Website Building Update – Week 39
My productivity has dipped over the past few weeks. I’m trying to get back on track, especially if I’m going to hit my $2500 / month goal in 3 months. This week I’ve been keeping myself productive by logging what I do all day in 15 minute increments. At first, this was just an experiment to see where I’m wasting all of my time, but it has taken on an unexpected productivity-boosting effect. I guess I don’t want to look back on 8 hours worth of data only to see that I’ve wasted 4 hours of it playing Bejeweled online. Well, whatever works…
I’m thinking of selling my car. I barely ever use it anymore, plus apparently it is against the law to park your car anywhere for over 72 hours within the Seattle city limits (rarely enforced, except in my neighborhood). If anyone lives in the Seattle-metro area and is interested in a 2005 Toyota Corolla in good condition, please contact me. I’ve had this car for 4 years and it has literally never broken down on me or had any problems.
Anyway, I’m pumping out heaps of articles these days thanks to my productivity trick. I wrote 23 articles in just 3 days. This was enough to get website #3 up to 50 content articles and give me time to tweak the site and have it looking extra-sexy. Meanwhile my worker is cranking out more articles for websites #4 and #6. I’m well on my path to world domination.
I went through another dry spell this week. Whenever a dry spell hits, it usually starts to get to me after a few days. I’m so close to actually earning more than I spend each month, so each and every sale is very important to me. This week was pretty tough on me.
Clickbank Mystery: This morning I made a sale of $4.15 for a product that I have never promoted. I have never made an affiliate link for the product, so I have no clue how this happened? Any guesses?
Every now and again, I get hop clicks for products I promoted over a year ago in my direct-linking PPC days. I never really thought much of it, but this new development is just bizarre…
May 28th, 2010 at 2:28 pm
Clayton,
Good work. Its kinda depressing but you have to go through some “dry spells”. I guess IM is just like the weather, it has seasons and can also change anytime.
That being said though, i still think you are doing alright.
clickbank mystery??…well, never really come across this one so I cant help there.
All the best for next week
Dennis
May 28th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
@Dennis, Thanks for the encouragement.
I have a hunch that the Clickbank mystery is some vendor that is using some kind of black hat program to try to drive up the gravity score on their product so other affiliate marketers notice it. Not sure how it works, but as long as they don’t refund it, I’m happy to keep the $4.15
May 28th, 2010 at 3:33 pm
This blog is quite inspiring. Makes me step up my own productivity.
May 28th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Hi Clayton!
Have you used profile links? This helps rankings pretty well.
May 28th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
Anton,
Why have you revealed my biggest secret?…lol!
Well, I have got “SERIOUS” results out of profile links.
They are hard to get indexed but one way or another my keywords rank quickly and stay and there if I keep building these links!
I would highly recomend using profile links.
Dennis
May 28th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Hi, I just found your blog and am enjoying going through the posts. Looks like we share a lot in common actually.I live near Bainbridge Island, and have been doing internet marketing for about a year, mainly with Clickbank and Adsense. Anyway, just thought I’d say “hi” and tell you that I’m finding your blog to be a great read! And yeah, there’s a script vendors use to randomly cycle affiliate names into sales where there is no affiliate cookie, which helps drive up their gravity, so that’s probably the source of your mystery sale!
Best of luck for the future!
Michelle
May 30th, 2010 at 2:32 pm
@Miggy, Thanks. I’m glad this blog has helped you get into action!
@Anton and Dennis, Hmmm… I’ve done a little bit of profile links. I had heard on the Warrior Forum that they were becoming less effective though. You guys are making me rethink this. Thanks for the tip!
@Michelle, I knew it was only a matter of time before I found another North-westerner doing this stuff! Let me know if you ever cross the pond into the city. Summer is coming soon, maybe I’ll be heading to your neck of the woods for visit to the Blodel Reserve or a refreshing ice cream at Mora
May 30th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@Clayton, what are profile links? first time hearing it here.
May 31st, 2010 at 12:20 am
@Javier, profile links involve creating an account with a site and adding your details.
You can add your website and also can write something about yourself.
What I do in the about me section is add 2 to 3 anchor links pointing directly to the web page am trying to rank.
the anchor text is for the keyword I would like to rank for in the SERPS.
Hope this helps
Dennis
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June 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Yep, that pretty much sums it up. Thanks for explaining, Dennis.