I got kind of tired of the whole publisher model and all the dealing with the support mails. So I decided to go full time affiliate, but of course my products still make some residual income on the side. I have been working on this particular high paying affiliate offer that had an amazing payout.

With quite a lot of SEO work I managed to rank in the top 3 for my main keyword which resulted in quite a lot of affiliate commissions, I have also had PPC turned on so I just got a little extra traffic juice that way.

The results are shown below for the most profitable week. I have also had the first 1/3 of my commissions already paid out on my paypal account.

Apparently due to the large amount of reffered sales and of course due to the large amounts of money I have made for them, they will give me a reward for my work. I have had several things to choose from but I think I like the flip mino the most

Okay so you have got to be wondering what I have been doing to make this kind of commissions, well it’s pretty easy.

Just read some of my previous posts about how to generate a formidable amount of backlinks in a short amount of time and you will have the answer.

Another thing I have found that has helped me a lot in the last couple of weeks regarding SEO is the Bookmarking Demon.

I have got to say it is one of the rare software programs that are absolutely worth their money alongside SE Nuke of course. I have added around 100 additional social bookmarking sites to the 100 that were already there by default.

So I can basically in a matter of minutes generate over 200 hundred backlinks to any of my pages. Which is pretty impressive, especially if it is combined with SE Nukes, article submission and rss submissions (with the feedity technique I have also mentioned in my previous post).

It is actually not that hard to rank to even the most competitive keywords. But I think that now, since I have a little extra finances to work with I will outsource the work.

I have already contacted a website that provides this kind of services and have been told that the work will start on Monday.

I am looking forward to watching how this works out and if it is profitable in the end. But now that I do have more financial freedom I am moving to PPC completely. I have gotten into a few of the best affiliate networks and will try my luck with some CPA offers.

So far I have only gotten one $35 lead in the last 3 days that I have started working on my PPC campaigns. I have only spent around $30 so far, but I plan on expanding that shortly.

Also I have to admit that I am a bit new to this whole PPC thing and now that I have already mastered SEO, I am thinking if it even is a good idea to start with PPC in the first place. But my goal is to achieve complete residual income and there is no better way to do this than with established PPC campaigns.

I think my focus will be on content targeting in adwords/YSM and I will see how this works out. And as far as this blog is concerned I don’t think I will completely abandon it anytime soon, so you can expect some further updates and PPC/SEO techniques as I go by.

I am trying to convince myself to update it more frequently, but I think that once a month seems quite right at the moment. Especially since I am really busy with all the work.

But you never know, maybe I have something good to tell you next week so don’t be surprised if you see a post in a couple of days and don’t be afraid to post a comment below, I appreciate any feedback.

David

So I have just been doing tons of sites and side projects that were taking up all of my time and I had almost completely forgotten about this blog. But here I am again and hopefully I will update it more frequently now, I’m aiming at 2 times a week.

My main business in the health niche has finally gotten to a stable income, at the moment it is bringing me around $500/month, my second business that is also in the health niche is bringing me around $200/month and last but not least I went back into affiliate marketing, with promoting clickbank forex and money making products.

I must have learned so much in the past 1,5 years of internet marketing that I grossed $600 the first week by doing maybe 5 hours per day. Now the second week was $547 but I didn’t work as much now. I will of course be promoting affiliate offers as well as making my own products in the future, to finally reach my goal of $1000/day.

At the moment I am put together aiming at $3000/month until sometime next month, which is pretty good. Especially since I was maybe earning only a hundred dollars per month when I first wrote on this blog. So in five months I went from 100 dollars a month to around $2200 per month at the moment.

Here is a screenshot of my affiliate account.

I have also started up another affiliate project that has huge payouts. Have already bought a .com domain. I have set up a simple wordpress blog with around 6 articles of which only two were completely unique and started building backlinks.

I have already had some articles submitted on qassia.com and just changed the backlinks to my review site so hopefully I will get some link juice that way. We are probably talking about 20 backlinks.

I have also submitted the site to around 20-25 social bookmarking sites and pinged them all. Next I took some articles and submitted them to social network sites (quizilla, hubpages, squidoo) probably around 10 all linking to my main site.

Also I have created rss feeds for my site with feedity.com and submitted them to rss feed directories so hopefully I can get some backlinks also that way.

Next I have submitted my site to around 1000 directories with free digixmas program (see directory submiting day) I have also found a way that you can submit automatically with digxmas to more than just 100 directories even if you don’t have the paid version.

First go to file>open directory list>manual directory list (check download from server) >open after you load up all the directories go to submit>costumized submit>check from/to>enter: from 1 - 1110 and it will start. This is just some seo I usually do for my sites to get them ran high in google.

I sometimes try to scrap some backlinks from forum signatures as well just to add some extra link juice. Here is another technique I have found some time ago that you can maybe find useful.

Okay, I have not tested this technique too much and some of you might consider it pretty useless since you can’t get these backlinks with anchor texts. But they are still high PR dofollow backlinks that probably do help you rank higher.

It is a simple commenting system, you basically just have to comment on high PR digg stories with a link to your site in the body of your comment. There are some stories that are from 100-300 days old and have PR from 3-5. You only get a dofollow backlink if you are on the first page of the comments. So here is the first problem.

Most of these stories that do get high Page Rank are so popular that they have hundreds of comments and it’s impossible to really get to top 50 (there still are some that have less than 50 and are high PR). So what can you do?

I have found out that you also do get a dofollow backlink if you reply to one of the first commentators. So all you got to do is to find a high PR story and make a comment to the first reply of that story.

So here are a few high PR 2,3,4 example stories:

http://digg.com/health/New_Contact_Lenses_Promise_On_Demand_Bionic_Eyesight
http://digg.com/tech_news/Cubicle_Culture_Tech_s_top_10_workspaces
http://digg.com/design/MIT_s_Guru_of_Low_Tech_Engineering_Saves_World_on_2_a_day

All these 3 have less than 50 comments so you don’t really need to reply to the first commenter.

To find the most popular and high PR stories just go to popular stories and sort them by 365 days.

http://digg.com/all/popular/365days

On a side note I am moving again on the end of the month so I might be short on time by the start of may.

I will report back probably in a couple of days with a new money making technique or just some advice and my current progress update!

David

I still got a lot of work to do and the design is coming along pretty nicely, will see how it actually turns out. I am still working on my old business like crazy for the past few days.

I got around 7 articles waiting for approval in ezinearticles and I am still posting 1 article a day to two of my blogs as well as submitting to social bookmarking sites constantly. I have seen an increase in traffic in the last two days. I had 37 visitors yesterday with 3 sales in one day and a total of 5 sales in the last 3 days!

So far one of the three titles I’m testing has a huge advantage over the other two. I’ll wait a while longer before deciding completely on which one to stick with.

I don’t really know how much submitting sites to directories help, but I decided to give it a honest try.

I submitted my site to probably around 1200 free directories with no reciprocal links in 14 hours. I made a gmail and gave the same email to all the directories the result in the image below.

So I will be able to tell you if I got a boost in my rankings or not

I used the digixmas program to submit my site to directories, it is pretty cool and free as well. I still got a lot to do today, probably like 3-5 more hours of work, so I better get to it right away. Will try to get some stats into the next post.

David

The hosting is taken care of, so we can already move on to the actual design of the site, the e-book graphics and the copy later today.

I think the best markets are in health niche, because people actually need instant cures and are willing to get it fast, so we decided to also start marketing there. We talked about some of the possible continuity programs we can make and upsells as well. The niche almost seems perfect, but  there is just no way to really know if it will convert.

In the beginning we are not going to have any product, we are just going to test the copy and the buy now clicks. Maybe we will put a signup form saying the product has been sold out and they can subscribe when it’s available again or something like that.

I should start working on the site design asap since we really want to get this started fast. We kind of have an idea to test 2 niches per month until we find one that converts. So we will try to drive as much traffic as humanly possible to the landing page in 14 days.

After that we will sit down and talk if the niche is worth marketing in and also start researching on the best product that we can actually offer and create for the market. As for my business, the traffic has increased again and I got another sale today so hopefully better times are at sight.

I still got some unique content to make for today, some social bookmarking left from yesterday and some blog posting for today as well. So probably with the first part of site design and the stuff I got to take care for my business I’m looking at least 4-5 hours of work. I just wanted to write on how we actually decided to start marketing in the niche we did. There are 3 rules we follow when choosing a niche.

1. First we are trying to focus on a niche where people are desperate for a cure. When people desperately need something like a cure, they are most likely to buy.

2. Since almost everything has already been tested and all niches have been explored for possible profits we start marketing only in niches where competition already exists. We DO NOT invent new niches and new markets. Now I’m not saying that can’t be profitable, I’m just saying we don’t want to waste our time with exploring and testing niches that we have no clue if they convert.

3. We don’t want to start marketing in any big niches, like for example just “weight loss”. We would for example start marketing in 3-4 four word niches depending on the traffic they have.

So we just simply go into google adwords keyword tool and do the research there, check the traffic, competition and all the good stuff.

That’s all for today

David

I actually extended Armando’s niche and will somewhat try to market there. I also added some keywords, changed the design and added testimonial photos.

At the moment I’m split testing 3 Headlines and sub headlines to see which one converts best, I’m also tracking the clicks of the visitors for the last couple of days since I found this free tool, but thats all I’m doing with the copy at the moment.

As for the marketing, I decided to run three different blogs that directly link to my site and generate some visitors. For my 30 day challenge I’m currently doing some bum marketing, since at the moment I can’t afford to PPC.

I’m writing 3 unique articles every day for 30 days and posting them on my blogs or ezinearticles. I’m basically submitting 1 article to ezinearticles and 2 to each of my blogs with unique content. On the 3rd blog I post duplicate content from my approved ezinearticles.

I’m testing a couple of things at the same time to see what exactly works. I’m also submitting every article to Social Bookmarking sites like propeller and digg, but not more than 4 a day for every post. I also got my blogs submitted to all the major RSS feed sites.

I have my product submitted on clickbank and so far I have only had 4 sales in the 10 days I started to market the product, that is from 210 visitors I managed to funnel on my landing page within the challenge.

For testing purposes the current product price is $8.95, I got to bring my SEO traffic a little bit higher in order to REALLY start seeing some money flow. I got a little bit of drop down in traffic in the last few days, don’t really know the reason but it’s probably random (I’m of course using google analytics). I’ve got plans for continuity and upsells in the future once I test the copy. But for now I’ll just try to dominate the niche. maybe use some PPC later on.

OK and here are some stats to go along with this post (most are copy paste from analytics) for the past 10 days:

All traffic sources sent a total of 210 visits

3.81% Direct Traffic

65.24% Referring Sites

30.95% Search Engines

Main traffic sources:

ezinearticles.com (referral) 72 34.29% (3 conversions)
(blog1).wordpress.com (referral) 37 17.62% (1 conversion)
google (organic) 30 14.29%
yahoo (organic) 20 9.52%
i.ezinearticles.com (referral) 12 5.71%

Blog 1 traffic = 207 views and 37 clicks

Blog 2 traffic = 35 views and 7 clicks

Blog 3 traffic = 19 views and 5 clicks

NOTE: The last two blogs are up for only 4-5 days.

Me, Armando and good friend of his are also getting together on Sunday to discuss the new business we were thinking about starting, so I will have plenty to do in the next couple of days.

Will keep you updated on the progress,

David