Well, things have definitely slowed down a little. I've written 45 Ezine articles plus at least two dozen solely for backlinks. I wrote 6 Squidoo lenses and 4 hubpages, and 6 blogger blogs. I took down my website because I felt it was inferior to the product retailer's landing page. I'm listed on the first page of google for three of my keywords. 0 sales, 0 order form impressions. I get about 10 people a day who click on my hoplinks, although really it's often less than that.  My plan today

 Day 13, and already I find myself slowing down a little on article writing. I try to provide at least a little quality for ezine articles, and I've got a little bit of writers block after 45 articles. I've already repeated myself significantly. I probably need to learn to make peace with being repetitive. I axed my website, and used my domain name as a redirect to the merchant page.  Everyone says not to do this, but in my case I think it's a wise move. The index page of my website is

Well Chinese New Year is over and I think I've spent my time well. My content is now - 32 Ezine articles with 3 pending, 4 hubpages, 6 Squidoo lenses, 6 blogger blogs. I'm waiting on Ezine to give me a platinum status so I can keep churning out Ezine articles. I'm getting about 20 page views a day at my landing page/website. Everything I'm doing now is essentially to increase traffic to that landing page and my Squidoo lenses (1 pageview total right now). I'm #1 on google for an Ezine article wi

I'm at Day 3 now. Chinese New Year is almost half over and I haven't accomplished quite as much as I had hoped, but I set lofty goals. I've got 9 more articles pending for Ezine and 4 hubpages.  I think it's finally clicked that I'm going to have to write a monumental amount of articles in order to be successful. Props to GeorgiaRedneck's post on the WA forum lately for hitting that home. I'm working with some voice recognition software and doing quick outlining in order to work out a bette

Well, I'm a long way from making a sale, but I'm so excited that I decided to write a short blog entry about the progress I've made so far. I wrote 10 articles without worrying about keywords in order to have some material for my website. I published them at ezinearticles.com and was surprised at how quickly they went live! I built a website with weebly and bought a domain name for it. Next steps - submitting some keyword specific articles to ezine and doing some SEO kung fu to direct web traffi

 I scrapped my last campaign for personal reasons, and so I'm starting new. All I can think about is all the ways you can go wrong - the wrong product, the wrong keywords, the wrong url, the wrong articles, the wrong backlinking methods, the whole freaking wrong freaking market freaking niche. But I think I've learned enough that I know how things should work when they're working. If there's no traffic, and no sales, I'll have to take a diagnostic approach and find out what's wrong. I'm goi

  I guess one of the kickers about internet marketing is that it takes time. I've understood since the beginning that article marketing snowballs, and it takes some time to really build up traffic and make sales. The trouble is, I'm a terribly impatient, instant gratification kind of guy. It feels like I'm working hard but the whole thing is hardly working. Right now I have 3 hubpages, 7 live articlesbase.com articles, and 3 Ezine articles pending review. Each of these contain a link to m

Well, I've hung around and learned for a couple of weeks now. I chose a niche, a product, and I'm writing articles. Although I still face newbie IM syndrome (i.e. overwhelmed by information), things are starting to come together in my mind. However, it's a difficult time for me to start. I just lost my job teaching English here in Taiwan. It hurt a little bit. I put a lot of work into learning to teach English and got thrown away pretty quickly because I "took too many sick days". The