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.

Quick Bum Marketing Idea - Your Help Needed!

OK, I have an idea for a new direction in my bum marketing. I have already mentioned here my increasing emphasis on product creation and my lack of success with my articles so far (direct to clickbank and also direct to own site including opt-in).

With the latter, I have only used my special methods which were intended to be a regular system and use more "automation" - I won't go into more detail than that at this stage.

But I have not yet created my "passion blog" but created at least 5 articles for this niche.

So maybe I should just concentrate all my bum marketing/article marketing on this single niche. I don't like not diversifying but I think it would be a good idea to concentrate on a single passionate subject rather than many subjects to which I may feel indifferent.

Yes, this is the direction I will go in.

I just need your help guys - can you recommend any good Wordpress templates that are good for affiliate marketing? I mean the type that include digg symbols and stuff but do not look too "money generating". Oh, by the way, unfortunately there won't be any Adsense on this new blog because it is on one of many topics which are not allowed under the Adsense T&Cs (no its not illegal!).

Readers, I await your wisdom ;-)

Day 4 Bum Marketing Challenge Update

Well, on target for today.

Covered the same 5 daily target articles that I did also yesterday. Looks like its taken me just under 2 hours. Not bad. But I still don't have my niche blog up yet.

Maybe I'll do it tonight or maybe tomorrow, I'm not sure. Does anyone have any good affiliate Wordpress templates (I'm not interested in Adsense)?

Oh yeah I looked at my stats again and they are still zilch! I want to swear argh!!!!! I will try not to look at my stats and maybe in a week I will be pleasantly surprised. Or even more pissed off!!!! lol!

I'm also thinking about trying to get my picture on ezinearticles front page! Well not my real pic but maybe I'll nick something from flickr! Haha. Many of those chumps don't realise that they have allowed their pics to be modified and used for commercial means! You can use this tool to find them:

FlickrLilli

Anyway, not much else to report at this stage. Oh, I noticed what people mean by critical mass in Bum Marketing.

I figured that there would be a steady increase in page hits and author link views at Ezinearticles. Actually, I've noticed that my early articles are now increasing very quickly, and the same will happen with the articles I am writing at the moment. So it seems that there will be some kind of exponential wave of traffic!

btw I noticed on ezinearticles that the top authors have varying visits to articles ratios. From maybe 400 hits per article to up to 2000. Now my average is 268 but bear in mind that most of my articles are new and written in the last month so I think this is pretty good. I just hope that enough of these visitors will not only click through but also buy!

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!