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Viewer Email: How You Did It?
Well, it didn’t take long to get my first email question, so I’m happy to see that. This was actually a longer email to me from Tony. Thank you for that. I’m just going to quote the questions and answer them as best as I can.
It’s weird how information I present ends up being convoluted. I’ve only had a few days that I actually did that many articles. It’s not something consistent or anything that I think is sustainable. Anyone that has been writing articles knows that writing a lot is hard on the head. I do however owe a lot of my success to the traffic that my articles do generate. Each provide a trickle of traffic and it adds up as you get more articles. I also have the aided benefit of SE’s that like me better because of them. This isn’t what I owe all my success to. I have a lot of material on my sites. I have a lot of sales pages, a lot of filters, and other stuff. My websites aren’t a single page, but an empire of pages. Now, I typically write around 5-6 articles a day. People attribute that I write a lot of articles and they (for some odd reason) assume I’m not working “smartly”. I’ll explain the way I look at it and my philosophy. Fail to Succeed Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, had a lesson in it that was along the lines of the faster you fail, the faster you get successful. The idea is that you don’t learn if you don’t experience failure. Think about it. Let’s say you make your first sales page on your site, write on article and submit it to an article directory. You get 5 sales the next day. That’s an awesome result, but as a webmaster you wouldn’t have the first clue what you did right. In reality, you’re not going to have such a great result. You’re going to submit an article and get no sales. If you’re trying to make the perfect article and only end up producing 3-4 articles a week, you might not see success for a year. You’re not failing fast enough. The way I looked at it was like this; I can write a lot of articles, submit them all and see which ones work best. It’s not a long term strategy to write 30 articles a day, but it’s something you can learn with. As you learn, you start writing articles differently to meet what you learned and you inevitably need to produce less. Heres my article on How to Write More Articles Faster.
Everything comes back to landing pages on my site. You’re wasting link juice redirecting to an affiliate link or the dreaded free host (squidoo - eww gross). Always be building online real estate. My subdirectories are full of sales pages, filters and all this good stuff because SE’s will index it all and send traffic to it all. It’s simple math. The more pages you have, the more traffic SE’s send you. If you make one page in a subdirectory and it gets you one hit a week, that doesn’t sound like much. If you have a thousand of these pages, that’s a thousand hits per week. Now, you’re not going to make a thousand pages over night. That’s a goal for a year or two down the road. Always be looking to build build build and link back to it from these article directories. Oh and you don’t have to do everything in blogs. Blogs are really overrated. Learn simple HTML, make fast loading SEO friendly pages and build links to them. You’ll do fine.
I wish you the best of success with that man. Keep at it. Starting out is the hardest part. There will be absolutely no gratification. There will be no one to make you feel better after you see no sales for weeks. You just have to keep going. Remember, I went 23 days without seeing a sale for all my hard work, but when sales came, they didn’t stop. July 24 2008
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