My Game Plan

Since I plan on going this penniless, I'm starting with some landing pages on squidoo. I actually have 2 now and I will track to see which approach is working better. I am using an article marketing campaign to start off with to drive traffic to the landing page and have my affiliate links there.

I have mentioned I have been using EzineArticles and StreetArticles for the articles linking to the landing pages. I don't really have a reference to tell me what to expect starting out for traffic numbers other then what the sites report. But I do see a difference in CTR between the two.

With my Ezine account, I have 4 article with just over 100 visits . Not all articles were published for the whole month and with the addition of new articles, I expect it to go up. The click through ratio was at just over ten percent, which from a little reading, feel this is quite high, maybe got lucky, but don't expect it to sustain that figure. I have heard 1-3% is an acceptable level. If someone else knows otherwise, please correct me.

I am also using StreetArticles to continue the campaign and diversify a little. I want to add a third sight, but think it better to become more familiar with my writing style than mass produce a number of filler or regurgitated material. Anyway, with StreetArticles, I have five articles published and combined had almost 120 visits for the month. The big difference I see now is the CTR I am experiencing. At just below 1.5%, there is a dramatic difference between these and my Ezine articles. Or is this just a more realistic number that I should expect to see? I'm going to do some testing (well, figure out how to) to see if it simply has to do with how the links are presented

I have also mentioned my blog on Wordpress that is bringing in some minimal traffic right now. I had 35 visits to approximately 7 posts for the month of March. I still don't have a structure and am trying to figure it out and right now, it feels as if it's all over the place. Once I get this settled in, I feel confident there is going to show an improvement.

I have also sold some old stuff on Ebay in an attempt to build up my PayPal account. I guess I'm not technically going penniless, but my wife likes the idea of getting rid of the unnecessary and it will assist in getting my own web page and explore PPC campaigns.

I also am going to open accounts with social networking sights under my article publishing and keep it separate from my personal accounts. This will include comment posts. Not sure how well this will work, but it's a learning experience, right?