's probably smart priced in adsense. There's a few articles on the page, but no social bookmarking buttons, no affiliate links except some random affiliate widget titled "test" that I don't even know what affiliate account it leads to anymore. The site is basically ugly, but due to the volume of this #1 ranked article for a term that wasn't searched for back when I wrote it, but is now, it's still gotten enough views to enough clicks to actually earn something from adsense.
What makes things worse is I don't know the original blogger account that I used... I'm trying to remember it now. Fortunately I "added" another account as a blogger, so I can still go in and make posts but I don't have administrative access, so no changing the layout or the widgets or anything.
Anyone have any advice? I think I'm going to have to create a new page, change the link at the bottom of the article, and send any future traffic from that article over to a new site where I can actually capture subscribers. I really like the next project I'm working on, so I might not do much with the subscribers until this trend becomes relevent event again.
But this got me thinking, if this method can work this well, what opportunities could I have in the future?
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