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Help this clickbank user struggling with SEO PLEASE!!

by dctc71
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Hey everyone,

I bought the affiliate marketing course Tycoon Cashflow about a week ago and have been implementing the advice provided there. I have been working hard every free second that I have at writing articles and trying to generate traffic but I'm disappointed multiple times a day when I sign in to click bank only to find that I still haven't made any money.

I've been promoting products with high gravity and writing articles and hubs but none of my effort seems to be paying dividends.

Any advice? Any help or comments at all are appreciated. I just want to get this thing off the ground.
Thank you so much,

Dave
#clickbank #seo #struggling #user
  • Profile picture of the author RyanRigney22
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    • Profile picture of the author dctc71
      Thanks a lot, good points.

      Also, if my article is one of hundreds or thousands on the same product, is it actually worth my while if my article doesn't become on of the most popular ones out there?
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      • Profile picture of the author Cackle
        Originally Posted by dctc71 View Post

        Thanks a lot, good points.

        Also, if my article is one of hundreds or thousands on the same product, is it actually worth my while if my article doesn't become on of the most popular ones out there?
        Think about competitive products in weight loss as an example. Of course, it's worth your while - the KEY is to get your articles to outrank the other articles. This can happen by having better content, a better targeted title, and sometimes just being on a better directory.

        If you aren't doing proper keyword research and understanding how to write article titles - than it is possible you are wasting your time.
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        • Profile picture of the author dctc71
          Originally Posted by Cackle View Post

          If you aren't doing proper keyword research and understanding how to write article titles - than it is possible you are wasting your time.
          Is the google keyword tool alone good enough? That's what I've been using.
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          • Profile picture of the author Cackle
            well, that's a good start - but that's only giving you the numbers, right?

            So you need to check out what kind of competition is coming up for your chosen keywords. An easy way if it's just for a few words to start is by putting it in between " " in google...that will tell you how many competing pages there are with that keyphrase. I'd say stay away from anything with over 50,000 competing for now. This is just a rough estimate, I don't know your niche, and you could increase or decrease once you have a better grip.

            So let's say your keyphrase has less than 50,000 pages - great, but also check out what sites are ranking on the top 5 or so. If you see wikipedia or any other high pr authority site - forget it. It will be too hard to outrank. But if you just see a bunch of article diretories or little sites - then go for it! Just make sure your articles are better than theirs.

            Hope that helps.
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            • Profile picture of the author dctc71
              Yeah a ton, thanks a lot.
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              • Profile picture of the author Gale10
                A good way to check out your competition is to download SEOquake which shows the information you need on every site you visit. It is great!

                You can add links to your articles which will push them higher up the search engine rankings.

                I just want to say though, you haven't told us the specific number of articles you have written. When I first started I thought ten was a lot of articles.

                Actually, they say that you don't make a consisent income from articles until you reach about 200. Frankly I lost patience before then and turned to adsense, but I started earning at roughly 80 articles.

                Others experience will be different, I didn't get great click through rates, so that is part of my problem.

                So, just in case you have done twenty articles and think you have done immense (been there!), it is not quite that easy. Keep going with your article writing and you will get there in the end.

                All the best,

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  • Profile picture of the author Shoaib
    Originally Posted by dctc71 View Post

    Hey everyone,

    I bought the affiliate marketing course Tycoon Cashflow about a week ago and have been implementing the advice provided there. I have been working hard every free second that I have at writing articles and trying to generate traffic but I'm disappointed multiple times a day when I sign in to click bank only to find that I still haven't made any money.

    I've been promoting products with high gravity and writing articles and hubs but none of my effort seems to be paying dividends.

    Any advice? Any help or comments at all are appreciated. I just want to get this thing off the ground.
    Thank you so much,

    Dave
    You didn't say anything about traffic. If you've been working hard every free second that you have at writing articles and trying to generate traffic, then where are the numbers?

    How many articles have you actually written, submitted, and how many of those are approved (if you're using ezine) for visitors to see?

    How much traffic have you currently gotten to your website with all those articles?

    How many hops (clickthroughs on your affiliate links) do you have? This can be checked under "Reporting" on your clickbank account.

    All I read was "I wrote so many articles and I keep logging into my clickbank account but there's no money in there".

    Maybe you are getting traffic from those articles and it's just not converting. Maybe you've only gotten 6 visitors in the last week so how are we going to make any money?

    If you're getting visitors, hops, and no sales -- then either your targeted keywords or your website are the issue.

    If you have no traffic at all, then obviously traffic generation is the issue. But don't just say "i wrote articles but no money cha-chinged in my clickbank account". It doesn't work like that. For all you know, you could've had 1000 visitors and not a single sale from them... which obviously means there's a conversion issue.

    Tell us some numbers.
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  • Profile picture of the author dctc71
    Thanks a lot everybody. I've got a lot of reading, researching, experimenting, and learning to do!!
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  • Profile picture of the author ramprof
    OK, let's put all this great advice together. First, pick a product that has some gravity, but not high gravity - less competition. Also, think about your product. Can somebody looking for the information provided find it easily for free online? I cannot tell you how many of my students fall into that trap every year (and yes, I do let them fall into it as they learn so much more from failure).

    Now, do some keyword research. Try to find KWs with decent traffic, but not huge traffic - again less competition. I tell my student to try for about 100 searches per day for phrase match (3,000 in the Google KW Tool). Along with this you need to look at the competition - type the phrase into Google with quotes. Look for a low number - less than 15,000 is good, but I like my students to shoot for less than 10,000. Even if it means lower search volume go for those terms that have less competition. I would rather have my students make some sales versus no sales. Finally, look at the quality of the competition? Is it filled with Web 2.0 and article sites - then you are good to go. If the competition is filled with big authority sites move on.
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