How I Got Rich

Your site on the showcase page is the Slow Cooker one

Using ECU on a few sites, made a few sales but nothing spectacular.

One of my sites is on the showcase page to

If yours is the slow cooker site, nice idea! Can you guess which mine is? – it’s also there in the showcase page. No results so far although my traffic is increasing slowly. I also checked my ECU codes yesterday thinking that I might have typed something wrong. I am confused with ECU – they only allow one id for TD while I have 2 numbers with TD. So I wonder if I have to redesign some of my units while changing the number each time…

Yes it is the slow cooker site! Well done. I thought that would be a strong site as it was my first to have a price comparison feature on but it has hardly made a sale even with £10 of PPC used on it. I can’t even get it ranked well. Will investigate it further this weekend as something must be up with it.

Not sure about TD, don’t think I have come across them via ECU yet. Most of the items I am working with tend to be sold through merchants who use Affiliate Window. Although saying that I’ve only really made sales through amazon.

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that your site is the beach wear one?

My site is the red tube dress site. Sadly it attracts crappy traffic – apparently 99% of my visitors are landing on my site while searching for a certain “redtube” site, which turns out to be a porn site

To be honest it’s my mistake because when i did the keyword research, I did see heavy search volumes for “redtube” but because I didn’t know what it meant, I didn’t bother checking where this search would take me.

So, 99% of my visitors must be some guys looking for fun and 1000 miles away from strapless dresses.

I think this is a good example to learn from – always check if a subset of your keywords goes somewhere completely different, cos you ain’t gona get any seles from that traffic. They go to the home page and bounce back after a couple of seconds.

To add to this, Google has only indexed my home page and not yet the others, so that is why I get this particular traffic and not any varieties.

I’ll wait a month, add more textual content and if things don’t straighten up, I will go to another niche. I prefer to take it slowly. I wish I had the time to do many sites quickly, but can’t for now.

So… this is it really. I don’t lose hope.

Okay, time to own up…..

You posted the slow cooker site as an example on the a4u forums, and you have this blog as your signature on their which is how I ‘guessed’ it was yours

Miracle has posted a good lesson re the redtube site and porn searches, so I suggest if there is a prize it should go to him/her

the phrase “slow cooker” seems to have quite a lot of competition which is probably your main problem re the ranking, that said I think it could be improved.

Hi mac-geek, I’m a girl. I was very impatient to register the domain name following my then “bright idea”. So… that’s what happened. Also acted a bit ignorant while researching keywords. A lesson learned.

admin: The weird thing is that I deliberately re-wrote the site description so that it stated clearly that “if you click here you will find a clothing site”.
I have no idea why the ‘redtube’ guys still click on my entry in serps.

However, there aren’t too many of them knowing what the exact global searches volumes are for ‘redtube’ (11mln +).

Right now I’m getting between 70 and 100 hits a day (fewer on weekends, more on week days), and there is the odd genuine girly ‘dress’ search, all the rest is ‘redtube’ traffic, not interested in buying red dresses.

I guess the easiest solution would be to put some porn content on. But who advertises this kind of thing and what does it have to do with a ‘dress’ in the domain name… Also, most fashion merchants would not approve my application if I had any inappropriate content on my site. At the moment I don’t want to put references to adult sites… but who knows… I might have to eventually.

I wouldn’t really like to advertise any kind of porn. I like sexy underwear and clothes, but porn – no. I am still trying to stick with what I like and things that I have some knowledge about.

I guess if I started advertising something outside my interests and hobbies, like DIY tools for example, I would begin to hate AM just as much as I hate my day job because I’m finding it boring

Photography is my hobby, but there are soooo many sites devoted to it, that I wouldn’t even start thinking about doing a site on cameras or photography. That would be a lost cause.

Maybe I should start thinking more practically and distance myself from my hobbies, and think about profitable niches. Will wait and see.

mac-geek, thanks for the prize! I’m the proudest newbie under the sky

Got any pointers of things I should do?

Just sent you an email

Hi Miracle, that’s a difficult one. Don’t think I’d personally go down the porn route, you could also be infringing on the real “redtubes” trademark though I’d be surprised if it got you into any trouble. You’d think anyone searching for “redtube” would find the site they are looking for straight away.

This blog might get a few interesting searches based on our comments

Don’t know what the prize is lol but if it’s a million pounds I want it back

@Miracle
If your ranking for somethat ppl are searching for, give them what they want, embed adult content and sign up to adult affiliate programs, why waste a decent ranking site after all right?

Can i offer a word of caution regarding linking your sites?

You really should be careful when crosslinking your sites, its tempting to get an easy link but beware of linking to unrelated sites.

You should be okay linking to other kitchen appliance / utensil sites, but linking to Wales Rugby Shirts and Reflexology in fife is not good…

Hiya! I’ve been hibernating lately. Have not even been to the aff4u forum for about a week. I decided to take a break, step aside, read another “how to become a millionaire” book and clear my mind a bit. Today I’m coming back here, seeing that you peeps responded, sorry for not answering sooner.

Well… I have not updated my red tube dress site for a few days now but suddenly my traffic has gone up by 50%. This seems to be due to the fact that a new search engine has somehow indexed my site. This SE is in beta, but seems to be very popular. Unfortunately, this results in me getting the incoming fun-searching “redtube” traffic up by 50% What can I say…

I’d say that that I need to do something about it.

@admin
What kind of amazon goods could I link to?

@KCheung
I think you are right but something in me is not liking this adult business. Also I am obviously inexperienced in it, know nothing, so would not know how to twist the site towards it. Say if I put up some dildos for example, how would that relate to the “dress” word in the site name? Or may be it doesn’t have to relate at all?

mac-geek :

Hi Miracle, that’s a difficult one. Don’t think I’d personally go down the porn route, you could also be infringing on the real “redtubes” trademark though I’d be surprised if it got you into any trouble. You’d think anyone searching for “redtube” would find the site they are looking for straight away.
This blog might get a few interesting searches based on our comments

Yes I thought the same about our comments here, might attract some people looking for… red strapless dresses perhaps…
But yes, looks like many people searching for “red tube” arrive to me, but they are not all. Looking at the search volumes – if all “redtubes” clicked on my site, I would have been getting many more of them.

About infringing – I don’t know if “redtube” is a trade mark… I certainly had no idea such a site existed before I started getting my stat results. I hope I won’t get in trouble.

What would you do with this site if you were me?

Guys, I have almost decided to change the site. I found a merchant offering sexy goods that I like and find quite stylish, and may re-vamp the whole site and change it completely. There are a few things to think about though – target group, keywords and serps presence after the change.

My site will not have porn at all, but it will have sexy female clothing and many other things more related to the lack of clothing rather, but not explicit images. This makes me think about infringing on the redtube tm that mac-geek mentioned earlier.

Another thing, more technical – how do I go for the complete change? If I change the site description (entry in serps), page titles and text, would I be penalised by Google? Would my site disappear from serps and what are the implications?

If I did change the site, it would be addressing the female audience, but I don’t think that if a lady is looking for sexy clothing she would be searching for “red tube”. So the question is: who searches for “red tube”. If it’s just guys, then my idea may not work. My new domain keywords would not actually be “red tube” because I would not be marketing red tubes I would be using “redtube” as a synonym for ‘sexy’ and “dress” for ‘clothing’.

What do you think?