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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyway, that’s it.

I 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.

There are three main reasons why I go with static HTML:

• Speed
• Security
• Webhosting Problems

Speed

I think speed is by far the most important aspect of selling anything on the internet. This has nothing to do with Google or search engine optimization. Google has announced that they’re looking to speed now and have it in the algorithm, but it doesn’t make up anything substantial, YET.

A website needs to open fast. SNAP! (I just snapped my fingers) I don’t want one second of lag when it comes to potential visitors that will buy. It’s as simple as that for me.

Basically there are three types of things that a website can possess for the loading of a page: HTML code, Service Side Operations and Server Side Operations with a Database.

HTML: This is the fastest because you already have all the work done. You made the page in HTML and the web server just has to send the data to the visitor.

Server Side: This means that there is programming code in with your webpage and that the server’s CPU actually has to process the code before HTML is created and can be sent to the visitor.

Server Side With a Database: This is where you have information stored in a database. The database is on a separate server and needs to be connected locally. The programming code is processed. And when information needs to be pulled out of the database, the server has to connect to the database server and pull the information. Once this is all done, HTML data is sent to the visitor.

Guess which one takes longer. WordPress (which this blog is running on) does the Server Side with a Database. You may notice that a blog like this may have a 2 – 5 second pause as you connect and then everything loads. WordPress runs on PHP Server Side Language and accesses a mySQL database. If you’re running a Server Side Language (PHP, PERL, SSI), it is for the most part normal. The time it takes a computer to process language doesn’t take that long and visitors will never even know. But there is a reason why I brought it up, which I will go into on the webhosting problems section.

Security

HTML can’t be hacked. It can’t be cracked. It can’t be exploited. Your webhost could get hacked, but it is completely regardless of the HTML. Exploited servers happen typically because they can somehow manipulate the server side operations of the code to open up the server. That is really all there is to it.

This is why you have WordPress updates because they find holes and they need to be fixed. This is why it is important to update WordPress immediately after an update. If you miss the update, you risk getting hacked. And remember people are typically hacked before a fix is created and an update is released.

I’m not trying to scare you or anything like that. I just can’t imagine having 100 websites all running WordPress and forgetting to update just one of them.

Webhosting Problems

My biggest pet peeve with webhosts is that they offer “unlimited” everything. I think all of us recognize that nothing is unlimited and in reality they’ll shit can your account if you get anywhere close to it.

If I was on a dedicated server (on a server all by myself) I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But I’m not really interested in paying $200/mth for a dedicated server. A shared server is what most of us are on and it’s shared. There are other people on the same computer and they all have the same “unlimited” plan.

The most common webhosting problem you run into is the mySQL database server lagging. There’s always some asshole that thinks they can have “unlimited” mySQL databases (1 per WordPress site). So they setup 1000 WordPress sites in an hour and lag down the entire database server. This causes anyone on the same computer to have a lag with any site that needs the database (like this WordPress site).

Guess what? My static HTML sites load fast. SNAP! When the database server is lagging or down.

Sometimes the processing of Server Side operations actually crashes too. It’s not quite that common, but it does sometimes happen. Any site that has PHP or any other type of server side language will experience a 500 internal error, which is what people will see when they go to your site.

Guess what? My static HTML sites load fast. SNAP! They don’t need any server side operations done, so it’s not an issue.

The only way that HTML goes down is if there is an internet load problem, CPU overload or the web server just goes down. And in those cases no website setup will work for you.

This is why I use static HTML for the vast majority of my sites. I do use PHP without the database. I just use it for include() commands, so that I can do site wide editing of footers, headers and shit. So that is really the big secret for why I use static HTML. I told you there was a method to my madness lol.

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).

The idea behind getting the double listing is really quite simple. Let’s say that I was trying to rank for “red pants” and I have a blog post titled “The Best Red Pants of 2010″ and it ranks first for the term “red pants”. If I want to get the double listing I just make another post that has “red pants” in the title (obviously not the same title) and link both the posts together using “red pants” as the anchor. That is what you’re supposed to do based on Grizzlies post on the subject. Though that post is old and I can tell outdated.

Out of 41 attempted sites I tried to get a double listing for, only two of them have it. It would of been three, but one of my double listings disappeared. Out of the only two that actually got a double listing, one of them is double listing a page I didn’t attempt to do it for. So I suppose you could call that a natural double listing, but it doesn’t inspire hope that this particular method works.

What I’m Thinking

I have a little theory on how this must work, though I can’t fully back it up with 41 sites to verify it, but I’ll say it anyways. I think the linking pattern is something that works and I know it works because I’ve tried it with other sites. The easier it is to rank for a keyword, the easier it is to double list it. If you go after a very weak long tail keyword you can easily double list it. If you need to verify that for yourself, just try ranking for a keyword that has absolutely no competition. If you need an example of such a keyword try, “pink bucket for turkey”.

Seriously, just dick around with keywords like this and get them to double list. Something that I need to do, but haven’t is figuring out how to get a double listing twice. Let me explain what I mean, let’s say I have the two pages I want to double list…

“pink bucket for turkey” and “new pink bucket for turkey”

Now I can get to the point where if I type “pink bucket for turkey” into Google I’ll have a double listing and the second listing will be the “new pink bucket for turkey”. What I want to know how to do is get that double listing, but also if someone types in “new pink bucket for turkey” in Google, I’ll also get a double listing. That’s something I haven’t figured out yet. Feel free to dick around with that and see if you can figure that out.

The reason why I think these weak keywords are easy to double rank for is the fact that both pages need to have the ability to rank in the top 10 on their own. This is easy to see when you’re going after “pink bucket for turkey” because you don’t need any backlinks for it and absolute shit sites will rank for it. The same is true for authority sites because all new pages created have a little juice and power to them. If you have an article that ranks in the top 10 for a keyword, make another with the same keyword and you’ll probably double list. You don’t even need to link them together either.

When it comes to my sniper sites it is a little different. They’re not authority sites because they’re simply not big enough and have enough links, but they’re ranking for their selected term. I’ve built up the links to the secondary page that I want to double list and they’re not all doing that good (obviously when 2/41 double list). But I guess all I can do is wait to see what happens as I let them sit for a while and hopefully they will work.

Conclusion

Whether you can get this to work or not is irrelevant. When you do end up getting that double listing you get a lot of extra traffic for a keyword. And that is the big bonus. It doesn’t take much extra work. It’s just one page of content and building links to it. Since you should be building links to all your content, it should take no extra time.

And how much extra traffic will you get. Most people will assume that they’ll get a tiny percentage extra. If 5th position gets 3% and that is what you end up getting with your double listing, people will assume that they’ll get an extra 3% of total searches. The fact is that you’re going to see a significant jump. You’ll probably see a 30-40% jump in the amount of traffic that you’re getting from the search term. The reason is that the double listing stands out for both people and produces a better CTR.

Since it requires absolutely no extra work to orient your site to get double listings then you shouldn’t have a problem trying it. Just do it as you start building sites. As usual, start with the easy stuff to rank. When you get in the top 10 for a keyword, just try for a double listing. And just keep going with new keywords. It doesn’t have to be a difficult process.

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

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

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

What is an Authority Site?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Plan I’ll Be Following

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

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

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

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

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

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

Total Invested:  $354.20
Total Return: $652.98

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

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

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

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

Dominating the Top 10

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

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

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

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

Double Google Positions

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

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

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

Keyword research is a very important thing to know how to do. Good keyword research means that you’ll get traffic and you can get it very soon after putting up the site. Bad keyword research means all your efforts go to waste. Building a site that no one visits isn’t enjoyable or fun, and you’re definitely not making cash doing that. Since this site is designed to show you how to make cash, I’m going to give you this keyword guide to follow.

The main tool being used today is Google’s Adword keyword tool. This is something relatively new (as in under 2 years I believe). Google used to be very secretive with their search volumes.  But they knew they had to provide something for their Adword clients, so that they would start spending money. This is the keyword tool that is the compromise. The reason that I say compromise is that sometimes it is very accurate and other times it is a complete joke.

Before Google came out with their tool, many of us used the Free Wordtracker tool. They got their data from smaller search engines and extroplated the data to overall internet volumes (IE: if search engine has 1% market share, than all keywords are multiplied by 100% to get real volume). It’s not near perfect either.

For this keyword research guide we’re going to use Google’s Tool because when it is correct, we’re good.

Finding Exact Search Volumes

Just go to the keyword tool link I gave above and type in the keyword/niche/whatever into the keyword tool and take a look at the results. The first thing you have to understand is that the results are set to broad, which makes them exceptionally over inflated. You have to set the “Match Type” to “Exact”.

When you set it to exact, you’re going to get a much  more accurate view of how many searches that you’ll get a month. For me, I’m always aiming for a minimum of 100 searches per day for the main keywords that I pick up.  That means roughly 3000 searches a month. Those are the keywords I’m trying to get. If you’re someone that is new, you might want to aim lower (though that might not help for the verification section of this post). What you’ll want to do is take all the keywords that you find and throw them into notepad.

Assess Competition

At this point of the keyword research guide I like to look at the competition and assess how much work that I’ll have to put into rank for a keyword. This can be tough for a lot of you because experience plays a big roll in this. You can look at some of the criteria out there by many of the different gurus if you want… like maybe Ed Dale or something.

Personally, all I’m looking for are weak sites listed in the top 10 when I search the keyword at Google. Just remember that aggregators are weak. An aggregator is a site that just lists products and shit automatically. They basically have a massive database of stuff. The content on the pages are minimal. 

You should also be able to pick up “webmaster” like search results. A search result like that has typical “webmaster-esque” like results coming up. You’ll see squidoo lenses, hubpages, Ezinearticles, etc. Typically with a keyword targeted domain you shouldn’t have an issue out doing them.

This is important, so don’t skimp on this. If the top 10 are dominated by power house authority sites like Wikipedia, WebMD, etc you’re going to have trouble getting anywhere near the top. I’m not saying this is impossible, or that there aren’t exceptions to the rules, but you have to recognize lost causes.

Checking for a “Dud” Keyword

Up to this point, the keyword research guide was just like any other that you would find on the internet. Essentially find the keywords, check competition and go for them. But if you’ve been at this long enough you’ve probably noticed that some keywords you go after don’t have quite as much traffic that you expected. In fact, you can be hugely disappointed by inaccurate data provided by Google.

I’m sure Google has extremely accurate data when it comes to searches, but they hide some of it. They hide it because they don’t want us gaming the search engine.

The cool thing is that I’ve found a way to find out if a keyword is a dud and can help you determine how accurate Google’s keyword tool really is. This is very valuable to those that want to make cash online.

Even though the keyword tool has issues, I’ve found that Google Trends is quite accurate with its information. I hope you’ve been using trends before this point because you can learn a lot about the keyword. Most important thing is WHERE the traffic comes from. What do you think is more profitable? Traffic from United States, Canada, Australia or traffic coming from India, Philippines, etc? We all know the western world is the best, primarly the United States. Anyway, that is an aside.

Anyway, take your keyword and type it into Google Trends search and you’re going to end up with a graph. If you get no graph, the search volume is probably below 1500/mth. There’s a cut off point on trends where it won’t give data. I’m guessing that is the magic number.

Here’s the key, an accurate keyword will have a graph that exists for a significant period of time. When I say “exists” I mean it isn’t zero. You’ll notice a lot of keywords will have sections where the graph is zero. If that makes up a small portion of the graph than you can be pretty sure the keyword isn’t a dud. But if a big portion of the graph is zero or erratic jumps from zero then it is probably a dud. And I would avoid that keyword.

Here is an example of what a good keyword would look like:

There are some zero chunks of the graph very early on. But you can see that the graph exists pretty consistently for a good two and half years. The keyword tool said this keyword gets 3600/mth. I rank top spot for it and the numbers appear to be very accurate.

Here is an example of what a dud keyword MAY look like:

 This graph is much different. Over half of the graph has the zero areas and this happens to be one of the MANY possible ways a dud keyword would show up on a graph like. The keyword tool at the time of me going after this keyword said it got somewhere around 3000 searches a month. Six months later and finally ranking for the keyword, I’ve found that it gets absolutely nothing. Maybe 10-15 people search it a day at most.

I was going to show you a graph of another keyword that I ranked for that turned out to be a semi-dud. At the time of this post trends won’t show the graph (too low volume), but as of a few days ago it showed it. It was essentially a straight line that went up. That’s all it was. Just a straight line going up. Google keyword tool says it gets 5400 searches a month. I rank for it and can obviously tell you that the volume isn’t very high.

Verifying Data Volume

You can also use Trends to verify the volume on a search term. It’s quite a useful tool. If you personally know the search volume for one keyword you can compare it against another. You just have to use a comma to do this and it can be done like in the image below.

The very first graph that I showed you in this keyword research guide was for a term that I personally know gets rougly 3600 searches each month. This allows you to create a base and judge it against the other graph. Here is an example below.

The red graph is my 3600/mth keyword term and blue is our “researched keyword”, which I also happen to rank for. As we can see, blue is just a little smaller on average than the red. It probably gets around 3000 searches a month. According to the keyword tool the blue graph is around 2900/mth and I rank for it. It gets about that.

Let’s take a look at another one.

Like before, the red is the 3600/mth base and blue is the “researched keyword”. As you can see for 2007 and part of 2008 the search volumes were about the same. Blue was probably getting about 4000/mth. But over the last year and half there has been a significant jump in the volume that is coming in. You might be thinking that the volume of this particular keyword is about 8000/mth now maybe 9000/mth. The keyword tool lists the keyword at 10,000/mth. I rank for it and I can verify that the number of searches are probably closer to 10k a month.

I can keep throwing graphs at you, but I think you get a relatively good idea of what you need to do.

Assessing WHERE the Traffic Comes From

Finishing off the keyword research guide can be done easy enough with trends. The last thing you want to know where the traffic is coming from and it should be consistent with the specific demographic you’re trageting.  If you don’t know who you’re targeting than you’re aiming for the United States. Something like the rave niche would probably be a more UK related niche. Understand? Most of the time you’ll be aiming for Americans unless it is a special niche.

Below the graph you’re going to see regions bar graph. It will list the top 10 countries where searches originate. Very simple stuff people.

Here is what a good demographic will look like:

You have the United States first and primarily Western countries in the rank. Don’t worry if you have Canada, Australia or the United Kingdom coming in first. They’re all pretty similar when it comes to a credit card.

Here is what a bad demographic will look like:

Most of the searches are coming from Nigeria. How many big spenders do you think come from the top 3? Not many. India will be a game changer in the future (a few decades), but they’re hardly the traffic to target right now. Unless, you’re targeting something specific to that audience.

I guess that is enough for the keyword research guide. I’ll add more to it if I think of it, but other than that it looks good to me. Should be enough to go on and start 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.