Christmas IPK Sites Christine Is Working On

I love IPK (Info Product Killer) and I think Christine is making great progress learning all the tips and tricks that IPK teaches for Christmas affiliate sites.

I gave Christine a huge long list of things I though she should be working on…  and she has been plowing away through the list. Baby steps.

Christine is going to pull her hair out today… I have another list!

Starting with Battery Powered Candles site (it’s a baby site – an IPK term)  which had (has) some things that needed fixing.  This is all part of the learning process.

The header and sidebars looked “messy”.  So after a bit of fiddling with widget text and altering the header graphic – the site looks a bit cleaner.

This candle related niche is really an evergreen niche… so after the holidays – Christine can change the Christmas Graphics header to look more generic.  This is one of those sites that will make passive income (PDF file) all year long.

Christine did add in a call to action graphic (taught in the IPK strategies) – Good Job! (Peter – her hubby – helped big time!)

I thought the call to action was for a product that would not be a bestseller for her (just my opinion).  The call to action graphic was also inserted into a blog post that had nothing to do with the graphic.

We moved the graphic to a related blog post – and then inserted a new call to action graphic in a widget so it always shows right under the header graphic.  (see the image up higher)

We also added in a Google Adsense Graphic in the sidebar – which is pulling in a Flameless Candle Advertisement – Perfect!

I’m not “in love” with this theme – for several reasons:

• The links aren’t blue
• The code (it’s a freebie theme) isn’t clean.
• The little boxes that highlight tags, categories and such… are annoying and messy.

Christine could fiddle with this theme and end up making a mess.  I would suggest she switch over to Thesis Theme (My Favorite) after the new year.

I would like to see Christine move the “legal” pages to the footer and get her disclaimer inserted as well.  Something easy and similar to what she did in the Hogwarts Castle Lego site:

This image is hard to see… you get the idea. Click on the image to see the full blog and scroll down to the footer.

Christine also needs to keep a close eye on her email.  When a site starts to get close to it’s bandwidth limit… you get an email!  Unless you “up” the bandwidth limitations in your hosting account… your site could go down.

I’m only going to critique one of Christine’s IPK style sites at a time. It’s easy for her to get overwhelmed and I want her to concentrate on content and getting inbound links.

This Candle Niche website only has ONE inbound link – and it’s from this DebraConrad.com site.  So I need to slap Christine with a wet noodle.  I also checked the stats and her site has lot’s of traffic (relative)  but it’s all coming from readers of this blog.

Christine is excited because she made a few Amazon sales and a fit of Google Adsense Income:

These are Lego Brand Items – 7 sales – and she made $8.09. Christine has sold enough items to bump up the commission rate to 6% .

Next – I’ll show you where Christine is offering products that give a much higher commission rate.  I love the Amazon affiliate program… but they are not the “Only” game in town!

p.s. If you still haven’t jumped into the Christmas Affiliate Game – Don’t worry.  Info Product Killer teaches strategies to use all year ’round. It’s a game changer in Affiliate Marketing.

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