Started a campaign the first of Feb on a niche that looked good to me as far as the traffic, the competitors and the product I am offering is great. I set up a giveaway to build a list and installed analytics to keep track of traffic.

This campaign was in a niche that I knew absolutely nothing about. Just needed to do something with a clean start to test my skills that I have learned here at WA. Devoted all my time to it for the month of February and the first 2 weeks of March.

I opened with 5 keywords, and built link wheels of 15 articles each for a total of approximately 75 not counting paid distribution and additional back links. I couldn't get any articles on page one! This was a shocker to me because I haven't had that problem before.Most results hovered around page 3 or 4.

I decided that I would stop and do something else for a while since I was tired of writing on the subject and had not made a sale in the first 6 weeks. Traffic to my site was converting well for my list building (over 50%) but just a couple visits per day.

I made my first mistake in judging my competition... although low search results were returned I was competing against doctors, pharmacies and the medical field and they evidently have tons of back links.

I also thought I might of wound up picking a looser on the product because gravity was almost non existent even though I was impressed with the product itself.

My second mistake (or not) was stopping, because this week I made 3 sales and my traffic has increased to 15 per day... I know that is not much but it is 3X what it was two weeks ago and I haven't worked on this campaign in three weeks!

 I checked my keywords and I have articles all over page 1 and 2 now. So things are starting to get some traction. I was just about to write this campaign off  but now I am going to work on it some more.

I made this post because I just read about another member who has not made a sale for his first 7 months at WA. I didn't make a sale for my first year!

Making sales on any campaign is difficult at first even if you have a winner. But the important thing is to keep at it... "You build it and they will come."