About Loretta

Mom, affiliate marketer, cross stitcher, writer, blogger, wife, finder of lost shoes...

Loretta Oliver, married to the comic book geek of her dreams and mother of four boys ages 10 to 15, has been working from home full time since 2001, starting out working for others and gradually moving into working for herself.

Now she has busy transcription service business, a few profitable blogs, and a host of other internet marketing projects on her virtual resume.

Traffic Without Conversions on Niche Site B

June 6, 2013 by Loretta · 2 Comments

So the rankings are improving continuously and the traffic is growing day by day on Site B. The links are getting clicked on but the offers are not converting.

Here are the rankings for 5/25 and 6/5…

The site is averaging around 25 visitors per day. Visitors are clicking on things, but I’m not seeing any conversions at all. It’s worth noting here that this site is focused on physical products, not information products. I put in Amazon links while I waited for approval in a few more targeted affiliate programs that would likely do well on the site. [Read more...]

Filed Under: My Niche Projects · Tagged With: forever affiliate, niche site b

Squidoo Lenses for May – or not

May 31, 2013 by Loretta · 4 Comments

You were probably expecting to see some Squidoo lenses here, right? Sorry, no lenses this month. Again.

Blue-Snowball-Microphone-Review-Squidoo-Lens I’m still not confident it’s even worth my time to create pages on Squidoo. The traffic from search engines still hasn’t recovered and Amazon sales via lenses is at an all time low.

Earlier this month Squidoo HQ was complaining about incoming links to lenses and saying lenses they felt had too many “low quality” links would be flagged/locked/deleted. The updates and notices they send out to lensmasters are often ridiculously vague and I just don’t have time to keep up with their constant changes and requests.
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Filed Under: Family Business, Squidoo Marketing ·

Site B Reached Page One in SERPs – Yay!

May 25, 2013 by Loretta · 1 Comment

I’m pretty proud of myself this weekend. I decided to peek in and see how I was doing for the batch of keywords I picked for my niche sites. I started with Site B because it has a shorter list of phrases than most of my other sites have so the report runs pretty fast.

I haven’t done a lot of work on this site other than the initial set up and link building so I’m happy with these results so far…

Okay, I need to go run reports on my other sites now

How are your niche projects coming along?

Filed Under: My Niche Projects, Review Rant and Rave · Tagged With: forever affiliate, niche site b

Broke the 50 Referring Domain Mark for Backlinks (Yes, this is a Forever Affiliate update)

May 19, 2013 by Loretta · 2 Comments

When you start building links to your sites in the Forever Affiliate program one of the milestone points is reaching 50 referring domains to your site as viewed by the search engines. It seemed like it was taking forever to get there, but I finally broke 50 referring domains on Site A.

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This backlink report was generated using the free service at ahrefs.com.

So at this point if you chose a niche that is super focused, the course mentions that you might find yourself on page one of Google for some of your longtail keyword phrases already. I’m on page two for a handful of terms with this particular site. I’m going to sprinkle in a few stronger links and see what happens over the next two weeks.
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Filed Under: My Niche Projects, Review Rant and Rave · Tagged With: forever affiliate, niche site a, niche site b

Interesting Niche of the Week: Location Independent Lifestyles

May 13, 2013 by Loretta · Leave a Comment

It’s the dream of working online, living wherever you want or no where at all, taking your business with you in your pocket and being able to work from anywhere in the world while you travel and experience amazing things.

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