The 3rd Installment...

Hey, just want to say first off to anyone who was looking forward to seeing me do the Hubpages or GoArticles… like a lot of other ppl, I’m still trying to find my way in this IM game, still trying to figure out where my time is best spent…

As such, I”m testing the waters with a lot of different systems.

I can tell you that regardless of what I’m currently doing though, The one thing that will remain constant is my efforts to advance my business on a day to day basis….

There’s really not much to report regarding the 10 hubs I did…they’ve generated a total of 30-40 visits, no adsense earnings, that’s a project thats on the backburner now, I probably won’t be returning to that one…

As for GoArticles, I built 15 backlinks to 10 of the articles but have yet to see any of them rank.  Now I know Angela has stated that she’s run her packet of 30 on an article and seen it rank on page 1 the next day…I don’t know if it’s a case of me not doing enough backlinks, or if it’s the quality of Steve’s backlinks vs Angela’s or that I just need to give it more time.  Anyways, for now this is on hold, although I’ll check in now and then to see if anything happens.

As far as my foray into the Adult Friend Finder promotion…I’ve been getting 35-40 affiliate link clicks a day and I’ve paid for 7 days worth of advertising space for a total of $200…I still have no sales(which would come in at $75 a pop)…this may turn out to be an expensive lesson, but thats ok , all part of the learning process :>  I msg’d the creator of the WSO about whats going on and what I can do to improve this situation, but he didn’t reply and I sent the msg 2 days ago.

Now as for what I did today, today I pumped out another 2 sniper sites in the main sniper niche…I’m looking forward to see what happens here and hopefully I’ll see another boost in the amount of hops I get daily once I get through a few more of these sites.

I also noticed that 3 of my sniper sites I made last week in the weight loss niche have FINALLY started ranking on page 1.  It’s the longest I’ve ever had to wait for a sniper site to rank and these were low comp keywords…maybe it’s the niche?  Anyways, they’re not bringing in too many additional hops…one of them is ranked #6 on page 1 for a keyword with 1.6k searches for exact match, & 4.4k phrase (according to the Google keyword research tool), and yet it only got 10 visits and 2 hop clicks…strange.  The other 2 sites also only got 1 or 2 hops.

Today I also spent some time doing keyword research to find other keywords I can turn into sniper sites, I found 15 good ones with at least 3k searches for exact match.    I think from now on I’m going to stick to 3k searches for EXACT match to ensure I get a good # of hops for landing on the first page. (Interesting side note: I’ve found that the Google Keyword Research Tool’s exact match for searches is equal to Micro Niche Finder’s searches)

I also think that until I find some other method that I can see consistent results from and can be assured will increase my income from month to month, I’m going to keep the Sniper method as my main tactic, even if I have to make 50 sites to get $500/month increases.  I am still going to be searching around and trying additional things when I can though.

Earnings For Today:

• $66.73 – 1 sale for the main sniper site niche = $26.65, 2 sales for sniper sites in Site #2’s niche = $20.04, $20.04
• Adsense = $2.53
• Hops = 529

-Mike

Today I had some dealings with recruiters and job offers…I’m going for a recruiter interview tomorrow(after which I may get a client interview) regarding a Quality Assurance position.  Because of this I had to spend some time today refreshing my QA knowledge and going over my resume so I didn’t get as much work done today as I otherwise would have.

For anyone that hasn’t followed from the start, I’m a contract Quality Assurance/Business Analyst and I’ve been out of work for a bit now, which is why I’ve been able to devote so much time to getting all this IM stuff done.

It’s great being able to work on my business full-time like this, however if I do wind up getting a job, the pace is going to slow down…especially since these jobs are going to require me to travel quite a distance.

Well, aside from that today I did manage to get 2 UAW submissions done, building backlinks for 4 of my sites…in addition to that, I noticed that my page rank for many of my sites has gone up, it looks like Google in the last few days has done a page rank update, check your sites!

The end result of this for me was the following:

For my main authority sites:

Site #1 = PR0 to PR1
Site #2 = PR1 to PR2
Site #5 = PR0 to PR1
Site #7 = PR0 to PR1
Site #8 = PR0 to PR1

And for my sniper sites, I had 8 of my oldest sniper sites reach a PR of 1!  It seems like running UAW on the sites has paid off..interesting.

Earnings For Today:

• Sale for Site#3 = $22.84
• Adsense = $2.05
• Hops = 356

-Mike

Hey everyone,

Today I didn’t get quite as much done as I had hoped as I had other non-IM related stuff to take care of.. I did however do some niche research which was much needed as I didn’t have any more potential sniper sites…in my search however, I was able to find a total of *13*possible new sniper sites, and this is all in the same niche as the troublesome sniper site niche!(I really need a new name for this, from now on, I’ll call it my “Main Sniper Site Niche” since once all these sites are done, I’ll have 35 sites total in it.

I ended up registering 9 of the domains today, here are the details of the 9 I registered so far:

KW1 – 9.9k broad/3.6k phrase/3.6k exact
KW2  – 18.1k broad/6.6k phrase/5.4k exact
KW3  – 12.1k broad/4.4k phrase/3.6k exact
KW4 – 14.8k broad/4.4k phrase/3.6k exact
KW5 – 9.9k broad/2.9k phrase/2.9k exact
KW6 – 9.9k broad/2.9k phrase/2.9k exact
KW7 – 8.1k broad/2.4k phrase/2.4k exact
KW8 – 12.1k broad/3.6k phrase/3.6k exact
KW9 – 14.8k broad/4.4k phrase/4.4k exact

I think I have a good shot at making a decent ranking on the first page with these, my hope is they will churn out just as many hops as my other sites are.

The remaining 4 keywords that I haven’t registered yet are for product names WITHOUT the word “review” tagged on the end.  It’s kind of an iffy area I suppose, but I’m going go for it anyway.  The keywords don’t have quite as many searches as the ones above, but it will be highly targeted traffic.  I think it’s time I start throwing in some super targeted sniper sites such as these, will be interesting to see how many sales they bring in:

KW10 – 2.9k broad/2.9k phrase/1.3k exact
KW11 – 6.6k broad/6.6k phrase/2.9k exact
KW 12 – 5.4k broad/3.6k phrase/1.6k exact
KW 13 – 2.4k broad/2.4k phrase/880 exact

Earnings For Today:

BTW, I got 2 sales for the troublesome sniper site niche today which brings my conversion to 530 hops / 5 sales.  It is also 5 sales in 6 days.  At $27/sale, as the days go on it’s looking like these 22 sites have resulted in at least a $500/month increase, will have to wait a bit more and see how it pans out, but I don’t see why this trend won’t continue.

You know, one of the hardest things for me to get over was creating ALL THESE SITES!  But if lets say 20 sites = $500/month, I’d be happy to make 120 of these sites and pay 1.2k a year for the domains if it means an extra 3k/month.

• $54.24 – 2 Sales from 1 Sniper site in the troublesome niche AKA the Main Sniper Site Niche
• Adsense = $2.58
• 249 hops! (And it wasn’t long ago that I couldn’t believe I had over 100, crazy how things have turned out)

-Mike