Anyway, I plan to keep working with websites on a part time basis since having a nice second income will be nice for my monster student loans. Just need to get that first job. It is not quite as quick to get a job like you would expect in more common work. But that is enough about my life.

Basically when I do get the time I just work. No forum browsing, no research on internet marketing techniques and shit like that. I hope all my readers pretty much understand what they need to do each day. I also pounded past the $1200 mark with Amazon last month, which is also nice.

Since I don’t really have much to say about the month and about anything in general, I thought some of Dave’s posts could help you out. He has a post on how to make money with Amazon and the more beneficial one (in my opinion) on buying keywords.

I really like the buying keywords post because it actual sums up a very simple philosophy for making cash online and it actually is something quite simple to execute on your site. Just to sum up the entire post Dave made, its really about going after very popular items. The chances of you ranking for the popular item like “iPod” is highly unlikely and even “32GB iPod” is pretty unlikely, popular items have a massive search volume, but they also have a ton of related longtails that are associated with buying.

Even though you may not be able to reach the front page for 32GB iPod, you may be able to reach the top page for 32GB iPod Best Price, used 32GB iPod, 32GB iPod on sale, discount 32GB iPod, 32GB iPod online, where to buy a 32GB iPod Online”, etc.

They may not have as much search volume of 32GB iPod, but the people that search these variations are buyers. They’re someone that is looking to fork out some cash. Even though ranking for “32GB iPod” would be quite profitable, a lot of that traffic would be just people looking for general information on it.

This is a completely universal concept too, so you can use it with Amazon, Commission Junction, Clickbank or with any affiliate program that is selling an item. Any product name that people are looking for will result in variations of longtails, which include buying keywords. Make sure you read his post on it since it has a lot of variations that you can take advantage of.

I guess that is enough information for you guys. I’ll hopefully have something to say the next time I post.

Oh yeah, almost forgot. The reason that I ended up posting. Roughly a year ago I was ripped off by a vendor on Paydotcom. If you’re unfamiliar with the way things work with them, vendors sell ebooks and affiliates sell them to get a commission. The only difference is that it is the job of vendor to pay you, not PDC. Not good for us affiliates, so avoid PDC. Anyway, I put up a page on my site how he ripped me off and during this year I’ve had a lot of legal threats about defamation and libel. My page was coming up when people were searching his product and eventually he caved. I’ve officially been paid in full today and the matter settled. So there can be a little hope for those of you that have been ripped off.

If only I could get my money from Michael Jones king asshole rip off artist and Sebastian Foss (should be rotting in jail).

Anyway, that’s it.

I decided that I need to make a site like this and build it into an authority. I’m going to give you the plan I will try to implement with this. Normally you’ll hear on a forum that all you have to do is make a lot of content and build a lot of links to create an authority site. And that is what I’ll be doing, but that is a vaguely simplified way of describing something that I’ll be spending a while on. It would be like saying the key to making a bridge is cement and support beams. It’s true, but it won’t help you make a bridge.

It’s funny how I stumbled upon this plan I’ll be following. I actually was looking at Grizzly’s post on getting double listings in Google. I assumed that the post was just about getting double listings, but he actually gave some great advice on building an authority site. The philosophy he gave was on “Trust Rank”. And basically that is the big G trusting your site enough that it will list it. Obviously getting a lot of links over many pages of content is a way of building trust.

Google doesn’t look at your site and sum it up as a value. It doesn’t say that your site is good, but this one is better. They rank pages. The idea is that if you have a lot of pages that show up in the top 10 then you must have a trust worthy site. This all may sound convoluted, but it isn’t. The idea is to rank for anything that is weak and will take minimal work. It doesn’t matter if it gets 5 searches a month, you rank for it. You build a few links to it, and that should hopefully push you into the top 10 for some crappy keyword.

What is an Authority Site?

Since everyone has a definition of this, I have to define it. For example, if you own the website flightsimulatorgames.com or something like that and you rank for the keyword “flight simulator games”, you’re not necessarily an authority site. You’re an authority for that one keyword, but that isn’t what makes up an authority site.

An authority site ranks in the top 10 for a wide range of keywords with little to no backlink work for the page you create. Ezinearticles is a prime example of what I’m talking about.  It is the main reason why people use the site. You create an article around a keyword and it will rank with no backlinks. Or you can do a few and it’ll rank.

I’m sure you can see the value in having a site like this. It’s nice to put up a page and it rank in the top 10 instantly. If you only have to build a few backlinks to the page, it’s also pretty sweet. Oprah has episodes where she actually looks at hot items that make good gifts. You can literally rank for those products she is plugging before the show is over. Without an authority site you’re completely out of luck.

Another great benefit is that you can go after trademarks. There are legal ramifications of buying domains with trademarks in them. But making an HTML page or blog post with a trademark is perfectly fine. It’s a way of building a site that has a huge benefit in the long run.

Just imagine how much cash you would make if it was the first of December and all you did every day was make product posts. All day long, every day and they ranked in the top 10 without having to do any backlinks. You’d literally clean up and that’s the real value.

There’s nothing wrong with having small niche sites though. It’s nice to have a mixed portfolio of sites to play with and you never know. A niche site could be turned into an authority if it gets that “Trust Rank” from Google.

The Plan I’ll Be Following

Like I said before, it is about showing up in the top 10 as much as possible. Not necessarily going after traffic keywords at first. But over time I should be able to go after more and more competitive terms.

I’m going to do product reviews or any severely low hanging fruit. It doesn’t matter whether they send a lot of traffic or not. The plan is just to go after things that are easy to rank for. They either need to rank with no backlinks or rank with around 4 backlinks. I’m just going to plug away with it like that and try things more competitive in the future.

Just to keep the numbers simple, lets say there is 300 days until Christmas.

If I write 2 pages of content per day and build 4 backlinks to each piece of content. I should have 600 pages and 2400 backlinks. If I write 3 pages I’ll have 900 pages and 3600 backlinks. As you can see it adds up very fast and I don’t have a problem writing these pages fast. Only 4 backlinks per page isn’t that big of a deal either.

So that is my plan, so I’ll keep you updated. I’m experimenting with the strategy with some of my small sniper sites. I’m keeping to the niche, when I do it, I just want to see how much Trust Rank helps.

I guess we might as well get to the money right now. In my post about niche sites, I mentioned the total of $319.71 being earned since I started into the sniper sites. That was posted on November 27th, so I thought I’d do an update for all my readers.

Total Invested:  $354.20
Total Return: $652.98

So we can all chant yippie, I’m finally in positive territory, even though no where near where I’d like it to be. I think we really need to consider the fact that I just finished doing backlinks to all my sniper sites last night. Some of them had only one page of content and no monitization (which I promptly fixed). Every single one of the 41 websites had at least one new fresh page of keyword rich content that was somewhere between 500-1000 words.

The results of that work won’t be felt for a while now. I won’t expect anything for at least a month from some of the sites, so I’m not too worried about it. As of right now, I have 5 Adsense sites and the rest are Amazon. The majority of my earnings are from Amazon as well.

I only have a few sites that are in the money spot (top 3 at Google). I have a lot of them hanging at position 4, so I’m sure they’ll push up as the link juice flows through over the next few weeks. I should also say that I picked up an additional two domains, which are not listed in the above numbers. I’m going to throw them in the category of wave 3, even though there’s just two domains. They’re following the same idea. One of them is in a niche that I expect to get hot in the next few years, so we’ll see how interesting that goes.

The other domain has to do with another topic that I want to really work into.

Dominating the Top 10

I used to think the key to dominating a niche was getting the top spot for various keywords in the niche. What I’m trying to do now is dominate the top 10 positions of a keyword. This other domain I bought was the same keyworded domain as a domain in wave 1. I had the .net, so I picked up the .org (keyword.net and keyword.org). I have both sites on different hosting accounts (different IPs) and I have them ranking 4th and 5th position in Google. It used to be 3rd and 5th, but there has been a little movement lately.

I did use two different hosting accounts for the domains just so I’d have a unique IP located in a different city. I really don’t know how suspicious Google would get if keyword.net and keyword.org were ranked in the top 10 from the same IP#. If you’ve tested this please comment and let me know.

For the same keyword I’ve also created a hub (from hubpages) and backlinked the hell out of that. It’s taking an abnormal amount of time to get indexed, but once it does I’m sure it will spring into the top 10. I’ll just keep doing that with different sites until I actually fill in the top 10. And let me tell you how useful it is to have a bunch of sites fully backlinked in a niche. The keyword.net for the site was bought first and was built, backlinked and ranked for a while. The keyword.org site is a position 5 with only one backlink from my .net site. Once I do take the top 10 over, I’ll just start going into related keywords and take over the top 10 for them. And that is how to make cash or at least how I plan to make it.

That is going to be my next little project with the sniper sites. Any site that is ranked in the top 10, I will get an additional two sites that are mine to rank in the top 10. I can do this a number of ways. I can buy a domain for the keyword. So if I have keyword.net, I’ll pick up keyword.org (if available). I’ll probably go the free route with a hubpage or something like that.

Double Google Positions

Okay, now this is something that I want to do. It will allow me to occupy an extra top 10 position without actually having to hold any new site. It’s where you have your regular listing and an indented listing below it. Well, according to Griz all you have to do is link two pieces of content together with the same keyword. I linked backed to my old sniper sites post from this post I’m doing right now. What I’ll do is go back to that old post, edit it and link to this one. That is supposedly what needs to be done to create a double listing. I want to do that too.

I guess this is something that I’ll have to get done and the date to put on this will be tough. I’m predicting the best I can is two sites a day, with two extra properties each and with a double listing. Hmmm, Well, I’m heading to the Dominican Republic in March. I want to get that all done before I have to go there.

Well, I guess that is enough for this post. Just thought I’d tell you about the sites and that I’m in a positive return now, so that is a good thing. Keep at it and keep making cash.

Things have changed a lot. I currently have moved most of the sites to an Amazon based monetization. Currently I have 6 Adsense sites, 1 Clickbank site and 34 Amazon sites for this project right now. The thing about Adsense is that there is this thing called smart pricing. And it usually happens when Google doesn’t view your traffic as very valuable and just gives you shit for clicks.

Adsense was great at the first because my sites got a lot more search traffic at the first. When you’re in these tiny niches the Google dance doesn’t occur right away. I had sites that were hanging on the front page for nearly two months and then I was getting the dance, which pushed me way off the front pages.

I started to get smart priced and that wasn’t helping the sites that were still on the front page providing valuable clicks. A few days after I did this, my cash per clicks improved greatly and I was able to make cash online in a little more efficient manner.

Will I Change Sites Back to Adsense

Honestly, I don’t know. I can always switch back to Adsense when I’m getting more search traffic to the sites, which Google will view as quality. But the big hurdle for me is that I really have issues with Adsense as a business model. And I just can’t seem to get past it.

My mentor (who is an adult webmaster and who I talk to from time to time) told me to avoid Adsense because it is a “ripoff” as he put it.

I was reading Griz’s blog and he made the comment that Adsense was the best because it had the most people using it. That really isn’t an argument. Islam is the biggest religion, so should I stop being an atheist and convert to Islam.

Adsense is great for a certain type of site. The site that has a lot of content being added to it that comes from very diverse categories. Of course a news site is going to use the program because they need something that will target the content. The same is true for article directories. This is really the main reason why Adsense is a big program, but it doesn’t mean it is the best way to make cash online for you.

With niche sites or sniper sites, you know exactly what the hell to advertise. If I have a site on hair styling products than I already know what I’m going to have to advertise. It’s not rocket science. I could put Adsense on the site and get 50 cents a click, but is that worth it? If you actually look at the ads which come up (don’t click, type in the url manually), you’ll see that a product is being sold and that you could quite easily sell it yourself.

Let’s get right down to the facts. If someone is paying Google to show up in the ads, they’re going to want to turn a profit. If the ads are going to last for the long term than the advertiser has to be turning a profit. Google turns a profit no matter what and you get the rest of the click value. In this scenario you’re getting the short end of the stick. You can easily cut out the middle man and sell it yourself.

The big issue with Adsense is that it isn’t a business model based on value for value. It’s more like potential value for cash. There is more risk in that and I think the business model is flawed. That’s not to say you can’t make cash with a flawed business model.

You get paid for something that might not bring value. If someone clicks the ad and doesn’t buy, well, no value has been created, but you got paid. Since this is such an easy to abuse system (click on an ad) Google has to spend a lot man power watching over it. The integrity of the system is something that can knock off good people because value has to be created on both ends.

With Amazon, for example, I don’t make a single penny until someone buys. I don’t receive value until value is created for Amazon and that is the big difference. Amazon isn’t a wrecking machine trying to ban members because it doesn’t matter. As long as you’re not doing anything illegal, it really doesn’t matter. Because you can’t defraud the system. Someone has to buy and if they don’t buy, you don’t get shit.

That was sort of an aside on Adsense. I’ve been thinking about it lately and I’m just not thrilled with it. I’ll still pursue it in a minor way since I want to be a little more diversified.

Making Cash Online With Niche Sites

Well, I guess I should get right down to the numbers on this. I actually haven’t even calculated it yet, with almost 900 words written in this post. I’m going calculate it now and write it below here.

Total Invested: $354.20 US
Total Return: $319.71 US

It’s fast approaching the break even mark. I know that I’m not making any huge strides or anything with them, but I haven’t really done much work on them lately. I just got them up, built a few links to them and mainly let them site for a while. I’m making more with Amazon this month than Adsense, which is nice.

Over the last two weeks, I’ve been going into a more aggressive mode getting backlinks for these sites. And with 41 of them, it is really time consuming to get through them. I’ve been able to write 15 articles each for 17 of the sites (that’s 255 articles).

I’m basically in the crunch time right now where I want to get the sites up as high as I can for Christmas that is fast approaching. One of my sites is Thanksgiving related and it’s the first time that I built a site completely for one holiday. I wasn’t able to get the site anywhere near the front page for its main keyword by the time Thanksgiving in the United States rolled around (which was yesterday). But the interesting thing is the amount of long tail searches that I got during that time. That is all important search behavior that I can target more aggressively next year, so I will make cash online in much bigger numbers.

Site News Side Note: I thought I’d jam a little site news into the end of this post. If you actually read these posts you’ll probably see it… if not, I don’t care.

I try to write a post once a week for this site. I’ve been trying to see how valuable writing these monster posts on making cash would work out, but monster posts only go so far. I need to do a lot of link building. This site isn’t monetized, so it isn’t a priority to do work for. I have a ton of other sites that need work and they actually make me money.

I usually spend an hour or two writing these posts, so I thought instead of writing them I’ll just build backlinks. That means I’m not going to be updating the site with new posts every week. I’m probably going to stop for a month or two and get some backlink work done. We’ll be able to see the real value in all these long posts when I get it done.

FYI: If you’re planning on linking to this site, try to use some sort of long tail of Make Cash Online. You can use how to make cash online copywriting, make cash online with sniper sites, etc.

I first heard about building a network on the blue hat site and it seemed a little advanced the time that I read it (a while ago). But both these sites claim that if you want to rank for pretty competitive terms than you’re going to need a network. Or in other words, a link farm or blog farm. I sort of discounted this since I was content for ranking with the less competitive terms, but with a network it would be a hell of lot less work.

So basically, I’m going to try to build my own link network. I want to know how to make cash online with a link network and I’m starting to put that together. It really isn’t that complicated of an idea, even though the blue hat instructions can be a bit daunting. But the point is to get a lot of stuff out there on the internet. It doesn’t matter what. Big sites, little sites, niche sites, authority sites, blogger blogs, squidoo lens, etc etc etc.

This is going to take some time for it to generate cash online because it’s a  very complex thing. I’m hoping it doesn’t take too long though. While I’m walking you through this post on link networks, I’m going to spend a little time stuffing a lot of different keywords in here. Related keywords of course.

I was going through some of my old shit that I normally just left. I have some 2 year old squidoo lenses and other old stuff. I think I have a ton of old hubpages too. I guess I’ll have to dig into those too. I noticed some of the squidoo lenses had a little PR in them. Mainly PR1. They’re not great, but every little piece of link juice helps. The idea is that I put up a new site, send a lot of these links to my site and I rocket up the search engines to make cash fast.

The idea behind building this is to incorporate it into my regular site work. I don’t think there is much value in just making these sites without immediate benefit. Let’s say I’m working on a “Make Cash” site. I might as well set up networks of make cash sites. I can pick up a few domains. Pick up a blogger, tumblr, wordpress, weebly or whatever other free blog service. I start building them up. I build links to them, which will be daunting, but I at least get some benefit for my site. While I’m making cash online doing my regular thing I’ll have the chance to build my network.

I’m not sure I can talk anymore about link networks because I really have to build it before I know more about it. So I’ll leave it at that. Since I’m under 600 words at this point I’m going to talk about this site.

How to Make Extra Cash

Yes, that is a completely unrelated to what I’m talking about, except for the fact that I’m targeting the keyword make cash. It doesn’t get a lot of searches, but I thought why not. I haven’t done any link building for this site and I really need to sit down and do it. I want to let the keywords I get now to guide me.

I’m getting absolutely nothing in the way of long tail keywords for anything related to making money or cash. It’s odd. There are only two pages on this entire site (at least blog.amxpert.com) that are getting long tail traffic with no backlinks: Michael Jones Scam and my Copywriting post. In particular, with the copywriting post they have been interested in persuasive verbs. There have been a few active verb interests as well. I was ranking in position 10 for the term at Google, but I’ve slipped off the front page. The keyword says that it gets 58 searches a month. Sorry to say that it gets more. Not a ton, but if I’m getting traffic in position 10 than it must be getting something.

I don’t know. Maybe I should talk about copywriting and writing persuasive copy. I don’t know. I’m still not good at that, but it seems to be a less saturated niche. Oh. I just looked. I had one keyword related to the site: make cash online selling sit back. Not the most common terms and I’m no longer ranked for it. I also get some related traffic for sniper sites, so that is good at least.

I’ve noticed this important thing on some sites and not 0n other sites I’ve own. And I think Griz put the word to what I was seeing. Google doesn’t care about your keyword on the page, but relevance of it. For example, I have a post where I talk about Christine Taylor’s tight ass. I’m the only site on the net that has that exact phrase on their site, but I don’t rank for it. It comes down to the fact that it isn’t relevant to the rest of this site. In the same post I mentioned the phrase Casey Cartwright ass, which hasn’t been phrased on the internet and my site doesn’t rank.

I need to build up a foundation of good keywords that are related to the content of this site. My main keyword is “make cash”, so let’s derive a list of relevant keywords that I could use.

make cash

make cash online

how to make cash

how to make cash online

how to make cash online with prostitutes

how to make cash online with midget prostitutes

how to make cash online with midget prostitutes with an amputee leg

I’m getting off base there, but you get the idea that you can come up with all this shit in your niche. The idea is that I want to write a long post today and stuff a lot of those keywords into the content. I just want to see if Google sends some some traffic for it. It’s just like the persuasive verbs keyword because I got a little traffic for it before it disappeared off the front page of Google. There could be value in that.

My Clickbank sucks site ranks first for that keyword. I didn’t go out and build links for it or anything. I just kept talking about how much Clickbank sucks. I’m not saying it is hard to rank for, but relevancy plays a role. After a while Google pieces together what the site is about. Especially the fuck you Clickbank (yes, I rank top for that too). Maybe this little test in relevancy will see me ranking for midget prostitutes with an amputee leg or something. Time for me to link back to the first page of this site with my proper keyword anchor text Make Cash Online.

I tried to Make Quick Cash Thursday

I flipped on the news the other day and say the fort hood shooting thing. Instantly I thought about how I could make cash today doing this. I immediately pumped up a site and started building it. It took forever for the damn thing to index, but it eventually did. I made several pages of content on the site for it focusing on some main keywords like “fort hood shooting”. I wanted to try this to see how much traffic I could catch. Even if I wouldn’t rank for the main keyword, I was bound to pick up some long tail traffic. I didn’t have any monetized stuff up on it cause I was just testing.

Even if it was monetized I wouldn’t of been able to make cash from home with it because no one came to the site. I didn’t get any long tail traffic for some reason. Nadda. I’m thinking that if you want to capitalize on that trends stuff you’re going to need a site that already has authority to begin with. I know the time I was waiting for it to get ranked ate up a lot of the traffic. It just didn’t have any kick in the search engines. I thought since it was a new item Google would be more in the position too index things faster. Who knows.

I heard trends can send you a lot of a traffic, but it’s hard to monetize. A musician dying would be easy though. Imagine creating a site when Michael Jackson died and put up links to his music. Man, you would of been able to make extra cash online. Like a lot of it.

Okay where am I at:

• Talked about Link Networks – Check
• Talked about Christine Taylor’s tight ass and Casey Cartwright ass – Check
• Talked about midget prostitutes with amputee legs – Check
• Talked about how to make cash – Check
• Talked about fort hood shooting – Check

I still have to go because my list of keywords is still at about 15 keywords left, so I’m going to have to figure this out. What else could I talk about? Oh I see…

How to Make Extra Cash

Let’s say that some of your higher income sites are tanking. Maybe they got penalized, for whatever reason, and are moved down the ranks of the big G. Maybe your offer, product or Adsense CTR isn’t what it used to be and you’re coming in a little short for the month. What do you do? I think it is important to not dip into your savings when you’re in this type of position. I have savings and I hope you’re saving some of your online earnings. You never know when things might go to shit and the last thing you want to do is end up at some shitty fuckin’ job making ends meet.

Freelance work is the answer to this. You can do practically anything, so don’t get the idea of going into doing writing work to make easy cash because you’re going to run into some fuckwads that will want to low ball you. They’ll want you to cut your price down and they just want more and more from you. The only good customers that I had were the ones that were paying a premium. Period.

There’s all sorts of shit that people need done, so you don’t have to limit yourself to this type of shit. You don’t even have to look on the internet for clients. Local businesses will pay you big money for something you find absolutely easy. Remember how I said a friend and myself made a certain site for a sports league. Well, we’re not in the business of web design or anything like that. We coded out this site and we want to sell it again and again to other leagues. Here’s the funny thing. Our first client told another guy. He doesn’t want our sports league software. He wants his own static site. Here’s the kicker… he’s willing to throw down a $100/mth on the hosting/maintenance costs. And yes, we’ll take a grand from him up front too. Businesses have money, so sell something to them.

Just think of how much money that is guys. And it’s easy cash generation. Let’s say you’re running a little short for the month. You could easily pick up an extra grand and a recurring income. Even if you didn’t need the money you could go out and make cash now. It’s not like you need to hear yes from all businesses. You could send out a flyer to hundreds of these businesses and just one has to buy. You can do more though. You could design restaurant menus, brochures, business cards, etc. It’s insane the shit that you could be selling to a business to make cash at home as a freelancer.

But I guess we are webmasters and in the business of making easy cash online, instead of in the real world. I would never forget such things though. Making cash online doesn’t have to be hard for a freelancer, but you have to accept the fact that you’re competing with more people than you would with locally. Not to mention the fact that you have to compete with someone in India that can survive on $2/day, whereas you’re going to need a lot more than that.

If I’ve learned one thing, it’s not to be a bitch. Don’t compete on price – compete on value. People that want cheap prices will only demand more and they’ll be bigger pricks to you too.  A lot of people think that if they want to get cash online then they’re just going to have to put up with them.  It’s your headache.

Hmmm, 6 keywords left. Bah Forget it. It’s enough for now. Toddles!

Wait, I should probably end on some sort of football video since I’m playing fantasy football. Last week the Falcons took on the Saints. Some of my best players are on both teams. You can watch Michael Turner with some great runs, Pierre Thomas with some great runs and Roddy White making some catches.