Looks like I’ve been neglecting blogging these days, after so much hard work the energy levels exhaust and you need time to make full recovery.
In the last months of 2011 I kind of lost my bearings and this resulted in the effectiveness of online activity.
Yes, in order to grow the income, we need more traffic – that’s obvious. So it’s also obvious that we need to get more content published, make new sites or grow existing ones. There are a LOT more variables however – such as the rankings return on SEO efforts, conversion rates of our presell, lifecycle of the products promoted, and others – but return on SEO efforts is one of the most important – as this is what eats most of the time, money and energy…
Yes some of my sites were also hit by this update, aimed at “improving the quality of SERPs” – always makes me laugh and angry simultaineuously… Like the new “GOD-like” algorythm will decide if my page/site is high quality or not…
It’s been around 5 years in this business – and I haven’t hit my so called “tipping point” – when the business is growing on a larger scale than – It took me 12 months to add $2000 to my monthly income.
December 2011 – $4841,06
Yes I had better months, but I woudln’t call it “passive” – it’s ongoing, daily sweat and tears if done in the traditional SEO way.
I still have one money-making site that sits under “-10 filter” (if that one exists), no matter which links I built, it’s stuck to page 2 and more. But the main reason for low income levels in December is strange drop in conversions across all my sites.
Have you already listed your 2012 goals?
I’m still thinking of what direction to take. I haven’t achieved $10000 a month yet, my closest income was around $7800 but that was due to product launch – and I worked on 1 site for almost a whole month, so hard was competition.
Spitting out non-converting snipers is a waste of time, when it comes to affiliate marketing – but the same approach works better with adsense. But adsense income from a mini site is pretty small, so you see what I’m thinking about now? Paid traffic is another alternative – but my recent attempts to even USE my account in Facebook were smashing fail – I found that my FB advertising account is closed due to “unusual payment activity” Unfortunately, they don’t answer “WTF???” type of questions.
How’s your 2012 began? What are your goals? Eager to hear your thoughts!
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Well my month and adsense income is steady in last few days many of my niche sites are doing little better. I guess 1-2 year is sufficient time to make domains aged and rank better.
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January 22nd, 2012 at 1:01 pm
@Rahul, Yes Rahul – 1-2 years is usually great for rankings. Nice that your sites are on the rise, some of my sites are also doing much better these days – both affiliate and adsense sites. I think this is due to New Year’s spike
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