$0 to $40/day In My First 4 Months (Lessons Learned)

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by chrislangley

Nice tips, the key ofcourse is enjoying building backlinks and content for the niches you enjoy

I can't imagine anyone enjoys building backlinks, but writing cool content is definitely fun.

[outwest]

Originally Posted by DGFletcher

I liked what you said about 'instant gratification versus 3 year goals'. My question is what do I do about the fact that I have a $250 rent, a $80 phone bill and a $50 food bill, plus website expenses that do need to be 'instant gratified' in order for me to have time to sit down and start working on 3 year goals? Especially that darn rent bill.

Everything else I can pretty much cover through sit-down-once and freelance crap.

I only wish my rent was as cheap as yours heck my electric bill is more than your rent

thats my inspiration

[bocceman]

Great post! Thanks for sharing.

[edumonsters]

You have done a good job sharing this with us. It's indeed a great post which I'll return later to read while I act it out. I mean learning and doing at the same time. A comment will help book-mark this thread!

Thank you very much for this useful information.

[korn]

Thanks. Great share. I always have problems with keyword research. I think I will try the Long Tail Pro. I will follow your method.

[chiclets]

Very inspiring and great post!! Sometime you really need to experiment more with the placement of your adsense. That's what i'm doing now. Congrats by the way!

[marksmith21]

Your experience sounds familiar. I think it is cool how everyone has thier own methods of keyword research. I usually based my keywords on what I was passionate about.

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by marksmith21

Your experience sounds familiar. I think it is cool how everyone has thier own methods of keyword research. I usually based my keywords on what I was passionate about.

I focus my larger sites on things I'm passionate about. At first it was hard to even figure out what I was passionate about that I could market. Recently I've been starting with a product and working my passion into it and I feel like that is working well.

[Chasing Pace]

Just an FYI, to those of you who have PM'ed me I can't respond, as this thread was my first post at WF.

If you want to get in touch with me you'll have to do it via Chasing Pace. Thanks!

[hamburglar]

Hey Pace,

You have really inspired me to get back into the game again. I am in month 2 and have doubled my income to $160/month.

Its gonna take some time. With a lot of trial and error I hope to get where you are and further.

Regards,
H

[GSONG]

Thanks for the great post! I don't focus a major part of my portfolio on adsense niche sites still having a bit of fun with it.

[coachbob]

Thanks for the inspiration. I've had good success in the beginning like you. Then we lost our house to a fire and didn't get started again until about a year later. The sites kept going up until google started their updates. Then I lost a site to home depot followed by getting a new site that was going up during the panda spanda and it was de-indexed. Had to stop working on sites to get another job to pay the bills this summer. Started back up and had a site going strong until last week when google dumped it, at least this time it is not de-indexed. What ticks me off is the two sites that were going up had unique content that I wrote and had only 1 google link in them. I wanted to be careful and not overdue it, now............
I plaster google all around. I get adsense mail all the time telling me my best earning site needs more ad's or has more space to add a couple more adsense, but I really don't know what to do after the year I've had. I hate pouring my soul into a site, creating over 40 posts/pages and then getting hammered. Talk about 3 steps forward 100 backwards. :-) At least this post here get's my juices flowing again.

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by coachbob

Thanks for the inspiration. I've had good success in the beginning like you. Then we lost our house to a fire and didn't get started again until about a year later. The sites kept going up until google started their updates. Then I lost a site to home depot followed by getting a new site that was going up during the panda spanda and it was de-indexed. Had to stop working on sites to get another job to pay the bills this summer. Started back up and had a site going strong until last week when google dumped it, at least this time it is not de-indexed. What ticks me off is the two sites that were going up had unique content that I wrote and had only 1 google link in them. I wanted to be careful and not overdue it, now............
I plaster google all around. I get adsense mail all the time telling me my best earning site needs more ad's or has more space to add a couple more adsense, but I really don't know what to do after the year I've had. I hate pouring my soul into a site, creating over 40 posts/pages and then getting hammered. Talk about 3 steps forward 100 backwards. :-) At least this post here get's my juices flowing again.

That's some hard stuff to deal with. Keep persevering as you have and I'm confident you'll succeed!

[Chasing Pace]

Just as I mentioned I'll be doing a live case study.

I just wanted to let ya'll know that case study is finally starting!

You can find out all the details through the case study link in my signature. I'll also be making another post in a little bit with some more details. Let me know what you guys think!

[bestbuddy1986]

Just confused...

For the first couple months I was probably on WF nearly every day trying to glean as much information as I possibly could. Now that I'm starting to earn a little bit (around $1300 last month) I figured I'd share my journey with ya'll.

But your profile show you joined in Nov 2011 ??? Whats the catch...

Originally Posted by Chasing Pace

I've come a long way in the past 4 months. I first found out about Internet Marketing (IM) when I was doing research for my first blog and happened upon the Warrior Forum (WF). For the first couple months I was probably on WF nearly every day trying to glean as much information as I possibly could. Now that I'm starting to earn a little bit (around $1300 last month) I figured I'd share my journey with ya'll.

I know I struggled a lot when I first started, and if it wasn't for WF I might not have made it. Hope this helps and motivates everyone a bit.

*Disclaimer: I am no IM expert/guru, this is just a quick story with a little bit of data and information I used to reach $40/day after just 160 days. Also, this is probably going to be a looooong post.

My First Sites

When I first started I was a tad bit obsessed with creating Made for Adsense (MFA) sites. I didn't understand creating a bunch of crap on the internet isn't the way to go. Nor did I really understand that Google is actually trying to return quality information to their users.

So, from the advice of a couple people I met on WF, I started in a very shady niche. Unfortunately, at the time, I had no concept of copyright/trademark laws and ended up purchasing about 10 domains that all contained some form of a copyrighted name, like "Nike" or "Reebok".

I can tell you right now, regardless of how great the CTR is, or how easy it may be to rank DO NOT BREAK COPYRIGHT LAWS. It's not a good business practice and it's really not worth it to put in a lot of time and effort just to receive a C&D letter taking the site away from you, or worse. Google "DCMA" if you want to learn more.

Keyword Research

After I got out of the that niche I finally figured out about keyword research, whereas I had previously created sites based on almost no research and just what a few people had told me.

Tools in my Arsenal: Long Tail Pro (LTP), Google Adword Keyword Tool (GAKT), Soovle, SEOBook Toolbar, SerpIQ, My Sister and My Wife, My Brain, My Passion, My House

There's not exactly a shortage of information on keyword research, so I'm not going to get too far into the details. How you do keyword research will depend entirely on the types of sites you are looking to build. I personally build a mixture of sites at varying competition levels.

For low comp sites I use methods very similar to Spencer at Niche Pursuits. I primarily use LTP and GAKT. A quick tip, I use SerpIQ to double check my research. I usually don't proceed unless I get a SerpIQ less than 40. I've been able to rank some sites with a SerpIQ of 32-35 with 0 backlinks and they've stayed top 10 for 3-4 months.

Here is my criteria for low comp sites:

• 750 exact/local/monthly searches
• $1 CPC (though I'll go lower if searches increase a bit)
• EMD available in .com, .net., .org
• PR average of top 10 less than 3, prefer less than 2 and at least 1 PR 0 and hopefully a PR N/A
• Prefer to see a few sites with 0 backlinks to page, and a few with less than 10
• No more than 1 root domain in top 10
• Visual inspection of On-Page SEO. Is the keyword in the title? description? all over the site? Basically is the site optimized to rank for that keyword or not

Here is my criteria for the rest of my sites:

• At least 2,000 total exact/local/monthly searches for ALL the keywords I'll be targeting. I don't listen to what everyone says about how you need 10,000 searches to profit. I've made sites with only 320 searches a month that make $2-$5 a day.
• Am I passionate about it? These are my long term sites that I'm going to build up over time, so I want it to be about things I'm passionate about. If you struggle here, think of off shoots. For example, let's say you love fishing. Obviously ranking for fishing is going to be tough. But what if you had a product site around "the best fishing shirt or hat" or "the best fishing gps", these may be less competitive and they still allow you to write about something you like. You can also add a ton of great quality content by just adding some general fishing articles to the site.

That's pretty much it. I'll glance at the top 10 and see the comp, I rarely bother much with it. I rank these sites by going after tons of long tails. I don't care if they get 10, 20, or 200 searches a month I go after them, starting with ones I can rank for instantly. I target keywords other people aren't willing to.

You may still be wondering, but where exactly do I come up with keywords?

In order to succeed you've got to get in this mindset: EVERYTHING IS A KEYWORD. Everyone talks about looking at the Amazon Best Sellers, or looking through Flippa Auctions or at high gravity items on Click Bank. Well, I do none of that crap. Instead I find seed keywords by using the resources around me.

First off, I look in my house. If I own something it's likely other people own it. The other day I made a site based on an item sitting on my countertop. I've made about $10 in 20 days, which isn't a lot, but I haven't done anything but put up a few product reviews.

Secondly, I ask my mom and sister. Laugh all you want, if you're not targeting things that women do/buy then you're missing out. I find out all the things my sister buys at Publix, Walmart, the mall, etc. I'll talk to my mom (who is retired) about what she does during the day, etc. It's unbelievable some of the great keywords that come out of them.

Thirdly, I talk to my wife. Like I said above, women are your money makers. They're absolutely click happy. I ask my wife what are things she would buy. Sometimes I'll just pick 10 items on Amazon and simply say, "Would you buy this online?" I'll ask her why or why not and from there I usually find even more keywords.

Fourth, I use my brain. Finding keywords is more common sense than anything else. People make it way, way too difficult. If it seems like a stupid keyword, it probably is (though that's not always the case). I'm an engineer and I see the numbers behind everything. So, when I'm walking through the mall or in Walmart or at the movies I now see the numbers behind keywords. I look at what old people are doing, why kids are crying, what are dads wearing, etc. I look at EVERYTHING. If it's even a possibility I jot it down or put it in my wife's iPhone to analyze later.

That's typically how I find my seed keywords. From there I'll go to Soovle or use Long Tail Pro to really narrow down my seed keywords to either long tails I can target or build a site around.

A lot of my sites fail. My methods are not flawless. I've purchased 48 domains in the past 4 months. Of those 48 I am working on around 10-12 sites. And of those 10-12 90% of my income comes from 3-4 of them. You are going to fail, you just need to keep at it.

Content Creation

For my lower comp sites they're typically only 4-5 pages and 4-5 posts and after ranking them I don't touch them much.

For my higher comp sites they're getting to be quite large. I think my largest site has around 15 pages and over 100 posts (300-800 words long).

I currently write all my content. However I just hired my first writer, who will be writing around 20,000 words a month for some of my link building. I thought outsourcing was overrated, but what everyone says is right...you can't do it all yourself, and it's just going to be painful if you do.

On-Page SEO

I'm still learning a bit in this department, but I can say from experience optimizing your site for your keywords is HUGE. I've moved up entire pages in rankings after optimizing. I put my first priority here on every site I make.

My keywords are always in the title. Even for my newer branded sites I have the keywords in the title. I use All in One SEO and regardless of what everyone says I still fill out the meta description and meta keywords. I'm fairly confident this helps rank in Bing/Yahoo a bit faster.

I'll also try to link back to my home page and to another post with each new post. I don't force this, but if it makes sense and helps the reader I'll interlink.

Monetization

I used to monetize entirely with Google Adsense, and that's where most of my income comes each month (about $900/mo just from adsense). I keep it simple and usually just place a 336x280 or 300x250 block in the top right of each page/post. I test out text only versus image/text and after about a month will just go with one and leave it. I've found more luck with text only, but I know that's not the case with every niche.

I've also recently been creating a lot of Amazon sites. I have about 5 Amazon sites up and running and in my first 2 months have made around $300 with Amazon. I'm on track to do about the same this month. My Amazon sites are usually based around a general product, such as "basketball shoes." On the site I'll do product reviews, product accessories, product articles and product tips. My product articles and product tips usually don't contain affiliate links, so I can balance out the site some and it doesn't look like total crap.
Themes/Plugins

I currently use a combination of themes. My lower comp adsense sites all use CTR. My long term sites use Pagelines, and my Amazon sites mostly use some themes from Themeforest.

I don't use free themes. I probably should, and I've wasted A LOT of money on "premium" themes, but I can't stand having my sites look like crap (though CTR isn't exactly beautiful).

I knew nothing about css/html when I started, but I'm slowly learning some. I highly recommend everyone learn the basics...at least.

Here's a quick list of plugins I use:

Mandatory

• All in One SEO
• Contact Form 7
• Askimet

Optional:

• Pretty Link Lite
• Related Post Thumbnails
• Backup Buddy (not free)

As you can see I don't use a lot of plugins...yet.

Off-Page SEO

I hate link building, absolutely hate it. But unfortunately it's necessary for most niches. Here is a basic breakdown of what I do:

• Week 1: social bookmarks
• Week 2: submit to top directories, a few blog comments
• Week 3: forum comments (not profiles), Web 2.0 sites or free blogs
• Week 4: article marketing, just a couple to ezine, goarticles, etc.
• Week 5: private blog networks
• Week 6: guest posting (if I can find any)
• Rinse and Repeat weeks 3-5, including blog comments

Those are my basics. I don't follow it to the smallest detail, but I generally don't start link building much until after month 1. I like to let the site settle a lot.

I don't pay a lot of attention to PR and prefer to post on sites relative to my niche. Though I can say that if you can find a handful of PR3+ sites to get some quality in text links, you're golden.

With my newer sites I've had a lot of success by spending month 1 publishing 1 quality article per day. I've been able to ride the new content bonus wave and usually rank quicker after it drops off with some posts on private blog networks.

I'm also starting to look heavily into Guest Posting and I really think this is the single best form of link building. I recently joined The Keyword Academy and their Post Runner system is pretty awesome. I recommend everyone check them out.

One thing I've been doing a lot lately is responding to questions in forums. I've found a lot of people search the forums for "Best Keyword". So I'll go into them and respond with "I think the best keywords is blank and here is why. I also found this great site www[dot]mysite[dot]com. Some of my Amazon sites are getting 20-30 visitors a day from just a few forums. And I can tell you that these people ending up in forums are ready to buy and convert very well.

Going Forward

I'm focusing less and less on my lower comp/thin adsense sites. They don't add a lot of quality to the internet and I'm not sure they'll make it through many more algo updates.

My focus is on quality sites in niches that I like. While I'm making good money from Adsense I'm leaning more and more towards Amazon, only because it seems to be more conducive to the kinds of sites I enjoy creating.

[dofdiamond]

Very Inspiring post, Congrats.. this post is really helpful for newbie here like me. I am going to Start my own Fun Zone Site for Ad-sense in next January surly i follow your tips and tricks.

[Chasing Pace]

Just confused...

For the first couple months I was probably on WF nearly every day trying to glean as much information as I possibly could. Now that I'm starting to earn a little bit (around $1300 last month) I figured I'd share my journey with ya'll.

But your profile show you joined in Nov 2011 ??? Whats the catch...

Out of everything I wrote that's what you picked up on? I didn't join until a couple weeks before I posted, I was visiting before that

[Chasing Pace]

EDIT: double post, sorry

[idimyself]

What a good inspiration for others like myself who need to here of others who struggle but finally start to see good results with hard work and determination. I know I could use some of your determination a lot of the time.

[Kruciall]

I think it's about time for an update =)

[webworm]

I really got a great experience going through this article.You have really posted a important view and experience.Thanks for sharing.

[Majin]

Nice post mate. A good advice is to start with a niche you enjoy, i builg my first site about video games and after 2 weeks i started to make 20$ a day, working hard but still enjoying it !

[vincentqin]

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's really helpful to me. Hope you earn $400+ per day some day in the near future.

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by Kruciall

I think it's about time for an update =)

I'm not sure what kind of update you're looking for.

Nice post mate. A good advice is to start with a niche you enjoy, i builg my first site about video games and after 2 weeks i started to make 20$ a day, working hard but still enjoying it !

That's awesome. I've love to break into that niche, but I've heard it can be difficult. Good to hear you're rockin' it!

Thank you for sharing your experience. It's really helpful to me. Hope you earn $400+ per day some day in the near future.

That would definitely be life changing. I'd be content if I could reach a consistent $100/day by the end of 2012.

[outwest]

Whats the difference between this thread and
all the other "follow me" threads that have been DELETED

[AhmedA]

Hi,

I'm building my first website I'm planning to outsource the content. I want to build a 10 page website however I'm not sure if I should make the articles 500 words or 1000 words. Will it make a difference? 1000 word articles will be very expensive and I want to save some money for seo

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by AhmedA

Hi,

I'm building my first website I'm planning to outsource the content. I want to build a 10 page website however I'm not sure if I should make the articles 500 words or 1000 words. Will it make a difference? 1000 word articles will be very expensive and I want to save some money for seo

I personally wouldn't outsource anything for your first site.

But that aside, I'd focus less on word count and more on quality and user experience. If you're dead set on word count, serpIQ did a study a few months back that showed the average number of words on the index page of sites on page 1 was around 2,500 words.

[Kruciall]

Originally Posted by Chasing Pace

I'm not sure what kind of update you're looking for.

I apologize, I was under the impression you were going to update this thread all the way up to $100 a day, but I was wrong. Myy bad! lol

[cleanerupper]

Great stuff. I hope to see many more posts from you.

[Viramara]

As you have said....

"I hate link building, absolutely hate it. But unfortunately it's necessary for most niches".

Another experience I'd like to share : when I first started my website I highly paid attention to on-page SEO and few off-page. It's really keyword-stuffed ugly postings made up to reach 2-3% density. It got ranked for a while, but then dropped quickly from Google. Even when it's ranked, the site only got few visitors who don't convert.

This is my big mistake by focusing my site for search engine. In fact, SE is not our customer, human is! I then re-purposed the website from scratch, fixing its appearances etc and postings, make it more human-friendly, and doing guest blogging, forum, etc. That's when I started to see increase and traffic getting converts to mailing list.

[OnemanShow]

Great post!! its boost of new blood for the IMers..Thanks for the tips pal

OMS

[kyleoxenham]

Great Post! Good to hear someone is getting good success, I would love to be earning $1000/mth with Adsense, back in 2004-05 I was making over $10k/mth but never seemed to ever recover after the Google updates and I lost everything.

I am trying to increase my adsense income again, and have brought it up to about $50/mth the last couple months from $0. And my affiliate income is up to about $150/mth from $0 over the last couple months.

I am disappointed to say that I have build over 200 websites in 2011 and even though many are on the first page, I only make money from a handful of site's probably around 10% or less. Usually the #1 position makes the most, bottom or middle of page 1 is almost useless.

I get discouraged with all the work I've done with little success, but at least I am making some money.

I am now in a situation where I NEED to earn my living online, because I am living in a foreign country and have no job opportunities offline. So I need to get my income up-to at least $1000+/mth ASAP.

I am working with many sites in many niches, I have many on page 1 and page 2 but it seems that if they are not #1-4 they get almost no traffic and make nothing.

I hate backlinking too, and I don't like spending money I don't have on outsourcing, so I guess I have to just suck it up and build backlinks to all my sites, one at a time and try to be patient with increasing my results. I don't have 3 years to make my goals, I have more like 3-5 months.

Good luck with increasing your income and reaching your online goals, thanks again for the post.

[WallyworldWf]

Originally Posted by Chasing Pace

I do off page SEO for all sites, it's just that my lower comp sites don't need a lot usually. Typically some social bookmarks, a few blog comments, and 10-20 contextual backlinks is all they need to rank.

For my lower comp sites I only use EMD. In the short run I've found it adds a little bonus to ranking faster. I've tried adding prefix/suffix and found it didn't work as well.

For my longer term sites I never use EMD. I pick a branded name and then work on branding that site.

Do you place adsense on your sites from the start? On your mini sites, how many articles do you have posted when you go live?

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by Kruciall

I apologize, I was under the impression you were going to update this thread all the way up to $100 a day, but I was wrong. Myy bad! lol

If I did that I might be updating this for quite a while

This is my big mistake by focusing my site for search engine. In fact, SE is not our customer, human is!

I actually think you need to tailor your sites to both. I try to incorporate my on page SEO into the user experience as much as possible.

I am now in a situation where I NEED to earn my living online, because I am living in a foreign country and have no job opportunities offline. So I need to get my income up-to at least $1000+/mth ASAP.

Have you considered selling off some of your lower earners so you can focus on your higher earners?

Do you place adsense on your sites from the start? On your mini sites, how many articles do you have posted when you go live?

Usually within a few days of launching the site I'll get my adsense up, sometimes on day 1 depending on how much time I have.

With smaller sites I've launched with the typical about, contact, privacy pages and just 1 article. On larger sites I haven't been launching until I've got about 5 articles on the site. Though to be honest I'm not sure it matters. I can't imagine that Google has figured it into their algo to add a bonus to those who launch a site with more content than those who don't. My reasons for getting a decent amount of content up first are more for user experience than anything else.

[coachbob]

quote: I pick a branded name and then work on branding that site.

can someone explain this to me again, I am having a brain cramp? When I think of branding I think of brand name like John Deere or Ford, or Norelco....

[ryuchi]

Not everyone can come up with a technique that works within 4 months so you are really successful with this point! I am glad that you made the most out of your time. $40 per day is a solid accomplishment! Congratulations!

Ryuchi

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by coachbob

quote: I pick a branded name and then work on branding that site.

can someone explain this to me again, I am having a brain cramp? When I think of branding I think of brand name like John Deere or Ford, or Norelco....

I probably should have said I CREATE a branded name and then work on branding that site. I never go after copyrighted names.

For instance if I was writing about "gadgets" I might try to get a site like thegadgetman[dot]com, and eventually, if I did things right, people might stop going to Google for "gadgets" and they'd just go to The Gadget Man.

In one of the recent updates you'll notice that Google is giving a lot of love to brand names. For instance, type in "nike" and you'll notice not only do they get the top spot, but they get another 6 subheadings underneath that.

[coachbob]

Thanks CP I get it now, like I said before my brain shut down last nite. :-(

[gohardorgohome]

Over $1k per month in 4 months is pretty awesome, congrats!

You mentioned guest posting. How exactly do you find guest posts to do?

[outwest]

Originally Posted by kyleoxenham

Great Post! Good to hear someone is getting good success, I would love to be earning $1000/mth with Adsense, back in 2004-05 I was making over $10k/mth but never seemed to ever recover after the Google updates and I lost everything.

I am trying to increase my adsense income again, and have brought it up to about $50/mth the last couple months from $0. And my affiliate income is up to about $150/mth from $0 over the last couple months.

I am disappointed to say that I have build over 200 websites in 2011 and even though many are on the first page, I only make money from a handful of site's probably around 10% or less. Usually the #1 position makes the most, bottom or middle of page 1 is almost useless.

I get discouraged with all the work I've done with little success, but at least I am making some money.

I am now in a situation where I NEED to earn my living online, because I am living in a foreign country and have no job opportunities offline. So I need to get my income up-to at least $1000+/mth ASAP.

I am working with many sites in many niches, I have many on page 1 and page 2 but it seems that if they are not #1-4 they get almost no traffic and make nothing.

I hate backlinking too, and I don't like spending money I don't have on outsourcing, so I guess I have to just suck it up and build backlinks to all my sites, one at a time and try to be patient with increasing my results. I don't have 3 years to make my goals, I have more like 3-5 months.

Good luck with increasing your income and reaching your online goals, thanks again for the post.

I would head over to the CPA forum
SEO backlinking etc free traffic from google takes WAY longer to start making money than PPC and CPA

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by gohardorgohome

Over $1k per month in 4 months is pretty awesome, congrats!

You mentioned guest posting. How exactly do you find guest posts to do?

Unfortunately I don't do as much of this as I should. Here's my method though:

How to Find Guest Posting Opportunities

Type the following into Google to find guest posts.

“submit * guest post” ~keyword

“this is a guest post” keyword

“* guest post” keyword

“a guest post” keyword

In addition, a lot of times I'll just type "keyword blogs" and look for some of the higher PR blogs.

I would head over to the CPA forum SEO backlinking etc free traffic from google takes WAY longer to start making money than PPC and CPA

I've yet to venture into to CPA/PPC, but my understanding is the learning curve is quite a bit steeper. Out of curiosity, have you personally been able to make money quicker with CPA/PPC?

[Lisa Paule]

Wow, I am blown away. Congrats on your success and thank for inspirirng me.

I am definitely printing this . . . I have big dreams for myself for 2012 and your post is definitely inspiration on what perseverance and determination can achieve

[RimaNaj2011]

That's great progress for just 4 months. Great stuff man. I'll be following your blog.

[tylerjaysen]

dude very cool post man. Yeah there should be a WSO written on the concept of low search keywords....there probably already is...but so many think that just because google keyword tool says 100 exact searches a month is not worth it...well you just proved that it can be. The key I think is to build a lot of these types of sites that when you add them all up will equal a nice monthly income.

[johnben1444]

I am happy each time i see a newbie succeed and come back to share his or her experience. Making money online is not as hard as most people assume. All it requires is discipline and action.

[anshuldayal]

I took a slightly different approach to get to a similar income level. Instead of building multiple sites I focused on 4-5 medium to large sites with lots of contents. Some of these sites now rank for 100's of long tail keywords just due to the authority and sheer content.

However you run the risk of loosing a big chunk of your income overnight in case any or or two of these sites get the slap from Google which recently happened to one of my top performing sites.

Now I am focusing on micro site approach (in fact I built 50 just last month!) and going after lots of low volume keywords and exact match TLD's so I don't take a big hit even if one of the sites happen to drop for whatever reason.

[Chasing Pace]

Originally Posted by tylerjaysen

dude very cool post man. Yeah there should be a WSO written on the concept of low search keywords....there probably already is...but so many think that just because google keyword tool says 100 exact searches a month is not worth it...well you just proved that it can be. The key I think is to build a lot of these types of sites that when you add them all up will equal a nice monthly income.

I may have to just do that Sometimes you don't even need a lot of these types of sites. I just recently created another Amazon site that revolves around 2 primary keywords each getting only 700-800 searches a month. That site has been growing for the past couple months and is on track to break $800 this month.

I am happy each time i see a newbie succeed and come back to share his or her experience. Making money online is not as hard as most people assume. All it requires is discipline and action.

Me too. I'm a part of a few other communities and often times it seems like the people that aren't succeeding are the ones not taking action. Massive action = success.

I took a slightly different approach to get to a similar income level. Instead of building multiple sites I focused on 4-5 medium to large sites with lots of contents. Some of these sites now rank for 100's of long tail keywords just due to the authority and sheer content.

However you run the risk of loosing a big chunk of your income overnight in case any or or two of these sites get the slap from Google which recently happened to one of my top performing sites.

Now I am focusing on micro site approach (in fact I built 50 just last month!) and going after lots of low volume keywords and exact match TLD's so I don't take a big hit even if one of the sites happen to drop for whatever reason.

One way you can shore up those 4-5 medium sites is by creating satellite sites in the same niche, something I'm starting to look into.

50 sites in 1 month is awesome. Be sure to check back in and let us know how it's going.