Hi folks,
After going on the uk conference a couple of months ago it has spurred me on to do some new things.
I spotted my current weak points – identifying niches and decided to outsource it.
The good news is you can still be successful even if you know nothing about a subject, although I am keen to be fully immersed, I am not at the “super affiliate” status of some friends over at Wordpress Goldmine.
Still, progress is progress 
Last month I posted that I was on around $560/month. Well that turned out to be slightly wrong due to a misunderstanding for a certain item I am promoting. So it was an overall of around $250 for July.
Adsense was quite similar in July, but in August I have had a defined increase – and I put this down to the outsourcing of having someone identify a niche and put a site together for me as an autoblog, in record time.
August overall:
Adsense: $41
Amazon: $5.66
Clickbank: $40
Other $400 – nice!
Anyway, like I say, las October I was wholly a NEWBIE on $0 a month.
I don’t care whe people say it’s a rubbish income – it’s MY income and a result of me staying focused on one thing – internet marketing.
Ive known for around 15 years that I want PASSIVE INCOME for the rest of my life. Its been in my mind for at least that amount of time and I have actively pursued it through multi level marketing.
You know… you culd get a college education for 5 years, stuidy hard and spend a lot of money financing that education and end up on a job of $60,000 a year, for life until you retire when it drops.
Alternatively you could work hard for 5 years, spend money on your internet marketing education and end up on a passive income for life that comes in whether you work or not,sick or not, on vacation or not, and there are no limits to it.
Which option sounds best?
Invest in your education today.
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Filed under My progress by on Sep 4th, 2010. Comment. 
Thanks to Wordpress Goldmine I have now been learning Internet marketing for 10 months in the best environment you can imagine.
In all that time I have had small successes in some areas, and no successes in others. I think that I found this topic difficult to deal with due to information overload.
My average adsense, clickbank and amazon earnings have remained steady (and slow), however I did report last that I was promoting something, and its been a bit of w inner.
At the moment its making me in the region of $560 per month. I am blown away by this concept of passive income, in fact I am mesmerised by the whole thing… cut me down the middle and you will read “passive income” inside of me.
I have started to outsource some of the things I have difficulty with, and so a very good person is kindly building me some sites and videoing everything. Its a great way to improve.
So what about you?
When is it going to be “your” time?
I spent the past 4 years wasting time and money. 4 years ago I met Mark Thompson who owns wordpress goldmine and he was making these crazy websites. I was doign my thing, trying to be a big king, running sites that had over 15,000 members and yet why after 4 years wasnt I a rich man?
For me, doing this has been the one thing that made me stop doing everything else and just focus on one thing, a real thing. The one thing that required effort.
I hope your time is close. Maybe Ill see you in wpgm…
take care
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Aug 5th, 2010. Comment.
My progress update using Wordpress Goldmine for Thursday 17th June 2010.
Ok, thought I’d post an update.
I have been doing all this internet marketing stuff, and being in a position where I can devote full time attention to it, having had a bit of cash in reserve to see me through.
One thing I hadn’t been doing was pinging, bookmarking, clipmarking and submitting the rss feeds for my “backlinks”.
DOH!
I’d done it for new blog posts, new sites but not for the backlinks.
To cut a long story short I’ve spent 6+ months creating backlinks and Im guessing a lot of them haven’t even been indexed…..!
All that effort..
Anyway, I am starting to work through them, at the same time as deal with writing website sales letters and articles.
Happy to report that my website is now number 1 in google for its main search term yay! “website sales letters”
Anyway, here are the earnings from yesterday:
Adsense £1.47
Amazon £2.17
Clickbank £0.00
Other – promoting a new service generating $20/month in referral commissions. So far I am up to 6 referrals, as long as none cancel its potentially $120/month.
We will see
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Filed under My progress by on Jun 17th, 2010. Comment.
Progress Update On Wordpress Goldmine Earnings
I havent posted a progress update for a few weeks because there wasn’t a whole amount of need. The past 6 weeks or so are basically when I have started full time at this. I am still earning but the more I learn the more I earn.
Adsense:
Back in April I earned £5.48 adsense in May I have earned £4.91 June so far its at £2.51 – it’s good to know that things tend to follow a certain ongoing continual path and I’m happy to know that basically what I am doing is slowly building a passive income empire. I know some people scoff and laugh at the earnings but everyone has to start somewhere. Ive never claimed to be the fastest but I certainly understand the rules.
Amazon:
April was $7.04, May was $3.76 and June so far is just $0.54 – Not sure what to say on that, maybe Ive encountered competition for my sites, or maybe it’s just fact that the income goes up and down – if I had 100 sites in my arsenal it could be arather different story.
Clickbank:
April $0.00 May $0.00 June $0.00 (There was a sale which would have netted me $30 a month but it got refunded).
Wordpress Goldmine Affiliate Sales:
April: $20.48 May $19.98 June to be reviewed at month end but should be 3 subscribers so around $28.
Other sales:
I am promoting other items too, one of which I should have sold 2 subscriptions earning me $20 on each so thats at $40 per month.
So, progress so far I am sitting somewhere in the region of
Adsense roughly $7
Amazon proposed $2
Clickbank ….
WPGM $28
Other $40
So all in about $77 a month.
Woweee some of you may say, and wowee I say too but I don’t care! Potentially thats $70 a month for life as long as I keep doing maintenance promotion.
Now Im working full time at this I am starting to see the fruits of my effort. Other people have had bigger successes and I congratulate them, but I am after all making progress udner my own steam, and it’s a good feeling.
To date, I still only own 6 or 7 sites and havent done nearly enough on all of them and for a long time have been.
Plus, it’s really only recently Ive been “getting it” and understanding the bigger picture.
Do you know… would it REALLY MATTER if it took me 5 years to reach a full time passive income? Some people would say thats not acceptable, but lets look another way.
Doctors study for 5-10 years, people in well paid professions study at university for 5 years without a guarantee of a job, plus when they retire, the money stops unles theyve got a brilliant pension. How good are pensions anyway these days?
Plus, they STILL have to go to work 40 hours a week when they are sick or ill and they still have to beg and plead like sick puppies for any time off, plus their bosses make them feel like crap day in day out.. no thanks…
Me, with ongoing maintenance, I can happily build this money up, and even one day pay outsourcers to take over 95% of the work leaving me to do what I want, when I want for the rest of my life.
If I want that £70,000 BMW I can have it.
Many people who have spent their WHOLE LIVES chasing their dreams get frustrated over and over and over each time they read stuff like this, because they are stressed that it’s not working for them.
Can I be your helping hand? why not join me at Wordpress Goldmine.
I’m happy to be the tortoise when other people are the hares. As long as I remain true to the path and keep putting one foot down in front of the other I will get there. It’s not a race it’s a marathon.
Other news:
Search engine results page positioning is increasing almost daily. This is the key – having more and more pages of content that show up in the SERPS. I have spent the past few weeks doing just that – adding content to my sites and bookmarrking the pages(as well as some other techniques you’ll lear inside wpgm if you join).
One site I recently pushed, I targeted about 15 phrases – and wrote content for each phrase and 2 weeks later 90% of those phrases now show up on page 1 of Google.
I’ve also come to realise that all this time Ive been targetting keyword phrases with low search volume and low adsense earnings, so this is another factor that has influenced the overall earnings.
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Filed under My progress by on Jun 12th, 2010. 1 Comment.
Well, as you will know I am now in my first full month of doing this stuff full time.
It’s also like I’m starting from scratch too, but hey ho.
It normally takes a while for things to start happening, and that is the case.
I have been working on adding backlinks to 2 or 3 phrases picked up in the rank tracker plugin for wordpress, good if you want to know how to get site indexed by google I am using, and all I can say is wow. Each phrase has now blasted on to page 1 of google and my main one I wanted to rank for has hit position 1(again! lol) – its embarrasing but seeming to beocme a normal occurence – especially the bit about hitting page 1.. sigh this I.M. suff sure is “hard” 
Joking aside, Ive noticed a minor increase in Adsense but nothing to write home about so Ill wait a few weeks to see if a definite upwards swing is observed.
The adding of backlinsk is showing in higher number of daily site views though, so all is good.
Im going to start working on a new niche today though, a well-researched one, and try some videos to promote it, so cant wait on that front.
The trend is definitely “upwards”.
Keep smiling.
Oh, and of course I couldnt have done ANY of this before wordpress goldmine.
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on May 17th, 2010. Comment.
Well, as the old saying goes, there aint no smoke without a fire.
Right now there’s a lot of smoke, and just for the sake of getting a pun into this blog post, things are progressing nicely, and a fire is rumbling underneath it all!
Adsense: £0.00 (BIG jump in traffic though!)
Amazon £0.40 (3rd item from yesterday got shipped)
Clickbank £0.00
OK so it’s still small numbers but in another aspect when you look at the business overall, it continues to tick along nicely.
Traffic still flows. This is key.
One of my sites saw a really big spike in traffic yesterday and I noticed traffic coming from bt.com search engine which has provided much of the extra boost, especially since my site’s inner page is ranked in position one there.
And for those people who have just arrived here – yes I’ve been doing this since October 2009, but my father in law passed away around the same time and we have had to deal with his estate which has been time consuming, to say the least.
I’ve actually committed to working at this game full time now so I’m expecting to see good rises steadily each month.
What did surprise me is the site whose pages went to position one, and the spike in traffic – giving over 70 unique vistors a day which is over 2000 a month, so now my mind is sharpening up and I need to focus on getting the most bang for buck from that site.
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Filed under My progress by on May 7th, 2010. Comment.
Well just as here in the Uk the govornment are preparing to see who will lead our country for the next 5 years I am preparing too.
Today is my first full time day of Internet Marketing.
The real hard slog begins next week as I still have a few things left to tie up, but I am excited for the battle ahead.
Anyway, as for the results of “again” no work being done for almost 6+ weeks lets take a look, just for the sake of keeping a record:
Adsense £0.02
Amazon £0.45 (3 sales, 2o of which have been shipped)
Clickbank £0.00 (but starting to gte a lot more “order page” views buy visitors)
So that’s my free money done, Ive got a new PC coming today at some point, plus some tasks to get on with so Ill get another update out in the coming days.
No more sitting stale, I am going to be increasing: Number of sites built and number of backlinks to each site. That is my aim from now on so each month ends report should see ongoing increases starting with the end of this month.
After a few weeks I am hoping to see gradual daily increases so that should then begin to be an exciting story to read.
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Filed under My progress by on May 6th, 2010. Comment.
Well today drew zero in terms of revenue, but in terms of “number of hits received” – it has given another good day in fact the number has increased for one domain due to the fact one site is now going into its main season (an annual event). I must see if I can increase site CTR on that site.
I am seeing ongoing traffic to my regular blog, my domains, and to my backlinks.
Yesterday I wrote 2 more articles for low hanging fruit search terms.
So onwards and upwards.. this month is going to be slow and poor in terms of money but its the first real month Im pushing hard so watch this space over the coming weeks!
I love wordpress goldmine!
Adsense: £0.00
Amazon £0.00
Clickbank £0.00
yay!
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Filed under My progress by on May 4th, 2010. Comment.
Hi everyone,
This is the month I start putting a heap more time into things, so expect to see alot more activity posted and soon, better results being listed!
Its a public holiday here in the Uk, and with the family at home it is difficult to put too much work in, and of course this week and maybe next week I will be helping out my former boss for the last time.
Anyway, Yesterday I saw the following (for zero effort )
Adsense £0.18
Amazon £0.00
Clickbank £0.00
General thoughts. I find myself chasing terms and phrases that don’t always have high search volumes, but it is more of an ego boost, so a self-note to myself – stop worrying and focus on the high search numbers.
I know we are taught to chase the phrases with small search volume amounts, of at least 1000 to 5000 searches per month and that is great and of course do-able, but Mark hinted in his update that it’s possible with the extra tools in the article dominance review to actually dominate higher searched terms over a longer period of time. (NOTE: Everything inside the article dominance report can be accessed inside of Wordpress Goldmine, and of course you can access the Wordpress Goldmine $1 trial for yes, just one dollar.)
And this REALLY whetted my appetite.
I found a phrase that I normally overlook – something like 150,000 searches a month, or 5000 a day.
yes I needed hundreds and hundreds of backlinks, possibly thousands and the competition was stuff but if you imagine that over, say 5 years you work at this goal and one day break through and get onto page 1, the top 2 or 3, this could mean 1000 to 2500 hits a day to that site or page.
Now if you were selling a product that made you $50 profit on it, this could easily equate to 10 or 20 sales… a day…
Hmm…
Now the thought of doing 20 x $50, or $1000 a day which is the same as ahem.. $365,000 a year is kind of scary and exciting.
Your thoughts?
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Filed under My progress by on May 3rd, 2010. Comment.
Well I thought it was pointless providing progress updates the last couple of weeks and of course the past 8 weeks I haven’t really done any internet marketing at all.
Thanks to wordpress goldmine though, things could not be better, given the circumstances.
Someone criticised my progress a few weeks ago which I thought was unfair given the fact we have been dealing with the estate of my now dead father in law who died suddenly from a heart attack, in the street.
Now thankfully most of the stuff is behind me and all I can say is WATCH THIS SPACE for May!
Now on to the results.
My Adsense dropped a little bit compared to last month by 36%
Adsense £5.48 (£8.63 last month)
I know why the drop was significant. Last month I had a single click from one site for £1.98 and that site hasnt had any further promotion from me yet.
And really this isnt a good measure on just 5 or 6 sites.
Clickbank earnings £0.00
Amazon was a good result: I doubled the number of clicks to over 200 and the earnings came out at almost double compared to last month too. Not bad for zero work.
Amazon earnings: $7.04 (USD) or £4.60
As for referring new people to WPGM I increased the signups for a third month in a row, with one per month.
This is all testament to the fact that this WORKS.
I am wholly convinced beyond ANY reasonable doubt whatsoever and now have been a member since October 2010.
The ONLY reason I’m not doing hundreds per month yet is because of the family death and everything we’ve had to do since then – the whole affair was left for me and my wife to deal with.
6 sites up, 5 are on page 1 with 2 of them at position 1 in the search engines.
I know that I can build a site a day if I want to, but I also know that in a lot of the cases you need to continually work on each site adding backlinks, pushing them higher up the rankings and keeping them there.
I have friends who can build one site a day and with great research do little else to them until they need it – a nice approach, but to encompass all kinds of sites we need to push all methods.
i.e. diversify…
Now, I can go on and on and on about this for hours as it’s something I went into very thoroughly a few years ago and I intend to get some reports written up to give away in the future to explain what I mean…
Thanks
Shaun
p.s. read my Wordpress Goldmine review and decide for yourself if your life is worth changing. I dont know what else I can say. It works, period. When you stop thinking all about the hype, spam, crap and stupidness that exists and you have a clear head, then that is the moment in your life when you need to make a proper and sensible decision. Stay clear of the crap that clutters the net.
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Filed under My progress by on May 1st, 2010. Comment.
