Quick update
I decided to change the layout of my websites, and suddenly saw a big change in the adsense click through rate and had my first 2 amazon affiliate sales. I am extremely happy and as we are talking, I am looking in refining my SEO techniques and am already looking for a new niche.
April 26th update
Lots have happened since my last update April 12th.
First, I went ahead and decided to make the next big move... Investing in real estate :D Okay I did have a little bit of help with that one. My father, who has a lot of experience in real estate, talked me into investing into that nice small apartment building. With the low mortgage interest rates, I had the perfect combination, so I decided to just do it.
The apartment building consists of three main units and also has a bachelor in the basement, that can also be rented out.
The reason I decided to invest in the triplex is that, other than the down payment, there isn't any real cost associated with the building. The renting out of the three units+bachelor covers the mortgage and will even give me a bit of surplus by the end of the year. This way, I feel my money was put in a very safe investment, that will give me a big return on the long run.
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Second, my websites. I learned a lot throughout those two weeks as well in terms of websites, niche, adsense and affiliate sales.
My niches were: Niche 1 (ct), Niche 2 (ca), Niche 3(h), Niche 4(o)
My goals were:
* have Niche 1 on the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords
--> Niche 1(ct) is on the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords, after a lot (and a lot and a lot) of SEOing... HOWEVER, I realized that Niche 1(ct) wasn't gonna make any money. I realized that this first niche was chosen poorly, and although it has the potential of attracting people, it doesn't have quite the potential to making any money, as the click-through-rate is extremely low (below 1%). So I decided to let that website dies on its on, which I found a little bit frustrating since, as my first website, I had put so much dedication and effort into it. I least, I can learn from my mistakes.
* have Niche 2(ca) on the first 3 pages of Google for the chosen set of keywords
-->Niche 2(ca) is also doing well. It is now on the 2nd page of Google for my chosen set of keywords. Niche 2(ca) has pleasantly surprised me, as it is generating the most money and growing in the most steady way. The click through rate is fairly high, being between 5% to 20%. I can't wait to see Niche 2(ca) being on the first page of Google, now that I see its potential!
* have Niche 3(h) on the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords
--> Niche 3 is doing fairly well and is on the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords. It is on the fourth position of Google, although it seems to be stuck there. I have been doing a lot of SEO, and am hoping that it will catch up and climb up the page. Niche 3(h) is returning an okay click through rate, I am still positive of its potential of making money once its up the ladder.
* Start doing some SEO work for Niche 4
* Write some content for Niche 4
-->I neglected Niche 4(o). I did write a little bit of content and did a little bit of SEO work for it, but I certainly did not push it very hard. After being stuck on page 30, then 15 of Google for the longest time, it showed today on page 6 of Google, which I think isn't too bad, for a website that was neglected.
* be making about 5$/day
--> Unfortunately, I haven't reached my 5$/day goal yet. Nevertheless, I have been averaging 3.30$/day and have even had a 6$ and 8$ days in a row. My big mistake was too put so much effort in Niche1(ct) at the start, therefore neglecting the money-makers. But I am still learning, and hopefully I can catch up quickly.
* start a new blog with a new Niche with a good set of keywords
-->And I did! I started a completely new website, with a new niche (Niche 5(cr)) and a new set of keywords. This time, I decided to make things slightly different. I did not put any Adsense and decided instead to sign up for an Amazon affiliate sales. The set of keywords I chose had so few competition and so well targeted that after 3 days I setted up the website with the affiliate products from Amazon on it, it was on the first page of Google in 4th position! Although it is in 4th position, I haven't seen any sales yet. I'm hoping that as it goes up the page, I will start seeing some sales soon.
Some graphs
Niche 2 (ca) week by week: shows a steady increase over the weeks (the average of visits per day over last week is 40).
Niche 3(h) day by day:shows a steady increase over the days (the average of visits per day over last week is 25)
Niche 4(o) day by day:is taking some time to pick up, because I neglected it (the average of visits per day is lower than 10)
1st month of income
After researching a little bit, I concluded that I needed to find a niche easier to break in. So I found two more set of keywords for 2 different niches.
And this is how I created two more blogs.
So to this day I have 4 blogs, in different niches.
Niche 1: Has high pay per click, but low click rate. Keyword difficult to break in.
Niche 2: Has low pay per click, but extremely high click rate by the end of the week. Keyword medium to break in.
Niche 3: Pay per click unknown. Keyword easy to break in.
Niche 4:Pay per click unknown. Keyword easy to break in.
So far, after about 3 weeks of adsense, I have made 18$.
My goals by april 26th:
- have Niche 3 in the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords
- have Niche 1 in the first page of Google for the chosen set of keywords
- have Niche 2 in the first 3 pages of Google for the chosen set of keywords
- Start doing some SEO work for Niche 4
- Write some content for Niche 4
- be making about 5$/day
- start a new blog with a new Niche with a good set of keywords
I started
I started ! I started to create residual income with a money blog earlier in February. A lot has happen since early February. I now own 4 blogs.
So I went through Steve Crook's blog (the 100buckschallenge.com) and read about how he does it.
Then I looked for a good niche using the Google Adword tool. The set of keywords I choose had to fit those criteria in Google Adword tool: above 3000 searches per month, an average CPC higher than 8$ not too much competition.
Then I verified that the set of keywords of interest was available in .com, which it was :) I signed up for an account on a host server, registered the domain et voilà.
Okay that was only the first step. Then I had to start added content to my site. I wrote about 40 articles in about 1 month and started promoting my website doing SEO.
SEO :
- started social marking my website and each post (and making sure I was also social marking other articles and sites so I would not get ban from the social marking sites for spamming)
- started registering for blogs and adding my links in my signature
- started commenting on blogs and online journals, with a backlink within my signature
- I also started using "Angela's packages", which happen to be the best thing on earth in terms of SEO, for a few bucks a month
- I sent a few articles to Ezines with a backlink to my website
- I created a squidoo lense, with a backlink to my website
- I added XML sitemap to my blog
During the process, I got to read a lot about other people achievement, and their way of doing stuff. That's when I learned about long-tail keyword. I read about that guy who found a long-tail keyword, with very very low competition and a lot of searches. Apparently that long-tail keyword worked out so well for him that he is set for life. That's when I decided to look for more a long-tail keyword. That long-tail keyword had to have a lot of searches, good CPC, and be available in .com. After I found it, I registered the domain and started writing articles right away and had about 20 articles after 2 weeks.
After over 2 months of intense SEO works, my two blogs are starting to show up... slowly...