Newbie Needs Advice & Support for the Training side of WA
Yes, so I've been zooming along with the lessons and working on my site.
Happy to say I've finally gotten to flesh out my site more and added categories to start organizing my articles better...
BUT, I'm getting to the point where I may be "outreaching" the point of training I have come to...so I need some help in discerning my next steps so I'm not treading water so to speak.
What to do?
I've recently started reading over the affiliate sections of training and applied for a couple of affiliate programs. One affiliate program has already denied me due to limited traffic.
I have about 6 blog posts so far and believe I may be overextending my training by not having enough content - should I focus more on producing content in the short term then come back to the lessons later?
Mainly, I don't want to just keep completing lessons and learning stuff that may take a little longer to apply so I don't lose my momentum.
Partially I worry that I'm somehow missing the mark with my articles (yeah, I know it's early and we all gotta start somewhere LOL).
For all my seasoned WA friends, how were you in the early stages?
Did you zoom through the lessons before having enough content?
At what point or how many blog posts did you hit before noticing traffice was occuring more than one or two clicks at a time?
Super appreciate those that take a moment to mention their experience and offer a little advice.
Thanks,
Glenn
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With the training here, it's all about following it step by step. When Kyle tasks you with writing an article, write one. When he says to take a break, take a break from the training and maybe concentrate on more content.
Don't worry about getting turned down by affiliate programs because, just like you said, it's very early in your website's life cycle. That experience of applying for one is a good one that you'll use later. Many go with Amazon as an affiliate company to join because they pretty much accept everyone regardless of traffic. Then you can get used to using their affiliate links, and so forth. But ultimately, it's all about learning. Focus on that and everything else falls into place.
Continue with learning how to put together a solid article and don't even worry about traffic. It's alot like working out. If you just focus on the routine and consistency, over time you'll end up with serious results. However, if after every workout you run to the scale or look at a pic from the day before and see no results, you get frustrated and stop.
Keep your head down and be a great student to the training. Trust the system! It works!
Wow, thank you for the pep talk!
You really hit the nail on the head - sometimes it's just best to just keep working and look up later to see the progress vs trying to overanalyze.
Appreciate this more than ya know!
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Hi Glen,
Good job getting your site going! I have been exactly where you are. I have applied for affiliate programs and been denied, also I have had my Amazon account closed 2 times because of too few sales in the 180 day period.
I'd encourage you to keep going through the training steps making sure you do not skip any of the "write and publish a post " tasks. I think applying for affiliate programs as a training task is exactly that, Training. Now you know how to apply to an affiliate network. You also know some of the expectations of different affiliate programs so you can set goals to qualify for them.
Keep working on the training and think in terms of developing a "Process" for accomplishing the tasks you will need to be doing to manage your website. (Hint: content creation is a biggie)
My short answer to your question: Don't pursue any more affiliate networks until you start seeing traffic to your site. Keep working the training in sequence.
All the best to you!
Greg
Thank you for taking a moment to write this!
Hearing others have gone through this is definitely encouraging - I will keep what you said in mind and get back to the grind of improving my stuff.
Cheers!