Today is the big payoff for those of you who have watched the last two short videos (if you haven’t, shame on you, look here for the start)
Now that I’ve found a load of keywords and organised them according to my admittedly random criteria(!), I can now go and look up if any domains are available. Watch the video to see me reveal a couple of available domains that come straight out of this test run….and then go and register them quick.
The little trick in there with removing all the apostrophes and full stops will help the whole process run smoother. If Godaddy finds one of these, it gives an error but also expands out all the .com, .net and .org domain names in full in the search box……that means you have closer to 1500 names instead of the 500 you started out with and so the next search fails too.
Anyway, go out there, try it and grab some domains. Let me know if you find any really good ones (just the finding, not the name itself you understand.)
Back in the more mundane world, earnings for day 17 are as follows:
Adsense earnings 6c
Amazon UK earnings 37c – this is why you need to go for big ticket items….this small one paid me £0.25
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.
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!)
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!)
My commitments for today include producing content for my new sites. I bought 4 domains yesterday – all in a single topic area and I will use 3 of them as feeder sites to the fourth but they will also have their own target keyword.
All four sites are going to be Amazon US affiliate sites and I’m going to use the review stuff as detailed by Wanda and Paula at http://www.affiliateblogonline.com/. I think that writing copy that converts is an area where I can learn a lot, so we’ll see how this gets on.
The feeder sites are themselves going to be set up in a similar way to the Info Product Killer techniques that Craig Kaye teaches. He has just released a 2010 update to this package and I like it a lot for the (new) price.
Once I have a post ready for each site, I’ll be updating the main site and building the other three and getting them all set up – including all the analytics etc.
I’m going to also commit to setting up 2 more UAW (Unique Article Wizard) runs for my existing sites and also looking at monetizing a couple of other in Adsense (and maybe Amazon).
Yesterday’s earnings. $0 across the board. Time for that to change!
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