3-Month Race To $100/Day

[Ferenc Makar]

Keep on pushing, building links and adding quality content and the sites will re-cover.

[rinor81]

Originally Posted by Becker13

I use SEO. What I do not support is how most people approach SEO as an end all. SEO should be one of many tools a internet marketer uses.

For example, if many people took the time to find out the EPC of their normal SEO visitor and how to convert them, within a month they could blow up their income (with very little risk) simply by practicing smart paid traffic with that info.

Becker, how are you?

Did you get my PM? Would appreciate your help and advice.

Thanks man.

[Becker13]

oh hey rhinor, i replied. Id be glad to help

[Monthy]

Originally Posted by 4morereferrals

You have a rather odd forum sig considering the content of this post ...

I've left a visitor's message at your profile, couldn't send you a PM. Looking forward to your reply.

[Monthy]

Hello everybody,

I'm happy, because the penalty (my site probably got penalized, it was not plain Google Dance) has been lifted and my site got its rankings back (not as strong as it used to be, but I'm pretty certain I will be able to push upwards in the SERPs pretty quickly now).

The penalty lasted 34 days.

This probably wouldn't have happened, if Barry hadn't advised me what to improve, OPSEO-wise.

Here's what I did:

1) I removed a bad link from my theme's footer, which led to a site selling fake pharmaceuticals. The footer was coded, but I was able to decode it and remove the link.

2) I restructuralized my site. It is a WP blog, but now, the home page only shows a static page instead of excerpts of posts.

3) I made the home page of my site affiliate-link-free - prior to the changes I made, the home page had had as much as 20 outbound aff links leading to various CPA offers - now, it has 0. The home page serves just as a navigation to further inner pages, FROM WHICH I link to the CPA offers.

# 3 was I think the most important, too many aff links is a bad sign for Google, don't do it.

Anyway, thanks for all the help from you guys, and especially Barry.

[outwest]

Monthy congrats u got your penalty erased, whew, I hate to hear about those makes me nervous

curiously you said it took approx 3 mos originally to get it to 100/day
approx how many hrs /day was that?

[MaverickUK]

Congratulations man.

To add to the discussion... I find it a little annoying when people say don't rely on Google, because lets face it of we had a brick and mortar business we would just be as susceptible to failure and the possibility of being slapped by our finances, the lack of footfall, marketing campaigns not working and so forth.

It's all risk vs reward.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by MaverickUK

Congratulations man.

To add to the discussion... I find it a little annoying when people say don't rely on Google, because lets face it of we had a brick and mortar business we would just be as susceptible to failure and the possibility of being slapped by our finances, the lack of footfall, marketing campaigns not working and so forth.

It's all risk vs reward.

Well I think they mean if you have other means to get traffic by all means do that also instead of just being devasted should google deindex one of your top moneymakers, at least it wont be a total hit on that sites traffic

I understand completely that strategy not putting all your eggs into .......you know one pot , or was that the egg calling the kettle black

[Monthy]

Originally Posted by outwest

Monthy congrats u got your penalty erased, whew, I hate to hear about those makes me nervous

curiously you said it took approx 3 mos originally to get it to 100/day
approx how many hrs /day was that?

Hi,

thanks for your kind words. The site was making about $70/day and I was working at it like 3-4 hours per day, on average. Maybe at the beginning up to 12 hours a day (including learning about the topic it's about, etc.).

[4morereferrals]

Originally Posted by Monthy

Hello everybody,

I'm happy, because the penalty (my site probably got penalized, it was not plain Google Dance) has been lifted and my site got its rankings back (not as strong as it used to be, but I'm pretty certain I will be able to push upwards in the SERPs pretty quickly now).

The penalty lasted 34 days.

This probably wouldn't have happened, if Barry hadn't advised me what to improve, OPSEO-wise.

Here's what I did:

1) I removed a bad link from my theme's footer, which led to a site selling fake pharmaceuticals. The footer was coded, but I was able to decode it and remove the link.

2) I restructuralized my site. It is a WP blog, but now, the home page only shows a static page instead of excerpts of posts.

3) I made the home page of my site affiliate-link-free - prior to the changes I made, the home page had had as much as 20 outbound aff links leading to various CPA offers - now, it has 0. The home page serves just as a navigation to further inner pages, FROM WHICH I link to the CPA offers.

# 3 was I think the most important, too many aff links is a bad sign for Google, don't do it.

Anyway, thanks for all the help from you guys, and especially Barry.

What theme?