How I Got Rich

A Month Off

I spent the first two weeks of April down at the beaches and last weekend I was out of the country so after my day job I have had little time to spend on affiliate marketing.  Although the sales have still been coming in I guess I have lost a month’s worth of productivity which might of paid off later.

This weekend I haven’t got much on so am planning to spend some quality time with the laptop looking at my existing sites and seeing what I can do to improve them.

Some of my summer sites are starting to pick up quite nicely.  Some are getting quite good hit counts but not making as much sales as I’d like so I will be having a look at that.

Also my big site needs more work so that will get some time spent on it.

Fingers crossed that the final days of April will bring in a bumper harvest to help me equal last month’s total.

Google AdWords vs Google Keyword Tool part III

This is the conclusion to my short test to compare the Google Keyword Tool records against Adwords advert impressions to see if they match up.

I believe the results of the Google Keyword Tool to be wildly overoptimistic but I wanted to findout by how much.  I setup an Ad for a keyword one of my sites is ranked number two for in Google.

For March 2010 the GKWT says there were 12,100 exact searches  for my keyword.

My ad, when it was on page one in Google got around 200 impressions per day.

The ad only ran for two weeks but the impressions stayed around the 200 per day mark during this time.

200 per day x 31 days = 6,200 searches.

So it looks like the GKWT is reporting 100% more searches than the number of impressions the advert received.

Also during my site was only get about 3-6 unique hits per day (nearly all from organic SERPS) which is a click through rate of about 3% for being number two in Google which sucks big time!

It would be interesting to see if other people got the same results but at the end of the day its probably not worth the effort.

March 2010 Round-up

March was a good month, my second best after December 2009.  I spent about £65 on AdWords and managed to bring in just over £600 profit.  Most of that came from SEO and not the £65 I spent on PPC traffic obviously.

I made one very large sale which probably accounted for the rise in profits and I doubt I will repeat such a large sale again so for April I expect I will be back down to previous monthly earnings.

My ‘big site’ I started has still to get any organic traffic which is a shame.  I started in the same way I do my other sites but it has not ranked for the keyword I am going for.  The only difference is that it does not have a keyword domain – I guess this makes more difference than I thought.

I am going to buy a WordPress theme for this site but am not sure which one to get.  It is a shame you can’t try them out and have a look under the bonnet before  buying them.  I think I will get a Studio Press one unless anyone else knows of any other people selling good ones?

Still trying to get my older sites to number on in Google so I can hopefully start getting a few quid in from the sites I’d neglecting in the past.  Managed to get one website to number one for a keyword that got 27,100 exact searches last month according to the Google Keyword Tool (although I expect it is much less than that in reality).  That site is now getting about 25 unique hits per day so hopefully it should make 1 or 2 sales a week.

Goals of earning £800 by September 2010 and £2000 a month by September 2011 looking a long way off still!