Affiliate Musketeer

Nothing much is happening for me at the moment in terms of revenue. I still only have 3 sites and am still working on my bar stools uk site. In the last week I started a PPC campaign and made some money but ultimately lost more than I made.

The one good thing that came out of the exercise was that I was able to identify which keywords had converted into sales and that has given me the impetus to create some good content to target these terms. So, after identifying which keywords were converting with AdWords using this wordpress plugin, I have been able to concentrate some effort this evening on building some links into my new content specifically designed for these keywords.

Here’s what I did:

• Submitted 2 articles to ArticlesBase.com
• Made 3 comments on ‘bar stools’ blogs (searched for ‘bar stools’ in google and then used the funky nav thing at the left hand side to sort them into blogs. All 3 comments were made on blogs where the comment needs to be moderated and will probably come out the other end of moderation (if they succeed at all) with ‘nofollow’ tags attached to the links. I’m not that bothered about this at the moment, I just need to to mix my link profile up a bit and this is suitable for my needs at the moment.
• Submitted my site to one free directory that required a reciprocal link exchange

I’m currently ranking #136 for my new target keyword in google.co.uk so I’ll be able to measure whether these methods are working are not.

This is particularly useful for me because my site has been online for 6 months now and has gained no sustainable rankings. I’ve had a few suggestions as to why this could be the case but I still remain stuck in my ways that the reason for no rankings is because the site does not have a strong enough quality profile and that includes the incoming links and the content (pages) these links link back to. With this new keyword, I have focussed on one particular niche within ‘bar stools’ and am building an SEO campaign up around that. If this works, I can move into other niches such as chrome bar stools, designer bar stools or leather bar stools for example.

Wish me luck!

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