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	<title>My Steps into the Internet Marketing World &#187; Steps</title>
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		<title>Clickbank-Code Methods</title>
		<link>http://www.im-steps.com/2009/07/13/clickbank-code-methods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I got myself a copy of Clickbank-Code, spent some time watching the videos and learning the methods it shows and here, I set a campaign with everything according to the Clickbank-Code system. I set the keywords, the ads and the landing page at http://GetPregnant.im-steps.com/GetPregnant.php. Now I&#8217;m going to step 2 of the Clickbank-Code. this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, I got myself a copy of <a rel="nofollow&quot;" href="http://bit.ly/17leFk" target="_blank">Clickbank-Code</a>, spent some time watching the videos and learning the methods it shows and here, I set a campaign with everything according to the <a rel="nofollow&quot;" href="http://bit.ly/17leFk" target="_blank">Clickbank-Code</a> system.</p>
<p>I set the keywords, the ads and the landing page at <a href="http://GetPregnant.im-steps.com/GetPregnant.php?kw=imsteps" target="_blank">http://GetPregnant.im-steps.com/GetPregnant.php</a>.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m going to step 2 of the Clickbank-Code. this is the time to track the keywords and improve the conversions. At the moment, CTR is less then 2% and conversions are at 5%&#8230; That means I need to improve both the text ads and the landing page.</p>
<p>5 Hours Later:</p>
<p>The CTR was increased to over 3.5% but conversion went down to 0%!</p>
<p>That means my landing page suck!</p>
<p>Anyway, I switched to direct linking until I&#8217;ll fix my landing page.</p>
<p>Three days later&#8230;</p>
<p>Okay, The landing page was fixed and there were about 650 clicks per day but no conversions! I had to wait for Google to start giving me some reports &#8211; about two-three days&#8230; Then I found out &#8211; Most of the clicks (and costs) were from &#8230; India!</p>
<p>Well, I thought to my self that an average woman in India can not afford to spend $26 on a How-to get pregnant book&#8230; So I removed India from Adwords locations and clicks went down to around 250 a day.</p>
<p>Next I notices that the four conversions were from two keywords only, so I paused all other keywords for the time and clicks went down to 150 a day.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m waiting to see if there are any conversions and if I need to keep on optimizing&#8230;</p>
<p>Stay tuned, I&#8217;ll update this post as I go&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Creating my First Promotion Video</title>
		<link>http://www.im-steps.com/2009/06/16/creating-my-first-promotion-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the ways to promote products on the internet is using videos. People just love videos. It saves them the effort of reading and just shows them what&#8217;s important. So, as I try to promote a launch of a new product, PPC Evolution, I decided to create my first promotion video. The only problem [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the ways to promote products on the internet is using videos. People just love videos. It saves them the effort of reading and just shows them what&#8217;s important.</p>
<p>So, as I try to promote a launch of a new product, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/PPC-Evolution-Explained">PPC Evolution</a>, I decided to create my first promotion video.</p>
<p>The only problem is my PC is almost four years old and is not fast enough for the video recording software, and so the video is not so &#8220;smooth&#8221;.</p>
<p>Just take a look and tell me what you think&#8230;</p>
<p><object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mq-2ZbpvjeM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Mq-2ZbpvjeM&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6&#038;border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="445" height="364"></embed></object></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-2ZbpvjeM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq-2ZbpvjeM</a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be grateful for any of your comments.</p>
<p>Until next time&#8230;gr</p>
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		<title>Returning To Starting Point</title>
		<link>http://www.im-steps.com/2009/05/17/returning-to-starting-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No Shortcuts in Internet Marketing!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to return to the starting point.</p>
<p>It seems that I tried to hard to do everything and discovered the hard way that this is not the right way. The more I did, the greater the expenses and loses were.</p>
<p>So, I decided to start all over, this time the right way.</p>
<p>I got back to my first Google AdSense site, <a href="http://www.Effective-Spyware-Blockers.com" target="_blank">http://www.Effective-Spyware-Blockers.com</a>, and started to promote it in search engines. This time I used Brad Callen&#8217; s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/oyxx5a" target="_blank">Article Submitter</a>, also available in a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://articlesubmitter.imwishlist.com/" target="_blank">free limited version</a>, which allows submitting to about 80 article directories.  The Gold and Platinum versions allow submitting to over 350 directories, while the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/oyxx5a" target="_blank">platinum version</a> submits to over 200 of them in just One-Click.</p>
<p>I tried some other article submitting tools but found this one the best.</p>
<p>Anyway, I picked one of the articles from my site, moved it through the Content Wizard of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/pjvnm8" target="_blank">EverProfit Toolbar</a> (<a href="http://www.im-steps.com/2009/05/10/tools-everprofits-toolbar/" target="_blank">See post here</a>) and submitted to all available directories. Since this was the first time I submitted, It took me quite some time to register to all these article directories. The only comfort I have is that the following submittions will go much faster.</p>
<p>I plan to get some more, 5-10 articles, and submit them also. I guess this will get me higher on Google search results and more traffic&#8230;</p>
<p>CU Next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>My First Post</title>
		<link>http://www.im-steps.com/2009/05/07/my-first-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 12:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[AdSense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here it is&#8230; My first post. I already made a few steps in the IM world and I have to make you catch up with me. I&#8217;ll share with you what I&#8217;ve done so far. Okay, my first step was to learn about Google AdSense. I already have an AdSense account for several years, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, here it is&#8230; My first post.</p>
<p>I already made a few steps in the IM world and I have to make you catch up with me. I&#8217;ll share with you what I&#8217;ve done so far.</p>
<p>Okay, my first step was to learn about Google AdSense. I already have an AdSense account for several years, and my web site usually generates about $50 every month. I always looked at is as a way to cover my site&#8217;s expenses. It did.</p>
<p>My Home Study Course showed my a simple trick: If one site can generate $50 monthly, then 10 sites can generate $500 and 100 sites can make me a monthly income of $5000 on Autopilot.</p>
<p>I decided to start and build my first site (as an income source). I researched niches as I was taught in the HSC, built a web site under WordPress, wrote some articles (Didn&#8217;t want to outsource at this point) and launched the site: <a href="http://www.Effective-Spyware-Blockers.com">Effective-Spyware-Blockers.com</a>.</p>
<p>Two weeks later, the site is indexed in Google (It was actually indexed in less then 24 hours, but that&#8217;s for another post), some links pointing at it, but very few traffic, needless to say clicks on ads. I also added some widgets to the site, Amazon, ClickBank and PayDotCom. If I need to make an income from this site, I will give the visitor anything he might want.</p>
<p>As soon as I understood that AdSense income takes time, I moved to Affiliate programs. Again I researched for a niche, located a product, and created an AdWords campaignand waited. I made two sales, totaling $97 in commissions ad stopped the campaign. It was not profitable enough. I cost me about 80% of my income.</p>
<p>During that time I read Mike Filsaime&#8217;s <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tinyurl.com/cqmjks" target="_blank">7 Figure Secrets</a>. Only then I understood the importance of a mailing list. This is my next step&#8230;</p>
<p>CU Next time&#8230;</p>
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