The "How Are You Doing" Challengs

Inspiration is important so you don't go insane.

Hi everyone, thought I'd send out an update of my journey. It has been about three and a half month since I joined WA and it has been a journey to say the least. I have been incouraged, discouraged, moving at leaps and bounds and at a slow crawl all at once it seems.

To date I have two websites. Firstly my dog blog "The Healthy Canine" has fourteen posts and two static pages. I have it monetized with Amazon, PetsMart, PetFoodDirect and Adsence. Right now I am averaging about a hundred visits a day and maybe one click a week. I was nearing my ninety days with Amazon and they had already sent me an email that I had to make a sale pretty quick or was going to lose my affiliation. A couple of weeks ago I needed to buy a couple of books pertaining to a different shiny object I am looking at. I figured I might as well order through my blog. I did that and a day or so later I got an email from Amazon congratulating me that I was accepted as an affiliate and they gave me links to the area to get my banners. I thought I already was an affiliate? Anyway I suspect I was on the verge of getting fired when I made the sale. Either that or you are not fully an affiliate until you make the first sale. The transaction showed up in the reports but have yet to see any commission or even if there will be a commission. Maybe they will keep the commission for their payment to make me a full fledged affiliate LOL.I have earned a whopping $2.98 Canadian from AdSense. It adds up after a few thousand page views.

I did make a mistake early on. I was so anxious to see some traffic that I paid $5.00 at Fiverr for someone to send me traffic. I figured what the heck traffic is traffic so long as it's organic. Well that gave me traffic alright and I got to see how the charts in GA and GWMT lookes when there is traffic. Actually all that did was impede the reality as to whether I was actually attracting some traffic with my content. Well it's been two months and the Fiverr dude was only going to send traffic for six weeks. I am now averaging about a hundred visits a day and have about twenty keywords showing in the SERPS anywhere from position ten to position 100. In other words I am showing up in the first ten pages (according to GWMT anyway). It doesn't look like that when I plug in the keywords. The site has changed over the last little while because for a long time I only had two keywords showing and they were positioned at about eight hundred fifty.Having said that I am getting almost no return visitors. This is discouraging because it is the return visitors that will eventually buy something.I hope I am at least giving people some answers to their dog issues. At this point that is all I can hope for.

The other site is my WA affiliate site "Come In To Income". That one is getting hits on a keyword "how can I make money fast". That is getting them to the site but I am totally honest in that WA is not a place to make money fast. I guess by saying that they are moving on. I am okay with that though because I don't aim to get someone here thinking that they will make money fast. I am not telling them it is going to take years but am saying it is building a real legitimate online marketing business and building any business takes time. Today my thoughts are WA is a fantastic place to learn and mingle with like minds, but to make a living I am not sure. In my opinion it all boils down to how much money do you want to "invest" to get high quality traffic that will convert. I am looking to change my strategy and position myself to invest in a high quality product that I can make good commissions from. I will then invest in getting the targeted traffic that is more likely to convert. If I can make a little more in sales than I spend to make the sales then I am okay. I will then concentrate on volume.

Again WA is doing exactly what it promotes. For fifty bucks a month you have everything you need to build a solid legitimate business that you can be proud of.The only not so good part is it will take a long time. More time than some of us have. At the beginning it is said that it will take at least three months to get something happening. That is true. My dog blog proves that. Unfortunately even if I make a sale a day it is simply not enough payback unless I sell one Mercedes every day.

It is also scary when a seasoned internet marketer living on a low budget cannot make ends meet or is having a hard time making ends meet. It has also been said that if you manage your time right, do the work etc. $400.00 month is doable. For me that is not enough.

Soon I will be spending more time on a new shiny object so if you want to find me look me up on Facebook or Google and I am also on Linkedin. You all know my real name and what the front of my head looks like so you should be able to find me. I will also be keeping up my membership here so I will be around to participate in discussions etc. Who knows maybe I'll sell a Mercedes through AdSense!!