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Yes, this is what I have in CB now.

Within several days, I’ll try to improve this and have some more sales showing up.

I’ve completed my strategy of creating CPA offer oriented sites. As I wrote in my last posts, I will end up with this strategy and will complete my 2 last sites and then stop doing this way of CPA. offer promotion, replacing it with another model that will not require creating websites.

After analysis of this model, I understood that it’s not stable income source, and it takes time to get site ranked, but once the offer is gone, the traffic diminishes and ther’s no point in this site, except for maybe backlinking other properties.

I’ve done some backlinking, a couple of UAW submissions with links to my 2 last CPA sites, that resulted in no obvious SERP movements. Then I added some profile links, and now I did some Magic Submitter un plus included several high PR authority sites where I created blog posts or profiles.

Last site was launched and indexed 6 days ago, today it’s already ranking #6 for my main keyword, across Google and Yahoo. I even didn’t place aff links, as I haven’t expected so fast rankings. And this is not exact keyword in domain, that all was taken before I entered the niche.

For other keyword, I’m now dominating #1, #3 and #5 positions, with 2 different sites and Ezinearticles article. Leads are coming in daily, that’s good since my #1 spot was gone and my highest position was #5 for this keyword.

Now my main goal is researching more SEO strategies, and also replacing my CPA sites strategy with some more stable and consistent and traffic getting strategies.

I’m seriously considering Clickbank as my next big thing, I’d be happy to make 50-100$ a day with Clickbank, so I need to think how this can be achieved with my current situation and resources.

Hello!

Over the last serveral days I’ve faced some dark sides of what’s I’ve been doing lately, and how this turned to decrease in my earnings, as a net result of wrong strategies I’ve been pursuing.

Well, despite a couple of sites, my rankings are good, but earnings.. I’ll be happy to beat 2000$ in September, considering this is not a summer and online activity should be pretty good now. I’ve done some preliminary calculations of September incomes, and this is how this post was born.

SE rankings are only a part of the game.

That’s what I’ve been doing lately, and concentrated all my efforts on exploring the SEO for high rankings. I’ve built a handful of sites, some are just 4-5 months old, others are 2-3 weeks old, and ranking OK.

This one is around 5 months old, made me a whopping 50$ in September! (wow)

This was also launched 5 months ago, was #1  and making 1-3 sales a day, was a good converter, nneds my quick bump now…

This is kinda “authority”, I wrote about it in my case studeis, mostly worked on the highest traffic main keyword, the rest is abandoned.

Another site launched in May, I tried many backlinking strategies on it, this was very competitive keyword.

Local SE site, uk is most important here, this baby rocks now. Started in late June or July, I wrote about it. All 3 keywords are targeted.

Well, I got to this baby in July, didn’tr really spend much time doing promotions, most was outsourced.  1st keyword is targeted, the rest is just long tails to see where the sites ranks.

CPA buddy, launched in august, 1st keyword is targete, 2nd is longer tail version.

Another CPA buddy, launched 2 weeks ago.. Exact keyword in domain in this case, weak competition on-page made me to top 3 fast.

Ok, these are some of my sites, not all of them definitely, but how do you think, having a bunch of sites in top 3 is great? THe ability to rank high is not a guarantee for a fat checks. With several of these sites, I only concentrated on beating my competition and was too obessed by the “SEO heaven”, and now I’ll reveal something:

1. I wasn;t interested in the search volumes, only concentrated on the popular and competitive products, or current “buzz” offline, that should result in a huge spike of buying activity. One of my above sites was indeed getting over 150 clickthroughs when the product was “hot” and traffic was really huge. (so was the competition). It WAS success… Another site that I launched immediately after I discovered massive offline promotion, is now growing in sales every month, over 70 sales in September, and conversions are great…
2. To be frank, I didn’t do a classic competition research, all these quoted seraches, inanchors, intitles, # of competing pages…. All I did was just looking at the backlinking strategy of top 10 guyes (even top 5), and I decided where I can beat them and dived in. I saw my sites in top 5 after 1.5 months in worst, and in several days in best scenario.
3. I concentrated only on 1-3 targeted keywords. ANd only 2 of the above sites have exact keywords in domain names.All I did was creating a handful of pages, 4-5 most. The rest of pages were supplied by UAW plugin, not all sites were updated consistently, most of the above are still 4-5 pages.

Now I can say this is NOT a great strategy, so I wanted to share my mistakes.

First of all, the ability to rank high is not a guarantee of money – there are so many factors involved here.

I was concentrating on the most (likely) converting keywords, and didn’t actually checked the search volume! I thought – this keyword converted in my PPC campaign, this will make me money. The conversion rates indeed can be high, but who told that the traffic is really good? I’ve got a site in position #2 and I found it only gets 10-15 visits a day, while the offer was really hot, both offline and online.

There’s a difference between converting keyword and converting keyword that gets hundreds of visits a day. Keyword research is CRITICAL, my mistake was concentrating on ranking strategies, I forgot about HOW MUCH TRAFFIC I get. It’s clear that my above sites are taking more traffic than 90% of my competition, but.. where;s the huge money? =)

I was targeting limited # of keywords. It’s definitely a way to rank high faster than in case of bigger site, again, the traffic will be limited by the amount of keywords and long tail variations that bring traffic. Most of the keywords above are pretty tough, with many marketers agressively optimizing their sites and rushing to win top 10, but the reward is not guaranteed.

I was targeting CPA offers with offer related keywords. HUGE mistake, period. CPA offers, especially trials and similar, can die ANY TIME. This happened with several offers in this month, and this is the reason why my income dropped! Offer goes – your links are redirected to another related offer. Conversion rates also may drop, but … I haven’t seen CPA offers that were consistently popular over a long time. the lifetime span is not prolonged. The model of promoting rebills is slowly duying, as more and more people get scammed… Not consistent income stream. I discovered an offer with great popularity, and rising search trend in google insights. In 3 weeks my site achieved #2 spot (still there), the very next day I got my #2 spot, the offer suddenly gone from ALL CPA networks. I managed to get only 1 lead of 40$, and nothing more.

Ignoring tons of long-tails that get traffic and have low competition… The model of targeting competitive terms that are proven money-makers (not always ) is like a race – everybody’s climbing the same hill. You stop – your site may get outranked because someone else is more hard-working, or has more backlinking resources, or a team of 10 people working for him… It’s definitely not the only successful strategy of SEO affiliate biz, there are tons of many ways, that just require more time to see $$$.

This strategy of targeting several keywords is scalable, but more sites needed to scale incomes. Imagine having 10-15 or more sites each requiring it’s own SEO, time and money investment. And definitely not all of these sites will be successfukl, even in top 10. Imagine having 100 adsense minis, and bum – adsense account is banned, or mini-sites are no longer in google’s favour…

That’s why I’m again thinking over this, while having no money at all, being too lazy to perform tedious routines and unable to outsource them… And CPA offers are gone, and my site is still under filter…Still making money every day, and sometimes over 100$ a day, but – now you can see what may happen.

Hi mates!

I wasn’t able to get to the blog lately, due to tons of work that I planned for this month. After quick revision, I splitted all my current tasks into several blocks, adsense being one of them.

When I started building adsense sites in Feb or March, I made initial keyword research and competition analysis for 5 sites first. Then, as my writer was ill for 2 month, these 5 sites were postponed for future. I created another 12 sites and theay are live now, one of them makes 50% of my adsense income, 1 to 3$ a day typically.

As writer finished the content for 5 sites, I planned to get to them, but then the summer came and I forgot. Now decided to complete my 5 sites, and I’ve been doing it yesterday and today.

It took me time to host my domains, install wordpress on all 5, then write meta data for all articles and for blogs home pages, install themes, plugins, and finally add posts and pages and publish it and index them.

OK, I completed my first 2 sites late this night. Now as I applied my own rapid indexing tactic, I checked my first 2 sites and they were indexed by google in the morning already. So I kept working with the other 3 sites, now applying rapid indexing to the last in this batch.

But my last step in this while process is adding sites to Rank Checker, to track how it goes. I just wanted them all to get a bit mature, and then add some links if needed. Now I added my first 2 indexed sites, and got pretty shocking results

One is ranking #33 for targeted keyword, but another one is ranking #16 – after just several hours of going live.

and second one

That’s cool, I was sure my sites’d be indexed in hours, but I haven’t expexted pretty high rankings in several hours.

OK, why I bothered with writing all this ) Let’s take a look at my actual spreadsheet of keyword competition, as showed by Micro Niche Finder data:

As we can see, the competition differs significantly. If the 1st keyword barely has competition, according to google, then second, which I’m taking #16 now, is much more competitive.Would you take this keyword, if you found it?

All I can say, the google ranking algorythm is so complicated, that it’s not worth taking advices to belief. Noone knows how it works, except people who developed this algorythm

Other News

Other news as not so great now. My payment processor company still sorts out the Visa suspension, so I’m still without any money. I’ve got 1$ now on my credit card, to be frank. I hope I can reactivate domains that are about to expire now, as soon as I get money.

CPA sites – don’t make this model a cornerstone of your SEO business. Why I think so? Well, 2 offers died in this month, the traffic significantly decreased so my 1000$ from 1 site in August slowly turns into 460$ (as of now) thanks to redirection to related offer. Other offer I had on Neverblue, died the next day as my 3 weeks old site finally reached position #3. I only made 1 lead of 40$ and that’s it.

Now I got fresh site to #2 position in 2 weeks, but – traffic appeared to be very low, and I don’t see any conversions yet. 3 days ado I launched another CPA site, and I also got 1 site being on the way now. But this is my last site for pure CPA I launch.

I’m going to concentrate on more stable offers now.

Algorythm changes? – seems that google dances are now spreading wide… 50% of my sites are bouncing like crazy, flying down into 100+ positions, then get back to top 3 with tag page, then flying again… I see same story from other marketers as well, does this happen to you? Nothing to worry about, except that we’re losing traffic and sales while our sites are “in the hole”.

Forum Profiles indexing – I analysed the backlinks of my first CPA site, that made me some nice money. What I found shocked me – of over 1000s of backlinks I sent to it, only 240 or so are indexed in Yahoo. That interested me even more, since I was going to start working on profile links indexing long ago! I checked my recent profile submissions in Scrabebox index checker, and found that not all profile links are indexed, only 1-2 of 20-30 I send out…

Now I’m working on my own experiment (free way to index profile links) and also test a paid plugin. Will write about it once I have some results.

So mates, stay tuned, I’m still working, just TOO much tedious hard work, but I hope this will pay off in future!

Hi mates!

I’ve just decied to give a quick update about my progress. These days I’m working on several areas, including consistent link building and new sites creation.

I’ve been pretty upset to see the major drop in rankings ofone of my main money making sites. Due to this fact, I cannot repeat the previous month’s success and my incomes will be lower (if only I don’t manage to repeat what I did yesterday, read on )

I’ve created a completely outsourced link building routine, that is now only 1.5 weeks old, and I see a good lift in rankings of my 4 sites that I now consistently backlinking. 2 of the sites are new, and they both jumped from postiions like 50+ or 80+ to the top 10 results.

One of these sites is only 3 weeks old, but it’s ranking on #4 for my main keyword. #2 for my sub-keyword as well, in google.com and .co.uk. Yahoo positions are lower but this is Ok for me. Seems that I made some mistake in determining the traffic volume, since I’m not seeing good traffic for this keyword. Anyway, the product should be pretty popular, so I hope it will spike )

Another site is 4 weeks old, and it’s jumped to #9 from 80+ during the last 1.5 weeks. Still no good traffic on this position, but I have some heavy-weight links to add, so I hope to beat some top boys here and make some good $$$.

As I told, my good old site lost all its rankings, I mean ALL my keywords, except Bing where rankings stayed. I had to switch on my brain and develop a rescue plan for it! Well, as I added some edu backlinks, I see the positions are getting back, but still far from my top old results that made me money every day. google analytics & webmaster tools – now I tend to advoid this more and more. whatever shit happens to my sites, these sites got analytics installed on them… strange ?

My second site (very tough keyword) also disappeared from top 1000 google suddenly! I spent tons of time to get this ranked and all I got was position 64 for my keyword. Top. Yesterday I accidentally found a PR9 backlink and point it to my site. In several hours the sandbox ended for my site Now it’s on position 53, not bad. I need some more PR9 links, seems this is a good cure for all these sudden drops.

Now working a lot on my further experiments, I now look into learning as much as I can about increasing the indexing rate of backlinks. I know there’s some soft and plugins that can do it, just need to dive into this and develop some easy system based on the principles of this paid soft.

My PPV stuff resides in the draft, not much activity here since ppv traffic provider is very slow in approving keywords, so I’m not active here. Hope September will be a good month – need to get my sites back to top fast.

Btw, now for this month I see at least 50$ a day from SEO consistently, daily. Sometimes over 100$, but in general it’s 30-60$. I had no 0 income days in the last 2 weeks. The key is diversifying – building more sites and ranking them in top 10 – top 5. I’m now using the strategies that I shared in previous posts, nothing new yet (but developing a further advanced SEO expertise now).

Hi mates!

Yeah while my gmail keeps being bombarded with a new hot launch (Affilojetpack I believe), I keep working on my current SEO projects and studying a lot of new stuff.

In the last several days I saw some dramatic increase in buying activity, but I didn’t pay attemtion to HOW MUCH I’M MAKING

I’ve just decided to calculate my earnings (all from organic traffic) for 26.07 and was shocked to see that my total income across all affiliate networks was crazy high:

Aff program 1 – 343.85$

Aff program 2 – 60$

Azoogle CPA site – 116$

Local SEO Site (4 weeks old) – 15.46$

Total – 535.31$

Again, this is all pure profit since I’m not currently running any paid traffic. Truely, diversification is a key – the more income streams we create, the more gross income we see.

Keep working mates and the month ends soon, time to see how much we made in this extremely slow and hot month.