Yes, in the past week, I’ve made my first hubs and published my first articles…
I even managed to drive a bunch of traffic to this site.
Let me be honest here, I still have an issue with motivation…
I have now had 3 FULL weeks off work. I’m very disapointed that i havent made more happen. sorely dissapointed… But the excuse goes like this:
First week was recovering from my old job, aka. partying.
May 23st (8 days ago) was when I started making a serious effort… ie, this blog, creating my lenses, etc.
May 26th was my first sale… and since then I simply havent had the inclination to write more articles. I am unsure of what has happened. Maybe its because I have a new job starting in 2 days? I’m not sure. All I know is that I don’t feel the same level of desire right now.
Which is completely stupid. Continually trying to remind myself that with just 150 articles i could be making $150 a day which is seriously enough to fund most of my dreams. Which is basically to travel comfortably and then chill out on a tropical island with a drink served in a coconut.
I need to bust out of this rut. BADLY. I only have 1 day left before I go back to the rat race… and I so badly want to have completed the 30 articles of my first niche. Only 12 to go.
I can do 12 in a day.
Must continue my nice blog too… Thats one leg of the table for my niche.
Before you attempt step 2, ensure that you have completed step 1, your landing page or hub is up and running, and should be getting some hits from search engines (you can check this in your stats).
Have you socially bookmarked your page? try using social marker. This does take some time.
Now that you have your landing page and you know how to socially bookmark.. It’s time to write your articles. Using bum marketing techniques, you will need to search for low competition keywords or phrases. Search for these using google, and put your keywords in inverted commas, as so:
“internet marketing lifestyle”
This search returns 7200 competition sites. If you write a seriously good article with the keywords sprinkled liberally throughout, you will probably end up on the first or second page. Better yet is to find a phrase with less than 500 competing sites.
In fact, you will notice that This Very Blog is #7 thanks to social bookmarking with propellor. Woot!
Anyways… find a keyphrase that has low competition, and that people are actually searching for use Gtrends to find how many people search for your phrase. It doesnt matter if only 10 people search per day, so long as the competition is low, you will get hits.
The idea here is not to write 30 articles for the same phrase, but to write 30 articles for 30 different phrases, relating to your niche. That way, each article will get 5-10 hits per day x 30 articles. Some of the articles will get more, some less.
Why articles?
Articles are free! free to write and free to host. The article directories have good PR so you can get ranked easily in the search engines. Use your articles as a way to pre-sell the affiliate product you are marketing
Some directories will not allow you to put direct links to affiliates in your articles, and you will need to link to your landing page, with others you can link direct to the product. Use this to your advantage with review-articles and comparisons etc. Posting the articles
So far i have been using ezinearticles.com, hubpages and goarticles.com
Ezine articles is the biggest, with the highest PR, but it takes alot of time, and i have had a couple of articles rejected to random reasons, its taken a week to get 9 articles on ezinearticles, but it was instant to get 9 on goarticles.com
The hub page that i created was ranked pretty much instantly and has gotten a bunch of hits very quickly.
Use all of them. post 5 here, 5 there, 5 at the other place.
TASK 1
Write your first article. It doesnt need to be amazing. Find inspiration from magazines, websites, other articles and gtrends.
TASK 2
Post your first article on goarticles or hubpages. Use these for now because your article will go live instantly. Use this to check your links, how it looks etc.
Obviously, I haven’t updated this blog as often as I would like… AND I promise I will get around to step 2 TODAY (feel free to send me mean tweets if I don’t)
Now, for some reason, I have had zero motivation to get on and write articles, after the massively productive week last week.. I have only about 18 articles online now, and still haven’t gotten around to the blog. But the hub and Squidoo lens are both active and getting hits.
The law of attraction
On Thursday I was listening to the CD of “the secret” and it said “just believe that it will happen, don’t keep running back to your bank account to check how much money you have, just believe it will be there”..
So I stopped checking Clickbank and my affiliate links.. For a few days
I logged on this morning, went to the thirty day challenge links tracker, noticed I have had alot of referral hits and I thought hmmm… check Clickbank? Yes! First sale!!!
What did I do right?
I followed the procedure exactly as I wrote out on the first day.. But a bit slower than I would have liked.
All of my articles link to my Squidoo page, and everything is socially bookmarked to within an inch of its life. Yes it takes AGES to do that to 18 articles. Hours. Probably why I got a bit bored of the whole thing this week.
Tell ya what though… A Sale is a GREAT motivator! Yet me!
What did I do wrong?
Aaah… yes, I made sooo many mistakes.
But only one majorly sticks out in my mind.
I know what product was sold with my affiliate link… But I have NO IDEA where it came from. The worst part? I don’t know how to find out where it came from….
Suggestions anyone? I’ll be posting the same question on the Wealthy Affiliate Forum in 2 minutes.
So there you go…
It truly does “work”. I just need it to work 10 times as often and I’ll be in business.
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