Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and a Cry for Help
Where I've Been
Hello WA community. I've been gone for a while. Whether or not you know who I am my absence is pretty evident from the lack of recent posts on my website (blazingfastpc.com). That obviously begs the question of where I've been. Well I've been absent for a while for a couple reasons.
First off, I was becoming pretty frustrated with my affiliate marketing adventure awhile back. I'd had my site going for 7 months with absolutely no results. I had been working my butt off and yet I didn't have any search traffic, any first page rankings, and any sales (except for one cheap sale from an unidentified source. Maybe someone here pitying me.) I was beginning to feel like I've tried everything. It became hard to find motivation when I couldn't see any real progress. It also became harder to find topics to write about and the lack of motivation didn't help alleviate that.
I'm also a high school student and the life of a high school student is a busy one. Between school, homework, and extracurricular activities there's just not enough hours in the day. This is especially true if I want to have any sort of social life (which I do). It's certainly not easy.
Where I'm Going
Despite all of this, I'm going to be getting back into the game. I'm a long distance runner and going for a run often helps me clear my head. Well after I went for a relaxing hour long run today I realized I'm not ready to give up my dream. I'm going to do whatever it takes to make my dream a reality.
I'm going to start making room in my schedule whenever I can to work on my website and get it off the ground. I might be in a frustrating place now, but I know my site has a lot of potential and I know deep down that, regardless of the often confusing situation I'm currently in, I can make it happen.
A Cry for Help
I might have new found motivation, but I'm still in a very frustrating situation right now and it's not something I can work out without any help. That's where all of you, the WA community, come in. There's some simple things you can do to help me get off my feet and I would greatly appreciate it. (You can find my site at http://blazingfastpc.com/)
To Any of You: I would love for you to take a look at my site and give me feedback on my articles. I'll make use of the feedback system, but I often feel like I get only rushed careless reviews from that system. If any of you care enough to give me a really genuine and well thought out review I would really appreciate it.
To Experienced Affiliate Marketers: As I mentioned earlier in this article, I'm having trouble coming up with material for my articles. I've written dozens of posts at this point and although I'm very passionate about my niche and it is fairly broad I feel like I'm grasping for air when it comes time to write something. What do you do when you're having trouble finding something to write about? Any thoughts or tools would be much appreciated. Just leave a comment down below.
To Owners of Authority Sites: MOre than anything else I would love for someone (or a few people) with authority sites to take a look at the SEO of my site. I've been told time and time again that it all looks good and I should see rankings sometime soon, but I simply don't. After 6 months of writing I didn't see a single first page ranking. There must be something holding me back from rankings and I would give an arm and a leg to know what it is.
Thanks so much to this awesome community for everything and thanks in advance for the help. If there's anything I can do for any of you in return just let me know and I'd be glad to do so. Wish me luck with my second go at this!
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Congratulations for asking for help! I think you have received some excellent advice and I have no track record, can offer no experience based help. However, there seems to be something about the 7th month of building. It is a bit hard to stay going. However your site looks good to me- and i have referred to some of your information when having an issue. It is an easy to use site!
Hang in there, write about your time management issues, and what you do to get the chore list done! Maybe you will see an area that you have overlooked that will make your time better used. (Just a suggestion) People are usually interested in knowing you as an individual. You might refer to school as your full time job,
Sami
You need to make better use of key words. In one article the only relatively good key word in the first paragraph is the phrase "building a computer". If you ask Jaaxy "build a computer step by step" would be a much better phrase to use.
"Build your own gaming computer" gets 529 searches, 90 click through per month and has only 186 URLs world wide competing for the phrase.
Same for "build a computer online" 410 searches and only 79 competing URLs.
Jaaxy not only tells you what key word to use, it gives you ideas for your articles. Pick a high search, low competition key word and focus on that phrase in each page or post you write. Work the phrase into your title and your first and last paragraphs.
Look at Jayʻs weekly training. Watch how he uses power points. Make better use of photos. At least one photo above the fold in each article. Use video. Video hold people on your site longer and the search engines figure if people stay on your site and come back to your site often, it must be an authority site. Most importantly, video helps people get to know you.
You want to build your authority as an expert. You donʻt have to tell people you are still in high school. Let your work build your authority. People have to know you can help them and they must believe you know what you are talking about.
As important as your website is an opt-in list and auto-responder. Build your list of people who want to hear from you. Work you list to provide its members the information they expect and need. You must have a positive, trusting relationship with list members. No more that 20% of the info you provide your list should be a sales pitch.
The formula for internet writing is present a problem, provide a solution, prove your solution works and ask for an action. The action can be as simple as "click here for more information." Then make sure to record their email address in your opt-in list so you can stay in touch with them. The money is not in the list; it is in the relationship you have with your list.
Thanks for the thoughts. I've felt like I am making effective use of keywords, but maybe I am doing something wrong. Here is the main keyword for each of my five first articles. Maybe you could give me some feedback on these keywords and my use of them:
AVG Antivirus Review
How to Build a Fast Computer
How to Set Up a New Computer
Speed Up a Computer for Free
Razer Orbweaver Stealth Review
~Zachary
Personally, I love your site. I've built 5 or 6 pc's and I can spend a lot of time perusing your site. One thing that would rock it though... start shooting some short how-to videos. Create a YouTube channel and keyword your vids as well as embed your vids on your website. Gotta have a G+ biz page for your site and also a Facebook biz page for your site. Every time you post or upload a video get 'em out on your social media pages including Pinterest and Twitter.
I feel your pain partner... been a slow start for me too! Totally love your site!!!
Well I already found one of your posts ranked on the 2nd page of Google, so obviously you must have been doing something right!
I've gotten to the second page a few times but never any further. It seems like no matter what I do I don't make any progress. I'm a bit frustrated that I haven't seen any first page rankings after so long.
~Zachary
Take a basic keyword that has a lot of searches and turn it into a long tail keyword that does not have as many searches, kind of like what bill808 suggested. This will get you ranked on page one quickly and organically start ranking for the general keyword.
For instance:
If your long tail keywords were "5 simple steps to building your own computer" or "A step by step guide to a blazing fast PC", you will get on page one of google. These exact phrases might have low searches but they will also have very little competition, and that is where you rank.
Then you will find that you will also start ranking for the shorter keyword within the long tail keyword. "Building your own computer" and "blazing fast PC".
In my niche, I wanted to write about how to nail a voice audition. There were so many articles on nailing an audition with all kinds of numbered steps in the title. But nobody was using "4 steps...". So that is what I chose and was instantly ranking among all the other steps on page one.
Now for the general term of "nailing your audition" I am ranking on page two and climbing fast. But "4 steps to nailing your audition" has been on page one since the first few days.
Long tail keywords is how you get ranking quickly and then let the mighty Google do the rest.
I hope that helps.
Thanks for your thoughts. Most of my articles already target long-tail keywords with a QSR below 50 (many of them are below 30 and even 20), but I still haven't seen a single first page ranking. Thoughts?
~Zachary
Are you using Yoast or All In One? Yoast has a neat SEO check list that ensures SEO compliance.
I am using Yoast. I hit all the points it checks for (and then some) in every article.
~Zachary
I dont understand -- you have wicked site. What should i look for in SSD laptop??
Get on G+ join tech communities and get followers. Nobody is going to just follow you out of the blue
Thanks for the thoughts. As to your question, an SSD laptop is best for if you're not running anything heavy duty (just word processing, internet, etc), but want a little extra burst of speed for those activities. If you want to run any heavy duty software you'll either need to spend a LOT or get a HDD laptop instead. As far as comparing SSD laptops, I'd mostly focus on reviews so you can get an idea of the build quality. If you're going for a lower-end SSD laptop than performance is clearly not going to be an issue so build quality, size, and storage space are going to be the only important factors for that situation.
~Zachary
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Hi Zach,
I do remember you because you were one of the active members who answered one of many questions I asked here at WA when I first started. I was impressed with how much you knew about online and internet that I followed your posts. I was wondering why I have not seen you for a while, and I am sorry things did not work for you.
To be honest, I was in similar situation as you. I was getting frustrated and disappointed that my site seems to go nowhere even after doing the best I can. My traffic was not improving, and my bounce rate was terrible and felt like giving up, but I didn't.
I am still here and planning to stay until I reach success. I will do everything I can to make it happen even if it takes me much longer than the rest. I just accepted that my progress is very slow, but I will keep going like a turtle until I reach the finish line of success.
Best of luck to you Zach, I know you can do it!
I will look at your website and will give you an honest feedback.
Maria