Saturday, June 9, 2007

Day 36 - Bum Marketing Adventure

Made another lens, nothing special.

The problem I noted earlier hit another one of my lenses. That drives me NUTS! If my lens isn't attached as a "related" site, I'm in the 4 or 5 position. Then, some lens (who isn't optimized for the keyword) becomes dominate for some reason, and I end up in the related position and drop like a rock because I'm forced to follow the less optimized lens. I really don't know why Google would do that, but I've had a couple of my lenses go up and down doing this. Really, really annoying.

Had a few sales today. And something I had been waiting for for awhile finally happened...I had a return :/ That sucks. I wasn't shocked though, I heard Clickbank's return rate is about 7%. I'd imagine half of that is people that truly aren't happy with the product and the other half being jerks that think to themselves, "Hah, I can get a return AND keep the book. This is too sweet." Although one thing I didn't get was, I made a little under 20 bucks on the sale, yet they debit my account for a little over 22? What the heck? How is that fair? Why am I punished? Shouldn't the publisher be punished?

1 comment:

Trevor Somerville said...

Hey,

Good to hear your sales are still coming in:) I made another 5 lenses and have done some more submitting to digg etc hoping to push those on the second page to the first so i can at least have a shot at some traffic lol.

-Trevor