Hi folks!  Well, there’s been lows and a couple of highs since I was last here!  I’ve been ill in bed for a week and only working periodically from the old laptop, that’s still chugging along thank god!  I’ve been writing a few articles for my main blog, determined to lift it out of the Google wilderness!  Currently it’s averaging about 15-20 Uniques a day, not great, and despite offering a great ebook for free, no one will sign up my list.  So yes, from my sick bed I’ve been sending off articles to Ezinearticles to lift the blog and I’ve posted almost every day to it. Read the rest of this entry

Did you ever feel like you’d arrived late at a very boistrous, all hell let loose party, where sex had taken place, where money and wealth were the entry tickets?  Where the ordinary looking guy with bad skin, got to go home with the beautiful girl and in a Porche no less!  Where everyone already knew everyone elses name?  Where everyone knew the latest dance and there you were, badly dressed, no dance partner, no money in your pockets, struggling with the steps as you try to keep some kind of rhythm to the music?  Music that you’d never even heard before?  Ever felt like that?

Remember when your mother told you to switch that computer off and go out and play with your friends?  To go get some exercise or you’d turn into one of those pastey faced geeks who spoke an obscure language and whose only relief was to masturbate until he was blind, cause he’d never get a girlfriend?

Reader,  I won’t go for the plural on that and humilate myself, I’ve just checked all my stats: Commission Junction, Adsense, Clickbank, PayPal and today I made the grand total of $0.01.

Not much more to say really is there?

I’ve been working on Traffic again on my main site.  I’ve spent a lot of time dedicated to this site and although I’m not seeing any result money wise, it’s looking good and I know it’s all money in the bank.

I need to step up my Ezinearticles submission.  Haven’t submitted an article for must be 10 days now, that’s not good.  As I’ve said before I currently can’t afford to get into PPC/Adwords etc and so I’m pursuing organic traffic.  Looking at my Google Analytics Reports does not inspire - so yes, more article writing.

Yahoo Answers is going well.  I generally spend about 20 minutes a day answering questions in my chosen niche and it can be quite rewarding.  Just got a bunch of Best Answers that have bumped my score, so that’s great.  I’m thinking of buying a report from a guy that I outsourced to, that should help with my Yahoo Answers strategy, but I really need to reign in the spending, so I’ll do some hard cold thinking.  Might be worth it in the end, but you just never really know.

Squidgoo Lens and Hub Pages, desperately need some input.  I’ve got one of each up for two different niches and I really need to improve the existing two and put up a couple more.  I’m thinking that the plan that I’ll sketch out this week will involve one of each in one of my niches.  If I put up two every couple of weeks and stay on that, then I might start to see some traction there? Read the rest of this entry

Well I’ve had my head down for the past two weeks working on one project, that’s the way to approach this Internet Marketing, I’m told.  Stick with one project until that’s earning a few dollars and then lather, rinse and repeat.  So on another of my sites, I’ve been concentrating on getting traffic to it.  It’s my oldest site, the site I first set up and it’s not doing at all badly.

I like to go the free route whenever I can.  Adwords, at the moment, is not for me.  If there’s a way to make a little dirt stick, I’m always gonna try throwing it myself, rather than paying someone else to throw it for me.  I’ve been Bum Marketing as much as I possibly could - which works out at eleven articles and I’ve also been posting to my blog every day.  It might not seem like a lot to some, but for it’s mamoth. 

I also changed the theme on the blog and it’s looking a whole lot more professional and inviting.  I’m already getting comments on the blog, so I’m super happy.  There can be nothing worse than writing away and having the distinct feeling that no one out there is reading/listening.  But the comments tell me otherwise!

I’ve also set up a couple of squeeze pages, to split test and see which one gives a better return - I’m even getting a hold of the lingo, as you can see! 

I’ve set up a Squidoo Lens and linked it to my blog for even more traction and I’ve also done the same with a Hub.  So as you can see, I’ve been busy.  I’ll be sticking with my lead project for perhaps another week and I’ll evaluate it from there.

Happy marketing guys!