I really need a pick me up today

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No this is not a complain

I read a post here in WA about how newbies come all excited and then after a couple of months they come complaining about how things are not working out and how angry they are, the post also went on to say how the newbie would have 5 or ten posts on their website and complain about how they are not making money.

I want to distance myself from that scenario

My post is not about that, yes I am a newbie, I joined WA in December 2018 and I have payed my yearly subscription, and my first website has more than 30 posts and the second website has a good number of posts and I am working every day researching so I can put good quality content on both websites, the first website, I am putting two posts every week because I have to work harder on the new website.

No I have no complaints about WA whatsoever, I am very happy.

I am just feeling down because I am soon going to be dropped by Amazon from their program because I have not made any sale. And as if that was not enough, I also found out that my views on Pinterest are going down despite me working my butt off this past week pinning 3 times a day.

Then Google is dragging its feet on indexing my new site.

So no this is not a case of honeymoon phase being over, my honeymoon with WA will go on and on and on, this is a case of a newbie needing to vent that's all.

I totally understand that I am new at this and its gonna take time, and I am a very patient person, I also now know that I shouldn't have joined affiliate programs so early in the game, but I was following the training step by step, and I did not know anything about affiliate marketing before I joined WA.

I am not making excuses, I am just saying that with my new site, I am working on avoiding the mistakes I made with my first site, for example I am not planing on joining affiliate programs with my new niche until, my site is up and running and has good number of posts. Also, with my new site I had done lots of research before purchasing the domain.

So those are my thoughts, I feel much better after writing this.

Anyway, I shall go back to work now.

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I understand feeling down. I definitely have down days now and then. We all do. I'm pretty new, too (joined September 2018). Couple thoughts I had when reading your post if you want them:

1) You should have 180 days to make 3 sales with Amazon before you get dropped. It used to be 3 months for one sale, but that changed. You're only coming up to the halfway point, so you still have time! I didn't make my first sale until just about 3 months, and then I made my next 2 within a day of each other at 5 months. It can take some time.

2) Pinterest is down for me, too, the last couple weeks. I don't know why. I did read that historically, February is a low month for lots of people. Again, not sure why!
But try working up to 5-10 pins per day. Create a lot of boards targeting keywords (Pinterest has it's own SEO that is pretty easy to learn, just do a google search to figure out some tips). Aim to pin your pins to multiple boards, not repeating the same board for at least a month. This is at least the advice I follow, but there are several different schools of thought out there.

3) It might be best to focus on one site right now. Creating quality posts and user-friendly sites is time-consuming, especially for newbies. You might see more results if you pick one website to be your focus and worry about the other website at another time. I'm more inclined to think you will see faster results posting to the same site more than twice a week rather than dividing your posts between the websites before they are yet ranking well and fully-developed. It's up to you, though!

4) After you write an article, are you submitting the URL in google webmaster tools to get faster indexing?

Good luck! This journey is a roller coaster of emotion, that's for sure. Sounds like you are doing a fabulous job. The tips above are just suggestions, not "you need to do it this way"--take what you want and toss the rest. :)

Did you say 180 days, do they have different rules for non US citizens? because I am sure they gave me 90 days. anyway, thank you for those helpful tips.

Great tips. I'd even add that you should consider focusing on either social media or SEO until you've got one working well. I tried dividing my time between social media (PInterest) and SEO, and when you're hypothesizing about so many things at once, then it's more stressful, more time-consuming, and less effective.

Identify which one is giving the highest conversion rates in your niche. There's alot of hype and facts about Pinterest driving traffic, but conversions count too, right? And, you don't hear the same reports about Pinterest driving lots of conversions.

There are many people there looking for tutorials, things to do and try, but you want to be able to hone in on buyers. In my experience, the types of content that work on Pinterest aren't the types that target keywords with buyers intent.

Reviews, comparisons, best of, etc. aren't the types of posts that are driving lots of pinteret traffic, but they convert best. SEO is best for that.

Instead, the types of posts that have done best for me on Pinterest are How to's and list posts, which are harder to rank in SERPS. They have lower conversion rates to sales, so taking the time to create ideal posts for pinterest, tweak, join groups, get in the tribes, share content, create pins, a/b test, and everything else may not be worth it until you've got more traction with sales.

Pinterest can be more of a distraction from affiliate sales in the beginning. Once you've got more traction, then it can be a good idea to go back to Pinterest for an additional stream of traffic. My opinion.

I think focusing on one or the other to start with (SEO vs social media) is great advice. They are very different animals. It is also very niche dependent, too, and depends on your ultimate goals.

Hi Rose,

First let me say that you have created a beautiful website. I have been around for a while (although I only joined WA in September) and I can say that your website stacks up against any other I've seen.

You may want to understand the "sandbox" phase of building traffic with Google. There are many who believe strongly that it exists, and I'm one of them. Anyway the "sandbox" is a filter that Google places on new sites. There is no proof that this actually exists and some will say it lasts for 4-6 weeks, others 6 months and still others that say 1 year.

Now with that said, I can tell you that my site is ranking and I created the site in mid-September, it took about 6 months to rank.

You may have asked yourself, why do some succeed at this and many many others do not. Well I believe this is why, many do not stick to the plan for the time required, give up and fail. I have witnessed some who give up on their site and come back months later to find that it started receiving traffic???

Don't be one of those people, Glenn

Thank you so much for those encouraging words Glenn, I am not going to give up on my site.

I am just having one of those days, if you know what I mean.

It is a long process isn’t it? I’m not even thinking about money yet although of course it’s going to awesome when I make some.
We have lots to learn before that happy day happens.
The WA process will teach a lot of people how to be patient amongst other things.
Take your time, sit back and re focus is my new motto.

Best Wishes Rose.

Louise

Thank you so much Louise.

Dear ,
It is ok , no problem , i have been dropped by Amazon before.
That's normal . You can reapply again but when ?
When you start getting visitors to your website ,
Now your problem is that either you are not getting visitors or you are promoting wrong products that not interest your visitors.
For getting visitors you should wok more on SEO and on very low hanging fruit ( very low competition keywords ) . For SEO , watch the videos again and see whats google says whats wrong on your site using webmaster tools.
That's a bullet proof method to get ranking and visitors.
Good luck.

hey hi Rose -- sounds like you're doing fabulously well!

try to focus and build in-depth (deep drilling) over an extensive period of time to get major traction on one website --- as an example of big success within about a year or so -- suggest you might want to enjoy a look at Littlemama's journey last year where she broke the 300 mark in August to get to Vegas and the efforts that she applied to get the accomplishment done ... she concentrated and focused like a laser-beam to achieve her goal ...

of course, everyone's unique and have varying goals ... and each pathway might be a wee different in getting to wherever one wants to get to ...

enjoy the amazing WA journey! ...

thanks kindly for sharing, all the best, cheerio ... :)

Thanks for sharing. I'm fairly new to WA, and sometimes I feel exactly the way you described. It's good to know I'm not alone. We must not give up. Success is on its way to us. We just don't know when it will arrive.

I'll take a look at them Ropesa and see if I see anything. I think one of the best ways to assess the behavior of crowds and individuals is to know thyself. We are all so busy trying to get something acccomplished and so focused on that that we get tunnel vision and can't see what is going on around us. For example, I know that if I don't comment on other people's posts on Facebook for an extended period of time that fewer and fewer people comment on my posts. Life is a dance. Very few solo acts gain recognition, That is my perception based on my perspective down here at the grsss roots. I don't know that it is a fact. Will take a looksee dear. Keep the faith.

Hey there. Nice post and I think you have a really good website idea. I am no expert, and I am much newbie than you, but, as your website visitor, may I give you a few suggestions? When I visited your website, I was kind of confused of what I have to do, because I am used to seeing blogs in a certain way, and yours looks a little bit different. First steps would be to arrange the content in a way that doesn't really confuse, and tells the message you want to tell. Catchy headlines, and a short excerpt from your blog post that immediately catches the eye of the visitor will be nice to have. You can have the mission statement of the website separately, highlighted may be, not mixed with your blog post. A nice mug shot of yours will also help in building trust. After researching about the business of affiliate marketing for some time, i think our websites and the content that comes with it is our product and that's what is going to bring in consistent sales. Everything else are just tools that help in building this great product. I hope I didn't come across like a know it all, and there are thousands of experts here in WA who can guide you nicely.

Regards,
Prasad.

Thank you so much, you have given me very good and helpful suggestions.

Great to see you are committed to keep working as the results will then happen sooner. Great attitude.

One way to get traffic and success faster would be to just focus on one site for now and put all your time into that. Once that is successful you can expand to other sites. But in the beginning success will take longer the more you spread out.

Thank you so much, so you think I was too quick in starting a new site?

It depends how much time you have to work on your sites. But in general, yes I think it is best to start with one site and put all the effort into that. Then it will become a success a lot faster because you will put in twice the work compared to splitting your attention.

In addition to this there is a lot of learning with the first site. So by putting in all your effort with one site and make it a success you will avoid making some of the same mistakes on both sites in the beginning.

Instead you will be then be able to achieve success even faster with your second site because you now know exactly what it takes because you have already done it once.

You are doing good. And you are working hard, that's for sure.

Those are learning curves .

We just have to be patient and persevering.

Good luck!

Marita

Very true, thank you so much.

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