I have a love-hate relationship with Google.
Whenever I’m ranking well (preferably in the #1 position), I love it.
Whenever it starts tossing me around like a rag doll in a German shepherds mouth during attack training, I hate it.
Well today that powder keg of a search engine has wiggle wormed its way back into good graces with me.
A couple of days ago my latest Squidoo lens (101 Nonfiction Writing Prompts) was ranked between #6-#9 for the exact keywords I wanted – mainly the ones based around nonfiction writing prompts.
Then like a relationship that ends with a “I-don’t-think-I-can-do-this-anymore” text message, Google suddenly relegated me to page 3… then page 4. Oy vey… I didn’t even mention that travesty yesterday!
But for whatever reason, I’ve been permitted back onto the first page with an even stronger position. For nonfiction writing prompts I’m currently at #4. It’s not top three, but sometimes you gotta be happy with the gold ribbon instead of the big, sparkly princess crown.
Google Rank versus No Google Rank
Just to show you what a difference a change in position can make, let’s look at the traffic stats.
On Tuesday when I got booted to the badland of search results, that lens got 6 visitors. Yesterday it was only 4.
Today, however, with the change for the better, I’m looking at 14 visitors. Plus there were a few click thrus to the 1,699 Nonfiction Writing Prompts page. I am pleased.
HubPages Article Revisited
On Tuesday I wrote a HubPages article – (Generate Article Ideas from Non-Fiction Writing Prompts) – to promote 1,699 Nonfiction Writing Prompts. That critter fritter still isn’t even a blip in the first five pages of search results. It has received a grand total of 10 visitors this WEEK.
In fact, it is 101 Nonfiction Writing Prompts that’s in the #6 position for the term non-fiction writing prompts.
No worries though. I make money through the HubPages ad revenue program, so every new article I submit contributes to my slush fund. HubPages is WOO-HOO-licious in that respect.
So even if you see my bitchin’ about the lack of rank (not all of my HubPages articles are so lackluster), I’ll still keep writing for them simply because I do make money there every day. Every site has its strength and if you’re smart, you’ll just learn to work within those confines.
Sales for the Day
To my super awesome surprise I got two orders today. One for 1,699 Nonfiction Writing Prompts and one for How to Write Blog Posts that Sell eBooks.
Add a happy dance to these sales because they both came from Amazon. Meaning none of my 50 million incoming affiliate links generated those sales.
I LIKE seeing this happen.
I don’t want to have to market my ebooks on Amazon. That’s really the whole purpose of being on a site of this magnitude. It has a ton of incoming traffic and I want to take advantage of that.
I’m getting the ball rolling so those titles will always have traffic. But it isn’t my goal to do this forever.
I need to get back to writing 98 more ebooks so I’ll have 100 titles up on Amazon. That’s my initial goal. For this year.
If I were getting 1 sale a day for 100 ebooks @ $2.00 profit per book, that’s an easy $6K a month. And that’s thinking ultra conservatively.
Speaking of which, Book #6 is beckoning for a little writing attention. Until tomorrow my friends, stay hungry!
