One Month Into IM...Overload

tjtigers14

tjtigers14

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I am one month into affiliate marketing and I'm feeling a bit stuck. I got my first 2 sales a few days ago but I'm pretty sure that was all based off a Fiverr gig I bought (a bunch of FB, Twitter and g+ shares).

I just can't figure out where to go next, I keep feeling overloaded by all of this information. I know this may seem like a pussy post but I just want a little guidance on where I should go next. This is my site E Cig Starter Kits -- Full Guide with Coupons

I'm not looking for specific advice, just how the fuck do you sort through this info glut?
 


Feeling generous.

* Your links in internal pages are a very light color - over white. Make them big red ugly bold, and create an actual call to action with some type of incentive or urgency i.e. "See If The Sale Is Still On - Go >>"

* You should have a few links to the offers right on the homepage or in your header so people don't have to go in one level just to get to the lil' 'visit site' links you have below the fold on each (add more links, use keywords you've used in your write ups to link to your aff-offers).

* Your images everywhere simply link to the image itself - get som alt-tags and link all relevant images to their respective offers.

* Traffic = There is no one-size solution for any offer. You're either buying it or your marketing at a grass roots level, but even the simplest of shit can work for you re making a youtube vid a day with your link under the vid, writing articles and submitting to directories, squid/blogger/wordpress/any 2.0 that you can sneak this niche into should be included if even for backlinks. You're not going to rank with this site and your competition is retarded so you're best off doing as much grass roots shit as possible - clicks and relevant media buys are going to swallow you quick.

good luck bro.
 
Not a bad site at all. Maybe add some more content? Here's the thing about our grind. You are trying to drive sales. See if you can work with one of these guys on a CPC basis and get paid for each time their site is clicked. Your traffic should be somewhat relative don't you think?

The E-cig is tricky biz too. I've worked with most of the big guys and they are tough to work with- Blue Cig for example has a 7-8 plus page checkout process.

Either way. A great start. Keep grinding. It wont come for free I can promise you that.
 
Your content fucking sucks. I would never buy anything on a website that says a website is "pretty cool" or "nice".
 
Fix your copy and make calls to action stick out more than other content... Make colorful buttons with CSS that way you still have anchor text to your internal pages for individual reviews.

As far as bringing in actual revenue, assuming you are utilizing SEO you need to understand that it takes time and should not be your sole focus to bring in traffic. Find 2 or 3 different methods of bringing traffic or promoting your site and spend 4 solid hours every day doing those things. Also most of these methods involve placing links and will not only draw traffic but help your efforts in the SEO department as well. Examples are targeted forum posting, yahoo answers, relevant social bookmarks, targeted blog comments, etc.

These types of things will bring in revenue at the same time as building your authority in your niche.

Edit: Oh and also, any commissions you make. Take that money and re-invest it into high quality links.. i.e. private blog post with PR, homepage links, sitewides, etc.
 
I wouldn't buy anything off that site for a couple reasons...

The first being, you didn't grab my attention, I moved on

second being, it looks like a fake website, nothing is unique or genuine about it.

add some pictures of you being a rebel, of course, if you're market is being a nice guy then add some pictures of you helping the children in your neighborhood. Make it seem genuine

There is that saying if you try to advertise to everyone, you end up advertising to no one...

Find a niche, and be the funny entertaining bad ass, if that's you're audience and, then have a big ass call to action button...

There is just too much going on there, and there is nothing genuine about it...

Also people like stories, the art of story tellin' can go a long way in sales... Relate to your audience... I can go on and on and on... You have to test a lot, the reason why people give up in IM is because they tried to sell something from one website and didn't test different ad copy, layout, etc...

You could end up with 100 websites and only 2 be profitable in this game, you really have to just throw a bunch of shit against the wall and see what sticks.
 
Your images everywhere simply link to the image itself - get som alt-tags and link all relevant images to their respective offers.
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One thing that stuck out to me right away is when you say:

Or just leave and go back to your search, I won’t be angry!
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Don't even put the idea in their head. You want to keep your traffic, not give them the impression that you don't care or don't value their business.

Just my .02
 
tjtigers14 said:
I am one month into affiliate marketing and I'm feeling a bit stuck. I got my first 2 sales a few days ago but I'm pretty sure that was all based off a Fiverr gig I bought (a bunch of FB, Twitter and g+ shares).
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So you made 2 sales and you have no idea which of your efforts provided those sales? There's your first fucking problem...
 
tjtigers14 said:
I am one month into affiliate marketing and I'm feeling a bit stuck. I got my first 2 sales a few days ago but I'm pretty sure that was all based off a Fiverr gig I bought (a bunch of FB, Twitter and g+ shares).

I just can't figure out where to go next, I keep feeling overloaded by all of this information. I know this may seem like a pussy post but I just want a little guidance on where I should go next. This is my site E Cig Starter Kits -- Full Guide with Coupons

I'm not looking for specific advice, just how the fuck do you sort through this info glut?
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1l Decide what keywords you want to rank for
2. Optimize the site for it
3. Build links for those keywords
4. Put them into tracker
5. Ship $$$$
 
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