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 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.
Well.. my online world has been completely overshadowed by the intensity Im now experiencing offline in relation to a deceased relatives estate we are managing.
In the brief moments Ive actually been able to stop and think about all of this Ive achieved the following.
I finished another sales letter and have another in the pipeline so this is all good stuff, and feedback has been nothing short of “WOW”.
That makes me smile in such a huge way.
Even though my heart is here to access passive income, long term its nice to know I can write for other people until the passive income increases.
There has been very litle all week in terms of revenue.
Adsense for 7 days £0.74 pence (still even if its 10p a day thats 10p a day! passive income if ever Ive heard it, lol.
Amazon £0.00
Clckbank £0.00
Revenue from an affiliate sale at wordpress goldmine $0.50 (but may rise to $9.99 if they go on to take the full monthly subscription.
I’ve also been able to solidify my thoughts quite strongly about the progress I will personally be taking.
Ive noted that one of my domains has been in position 2 for 4-6 months.
The GREAT news is that for 4 months I havent added any content whatsoever to it…
So domain age definitely DOES come into things and does help sites rank higher and higher.
So for the turtle and the hare(remember that story?) the turtle definitely wins the race this time round.
That one site, is also the ONLY site that has consistently stayed at positions 1 or 2 in “G”, all because it was my first site and it was the site I spent 2 months building backlinks to and creating a lot of content to.
So thats really the key!
Domain age helps.. a LOT
Add 5-20 pieces of content, and make as many backlinks as possible to each piece of content.. using high pr sites to link to your sites main page and inner posts.
I can also confirm this “concept” because a few years ago I sold a tyre sealant and became responsible for my region.
I developed a very basic website using a cheap piece of website software called “serif webplus”.
The site went on to have something in the region of 80 or so pages.
(I had to write about the history of the company and what it did etc – much of it was copied and pasted from the main company website too!)
It stayed at position 1 in google for almost a year before I left the company due to falling out with head office over an agreement with setting up sales reps for myself.. long story….
Ironically and I didnt realise at the time, I put some affiliate product codes on the site for an automobile service/product(car breakdown cover) and this netted me over £100 every single month… kind of sounds identical to what I do NOW – affiliate marketing!
If only I knew then what I know now…
Anyway… the future is bright…
All around me at wordpress goldmine I am reading of people increasing their money. Heather is now reporting a HUGE jump in earnings from $8 a day to $16 a day with some $20 days coming in (from Adsense alone)
You can read my review about it if you want to (wordpress goldmine review) – its only $1 – seriously you’d have be stupid to be passing up each day for this.
As Nike says….”Just Do It”
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 17th, 2010. 2 Comments.
OK…
As you know I am still inside a 4 -6 week timeframe where I can do very little, but should be emerging out the other side within 1-2 weeks (fingers crosssed).
Adsense: £0.43
Amazon: £0.00
Clickbank £0.00
At the moment I am finding this inability to work hard a real frustrating time.. I know I am very impatient though.
Today is the 10th and a third of the way through the month and at leas the adsense seems to be to some degree still in line with last month, which is reassuring at least.
The one site which has prevailed consistently, staying in the number 2 slot behind only wikipedia is the one I did a lot of backlinking to in the early days. In fact I spent almost 2 months on it, but at that time I knew no better.
The latest sites all had a minimal amount of promotion work done and vary in position from position 10 to position 15 and worst, so it just goes to show that the methods offered in wordpress goldmine do work – more backlinks = more success.
While I may still ony have 6 sites, I can now see that (when I am free in 2 weeks) what I need to do. Spend a good solid week initially on each site to push them up through the rankings before I develop new sites. I want to get each site doing £1 a day or at least “regular daily money per site” instead of bits here and there.
This image is the copyright of ranktrackerplugin (http://ranktrackerplugin.com) but I wanted to show it because it helps show and prove what positioning does for your site. I recommend you visit that site because it’s run by Paul Forcey, who is, besides a good friend, a top member at wordpress goldmine.
You can see that instead of starting a new site, if you focus on creating backlinks to existing sites and bumping them up the rankings you can grow the traffic and earnings that way instead.
With less sites you can focus more on the ones you own, properly, and move on to more sites further down the line once the existing ones are doing well.
I do agree with building more and more sites as time evolves but it may be beneficial down the line to employ people to continue with content creation and backlink generation.
If you were to move from position 10 to position 1 it can mean your traffic jumps by a factor of 25! 25 times the traffic!
So as long as you’ve researched the niche first and know that position 1(or even 2 or 3) is attainable you can reach at least a nice sizeable income per site.
Sometimes just a bit of promotional work can give your site double the traffic… so if you only get 50 cents a day you could quite conceivably hit $1 a day for that site…
The name of the game is to get as much out of each site as possible.
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Filed under My progress by on Apr 10th, 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.
Well, as per the past few weeks, I am not building sites for a week or 2 more due to getting some offline commitments finished.
The good news is that money KEEPS COMING IN.
All I need to do is ramp up the amout of site building I’ve done, which thankfully I will be doing in huge amounts within the next few weeks once I’ve caught up.
I’ve made around 20p a day in adsense the past few days, every day, plus gained a new referral at wordpress goldmine.
This is one of just 5 main sites.
When Im ready to start pushing I’ll be able to do 1-2 sites a day, so its only going to be a week or two before it turns into £1 a day, and then upwards.
I like wordpress goldmine, as if you couldnt tell. Its the one thing that Ive ever done online, that is “proper and decent” and set to last long term.
I’ll post a monthly update tomorrow.
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Filed under My progress by on Mar 31st, 2010. Comment.
Progress Update – Sunday 28th March 2010
Well I was going to leave progress update posting for a few weeks until I get fuilly into the swing of building sites after Ive dealt with a few offline items.
I wanted to say that I was just checking on earnings and realised I had a sale on clickbank back on the 8th March earning me just over $25 – what a nice surprise!
Also on my other site I co-own (free-mobile-content.com) we had a record adsense earnings day of £2.30 – lol you may laugh but its a nice bit of change for building a site once, and it covers the hosting so all is on the up.
This month is going to be a nice push upwards from previous months.
The sale was for a product I mentioned on the page entitled get site indexed by google.
Its nice when this happens, and its even nicer that I am starting to see money trickle in from 3 sources now – amazon, adsense and clickbank.
I cant wait to see how things jump when I start the big push in a few weeks.
Im definitely going to be doing product related sites the same time as adsense based site – earning $25 is far better than 25 cents 
Anyway from the stats from yesterday I earned
adsense: £0.17
Clickbank £16
Amazon £0.00
Wow just looking at that.. this is absolutely VERY ENCOURAGING…. £40 to £60 a day covers wages in most cases, so all I need is 3 sales a day and, well all is looking pretty darned good!
Folks, if you read this just DO THIS STUFF. Join wordpress goldmine for just one dollar, or read my wordpress goldmine review.
It’s your life, dont waste it.
Take care,
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Mar 28th, 2010. Comment.
A Review Of Article Dominance
Mark Thompson continues to over deliver time and time again.
He has just released the eagerly awaited report called Article Dominance.
So what is it?
Well let me firstly tell you what it is NOT. It is NOT a hypey thing that is spouted by many different guru’s.
It most certainly is NOT rehashed garbage that gets trashed around the internet.
This is the real deal and is spoken by a true “knight” – Mark Thompson.
It deals with Article Marketing, and is literally, and thankfully taught by the one guy who has made a full time living from article marketing for more than 5 years now.
It goes into how to create an article that works, and converts as much as 50% of traffic into clickthroughs to your main site. Then it deals with the main thing -the resource box and goes to describe a few ways that Mark uses almost exclusively to get extremely high conversion ratio’s.
You won’t find this information hard to digest.
- It’s “simple” to do – literally.
- It’s quick and easily duplicatable.
- It works for “me”.
- It can and will work for you.
Buy Article Dominance right now and do not delay.
The good stuff is that this information is current and up to date and mark always keeps these things freshly updated so that you don’t lose out.
Every site I build now makes me money and it’s all down to article marketing.
Why am I promoting this product?
Well for the only reason in that it WORKS. It’s what Mark has been teaching me since October 2009 and I am loving every minute of it.
It is BANG up to date and for what it’s cost it’s a no brainer (just $17).
Without trying to come across as screaming “buy this, buy this buy this” I have no other way of saying that this DOES work.
That’s my short review. It works, it’s most definitely working for me, and if you want your life to change this year then go and buy it now without even hesitating.
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Filed under Latest News by on Mar 27th, 2010. Comment.
