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Taking baby steps forward
So far, I’ve taken itty bitty steps forwards utilizing my plan of action that I talked about previously.
I built my niche minisite targeting some keywords within the pregnancy niche. I chose those keywords because of my own personal experience. I figured it would be a lot easier to get my feet wet if I was actually knowledgeable and interested in the topic.
Because the targeted keywords are in the pregnancy niche, I designed a simple pink WordPress theme that would be clean and easy on the eye. There are no heavy graphics. I wanted the theme to load quickly. A grungy theme would not work well ;)
Since the domain I purchased from Godaddy was live within minutes of purchase, I was able to upload and install the WordPress script as well as upload and start up the minimal plugins needed.
For me, designing the theme, install the script (I upload the script to my hosting and add the database username and password myself. I don’t Use Fantastico), and getting the plugins started are the easy part. It’s thinking of keywords and writing several different articles about the keywords that I find hard, if not boring and tedious work.
I spent the 2nd day of this project writing up 3 different articles, each targeting one specific keyword. The title of each article included the keyword and I made sure to sprinkle the keyword throughout the article.
When I’m not focusing on specifically writing to grab traffic through articles, I can write seemingly forever. 600-1000 words would be a cinch. But when I have to focus on grabbing traffic, I get writer’s block. It’s a struggle to write an article worth 400 words.
I put my main article on the first page of the site. I did not use the posting feature. Instead I used the page feature and posted each article to its own page. This made my site look more like a regular site than a blog.
Once all articles were up, I added 3 different ways for monetizing the site: Adsense integrated into the articles, as well as Ebay ads and affiliate links in the sidebar.
I haven’t been heavily promoting the site as I’m very new to traffic generation. I’ve read up on the many different types of traffic generation and took notes. So far I’ve submitted articles to Ezine and a few other article directories (I now have a basic plus account with Ezine. Aiming for platinum status), I pinged the site at pingoat.net, I used Onlywire.com for social bookmarking the site, and I’ve used USFreeAds.com to post an ad regarding the site. I purchased a monthly subscription with the classifieds ad site so that I can post unlimited ads.
Traffic generation options that I haven’t utilized but am considering are forum posting (I’m iffy about this because I’m not big on setting up accounts at many different forums to discuss a topic I don’t know much if anything about), submitting to RSS feed directories, blog commenting, and submitting to press release sites.
Those methods above are all free methods. I don’t have money to pay for ppc or offline ads so that’s out of the question.
So far, the traffic to the site has been minimal. But what can I expect when I’ve only got 3 articles written and only 2 of them have been submitted?
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Article Marketing
I’ve been trying to avoid article marketing for quite some time now. Parts of internet marketing don’t require article marketing. But it seems to be quite necessary if I want to make some money online.
I went to Travis Sago’s website and started reading. He is, after all, the guy who coined Bum Marketing Method. Technically, his wife gave him the name for it. Believe it or not, Travis isn’t trying to sell you anything on his site. He has you sign up for his emails and you receive his free bum marketing ecourse.
I bookmarked his ecourse and have read every page. It’s quite simple really, hence the name bum marketing. The reason I think I’ve been avoiding bum marketing is my mind thinks it’s just too damn easy to make money this way. Technically, I haven’t made any money with yet. Or have I?
I went back to Ezine Articles to sign up the other day and realized that I had already signed up in 2007. Say what? So I checked out the articles (all 4 of them LOL) and indeed I did sign up and sent off my articles to the site back then. I had totally forgotten about that.
I checked the traffic and click stats and realized that much of the Adsense income had come from those articles. So bum marketing definitely worked and I didn’t even realize it until recently.
I wrote up 2 articles on ADHD and nervously sent them off to Ezine. I had already sent the same two GoArticles. But the rules are slightly different at Ezine as the articles are reviewed by actual human editors and you can’t put direct affiliate links in the article body or the resource box.
3 days later, I rechecked the status of my articles. I read somewhere that it takes up to 7 days for articles to get reviewed. One was accepted, the other wasn’t. The reason was that the author name did not match the name in the resource box. Fail. LOL. I am using a pen name for these new articles that I’m writing. So I went ahead and fixed that error and sent it back in again.
I went on Google and typed in the keyword phrase that I was aiming for with the article that had been accepted this morning. It falls in the 2nd the 3rd spots on the first page with 2 different variations of the keyword phrase! Wow! That’s friggin’ awesome! Organic search engine traffic is gold. I hope other webmasters will take my articles and put them on their websites. Even more traffic!
I’ll keep you posted on income that I start to get.
UPDATE: I got an email yesterday stating that Ezine Articles accepted my 2nd article after I made the quick and easy correction. I also received the status of Expert. Hmmm… Ok.
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