I'm amazed! Some time ago I put together a package containing an ebook and some graphic templates. The ebook describes where to get some powerful 3D software for free, which combined with the templates I'd created, would let you make 3D images of books, software boxes, CDs, DVD cases etc.
These are things typically used by Internet Marketers.
I created a sales page for the package, and submitted it to Google. It was taking so long to be indexed by Google that I gave up looking.
After several months, it has appeared in the Google listings. I came across it by accident when looking for ebook covers for another project, and it appeared on page 9 of the Google results for a search on the keywords "create ebook covers free".
Page 9 is not very good as far as SEO goes, but not bad for something that I haven't bothered to promote. Now that it is in Google, I shall be working on improving its ranks, and using its status to pull up the rank of my other sites.
The first attempt is this - Blog & Ping. By including the URL of my site in this blog and pinging the blog directories, it may well rise up the ranks. Let's see...
Monday, July 09, 2007
Alexa update
My websites continue to rise in the Alexa ranks, albeit a little more slowly than before. However, that might be just a localised dip. We'll see later.
I checked my web stats to see how people are finding my sites. Some are from search engines, but others are from traffic generation programs. That's useful to know because I always wondered whether those programs worked or not.
I checked my web stats to see how people are finding my sites. Some are from search engines, but others are from traffic generation programs. That's useful to know because I always wondered whether those programs worked or not.
The Double-up Experiment
Having been spurred into action with regard to my online marketing activities, I've decided to set a target and see how long it takes to reach it. So, I am now running the Double-up Experiment.
My target is to earn the same amount of money as I earn with my day job, taking taxation into account. So I need to earn online the same as my gross annual salary, and ideally within 1 year.
I think that's a reasonable target for a beginning Internet Marketer. After all, the plan is to be able to give up my day job and concentrate on my online business.
If I can earn the same amount of money, but part-time, then I know it must be relatively safe to give up the day job.
As I go, I'll keep a diary of exactly what I do to earn that money, and I'll also report back on this Blog.
I'm not going to reveal my day-job salary here. The actual amount is not important.
What is important is whether I can equal that amount through my online activities.
I can live off my salary, so I want to prove to myself, and anyone else who's interested, that I could live off my earnings on the Internet.
What I shall do is report back how much I have earned as a percentage of my target sum. As I do that, I'll keep track of the percentage of the year has elapsed so that I can see how on target I am.
As I won't be able to do any work on my internet business until tonight, the project will officially start at midnight tonight (00:00:00 10 July 2007)
That means that as of today, the current status is:
Year elapsed: 0.0%
Target reached : 0.0%
My target is to earn the same amount of money as I earn with my day job, taking taxation into account. So I need to earn online the same as my gross annual salary, and ideally within 1 year.
I think that's a reasonable target for a beginning Internet Marketer. After all, the plan is to be able to give up my day job and concentrate on my online business.
If I can earn the same amount of money, but part-time, then I know it must be relatively safe to give up the day job.
As I go, I'll keep a diary of exactly what I do to earn that money, and I'll also report back on this Blog.
I'm not going to reveal my day-job salary here. The actual amount is not important.
What is important is whether I can equal that amount through my online activities.
I can live off my salary, so I want to prove to myself, and anyone else who's interested, that I could live off my earnings on the Internet.
What I shall do is report back how much I have earned as a percentage of my target sum. As I do that, I'll keep track of the percentage of the year has elapsed so that I can see how on target I am.
As I won't be able to do any work on my internet business until tonight, the project will officially start at midnight tonight (00:00:00 10 July 2007)
That means that as of today, the current status is:
Year elapsed: 0.0%
Target reached : 0.0%
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