Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. T

Let me tell you what happened to me!

Some time ago, I decided to enter the world of the online entrepreneur, by resourcing how, or even 'if' it was possible to make money online. The results were varied and plentiful! Sites were popping up everywhere on a daily basis, selling everything to help the new Internet marketer (IM) - e-Book compiling software, affiliate cloaking software, offers to help you earn big money by subscribing to "this" site or by sending your customers to "that" site, the variety of "Get Rich Quick" schemes was almost overwhelming!

I decided to try it out for myself, after all . . . . it was easy money eh? I downloaded several free eBooks on individual subjects, and undertook endless hours of searches using the web's best search engines - (not always the one's we go to first)!

Months later, tired and eye-sore from looking at my computer screen for hours on end, I had enough material to write my very first eBook. This was how the "experts" recommended that we novices make our living online - selling information! It was a huge task - much bigger than I'd first thought. I spent weeks writing the eBook, then converting it to a user friendly format, and even longer as a novice website builder, actually building my very first site. Finally when it was finished, I started the marketing!

This is where my article really starts: Resourcing and writing the eBook was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, building a website was also an ambition, and finally I'd realised both!

Now to work - getting people to my site to buy the book! Hour after hour, day after day, week after week - I pursued all that I'd read - putting my site name in the signature of my emails - that's great if you regularly send out plenty of emails to people outside of your family, but Uncle John was getting sick of me pushing my site, especially as he'd already got a copy of my eBook to proof read! Advertising on the freebie pages, submitting my site to the search engines - manually, signing-up for Traffic, by subscribing to free service sites - (I did everything they asked of me, copied their code into my web pages, added the traffic tracking pages to my site etc. etc.) . . . and waited!

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. Th

I decided to try it out for myself, after all . . . . it was easy money eh? I downloaded several free eBooks on individual subjects, and undertook endless hours of searches using the web's best search engines - (not always the one's we go to first)!

Months later, tired and eye-sore from looking at my computer screen for hours on end, I had enough material to write my very first eBook. This was how the "experts" recommended that we novices make our living online - selling information! It was a huge task - much bigger than I'd first thought. I spent weeks writing the eBook, then converting it to a user friendly format, and even longer as a novice website builder, actually building my very first site. Finally when it was finished, I started the marketing!

This is where my article really starts: Resourcing and writing the eBook was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, building a website was also an ambition, and finally I'd realised both!

Now to work - getting people to my site to buy the book! Hour after hour, day after day, week after week - I pursued all that I'd read - putting my site name in the signature of my emails - that's great if you regularly send out plenty of emails to people outside of your family, but Uncle John was getting sick of me pushing my site, especially as he'd already got a copy of my eBook to proof read! Advertising on the freebie pages, submitting my site to the search engines - manually, signing-up for Traffic, by subscribing to free service sites - (I did everything they asked of me, copied their code into my web pages, added the traffic tracking pages to my site etc. etc.) . . . and waited!

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. T

This is where my article really starts: Resourcing and writing the eBook was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, building a website was also an ambition, and finally I'd realised both!

Now to work - getting people to my site to buy the book! Hour after hour, day after day, week after week - I pursued all that I'd read - putting my site name in the signature of my emails - that's great if you regularly send out plenty of emails to people outside of your family, but Uncle John was getting sick of me pushing my site, especially as he'd already got a copy of my eBook to proof read! Advertising on the freebie pages, submitting my site to the search engines - manually, signing-up for Traffic, by subscribing to free service sites - (I did everything they asked of me, copied their code into my web pages, added the traffic tracking pages to my site etc. etc.) . . . and waited!

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. T

Nothing . . . . not a sausage! Diddly squit ! Nicht!

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. T

Day after day I checked my stats, and after several months - not ONE sale, but why?

The methods which I tried to pursue were in retrospect quite feeble -

I'd spent hours and hours searching, and not found anything which worked satisfactorily! Then I came across some information which changed the way I was thinking! It was a free eBook about SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and it explained the importance of tweeking a web site so that the search engines would see it's value, and therefore move it up the SE ranking to a better position. Thus getting it seen by more people searching for products/information like mine - and so bringing in those oh so beautiful sales, I needed so badly!

I painstakingly spent hours working through the "information", eventually completing the tweeking process in about five days, then I uploaded the new pages to my hosting server - days, weeks went by . . . . you guessed it - nothing! I HAD to be doing something wrong!

All this time, I'd been posting on some of the better forums on the web, constantly trying to find other information about how to market my site. For no reason other than curiosity, I had the urge to check where my site was ranking in Google's Engine. When I'd first done this, the following week after uploading my site, I had two listings - both from other pages in my site - no good at all! This time - WOW! - more than twenty listings - when I checked further, they were all from the forum sites!

This is where things started to come together in my head!

So by posting my "signature" (containing my web site domain-name) on these forum sites, Google had "seen" them, and now they were appearing as links to my site! I went back to the SEO eBook - behold the section on the importance of linking to your site. Although I'd made all the physical changes to my site's html code (and the eBook stated that this was indeed a worthwhile and good thing to do) - the most important factor in driving traffic to my site, was by getting others to link to it! This, in the eyes of the search engines (especially Google) indicated it's importance or relevance to my subject matter, and subsequently it's "ranking" would get better & better, and it would start to appear closer to the top of the searches. If I managed to convince owners of sites "Relevant" to mine, to link to me, then that was even better! - peer links are the best you can get!

Building (reciprocal) links is a time consuming job, and I'd advise using special software to undertake the task, but slowly and surely the site was getting traffic! Excitedly - and I heard about affiliate management services such as Clickbank or PayDotCom - I signed up for a Clickbank account so that as the traffic built steadily, I could also have affiliates selling my eBook via the CB site.

Then it all stopped again - traffic went down, and the site was getting less than