Cheers. Everybody keeping busy? Websites getting slung on the web? Are you hard at work getting traffic to come visit your place? Link here. Article there. Adsense got you down? Affiliate sales got you up?

I’ve been moderately busy trying to make money online. May was the best month I’ve had with Shareasale. It was the worst month I’ve had with Commission Junction. It was an average month with Adsense. Various affiliate sales from other ventures keep coming in. Nothing fantastic. Nothing to be sad about.

Wordpress.com is the single best thing that I’ve done in the last month. I blog. Google indexes. I have five blogs that look similar to the graph below (click to zoom in). The traffic keeps growing. I think 100-200 visitors a day is pretty righteous in just a month.

And you won’t believe the keyword list I am building. From these 5 blogs I have ideas for another dozen blogs just on popular keyword phrases that people use to get to my site. Keyword phrases that I never thought of. That you probably won’t find in Keyword Elite or Wordtracker. That have virtually no competition except myself. And the nice thing about these blogs: They aren’t niche. They are general topics. Can’t make any money off them but they are valuable right now for getting links to other sites.

The other sites being Blogger blogs with Ebay widgets. The whole site looks like a BANS/StoreStacker store, but much nicer. After adjusting it based on what Frank at Optempo was teaching the Google bots see nothing but an article site. Lots of beautiful SEO content. The visitor sees a store with a sidebar consisting of articles. I just need a click to get the cookie embedded. I built these sites with either Ebay widgets, Shareasale “Make a Page” or CJ Smartlinks. No Adsense. I’m excited about these sites.

I spent a few days converting a batch of Wordpress self-hosted blogs to XSP sites. I made them as plain as possible with only Adsense polluting them. There is only one way to click and that is to Adsense. Well, that’s not entirely true as three have StoreStacker stores attached to them.

I have a few Wordpress blogs that I am actively blogging. I have five sources that I get content for these efforts. 1) I write a post. 2) PLR. 3) Orwell Pro. 4) Utility Poster. 5) Link Luv Builder. I may use one or more to build a “unique” post. I will probably adjust these to be simply Adsense blogs. I may utilize Frank’s boring memo Wordpress theme.

Promotion has taken a whole new dimension for me. I spent about a week, an hour here and there, determining what keywords to use for anchor links for ALL my sites. I have all my work in a spreadsheet now. All sites become part of numerous BMD runs from work and two IPs from home (I use my neighbor’s unsecured wireless). I have no idea if that is worth a shit or not. But at least they aren’t BANS sites. I use the Wordpress blogs. I use G-Lock Blog Finder to drop comments. If they are blogs I add them to the numerous blog directories. I do the reciprocal linking (Why not? The hell is so wrong about sharing? And don’t even get me started on the “NoFollow” tag). I use the Info VileSilencer SEO Friendly Free Directory listings to post my site links. Yep it’s manual but the Callen Directory Submitter is pretty much crap. I tried using Callen’s Article Submitter again and it too is crapola. I submit articles to a few of the big article directories and let that be that.

To sum: I am using Wordpress.com blogs. I am using widgets to display affiliate products on Blogger blogs. I am building ugly and simple XSP sites. I am blogging using content builders. I am promoting these sites with comments, directory submissions, linking and BMD runs.

Back to work.