Difference Between Making Money and Making Nothing At All.
Hey everyone.
It's been a while as I have been busy with my websites outside of my bootcamp site (Shweetlife), but I am still around WA on a daily basis... Lurking in the background ;) hehe
Anyway, I learned a little lesson last night and wanted to share it with you...
So here it is...
**The smallest change could be the difference between making money online and making nothing at all.**
What do I mean?
Well. I have a post that is ranking for a product along side Amazon on Google's first page (Thank you WA!!). This post for the last month or two has been driving around 1500 - 1800 visitors per month and generating sales almost daily...
I'm sitting here smiling just thinking about each time I log in and the numbers keep going up. But... yip. There is always a 'but'...
At the beginning of this month my sales from the post dropped to a big fat ZERO :(
I found this strange as my traffic was still increasing and CTR (Click through rate) was unchanged.
A week later I started thinking my affiliate links may be broken. So I checked these and they all turned out to be just fine.
Frustrated and still confused why almost 2 weeks into the month I had not made a sale from the post... I had a deeper look into the post and what may have changed...
I followed each of the product links from my comparison review to Amazon as though I was a visitor finding the post for the first time...
HEY! It suddenly slapped me square in the face...
Amazons prices increased for the products at the beginning of this month. This meant that my displayed prices for each product were now lower than the Amazon sales page that I was linking to.
Could it really be that simple?
I increased the displayed pricing on my review to that of Amazon or more (Supplier list price). Hit 'update'. Closed my laptop and went to bed...
Woke up this morning and BAAMMM... 2 new orders from that post. :)
Something so small... Yet for the last 2 weeks it was the difference between bringing home the bacon and eating two minute noodles...
So what am I getting at here...
Well, I think it was Einstein who said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again, and expecting different results"... or something along those lines.
What you learn here at Wealthy Affiliate works...
Content is King and without quality targeted traffic, it will be impossible to make sales.
However... If you have quality content and are driving quality traffic by the boat loads to your content, but still not making sales...
Maybe it's time take an outsiders look at your content to see where you could improve it or be missing something.
If you are tweaking things with the intent of increasing conversions/ sales... Change only one thing at a time and then give it a week or 4 to see the impact.
Lastly, It took me almost 10 years to find Wealthy Affiliate and my results continue to grow daily thanks to Kyle, Carson, Jay and the community... Your commitment and dedication here will pay off...
Most importantly, keep on keeping on... You may only be the smallest step from making money... If you stop today, tomorrow may have been the day you make your first sale... And you would never know...
Happy blogging everyone!
Cheers,
Marc Parsons
"Life's shweet when you have the right friends!"
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Awesome Marc,
Very good advice and great that you found the reason my Friend!
Wonderful of you to also share with us the fact that WA works and that quality content is king, daily sales are an incredible accomplishment!
Thank you for sharing Marc,
Tony
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this. It truly is amazing how just one small thing can make or break you. I've been frustrated because my site, www.peoplelovinganimals.com has been in existence for almost 9 months now, with me posting regularly, doing everything Kyle teaches us, but making no money. I did a webinar with Jay and emailed him asking if he had any ideas about why my site isn't making any sales (just a few trickling in - I've made less than $150). He checked my site on SEMrush and found I was only ranking for 66 keywords, and none of those were on page 1 or 2. So I went back to the drawing board and looked on WA for any and every keyword training I could find. I changed all 80+ of my posts to keywords with traffic of at least 50 and competition as close to zero as I could find. As a result, I'm seeing a difference - my posts seem to be moving up in rankings. But I still linger on page 4-7 or so for many. I was hoping what Jay taught me was the breakthrough "thing" like what you're talking about - I really thought once I used better keywords the sales would start pouring in...but no such luck. Trying to be patient and I keep adding more content, using the best keywords I can find. I hope some day to be making sales daily like you. I envy you! Thanks again for sharing this. I need all the help I can get! Debra
Hey Debra
I am glad to see you are sticking it out. It just takes that one small breakthrough and things seem to flow from there.
I had a look at some of your posts. Although the competition may seem low from a QSR point of view. You are up against some long standing websites with good domain and page authority.
I put together a training on some of my findings a while ago that you may find interesting.
Feel free to have a look when you have a chance... 4 X Search Engine Traffic In 4 Days! Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions.
Cheers.
-Marc
Thank you SO much, Marc. I'll definitely check it out. I wondered the same thing - there are lots of really big pet websites out there. Perhaps that's why. Thanks again for your willingness to help. I really appreciate it.
That was so cool and I would love to use Anazon but I am still playing games with them at the moment
Hey Marc,
Congratulations on the the success!
Just a heads up...
Be careful about posting prices as an aAmazon affiliate. I believe that is not allowed unless you are using the Amazon API. I had a friend who said his account was closed for violating the terms of service by posting prices.
I'm not sure if that is still the case, but you might want to read the TOS and see.
Best,
JV
Thanks JV.
I have read the same about posting prices as an Amazon Affiliate, but after the approved the first sale and never questioned the prices I assumed it was fine.
Will have to check this out again. Many thanks.
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Awesome post Marc. Lessons to be learned for all. Glad things are going well for you . I did think I spotted you in the shadows one day last week:)