Lots of things going on this month. Reaching a new milestone in Adsense, some conclusive testing of a few backlink services and some new method that I did not think would work that I will share with you guys soon if the rankings last.
So on to this month’s earnings:
Income from my niche sites:
Infolinks: $162
Clickbank: $81
Amazon: $96
CPA offer: $60 (quite an increase on it this month!, $15 per ppl ordering the product)
$4,330
Income from this blog:
TKA $267
Article Ranks $91
Semrush $60
TBS $40
Total of $458
Grand total for the month of August of $4,788
My adsense earnings have been going up again, this time almost reaching $4,000. This is mostly due to my new websites (the same ones I’ve been often mentioning in these income reports…) from early 2011 finally ranking up on the first page of Google and grabbing some top 3 spots. Only one of my big keywords is #1 for now, the rest will most likely reach at least #2 by the end of the year. I might also join a big CPA network for these websites soon which will be amazing because they are spot on something the visitors might want, I really hope I get in (most likely, considering I’m getting 20k visitors a month between these 3 new websites, and from search engines…). If I can get in and it’s as good as I anticipate it to be I might reach my goal of $10,000 by the end of the year 2011!
What I’ve been up to this month
This month I started extensively using Article ranks, Article samurai, Linkamotion and AMR. As for UAW, I’ve only been re-submitting my articles which they allow you to do every 3 months, this should be a feature allowed in other services because it’s very convenient and honestly, I often re-submit my articles there anyway and just use a different title and links. It’s been a few months since I did a large backlinking run like this. I probably submitted 2-3 articles per website to each service, so probably around 30 in total. I re-use the same articles between services for those wondering, I just change the titles and link placement to each service’s needs. For example in AR you can have your 3 links anywhere. For AS/AMR you can have 1 link in the body and 2 in the ressource box. As you can see from this case study I did here in the warrior forums (on going) I saw really big ranking changes from using AMR so it’s mostly what spark’d me to do all these backlinks and then I figured I might as well just make it a big month of using all networks again since I’ve been doing other things for a few months such as building website content, designing artisteer themes with unique headers, trying out email lists on my niche sites, building a blog network (more on that in another post…) etc.
I also learned that social bookmarking does have some ranking power again when used directly on a money site, more on that in a later post this month once I find an effective way (aka software/service) that does this well for me and if the ranking increases last more then a month (3 weeks later on my first tests and still very strong). I would NOT recommend to do this manually, it’s effective in my experience when used on hundreds of sites at the same time. I’ve been trying to emulate a service that someone used to prove to me that this is effective but sick submitter can’t do it 100% so I’m about to test another one.
Awesome network – Case study website ranking to #1 with it
I’ve finally had some conclusion to a few tests I have been doing on backlinks on a new network, I saw some VERY impressive results from it. It’s an odd network because back in early 2011 I saw some very good ranking changes. At the time me and Fingerman (the previous guy I was working with on this blog for those who remember) decided we would recommend this service to our email list as a thank you for signing here’s an amazing network. However, I did not recommend it at the time because in late February or March I had seen some drops in rankings and for a while I stopped seeing a lot of ranking changes from keywords only promoted with it. I think Google panda shook things up a bit in that network. Anyway, since it always keeps on drip feeding your articles because their network is constantly growing I kept it. I also had a website exclusively promoted using this service and it had a major Google dance. It got back to #1 2 months ago and I put adsense on it (making about $1-5/day currently, it’s a very thin 5 page website). After that I decided the network must be good again so I tested it on 2 other “virgin” domains and it brought a website I did in July on the first page of Google by itself. A 20,000 or so search per month KW with a ~$3 CPC. I’ll be sending an email shortly about it to the list, if you are not on it sign up here now! I’ll also be revealing the $1-5/day domain I used this service on.
What would you guys want to see from me in a product?
I don’t think it’s a secret that I would really love to write a really useful IM product and see another part of IM, making products, selling it, working with affiliates etc… However I’m not sure what direction I should go with this. As readers of my previous monthly income for July you probably saw me mention that I wrote a lot on a keyword research ebook and while It’s sitting at 6k words right now ( and not complete) I doubt it will have much of the WOW that I am hoping for in order for it to sell well and motivate me… The problem with keyword research is while it’s the most important thing (SERIOUSLY) you can’t see the results until many months later. Keyword/Niche research has no magical secrets to find them (I mostly STILL just use the free google tool and then check the competition of the top 10 using the Seo quake plugin after I get an idea). However, I do share some case studies of profitable websites that might give you some niche ideas and what are good keywords to me as preliminary tests (you can never be 100% sure).
Anyway, I’m also doing some more advanced SEO with managing blog networks, buying aged domains, outsourcing, training a VA and part time writers. Maybe I could scratch that keyword ebook and instead go for a “rank #1 in Google” product? I’m getting good results from websites that I am using my private blog network for (only a few sites but highly optimized to be similar in in content to what I link them to 6+ months later). However, obviously this takes a while to setup so I’m currently debating if it’s worth it vs just doing what I did most of august, using AR/AS/AMR/Linkamotion/UAW. Maybe I could combine my keyword product with this? I was hoping to just make a ~$20 product to test the water’s and see people’s feedback on how I could improve things but maybe it’s best I go with a full “complete” in all SEO areas product…
I would really love your opinion on this.
a keyword research book wouldn’t be bad. especially if you have some insight to offer
lol sry for spamming but I love my new avatar
The Internetmarketing- Duck. soon to be new rich haha
I learnt a lot from this blog. Almost reached $500 last month and that was from Postrunner alone (Lol!).
Let’s hope I can reach more by using the services you recommend. Don’t mind spending money on whatever product you guys will create.
Personally, btw, I’m interested in SEO/PPC/Affiliate conversions/E-mail lists. Maybe some insights into markets. Oh, and is it me or CPA is something cool? (just started actually reading these IM forums)
Lotsa stuff, actually. heh : )
Wow man, props on that. I have a friend running an e commerce store and she says postrunner is one of the best services for her. not only does it create backlinks but she says it gives her visitors too and they sometimes buy stuff. I guess you might be in a similar situation?
Thanks for the suggestions, as for CPa.. Ya it’s FUCKING AWESOME if you can be a in a niche that it works well for. It was actually a reason why I selected this niche for my sites that I built in 2011, I knew it had CPA offers (from looking at competitors). It just took me a long time to be contacted by them (I was waiting until I was #1 on a few more keywords before I would start calling them up).
Oh, a question. How do you guys vary anchor texts when spinning in AMR? Say I have KW1, sub-Kw1, sub-Kw2, sub-Kw3, sub-Kw4.
Say, I want to have a ratio of 50% KW1 and 50% all of the other sub-Kws.
Do you do a spin like {KW1|KW1|KW1|KW1|sub-Kw1|sub-Kw2|sub-Kw3|sub-Kw4}?
yep, I do that often.
i’d really be interested in a product about building quality/”passion” sites. especially on proper content creation for those.
a thorough keyword research product would be nice too. i’d buy both 😉
My initial idea was to focus on exactly those two topics. Keyword research is very important and I think it’s important for new people starting SEO to find some easy ones that they can rank and get a few $1s/day. However, those sites will probably not have all that much potential (and you might not even be interested by them, besides to make some initial money) and once you know this is all possible it’s best to invest your time in a passion sites that might pay off heavily later on.
Wow Alex, this is such a motivating post. I would have quit a while ago if you wouldn’t have been so proactive, sincere and not hyped up. I would really like to see an all inclusive type product from you. You have been doing so well consistently, people respond to that.
Mainly go into the programs, services, manual type processes and things that have been working for you this year for backlinking. Plus case studies, people love that. Definitely add the keyword/niche research, first, to this (that is the most important, without doing that right, the rest of the process is worthless). Not sure if your fired up about doing video, but that would be a great addition to your product too. It would definitely cut down on the page count of your ebook. (unless you do both for the people that would rather read because they have a day job or whatever).
So ya, go with the “full” type SEO product vs. the “testing waters” type. If you wanted to test the waters, then take a couple beta testers to review it. (not people who are already “big name” or cool with you, they might be biased). Its ultimately up to you. I love everything you are doing here already for free. I’m not making big money but I made some, so what you do here is completely tangible and viable to get started to anyone’s first dollar online.
Thanks,
Toki
Forgot to add, that yes teaching us how to tie in CPA during the process (if it falls inline with what niche we are in), how to create products and email marketing would be an awesome addition too 🙂
Thanks for the compliments & suggestions, really gives me a lot that I can work on! Doing videos would probably be a good idea, I’ll have to think about it.
Congrats Man!
I was just wondering why some keywords with 70k-90k searches on Google have a 0.00 CPC on the google keyword tool?
Are they really worth that little or is that a glitch.
I mean I guess thats why there’s very little competition for them.
Some highly searched keywords are just meaningless for people to advertise on so the CPC would be low… To be sure do a Google search yourself and see if you see any ads around the searches.
Thanks man!
No ads show up for it on Google Search.
Thats weird because its seems like a niche where people are looking for an answer.
The search term literally is a question, and its one that I believe could sell products.
I’m going to have to think through this.
Random blog blueprint question:
How often do you post a 100 word article that has been spinned to 70%?
Cheers!
When it is at that point, usually round 1000 times =P
hi alex, congrats on ur earning ! i have been a silent reader of ur blog 🙂
i had some questions for a 10 day old site if u dont mind …i m a seo newbie.. can u tell me if my strategy is right !
1. Unique articles to each of 10-20 web 2.0 sites linking to my money site
2. Blasting the shit out of AMR on my web 2.0 links
3. uaw+tka on money site along with bmr
4. dofollow manual high pr blog commenting and some social bookmarks to main money site
can u tell me if this is enuf ? or is this too much for a new site ?
also can u plz tell me is amr a tuff tool to learn.. i have only used scrapebox till now and no other automation tool, and i was consideirng to buy amr.. ur answers will be very helpful.. thanks 😕
I would save “real” unique articles for article directories like ezine/hubpage/infobarrel which check for unique content and then repost or spin them for web 2.0s personally. Besides that the rest sounds fine on paper, AMR is pretty easy to learn. Once you’ve done it it’s a very easy setup to add more articles and let it submit.
So do you repost those unique articles to wordpress and blogger too Alex?
you could but I usually use a spun article off a unique article for those.
Making the color blue for the links and for adsense did change nothing for me
Hi, Alex,
I want to ask how many pages you have for your best site and how often you update it?
My #1 site has 100+ posts but I haven’t updated it in a while. I lost a lot of interest in it in the past 6 months. I might have averaged out 1 post per month and they are guest posts. I’m thinking of changing it the site and maybe make myself gain more interest in it. Not sure if it’s worth the time though and if I would write for it.
I’ve been running an ecommerce site for 8 years now and want to change the direction of my earnings from delivering a physical product to a much more passive type of income – adsense income freedom is my nirvana, like a lot of people. But, the problem is that there is so much mis-information / crap and all the rest of it out there, that I don’t know which way to turn.
I tried out the xfactor method and made one site and then thought it was a BS system that could easily be detected by google with the whole empire then toppling down like a deck of cards. So I haven’t bothered developing any more, but to be honest this site does make me about $10/mth and it takes no work to maintain it.
I would love a system that I could repeat and rinse whereby I could create sites that made $1/day and then build a hundred or so of them over time. What I mean is, create good legitimate sites with solid information on them and then have a check list or a trusted source of backlinks that would take the guesswork out of the promotion process. Some of them will make .20 cents/day and other will be at $3/day but hopefully overall the portfolio will make $100/day.
I don’t think there is any book/course out there that will walk you through this process/ what tools or services to use and also answer any personal questions that might arise during the process.
If you could produce one of these with a one time fee then I’m sure that there would be many eager buyers out there.
Thanks for all the honest information and tests you are conducting and giving out here.
Cheers!
The thing is what you are proposing is exactly the first iteration of the xfactor method… Except that he relied on the power of EMD domains (much more common at the time) and he did not really have any backlinking strategy. Having so many websites is always a risk because from the perspective of Google, who is most likely to offer good websites, the guys that makes hundreds of them in 6 months or the one that does 5-10 and works on them a lot, communicates with visitors, updates his blog with new relevant information (if the niche has this).
Anyway, when I read xfactor as I started I also saw that it was bullshit and when straight to making “authority sites” before it became the next “wave” of things to do, I just don’t believe in them all that much though my newer sites from 2011 will be smaller sites, around 5-20 pages at most but they target highly searched keywords (10-30k /month each).
Understood Alex – I appreciate your feedback.
After I finished my comment, I thought… like why doesn’t Alex just put together an ebook for your “Ultimate Guide – From A to Z” But then it is already there, we just need to read through it and take action!
So if you were me and you were just starting off again, would you look at putting together 5-10 sites with up to 20 pages/posts (building them up very slowly, maybe 2 pages/mth) that target the 10-30k keywords?
Would it be possible to make a decent living of off these sites? If so then you could create a wso – I would definitely buy it, especially if you were going to support and update it to the level you do on this blog.
Cheers!
I might do something like that in the future, I have a few things I would update for the ultimate guide in terms of keyword research (niche refinery is retired…) and backlinking. I have a few new things I do now that I do not mention in there, like directory submission using a software and a new type of backlinks that I always believed sucked but seem to help a lot now (post on that soon).
Ok, thanks for that… I’ll look forward to your future posts and updated ultimate guide.
When you get the time, I know how busy you are 🙂
You have the right credentials for all of this, as you are actually making a living from this and more importantly, you test so many different services to see what does and what doesn’t work.
I always thought Niche Refinery was rubbish, as it only narrowly looks at the google.com / USA results.
There are something in your blog that it’s impossible to learn from any other source such as book or other websites ! i’m a loyal reader of this blog then ! Thanks alex.
Dont forget about how good looking we are too…..That is also a plus