Affiliate Aims

I think I have identified a weak point, put I am not sure how exactly to define it. It has taken me a week to do 3 pages of content for BOB, failing every daily aim relating to content writing, not because it’s not something I am good at (heading towards a first class law degree would indiciate to some extent I can write) it’s just, well I dont know really! My problem was deciding what content to put on the site, content that wouldn’t clash with my other sites and leave another site naked because all the good content is on BOB. So is that my weakness? Too many related sites? Not being able to think of “perfect” content? Or always striving for absolute perfection when I should “just do it”?! A solution to these problems combined would simply be just write, if it’s not good enough rewrite it, at least I have some sort of article to start from and develop.

My Daily Aims for 10th March (and 11th and 12th) were:

- Write 5 pieces of content for BOB – 3 done!
– Have at least 15 article titles for content for BOB – done – and almost split equally between the three categories of the site which is great. I did have over 20 article titles in progress on Microsoft Word, my laptop decided to automatically update in the middle of the night and restart therefore losing the document and the auto recovery only recovered the first 2 lines, so that’s something I learnt the hardway – save, save, save!

On a positive note I have now received enough merchant acceptances to be able to start of the affiliate content rather than the content on the static pages.

My Daily Aims for 13th and 14th March (putting these together for the weekend!)

- Purchase the prizes for the BOB competition draw
- Have a total of 10 pages on BOB
- Have at least 1 post in each category (there are 16 categories)
- Have the merchant list completed with all merchants I have been accepted by.
- Decide on the weekly feature posts, one for each day of the week!
- Install xml sitemap on BOB and submit to search engines
As you have noticed I am concentrating mainly on BOB at the minute, once the framework of the site and main articles have been added it will be much easier to update on a daily basis with affiliate posts and I can then start on building backlinks and starting off my mini sites.

A day late at updating but I ended up not being able to do anything on Friday so my aims were transferred to Saturday and this is how I done:

- Finish the holding page for PP - this is semi done, the page is basic, has a list of the top 10 products on and 2 affiliate links but I want to put a quick description on for the products and some pictures. I attempted using the wysiwyg editor on my cpanel but the amount of time I spent faffing around I could have done it quicker in notepad, so time wasted but lesson learnt – dont bother with wysiwyg editors
- Purchase the Woo Themes Canvas theme to make modifying and creating unique wordpress affiliate sites easier! - DONE
- Finish sorting out the categories for BOB. – DONE
- Modify the canvas wordpress theme for BOB - not started, I am contemplating just using the studiopress theme I already have installed on the site now, at this stage I think it’s more important to get a site up and running and concentrate on the design later.
- Write the About page for BOB – DONE

My aims for Sunday 7th March:

- Create a logo for BOB
- Change the colours on BOB and add a pattern
- Change some of the coding on the BOB wordpress theme
- Install related posts plugin for BOB
- Do at least 2 product reviews for BOB

There isn’t much really but I know I will waste time making the logo and picking colours so there isn’t much point making a big list which I will just fall behind, setting achievable aims will stop me losing motivation.

I have a bit of a “going around in circles situation” I have joined 3 networks but need to join merchants, however those that aren’t auto accept will probably reject BOB in its current state yet I cant really add more content until I have affiliate links yet cant do that until I have content and so on

Once these sites are completed my aims will be revolving around doing at least one thing every day to help get a sale on each site! I have heard this tactic mentioned a lot so it must work. Now I am off to complete my aims (and count how many domains I have as its creeping up slowly!)

My aims for today:

- Finish the holding page for PP
- Purchase the Woo Themes Canvas theme to make modifying and creating unique wordpress affiliate sites easier!
- Finish sorting out the categories for BOB
- Modify the canvas wordpress theme for BOB
- Write the About page for BOB

My problem with BOB is it is my biggest website, targets a huge market and has quite a few competing sites so I need it to stand out designwise and as I am a perfectionist I have been fiddling around with colours on ColorLovers.com for about a week now and I still have nothing.

Any unachieved aims will be passed onto tomorrows list.