Wow, for many reasons in May my income jumped quite a bit. I reached a new adsense milestone and income from most sources also increased :).
Here’s the breakdown:
$3700 from adsense
$103 from infolinks
$98 clickbank sales
$116 Amazon sales
$4017
Earnings from affiliate links on this site:
$455 from bluehost.com
$80 from SEMrush
$60 AR
$245 TKA
$44 AMR sale on clickbank
$884 from this website
Total of $4917!
I finally reached my summer goal of $150/day :). Wow, what an increase. The bluehost income comes from the first month of this website, they take 3 months before sending money because they won’t pay affiliates if someone cancels their hosting account within 3 months so I figured I would only add it when it’s actually sent. The big increase though is from adsense and it was quite amazing because I still haven’t added adsense to any website I created in 2011 or late 2010 (though I did finally add it to a website that’s starting to show on page 1 now this past week and it made $15 yay). Considering I probably was working less than 10% of my time on my old websites it’s great to see them increase in revenue even if I’m not actively doing much on them. Most of my time and my new VA’s time is spent creating content/figuring how I’ll create content. I’m trying a 100% product website on a new product that came out, not many keywords are usable because they aren’t really in Google adwords tool yet.
A lot of what I’m doing these days is trying out some new linking strategies and creating massive content/web 2.0 networks with my VA’s help. I takes a while because we are semi manually uploading spun content to a lot of them and slowly linking some of them together in a pretty crazy fashion. You can see an example of one on the image. Not sure how effective this is yet, but a lot of people like to promote multiple tier of backlinks as services out there and I figured if it works I might as well create my own and see for myself. So I use mostly unique article directories (ezine,hubpage, squidoo, infobarrel) and web 2.0s (wordpress,blogger,blog.com etc) that all mainly link to one web 2.0 that ends up linking to my main website.
Profile links
I’ve been trying profile links for a while now by using sick submitter and I’ll probably give a review about it soon enough. I’ve been using it since February and had seen some good results previously but then panda came along and I wasn’t sure if I could replicate the results since profile links apparently have been demoted in effectiveness and I had to re-do tests on different websites/keywords that didn’t have any other backlinks and it takes a while to set up these tests because I like to have a variety of new websites and old websites of different competition levels that have never had backlinks created to them and also that have had some backlinks made to them (and maybe they are on the first page of google) but that did not receive any new ones ( at least from me) in 2+ months. Anyway, I’ll wait a bit longer before giving the results and my review on sick submitter but I just decided to put it into more use to create profile links to a lot of my web 2.0s.
Blog comment links
I’m also trying out scrapebox for that purpose but to create blog comments to my web 2.0s. I never had success doing blog comments to my main money pages and it seemed like a waste of time compared to simply doing article mkt but now that I have a VA I might as well give it a try. I’m also trying AMR/UAW to my web 2.0s, we’ll see what happens and if it does anything. I’m also doing a bit of manual blog comments on high PR do follow blogs, I never felt it was useful for ranking BUT it did give some of my websites that I tried it on PR3-5 (I also made some Pr2-3 web 2.0s!)Β so I figured it might be a good idea to try it out on my web 2.0s, that way I can create high PR blogs without having to spend $100-400 for them by buying aged domains….
VPS
Also, I’ve been using a virtual private server (VPS) that has windows on it where me and my VA can login from anywhere. I put all my software on it and let me tell you, I’m never going back :). Not only can I log on it from my main computer, laptop or iPhone but you can make it run so many programs without slowing down your main computer, it’s awesome and even if I stopped using a VA I would keep the VPS going forward. $30 a month for 2gig of ram, I might make a post on it later on if some others are interested (let me know in the comments).
For those wondering about new expenses, my VA is $500/month and I also bought private proxies for $20/month to use alongside the $30/month windows VPS.
Future content for this blog
Anyway, I have not posted much on this blog in terms of new articles in May, I might post a bit more in June. A few articles/videos I have in mind are making an artisteer video and also a post on directory submissions. I’ve been doing directory submissions for a few months now with good results thanks to a great software, My VA just did some more for a few of my new websites that will only have directory links ( I previously only did it on 5+ month old websites) just to see if it helps newer sites too, I’ll probably wait another week or 2 to make sure things look good and release the results/review post.
Some other things
– Release a linxboss review (been at least 2 months that I have used it)
– Release a review of a really good article service that I’ve been using for many months that noone talks about yet it’s highly efficient, really odd. I guess affiliate people are the ones that promote a product the most instead of by results because I tried this service for almost all my websites by now and I always saw good results and it’s quite cheap (half the cost of UAW).
– Re-evaluation of UAW. I think it’s not as good as it used to be at least when I re-use it for websites that I have used it many times in the past, which I’ve tested a motnh and a half ago and barely saw ranking increases on previously “virgin” pages with 0 backlinks (but part of one of my bigger blogs that are 6+ months old that has amny pages ranking thanks to UAW and other tools). I suppose it’s normal since all the websites probably have links to my own but with AMR nowadays probably carrying at least half of UAW’s article websites I might just ditch it completely in the future, it is $67/month or so. Better yet, I’ll probably just use it once a month every 3 months or so for new websites or web 2.0s… We’ll see, for now I’ll keep it and try it on new websites without any links and websites that I’ll use AMR FIRST and then UAW which I think would be a very interesting test…
Case study website is sandboxed π
I also had a case study website, 5 pages and making $5/day with adsense that I wanted to share with people from this website to give you a good idea but for some reason google decided to sandbox it and even after a month it’s still not back to #1. First time it happened that a website I own does not regain it’s position within a week. Really too bad, I even had a friend create an adsense account for it and seperate hosting, oh well. For the fun of it I’m gonna keep doing backlinks to it and see when it pops back up. Super odd but many people get out of the sandbox or weird penalties over time so we’ll see how long it takes for this website!
Future full time income earners on the horizon!
I’ve received messages from at least 5 people this month in email or PM’s about how they’ve been starting to make a few dollars a day and one person is already at $15+/day after starting around February so major congrats :). This business is all about long term planning and doing work now to reap the benefits later (working your own hours or whatever else you want from IM). I think it’s been proven again this month with my adsense income growing ($3k to 3.7k) despite me not having worked on any of those websites more than 2-4 hours in the last month and a half. I wonder if things will keep growing? Well, if not I do have my new websites that will surely start ranking soon :).
Hey Alex
Great to see your progress, what’s the article service you mentioned you might review. I have been focusing on article marketing, so I’d love to add a new service to my backlinking. Thanks in advance, and I look forward to the new content you mentioned in this post.
I’ll reveal it with the post, originally I was planning on doing an email list for this website and sending them “insider” information such as basically additional tips or thoughts I add that I did not put on the blog yet and that service was basically my one (and only) idea I had so far. Anyway, I don’t care about doing an email list right now and people can just email subscribe to my RSS feeds when they want blog news updates so I’ll make a post about it when I have time, probably next week.
Nice job Alex. Congrats!
would be great to read about the VPS, i considered buying it also, because my laptop is fucking dying!
from were you bought it? and what for the proxies are?
thanks!
also i’m really waiting for the artisteer post! π
Yeah a little more about the VPS would be cool.
just bought my own VPS is an awesome idea, other than the fact that mine is pretty slow …
i’m really interesting to hear if its working to you as fast as your local computer, because i pay for mine 20$ per month which seem no more than ok for now…
but it worth the fact that my laptop is clear…
Ya it’s 90% as fast as my computer (well it has less RAM/CPU but that doesn’t matter for the programs I run…), use remote desktop assistant to log onto it.
Alex thanks!
were you bought your vps?
I got it at http://www.thrustvps.com/. I’ll make a post about it eventually for configurations I used and what not. Anyway they were the cheapest VPS I found and I have not experienced downtime in a month of using them. I was at the 1gb ram ($15/month I think) and upgraded to 2gb ($30/month) recently.
This is a real motivating post Alex. Just reading this blog and the forum, I have taken more action than I have when buying into a product about this stuff. I made $4 last month. ha not much but I have a lot more work to do π
Anyway, I would be interested in learning more about VPS and what service you are using. (my mac is so slow when I run my vmware w/ windows programs.)
Also more about this article marketing service you are using, the directory software and the artisteer video… can’t wait and thank you for even sharing.
Toki
Congrats Alex!
Keep up the excellent work.
I’m really interested in the software you’re using for directory submissions. I haven’t be able to find a software that does this sort of linkbuilding without much faults.
kepp on my friend and great inspiration!!!!!!!!!!!
Alex. Congrats, man π
bad ass man. Cant wait
Alex from were is your worker is? the Philippines? also i heard you can watch what you worker is doing when working? how you do it? you need to pay commission to odesk? also how did you decide how to hire this specific worker from all the other candidate?
thanks a lot!
ya from the Philippines but I don’t use Odesk but yes they do take screenshots randomly of your worker working if you did use Odesk but they charge 10%. This specific person was referred to me by someone else doing IM. but I was searching on Odesk before and I was looking at people who spoke good english and answered some interview questions. A lot of ppl were saying things like “trust me with your link building I’ll do this and that and this” when I know exactly what I want but I need them to listen and learn my methods so they can do it…
big congrats to u π crazy link structure btw π
Hey, can you post your sandboxed site anyway just to show us how you do things such as ad placement, etc.
Hmm you’re right, I probably should just post it. I had an idea of maybe posting some additional content to it for now, I’ll wait a week or so and if the situation doesn’t change I’ll post it. I figured since it got sandboxed I only created more backlinks but I did not add more articles so I’ll add a few and see.
hey Alex,
i just bought AR through your link, how much days since you post article on the site you see some distribution with them?
also its weird from some reason i can’t see that they have a support system or so…
It’s slow to distribute, I usually reach 40-50 within 1-2 months so I never limit my AR distribution articles.
ohh thanks a lot that’s a big relief, i was thinking i’m doing something wrong π
btw is there a way to see the links you get from AR , and if so are you doing something else with them, like pinging them or something to get them indexed?
thanks!
write more posts! π
btw how many links are you putting in your AR articles? and if its more than 1 how are you putting links to other keywords if they are not related to the article you submit?
2 or 3. I link to other keywords that are related.
I usually have a group of words unique to my articles. For example maybe something like “super awesome article on jgd” (obviously something that makes sense usually. If you do a search on google for “super awesome article on jgd” you get no exact results, so that’s how I find the articles that are indexed. But beyond that, no you can’t really find them unless they send a trackback to your WP blog.
basically it seems like lots of them are getting rejected, what are you doing to get more success rate with them?
thanks a lot
That happens but I always test a few of the spun articles to make sure they look readable.
Hello Alex,Bravo man for your goal.
I did 11K$ last month and i would like to do an JV with you,i think we have lot of things to share,please send me your skype id at this email address if you are interested.
Regards
With the thrust vps, what is the difference between getting windows, linux only… then ordering from east coast or west coast?
Thanks
I don’t know it all about VPS but I obviously went for windows because I want to install windows software in it. I ordered west coast since that’s closer to the Philippines.
Congratulations man,
i have a question too:
What do you think about copying definitions from wikipedia?
I’m doing a site where i intend on having a dictionary section, with definitions of the terms used elsewhere on the site.
That works, I would link back to wikipedia though.
Thanks Alex… Nice Post π π I want try use your method,… Ohh yes Alex I’m Sory I’m new here
I wanna ask something… I have read your thread at BHW, You have developed 300 sites, with calculation 1 site get $3/moth… how about manage the many sites that
300 sites you make only in 1 month ,, or not, and how about adsense script ..? do you Put the adsense script in a new site, or wait until that site get traffict
I’m Soory If you confuse, My english is bad π
Hmmm I don’t think you missread what Fingerman would have said in that post. We both only have adsense on less than 10 sites. We might have 50+ but a lot of those are random tests or not related to our money sites.
For those sites that don’t have adsense on them, do you have anything on them at all or do you just leave them not making any money?
How do you decide which ones to put it on or not? Do you just make a bunch of sites and grow the ones that look like they’re doing OK, or do you know they’re going to be main money sites when you build them?
Steve.
I just wait until I get 100+ people a day before bothering with monetizing it.
Hey Alex,
What program are you using for directory submissions?
Thanks
Secret for now :P. Actually I want to do a post but it just got an issue with decaptcher programs… I’ll wait for it to be fixed first.
This still going to stay a secret? π
Thanks for you fast reply Alex hehe
I have developed around 6 site, But The traffic is very litle Only 100 UV/ day
and other site has not get traffic,, how way to incrase traffic to my site
I have use Scrapebox and SEnuke to SEO, and have 3 month
but the traffic still litle,,,
Should you give me Idea
Thanks Alex
Well, I never had success with scrapebox and Senuke (I’m only re-trying them because I have some new ideas to use senuke and I use scrapebox for it’s google scraping features and not for blog comments…). Anyway to get more traffic in SEO you need more rankings so take a lot at my backlinking guide or some of the tools I use.
Same With me, I have Scrapebox, SEnuke Xrumer. But I still Not Get Ranks from google. I confused lol, and the my website have arroud tree month. but I must be srtonger hahha lol
Thanks Alex for Your Reply I so happy in your site π btw wher is Fingger man..? π
I wanna ask About Keywords Research
I have reserch some keyword
I have reseach use google keyword tool
& I get 1 keyword [ bubble wrap ] in exact 9,900 local searchis in US
But the domain in COM, NET, ORG have not Available.
and That keywords I check With Wordtracker, and the result is suggest [ bubble wrap day ] 1000 searches per day.
and than I check in google keyword tool and google insigt, with keyword [ bubble wrap day ] is have not enaugh data , becouse only a litle searches per day , I confused Why diferent,
Should you give me example with that keywords.. ?
Thanks Alex π
You shouldn’t even be using all that software if your websites are not even 3 months old. Honestly, using any of those is no guarantee for rankings and should be able to rank websites without using those before you start using them in my opinion… Software is a great sell for newbies because it promises you that you can avoid “the hard work” people that have been ranking websites for years had to do in the past when its simply not true. They save you time but ultimately all they do is things you can do manually. I really don’t recommend any of those tools until you have websites on the first page of Google and making money. I used them in the past and they were in no way helpful to my rankings, but I’ve been trying a few of them again this month to try something different, that’s the only reason I mentioned them.
Fingerman is not really doing SEO these days which is why he hasn’t posted much on the blog after we created it. His income is pretty stable and hes just doing other things in his life such as working out/having fun and maybe he’ll do IM stuff at a later date again.
As for the keyword research, I usually only trust the google adwords tool now because it’s been very accurate for me in 2011. However, I do look at google trends for the keyword to see it’s not in a downward train, but that’s only if I suspect it might be going down.
Thanks Alex For Detailed Reply Ohh yes Alex I’m From Indonesia, Nice too meet You Alex
Can I Put Avatar for me use my Photo lol hahahhaha
ya, link a gravatar with the email address you use to do comments with and it will show in posts :).
You tha man alex