Hey everyone, I need a little advice about a Clickbank campaign I’m about to start. I’ve decided to promote RegistryEasy but I’m not 100% sure of where/how I should start.The rough outline of my campaign is as follows 1. Setup a review site on some sort of top-level domain. I was thinking about using a template from http://landingpagedesigns.net/review-sites.html Is that a good or bad idea? 2. Start an article marketing campaign to drive free traffic to my site 3. Use SEO to get my site ranked. All in all I’m just looking to make anywhere from 2,500 to 3,000 USD per month. I think this goal is pretty modest. What do you guys think of my plan of action and how can I improve it? It would be ideal to be averaging at 3K per month by July. Is this a realistic goal? Also, I realize that PPC is a good way to get instant traffic but it’s also a good way to do into debt or lose money. What are your thoughts on the possibility of me running a PPC campaign for this product?
Depending upon how much research you have done into internet marketing and article marketing you could do ok. One the face of things your plan seems pretty reasonable - pretty basic, pretty logical.... the templates look decent, if you can write articles, backlink and do a bit of seo for your articles and your site then I don't see why you can't make some money... but there are all sorts of other factors - the conversion rate of your products generally, your skill in selling them, in writing, your commitment... if you stick to it I think it will work.. to a point... ... but I think your goal is pretty high though If you were to acheive this I would put you in the top 1% of newbie internet marketers - i.e. probably less than 1% of newbies make $3k a month within 2-3 months when starting out with no experience.. Everyone is differnet in their learning curves, some take to IM like a duck to water, others (many) struggle to make sales for a long time or only make very little. If you are one of those people who learns fast, is good at everything and has achieved massive success in other fields then likely that will follow you here to some extent and you might do well.. but if you aren't then you better get your research hat on and your hard work hat and put some graft in to get to that level
I think you can prettymuch use anything as long as you keyword correctly and backlink as needed... your idea looks good though... keywords, keywords, keywords.... heck if you pick your keywprds right you can rank for some low traffic super niche keywords that can get you sales wihtout backlink building... Keywords - content - product (if keywprds are bad no customers, if contents bad no customers, if the products bad, no customers) backlinks + articles increase traffic but these 3 things are proabbly the fundementals.
I would pick a different niche, article marketing is not free traffic, it's either time or money, and it can be very frustrating. They own your content, and the ads that are placed around it. It is good to your feet wet and experiment, but, remember, everyone uses it to get their feet wet and experiment. Try to build some physical product sites for long tails and then pitch products around it. I guess you could build a giant review site of registry software, and make it exceptional, but there are probably man already out there.
Thanks for the input guys. I'll take everything you said into account. I'll be sure to track my sucess and let you all know how I'm doing
I'd second the suggestion to pick a different niche. There are so many registry cleaner pages out there - partly because that's the example in Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate - it's not going to be easy to make any headway unless you know what you're doing. Having said that, the fact that there's so much competition is proof that there's money to be made there. You have to find the right balance...
Find a good looking product in a niche you've researched and have found these 2 main things: - Good Search Volume - Low Competition (ideally below 50k competing pages for targeted keywords in quotes in search) From here grab 25+ keywords with the above characteristics, write up one article per keyword, submit it to a main article directory (I personally suggest ArticlesBase), once it's approved submit it to multiple other directories as well as social bookmark it and ping the article. After a couple days start building backlinks to the article using web 2.0 properties & profiles, blog comments, forum posts, etc... Rinse & repeat while testing landing pages to see what converts best. One golden piece of advice that if you don't pay attention to anything else that's been said - Get Off Forums and Take Action NOW So many people come on here and loathe because they haven't made any sales and yet they're on these forums all day complaining, asking questions rather than getting work done and generally wasting time. Soak in a good bit of knowledge and run with it. This business is more of a testing game than it is a by the books procedure. So get out there and get some life experience by just doing it. Good luck.
Well I decided to take the dive so I've already registered my domain www.trueregistrycleaner.com and downloaded a template for it. Some of you suggest to pick a different niche so do you think I just try my hand at running two sites simultaneously. Naturally, I'll be keeping track of everything I do to make things easier to manage. Oh! I forgot to mention I'm a computer Science major going into my junior year this fall do you think my experience with computers will help me?
@Overdose0101 indeed, this field is not so much related with your computer science. This has more to do with Business, Marketing, How to advertise, where to advertise. It doesn't need someone with good skills of programming etc, just someone who knows where and how to advertise. Good luck on your first campaign
I would pick a different niche, article marketing is not free traffic, it's either time or money, and it can be very frustrating. They own your content, and the ads that are placed around it. It is good to your feet wet and experiment, but, remember, everyone uses it to get their feet wet and experiment. Try to build some physical product sites for long tails and then pitch products around it. I guess you could build a giant review site of registry software
Not that realistic I'd say but you know ... Anything's possible If you're just starting off stick to article marketing to get the ball rolling. Do some research on your keywords and target audiences. Al.
This niche definately has alot of competition, what sets your product away from all the other registry cleaner products? why would I pick your product over all the other ones? Keep this in mind. You could have the best product out there but if you can't market it then you wont make any money.
this niche is "kind of" tough..and its UNLIKELY that you as a beginner will make $3K from only one product/site. I personally dont like those pre-made review templates, i also think $17 for a single template is overprized. Wordpress all the way, or if you want simply custom make your own site, write your own review. YES - ITS WORK - but it will pay off in the long run instead of using one of those templates. I havent seen ONE of them which personally convinced me.
Agreed! If anyone thinks they can just buy a $17 template and direct article and ppc traffic to it and make $3k a month then you might be in for a shock. If you buy a template you need to customize it, to rewrite it, and to get your own content on there still imo, use it as a base, but adapt it a lot. If it were that easy then everyone would be doing it I think you know this already though, but the more unique you make your efforts, the more you tweak the content and really make things yours then the better the results will be.
The thing about Wordpress is that I don't exactly know what I should center it around. Do I build a blog about a particular niche, give my opinion, and keep recommending different products? Do I use Wordpress to build a page around one or two specific products and take myself out of the equation? or Do I use a personal blog to brand myself and have a "Recommended Products" section Lastly, should I consider adsense as an additional revenue stream? Banking around 200$ or so a month.
These questions are so subjective and hard to answer, probably 3 different people would tell you to do different things. If I were you I would just get started, develop some sort of simple site, get a plan together, stick to it, write some articles and drive some traffic. It is totally unrealistic to say you want to make $3k a month with no experience at all. I would recommend just getting started and having some expereince yourself of how easy / hard it is to drive traffic. Some people seem to have a midas touch and take to it naturally, others (most?) fail a few times, learn what doesn't work before eliminating these things and doing what does... don't fall into tha paralysis by analysis trap..
It's all about the right kind of research to send targeted buyers to your site. Without this, you will not reach your goal.