Hello everyone, I started this thread on some other sites and people have been saying that it has been helpful for them. I Decided to copy past it here. Just in case some other people might find it helpful. Here you go.
Forumites, This is the most appropriate place I could find to post this thread(as this is going to be a google campaign and I will be managing it). I have decided to keep a complete journal of my next 30 days marketing. I have 1 campaign that I am solely focusing on. I just got through optimizing the posts on one for 2.2% of my keyword that is getting 300+ hits daily and not too much competition. I also have a complete list of other keywords to target for article marketing. I am going to be writing as MANY articles as I can per day. I want to get my EA account to a platinum. I will be submitting the articles to major article directories. I am also going to be working on linking to my site. The key word that I am targeting gets 305 hits a day and there isn't too much competition on the 1st page of google. I want to park my site there for good. I will be working on creating a video to post to all the video sites, I will be doing A LOT of things to obtain good quality links to this site. Everything will be documented for your reading enjoyment and for my motivator to getter done. So far I have submitted my site to all the social markers and I have built a squidoo page pointing to my site! Busting my ass to success, Micanator
Okay... Do you mean you are just starting a clickbank campaign and you will keep this thread updated as a journal of your progress or am I missing something? EDIT: Nevermind, you made your second post just 1 minute before me I get it now - but you could have SIMPLY edited your initial post instead of replying 5 minutes later Best of luck and I ll try to follow the thread. Alex
Alright I finished up my squidoo...reformatted it at around 2.2-2.5% for my keywordn and have links with AT going to my site. <a href="http://my website.com/">ANCHOR TEXT HERE </a> is the format I used. I hope that is right. I am pretty sure it is Here are the results for my keyword through the new WA tool....it says it might be tough but for some reason when I search google for the same term I am only getting 184,000 results I dunno why this says over 3mil? Search Engine Results Below Results.........Quoted Results...Broad Results.........Power Score Google.com......3,040,000.......3,320,000..........Might Be Tough Yahoo.com.......381,000.........4,290,000..........Might Be Tough Live.com..........99,600.........1,690,000...........Might Be Tough Article Submission Sites Results....................Results.................Position..........Check it Out EzineArticles.com........found......................7.................View Here GoArticles.com.........not found....................0................View Here Hubpages.com..........not found....................0................View Here Squidoo.com............not found....................0................View Here UsFreeads.com..........not found...................0................View Here I can't keep my eyes open anymore so I am going to hit the sack. Goals for tomorrow: Pump out some articles. Work on video to submit to video websites. I would also like to invite anyone if you see something that I am doing wrong or that could be done better please don't hesitate to chime in and point it out. Thanks C-Ya manana, Micanator
Day 1 Okay Day 1 is over. Today I made a video believe it or not. I made a 4min video with windows movie maker. It actually came out pretty good. I just used pics pasted in sequence with a text message set to some cool music. If you are going to try this you have to convert the video to .WMV format. This is done by clicking file and going to "save as a file". I was able to do a lot of different things with the text to spice it up a bit. I also registered for some 30 odd video sites. I only posted my video to 3-4 of them so far. I also wrote 4 articles and will be submitting these tomorrow. Goals for the weekend: I want to finish submitting my video to all these sites. I would like to build a hubpages, live journal, and a word-press and get those pointing at my site as well as social marker them and of course, keep pumping the articles out. I have a pretty busy weekend as far as obligations though so we will see. I can't keep my eyes open anymore so I will hit the hay. More to come tomorrow. Going to go dream of $ucce$$!
Weekend update Okay folks, Sorry I didn't update this weekend. I was pretty busy with mother's day and some other stuff I had going on. I unfortunately didn't get much work done either. I noticed Saturday that I got my first opt-in on my auto-responder!!! So I had to get in gear and put together my bonus!! LOL. It was a good thing though because now it is done. I put together a few documents and used Pdf 995 to make them look professional and set up the first two emails going out in my auto responder. I had some trouble with my video I made. Apparently, I need to change the music that I have it set to because I don't have the rights to use it or some bs like that. I am not sure what I am gonna do but I will figure something out. I have already submitted it to several sites. Hopefully, I won't get in trouble. I will update again this evening. micanator
Day 5 This month is going by too fast already...LOL. Well, I felt like I kind of slacked off this weekend. I was busy but still. Do I wanna make money or don't I. No excuses. 8) I felt like I got a lot accomplished today. I finally got my video completed. I found some good music to put on there that wasn't copyrighted. I was also able to submit my video to 20 video sites. I still have a few more pending I think but that puppy is out there....its alive. I was already able to find my video on the 4th page for my "keyword" that is currently returning 2,380,000 results. I am not sure if that is an accomplishment or not. My website is still no where to be found. I was able to write 4 articles today. I have 7 total waiting in queue at ezine articles. I think that is my limit. I am not sure though. I also made a hubpages and put some links in their to my site. I will go back and social marker that sometime soon. I found http://www.tubemogul.com. It is like social marker but for videos. It makes the submission process a little easier. Okay without further ado here are my results so far. My traffic actually dropped over the weekend. I was averaging around 9 hits a day then it dropped to one and I had two yesterday. Keep in mind my articles are not LIVE yet. I can't log into clickbank right now but I am sure my sales are still at zero(since I began this project). I had another Opt in yesterday bringing my total up to 2 opt ins I have a feeling this was just another internet marketer wanting to see my email sales letter because his email is a marketing type email. LOL.... More to update tomorrow....hopefully my videos submissions will start to funnel some traffic. Tomorrow I am going to work on posting answers on some of the questions sites. I will work on joining forums that have to do with my niche and setting up some signature links. I also still have to set up a live journal and a wordpress....then of course pump out some more articles. tune in tomorrow, Micanator
Day 6 Hello Waers, Welcome to your daily update. Micanator writing in to let you know what has gone down today. I realized today that there is competition out there for a thread like this. I ran across Mr. Ghosts thread. Although I wasted a lot of my time reading his thread. I have to admit his enthusiasm is inspirational and viral no doubt based on the amount of people chiming in. His intuitive look into marketing in the REAL world got me thinking, but as far as actual action/taken i didn't see any. I will be keeping up on his thread though cause his enthusiasm is literally what I feel but I am a closet enthusiast and all about work. My Goals are more modest. The first bar I set for myself is $100/day. I think that should be fairly modest and achievable. I also read a thread from a guy who has achieved 700/day in his first like 90days. Unbelievable!! And ghost if you read this. All I need to prove your story is real is a pic of you not in ski gear. LOL....I checked out your myspace and you are/were a talented rip rapper. Keep it up and good luck. Cheers!! Anyways back to business. Not much was accomplished today. Even though I have been working all day. I do have two other jobs by the way though so. My time isn't completely focused on IM. I try and dedicate about 4-8 hours a day to it. I have created a mind map of what I have going on....it makes it a bit easier to see. check it out: http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=114558&pw= ... QlVlc1hZRQ added to the mind map today: I created a livejournal and I submitted my video and a pdf to free IQ I worked on submitting a pdf to butterfly reports as well but ran into some trouble that I am currently working out. I think I updated my traffic report this morning but it won't turn over for another hour so I will update again tomorrow. I checked my clickbank account again today still NO sales!! Bonus: I made another sale today!! This was on a campaign I set up about two weeks ago. I am going to break down and tell you EXACTLY how I did it. This is because I am a nice guy and I want to get more viewers to my thread then ghost. LOL. I am just joking. That is the corona talking. Anyway, here is what I did. I found a ebook that had a pretty good sales page. You know the kind that you read through and even though you are in the biz you think about buying anyways. That Kind. So I read it. Debated buying it. Didn't. I went to a site similar to craigslist it wasn't craigslist. I signed up for account and went to post in multiple cites(I already learned the hard way that you CAN'T go to ever single city and post your ad. Talk about a waste of two days. I generated a LOT of traffic for about 24 hours before they figured it out and pulled all my ads). I paid 50 bucks or so to post to most of the cities in the US. I didn't post to the more expensive ones. Just went back in afterwards and posted to those individually. LOL. I have been averaging around 5 hits a day and today made my first sale. It hasn't paid for itself but I will keep you updated on that as well. Another thing that I did that has been great for list building. I haven't worked on it much though. I posted an ad in a site similar to craigslist. I didn't put a contact info or anything like that. So if people were interested they had to email me. I posted the add over a month a go. I average around 2 emails a day with people asking for honest to god info on my niche...I haven't made ANY sales though. I am assuming their is a problem with my copy on the page I am directing these people too. or a problem with the niche itself because this site has gotten more traffic then any of my campaigns and still NO SALES Check in tomorrow for another update. I Hope you find my mind map helpful it will be updated as more sites are added linking to my sales page I will also let you know which "bubbles" brought in the most traffic based on my google analytics. Keep in mind that i have used relevant anchor text wherever possible. I have NOT used H1 or H2 tags simply because I don't know how. Micanator
LOL......hey canuck you can find this same thread on WA......I just though I would post it here in case people found it helpful... micanator
Its cool man...hey love the VW...my very first car was an 87 VW golf...I then moved up to a 96VW golf and later a '00 VW Jetta(my favorite) I am currently looking to get a VW bus like this: http://www.oldbug.com/342%20061.jpg just gotta make some money on IM!! micanator
Mica ... Please don't be another 3 week wonder I hope you do well and can report back often. You may be able to find and old VW bus here ... http://dealsusedcars.com/
Oh man don't get me started So far I owned a 1990 Golf 1997 Golf 1998 Golf and I currently own a 2007 Golf and 1988 Jetta ... buses in good shape are almost impossible to find in Canada...
hi there, great thread keep up the good work, very valuable. was hoping you could pm me a link to the mr ghost thread you found 'inspirational' many thanks
Update on Day 8-yesterday-sorry I missed a day....too busy putting this stuff into action-glad to see people are watching hope this info helps...we will need to see if I make any money first Here is a link to my updated mind map. I realize that the other link probably didn't work for you guys. I guess I have to create a unique link every time I post it or something I don't know. This one should work. Lots of stuff added! http://bubbl.us/view.php?sid=114558&pw=ya/mUumf.w6D.NjZsTUpwQlVlc1hZRQ Yesterday My space -account created and video submitted. I will be posting some of my articles here as well. As soon as 7 days are up I can create a group for my niche. Their is currently NO GROUP on myspace for my niche. Wikepidea -created a wikipedia account and edited the page on my niche with several links to my sales page. Wikipedia states that they have no follow policy rule on all links....unfortunately I think this was a pointless endeavor. Luckily it only took an hour or so. I had to study how to edit wikipedia first. Wordpress Blog -Created a Wordpress Blog and linked to my sales page. I had three articles go live yesterday. Two can be found on the first page of google.One of my videos can be found on the 3rd page of google for my main and most competitive keyword. When three more articles go live my EA account will be upgraded. I submitted 1 more yesterday and I am going to attempt to write 25 articles today. After 25 more get published I will be upgraded to platinum. Unlimited article submissions. Other things done I started going through the question/answer sites. I am having trouble figuring out how to answer questions lol. A lot of the sites have no questions about my niche. I am going to set up a dummy account and ask some questions that I can then go back through answer. I also began looking for no follow blogs that pertain to my niche. I haven't found any yet...I went to no follow blog.com and had no luck and advice here would be appreciated. Statistics 19 visitors 0 opt ins 0 sales Realizations I am beginning to realize that my main keyword may be too competitive....I am going to have to receive a page rank of 3/4 to get on the first page of google. Although there is one guy who has a page rank of 1, and he is on the first page. So we will have to see. I am also realizing that the commissions for this campaign are way too low. In order, to quit my day job I am going to need 9 sales per day. I have made 2 sales with 300 visitors. If this trend continues I will need 2000 visitors per day in order to make what I need. My main keyword that I have targeting gets 300 hits per day. So I can see that this will definitely not be my career ending campaign, but it could be the start and a great learning experience. I also see that I am going to need really improve my conversion rate as much as possible. One thing that I am hoping is that because it is fairly inexpensive buy conversions will be higher. Also, since it is a health product I can sell it as a investment in their health. Something that is priceless. Hindsight In looking back at my video submissions I think realized that I submitted all my videos targeting the same main keyword that I am trying to rank for. I think it would have been more beneficial and increased my web presence if I was to target a different keyword for each video. Just a thought. More to come....stay tuned, Micanator p.s. sorry for the long post