The income in November is in the decline after the October’s peak. It looks like October was also a peak of my performance as nowadays I’m not doing a lot of work myself.
Partly due to some offline matters, partly due to health issues, but now I tend to concentrate on less sites.
November 2011 – $6540.65
I have to say that despite some sites only dropped several positions in google, which is enough to lose income, this is not the only thing that affects earnings. Some sites face some magic time when they stop generating any sales, while the traffic is still coming in. The only one explanation I see is the decrease in the buyer activity.
Less sites are easier to manage, as the product-oriented model (mini sites) seems to be really “hit-or-miss” for me these days. It’s better to create a good multi-product site and populate it with good content, lots of good articles targeting the low-hanging keywords…
Backlinking Stuff
This is what I’m getting to now. The backbone of my SEO now is blog networks – there’s plenty of them to choose from… As YSE died, Link Diagnosis seems to be a replacement for quick backlinks analysis, but to be frank it’s even 10% not good as YSE was…
I thought of getting a basic membership in MajesticSEO, as their database seems the most valuable on my opinion, but still deciding on alternatives.
SEOSpyGlass has recently added their “own” database of links (which I doubt though, probably they’re using some source like Magestic or OpenSiteExplorer) so it’s also nice to get the picture of the site’s linking strategy.
Future Steps
I haven’t decided on the exact strategy of making money online yet – what I feel like is that ranking sites in google trying to make affiliate commissions is definitely a pretty unstable way of earning online. It takes too much work and can die in a moment, I mean all the time and money investment spent on creating and ranking sites.
I know people are making money just with SEO, but it’s much better to have some other ways as well. Spencer for example is not only a successful adsense publisher, but he’s also earning from his own product, and seems to keep working on the IPhone app now.
For 4 years online, looks like I only learned to stupidly keep building sites and ranking them, until google plays another huge dirty trick.
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I was thinking you too could create your own product! You have so much knowledge and experience!
Want to do something together?
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December 15th, 2011 at 12:38 am
@Galyna, Hi! All I knew about SEO is now changing again, still no clear evidence of what’s working for sure
I need to test a lot of things and then this could really be a good business!
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Hey Anton, you should create your own product. because you are doing good at it. maybe just for the beginner.
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December 19th, 2011 at 10:32 am
@Yiannis, Hi Giannis!
Glad that you’re here )) I think SEO is changing so fast that I can’t update my own skills so fast as it’s changing now )) The strategy is really simple – keep creating new sites and rank these – the income will grow!
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Don’t make you’re own product unless it’s not in the IM niche. Trust me it’s not worth the hassle. If anything take some profits and start an eCommerce site. Keep making the niche affiliate sites on the site and build a real business
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December 19th, 2011 at 10:30 am
@Anonymous, Yep I think you’re right. I’d also consider paid traffic and CPA offer as if done right this model can bring in some real profits.
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