Archive for October, 2007

Google AdWords

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Finally, after changing servers, spending money and time on collecting email ids, and sending out hundreds of thousands of emails, I got lots of traffic to www.cosmetics-hair.com and www.taxhavencompany.com. Very few conversions though.

My internet marketing gurus tell me to stop sending emails, and to start a more focused approach via articles, links, affiliates and AdWords.

So, my career as a bulk emailer who was gradually shifting to being branded a spammer, has ended and I am now delving into the intricacies of Google’s AdWords!

Email Response

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Finally I am on a dedicated server and have restarted my email campaign. Getting a lot of visitors to the websites now. And some email enquiries so I know that some people are reading the emails.

Changed the www.cosmetics-hair.com index page!

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Finally I have changed the index page of www.cosmetics-hair.com! Average number of pages opened by every unique visitor has gone up to 7 from 2.

The day I send the email out I check the number of unique visitors visiting the website, and waiting for sales. The average number has gone up to 140 / day.

I wonder what the normal conversion ration is?

www.cosmetics-hair.com had 398 visitors today!

Monday, October 8th, 2007

I listened to the advice from my hosting company and spent more money to shift to a dedicated server!

Now I can do email marketing. And it is working in terms of traffic.

Surely sales will follow!?

Changed The Server!

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Finally I changed my server to a dedicated server and started my marketing campaign! On the first day my number of visitors went up to 150 from 22! Isn’t that great?

Bulk Emails & Web Hosting

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

The last 2 months I have been collecting emails at the rate of about 2000 per week. Building up a list. And sending sales pitches every week to the cumulative list! Now my email list is around 42,000 and I was sending 2 sales pitches [with all the proper links for people to unsubscribe!] to them every week for the last 4 weeks!

Yesterday to my horror one of my websites was suspended. On enquiry I discovered that I had exceeded the limit of sinding 200 emails per hour! I learnt about ‘throttling’ my email application. So at this rate I would send one message every 210 hrs. But thats not all. If the mailing list has more than a 2-3000 email Ids, only the first 200 go and then it stops!

So while I was sitting and wondering why more people were not coming to my site - it was because only 200 people were getting my email pitches.

So my hosting company recommended that I take a dedicated server and send as many emails that I want!

I signed up today for a dedicated server, but dont know how to manage it. The hosting comapny has promised to shift my websites to the new server.

Now I am excited all over again - a new light is there at the end of the tunnel!

While I am doing SEO, affiliate marketing, articles, links from forums, and a blog, email marketing is really possible now.