Day 16 – Niche Sites Update

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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

Day 11 – Internet Marketing As Chinese Water Torture

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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!)