3 Weeks old Blog/$70 daily - ranks 1st of 11 million Google Search Results

[Prisoner]

great story

[FredJones]

Great job. Congratulations. I have pressed the thanks button.

Now, you have set a great standard and roadmap there. It is up to anyone who wants success to go and take the road you so celarly illustrated.

Over the last 4 weeks, did yuo see any change (growth / decline) in your revenue? And have you been active on it? This would be great to know.

EDIT: Adding a question here, did you buy a domain and use it, or did you use some other way to blog? For example, blooger.com or so, and if so then which one did you use (if you can disclose it)?

[VipulShah]

Congratulations and thanks a lot for your post! I can't tell you how how exciting it is to see realistic results like this on top of an explanation of how it's done. It sure is inspiring and helps put the pieces of the marketing puzzle together.

A $70 a day marketing system like this can easily be ramped up, say 10 x the amount! Once you've established one, you can create many similar systems in a breeze!

[Shellaine]

Great thread Ivanho....

Thanks for the great information especially for the detail steps you have taken..

Shellaine

[searchguru]

That is amazing Ivancho -thanks for sharing!

[xeeds]

Great Site, got it up with no problems! I would like to know how to add categories on the page so that they show at the bottom.

Thanks
Ed

[basmin]

I glad to see someone successful, and this can stimulate the desire to try luck as you get.
thanks for sharing the great info
good luck and keep up the great work

[bryansarnold]

This is one of the best discussions...I have nothing really to add.
Just curious what your cost was for your project Ivancho in its entirety?

[Angela V. Edwards]

I'd be interested in hearing that too, Bryan. I suspect, however....based on what he said, that Ivancho didn't spend much; it sounds more like this is a result of a bit of hard work at first which paid off quite well.

[moneycometh]

Originally Posted by Mark Kaye

This is a good solid plan and a post with great info. Thank you.

Also, to anyone who reads it, you'll notice the key to success was with consistent, daily action. Not a lot, mind you, but a little everyday. Having a plan and sticking to it is the key to success.

Yes planning along with being consistent on a daily basis is the absolute best!

--Jackie

[Ivancho]

oh guys, I didn't know this thread was alive . I will try to answer most of your asked questions.

BTW: The blog was sold on 6th of May ( My sister birthday ) Now I am in process of putting up other blog and will update all of you when it's done. ( I don't promise to show you the niche.) and some of you will ask me the following - You have already sold the blog so please let me know what was the URL or at least the niche - NO I will keep it as I have agreement with the buyer to not relevant the URL anywhere.

[kennyk3]

Originally Posted by James Schramko

Sure,

For niche blogs you can add Create text-to-speech podcast from RSS feed with Odiogo for iPod, MP3 player and mobile phone which will automatically convert your posts into voice. Another option is read articles yourself into audacity and then broadcast the recording to your blog using podpress.

Once you have MP3 you can submit your MP3 o podcasting syndication places and you will get more traffic from people who want to broadcast your channel.

For Video, make a video about the product (you can screen cast the sales letter, turn the articles into powerpoint or make a slideshow with music). Once the video is made load it to multiple sites using heyspread, tubemogul, video post robot, senuke or traffic geyser.

Use the Google Video one in your post (because it has no ad) and then have the blog URL in all the other videos. The video sharing sites will allow other people to embed your watermarlked videos on other niche sites.

(I also take the RSS feeds and submit them to RSS feed Directory - Feedage.com).

Next add a lightbox script to your blog from Aweber that darkens the page out when someone visits. Make sur3e to offer an incentive for people to get your 'free report' or whatever.

I have been doing this on niche blogs and also my own Internet Marketing Blog.

The alexa graphs go nuts and you will avoid suffering TommyGadgets rank drop if you syndicate wide and often.

Plus you are reaching people on multiple media levels.

Very awesome strategy. Thanks for elaborating.

[Ivancho]

Originally Posted by damenchoy

Ivancho,

As discussed in my PM to you, can you elaborate more on your effort:

1) If you submit your site to 30 to 40 directories each day, how much time you have spent on that per day?

2) If you also submit your articles to article directories at the same period of time, what is the additional time you have spent on article submission per day?

3) Adding these two up, can you give us an estimation on total time needed for these two tasks?

The reason I am asking this is because you told me that you do the above two jobs by yourself. So I am a bit curious the time you have spent on these two tasks on each day. This gives me (and hence others) a better idea the amount of time needed to get something done similar to your tactics for a brand new site.

Hope you can advise! Thanks

Damen

Hi Damen

1) An hour I would say - I can do it in 30 minutes but I check everything before I submit to any directory.

BTW: Sometimes I do it in 30 minutes but most of my submissions get rejected by directories...

2) An hour again...

3) Well let's say 2 hours ? per day even less...

Originally Posted by mprey

Just curious - how are you monetizing your site? Adsense? Affiliates? Both? I'm just starting out as well and a bit unsure of how to do this effectively. To me it seems like pulling in traffic is actually the easiest part...

Both - Adsense and Affiliates ...

Originally Posted by FredJones

Great job. Congratulations. I have pressed the thanks button.

Now, you have set a great standard and roadmap there. It is up to anyone who wants success to go and take the road you so celarly illustrated.

Over the last 4 weeks, did yuo see any change (growth / decline) in your revenue? And have you been active on it? This would be great to know.

EDIT: Adding a question here, did you buy a domain and use it, or did you use some other way to blog? For example, blooger.com or so, and if so then which one did you use (if you can disclose it)?

Thanks Fred

Well I would't answer this question as I mention in the above post that this blog have already been sold.

As for the domain - Yes I buy a domain and host the blog on my own hosting. I like to have control over everything of my site...

Originally Posted by bryansarnold

This is one of the best discussions...I have nothing really to add.
Just curious what your cost was for your project Ivancho in its entirety?

Around $400+

Originally Posted by Angela V. Edwards

I'd be interested in hearing that too, Bryan. I suspect, however....based on what he said, that Ivancho didn't spend much; it sounds more like this is a result of a bit of hard work at first which paid off quite well.

Angela - Hard work always pays off ...

[Hyaku_Man]

Great stuff, Ivancho. A couple of questions:

1) Are those 500 directories all listed on one page somewhere, or did you have to search for a lot of them separately?

2) When you are outsourcing the articles, how much information do you give the writer? Do you just provide the longtail keyword and let him do the research for the content himself?

[Sell]

Articles are a good way to promote things. And like you said if you can't or don't know how to write articles, find someone who does.

[Jenie0109]

compliment to you

[asher_gben]

wow, what is your niche?

[spiritual_business]

Hi Ivancho,

really a great and inspiring post.

One thing I'm not quite sure off. Do you post the same articles one different article site?
So is there no problem with duplicate content?

Thanks!

[ientrepreneur]

Ivancho, Thanks for posting your story here!

Can you tell me what are the article directories you used? I was submitting my articles to lot of directories but no one is really good! May be I'm missing something with my articles!

With your sig links and squidoo lenses did you linked back with your target keywords for SEO or they are just to bring traffic directly to your site?

Any advice would be appreciated!

[DrAl]

Ivancho,

Great job. congrats and thanks for posting how you accomplished it. Great motivation for all of us

[PeteHarrison]

Well done!

Keep up the good work

Pete

[Red_Virus]

that's really a nice strategy & the $15 articles really worked nicely I must say.

Keep up the good stuff and thanks for sharing.

[tommygadget]

Originally Posted by Ivancho

oh guys, I didn't know this thread was alive . I will try to answer most of your asked questions.

BTW: The blog was sold on 6th of May ( My sister birthday ) Now I am in process of putting up other blog and will update all of you when it's done. ( I don't promise to show you the niche.) and some of you will ask me the following - You have already sold the blog so please let me know what was the URL or at least the niche - NO I will keep it as I have agreement with the buyer to not relevant the URL anywhere.

Hey, I did not know this thread was alive either. Ivancho, how much did the blog sell for? Was it a private sale or auction? Either way, great work. Oh, and I am not going to ask about the niche or url

TomG.

[moonchild666]

Good Job mate, thanks for the information Cheers.

[INFOSEEKER-2009]

Great job ...

Thanks for the outline info Too ! ! !

Can't wait for my hardword to start paying off like that ... lol ..

Again, Great Job ! ! !

[Izesta]

Got quite a few great tips here. Thanks everyone.

[alfredjsmith]

Wow, fantastic post and great feedback from everyone- this is a great forum!

[indie08]

Wow, those are great results! Keep up the great work!

[capone2009]

Great post, thank you very much for this information!
How many articles did you publish on your blog?

[Ivancho]

Originally Posted by tommygadget

Hey, I did not know this thread was alive either. Ivancho, how much did the blog sell for? Was it a private sale or auction? Either way, great work. Oh, and I am not going to ask about the niche or url

TomG.

Blog has sold for nearlly $50k ... hehe, It was a private sale - comming from a well know UK based company.

I am happy now :P

P.S - Not really but I am happy - spent alot of them in my father offline business.

[indie08]

congrats Ivancho! I'm jealous!!

[indie08]

Now it's time to rinse and repeat...

[Ivancho]

Originally Posted by indie08

Now it's time to rinse and repeat...

That is what I am doing right now

[Veredfu]

Thank you very much for the wonderful information you shared with us, and thanks also to others who added even more.
Congratulations for your success,

[KelvinLoh]

thanks for the great info!

[ac3spad3s]

Those are some unheard of results. $50,000--not bad my friend. Now let's see if you can do this to all your blogs.

[bilt]

what i've heard about blogs everybody is saying its easy to make money but i dont think so i am not gonnna give this a try thats for sure i dont believe in blogs

[bilt]

all you need for you to be in 1st place on google is strong backlinks with pr 9 and thats it nothing else

[John Blaisdale]

Wow, thanks for the inspiration man. It just goes to show that if you put in the work (hard work) and follow a proven plan of action, you will definitely see the results you desire.

[ukbuddy2]

Hey
Could you do me a site
Be happy to buy it from you!! ??
danny

[folkcare]

Well done, good lessons here. Just stick with one website and put your whole effort into it. Wish I knew the niche though. Any guesses?

[Ivancho]

Originally Posted by dannyb1974

Hey
Could you do me a site
Be happy to buy it from you!! ??
danny

What site exactly do you mean ?

[Mawardee(A)]

wow, that's nice experince and advice from you.
Really spesific.

Thanks a lot.
& congratulations!

[anwar001]

Do you think submitting your website to directories does help? I have a blog which is not getting much traffic even though it has a lot of articles on it and almost all of them are indexed in Google I guess. Do you think I can benefit by submitting the blog to directories (say about 100 or so high pagerank directories)?

[hostingbabble]

some great info here thanks for it

[anwar001]

Ivancho, I had PM'ed you but didn't get any reply. Waiting for your kind response.

[rimam1]

Nice, so how are you advertising your affiliate product on your site? Is it a banner ad or numerous text links back to your affiliate page?

Do you have an article submitting service that you use or did you do it manually?

Thank you for sharing.

[VideosYES]

Hi Ivancho,

Are you selling anything here? or I can simply read this thread completely to achieve close to your results?


Thanks!

[webmatic]

That is so great to hear about it. I think so you must be having a real good niche but well congratulations on your success.
I am doing some similar methods just as you are doing for usual blogs and it went to PR 0 to PR 3 within 2 weeks of update so i was really happy and working hard at it
Hope to get some good position soon and i will let you know about my real success as well.
Thanks
Webmatic

[YourVirtualAssistant]

Wow, thanks for the detailed information. And congrats for doing all you did! By any chance would you be willing to share your writer's name? I'm not looking to make money on a blog (yet) but do need someone to write articles for me and newsletters.