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		<title>By: des</title>
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		<dc:creator>des</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Chris 
Am back I listen to your advice teamed up with some forum guys and got my two websites in Google and yahoo, if you do a search for my key words social, network, cash, secrets in google.com its in seventh place if you do the same search in yahoo.com its in 1st place but I don’t see any increase in my sign up list what do you think Chris.
http://www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/zerotohero.htm
And my blog:
http://social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com/
Cheers des</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Chris<br />
Am back I listen to your advice teamed up with some forum guys and got my two websites in Google and yahoo, if you do a search for my key words social, network, cash, secrets in google.com its in seventh place if you do the same search in yahoo.com its in 1st place but I don’t see any increase in my sign up list what do you think Chris.<br />
<a href="http://www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/zerotohero.htm">http://www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/zerotohero.htm</a><br />
And my blog:<br />
<a href="http://social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com/">http://social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com/</a><br />
Cheers des</p>
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		<title>By: Christoph</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Des,

First of all congratulations on taking action and implementing something! Not only did you buy and download a product, but you actually went ahead and put it out there...
You might not realize it but this alone puts you ahead of most. Now you just have to figure out the details ;-)

I checked your sites and noticed a few of things:

- you misspell a lot of words. The problem with that is that it even effects your links - i.e. you had a typo in the links to your site in you comment here - I fixed it. Just let somebody else read over your text - you as the author might not even see some of the typos because your brain knows what it should be... In the headline of the sign-up form on your blog is a typo (social is spelled wrong).
- I couldn&#039;t see any tracking code from google analytics or similar on your sales page. How do you know how much traffic you are getting and from where? This is another easy thing to fix - just sign up for a google analytics account and put the code in your pages. That way you will know if you get traffic to your page, and if the article marketing efforts or other methods are paying off.
- Adding tracking to your site will allow you to tell where the problem is: is it the amount of traffic, is it that the sales page is not converting visitors into buyers, or something else?
- Since you have a sign-up form offering the 5-day e-course I would make a separate squeeze page with just the sign-up form on it. I would then direct your traffic to that page - NOT directly to the sales page. That way you have their contact information and can follow up even if they are not buying your ebook. If they don&#039;t sign-up for the free 5 day ecourse they certainly would not have bought your ebook anyway...
- Traffic sources for your squeeze page can be even free sources like articles (as you are doing) and traffic exchanges. If you use traffic exchanges like trafficswarm to promote your sales page or blog you will not see any results - everybody else using the traffic exchange wants to sell you something too. If on the other hand you offer something interesting and for free you might get some people signing up.
- Keep doing what you have done by posting a blog comment here: create links to your sites. In forums you can use a signature file with a link to your site.

I hope these pointers help you - keep me updated :-)
Best of luck,
Christoph</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Des,</p>
<p>First of all congratulations on taking action and implementing something! Not only did you buy and download a product, but you actually went ahead and put it out there&#8230;<br />
You might not realize it but this alone puts you ahead of most. Now you just have to figure out the details <img src='http://askchristoph.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I checked your sites and noticed a few of things:</p>
<p>- you misspell a lot of words. The problem with that is that it even effects your links &#8211; i.e. you had a typo in the links to your site in you comment here &#8211; I fixed it. Just let somebody else read over your text &#8211; you as the author might not even see some of the typos because your brain knows what it should be&#8230; In the headline of the sign-up form on your blog is a typo (social is spelled wrong).<br />
- I couldn&#8217;t see any tracking code from google analytics or similar on your sales page. How do you know how much traffic you are getting and from where? This is another easy thing to fix &#8211; just sign up for a google analytics account and put the code in your pages. That way you will know if you get traffic to your page, and if the article marketing efforts or other methods are paying off.<br />
- Adding tracking to your site will allow you to tell where the problem is: is it the amount of traffic, is it that the sales page is not converting visitors into buyers, or something else?<br />
- Since you have a sign-up form offering the 5-day e-course I would make a separate squeeze page with just the sign-up form on it. I would then direct your traffic to that page &#8211; NOT directly to the sales page. That way you have their contact information and can follow up even if they are not buying your ebook. If they don&#8217;t sign-up for the free 5 day ecourse they certainly would not have bought your ebook anyway&#8230;<br />
- Traffic sources for your squeeze page can be even free sources like articles (as you are doing) and traffic exchanges. If you use traffic exchanges like trafficswarm to promote your sales page or blog you will not see any results &#8211; everybody else using the traffic exchange wants to sell you something too. If on the other hand you offer something interesting and for free you might get some people signing up.<br />
- Keep doing what you have done by posting a blog comment here: create links to your sites. In forums you can use a signature file with a link to your site.</p>
<p>I hope these pointers help you &#8211; keep me updated <img src='http://askchristoph.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
Best of luck,<br />
Christoph</p>
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		<title>By: des</title>
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		<dc:creator>des</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Christoph 
Am a newbie and need your expert  help!!


far I have 1 person that as optin to my free 5 day e-course with my site at   click bank.

I was just wondering how can I get traffic to my websites 
www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/
And to my blog at
www.social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com

I have tried article marketing; I have about 10 articles on the net with a few article websites. I was just wondering if I had missed something or have I made a mistake somewhere. Just I know that with out targeted traffic no website can make any money at all and that’s why am asking the experts like your self.
Any help would be grateful.

Any Feedback on the above websites would be very helpful to me  
Thanks 
Des</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Christoph<br />
Am a newbie and need your expert  help!!</p>
<p>far I have 1 person that as optin to my free 5 day e-course with my site at   click bank.</p>
<p>I was just wondering how can I get traffic to my websites<br />
<a href="http://www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/">http://www.socialnetworkingcashsecrets.com/</a><br />
And to my blog at<br />
<a href="http://www.social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com">http://www.social-networking-cash-secrets.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>I have tried article marketing; I have about 10 articles on the net with a few article websites. I was just wondering if I had missed something or have I made a mistake somewhere. Just I know that with out targeted traffic no website can make any money at all and that’s why am asking the experts like your self.<br />
Any help would be grateful.</p>
<p>Any Feedback on the above websites would be very helpful to me<br />
Thanks<br />
Des</p>
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		<title>By: Christoph</title>
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		<dc:creator>Christoph</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks Mike. I see you are in Houston as well :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks Mike. I see you are in Houston as well <img src='http://askchristoph.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: How I Make $300 a Day Online</title>
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		<dc:creator>How I Make $300 a Day Online</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, great post, very well written. You should write more about this.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, great post, very well written. You should write more about this.</p>
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