Here is a sorry sight for your eyes, and to also show that I have some work ahead of me to make the new affiliate challenge I set for myself yesterday. That picture is from my Clickbank account, nothing to write home about huh:)

After I finished the post yesterday I went on to write 4 articles on some Clickbank products I had in mind. I picked the products based on the fact that they converted in PPC, and as I cannot use PPC anymore I wanted to give them a try using only free traffic methods.

I’m going to start with 5 products, 2 from clickbank, 2 from plimus.com, and a CPA offer via PepperJam.com. Again some of the products were selected because of a successful PPC campaign in the past, and a couple of others I researched into them and decided that they too had a really good chance of converting.

The articles will be based around keywords for that product, each one will be 100% original and written by me only. I started with ArticleBase and GoArticles because they seem to publish your articles so much quicker than EzineArticles, but I do have a few articles waiting to be published with Ezine. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Because I am aiming at writing a lot of articles, I wanted to make sure that the product selection I am going with is at least enjoyable to write about, I also went with products I had some general knowledge in as well, this will cut down on research time and any other fact finding issues.

Three articles went live yesterday so I’ll spend some time working on some back-links to each article, just making sure I spread out the link love over a period of time, and not bring them all in at once.

I made sure I selected the keywords correctly making sure there was not a great deal of competition, but also that the keyword did have decent traffic all at the same time. Long-tail keywords will be mostly used in order to try and grab some top listings in the search engines, so I can eventually grab that traffic for free!