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.