Let me lay it out for you simply: fun dog collars? Did I really choose that as a niche? I mean, how much can one sane person write about fun dog collars for godsakes? Don’t things like that make you twitch and/or go blind? That’s what my mother told me, anyway.
Which is really why Week #1 and picking your niche is so important. I mean, really, super duper important. If you’re going to be locked into writing copious amounts of copy about something - which is key to getting good Search Engine Optimization (SEO), which in turn is key to the whole 30 DC, then My God make it something you want to sell. I mean, I could have picked something to do with mountain biking. Or tech. Or even barn-raising. But - gulp - dog collars? Gag me with the nearest tennis ball.
“But it is only supposed to be a test,” my inner self-flagellating voice keeps telling me. “Chill.” So that’s what I’ll do, for 13 more days anyway.
All that said - I dig the 30 DC. It really is rock solid to date - especially with the introduction of Posterous as a distribution engine. I love it. I just can never see myself tweeting or Facebooking about the latest in canine neckwear, so I really have’t leveraged that part much yet at all. But the overall theme of building a ‘network of content’ is great advice, though incredibly time consuming.
Here’s the stats:
- 63 visitors to the magnificent www.fundogcollars.com
- 8 clicks through to my Amazon affiliate links
- 12.7% Click Through Rate
- Zero Purchases
Now the whole premise of the 30 DC is to make $1. I think my conversion rate could be jacked up so I’m going to tweak the page a bit and maybe I’ll get there in the end. Lord knows I wish I had some mad design skills - the site is mutt ugly.
Fun dog collars? Shoot me.
