I didn’t go anywhere. I kept on working
on my business.

I just didn’t come here as I didn’t want
to spread myself too thin..

Doing too many stuff.

I feel like I’m now in a mode, where I
can come back here and update this blog
a little bit more often!

I also gave the blog a new look and feel
Hope you like it!

I’m keeping this short.. so I’m making sure
I’m posting something

Speak soon! (and not in six months) hehe

Wid

Overall.. I would say that everything went beyond my expectations. traffic, sales, etc.
As you all know based on my previous post, I’m running 12 niche sites.

I wanted to take them all to a certain level before deciding which ones I would dedicate my time to.

Now’s the time…

Out of all the sites I decided to focus on, 2 are physical targeted products and 2 are digital targeted products.

[It's the Autumn season.. Not my favorite one But one always nice to look at.It also reminds me that I have to work hard so I can work from home before Winter!]

Physical Products

One of my physical products is my biggest earner so far… look at the conversion sweet huh?

The other one brings trickle of traffic, but has huge potential in both traffic and sales…

Digital Products

Both of these sites haven’t done nothing specific so far, but the reason why I’m pushing digital sites too, is because it is far more easier to collect leads with information products than physical products.

Why collect leads? Simple…

The people that goes on your site and then goes on buying through the merchant are gone FOREVER if you don’t capture their email.  You then lose the ability to sell them again and again.

So building a list is what will really give you a leverage, an asset and a security even if Google’s go wild or whatever else.

One thing with collecting leads, 95% of marketers screw up the whole process (and I’m being generous) . Just look at my conversion rate in the picture above.. It’s pretty high and it will probably go down as I get more traffic..yet It’s built around targeted traffic.That’s why the conversion is high… and I could get it as high if not more with email marketing..

But well.. this post is not why you should have a list but why I’m pushing digital products..so I can build myself a list.

October’s results.

For October I had one and only one goal.. Get 20 visits a day average over a 30 day period.

I barely got by by averaging 20.9 Unique visitors for the whole month of October and the number of visitors per site looks like this…

It also brought me sales of…

Adsense: $1.44
Amazon: $13.16
Shareasale.com: $4.80

Not bad when you consider I wasn’t looking for commissions. ( meaning I only have done a primary optimizations for my sites)

All in all, I’ve been pretty happy with how the month of October went..except for the last week, I lost a bit of focus and wasn’t productive as I would have wanted, but that’s okay because this month I’ve made some significant changes.

November’s Goal.

In terms of traffic, my next goal is to reach the average of 50 visits a day globally from all my sites, that’s it! Nothing else.

I’m not looking at sales yet. (I will once I get around 100 visits a day)

However there’s a little thing to this month’s objective.. I’ll will be focusing on 4 sites only. Maybe 10% on the others… but really 90% if not more of my time will go to those 4 sites.

Which will have the effect of giving it more juice… but I’ve also invested in some tools that will definitely TRIPLE my production.

I have seen others use it, I have seen a place use it in a specific way which is exactly how I want to use it. Before I do talk about it, I sure want to be able to bring the results first, so I’ll keep those tools for the next update.

So to attain those 50 visits a day.. here’s my plan

Site 1 gets 10 visits a day.. I want to push it to 20 a day.
Site 2 gets traffic but not consistently.. I want to push it to 10 a day.
Site 3 gets traffic but not consistently.. I want to push it to 10 a day.
Site 4 gets traffic but not consistently.. I want to push it to 10 a day.

Wid

But there is so much going on that I honestly can’t barely keep up..

I’ll now add a picture in every post and add some snippets of thoughts, It will make my post less boring and more fun to read

]]> http://affiliatemarketingforprofits.com/goal-1-achieved-market-samurai-news-bonus-surprise/feed/ 3 http://affiliatemarketingforprofits.com/time-for-some-talk-micro-niche-blogging-status-september-earnings-etc/ http://affiliatemarketingforprofits.com/time-for-some-talk-micro-niche-blogging-status-september-earnings-etc/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:47:59 +0000 admin http://affiliatemarketingforprofits.com/?p=107 Okay I’ve been putting this off for way too long now hehe It’s time for me to update my blog.

So far things have been going very well for me, and it’s been very exciting.

Money wise?? I’ll tell you right now lol I’ve made a big fat $0. Well to be honest I’ve made perhaps $0.12 with Adsense, but is it worth mentionning?

So why am I saying things have been going well?

Let me explain myself..

For the past two years, I was what you would consider a 99% percent PPC (Pay per click) guy.
I was doing well, but never well enough to take it to another level. meaning I would come off after all expenses with $100 profits or less evry month.

Now it’s not that I never wanted to dive into SEO, but I wanted to have a winning campaign before investing my time into SEO.

Of course using pay-per-click program meant me paying money for traffic.. Now it’s something I no longer have the luxury to afford So I had no choice but to learn about driving traffic organically.

It took me a while to get the hang of things, but I do now

So when I started all this in september..my only expectations was to be able to drive organic traffic to any given sites..Heck I would have been happy to make money in the process, but it wasn’t my primary objective.

Free Traffic was and still is my primary objective… for now.

So now that the month is over, I can sit and look back on what’s been happening on my side.

When I started this project in early september, I decided that I would focus on 10 niche sites… I ended up going with 12

Some of them are aiming physical products others are aiming digital products.

Now my initial task was to put up all 12 sites online and take them through an inital round of linkbuilding juice and see what would perform well.. if any would.

So far, the results looks promising

Traffic from (Sept 1st – Septh 30th) Taken from Google Analytics

Site 1 – 27 Absolute unique visitors
Site 2 – 12 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 3 – 2 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 4 – 126 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 5 – 12 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 6 – 23 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 7 – 5 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 8 – 5 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 9 – 14 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 10 – 12 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 11 – 8 Absolute Unique Visitors
Site 12 – Site is not 100% set up yet

Quick notes…

Site 4 – is definitely my biggest winner in terms of traffic, It brings me an average of 10 Clicks as of lately it hasn’t converted yet..will have to see.

Site 9 – I took all those numbers from Google analytics and I’m actually surprised by the result, especially that the site has been up for about a week maybe.

Now while I’m happy with the results, I have to take into consideration, that some of the visitors are direct effort of my linkbuilding process, not traffic coming from the search engines.. so next month I’ll be able to better assess how each one performs.

Another thing all those sites have received 50% of the initial link building process, boomarking, etc. I still have to send articles for all my sites up.. so that will be more link building to those sites.

Monetization

While I’m pursuing The niche models.. all these sites are built with the intention of becoming authority sites in the long term. If they don’t get to that point, it’s because they do not any ROI.. and I can see one of them already being a dud.. even though it’s sitting at position 4 in google. (site – 10)

While I do reported that I made $0.12 with Adsense. The monetization model I use, doesn’t put any emphasis on Adsense. I use it just to be there and collect money on the go, but my monetization targets specific products or category of products, so I’m pursuing the affiliate model where I get a commission when I make a sale.

So I expect this section of my earnigns to be low for a while.. but once it will take off..I’m sure it will

Objective for October!

Again I’d love to keep it simple..

I’m working my behind off lol but my goal for Ocotber would be to get a global (all 10 Sites) average of 30 clicks a day from the Search engines.

So that’s about it for now, I have been pretty busy.. getting this all together. But as I free more time, I should be able to post way more often )

Next post lined up..

An About Page.. (this one is long due)
My Earning page.. (You already know hehe, but I have to put this up too)
Couple Of articles..(Ive got to bring traffic to this blog too right?)

P.S. For those subscribed to my newsletter, I really appreciate it. I’m thinking of something really cool as a way of saying thank you.. I’ll let you know soon!

Wid

(click on the picture for a larger size)

SEO has never been one my strongest point. However this is all about to change as I have a better understanding of what it takes to rank well in google. The screenshot above is taken from Market Samurai,

which shows my 11 sites and their primary keywords.  All of them have been registered around sept 1 – to sept 6, except for the three last ones which I registered 3 days ago.

Since I’ve started, one of my niche site is doing pretty well and is ranking second in Google SE.  This keyword brings me around 7 to 11 clicks a day and has yet to generate a sale/click. It’s of course way too early to tell how the site will do, but it’s definitely a market which has money in it.

I can’t wait to post more about it, but I’ve got to wait until I’m done getting all my sites through an initial linkbuilding juice, which simply consist of the usual bookmarking, article marketing, etc.

I’ve got a pretty good deal already done, and while I’m at 11 sites, I may have in reality 13 sites to work with.. one is already registered and the other one will depends on how tough it will be to enter the market within a certain time frame.

So that’s my goal.. Take those sites to a minimum of 2k a month.. by any means (makes me think I’ve got to post my about  & earning pages)

PS. There are a bunch of websites I’ve ran across  lately which are pretty interesting to follow. They all do micro niche blogging too with different monetization model, but the idea behind is all the same. They’re interesting, because they blog about their journey to financial success. I’m not going lie , I’ve bitten a bit of their style, as I also will post my earnings to keep some accountability and keep track of how I’m doing.

Later!

Ohhh one last thing, It’s your call on that one, but if you want to know more about my success and failures, I encourage you to subscribe to my newsletter

Wid

I’ve been studying in the background and planning my moves on where to go next and I wanted to be sure I’d take the smartest path towards being financially free.

Now  I’m pretty sure I’ve got it.

That’s why I’m making few changes to what I initially planned for Affiliate Marketing For Profits.

When I started this blog back in July, I didn’t really know, what my blog was going to be about… beside being about Affiliate marketing.

But after much thinking & planning, I decided to “start” with micro niche blogging.

Yup, it’s still going to be about making money with affiliate marketing, but it will focus on building micro niche blogs.

Now of course there is a “bigger” plan behind all this… but for now MY FOCUS (and yours too if you’re starting with Internet Marketing / Affiliate Marketing) will be to put efforts into micro niches.

Why Micro Niches?

Very simple..

If you’re starting from scratch like I do, then you wan’t to go for niches where there’s barely any competition!

I’m talking about the type of niches you could be ranking on Google’s first page within the next day or so with the right resources.

So I’ll post a more updated …err post  this week-end about my plan, goals, earning objectives, etc. but to give a quick heads up about where I’m at now.

Well for the past two weeks, I managed to get 9 sites registered. Out of those 9, I’ve got 5 sites up, I’ve bookmarked some and RSSed some,

I have yet to completely boost the juice on all of them, but by the end of september, I’d love want to completely have done the initial juice boosting of all my 10 sites.

Then I’ll be ready to assess how they perform, and take a decision based on that.

Okay…

There’s so much I want to say.. earnings, goals, etc. but it’s late at night and have to get to bed for work tomorrow.

I’ll do that very very soon… Promise

I SUCK.

Does it mean I can’t bring traffic to my site? Of course not but I could say I’m one of those lazy marketers…who got used to pay for traffic.

But see, since I’ve been banned from google, I’ve had no choice but to focus on other methods…

and until recently I sucked!

Bringing traffic to your site gets easier, as you gain more momentum / traffic etc.

But how do you get the ball rolling??

Especially when you have nothing to your name, no list to go by, no JV partners, no money to pay for traffic and no authority sites which you can use to pass on some PR…

That’s exactly where I am right now..

and the objective will be to bring this blog at around 10 visits per day.

In the next few days, I’ll be writing down the process I used in a form of tutorial to show how I’m going to get those 10 peeps a day

In the meantime if you want exclusive tips and news on Affiliate marketing, I recommend you subscribe to my newsletter!

Enjoy!

You know you don’t have to make it complicated right?

When it comes to SEO, I hear lots of stuff about people trying to find the perfect way in SEO terms way to rank high in Google. While Big G has obviously a special way to rank websites, you’re better off just doing things in the most natural way!

Let’s take “Search Engine Optimization” for example.

If I want to rank high in the search engines (especially Google) for this keyword, there are obvious rules that must be applied, yet I still see pages online that goes against those simple rules….

Rule 1

Your Keyword Must Be In Your URL

If you’re building an ENTIRE SITE around that keyword, the most obvious thing to do, is to use “SearchEngineOptimization.com” as your URL,

but if it’s already taken, just add in a few words that make sense but still keep your keyword in the URL.

i.e. “www.TheSearchEngineOptimizationWebsite.com“

The same rule applies, if you’re only looking at optimizing a page… your keyword must be in your URL.

i.e “www.TheWebsite.com/Search-Engine-Optimization“

Rule 2

Use Your Keyword For Anchor Text Link

“search engine optimization, is used to rank well within major search engine such as google, Bing and Yahoo”

See the link? It contains the keyword and it also links to another webpage. Using anchor text link in your article, webpage, will help your site achieve better rankings.

Rule 3

Use Your Keyword In Your Title

This one is also an obvious one, but somehow I see online folks ignoring this one as well.

Of course there is more to SEO than these basic rules, but these 3 rules are enough to make you dominate certain keywords.  I’ll admit though I’m not that big of a SEO guy, I do the basic stuff and I capitalize on the traffic I get, this way I don’t worry too much about SEO and be in constant fight about trying to stay on Google’s first page.