Chris’ Journey to Online Success with Free Methods

Traffic is picking up as expected.  Still no sales; but who cares right?

I’m also doing a countdown to 2500 articles

That’s right – 2500 articles!  I believe if I can do this; I’ll make money no matter what.  I just got out of class right now – so it’s time to get to work.  Today i’m going to try to write 1500 articles.

lol j/p

40 article goal today.  I’ll tell you how it went!

This is THE countdown – 2444 articles.

44 Articles until next Tier

Wow, not as productive as I wanted to be – I only got to submit 15 articles today.  That means that I have about 28 total articles pending for Monday.  I guess it’s something to look forward too, but still

I wanted to have a great production.  Oh well – I guess i’ll give the editor some room to breathe.  Tommorow I will achieve my goal of 40 articles.

I have this big school project that’s due tomorrow and since the library closes in about 2 hours I have to shut it down early; otherwise i would’ve gotten to about 35-40 articles today.

Traffic Update:

Traffic Picked up a Little bit – even though some of my niches are dead – but at the same time they don’t have too many articles written for the either

• Niche A: 11 Visitors
• Niche B: 21 Visitors
• Niche C: 1 Visitor
• Niche D: 0 Visitors
• Niche E: 0 Visitors
• Niche F: 2 Visitors
• Niche G: 6 Visitors

These are still the beginning numbers – I definitely expect these numbers to pick up in due time; especially because I’m trying to average 5 articles a day per niche for 20 days.  This way, I’ll have 100 visitors per landing page and per niche.

Sales Update:

Yeah, No sales again today; but oh well – I still consider myself in the beginning of my campaign.  The traffic’s already starting to trickle in and I have tons of articles waiting to be accepted since Friday.  So…Yeah…

 - Well atleast my hoplink clicks are consistent with my production.  I haven’t increased or decreased in articles – therefore my hoplink clicks are going to be the same.

What I Got Done Today:

• I wrote exactly 15 articles and submitted them; so I should see a traffic spike soon, and I should start seeing consistent sales in about 4 days.  That’s if I stay towards my targeted production goals – I was crappy with production today

What I Have to do 2morrow:

• I have to write about 25 more articles 2morrow
• Write a New landing page
• Come up with 40 more article subjects with the new Niche

After every 40 articles – I create a new landing page and add that to my plethora of niches that I already have.  Once I get the feeling one of these niches aren’t converting – I’ll instantly drop it and move on to the next:

I currently have 3 niches that I know for sure are going to convert – so I’m definitely writing my most articles for those.

What I Learned Today:

 I read this story of this guy who wrote about 2000 articles and is making about $6,000 a month from them.  My thought was like  – that’s not bad; but he could be making more!   I looked at his articles – and they were all on the same niche with no keyword targets!

He gave me excellent advice though – He said if you set really high mental goals; you’ll come up with a plan to achieve that overtime.  So, I’m going to keep my goals extremely high, so even if I fall short of them – I’m still making 6,000 a month, which is more than enough for what I need as a 20 year old college student.

I’m taking a break for now, until I start again.  Right Now I have about 10 articles done.  This may not sound like much, but I have all the other articles laid out so I’ll be able to do them much quicker.  I think I’ll get my goal of 40 articles today If I work hard enough!

Traffic seems to have picked up for specific niches, so that’s good. 

I just read a story of this guy who’s still recieiving traffic from his articles that he wrote in 1998! that’s a decade ago! 

My gosh; if people only knew how awesome article marketing was.  I really call internet marketing the 2008  gold rush of 1849 that nobody’s talking about – I really do mean that.

This thing gets pretty easy once you get started.  I can probably article market like this for a long, long time! 

P.S: My articles are averaging about 2 visitors per day each. So I should be bringing in ridiculous amounts of cash.  I’m not going to start my homework, or eat dinner until i finish this work – it will force me to work hard .

Ever head that song by coldplay called twisted logic?  You should listen to it – because it would definitely fit my situation with Article Marketing.

Traffic Stats Update:

I’m kinda late on the update – we won’t let that happen again!  I had to do alot of schoolwork so i wasn’t able to update the way I wanted to.

Anyways, this is how it went down yesterday…

• Niche A – 7 uniques
• Niche B – 17 uniques
• Niche C – 0 uniques
• Niche D –0 uniques
• Niche E – 1 Visitor
• Niche F – 2 Visitors
• Niche G – 4 Visitors

Looks like I saw the infamous – “traffic spike” then back down to reality.  My niche with the most steady views is the one with the most articles.  Niche B; so if I can get all my articles to see this production, I should be seeing consistent traffic from all my niches in about 3 days or less.

Sales Updates:

No sales today but, I’m still managing to get tons of hoplink clicks.  So that’s pretty encouraging.  I just have to keep working and I’ll recieve more hoplink clicks!

What I got Done Today – I think I submitted about 4 articles yesterday before I had to do other things.  I have a grant total of about 13 articles pending right now; so you should see a spike of traffic in the next few days.

What I Have to Do 2morrow:

• Write 5 articles per niche for 8 different niches – [40 articles total]
• Come up with 40 more subjects for Monday

What I Learned Today: I’m going to  have to work consistently and hard to see consistent sales.  I just have to be patient and keep working.  I know what I have to do – and I know the money will come if I keep doing what I’m doing. 

I just have to have that robotic type work ethic.  I always keep in my head “i am a machine”, and therefore I work like one.

Alot of people do not make it due to pure skepticism. So If I keep all doubts out of my head, I should be fine – plus; the system has already converted for me!

I’m just going to keep driving.

I just wanted to do a mid-day update.  So far i’ve written about 4 articles today.  My production today is comparable to a snail – and so is the traffic.  It’s dramatically reduced this weekend.  But it’s cool – I’m assuming it’s the weekend.

Well anyways, I just have to keep working – my goal was to hit 40 articles a day, but …… it’s looking kinda hard since the library closes in about 2 hours.  I’ll tell you what I was able to accomplish though!

I’m going to try to design a new landing page today as well.  This should be one of my greatest niches.  Also another quick note.

 I plan on designing a new landing pages every 40 articles until I reach

I’ve been stuck not being able to get to a computer to do this update!  I’m using my friends right now!

Well, I ended the day off with only one sale – oh wellz :[  It's cool though because I'm still getting tons of hoplink clicks and tons of traffic.

Traffic Stats for Day 7:

1. Niche A - 26 unique visitors
2. Niche B - 14 unique visitors
3. Niche C - 5 unique visitors [this one's going to blow up in a little bit]
4. Niche D – 6 unique visitors
5. Niche E – 1 unique visitor??:
6. Niche F – 15 unique visitors
7. Niche G – 16 unique visitors

83 visitors total.  This brought me one sale today.  So that’s about what I expected.  If I double this production – I expect double sales; period.

Sales Updates:

I made a 26$ sale today – here are my hoplink clicks:

42 hoplinks total – 1 sale.  I’m averaging 63 hoplinks per sale which is pretty frickin sick; especially in the eyes of a 20 year old broke college student.

lol.
What I Got Done Today:

• I wrote 9 articles, and perfected my plan
• I changed my goal – I’m going to aim at atleast 40 articles a day, I should be seeing significant sales by next week around this time.  Each website should have roughly 25 articles pointed at it. 
• This is going to require me to be a machine – and I may have to work all day – so be it.

What I Have to do 2morrow:

• I’m going to write atleast 40 articles tomorrow.  I’m starting a new landing page campaign tommorow as well.  This one should bring me huge commission

What I Learned today:

This thing is SO unpredictable.  When you are just starting – you’re going to see sales when you least expect them until you get settled in.  I see weird sales all the time – I just do not understand them, but I’m glad this method is working. 

Once you get the ball rolling; you have to keep attacking.  There’s no time to be skeptical about the results – you have to be like a lumberjack swinging away at wood.  Just keep chopping, chopping, and chopping. 

The trickles of traffic will turn into an avalanche after this weekend – I promise you.  You’re going to see an amazing increase in traffic - sales are unpredictable; however.

Some people are confused about the “Tier” thing

Well, i’m treating this article marketing like video games.  In video games, when you do enough battles and win; you gain experience points.  When you get a certain amount of experience points, you reach a new level or Tier and gain new abilities as well.

Well it’s the same for article marketing – every hundred articles equals a new level.  Once I write 100 articles – I’ll be at Tier 2. And I’ll have the ability to earn more cash – in fact; my calculations state that every 100 articles I write is an extra $1000 per month in cash atleast.

Articles Required to Reach Next Tier: 77 articles left. – I want to cut this to 37 by tommorow!

Day 6 Traffic Updates -

·         Niche A – 14 uniques

·         Niche B – 13 uniques

·         Niche C – 3 visitors

·         Niche D – 11 visitors

·         Niche E  - 6 visitors

·         Niche F – 4 visitors

·         Niche G – 13 visitors

Sales Updates:

Didn’t make any sales today.  But it’s cool because my articles are about to bring in bookoo traffic once i get them up and running.

What I Got Done Today:

I wrote about 10-12 articles and got my article experience level to 86 articles until [Tier 2]

What I Have to Do 2morrow:

• Write articles for the existing 7 niches that I have going right now, two articles each.
• Create as many landing pages for big ticket items as possible

Day 7:

So far I’ve made one sale today!   

I’m seeing some awesome results with this article marketing thing – It seems as if my landing pages are converting like mad! 

So I’m just going to imitate and keep building them!  I modeled my landing pages after those that caught my attention.  It seems that it’s working

I’m going to update this later – 86 articles until next tier!

Don’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Yes I Love it!

- Mid-Day Update:

I managed to write 10 articles today, and I’m getting a fair amount of views.   Pretty cool! Go hard or go Home!

• I’m going to try to write articles for the rest of the set once again – reduce my total to 70 until next level, and I’m going to try to create one or two new landing pages today!  I’m only going to promote the big ticket items then go down to producing the small ticket items.
• I want to get the big ticket items established so Let’s say i’m making 1 sale a day with a 99$ commission product.  That’s already 3K a month with one product alone ya know?

So my two next niches have high commissions of nearly 100$ and 50$ per sale; these two items earn me 4500$ a month all by themselves if they average one sale a day.

I’m getting traffic and hoplink clicks – “I remember”  a year ago I was crying and complaining because I didn’t even know how to get traffic to a friggin website.  Now I’m get about 30 clicks a day if I keep working. 

Traffic  & Sales Updates:

I didn’t make any sales today – but m traffic is trickling in – kinda. I think i’m going to have to work for a while to see consistent long term type traffic. lol.

18 hoplink clicks. 

What I Got Done Today:

• Fixed one of my problem articles
• Submitted 2 articles and fixed one problem article.  I’m no where close to the production that I’m expecting.  That’s cool that’s right, I love it.

What I Have to Do 2morrow:

• Write the rest of the articles for submissions 25th. Come up with 14 more articles and more landing pages.
• Work towards my goal of 100 articles

I have 97 articles left

What I Learned Today:

• You just have to keep persevering, just keep working hard, plowing through, ignoring the current results you’re seeing – improving and becoming a better internet marketer.  Article Marketing works!  Every time I do a campaign of article marketing – I start seeing sales!  THIS IS NOT COINCIDENCE!  I just have to keep doing it.

And for me personally, I have multiple tier goals.  Right Now I’m on Tier 1 of Tier 50.  It’s like experience points in video games.  When I reach Tier 2 that means I have “leveled up” and wrote 100 articles.  It also means that I will recieve a 1000 dollar bonus to my monthly earnings:

• 100 articles = $1000
• 200 articles = $2000
• 300 articles = $3000
• So on & so forth

By doing this, I will create a sort of leveling system to motivate me

Tier One!  I’m going to get to Tier 2 tommorow!

Articles Until Next Level - 86

Traffic Update

Blue Stands For Visitors.  I have 4 websites bringing in steady traffic at this point.  That’s great, because I’ll be able to turn these into sales by Day 15.  I should be seeing about $288 a day in about 2 weeks of constant work.

Sales Updates:

 - Dang! that sucks!

No sales today :[ - Not too discouraged though, I had a fantastic day to days ago, a day before that, and a day before that - I've seen too much success with this system to doubt it now; I'm just patiently waiting for sales to start rolling in!

What I Got Done Today

• I wrote one article and submitted it.  Ouch.  Tomorrow morning I'm going to get this thing up and started.  I need to motivate myself! 

What I Have to Do 2morrow

• Write 14 outlines in the morning
• Write the 14 outlines and come up with tons of landing pages countdown to 43 landing pages.

I'm also going to do a "countdown to 300$  a day."  I have to Day 20 to make this amount of money!  That means I have to write atleast 14 articles a day to see this figure!  It shouldn't be that bad!

What I Learned Today:

Everything in life requires a technique and you have to perfect that technique.  You can be given the ability to type fast, to work hard, but you have to have the technique in order to succeed in anything in life from sports, etc.

There's always something inside of you that says:"You can do it".  You know deep down inside if you can do something or not.  I kept praying [is this for me?  Am I meant to do this, I'm not earning anything]. Now I’m starting to succeed.  If you feel like you’re meant for something – life does something crazy and makes it for you.

You just gotta do you.  I got the basics of my journey from somebody else, but what I’m doing is completely original.  If I told you what I did – it probably wouldn’t work for you.