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Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com

6 Jul, 2007  Marketing, Education  Brian Armstrong

Alexa Comparison of Shopping WebsitesToday 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.

This post is part of a series on Website Marketing

Table of Contents:

  1. Building Website Traffic - Three Items Per Day For A Month
  2. Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
  3. Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
  4. Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
  5. Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
  6. Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
  7. Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
  8. Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
  9. Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
  10. Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
  11. Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
  12. Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
  13. Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
  14. Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
  15. Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
  16. Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
  17. Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
  18. Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
  19. Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
  20. Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
  21. Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
  22. Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
  23. Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple's Marketing, and RSS Confusion
  24. Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
  25. Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
  26. Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
  27. Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
  28. Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
  29. Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
  30. Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
  31. Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
  32. Conclusion
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