Make Cash Online

I have a little more to say on this post and we can talk in more detail on advanced internet marketing with my sniper sites. If you’re curious, I haven’t ran out and bought brand new ones. I’m still working with the ones I have now and just keep plugging away at them. There has been a lot of changes in the way the sites are going this week, which should obviously be documented for all of you to see.

I guess the first thing to point out is that there has been about a 20% decline in overall impressions with Adsense. I think this is mainly due to some of my sites finally going through the Google dance process. It is a little annoying, but I guess it’s just part of the game. Even though I had a reduction in my impressions I still manage to earn more week over week so far, which is obviously a good sign. That means I’m making more on average per click. Frankly, I’d rather make money online with less traffic and more per click, than getting into a volume business. I also had a few interesting clicks so far from one of my new sites. It had a nice $2.41 click. I have to say that I love this kind of click value.

I’ve been creating much more Amazon sites this wave though. I think my paranoia with Adsense is starting to influence me. I don’t want to get too much vested interest in Adsense, but the good thing about websites is that I can always change things around when I want too.

The Advantages of Managing A Lot of Sites

I thought that it would be a little interesting to help show you the benefits and advantages to having a project with 41 sites to manage (not to mention all my other sites that). Maybe some of my readers are thinking that this is a little too much for them. I suppose it could be a little too much for many people. I never before had to manage this many sites before. With my June Project and my August Project I managed 8 sites at a time and I thought that this was really a max for the amount of sites I could actively work on at one time.

I was did wrong with that assumption and it really only limited me in ways. I guess everyone should take on this work on one level to see how far you can push yourself. But anyway, here are the benefits you can get from having all these sites up…

Less Mental Masturbation

The term mental masturbation was something I came up to describe when you get stuck in that unproductive state of checking stats all day long. I trust me, I like to check my stats. I like seeing the sales come in. I like seeing the traffic of conquering a keyword. The only problem with this behavior is that it’s a huge waste of your fuckin’ time. Checking your stats will not make money for you.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that stats don’t have value. Viewing them in a constructive manner and a designated time for research purposes/tweaking is a good thing. It is going to make you more profitable. If you’re looking at your stats instead of pounding out content, building backlinks and doing all that other work than you’re just mentally masturbating.

And mental masturbation extends beyond the point of statistics too. If you’re going to forums and constantly searching through new threads than you’re wasting your time. There are no hidden gems to discover on forums. No one is going to post the big secret for making big money, so stop wasting your fuckin’ time. It’s time to start avoiding forums.

Oh I should also point out something about forums. The people that seem to have the most posts are the guru/respected people, yet if they’re making all these posts how the fuck are they making money. They’re trolling the forum all fuckin’ day long. I’m saying that a high post count is necessarily bad. If you have several thousand posts that is fine if you’ve been a member for 5 years. But I see people yapping on the Warrior forum with 15,000 posts and I just feel like telling them to shut the fuck up.

And that’s another thing now that I think about it. For some odd reason, the posts that are real popular that have a very diverse crowd of people commenting on it (praising) are the posts that have the most inane over simplified “self-help” feel goodery type of post. These are the posts that contain absolutely nothing good in value. It’s mainly vague shit and makes you feel good. Advice like “don’t work hard, work smart”. Oh wow. That’s revolutionary. “provide good content”, oh absolutely magical. I swear to God if I had to moderate a forum I’d crack my skull open on the corner of my desk in frustration.

You Have to Build Links Slowly

People say that the best SEO is the slow link building over time. I can say that I definitely rushed my link building efforts with some sites. Even with my August project I thought maybe I went a little nuts and that could explain why my sites were ranking.

I have 41 sniper sites to juggle now. There’s no way that I can build links fast. They will all be slow because it just takes too much time to do them all. One article back link is 41 unique articles. That takes time. Even though I could definitely do that in a day, it’s not something that I could do day after day. I’m basically stuck building things nice and slow, which will happen over months. This should allow search engines to view the sites as much more natural and more deserving of top spots, which helps to make money online.

It’s just harder to be a “professional webmaster” when you have so many damn sites to manage. You can add 10 pages of content to your sites in one day, which Google will obviously see. I don’t know if they’ll necessarily view that as negative, but they will see it. You can only do so much at a time and that is actually an advantage to you.

I’m More Productive

I just get more done this way. I can explain this to you in a very logical manner because there is an actual psychological trick to it that makes you productive. I need to get my sites up in a fast manner because I want them to index and start the marination process. This is pressure. Basically the sooner I get things built, the sooner things can sit. And we all know that SEO takes time and we can’t escape it. I try to pound out as much content as possible and at least from a starting point my first links built are pretty fast too.

I don’t know how other people will manage this kind of stress. I know that it pushes me to get more work done and do more.

There is also the added benefit of not waiting around. I suppose this could deserve a new sub heading, but it sort of fits into this one. You basically run out of time. If you build one site, you put it up online, build a few links and than you sit around waiting. We all seen new people do it too. They come to a forum and they ask questions about why their site has indexed and it’s only been like 2 days. What they should be doing is working on something else. You can’t sit around and wait for your site to produce results.

The position you want to be in is one where you’re too busy working. You’re working your but off trying to make money online and than one day you get this large check in the mail. You have to dig through your accounts and figure out where the hell it came from. Or you log into your Adsense account after a month of not checking and seeing that you’re pulling in $50/day. This is what success comes from. It comes from busting your balls instead of waiting for a site to get successful.

With 41 sites I don’t have time to even check my daily traffic stats. There’s just too much time and frankly too many stats to go through.

More Extremely Successful Sites

The thing about this business is that sites are hit and miss. I’m not saying a miss won’t make you money, but you’re going to do your work and soon you’ll have sites. As you grow them you’ll end up with sites that just seem to make a lot more money.  When it comes to advance internet marketing you’re going to pick up the fact that if you have a lot of sites out there you’re going to at least hit some that pull in awesome earnings. Obviously the more sites that you have under your belt, the more experience you get and you become better at identifying what will work and what won’t. The issue is that you never know if something will work with no matter how much research you do. You could go after a keyword you think is weak and never get it. You could get it, but it doesn’t convert. Whatever it is, some sites won’t perform regardless of how well you do things. Just as some will out perform your expectations.

Basically if you keep plugging away at this type of sites and keep making them, you’re going to eventually hit one that is going to produce a lot of money. For example, one of my newer sites is shaping out to be one of those sites with nice earnings. Obviously the real earnings will come when I move from position 10 to something in the top 3, but I’m getting good results so far. I’m making well over a dollar per click. If I was to get 100 visitors a day and a 5% CTR, I would make over $5/day for that site. That’s with a crappy 5% CTR. You can see the possibilities considering that the keyword can get 10,000 searches a month.

More Learning, More Experience, More Testing

This is something that is very important. The first inevitability that you have to accept is that the more that you try, the more that you learn. This is all about experience. It’s okay to make sites that don’t go anywhere. If you try something and you don’t get any results than you’re just a little bit wiser. Out of these 41 sites that I bought for this project, how many of them will fail miserably? I don’t know, but I’m sure there will be some that do suck.

The point is that the more sites I have, the more information I can take in about them. With this information I can conclude on better techniques that I should be applying and become a much better internet marketer.

Testing is also an important thing to do. You have to be always testing. Even with this site right now I’ve been testing lately with very long posts because I want to know that it works. The problem is that you can’t test with one site. There are really a lot of variables that you can’t control. You can’t control the search engines. You can’t control your volume of traffic. You can’t control the niches. You could test something on one site and get something completely different on another site. The point of testing on multiple sites is that you can get an average.

For example, you can look at indexing times. You can’t just test two different sites with two different methods to see which one works better. That’s not good enough. Pick up 41 sites and try a few different methods. Group them up in 10′s and try a method on each group of 10. Whatever ends up doing the best will probably be the one with the best method.

I can do the same thing with templates. I can test templates across a lot of different sites and see what I get for click through rates. I can figure things out this way by having test results. This is how you get better. You have more sites, you get more experience, you test and figure out what works (and what doesn’t).

Research

You have to understand how important all these sites are for research. Obviously having successful sites are good, but the bigger advantage is that you can build on those successes with new sites. Like, let’s say you had a site that was dedicated to plastic dog houses (I don’t know if that is a good keyword, just throwing it out there). Let’s say that this is a really good site that you easily ranked for and are making pretty good money with.

This tells you that this is a niche that has money and that it also has the traffic. This means you can move onto other related keywords in the niche. You can grab wood dog house, custom dog house, etc. You know what is working in one area and you can spread out to dominate the entire niche. This works good. Often times you’ll be selling the same thing, but you just slowly take over the niche and make money online. This is how the game is played.

Other pieces of golden nuggets that you can find is long tail traffic. You’d be surprised at how much actual things you’ll rank for. Like I said with my most successful SEO’ed site. I went for a modest keyword and started ranking for one that got searched 10k a month. I can easily pick up a domain with that new keyword and rank. I can slowly fill up the top 10 with an empire of my sites, rule the fuckin’ niche and make money.

That’s the real value here. You have all these sites out there and you know the niches that are converting. The niches you can easily rank for. The niches that I can dominate and take over. The more piece of online real estate you have, the more power you have.

Proof Keywords in Domain Name COUNT!

The evidence continues to pile up showing how important having the keyword in your domain name. I’m not saying that you have to have the keyword in the domain name to rank. I’m absolutely not saying that at all. It is pretty obvious that you don’t need it. You  can rank for many great keywords with random letters in the domain name, but doing proper on page SEO and getting the right backlinks.

What I’m trying to say is that having the keyword in the domain name makes it so much easier. And I have proof. Basically my oldest site, has struggled to rank for a specific keyword. It doesn’t contain the keyword in the domain (I bought it before I learned about keyword research) and it has a lot of quality backlinks. A new site I bought in the August Project is ranking for only a fraction of the links and the links are crap. Every single one of the keywords are crap.

We’re talking about a site that is around 3 years old. Has a ton of backlinks, with many coming from authority sites, but doesn’t contain a keyword in the domain name. While this new site has been around for 2 months, has crappy link directory backlinks, yet out performs.

Why? Because the words in your domain name count. If I start a business like Make Cash Online Inc. I’m going to buy a domain name that reflects that business name. Corporate websites don’t necessarily have the most text on it and they definitely don’t have a high amount of backlinks, but when people search for that name they expect to get businesses website.

Google and other search engines can’t tell the differences between some keyword and even if they could, how will they know it isn’t a business. It can’t tell the difference if Make Cash Online is a keyword or a business name. It could be both. The business could of been selected based on the fact that it has a high search popularity. By default, search engines have to apply value to the keyword and a decent amount of it. It doesn’t matter if someone is gaming the system like we are. They have to apply it because they have a loyality to the people that search and if I search a business name, I expect it to come up. End of story.

All this means is that if you’re going to buy a domain name it has to contain a keyword. I don’t care if you’re buying a product and calling it the Magic Cure, you’re going to get a keyword domain name. You can brand with the domain name, you get the easy traffic . It’s not the be all end all of this thing. You can rank without it, but save yourself all this extra work.

Does Monster Content Pages Work Better?

Well, I don’t have an answer to this question so far, but I finally had Google update the site it has indexed for a site that ranks pretty well. Traffic has jumped up around 22% over the week. I don’t know if that is just the new fresh content or not. I’ll still have to wait to see what kind of results I get with other sites with this little experiment.

I think it’s also important to note that I didn’t lose any of my search engine positions with completely different content. Everything is holding, but things my go up or down in the future. We’ll have to watch that closely.

Obviously with this site I’m testing too, but it’s a little more difficult with this site because I I haven’t built backlinks. I decided that I’m going to try and slowly build some over time. I’m not going nuts. I’m not interested in seeing my page become a power house or anything. I just need enough leverage, so I can see whether this stuff is working.

There is no answer yet, but we are testing. We are seeing traffic and it might be working.

How did the Snipers go this week?

Well, like I said before that my impression count was down around 20% week over week, which is due to some Google dancing. I guess this was pretty standard and I was waiting for this to happen and it finally did. I’m sure things will bounce back, but the time it will take to happen is something I don’t know. It could be something that is back in a week or it might take a month. I don’t think it really matters since I got too much work on my plate right now.

Total Invested: $354.20 US

Total Return: $42.75 US ( $18.58 since last week )

I made more than I did the previous week even though I had around 20% less impressions for the week. I think I did about $15 last week, which doubled the week before it. I didn’t double it this week, but it is growing. When things finally even out after the Google Dance, than I can really make cash online.