I built AnimalImages.biz out of animal posters and books from All Posters
and Amazon. The expenses were a few domains and hosting. Cost: $97

Eventually I’ll pay our writer, too. Cost: $150

Search engine optimization efforts were minimal and included directory submissions. I bought pay per click on Yahoo, where our ads got 12,632 impressions and 41 clicks averaging the 2nd position on Yahoo’s search page.  The doorm-room.net Yahoo keywords include “college dorm room checklist,” “dorm room picture,” “dorm room” and “dorm room decorating.” These had the most impressions. Cost: $73.86.

The first change I made was to get off the animal images and onto the dorm room marketing angle. I am now marketing dorm-room.net, college-dorm-room.com and dorm-room-decor.com.

July intake:
All Posters: $3.82
Amazon: $0.00

Affiliate Marketing Experiment
AnimalImage.biz is our first full-blown affiliate-driven ecommerce venture. It is powered by Amazon Associates Program and AllPosters.com Affiliates Program. Today I am adding linkshare.com animal magazines.

Animal Image Target Market: Dorm Room Decor
The site’s marketing target is the young girl going to college. Girls — much more than boys — will express their homesickness and actually try to do something about it. So our marketing strategy validates the girl’s experience and offers inspiring animal posters as a remedy.

Visitor Stats
We launched on July 8 2006. As of yesterday AnimalImage.biz had 34 search terms on Yahoo centered on the “dorm room” theme. To date (July 13) the ads have 3,244 impressions and 13 clicks. Today I updated the marketing copy on 8 ads. I believe some of them must have bee written in my sleep. I also need a lot more copy on the site itself but that is taking some time outside of my control. My web stats indicate that following # of unique visitors starting July 8: 40, 26, 34, 52, 8.

Promotion Activites
I launched the site on v7n.com forums by way of asking for feedback. I used OnlyWire and a few other tools to ping this post: Animal Image .biz (animalimage.biz) launched. I also submitted the site to some free search engine submission services, Yahoo, Google and MSN.

college-dorm-room.com, dorm-room-decor.com, dorm-room.net
The Search Engines are rewarding keyword domains so today I added and 301-forwarded some good college dorm room domains. college-dorm-room.com, dorm-room-decor.com and dorm-room.net are not meant for human consumption, they exist for the search engines.

July 12 2006 AnimalImage Revenue Results
$0.00

 

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Today we’re monetizing the blog with LinkShare affiiate links. I chose techie and game links because I assume my audience is techie and game-ie. The LinkShare program is straightforward to join. The interface is similar to commission junction, easier to read.

I placed some links on the sidebar and some are over this article. I’ll report back on AdSense vs. LinkShare success.

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Join us as we experiment with a brand spanking new affiliate marketing site. Today we added dog magazines, dog books and dog stories to our dog posters. The content comes from amazon.com and allposters.com affiliate programs, and our newest writer Castina Watson. Until we figure out exactly how we want to reproduce the results the site is not using a database. The pages are simple table cells that include individual files containing affiliate code.

The Yahoo ad program is setup, were waiting for editorial release. The theme is “decorate your dorm room with animal posters.”

We will be adding internal cross linking to make it easier for the visitor to stick to the site.

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