During the early days of the web when I ran adult sites, traffic was plenty and a few software and scripts made my life easy. Once in a week I visited a few adult webmaster forums for getting all the knowledge and skills I needed to make money online while sleeping. Things have changed a lot. Now the competition is fierce. You need knowledge, skills and hard work to generate a decent online income.
I am lucky that even today my non-adult sites create a decent income but I am sure I can’t retire from my regular job on that income. I need to take some bold steps and make a quantum leap to increase my online incomes by four folds.
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I generate a small amount of affiliate incomes, all from clickbank.com, by throwing a few banners in my sites. I do realize that besides traffic, ad optimization by testing and measuring is very important to maximize incomes. However, it takes a lot of time.
I have been spending a lots of time reading blogs about keywords, different channels for affiliate marketing, landing pages, etc. I am also frequenting a webmaster forum (forums.digitalpoint.com) to learn what is going on in today’s online marketing.
I used to wonder why there were so many web directories. I don’t go to a web directory to search for any thing. I don’t know who goes to a web directory for their searches. I even don’t know anybody going to dmoz.com, supposed to be the best in its class, for searches.
Now I know why there are so many web directories. They give you back links to your site for a price and they hawk their services using some thing called PR – Point & Research. Oops, I am wrong. It is Page Rank. Had I known this directory business a few years ago, I would have started 15 web directories. Oh well, I missed my opportunity.
Then there are digg bosses, stumble upon exchanges, publishing articles in 40 blog networks for $10, useless traffic to your site for ranking high in Alexa so that you can sale text links. I did not know that people are selling text links. I thought that only Google did that. And there are a scores of other techniques. Lots to learn. My head hurts.
I am learning slowly but I need to jump start my online income fast. How do I do that? People are generating monthly six-figure incomes from affiliate marketing. That’s what I need to do to become super rich. Gotta go for my forum visit.
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