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. 
Each day I work tirelessly and think I’ve got all the methods down to a tee, and all I need to do is work the magic.
Then I read in the Wordpress Goldmine forum how a friend has turned a simple blog that makes $50 a month into a blog that makes $600 a month, every month.
Then I read to find out how it only took him 4 weeks to accomplish this!!!!
It’s times like these when I am completely and TRULY blown away.
Folks, if you haven’t yet realised this then you need to take a second look. LIFE IS PASSING YOU BY.
He has been using a simple wordpress plugin called Rank Tracker.
Click that link for my full review of it.
In a nutshell what he has been doing is taking the results of the ranking notifications that get delivered via email for your domain.
Then creating backlinks based on THOSE “actual” phrases people are actively typing in. That’s the sweet beauty of the plugin. It’s based on ACTUAL “live” searches made by people that day – it gives you the phrase and your ranking position for it.
So if you are anything like me – dreaming of success. Listen to this. (It’s a blueprint!)
Step 1: Join Wordpress Goldmine
Step 2: Get the Rank Tracker plugin.
Step 3: Ask me for help!
Guru’s try to convince people that all this internet markekting is hard – it’s NOT. I am constantly shocked how easy it is – people tend to over complicate things when there really is no need.
Come on, commit to the next 3-6 months and let’s see what magic we can work, and I’ll help you out.
It’s only $1 for 7 days access to Wordpress Goldmine.
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Filed under Latest News 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.
If you have anything to do with using Wordpress as a blog platform then you are going to want (and need) to know what your sites particular position is, in Google.
Further more you will want to know the exact phrases people “actually” type in that result in your site getting shown.
Announcing the Ranktrackerplugin
Rank Tracker
Now, imagine uploading a simple plugin which is a 1 minute task and then… that’s it..! It will send you an email telling you where your site sits in Google, it’s PR (Page Rank) and for which phrase it ranks for, but more importantly it only shows data for phrases when people type them in!
This means it is extremely reliable.
All you then need to do is create a few backlinks to that particular URL for that phrase and enjoy the show.
Nothing could be simpler than this!
This is the typical email you will receive:
There has been a change in your Google rankings!
http://yourdomain.com/ is now ranking at number 7 in Google for the keyword phrase: your domain’s phrase
It was previously ranking at number 6.
This is one of those rare MUST HAVE tools that I strongly recommend you buy, today without any hesitation whatsoever.
Why?
because I use it, and in using it it’s given me a distinct advantage over the competition.
I know the ACTUAL PHRASE people type into Google and which page of my site shows for that phrase.
Take a look at this video then press the order button below to take advantage, ok?
I don’t recommend just anything because I am not prepared to ruin my good standing for the sake of a few short minded sales.
I use this, it works. Its easy and simple and it gives you the information you need at your fingertips.
Why randomly create backlinks to your pages not fully knowing if they will rank or not?
Focus on the ones that are ranking and THEN create backlinks that push that backlink higher.
Buy The RankTracker Plugin Now
I promoise you, you won’t be disappointed.
Let me know how you get on and what you thought of it – I love it, and armed with the knowledge you can make huge strides in your progress.
If you want to know how to get your site indexed by Google click this instead.
Thanks!
Shaun
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Filed under Latest News by on May 1st, 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.
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.
