Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
Today is day 19 of my 30 day challenge to bring more readers to this website, increase the number of RSS subscribers, and sell more books. This is part of a live demonstration I’m doing to show that blogging can be a profitable and inexpensive business that anyone can start.
My three tasks for the day were…
1. The book finally appeared on Barnes & Noble’s website, but it doesn’t look quite right yet. I spent some time sending them higher resolution cover images (front & back) and some changes to the text. It needs a little cleaning up before prime time. It should also appear on Amazon.com relatively soon.
2. I added the book to Froogle, Googles product directory. Strangely, the listing will only last for 30 days as a maximum. I guess they expect retailers to continually list their products.
3. I added the book to Shopping.com’s directory, which also feeds sites like MySimon. Of the various shopping comparison sites, Shopping.com seems to be the most popular. This listing was not free, and costs $0.15 per click that they drive to this website. I’m funding the account with $50 so it will drive 333 visitors, and I’ll track how many end up buying. To break even, 3 or 4 of those people (about 1%) will have to buy the book.
Table of Contents:
- Building Website Traffic - Three Items Per Day For A Month
- Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
- Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
- Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
- Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
- Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
- Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
- Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
- Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
- Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
- Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
- Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
- Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
- Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
- Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
- Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
- Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
- Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
- Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
- Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
- Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
- Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
- Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple's Marketing, and RSS Confusion
- Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
- Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
- Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
- Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
- Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
- Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
- Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
- Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
- Conclusion
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