Clickbank Journey - $50 A Day
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joevalleras
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- Jun 24, 2013
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Thread bookmarked, let's see where this goes!
Update -
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions - 65
Hops - 22
CTR - 39%
Zero Sales
Can't complain about my CTR atm, this is where's been since I started this journey. I think at this point it's only a matter of me really buckling down and getting more traffic to my site. The new review I wrote in a different style is doing wonders as most of my hops came from the new article. I think the problem right now is the product might be a little too expensive for people - $47 USD or $62 CAN. I'll continue to test.
Had a hard time finding forums to post in because a lot of the forums I came across had approx. 3 new threads per week. Hopefully I find something.
I think a lot of people would have given up by now, good CTR but no sales.. that makes me want to try even harder. I believe I've got a good formula, just as I stated above I need more traffic.
My Twitter is growing nicely, but I'll wait before I start posting links in tweets, I want Social Media to be a secondary traffic source to my site.
Today I plan on looking really hard for some good forums, more keyword research and possibly some SEO. The development on my 2nd site will be stopped for now, I feel I should get a working method on my 1st site before I scale. I purchased 1 year hosting for cheap so there isn't a huge rush with the 2nd site.
That's it for now
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions - 65
Hops - 22
CTR - 39%
Zero Sales
Can't complain about my CTR atm, this is where's been since I started this journey. I think at this point it's only a matter of me really buckling down and getting more traffic to my site. The new review I wrote in a different style is doing wonders as most of my hops came from the new article. I think the problem right now is the product might be a little too expensive for people - $47 USD or $62 CAN. I'll continue to test.
Had a hard time finding forums to post in because a lot of the forums I came across had approx. 3 new threads per week. Hopefully I find something.
I think a lot of people would have given up by now, good CTR but no sales.. that makes me want to try even harder. I believe I've got a good formula, just as I stated above I need more traffic.
My Twitter is growing nicely, but I'll wait before I start posting links in tweets, I want Social Media to be a secondary traffic source to my site.
Today I plan on looking really hard for some good forums, more keyword research and possibly some SEO. The development on my 2nd site will be stopped for now, I feel I should get a working method on my 1st site before I scale. I purchased 1 year hosting for cheap so there isn't a huge rush with the 2nd site.
That's it for now
Started finding some okay forums.. reading through their TOS is kind of humorous. Some of these admins think they're the president or something, guess I'll have to be extra cautious here lol
Edit: I think I'm going to focus on one forum per day. I find this cheesy as hell, but nothing ventured nothing gained I guess.
Edit: I think I'm going to focus on one forum per day. I find this cheesy as hell, but nothing ventured nothing gained I guess.
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Update -
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions: 76
Hops - 9
CTR - 12%
Zero Sales
I had a lot of people come out of no where to my site on an older article, not too sure why but it bumped up my website sessions a lot, but it resulted in little hops. Still no sales, started a different kind of commenting idea that I have, won't go into too much detail as I don't have it mapped out 100% yet. I'm about to start working on a new review on a product that seems promising. Good gravity, good support from vendor, nice sales page, good payout, etc.
I need to keep pressing forward with the commenting and hopefully find other sources of traffic.
I've been getting a lot of comments from real people on my blog posts, which is cool because I guess some people just come to my site to read my articles now. One of my articles has around 30 comments - 15 from other people and 15 from me answering them. It's neat to see, but I'd rather have more sales than comments haha.
I'm starting to think that I might have joined a niche that won't work out for me. I'll continue on for a bit, but I might have to abandon ship on this one and try a different niche. I originally picked it when I knew nothing about key word research, so that was definitely a bad move on my part.
My goals for right now are commenting every where relevant to my site and writing another article in hopes that it will open up a new stream of traffic for me. Maybe I'll buy a shoutout from someone on Twitter or Instagram and see how that pans out.
I also started commenting on forums and a couple of accounts on forums have 20+ posts, so I'm going to start reading into the forum rules and seeing if I will get banned for link posting. I think I know how to put a link without it getting deleted, I just have to implement.
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions: 76
Hops - 9
CTR - 12%
Zero Sales
I had a lot of people come out of no where to my site on an older article, not too sure why but it bumped up my website sessions a lot, but it resulted in little hops. Still no sales, started a different kind of commenting idea that I have, won't go into too much detail as I don't have it mapped out 100% yet. I'm about to start working on a new review on a product that seems promising. Good gravity, good support from vendor, nice sales page, good payout, etc.
I need to keep pressing forward with the commenting and hopefully find other sources of traffic.
I've been getting a lot of comments from real people on my blog posts, which is cool because I guess some people just come to my site to read my articles now. One of my articles has around 30 comments - 15 from other people and 15 from me answering them. It's neat to see, but I'd rather have more sales than comments haha.
I'm starting to think that I might have joined a niche that won't work out for me. I'll continue on for a bit, but I might have to abandon ship on this one and try a different niche. I originally picked it when I knew nothing about key word research, so that was definitely a bad move on my part.
My goals for right now are commenting every where relevant to my site and writing another article in hopes that it will open up a new stream of traffic for me. Maybe I'll buy a shoutout from someone on Twitter or Instagram and see how that pans out.
I also started commenting on forums and a couple of accounts on forums have 20+ posts, so I'm going to start reading into the forum rules and seeing if I will get banned for link posting. I think I know how to put a link without it getting deleted, I just have to implement.
Update -
I'm the only commenting now lmao
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions: 140
Hops: 23
CTR - 16%
Zero Sales
I gained 100 new visitors and around 17 hops to my site in the last hour of the day. I'm using a new traffic method that I believe will allow me to transition into a authority site. I feel a authority site will be better in the long run, better SEO, more sales, more $ off Adsense, etc. I was blown away because at one point I had 17 people on my site [via Google Analytics.] I think it will be easier to maintain an authority site in the long run, there's just way too many terrible products on Clickbank to make at least one article per week in a specific niche. With an authority site I can write about something related to my niche and make money off ads and inner linking to Clickbank articles.
I made my site more functional today, upped security measures, added social plugins to the site so people can share my content and re-worked some of my articles to make them push readers to a sale.
I also decided today that I'm not going to worry about sales too much any more because while it's important to make money, I feel if I continue to develop a high quality website that it will result in a lot more revenue in the future. I've only been at this for two weeks, so I feel I've made so much process. Not just on my website, but also on learning all the technicalities of building a website. I'd be surprised if anyone with as little IM experience as I had jumped into Clickbank and was making bank right away, it all takes time.
Today I plan on completing an article I've been working on and scaling up my traffic push.
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I'm the only commenting now lmao
Yesterday's Stats:
Website Sessions: 140
Hops: 23
CTR - 16%
Zero Sales
I gained 100 new visitors and around 17 hops to my site in the last hour of the day. I'm using a new traffic method that I believe will allow me to transition into a authority site. I feel a authority site will be better in the long run, better SEO, more sales, more $ off Adsense, etc. I was blown away because at one point I had 17 people on my site [via Google Analytics.] I think it will be easier to maintain an authority site in the long run, there's just way too many terrible products on Clickbank to make at least one article per week in a specific niche. With an authority site I can write about something related to my niche and make money off ads and inner linking to Clickbank articles.
I made my site more functional today, upped security measures, added social plugins to the site so people can share my content and re-worked some of my articles to make them push readers to a sale.
I also decided today that I'm not going to worry about sales too much any more because while it's important to make money, I feel if I continue to develop a high quality website that it will result in a lot more revenue in the future. I've only been at this for two weeks, so I feel I've made so much process. Not just on my website, but also on learning all the technicalities of building a website. I'd be surprised if anyone with as little IM experience as I had jumped into Clickbank and was making bank right away, it all takes time.
Today I plan on completing an article I've been working on and scaling up my traffic push.
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Complicatedz
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- Jun 1, 2015
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You'll have down days, but stay focused and keep up that same spirit from day one. I'm subbed Floopa, good luck!
Complicatedz
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- Jun 1, 2015
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I'd be curious to know your thoughts on buzz bundle after you've been using it for a bit. And, of course, best of luck!
Buzzbundle I find is kind of complex at first, I'm still getting used to it. The $197 price tag is fairly steep so I'm only using the free right now. I'd recommend it to somebody who has the commenting on news articles down, but definitely not someone who started meathead's method today.
On some of my articles yes, some of them no. I will look into that, I just have a hard time putting the price into the actual article without making the whole article sound like a sales pitch. Maybe if I were to put the price in the prettylink, banner or some where else that was obvious it would help. Thanks for the ideaAre you letting your readers know that the product costs money?
If you are, then who the EFF knows why your conversion is so poor
Edit: I don't redirect directly to the sales page. Which means that people go my article ---> vendor's sale page ---> checkout page. Which means even if I don't put the price in my article, they see it when they click on the checkout in the vendor's sales page. So I'm not really sure what's going on. Looking at my stats on Clickbank, approx. 13% of people that go to the vendor's sale page (a hop) go to the checkout page. They just aren't checking out with the product... now I'm starting to wonder if my affiliate link is even working
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Monthly Update -
I didn't start driving traffic until the 17th of June, but I'll still make a monthly stats update
Monthly Stats (June 17 - June 30):
Website Sessions: 817
Hops: 197
CTR: 24%
Order Form Impressions: 29
One Sale
Definitely not the easiest thing I've ever tried. I can't really complain about my CTR right now, again it all comes down to how many comments I can put down per day.
I'm really getting into Buzzbundle now, it should pay off. But for 2 weeks the amount of stuff I've learned really isn't that bad. This is my first real attempt at making money online, so you win some you lose some I guess.
Goals for July are to actually start making money, post more articles, transition site into more of an authority site, develop 2nd website, continue to grow my social media, learn better copywriting skills, continue to make my site better in general, grow forum presence and turning my methods of getting traffic to at minimal semi-automated.
I really do think that the month of July will be make or break for me, if I really work hard on my site for the next 30 days I should be able to see some consistency in not only sales, but site sessions as well.
There really isn't too much else to say. I just have to put my head down and work really hard on this!
I didn't start driving traffic until the 17th of June, but I'll still make a monthly stats update
Monthly Stats (June 17 - June 30):
Website Sessions: 817
Hops: 197
CTR: 24%
Order Form Impressions: 29
One Sale
Definitely not the easiest thing I've ever tried. I can't really complain about my CTR right now, again it all comes down to how many comments I can put down per day.
I'm really getting into Buzzbundle now, it should pay off. But for 2 weeks the amount of stuff I've learned really isn't that bad. This is my first real attempt at making money online, so you win some you lose some I guess.
Goals for July are to actually start making money, post more articles, transition site into more of an authority site, develop 2nd website, continue to grow my social media, learn better copywriting skills, continue to make my site better in general, grow forum presence and turning my methods of getting traffic to at minimal semi-automated.
I really do think that the month of July will be make or break for me, if I really work hard on my site for the next 30 days I should be able to see some consistency in not only sales, but site sessions as well.
There really isn't too much else to say. I just have to put my head down and work really hard on this!
Thanks for the kind words!
All of my articles on my website are written by me, although I've been thinking of outsourcing
That's a good idea, I think I will give this a try today
Forgot to update this. No sales the past couple days. I think it's the niche causing me trouble so I went ahead and developed my 2nd site and started writing a article for it. I did an article that provided a solution to the problem and it didn't do too well. I don't want to abandon my 1st site just yet, but I'm starting to doubt if it will be successful. I've seen people re-do their site completely, try different niches, etc and have success, so that's what I'm doing right now. I'm taking my lessons learned from the 1st and applying them to the 2nd site. I've already done broad KW research which is something I didn't do with my first site. I also went ahead and picked a niche with an never ending customer base plus it's something I'm very knowledgeable in. I also have a Twitter account with 50k+ followers that has around 70k impressions per day and 1k-2k profile visits per day that is directly linked to the 2nd site.
TL;DR - Trying a new niche. Not abandoning 1st site just yet, but it will probably take back seat. Taking more logical approach to 2nd site.
To some people this might be giving up, but in my opinion I'm simply trying this whole method from a different angle. To me giving up would be completely abandoning the site without trying anything else
TL;DR - Trying a new niche. Not abandoning 1st site just yet, but it will probably take back seat. Taking more logical approach to 2nd site.
To some people this might be giving up, but in my opinion I'm simply trying this whole method from a different angle. To me giving up would be completely abandoning the site without trying anything else
dapandjank
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- May 7, 2015
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Good luck OP,
I am inspired too to build a website, but i should consistent in 1 method first and go to another.
Yup, trying new niche is good, but probably you should try looking for product has low competition and great value for conversion.
I suggest you to read this thread for your reference looking good product to promote : http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...hoose-cb-products-newbies-5-minute-guide.html
I am inspired too to build a website, but i should consistent in 1 method first and go to another.
Yup, trying new niche is good, but probably you should try looking for product has low competition and great value for conversion.
I suggest you to read this thread for your reference looking good product to promote : http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...hoose-cb-products-newbies-5-minute-guide.html
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following :lmao:
UPDATE -
OH MY GOD I MADE A SALE!!!
$31 bro, I can already feel that sweet, cold, smooth Ferrari leather, bro.
I didn't really get too many hops the past couple days, instead I focused on my site to try and to make it better. I'm getting a lot of compliments on my writing from people which is good. This sale just made my motivation go through the roof, I'll be up until 7am working on stuff now lol. I made my site a lot more functional, added another category, about us page and contact form. Basically just strived to make the site look more professional as I have more interest in a authority site rather than a affiliate site. Probably more money to be made. More work, but I've always been the type to focus on creating something huge rather than a quick pay out. My 2nd site is still in development, having a little bit of a hard time right now but I'll get it working.
OH MY GOD I MADE A SALE!!!
$31 bro, I can already feel that sweet, cold, smooth Ferrari leather, bro.
I didn't really get too many hops the past couple days, instead I focused on my site to try and to make it better. I'm getting a lot of compliments on my writing from people which is good. This sale just made my motivation go through the roof, I'll be up until 7am working on stuff now lol. I made my site a lot more functional, added another category, about us page and contact form. Basically just strived to make the site look more professional as I have more interest in a authority site rather than a affiliate site. Probably more money to be made. More work, but I've always been the type to focus on creating something huge rather than a quick pay out. My 2nd site is still in development, having a little bit of a hard time right now but I'll get it working.
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