Building from broke

- The data for the one above is actually for the thursday.
- Got credited with my £75 adwords voucher

Friday 14th
Adwords Impressions: 490
Adwords Clicks: 22
CTR: 4.49%
Average CPC: £0.26
Average Position: 1.4
"Buy" button clicks: 2
Sales: 0
 


Saturday 15th
Adwords Impressions: 720
Adwords Clicks: 23
CTR: 3.2%
Average CPC: £0.24
Average Position: 1.4
"Buy" button clicks: 0
Sales: 0


Now i'm getting really pissed off. 136 clicks in total and no sales yet?!
 
DontShaveMePls said:
0 sales. It's problem. Period.
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^R-Tard trololol :ak:

Keep at it man. It's been no time at all. Don't expect sales immediately. But keep progressing the site: obviously you need to keep configuring your page, your product, or your traffic to get some conversions. For now, focus on traffic. Once you get an excellent flow, you can start messing with other things to increase the conversions. Most people do it the other way around and epicfail.

Consider: 1 quality non-buyer is worse than 1,000 non-buyers. If you can't change the mind of the 1 quality non-buyer, you're fucked. If you can change the mind of just 1% of the non-buyers, you sold 10.

Just keep focused long term on traffic and quality content, the conversions will come.
 
c4yrslf12 said:
Keep at it man. It's been no time at all. Don't expect sales immediately. But keep progressing the site: obviously you need to keep configuring your page, your product, or your traffic to get some conversions. For now, focus on traffic. Once you get an excellent flow, you can start messing with other things to increase the conversions. Most people do it the other way around and epicfail.

Consider: 1 quality non-buyer is worse than 1,000 non-buyers. If you can't change the mind of the 1 quality non-buyer, you're fucked. If you can change the mind of just 1% of the non-buyers, you sold 10.

Just keep focused long term on traffic and quality content, the conversions will come.
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Thanks for the support, I'll keep it going and continue to try and push backlinks and content out to keep it ranking (don't have the budget to keep the PPC going for months).

- Made a new post yesterday (around 650 words).
- Currently scraping more competitor backlinks
- Bought a blog post from m0rtal (linky) on a 19 year old, PR5 site. Costed £12. Anchor text was to a short, common keyword with about 50k monthly exact searches.
- Bought a blog post from thehobbster (linky) on a PR1 site in the niche I'm in. Costed £9. Anchor text was to a longer keyword with about 1000 exact searches monthly.
- Aiming for 1000 unique organic searches for the month January.

Sunday 16th
Adwords Impressions: 350
Adwords Clicks: 20
CTR: 5.75
Average CPC: £0.27
Average Position: 1.3
"Buy" button clicks: 1
Sales: 0
 
Doing some research on a keyword I'm aiming for:

- Keyword is 6 words
- 50k exact matches
- I've been doing PPC for both the exact match and broad match version of this keyword. Costing me about £0.25 a click and is by far the biggest traffic keyword in my current adwords lineup bringing in about 70% of the traffic.
- SerpIQ is 50. There are a couple of authoritative domains in there (ones we all will have heard of) but what intrigues me is the current no 1 result for that keyword which has the following information (backlink info provided by backlinksanalysisace):
Age: 5 months
PR: 3
Alive & Existing backlinks: 335
Unique domains: 280
Domain name: keywordadjective.net (like if "how to make money" was the keyword then his domain name could be howtomakemoneysexy.net or some shit. Not quite EMD).
Anchor density: 60% keyword!!!
- Links have been slowly growing since august. This velocity might be helping.
Average Outbound Links on backlinks: 36 (Much higher when you exclude profile links. Lots of 1000+ spammed blog comments).

Make-up of backlink profile:
- Forum profile refers to both forum and wiki profiles (but not articles). Spun Article refers to both article directories and wikis.
- His links are covered with footprints (seems to rotate between 3/4 usernames for 80% of the links that dont require the anchor as the username).
- The highest PR links of his are PR 5 yet is a unused forum profile? Weird.
- Almost all of the web 2.0s are from crappy sites I've never even heard of (many foreign).

- 10 badly spun web 2.0s (Only famous domain was a badly spun squidoo)
- 65 (5%) badly spun articles/wikis
- 20 pliggs
- 200 (60%) forum profiles
- 35 blog comments with average OBL of 220 (much higher when you include the fact that some blogs split their comments into page lol).

After looking through every single link, I didn't see a single good quality link. No chance am I pointing any of these at my site.

Do you guys think I should get links in as many of those places as possible and point them to a well spun (WordAI style) web 2.0? Could always just remove the link to my site if it doesn't work out right? Not comfortable using these links for long term gain but obviously a bit of a hand short term would be nice.

EDIT: + Do you think I should buy an aged domain name in my niche? Can pick these up on GoDaddy for pretty cheap it seems.
 
- Made a new 750 word article today.
- Been looking at some aged domains. Decided I want more advice from those more experienced before I buy. Got questions such as: Should the domain have pages indexed? Is there anything I should be looking for in the whois? etc.
- Been building a yahoo account to level 2 so links on yahoo answers show.
- Going to implement paypal payments pro some time in the near future so I can actually track the full conversion process.
- Saw a great point from thehobbster in one of his case studies: "snagging tons of links on various domains from my Google Alerts top 5 blogs and discussions". Seems like a good idea, I'm checking this out.

Monday 17th
Adwords Impressions: 610
Adwords Clicks: 25
CTR: 4.1
Average CPC: £0.24
Average Position: 1.3
"Buy" button clicks: 1
Sales: 0
 
For those of you that want to do some blog commenting on new blog posts then this is how I've been doing it:
- Go to google blog search
- Type in your keyword
- 90% of those sites you should be able to drop a comment on.
It's pretty damn simple and the majority of the people on the forum will know this but it's useful for those who dont.

Also: Yahoo Answers is giving double points in december! That means you can get your level two account by answering only 38 questions instead of 76. Once you reach level two your links become active (you can drop links before you are level two but they will only be hyperlinks when you become level two).

I've done those and dropped my link on about 20 of the posts. I gave good answers too. Great for getting more links with your url as your anchor text.
 
Tuesday 18th
Adwords Impressions: 700
Adwords Clicks: 25
CTR: 3.6
Average CPC: £0.23
Average Position: 1.4
"Buy" button clicks: 2
Sales: 0

Wednesay 19th
Adwords Impressions: 404
Adwords Clicks: 14
CTR: 3.5
Average CPC: £0.27
Average Position: 1.6
"Buy" button clicks: 1
Sales: 0

- Been building more blog comments slowly.
- Watching an aged domain auction that I might snap up a few minutes before it ends
- No organic traffic yet. Has penguin made it harder for new sites?

Really getting worried by the lack of sales. Surely with this amount of traffic someone must have bought.
 
sixthcutuan said:
Also: Yahoo Answers is giving double points in december! That means you can get your level two account by answering only 38 questions instead of 76. Once you reach level two your links become active (you can drop links before you are level two but they will only be hyperlinks when you become level two).
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sixthcutuan said:
- Been building more blog comments slowly.
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For blog comments and Yahoo Answers check Microworkers.
Make a registration and see what other people are posting as a jobs - you will see that it's easy, affordable and time saving. Also answers will come from diff users > Level 2.

All the best
 
zlomuni said:
For blog comments and Yahoo Answers check Microworkers.
Make a registration and see what other people are posting as a jobs - you will see that it's easy, affordable and time saving. Also answers will come from diff users > Level 2.

All the best
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Thanks but I think it's going fine right now. I can easily post 30+ blog comments (only some will be approved though) and 15+ yahoo comments a day. I think that's good enough for now.
 
Generally, not specifically you:

If you do not have money or prefer doing it for your own pleasure - it's perfectly fine.

But otherwise people should outsource such task.
E.g. for 10-30c you will receive only approved comments and Y! answers. So let's say you spend 3 hours for 30 blog comments and 15 Y! answers. For that you will pay 45 x ~20c = 9$. If you could make more than 12$ for 3 hours = outsource it.
People often cannot calculate their hour rate correctly. And their business suffers from that.
 
zlomuni said:
Generally, not specifically you:

If you do not have money or prefer doing it for your own pleasure - it's perfectly fine.

But otherwise people should outsource such task.
E.g. for 10-30c you will receive only approved comments and Y! answers. So let's say you spend 3 hours for 30 blog comments and 15 Y! answers. For that you will pay 45 x ~20c = 9$. If you could make more than 12$ for 3 hours = outsource it.
People often cannot calculate their hour rate correctly. And their business suffers from that.
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True but tbh those things would take me max an hour. And also I don't feel comfortable with the level of work they put into the comments. I want mine to stick (and frankly most people won't have enough knowledge to get best answers in yahoo etc).
 
Thursday 20th
Adwords Impressions: 520
Adwords Clicks: 15
CTR: 2.9
Average CPC: £0.25
Average Position: 1.7
"Buy" button clicks: 1
Sales: 0

Friday 21th
Adwords Impressions: 540
Adwords Clicks: 17
CTR: 3.1
Average CPC: £0.25
Average Position: 1.3
"Buy" button clicks: 0
Sales: 0

Saturday 22th
Adwords Impressions: 660
Adwords Clicks: 25
CTR: 3.8
Average CPC: £0.22
Average Position: 1.3
"Buy" button clicks: 1
Sales: 0

Going up north for Christmas for a week. Might not have internet access :/

REALLY starting to lose hope with this campaign.
 
What is your "Buy Button" system? Seems like you have actually had quite a few buy clicks, but no conversions. Is there something up with the system? Are buyers losing trust? Seems like the rest of the numbers aren't too abnormal, just the conversion ratio.

Might check through your system of payments and make sure there is plenty of "Verified" words/pics/etc to make sure the customer is comfortable making the purchase, as well as making sure your paypal or whatever is also working seamlessly.
 
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