Day 5 – Struggling with Amazon Auto Posters

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Spent the day today getting one of my satellite sites looking nice for the users! Lots of messing around with plugins and a good sized first post as an introduction to the site and to get the SEO going.

Now I know that I said I would be making these much more like authority sites than just raw niche sniper sites, but I have to say that I am in awe of those folk who can churn out one a day (or maybe even 2 in some cases!)  My simple editing games have left me with a site that is “getting there”…… It doesn’t have any products on it yet, a job for completion tomorrow I think, but at this point I’ve tripped over my new Amazon auto-poster plugin.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully intend for these reviews to be fully-fledged as per the Amazonian Profit Plan but I thought it would be cool to have access to all of the Amazon metadata for my products in advance. That way, I can theoretically build my own templates for the product pages and use the data I have to populate some of those fields while writing the rest.

Anyway, best laid plans of mice and men, the templates that come with the product – WPZonBuilder – are more obscure than I was expecting and unfortunately the demo sites don’t really go into any details about how they were achieved. This has left me trying all possible combinations of settings trying to get something that looks the same and wondering at the same time if I shouldn’t really be going with pages instead of posts as a site building mechanism. It’s funny, I went down this route thinking that it would be so much easier than editing the HTML templates provided in the IPK setup. I must have “stupid” written on my forehead.

If anyone has enormous WPZonBuilder experience, I’d be really happy to hear from you about your own thoughts on my dilemma.

Earnings for Day 4:

Adsense: $0

Amazon: $0

Clickbank: $7 (I seem to have an affiliate who has worked out the right audience!)

Day 4 – Building My Niche Web

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Spent some time today getting my mini web of niche sites up and running for my set of keywords and Amazon products. The IPK philosophy is to have a central hub which is more general and a bunch of more targetted sites feeding into it to provide theme relevant links very quickly.

All of this follows on from my purchase yesterday of the enterprise version of SEOpressor which seems like a nice way to force myself to remember the basics of SEO. I think I get pretty close with what I know and using All in One SEO and then after plugging this thing in, it tells me I’m less than 40% optimised!

Not sure what I think of all of the recommendations (use an H1 tag in the post seems like overkill since the title is already H1 with the keyword in it) but it seems like a good immediate check on things like keyword density etc etc.

As a result of all this, I’ve been using it to build some posts on the sites in the mini web and make sure they are as optimised as I’m happy with.

I’m interested to know what others think about this approach to making sites. I’ve read several other sites recently (Grand Online Profits , My Passive Income Online Blog and Sales Potentiator) where the focus has very much been on building a site a day and moving on so that you end up with loads. Is my much more authority site type of approach going to kill me quickly?

Anyway, back to the posting! You’ll have noticed the switch to WordPress 3 and a slightly different theme – any good?

Day 3 Earnings:

Adsense $1.40 (interestingly a high priced click on a blog that has been running at 5c per click)

Amazon $0

CB $7.19  (A small ebook I put up a few weeks back)