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Friday, 29th April 2005
I have failed to create my 20 campaigns this month. But I am going to take a new direction starting yesterday. I created 1 new Pay Per Lead campaign yesterday from a affiliate program in CJ.com. I hope all goes well with this campaign. I got disabled within a few hours because the landing page has some pop ups. So I had no choice but to build simple landing page.
If you’re from the USA, you shouldn’t have problems joining the loans and insurance programs at CJ.com. I got rejected by quite a number of them. Lucky for me one of the top companies let me in. I am promoting the program with the highest “3 month EPC”. I forgot what that means… I think it has something to do with Earnings Per 100 Clicks. So you can expect to earn $X if you direct 100 visitors through their links.
Pay Per Lead programs usually have some kind of form for people to fill up and you get paid when someone fills up the form to apply for a loan or something like that. This loan industry is so huge! There will be some “micro niches” for you to exploit. It took …
Thursday, 28th April 2005
Good news! 4 pages of my affiliate site InternetMarketingGuy.com have been indexed by Yahoo. I have a total of 6 pages and I only need 5 of them indexed because 1 of them is a contact me page. Let’s see if I can get the FAQ page indexed as well!
Blogging and Pinging really works! Its fine if you have small site like mine. If you’ve got hundreds and thousands of pages on your site, the blogging and pinging process will take ages to complete by hand. Lucky for us there are some new software in the market to handle that kind of work.
The thing about Blogging and Pinging is that we’re actually “spamming” the blogs with “filler” content and a URL to the page we want to be spidered. I heard if you automate the process and do it too often like every 15 minutes, Blogger will ban your account but you can create another Blogger account anyway. I still have to research more on the ideal frequency to blog and which software to suit my budget. They are outrageously expensive at the moment.
I also realised that the Blogging and Pinging video is …
Thursday, 28th April 2005
Clickbank seems to be having a "denial of service" attack. No wonder I woke up to ZERO sales this morning. I almost died of heart attack…. Then my friend told me Clickbank was done so I am not the only one. At lunch time, I had one sale. What a disappointing day.I screwed up my own database a few days back and lost 1 day’s worth of sales! I had ZERO sales on the day my databases was down. The next day I had over $150 then today I have only $23.50. Very weird indeed!
Monday, 25th April 2005
I’ve had flashes of brilliance with my PPC affiliate income. My best day was USD $200 in sales and on an outstanding day for me would be USD $100. On average, I receive USD $50 in sales per day. The truth is its been a great challenge for me to repeat the "USD $100 - $200 days" on a consistent basis.Flashes of brilliance just doesn’t cut it. I learn that from Mike Litman’s Greatness Held Hostage CDs. Mike says "You’re either consistent or you’re non-existent!". Now I am "stuck" in this plateau of $50 per day. I need to find a way to move to the next level. Sometimes it does get very depressing to create campaign after campaign hoping that I will find something that will sell like hotcakes.I am sure I will get past this like how I progressed from losing USD $100 + to making a profit of USD $300 to $1000 ++ today.
Saturday, 23rd April 2005
It seems like I have been indexed on Yahoo and Google but not MSN. I am only concerned about Yahoo, Google and MSN Search Engines. The rest are not that important as most people use these search engines.How To Find Out If Your Sites Are Indexed?I found out how to check if your web site is indexed by the search engines. Simply enter "site:YOURDOMAIN.com" at the search box at each search engine. Pretty simple isn’t it? Once you’ve entered the command above, simply bookmark the URL at the results page for quick retrieval next time.Here are my indexed pages…
I wish my site was on MSN…
There is an easier way to do this if you are using the Firefox browser like I am. Simply install this extension, visit your domain name and you can click on a button to display a list of your indexed pages or incoming links to your site.Is Blog and Ping Very Common Now?Back in December 2004 when I purchased my …
Friday, 22nd April 2005
I left my InternetMarketingGuy.com site untouched for a few days to see if any spiders come "crawling" to my site. I have visitors from 3 spiders…
This seems like a good start. I have a few more things to learn……
Wednesday, 20th April 2005
I created simple BlogSpot blog for my affiliate site InternetMarketingGuy.com and I am not really concerned if this works or not because its just a test.
Seems like the blog feed from my BlogSpot blog got displayed into My Yahoo account instantly once I did a ping command to the following URL!
http://internetmarketingguy.blogspot.com/
I did a check on my web server logs to see my April 2005 visitor stats. It seems like Yahoo was already visiting my page because I see a “Inktomi Slurp” spider visit me 23 times. But my traffic is pathetic with less than 5 visitors per day. You may download the initial web server stats from 18 April 2005. Maybe this test would have been better if I used a 100% new web site but let’s see how far I can take this web site with this blog and ping method.
Tuesday, 19th April 2005
I can’t believe I bought this Blog and Ping in December 2004 and didn’t watch it till last weekend! I bought it for only $23.50 during the Rick Butts’ birthday discount period and now it retails for $97.
What exactly is blog and ping?
According to Rick Butts….
It’s a fantastic and simple strategy for getting your site listed in Google, Yahoo, AOL, and MSN - all the major search engines - fast and free.It’s easy, it doesn’t cost anything and you can do it over and over again to get even the largest sites indexed.
You can literally turn on the faucet for no-cost organic search engine traffic without paying for listing fees - or waiting a month for a URL submission to work.
Rick Butts has spent hours perfecting this process and made it super simple to learn with an easy to follow, step-by-step video tutorial and he has just released it.
I was blown away when I saw how easy it was using this system - and the results will make you jump for joy.
Click on this special link right now to get his free case study where he got 1256 pages of …
Tuesday, 19th April 2005
More than 90% of my income comes from Clickbank products. My old way of searching for affiliate programs to promote was simply to select a top 20 ranked product in its category. Now with CBEngine, I can search for products with a lot less time. Here’s why I like CBEngine:
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Thursday, 14th April 2005
Looking at my 1st quarter earnings from my Google AdWords affiliate campaigns, I am still a little bit short of my goal of USD $1500 net profit per month.1. January 2005: USD $1132.942. February 2005: USD $1132.763. March 2005: USD $1412.68As you can see from the above, I made almost the same amount of money in January and February. In March, I saw an increase in my profits by nearly USD $300. In order to get a net profit of USD $6250 (SGD $10000) per month kind of income, I must somehow increase my income every month. It should look something like this…4. April 2005: USD $20005. May 2005: USD $26006. June 2005: USD $32007. July 2005: USD $38008. ugust 2005: USD $44009. September 2005: USD $500010. October 2005: USD $560011. November 2005: $620012. December 2005: $6800What that means for me is that I need to increase my monthly earnings by a minimum of USD $500 every single month to hit USD $6250. At the rate I am going, it is just not going to happen! I’m too slow and my campaigns …
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