Mony Tree

Stat Update & Some Thoughts

Time to update again.  As I said in a previous post, I anticipated earning $300 from EPN for May and I am happy to say that I am currently on track for doing just that.

Halfway through the month I have had 5,200 clicks with my total commissions at $189.  Hopefully this trend will continue.  Despite stating a number of times that I am going to finally promote my eBay sites I still haven’t done any promotion for these sites.  My best performing Mony Tree site earned $99 (from 3 sales) a couple of days ago, which is definitely my best day yet.  I have not had an ACRU (new eBay registration) for the month, which is a little odd.  These numbers are certainly nothing big, but I am personally esctatic that I’ve done as well as I’ve done this month without doing any promotion and without a $25 ACRU.  This brings me to the reason I haven’t promoted my eBay sites.

Prior to building eBay stores I built traditional content sites monetized with AdSense.  I still do this when I find a great niche.  About two years ago I bought a domain name with the intent on building a content site.  I knew absolutely nothing about keyword  research, competition analysis or anything else.  The only thing I really did know is that Google apparently pays $5+ per click in this financial niche many “gurus” claimed it really is easy.  I put the site up and waited for the money to roll in.  Of course it never did because the primary keyword the original site targeted has 200,000,000 exact match (search with quotes) competing pages in Google.  Lesson learned.

In January of this year I completely overhauled the site.  I did extensive keyword and competition research, had 10 high quality articles written and built the site.  I promoted it using article marketing (only 3 articles submitted), directory submissions,  bookmarking demon & 3WayLinks.  I didn’t even think about the site after doing this and forgot to keep up with the stats etc.  Well last week my AdSense took a huge jump and it came from this site.  Previously the site hadn’t earned $0.01, and suddenly it started earning $8-10 per day.  Come to find out the site is ranked 3rd for the primary keyword and 4th for a keyword that I wasn’t actually targeting.  This keyword has 180,000,000 competing pages!  I still can’t believe it.  This is my greatest SEO achievement to-date.  This really got me off track a bit, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  Once I saw my AdSense at that level (which is still weak compared to many), I couldn’t bear to lose the rankings so I started an extensive article marketing campaign for the site in an effort to retain the current rankings and to rank for some of the other keywords.  After all, the money I earn from Google & eBay funds the expansion/scaling of my business $10 / day is an extra $300 to use for content etc.

Josh Spaulding released a free report called the $5 Formula (which has an in-depth article marketing strategy).  The report does require you to opt-in, but it is absolutely worth it.  I don’t receive anything for recommending it.  I have implemented the strategy with the site discussed above and now believe every word of the report.  Grab it here if you’re interested:

$5 Mini-Site Formula

That is really all for now.

Regards,

Niche Marketing Case Study - Update 1

I have almost finished the template for the site and the site is indexed in Google.  So far I have done the following to kick start the promotion of the site:

Over the coming weeks I intend on having the site submitted to 200 or so directories (outsourced for $4).  I also will have additional content written for the site, which will be setup to drip to the site at a rate of 1 or articles per week.

Again, my primary goal here is to rank in the top 10 for the main keyword.  The main keyword has 186,000 competing pages in Google and is searched for approximately 98 times per day.

Regards,

Chris Bradberry

Niche Marketing Case Study - Keyword Sniping, Article Marketing & SEO

Below you will find the details of my first Niche Marketing Case Study. This case study utilizes pretty basic internet marketing tactics (article marketing) and a tactic I learned from Courtney Tuttle at the Internet Marketing School called “Keyword Sniping“. This tactic isn’t new and I originally read the Keyword Sniping article about 3 or 4 months ago. Finally, throughout this case study I will implement all other SEO tactics I have learned throughout the past couple of years (again, nothing earth shattering here).

Domain Name: http://www.remotedatabackup.info
Domain Age: Less than 1 month
Site Creation: The site was created using Wordpress and a handful of SEO related plugins (namely SEO All In One)
Monetization: Monetized via an affiliate offer for an online backup service.

The one thing missing from most of my internet marketing efforts is consistency, i.e. recurring income. During the peak of my efforts in the fall of 2006 I earned around $1,000 for the month, which was a definite high for me. That required significant, and more important, ongoing effort.

For this case study I have decided to promote an affiliate program that pays a recurring income each month. I have built this site as I build all my sites so this is not another example of me losing focus.

The primary keyword for this site is obviously “remote data backup” and as you see I was able to purchase a domain that includes the primary keyword (which from my experience is certainly a SEO advantage).

The site has a static front page which includes a unique 500 word article on “Remote Data Backup“. I intend on posting a new article or two each week focusing on other, more long-tail keywords in order to attract more organic traffic.

This site will also be promoted via 3WayLinks (see: Niche Marketing Tools that Work for Me for more information), and the most extensive article marketing campaign that I have ever done (utilizing the Content Spooling Network), outsourced directory submissions and extensive social bookmarking.

Goal
My primary goal is actually not monetary. It is simply to rank in the top 10 of Google for my primary keyword and to receive a minimium of 100 unique visitors per day. Once I complete that goal I will certainly look to maximize the revenue of the site, prerrably via a recurring offer such as the one I am currently promoting.

Current Status: Not Indexed (site went live on Feb. 27)

I have high hopes for this case study, even though the primary keyword is pretty darn competitive.

Regards,

chris bradberry

Niche Marketing Tools That Work for Me

During the early days of this blog I vowed to not promote anything to my readers that I don’t personally use myself and I have stuck with that for the most part.

Over the past 4 months or so I have been testing a number of different tools and a few have actually exceeded my expectations.  I will write extensive reviews on each tools when I get time but for the time being I will share with you the tools that are in fact working for me.

NicheBOT v 2.0 - I have used a number of keyword tools including Wordtracker, Keyword Elite & Adwords Analyzer and they all had their pros and cons but none of them felt quiet right.  I decided to give NicheBot a try back in November and am happy to report I am still a very happy member.   The price of $14 / month cannot be beaten.  It allows you to access Word Tracker ($59 / month), Keyword Discovery (normally $50+/month), Overture (which sucks) and way more than I can post here tonight.  It is the by far, the absolute best keyword tool I have used.

3WayLinks - I really debated on joining this one.  Back when I was first learning about Niche Marketing I tried a automatic link builder (reciprocal links) and had no luck at all with it.  After reading some decent reviews of it I decided to give it a try.  I installed it on a brand new site (new domain, fresh unique content) in November and am blown away by the results.  The site went from PR0 to PR3 in less than two months and is currently ranked in the top 10 for my 3 main keywords.  I know that 3WayLinks is directly responsible for this because I they only other promotion tactic I used for this site was the submission of 2 articles to Ezine Articles.  3WayLinks also helped me improve the rankings of this blog, which by the way is now ranked #1 for “Niche Marketing Guide”.   This is most definitely my purchase of the year.

Mony Tree & Build A Niche Store -  I grouped these two together because they serve the same purpose, building sites monetized via eBay.  I have been a member of Mony Tree for about 2 months now and have owned BANS for about 5.  I have had great experiences with both but I prefer Mony Tree due to simplicity.  I also believe my Mony Tree sites gain ranking and traffic at a quicker pace then my BANS site.  The main reason I prefer Mony Tree is because after completing the keyword research (which of course is critical) I can have a new site up in less than 15 minutes and a very nice custom, 100% unique header within 48 hours (for only $10).  This allows me to spend less time worrying about how it looks and more time adding content and promoting.  Of course I also install 3WayLinks on all of these sites as well and so far it all seems to work wonderfully together.

I also tried a handful of tools that didn’t really work well for me.  These include HyperVRE, Extreme Google Pages Bomber (don’t ask) and I think that is about it.

Let me know if you have any specific questions about any of the above tools.

Regards,

Chris

Earnings Update

Toward the end of 2007 my AdSense earnings had plummeted to around $50-60 / month.  I guess this is partly to be expected because I really worked on my old sites much at all.  In November I started the 6 months to $100k income challenge (which I have discussed before) and I am now starting to see things pay off.  My daily average is between $3-4 I should make $120 or so from Google this month.  I know that is horrible, but traffic and earnings are increasing daily.  This month I am at $67 from Google, $10 from Commission Junction (brand new site so I am thrilled about this) & $27 from Clickbank (bum marketing sale for work I did over a year ago).

Also, I finally feel that I have a firm grasp on what it takes to succeed with Internet Marketing and my increased focus on just doing one thing is allowing me to reach my goals faster.  In January I put up 4 new sites, each with at least 10 pages of 100% unique content, each targeting high search volume keywords with fairly low competition.  All 4 of the sites have the primary keyword in the domain name.  From experience, this is a definite SEO advantage.  I know there are many different views on this issue, but it works for me.  Each of these sites is in the 3WayLinks network, which has completely exceeded my expectations (more about this when I get around to writing an official review of the service).  I have also submitted at least 2 unique articles for each of these sites to Ezine articles and created a Squidoo lense for each site.  Three out of the four sites are monetized via AdSense & eBay and the other is monetized with a CPA offer from Copeac and Adsense.  Gone are the days where I put up new sites that are only monetized via AdSense.

For the sites I create around eBay items I use Mony-Tree which is absolutely awesome.  I will continue to use Mony Tree for all eBay related sites.  I am struggling on whether or not I should use Wordpress or html to create my other Niche sites.  I know there are pros and cons of each but I just can’t decide which to use.

I recently revamped my Australian Shepherd Site, and as you can see I used wordpress for it.  I also revamped my best performing site on Information on Homeschooling , which as you see uses straight HTML.  In case you were curious about Mony Tree, here is one of my first sites created with it focusing on Cheap DJ Equipment.

That is all for now.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Regards,

Chris

New Milestone - Keyword Ranking

I just realized something pretty cool tonight.

My blog is ranked #5 on Google for the term “Niche Marketing Blog”! I am very pleased with these results. Warrior Special Offers (WSO’s) have been created for less achievements than this ;)

Also, the traffic to my first $10/day site is picking up each day. I now average over 30 uniques per day and the ranking is increasing weekly.

I am extremely happy with my progress over these first 2 months of 2008. I am going to followup this post with my goals for 2008. I set them in early January, I just never got around to posting them here.

Regards,

Chris