Best way to $50+ per day in 10 months

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I've been at this game for almost a year with some mixed results. In 10 months I go overseas for 6 months. When I come back, I'd rather not return to my 9-5 job. I figure I can do this with $50/day - just enough to get by while I invest full time into IM.

I've built probably 10 or so sites. Some in the beginning stages were poorly researched and hence are going nowhere. These were subsequently dropped. I have a few that get 30-100 hits a day, but quite a bit of that is from google images. Around November last year I thought I was finally getting somewhere and was making around $15/day from adsense and it looked to be increasing. Then out of nowhere everything bottomed out and my earnings are back to almost nothing. This was probably a combo of adsense smart pricing from poor CTR google image traffic, my biggest site turning out to be very seasonal and now out of season and another site attracting kids more then adults. So I've deindexed from images on one site and replaced adsense with some CPALead locked videos on the site that attracts kids.

Right now I'm having a go at a kind of xFactor approach, churning out small sites targeting small competition keywords from 1000-3000 exact/month, but these haven't been around long enough to determine if they are going to be worthwhile yet.

With a full time job I only have a couple of hours a day to dedicate so article outsourcing will be a definite. I don't think PPC is going to be an option since while I am away I will not have much time to monitor campaigns.

My question is, what do you think is the best way to hit this $50/month goal by November? Sould I keep plugging away at small sites? Try a bigger more competitive niche with lots of longtails? Let me know what you think...
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparhawke
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  • Profile picture of the author JimmyRose
    Looks like a good option, but the thing is as soon as you stop, the money does too. I read a similar method where instead of flipping the sites, you get them to rank for local searches then throw up a few ads after calling the relevant local businesses. Since I'm going away for ages these aren't really an option till I get back.
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  • Profile picture of the author sahi
    Then maybe you check the Google sniper method or nannobloggers, don't know if they are still in the wso section though.
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  • Profile picture of the author successfulwarrior
    You have to pick a business model then work towards it. Also $50 a day in 10 months lookings very low...Why not increase your target
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  • Profile picture of the author Andy Wood
    I wouldnt waste my web page real estate with Adsense. Just do the math on it and you will see that you need literally tens of thousands of visitors just to make a few dollars. Use the space on your page for affiliate products (or better still - your own products).
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by Andy Wood View Post

      I wouldnt waste my web page real estate with Adsense. Just do the math on it and you will see that you need literally tens of thousands of visitors just to make a few dollars. Use the space on your page for affiliate products (or better still - your own products).
      This is very good advice ... IMO
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    • Profile picture of the author webwriter
      Originally Posted by Andy Wood View Post

      I wouldnt waste my web page real estate with Adsense. Just do the math on it and you will see that you need literally tens of thousands of visitors just to make a few dollars. Use the space on your page for affiliate products (or better still - your own products).
      I haven't had much luck with Adsense either. I think that producing my own reports and ebooks will yield better results, although it's too early to tell. I've only been at it for little more than a year and keep reminding myself that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
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    • Profile picture of the author PatriciaS
      Originally Posted by Andy Wood View Post

      I wouldnt waste my web page real estate with Adsense. Just do the math on it and you will see that you need literally tens of thousands of visitors just to make a few dollars. Use the space on your page for affiliate products (or better still - your own products).

      Not only that, AdSense can be very dangerous. I had a couple of blogs I had adsense on -- sites I didn't promote much and which had virtually no traffic. One day, out of absolute nowhere, Google swooped in and closed me down. Banned me for LIFE on the suspicion of fraudulent activity. I had done absolutely nothing to warrant that. I suspect an online "enemy" I'd made came onto one of my sites and did a bunch of clicking. That's the only thing I can think of. I'd made no money (you don't with nearly zero traffic!), so didn't even bother to look at my stats, ever. So when Google said they were refunding the money I'd earned, it was a complete surprise -- what? I'd made some money? Who knew?

      My appeal to them fell on deaf ears.

      Ridiculous. Needless to say, I consider Google something of an enemy, and try to warn people at LEAST not to use AdSense for their only income stream.

      Patricia
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  • Profile picture of the author sarkarkumar09
    if you really have got that much of time to meet your target..Dont get baffled..

    Just know the SEO as a whole..You can have a SEO Book for step to step guide..

    Then you decide your niche you like working in...and then content is the king as you know....keep on pouring good content..

    Things will look up to you!!
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Eh I am pretty sure the Google sniper method really violates the FTC rules big time. However I could be wrong on this. Anyways what you need is some type of membership site in which you create the content ahead of time and then drip it into the membership. Once you have the site set up you never have to add more content to it. Its going to take some work and time but then again all good things do. That would be were I would invest my time.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
    If I were you, I would set my sites a lot higher than $50 per day in 10 months.

    With some persistent focused effort, you can easily be doing $150 to $200 per day and more by the time 10 months rolls around.

    Plus, the goal of $50 per day is too low and you may fall short of that goal.

    So set your sites higher to like $300 per day in 10 months so if you fall short by
    a few bucks, it's still more than enough for you to not have to go back to work.

    - Jason
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  • Profile picture of the author CoolCaesar
    that amount is achievable in much less than that time frame ..

    through dedication and hard work you could be making a lot more in 10 months.

    but don't expect for nothing to fall out of the sky

    take action
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  • Profile picture of the author BigNorm
    If your main website is on skateboarding why not make it an authority site by having articles written continuously and posted on the site and then also have skateboard products for sale as well. You can also scrape youtube videos as well and link those back to your site. I remember seeing one post where a guy had multiple sites like that. He would post articles of no less than 600+ words a day and bookmark them. You could set up a ping.fm account to automate this process. As each article goes up you could also also pay someone at fiverr to promote it using SEO NukeX. There's a few people offering those jobs for $5. And if you're baffled about which topics to write about, grab keywords from Google keyword tool or any keyword reaearch tool you use, also yahoo answers is another good one to look at as well as more often than not people will ask the same question but in different ways. Set up an alert with Google Reader as well centered around your articles so when Google finds a question related to the topic you can answer it in part and then direct them to your website for a more indepth answer.

    I too would agree with scraping Adsense on your skateboarding site, I don't think the CPC is very high for the market, I'm only assuming this. If your major audience is kids, find between what age demo and look for products centered towards them. It's always harder marketing to younger crowd, things like skate-ware, shoes and ebooks maybe the go.

    I also agree with a couple of the other comments about setting your sights higher, look for a higher target, you'll work hard to achieve it.

    Best of Luck .
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  • Profile picture of the author vijayrc
    Really in most of the thread in WarriorForum talking about, I am making $xxx in a day or month. But no one is telling how to become an successful Internet marketer. I am really sad on this.
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    • Profile picture of the author William Prawira
      Originally Posted by vijayrc View Post

      Really in most of the thread in WarriorForum talking about, I am making in a day or month. But no one is telling how to become an successful Internet marketer. I am really sad on this.
      I don't know about the others, but If I have a way to earn much money and still increasing day by day, I wouldn't bother tell other people unless I make much more money than using the method that I have.

      It's simple. More people with the same knowledge, more people reaching out for food on the same plate. You can simply break your plate if you are not careful, right?

      I assume if it's only $50 a day, why not put up a website with heavy traffic on it, then sells space for ads, maybe 25x25 pixel size image with the cost of $100 / week? then If you have 4 people willing to pay for ads on your site, you can earn 400 / week.

      It's just my simple thought, never really try it myself.

      William.
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  • Profile picture of the author Knight_Rider
    Mmmmmm still didn't get you dude.Trying to get whole idea.any way thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Fazal Mayar
    i also can make a lot of money if i mastered seo but i dont try hard
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  • Profile picture of the author grayson
    $50 a day.. use fiverr
    Seriously, make 5-6 different accounts! Easy $
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  • Profile picture of the author rajivkumar900
    Hey friend to be honest you need few thing on different level.

    Mental requirment: you need to dedicated to your targets and Take Focus action.

    Second most important thing is : planning and execution and you need to do filtering on the Focus action which are delivering results.

    It doesnt matter what path you take whether its adsense,cpa,affiliate marketing,amazon, or your own product .. you must have targeted traffic .

    Third and most important thing you need is Traffic.


    Here are step by step to Generate some traffic and getting good Ranking in various search engines.


    Now Think about traffic generation methods you can use to drag lots of targeted traffic.

    Here are few which are comman for every one.

    1. Article marketing (Submit your content to top article directories like ezine,goarticle,articlecity,articlealley etc.)

    (This is going to help you in two ways first it gives your website quality backlinks on the other hand you will recieve direct traffic on your site )

    2. Go for Web 2.0 sites ..like hub pages, blogger, squeedo,webpaint etc. these are already google loving authority websites where you will get direct traffic and authority link juice as well.

    3. Press Release: this is most effective method to generate lot of quality links and getting some direct traffic.

    4. Forums: its little time consuming method but it works best in order to have very targeted audience so never ignore this path.

    5.Video marketing, if you can create some basic videos for your site just go and use TubeMogul | Video Advertising Built for Branding to distribute your videos to top videos sites.

    6. Book marking can help you to get your links index and bit of traffic (I really dont think for very big traffic from this source but people use it and few sites really works well in some niches.)

    7.RSS and ping can help to find your site fast so must use it and content syndication will increase backlinks as well.

    8. Creating short reports and distribute it to various sources can help you to drag lots of traffic.

    9. blog commenting: this is going to give you some quality backlinks very fast and you can expect some traffic as well.

    10. Guest book posting: this is going to help you a lot if you do some guest book posting in your same niches.

    List can be go on and on...so conclusion is

    1. set up your site.
    2. select your keywords to target.
    3. start building backlinks and do all traffic generation methods to generate good traffic. (my advice is instead of focusing lots of traffic generation methods just select any of them and try out that for certain time period and scale that up.)


    Focus Action is key to success.

    if you do planning and know what you are doing then you are surely going to make much more than 50 dollars a day.

    hope this helps.

    Thanks.
    Rajiv
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  • Profile picture of the author omk
    There is no best way to make money in IM. It all depends on you and what you have a knack for. Since your time is limited, I think you should focus on one thing and really go after it. Too many times beginning marketers do the butterfly. They start on one thing, then they get an idea for something else or they may see something they think will make money and jump to that. You'll never get anywhere with that approach. Whatever type of marketing you try next, give yourself at least 3 months to make it work and for you to see results. Spreading yourself too thin over multiple marketing pursuits will get you nowhere.




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    How has this thread been raised from the dead? It was last posted on 18th January 2010!!!
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