What’s up? Just hanging. Built three new Hubpages so far this week. How exciting. I’m slowly plodding along building a half dozen or so Hubpages a week. On topics that are fun and easy to do. They’ve been ranking well as I’m using Nichebot to help me find low competition keyword phrases which unfortunately don’t pay shit with Adsense. But they are getting some nice traffic which I’m funneling out to Ebay anyway. The anti-KWA-Hubpage challenge. See how many Hubpages I can build before getting Adsense coin.
What’s that? Ebay? Yea, I built a new mini site template with XSP that I’m using in conjunction with Ebay over the weekend. This was due to Ebay deciding it was too good for Blogger blogs. I started out thinking that I would modify a Wordpress blog into something like I was using on Blogger but realized changing the style sheets was a bore and pain. Plus dealing with hosts and databases is a drag. I built a nice mini site template with my beloved XSP and then have been building little 5 page sites hanging in a domain folder waiting for bored people to come click on my Ebay crap. My first site made $1.39 the next day. Word from the Demons is I need to replicate this 1,000 times.
Here’s the thing: These sites are landing pages that are not governed by how Google sees them. I could give a shit if Google ever even indexes them though two already got the call up to the big leagues. There are other sites that get the traffic from G/Y/B and other search engines. Those are fun funnels that send people over to click the mini sites when they are bored.
I’ve been experimenting with traffic ever since some of my free blogs started getting 500 visitors a day. I was a little slow to get it but now that they are bringing in anywhere from 500-5000+ visitors a day, depending on which blog, I figure I needed to do something with all the traffic. It’s not all milk and honey as not every person clicks to a link I offer. But some do. And some even go on a further dive and buy something. Though you can’t just plaster free blogs with links. You gotta do it slowly and deliberately. Maybe every other day offer a link to click on a single blog. But everyday have a least one blog in your corral offer a link. Dig?
This scam doesn’t involve Adsense (yet?). I leave that to those stupid article niche sites we love to waste our time with. I rebuilt a Wordpress blog back into an XSP site recently. Wrote up 30 articles. Built it like the others which prominently display an Adsense blog above the fold right in the damn middle of each page. So far it remains to be crap despite writing KWA blog snippets and AMA articles. I mistreated that site in the past so it may take an extra week or so to shake all the dust off it. I’ll continue getting the backlinks with those excellent tools. I await Google’s blessing.
Conversely I went the other way and took down a XSP site and converted it to a fancy magazine style blog. With cool photos and interesting articles. Information galore. Ads and Adsense. Yee-effing-HA! That mother is going back to straight up HTML as soon as I get time. Screw. Self hosted. Wordpress.
I realize that Wordpress is the be all end all. There isn’t a freaking IMer out there that says not to blog your niche. Put your articles in a blog and get rich! I don’t get rich with niche article blogs. I’m zigging while the others are zagging. Plus if I feel like “blogging” I can just schedule entries into XSP and let them rip. But why bother? I’ve mentioned before I have static sites that have been the same for basically years now that barely bob in the SERPS. I don’t want to blog all these stupid niche sites.
I have enough to blog with the free hosted blogs. Those I gotta keep conscious. They float around the social media searches only with updates. Of course they are all heavily embedded in Google for literally thousands of keywords but they have to be kept alive. They must be kept alive.
I will be experimenting with mini sites and Adsense soon. Obviously the easiest way to make money is with the pay-per-click text link. I just have to be careful. I guess. Right? Those mini sites are decent. Believe. They have 400 words or so of text, some ads, some photos. Nice linking structure. Privacy and Contact pages. They are just small little landing pages. Mini sites. How cute. But aren’t we supposed to be afraid to put Adsense on anything other than authority sites? Google makes me scared but I intend on slaying the beast with some old school mini site Adsense landing sites. Scary indeed.
Yea, this stuff could be cleaned up and made into something real I guess. I suppose that I could watch the traffic to the mini sites and when they start performing and getting organic traffic from Google I could make an authority site out of the keywords on another domain and write more articles and get links to that site and on and on until I simply stick my head under a train.
16 responses so far ↓
Planet Half Price // Aug 19, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Nice…adsense is by far the ultimate instant gratification. It is nice to get an odd affiliate sales or two but even nicer to see a consistent daily $1 or more a Click on your adsense.
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bk // Aug 19, 2009 at 1:14 pm
3000 sites x 30$ = $90,000 a month
good luck bro^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Splork // Aug 19, 2009 at 2:35 pm
1 site * $1,000,000 = $1,000,000
whatever. math is fun. the reality bites.
Splork // Aug 19, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Of course now that I’ve been working to take advantage of Ebay cookies and clicks they decide to change the CPC thing or whatever that shit is with Quality Click Pricing, which no doubt will have a huge effect on how much I can make in the future. Already I can see my CPC is low as shit. sigh. I am not naive enough to think those sites have that much quality. Always one step forward 17 back. Guess I’ll have to rethink the mini sites with Adsense and other fabulous affiliate programs.
I shit you not. They sent out an email detailing it today. To-freakin-day.
Lorecee // Aug 19, 2009 at 8:16 pm
You’re clairvoyant. It’s the only explanation.
Of course you know what happened in the olden days when the prophet brought bad news.
joe // Aug 19, 2009 at 10:39 pm
“This was due to Ebay deciding it was too good for Blogger blogs.”
I must have missed something. Does this mean no more ebay affiliate links at all from blogger blogs? I’m trying to keep up with them but it’s hard. Thanks.
joe // Aug 20, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hmm, was this it buried in the July 17th 2009 update? They don’t even include Blogger in their “etc” list.
“Publishers may only place links and/or promotional content on sites they own. Affiliate links on third party sites such as Craigslist, MySpace, etc. are not allowed.”
Splork // Aug 20, 2009 at 7:23 am
Yea. Unless you own the site they don’t want you to advertise them.
And the new program, I have to laugh, really makes it difficult to make money unless you have converting buyers. At least that is how it looks from the dashboard for me the last few days. And I’m not certain, but it doesn’t look like the method of cookie slinging is going to do that much for you. The links and buyers have to be quality. Apparently.
Brawnydt // Aug 20, 2009 at 8:35 am
Content rich Niche product site+phpbay=money
While waiting for the rankings to rise, send out 1 or 2 youtube videos and get loads of immediate traffic that way.
Done.
Splork // Aug 20, 2009 at 10:45 am
Thanks Brawnydt. That’s pretty much what I’m doing except without the video. I’m going to utilize more CJ and Shareasale offers I think instead of Ebay. Cookie stick longer in many cases and there are no quality click hassles like there are with Ebay.
joe // Aug 20, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Ok, thanks. I’ve also just read their newest update and I think I’ve cracked their high cost per click quality system.
They want their affiliates to find old, rich, ultra-expensive-antique-shopaholic-collectors who have somehow never heard of the internet or ebay. They want us to tell her hey, read my website, click once through to ebay, and be a life-time buyer from ebay from then on. That should get you a pretty high CPC.
Now find 100,000 such collectors and really rake in the money. (just having fun, I have no idea what will really happen)
Denise // Aug 21, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Hey Splork!
EBay is really beginning to suck! They are constantly changing their rules.
I just get one site making a little coin and BAM! (rule change)
I have limited time and I do not want to have to go back and re-edit everything every couple of weeks.
They are worse to deal with than Google.
Splork // Aug 21, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Hey Denise. Yea, ironic that I write a post talking about Ebay and the next day the program implements a program that is going to screw my plans. I’ve since gone back to building Hubpages. And readjusting a select batch of Ebay sites with Amazon and other affiliate programs. Bob and weave. I’d suggest holding out and seeing how it works out. You may not see a difference.
Frank Carr // Aug 22, 2009 at 9:34 am
That’s the way eBay is for sellers too Denise, make a little money and BAM! Rule Change!!! That’s why I stopped selling there in 2005.
And Joe, I converted a lot of my old EPN Blogger blogs over to Chitika. It’s been OK so far, not as good as EPN with ACRUs but about the same in terms of raw earning per click.
Terry Didcott // Aug 22, 2009 at 11:49 am
How you doin, Splork?
I’m bored so I thought I’d go read some blogs. Now I know I’m bored cause I’m writing comments.
I know what you mean about writing hub pages full of crap that I don’t care about and probably neither does anyone else. But have faith. They do start making some decent dosh once you get close to 200 of the damn things.
Just thought I’d make you feel better…
Splork // Aug 22, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Chitika, dude, maybe I need to dust that account off. Thanks for the idea.
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