[DAILY JOURNAL] - Going Full-Time
- Thread starter exsuit
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Thanks!
Thats the idea!
Ha - that's where I was for years. I now have a plan and sticking to it until I make it work!
Anyone have any suggestions on this?
May 19
Picked up some more backlink building work. Man this stuff is boring and repetitive! But it brings in the money right now! Hoping to get back to promoting my own niche sites this weekend
May 19 Income Summary
SEO work - $90.00
AdSense - $0.45
Affiliate earnings - $0.00
Total - $90.45
Hi exsuit, great sharing.
This is my first post in WF. I'm new in online marketing business and I have done about 20 domains without doing any niche,keyword and traffic studies. Of course the traffic is slow and the only income is generating from text-link-ads. I am looking for other better way generating more cash flow from the Internet as the little income from TLA can't make me survive. Could you share with me on how to start the SEO work that mentioned above as I willing to spend my time on the boring and repeating job.
I hv another blog which talking about IT gadget news and tips that generating 12k+ visitor/month (visitor's number keep increasing). It's generating few dollar only from adsense /day. Do you have any idea to improve the income ? Senior or expert's advice from WF is appreciate.
This is my first post in WF. I'm new in online marketing business and I have done about 20 domains without doing any niche,keyword and traffic studies. Of course the traffic is slow and the only income is generating from text-link-ads. I am looking for other better way generating more cash flow from the Internet as the little income from TLA can't make me survive. Could you share with me on how to start the SEO work that mentioned above as I willing to spend my time on the boring and repeating job.
I hv another blog which talking about IT gadget news and tips that generating 12k+ visitor/month (visitor's number keep increasing). It's generating few dollar only from adsense /day. Do you have any idea to improve the income ? Senior or expert's advice from WF is appreciate.
Cheers,thanks
Have you tried changing the ad positions? (you can use heatmaps to try and identify "hotzones" where users will more likely notice ads. Also consider what is being advertised by adsense advertisers - maybe there is a possibility to swap adsense for an affiliate product?
Amazing thread mate. It is really inspiring to see someone give it their all whom are just starting out. Well not technically starting out since you have been lurking for a few years but I still consider it just starting because all the theory in the world wont help if you can't apply it.
I think probably the best aspect of this is you actually outlining what you are doing what you hope to achieve and how much work you are actually putting into this. Once you make a decent income and turn this into a book I think it would help if you included those Excel sheets you talked about before. Just to give the reader a solid view of all the planning you put into this.
Keep it up mate!
I think probably the best aspect of this is you actually outlining what you are doing what you hope to achieve and how much work you are actually putting into this. Once you make a decent income and turn this into a book I think it would help if you included those Excel sheets you talked about before. Just to give the reader a solid view of all the planning you put into this.
Keep it up mate!
It depends on several factors. If you did your initial market research, keyword research and competition research properly, then just keep building.
May 27-May 29
Picked up another 13 domains over the past couple of days. Instead of using the same method for choosing my niches I went onto Flippa.com and just searched "exact match" and sorted by lowest to highest bid.
https://flippa.com/buy/listings?fil...&quicksearch=Search&sortby=_price&sortdir=asc
What I was left with was a list of niche websites, generally the listings already included month searches and estimated CPC. I took the domains, headed over to namecheap to see if another TLD exact match was available. Using this method, picked up 13 exact match domains with my research already done!
Most of these sites are actual phsyical product sites, so will likely be looking for a way to develop these into Amazon stores and trying to start driving amazon comissions!
Also spent time submitting articles for my original batch of sites into article directories. Just as I finished the last site, my traffic dropped from about 150UV/day down to 10UV/day (across the network of sites).....hopin this is temporary and that my link building pulls the traffic back up (sooner then later!)
May 27-May 29 Income Summary
AdSense $1.16
Affiliate Sales $0.00
Backlink Services $60
Picked up another 13 domains over the past couple of days. Instead of using the same method for choosing my niches I went onto Flippa.com and just searched "exact match" and sorted by lowest to highest bid.
https://flippa.com/buy/listings?fil...&quicksearch=Search&sortby=_price&sortdir=asc
What I was left with was a list of niche websites, generally the listings already included month searches and estimated CPC. I took the domains, headed over to namecheap to see if another TLD exact match was available. Using this method, picked up 13 exact match domains with my research already done!
Most of these sites are actual phsyical product sites, so will likely be looking for a way to develop these into Amazon stores and trying to start driving amazon comissions!
Also spent time submitting articles for my original batch of sites into article directories. Just as I finished the last site, my traffic dropped from about 150UV/day down to 10UV/day (across the network of sites).....hopin this is temporary and that my link building pulls the traffic back up (sooner then later!)
May 27-May 29 Income Summary
AdSense $1.16
Affiliate Sales $0.00
Backlink Services $60
Hey man - great to see you're still powering on.
Your "flippa" technique is awesome - nice work. Keen to hear how you approach setting them up as Amazon stores.
Your "flippa" technique is awesome - nice work. Keen to hear how you approach setting them up as Amazon stores.
Great journal man, real inspiring.
I noticed in one of your forced posts you mentioned you were building multiple sites as sub-domains to one main domain?
Did you do that? Did it work out? I tried doing that for local seo but [keyword].[mydomain].com never seemed to be able to beat [keyword].com/.net/.org.uk etc. even when the sites I was competing against had virtually no SEO work done on them.
I figured Google must hate multiple subdomains.
Cheers
I noticed in one of your forced posts you mentioned you were building multiple sites as sub-domains to one main domain?
Did you do that? Did it work out? I tried doing that for local seo but [keyword].[mydomain].com never seemed to be able to beat [keyword].com/.net/.org.uk etc. even when the sites I was competing against had virtually no SEO work done on them.
I figured Google must hate multiple subdomains.
Cheers
Thanks - I'm still trying to figure out what the best plugin to use to setup quick amazon stores is....currently looking at WP Zon Buuilder for this.
In my first batch of sites, I bought 11 domains, 1 of them I setup WP Multi-site using subdomains. The subdomains were very quick to get picked up and ranked. Subsequently traffic dropped and now the TLD domains are doing much better. I don't think I will creating any more sites on subdomains.
Second Month down! Time flies when you're having fun! Lifestyle has gone through the roof (health and happyness anyways!), I imagine another couple months and the wealth part will start to follow!
As someone else pointed out earlier in the thread it's more meaningful to look at my progress on a month by month basis. Still not at a full.time income yet, but after looking at my month over month stats, I can see that I'm moving in the right direction.
AdSense obviously didn't move in the right direction, but I made up for it with some affiliate comission.
This month I will be really focussed on getting all 33 of my niche sites ranking for their targetted keyword, so will hopefully see the AdSense and Affiliate income increase by the end of June for my next month comparison.
As someone else pointed out earlier in the thread it's more meaningful to look at my progress on a month by month basis. Still not at a full.time income yet, but after looking at my month over month stats, I can see that I'm moving in the right direction.
AdSense obviously didn't move in the right direction, but I made up for it with some affiliate comission.
This month I will be really focussed on getting all 33 of my niche sites ranking for their targetted keyword, so will hopefully see the AdSense and Affiliate income increase by the end of June for my next month comparison.
I picked WP zon builder up a few months ago. Easy to use, and versatile too. Compatible with all in one seo plugin as well. Once its set up you just search for keywords, select the items to post from the returned results, add your keyword tags etc and bam!
You can even post as pages too instead of posts if you want to go a permanent route. The extra features like on site shopping cart and featured item widgets are awesome too. More than worth the $30.
Nice journal. Reads like mine - except I haven't shared any of mine yet lol. Keep your head up bro~
Thanks for the feedback on Zon Builder. Where did you get it for $30?? (I'm seeing it's $99 AFTER a $30 discount). I see 33% off coupons when searching google, but definately havnt seen it for just $30.
Great thread exsuit. Couple of quick questions. Do you have 20 seperate domains, or, are you doing as subdomains. Also, hosting wise, are you using shared accounts for each, or do you have a dedicated service someplace? Also, are they mostly WP?
Why so many sites ? Better create like 5 but all that 2500+ visitors brought you like mmm....$250 ? Simply they all splited between 33 sites and each one get what in average ? like 70 visits a month ? You got lucky and made 1-3 sales from some sites...