Even though I’m not making a WHOLE lot of money with Clickbank, my sales are fairly consistent:
So how do you continually make steady sales?

Well, steady sales comes from steady traffic. Instead of 1000 hits in one day, and then 50 hits the next, try to do around 500 hits per day.

In other words, focus on a steady increase in traffic, as opposed to huge, short term spurts in traffic.

Which traffic sources give you short term spurts?

• Stumble Upon
• Ezine Articles
• Facebook

All these three are great traffic sources, and should be used to help you with your overal marketing strategy.

However, for long term, steady traffic, you need to absolutely focus on search traffic. Now, many marketers claim that spending too much time on search is futile, as when the Search Engine changes your algorithm, it will effect your rankings.

My argument is – how much will they change their algorithms? Titles will still be a huge factor in determining rankings.

Search Engines will not deviate from the basics. The whole idea is to help users find relevant content.

And if your content is relevant, then you will always hold those rankings. So the real key to internet marketing success is to be really good at a content development.

How do You get good at Content Development?

It’s more of an art than a science. But for those “scientists” out there, here are a few tips:

• Focus on bullet points. If you are unable write full, clear sentences and paragraphs, then bullet points will suffice.
• Make sure your audience can understand you. There are no grammar rules in blogging, just common sense.
• Learn english if english is not your first language. English is the language of the world. Strive to improve.
• Write first, SEO second. Once you get into the habit of writing on a steady basis, then you can focus on keyword research.

Alternative Forms of Content

I’m not good in front of the camera, and I sound funny. So I do not do too many podcasts or videos.

However, I’ve tried them. Podcasts and videos are a very popular form of media. Most people will rather watch something than read it.

So if you have a great personality that comes alive in front of a camera, then you may just want stick to Video Blogging.

On the flip side, if you have a great “radio voice” then stick to podcasting.

From here on end, just use the SEO and Marketing techniques in my Free Manual and start making consistent sales!

According to the survey I sent out to my list, everyone has been affiliate marketing for at least 6 months. So, I’m not going to waste my time with beginner concepts.

In the past month, my website traffic has increased by 13.78%. My revenue has increased by 71%. So, traffic DOES equal more money, but only if you have good converting products.

So what have I been doing in the past month that has seen such a grave increase in my traffic? Well, I did one main thing:

I Spent More Time Writing…

…on my blog.

In the month of March, I wrote 78 posts on my blog. In April, I wrote 96 posts on my blog. So I worked only 23% harder in the month of April than in March, which helped me get 13.78% more people to my blog and made me $612.77 more money than last month.

So, if I want to make more money this month, I need to work just a little bit harder, to yield greater results.

Now, just as I surveyed you guys, I survey the list on my blog. And I was able to gather some incredible data that will help me write more targeted articles.

These articles will…

1. Increase my SEO traffic
2. Convert current readers into buyers by giving them the information they want, and in turn promoting the kind of products that match that information (for example, I found that I have a good number of individuals who want to learn how to get and stay in shape at the age of 60. So I’m coming out with a series of articles for individuals over the age of 55, and recommending workout programs specific to their goals. It’s already working!)
3. Attract new readers who are similar to your current readers.

Try it and see if it works for you. I will keep you posted on how this new strategy is working for me.

1. Is it saving me more time?
2. Is it making me more money?
3. Is it generating more traffic?
4. Is it increasing my SEO?

All your answers will be answered after this month, when I start analyzing my results. Until then, use this strategy, and the ones from my free eBook, and start making some money!

I haven’t updated in a few days, pretty much because there’s not much to say. This past week was the worst sales week ever. I only earned $35.

Last night I made a huge change to my blog. I put any blog post that resulted in a sale on the front page. How did I do that? I just looked at my CB transactions, and matched the dates with the blog post.

Now, it doesn’t necessarily mean that a blog post resulted in a sale, becuase I didn’t start putting tracking codes in until very recently. However, it’s a clue.

I also made sure those posts were actually decent. So, I think I have a nice spread of posts on the front page. By the way, there’s 50 posts on the front page.

This should be magic for SEO. In fact, I woke up this morning and found a sale. It wasn’t from my email list, so someone probably found my site through search.

The sale was from my side bar. Meaning that someone clicked on the product through the side bar and purchased it. That’s the magic of tracking codes – You know exactly how the customer got to the product.

But what you don’t know is what triggered the sale. My cousin asked me the other day about this. He gave me some ways to track this, but it didn’t work.

I’m not an expert in google analytics, and I’m going to spend some time to try and find an answer to this questions – “What actually results in a sale?”

- Is it a series of posts that they read?

- Are they looking for a review of that product?

- Where they already searching for that product?

A lot of my posts that are made through my email list can be easily traced back to a particular post. However, when it comes to search traffic – it’s difficult.

It’s going to be search traffic that’s really going to allow me to live the type of lifestyle that I wish to live. This thing needs to be hands-off.

Right now I’m putting in around 30-40 hours per week. Eventually, that number should go down to 4 hours. Most of the tools have already been set in place:

- High Traffic blog

- Targeted Maling List

- A selection of affiliate Products

So, it’s only a matter of time. I need to be smart, patient, and willing to experiment.

Last night I started a screenplay. It’s been over a year since I’ve written anything that is not related to Shah Training. It felt really good. I forgot how therapeutic scrpt writing can be.

Future plans are naturally to just keep working on Shah Training. The goal is to optimize the site for search. I want to see at least 10 sales per day just through search.

I just looked at my analytics and notice 33 hits from Google already. It’s 8 am so far. That’s not too bad at all. I usually so only 20-30 hits overall in the morning. RIght now my total hits are 87 from a variety of sources.

Alright, lets see what happens the rest of the day.