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I actually had a very slow start to this month with Amazon. Weekends are usually slower since less items are shipped on the weekend, in particular Sunday. But things did push forward and things worked out pretty good. I’d like to say that the previous month was a bit of a fluke. The fluke being that I earned significantly more per sale on average than this month. But I made up for that little problem with a much larger volume of sales.

I had some very nice days this month. I had a few big sales days where I had 10-11% conversion rates, which are nice. I also had a $140 day. Amazon only pays you for shipped items and you’re given stats for sold and shipped. You get above average days with money because there will be a build up of items that sold, but haven’t been shipped yet. Typically this happens right after a weekend.

And that is why I got a little disappointed with the end of the month because it ended on a weekend and Memorial Day on Monday, which meant shipping items wasn’t high enough. So I had the following staring back at me today:

1 sale away from 7.5% tier. It’s very annoying because I have over 50 items waiting to be shipped and I missed out on the new tier, which would of earned me more money. If I hit that tier and shipped a little more of my items waiting to be shipped I would have made over $1000.

My Adsense earnings are ZERO this month because I immediately removed them from all my sites at the first of the month. The only place that currently has them is a hubpages account. That’s it.

I also didn’t work for what is about a week this month. I ended up pinching a nerve in my neck/shoulder area and it was very painful. Don’t worry, this wasn’t a result of working on a computer. I woke up at 3am with this pain in my shoulder and it was horrible. By the time morning rolled around I figured out what that pain was and it was nerve. At times it was pretty rough and other times it didn’t feel to bad. During the good times I tried to work, but that seemed to later aggravated it, so I just stopped working. I suppose that is a big benefit of working online; money still flows when you have to take some time for yourself.

Alright, here are the numbers:

May:$876.50
Apr: $805.76
Mar: $457.18
Feb: $320.02
Jan: $256.23
Dec: $149.33
Nov: $145.90
Oct: $141.02
Sep: $73.16

Total Revenue: ($3226.10)
Total Expenses: $408.20
Net Total: $2817.90

*Numbers may be off a few dollars from what reported month-to-month in previous months.

When you add it up like this over all the months, it doesn’t seem like a lot of cash over what works out to be 9 months. But the biggest gains have been coming in the last months and it is turning into something that produces a decent amount. I’ll allow you to be the judge of whether this is something that you would like to try.

My Conclusion:

If I had the choice to do this again, I would definitely take it. The thing you have to understand is that out of these 40+ sites, a lot of them aren’t even ranking. There still needs to be a lot of work done to them. But I do have plenty of sites that do rank and I have a few that are shining.

The experience of doing this is sort of the real value. I’ve had the pleasure of dipping my toes into 40+ different niches all at once. I’ve been able to see niches that are quite easy to rank for and others that just take time. I have sites that don’t convert and I have others that convert well. The value here is really about the niches and the keywords I know of now.

The hard part many people run into is finding a suitable niche to play in. It simply takes time to develop a profitable website, but a niche needs to be profitable too. If you’re investing 6 months into a site, you have to make sure that it is going to pay dividends by the time you get there. The sniper sites have given me that leverage because I know what is working.

A nice aspect of the sniper sites is that you can always take the good ones and build them into an authority site. There’s no limitation that states a sniper site always has to be one. Whatever starts working for you, just build it up.

You can’t properly manage 40+ sites and I’m literally running about 100 when you add them all up. You just can’t watch them all. I don’t think over the long run pumping out tons of sites is the best way to go. But I think pumping out some, finding niches and sticking with what works is a good way to go.

There is very little risk with sniper sites (if you avoid Adsense) because you’re bound profit. It’s just the law of averages. You’re bound to hit winners. And at $10/domain name it isn’t that big of a deal.

I stated in another post that if I was to redo this I would probably change up my objectives a bit. The goal for me was to just to rank for the main keyword and that would be it. If I was doing it again I would probably aim for 3-5 main keywords. I’ve found that those sites seem to work better when you decide to build on them. That’s really all I’d do different. I guess I wouldn’t go with Adsense (which was my intention starting out). A lot of my sniper sites have “filler” content, which isn’t keyword oriented, but just informational crap designed to fill a site up. Without the filler crap, I could target real keywords and get a few bigger ones ranking.

I guess that’s really all to say on the subject.

And to Come

I won’t be specifically updating about the sniper sites anymore, though I’ve been going back and filling out some of the sites with new keyword oriented content and backlinks. This is to help some of the ones that haven’t had the chance to really perform for me. Plus I’m also forcing myself not to buy anymore domains and play with the sites I have now.

I’m mainly going to focus the site on building authority sites and my journey with that. I have my Christmas ones that I’ve been working on since February. I’m also working on a few of my sniper sites that I’m building into authority sites. We’ll see how that works out over the next few months.

EzineArticles

It has been over 7 months since I submitted my last article to EZA. This has been something of a challenge for me because I’m a recovering bum marketer.  “Hi, I’m Chris and I’m a bum marketer” HI CHRIS! Well, 2729 articles are sitting in that account right now. I decided that I’m going to start throwing articles back on that site, but not with the intention of driving traffic off of it (bum marketing). I’m just going to use it purely for SEO purposes only. I just need as many different link sources that I can and I unfortunately can’t continue ignoring it.

I ended up cutting them out because they went totally anal and downgraded me. I was platinum for a while and they sent me back to basic plus (lame). But I don’t care anymore. I know I’ll have to write longer content for them. I guess that means 400 words or something. I’m reluctant to write long content for sites that don’t let me put the link right in the middle of the content.  I’ve begun to start hating the resource box because I don’t view it quite as valuable (for SEO) and I no Google can tell the difference. Thousands of pages of content and the outbound links are all in an HTML table at the end of it. They know.

Well, I’m hoping for 400 is enough. I don’t know how anal they are. Plus, I should advise people that you should stop going for the bare minimum of 250 words. I know that blows and I’m not the biggest fan of it, but GoArticles recently deleted all content under 300 words. And since GoArticles email is practically spam box worthy I don’t think a single person heard about it (I certainly didn’t).

I’m not saying that this will happen with EZA because they have a review process (quality control), but don’t think for a second that they wouldn’t purge every single short article if they thought it would help them. But less likely with quality control. Any site that allows you to put up content without review runs the risk of being a deleter. I’m not saying go out and write epic long articles for other sites. Fuck them. Find a happy medium I suppose.

I suppose if there was any lesson from this, you don’t need EZA to get anywhere in this business.

Plans for June

I’m going to keep it pretty simple and the plan is to work Amazon hard. I’m currently going back through all my sniper sites, writing 6 new keyword oriented pages of content and backlinking all that content. And with 40+ sites that takes some time. I plan to continue doing that and working on my Christmas sites. That’s really all I plan on doing this month. I hope to score over $1000 for the mth with Amazon. I would normally aim higher here, but it’s pushing into summer now. People are on the computer less and that puts a damper in sales.

The reason why this will be my last month working Amazon hard (for now) is that I learned very early on the necessity of diversifying. I’m not saying I won’t be working on any Amazon related sites after this month, I just won’t be investing the majority of my time in this. When I started out I went exclusively with Clickbank. I built that income up to something that was decent and then Clickbank crapped out. And anyone that knows CB knows that they don’t have the best payment processor. It’s old and craps out at times. When it is working, it is great. When it isn’t working, it sucks.

Obviously you can’t start out in this business doing 5 different affiliate programs all at once. You’re throwing your energy into way too many directions. So the rule I ended up creating was once you get something up to $1000/mth, start pushing another program hard. It’s just so you don’t have all your shit tied up in one program and you actually work one particular affiliate program hard enough to earn something decent. I’ll continue to push Amazon, but it won’t be all day everyday sort of thing. (maybe in the fall time it will be)

Planned affiliate programs:

• Copeac
• Clickbank
• Market Health

So I’ll probably start into Copeac first since they’re pretty good. My income with them has been down since I stopped writing articles for EZA, but I picked up some domains a few months ago to help leverage what I’m promoting. They’re a CPA and I mainly stick to items that people actually whip out their credit cards for instead of things like email submits and shit like that.

If you’re looking for a CPA I definitely recommend them. I receive my check every month. I have nothing to complain about.

Next I’ll start working Clickbank hard. And even though I mentioned above their problems it isn’t that big of a deal when you don’t have to rely on this income. If you treat it more like a bonus than it is much easier to play with. And that is at least the plan. The one thing that Clickbank does get right is that they pay. They have weekly direct deposits, which are a nice touch. And since I started out with this program I find it much easier to sell.

Market Health is something I’ve had for quite some time now. I haven’t made anything decent with it. I might get a few sales a month and that’s it. I don’t have any particular goal to get this up to $1000/mth.  I’d be happy with just enough to pay my student loan min payment each month ($400). And they do pay directly into my Paypal account, so it’s really easy for me.

It would be sweet if I could get through all three of these programs by the end of August. Highly doubtful, but I could definitely build a solid foundation for them in that time. All I know is that by September I need more time for Christmas preparation.  I just really need to be on that and that’s HOPEFULLY the plan.

Total Invested: $408.20 (47 websites)

I didn’t buy any domain names this month for the sniper project. In fact, I think I only bought 1 domain name the whole month and just bought a .info on a spur of the moment thing. I actually bought it to help figure out a little better how to work my Christmas authority sites.

Amazon: $701.30 (Total: $1794.39)

The odd thing here is that on the 25th of April, I actually started making this post. I was just going to add in the numbers at the end of the month. Well things changed. The first 20 days of this month I was flying and was above average. I was going to fly past the $500 goal I set last month, which when I initially thought of that number I thought it was a little high for me. Starting on the 20th of the month, I had like a week of below average and slower days.

What I initially wrote was that I did beat the $500 mark (I was expecting maybe $500-$540), but that I was disappointed because I was on track for much better numbers earlier in the month. But I ended up finishing up the month very strong. On the 28th I had my first day of $102.04 in commissions (after selling $1,457.44 worth of items). Breaking the hundred dollar day is always a nice feeling for a program, even though it’s not remotely close to daily averages. I remember when I broke the hundred barrier with Clickbank and Copeac (my CPA), it’s always a nice feeling.

For May, I really want to set a goal number of $900, but I’m not going to. I’m going to aim at $800. And the reason for that is that I can’t get past the fact that this might be a fluke month. The way I see it is that if it is a fluke, I should hopefully be able to squeeze in at $800. If not, I have no problem making extra money.

I’m still stuck in the 7% commission tier at Amazon, though I entered into it the earliest time for a month, so that is a plus. I doubt I’ll even come close to breaking out of that tier and into 7.5% in May. But I’m hoping I can in the future.

I have some hefty goals though. I want Amazon up to $1000/mth before Summer (before July). And this is sort of tricky because the summer is always slow and it really depends on a lot of factors. People are on the computer less, which means you have less time to advertise to them and they’re less likely to buy. I’d be very happy if I could hold onto a full grand each month during this time with Amazon, but I guess we’ll see what happens.

Adsense: $104.46 (Total: $521.03)

This is pretty much the same as it was last month, so nothing to really say. I haven’t been pushing Adsense and I’m actually second thinking it now. There are a lot of things going on with Google and them going on full assault. I was actually curious why Grizzly’s site wasn’t in the top 10 anymore for all his MMO links. Well, he had a post toward the end of April explaining why. And there was Ben from Make Money Online with SEO that had a ton of his sites indexed from one of his Adsense accounts.

The only reason why I have Adsense(AS) earnings is that I’m trying to diversify, which is extremely important. I ran into problems starting out having all my eggs in one basket and I’m not going to repeat it. It’s this desire to diversify that has pushed me closer to the AS system, but I’ve still been apprehensive about it. I haven’t gone full steam ahead at it and I’ve exhibited paranoia with it.

I was under the impression that the most likely punishment that you’d receive from AS would be a banning and I can deal with a banning. At $100/mth, it isn’t that big of a deal. With them deindexing sites, I’m actually pretty afraid now. A banning is no big deal, but having your sites lost like that is a slap in the face. At least if I was making several thousand with them each month I could have at least saved something in a bank account. But not at a $100.

I’m officially bowing out of AS, which I’ll probably do over the next month. I was planning on pushing into AS hard after I got my Amazon above a thousand, but I’m just going to bow out of it. I’ll move onto Clickbank and Commission Junction probably.

I know some of you are thinking “don’t give up. Just make clean sites that aren’t obvious MFAs.” I just can’t get around the point that I am trying to make money with AS. That’s really the point, I’m trying to profit with it. A site about coffee tables can’t be a friendly user site for reading. I just can’t do it. And even if I do, what’s stopping the big G from banning me anyway? If they don’t like something from the traffic or if I write something wrong; BAM, I’m done. It doesn’t matter if the site is thin or thick.

I’ve written in the past about Google on my old blog and I want to point out two posts in particular; my Google Analytics (Nov. 18 2008) post and my Adsense Sucks (June 29 2008) post. Even though they’re old posts, they still hold true and contain all the same opinions I believe.

Just to sum up why Google will always be quick with the ban hammer on AS is that it has a gambling business model. It’s pay per click. That’s the equivalent of paying someone to come in you store. It’s not necessarily good for business. Contrast that with pay per sale, where someone actually has to buy for you to make money.

Consider the abuses of the two different systems. With AS you’re going to have fraud when someone disingenuously clicks on an ad and is completely not interested in what they click. When I use the word fraud, it’s not legally fraud. For a program like Amazon, fraud is when someone uses a stolen credit card. This is actually real fraud and is criminal. The system that faces more “fraud” is the system that pays you for someone clicking on a link.

The amount of abuse that Google has to deal with must be unimaginable. The crap from people that click the ads, to the spammers that autocreate thousands of blogs within a period of an hour. As long as these people exist, Google will always have a quick ban hammer. They’ll even wipe out good people or those that are right on the border between good and bad. They don’t have any desire to be fair because fair means they’re losing money.

In the end, AS advertisers have to profit. THEY HAVE TO PROFIT. Pay per click is a failed business model if advertisers don’t make a profit because they’re not coming back without that profit. And the overzealous ban hammer is the means to insure that profit is created.

The other point I want to make is similar to the point in the Google Analytics post I made. Google is an information beast and just keeps digging, digging and digging some more for information. The problem that people fail to see is that Google has the power to use information against you. They can deindex you, which is what they are apparently doing now with your AS footprint on each site.

Like I said in the Analytics post, I don’t want Google to know shit about my sites. I don’t want them know what people are doing or clicking on. I don’t want them knowing where my traffic comes from. I don’t want them to know shit because Google views me as an enemy. Let’s just cut through the shit, Google hates us because purposely move up the ranks of Google to make cash. That’s all we’re doing. They hate us, and with the right information they can fuck with us.

Okay, that is enough of that topic…

The point is that I’m stepping away from AS and just moving onto other greener pastures. I’m not the biggest fan of Clickbank because I think they’re payment processor is outdated, but they can’t deindex my sites. Plus, the weekly direct deposits are a nice touch.

On Sniper Sites

There was something that I noticed about my sniper sites. Well, at least some of them. In April, I really went back and started spending time on some of my better performing (traffic and/or profit potential) sites. I started to add in more content and do back linking. And I started to notice some trends with some of the sites.

I’ve created an extensive look at it on my main blog area titled Sniper Sites to Authority Sites. I went into a little more on that page, so you can read about it there. My objective with my sniper sites was to select one keyword, get a keyword domain and dominate that keyword. That was my only goal.

What I noticed is that sites that have a more diverse range of keyword traffic (a smaller percentage coming from the main keyword) the better the site was and the more authority it has. When I added content (which happens to be static HTML and no pinging) the pages indexed on the front page or on the second page.

Conversely, the sniper sites that were doing well for the main keyword, but little else (majority of search traffic for one term), the less authority the site had and the harder it was to get new pages to rank. It took forever for the pages to index and when they did they were well beyond the 100th position in quotes.

The point, which is obvious, is that your site needs to have that diverse range of keywords coming in. It’s probably better to target a wide range of smaller keywords, while still pounding away at your main keyword, to really make a site with authority.

This was a nice revelation to see. Some of the sites are getting closer to some major niche keywords, so I’m excited about that.

I should also point out that a lot of my sites still need work, even though I’m spending my time working on the ones with potential right now. I’ll eventually get around to all this. Building 46 sniper sites is easy, but building them into bigger sites is a lot more work lol.

I’m actually trying to think of all the things I wanted to talk about and put it in this one monthly post, but I can’t think of anything else to mention. Hopefully next month, I’ll have something to post on the Christmas authority sites I’m working on.

Total Invested: $408.20 (6 more domains)

And I guess you want a monthly breakdown of how much I’m earning with these sites. I usually just gave you a runnning total of how much I’ve earned, but I’m going to give you a month and total this time.

Amazon: $350.41 (Total: $1093.09) On 35 sites

When it comes to Amazon, I don’t feel like I’m earning what I should with it for the amount of time invested. But the thing about Amazon is that the income keeps growing each month and I think it is much more stable. If you look at a program like Clickbank, you could get 30 sales a month at $33/sale to make a grand a month. But there are variations and getting 20 sales in a month is a big change in what you make. Where as Amazon you need a high volume of sales to actually earn something that is going to pay the bills.

For this reason I think that Amazon is good. I think it is quite stable from an income point of view and that is something that I can really appreciate. Anyone that has been doing this long enough knows that fluctuations are just part of the game, but having a nice stable source is really a solid base to work with.

This was the very first month that I actually hit the 7.0% commission tier. The way Amazon works is that they show you how many sales you have got and how many sales have been shipped. They pay you on shipped items and that is what counts toward moving up the tiers. I had enough commissions last month for it, but they didn’t get all shipped and I missed out on it. lol.

My goal in April is to get my Amazon earnings to $500/mth. I just need to keep pushing traffic through the affiliate links and keep hoping for good things. I won’t pass through to the 7.5% tier next month to reach that goal. I eventually want to get this up to a $1000/mth and the sooner the better. Essentially that is all I try to do with programs now. I work at them until I get them to around $1000/mth and move on to another program to do the same. It’s my way of diversifying.

Adsense: $106.77 (Total: $416.57) On 8 sites*

I put an asterisk by the sites because I recently converted two Amazon sites to Adsense at the end of the month. They weren’t converting and some ass emailed me asking to buy one of them. I decided I better put it on Adsense to see what it is capable of earning. My Adsense earnings aren’t anything special. I really don’t have any interest in Adsense. Making more than a hundred in a month means I’ll get money wired to my bank account, but that’s about it.

I’m just a little scared to use sniper sites for Adsense because my sites are pretty thin and Google might think they’re MFA (well they are, I don’t make sites for shits and giggles). I *HEARD* that Adsense doesn’t really do an audit of your sites until you’re making about $100/day ($3000/mth). So making a $1000/mth fits in a nice safe range when audits are concerned. Still, I’m pretty reluctant with the program. I might continue to just dick around with it and slowly build it up on the side.

Total Month: $457.18 (Overall Total: $1509.66)  On 43 Sites*

I do have more than 43 sites invested into this little sniper project, but some of them are not monetized yet. Since they’re not monetized I didn’t feel like adding them into the earning statistics. I did add them into how much I invested though.

I guess while I’m still updating people on things, I should update you on things unrelated to the sniper site project. I mentioned in a post not to long ago that I’m working on Christmas Authority Sites. This was actually quite interesting because I’ve been making a little bit of money with them already. You can look at the post I gave on Christmas Authority Sites to understand the method to my madness, but it has been an interesting run so far.

I’ve found that you’ll rank for lots of shit and most of them are duds. Most will not even bring you a drip of traffic, but you’ll hit something that does get traffic. It doesn’t take anymore work then the posts that fail, so it’s nice. The best part is that when you hit the traffic, it’s something that is going to convert. Even though I’m not getting a high volume of traffic it seems to be doing decent for new sites.

A few days ago I picked up a few domains to get this a try with Clickbank as the affiliate program. I actually just wanted to get one site, but I have a rule about domains name. If I find a keyword domain I want and .net and .org (and even .com) are available, I have to buy them all. This happens because I’ve bought a .net or .org, seen it perform well and went to go back to get the their extension and it being gone. Pain in the ass! But that is an aside.

I wanted to play with Clickbank in a very minor way. As you should all know, I think Clickbank Sucks because I made a nice little blog about it. I still think they’re pretty much incompetent, but I miss the tiny trickle of sales I was getting. Since I stopped actively promoting CB I was still making sales. I’d get anywhere from 1-3 sales a week on average and with weekly payments to my bank account it was nice to see $50-100 popping into my bank account every week. It’s not a lot of money, but something that pays for groceries.

Anyway, I wanted to get my sales back to something like that and this type of site will be like that. When I used to play with CB and was making decent money with it, I was an bum marketer (which is shit). I’m going to do it with the least amount of work to see what I can earn from it. I’ll keep you posted on how that works out too. Just a note, I’ll have two of these sites on two different webhosts, which makes my sites a lot more strategic when it comes to ranking.

Let’s see, what else to update you guys on. I bought 4 sites on Sunday to help with my CPAs. I haven’t really talked about CPAs on this blog. Might be something to talk about in the future, but not now. I can’t remember if I mentioned on this site that I bought a .info domain. After hearing loads of talk on this and how they’re punished, I thought I’d give it a try. I actually found a 1 word (5 letter) .info domain available for some piece of clothing. From my experience so far it is working like a normal domain. I don’t appear to be punished or anything like that. Granted, I haven’t played with enough .info domains to really know, but so far they’re just like any other domain.

The only real concern I have right now is that I’m juggling 50+ active domains right now and I find it a bit overwhelming at times. Like, I have a lot of domains and most of them are sitting idle and earning. Meaning I built them up and they just sit to earn. They don’t need the active attention, just a little love now and then. But with 50+ active sites that need love now and need content now is overwhelming. I’m definitely going to sit down and write a post on this blog for organizing this many active sites.

I guess that’s all for now. Just an FYI to those that read to this point. Some assclown left a comment on the blog about how one of my posts was a million words long and asked me to summarize it. Fuck off. The posts are long for a reason. If I had ads, you would of clicked on them already (which is the point).

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 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.

I thought I’d let you guys know that I bought up 20 domain names on the 15th of this month. I just had another one of those desires to buy up a lot of domains and so I did. That is an additional $176.20 added to the total money invested for this account. I immediately did my routine of getting content up on these sites as fast as I could and send them one simple backlink. It is just my way of getting my sites indexed as soon as possible. When I choose the domain names this time, I put in a little more work into it. I selected keywords that paid a lot more. I also picked specific types of domain names (which I’ll go into in a future post).

Here is what the results look like so far…

1. Sites indexed very fast. Some within a few hours and the rest within 48 hours
2. 8 out of 20 domains indexed in the top 10 for their keyword

Think about these two points for a second. I got 40% of my sites indexed in the top 10 for their keyword very fast. Literally within hours for some of them. That is how you make fast online cash. The same holds true about the first 21 domain names I bought. The sites that indexed in the top 10 are the ones making the money right now. That’s with no backlink work. That’s me just making some content pages, putting adsense on the page and putting it up.

The Keyword You Select Are Important

It’s all about the keywords and how well they’ll rank. The weaker the competition you’re against, the more likely you’re going to rank great. I’m thinking about all the wasted time I’ve put into this game where I was trying to get one site to rank for a good keyword. I was busting my balls everyday just trying to get it to the top 10. Foolish of me.

Well, maybe I shouldn’t be negative. I’ve made money that way and it definitely helped me go into this little Adsense experiment with cash to invest and money coming into pay my bills in the mean time. The fact is that I was busting my balls for a keyword that might get 4500 searches a month. That’s a nice amount of searches, but one of my sites just ranked in position 9 at Google within 48 hours of being bought and the search term gets 10,000 per month. That is exact searches by the way, not broad. Talk about instant cash online.

Ed Dale is WRONG!

Mr. Ed Dale was the first guru I heard talk about the competition numbers. It was such a new idea to hear when I first started out. You can probably dig through the old posts on my old blog and find me reference this over generalized and misinformed opinion.

Ed Dale said that you take a keyword and you search it in quotes at Google. The number of sites that are returned is the competition. I know that Ed Dale is doing his 30 Day Challenge now and I’m not sure what the criteria is for this current challenge (besides selling his Market Samurai), but when I participated it was under 30,000. Typically you’d aim for keywords that had 10k, 20k or less. This is the wrong way to look at this.

The total competition for every keyword is 10. A lot of keywords the competition will be 3. That’s right. You’re not competiting with the site that shows up in position 55. You don’t make money beating that ass clown. You don’t even make money beating position 11. The only positions that make money are the top 10. In most cases that isn’t even good enough and you’re really competiting for the top 3 positions.

That’s why I say the competition is 10. You don’t care about 20,000 other sites. You only care about the ones on the first page. This is why I have ranked on the front page for a keyword with 250k in quotations, within a week of buying a domain and with 1 crappy backlink. I’ve also struggled to get onto the front page for 8000 competiting sites after months of building backlinks. This is the precise reason that Ed Dale is wrong. If I followed his view I’d still be dicking around looking for decent keywords instead of making cash online.

Finding Good Long Tail Keywords

This is a real pain in the ass. I’ll admit it. It’s not something that can be summed up into an exact science. You just have to have your mind open when you think about things. You’ll just have something pop into your head. Instead of letting that thought disappear, immediately search it at big G’s keyword tool or atleast write it down. Often times a slight variation in wording can open you up to a lot of uncompetitive keywords. It could be as subtle as “hotdog” to “hot dog” or it could be “hotdog” to “weiner”. I hope you understand what I mean by that.

You just got to keep your mind open. It’s not an exact science and you’ll spend most of your time not finding anything good. Probably out of every hour I research, I’ll probably only find keywords out of 5-10 minutes of that time. Often I’ll find a bunch all at once and not find any for an hour. That’s just the way this type of research works.

The 10 Sites

If you want to make cash online than you need to beat out at least one of the 10 sites on the front page for a keyword that gets searched. It doesn’t matter how much competition “with quotes” for a keyword. If there is 5k competition and a major authority site in position 1, it will take you years of work to over take them (if you do).

Theoretically, you only need to find one weak site out of the 10. If you notice that position 6 is pretty weak, than that means 7, 8, 9, and 10 are even weaker. You have to set yourself a goal for what is acceptable to you. You just have to get real about how much traffic you’ll end up getting. A 3000 exact searches per month keyword works out to roughly 100 a day.  Here is the breakdown of the suspected probabilities.

1. 42.30%
2. 11.92%
3. 8.44%
4. 6.03%
5. 4.86%
6. 3.99%
7. 3.37%
8. 2.98%
9. 2.83%
10. 2.97%

This is just an averge click through rate for listings. As you can see anything beyond the top three just seems sort of useless. Even the third position isn’t that great. At a hundred searches a day you’ll end up with on average 3 clicks a day at oisutuib 10. You can’t make cash online with that.

It is important to note that these statistics wouldn’t consider the fact that you can have a very appealing title and description. Obviously if your site stands out compared to the rest you’re going to get more click throughs. Keep that in mind when you create your title. That’s not to say that you should have big long titles either. A long title would stand out more when other sites have short ones and vice versa. These are all things to consider. Always test test test and that is how you’re going to make money.

Oh almost forgot. Your click through rate with the big G will also be effected by the amount of ad listings that show up. Sometimes they’ll just show up on the right side of the listings. That isn’t a big deal and I doubt that would really change anything. The ones that show up at the top would definitely take away a portion of the traffic. Also take that into consideration with the keyword.

Templates

I make my own templates. I build them so I have my sites looking different instead of them all looking the same. I do play with the templates though. I want to know what the hell is going on and I want to know what is going to maximize my profits. You really have to play with this. I’m definitely working on it.

I have fat templates and I have skinny ones. I have ones with a menu bar on the right side and a menu bar on the left side. I have some with a menu bar on the bottom and sometimes I put it at the top. I’m always checking to see what is going to happen. Maybe the stupidest little thing will cause my Adsense CTR to skyrocket. But this is testing. This isn’t your first objective.

First, Get the Traffic Than Worry About CTR

The only way you are going to be successful is if you think in a linear manner. Linear just means in a straight line. What I mean by it is that you have to think in a straight line and in single steps. To make a successful site you have to do step 1, step 2, step 3… step 153. Putting up a site and worrying about CTR when you’re really on step 3 is stupid. CTR is something that is in a further step. Get your traffic first, than worry about your CTR.

The same thing can be said when you just buy the site. Your goal after you buy the site is to put content up. You’re not trying to drive traffic to it. You put up the damn content, than you build links, than you get the traffic, than you worry about CTR. Always think in a linear manner, so you don’t get caught with a severe case of mental masturbation.

Precarious Adsense

Even though this sniper project is all about Adsense (well I have a few amazon ones), I’m still scared about it. I just don’t trust the hammer and fist of the big daddy Google. They created this program to make cash online, yet they just ban people. There’s nothing you can do about it. There is no phone number to call them at. You’re just banned (or disabled) and that is that. The Terms of Service are so incredibly vague that most people that are banned don’t even know the hell why it happened. If Google doesn’t like the nature of a site, you’re done. It doesn’t matter what you think, you’re done. End of story. That’s precarious and it just makes me worry a lot.

The fact is that the value is the traffic. All things aside, the traffic is of value. If the big G gives me the boot off their network, I can always find something to replace it with. As long as I have the traffic still available to me, I can monetize it in some manner. I can put up Amazon products and start making some sales. I know there are some other click through like programs. There’s also CPAs, even though it can be tough for some keywords.

I guess the point is that if Google wants to take away my ability to make cash with them, than so what? I can replace it. I might as well just assume that the big G is going to shitcan me and all I’m doing now is making some profit while I can. I suppose it is better than sitting on the sidelines holding a self righteous attitude about how Adsense isn’t fair.

Diversification

Isn’t this what it’s all about? I want to make my money from a lot of different sources. This protects me from royal fuck ups and complete outtages by shit networks. Nothing is more annoying than busting your balls for one particular network, just to see it go to shit. Your sales suddenly disappear and you’re making 10-20% of what you were making. That’s the annoying aspect of things. That was my newbie mistake starting out. Assuming a network was good and that they would do a good job. Nah. Never again will I think like that. The only person I’m putting that much trust in is me.

Even now I don’t feel that diversified, which is probably the big reason why I’m taking a huge step into Adsense.  I have sites I make actual sales for. I have CPA sales. Now I need some pay per click traffic. If I’m going to make cash online, I better make sure that I’m getting it from as many sources as possible and protect myself against bans or screw ups.

I’d also like to get Amazon producing a decent income too. I like Amazon, even though it has some pretty shitty commissions. They do improve after you get a lot of sales. The thing I like best about them is that people will rarely ever just buy what you had them click through for. They’ll end up buying a bunch of shit and you’ll get a decent commission. The first 21 domains (wave 1) I set up in this sniper site project had a few Amazon sites. I haven’t seen any results from them yet due to the fact none of them rank yet for their keyword. I have Adsense on all the sites that rank. The 20 new domains (wave 2) I made sure that I selected a few sites that indexed on the front page already to be Amazon sites.

We’ll see how that works because I’m still currently building the sites now. I’m still waiting for some sites to index. We’ll just have to see how it goes though. It’ll be interesting with the first wave of sites actually start to move up the ranks and get into key positions. That will be the interesting times. I’m making a pledge here that if my Amazon sites do pretty good, I’m probably going to make a new wave of sites that are completely Amazon related. I trust Amazon more because they don’t appear to be total douchebags with a ban hammer ready to use.

I guess I’m being a little mean to the big G. The fact is that a pay per click program is going to be something that has an extremely high amount of abuse and that is the reason that they have the ban hammer. That sucks for webmasters because we don’t have anyway to protect ourselves. It doesn’t matter how sweet our traffic is because some asshole could come along and go nuts on our ads. We’re at the mercy of things out of our control.

At least with Amazon you’re getting paid for providing value. Someone has to buy and make Amazon money before we’ll ever make money. That is the way it should be. They’re not going to have an over zealous person looking for excuses to ban. Even if your site sucks shit, as long as you’re making them money they don’t give a flying fuck.

Things I want to try

Obviously with me having 41 sites, I’m open to a lot of different types of testing. I’m not talking about big time testing, but little tiny things to see what happens. The sites rank fast and they’re pretty isolated, so I’ll get a good idea of what can help me and what is probably useless. I’ve currently just tried out whether putting your keyword in bold in the first paragraph actually does help. I’ve heard it countless times before, but I thought I’d give it a try in an objective manner to see what happens.

Something else I wanted to try is writing much longer articles. Like I’m talking tank articles. I’ve been reading How to Make Money Online With SEO and Grizzly’s blog for a few months now. Despite the great information in their actual posts, I think there are lessons to be learned just in the way they create their sites. I noticed that both of them write absolute monster posts. They’re just huge. You literally have to dedicate a half an hour of your time reading it. I think one of the posts I read at MMOSEO was actually 10,000 words. Think about how big that is. I probably have ebooks I’ve written and sold for $50 that haven’t even contained that many words. And it’s not like they’re writing shit either. It’s good stuff.

You should be able to tell that I’m trying this out too. Right now with this post. I’m trying to write a nice long post on how to make cash online. I’m talking about my snipers and I’m trying to go into as much detail as I can to fill up this post. So far I’ve made it to 2826 words. Not even close to the ten thousand that these other guys are doing. I’m guessing this is what you need to do to get a lot of long tail keywords. I’m not sure. It’s something that I haven’t investigated really.

I actually converted my main $7 report site into this to test. I could only get to around 2500 words. I put that up and put Adsense on the page just to see how it would perform. I’m still waiting for the big G to crawl the site again. I’m still coming up in the search results for the old version of the site. I’ll obviously get some good empirical evidence from it. I might actually get some results for doing a long post on here.

When I think back, I know one particular post on my old blog got a lot of long tail traffic. In fact, it was my longest two posts that I made on the entire site. At the time I thought they were long, but they were really about a 1000 words a piece (I broke it up into two).  It was my post on How to Beat the Taxman. I never got a lot of traffic for just one term. I just got a lot of traffic for a variety of shit at Google. I get most of the traffic around tax time though, which I’m sure you’d figured in the first place.

I’m very curious to see what is going to happen with these long posts. Obviously I’m not going to be doing these really long articles for article directories. Fuck that. I’m not writing beast articles, just so the directory gets all the long tail traffic. I at least know that the long tail stuff will go to even sites with zero backlinks, as long as they actually have the words on the page. I resent writing over 500 words for article directories. I’ll save the long pages of text for my own pages.

Another thing that I’ve been wanting to really start adding to my pages is the Conduit Method. This is a program that was created by Chris Rempel, who just happens to be the author of “Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate”. Obviously you can go pick up his program if you want for $14.95. It isn’t that much. It’s really a simple idea and I’ve been doing it long before I ever heard of Chris Rempel or his method.

When it comes to selling products, people will typically list the name of it and give a review (or try and market it). Whatever you’re doing, the only text related to the product is the product itself. The idea behind the Conduit method is to throw in as much information as you can that is related to the product. It could be anything. It could be the shipping weight, to the price, the creator , to the support number. It doesn’t matter. For example, Chris Rempel has his mailing address for the Conduit Method as 103-2529 Wark St. Victoria BC, V8T 4G7 CANADA. Obviously you want to dig up as much information that is related to the product in case someone ends up searching it.

Basically is someone searched Chris Rempel Wark Street, you want your page to come up. Or Maybe they’ll search Conduit Method Victoria. The point is that you want them to come to your site. They know about the product. A lot of the long tail traffic you’ll get won’t be related to street names, but things like price or size (physical product). The reason this traffic is so good is that the person is obviously already presold. They’re just looking for technical information on the product and you want them to go through your affiliate link before they go and purchase.

It isn’t that complicated of a method to apply. In one way or another you probably applied it in one form or another. I actually sometimes get traffic to my sites from people searching the names of people that gave testimonials on a sales page. I typically grab testimonials from sales pages and put them on my site too, so it should show you the possibilities.

I have one page on this current blog that gets a lot of long tail traffic for applying the techniques of the Conduit Method. Please keep in mind that I don’t build any links to this blog. I do nothing for this site because I haven’t done a thing to monetize it. It is my Michael Jones Scammer Warning page. I think this page will give you a good idea about what I’m talking about. Look at how much of the information is filled with technical information of what I’m talking about (which is Michael Jones and how much of a douchebag scammer he is). When I created this page, I tried to dig up as much shit as I could put in there. I put in addresses, email address, other business names, names, pen names, etc. I filled it up with as much technical information as possible and I get traffic for it. In fact, most of my traffic for this site comes to this page. Apparently a lot of people are pissed off at this guy.

The difference between that type of page and a sales page is that this is all technical information. It is all facts and nothing else. People search all sorts of things with it too. If you search the phone number, my sites comes up in number 2. If you search michael jones is a scammer, my site comes up number 2. You should be getting the point. There are an infinite amount of combinations that will get me traffic, even though it won’t help me make cash online since the page isn’t monetized.

You should also understand that the conduit method is really hit or miss. Typically you have to go after products that are at least popular enough for people to search these various long term keywords. The good news is that big products typically have this volume and very little people actually add in all the technical information and facts that make Chris Rempel’s method work so well. If you look at my Sebastian Foss Scam, you can see that it is of the same format and style, but I don’t get much traffic for it. I might get a few hits a month.

Apparently this scam artists isn’t as popular as Michael Jones in the search engines. I don’t know why either because this guy had his own affiliate network. One day the site doesn’t load. One day turns into weeks. Than all the websites with his affiliate network just go to domain name parking. What a lame ass.

Okay, got to get back on topic. Oh things I want to try. I have another one here that I want to try that still sort of fits in with the Conduit Method. Instead of focusing on technicals of a product or person, I could focus on season and holiday. I’ve created themed pages before for Christmas, but that’s about it. Obviously changing your sites around all the time to meet different seasons would be a lot of work, but you would probably pick up some bonus long tail traffic.

Even though I haven’t tried this yet, the first thing I would be doing is coming up with various words for the season. Let’s just say I’m working on Christmas. Obvious you’d have words like Christmas, gift, present, tree, Jesus  Christ, Christian, Chanukah, New Years, ornaments, good will toward men, etc. You get the idea, but I want to make a huge list. I want to get every single possible keyword that would be associated with Christmas, but not to a specific product. I can fit the product around the keywords. Even something as simple as last minute Christmas gift ideas could be enough to gain a lot of traffic.

Obviously, I wouldn’t do this for all my sites. That would be a huge nightmare and would probably send me over the edge. I would probably do it for my best performing sites. The idea in that case is that I’m going to hang onto good sites for years, so I can just reuse the same articles I make year after year. It makes it easier. There would be a lot of seasons to go through though. You have Christmas, New Years, Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, Independence Day and you also have themes like Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall. It is a lot of work, but something I feel I have to at least try. I might be surprised by how well it works. If it works, I make more cash. I’m not going to cry over that.

There is also another variation of this that I want to try, but this is something that is going to require very fast indexing because I want to try subjects that are hot in the news now. I suppose it doesn’t have to be even that recent, but something (or someone) with a popular name. My mentor back when I was doing adult sites told me that there was one boundary you don’t cross and that was no politics. I think that was mainly for legal reasons and the regulations on that aspect of being an adult webmaster, but I’m curious.

I think I’m in a safer arena here in the mainstream of sites. I don’t think I’ll have a problem talking about Obama’s Health Care plan or how GOP Representative Joe Wilson is a Douchebag. Obviously politics is a touchy subject and I would NEVER EVER do this on a page with Adsense on it. But the point is that I can cash in one some of these subjects. Joe Wilson is a douchebag. Someone might search that. Someone might search Joe Wilson Money and end up at this page. I don’t know.

Let me prove a point. Christine Taylor is hot. Like she is smokin’ hot. When she was in the movie Wedding Singer she dressed up in some great looking 80′s outfits. Man oh man. I’d do here. I’d plow her constantly. The things I’d do to Christine Taylor will only live in my imagination, but man. Any hole.

Despite this site not being about anything related to hotness or Christine Taylor’s tight ass, it’s something that could be searched. Obviously if someone is looking for her tight ass, I want them to come here because there is none for them. But that’s the point. You can probably go to Google over the next few days and see if you can find some combination of Christina Taylor related keywords and see if my site comes up. Ben Stiller is one lucky bastard.

Even though these examples suck ass and I’ll admit that, I’m sure I can come up with something related to the subject. If you have a site selling vintage records or something like that, you’d want to take advantage of current events. When Michael Jackson died, or at least was in the hospital, I would of been pounding out a page for a site like that. The amount of traffic that you could pick up would of been insane.

Maybe that’s what I’ll have to do with this blog. Stop thinking about how I can make cash online and try to get as many people to this site looking for the tight ass of hot celebrities. Maybe I’ll try to pick up some long tail traffic for Spencer Grammer. She’s the daugher of Kelsey Grammer. She’s also on the television show Greek. I saw her in that show wearing nice tight booty shorts. It was nice. Greek’s new season started this month, so maybe some people will be looking for a little Casey Cartwright ass.

Okay, I think I gave more than enough examples of what the hell I mean when I’m talking about the long tail of current events. I probably never even needed to go into detail, but why shouldn’t I get some weird traffic for telling you about it?

Hard Work

I don’t want you to get the idea that making sniper sites is just easy and you don’t have to do hard work. I know when I say that I ranked for a keyword that gets 10,000 searches a month, and I got in the top 10 by just indexing, I may have made you think that this is easy. Not all keywords are going to rank that easy. I have more sites that aren’t ranking in the top 10 and I’m going to have to nurse them all the way to the front. I’m hoping I won’t have to do much of it, but there will be some definite nursing.

You have to remember it is the volume here that will keep you busy. For me to add one page of content to all my sites, I’d have to write 41 articles of content. Creating the sites up to a level that would allow me to put Adsense on it requires a lot more work. There was a period last week where I wrote around 90 articles in two days. Think about that. 90 articles in two days. My brain was literally mush when I got to that point, but this is how hard I’m working. I’m not fuckin’ around.

The only way to make cash online is busting your balls working. Like I said in my previous post on this topic was that I have an objective of making one dollar per site per day on average.  That’s not a lot of money, so I’m dedicating myself to a business of volume. Obviously I could take my time. Instead of hammering out 20 decent sites over a period of a few days, I could just take my time. I’m not going to argue with that line of thinking. If that is what you want to do, than do it.

Here’s the way that I see it. All sites need to marinate, especially the new ones. It isn’t a matter of putting a site up when you want that counts. It’s how long your site has been sitting in the Google index that counts. I hope by now that you recognize it’s a lot easier to hold a strong position than it is to push someone out of that strong position. It is proven that age gives you trust with Google. The longer your site has been around, the more the big G trusts it. Slowly building decent links over time will result in a lot of trust and eventually authority.

The fact is that this all takes time. If I have a choice between getting a site up now or taking my time and getting it up in a month, I’ll take now. Because now means that it will have a chance to marinate with all search engines and be one step closer to trust. At least with this sniper project, some of the sites are indexing in the top 10. I can’t sit around like that. If I can get in the top 10 immeditately by just putting the site up, I might as well make some money. The site sitting on the sideline doing nothing doesn’t help me any.

The idea that I’ve been trying to follow is to get the sites out there and have them fully built. I’ll worry about link building and all that crap later. The fact of the matter is that you can make some money getting them out there. It’s not like you’ll be busting your balls for nothing. You’re going to make money. All my sites aren’t in the money position, yet I’m making money. I’m obviously making enough for me to go out and buy another 20 domain names without actually seeing any money position results with the first wave of sites.

Even though I’m throwing up content in an extremely fast manner, I’m not throwing up crappy content. I try to write things that would actually benefit the reader. I’m not saying that this is easy though. Some of the keywords I’ve gone after are on such inane things that it almost destroys my brain trying to figure out what the hell I can write about. Remember, a site has multiple pages, so I have to figure out multiple pages of potential content and that can be daunting. But despite that I keep trucking away at it. I can either piss and moan, or get to work. I choose work.

An Aside

I couldn’t help, but notice that some of the sites indexed and than like 24 hours later they deindexed. Just thought that was a little odd. I’ve only seen it happen with these snipers, but I guess I haven’t actually paid that much attention to results like this before. I guess I’m trying to really document a way to make cash online. I noticed one particular site that I actually indexed in the top 10. I created the full site for it. Received a click through with Adsense and now the site is deindexed. I know it will be back in like a day or two, but I just find it funny.

I wonder if this is an issue with Google’s Dance/Sandbox thing or if it is just a datacenter thing where I end up searching a different data center at a different time of the day and that leads to different information. I don’t know. I’m an engineer, so I’m always thinking in systematic fashions and want to figure out everything.

Anyway, let’s get down to the numbers here.

Total Invested: $354.20 US

Total Earned: $24.17 US

I’m pretty happy with the way things are progressing. I noticed that I have good days with Adsense and than I have bad days. Not complaining though because the bad days are a lot better than what I was getting before. The point is that there is an upward trend with what I’m making with the program. Last post I was at $8.37 for the week. This week I did $15.58, so that is just under two times what I made last week. It’s also important to note that the 20 new domains that I bought haven’t started to earn yet. I think I’ve had one click so far from the sites, so you can rest assure that the jump in revenues is due to the first wave of 21 sites.

It is important to know that this isn’t the fun time. None of my sites are in the money spot (top 3 at G). Until I have sites getting into that position, I’m not in the fun zone. That’s when the real volume is going to come through and I’ll see whether it is game time.

Keeping it all organized

I almost forgot to talk about the organization of things. Right now I’m at 41 sites. As I add more over the months it’s going to be hard to keep track. If I expect to make cash online I have to keep things organized perfectly. The only way I’ve been able to keep track of everything is with spreadsheets. If you don’t know much about spreadsheets or even like them, I suggest you learn to like them and it’s not like you have to do mathematical manipulations with the numbers.

I have all the sites listed under one column. Obviously they’re broken between wave 1 and wave 2 to keep them organized. Here is the type of information that I hold onto: date the site was created, date the site was indexed, starting position, current position, type of template, number of pages of content on the site, number of backlinks I’ve actively built.

This makes things a lot easier for me. I look at the spreadsheet and I can see which sites need a little link love. Adding fresh content to the sites is also important to do from time to time. It is important to make sure that all pages are getting their share of content. I’m obviously doing something wrong if one site is ending up with 20 pages of content, while another site is sitting there with 5 pages.

The starting positions and finishing positions are just things that I like to keep for my own information. It’s nice to see a site start at position 105 and move all the way up to the front page. It shows me that I’m progressing over time. Keep your shit together. I even made another spreadsheet for domain names. I have the domain name, registrar and the date it expires. I had to because I just had way too many to keep track of.

Parting Words of Advice

This post has been dragging on for a good while now, so I think I need to conclude it with some words of advice. The people that have actually read this post will fall into three different categories. The first will be the person that dismisses it and forgets about it. The second will end up with inane questions and will never take action until they’re answered. The third will take immediate action and figure it out as they go.

The vast majority of you will fall under the first two and it is unfortunate. If you dismiss it, well I can’t do anything for you. It is the people that have inane questions that are the ones that really annoy me. Do you remember where I said you have to think in a linear manner? Stop worrying about step 56 when you still have to take step 1.

And really the questions people ask aren’t things that can be answered. How the hell do I know which template is going to help you earn fast cash online? How will I know whether a 300×250 Adense box will do any better than a 250×250? All these are inane questions. Inane means stupid and pointless if you haven’t taken the time to look up the definition. For the people out there that want answer to these stupid questions, all I have to say is figure it out. Put up a site and find out. That is what everyone else, including myself, has to do.

This isn’t rocket science. Spend some time doing some keyword research and find yourself a few good keywords. Go out and buy domains with the keyword in the name. Put up your site. Bam. It’s that easy. If it works out and you get on the front page, congrats. If it doesn’t, you learn a lesson. Start building links and see what happens.

If you see a keyword and you’re not sure if it is weak or not, don’t sit there with your thumb up your ass. Find out. You can buy a domain for the keyword and see what happens. Even if you’re cheap you can setup a blog on Blogger or something and start building links to it.

This isn’t rocket science. If you want to make cash online all you have to do is get off your ass and try. Don’t worry about failure. I’ve had plenty of site failures. I’ve made full product ebooks I was planning to sell for fifty bucks fail. It happens, but I learned from it. I’m wiser for having the fuck up on my resume.  You should get some fuck ups on your resume too.

You have to accept some inevitabilities about life. Bitchin’ gets you no where. Whining gets you no where. Complaining gets you no where (at least when you complain about your own life or situation). Try and think of internet marketing as weight lifting. When you have to lift up a 100 pounds, no amount of bitchin’, whining and complaining is going to get that weight off the ground. It’s a weight. It frankly doesn’t have consciousness nor if it did, it wouldn’t give a shit about how you feel. Also, asking inane questions about what you do when you get the weight off the ground is stupid too.

The only thing that will get that weight off the ground is lifting it (verb). The only thing that will help you profit online is working on websites.  Sure you might try to pick up that weight and not be able to do it. Just as you’ll make a site that makes you no money. You learn from it, you get better and you eventually lift it.

And that’s what it all comes down to. I recognize the fact that the only way I can make money online is by working to put up a website, creating content and building links. It doesn’t matter if I’m tired and stressed out. That doesn’t change the fact that I have to work on websites, create content and build links. It doesn’t matter what I feel.  All that matters is that I get the work done.

I guess at this point I’m going to have to wrap this up. All I’m saying is that you just have to try. Trying is the value, not the fact that you might fail. You don’t have to know everything because I certainly don’t. I don’t know what the right template is, but I made several anyway. I don’t know the best color scheme for my Adsense blocks, but I put them up anyway. You don’t have to know everything now because you can always learn it as you go. And often learning it as you go is much more educational and much more informative than anything I could tell you here.

With that said, I can still make an assessment of how things are going and I’m certainly going to do that for your guys sake.

Total Money Invested: $178US

Total Money Made: $8.59US

Not a bad start considering none of my sites have hit the money spot yet (top 3). I thought I should give a general breakdown of things, so you can better understand what I’m looking at here.

I picked up 21 domain names that have a selected keyword in it. Most of the keywords will get over 3000 searches (roughly 100/day) a month. That is the exact number, not broad. I have a few 2900 and one 2400 search term. Top search volume is 12,100 per month.

Of these 21 sites, 17 of them are monetized completely for Adsense. One is an Amazon site and another is Clickbank. Two of my sites are a mix of Adsense and Amazon. I’ll say that I don’t mix them on the same pages. I’ll have either an Amazon oriented page or an Adsense oriented one. Basically I select what I think will produce the most money.

Okay, now onto the more interesting stuff. Out of the 21 sites, 8 of them indexed in the top 20 for their keyword. 4 of them indexed right on the front page. None of my sites are in the money spot yet. The closest one is ironically the Clickbank site and it is positioned at 4.

Currently Adsense has generated the cash so far. I’m not really sure what a good CTR is, but I’m not impressed with it so far. I think it is hard to judge it now because I’m just not getting the volume that I need to assess things properly. Most of my sites haven’t got a click yet, so this should skew the CTR, but overall for all the sites the CTR is around 4%. With the only sites getting clicked it is just above 5%. My best site is getting a 15% CTR which I think is good.

What I’ve been finding the most interesting thing about Adsense is the amount I get per click and how it varies between sites. The funny thing is that the sites I thought I’d get decent click values for are turning out to be pretty crappy. While other ones are surprising me. I noticed one site gets around 50 cent clicks, yet related products on Amazon cost $3. Another site gets on average 13 cent clicks, yet related products on Amazon are going for $50-$300.

Getting 10 cent clicks really does suck. Next round of domain names I’m buying are going to have a little extra research on what I’ll probably get for clicks. I can’t get an exact number, but I can come up with some conservative estimates.

I have very modest goals for this little project. Actually you’ll be a bit surpised. I want to make $1 per day per site on average. That’s about $30/mth, so it’s a Clickbank sale a month, a few Amazon sales per day, and a few clicks per day.

The reason I like this goal is because it isn’t a lot. I’m not looking to make huge money with my sites. If things work out I’ll make $21/day. That isn’t a lot, but an extra $630 a month is nice to have. The philosophy here is that if I can make $1/day/site on average, than a hundred sites will make me a hundred per day.

I know that I’ll have sites that make more than that. Based on some of the results so far, once a few of my sites hit the money spot they should be able to take in $5-10/day. We’re talking on average here and I want something that is at least conservative. If I make a hundred of these sniper sites I’ll make $100/day. But if they average $2/day/site, than it is just a bonus.

Another interesting piece of information is that I made $8.37 over the last 7 days. That means if this rate of return remains, I’ll break even in 21 weeks. Which means a $178 investment per year would produce $435 return. But this information is just really for mental masturbation. I suppose I could do this 100 times (2100 domains) and make $43,500/year (minus $17,800/year).

It’ll be interesting to see what things will be like in the money spot for these sites. Well, I’m past the 800 word mark, so I’ll end the post here.

Basically I said I put up 5 sniper sites, just as a test to see how they go. Now, I really haven’t seen any results from them, so I’ve jumped the gun, but I have a good explanation.

What I was doing in preparation was making a spreadsheet of all these different keywords, number of searches a month, competition, and basically if I thought I could easily rank for them. I was doing this and I was content for waiting to see how my 5 test sites would do before I made any moves, but I started to do a more investigative work on the competition and noticed sniper sites popping up for some of the keywords. What was annoying was that it was the same asshat, with the same shitty template and was ranking in the top 10 without a single backlink.

I just couldn’t wait anymore. Everyday I waited was a lost domain and a lost position. I’m not looking to compete with other sniper sites. I just want to rank with as much ease as possible.

Right now I’m 21 domains invested. I picked up an additional 16 domain names on Wednesday. Built landing pages for all the sites (as a starter to get’em online) on Thursday and got them 1 press release link each on Friday. The new 16 domains requires me to build content pages for them, so I don’t have MFA(made for adsense) sites and break the TOS. I also have some sites that are Amazon and a mix of both.

Total Money Invested: $178.00US [The cost of 21 domains]

Total Money Earned: $0.22US [Two Adsense Clicks]

It’s very early in the project though, so don’t worry about the money earned. Essentially I have 5 indexed sites. I have one that finally got bumped onto the front page and is sitting in position 4. Not bad eh. It hasn’t been 12 hours let alone 24 hours, so I can’t really assess it yet.

It’ll be interesting to see how this whole thing plays out. It’s definitely a volume business, so as soon as it starts looking like the strategy is working I’m going to start pounding out the domain purchases.

I suppose I should conclude the project I finished up. You can read up on it here. Total money invested was $50 for 8 domains. I’m not sure what I earned. 9 sales so far (probably around $250). That is mainly concentrated between two sites though. This project has been going a lot slower than my June Project. In the June Project I was ranking for some of my keywords by the time that one month mark came along. That isn’t the case here. All the domain names are all in the sandbox or whatever. I suppose I’ll be in a better position to assess results when they actually start moving out of the safety net and move toward the front page.

At this point I can’t really assess whether it was good or not. We’ll find out in a few months I suppose. If it is still in the same position in November that it is now, I’ll declare it a failure.