What’s Stopping You From Succeeding?

@Joanne J W

Are you trying to rank for competitive terms? What kind of links have you been building since last June? That means you have been link building for around 10 months now so you should be seeing results for all but the most competitive of keywords. On a new site it can take a little longer than working with an aged domain but 10 months is more than long enough to be seeing results.

It’s good to hear that you are not a quitter. NEVER QUIT. Never. Sometimes it’s okay to change your approach when what you are doing is absolutely not working, but you have to be persistent. Most people quit JUST before the point they were about to succeed. Temporary failure lends itself to ultimate success as long as you are following the right recipe.

You don’t need to spend thousands to get ranked in Google. What exactly have you been doing to date? PM me with your search terms and your website URL.

Software is just that, software. It’s how you use those tools that equals results. Some software out there is crap, plain and simple. On the other hand there are some software tools that reduce manual labor and automate processes that are time consuming. You can work smart with software but anyone that believes it’s possible to push a red button and see income come flooding into their bank account is deluded. The IM industry is in a bit of a state at the moment because people want EASY and they want PUSH BUTTON so unscrupulous marketers sell the masses this in order to get sales. People by nature are inherently lazy so it’s easier to sell someone something that is portrayed as being so easy, you push a button. You mention work to most people and they run a mile. This is not intended to insult anyone that has bought this kind of stuff, we’ve all done it ( even me in the past ). The truth is most people would like to press a button and swing from a hammock sipping Pina Coladas but deep down everyone knows this is pure fantasy 🙂 To get results you have to put the work in. You can leverage things to work smart but everything worth having requires hard work. Easy money is possible but only after foundations have been laid.

There comes a point where you have to ask yourself the question, “How long do I want to see results for? Do I want to actually build a business”. The way I see it, short term things are the ‘fads’ that work temporarily and then stop working. You end up just chasing your tail, trying to maintain a level of income that is meaningful to you.

Contrast that with someone that tests out markets and then scales up on the ones that they are having success with. They are connecting with people in that niche and building assets at the same time. Examples of this include building authority sites, targeted lists of prospects, products the market actually wants. This is when you go from making nickles and dimes to life changing income where you have a presence in the market ( things get easier once you are at this point and you find people start coming to you literally offering you money. You’ll find that people offer to buy your website without you even putting it up for sale, they’ll offer you money to mail for them, they’ll offer to write free articles in the hope you’ll link back to them, they’ll want to partner with you and they’ll even offer you super affiliate commissions just to promote what they have to offer. And so it goes on ). Once you have leverage in the marketplace it increases your options but your focus should be on connecting with the market and increasing your visibility, particularly in markets you are already making money in and where other people clearly are as well. Too many people waste their time trying to crack a market that just isn’t working for them. Go where the money is and find a starving crowd.

Drop me a line Joanne and I’ll take a look at what you are trying to achieve.

Hi Joanne, Don’t waste any money on anything that just sends you hits, it’s traffic that is next to useless. To make money from niches you have to get inside the mind of what your target consumer wants. All you have to do then is set up a conduit website to funnel that visitor to take an action they were already highly likely to anyway. That aside, a couple of comments:

#1 – Your Fat Burning Furnace hyperlink isn’t clickable so you’ll want to take a look at that.
#2 – What keywords are you trying to optimize your website for? Truth About Weight Loss? or? Are you getting any organic traffic to the site?
#3 – What you pay for a service all depends on your ROI ( return on investment ). It’s all relative. If you spend $197 a month and make $500 a month ( for example ) then it’s a great monthly investment. When you are starting out you want to keep your outlay on such services to a minimum until you are making good money.
#4 – Alex Goad is a millionaire because he knows he can charge $xxx a month and people will pay that much for the service he is offering 😉 You will find he also has a funnel in place that introduces customers to higher priced-products. The ones that were/are happy with lower price purchases will pay more for a high-end product.
#5 – Your affiliate links should not be raw. Put redirects in place so they don’t actually look like affiliate links.

I have never looked at linkdominators. Did they send you reports of what work they undertook and completed? Your homepage is only showing 14 inbound links at the moment.

Hey, don’t get tired and sick working on your website. It should also be fun. Let me know what keywords you are trying to rank for and we can go from there. Also what is your maximum monthly financial budget for promotion of your site?

Hi Renee,

Good to hear from you 🙂 FOCUS is key! In fact it’s the one thing ( coupled with dogged PERSISTENCE ) that will ensure your success. Without it, you’ll keep getting distracted by the next ‘must-have’ tool or ‘program’ guaranteed to make you overnight riches. We all know these don’t actually exist and anything worth having requires a little hard work. Jumping from one program to another will burn you out and cost you a fortune in the process. You already know MORE than you think you do.

Concentrating on Adsense sites is a good way to get started and an easy way to see money coming in. Once you see money coming in, you will be more motivated to make even more money. You’ll feel good and positive about things which will spur you on. How quickly you start making money is the thing that tells your mind that you’re getting results which are worth pursuing.

Once you are making a reasonable amount of money, I then recommend you diversify and create additional income streams from other sources, but one step at a time. First thing is first, start making money with Adsense by building content sites and get that working for you before you focus on anything else.

Wordpress is great for blogging and it has an army of fans that will tell you it’s the only way to go, but for Adsense sites in particular you simply do not need it. You can build a static site with a html editor using a template or with a sitebuilder like XSitePro2. Personally I would go for the latter and give Wordpress a miss. It’s much easier to manage on so many levels and if you ever sell the site you can just send them the files. You can do the same with Wordpress but it’s a little more complicated and if you want to change hosts it’s a bit of a pain.

I agree on the XSP 2 webinars, did they not include the replays anywhere? Sounds like an oversight on their part if that’s the case. Maybe they wanted big numbers on their webinars.

I’m not plugging this hard, but I have a couple of spots open to build a custom Adsense site for anyone interested at http://www.qualitynichesites.com ( $197 ). Turnaround is usually 7-10 business days. This service is useful for anyone that feels like they are losing their mind and just wants an Adsense website that’s setup for them. I realised the other day that what takes me a few hours can take someone starting out literally weeks. That said, it’s a good idea to learn how to do some things yourself as well.

Keep me posted on your progress.

Dean

Thanks Brian!

Joanne, Brian is right. Choose colors that make your website easy on the readers eye. Break up long pieces of written text so they are only several lines each ( i.e. natural paragraphs ). You can add sub-headings etc where appropriate in content. A lot of people have short attention spans, particularly on the net where unless it is clear as to the purpose of the page, they will exit and you usually lose them at this point forever. Once your website is successful you will want to capture some of those visitors by getting them subscribed to your newsletter.

Alun is right, keyword research is a vital part of the site building process. Personally I do my keyword research before I even start building a site. A lot of people will try to rank for very tough terms that require 1-2 years of consistent hard work. They don’t realise they are going after terms that are too competitive. In the end they give up and move onto something else, frustrated that their efforts have not been rewarded. The moral of this story is : Do your keyword research and don’t try to rank for terms where competitors are spending literally thousands of dollars promoting their sites.