Well it’s another Monday and it’s the start of a brand new money making experiment. I’ve been flying high with Hubpages for almost two months. I’m now making probably an average of $40 a day with Hubpages. It varies though – I’m starting to see 50 dollar days, and I’ve had a 65 dollar day once. I’ve seen some 20 dollar days (July 4th for example, was my lowest in like a month with only 17 bucks) once in a blue moon – usually on a Saturday. But these days, it’s rare indeed to get below 35 bucks and not uncommon to get near 50 bucks. So there is some variation. But the general trend is upward.
I’m taking my hubs all the way up to 1000. It will probably take me another 2 months or so to reach this, but I’ve set on the path to 100 bucks a day from Hubpages and I’m going to complete it. I’m 40-50% there. I also want to keep adding infobarrel articles as well, as I’m making good money there too.
Now, my next challenge is something very different. I firmly believe you should have a diverse portfolio of sites. This means you should not have all Adsense sites and you certainly should be relying soley on a parasitic domain site for your earnings. Right now about 85% of my income comes from Adsense and this makes me nervous.
Don’t Rely on Hubpages for Income
I don’t like relying on only Adsense. Google has been known to slap people around for BS reasons. I personally have several online friends who woke up to find their 5K+ a month empire deindex overnight – all the sites linked to a single Adsense account. Getting banned from Adsense is also pretty easy – and a breeze for other people to do to you, if they are malicious. Read the many horror stories online.
I also don’t like relying on a 3rd party like Hubpages. What happens if they get a Squidoo-type slap from Google, especially since Hubpages is now the new Golden boy for Internet Marketers? What happens if they ban your hubpage account? What happens if they fold up shop? Are these situations going to happen? No, but they could. If you look around online, you’ll hear more than one story about the internet marketers who ONLY made their money from Squidoo. When the slap happened, those poor internet marketers started clickin on those Payday loan ads..
Google has an uneasy relationship with Internet Marketers. I see this relationship sort of like that of a pimp and his prostitute (guess who we are?). Google take most of the money and give IM’ers a small piece of the money they have earned. When Google feels IM’er are getting a bit to cocky, they get slapped around. Google needs us, but certainly doesn’t love us, or even respect us. When Google feels like it, they bitch slap us around. And you know why? Because Google can.
Now I have to be honest, I am very nervous right now with Hubpages. I’ve been spending a good deal of time thinking about where this whole hubpage phenomena is going — and I don’t like the conclusion. I’ve seen time and time again when one easy revenue model get’s exploited by the internet marketers, Google changes the game in a big way. Can anything think .info BAN’s? I know quite a few people who went from hero to zero in a single day after Google finished their raping spree on any BAN’s .info site.
I don’t want you guys to work your way up to a decent income with hubpages to find that Google has pulled the rug out from under you. God forbid if you quite your job to live off those earnings!
People like me have certainly not helped the problem by publishing our Hubpage earnings online and providing a comprehensive guide on how to make money with hubpages. Every wannabie internet marketer is going to figure that Hubpages is the key to their meal ticket. This means you are going to get a lot more competition in the next year, and Google may wizen up and decide to pull the SERP boost you get though Hubpages. Will this happen for sure? Maybe not, but my gut tells me it will – at least to some degree. I hope not, but I’ve seen it happen before. I know Hubpages is not like Squidoo in terms of spam content, but from what I’ve seen, most of the Hubpage articles published are now internet marketing crap. This means it’s all just a badly rewritten rehash of Ezine articles. Seriously, some of the stuff I’ve read is crap. I know I’ve been advocating write in an Adsense friendly way, but some of the content I’ve seen would make even spammers cringe.
I am not saying don’t make any hubs. But, for God’s sake don’t get caught in this whole Buzz about making money online ONLY with hubpages. Anything I help show you guys on my blog with, I want it to be sustainable. If you want to make quick money, spend a couple months learning the in’s and out’s of blackhat. However, with blackhat, it’s always a race trying to stay ahead of google. The promise is quick, easy money — but it’s not really that. It turns out to be a constant marathon run against google. I’ll go out right now and say that Hubpage earnings will not be sustainable. I hope I’m wrong, I do, but I can’t convince myself it’s going to last. I’m already taking some serious steps to increase my income in other areas.
So I HIGHLY encourage you guys not to be thinking of Hubpages as your meal ticket. I’d say use it as a supplement income/backlink source for your real sites, but don’t make the mistake of putting all your eggs into the Hubpage basket. When that basket falls, you are going to be left with a lot of shards to clean up. You should be making the development of your own self-hosted niche blogs your main priority and use Hubpages to support those.
Am I saying don’t aim for 100 or 200 hubs to make a bit of cash? No, make those hubs and collect the coin, but don’t count on that revenue to continue. My advice to you is to start planning your exit strategy NOW. I’d say do your niche research and make hubs with the goal of supporting your own money sites. I’m still making hubs, but I’m already plotting alternative sources of income to prepare for the hubslap when it comes.
YOu should not ONLY be creating hub sites. I would say put most of your emphasis on your own niche blogs first, then hubpages second. This way, if hubpages crashes and burns, you’ll still be burned, but those burns will be 1st degree, not 3rd degree.
Cancel Squidoo
I know I said that I was going to do 100 squidoo lenses in 30 days, but after a careful look at Squidoo, my conclusion is that it’s a dead animal that doesn’t know it’s dead yet. The Adsense revenue sharing is crap and now Squidoo is banning lenses on some of the more competitive terms that most internet marketers want a piece of. These chances may be good for Squidoo, but from what I’ve read, it may be too late.
I am not convinced I can make any money from Squidoo in 30 days. I’m sure I could make some money eventually, but not in a short period of time. So I’m going to delay this experiment for a while. I do want to come back to it in time and see what’s possible. But in the meantime, Squidoo will just be a link farm.
100 Clickbank Sniper Sites in 30 days
Enter my new challenge. I’m determined to get off this Adsense addition I’ve formed. So I’m going to sell my soul to hawk shitty products that don’t deliver anything of real value. In other words, I’m going to become a true Internet Marketer, and promote products I don’t believe in or care about. And I’m going to tell a whole lot of lies to do it.
Yes, we are a dirty bunch, us Internet Marketers.
Why am I choosing Clickbank? Because there are a lot of products to promote and there is a system in place to gauge how good the (Crappy) product you are promoting will do. My goal is to get 1000 bucks a month, in a month WITHOUT ADSENSE.
Wait, you say. This is not possible to do. Guru X/Y/Z said that you need to spend 6 months SEO’ing your niche blog to even get close. Well, yea, that’s the conventional wisdom, but I’m bucking it. After all, I took a medium that people were making peanuts with and am now churning out a cool 1200-1500 a month with it. I’m willing to bet I can do the same with this. I also have a friend who makes around 2k a month in only a month and a half work with this sort of thing, so I know it’s possible. The key is to know what the fuck your doing and put in an insane amount of work. I have the insane amount of work thing down pretty good — as far as the “know what the fuck I’m doing thing” this is debatable. I’m sure I’ll lean though, after a couple dozen sites.
The whole premise behind a sniper site is to focus the entire site around a single keyword. A sniper site is really just a fancy name for a niche website. A sniper site is usually more focused though – the entre site snips a single keyword.
A lot of my success is going to depend on my niche selections. And I confess, I’m not exactly and expert promoting clickbank products or even affiliate selling in general. I have one site that gives me about 7 bucks a day selling Amazon products, but that’s about it. Call this experience a baptism by fire. I am going to accept the gospel of affiliate marketing and be “reborn” as a sleazy internet marketer. Halleluiah! Does anyone happen to need penis enlargement cream, cause I have just the solution for you. Sorry, just practicing my sales pitch. But seriously, if you do need to get a larger dick, I have quite a few things for you…
Anyways, the format of each sniper site will be:
- 1 self-hosted wordpress domain
- 2-3 400 word posts
- 1 Clickbank affiliate product
I will promote each site with 3 (spun) UAW article. 3 spun AMA articles, 2 ezines, 2 infobarrels, 1 squidoo, 1 BMD run, 1 RSS directory bot. That’s the extent of the backlink work I’ll be doing. I want to set these and forget them. But wait! Arn’t you suppose to do link exchanges? What about XYZ link promotion techniques. Don’t need them. I’m going to see if I can get money with minimal backlink work. I know this is counter intuitive, but from what I’ve seen and some of the experiences from some of my friends who ARE making money, properly done sniper sites can rank very high without too many backlinks. Backlinks are needed or course, but not as many.
In 30 days, I will try and aim for 3 sniper sites a day with a steady pace of 10 hubs. I’m also going to try and churn out 10 hubs as well. This is going to be a HELL of a lot of work. I’m still not sure I can get 3 sniper sites out a day, at lest not for the first few.
Can I make some money in a month? I hope so. Other people are doing it and so will I. If I can churn out 1k a month in a month’s time, I’ll be very happy. I’ll keep you guys updated on the process.
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Good luck on this new experiment…I look forward to the results as affiliate marketing and sales is something I am currently weak at. But like many superstar athletes you need to find your weaknesses and make them your strengths to succeed. I’m hoping your new experiment series will help me in that regard.
On a side note, I totally agree with you about Hubpages. For all we know they go out of business for some odd reason, or stop using Google Adsense. I’ve seen some very nice quick income from that site and it’s a great thing, but not something to continually bank on.
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Do they have to be self-hosted? Would blogger blogs work instead?
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July 6th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
For what I’m doing, self hosted is best. You could use blogger blogs though (that would actually make for a good future experiement on my part). HOwever, I notice that it’s a bitch to get ranked for blogger blogs. Oh, sure if you throw enough links at your blog, you can get it ranked. Just look at Grizzly’s site. But for new blogs and instant ranking, blogger blogs lag behind self hosted wordpress blogs.
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Are you talking profit or revenue? 100 domains alone is a lot of scratch, but then again if you think you can make the $1000 mark you’ll at least cover your costs. I myself have never been “internet investment” adverse either.
Anyway I look forward to hearing how another HUGE experiment goes and best of luck.
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July 6th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
well, it’s going to cost me about 700 USD for those 100 domains. I am talking recurrent $1000 a month income from the affiliate sales. I guess, with the first month, if I can get to 1000 a month, i’ll end up with only 300 or so profit. But the next month will be gravy — If I can get to that point.
THanks, I’m going to need it!
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Good luck with the challenge. I look forward to hearing about your journey. What does BMD run mean?
Have you ever considered site flipping as an experiment? I have read that people can make quite simply ones that get snapped up for $200+. Maybe an idea for a new experiment?
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July 6th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
good idea. I like that. 100 domains to flip in 30 days or something. I’ll add that to my future list of experiements.
BMD run means Bookmarking Demon Run
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Do you know if there is any penalty if you just create 100 subdomains of a single domain? like something.yourdomain.com, something2.yourdomain…I know google looks at them as different domains with different PRs, so maybe it’s fine if you just create 100 w/ the same domain?
-M
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:39 am
@Maneesh
It’s certainly cheaper to do that, but there are a couple reasons why I don’t want to:
1) it looks less legit when you are trying to sell something at youhost.mysubdomain.com
2) if google decideds to deindex my host, ALL 100 of my sites would go down
3) SERP boost? I personally feel that having exact a domain as possible to the keyword give the best *mini* SEO boost possible. Now, you can certainly rank without having the keyword in the domain or even an exact match (think wikipedia ranking for terms). But it’s my experience that the close a match the the keyword as possible give a pretty potent SEO boast from the start. I’m trying to work these with minimal backlink effort on my part, which means I need that SEO boost.
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I’ve been thinking along the same lines re hubpages. I am only looking at making enough off them to start outsourcing some article writing, because unlike you, I am not a writing machine
Really looking forward to your new challenge. One thing I am interested in is your quote “properly done sniper sites can rank very high without too many backlinks”, I’d love to know what steps you take to make your sniper sites “properly done”. I have a couple of domains that I’m thinking of taking down the clickbank road, as I don’t think they would perform well with adsense, but I’m having a hard time finding decent (ala you and Griz and Court) info on setting up a clickbank site.
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:45 am
@Josh B
The key is to find terms between 3k-15k without much in the way of competition. If you are following court’s method, you could apply the same principal. But, I’m going for even less competition than that. I ideally only want PR 2 and below. With a sniper site + exact domain + a few backlinks, it’s possible to get on the first page the next day. After that, it’s the BMD + UAW + ezine + infobarrels that push it to the front. I have a friend who is making 2k a month, in a month, based off this — I’m taking his idea and running with it.
Adsense is pure shit for some domains. I have one domain right now that is getting about 150 people a day and like .50 from adsense. On the other hand, I have some hubs that get 6 people a day and make 5 bucks. It’s all about the niche. Niches that suck for adsense may be killer for affiliate sales.
I’m going to state right now I am definetly not a master affiliate expert here. I think I’m pretty good with adsense now — I’m sure if I was to take some of my hubs (a future plan) and create niche blogs on them, I could make a lot of money with 6 month’s of SEO. I do ok with amazon review types — I have a flagship that promotes these.
I’ll document the process of clickbank snipers sites once I start seeing some sucess. I expect I’m going to fumble around for a week first
Got my first sniper site up yesterday though! Only 99 more to go.
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I tried a kind of sniper site few months ago on blogger. I can reach 1st google page but never be able to pass the 5th spot. I created a post about that topic on my 1 year old self hosted blog, and after 1 month it rank higher then the blogger one, with less backlinks. So yes, in my experience it is easier to rank a self hosted blog then blogger.
Good luck with your new experience, Ben. Affiliate marketing is still a monster for me.
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:46 am
@bodezy — thanks! Yes, blogger.com blogs really don’t rank very well right now. I think google has applied some sort of penalty. I think more then anything else, age is key for blogger blogs now. You can still rank high, but you are going to have to add some months for aging first.
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I haven’t used BMD yet, but how will you use it? Will you submit to only scuttle sites or to the other main sites like diggs?
For UAW, will you link to only one page or to 2 or 3 pages in the resource box?
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:47 am
@shinaka
I will be submitting to digg, reddit, and stumble upon (free backlinks). BMD will be used with social bookmarking sites.
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Out of interest, why did you choose Clickbank instead of an affiliate like Commission Junction or LinkShare? Clickbank products look really poor, whereas the other two have mainstream brands on their books.
I have read that Clickbank offer greater commission than other affiliate sites, but is this outweighed by the types of products they have? I’ll be waiting the outcome of your experiment with interest!
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:50 am
@Silver Rose
I could use Commision Junction — it’s less sketcy. But comission payout is less. For some niches, CJ is pretty good. As is amazon. For the niches I’m going into, CB fits pretty good. I mean, who else will offer great sales pitches for pennis enlartment pills?
Clickbank also has that whole gravity index thing — so you can be sure if a product has a good chance to sell, as long as you send more targetted traffic. If I get some sucess with 100 of these sites, I’ll create another 100 or so. Then i’ll try my hand at CJ.
The thing with CB affiliate sales — your commision will be like 20-50 bucks a sale. Amazon, for example, gives you like 25 bucks MAX. Most comissions will be like 3 bucks per sale, and max of 25 bucks if you sell something EXPENSIVE.
So, CB = better money.
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Yes diversification is key- and I know there is the chance of the big G slap of HP. But there is a small point that a lot of people have overlooked. Whatever term you search for - Google will NEVER show more than 2 results from the same domain - so there maybe 999 perfectly SEO”ed hubs on “fast weight loss” - but only only 2 of those MAX are EVER going to show on the SERPS - just a thought …
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July 7th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@lissie
Yea, I agree, diversification is really key to keeping your meal ticket with MMO stuff. I really hope that hubpages doesn’t get a slap, but when a million internet marketers start dominating the serps for terms with hubs, you know something is going to happen…
Yes, you don’t see too many of the same domains in the SERP’s — another reason why you should always self host. I know Grizzly has his whole free-blog take over the world mentality, but I think the game is changing there.
Right now, I am getting most of my hub traffic for longtails. I’m pretty sure the majority of my hubs don’t rank for the keywords. At this point, my focus is not so much on ranking for a keyword, but popping my infobarrels and hubs so full of related keywords and longtails that I can drive lots of tickle traffic. I’ve found that I can get a 10% CTR rate for all the highly targetted traffic this brings. SO, I don’t think not being on the front page really effects my earnings at this point, because I’m not.
That being said, I am starting to work the backlinks so I can get more traffic. If all my hubs were the front page for my keywords, I’d be retiring right now
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Hey Ben! Been following you for ages now, but have never posted
It’s kinda unusual I guess that I’m a mid aged teenager who’s been dabbling around in this MMO business since February. Now that school is finishing next week (we break up real late in UK :D), I wanna get HARDCORE in this business and have some short questions which I hope you could answer.
1. I’m a little scared that you say don’t go for hubs as main source of income, as even though I have one niche blog which I know a hell of a lot of info about, it is a crap KW. I was planning to create 10 hubs a day for the next 6-7 weeks until I have school again as this seems the best way for me to make some hard earned dosh. Should I not do that now, as I don’t really have the money to invest in domains as I won’t really be able to keep up the work when school starts again, there seriously isn’t time
2. When you’re looking for phrases to rank for on Hubpages, do you really care about where you rank for on Google for it - as you’ve previously mentioned about “stuffing” posts with other longtails, and this has got me confused.
I was gonna ask you a load of other stuff, but I’ve forgot
So I’ll be incredibly grateful if you could help us out here!
Peace out, Crashin
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July 7th, 2009 at 9:04 am
@Crashin
Good to see you starting out early. I’m 27 now and If I was your age doing this stuff, I’d be so rich right now
No, I’m NOT telling people not make 100 or 200 hubs. But don’t make the mistake of thinking of your hub income as permement — I have a feeling it’s not going to be so. those 100-200 sites can be used as a strong link source — so it’s worth it. But I suggest, pick out topics for your hubs that you have some chance of ranking for with a niche blog. This way, you can use the hubs as link support.
My concern is that most people seem to be “banking” on a perm income once they get enough hubs. While you may be able to work your way up to someting close, in time, I think it’s better to just make hubs to find niches to make money sites in. Use the hubs to get your money sites going. But don’t focus on hubs as yoru primary income source. I’d say spend 50% of your time working on other things at the same time.
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Wow! Thanks for replying so soon! Since I still have school till end of next week, I may just go looking out for niches that I could rank for easily. But I’m still a little unsure in this area. You’re saying I should create niches that do well from my hubs. But as you said in the past that we should only use keywords that have less than 1000 searches a month, is it still worth it?
When you go searching for keywords for the hubs, is it PR2- you search for on the first page, or do you not really care?
I remember what else I was going to ask! Should I bother adding backlinks to all my hubs once I get it going, or just add backlinks to those that are doing well. Again, it’s annoying that I don’t have the money to use AMA or UAW, but as the good ol’ French say, C’est la vie ;).
Sorry if this is bothering you, I really appreciate all the advice you say, and really, I should be getting on with this and testing it, but I still have one more Exam left
And even my super important exams don’t come up until 2 years time!
Cheers!
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July 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am
@Crashing
Yes, I said go after low to no competition niches with your hubs…if you are trying to only make money from hubs. But if you want to use your hubs as feelers for niches you should be choosing sites that you can dominate with a niche blog. I look at the number of backlinks present and PR. Court over at http://www.thekeywordacademy.com has a course that trains you to pick out the best keywords. Or you can read my make money online post (first one), or you can look at Grizzly’s many blogs.
Cheers
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I really appreciate you posting your case studies. Unfortunately, I’m just like the people you describe who don’t make money online. I’ve really been working on this though and I’ve been much better about this the past few months. For what it’s worth my goal is to have 150 hubs online by the end of July. Right now I have 15.
What irks be though is that some are almost a week old but haven’t received any google traffic. If you don’t mind I have some questions:
1)How do you select niches? I can write about anything using your format but coming up with non-competitive niches is what is giving me the most grief. Are many of your niches highly related? Acne treatments in Maine, Acne Treatments in Montana, etc?
I’ve reread all your posts on this subject. If I understand things correctly you suggest going for “long tail” with 3-5 words that have 300-500 searches per month. Let me know if that is right.
2) Would you highly suggest making an ezine article for every hub? Like I said I haven’t received any google traffic yet.
3)Just curious - what’s your typing speed?
Thanks!
Alex
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July 7th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Alex, it’s probably too early for you to be looking for google traffic. You need to give your hubs a couple weeks to settle. Most of my hubs get between 3-8 people a day. Some get much more, some get 1. Some get 1 person every couple days. It all depends.
However, it’s pretty key that you build backlinks to your hubs — this may be why you are not getting any traffic.
I try to make 10 hubs in a niche then move on to another. When I first started, I would make like 50-70 hubs in a niche — a big mistake. I ended up wasting time on niches that didn’t produce much. Go with 10 in different niches then track what happens over a month.
Yes, i tend to go for 300-500 exact searchs a month. However, I’ll go for high searched niches as well, if the competition is less. More searches is ALWAYS better — the hard part is finding terms with little compeition. This is where that whole backlink thing comes into play. If you find a niche with 2k searches but there is some low compeition that a few links will help you get high on the front page, well go for it. The 300-800 is just a rule of thumb — it’s not a “rule.”
You should have an ezine link for every article.
Typing speed is probaly 75 or 80 wpm, but accuracy is beyond shit.
You are over analyzing things. You CANNOT track anything with only 15 hubs and you certainly won’t make any money. Get 100 hubs out, THEN pick a course from there. I see too many people with 5-20 hubs saying nothing is happening, either money wise or traffic wise. If you have less than 30 hubs, it’s hard to really tell anything. With 100 or so hubs, you can really start to see trends emerge in traffic and clicks.
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I wouldn’t even bother with BMD anymore. It went from 90 sites to 50, Only registers at 25, and only posts at 14.
Real crap now.
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July 7th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
@joshua
I think there is a custom list of scuttle sites you can get though. I’ll be checking up on this.
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there is, but they are junk. (meaning scuttle sites are junk)
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How is your Infobarrel project going?
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Ben, I remember you said that it will take about 100 hubs to start seeing coin. How about in terms of visitors per day? Right now I have about 50-60 visitors per day (92% from search engines) according to analytics from my hubs. How many visitors per day does it take to start seeing consistent money (assuming you picked the right niches)?
Right now I’m getting days when I get $0 in adsense and days when I get $5 or $2. But then again, only recently has my traffic started to get into the 60 visitors per day range.
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July 7th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
With about 100 or so hubs, I had about 80 - 120 visitors. My CTR is roughly 8-10%.
I can bank on about 10 bucks a day per 100 hubs — even more. But the 7-10 range is a good ballpark figure to use. You can also have large variations. I do find the number of clicks remains pretty constant (though in an upward trend), but the CPC can vary quite a bit from day to day. If the CPC is crap one day, my earnings go way down, if it’s good, it goes way up.
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Ben,
I have a follow up to Nick’s question . When you said you can bank on 10 bucks a day per 100 hubs is that for experimenting with niches or do you mean after you find some good niches. Do you ever put in a text link back to a blog you have just for link juice or keep them simply as adsense income? Look forward to reading more on the sniper study.
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July 8th, 2009 at 9:31 am
well, I have not been linking out my hubs to niche blogs yet. However, I have quite a bit of linking power that I can use when I need it — it’s just a matter of doing so. If you have hubs compatible with your niche blogs, by all means, use them for link juice.
100 hubs for 10 bucks means just picking out topics that you think will make money. That’s picking out good topics — if you don’t pick out good topics, you won’t make money (see my point one blog post about the guy who made 1000 hubs and still makes peanuts).
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Ben,
What theme are you using on this site?
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Why not use other ppc programs like bidvertiser? I know its not as good but a close 2nd.
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July 10th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
@jay, clickbank is well established affiliate program for making money. The products are shitty and don’t do shit, but you keep like 60-70% of the sale. In comparision, I hawk amazon products on some niches, I make them hundreds of dollars a day, but I only see about 7-10 bucks with this. I’d rather bank on getting 1 sale every week for 40 bucks with clickbank. If you really set yourself up, you could be making a full time wage, just with one sniper site — this is hard to do with adsense.
PPC — I have not done this (if we are talking about buying google ads). But the whole process is pretty similar to what I’m doing now, except that you pay for the traffic. It’s the same ending though, you need to sell a product. I’ll play around with PPC in the future.
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Ben, Looking forward to more posts as you have a very down to earth and inspiring way of capturing your thoughts. Just curious, is there a way to contact you via email? (or you may contact me through mine) Best Regards
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July 13th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@The Monetizer
Hey! Sure thing, feel free to contact me via email: makemoneyonlinewithseo[AT]gmail.[COM]! Glad you like the blog and thank’s for stopping by
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Re: Sniper/Niche Sites
Will you use… or have you used… “Firepow 2.0″ ?
(I was considering starting out my sniper/niche sites project with it.)
Thank You Ben.
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I like your thought processes….
Too many people try to make it with 15 or so sites. and the key is to do at leat 100 of anything to see where you are at…and with that much out there, the only question that remains is how much money you can make…not if you can make money.
Quick question…
ARe you going to do review style sites and offer a bonus if they buy through your link, or are you going to do an informational site with the affilate banner in place of the adsense block?
Matt
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July 20th, 2009 at 9:39 am
@matt
Yes matt, it’s all about volume here. Most new Im’ers are too shortsighted. They think in terms of dozens of sites, not hundreds of sites. Sure, if you want to put serious backlink work into a couple dozens sites, I’m sure you can make some money in 6 months, a year, or whenever — if you do your keyword research and you put in the word to SEO those sites near the top, you will make coin.
But you can achieve much faster results by pumping out quantity. If you spend 6 months working on 20 sites, I’m going to have 400 sites in that time. Each of my 400 sites might not be making as much as one of your 20 sites, but i’ll be making it up for sheer volume. If only half of those sites land .50 or 1 buck a day, that’s a full time income.
I see people complain all the time that there is no money with IM. These people always have less than a couple dozen sites. I’ve never heard someone with 100-200-300 sites complaining that they are not making money. They are too busying making money to talk about it.
Regarding what type of sites I’ll be doing? It will depend on the type of platform. Snipers sites, I’m using a sort of review platform — but a special one to try and convince people to buy complete bullshit. For amazon, i’d use a reiew structure — it’s the only way that converts well for amazon I feel. For ebay, I’d set up a shop targetting buying keywords. For adsense, I’d set up my own adense snipers — a technique that I’m in the process of developing and testing. I need about 100 or so to see how effective my method will be with these adsense snipers.
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Hey Ben,
Just a quick question about your hubs—how many backlinks do you typically build for your new hubs? Do you do the 3 TKA + 1 ezine article, or less?
How’s the clickbank project going?
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Thanks Ben,
Agree completely.
I think Im in love with your site…
BTW-im poiboy over at KWA.
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