Time to update my Wealthy Affiliate progress again

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Hello folks,

It has been 50 days being a happy member at Wealthy Affiliate and I am here to share my progress so far :)

As expected, I have learnt a lot and I am still learning each and every day. Since I come from a technical IT background, I am working within technology niche (site: ourtechplanet.com) therefore.

Other than that, I have also created another site lately that is not too mature yet but I have shared the link below in case anyone of you would like to view and give precious feedback.

Some of the main highlights of my first 50 days are as follows:

1. Built my own first website: ourtechplanet.com
2. Built my 2nd website that is about my travelling experiences: http://mytravelcatalogue.com/
3. Got WA premium membership
4. Got my rank improved from 37650 to 396
5. Got both my websites indexed by Google
6. Got a few posts ranked on Google page 1
7. Getting 250-300 site visitors per day on average
8. Created my Google+ account: https://plus.google.com/+HaiderKhalid_1987
9. Created Facebook pages for both my sites: https://www.facebook.com/ourtechplanet/ & https://www.facebook.com/My-Travel-Catalogue
10. Created Twitter ID for promoting my website: https://twitter.com/HaiderKhalid_HK

Although I seem to have achieved a lot, but I have still not been able to earn any money up till now. I have already signed up for Amazon and it has been almost 15-20 days now. I am getting clicks on daily basis but those clicks are not being converted into sales somehow. Probably because most of the traffic coming to my site is from social websites instead of coming directly from Google!

Any feedback/suggestions will be highly appreciated :)

P.S. My plans for the next 3 months is to have a total of 50 posts on my site and hopefully make at least 1 sale (Fingers crossed).

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Your goals are realistic.

Great progress, my friend. Keep up the good work!

Thank you, Ronald :)

Great plans haider....we are on the same boat, many clicks but no sale. I guess, PATIENCE is the virtue.

Thanks, Rebecca. Yes, patience is the key to success :)
If I may ask how many clicks are you getting per day on average and which affiliate program have you signed up with?

I don't really pay so much attention to the clicks if they do not convert anyway.....but I got 70 clicks a month in Amazon 197 in facebook I am only with Amazon now and Target. I closed Clickbank and SFIMG I did not think its worthwhile. But I am wanting more just not have gotten to it yet.

Great progress, Haider! Even after nearly 9 months, I've not been able to get that many visitors per day, but most of my traffic is organic (from Google).

There are quite a bit of things that you can do to improve conversion. Personally, I was able to increase my conversion rate from 4 to 13% by using the strategy described by Dom Wells here: I noticed you didn't have "Call-to-action" buttons on your posts. You should also consider adding "My Top Picks" in your review posts. I did notice a difference when I made these changes and hope that things are going to work out for you too.

Lots of luck!

Thanks a lot, Princila. Excellent feedback :)
Well, regarding "Call-to-action" buttons, can you please share your website URL if you have got them so that I may get an idea about how do they look and work? Also, if you could kindly share your posts/pages wherein you have integrated "My Top Picks?" I'll be extremely grateful.

You're most welcome, Haider.

Here's one where I used "Top Pick". Also notice that I included a comparison table:

And in this one, I included a box linking my info post to my money post:

Call-to-action buttons also helped here:

I should add that I'm using a Thrive theme and Thrive Architect Builder to include those boxes. A license can be pretty pricey, but if you're on a low budget you can try AzonRev. I'm using it on one of my websites, and it's a good one to increase conversion. With $29 you can purchase AzonRev for use on one website. You'll spend more than double that amount with Thrive.

I should also add that you're in a very competitive niche and it's going to take a lot of work to beat the competition and get to page 1 of Google. But since your website is still relatively young, I guess you should be working more on targeting the right keywords. If you have the means too, try "spying" on your competitors to see what you need to do to get to page 1.

I'm far from being a pro in keyword analysis, but if you're good at it, fine! Otherwise, it would help to get someone who can do it for you.

WOW! That is some cool stuff, thanks for sharing :)

Yes, I completely agree. Since I am from the IT background myself, I am not finding much difficulty in targeting correct keywords therefore. Also, a few of my posts are ranking on Google page 1 but the problem is that the traffic is not being converted to sales.

Thanks for your kind feedback and highly appreciate your assistance :)

Hope you all the best and I have been doing the same adding google+ Facebook Twitter and I am also affiliate of eBay and amazon...just keep researching anything that will boost your sites in any way...try using your key wood tool or Jaxxy works wonders for key words...good luck and hope to see more success fro you.

Thanks, Aimee. How has your experience been with eBay? Is it better than Amazon? And have you been able to make any sale using these two affiliate programs?

Excellent Progress.. keep going!
Wish you much success...

Thanks :)

Excellent progress.

Well done.

Thanks, Jaunesk. Still learning :)

Your site is looking good. Only a matter of time now

Thanks for your appreciation, Mick :)
Did you check the technology site (ourtechplanet.com) or my new travel site (mytravelcatalogue.com)?

I did look at the ourtechplanet.com and have just looked at mytravelcatalogue.com

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