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:
That is really all for now.
Regards,
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,
Ranked 2nd for Keyword with 39 Million Results
This post will be quick and to the point. I just discovered that my blog is ranking #2 for the keyword “online marketing experience”.
That is a definite record for me. I normally refrain from making negative comments about other peoples products, however, the last WSO (warrior special offer) I purchased claimed to be an “ultra secret, elite seo tactic” and in the video for the product the author boasts about ranking for keywords with 800,000 to 1,000,000 competing pages.
SEO is not rocket science and after tonight’s discovery it is obvious that I should write an eBook or write a report and sale it on the Warrior forum week after week. 
Regards,
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
New Site Indexed & More..
The new site, referred to here, has been indexed by Google today (3rd day, 3 pages indexed). The crazy thing is I still have another niche site that is about 9 days old and it still isn’t indexed. I will never understand how random the indexing process seems.
I am happy this one indexed fast though and believe it or not I received some traffic from Google today for a longtail keyword. That is a good start if you ask me. My articles aren’t even up yet. According to the stats one of the visitors that came from Google stayed at the site for 29 minutes. That is also very encouraging. I also had two clicks on eBay auctions, with no registrations yet. Still, a good start.
In other news, I registered a new domain for my next niche site which is created in the same method as my first $10+ / day site (all using JD’s methods). The primary keyword for this new niche has 21,000 competing pages and is searched for 185 times per day. I have gathered 9 additional keyword all searched for over 50 times a day with less than 20,000 competing pages. In edition to these keywords, this niche 100’s of branded keywords (i.e. If the niche were guitars, Gibson Hummingbird). Therefore I should be able to continue to add new pages to this site and target an almost unlimited number of longtail keywords. All of these items are bought daily on eBay and have popped up on http://pulse.ebay.com on a daily basis. My prediction and my hope are that these two sites are going to push me over the $20/day mark.
Finally, I recently downloaded the free version of G Lock Fast Blog Finder and think it is pretty darn good for being free. For those of you who don’t know it finds blogs (that don’t use the no-follow tag) based the keyword you’re targeting and lists them by Page Rank. It saves all your keywords as projects and keeps track of when you posted comments. It also spell checks your comments for you and allows you to social bookmark the post. Pretty awesome.
~Chris
Update on my Best Site
I have a content site that is about a year old and is consistently my best performing site. One of the keywords I am targeting has 130,000 competing pages and I am now ranked 10th! The site has about 10 content pages at this time and I rank in the top 30 for all of the keywords I am targeting, except 2.
As my rankings increase, my income from the site increases. That is precisely why I have decided to learn absolutely everything I can about Search Engine Optimization.
Chris
Highly Recommended Free Reports
Ruck from Cash Tactics has created some stellar free reports that are more valuable then some $79.99 eBooks I have read. You can checkout his free reports here .
Also, Jonathan Leger recently released a free report titled SEO Myths Exposed. The report does require opting in, but it is well worth it. Here is a list of the Search Engine Optimization myths that are discussed:
Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All
Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content
Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank
Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank
Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings
Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content
Myth #7: The Biggest Myth: Ranking in Google is Hard
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