Commission Junction Help Wanted! Pleeeze.

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I have been using CJ since last May-Only seriously though within the last 4 months.
Since I would say November of 2010 I have created about 40 WP blogs all with great .com or .org names. I have actually created close to 65 but I have decided just to redirect a large number of them to clickbank hoplinks with no success yet.

Regardless I have these that are active blogs-
6 in debt,tax relief
4 in Bankruptcy
7 in Weight Loss or Vitamins
7 in Mortgage Related sites
3-Payday Loans
8-Sporting Events, Concert, Broadway show ticketing sites
1- Kids site
2-Property Preservation
1-Pest Extermination

I have also just purchased 10 domains that I am using to build job boards with Jobomatic (as a sidenote-if anyone has any experiences with them I would love to hear about it)

Regardless
All have been monetized on CJ and all with Adsense.
I use Micro Niche Finder to find the domains-WP robot for contect and I maintain the sites all the time and post additional "unique" content all the time. What do I have to do to make more than just the $120 I have earned over the last 120 days? Is the only real way to make money with CJ done with PPC? I WOULD RATHER NOT SPEND THAT TYPE OF MONEY. I ran a few adwords campaigns and made money but didnt break even.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

I am hoping to get replies from people who really are making monthly income from them consistently and solely as a publisher.
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  • Profile picture of the author TelZilla
    keep posting unique content and backlink the heck out of each post.

    Plus, backlink some of your older unique posts as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
    While I am not currently doing CPA offers, couple of questions for you to think about:

    Where do you rank and how much traffic are you bringing to the site?
    What is your conversion rate?

    The answers to the above two questions should give you an idea of where your problem might be.

    An additional one is how much competitive analysis have you done to find out what your competitors are doing?

    My guess is the main problem is you aren't getting enough traffic.

    While I am with you in not wanting to get involved with PPC, there are reasons to use it. Lack of traffic is the major one ... especially in highly competitive markets such as the ones you have chosen.

    And since those are highly competitive markets where you are trying to compete, I would hope you are going for long tail keywords to rank for. And you have done the market research to make sure they are viable niches.

    Marvin
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  • Profile picture of the author roley
    Without seeing one of your sites its hard to say

    I imagine with all those sites the content your creating is not entirely unique and probably is full of rehashed crap

    Would you buy from them?

    Its not a case of SLAPPING UP 100 websites domains, puttin a few articles and a few links and then waiting for sales. It dont work like that. And even more so now days with every tom, dick and harry doing it.
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    • Profile picture of the author SettleADebt
      In the case of my ticketing sites My answer to you would be YES I would be buying from them if I were looking for tickets and the prices were within my budget.
      While it is a highly competitive market it is also one that is predisposed to the buyer.
      "People walk onto the lot to Buy"
      Glen Garry Glen Ross
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  • Profile picture of the author O0o0O
    Hey I think you forgot to build backlinks. That's why your traffic is so low. Build up those backlinks and your traffic should pick up and your income should start to pick up.
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    • Profile picture of the author SettleADebt
      I forgot to mention that I am also using XGen which helps me to gather info, and reasearch, write articles and blast them out to over 90 social media sites, wikis,bookmarking sites, article sites, video sites etc. I must have anywhere from 500-1000 backlinks on each site by now.
      Like I said-some of these sites are less than 90 days old and I have only just added statpress plugins on them within the last 60 days so my traffic is still low. Maybe I am just expecting too much too soon?

      For example my 8 ticketing sites only generated maybe 1200 unique visitors combined for the last 30 days and have only been up since Jan 1st.
      I dont know. I guess I just had higher expectations.

      Thanks for the replies. It is very very much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    From what I see you built a lot of sites, but have you found the time to rank them? Building backlinks is essential. Before seeking help in paid ads better try to rank in the search engines first. The reason why you haven't had success is maybe because no one was even able to see your sites.

    Andrea
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    • Profile picture of the author Wills
      Are you actually ranking for any keywords and not just throwing random links at the site?

      Are you doing much pre-selling or offering any value? Writing some articles and/or content with links sprinkled through the post may not get you the conversion rates.

      You may be best putting up a sample website to give everyone something to look at and give better suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ernie Lo
    you should of started off with 1 site and focused on it.

    You're obviously doing something wrong, and you chose to multiply your wrong efforts by 65 times.

    Without seeing your sites, or knowing how much traffic you're getting, your promotion methods etc, its pretty much impossible to help you.

    I will say writing articles is excellent for getting targetted traffic and doing seo and at least you have made $120, thats a good effort.
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  • Profile picture of the author indianamommy
    You need to drive more traffic to your blogs if that is how you promote affiliate links. Start up a couple of newsletters that people will be interested in.
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    • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
      From your post, i think you will do much better by channeling your energy to 4 or even less more targeted micro-niche.

      You seem to have the zeal to give it what it takes to succeed but what you need now is ABSOLUTE FOCUS ON FEW NICHES.

      I have been there where you are now and proned down my focus.

      The result was and is still great You can always expand your focus when you must have started getting results.
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