I am going to tell you a story…one that I haven’t shared with anyone to this day. I mean ANYONE.
This story takes me back to 2004, in the earlier stages of my entrepreneurial activity online. This was a time when affiliate marketing was just a mere fraction of the size that it is today, yet there were still some really awesome rewards to be had back then (I personally believe there are more now).
I initially started out in the PPC world. I was thick and heavy into keyword research as keywords are what make or break your business in the PPC world.
Sure there is the structure and flow between your keywords and the products you are promoting, but there were definitely trends that I saw between keywords that were converting and ones that were not.
One day I found what I thought to be a gold mine.
It came in the form of a keyword that would yield me 1,000+ clicks per day at an average of $0.50…I had a decent sized PPC budget at this point and I could afford the expenditure of $10,000+ per month in advertising…but only if there was a profit to be had.
Anyways, I will cut to the chase.
I had a simple, 3-4 page website and I sent the traffic from this keyword to a page on my site with highly relevant content, helpful info and the promotion of a highly targeted product (through an affiliate program).
This ONE keyword earned me more money than I could ever imagine. I would consistently earn $1,000+ per day from this one keyword! Yes, ONE keyword and this gold mine lasted for close to a year before an influx of competition entered the same keyword space.
It was like clock work. Every day I would wake up and make sure the keyword was well funded…and that my ad was still live. Then I would watch the money from this ONE keyword come in every day, $1,000…$1,000 more…$1,000 more.
In fact, ONE keyword made me more profits than most people make in 3-4 years, in ONE year. So I could have gone and got a job at the bank or a construction job or a job at a local IT company (which I had prior to “finding” the Internet), but instead I found one keyword.
Back then I didn’t really understand the benefits of SEO…but if I did, this would have been free traffic I was getting by getting free search rankings! Free traffic would have mean ALL profit!
Crazy isn’t it….
This is something that will happen the more that you work within the online world. This is something that has happened to me many times over the years…perhaps not to this exact scale, but there are BILLIONS of keywords out there, many of them which have next to no competition.
Many of them with this sort of “astronomical” potential.
Sound appealing?
Sure… not every keyword is going to turn out to be a “profit whale” like this one, but I just wanted to put things into perspective for you. Keywords are the root of all searches online and understanding them and understanding how to rank under them can be a very lucrative venture…
Meaning several $100K per year…
And if someone comes in and out ranks you, there are MILLIONS of other keywords out there.
Wealthy Affiliate will help you find these keywords!
Plain and simple.
I hope you enjoyed my story… about my one keyword and the extraordinary success. This happens…happens to many people that I know, and it could happen to you.
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