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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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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