Building a Chicken Coop E-book Affiliate Site -Monetizing failed-Needs Tweaking

Selling with no reserve

Hey, this is a sale for my first website, an attempt at affiliate marketing, got the site building bit down, but failed at writing the copy to encourage people to buy. Built the site and wrote the information myself, its got something like 8 pages to attract people. 

Only 1 problem with it it that it sells nothing. Spent ages making and remaking it, but it only ever sold 2 copies (which is under $50 profit, so clickbank still has my money...).

I know its a top selling niche, listed by clickbank as such, and I've got the traffic (don't ask me how, I tried with adwords and failed, somehow I've got onto google's organic list), but people come and leave and don't buy.

I know its a problem with my sales copy, fact is I have no freaking idea how to do it properly, I'm sure someone will just tweak it a bit and it will make them tons, but the fact of the matter is that I can't do that, therefore keeping it isn't going to help me, and I'm getting paranoid about having to pay for hosting again, even though its more than a year off.

Basically I've poured way too much time into this website, and I haven't even recouped my minimal start up costs and I'm sick of it, I just want out, if I keep it I'll eventually just have to pay more money for hosting. So I'm willing to let it go for whatever, so long as someone buys it, course, if you feel like encouraging a young entrepreneur, feel free to bit over $110 (my start costs).

Some other details:

I got a really good deal with Just Host when I started, hosting costs $70 every 2 years, plus I think its about $10 per year for domain name registration, and thats ongoing, so thats part of the deal here to. Oh, and that deal was for unlimited bandwidth and uploads/downloads and stuff. I'm suspicious that thats a too good deal, so I suspect that if you load it up too much it might start going slow, but I'll leave that up to you, I never managed to load it up too much.

As I said, I had a go with adwords and failed rahter miserably, spend somehtign like $60-70 on advertising and got no sales. I think I have about $40 in there... better check. Hahaha, it appears they've actually given me extra credit XD probably because I stopped all campaigns for 4 months since I was loosing money hand over fist, so there is actually $128 of prepaid adwords credit to get you going there. So I'll give you that, with the credit and all the stats and keywords I tried, to give you an idea. Considering keeping and using it, but chances are I wouldn't do much better this time either, need to learn how to do it well first. I was going to let this go at $1, but wwith that much credit in there I might put it at $30, at least then it covers my selling costs...

I think I also set it up with Adsense, which I have never checked since, so I'll give you that account as well, since its all set up and corresponds, I'll just check it first... Haha, ok, I've earned $1.88 from adsense since February, not sure if I've set it up right though, since it has only recorded 1200 views of the 3 or 4 thousand it should have. If you know your way around it you should be able to check that pretty easy.

Only other thing I can think of is my old sales page which I put a lot of effort into, its sitting in the back end as an archive, its more of your classic sales copy, so if you want to use that its there.

Oh, also I get about 300 unique visitors a month, since I've pretty much given up on this site since February they are all organic and happen by themselves, I haven't tried driving traffic or getting links or anything yet, so you can do that to boost things if you like. Just Host uses Cpanel to edit stuff, which I found really useful, so if you like that its there.

I built the website with straight html, so you can import that into any website editor you like.

Oh, and keywords, I'll give you the google analytics account linked to the site as well, it says I've got a bunch of links from google, though it doesn't say keywords, I had a quick look for a couple of the mist common ones, I'm ranked no. 12 on yahoo for the keyword 'keeping bantams' but I couldn't be bothered finding any more. But basically, I think because its been around for almost a year now, and been the same, the search bots have gone over it a lot, and its starting to become quite well known to them, so its gets random clicks from all kinds of keyword, several from 'chicken coop plans' which i was really happy about, since thats the main selling keyword, and I didn't even have to pay for it.

So I think thats about all there is to know about it, had a look at transferring clickbank accoutns so you don't have to change the links, but doesn't look like its a good idea, so you will have to replace my hoplinks with yours, other than that, please someone take this thing off of me =p And don't email me back saying how much money your making from it >.< unless you want to teach me how I guess...

Happy bidding, and Have a nice day