Becoming a Super Affiliate Is Hard Work!

bynightwatch

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Updated 6 years ago

When I applied to join Kyle's Super Affiliate Challenge, I didn't expect to be accepted. So it came as a surprise when I was.

My initial idea was to continue working on an affiliate marketing site (http://webbizkb.com) that I've had for several years in an attempt to give it more authority and boost its rankings.

I contacted Kyle and he suggested I'd be better off creating a completely new site. So I took his advice.

I normally self-host my WordPress sites but with this new site I decided to build it on the SiteRubix platform to see how it compared to sites I build on my own webserver.

Already, I much prefer the SiteRubix setup and wish I'd built some recent sites on it instead. At some point I'll look at how to move those sites over to SiteRubix.

But, to the new site... I've had mixed success building mailing lists over the years. It's also something I didn't put enough thought and planning into as I concentrated on other things online.

So, for the new site, I decided to create one dedicated to list building and email marketing techniques (https://emaillistbuildingtechniques.com). It's as much a central repository of information for me as well as my readers. In the first month of the Super Affiliate Challenge, Kyle set a goal of writing and publishing 12 articles on our sites, one of which was to be a Wealthy Affiliate review.

That's the article I started with and I wrote about 2,000 words in that review. My subsequent posts have all had between 1,500 and 2,000 words as well. They take days to write and then I have to find and prepare images to use in the posts. Some also have videos.

I'm averaging one of these posts per week. It's too slow. I've now got 10 posts on my site but at this stage of the training, I should have about 20-21. I can't write 3 such posts per week, even following Kyle's writing efficiency suggestions. It means I haven't even got to Lesson 2 which dropped on March 4th.

I don't simply write off the top of my head. There's a fair bit of research that goes into my articles and that research takes additional time. It's how I'll eventually become an expert on this topic since I'm not one now.

Within 2 weeks of my site going live, it was ranked #1 on page 1 of Bing. I thought that was a pretty phenomenal result for a brand new site. It stayed there for several weeks. But when I checked my recent rankings in Jaaxy, it was nowhere to be seen. It dropped like a stone out of the Top 100 sites. I've no idea why. I expected the ranking to jump around a bit but not to completely disappear.

I haven't been able to get a single referral to Wealthy Affiliate since the Challenge started (I only ever got 3 in my 2 years here at WA and none of those upgraded to Premium). This is despite me also promoting the program on Instagram, Facebook, Google+ and in Facebook groups.

I've set the framework for my site and have hundreds of keywords I could write about, but the problem is I don't currently know enough about those keywords to write an article. So more research is needed...and more time.

I'm not getting as many comments on my posts as I'd like either. I've always had this problem in WA, not just with my new site. I don't know if it's because of my writing style or because the topics of my posts don't appeal to many people.

I'm in this for the long haul but it's proving harder than I'd anticipated. Time to complete tasks is the real issue. Knowledge will come in time and perhaps better efficiency will too.

But as they say: "No pain, no gain!"

I'll get there eventually! :)