You're An Expert And You'll Be Successful
As you go about your business working on your websites, researching keywords and creating posts, I know that sometimes it feels as if your work is pointless. Because nothings happening, at first. No sales, little traffic. Makes you second guess everything you do. This goes on for months for most marketers. I tend to think of those who make sales within the first three months as lucky.
These feelings are especially relevant to those who are newcomers to this whole affiliate marketing thing.
Don't second guess yourself. And it's not pointless. If you continue to work, and follow the training, there is light at the end of the tunnel. I promise.
Just continue to share your expertise, everyday if possible. And in time, not only will you grow, your sales will too!
Even though I'm not full time (yet), It wasn't that long ago that I myself wondered what was going on. But now my website is making consistent sales, so that tells me that I was doing something right.
And it also tells to keep doing what I'm doing, which is exactly what the training tells me to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
Keep it up good people! God bless.
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First: I want to assure you I am not 'taking the piss' here, or being a smart-alec, but . . . I do not really know what the phrase 'second guess(ing)' means. Does it mean to anticipate? To anticipate negatively?
As an English teacher for close to 35 years, and a writer who has been published in the mainstream, I am very sensitive to the need to use the correct word in every context, and not 'its cousin', as Mark Twain wrote. A word that practically has me cringing whenever I read it in its buzz word context is 'impacted [upon]'. PLEASE! Please write 'affected' or 'influenced'. Think, always, about word accuracy--which isn't to say we can get things wrong--especially when tired.
If you want a wonderful laugh, as well as writing wisdom, read Mark Twain's essay 'Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses'. I was introduced to this at university. If I want to raise my spirits--or give myself a kick in the pants about some writing 'horrible' I have committed, I'll re-read it. Not at all amusing, but equally valuable, is George Orwell's essay 'Politics and the English language'.
Pertinent, always.
Help me to understand the purpose of your response. Was it to correct me, or criticize? Or both?
Neither--which is why I started with that sort-of disclaimer. And you hadn't used that awful buzz-word, anyway, so clearly is was not about you.
Consider it as a sort of 'stream of consciousness' rant. about the misuse of words in general, but without a huge number of examples. :)
I then made reference to the Twain essay and to Orwell as useful resources for any writer.
And 'second guessing' means anticipating? :)
I think that "taking the piss" would be much worse choice of phrasing than "second guessing." But then again, this isn't about you either, just your choice of words.
Would you agree that your choice of words would be considered as a misuse of words? You're free to say whatever you want. as I am.
Therefore, before you go about offering ill-solicited opinions and corrections, consider your actions first, then respond. Your comment regarding your 35 years as a teacher, and your experience as a mainstream writer was totally irrelevant, and unwarranted, "IF" you were only ranting about MY choice of words.
I'd like to refer you to Paul Mooney, and Chuck D, as useful resources for any human being.
And second guessing means, whatever you think it does. I think that taking the piss means...taking a piss. I could be wrong.
Consider this as my stream of consciousness response. If you respond, don't be alarmed if I don't reply. I typically tend to mind my business, as you should. My initial post did not warrant a literary review. But thanks for your concern, I guess.
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Hi Christian, just curious, how is your music synths site doing in comparison to your MMO site?
Well, as of today I have reached my 100th post on my music site, and I average about $200 - $250 per month between Amazon and another music related affiliate program. Traffic fluctuates on a daily basis, one day I'll have 118 visitors, then, 78, then 50. And back up to 97. Guess it's due to that Google Dance that I read about here.
The MMO site, it only has 40 posts, and almost no traffic. I have no clue as to why? I don't update it regularly, however as of this past Thanksgiving I began to make an attempt at turning the site around. My lack of updates and low posts could be the culprit.
I'm already near burned out with it, as it's not my passion and I only wanted to attempt to make Vegas. But I figured that I could try, and I don't mind a challenge.
My mind/heart is saying give the music site my re-focused attention in the coming year, and see what happens there. Especially since it is actually making some money.
I'd love to hear what you think of all this. How's your thing going?
Thanks for the update, that's helpful. Sounds like you're on the right track with your music site which is awesome.
Are you doing proper keyword research for your MMO site? Are you choosing super competitive keywords? You should be getting some traffic by now. Perhaps your posts aren't getting indexed? But if you're not that into it, why bother? Perhaps putting all your energy into your music site makes more sense.
There's another member here, Marcus1978, who has a music products site and he's not seen much success with it after 1/2 year of work and is now putting his energy elsewhere. That's why I was curious how your site was doing. His site is: http://synthsandsoftware.com
As for me, well, my main site, ConfinedToSuccess.com started out as a site for people with chronic illness/disabilities but it's now morphing into more MMO. I only have 40 posts on it so it's too early to tell how it will do. But I've already got some WA sign ups. Working on another site too but not actively enough, too early to report on. I hope to get on a more regular publishing schedule for 2017, that's my goal right now.
Yeah I know about Marcus' website, I actually need to reach out to him. I think that if I truly gave my site a year of dedication and content creation, I 'm sure that it'll do very well. We shall see.
My MMO site is my second attempt at creating a site to promote WA. It's failing just like the first lol! But as I said, for most of the year, it only had 29 posts. Now up to 40. I wanted to start writing at least two posts to it a week, and I have been targeting low hanging keywords.
But those also have low traffic, plus I think my newer posts are more likely to rank, than the older ones. It comes with the practice and growth of continually creating content.
There's another guy on here, dougbeney, who does very well with his music related site. I'm sure he has lots on content on it.
But, I saw Coltonjames posts about his success and how he was having months that he made $10k, but his screenshots showed that he had about 90 posts. The difference was that he had over 5,000 comments on his site. I have over 90 posts (now) and about 200 comments. I need to ramp up my comments.
I don't want to burn myself out, so I "think" I have decided to fall back on the MMO, and stick to the music site and dedicate some time to growing comments. Hopefully that works.
Thankfully I have been making money, but I still wonder am I doing things right, as I don't really have a benchmark to measure against. I would think that 100 posts would bring in more than 100 daily visitors, that's what I get on a good day.
Yeah, your music site will probably really take off if you put everything into it. In regards to traffic, I don't know. I think every niche is different. I'm sure you followed the training in regards to internal SEO, right? Are you getting a lot of page 1 rankings?
I average around 180 visitors per day, probably 100 organic and the rest from other sources and that's with 40 posts. But again, that's probably my niche.
I think DougBeney has been so successful because he's selling his own eBook, right?
5000 comments on coltonjames' site? That's freakin' enormous for 90 posts. But I wonder if that's really the reason for his success. Isn't he in the PC-building niche? Probably a very lucrative niche to begin with.