One thing I learnt from the 30 Day Challenge
September 16, 2007
Once thing which really got me thinking about the 30 Day Challenge is that if you have a new idea for a website, you don’t necessarily have to go out and purchase a new domain for it. There are services like Squidoo that allow you to set up your own one page website.
I have been working on a couple of pages the past couple of days to sell affiliate products on and to promote/build links to some of my other websites. Squidoo already has traffic and ranking, so it is possible to quickly get some good keyword rankings rather than creating a whole new website.
If your lens does well you can then consider starting up a new website. It’s a great cost-free way of testing a new market. Creating a site like this could take around 1-2 hours or even less. Create a couple of links to the site, make sure you have some affiliate links in your new web page and you can then forget about it.
You aren’t likely to get super rich from doing this, but I would be fairly confident that without doing any further work to your page you should be able to generate a couple of sales a year from your site. Hubpages is another Squidoo type clone that has been getting a bit of press recently.
I you don’t have any money to invest in your new internet business Squidoo and Hubpages are a great way to get started. Also if you have zero technical skills, these sites are very user friendly and are a great way to enter the world of affiliate marketing.
By building lots of websites, pages on these networks, blogs you are building up your “Internet Arsenal”. Sometimes blogs will work and sometimes a squidoo site will work. The important thing is to test all of these different methods.
It might seem like a lot of work, but I generally spend a few hours setting something up, put some affiliate links in and include some way to analyze traffic. Get a couple of links to the site and then forget about it. If I make some affiliate sales, I then go back and check where I was getting traffic from, add some more content and research any new affiliate programs.
You could summarize the process like this:
Idea -> Create -> Monetize -> Analyze -> Improve -> Repeat
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The key is to get something up - that’s where 90% of the people fail. It’s amazing what can happen once you’ve set up a site. I had one that was maybe bringing in $20 a month that I set up over 2 years ago that got a mention in a major newsletter this month out of the blue (they dind’t even contact me to let me know). The result was several big adsense days in a row - you just never know. But none of that would have never happened if the site had never been set up…
Hi,
seems like a good system. How do you measure traffic from a squidoo page?