Gold Can I make $20k? Affiliate Marketing Fashion Diary

[Graybeard]

could be shoppers stopped ordering because delivery doesn't arrive before Xmas?

That may be a valid reason indeed.

I would start getting ready for the "after-Christmas" sales/discounts.
I made a payment from online banking yesterday that has to be by a mailed check -- the payment delivery date (USA) was December 28 ...
**update Amazon prime is still promising me pre-Christmas delivery today --so? last hurrah maybe?
The period 10 days after Christmas has always been a down time or a very poor sales period unless you are dealing in some year end tax deduction item (or things similar) ...

 

[Honeybadger]

is the non commercial content on your site mostly about news e.g what's trending right now in the news in your niche?

All product related news
Only looking for product related keywords
Need customers looking to buy solutions to problems
Not interested in browsers --> but they are welcome too

If yes how do you keep up updating the content as I assume this must be ever changing?

This is the precise reason I have so few competitors !!

Do you write yourself or outsource

Self

and what's the minimum article length you shoot for?

Most important is answer the question
Generally 3, 4 or 5 paragraphs --> Depends how many benefits/features
2 sentences for a paragraph
Strong engaging headline, keywords front loaded
Relevant main image, optimized for fast loading --> 100 KB
Call to action at the end --> Click button

The decline in traffic is worth looking

It's because I stopped updating
Many links are manual
Means they get broken when product out of stock
Outdated if prices change
Not worried about this at all --> but also not good !!

and I am concerned about long term viability if you need to update the content like daily/weekly.

Writing a new product blog post takes 15 or 30 minutes

• Title
• Image --> relevant to title
• Paragraph 1 explains the title, include 3 benefit words --> also meta description
• Paragraph 2 explains benefit of feature one
• Paragraph 3 explains benefit of feature two
• Paragraph 4 explains benefit of feature three
• Paragraph 5 closing summary
• Call to action

 

[Honeybadger]

From July 1, 2021
My affiliate business will be mobile-first
That means I can run the whole show from my smartphone
I'll still use computer --> mainly for copywriting
Over 70% of my customers browse mobile
I need to see exactly what my customers see
So I can fix usability problems & nail opportunities

 

[Honeybadger]

Back to where it all began (@T J Tutor can we have a crying emoji?) --> (TY @T J Tutor)
Nearly a year since I joined Affiliate Fix
Lifechanging decision
Still in the game and getting wiser
Been busy building, learning and testing
--> especially Ubersuggest
No two days are the same in AM
It's like a permanent working holiday
No boss, work from anywhere, make your own rules
Highly challenging & highly rewarding

 

[T J Tutor]

(@T J Tutor can we have a crying emoji?)

 

[Honeybadger]

WOW Report
Do you notice the weekend traffic jump?
That's because I embedded some short product videos
--> on most viewed pages (found out from Google Analytics)
Now ranked top in search with a Google snippet
Used Ubersuggest to check search volume
Weekend sales doubled on previous week
This sh*t really works, friends

 

[Honeybadger]

There's no better feeling in AM
Than 1st email of the day
"Commission Payment Sent"
Thank you @T J Tutor and Affiliate Fix community
It all started here on this forum
Never forget where you started
Always stay grounded

 

[Graybeard]

remote scripts?
GeoIP2 JavaScript Client API « MaxMind Developer Site
you will need to do something with the *.json return
an IP will give you a value like US RU GB (country ISO-2 code)
I will set a cookie and render the content or translation based on that cookie value like US RU GB (country ISO-2 code)

bottom line you can do a few things;

1. Ban users from countries you cannot transact or ship to (or don't want the risk).
2. Display: Hi, user from $location or
   in dating: Meet hot girls from $city tonight.
3. Render a translation or show availability of product based on location.

 

[T J Tutor]

It all started here on this forum
Never forget where you started
Always stay grounded

YOU DID THE WORK!

 

[Honeybadger]

WOW Report
Sharing with you week-on-week traffic
Was a good weekend for traffic and sales
Weekend brought $50 of commission [$45 on Saturday]
So far this month hitting 50% of breakeven target
--> $1,500 is the minimum I need to pay all monthly bills

• July Target --> $1,500 [$50/day]
• July Projection --> $750 [$25/day]

Using Ubersuggest SEO tool more and more
It's a simple and powerful tool I couldn't do without
Watching Neil Patel's new YouTube videos

Keep thinking what if I had more sites?

• 1 site @ $25/day = $750/month [$9,000/year]
• 2 sites @ $25/day = $1,500/month [$18,000/year]
• 3 sites @ $25/day = $2,250/month [$27,000/year]
• 4 sites @ $25/day = $3,000/month [$36,000/year]
• 5 sites @ $25/day = $3,750/month [$45,000/year]

Need to find a way to replicate model & automate content
Task scheduling is getting better
Trying a paper diary instead of Google Calendar this month

We need to petition the Canadian government to bring back @azgold
Trudeau should order a primeministerial veto on @azgold's retirement
petitions.ourcommons.ca

 

[Graybeard]

@Graybeard do you know why Amazon Associates doesn't do it? (when customer is auto-redirect to another geo locale then affiliate referring site does not get commission)

redirection is (or can be) done with the query parameters (affiliate codes) included intact.
Your affiliation is not with all the Amazon domains (apparently). You mentioned needing to register for each country. Sounds like some Amazon internal accounting problem with international subsidiaries perhaps?

 

[Honeybadger]

Sorry about the lack of updates
Life isn't always straight forward
Had some personal issue to take care of
Hope to be back soon
Haven't gone AWOL

 

[Graybeard]

maybe they are separate company?

International commerce is complex when you have lexis in different governmental jurisdictions.
Each country that you have a physical presence requires incorporation in that legal jurisdiction -- (usually) a foreign incorporation.

It's an accounting thing --when you sell something online to a person in 'Australia' the sale was made in that jurisdiction and there may be tax and employment laws controlling these actions (an independent contractor (IC) is normally exempt) but local tax code may apply if the IC resides in that jurisdiction.

It's a complex accounting thing and corporate structure thing (I presume).

 

[T J Tutor]

Had some personal issue to take care of
Hope to be back soon
Haven't gone AWOL

We do have lives and must take care of them so we can take care of business.

Hope all is okay for you!

 

[iamb]

Sorry about the lack of updates
Life isn't always straight forward
Had some personal issue to take care of
Hope to be back soon
Haven't gone AWOL

Take care of yourself and hope to see you back in action.

 

[azgold]

Glad you haven't gone AWOL, hope everything is okay.

Let us know if we can help.

 

[ThePopAds]

One success can make up for multiple failures. Small loss, big gain! You are improving so don't stop

 

[Honeybadger]

Ok
Like Arnie promised
I'm back
There's a story behind all this
The big disappearance
Explanation is coming
Stay tuned

 

[Honeybadger]

We still need to petition the Canadian government to bring back @azgold
Trudeau should order a primeministerial veto on @azgold's retirement
petitions.ourcommons.ca

 

[Honeybadger]

Affiliate Green Campaign / Red Campaign

This is what happens when a green affiliate campaign turns red and you don't heed the warning signs
Because I was stubborn and didn't follow my own advice things went sour
But I still earned $15,000 over 12 months
It was alot of fun, now I need to go back to the drawing board..........

Anyone who has followed my affiliate journey
You know it started last summer, around this time
I built my first fashion website after becoming unemployed
What followed was quite a story
Rags to riches --> and back to rags !!
All my failures were self-inflicted
But on a good note I learnt valuable lessons
You can read some of them below

Highs and Lows of my 1st Affiliate Site

• August 2020 --> Built site, started getting traffic from Google (SEO)
• September 2020 --> Traffic sky-rocketed for shopping season, started getting sales
• October 2020 --> Best traffic month 50,000 visits, people getting ready for Christmas/winter
• November 2020 --> 1st commission cheques (Aug 20) * WHAT A FEELING !! *, regular $100 commission days
• December 2020 --> 2nd commission cheques (Sep 20) which paying all my bills, Still getting big commission days
• January 2021 --> 3rd commission cheques (Oct 20) which are still paying all my bills, traffic and commissions drop
• February 2021 --> 4th commission cheques (Nov 20) which paying my bills for 3rd month, traffic & commission continues to drop
• March 2021 --> 5th commission cheques (Dec 20) which still paying bills (just), traffic & commissions
• April 2021 --> 6th commission cheques (Jan 21) but no longer paying bills worst traffic & commissions month, money running out
• May 2021 --> 7th commission cheques (Feb 21) but it's not paying bills, slight increase in traffic but not commissions, * SHOULD HAVE GOT A JOB *
• June 2021 --> 8th commission cheques (Mar 21) but it's still not paying bills, traffic stable, monthly commission below $1,000 for 1st time
• July 2021 --> 9th commission cheques (Apr 21) but it's not even close to paying bills, traffic stable, monthly commission below $600 for 1st time
• August 2021 --> 10th commission cheques (Mar 21) not paying bills can't go another month like this, traffic stable, monthly commission below $500 for 1st time * FINALLY GOT A JOB*

Here's the Google Analytics report
Organic traffic for past 12 months

 

[Honeybadger]

This journey is not over
Think the fashion website can make a comeback
We'll see in September/October
But I'm not banking on it
Planning another site or sites
If this one generates $20/day it's great
Will post updates but probably monthly
Not weekly

 

[azgold]

Sorry to hear about the decline, @Honeybadger ! You were rockin' it!

Have you had a chance to analyze and figure out the cause of it, so you can maybe do a course correction on the existing site(s) or prevent it happening on your new sites?

We still need to petition the Canadian government to bring back @azgold
Trudeau should order a primeministerial veto on @azgold's retirement
petitions.ourcommons.ca

He's called an election for next month, so he'll probably do that to get more votes.

 

[Graybeard]

Don't over-optimize ... 'SEO' Google has algorithms to detect that.

 

[Revglue]

Sounds good, Thanks for sharing

 

[Graybeard]

Found this this morning --2013 BU
Assign a numeric value (use this pattern)

Michael Leander
Putting a value to your goals ° “—
* The value of a like/fan/member?
* The value of a share/recommendation
* The value of an email permission
* The value of a lead requesting certain
information
* The value of a customer
Image to Text Converter - Text from Image

 

[Honeybadger]

Sorry to hear about the decline, @Honeybadger ! You were rockin' it!

Have you had a chance to analyze and figure out the cause of it, so you can maybe do a course correction on the existing site(s) or prevent it happening on your new sites?

All my own doing
@Graybeard is correct
Should have published alot more content
But by the time I started updating again
Google rankings dropped
So did commissions
Now I have a regular job
Affiliate in spare time
Shopping season is coming soon
Need to plan this weekend
Going with 4-5 niche sites all in fashion
My best 2020 months for commission -->

• October
• November
• December

Hopefully I can repeat it in 2021

He's called an election for next month, so he'll probably do that to get more votes.

Half minded to actually do it