(Series) – Just an Update on Everything
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Hey Cashtactics.net readers! I just wanted to give you an update as to what is going on with the series. I know I haven’t written anything in a while but that’s because there really isn’t anything to write about at this point in time. But I do apologize for not keeping you in the loop sooner. I’ve been in the process for the last week or so moving into a new office building as well as moving in one of my employees and a business partner.
So here is your update to the series.
First thing I did a couple of weeks ago is I put the site together. Not just a bunch of random pages like it was before, but now the site is hooked up and working. The first page you hit is the squeeze page. We used aweber for the autoresponder. After they sign up for aweber they get pushed off to a secret tip. This secret tip should be good enough to keep them coming back for more. At the bottom of the secret tip they are presented with a link to the sales letter.
For this product we used paypal as the payment gateway. If you don’t know how to set that up you can ask in the members forum. I’ll be more than happy to jump in there and help you out. Anyways, after they purchase the product paypal will push them off to a thank you page. This thank you page should only have a little thank you message and another autoresponder form. This form will be for a different mailing list. Not the original list we had people sign up to before. This is how we separate our buyers from the rest of the group. Once they sign up they get pushed on to a page so that they can download their product.
The URL for the thank you page and the download page should be some weird combination of numbers and letters. For example your thank you page could be www.domain.com/thankyoualakajlewjc9393aj9309cj409jcojrrlkcjsli4jje.html . This will keep people from guessing the link.
Then you can use a robot.txt file to block the thank you page and the download page from being indexed into the search engines. Here is the code for blocking pages from the search engines.
# robots.txt for your site
User-agent: *
Disallow: /thankyoupage.html
Disallow: /downloadpage.html
Disallow: /orthewholefolder/
Ok if you didn’t understand that User-agent: * means every search engine spider/bot. Then you are telling them to not have access to specific pages or folders… It’s really easy. Just upload that into a regular .txt file, name it robot.txt and then upload it into the root of your website.
Okay once the site was all set up I sat down for a couple of hours and I showed the two guys how to do some basic FREE marketing. We went over yahoo answers, blog marketing, forum marketing, and youtube video ripping.
You can see we have begun to gather visitors to the site. Here are our results for optins from aweber.
So, we’ve begun to get some results. I’m sure some of those optins come from readers here. I promise… there isn’t any reason for you to sign up so please don’t if you don’t have to we would like to try and keep these numbers as close to accurate as possible.
We have yet to make a sale, but we are in there working hard to drive traffic to the site. Once we get some more data I will begin to tweak the site to make it convert better. I’ll also be installing a click map over the site. This will help me determine what actions I need to take.
That’s it for an update. I’ll get with these guys tonight and tomorrow. I’ll make sure to have something for you on Thursday!
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31 Comments on this post
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- AffPortal said:
Good stuff Kris. Are you guys planning any PPC for this site after you get it tweaked with your organic traffic?
~ Corey
March 1st, 2010 at 12:41 pm - Tipjar said:
Nice updates Kris, was wondering how the series was comin’.
P.s.>totally off-topic, but who did the minisite design for MassPPVtraffi.com?
March 1st, 2010 at 2:11 pm - Tipjar said:
traffic**
March 1st, 2010 at 2:12 pm - SEO Generation said:
Thanks for this. Really interesting to read about the robots.txt.
March 1st, 2010 at 2:50 pm - Net Age | Web Design said:
Hiya Kris! It is great to get an update, and it is going to be interesting to watch the numbers grow over the following months. I’m looking forward to more…..
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 am - Laptop Carrying Case said:
If you block the thank you page via your robots.txt, some people might happen to view your robots.txt and discover this page. So it might be better to make a thank you folder and block the entire folder.
March 2nd, 2010 at 4:50 pm - cash textbooks said:
I am in the process of moving to another office space too, I can sympathize so well…
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:03 am - used tires said:
Good reading about the progress so far, Kris. Keep up the good work.
Till then,
Jean
March 4th, 2010 at 6:52 am - Charles said:
I would recommend adding the nofollow tag tot he top of the page instead of the robots.txt, browsers can manually go to your robots.txt and find the freebie.
March 5th, 2010 at 8:53 am - hotel said:
Thanks for this. Really interesting to read about the robots.txt.
This article is very useful. :)March 5th, 2010 at 9:08 am - Nimit Kashyap said:
This is a great series..i am following you kris
March 8th, 2010 at 8:42 pm - Lan Rogue said:
Thank You . . .
This very helpful . . .March 9th, 2010 at 4:14 am - Lan Rogue said:
Thank You . . .
This is very helpful . . .March 9th, 2010 at 4:15 am - Debbie said:
Can you explain more about how you use YouTube Video Ripping for free marketing?
March 10th, 2010 at 10:45 pm - Arc Floor Lamps said:
Very interesting and informative post. A great read. Sounds like everything is going smoothly which is great.
March 11th, 2010 at 2:38 am - Jimmy Tang said:
Hey Kris,
Just read your interview on Volk’s website. Any update on this case study?
JT
March 12th, 2010 at 11:39 am - Jimvesting said:
Good to hear an update on your aweber excursion Kris. Check out what I’ve been doing at Jimvesting.com (the new site for TheNetFool.com). Keep up the good work!
March 12th, 2010 at 4:58 pm - orjin krem said:
If you block the thank you page via your robots.txt, some people might happen to view your robots.txt and discover this page.
March 14th, 2010 at 8:57 am - gitar said:
This is a great series.. Thank kris :)
March 29th, 2010 at 6:45 am - sözlük said:
Very interesting and informative post. A great read.
Very Thanks :)March 29th, 2010 at 7:59 am - cash textbooks said:
Ya i think the results are skewed a bit from people here subscribing and checking out the website too much
March 31st, 2010 at 6:33 am - designer said:
Great stuff…It was Pretty impressing…Thanks for sharing it…
April 1st, 2010 at 5:50 am - sell used textbooks said:
Well we can’t wait till you have some new tricks to share with us. Why not rehash everything like everyone else. I do respect that you want original stuff to share. Thanks I will keep checking back.
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:15 pm - sell used textbooks said:
Thanks for the update! The info regarding youtube for free marketing is a neat idea.
April 30th, 2010 at 1:03 pm - Bursa nakliyat said:
So great series! So pretty. For this update thank u man!
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:38 pm - wordpress seo said:
Really interesting. I dont think that disallow not usefull it.
May 20th, 2010 at 4:43 pm - Streaming said:
Awesome stuff..loved it
June 1st, 2010 at 12:40 am - migren said:
Awesome information. Thank u dude. As you say I wll try it.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:46 pm - Dailymissed said:
more update needed!!! but anyways great stuff
June 6th, 2010 at 8:06 am - House Rent Gurgaon said:
Everything In A just post!! Great Job.
June 17th, 2010 at 1:25 am - Oto Kiralama said:
Awesome stuff..Thanks for this.
June 20th, 2010 at 11:03 am
