After hoping that this was going to be my best month ever again for my earnings, Im starting to feel that I may be on for my worst month in a while! My main site just hasnt been converting! Traffic levels are higher, Its sending the visitors through to the merchant, but nobody is buying. This seems to becoming more and more regular, with my seeming to start each month with a post complaining about my earnings (see here, here and here).
Hopefully things will start picking up now though! I’m currently working on my first PPC site which will also be my largest site so far (hence the reason for developing the Adwords Keyword Tracking Tool), The average commission value will be anything from around high £x, up to low £xxx, although I think the average will be around £15.
The site I completed at the start of the week is still sending an average of 10 clicks to the merchant each day, so im hopeful that it will turn at least a couple of sales this month, which will give me a decent chunk of commission. The problem is that the landing page I am sending them to had a handful of links to different products, around 40% of the links are broken! I told the merchant a week ago now, but they just dont seem interested in fixing it. One of my single product sites is due to get some TV coverage within the next week so hopefully that will give me a push in commission as well.
Oh well, onwards and upwards…
Wow! TV coverage? That’s great. My money’s on the Gadget Show…
You’ll have to make a post after the show has aired to see how your traffic (and hopefully commission) gets affected by this kind of PR.
It would also be a good read t hear about how you managed to get it on TV – although from my experience, tv production companies normally make the calls. interesting though, because if that was how you got the slot, your site must have been found by someone somewhere so that proves your SEO/PPC is spot on for the site in question.
Well done though!
The merchant I am promoting sent the item to the show for them to review – but my site is ranking top for every variation of the product name
It gets around 1000 uniques per month, and I probably get 20-30 emails per month asking if they can stock it, where they can buy it on the high street, and some other random questions…so I think the SEO is pretty much spot on.
As for results…lets just say I wont be getting my hopes up based on TV coverage again! Traffic was around 50% up on an average day, but I didnt make a single sale! Starting to think this site has had its time. Its gone from making 2 or 3 sales per day at its peak, to 1 over the last 10 days now!
On a positive note, I’ve sold a domain for £200. Gives my earnings a little boost for the month so far