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 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.
It’s kind of a logical thought process that we all end up going through at one point or another.
What would you “personally” prefer to handle yourself, 50 websites or 5000 websites?
When you’ve got 50 websites you can tend to one or 2 almost every day. Add a new post to them and create a couple of new backlinks.
When you’ve got 5000 websites it’s impossible to do by yourself. It can be done with help from outsourcers, and when you’ve got a very solid infrastructure you can make as much money as you wish. The concept would be scaleable and all you need to do is ramp things up. Simple.
However for a very large number of people they may not even be able to think that far ahead.
So, maybe 50 websites suddenly becomes more appealing.
However if you’re only hitting 30 cents a day per site this isn’t quite so exciting – $15 a day…
I’m going to ask you one simple question and the answer needs to be understood as a two part answer..
PART 1: Is your domain in the top 3 in Google (or at least on page 1)?
PART 2: How many “indexed” backlinks point to your site?
If you have a group of sites, say 5 sites, and all you get is 30 cents a day from all five then you can either create hundreds of new sites or think differently.
Positions 1,2 and 3 get a significant boost in traffic levels via the search engines so you need to be there.
You also need to work out how many backlinks you’ll need to get there, and how many maintenance backlinks to create to keep you there.
That, my dearest friends, is the answer.
More backlinks(articles) gives more direct traffic and moves your site higher in the organic search engine results.
So.. do both…
Spend a full week, 40 hours creating backlinks and backlinks to just one site… create backlinks to inner pages as much as the main domain.
Each site can yield as much as £1 a day just in adsense ($1.52).
This could get you to $70 a day, or $490 a week… passive income within 1 year.
50 weeks.. one a week = $76 a day.
2 years you could hit 100 sites, still managing them yourself, and pulling in $152 a day.
Imagine now if you paid someone part time to take over then maintenance of article writing and backlink creation for $70 a day.
You are now getting a “hands free” utterly passive, ever-growing income.
Yes you may be giving away 50% of the money but you are gaining most of your personal time freedom back…. and still getting paid… for “nothing”… ahem…
In 5 years time, if you do the ame thing over this could mean an income of $350 a day for YOU… passively… witha team of people growing your websites for you.
So…
would you rather go to a job for 5 years or grow your websites for 5 years and go to the beach?
I do think 5000 websites is better than 50… but I also think you have to get to 50 yourself… first.
Learn it.. immerse yourself in it, go for it.
Don’t forget that this is just based on adsense. You can make a lot more if you sell products (liek on Amazon or clickbank) and boost those numbers by a factor of 3, 5 and 10 or more.
If you want to do the same as me, join wordpress goldmine on a $1 trial – and send me a PM (my id is: shaunbaird).
I’ll happily answer any questions you’ve got, although the forum itself is far too good at doing this…
Thanks
Shaun
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Filed under Random Thoughts by on Apr 7th, 2010. 1 Comment.
Well we’ve just emerged from the other side of the Easter holiday period – 4 days of officially “no work” for many people here in the Uk.
Ironically most revenues have dropped “all that time”, as have the number of traffic visits. I’m sure when there are a lot more sites up, lots more daily traffic that this will still mean a drop in income, but will not affect the “minimum I need” on a daily basis too much – as long as I aim for way over that “minimum – i.e. double should be my, and everyones targets to shoot for. Why not?
During this week, last week and most probably next week I am not providing regular daily updates because of the offline commitments I am working through.
Still on the 1st April had a rather interesting day when one site pulled in over £1.55 on it’s own.
Then there has been next to nothing.
Today though had another 17pence to add to the pot.
While my dream means I want to shout out that I made another $200, $300 and more, it’s important to recognise the small increments and “ongong progress made in small bite sized chunks”.
So the totals “for this month” so far, are:
Adsense: £1.72
Clickbank: £0.00
Amazon: £0.00
I have put a few new backlinks to a couple of sites though, and have launched another new site, so progress IS being made, just frustratingly, not yet at the rate I am desperate to achieve… couple of weeks Shauny… couple of weeks…!
Over, and out…
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 6th, 2010. Comment.
Well the whole of February yielded £4.80 adsense and £0.89 in amazon income , pus a recurring (passive) renewal of income from a referral at wordpress goldmine earning me £6.57 for a total of
Adsense: £4.80
Amazon £0.89
Clickbank: £0.00
Overall “site building” passive income is: £5.69
Factor in the wordpress goldmine affiliate income and we get: WPGM: £6.57
Overall Total for Feb is £12.26
Now I want to move on to March.
A month where virtually nothing has been done as it is a period in time where I am leaving my job, emptying a relatives house, setting up an accountant and writing sales pages for others.
Lets see what I earned from “no extra effort” in site building.
Adsense: £7.08
Clickbank: £16.75
Amazon : £3.26
That’s a passive site building total of £27.09
That’s an increase of 376% (new amount, minus old amount = difference between the two figures = £21.40. £21.40 divided by last months amount of £5.69 = 3.76. Multitply 3.76 x 100 to gve the percentage increase of 376%)
I can cope with that.. Sure beats an increase at any job.
I also continue to earn a recurring income on a previous sale of one wordpress goldmine referral, and a second referral who has taken the $1 trial and who may upgrade if he sees the benefit in all of this, so that came in at:
WPGM: £6.89
So overall passive income was £27.09 + £6.89 = £33.98
I also did 3 “sales page” writing contracts earning good 3 figure amounts, but I don’t want to include that, as I am tracking “passive income” with a strict focus on the 3 major ones of Adsense, Clickbank and Amazon (for now)
That concludes my “no effort” month (sorry had to put that in because it’s quite funny that I’ve earned even when I’ve not been working on them – imagine if I HAD BEEN!)
Anyway once this month of April has been dealt with and I’ve gotten over all the offline things I need to do I am hoping to start seeing some pretty big jumps in income.
As noted above, I am focusing on the 3 main totally passive opportunities of adsense, clickbank and amazon, but I will also report in the earnings from additional sources.
I am not sure if the nice clickbank sale was a fluke or is likely to continue but I sure intend to see things go in the right direction.
If you want to do the same as me, join wordpress goldmine or read my wordpress goldmine review.
THANKS!
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 1st, 2010. Comment.
