Sunday, November 05, 2006

Week 4: zero traffic = Zero Earnings

Week 4 has been rather slow as the truth about online affiliate marketting has really begun to sink in. By starting with forex Niche i think i started in the deep end. Man this is a tough sector.

I have been submitting to free directories and this has not done anything for my traffic stats. I now have 7 links on google for searching FXacademy.net . A link populrity check revealed that i have one inbound link on MSN. I did not do anything to get this link. In fact i never even submitted my site to MSN.

Earnings.
I have not earned shit in the past week. Obviously zero traffic = Zero Earnings

Saturday, October 21, 2006

Week 2 and 3 trafic tracking, SEO, domain reselling

Week 2 and 3
These are the activities that i have been carriying out the past 2 weeks.

Traffic Tracking
This week i added tracksy to my website. Tracksy is a web traffic tracking sofware program.
My ISP is saix.net and this keeps on popping up in my reports because currently I am my only site visitor.
I registered with alexa. com as well so that i can track my site visitors. I got my first international visit from alexa.com. California VA.
This affiliate thing is interferring with my sleep and work as well. I check my adsense stats compulsively as if a traffic miracle is going to happen.

So far i have managed to rack up five pages of content on my website which is not bad considering that i am new to this fOREX program thing.. I am going to finish the website this weekend(At least the basics)

SEO
I have just downloaded google adbar with pagerank tracker. I opened a blog that i last worked on in november last year(www.cindr.blogspot.com). I was excited when page rank was show as 6/10. Maybe if i pointed fxacademy.net to it a bit of PR might rub onto it.The blog was badly designed so i decided to change the layout. As soon as i finished this. POOF my page rank dropped to zero from six. I non the less added fxacademy.net link to the blog just in case it rebounded.
The wuestion is how can a page rank drop from 6 to 0. Its fucken amazing

Domain reselling.
I put my other domain xhydra.com onto a seven day auction.Seven days elapsed without a single offer
I think its becoz $600 was a ridiculous minimum bid for a crap domain like xhydra.com.
I will try to offload it for $20 next week.
First Affiliate program
On Friday i signed up with forex-affiliate.com as my first program. I have to wait for them to approve my website. I hope they do not reject it. I also am planning on signing up with shareasale on their program offering training tools.I have sublitted my site to

Monday, October 09, 2006

Week 1 : In the Beginning

Week 1. "In the Beginning"
The project began on 2nd of october so today it is 1 week old. I have registered two domains with Go daddy. I was attracted by their bargain basement prices but i hope that as soon as i make my first few bucks I will bail out.
I have heard too many horror stories about Go Daddy.Just search "go daddy sucks" on google to see what I mean.

I intend to set up two websites.
Xyhdra.com - An online resource for gamers -worldwide.
fxacademy.net - An online resource for online Forex Traders.

So far i have started work on FXacademy.net. I have already broken the first rule on SEO by buying a .net domain instead of a .com domain. But FXacademy.com is taken and is currently not configured for any website. The owner registered it for an online tutorial on Special Effects (FX) so he won't conflict with me i hope.

I have realised that Forex is not as easy as i thought it was.
But my first click generated $0.67 which is incentive. Just imagine .67 cents just for one measly click.

It is very difficult to come up with content in Forex trading. So far i have come up with three pages of thread bare content.

I plan on placing these on line this weekend.

My advice to all affiliate newbies is stay away from tough sectors when you start. I have just realised that succeeding as a forex affiliate is going to be tough.

The $100 a day Goal

The $100 a day Goal
This blog is a weekly journal of my activities concerning achieving my activities in affiliate marketting. I have set my goals on achieving $100 a day income by year end next year. The goal seems simple enough. $100 bucks in this country is more than enough to live on. I would be earning my current salary every 5 days.