ok 2 more articles.
So 2 articles for ezines and 2 articles for my blog, posted today.
Before I add an autoresponder or Clickbank ad, I needed to do a bit of both to start the wheels rolling on traffic and indexing.
Next, I'm going to create a 5 day Ezine course. I aim to have this finished by end of today. I need to think what I will put in it though.........I will do some product creation in the meantime.
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Saturday, 2 June 2007
Quick Update Saturday
Just a quick update. Written 2 articles for my passion blog.
This is great. It really feels like you are making much progress.
Instead of a few articles per niche funneling to someone else's page (though as an affiliate), this feels like all your work is for you as the traffic will hit your page before they see the CB vendor.
This is a great feeling.
Off to write more!
This is great. It really feels like you are making much progress.
Instead of a few articles per niche funneling to someone else's page (though as an affiliate), this feels like all your work is for you as the traffic will hit your page before they see the CB vendor.
This is a great feeling.
Off to write more!
Thursday, 31 May 2007
New Blog Created!
I decided to create the blog tonight instead of waiting till the weekend. Let's just get it installed!
This way, as well as my product creation (in a different niche by the way), I can create and post 2 articles a day - one on the blog and one with an outbound link on ezinearticles.
I used Wordpress as I know this is very SEO friendly. So far I haven't put on any Adsense - I've installed a theme but I may change it as it looks good but there could be something a lot better available.
Also installed alinks, which automatically creates links out of post keywords that you specify. So I configured it so that four common keywords will link to Clickbank products. I have another blog which has brought in a little cash using this technique so I am hopeful it will help for this blog as well.
The aweber opt-in form is yet to come.
Also installed Spam Karma 2. In my experience, without this you either have to sift through all the spam, or let it through. This kind of plugin is essential.
Also installed a statcounter plugin and Ultimate Tag Warrior. UTW is pretty cool but the Yahoo tag search feature is temperamental. Its supposed to suggest tags for you based on your post which is great, but yo have to trick Yahoo by changing your id on each post to get it to give you suggested tags. Dunno if I can be bothered to do this on every single post but we'll see.
Got delayed today due to more flat viewings so only got an hour left in the day until bedtime......should I burn the midnight oil tonight? I guess there's only one day left until the weekend so we'll see if I get any product creation done tonight.
This way, as well as my product creation (in a different niche by the way), I can create and post 2 articles a day - one on the blog and one with an outbound link on ezinearticles.
I used Wordpress as I know this is very SEO friendly. So far I haven't put on any Adsense - I've installed a theme but I may change it as it looks good but there could be something a lot better available.
Also installed alinks, which automatically creates links out of post keywords that you specify. So I configured it so that four common keywords will link to Clickbank products. I have another blog which has brought in a little cash using this technique so I am hopeful it will help for this blog as well.
The aweber opt-in form is yet to come.
Also installed Spam Karma 2. In my experience, without this you either have to sift through all the spam, or let it through. This kind of plugin is essential.
Also installed a statcounter plugin and Ultimate Tag Warrior. UTW is pretty cool but the Yahoo tag search feature is temperamental. Its supposed to suggest tags for you based on your post which is great, but yo have to trick Yahoo by changing your id on each post to get it to give you suggested tags. Dunno if I can be bothered to do this on every single post but we'll see.
Got delayed today due to more flat viewings so only got an hour left in the day until bedtime......should I burn the midnight oil tonight? I guess there's only one day left until the weekend so we'll see if I get any product creation done tonight.
Monday, 28 May 2007
Day 10 Bum Marketing Challenge Update
Actually today I had planned to do only product creation and also some well overdue chores around the house.
Well its midday here and I have written two direct to merchant linking articles and submitted to ezinearticles. I don't do goarticles because I found that I wasn't getting indexed and with ezinearticles I get indexed in a few days. Also, I'm now on Platinum status which is great.
One thing I have noticed with Wordtracker is the amount of crap keywords. I mean, sometimes there is an obscure six phrase keyword that apparently gets searched 20 times a day! Yeah right! You really have to sift to find the gold because either the popular keywords are too competitive or the apparent gold is fools gold as I have just outlined. Also, some niches are full of searches with the word FREE.
In fact, despite choosing what to write my first product on, I am thinking of changing it already because I think there may be a load of freeloaders or kids in this market who will not buy my product. This would also put potential affiliates off with poor click through rates on keywords. Mind you, this same non-IM niche is one of the top selling on CB and not too competitive. I think I will stick with it and choose a totally different niche for my 2nd product so as to diversify well.
So, how about you? How are your own bum marketing efforts going? I would love to hear about them and if you want to write a post for this blog full of your backlinks, I am more than happy to show it. Remember that there are not too many bum marketing blogs out there (I know because I am always looking for them!) so this is a captive and targetted audience in that sense.
Well its midday here and I have written two direct to merchant linking articles and submitted to ezinearticles. I don't do goarticles because I found that I wasn't getting indexed and with ezinearticles I get indexed in a few days. Also, I'm now on Platinum status which is great.
One thing I have noticed with Wordtracker is the amount of crap keywords. I mean, sometimes there is an obscure six phrase keyword that apparently gets searched 20 times a day! Yeah right! You really have to sift to find the gold because either the popular keywords are too competitive or the apparent gold is fools gold as I have just outlined. Also, some niches are full of searches with the word FREE.
In fact, despite choosing what to write my first product on, I am thinking of changing it already because I think there may be a load of freeloaders or kids in this market who will not buy my product. This would also put potential affiliates off with poor click through rates on keywords. Mind you, this same non-IM niche is one of the top selling on CB and not too competitive. I think I will stick with it and choose a totally different niche for my 2nd product so as to diversify well.
So, how about you? How are your own bum marketing efforts going? I would love to hear about them and if you want to write a post for this blog full of your backlinks, I am more than happy to show it. Remember that there are not too many bum marketing blogs out there (I know because I am always looking for them!) so this is a captive and targetted audience in that sense.
Sunday, 27 May 2007
Product Creation Update
So, I've started my product creation. Actually, I started product creation a few weeks ago but barely covered the surface.
As a newbie internet marketer, I have gone the whole gamut of education and it is more about applying it. As most marketers do, I started off with Adsense sites. I just could not reach the $5 mark per site, I think I lacked passion and only one or two sites are what I would call quality. Problem with these niches are that there are no obvious info products or affiliate products to promote. One of them is a travel site so I can push hotel bookings but it is quite rare that someone makes a booking.
Not to mention with bum marketing turning into general IM, to be most effective you need to have
Then I learned of product creation. I saw how people created some products to entice people to opt in to lists, in fact I created a small guide myself. I even created a WSO that unfortunately was not very successful. Whilst I believe the advice was solid and even got an offer to use my ebook from a guru (I was stupid and asked for too much money!), it didn't make me much more money than a hundred bucks or so. Also, how many gurus make most of their money from Adsense sites? Most of them are involved in product creation in some way. And the thought of having other people going out there promoting my products sounds like a great idea. Of course, it may take a while to get many affiliates on board but the concept is still alluring.
So, I did a little research on Warrior forum where there are surprisingly few threads on product creation. However, I did glean some good info and found myself an attractive product on Clickbank. First of all, I don't often buy these products. I have seen that many WSOs and CB IM products are a waste of time. Especially WSOs. Probably the reason that many WSOs are $7 is because most of them are sh!t and the value of all WSOs went down due to a flood of cr@p in the market.
However, not all Clickbank products are bad and I have bought a few decent ones. It is just that there is a lot of both good and bad.
Anyway, I found a book by Melanie Mendelson who incidentally also appears on Warrior Forum from time to time. I was intrigued by some of the claims on the sales page:
Anyway, I bought the book and it was exactly what I needed. I skimmed through and it is written very well.
Anyway, the crux of the book is that it splits the writing process into 48 half hour chunks. You need to each half hour interuppted but other than that, you can do them anytime that you want to. Write your book as quickly or slowly as you want.
The beauty is the simplicity of the system in giving structure to your writing. I remember why Blogging To The Bank and Affiliate Project X caused so much fuss when they were released. Why? Because on these rare occasions, the writers actually showed the readers what to do, in a step by step fashion. There are too many IM books that are full of crap and fluff and many people think they have bought a good book and then learn that it is full of only a couple bits of new information and mostly cr@p. Hence why one guy I know is leading a crusade to make all these IM books free, illegally of course! He gets a lot of sympathy from his readers.
So, I've done the first few stages of the book which are to, via an evaluative process, decide on the topic you are to write about. The great thing is that I have a shortlist of products to write about. All of which I know are marketable, have a captive audience and that I know I can write about with some passion. Meaning that once I have completed an ebook, I can move onto another ebook.
I should add that the book does not cover making sales pages or marketing your book to affiliates. That is something that I will need to learn later. However, this can be an ongoing thing that can be refined over time once the book is completed. Will keep you up to date as things progress.
As a newbie internet marketer, I have gone the whole gamut of education and it is more about applying it. As most marketers do, I started off with Adsense sites. I just could not reach the $5 mark per site, I think I lacked passion and only one or two sites are what I would call quality. Problem with these niches are that there are no obvious info products or affiliate products to promote. One of them is a travel site so I can push hotel bookings but it is quite rare that someone makes a booking.
Not to mention with bum marketing turning into general IM, to be most effective you need to have
- articles providing backlinks
- decent seo for your site articles
- nice looking design
- autoresponder series with good content
- good follow up content
- other traffic building strategies
Then I learned of product creation. I saw how people created some products to entice people to opt in to lists, in fact I created a small guide myself. I even created a WSO that unfortunately was not very successful. Whilst I believe the advice was solid and even got an offer to use my ebook from a guru (I was stupid and asked for too much money!), it didn't make me much more money than a hundred bucks or so. Also, how many gurus make most of their money from Adsense sites? Most of them are involved in product creation in some way. And the thought of having other people going out there promoting my products sounds like a great idea. Of course, it may take a while to get many affiliates on board but the concept is still alluring.
So, I did a little research on Warrior forum where there are surprisingly few threads on product creation. However, I did glean some good info and found myself an attractive product on Clickbank. First of all, I don't often buy these products. I have seen that many WSOs and CB IM products are a waste of time. Especially WSOs. Probably the reason that many WSOs are $7 is because most of them are sh!t and the value of all WSOs went down due to a flood of cr@p in the market.
However, not all Clickbank products are bad and I have bought a few decent ones. It is just that there is a lot of both good and bad.
Anyway, I found a book by Melanie Mendelson who incidentally also appears on Warrior Forum from time to time. I was intrigued by some of the claims on the sales page:
- write your own e-book in 24 hours
- screenshots of regular large daily Clickbank income
- a step-by step system (this is what I really needed, I didn't have a clue where to start and how to write a book)
Anyway, I bought the book and it was exactly what I needed. I skimmed through and it is written very well.
Anyway, the crux of the book is that it splits the writing process into 48 half hour chunks. You need to each half hour interuppted but other than that, you can do them anytime that you want to. Write your book as quickly or slowly as you want.
The beauty is the simplicity of the system in giving structure to your writing. I remember why Blogging To The Bank and Affiliate Project X caused so much fuss when they were released. Why? Because on these rare occasions, the writers actually showed the readers what to do, in a step by step fashion. There are too many IM books that are full of crap and fluff and many people think they have bought a good book and then learn that it is full of only a couple bits of new information and mostly cr@p. Hence why one guy I know is leading a crusade to make all these IM books free, illegally of course! He gets a lot of sympathy from his readers.
So, I've done the first few stages of the book which are to, via an evaluative process, decide on the topic you are to write about. The great thing is that I have a shortlist of products to write about. All of which I know are marketable, have a captive audience and that I know I can write about with some passion. Meaning that once I have completed an ebook, I can move onto another ebook.
I should add that the book does not cover making sales pages or marketing your book to affiliates. That is something that I will need to learn later. However, this can be an ongoing thing that can be refined over time once the book is completed. Will keep you up to date as things progress.
Day 9 Bum Marketing Challenge
Update, no more articles done yesterday but today I have done four already, all on different niches. These niches I like a lot actually. These are direct to clickbank links.
Gonna watch the Monaco GP now (come on Massa and Ferrari!) and then write more articles for direct hoplinks and also my 2 niche content sites.
I think I can even do some of these during the GP!
btw still no sales, at least I'll be ecstatic when I get some!
I might also start my product creation tonight.
Gonna watch the Monaco GP now (come on Massa and Ferrari!) and then write more articles for direct hoplinks and also my 2 niche content sites.
I think I can even do some of these during the GP!
btw still no sales, at least I'll be ecstatic when I get some!
I might also start my product creation tonight.
Saturday, 26 May 2007
Day 8 Bum Marketing Challenge
No articles for yesterday for reasons I will not go into.
So far today 2 articles via Method 1
3 day weekend here in the UK (Monday is a bank holiday), so hope to pump out a lot of articles.
btw these crap sales are making me think about product creation rather than Bum Marketing.
Even my so-called passion niche is difficult because I do not feel a close affinity with any of the products on Clickbank, which seems to me a great reason to make my own product.
Anyway, will post later today with more progress.
Total articles written today so far = 2.
So far today 2 articles via Method 1
3 day weekend here in the UK (Monday is a bank holiday), so hope to pump out a lot of articles.
btw these crap sales are making me think about product creation rather than Bum Marketing.
Even my so-called passion niche is difficult because I do not feel a close affinity with any of the products on Clickbank, which seems to me a great reason to make my own product.
Anyway, will post later today with more progress.
Total articles written today so far = 2.
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Day 5 Bum Marketing Challenge Update
Well first of all I checked my CB stats when I got home and disappointed to see yet another day of nothing. But now I've just thought about it...5 days is nothing yet in my challenge, and although I started my bum marketing efforts before the challenge, they were sporadic and nothing like what I am doing now. So I shouldn't be too disheartened.
I regularly look at other blogs, I have named Stuart's and Trevor's below, especially Trevor's I check every day as we are doing the challenge at the same time and hopefully spur each other on to do well.
I also found another one - check it out:
Bum Marketing Adventure - The 120 Day Story
Its a 21 yr old college student (no name??) who has 120 days to kill in the summer and is trying to reach a $10 a day goal. Wow, that would be great money for a student, I remember those days! I hope he reaches his goal - I noticed he is using Squidoo quite a lot as well, something that I am not currently doing.
Anyway, today I felt so tired and drained. My day job involves working various shifts and this week I have been rising very early. It really kills you in the evening. Of course, as you know, I have been caning the articles and doing pretty well for myself. On my way home today I was in some kind of a dizzy daze, totally out of it. Yawning continuously and yet holding a notebook trying to write an article on a niche, whilst balancing on one leg on a train! People must have thought I looked like cr@p!
I aborted that article so I've written one today and don't feel like anymore. I think I need to give myself a rest. I'm going to get to sleep on time tonight and maybe right one or two articles. Sometimes, you just need to chill out and relax after continuous working and I think that tonight could be the night.
So I think I might just do some leisurely keyword research tonight as my Wordtrack week's subscription runs out soon, and maybe start my niche "passion" blog as well.
Later
I regularly look at other blogs, I have named Stuart's and Trevor's below, especially Trevor's I check every day as we are doing the challenge at the same time and hopefully spur each other on to do well.
I also found another one - check it out:
Bum Marketing Adventure - The 120 Day Story
Its a 21 yr old college student (no name??) who has 120 days to kill in the summer and is trying to reach a $10 a day goal. Wow, that would be great money for a student, I remember those days! I hope he reaches his goal - I noticed he is using Squidoo quite a lot as well, something that I am not currently doing.
Anyway, today I felt so tired and drained. My day job involves working various shifts and this week I have been rising very early. It really kills you in the evening. Of course, as you know, I have been caning the articles and doing pretty well for myself. On my way home today I was in some kind of a dizzy daze, totally out of it. Yawning continuously and yet holding a notebook trying to write an article on a niche, whilst balancing on one leg on a train! People must have thought I looked like cr@p!
I aborted that article so I've written one today and don't feel like anymore. I think I need to give myself a rest. I'm going to get to sleep on time tonight and maybe right one or two articles. Sometimes, you just need to chill out and relax after continuous working and I think that tonight could be the night.
So I think I might just do some leisurely keyword research tonight as my Wordtrack week's subscription runs out soon, and maybe start my niche "passion" blog as well.
Later
Monday, 21 May 2007
Day 3 Bum Marketing Challenge Continued - Quick Update
ok just a quick update, I've got some cleaning to do! Chores don't stop unfortunately!
I reached my target for today. So:
* 2 x articles on two different topics with links to affiliate pages
* 2 x articles to content site containing CB ads and opt-in boxes (this is a secret how I do this, currently an experiment that will be revealed later, I'll call this SECRET METHOD in future)
* 1 x article on new niche page
The only thing about the last article, is that I haven't yet created a blog. Any advice for a blog? I have a lot of experience with Wordpress blogs but I find that they look kind of crappy. To be honest, I don't like reading Wordpress blogs personally, they are flippin everywhere!
PS my Wordtracker subscription runs out in a few days. Tomorrow need to do some KW research!
I reached my target for today. So:
* 2 x articles on two different topics with links to affiliate pages
* 2 x articles to content site containing CB ads and opt-in boxes (this is a secret how I do this, currently an experiment that will be revealed later, I'll call this SECRET METHOD in future)
* 1 x article on new niche page
The only thing about the last article, is that I haven't yet created a blog. Any advice for a blog? I have a lot of experience with Wordpress blogs but I find that they look kind of crappy. To be honest, I don't like reading Wordpress blogs personally, they are flippin everywhere!
PS my Wordtracker subscription runs out in a few days. Tomorrow need to do some KW research!
Sunday, 20 May 2007
Day 2 - Bum Marketing Challenge - My Strategy Defined
Well Day 2 is going pretty well. Day 1 was rather strange.
As you know, I write articles going to and from work. This is an amazing tip and I'll tell you why.
On public transport, I normally fall asleep, I can't help it. But by writing on my small notebook, it is surprisingly enjoyable. I do this with my tunes in my ear. I get some funny stares but I don't care! The only thing I need before I head out are a couple of keyword phrases for the 2 articles I will write.
I normally type up my written articles that night but on Friday, well a tough week at work - my job is very stressful - so I typed up on Saturday.
Then I screwed about for a bit and was quite angry at myself for doing this :-( Luckily I saved the day and did some good work in the evening which actually gave me ideas for my strategy.
- I am going to abandon my own product creation until after 30 days. I need to concentrate on this challenge
- I will continue to write 2 articles a day going to/from work. These will link to clickbank products and not include email capturing from an opt-in form
- I will write 2 articles per day that will link to a content site with clickbank ad and opt-in form. This is an experiment to me. I will be using some interesting techniques that I have never heard of before but hope to be successful
- Lastly, I will soon start a passion niche site. No, this has nothing to do with porn or s3x ;-) I have noticed that Steve, Stuart and Trevor have started by having only one site from fresh, but something that they are very passionate about. I am quite knowledgable so enjoy writing about many things but I really need a no.1 passion that also has a product on Clickbank, then start to write about it. Stuart showed that from a single niche alone, one can fulfil this challenge. That is my objective.
Maybe sounds like too much but remember:
- no more product creation
- 5 articles. 2 of which written on the train, 2 of which I will use an interesting technique to write very quickly. 1 of which will be about something I love. I think this is achievable.
All this and I will be moving out of my apartment in one month. Yikes, these things always come in twos!!
As you know, I write articles going to and from work. This is an amazing tip and I'll tell you why.
On public transport, I normally fall asleep, I can't help it. But by writing on my small notebook, it is surprisingly enjoyable. I do this with my tunes in my ear. I get some funny stares but I don't care! The only thing I need before I head out are a couple of keyword phrases for the 2 articles I will write.
I normally type up my written articles that night but on Friday, well a tough week at work - my job is very stressful - so I typed up on Saturday.
Then I screwed about for a bit and was quite angry at myself for doing this :-( Luckily I saved the day and did some good work in the evening which actually gave me ideas for my strategy.
- I am going to abandon my own product creation until after 30 days. I need to concentrate on this challenge
- I will continue to write 2 articles a day going to/from work. These will link to clickbank products and not include email capturing from an opt-in form
- I will write 2 articles per day that will link to a content site with clickbank ad and opt-in form. This is an experiment to me. I will be using some interesting techniques that I have never heard of before but hope to be successful
- Lastly, I will soon start a passion niche site. No, this has nothing to do with porn or s3x ;-) I have noticed that Steve, Stuart and Trevor have started by having only one site from fresh, but something that they are very passionate about. I am quite knowledgable so enjoy writing about many things but I really need a no.1 passion that also has a product on Clickbank, then start to write about it. Stuart showed that from a single niche alone, one can fulfil this challenge. That is my objective.
Maybe sounds like too much but remember:
- no more product creation
- 5 articles. 2 of which written on the train, 2 of which I will use an interesting technique to write very quickly. 1 of which will be about something I love. I think this is achievable.
All this and I will be moving out of my apartment in one month. Yikes, these things always come in twos!!
Saturday, 19 May 2007
End of Day 1 - Challenge Report
Maybe I should save this for day 2!
Anyway, today I created a mini-site. Basically, I will link to this site in my ezinearticles.com articles.
This site I built in XSite Pro. It features a picture and text link to the clickbank product in the right margin, a text link in the footer and an opt-in page on every page in the center.
It took me about 1.5 hours to build though!
Is this normal? I noticed some opt-in pages for bum marketing are a blogger blog with just 3 articles posted maybe. Is this enough? It would seem to me that people will not bother opting in if they see that the page looks lightweight. By the way, I'm not talking about 1-page sales pages or pre-sales pages here for opt-in purposes. Unless, maybe this is what I should be creating? Would certainly take less time. I'd appreciate your feedback.
Cheers
Anyway, today I created a mini-site. Basically, I will link to this site in my ezinearticles.com articles.
This site I built in XSite Pro. It features a picture and text link to the clickbank product in the right margin, a text link in the footer and an opt-in page on every page in the center.
It took me about 1.5 hours to build though!
Is this normal? I noticed some opt-in pages for bum marketing are a blogger blog with just 3 articles posted maybe. Is this enough? It would seem to me that people will not bother opting in if they see that the page looks lightweight. By the way, I'm not talking about 1-page sales pages or pre-sales pages here for opt-in purposes. Unless, maybe this is what I should be creating? Would certainly take less time. I'd appreciate your feedback.
Cheers
Saturday, 12 May 2007
Yes! More Bum Marketing Sales!
Hi all,
I thought I would share with you, my Bum Marketing is going pretty well.
I must be picking up some good search engine traffic because my bum marketing stats are suddenly doing very well.
Actually, since the last time I wrote, I have had a small vacation and this has upset my rythm and objective for posting an article a day. Trust me, you can't leave everything till the weekend!! It won't work out.
So my motto is "must do one article a day".
And check out my stats, I'm pretty happy with them. In a couple of weeks, I have made what takes me two months to make in Adsense! And it took me over a year to get to that level in Adsense but only about two to three months of Bum Marketing!
So get writing!
Sunday, 29 April 2007
Bum Marketing Is Working!
After creating about 20 articles, some good, some bad, and learning a lot along the way, I am finally starting to make some sales. About one sale with Clickbank every 1-2 weeks.
At least now I can see the power of Bum Marketing and that it really works.
After a three day holiday that has disrupted my efforts and set them back about two weeks (argh!), I am going to commit to two things - bum marketing and product creation.
Both require the same - lots of writing!
So I better get on with it!
Later
At least now I can see the power of Bum Marketing and that it really works.
After a three day holiday that has disrupted my efforts and set them back about two weeks (argh!), I am going to commit to two things - bum marketing and product creation.
Both require the same - lots of writing!
So I better get on with it!
Later
Sunday, 4 March 2007
BUM Marketing Outsourcing Update
An update - 3 projects nearly completed from rentacoder. Unfortunately, 2 of the 3 projects have come back not up to the required standard. I requested a specific keyword density and format of the articles yet this has been ignored!
Well, I don't hand over money until the job is done, but it is very annoying, and these people seemingly have very high ratings! Methinks that people are stroking each others' egos on these sites and giving each other high ratings.
Anyway, I'll let you know what happens.
My other projects which I have been neglecting lately are an Adwords project (that I will hopefully get under way today) and also a Clickbank project, which is to write my own ebook, but on what I do not know.......
Well, I don't hand over money until the job is done, but it is very annoying, and these people seemingly have very high ratings! Methinks that people are stroking each others' egos on these sites and giving each other high ratings.
Anyway, I'll let you know what happens.
My other projects which I have been neglecting lately are an Adwords project (that I will hopefully get under way today) and also a Clickbank project, which is to write my own ebook, but on what I do not know.......
Wednesday, 7 February 2007
USFreeAd today for a change...
So today I posted a USFreead for a change. I'm totally knackered because I'm working the early shift at work this week, entails waking at 5am :-0 and I am most certainly not a morning person. I resemble a woken grizzly at that sort of time!
I wrote something on Day Job Killer. Yes, you have probably heard of it but, if not, you will soon - all the gurus are promoting it. I'm sure it's a good product, I mean, I bought Affiliate Project X by the same author and was very impressed, but it is quite sickening when the gurus force it down your throat all day!
I've also promoted it elsewhere, on a non-internet marketing forum that I frequent. It gets some heavy traffic and I have a theory on the target audience that I am testing so it will be interesting to see what kind of response I get. I really wish that Clickbank would show how many clicks your link gets so that you could do more testing and conversion tracking etc. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't see these features.....
By the way, if anyone knows of any good Bum Marketing blogs or RSS feeds, please let me know and I'll add them to the left. Always good to have some useful links.
Thanks
I wrote something on Day Job Killer. Yes, you have probably heard of it but, if not, you will soon - all the gurus are promoting it. I'm sure it's a good product, I mean, I bought Affiliate Project X by the same author and was very impressed, but it is quite sickening when the gurus force it down your throat all day!
I've also promoted it elsewhere, on a non-internet marketing forum that I frequent. It gets some heavy traffic and I have a theory on the target audience that I am testing so it will be interesting to see what kind of response I get. I really wish that Clickbank would show how many clicks your link gets so that you could do more testing and conversion tracking etc. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't see these features.....
By the way, if anyone knows of any good Bum Marketing blogs or RSS feeds, please let me know and I'll add them to the left. Always good to have some useful links.
Thanks
Sunday, 4 February 2007
Wordtracker Keyword Gems
Still no sales I'm guessing, I'm tempted to not even look at my stats today.
Well I'm ahead of schedule so far. Friday night I was very tired and got an earlyish night, one article written. Saturday I wrote two articles and today (Sunday) three. I originally had a wild plan to do twenty articles this weekend but I knew that wouldn't happen.
One thing that slows me down in that respect is having to do the keyword research. To make the most out of my limited Wordtracker subscription, I'm researching at least one niche per day which obviously eats into my article writing time. I'm hoping that by the end of my subscription, I might be able to raise my daily article quota to two. That alone would mean that I could write the approximately 140 articles remaining (my first objective) in seventy days or a little over two months!
One thing that has struck me about my Wordtracker research is that there are some very obscure terms that have apparently been searched many times. All the more suspicious when you find out that there are no competing pages in Google for the exact terms. So, like Overture, you do have to interpret the results to some extent.
Anyway, off to check my Clickbank stats, I can't resist!
Well I'm ahead of schedule so far. Friday night I was very tired and got an earlyish night, one article written. Saturday I wrote two articles and today (Sunday) three. I originally had a wild plan to do twenty articles this weekend but I knew that wouldn't happen.
One thing that slows me down in that respect is having to do the keyword research. To make the most out of my limited Wordtracker subscription, I'm researching at least one niche per day which obviously eats into my article writing time. I'm hoping that by the end of my subscription, I might be able to raise my daily article quota to two. That alone would mean that I could write the approximately 140 articles remaining (my first objective) in seventy days or a little over two months!
One thing that has struck me about my Wordtracker research is that there are some very obscure terms that have apparently been searched many times. All the more suspicious when you find out that there are no competing pages in Google for the exact terms. So, like Overture, you do have to interpret the results to some extent.
Anyway, off to check my Clickbank stats, I can't resist!
Thursday, 1 February 2007
Great Progress Today in Bum Marketing!
Well, still no money. Like the watched kettle that will never boil, my daily checking of Clickbank stats continue to show earnings of zero dollars, much to my disappointment.
To be honest, today may as well be day zero. I say this because I don't believe that I have previously used any decent keywords.
However, since my Wordtracker subscription taken out yesterday, I have been mining for keyword gold.
I have also written about three articles today. Two published on goarticles and another article on one of my sites. I liken mining for keyword gold to arbitrage in the final markets - in the latter, these opportunities are few and far between in the mature securities markets, but in the IM world there is still plenty of gold - this market is far from mature in my opinion.
Hopefully, I can keep this up - I'm not going to try exceeding my single article target yet, its too early for that. A single article a day plus say minimum 4 at the weekend will mean 9 articles per week which should mean that I achieve my initial target of 150 articles in four months. I think this is quite achievable.
USFreeads is something I need to look at again this weekend. I think I may reserve the keyword gold for which I cannot or will not write decent content in the form of articles for. They will simple serve as bait on my ads. But I'll look into that this weekend and let you know.
To be honest, today may as well be day zero. I say this because I don't believe that I have previously used any decent keywords.
However, since my Wordtracker subscription taken out yesterday, I have been mining for keyword gold.
I have also written about three articles today. Two published on goarticles and another article on one of my sites. I liken mining for keyword gold to arbitrage in the final markets - in the latter, these opportunities are few and far between in the mature securities markets, but in the IM world there is still plenty of gold - this market is far from mature in my opinion.
Hopefully, I can keep this up - I'm not going to try exceeding my single article target yet, its too early for that. A single article a day plus say minimum 4 at the weekend will mean 9 articles per week which should mean that I achieve my initial target of 150 articles in four months. I think this is quite achievable.
USFreeads is something I need to look at again this weekend. I think I may reserve the keyword gold for which I cannot or will not write decent content in the form of articles for. They will simple serve as bait on my ads. But I'll look into that this weekend and let you know.
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