This is one post that I really do not know exactly how to handle, but I am going to do my best to show everyone here that if you choose wisely and work hard and smart that you can make your dreams come true online in a short time with
SEO and online marketing.
I started a project 1 month ago to this day, the 16th of last month, and would like to share the results and encourage you to do the same in your life. The first thing I would like to state is that this is
not the first time this has happened to me, in fact it has happened repetedly to me since I started
SEO and internet marketing.
Anyone can do this with proper research and applying some basic knowledge backed up with a little elbow grease to boot.
I guess the first thing to get out of the way is the sticker shock that likely most will feel when they see it, so let's start here. The proof is in the pudding, right?
First month revenues on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
That link is to a screenshot of the first month revenues, you can enlarge it to see the numbers, but to make it easy, there are
$40,810.79 in sales from the 16th of last month until I took this screenshot about an hour ago.
It was a brand new url, brand new site and a product that has been on the market for a couple of years already. This was done with nothing but
SEO and it happened in the first 30 days.
The product was chosen with care, which brings us to the first point. Choosing what to market online. As the economy is in a recession, few would guess that any business would do that well in the first 30 days, right? Well, if you think about the habits and needs of people, it is easy to narrow down what you should be marketing online when you really start to think about what wil be and
is important to people right now.
What are you willing to spend money on right now? When you find a product or service you think you would like to promote, ask 50 people if they would buy what you are thinking about marketing, and more important, "why" they would buy it. Take notes and sit and think about the answers they gave you. I can promise you that just talking to 50 people before you commit to a project can be the best decision you ever make in online marketing.
While you are talking to them, ask what they would search for if they were to look online for something like the product you are discussing with them, write that down also, because it is likely a lot different from what you will get from any keyword tool. And this is where you get your quick launch traffic from, since most are using keyword tools that can be manipulated by software and other marketers checking the comp out, it is easy to miss the real keywords that real people use. I get my keywords from "People" since they know how they would search for it, and this will give you loads of priceless long tails.
The next thing is making sure you have the right url and site. Sure, you can beat out the comp with any url if you want to spend the extra resources to gain 20% more links after onpage (I know, I have never stated this before, but the URL plays a huge part in a quick launch). Then once you have the right URL, you must have good copy and a clean, professional looking site that is not weighted down with too many features and gadgets that can distract the visitor.
I see a lot of sites that have loads of what they call "interactive" stuff on the site, but these are generally distractions, and you drive potential customers away with all of these gadgets. Keep them focused on why they came to your site for to start with. If you look close at the screen shot the conversion rate in over 4%, that is over 4 times the national average. But the site has good copy, decent prices and keyword targeted visitors. Make sure your titles, tags and onpage is top notch.
If you have the money, the first thing after you are ready to start should be a press release, this will give you some good authority links fast. Then do a full run on directory maximizer, yes, it is important, or I would not tell you to do it. Then dust off the pen and paper (keyboard and word?) and get to writing and mass submitting articles. I do not care what some will tell you, unless you are submitting them to several dozen directories at the very least, you are wasting your time with articles.
You can have some good fun with the next one, and that is blog commenting, dig in and have some fun, read some interesting blogs and get the link juice flowing back to your site.
Now for the hard part, and I mean this is the hardest thing you will ever do.
Believe that you can and
will make it happen. It is always easier to sit on the fence and talk about the big one that got away than to face the hard truth of reality, and that is if you are scared of real success, then you will never attain real success. The reason I say this is because it is a lot easier to follow what most parrot online instead of being a little different and going in a slightly different direction.
I have shown you that you can do this. I am not some rocket scientist with a degree in anything. I have a highschool education, but have learned to not follow the crowd. Step away from the same ole, same ole. Learn to listen to people who are not in the marketing field, like potential customers and they will tell you exactly how to make big bucks. And you really should believe it since they are the ones willing to spend their money based on what they tell you. Remember, people are the basis for success online, get your answers from them, then make the site and search engines work for you so that they can find you.
I hope that just 10 people will take this to heart and come back here in 30 to 45 days and blow these figures out of the water, or even come here and say they added 2 k to their income in one month. The point is that with a lot of planning and a little knowledge and work, anyone can do well in a short time with
seo and very litte, if any money required.
Please, take the challenge and go out over the next 30 to 45 days, use what I just taught and show the world that it was done by you also.
Hope to hear from you soon with your success story.
Jim
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