rmwebmaster

hi i have tried to follow the process but failed i to do so my site stuck to 11 position from last 4-5 days no luck i am lossing hope now

General Office Supplies , Cotton Rope

big_t

^ How old is the site?
And have you done anything to/for the site since you launched it? (update content, backlinks, etc)

Big Kahuna SEO

Just an interesting note on the recent posts in this thread. People, IMHO, this is a VOLUME game. A few of you are trying to micromanage 1 site and checking the SERP's daily on where your site stands. Instead of this, might I suggest banging out another site? This process should be like a machine: keyword research, build site, build backlinks....repeat. Did you see me mention checking the SERP's? No...

Again, this is a volume game. Build as many sites as you can, don't worry too much about exactly where your site is on any given day, and earn money. The clicks will come but you can't micromanage/overanalyze/obsess about your sites.

clickbump

Well said :-)

I was about to say just about the same exact thing. If you are micromanaging a few sites you are going to be real miserable with this process. You have to let it go and bang them out repetitively and trust your research.

In my opinion, second only to work ethic, research and volume are the single biggest differentiators between those who make it and those who don't.

Chris-

I understand how it seems like that for those of you who already know that the method works, but for what I'd call medium-level-newbies like myself, who have learned some things but not enough to know how to have any method which makes a profit rather than a loss (when eventually outsourced) yet, just repeating what doesn't work is not a sensible strategy! I've tried several "methods" so far, and all of them that I've tried lose money if one follows the exact instructions. So I am currently focussing on putting up enough "click-bump-type" sites to see if the method as described will work for me, or if I need to find out why not! No point in doing more than a test set, until I know it works!

My first site went in at #14, and in a day moved up to #13 and has stayed there for a week, and gets less than one AdSense impression per day. I'll put up a few more sites and see if some turn out better . . . as ClickBump says one might expect about 40% to start off on the first page (if I understand correctly), but if I put up 10 sites and none of them are on the first page (and none are getting much traffic), then I need to find out what I am doing wrong rather than repeating a failing method, and for other methods I've tried in the past, my questions and attempted improvements haven't got me into the profit yet . . . hope this method is better (or that I've learned enough of the "secrets" that don't get mentioned!)

So, to sum up, hard work at repeating something is only sensible IF you've got a working method, and some of us are not at that point yet


Chris-

culvers

Hi first of all thanks for this great information. I have a couple of questions:

When registering your domain, is there a limit to how long the keyword should be?

For example, I discover a keyword that has 3000 exact searches per month, all in URL search for that keyword provides 200 matches, all in title shows 1000 matches. Top 10 google results for that phrase are mainly junk - larger sites with 0 or 1 page rank articles about this keyword. The google adwords bid rate for this keyword is $2 per click. This is looking perfect right?

So the keyword is long, something like "How to eat icecream on sunday" should i register the domain howtoeaticecreamonsunday.com ?? is that not too long? or should i shorten it down to something like eaticecreamsunday.com ?

Secondly, should i really cram all the information in on one page? is that the best way? And should i use the keyword in the heading tags, say 3 or 4 heading tags spread throughout the page?

Finally, is there any need for a privacy policy since i am not collecting any info... or is that a really newbie dumb question lol

Thanks!!!

Chris-

ClickBump said "I don't venture into 4 keyword niches. For me, the magic number is 2-3. My top earning site is a two word niche (total blessing and Manna from Heaven kind of deal) and my second top earner is a 3 word site. The others fall evenly between 2 and 3 word niches. I have no 4 word niches."

Chris

garryc

As a complete newbie to IM and micro niche I'm hoping the gurus here can answer a couple of questions.

Can someone explain the difference between ranked and indexed?
How do you know when your site gets indexed? I have a couple of sites up and have added them to Google Webmaster tools but so far nothing is showing up for them.
How do you tell where you are ranked for your KWP? I have a micro niche site that's been up for a few weeks and have no idea where is stands for the KWP I'm using.

thanx
Garry

Dexter007

1. Your site gets indexed first and then gets ranked accordingly for different keywords. So index first and once indexed, you get ranks fluctuating.

2. Suppose you have a site: abc.com. Go to google, search site:abc.com and if you get any results, your site is indexed.

3. You can use search engine rank checker for your keywords. Google it and you will find many rank checkers. They will give you ranks for your keywords in multiple search engines at once.

Hope it helps in clearing your confusion..

GSX Enterprises

I guess I don't understand. How is this different from any other WP plugin as far as SEO goes? I read through and while yes it is optimized for AdSense what SEO benefits does it have over any other plugin, or for that matter the stock WP Plugin?

-Safe Travels

garryc

Dexter, thanx for clearing that up for me.

Chris-

A question to ClickBump if you'd be so kind . . . one of your points in your method is "Launch a tightly focused, insanely optimized, seo savvy, css based site that showcases your niche's KWP with laser focus.".

I am writing the main post on my new ("click-Bump" style) sites entirely focussed on the exact subject of the keyword (and thus use the keyword, and other closely related contextual keywords, to a natural degree), but wonder if any particular keyword-density, or other such technical factors, can be used to help get better rankings. Are there any free tools to check such things, and what stats should one aim for?

For example, if I write naturally about a keyword I understand well, my keyword-density is usually far above the 2% required for an EZA submission, but I don't know if my natural use of keyword-density when writing about a subject I know well, or EZA's much lower density (which I find unnatural, as when I write about a subject I tend to use the keyword that defines it, a lot!!), would be best for my rankings???? So, can you suggest what keyword densities (or other such technical on-page SEO factors) to aim for, and how to check them for free, and how much difference to google position it is likely to make!

Thanks in advance for any info on this.

Chris

Chris-

WOW . . . one of my new sites in at #5 today!!!!! (one at #8, one at #14). That's 2 out of 3 on the first page. Amazing!!

BIG thanks to Clickbump for a method which WORKS!!!!!!

This is a HUGE step forward for me, after many years of gradually learning but still losing money, at last a very efficient method which gets some real results. WOW


Chris

clarky79

Apologies if this has already been answered, but what's the benefits with using Wordpress over Xsite Pro and the XFactor template?

Is there definite evidence that using Wordpress works better, or just down to personal choice?

GSX Enterprises

And personally I don't understand why this isn't just a Wordpress Template with an AdSense slot at the top. What makes it more optimized for Google SERP'S over any old WordPress Theme? Isn't that up to on and off page SEO efforts?

-Safe Travels

warrior123

Nope, there is no advantage using one over the other.

It's just personal preference.

garryc

Tom or ClickBump

How do you add/submit an RSS feed for these micro niche sites? I'm not familiar with RSS and don't really know how to create it

thanx
Garry

rmwebmaster

This is not a big success as these are micro niches so getting to first page is very very easy but to get in top 3 is difficult i have made a blog about 18 days old and now it is on 7th position but what the problem is it is not getting upward in ranking now .and i also asked this question here at forum but truly i got nothing from here .i have done article submission , directory submission,social bookmarking ,blog commenting ,forums sign up . And i hope this is more then enough because it is a micro niche so what to do now my sites name is Wedding Photo Frames and the keyword is wedding photo frames .waiting for a magic ...

General Office Supplies , Cotton Rope

cyberskyfox

Hi,

This has been a great post read...

There is a site Ajax Whois 2.0 - fast domain name search and whois that let's you know if domain is available as your typing it.
May I suggest to cross reference it w/ http://iwhois.com as sometimes ajax will say it's available, but then when you try to register it, it's taken...as it happened to me before...

VaultBoss

Cannot comment on the way this particular WP theme is made as I didn't check it... BUT one thing is for sure:
"Not all WP themes are born the same..." - SEO wise.

I won't make any blatant postings here on what works best and what not, but definitely, the way a theme is coded has great impact on the rankings, due to a multitude of factors.

I happen to have a preference for certain solutions I found to be the most effective, so if you need more info, ask me in private.

Steve Lorenzo SEOVirtuoso
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becandluke

I know someone mentioned domain age way back in this thread but it was dismissed as not being very relevant.

I am finding when looking at the competition in a niche that you may find a few low pr's (0, 1, 2) and lower backlinks (<50 'ish) with many not being well optimized for on page SEO but a sea of red (for market samurai users) of domain ages 8 and 10 and 13, etc.

At this stage this is just an observation. I am jumping into these niches if there is 1 weak spot that is lower backlinks and lower pr and non-SEO optimized and have yet to get any data back to make any conclusions.

I was just wondering if anyone had some real experience of beating those old buggers in the top 10 (sorry all old buggers here ). If yes and you did beat them was there a weak spot.

Oh and one more thing. I read somewhere within this beast of a thread that seeing a lot of ONLY root domains in the top 10 SERP's was a bad thing too. Any input here?

Cheers.

M A Kay

Is there anybody knows how to put images on the post/page title using ClickBump template?


Thanks.

geoffcruz

@clickbump

Hi dude, i have read that you like .com .net and .org but what if you are on a budget can i use .info as my domain. Is it more difficult to rank?

VaultBoss

Only humans and their preferences put more weight to one tld or another, the SE's don't!

All tld's are equally easy/hard to rank, according to your efforts and competition.

I'd say, if you found a very good KW rich domain name with .info extension, go for it!

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Sandy Cormack

I recently created a website with the keyword as the domain (call it keyword.org), installed Wordpress and have been building a site. There are about 8 pages total. As I neared completion yesterday I Googled the keyword just to see what would happen. My site is on the top of page 2 for that keyword - with a page indexed on Feb 21 (which has since changed). This despite the fact I have no backlinks, SEO plugins, etc.

I'm sold.

Sandy Cormack

Creativity Training, Strategic Planning, Personal Development, Organizational Development, and Lead Guitar

clickbump

Sweet! Great work Sandy. Actually I've experienced that being at the top of page 2 is preferable to being at the bottom of page 1, fwiw

However, top 6 on page one is where the money is. Hopefully your site can creep up there over time.

clickbump

Hi MA, if you haven't done so already, send an email to support@clickbump.com along with your paypal transaction# and I can help you out. I have a complete support infrastructure for this so we don't clog up the forums with CE2 related questions

clickbump

Well said Steve! I would echo what you've said and I'd add to it that perhaps 95% of the wordpress themes that you can get are completely bloated with excess markup and overly complex css.

If you have to use >200 lines of css just to style your theme, it really defeats the purpose of using css!

I strive for clean, validated, structurally sound xhtml markup, along with a single css stylesheet that fits under 50 lines of code. Most of my themes are under 30 lines of css and are pixel for pixel identical to the un-remixed versions (and that's including the workarounds for IE6 compatibility).

I like the challenge of taking popular template designs and remixing them in seo'd & validating xhtml and with a fraction of the css, and tuning them for Adsense publishing and monetization. An exact pixel-for-pixel rendition of the original design, but streamlined for speed, search ranking and clicks.

Here's an example, I took the inove theme (popularized by George Brown's Google Sniper Course) and remixed it down to 51 lines of pure css. The original theme's main stylesheet (see attached), consists of over 1200 lines of css!!! (and there are 6 of them in total over 1700 lines of css!)

Attached Files

inove.txt (22.1 KB, 42 views)

trynagetit

AMAZING thread. I have been reading it for the past 2 days off and taking notes, I'm just wondering how much do each of these sites cost to set up, just the initial $10-$15 for domain name and host? or do the prices go up when you get more traffic. Also, if I make a site and it bombs is that intial $10 all im out of?

One more thing; Do you have any tips to NOT get banned from ad-sense while doing this.

Thanks

Chris-

Well, one of mine is up to #3 now (after about 10 days), and now all of my first few sites are on page 1, so I must be doing something right

Yet I am only making about one hundredth of what ClickBump says he makes.

I'll keep working at it, keep backlinking and see if I can get my sites any higher.

Chris

clickbump

Hi Trinagetit, Thanks for taking the time to digest the thread! The main thing you need to know is summed up on post #3. That's the real nugget of information that I'd suggest you take away.

The beauty of this method is just that. Its a numbers game and the cost of failure is the cost of your domain registration fee and your time of research and site deployment. If you are using good, quality, automated tools, the time spent per site is negligible.

It costs me around $5 per site for the domain registration. I use my 1and1 affiliate link for every domain I purchase (a $2.50 discount off the current domain registration price) and I get free privacy with that to boot. My web hosting is pennies per site. I use hostgator and bluehost. Hostgator chat support is second to none. Bluehost is not far behind. They both offer unlimited bandwidth and traffic and that has not been a concern to date. I only have one site that gets in the 100 impression range consistently.
1) Don't click on your own ads. Never, ever, never, ever. It would be instant banishment to never never land. And even if you could get another account, the URLs on your old sites will not be eligible for Adsense.

2) Keep it white hat - Don't resort to questionable tactics to get traffic or try to game the system or the search engine. If you stick to the fundamentals and don't try to get cute or greedy, you will be fine.

3) Give the user real value. Take a look at your site before you install Adsense and make sure that a user searching for your main KWP is going to find value. Even if you only have one page of content, make that one page a truly compelling match for their search.

ztws

clickbump - do you write all of your own content or do you outsource the creation? How much content (# of articles, length) do you do per site?

big_t

I have a question for CB or anyone else that can answer this.
Isn't there an additional fee to transfer a domain registered with another company to be under your webhost?

rmwebmaster

hey click bump big bad day for the method my adsense got banned due to this method Wedding Photo Frames any of you know what to do i am not succeded to get at higher than 5th there any help also i dont know keyword research i think any body have a solution of keyword research for this micro niche some points to remember while doing that

and most important why adsense got banned ?

General Office Supplies , Cotton Rope

ztws

Re:adsense

Email google and ask them specifically why your account was banned. Tell them you were not aware of any rules you had broken and would like a comprehensive explanation as to why the account was closed.

Kay King

You can ask google - but it's unlikely you will get a full explanation.

The site is less than a month old and has one page of content. Did you tell family and friends about it? Did they click on your ads? That would be enough to ban a new adsense account. If the images were too close to the ads, that could be a problem, too.

I've posted before that I think site owners are taking a risky path in launching one page sites. I know some products tell you the author has had good results from one page sites - but those authors aren't new to site building or to adsense.

Too many marketers are focusing on the mechanics of examining stats daily and trying to backlink and create good ranking for sites that offer no quality to the visitor.

To me, it's useless to flog a site that is only a webpage, not a full web site. It's clearly an attempt to manipulate rankings for MFA sites - and it will cause problems.

kay

big_t

Hey rmw,

I agree with Kay above.
I would guess that it was the site's format & content.
There's only one page of real content and the content itself is not much. Also there needs to be more value provided to the user by your site. In this case there's not much substance to your content. The site screams MFA.
That's just my view. But I know Google does not like these kinds of sites.

trynagetit

Thanks again Clickbump for the tips, I really appreciate it as this is my first venture into IM. I have the basics down and have purchased a few domains, I'm going to set them up today and see how it goes.

As for Rmwebmaster, I think you may have been banned for your content as well, it didn't seem to have enough good information on it.

Also another possibility is, you posted a link to your site on this forum and someone clicked your ads a lot to try and get you banned.

clickbump

Hi rmwebmaster, sorry to hear about your account situation.

I was hoping that, when I made these suggestions in response to you asking me for a site critique, that you might have taken the suggestions to heart. Perhaps you did and it was too late. You will probably never know.

As I noted in that post, there were some big red flags screaming out from your site, and from your somewhat rushed approach.

Another red flag, you posted your site link here. It shows some inexperience. I'm afraid this inexperience caught up with you in this instance. This is what I was referring to when I indicated...

If you decide to stay in IM, take it slow and learn to crawl before you walk. You had some real issues with impatience in your responses and your approach. That's perhaps the biggest issue that might point to the underlying problems you've encountered.

I wish you well and I hope you heed the advice you are getting here.

rmwebmaster

a simple question if i get another account of adsense and use the adsense on the site on which it was banned with some more content will it get banned again .

General Office Supplies , Cotton Rope

enwereuzo

Can you explain more on number 5 for me.

clickbump

@enwereuzo - you need to strike a well defined balance between a highly focused site which has content relevancy for the given search term, with the need to not make the site useless without the ads. You also need to consider the performance of the site. If its bloated with useless markup, its going to slow things down for the user and they will hop right back to where they came from. So quality of content and speed of delivery are the key things here.

In other words, if you launch with 1-3 product pages initially, along with the supportive pages (about, contact, privacy, etc), and you make the content on those pages highly useful to the reader, you will stand a much better chance to rank hightly in the serps right out of the gate. So you've satisfied the viewer and the engine and that's the key balance you are working with. And the speed at which your site performs, I believe, has an impact on G's opinion of it.

And assuming you are not a web designer who can code xhtml/css markup, you will be way ahead of the game, if you can utilize a site building platform and supporting theme system that enforces good seo and valid xhtml markup using highly optimized css for presentation. (by highly optimized, I mean not bloated, as I find most popular wordpress themes to be grossly overburdened with css code bloat.)

As an example, a template design that I really love, its called Inove. It has 1700 lines of css! There was no way I was going to serve a site through that! I ended up remixing the exact same design, pixel for pixel, in 52 lines of css. Can you guess which version a user will prefer in terms of speed of access to your content (and ads)? They both look identical, side by side, but if you look under the hood, you'll see a completely different picture. One has been meticulously crafterd for speed and fidelity to the original design, the other looks great, but sacrifices on speed.

A well crafted site building system can do that for you.

^^^ This of course is a shameless plug, since I built just such a system, but just pick a tool that delivers on these promises, whatever you do, and your time can be freed to concentrate on the most important thing of all 5 fundamentals to my method, which is niche selection.

Bottom line: The things you have the most control over are the tools that you employ to run your business. And you have to think of it as a business and run it that way...

Make sense? That's what #5 is all about.

trynagetit

Ok, I am getting my content written for my sites, I am doing multiple articles per site and I want to know what is a no no as far as content goes.

1. Can I put pictures of the product or item I'm talking about in each article or should I stick with just text?

2. Say I'm writing for example, articles about the different types of Oreo cookies available, can I put a link in my article linked to amazon or any site where the viewer can go to purchase the product?


edit: scratch number 1, I seen a post a few pages back that said to add pics.

clickbump

Search the forum for [XFactor article]. He's the master at that. I spend more of my time on niche selection and rely on my automation tools for the rest (not autoblogging, but auto-siting, you could say). Very rapidly building a site that's 95% done when you click the button to create it.

Right, pictures are your best friend in this game. They instantly convey to the user that they've landed on the right spot. Then they glance your titles, excerpts, headers and overall content density. They make very quick judgement decisions at this point.

Its critical that you have some callouts and scannable paragraph headings so that they don't linger too long and lose their instinct to act. You want to engage them to stay in purchase mode and quickly decide to take the blue pill as the preferred (and only) exit...

That's why having scannable content is very important. Just to be clear, what I'm referring to by "scannable" is the ease with which the viewer's eyes can quickly glance across your page and assimilate a positive response to their need.

Some good ways to do this is have compelling headlines and paragraph headers that are in boldface and/or italics to lead the eye down and back up to the heat zone.

robrave

clickbump,

I'm gonna try your method but I might need your help. I'll try to do a keyword research and get at least 5 candidates, and gather enough data if it is feasible and can I get your opinion as the last call for action?

thank you.

clickbump

@robrave, I'd be glad to help. Check out post #3 of this thread (back on page 1) and let me know if you have any questions as you follow that plan of attack.

l3y

how much you earn last month?

clickbump

February > $889.38

Total estimated earnings this month through 3/9 > $1,319.71

LK

Hey Clickbump

In terms of images, do you use free stock images, paid stock or just random ones found on google's image search etc?
I think I ought to add some pics to my site (right now it's white and not all that interesting looking) but I don't want to break any rules by stealing other peoples pics...

guest

And how many sites do you own??

Great thread by the way. Learning new stuff everyday