New game plan

by Sapphire (May 26, 2006)

Yesterday I wrote about the idea that I’m trying to do too much too fast with my affiliate sites. It would certainly explain the burnout I’ve been feeling.

The bottom line is: I don’t want to put myself through the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree trying to figure out how Google positions sites. If it’s going to be that hard or that miserable, I’d do better getting some offline schooling and getting a nice-paying job I loathe. This is supposed to be fun and challenging, but not frustrating.

So I have a new gameplan: until I start making $1,000/month, I’m having no new ideas. Period. That means my online money life will consist of:

• Write three posts a week on my “B-2 Bomber” blog site. Got other authors contributing, so there’s at least one post a day.
• Write at least three posts on this site, preferably more. I’ve been so lax about that.
• Every week, add a few new items to every aff site. Even just one per site is something.
• Every month, clean out all dead links from aff sites. I was surprised how quickly I sailed through this last week.
• Every 1-2 weeks, go through the sites that have been submitted to my directories and approve/reject.
• Every week, add three articles to each of my article blogs.
• Every time VileSilencer comes up with a new free directory list (like today!), put my aff sites through the new ones at the top of the list. The blog sites don’t seem to need this.

That’s it. Once this gameplan gets me to that $1,000 mark, I’ll start looking at what I’ve got: what’s working, what could be improved, what’s not working. And consider starting brand new sites, armed with everything I’ll have learned by then.

If I get bored, I’ll look at the free Shopster account I started, and see if I can make anything happen with it. I also have a pretty much useless domain that’s sitting around with some decent PR - I should really do something with it, so if I get bored, there ya go.

I may also find time to read my friends’ blogs a bit more. I’ve really been bad about that lately. I wanted to get my head scrubbed entirely clean of Google rumors and CJ rumors and all that jazz, and I do find I work much better without that stuff taking up headspace. But now that I’m “clean”, I can go back to reading the occasional speculation without getting sucked in.

And that’s about it.

Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Traffic
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