Hi, Casey Gentles here and I want to thank you for visiting my blog. 
FTC, Testimonial Regulation Begins December 1st…
HEY Folks,
What’s going on today?
I hope you are doing great!
Today I need to talk about something that is SUPER IMPORTANT.
If you are an internet marketer then you must have been hearing the news about the FTC updating their guidelines. Thus a lot of things will change for everyone as internet marketers.
DISCLAIMER >> I am no “Legal Adviser” and so if you need legal advice go seek a lawyer”. I will not be responsible for any changes you make to your website/business by following anything that I have outlined here!
I will try to explain and give “my opinion” on these new rules and how you can update your website to comply. Remember this is serious stuff and can cost you your business!!
I know you wouldn’t want that!
Who Or What Is The FTC?
Taken right from their website >>> (Federal Trade Commission) The FTC deals with issues that touch the economic life of every American. It is the only federal agency with both consumer protection and competition jurisdiction in broad sectors of the economy. The FTC pursues vigorous and effective law enforcement; advances consumers’ interests by sharing its expertise with federal and state legislatures and U.S. and international government agencies; develops policy and research tools through hearings, workshops, and conferences; and creates practical and plain-language educational programs for consumers and businesses in a global marketplace with constantly changing technologies.
Basically that means they are the big don and they can crack you down at anytime if you don’t comply with their policies and guidelines.
So What Is The New Rule That Will Come Into Play On Dec. 1st?
It all has to do with testimonials especially with info products…
You know when you are selling a product and maybe someone has tested the product and got great result? Well you can no longer have those testimonials on your website unless you give a typical result! Now this is where the problem comes in. How will you know what a typical result is? You can’t! The only way you could is if you sell your product to a handful of people and you ensure that they all do the same thing and monitor their results.
But…..
That is totally impossible.. So needless we try.
Here is another example: let’s say you are selling a weight loss product. Three persons bought it and follow all your instructions. And a 4th person bought and did absolutely nothing. At the end of 30 days, one person lost 15 pounds, one lost 10 and another lost 5 and the final person lost nothing. Under the previous rules, you would be inclined to put the first 3 or even the first two persons testimonials on your webpage to get more buyers right? All you would need to do is to place somewhere on the site that the results weren’t typical.
However, that is no longer possible after December 1st. Your testimonials will have to be a typical result for everyone to expect when they buy the product.
Looking at the example above, what do you think a typical result would be? Zero…
That doesn’t sound too good does it?
Who would buy a weight loss product if they knew that the typical results to expect is losing zero pounds?
All Hope Is Not Lost!
The aim of the FTC is not to kill affiliates. Their aim is to protect people from being scammed by unscrupulous people. You know the type of marketers that give all of us a bad name. Whether or not you believe it, there are a lot of fakers out there that just scam people online and take their money and that is what the FTC is against.
So how can you survive as an Internet Marketer with the new rules?
1. You don’t need to worry yourself too much. Just relax and take a deep breath! It is not time to quit or get frustrated. Rather you should be thinking outside of the box of how you can get creative to make more money.
2. Based on what I have read, you will get a warning at first if someone file a complaint against you. So it is not like they will just crack down on you if you have made a mistake somehow. They will give you prior notice and time to make the necessary changes.
3. If you have your own products, Don’t Use Testimonials! - Preven is better that cure. If you don’t want to get into trouble, then cut out the testimonials all together.
4. Make sure you state that you will receive a commission if someone buys through your affiliate link. I am not 100% sure the correct format to do this. But I have found some with some cool tips to guide you. You can see them here: http://andrewhansen.name/online-business/my-take-on-the-new-ftc-changes/ I think Andrew did a great job, much better than what I have done so you can get moredetails from his blog.
Conclusion
This is not time to be down and frustrated. Rather it is time to get thinking outside of the box and get creative to start making some real cash online. This just a little hinderance in the way and I guarantee that there will be more. But…. They should only make you stronger.
I think am gonna go edit some of my sites now 
Have a wonderful day and I wish you all the best
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Are You Preparing For The Holidays?
Hey Folks
What’s uppppp?????
I know you have been waiting and waiting and waiting for a new blog post from me!
But I am really sorry for the delay. It’s about 2 monthss since my last post right? Yes I think so!
I assure you, I did not forget about you. I was really busy trying to meet some goals as well as getting other things done. So please accept my apology for the delay.
So What Have I Been Up To?
Well September was a tedious month. Some days were boring as hell and some were really productive.
The articles challenge was hectic I must say. Some days I had no zeal to write and some days I wrote as much as 20 articles to keep up. Now it’s been several weeks and I can’t tell when last I wrote an article since the challenge.
Results For The Article Writing Challenge
The articles were spread across several niches and across several Author names as well. I got into a few new niches and they are slowly coming on. I haven’t done anything to them in a while and sales are still coming in. (the power of articles ).
Most of the articles got some rankings while some has fallen of the face of the earth. I really need to get some backlinks to them and make them stick. Lot’s of work! But I have been working in some upcoming projects and can’t find the time as yet to backlink the articles. Now I wont go do all the articles. Instead what I will do and what you should do as well is to go inside my ezine account, look on the better performing articles and backlink thoses. By better performing I mean the ones that get most views and the better CTR’s.
Overall the Article Writing challenge was a great experience. It has pushed me and that was good!
So did I get 200 Articles?
Honestly No 
But I managed to get about 161 done. I had some set backs throughout the month that prevented me from getting all to the 200 Mark. Overall I am happy though because it it was not for the challenge I wouldn’t have pushed myself so far.
Now New Stuff - Are You Preparing For The Upcoming Holiday?
Yes the holidays are coming and a great opportunity to make some sweat cash! Remember in the Christmas holidays, people really spend a lot of money to buy gifts for family and friends. I do it so I know! It’s the time of the year when people go into their bank accounts and take out a some just to make their family members happy.
So How Do We Come In A Internet Marketers?
We need to get in front of these people and give them exactly what the are searching for. Take for example an couple with two children. Think a bit……..
What would they want at this time of the year?
Maybe, just maybe they would want free gift coupons!
Or Maybe the couple need ideas for gift for their partners!
How about discount codes for products online!
I am just thinking out loud but you should get your creative juices flowing. What would you want this time of the year? Look around, take note of what people are buying in the stores and what is getting a lot of media attention for the holiday season. There are a lot of stuff out there folks and you just need to grab a little piece.
Want To Get Some Super Targeted Products? - CPA is the Place To Start!
I have been getting into CPA and I love it a lot trust me. Now clickbank is still being great to me but here is what I like about CPA.
1. Most of the products only require a person to sign up for a trial period and I get payment anyways.
2. The products converts like crazy (Up to 40% conversion on some offers from free traffic - Crazy )
3. Some offers only require an email submit and I get up to $3.00 per lead
4. If I am doing well with some offers I can get a higher payment - I just speak with my affiliate manager
5. There are a ton of offers for you to promote.
Right now you can get into some CPA networks and make some sweat cash for the christmas. Seriously you need to act now!
Here are my 3 favorite CPA Networks
You can apply now and start promoting products as soon as you are approved.
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How To Get Approved To These CPA Networks
This is where a lot of person have problems. A lot of persons think it is super hard to get approved into cpa networks but it really isn’t so hard.
Here is the process:
1. Make sure that everything you fill out on the application form is the correct information and not made up. Make sure you also remember what you had written of the form because someone will call you to interview you and cross reference your info (more on that later)
2. Make sure you fill in a website - If you don’t have a website create a free blog and put up some info and list that on the form.
3. After you fill out the form, they will have someone call you within 24 - 48 hours to do a short interview with you. (Nothing to be scared of). First thing, you must be super confident in yourself even if you are a newbie. You need to prove that you are not some joker but you want to start making some real cash. Try to answer all the questions as honest as possible and everything should be ok. Just pretend that your interview is a pre-sell but only this time you are selling yourself lol. get what I mean?
So go ahead and apply and I wish you all the best!
Have A Great day
How To Write Articles - Article Writing Challenge (First Post)
Hey Folks,
What’s going on?
This month is going to be a work horse! lol
If this is the first time you are visiting my blog, I just want to welcome you. Also, if you have not yet downloaded my Newbies Fast Cash Guide then you need to do so. Literally hundreds of persons have downloaded it and report that it has been responsible for their first sale! NO JOKE!
Ok Now to The September Challenge
In August I decided that I would start a challenge. I chose 3 niches (but only focused on one ). I revealed everything for free right here on this blog. And I was really excited and amazed with the results. Truly I am blessed and happy to know that a lot of people benefited from the challenge. Note I was not getting paid to do it either! All I want to know is that I can help someone to succeed online. You see when you succeed, I succeed as well.
Now because that challenge went well, I have decided to take up a more intense challenge. That is…
200 Articles For The Month Of September!
Yes!
You read that correctly. It is a bold challenge but I know I can do it. Now bare in mind that all these articles must be written by me otherwise the challenge will be void. SO No OutSourcing For Me lol
So let’s break down that challenge into smaller bits. Always do this! It makes things seems a bit easier and will not block your mind. If you look at it as 200 articles then your first reaction will be - that’s crazy or something of the sort.
But…
We can dig into it and make things look more enticing if you will
200 Articles in 30 Days - Now let’s say we take away the weekends so we are left with 300 articles in let’s say 20 Days.
so 200/20 = 10 Articles per day!
I don’t know about you but looking at 10 articles per day seems easier to get done than looking at the bigger picture of 200 articles in 20 days. You may call me crazy if you wish lol.
Overcoming Writers Block
One of the biggest problems that most people have (Even Me) when it comes to writing articles is to actually get started. We procrastinate and always find some excuse to not start the darn articles. I know because I do it all the time. I will write the title of the articles and then bam am off to a next browser or forum of just idling. However when I am serious about business I know what to do to get my articles done. Here are a few tips:
Tip #1 - Tell youself you can do it! Sounds simple doesn’t it? But the reality is that it is simple. If you tell yourself that it is too hard to write articles that you will never get them done. You mind will always find some excuse to verify the though of you saying it is to hard. So start out by telling yourself you can do it.
Tip #2 - Get Rid OF All Distractions. If you are married, tell your wife/husband that you are going to be busy for a few hours and he/she should not disturb. This is serious business folks. Find a spot that you are comfortable in. (If you are using a desktop computer then may the area comfortable, it’s your job). Close all unrelated browsers, sign out of your email accounts, close all chat boxes, exit all forums and just keep focus on your task that you have to complete.
Tip #3 - Write your titles. If you have 10 articles to write, write the 10 titles first. This way when you start writing the body of the articles you can save some time and just get right to the point.
Tip #4 - When you are not in the mood to write, start writing. You would be amazed to see what you could accomplish if you start start doing something. Even if you are feeling lazy, just start typing. I guarantee that with a little effort you will get the article done.
How To Write The Articles
I am no English major but I am going to try and give you a few tips that hopefully will help you to write more and better articles. Disclaimer: This is my way and may not be the best way but it works for me.
Starting with your titles
You article titles need to be captivating and grab your viewers. It is your first line of contact. If it is not captivating enough then you viewers wont click on to read the rest of the article. You and I both now what that means for us as marketers don’t we?
Here are some tips on How To Write Articles
1. Ask Question in your titles - It’s human nature for us to try and answer a question when we see one. This is especially true when it is in a category that we are interested in. Now considering that you have done proper market and keyword research, your prospect will already have an interest in the topic that you are writing about. Therefore if you article title ask a question they will want to click to find out if you have an answer!
2. Make Your Article Titles Long So That They Stand Out - Before your article is even ranked on the search engines, you will be getting traffic from the article directories. Now the problem is that there are a ton of other articles trying to get as much traffic as you are! So one way to make your article stand out is to have a longer title. This will help your viewers to see them and more prone to click on them.
3. Write A Great Introduction - If you article title was good, then you have done a great job. However it is not done yet! Now that you have your prospect on your article, it is your job to keep them reading the entire article. Remember our aim is to get the visitor to reach the resource box and click over to your website where the fun begins.
So what should you have in your introduction?
As the word suggest, you are suppose to introduce your prospect to whatever your title suggest. Let’s say you are righting about treatments for acne. You could give your prospects:
background info- what is the disease, why do they have it etc
Statistics- who is affected, males or females, is it a global crisis, etc
A Story - Create a narrative piece- Remeber not all stories are real (fiction/non-fiction) so just create a story from your point of view! - Eg I was a former sufferer of acne so I know first hand how painful and devastating this condition can be. etc etc
Your introduction/first paragraph should flow smoothly into the next. SO your second paragraph should be a follow up to the first. Depending on your title, you can give tips to address the problems mentioned in paragraph #1.
Also depending on how many tips you have, you can use a separate paragraph to elaborate on each. This will make things flow and your article will not sound like garbage.
Bare in mind that you are not to give away too much information. You are creating suspense in your readers mind and you should try to leave them wanting more and more. That way when they get to your resource box they will want to click through to your website to get more info. A lot of people make the mistake of writing a well informative article and so when the reader is done, their problem is solved so there is no need for them to click over to your website.
Your Conclusion/ Resource Box
I like to have the conclusion as the resource box/author bio. The reason is simple! You want the resource box to flow as if it is part of the article and thus increase your ctr. Remeber your aim is to get as much people as possible over to your website. The more traffic the more sales!
Bonus - Whatever keyword you are targeting in your title, you should have that keyword hyperlinked in your resource box. This also help to increase your clickthrough rate as well.
Update On 30 Days Article Writing Challenge!
At the moment I am at 14 Articles - I am 6 behind so I will need to crank out some extra articles. I will keep everyone updated. This post is already very long so will post that in another post. I hope you enjoy these tips on how to write articles and put them to use and make some extra $$$$
As always, I am looking forward to your comments!
Peace
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30 Days Challenge Overview: What Are Your Thoughts?
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to the final post in the ‘August 30 Days Challenge’.
It has been a cool little journey if you ask me :). Though I did not complete all the task that I was suppose to do I would still like to say that this challenge was a SUCCESS!
Don’t worry, I would still like to hear your views/ Comments at the end of this post.
Now before I go any further, I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has been visiting, leaving comments, sending me email and all. All your comments whether they be good, bad or in between are welcome and appreciated. I would also like to say congrats to all the persons who have emailed me telling me thank you because I have helped them in some way. You guys rock and I encourage you to continue and don’t ever give up until you succeed.
Now what you have been waiting for:
Overview Of The 30 Days Challenge:
For those of you who are visiting for the very first time, let me explain what the 30 Days Challenge Was. At the begining of August, I decided that I would take on a challenge where I expose one of my niche, my landing pages and whether or not my I could make my affiliate campaign a success. The goal was not to make x amount of sales but rather to make as much as possible :). For the challenge to be successful, it was agreed that at least one sale should be recorded. Below are the statistics for the campaign.
Niche I Focused On: How To Stop Excessive Sweating
Website: http://stopsweating101.com
Traffic Statistics For The Month Of August:
From the pic above you can see that the website got over 1365 unique visitors in it’s first month. However, those are not all targeted visitors because some of those visitors were referred by my blog. Those were people checking out the landing page :).
So you see over 211 visitors came from my blog. Therefore the amount of targeted visitors would be 1365 - 211 = 1154 Unique Visitors.
What Else Did We Achieve?
The website is indexed in Google and Yahoo and ranking for some keywords already.
Keyword: How To Stop Excessive Sweating - position 183 out of 361,000 websites. Not bad for a new domain. Just need some more high pr backlinks.
Keyword: Stop Sweating - position 285 out of 3 million websites. Not bad for a new domain. Just need some more high pr backlinks.
Now For Yahoo:
Keyword: How To Stop Excessive Sweating - Position 31 out of over 1 million results.
Keyword: Stop Sweating - Position 49 Out of 45 million results.
I am no SEO expert of the sort but if you ask me I would say those above a so so bad results. No bear in mind that the website is already ranking for several other keywords. I only mention those above because they are the main ones that we are focusing on at the moment.
So we have traffic stats and search engine ranking stats……..
The question you may be asking now is; What About Sales? Well Here are the results below:
6 Sales Totaling $150
Clickbank Hops
644 Hops, 46 Order form Impression Count, 7 Order form Submit Count and only 6 sales. If you ask me that doesn’t sound right to me. I know a lot of persons will disagree but I just can’t understand why 46 persons would read a sales letter with the price clearly stated, hit the order button and then suddenly decided not to buy. Doesn’t sound good to me! What’s also strange is that 7 persons enter their credit card details and click submit but only 6 of those were recorded as sales!!!!!!!
Well I honestly don’t know what to say but let’s look on the bright side shall we?
Now…
It is not a gazzilion dollars but it still shows that if you play your cards right you will make money online. You see I have heard of people trying for years without making a single penny online.
So what did I do?
I took a campaign and make 6 sales withing 31 days. Again it is not much but is shows that with a little dedication you really can make money online. So to recap a little:
** Chose a niche - A hungry market desperate for a solution some problem they may have. In this case the problem that our market have is their excessive sweating problem. Therefore they will spend money to get rid of their problems. We just need to get our offer in front of them.
** Provide The Best Solution To Their Problems - In our case the solution was an ebook that teaches them how to get rid of their excessive sweating condition. It was one of the top products on clickbank. (not really important but just proves that it was already selling).
** Use A Pre-sell To Get Your Prospects To Buy Your Offer - This means you will try your best to get your prospect to be in a buying mood and visit your vendors page to buy the offer. Don’t try to sell to much that is not your job. Leave that to the sales page. That is one of the reason why choosing the right product is very important because you want a page that converts.
** Get Your Offer In Front Of Your Prospects - This means you must drive an army of targeted traffic to your pre-sell page. The more traffic, the more conversion/sales which equates to more money in your pockets.
So What’s Next???????
Although I didn’t get to do everything as planned, I really enjoyed this challenge and I hope you did.
So Here is The Deal:
I will continue to expose this clickbank account and take it all the way up to $1000+ per month. (I wont Stop Until I Get There Either ). I will also get the other landing pages up as well and carry on with the promotions and reveal everything to you for free! How Cool Is That?
However I do Have Specific Challenge For September
Drum Roll
Are You Ready For It????
It’s The ……
Article Writing Challeneg…….WOOOOOOO
I am going to challenge myself to write 200 Articles for the month of September. That is an average of 10 articles per day excluding weekends. So do you think you can manage such a challenge?
Set a number that you think you can handle. Maybe 50, 30 but not less that 20 (that’s cheating lol). You can write about any niche and it doesn’t have to be one niche either because that can get boring and repetitive. So Go ahead and condition your mind for the challenge to come.
I am really excited about this because I know a lot of persons have a problem with writing articles. But remember this, if you tell youself you can do it then you can. And whenever you don’t feel like writing, just start typing and it will come.
Thanks for tuning to my blog once more. I wish you all the best and I look forward to hearing your comments.
Have a great eve
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30 Days Challage: Sale #3 & 4 Wooooooooooo!
Hey Folks,
What’s going on?
Well is about 8:00am here in Jamaica I just took look in My Clickbank account for the 30 Days Challenge.
And Yes……..
Sale #3 & 4 is here!!
Take a look below:
Still not converting as great as I would have wanted but I still need some more numbers to make any major decisions. The good thing though is that the landing page is converting very well. Based on my numbers from my analytics account, it seems to be converting more than 50% at the moment. As a result I am getting a lot of hops in my clickbank account.
472 hops and 4 sales. Well still not awfully bad Is it?
I just got to get some more numbers and tweak some stuff to get maximum profits from this niche!
So what are your thoughts?
Are you enjoying the challenge?
I know I haven’t put in the amount of work that I was suppose and I do apologize. However, if you are just starting out, you can follow my challenge and start with one website, build it up and then move on the another!
So I am off to get some work done before my lazy syndrome chips in lol
You have a great day!
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PS. Please a comment and tell me what you think! DON”T BE SHY
30 Days Challenge Update: Sale #2 Wooooooooo!!!
What’s Up Everyone???????
It been a long while since I make a post in this 30 Days Challenge and I am really really sorry for that. To be very honest, I have done very little work for the past few days and it is mainly due to the fact that I have been caught up with the World Championships. It is no excuse but I couldn’t help but mentioning how well the Jamaican athletes have performed.
They have done exceptionally well and we as a country here in Jamaica are very proud of them
Now Let’s Get To The 30 Days Challenge Shall We?
I apologize for my excitement, hope you understand
As I mentioned earlier, I haven’t been doing the amount of work that I had planned for this challenge. But I still managed to get a few things done. Now below are some of the actions I have taken and some of the results that I have got.
Ok so I managed to get a few articles done:
2. I also got a blogger blog done:
Blog Also Already Indexed:
#3 I also got a hubpage done:
Also the hub is already indexed in Google:
As you can see all the properties that I have created has the keyword “how to stop excessive sweating” in them. This way I can get several listing on Google when all of them are fully optimized. Note they are also link to my main website for that keyword via anchor text. This will provide my main website with some high quality backlinks.
Some Results:
My main website is already indexed in Google and Yahoo. However it is at position 360 for the main keywords on Google.
But I am already on page 3 of Yahooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How About Some Traffic??
I must admit, not all of that traffic are targeted traffic. About 25% are people who click through from the links here on my blog. But still not bad if you ask me. What I really like as well is that fact that the bounce rate is below 50%. That means that most of my visitors are spending time to read through my presell.
The Only Problem:
I am not sure if it is a problem since it is too early and not a lot of numbers to work with. But from looking in my clickbank account, I have sent well over 300+ hops with only two sales. But there is no rush so let’s wait and see what happens!
Here are the stats below:
Analytics Section:
Transaction Section:
graph Preview:
So there you have it folks - you 30 days challenge update.
I know I have done very little work but I promise to get a lot done this week so we can achieve some more in fine style. I hope you have been enjoying the little exposure and you are learning a few tips from what I have been doing here.
Have a great eve and I wish you all the best for the rest of the week!
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30 Days Challenge: First Sale Wow WOOOOOOOOO
Hey Folks,
What’s going on?
Casey here with another post in the 30 Days Challenge.
To be honest, things are going slower than I have expected and is partly due to me being involved in some extra activities.
Also before I go any further, I know most of you who have been following me for a while now must know that I am from Jamaica.
Why is that important???????
Well, The WORLD ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP is going on in Berlin Germany.
And the Jamaicans are dominating the sprinting (track and field). I am soo happy. If you country is taking place I wish you all the best but……. Look out for the Jamaicans.
Now that that is out of the way lol.
Forgive me I am just so excited about my athletics.
30 Days Challenge Update:
It has been 17 Days Now since the Challenge has started and I am proud to report that the first sale is already here. Before I show you the account, let us look at what we have done so far and what we have already achieved.
1. We started with a brand new niche from scratch. Actually it is 3 niches but I have only started on 1 so let us focus on that one for now. The niche I selected was “How To Get Rid Of Excessive Sweating“.
*** I new nothing about this niche. All I new was that some persons have a problem with excessive sweating and wanted a solution.
2. I did market research and keyword research and found out that this niche was worthwhile.
3. Got a domain name, created a presell page (landing page) to presell the product that I am promoting.
4. Write about 6 articles and submitted them to ezinearticles and a few other top article directories.
5. In the process of creating some web 2.0 properties to link to main website to get some backlinks to rank high in the search engines.
Results So Far
1. Several Articles Ranking On The First Page Of Google.
2. Website Indexed In Google and getting Traffic
3. The Moment You Been Waiting For……………………
A Sale Yahoooooooooo
More Proof That This Is From The Niche We Selected:
Time to ramp things up now……
Glad you are enjoying your time with me.
How are your campaigns doing??
Let’s Share the FUN…
Have a great eve
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30 Days Challenge Day #13 Update
Hey Guys,
What’s up?
I know you must be wondering what the heck is going on so I just want to give a brief update on what I have done so far. Unfortunately there is no sale as yet but things are picking up. So below I am going list some of the things I have done and some of the results:
SO completed task up-to-date:
1. Market Research Done - Click Here!
2. Keyword Research Done - Click Here!
3. Landing Page Creation Done - Click Here!
Traffic Building/ Website Promotion - On-going:
Submitted 8 Articles To Ezinearticles
In the process of rewriting these articles and submitting them to:
Articlesbase.com
Articlealley.com
Articlecube.com
Articledashboard.com
Amazines.com
A1articles.com
Searchwarp.com
Goarticles.com
Ideamarketers.com
The above are some of the top directories. I will have one link pointing back to may ezinearticles for the targeted keywords as well as one pointing to my websites.
Here are some of the results so far:
Result #1- First, the website is already indexed in Google:
Result #2 - Some of the articles are already ranking and bringing in traffic to my website
Article #1
Article #2
Article #3
Now for the traffic to the website:
For the traffic, there is a little bit of mixed results. Why?
You see I had exposed the domain on a previous post and a lot of persons have clicked on the link. So this has caused some problems with my tracking but I just got to work with it for now since I am revealing everything.
However, take a look inside my analytics account:
So far there is no sales. There are still some activities gioing on though. Take a look below:
Now what confuses me is the analytics section:
As you can see, 132 hops, 16 hops per order form impressions as well as 8 order form impression count. Even though these are not extremely large numbers, I just can’t seem to understand why 8 persons would try to order and then back out. Just seems weird to me.
O well lets get some more numbers and see what happens.
Glad you could join me today!
I will be doing some more task and report back to you how everything is going.
Have great eve and please leave a comment and let me know what you think!
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How To Create A Landing Page: 30 Days Challenge Day #10
Hey And Welcome to another post in the 30 Days Challenge!
WOWOWWOWOWOW
Things are starting to pick up now because…….
My first Niche Website is up and running!!!!!!!!
In the last post I focused on keyword research and I chose the keyword “How To Stop Excessive Sweating” For my main keyword to rank for at the moment. Now here is the deal once I rank for that keyword, the site will gain some authority and then it will be even more easier to rank for other keywords.
The Idea is to take everything One step at a time to get things done correctly.
Now before I get into what I have done, and how I have prepared my landing page (pre-sell page), I want to give you some tips that you can use to create your own landing pages for whatever niches you may be in.
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Creating Your Pre-Sell Page/ Landing Page
It is very important to note that your Pre-sell page is they key to your success in Affiliate Marketing. Regardless of where your visitors came from to your landing page, if they are not convinced about the product you are promoting then they are going to click away and the chances of them coming back to your website is very very slim.
So with that being said, your pre-sell page needs to be very captivating and convincing.
If not then your will be sending a truck load of traffic to your website and still you won’t be making much dough!. Is that What You Want? I don’t Think So
Note: I am no Copywriter so just bare with me as I go through some simple steps to creating a good pre-sell to warm up your visitors.
How to Create A Landing Page That Converts
Below are some exerps taken from “The Newbies Fast Cash Guide“.
From doing your market research you would have found out that your prospects have a problem or desire that needs a solution. Correct? Now your pre-sell page is going to give them a snapshot of how to solve the problem and point them in the direction of how to get the full solution. (Your merchant’s page)
It is important to note that it is called “pre-sell” and not “selling” page. It is not your job to do the selling. Leave that to your merchant. Your job is to warm up the prospect so that they will be in a buying mood when they get to the merchant’s page.
Steps To Take When Writing Your Presell
• Identify what are the problems that your prospects are having. For example let’s refer to the weight loss niche: A problem could be stubborn belly fat. A good way is to ask a question for example “Are You Struggling With Stubborn Belly Fat?”
• Know exactly who you are targeting. If you are selling a weight loss product it would be much easier to target a specific group of people that want to lose weight rather than the general population. For example you could target mothers who want to get rid of belly fat or women who want to lose weight for their wedding day etc. The more specific you are, the better your pre-sell page will convert.
• Know the Product You Are Promoting As Best As Possible- Does the product solves the problem that your prospects are having? A good way to do this would be to buy a copy. However since we are going free all the way out, I suggest that you write the owner of the product a nice letter telling them that you would love to promote their product and you are requesting a review copy. 7 out of 10 times they will say yes others may simply not reply. If you do not get a copy then you can go directly to the sales page and get a ton of information to help you to write a good pre-sell of the product.
• Uncover the reasons why your prospects are having a problem. Tell them why their problem hasn’t been solved and what’s possible. For example, “the reason you have excess stomach fat is because……” However you can get rid of your stubborn belly fat and get an amazing body if you………”
• Tell the prospects about the benefits of getting the product and how it will solve their problem. For example, let them know that if they get that product they can lose up to 10 pounds in 10 days. They don’t have to go to gym to workout, etc etc
• Have A Call To Action. This is very important. Do not assume that your reader knows that he or she is supposed to click a link. Tell them exactly what to do. For example: “If you want to get rid of your stubborn belly fat and get an amazing body like I did using the product name then I urge you to CLICK HERE NOW!”
So now that you have an idea of how to create a good pre-sell page, let’s go through my website together.
I am A Bit Nervous!!!
Why?
Well, I didn’t want to reveal my website because it may mess up my stats! However, since I am doing this 30 Days Challenge for everyone I am going to take a chance and reveal it with the hope that you (my trusted readers) wont abuse it!.
After doing a little digging, I came up with this domain: http://www.stopsweating101.com
Here is a snapshot Of What The Website/Landing Page Looks Like:
***** #1 I paid someone $15 to do the header for me. No bad I would say as some graphics persons are very expensive. I think this is a very good job, what do you think?
******#2 Note the headline. I use a question rather than making a bold statement. Why? Well let me ask you this: when was the last time you saw a question and you didn’t try to answer ir? It is for this same reason. My prospects will try to answer that burning question ans will continue to read to find out if there is really a solution to their problem.
*****# 3. Thought I don’t advise adding adsense to your landing pages, I am doing a little testing with the adlinks at the top of the pre-sell page.
*****#4. On the left handside, I have a banner of the product I am promoting and ofcourse it has my affiliate links embedde it it. I know a lot of persons like to click on images so that is there for them
*****#5 The image on the right is just a pic demonstrating the problem the prospect is having. It is just a visual to get the prospect more aware of his/her condition. This will also help to pre-sell them because it will also enlighten that that their condition is a very serious one!
*****#6 The body of the pre-sell is is a story format. It speaks about a person who suffered from the condition and found a solution after several attempts of searching.
*****#7 VERY IMPORTANT >> The Call to action. This is should be the only exit route from your site! So once someone leaves your site, they will land on your merchant’s page which is where you want them in the first place.
So that basically raps up what I have done with my landing page. Here are some other things that I have done today:
I have written 5 Artices and all of them are on the website as well.
3 Of the Articles Are Submitted To Ezinearticles.com
I have bookmarked the website using onlywire.com and Also digg.com.
So that wraps up Day # 10 of the 30 Days Challenge. Now we are on to one of the hardest part of internet mareting for most people. That is to drive targeted traffic to their websites. Tommorrow I will get really intense with my traffic building to see if my landing page converts. Hopefully it does otherwise I will have to reconstruct!.
Once again I am really glad you could join me for this post. I look forward to hearing your comments: critique, questions or whatever. Just tell me how you think my website sucks :(.
Have a great eve
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How To Get The Right Keywords - Step By Step Instructions:
Hey How Is Going Folks??
Welcome back to another post in the 30 Challenge.
From my last post, I have been getting a lot of questions about keyword research. A lot of persons have emailed me and ask me if I could go through the steps of “how to get the right keywords” using FREE methods. So I want to go through that today.
As you know today is the 8th of August which we have just about 22 Days left to complete all our objectives and I don’t want to leave anyone behind. In the coming weeks, there will be a ton of work as that is where we start the actual promotion of the websites.
So without further ado, let’s begin:
How To Get The Right Keywords: Method #1
The first thing I want you to do is to go to the following website: Keyword Questions
This is a website where you can type in a broad search term to find out some of the “Long Tailed Keyword Questions” that your prospects are searching for.
Note: For this exercise, I will be demonstrating using my Niche “How to Stop Sweating” so you can follow along with your respective Niches.
How To Get The Right Keywords
Below are some of the questions that I discovered after doing the simple exercise above:
Keyword Entered: Stop Sweating
how to stop excessive sweating
how to stop sweating
how to stop excessive underarm sweating
how to stop bad underarm sweating
how to stop sweating so much
how to stop under arms from sweating
how to stop hands from sweating
how to stop sweating ebook
how to stop underarm sweating
The good thing about these keyword phrases is that they are very targeted and they help to make good titles when writing your articles. They don’t get thousands of searches per month individually but when you have a ton of them, the searches will add up. Another thing is: these phrases are very easy to rank for because of the little competition.
For example, let’s use the phrase >> “how to stop excessive underarm sweating”
Search in Google returned the following result:
Now let’s search in Google to see how many websites are optimized for that specific keyword phrase. In order to do this we will add the “intitle:” infront of our keyword phrase. What this does, is to return all the websites that are optimized for this keyword phrase and have it in their title.
Note: The reason I do this and not just place the keywords in quotes is because I want to know how many websites I will be up against for that specific keyword phrase. If you put they keywords in quotes, it will return websites that are not specifically optimized for that keyword phrase of which I am not too concern.
As you can see the results have decrease drastically. Now we are actually up against 14,000 websites which is not very hard.
How To Get The Right Keywords: Method #2
Using The Adwords keyword Tool
Google is no doubt (at the moment) the Largest Search Engine. I recently read somewhere (I don’t remember lol) that Google receives more than 60% of all search traffic. The good thing is that recently Google introduce into their keyword tool to report th Number of searches the keywords get per month.
This is Great News For Us As Internet Marketers!
Now we can go to the tool and type in any keyword and we can get the number of times it was searched for the previous month as well as other related keywords (synonyms too) and the number of times they were searched for.
So lets get into the exercise of how to chose the right keywords for your campaigns shall we?
Step #1 - Open up Google keyword tool and enter your broad search term. Again, I will use the niche: “how to stop sweating“.
Step #2- Select keyword phrases with 3 or more words. At this point we don’t want to go for the ultra competitive terms such as the “two words” phrases.
Step #3- Copy all the keyword phrases you selected in step #2 and place back in the search box. This time you will deselect the “synonyms” option so that you only get variations of the words you have selected.
Step #4- Now we want to know the “exact” phrases that our prospects are searching for, we will select “exact” from the drop down menu. You will realize that the numbers have been reduced drastically but you shouldn’t worry too much about this because these keywords are very targeted as they are exactly what your prospect type in the search engines when they are looking for solutions to their problems.
Step #5 - Checking The Competition Of Your Keywords
Now that we have some targeted keywords, we need to know our chances of ranking well for them. If it is super hard to rank well for them then it makes no sense to progress with them!.
So how do we do this?
Let’s use the phrase “how to stop excessive sweating”
Search Results:
Now let’s search in Google to see how many websites are optimized for that specific keyword phrase. In order to do this we will add the “intitle:” infront of our keyword phrase. What this does, is to return all the websites that are optimized for this keyword phrase and have it in their title.
Now you can see that the number of competing pages have decreased drastically.
But…….
That’s not all!!!
We still need to know the “strength” of the competition. Knowing the amount alone is not good enough. What I mean is that if we are up against pages with pr 4 and above it can be very difficult to beat those pages for their positions. So we need to check the pr of the pages on the first page to see if we stand a chance.
Step #6 - Checking the strength of the competition.
Go to google search engine and type “check pr”. Click on the first website that comes up:
You should now have the following screen as below. Go through each of the websites that was on your first page when you did your “imtitle search” and check their pr. If majority of the first page listings are pr3 or less then you can keep that keyword in your list.
Result:
The first website in the number 1 position is a pr 0 which is a very good sign for us! I will continue to do the other website as you should for your niche as well.
This post about how to get the right keywords has turned out to be very long but I hope I had shed some light on the whole concept of keyword research. Now you can go ahead and get your keywords to target for your campaigns.
Next Task: Creating The Landing Pages For The Niche Websites.
As always I welcome your comments and if you have any problems, suggestions or even critique I welcome them as well.
Feel free to tell me your mind.
I wish you all the best.
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