We have a couple of affiliate sites that are also not making any money. A buck a night? Never seen one. Looking at the sites, they both have zero pagerank on all the pages. And if I try to pay for some link loving through google adwords, then the links come in at about a dollar apiece.
Obviously the quality score isn’t good enough.
Something will trigger though, something will happen. I’m sure of it. I think I need to work on the “landing pages” - the pages that encourage the reader to go buy the affiliate product, and I need to cloak the links somehow. We’ll get the QS up there.
I also paid someone for 100 links per site; that’ll get me a little more traffic / pagerank. More than one would be nice. Not paying for the links directly but paying for 100 directory submissions, which should be worth something.
Maybe I misunderstood something. I’ve gone back through the blackhole seo stuff (below) and I think I’m getting a better idea for it. I’m using my 1and1 account, which is a throwaway account, for this creation.
Instead of using the weblogs.com shortChanges.xml file, I’m trying a search on a blog aggregator ( uh, like google blog search, but that’s not the one I’m using ) in order to get the titles.
Apparently titles are not copyrighted but the post bodies are. How convenient.
Taking those, inserting the titles and the keywords I used to generate the list into a database table (titles; basically one column for id, one column for title, one column for keywords). This script is running about every half hour and is getting one or two new titles an hour. I guess it’s a small niche.
I wrote a new rss output file that takes those titles and makes an rss feed that has just the followed by the
( my site ) followed by the description. It’s kind of half-assed at the moment, really ugly.
When that rss output file is run it pings pingomatic.com with the file info.
Don’t know how well it’ll do but we’ll see.
Also signed up at wickedfire for an account to peruse their forums.
Tried writing ad copy for a page here that would push some ebook thing but got discouraged because why would I encourage you to read ebooks when I don’t spend my hard earned money on them. Maybe someday when I’m rich.
The Collectible Figurines rss blog has been alive for about a week and I’m (say it with me) still buckless. I’ve reworked it to cover “Department 56 collectibles, which is a subset that I’ve actually seen and might recognise in the store. So we’re not yet giving up on it. And we’re working on scavenging up some keyword realestate, and generating some links.
This part is rough though and I’m trying to figure out a way I can, if not automate it (my preference) or just do it with my brain turned off; some dumb list… myspace, et cetera.
Over the past two days I’ve made a few fundemental changes to the back-end processing of the Collectible Figurines site. First, I slashed the number of feeds I’m syndicating from approximately 25 to three. I’ve axed all the “sub keywords” and am just focusing on “collectible figurines.”
I’m running a version of wordpress (2.4-bleeding) that may be incompatible with feedwordpress. So I’m trying to figure out what the issue there is; I’m getting “empty queries” when updating the tables.
And I blush when I say this, but I had the perma-links for each of the syndicated posts to go to the valuedfigurine site, but that doesn’t result in any ebay sales. So I went back and changed that so I “might” actually forward searchers on to ebay, and make my dollar a night.
We worked yesterday on getting some backlink love. Inspired by the Keyword Real Estate post on bluehatseo, we were trying to organize some keyword-domains and get links from there to our actual sites.
It’s already pulling a bunch of rss feeds from ebay. Taking Plepco’s comments from the original post, we have four changes to make. We’ve already posted some “pages,” and we’ve put our keyword ( “Collecting Figurines” ) in the header and the footer. I’m not sure about the categories; something weird is going on there with wordpress. But yesterday we addressed the “promote promote promote” issue.
We took this post from BlueHat SEO and ran with it. I don’t mind turning the black hat techniques on this blog; I’m only hitting black hat people with this particular technique.
We’re expecting, well, ok, hundreds of links per hour headed to the Collecting Figurines site. However, we haven’t gotten them yet. I won’t say we’re doing something wrong, but we’re definately wondering if we missed something important.
So far, we haven’t had any traffic on our site; or at least, nothing has shown up in our ebay affiliate program manager. We must be doing something wrong.
