AMAZON! How relaxing was that then?

Today I was adding affiliate links and I snooshed along over to Amazon. My niche is within the huge travel topic so have had a few worries about which way to develop my niche. Thinking of Amazon made me slightly anxious, but once I was over there, gosh! What a nice surprise!It was so easy to learn how to do the links to pop into my page; I decided to put together a carousel link featuring between 8-10 items. I chose to use the Lonely Planet guides, I have a full bookcase with these things and I

Low Hanging Fruit Success

Over the last 4 weeks I have been keeping an eye on my keywords and using Jaaxy to see how well, or how bad, each one is doing. I have made an excel spreadsheet to record my findings.My first success with this was on the 31st of December 15; since then I have carried on with Jaaxy almost every day to check things, learn other techniques (alphabet soup for example) and learn what doesn't work too.On 31st of December my first No1 position on the first page of Google made me smile so much.Now, I h

Small, but very sweet!

After asking for help in Live Chat, and feeling a tad disheartened with my niche, I went back to one of my affiliate companies and found I have just made my first £5 commission! Gosh! Not much, but am very happy with that!

A few at number 1 on Google - How to check your keyword success with Jaaxy

I had been spending so long on Jaaxy testing out for new keywords and focussing on finding the relevant, and good, ones.I had not realised that I could check my keywords success (or otherwise) within Jaaxy itself. I had been checking them on Google and scrolling through pages to see if they had shown up anywhere.To find out how your keywords are doing, open Jaaxy and click on Site Rank in the top menuenter your keywordenter your website domainclick searchJaaxy then brings up a results page show

When a niche may disappoint

My niche is part of the travel sector; I am focussing on 3 points, solo female travel, solo backpacking and how to find huge reductions in flights and accommodation (ask https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/phoenixflame for our little search for her parents).I was wondering, hoping, that my little tinsy-winsy blog here can find someone to reassure me, or slap my chops and say "ya blitherin ole fool" All was going okay, my site is on Google 1st page and Bing 1st page for 4 of my keywords and within t

Top Spot on Google's Page 1

Well, after a week of highs I was almost worried having a look on Google today. My Niche is travel - a very wide one, but I am focussing on solo women travelling safely. My own search 2 years ago prompted me to take this way. It is a fantastic feeling to type that very same search into Google and see my own page is at number one spot about "solo female safety Zimbabwe"I am still pinching myself and at risk of getting boring, I am so pleased I spent so long learning about the keywords, especial

Keyword research

I first learned to write a webpage in 1998. I went to nightschool and followed the very basic html course and then went on to make some pretty large (and important) websites. I have enjoyed each and every one of them but a few years ago other things took over so I had to let them drop off.Being on here and back into making websites made me realise how much I had actually missed it,but, I have had so many new things to learn.My previous 2 posts have been about my success, within 14 hours of star

Page 1 within 14 hours of publishing! Bing and Google

Last night, 6 minutes to midnight, I posted that my website was on page 2 of Bing, 4th entry down. The page was only written yesterday and uploaded at about 22:30 so I am super happy with my keyword research. I have been at WA less than a month, so to get this brilliant surprised, well, I feel motivated as well as happy!Today I am refining my keywords; I went to check and today Bing and Google BOTH have my website listed on PAGE 1!What an exciting start to the new year - after feeling a little

23:56 -Wow! is my first success going to be the last one on WA UK this year?

Today I spent over 9 hours making a brand new page about female solo travellers staying safe in Zimbabwe - yes, I realise it is obscure, but an incident there in 2014 could have cost me dearly.I have just had a look on Bing - I am 4th on the 2nd page!!and GOOGLE - I am on the 3rd page, and this once is actually ranking as female travel safety, which is an flipping HUGE category!I pinched myself, and re-checked google and bing - and guess what? They are STILL THERE!I had been disheartened, but h

10? or 5? What is your preference for tips?

My niche is getting quite a few of these "top 5 tips" or "top 10 tips". I cannot work out which is the best, or, are they both as good?Personally, if I was searching for something that meant a lot to me (like saving money on flights!!) I would prefer 10 tips, but a relative said that most people would never read through 5 tips, let alone 10.Would you read through 10? I know I would, if they were well written, as I want to save money, or learn something new!I am still trying to work out the magi