Starting Fresh

[JMusto0223]

Ok guys, the past month or so I have been reading up a lot about affiliate marketing. I know that it doesn't take much to get lost within all the information that is out there. Among all of the method's out there to start out with I tried doing a wordpress blog. It was about kitchen remodeling and my site was kitchen-art-showroom.com I used the google keyword tool to find out keywords that were highly searched yet have a low competition. Its been up for about a week now but I havent had 1 unique visitor yet. I have used comment kahuna to add comments to other people's kitchen remodeling blogs including my website. I have added my site to directorys like botw.org and ezinearticles.com but have had no luck.

I am kind of scared of putting hundreds of dollars worth of investments into ppc advertising like adwords or facebook ads. I am a college student that has bills like rent, car, food, insurance etc. so I can definately invest maybe $100 to start off with, will this be enough?

So my gameplan now is to find a niche, set up a nice landing page, join an affiliate program and use facebook ads to promote my landing page site and hopefully make money.

If anyone can help me get "unlost" or has any advice on the path that I am going it would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jryan21]

The best thing you can do right now is to keep building links and getting pages indexed. Building good organic search traffic usually does not happen overnight, and a week is really not that long. It can be very tempting to switch to different methods because you think it is not working, but when you do this in an uncontrolled manner, it becomes harder to determine what works and what doesn't.

Here are a few (wordpress-oriented) things you can take a look at:

*Make sure your rss feeds are outputting correctly. Check it for your homepage as well as categories. You should be making posts and pages; when you publish content, wordpress should be pinging the rpc services as you add new stuff (look for a plugin called smart update pinger to add some more functionality to this)

*Monitor your web presence every day or so; check to see if your pages are getting indexed. If they are indexed, see if they are getting good rankings and what keywords you are ranking highest for. You can use http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ to check googlebot activity and make sure it can get to all the pages you want indexed.

*Drop some images in your posts. Readers seem to like them and it also gives you more possibilities as far as getting indexed (google images).

*Give readers ways to share your content through links like "email this" and social sites like digg. If you get something dugg or stumbled by the right user, you will see a spike in activity.

 

[sean3]

Thanx jmst for a clever presentation of your question,and thanx jryan for your hlp, im in the same situation too.

 

[tommytom]

The best thing you can do right now is to keep building links and getting pages indexed.

I find it very difficult to do link building these days. Many experienced webmasters believe that Google doesn't like 2-way linking and have stopped trading links. What's left are the crappy junk sites (hidden texts, cloaking) which I would rather not to involve.

 

[JMusto0223]

Thanks, I guess I gave up too quick on this method. Just added a new post to my blog and posted a new article on ezinearticles that is in the pending status. I give it 2 more weeks with writing new posts every 1-2 days, if I still have no visitors to my site besides googlebot and that shit I know something is wrong and I have to switch up my strategy.

EDIT - I was thinking... is there a way to change the date on your posts so it looks like you posted it another day... if you could do that wouldn't it be beneficial to write up like 30 articles, then being able to change the dates it looks like u submitted the articles on and wind up with 30 articles on your site in one day and it looks like those posts have been being added for a month?

 

[hehtaky]

its not complicated:

learn to code in a web based language (or handicap yourself and dont) -> generate traffic -> find offers that convert with traffic -> make sure traffic stays around for awhile -> repeat

its the step right before repeat that always gets me.

 

[radio]

EDIT - I was thinking... is there a way to change the date on your posts so it looks like you posted it another day... if you could do that wouldn't it be beneficial to write up like 30 articles, then being able to change the dates it looks like u submitted the articles on and wind up with 30 articles on your site in one day and it looks like those posts have been being added for a month?

Click edit. Done.

Would probably be better to set your dates to publish each day for 30 days into the future vs back dating them.

 

[coglethorpe]

If I read right, you've been doing this for a *week* and you are frustrated? Dude. Search engine results can take months. Set a goal for a year from now for organic traffic. Then beg for links, do blog carnivals, guest posts, etc. Make sure you have SEO plugins, permalinks, etc. You can search here for what to use if you don't know. Check the seo theads as well.

Just keep building and save money for PPC until you have a real offer to land visitors on.

That's my opinion, anyway.

 

[DBWebDev]

Some tips for your kitchen's blog...

1. You only have 3 posts. WTF. Write more content.
2. How do you "add your site" to ezine articles? Submit some good qualtiy content and write a half-decent bio that promotes your site. Rinse and repeat, and not just with ezinearticles either.
3. You have no backlinks. You've been using comment kahuna? You should have some backlinks unless you've been posting to no-follow blogs, or more than likely you posted spam and it got deleted.
4. If you give up on this method/idea or whatever you want to call it in 2 weeks, that is one big fail. If you put the work in, there's no reason why this blog shouldn't take off.