Day 27 - Bum Marketing Adventure

I made a couple good lenses today. Had a little over 70 bucks in sales and my first check should be set at the end of tomorrow! Woot. I'm really happy with it too, over 325 bucks at the moment. I also have around 30 with another company heading my way. That's maybe 50 bucks less than what I would have made pushing carts. I'm really happy with that.

I had a bit of a scare today. You know how I said I'm worried about my pages losing rank? Well, I searched for one of my terms, and it was off the first page. "Crap!" I think to myself. I keep looking...not on page 2, 3, 4, 5...what the heck? It's not even indexed as far as I can tell! Then, about 4 hours later, it just came back. Weird. Google is funny.

I really am worried about pages losing rank though. And even more worried about the fact that all my money is coming from Squidoos and whenever Google drops the hammer on them (and it's just a matter of time, imo) my sales will drop to zero. So I think I'm going to start more seriously working on "real" websites. I don't have many good ideas just yet, but I think it's a direction I need to work towards. That and building lists...didn't I say I was going to do that? Silly me. Now that I've got some money coming in, I can afford to spend some on hosting and what not. I guess that isn't really bum marketing though, lol. I'll keep you posted anyhow.

I kinda want to look into usfreeads as well. They don't seem to be ranking all that great and a lot of people are saying they are on the down, but they still interest me. They seem like a really easy way to build lists. Maybe not sell, but build lists.

Also, I think I might look into adwords more. I don't want to get eaten alive like most newbies do, so I'll read up a lot. Maybe invest 5 bucks a day or something just to test the waters.

I think it's time to keep adding a lens a day or so but start to branch out. I don't want to have my hand buried in the cookie jar if Squidoos start dropping. Time to diversify.