Hope this provides a little motivation to keep you going. I know we all have our doubts. And sometimes it seems like a monumental effort to write enough content with good keywords to be able to convert meaningful sales. After just over a month on WA I had my first sale...it wasn't much, but it was enough to provide that much-needed motivation to keep at it. The sale was from a post I published only a few days ago and I tracked the conversion coming from my facebook business page, after I sh

After starting to get some clickthroughs to merchants I started wondering which links these people are clicking on. I have a number of links for one specific merchant. -A square banner in the sidebar -Textual ad campaigns strategically sprinkled in posts -Specific product links in posts It'd be really helpful to figure out which links are being utilized. If no one ever uses my sidebar banner, then maybe I can use that real estate for something else that might be more valuable. If no one is us

I still have a lot of old posts on my website to go through and monetize with affiliate links and rewrite with proper SEO - all AWESOME things that I've learned here! Anyways, with the new posts and the rewrites with proper SEO, my Analytics has shown a trend going in the direction I want it! Looking at the image below, any guesses when I started my Premium membership? Now the first big increase in traffic was a lot of semalt.com bots, but I blocked them from my analytics. The next big s

I've loved the WA training so far...starting from scratch with a new website and going through the lessons, building up the site. I can't wait to finish! I already had a photography/travel/sailing blog that I abandoned last year, before I started this training, so that I could just focus on the photography aspect of the website. I still had all of the content on WordPress, it was just hidden from the rest of my website. I simply just stopped blogging. This website included years of sporadic

So I've been on WA for just over a week now. After going through the free training it was clear to me that this is a quality program, and the monthly membership is worth it and should pay dividends down the road. My biggest hurdle was coming up with a concept for my site. I love travel, sailing, and photography. I wanted to do something with photography because, let's be honest, the equipment is expensive and affiliate commissions would be higher. There are countless photography sites on th