Am I some sort of internet hustler?
My focus has been on my other projects, but I’ve already stated that I intend to use site marketing techniques and perhaps a few cheap tricks, like submitting this blog or particular posts to Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us, etc. And it will be interesting when a few readers stumble upon this blog through one of these sites and looks back at one of these posts, clearly stating my schemes to lure them into my lair. How will they feel? Will they leave nasty comments? Will they be blogging furiously about how I conned them? I wouldn’t mind. Free backlinks!
What I’m doing with this blog is strange, nay mad. Around the time I begin my promotion of this blog, I will tell you step-by-step what I did. That’s right. Visitors are going to come to an internet marketer’s blog and see me discussing how I brought them here.
One of the secrets of promoting your blog is to not make it obvious that you are promoting your blog. Pose as a surfer who just found a cool site. Oddly enough, sometimes it’s so obvious that they’re the site owner that it’s pathetic. But I will not put up a facade. Yes, I will blatantly self-promote this blog at first, but the point is that they are coming here because some of my content piqued their interest, regardless of where they found the link or who suggested they check it out.
Which leads me to ask this question: who is my audience? Right now it’s just me. But I expect that maybe, possibly, conceivably, feasibly, other internet marketers or people curious about making money online would be interested in reading this blog.
I’m not spamming with gibberish and links with “LOL CLICK HERE” anchors. I’m not selling or promoting anything (yet!) and this isn’t one big sales letter. Since I started this blog I’ve made less than $35 across my various streams of income, but I won’t see a penny of it until I hit my minimum payouts. Nope, making money online isn’t as easy as they say.
I did a few things to prepare myself for my first visitors. First of all, I’ve added AdSense. Yep, finally. It’s the least I can do at this point. Unfortunately at the time of this writing they’re displaying ads for SUVs and World of Warcraft (WoW) gold and power leveling services. This kind of thing is common with contextual ads and should get fixed very soon. I’ve added a hidden StatCounter to this blog to see if I get any search engine or other organic traffic before I make this blog “live.” This new version of Life Conquest is already up on Google but I’ve yet to do any intention SEO so we’ll see how this works out.
I may end up putting “Digg it” or other links so when I do get some visitors, if my superb writing impresses them, they can share my posts with others.
