One of the things I have learned about myself over the last few weeks/months/years is that I’m a particularly strong researcher. What that means is that I love to dif around in subjects and find out stuff. What it does not mean is that I’m any good at making that stuff happen! I’m not what Myers-Briggs calls a “completer-finisher”.

The good thing for everyone reading, is that finding keywords feels like researching to me. I love to dig around and check out all the details of keyword subjects and that’s why you get free keywords here every week.

What am I doing about my personality? Well, you may or may not have seen the Ezinearticles hundred day challenge appear again (started yesterday). This is an end of year challenge to get a hundred articles written in the hundred days left before the end of the year…hopefully getting to Platinum status in the process and theoretically generating a load of traffic to wherever you point it. Now, since I have to write some articles anyway, I’ve signed up for the challenge…we’ll see how it goes.

I’m tempted at the same time to sign up for John Carlton’s Simple Writing System – combining the article writing experience with learning copywriting from the master. I’m just not sure if that’s biting off one too many things to do. I’d be interested to hear what you think of the idea…..does anyone need a tame copywriter that’s been trained by John?

Anyway, you came here for keywords, so here they are. Two this week, one for the US, one for the UK with a bit of a shared theme.

First up for the US: Doctor Who Episodes

According the new keyword tool this gets 8,100 exact searches a month and it’s not so much of a buyer’s phrase, but with access to these episodes being harder to get hold of in America,  you could monetize it with some DVD sales or toys relating to Doctor Who.  As soon as you look at phrase match, this jumps to 18,000 and the US is the biggest searcher for this keyword phrase – no idea why it isn’t the UK!

Second one for the UK: Doctor Who Games     (You see the theme now!)

This gets a huge 18,100 exact searches a month, rising to 22,000 phrase match. Almost 100% of these searches come from the UK. I won’t state the obvious here, but…..Christmas!!

As always, with both of these, there’s a TLD available.

As a special bonus – because you’ve been so good – here’s a range of things to look up for yourself, mainly because typing the numbers out gets tedious.

Check out “almost any kind of animal for sale”. So, for example “ferrets for sale”. If you whiz that through the keyword tool a couple of times, I think you’ll be amazed at just how many domains are available if you want to be a specialist animal seller Maybe I’ll relent and show you what I’ve found if anyone shows any real interest!

I thought I’d better get this posted quickly before another day goes by without an update.

The last 6 days have been up and down in several areas. Adsense has been very erratic but Amazon and Clickbank have made up for that a bit. Overall, the numbers come out as follows:

Adsense: $1.20
Amazon: $3.75
Clickbank: $7.36

So my hosting looks like it might get covered soon

More tomorrow.

The biggest problem with long weekends and public holidays is that they seem to be taken as an opportunity to “do some DIY”. Those little five minute jobs that expand to fill the entire universe and soak up all the spare time.

Well, we’re just coming out of that hell here in the UK, so I’ve not been working on my sites as much as I’d hoped as you can guess. I did manage to get a new Amazon site set up yesterday and to sort out the hosting and base setup for a second, so it’s not all doom and gloom.

Bizarrely, one of my old sites has suddenly hopped back up onto the first page of Google after a long absence, no link building, no new content and here it is again. Sometimes I just don’t understand Google. It’s like they knew I’d said on here that I was going to do some updates to these sites and decided to reward me in advance – I wish!!

Real work begins again tomorrow. I have a lot more sites to get up and some links to build.

Earnings for Day 14 and 15 are all Adsense. $0.60

You know about water torture, right? The idea is that you’re pretty much deprived of all your senses, but in the background is a dripping tap, which is set to a really slow, random drip. In the end it is said that anyone will crack, just from the natural tendency to listen for the next drip – and never know when it is coming!

Well, I’ve decided that internet marketing is a bit like that (at least to start with) since I can look across all of the different streams of income every day in the hope of money coming in and sometimes there is some…..and sometimes there isn’t!

I’m sure this all smooths out over time when you have a load of sites running, but in the early days it is just like torture and the idea of reporting it to everyone is also quite disheartening. It feels like I should be singing for joy every day to encourage everyone reading but it’s a hard act to keep up.

But, I said I’d do it so it is an absolutely true record of what is happening and I’ll stick to that commitment. I might drift to every other day every now and again but hopefully not too often.

I spent yesterday getting a killer article ready for ezinearticles – primarily for the link, not the traffic, but it would be nice to see it syndicated a bit too. As soon as it’s accepted, I’ll be sending it to as many places as UAW will allow.

A second string to yesterday was starting to bookmark the sites that I am working on. I use Incansoft’s SocialBot for this and I have a bunch of accounts already set up in there that get stuff blasted now and again. I’ve sworn to take this fairly easy, so it is set to 2 pages at a time and I’ll get there gradually rather than blast the whole site out in one go.

Today’s endeavours have started out with me re-evaluating some old sites, checking their rankings and having a think about whether or not to juice them all up a bit. Some made me a bit of cash in the past, but as I’ve said before, they tended to be low-ticket items and so the commision didn’t amount to much.

This afternoon will be a chance to write some more entries for my IPK style sites and to try to get to grips with how the central site should get linked in according to the plan Chris Kaye lays out.

Anyway, earnings for the last 2 days: Adsense 6c (yeehar!)

Today’s work carried on from yesterday’s in many ways; I spent more time than I probably should have learning how WordPress shortcodes work so that I could have a stab at understanding how WPZonBuilder works.

Now I’m going to regard this as valuable time well spent as it will give me a chance to start modifying the templates that came with the product. The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted Louis’ very generous comment on yesterday’s post and I may take him up on the offer, but I wanted to get a bit further on my own before going for support. All I can say is that his comment really echoes other forums where I’ve read about his engagement with his customers. Well done Louis.

Despite all the time spent on that, I have had more time to actually play with the WPZonBuilder plugin itself and found several options that I hadn’t really understood in the training videos (maybe I’m just slow). So, in general I’m a lot happier than I was yesterday and I have set up my site with a bunch of posts ready to go over the next few weeks. I’m hoping to crack the template stuff before they all get posted so I can add my own content to the reviews but overall I’m growing to like WPZonBuilder a lot more.

The site itself is already at number 40 in Google with no promotion and the hub/authority site is at 100 for it’s primary keyword. I’ve also completed the other two feeder sites as far as setup is concerned, maybe tomorrow will be content day for these two.I’ve put up a couple of high PR profile links for my first feeder but I’ve held off with full link-building until I have a few posts to point my UAW and Link Juicer submissions towards.

I think I may have to checkout some WP site management software, this plugin installation lark is easy but tedious!

Day 5 Earnings:

Adsense: $1.05
Amazon: $0
Clickbank: $0