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30 Days Challenge Update: Sale #2 Wooooooooo!!!

By powfada On August 23, 2009 6 Comments

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

By powfada On August 17, 2009 22 Comments

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

By powfada On August 13, 2009 14 Comments

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

By powfada On August 10, 2009 10 Comments

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.

Cool???

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:

By powfada On August 8, 2009 14 Comments

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.

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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30 Days Challenge Day #4 Update- Market Research Results

By powfada On August 5, 2009 6 Comments

Hey Folks,

Welcome to this blog post.

Today I want to share some of the information I got about my Niches from my Market Research and I also want to get into the keywords aspect of things as well.

So let us begin shall we?

Niche #1- How To Stop Sweating

** Market Lifespan - This market type is a short term long term. This means that the market will always be there but once a person has found a solution to their problem then there is not much room for more to promote more products. To be clearer, after our prospects has received a solution to their sweating disorder then they wont be looking to stop sweating anymore!

** Target Audience - Both males and females. Starting from teens all the way up to adulthood. These are people from all over the world, however we will have a larger audience from those that live in warmer climates.

*** Where are Their Hang Out Spots? - From doing some search, I dug up a few forums where most of these people hang out. I also found some questions that where quite interesting that should help me write a pre-sell for the product as well :).

I also found quite a lot of questions being asked on Yahoo Answers as well. This gives me a push to pursue this niche because I can see that a lot of persons are having a common problem :).

*** Does This Niche Spend Money? - I didn’t go through the news papers and magazines but I used the Adwords Ads as an indication that people will spend money to solve their problems

Niche #2 - How To Grow Taller

** Market Lifespan - This market will also be around for a long time. Why? Because there will always be short people looking to add a few inches to their height. :). There may also be room to promote other products down the road as well.

** Target Audience - Both Males and Females. However, it seems like the will be more males being interested in growing taller. I also discovered that it is mostly teens/young adults that are interested in adding those extra inches to their height.

** Where do they hang out? - This niche seems to have way more forums than the “Stop Sweating Niche“. And I also found out a lot of questions that people are asking which will help me to promote the product better.

** Does The Niche Spend Money? - Again, I did not do the magazines etc but from the amount of adwords ads alone I can speculate that people in this niche do spend money. (hopefully I am correct lol).

Niche # 3 - How To Speak Spanish

*** Life Span Of Market- I would say that this is a long term long term market. Meaning this market will be around for a long time and you can sell to the same people over and over. For example, someone looking to learn Spanish maybe interested in learning French or some other languages. You could also market softwares to help in there grammar, pronunciation and other stuff that will assist in their leaning experience.

*** Target Audience - Both males and females

English person getting together with someone from a Spanish speaking country…

Students learning Spanish at School….

People interested in learning Spanish as a hobby

Persons visiting a Spanish speaking country for the first time…

And the list goes on..

*** Where do they Hang Out? - I found quite a few forums for this niche as well as a lot of persons asking a few questions on Yahoo Answers. Good Indication!

*** Does This Niche Spend Money? - There are several adwords Advertisers so I would say that people should spend money in this niche. As time goes by we will see but hopefully sooner than later.

Keyword Research!!!!!!

What Are Your Prospects Searching For?

You now know that there is money to be made in your selected market, but you need to also know how to get your website in front of your prospects. This means you need to know what terms people with problems, that your product caters, to are searching for.

The good thing about this is that there are numerous tools on the market today that can help you to achieve this. These tools are known as keyword tools and they keep a track of most of the keyword phrases that people uses when they are looking for information on the search engines.

They keyword tool that I use and recommend is Micro Niche Finder. It is very easy to use and also utilizes the Google database. Google is currently the largest search engine and thus will get the most searches per day so micro niche finder is the perfect keyword tool.

But……..

If you don’t have Micro Niche Finder Or Can’t Afford to get a copy, you can use my Step By Step keywords research method outlined in My Newbies Fast Cash guide on pages 23 - 30.

So I will start out with about 10 keywords for each niche that gets about 1000+ searches per month and then gradually increase the amount of keywords I target. When I am using Micro Niche Finder, I normally go for the “exact Phrase Match”. That way I know exactly what my prospects are searching for!

So here is what you should do:

1. If you don’t have Micro Niche Finder, You can get it here!

2. Type in your broad search term. For example, in my “Stop Sweating Niche” I would type the key phrase “stop sweating”. Micro Niche Finder will return all the searches that are related to those words. As a matter of fact you will also get synonyms as well.

3. Select Exact so that you get the exact number of time that exact keyword phrase has been searched for.

4. Sort in term of number of searches.

See Image below:

So now I am going to go ahead and compile my keywords. In the next post I will let you in on the keywords that I have chosen!!!!!!!!

Next Task:

1. Setting Up My Websites To Pre-sell The Products

Thank you for tuning in to this post and I look forward to your comments.

Have a great day.

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30 Days Challenge, Day #3 - Market Research

By powfada On August 3, 2009 6 Comments

Hey everyone,

What’s going on?

I do want to apologize for not posting an update on August 2nd. You see it was Sunday and I was away from home and when I got back home I was very tired. On top of that, this morning my internet was down and I had to go out and purchase a brand new Internet Modem.

Anyways, That’s no excuse and I am getting back on top of things.

So……

Don’t for a moment think that I am quitting of you. Because I wont!!!!

I will endure for the 30 Days- Success Or Failure. Cool?

Now onto today’s Task:

Doing Proper Market Research

From the last post (Niche Selection- Day #1 Updated), you would have known that I have 3 Niches in mind. Now my goal for today is to get to know my niche a little bit. That means, the common problems that they have, where they hang out, their language and exactly they are.

Before I give you my details, Here are some of the things you can do to get to know your Niche Better:

Step #1- What Is The Life Span Of Your Market?

This means, you need to analyze the market to see how long they will be around for.

Long Term Short Term Markets?

Short Term Short Term Markets?

Long Term Long Term Markets?

I am not going to go into too much details about Market’s Lifespan as I cover this in details in my FREE Ebook The Newbies Fast Cash Guide (pages 11- 13) .

Step #2 - Who Are Your Target Audience?

This step is very crucial to our success! We have to know who exactly we are providing a product or service for. Can you imagine trying to sell a weight loss person to someone who wants to gain weight? You Get The Idea?

So we need to know whether or not we are targeting:

Males or Females or Both?

Their age groups: Young Adults, Middle Aged, Elderly or All?

Are we targeting people from a specific demographic?

Are we targeting people rich people :), Middle Class, Lower Class or All?

We need to be as specific as possible. The more specific we are the better we will be able to provide a product or service that caters to our target audience and the better our conversions will be. So you can go ahead and get your answers to the above questions.

Step #3- Where Do Our Target Audience Hang Out?

We also need to know this. Once we can find where our target audience frequents, we can get our offers right infront of their faces.

What’s Good About This?

You see because we would have already done proper research, our offers will be almost irresistible to our target audience. Also instead of waiting for them to find us, we would find them and make more moola.

One of the best ways to find where they frequent, is to locate some of their popular forums. Just an example, you may or may not have been a memeber of the Warrior Forum. If you are then you would know that is where most of the internet marketers hang out and you can visit and get acquainted with their language.

To find forums of your specific Niche, you can just go to the search engines and type in your niche + forums. Let’s use the golf Niche as an example. (golf + forums).

After doing this, you will know if your market is one worth pursuing. This will be your own opinion because, In my opinion any market can be profitable once they spend money!

Step #4 - Does Your Niche Spend Money?

Wow Wow WoW

Let Me see a raise of hand from all those who would want to enter a niche that doesn’t spend money?

Great No One!

I thought so…..

I guess this step is self explanatory. If no one is spending money in the niche then there is no way we can make money from it (duh).

Here are some of the ways to know if people are spending money in the niche:

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1. Are there adwords advertisers or any other forms of search engines advertisers? These are people who are spending money to advertise in these niche markets. Though not conclusive, but we can almost say that once there are many perons spending money to advertise the products that they are making a good sum of money from these products as well.

2. Are there any Television Commercials with related products? A good example is the acne and skin care industry! If you see similar products being advertised on your television then it is a good indication that the market spends money.

Why?

Because it cost a lot of $$$ to run television commercials so you can bet that they are making a huge profit.

3. You can also check your local newspapers and Magazines! Yes this is also a way to find out if people are spending money. Just like tv commercials, it also cost a few bucks to advertise in a magazine as well!

My Results:

This post has gotten rather long!!

So I implore you to carry out the steps above to get to know your niche better.

I will post my results first thing in the morning tommorrow.

I apologize for the long post but I still hope you had a wonderful read

Task For Tomorrow:

1. Post My Market Research Results

2. Keyword Research

Thank you for reading and as always I welcome your comments

Have a great Eve

……..

Casey

The 30 Days Challenge- Day #1 Updated

By powfada On August 1, 2009 12 Comments

Hey folks,

What’s up??

Welcome back to my blog on the 30 Days Challenge. This is the second post for August 1, 2009. You can see the first post where I lay out some of the objectives and expectations >> The 30 Days Challenge– Day #1 >> Are You Ready?

Now I just want to keep you up-to-date on what I have done for the first day of the challenge. Today is Saturday so I didn’t do too much. However I am still going to post about what I have accomplished for today.

1. Created a brand new clickbank account for this Challenge:

2. Created a new Gmail Account:

3. Chose 3 Niches:

Before I get into the niches I chose, I would also like to give you some tips so that you too can chose your niche/s without picking your hair out. Cool!

Look For Products That:

** Pays a minimum of $20- Anything lower may not be profitable for you. Remember our goal is to make up to $1000+ per month. So if we have one product that pays $36 per sale that would be even better as we would only need to make one sale per day to make $1000+ per month! 

** Has a gravity between 30 and 200- anything less may not be worthwhile and anything higher can be too competitive. This not gospel but it is a guide I use to ensure that I select products with the highest profit potential.

** Has % referred higher than 60%. This tells that a number of affiliates are promoting the product and making sales.

** Has a professional sales page. Don’t over look this. If you really want to make $36 per day the product sales page has to convert. So read it and see if it convinces you to buy. Does it have great bullet points, does it have short testimonials that don’t bore the reader, and does it have added bonuses that add to the value of the main product?
It makes no sense sending traffic to a sales page that doesn’t convert. Total waste of time and money 

** Has an affiliate section with complete marketing tools. Banners, images, articles or anything that will make your marketing efforts easier. The trick is to work smarter and not harder.

Now Onto My Niches:

Niche #1-  Grow Taller For Idiots

** Niche Stats On Clickbank:

Niche #2 - Stop Sweating

Niche Stats On Clickbank:

Niche 3- Rocket Spanish

Niche Stats On Clickbank:

I also ordered 3 domain names for these Niches but I will keep them private for the time being. I don’t want to have everyone checking out these websites and messing up my stats. Sorry for that But I will still let you know how I am promoting the products as I go along.

SO that’s it for today.

Tomorrow I will analyze each of these Niches and give you a full report and how I plan to attack each of them.

So the Goals For Tomorrow:

Market Research

Keyword Research

Glad you could join me and I wish you all the best and success.

Have a great evening.

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The 30 Days Challenge– Day #1 >> Are You Ready?

By powfada On August 1, 2009 20 Comments

Wow WOw woW………….

What’s Up Guys?

I can’t tell you enough how excited I am to actually be doing this… I am really excited. Yea!!!

But..

I am also Nervous lol

You see this is the first time I am actually doing something Like this and I really want it to go well. I want to help as many people I can by doing a live case study or Journal for 30 days with the hope of getting as many persons as possible to get up and TAKE ACTION.

So let us get down to business shall we?

What Is The 30 Days Challenge About?

If this is the first time you are visiting my blog or if you are not one of my loyal subscribers then you may be wondering what the heck I am talking about. Right?

Here’s The Dilio..

Over the past few weeks, I have been getting a lot of questions from my subscribers. I wont get into all of those questions, but they all boils down to the same conclusion. >> How Do I Make Money Online starting from scratch.

Now to be honest, I am not a guru nor do I claim to be one. However, after months of trying and learning different methods, I do know how to make some money from the internet.I have shared some of that knowledge with some of my subscribers already but it is almost impossible for me to get to every single question individually. Especially how I get the same questions over and over.

So…

instead of trying to answer all the emails, I am going to do a public case study for 30 days. That’s right, I will try to make some money online in 30 Days. All Are Invited

You get to see my mistakes, my success, everything…

Objective Of The 30 Days Challenge…

First and foremost it is about You. Now Me!

I want to do this for you my readers. So if after the challenge is complete and one person come back to say they have gotten something valuable from it then I would be very happy.

Specific Objectives:

1. To Create A Brand New Clickbank Account

2. Select 1 or more Niches and Market Products

3. Write At Least 30 Articles

4. Create At Least 15 Hubpages

5. Create At Least 5 Blogger Blogs

6. Create At Least 5 Squidoo Lenses

7. Create At Least 5 Press Releases

8 Create At Least 5 Videos

9. Get At Least 1000 (human website visitors) to our landing pages

10. Make as much sales as possible.

Crazy amount of work isn’t it? Well, I didn’t say it was easy did I? Are you crying? Are you giving up already?

Come on stay with me ok!

We are going to do this together and make it happen no matter what. Cool?

It is about 10:44am already and I need to get working so that I don’t fall behind. I am off to work now.

I look forward to hearing your comments and what you would like me to include in this challenge.

Benefits Of The Challenge:

Unfortunately there are no cash prizes involved :(.

However, if you follow along with me and carry out the daily task which I will layout in the upcoming post, I guarantee that after the 30 days are up you will achieve a whole lot that you could ever imagine. Things will be clearer, you will see the light and it is very possible for you to at least make your first sale if you haven’t or double up if you were just making a few dollars.

So Are You In?

Let Me Hear Your Thought:

Will Be Back This Afternoon with An UpDate.

Have A Great Day Ok

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Are You Getting Enough Traffic To Your Blog/Website/Money Pages?

By powfada On July 21, 2009 2 Comments

how to get targeted website traffic????????

Hey Everyone,

Casey here and I just want to welcome you to this blog post.

It has been ages since I last post and I am soooo embarassed to say so.

However, I want to make a very informative post today on the topic of getting traffic to your website, blog, or whatever your money pages are. Now forgive me for the simplicity of everything but I am not going to assume that any of my readers know much about website traffic. Therefore I am going to breakdown everything as much as I possible can.

With me?

Ok Cool!

What is website traffic?

Website traffic is basically the “human” visitors that lands on your website. I say human because there are various softwares that will show up in any tracking mechanism you have as visitors. Now these are of little importance because a software can’t spend money and buy from you.

How To Get Traffic To My Website?

There are many ways to get huge amount of visitors to your websites everyday. It all breaks down to two major categories:

1. Paid Website Traffic

2. Free Website Traffic

Today I will focus on Free Website Traffic. Maybe some other time we can talk about paid methods.

The first thing I suggest is that you install some tracking mechanism to your web pages so that you can see where your traffic is coming from. Google Analytics is one of the most popular tracking mechanism and it is free. You can get step by step instructions on how to set up everyting on Google itself so I wont go into that here.

Step #1- Seo (search engine optimization )

This is the fist step to getting quality traffic. You have to optimize your website/blog or your money pages for specific keywords so that they can be found when someone search for those specifi keyword.There are two main types of seo, onpage as well as off page.

One page optimization

This basically means what you do on your website itself to make it search engine friendly. This involves optimizing your keywords in the:

Title of your website or blog

Description Of your website or blog

Once every 100 words on the webpage itself.

That is the summary of it. You may hear a lot of stuff about on page optimization in a lot of forums but this is basically what you need to do to make your websites or blog search engine friendly.

Off Page Optimization

Off page optimization is basically what you do off your site to get it to be search engine friendly. Here is what that means: n order to get your site ranking high on the search engines, you will need to have other related websites linking to yours. This way the search engines will see that your website or blog is important. It is also important to get other authority websites to link to yours as their links will be most valuable.

Of page optimization and be both naturally or induced. By naturally, some persons may visit your website and like the content and link to your website from theirs. By induced I mean that you will literally have to go and search and build lins to your website.

So that is basically it for off page optimization; getting a ton of high pr, related authority links back to your website.

Getting Traffic From Articles

Articles are one of the most popular methods of getting traffic to your websites. It has been around for a very long time and won’t be going away any time soon. You see people are constantly searching for information and so you will have to keep providing them with fresh content.

So How Does Article Marking Works?

In summary, you write an article on a topic, submit it to a top article directory with a link back to your website. Now if your article is very informative and of a high quality then when someone reads it, they will more than likely want to click the link through to your website.

Here are some important factors to note:

1. Do proper keyword research. This means that you should write your articles around topics that people are searching for.

2. Make your Article Titles Captivating. As you must know, there are literally thousands of people submitting articles everyday. So what make some want to click on yours? Get The point?

3. Have A Strong Call To Action In Your Resource Box. Most article directories will allow you to have a link back to your website in the ” resource box” or “about the author” box. This is where you will sell your website to get someone to click through to your page. So you must tell your readers to do just that otherwise they will read the article and just click away.

Using Forums For Traffic

Forums is another way to get targeted traffic is used in the correct manner. There are lost of forums on almost every topic you can think of. Just go to the search engines and type in “your topic + forums” and you should see a ton of them.  Most forums will allow you to have a link in your signature to your website.

Rule of thumb, never go to a forum just to get traffic! Instead participate in the conversations that are taking place. Give help where you can as well as ask question. After you are on the forum for a while, you will build up trust among the other members and they will want to check out your websites.

Getting Traffic From Videos

This may sound a bit challenging to most people but it doesn’t have to be. All you need to do is to get a screen capture software and make a powerpoint presentation of your articles that you have already done. Read them out and at the end provide a link to your website.

Videos are getting very popular these days and can really provide a lot of traffic if you submit them at the right places. Some of these places are youtube.com, googlevideos.com myspacevideos and a ton more.

Here are some important factors to note:

1. Place your keywords in the title of your videos

2. Add a link to your website first thing in the description of the video. This way someone can click through to your website without having to tying your address in their browser.

3. Speak Clealy So that your viewers can hear whatever you are saying.

4. Always provide a link to your website before and at the end of the video.

5. Once your videos are approved, bookmark them on as many social bookmarking sites as possible.

Get Traffic From Commenting On Other Persons Blog

Depending on your website’s topic, you can visit other related blogs and leave comments. (NEVER SPAM) You can go to other blogs and read them and leave comments based upon what you have read. A good thing to do is to look for high traffic blogs and subscribe to them. This way once the owner makes a post, you will be informed ans so you can leave your comment as soon as possible. Doing that will get your comment more exposure so that other persons will see it and click through to your websites.

What Are You Suppose To Do Now?

This post have been a long one! However, you should now have a direction as to where to go. Everyone of the methods above are proven to drive crazy amount of traffic to your websites. It should be noted though that this is not a one time process and you will have to be consistent if you want to have a constant flow of traffic to your websites.

What is traffic to you?

Only you can tell! It may be more sales or more leads but whatever it is to you, you need it so start taking action now!

I hope you enjoy this post and I wish you all the best with your traffic.

Please feel free to leave a comment and speak your mind

Have a great day

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