Ok, so I have to say I am VERY happy with the great start to 2011.
Every single month the past 5 months has been a growth, so I am on the right path FINALLY!
My Adsense earnings rose from my previous best month (November)
November was £149.73 – January was £163.29 – yay ($262.38)! Around a 10% increase on my personal best.
My Clickbank earnings were like WOW this month – I have no idea why
$273.60 – my personal best every before was around the $100 mark.
My Amazon earnings were decidedly average at $69
I also earned $10 via wpgm commissions,
$200 for other items.
So overall this month came in at $745.98 WOW!
Kind of a buzz….
Why not join me at WordPress Goldmine and do the same as me.
This is all while Ive been struggling to get back intoa work flow for my “day job” of writing for others. Can’t moan!
Yes Ive got expenses, software and services I am subscribed to but I am happy to say things are going upwards.
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Filed under My progress by on Feb 1st, 2011. Comment. 
Hi,
Just felt the need to drop something down in here today. I have made myself very busy, very busy indeed. I have set some high targets I want to hit by the middle of July, so I have been extremely busy pushing really hard with promotional activities on all of my 50+ sites (eek!).
I think I’ve got too many, but have neglected several for some time, and I am pushing to see which are worthy of keeping before their domains come up for renewal. It’s time to shape up I guess!
Anyway this boost of activity is all good. I had expected a dip in earnings for 4-6 weeks while the backlinks hit and settle down, but I am surprised and have seen a couple of orders on Clickbank, so I am actually at my highest level ever in Clickbank, which is cool. I’m not going to complain, lol!
I tell you what though, It’s really sinking home about the amount of work needed, and more importantly, picking the right keywords in the first place. A good 60% of my domains were a bit wishy-washy, but surprisingly several of them are looking good.
I started all this IM stuff October 2009, and was lucky to be making 30 cents every few days. It continued like this for months. Funny how things are for once going upwards, even though slowly. I am now working harder than ever and more consistent than ever too.
Oh well, onwards and upwards – essentially Adsense is going at least as good as last month, if not a little better. Amazon is average and clickbank is a good month – my best yet.
Keep pushing folks..
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Jan 16th, 2011. Comment.
Hi folks, well 2011 and is certainly upon us eh? I want to round up the fun Ive had this month with Adsense, Amazon and Clickbank earnings.
If you didn’t know, I made the decision to try this full time in April when I had some cash sitting round. I wasn’t 100% sure back then how much I could do, and to be honest I spent a lot of the time dealing with things related to my late father in laws estate, having a driveway and patio built.
Anyway, what Ive noticed is that many people in WordPress Goldmine would take at least a year for things to start sinking in. During all of this time many people would also join and leave, but that’s life. Then there are those who “get it” very quickly and really impress you.
Just a few of the people who have really impressed me the most this year are:
Paul Nicholls – I noticed he spent some time getting it together but once he “got it” – he really got it.
Heather Hyvarinen – This lady proudly states she was a technophobe just a short space of time ago and she is now doing incredible things
George McNaney – I spent a day doing training with this guy, and after seing “proof” I can asure you all this “IM stuff” is “very real”.
There are MANY more I want to say thanks to who have each done their “little bit” to switch certain lighbulbs on inside my head, ranging from Mark Thompson, Paul Forcey, BHJMom,Keith Evans,Leepy40,Rita012,Richr and many more. So to ALL of you, I really want to say a genuine thank you. I apologise if I missed anyone obvious.
Let’s take a look at how the finances went in December
Adsense: December £106.87 (166.84 USD) - November was £149.73 ($233.39 USD) – down by £43.
Amazon: December was £107.54 ($167.89 USD ) -November was £29.36 ($45.77) – up by £77.
Clickbank: £19.53 ($30.49 USD) – November was £38.49 ($60) – down by around £19
WPGM – $20 earnings.
Other earnings: $260
So the overall earnings was $645.22 USD (£413.29 GBP)
Expenditure is £112, leaving a clear profit of £301.29 ($470.35 USD)
That’s that out of the way, so now it is time for me to plan for the future once again.
I’ve been going over my plans and there is a clear couple of pieces of software essential for my business. Linxboss and Ezarticlelink.
These two are part of a collection of things I use that I deem to be essential.
Both are very very powerful. Ezarticlelink is fantastic and Linxboss is like “wow”. It’s hands-free and it shot 2 of my sites to position 1 page 1 within a month of use. This was 5 months ago and they are still there.
I did unsubscribe from both of these for 3 months recently when earnings took a dip and I needed to gear up for Christmas, but I have renewed both services again.
What’s going to be happening in 2011 for me?
After mytraining with george and skype help from heather and Paul Forcey as well as email help from Paul Nicholls (thanks all of you) I have now proven myself.
Ive carefully built 3 sites since my training, and predicted where they would land in the serps.
They all did what I wanted. Page 1. Nothing to do with spammy rubbish content, but rather building up decent sites with plenty of pages and of course good on-site seo.
So I now believe I understand the keys, and now this is going to be my year.
I have seen my colleagues go from a few hundred a month to a few thousand dollars a month, all in the last year. I hope to follow that same path in 2011 and be 100% passive income reliant before the end of 2011.
I recommend you do the same if you want to get going and change your life. Only when I stopped all the “crap” and flitting from program to program did things start to happen. Weird huh?
Now before you think you haven’t got any time, think of me. I work from home full time by writing for others. This is because it’s my dream. It’s hard but it’s paid the bills, and I have very little time left each day.
Take care,
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Jan 1st, 2011. 3 Comments.
Each month is getting better and better.
Well my Adsense is – its grown each month and has once gain beaten last months earnings.
Talking of earnings… lets take a look:
Adsense: October was £85.71 (that is $137.63) – and November was £149.73 ($233.39 USD)
Amazon: October was £56.70 (or $91.07) – and November was £29.36 ($45.77)
Clickbank: October was £19 (Or $30) – and November was £38.49 ($60)
WPGM – $20 earnings.
Other earnings: $260 (down from $300)
So the overall earnings was $233.39 + $45.77 + $60 + $20 = $359.16 USD (£230.42 GBP)
So overall down on last month by around $300 – why?
Well I got an unplanned $50 hosting commission last month which I didnt get this month, as it was.. erm.. “unplanned”
Ive been promoting some software and the number of repeat buyers are dropping, and have dropped a lot, but this is just the name of the game.
The things I have always wanted to focus on are Adsense, Amazon and Clickbank, the others have been nice bonuses.
I am over the moon because this month I had been focusing on Adsense,.. and guess what.. earned more. In fact it went up by almost 80%!
I’ve dropped a few of my un-needed subscriptions to keep costs down, but plan to come back to some of them later.
So, expenditure is now only £112 so overall clear profit is £118.42 which is a small drop on last month by around £40 on the previous month.
In recent months I’ve been doing some Skype training with Heather Hyvarinen from the wordpress goldmine forum as well as having spent a day with George from Broon Dog Internet Marketing for a days training.
Both of these are available inside wordpress goldmine and offer training services.
Its starting to pay off.
Now I am focusing on keyword research, having had identified my weak points, things are really coming together.
When I was with George we built a site together which ranked on page 1 of Google within 48 hours.
Then I went home, did the same and predicted a position 7 on page 1… guess what…
position 8! lol, but to be fair another 48 hours later it DID get to position 7 – so its GOOD TO KNOW that doing it right and knowing how to do it works.
So expect to see continued growth.
I am now going to be pushing and pushing pages – pages that this time, I know should rank well.
A guy in the WordPress Goldmine forum called Briyan focused. In 5 months of doing Adsense he is now earning $117 a day.
If like me you want to waste 14 months tinkering along without really knowing what to do then carry on, else join WordPress Goldmine and you could see things happning for yourself.
Anyway, that obviosu bit of promotion out of the way, the serious note here is that with knowledge and focus comes money. Bryan did this. He focused on Adsense and took what he found to work and turned it into a full time income.
Guess what – he has built 200 pages of content – 50 sites with 4 on each, and only 64 of them are on page 2 – all that money from page 2!!!!
When he hits page 1 his income is going to shoot up to incredible levels.
Anyway, armed with this, Ive drawn a planner for my wall with 200 squares on it. Can you guess what Im going to do with it…?
Each page I make using my new found understanding is going to have a line drawn through that square.
Im aiming to do 1-2 or more pages a day so Im keen to see what happens in 3 months from now. Im going to be focusing on Adsense.
Thanks
Shaun
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Filed under My progress by on Dec 1st, 2010. 6 Comments.
Well I am happy to report continued good things are happening, and so far each month is improving on the previous month.
Onwards and upwards in baby steps right?
I am actually ecstatic with the progress that has been made this month and I can wholeheartedly put it all down to what I have been doing with WordPress Goldmine (go on, take the crazy $5 trial!).
I’ve been doing a number of things this month and wanted to lay it all out – if I can do it, believe me, ANYONE can do it!
For a start I have been tweaking the overall layout of where to put the Adsense ads on each of my 50 sites. In the WordPress Goldmine forum a layout for best ad placement was revealed and I have used this to tweak each site. It’s only been a few days but I have definitely seen somewhere between a 30% and a 50% improvement in earnings.
Talking of earnings… lets take a look:
Adsense: September was £47.20 GBP ($74.28 USD) – in October I managed to turn it into £85.71 (that is $137.63) – so it almost doubled.
Amazon: September was £10.35 ($16.30 USD) – In October I saw a great leap. I earned £56.70 (or $91.07)
Clickbank: I earned around the same as last month £19 (Or $30)
New sales: I managed to pull in a hosting client for a nice $50 commission
WPGM – $30 earnings.
Other earnings: $300 (down from $480)
So the overall earnings was $300 = $$30 + $50 + $30 + $91.07 + $137.63 = $638.70 USD (£397.75 GBP)
So overall about $33 UP on the previous month, despite a drop of $180 from promoting some software.
Expenditure is £235.94 so overall clear profit is £161.81 which is £20 more than the previous month despite the big drop.
Ok, last October I knew nothing about internet marketing. Zilch!
Now I wish this was more but it isn’t, I’ll deal with it, lol.
As with any learning curve you tend to not notice any big changes for ages, and then once it begins, it snowballs. So Now I “know” what to do it’s just a case of continuing on with this.
Oh well back to work!
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Filed under My progress by on Nov 1st, 2010. 4 Comments.
Hi again.
Things are up, most certainly up. It seems everyone around me at WordPress Goldmine is seeing success each and every month.
Basically this month has seen an increase in activity, but more and more I am noticing what I am NOT doing (and not enough of) – ie backlinking consistently, soI know there is room for much improvement.
How do I know this? Well a friend of mine called Heather has been using an outsourcer to write 1 piece of unique content a day, post it to her site, and post a backlink on a certain couple of sites (gonna do an in-depth review soon, becaue these sites are working out great).
Before the outsourcer that site was doing$20 a month, month 1 was $40, month 2 was $80 and now she hit $300. The outsourcer is now paying for herself. once the outsourcer is doubling the profit, Heather intends to add another outsourcer – now isnt that a model for success?
Small baby steps each and every day with a concerted focused effort.
Ok, well guess I better post my own figures.
Adsense – last month £26 GBP ($41 USD) – this month £47.20 GBP ($74.28 USD)
Amazon – last month £3.59 GBP ($5.66 USD) – this month £10.35 ($16.30 USD)
Clickbank – last month £25.08 GBP ( $39.50 USD) – this month £19.40 ($30.55 USD)
Total £54.67 GBP last month
This month £76.95 GBP
Other Income: $480 USD (£303 GBP).
So thankfully I’ve not veered “off course” and am still putting one foot in front of the other on the right path, and not walking off the path into the desert!
Now I want to find my running shoes and put them on tightly so I can start going a bit quicker.
There are still runing costs and all my running costs (based on me just starting some exciting software(but expensive) is comign in at £235.94 in running costs each month.
So total profit: £76.95+£303 = £379.95
Less business running costs of £235.94 = £144.01
£144.01 clear profit for the month of September. Keep on pushing.. links and content…
Thoughts:
I had some sites built, and Ive also joined 3 services in September that are great for backlinks – so this month I intend to do a lot more “pushing” of additional phrase “per site” – instead of continuously starting new sites.
After all each phrase/page is looked upon as a new site in itself in the eyes of Google, well according to popular belief anyway – guess this is why some pages can outrank other sites on their own.
Plans for october 2010 – I need to ensure I do my “writing” services to “pay the bills” – this has to come first, especially as my wife got made redundant also, we now need an insanely stupid amount of money each month just to get by so that must come first. Whatever time is left is going to be spent wisely.
I now own around 50 domains. I printed out a list of them last week, stapled the list together and identified all my sites Id had which were over 6-8 months and classed them as hard sites, and all the newer ones I classed as soft sites.
The hard sites are due a good push from one of the new backlinking sites I am testing (good results starting to come through by the way – will try to do a report soon), while the softer sites will have smaller backlinks posted to them, ie 10 a week per main site.
On top of this I want to get into pushing the sites through with consistent solid daily action. Not easy to contend with when youve got 50 but I will devise a plan.
It’s funny, because a few years ago I created a site around a tyre sealant with over 50 pages – and it shot to number 1 in Google and stayed there for over a year while I was an “area rep” for that company (more like a doormat for them..) – so the old adage of more content seems to hold true.
Over and out!
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Filed under My progress by on Oct 1st, 2010. 1 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 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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