Day 23 - Bum Marketing Adventure

Another similar day. One good lens and a couple articles done. Still waiting on ezinearticles to approve me, won't happen for awhile. Good thing they take weekends off.

Another disappointing no sale day. I swear this business may just kill me by the end of the summer, lol. I can't figure it out for the life of me. The page produced 3 sales within the first 30 hours and got me really pumped, now nothing for almost two days now. Strange. It's still getting lots of hits too, so I can't use that as an excuse. I got 3 sales in about the first 200 hits. Since then I've gotten 400 more and got zero sales. Very, very strange. They keyword I've got isn't the most "laser targeted" to sell by any means, but 0 for 400 is pretty darn sad. Especially after going 3 for 200, which (given the lack of extremely targeted traffic) I thought was pretty good. I might spend some time really tweaking that site tomorrow. I can't be wasting a ~150 hit per day site with 0.5% (and dropping) sales conversions.

Hopefully, though, as I add more lenses, the streaks and droughts of each site will even each other out to steady sales. I've got 2 more lenses showing up in the 3 or 4 spot on Google. Hopefully another will be following suit by tomorrow. I'm getting good at getting Google to spot my site and picking key phrases I can dominate. Now if only I could get better at selling...one thing at a time I guess. It just plain feels dirty to be wasting those 150 hits a day though. Perhaps I'll work a list into that page and maybe get some signups. Hmm, just have to think of something free to give away.

Hopefully I sell something tomorrow to lift my spirits a bit. Getting blanked is never fun. I think I'll put out two or three lenses tomorrow. If I want to see more and more sales I've got to do more work. Perhaps I'll look for keyphrases that are a bit more targeted at buyers. I've been slacking a bit due to interruptions. My brother has been around and I don't see him too much, so I'm not going to sit and type whenever he's around.

EDIT: I just noticed something. I've heard that pinging is pretty much useless for getting pages indexed, and apparently they aren't kidding. I haven't done anything to promote this site except pings and signatures, because I'm really not worried about traffic to this site that much. Still, after 23 posts and pings you'd think Google might pick it up by now. And yes, I do have the html modified to allow indexing.

I also noticed I've got more comments :P Yay! I appreciate the tips and motivation, so feel free to keep commenting, I'm definitely interested in what you have to say.