I’m back with some more questions for you….
I’m going to give Niche Blitzkrieg a try and see what I can do with it. From what I have gathered, there are additional programs you can purchase to help you. What one/ones would you recommend I start with?
Thanks again Shaun and have a great day !

I’m new to all of this, but from what I’ve learned so far in Michael’s course, this is just like any other business venture, you have to work to make the money. I’m not putting you down, but I find that many people put up a site and expect to go gangbusters making lost of money right away. It just doesn’t happen, or very rarely happens.

From being a recruiter and being responsible for our advertising, I know that it takes time for people to find you. Additionally, it’s often a numbers game. By that, I mean that, the more places I post our jobs, the more potential candidates are going to see it and the more resumes I’m going to receive. And then, the more resumes I receive, the higher the potential I will find the most qualified candidate. But it definitely takes time, work, research, and of course, money.

I also think that, the more niche sites I create and publish, the more successful I will be. It will take a lot more than one site for me to see some good revenue coming in, for the most part.

And I truly believe that you have to spend money to make money. I don’t mean tons of cash. But so far, it has been so worth the few dollars I spent on the Niche Blitzkrieg course to get me moving in the right direction.

And the forums really are great. I’ve already used them several times and haven’t even had to post a question, most have already been asked/answered by others. You will see many, many posts from Michael in there. Very supportive system.

One additional item, I found that the picture you have at the top of the page loads quite slowly. For someone like myself, who likes to move quickly through pages and websites, it was a little cumbersome.

Good luck to you!

I am Michael Brown the creator of Niche Blitzkrieg.

Thanks for leaving the feedback. Inside Niche Blitzkrieg we have an extremely helpful forum that would have been happy to help you with your sales issues.

That’s what we are there for – to help you. That’s why we’ve had outstanding positive feedback because we actually help our students rather than just give you a course and say “Have fun with that!” So at anytime we’d be happy to work with you and see what the problems are so you can help correct them.

I see from checking your site that you are ranked #5 for gelato maker which is cool because actually I had never even heard of this thing lol.

One thing you can try here is removing the picture on the front page and maybe moving it down later in the post. If you’d add a small 486 x 90 adsense banner where the picture is sitting you’d probably see a sharp revenue increase.

Also you made this statement…

“Thanks to all this advertising, my site quickly made it up to Google’s Top 10. On Yahoo, my site was #4 in the listings. And yet, the sales just aren’t there. And neither are the page views, for that matter.”

The main thing I really want to point out here is you mention that the page views are simply not there. That’s probably your biggest issue. For sales to happen you need traffic. If you’re in the top 10 and you’re not getting traffic then your niche probably isn’t strong enough or basically the keywords aren’t getting searched enough. I noticed the keyword you picked as the main keyword is getting around 2400 exact a month which isn’t bad but you’ll need additional pages to bring in more traffic to have this site generate a substantial amount of income.

To help remedy this you could:

Add more pages to your site with targeted keywords or reformat the particular page that isn’t making you money. Also the other thing you can do is get your additional pages ranked as well and not just the home page. This will greatly help increase ad clicks and sales at the same time.

Over time you won’t need to submit many articles to see traffic etc. as the site will rank naturally with very little work. By the looks of it your site is still climbing for it’s main keywords. If you can get that up to the top 3 you’ll do even better with this site. Most people will click ads before they will actually purchase online. It may not be a bad idea to do a review style site for additional models of Gelato Makers. I think a lot of people may not know what these are and may just be looking for information about gelato makers so a review of different models might be helpful. You could use reviews from amazon customers since i see you’re an affiliate with amazon.

These are just some suggestions and we’d love to help you out more in our forum. So come on back inside the course and meet us in the forum and we’ll be happy to work with you here.

http://www.gelato-maker.com

However, the only earnings I’ve really seen are from a few ad views via Google AdSense. I’ve yet to make a product sale of any kind, even though I have monetized the site with Google AdSense, and Amazon (I even put in an Amazon store). I really couldn’t use any other service (ClickBank, LinkShare) because the product was simply not available through these sites. Yet, I do think that Google, and especially Amazon, did a great job of offering my intended products, so I am still stumped as to the lack of sales.

Furthermore, I carefully researched my site’s keywords and did the requisite articles (2), press release (1), classified ad (1), and I submitted the site to every RSS feed site I could find using RSSbot (a software program advertised by M. Brown). I eventually purchased PRESSbot, which is another software program offered through the NB system.

Thanks to all this advertising, my site quickly made it up to Google’s Top 10. On Yahoo, my site was #4 in the listings. And yet, the sales just aren’t there. And neither are the page views, for that matter.

In my first half-month after I put up the gelato site, I made about $2.26 in ad views. That number jumped up to $12.48 in my second month (April), thanks in large part to my constant article and press release submissions. However, for the month of May, since I have not submitted any kind of articles for this site, it just sits there, and will be bringing in roughly $3 by the end of this month.

I’m not saying that NB is a bad system or a scam, but I do think that there are critical items left out of the teaching manual. For starters, it’s not enough to pick a niche topic that is not too competitive. You must also pick a HOT topic that is in demand. However, in order to do this, you need to get out of niche topic areas.

Likewise, it helps to market your own items, like eBooks, or your own related products. However, if you already have your own products, you probably also already have a traffic stream that you can tap into, making sales much easier.

As it now stands, I am rather busy building a blog site, so I have not made a second web site for my NB ventures. However, I may return in time.