Another week has past and the sites still are all over the place with many still dropping. Amazon sales are still improving which is great – they have now surpassed what they were at for all of last month.
Progess Update – Week 14
I have been flatout this week working on a client’s website so everything else was put on hold so little new was added to the sites. Traffic was up and down once again with some sites returning to previous bests if only for 1 day. This is getting frustrating but I am sure it is only a matter of time before it all kicks back in.
In the men time I will just keep creating new sites and supplement the income that way.
I tried adding brand new content to the older sites but they are yet to show up with any significant rank.
Amazon sales are improving daily and I have managed to salvage the traffic from one term that wasn’t getting an AdSense results with a range of Amazon products. The products aren’t high cost but volume is pushing my commission rate up quickly.
The new sites (11 to 25) have lost their initial boost so I have to focus on working them back into some money making positions.
Here is the Table of Results for the last 7 days. (I recorded this data a few days ago so it was inline with the other weeks, just too busy to post).
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Progress Update – Week 13
Here are the stats for the last 7 days. Nothing much really happened this week. I have been working on a couple of offline projects so haven’t had the time to do much new with the sites.
I did give oDesk a go but my first project has been quite dissapointing. The communication from the project manager I hired (for content writing) was great but the work produced was terrible. I’ll just try again I guess but if anyone has any tips for me on outsourcing I would greatly appreciate it if you can share them with me. If you would like to write a post about it on the site then please let me know.
Progress Update – Week 12
Firstly, how good were the Cane Toads tonight?? Totally squashed those Cockroaches. Queensland – 5 series wins in a row!
Well it has been another interesting week that resulted in me getting rather excited, only to be left dissapointed 12 hours later. My Weight Loss site made a brief cameo back on the first page for many terms as well as keywords that I haven’t ranked for since the original domain recieved a Cease and Desist. Pretty much right on 12am the day of the resurgance saw my traffic halt instantly, the keywords were returned back to the last few pages of Google (as before).
I have been told though that this is a good sign and to expect a permanent return in the next couple of weeks – very exciting! Continue reading →
Just added a Market Samurai Review
I have been getting asked quite a few questions about why every one raves on about Market Samurai so I decided to create a few videos to go through the program in detail.
The review is broken up into three parts so hopefully you can get through alive 
Click here to read the review.
So You Want to Create a New Niche Website But Don’t Know Where to Start?
Over my short period in internet marketing I have come to notice that despite all of the information available both freely and through various paid courses, many people still struggle to get their head around both the overall concept in general as well as the finer details that together brings success.
Many people have tasted some sort of success but struggle to move from micro niche sites making only dollars a day to a piece of virtual real estate that you can build a real business around. They get caught up with a process without seeing the bigger picture.
I am currently assisting a Warrior who is passionate about his niche but is struggling to get solid results. We thought that it would be beneficial to other new internet marketer’s if we shared what we were discussing and learning to hopefully help them get a foot in the door as well.
As a marketer, I make a great engineer. I love numbers and stats but you have to forgive my poor writing and communication skills. If something doesn’t make sense then just hit me up and I’ll try and reword it into English!
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Progress Update – Week 11
Well I have been slack again and it has been quite a few weeks since I last gave an update on the actual progress of my sites. The main reason being that the motivation level for looking at the statistics has been lacking due to my hosting being cancelled and out of action for a week at the start/middle of May.
I thought I better give an update just so you can see the damage that occurred yourself. What has made matters worse is that while my sites were out of action Google released an algorithm update towards the end of April/start of May. With my site being down I have no way of knowing if my rankings collapse is due to the hosting issues OR the algorithm update. I can only wait and see I guess.
Knowing that it will take some time before I get any answers either way, I decided to try and compensate the loss as well as possible by creating a few micro niche sites. I selecting 15 keywords (as many sites as I already own) and hit them hard. It took me about 2 weeks to get the sites up and running with a bare-bones structure and I am about half way through creating the original content for the home page for each site.
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The Week from Hell
Well, it has happened again. I have had my progressed halted and set back a couple of months in the matter of moments. Last Monday my host decided to terminate my hosting account for violations of the AUP. No other details than that.
It has taken this long to get the correct backup restore and the databases converted over. My rankings have taken a dive to oblivion but hopefully it is a short visit. I will be making a handful of pretty thin sites at the end of the week to hopefully get my income backup with some exact domain name match websites. Will be interesting to see how they go.
I recommend everyone who relies on a website to have another host that runs a mirror of your site to prevent this from happening to you!
Progress Update – Week 6
This week has been a rollercoaster ride for my main weight loss site. At the start of the week all of the ranking for about 20 keywords/pages shot up to the first page. Several hit #1 and #2. I was left confused when I checked my AdSense earnings though…very very few earnings.
I quickly jumped over to my email to see what had happened, but I couldn’t log in.
Last thing I did was decide to have a look at the Statpress statistics for the site and see if the rankings were just out of whack – then bam! My hosting account was suspended!
I managed to find an email from my host in my Gmail account (Spam folder) and found out that one of my sites was suspected of hosting a virus or had malware installed. It was actually a WPMU site I setup to use for The Link Juicer project. I received the email 10mins after I went to bed the night before so that was frustrating too. I managed to get it sorted out in 10mins after finding the problem, thanks to the awesome support at SurfSpeedy.
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Progress Update – Week 5
I missed last week due to the Easter holidays but just got back from camping. Here are my stats for the last 7 days.
- Site 1 – Weight Loss – 533 UV
- Site 2 – Home Improvement – 201 UV
- Site 3 – Health – 233 UV (6 months old)
- Site 4 – Beauty – 218 UV (3 months old)
- Site 5 – Beauty/Health – 167 UV (3 months old)
- Site 6 – Health/Diet – 125 UV (3 months old)
- Site 7 – Beauty – 89 UV (2 month old)
- Site 8 – Amazon Site 1 – 98 UV (< 1 month).
- Site 9 – Amazon Site 2 – 217 UV (< 1 month).
- Site 10 – Amazon Site 3 – 76 UV (< 1month).
My main site copped a hammering over the last week, a drop of about 25%. Earnings stayed steady though due to some rises elsewhere.
The largest improvement came from a site that I haven’t done any promotion other than RSS submission, some sitewide links, and automatic OnlyWire bookmarking. It doesn’t even have completed articles yet. It also gave me my first group of Amazon sales. I sold 8 items through it in the last week. Not huge numbers but it is very encouraging to see that the site is pushing people over to Amazon and the leads are converting.
Hopefully this week will see the numbers back to normal.