Craig McPherson

Chris,

Seeing another site using Scotts methods only validates your decision to go after it. It firstly proves that your keyword research is at the high end. Personally, I salivate when I see simiar sites because I know that through "c+b" (content and backlinks), I will get that top spot.

Follow Scott's advice to the letter and be focused on getting to top 3. One question to ask yourself is "Am I NOT doing something that Scott says to do.

Go for it mate.

Craig

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Chris Kailong

Thanks, Craig, that's inspiring. I guess I'm pretty new to all of this and am not sure how to go about competing on backlinks, or even if it's worth the effort.

Chris Kailong

A quick question: How do you track which adsense clicks are coming from which ads on which sites?

John Williamson

You can set up custom tracking channels in your Adsense account.

johnharvard

You mentioned that one of the plugins that you used was google sitemaps. After creating the sitemap and submitting it to google, can I delete the plugin? I'm not going to be doing any additional pages so the sitemap isn't going to change.

If I delete it, and then try to view the sitemap.xml on google webmaster tools I get an error saying that the css file isn't found.

So this leads me to believe that I can't delete the plugin.

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clickbump

Hi John, that's a really good question.

When you submit your sitemap to google webmaster tools, you are submitting a reference to the URL where the google bot can locate it on your site. You also specify the name of the file, which is usually sitemap.xml

Therefore, google bot will revisit your site on a regular basis to check your sitemap.xml file and use the information it finds there to update its index for your site.

This sitemap.xml file is stored on your website and is updated each time you update it manually or automatically based on the settings you've got in the sitemaps config options.

Hope that helps...

Soulofinfamy

Your methods are very similar to mine, lol you've just been doing it longer. You thought of it first.

markowe

Wow, this thread runs and runs! Can I have some honest feedback? Is it REALLY still that easy to rank tiny niche sites on page one overnight?

My experience is, no, it is not anymore. My feeling is that the Google algo has changed, and EMDs just aren't given the same weight they used to be.

It is taking WEEKS now to see any results and even then there is no guarantee of a page one ranking. Without adding more content and doing at least SOME backlinking it just ain't happening, for me anyway. I would be VERY happy to be corrected!

Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise

4morereferrals

Ive got micro - mini - authority sites running right now - and easy page 1 serps are problematic - even for what i'd consider LOW comp terms.

New emds are struggling - whereas older partial emd's with .com or .net are not. .biz and .info and .us for me are problematic.


micro = 3-5 articles - unique 400-500 words ea

mini = 10 articles - unique - 400 - 500 words ea

authority = 25-50 articles - 400-600+ words each - review and general info style


One of my auth sites has 3 phrases on page one [ 6 - 10 ]and 3 on top of page 2 for popular software app and related hardware gizmos for it ... picked up a lot more long tail traffic but clicks, cpc went in the toilet and ctr did too.
8k + exact local with a $22 cpc in GAKWT ...

totally baffled there ... [ frustrated to no end as well .. ]

in hindsite - i think id rather have grabbed the .com vs. these other tld's

- my-keywordsv.com vs. my-keywords.biz

content alone is NOT helping increase serps for main $$$ keywords - but for random traffic off the uber low comp - 4-5 word long tails for sure. We''ll see if that over time converts into more clicks.

good news is i can convert rather easily over to amazon or other model on most of these.

markowe

Gotta say my experience is very similar.

I still wonder if there are unknown factors affecting me (I dunno, like a compromised hosting IP address or something), so I would be keen to hear from those who are still cleaning up with this kind of method. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking Clickbump, I just think the game is changing and we all need to stay on the ball.

Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise

Randy Miller

I'm here to tell you that I think Scott "Clickbump" Blanchard is a CRAZY man!

But I love him (in a professional sort of way).

Two weeks ago, late on a Sunday afternoon, I attempted to do a clean install of theme ver 4.0 rp on a new website (domain). The install messed everything up and I lost access to my admin panel. I had to use my Core ftp to remove the theme and get back to the default. I sent an email to Scott and asked for his suggestion on what to do, then I left to go out to dinner.

When I returned home at 10:00 PM, I already had three emails from Scott trying to get more information and resolve the problem. I thought to myself that I admired Scott's dedication but it seemed to me a bit loony for him to be working so hard on a Sunday evening. I responded that I would follow up with him on Monday morning.

At 7:30 A.M. on Feb. 14 Scott and I started to exchange emails. For over two hours we were in touch trying to resolve the installation problem that I was having.

Scott was able to diagnose that I had a very old php script running on my server. He suggested that once I updated that script all should be well. And he was right! Once I updated the php script, the Clickbump theme installed flawlessly.

To say that I'm impressed with Clickbump's customer service is the understatement of the century. I have full confidence going forward that I can purchase any product that Scott offers and will get more than I expect. Plus if I have any problems, I'll just send him an email on Sunday evening and order in dinner while I await for his response.

Thank you crazy man!

markowe

Props to the man. If only all IM people provided the same level of support. I try to with my product (a free Wordpress plugin) but it really can be hard work sometimes, hours and hours of work helping people out for seemingly no return. But I think glowing testimonials like this one go a very long way

Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise

Captain_Morgan

Hey Guys

I do have to agree here, Scott offers a Brilliant Customer Serivce, any questions to him is answered promptly, if he doesnt get back to you straight away dont worry give him time he will respond, just remember he is HUMAN after all and what he does is A+++

Brilliant Work Scott, Keep It Up!!!

Batman

Hey Scott

Do you offer an affiliate program form clickbump?

Thanks

Batman

Batman

Never Mind Scott..

I joined and found it...

Clever... very clever

Tortue

I don't believe there is a guarantee for anything in life but that doesn't stop us all from trying

In my experience, the EMD's seem to be still holding weight. I dug into my research last night, found my keyword, EMD and settled in to build the site. I use an extremely close match to clickbump's criteria except my target didn't require the minimum $1CPC as I was aiming for a CPA product.

I registered my domain, completed my set up, pages, 2 articles and then off to bed I went.

Woke up this morning to find the homepage sitting at #11 and my 1st article at #39.... Against 14 MILLION competing pages (keyword without quotes)

banacat

Launched my first EMD on January 19th, it debuted on page 1, disappeared completely, came back, and for a couple of weeks danced between page 1-10. During this time it was getting very little traffic, maybe a few hits a day. It was a bit discouraging and I sort of forgot about it.

It finally settled at the #3 position on the 20th of this month and stayed there, and my hits shot up and I got my first click. Now it's getting several clicks a day consistently and creeping upward.

I should have no problem getting to the #2 position, maybe article writing would help push it there? I'm not sure. Is there even a profit increase going from 3 to 2?

Anyway, it takes awhile, a month in my case, but it worked on my first try. I thought other people would appreciate the timeline breakdown. I definitely wish I would have started out with 5+ sites to make the wait easier.


Thanks for the great thread

Todor Pr

Hello Scott,
for my main keyword is it better to use 2 or 3 word keyphrase?
Example: blackferrari.net or blackferraricars.net
Google Kw. Tool says:
black ferrari - 2900/1300 exact (Global/Local USA); CPC: 1,50$;
Google search: "black ferrari" - 69 000; intitle + inurl:12 900

black ferrari cars - 390/140 exact (Global/Local USA); CPC: 1,55$
Google search: "black ferrari cars" - 94 000; intitle + inurl:2 500

Also there is already blackferraricars.net (the 3 keyphrase of my kw) that appears on google first page at number 8, but it is a Clickbump simple page with only 15 BL, so not big competition.

But my question is... It's obvious that the more searched keyphrase is the 2 word one, but the 3 word keyphrase also can rank for broad search like: ferraricars and blackcars, though the 2 word can't.

I'm planning to go with clickbump theme, but today I got shocked... when type in google both my 2 phrase keyword and the 3 phrase keyword... (etc black ferrari cars or just black ferrari) in brackets or not, the first place is occupied by a website with my 3 phrase keyword... as I mentioned this website is a landing Clickbump page, domain is registered 5 months ago, has 15 back links from a Article wheel (several articles even not spun, published in crappy websites with PR0,1,2) .

I also use Clickbump, so does it really make sense to compete in this niche... even if I beat him (as it's too much possible), there will be on first page of Google, two almost the same websites in same niche...

Should I enter the battle or to find other niche?

webwowster

Hi Scott
I have just purchased the whole package, and am looking at switching most of my already established micro niche sites over to the clickbump system. It all looks great, but there is one thing I can't figure out. Is there an option to input seperate adsense custom chanel ID's into the engine? I can see that you can enter your publisher ID, but i like to see how my sites are performing seperately, and track them seperately?

clickbump

Yes, you can paste individual ad code on a post-by-post basis into the "Custom Ad Code" block which you will find below the post content editor. This allows you to have custom ads for each post. Any post that does not have this code, will default to the global ad settings you've specified in theme options.

I've got a step by step tutorial on how to do this here and here:

(I'm illustrating this example using my new "Better Blue" template, a 2011 CE4 remix and update inspired by the popular "Bluesense" theme, but the techniques apply to any CE4 template)

webwowster

Thanks Scott
I have a problem with all of my posts showing a 404 page not found error, I have the permalinks set at /%postname%/ , when i try swapping back to default I dont get that problem any more and the posts show, so i swap it back to /%postname%/ and get the problem again?:confused:

John Williamson

It's never necessarily been easy to get page-1 rankings overnight. Some just get lucky more or less with EMD's sometimes when there is extremely low competition. For me, 'weeks to see results' is usually typical, but no matter how long it takes, I eventually get them there. Some just take way longer than others for many different reasons, some unknown. But anyway, it IS definitely still possible, despite what some may say.

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ess-model.html

dlinden

Hey Scott, don't know if I missed it but how does the new google algo change affect this method? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.



Dave

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Fantastic. Very well posted. Thanks dude!

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FreeI

This question is for either Clickbump, Craig, or John

After some research I've noticed how well the clickbump sites outperform similar sites for the same KW's. How difficult is it to capture the first page or top 3 with a TLD where the keyword is first in the domain name?

The other sites ranking 1-10 have the following PR
6,3,6,4,3,5,-,3,2,5

Following clickbump's method there is only one zero or non-ranking site on the first page, and that's out of 1,340,000 results. I run into quite a few of these KW's and many of them have great products to promote as well. This KW also has a nice CPC and low competition.

Thanks in advance,

johnharvard

question for Scott: How do you feel about adding additional pages after getting to page 1? Would that hurt staying on page 1?

The good news is the system works. I'm running at about 40% success in getting my sites on page 1. The problem I'm having is I'm getting lots of clicks but so far very few conversions. I say "few" but I mean zero.

I was thinking that adding additional pages using related searches would help reduce bounce but I don't want to throw a monkey wrench into the seo engine.

John Williamson

In short, it depends on what/who those sites are on page 1, and whether or not they have the keyword in their HTML title tag and domain name. For your domain, you want an EMD, not just one where the keyword "is first in the domain."

Doubleup

Hello, i have an adsense site using the new ce4. A couple of questions regarding adsense ad placements within ce4.

Is there a way to specify where the main ad block is positioned? I have my ad block of 336x280, i enter it's code and my publisher ID within the ads section of the clickbump plugin and it inserts my ad block right at the top of the page. Ideally, i'd like to have a bit of text and images above it. Is there a way to do this, as at the moment i have to do it manually, specifically inserting the adsense code into my html in my desired location.

Also, i'd like to place a link unit in the side bar, preferably above my site menu, but if not then below my site menu. I can place the link unit below my site menu via the ads section in the clickbump plugin, and it appears on every page which is great, but it also appears on my contact us and privacy policy pages which i don't want. Is there a way to make it so that the link unit's appear on all pages but the contact us and privacy policy pages?

Thanks in advance

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clickbump

Hi John, if you are having bounce issues, it could be a variety of reasons but all of them are fixable.

Some possible causes and recommended solutions are below..

Problem: Landing page is too busy (ie, too many options and paths).
Solution: Clean the page up, remove clutter. Focus attention on the core content to lead them to the conversion.

Problem: Content is not relevant to the search topic.
Solution: Make sure that your content accurately answers the question of the search. (You've got the hard part behind you - a page 1 spot. Now optimize for the conversion).

Problem: Little to no "information scent". Your users can't quickly determine from the presentation of your landing page, if they've landed on the right page.
Solution: Make sure your visuals, which are the first thing the user will naturally fixate on, are spot-on matches for the search and convey to the user "You've landed on the right place. Your search is almost over. You are about to get answers."

And most important of all...
Once you've addressed any or all of these recommendations, ask your wife or girlfriend to have a look at the page, but time it so that she gets no longer than 2 seconds to take it in. Then close the browser down and ask her what the site is about.

If she can't answer as if she were searching for your #1 page site, go back to work and do it until she can tell you exactly what a typical searcher would type in to find your page.

4morereferrals

Hey Folks ...

I just wanted to drop by in here and advise that Scott, the world renowned doood known as Clickbump ... is the bomb!

This guy seriously has the patience of Job! :-) [ as they say ]

I thought I knew wordpress fairly well - but i got hold of all these templates and all the flexibility and I waaay over complicated things. I should have been a brain surgeon ...

Anyhow, Scott patiently and professionally walked me off the ledge via email support and gave me the links and 1 to 1 support I needed to make sense of the blog post tutorials and the ins and outs of his killer creations.

Im new to the adsense game - well < 90 days - and still learning a LOT of all the nuances there are to getting clicks. Maybe I shouldnt have been a brain surgeon? Geez.

Been meaning to drop in and advise I have all of his products Ive seen offered to date and they really do rock. They can be as flexible and intricate as you want or as simple and fast as you want.

Great to work with a guy so dedicated to the ongoing success of his clients and the future viability of his product and services.

Massive Kudos and thanks.

junilerick

Very easy to follow and a good rehash of some of the basics of SEO, thanks for the posting!

Steve Razz

Scott, Ive been following your method and have 11 sites up. Thank you for all the great information. I have been inactive for about 3 months due to the algo change. (wanted things to settle down)
I just launched a site with these stats:
- Using EMD
- GAKT Local searches = 1900
- GAKT, CPC $11.02 (Spyfu $7.15, 16 advertisers)
- SEO for firefox PR 0= 3
- SEO for firefox PR -= 1
- SEO for firefox Y!page Links = 5 sites under 50
- TLD = 2 word keyword with .org
- Content = 515 words (all unique)
- Site optimized with title tags, h1, h2 tags, etc...
My question is this; all the other sites ive launched with both Xfactor and CB all indexed with in 4 days and started ranking on page one and two within a week or so, two weeks tops, all with similar stats with the exception of the CPC, most around $1.50 or so. This site I launched 3 weeks ago is sitting in the 254 position (page 25) and dropping daily, it started out in the 180 position and now 254... Have you seen any dramatic changes in recenltly launched sites since the algo update?

The only difference is i am now using wordpress with some seo plugins, before i was using Xsitepro....

Am i just being impatient???

Additionally.. since the update ive seen normal consistent page views but only about 25% of the clicks

http://www.micrtoner.org

clickbump

Hi Steve, I think you are probably just looking at a site that got caught up in the traffic pattern of the big G. It sounds like you've been flying in pretty clean air thus far, so a little turbulence every now and again is to be expected.

About the algo change. I've not heard much at all from my users on it, good or bad. I'm in the process of launching a clickbump users forum now so I expect that to facilitate a better conversation on any notable trends that people are seeing.

These days, I have about as many people using my software for affiliate review sites as Adsense publishers. And I expect an even more diverse overall customer base once BizLocal hits at the end of the month. So that should be a really good cross section of data points with which to make decisions if you are on the inside of my eco-system.

At the end of the day though, its still about answering the search with the most relevant content.

alco

I have a number of EMD sites with low competition but the sites are not ranking on first page, they are on 2nd page at best. What kind of backlinks should I add to get them to rise given the recent algo changes.

Thanks.

mrgee

I have 4 sites up and running now, all adopting the clickbump method..
Niche key words min 1000 exact searches monthly ,<10,000 "allintitle" google search. at least 2 sites in the top 10 are ranked n/a or 0. Exact match domain names..
Seems I have done all I can.. seo optimized clickbump themes.. etc.
Now after about 1 month my sites just seem to slip backwards in the rankings..?
Have submitted some articles, got some backlinks..
Just as well I have patience.. cause I think Im gunna need it..

markowe

Honestly I am very surprised anyone is still managing to get these instant overnight rankings with EMDs. I just haven't had that experience lately - your experience seems fairly familiar to me too. Maybe Scott will say different, but I feel that the Google algo has changed in various respects in the last year or so since this thread began. The EMD is now no guarantee of a top-ten ranking and SOME backlinking has to be done to get anywhere.

My best effort in the last few months went to no. 4 after a month, did great for a few days, then disappeared again, then after about 2 weeks went back in at no. 1, then dropped again, and seems to have stabilised at around position 20 now, and that's with some promotion done too. In my opinion those little appearances on page one were some kind of test by Google to see how the site performs with high traffic - but who knows really.

But I just don't think you are going to see this method working in its original form nowadays - I would LOVE someone to prove me wrong, because I want the easy pickings too !

Who says you can't earn money as an eBay affiliate any more? My stats say otherwise

Steve Razz

Well my site as I mentioned earlier in this thread is still slipping and going into never never land.. im now in the 266 position from yesterday where i was in the 254 position.. I havent seen initial rankings like this since i started IM 6 mos ago, hopefully it will recover within the next few weeks, i have a feeling the recent changes made will affect this method dramatically... by the way this site started in position 180

http://www.micrtoner.org

cantfigureout

do clickbank junk really sell? is it any different than amazon or any other affliate network?

Steve Razz

Question Regarding Wordpress:

Im new to Wordpress and blogs, im using a theme template on my last site I created and noticed a tag cloud widget.. Is there any benefit these days to using tag clouds? do they help??

I noticed the site will become 86% optimized when using the a tag cloud vs 71% without.

Any thoughts using in niche adsense sites?

http://www.micrtoner.org

CTGrey02

So between the old XFactor method and this one, I tried a little test run.

First keyword was a 3 worder with 5400 local 8 advertisers bidding 1.87 to 2.31 according to Spyfu, if I get half of either of those per click I'd be reasonably happy compared to the 25 cents or so I receive on my other sites. This one has a PR N/A, a 0 and several 2's. For this one I used XFactors method, although I must say I only back linked twice, and I started to work on a link circle to hurry it along, before deciding against risking that kind of behavior on my adsense account.

The site debuted in the 120's then dissapeared from google altogether, this was February 4th. I later realized that it was listed with out the WWW so I removed the ads so that it wouldn't affect my other earnings, resubmitted it to the directories like that and waited, and waited and waited.

The other website I put up using Xfactors method at first. Found what I thought was a decent keyword. 6600 Locals, a handful of advertisers (now it says N/A but I know it still has plenty because I see the related ads) and bids in the 1.20 to 1.40 range. This site took forever to get listed. After 3 weeks of nothing I switched from using the Xfactor style template site, and installed word press. Within 3 days alone, just from doing that, and with the same content the site was listed on the 4th page of google. This past weekend it made the top of page 2, and yesterday/today the bottom of Page one. The first page for this one has 3 PR2's and several 5's.

The first website is now listed in the 3rd slot on page 2. I havent touched that other than to remove the ads and re-add the link. I still dont have ads on it and I wont put them on until I start seeing SE traffic.

I've recieved 2 hits on the click bump one so far, although its sporadic, and started up ads on that one again. I put the SEO stuff in this thread to work on a couple of my other websites as well and they're sitting in number 1 positions for their keywords as well. Unfortunately they're not high conversion or high paying topics (Discussion forums like this), but its nice to know that I can freely put this stuff into practice at will now. Lots more to learn. Thank you all for the info listed in this thread and the many others you've contributed to.

seo999

Hi All,

I have been through this thread with some great interest.

I would like to incorporate the idea of mini websites using Adsense but also sell an actual product at the same time.

I actually want to sell my own holidays/day trips/tours BUT want to make use of making extra money from Adsense.

I am not to worried about getting high in searches as I know how to do that but I have little idea about Adsense or what type of sites can Adsense be used on.

Anyway, my questions are:

1. How many global searches for a keyword phrase is good when it comes to Adsense? And, do you do an exact global search or a broad global search of the keyword? I have something that has 135,000 broad searches and 75,000 exact searches, the competition is high on first page but I am confident I can get in 5-6 position. For Adsense is this good if it is an attraction? I have another one which has 8000 broad searches but only 1500 exact keyword searches but this one will sell my product too.

2. What kind of sites can you Adsense on? I am thinking of using site builders from hostgators baby plan. Would this work? My sites will be longer term and I may add more pages to some of them in the future.

Thanks in advance,

Phil

Steve Razz

SEO999:
1)The more searches the better obviously, but you always want to research using exact match match type. I use Market Samuari as well as GAKT when looking for keywords. There will be much debate over competition, I always look at page 1 for keyword and view pr's with zero's or negative, if i have 3 then i start looking at quantity of competing sites, my rules are 100K or less using exact match. Other will say that competition dosent matter as you are only competing with page one providing there are sites you can dominate with proper seo and low pr scores.

2)You need to read the terms and conditions to make sure your not in violation when placing ads on site, you can easily lose your adsense account due to placement. I use hostgator as well and love it.. I use the unlimited domain plan not sure what they call it.

http://www.micrtoner.org

seo999

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your reply.

1. How much EXACT keyword search volume would be the minimum for a keyword? I mean I have some which only get 1,000 exact searches, too low?

2. I currently run tours but interested in the hotels side for Adsense as CPC is one of the best. Too competitive? My tour website is in 6-7 place on Google for hotels. The hotels get 40,000 exact searches and 250,000 broad searches a month. I never used Adsense before though as for one site thought pretty pointless.

3. I hear many people talking about domain extensions and using only the main ones but why does no one really mention country extensions? In my business then country extensions can be very powerful for picking up customers. For example if I was selling tours in Spain to the UK market then I would call the site something like spanishtoursdotcodotuk because it is the most popular Google network in the UK. Google will most of the time prioritise the domain which is the local domain extension. Of course this is if it were optimised the same as a .net or .org? Am I missing something here?

Thanks in advance,

Phil

FabianSmith

Seems to be a nice topic i m learning actually, it's looking amazing, thanks for posting.

Steve Razz

1. 1K will be my bottom but worth it if you have a kw with high cpc (I try to stay above 2K with a minimum 1.00 cpc)
2. 6 and 7 position or page? - It wont hurt to try an ad if you feel it wont hinder the look of the site.. in doing so, there are specifics on where the placement should be. if the site is in the 60-70th position you wont see much activity.
3. I have no experience with anyhthing other then .com, .net, and .org so I cannot anwser that question

http://www.micrtoner.org

seo999

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the info.

1. Yes, I will keep that in mind.

2. 6-7th position on page 1.

3. I am pretty sure country extensions can be more beneficial then net or org if you targeting a local market.

I have actually found a exact keyword search with 40,000 global searches. The competition is not so bad and easily beatable. CPC around 2$. My business is tourism so want to stick at what I know for the niche. I am looking at hotels as the main niche though, as good affilate programs as well as Adsense. I am looking now to do 7-8 page websites with each page title also very high for global searches. I know quite a bit about SEO so confident of beating a lot of high rank sites. However, not sure about the best way to promote affiliate programs and Adense on the pages to get best results. Any tips?


Phil

bfis108137

I have already bought your templates with the cb engine. It's really good stuff. Regarding keywords and domains, do you go after specific products and do you worry about copyright domains?

it2shoes

Had the same problem. I solved it by uploading a htaccess file with this code included:

Then it worked like a charm.

Steve Razz

I made the same change with my htaccess file and worked great with no more ?page id page names, but be aware that with your changes your new pages will need to be re-indexed ... no biggy for a new site but could be an issue with an established site.

http://www.micrtoner.org