Days Old Niche Site Already Making Sales!!

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I thought I'd share an update here since there is a lot of IM newbies on this forum and I am an IM newbie myself. Although I do have a main frugal blog where I've unexpectedly started earning income from (and my inspiration for learning IM) I wanted to try my hand at Amazon/Adsense type of websites. My main website involves a lot of work, and I eventually would like to sell my website and just focus on niche websites and build them from there. When I found this forum less than a month ago, I realized there was much more to IM than I ever realized. I had no clue about SEO, keyword research or anything!

After reviewing a few WSO's and eventually joining the War Room, I can now say that I've found what I've been looking to learn and earn an income with; niche/micro niche sites focused on Amazon and Adsense.

I purchased my first domain name on December 27th in a niche I knew a little bit about and was interested in. The typical product(s) range in pricing between $300-$600 and is in demand. I did a little bit of keyword research, but wasn't 100% sure about it. (I'm def better today at keyword research than almost 2 weeks ago.) Although my niche does have a little bit of competition, I knew with time I could make the Google first page.

After taking my time to add some content (which I'm still doing), designing the blog, and editing posts/adding more plugins, my website has already been found through Google within the first week and I had my first two sales. Not only were they my first two sales from this particular niche website but they purchased items that weren't even in my niche at all.


Today, I checked my Amazon Affiliate account and I had 4 sales yesterday - all of but 3 not related to my niche at all from that one website! On top of that, a new niche website I just bought the domain name for on January 4th that only has ONE post so far has already earned me a sale! Check it out below:


I have to say that I did no back linking, article submissions, NOTHING, to any of these blogs yet. It was only a day or two ago I outsourced some of those tasks for my first niche blog. Not to mention, my new niche website is going to be more Adsense focused so I'm surprised to see a sale at all from Amazon especially only from ONE post!

What I Did

I Did My Research: I know that anyone can get caught up in all the WSO's out there, I'm probably one of them, however, I knew that I wanted to focus on Amazon and Adsense and started there.

I Did My Research (again and again): I've probably purchased two WSO's, a paid WSO ebook, and read a FREE PDF from the War Room. I wanted to see what all of them did to become successful with Amazon/Adsense, and compared what they did against each other. Not only did I do exactly what they all said, but I created my own way of doing things on what I think might work for me. They all advocated what I considered to be the basic concept, which I knew I could replicate, but they all had different ways of doing them (article writing, keyword research) and even how they promote them. I knew if I duplicated their basic concepts, and adapted my own way of doing things by all of their guidance that I could come out successful.

I Kept Learning: Just because one person does something one way, doesn't mean I have to follow it all the way to a T. I found very good plugins from other sources that were never mentioned in the WSO's, and even purchased one or two, that I read from others that have helped them out in other niches. Example: I purchased the SEOPressor for my wordpress blog, and even added a plugin to disable the "right click" so no one would take the content I took the time to write. On top of that, I rewrote my posts to add additional things that would pop out to a reader. Example: Adding in "Who would this product be best for."

I hope this helps some of the other newbies out there starting out. I keep reading about how all these other newbies haven't made money in a year or are about to give up. Here's the thing.. you have to realistically expect that it's going to take time and you're going to have to put a lot of work in your site. Granted, mine did not take long but I didn't write about how much time it took me to write my own articles, or how many times I edited them to get keywords found, or how I improved my website/posts. On top of that, how keywords still get me LOST but I've read probably hours worth of articles on how others do there keyword research just so I can get comfortable in how I do my research.

If you just slap up a website, write a 500 word junk review for only 5 posts and expect it to go somewhere then you just don't get it and you're only going to get the value you put into it.


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  • Profile picture of the author Mr. Ken Russell
    Beginners luck.

    Kidding aside, very impressive. You took initiative, and got quick results. Now keep that motivation level at a 10 and keep earning more.

    Best of luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author fin
    Good job, Lisa.

    What is this right click disable plugin you speak of?
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    • Profile picture of the author SkiBum
      Interested in this as well Lisa.

      Well done on the early success.

      Ski

      Originally Posted by fin View Post

      Good job, Lisa.

      What is this right click disable plugin you speak of?
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      • Profile picture of the author MoneySavingLisa
        The plugin I use to disable the right click is called WP-CopyProtect [Protect your blog posts].
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  • Profile picture of the author TCrosby
    Great story, and great results. Your ability to focus on one goal and filter through the other information will help you more than you can possibly imagine.

    Future steps:
    1. Content, Content, Content, Content, Content
    2. Backlink
    3. Start a new site and let yours age

    Once you start making some income, you can outsource the content, making the whole process FLY
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    • Profile picture of the author sonic74
      Hi Lisa,

      you're doing very well so far and for so brand new sites !

      Yeah, keyword research is essential factor for a successful site....

      I like your attitude about researching and putting a lot of effort for the content !

      Keep working
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  • Profile picture of the author SimWil72
    Originally Posted by MoneySavingLisa View Post

    I thought I'd share an update here since there is a lot of IM newbies on this forum and I am an IM newbie myself. Although I do have a main frugal blog where I've unexpectedly started earning income from (and my inspiration for learning IM) I wanted to try my hand at Amazon/Adsense type of websites. My main website involves a lot of work, and I eventually would like to sell my website and just focus on niche websites and build them from there. When I found this forum less than a month ago, I realized there was much more to IM than I ever realized. I had no clue about SEO, keyword research or anything!

    After reviewing a few WSO's and eventually joining the War Room, I can now say that I've found what I've been looking to learn and earn an income with; niche/micro niche sites focused on Amazon and Adsense.

    I purchased my first domain name on December 27th in a niche I knew a little bit about and was interested in. The typical product(s) range in pricing between $300-$600 and is in demand. I did a little bit of keyword research, but wasn't 100% sure about it. (I'm def better today at keyword research than almost 2 weeks ago.) Although my niche does have a little bit of competition, I knew with time I could make the Google first page.

    After taking my time to add some content (which I'm still doing), designing the blog, and editing posts/adding more plugins, my website has already been found through Google within the first week and I had my first two sales. Not only were they my first two sales from this particular niche website but they purchased items that weren't even in my niche at all.


    Today, I checked my Amazon Affiliate account and I had 4 sales yesterday - all of but 3 not related to my niche at all from that one website! On top of that, a new niche website I just bought the domain name for on January 4th that only has ONE post so far has already earned me a sale! Check it out below:


    I have to say that I did no back linking, article submissions, NOTHING, to any of these blogs yet. It was only a day or two ago I outsourced some of those tasks for my first niche blog. Not to mention, my new niche website is going to be more Adsense focused so I'm surprised to see a sale at all from Amazon especially only from ONE post!

    What I Did

    I Did My Research: I know that anyone can get caught up in all the WSO's out there, I'm probably one of them, however, I knew that I wanted to focus on Amazon and Adsense and started there.

    I Did My Research (again and again): I've probably purchased two WSO's, a paid WSO ebook, and read a FREE PDF from the War Room. I wanted to see what all of them did to become successful with Amazon/Adsense, and compared what they did against each other. Not only did I do exactly what they all said, but I created my own way of doing things on what I think might work for me. They all advocated what I considered to be the basic concept, which I knew I could replicate, but they all had different ways of doing them (article writing, keyword research) and even how they promote them. I knew if I duplicated their basic concepts, and adapted my own way of doing things by all of their guidance that I could come out successful.

    I Kept Learning: Just because one person does something one way, doesn't mean I have to follow it all the way to a T. I found very good plugins from other sources that were never mentioned in the WSO's, and even purchased one or two, that I read from others that have helped them out in other niches. Example: I purchased the SEOPressor for my wordpress blog, and even added a plugin to disable the "right click" so no one would take the content I took the time to write. On top of that, I rewrote my posts to add additional things that would pop out to a reader. Example: Adding in "Who would this product be best for."

    I hope this helps some of the other newbies out there starting out. I keep reading about how all these other newbies haven't made money in a year or are about to give up. Here's the thing.. you have to realistically expect that it's going to take time and you're going to have to put a lot of work in your site. Granted, mine did not take long but I didn't write about how much time it took me to write my own articles, or how many times I edited them to get keywords found, or how I improved my website/posts. On top of that, how keywords still get me LOST but I've read probably hours worth of articles on how others do there keyword research just so I can get comfortable in how I do my research.

    If you just slap up a website, write a 500 word junk review for only 5 posts and expect it to go somewhere then you just don't get it and you're only going to get the value you put into it.


    I wish I had your perseverance to stick to one thing Lisa! I have been a "would be" marketer for over a year now, jumping from one shiny button to another. I must have spend well over £1000 on different WSO's and products. The problem I find is that I am easily distracted, I also have a lack of time. I have a lovely blog in a niche I really like, I have loads of different websites but still am lacking my first sale.

    I am loathed to quit, but I am running out of money and steam!!
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    • Profile picture of the author lifeisfun
      Originally Posted by SimWil72 View Post

      I wish I had your perseverance to stick to one thing Lisa! I have been a "would be" marketer for over a year now, jumping from one shiny button to another. (
      Stick to the one site that you think is your passion....that was my problem too...So many products and i made the mistake of doing different sites; then i decided, you know what? let me stick to the site where I'm an expert on the content. I made that site my priority, and even though the competition for those keywords is severe, since I'm an expert on that subject, it was easy for me to whip out a few 1,000 word articles in a couple of days.

      Next thing i know those articles ranked high on google and i was getting visitors; adsense has been going up steadily, and then stuck amazon on there, and yea, only made 10 bucks, but that site gave me the inspiration to put great content on the other sites because that's what is all about nowadays.

      But yea, going from one shiny to the next not good. Just stick to the one site that you think you can improve the most and just concentrate on that one.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tech19
    Really good insight from someone who still considers themselves a newbie. I love your closing statement. People want it to be that easy, they wish it was, but the fact is it isn't. It's great to see homeone who just got started on the right track. Congrats on your success!
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  • Profile picture of the author zonkow
    Hi Lisa,
    Do you make product reviews?
    How many products do you promote in your Amazon site?
    What is your niche?
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    • Profile picture of the author MoneySavingLisa
      Originally Posted by zonkow View Post

      Hi Lisa,
      Do you make product reviews?
      How many products do you promote in your Amazon site?
      What is your niche?
      Kind of of a mix of things really. But I'm not going to share my niche. :p NO ONE gives that away LOL!
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  • Profile picture of the author thebitbotdotcom
    A Facebook popup...nice...that is why.

    That was easy... Nice move...
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    • Profile picture of the author MoneySavingLisa
      Originally Posted by thebitbotdotcom View Post

      A Facebook popup...nice...that is why.

      That was easy... Nice move...
      LOL I have no idea what this means :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Colin Y
    Originally Posted by MoneySavingLisa View Post

    If you just slap up a website, write a 500 word junk review for only 5 posts and expect it to go somewhere then you just don't get it and you're only going to get the value you put into it.

    Nice story...but this is the biggest take away readers should get from this post. You should your best effort forward and follow through with anything you do online.
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    • Profile picture of the author samanthastephens
      As a complete newbie, thanks for the encouragement and good advice! I'm feeling overwhelmed with info overload (this keyword thing has got me) and sometimes find myself doubting about whether it's even worth to start. I also have to stop myself from buying anymore wsos!
      Reading your post was motivation, though, thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author officer_iron
    Congrats on the quick success. I'm sure that's very satisfying!
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    Very nice job and very well done. I hope in the year to come, your success grows even greater over time.

    One of the main questions I get is...Can I make money with a blog?..... You prove my point.
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  • Profile picture of the author mge
    Thank you for sharing your success story.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kaie
      This is very inspiring to read, thank you I am new at this as well. I like the direction I am going, but need so much help. I love to hear about your progress and it gives me hope (joining the war room)
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  • Profile picture of the author hamzidosh
    Wow...this is a surefire post to inspire all!
    So is the WP-copyprotect plugin a free plugin or...?
    Keep doing what works!!
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    • Profile picture of the author MoneySavingLisa
      Originally Posted by hamzidosh View Post

      Wow...this is a surefire post to inspire all!
      So is the WP-copyprotect plugin a free plugin or...?
      Keep doing what works!!
      Yes it is. Just search for it on Wordpress.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Glad to see your work is paying off and you're having success with your niche sites. Nice story.
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  • Profile picture of the author Maraun
    Very good inspirational posts. Something similar happened to my first Adsense site back then. Site went up and four days later get $4 in Adsense revenue from that site. I still don't know where that came from.

    After that there were just crickets until the site started ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    This is awesome! So now that you know IM works you'll stay motivated. But don't fall off if you don't see anything more for the next week or so because that will happen but keep going.
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    • Profile picture of the author MoneySavingLisa
      Originally Posted by Osman_M View Post

      This is awesome! So now that you know IM works you'll stay motivated. But don't fall off if you don't see anything more for the next week or so because that will happen but keep going.
      I won't fall off. I realistically know this will take time to get where I want it to be. I'm hoping by April to have it ranked well, and along with a few other of my websites too.
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  • Profile picture of the author rupeeanna
    Thats one inspirational post Lisa and worth reading to inspire oneself to get up, do it and stick to it. Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author WikiWarrior
      Really inspiring to read about your success Lisa, congrats. At this rate you'll be earning a few thousand a month or more in 6 months time. I'm just getting started promoting Amazon so this is very encouranging. I plan on using Adsense too but have decided not to add it until I have a decent amount of content on my niche sites.

      Great little plugin that WP-Copyprotect, thanks for the headsup.

      Keep up the great work!

      Toby
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  • Profile picture of the author matus37
    Yes you my focus on your passion,focus on one traffic source and master it.This is the only way to success in online money making.
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  • Profile picture of the author DonMaster
    Thanks for your tips.
    I like it.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamuelUherek
    Congrats. The thing is that you stayed focused. If you make a plan a stick to it (you wanted to make in through amazon reviews), there is going to be results sooner or later. Thanks Lisa for sharing this for all of us. You made it through the worst part that is buying shiny object all over the place and jumping from one method to another.

    Just keep up what you've begun with and you will double it soon. Good Luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author lantil5
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    Lisa thanks lots for sharing atleast if you could start some service to sell those cash cow I will jump first to book 100 such websites which really generate revenue .I am too lazy to lift my fingers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Demartijn
    Great to hear you found what is working for you, keep it up!
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  • Profile picture of the author lantil5
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    Hello Lisa you had recently mentioned about some back linking services in the Chris´s post . Please could you PM to me from where you are arranging them I really need your support
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  • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
    wow, nice work. Being a seasoned newbie myself, I love reading this stuff. I have never purchased a WSO but I have purchased a War Room Membership. I plan on setting up my first amazon site this week. Working on getting the niche right and keyword research. But, I think sometimes we can all get wrapped up in research. Maybe its time to just do it.
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    • Profile picture of the author curly sue
      lesson learnt, always buy old domains that are seo optimised!
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