I’ve been an affiliate of eBay for about 10 months now. as you will know if you have read my previous reports I started by using BANS but I have now moved to using WordPress with WordBay plugin. I find this to be much easier to use and better for adding content than BANS. All the plugins available for WordPress make it much more flexible. However for someone who is not experience in using WordPress it is probably easier to start with BANS as it is easy to setup.
To date I have made almost $4000. This is net, I have not added up the expenses but these include domain purchase (about $300) hosting (about $150) paid for directory submissions (about $300) and some advertising on USFreeads (about $50). I have not any used any ppc. Roughly about $1000 in expenses.
My earnings have increased every month from $200 in January to $750 this month. I continue to work on the sites, adding content and backlinks, adding to Kaboodle (free), USfreeads and social bookmarking.
One of the things I have found effective is buying aged domains. You can find then at tdnam. Closeouts are just $5. Look for domains that have been registered for over a year (preferably longer) and check that they show up in Google by doing a site:domain.com search. you don’t want to buy deindexed domains! You can also check with Wayback machine that they haven’t been used for shady purposes.
It has been a lot of work! Don’t believe all those ‘make $10000’s in no time’ ads. There is no way to instantly, with no work, make a lot of money in internet marketing. The only people who make money that way are the ones selling the ‘instant make money programs/guides’
One thing I would add. Google seems to be targeting ‘thin affiliate sites’. That is sites with affiliate ads and very little content. So add lots of unique content and try to make as many content pages as ads pages.
BANS progress report 1
BANS progress report2
Before I give you the results of my keyword experiment so far I want to talk about Court’s latest post - As it turns out content is king
Court has removed all his keyword sniping post and shut down his new keyword sniping site and his paid keyword sniping course. This very drastic measure is a result of his site being dropped from no 1 in SERPS to page 7. He has said that people have mistaken his keyword sniping posts to mean that content doesn’t matter and that he is misleading people with the posts. That people who are reading his posts then making thin sites will be penalised by Google. I, and I am sure many other people, have not interpreted it this way. In fact after reading the posts I realised that i wasn’t putting enough content on my sites and began to add more. So for me the posts had the opposite effect. I fully intend to continue using the keyword sniping technique.
So what are my results so far?
I began the experiment in the beginning of July and after 1 week my results were as follows
Keyword A
- Position after 2 days 219
- Position after 1 week 125
Keyword B
- Position after 2 days 112
- Position after 1 week 106
Here are my SERPS today (Sep 12th)
Keyword A
- Position after 2 months 34
Keyword B
- Position after 2 months 51
Unique visitors to date 1,356
So keyword A has gone from position 219 to 34 and keyword B from 112 to 51. I haven’t published any more articles than the original 2 that I submitted to Ezine Articles and then to iSnare and Free Article Submission Service. I have added 3 of my original articles to Qassia for the backlinks. I really need to write some more articles for distribution!
If you’re trying to rank for a keyword it’s really useful to know your rank without wading though all the SERPs. Recently Google blocked a lot of the online tools but I’ve found a couple that are still working.
has been updated to work now. If you have the old version update and it will work. Only checks the first 200 positions
The reason this tool is a stand-alone application is that Google has denied SERP’s from other servers. When downloaded, you don’t have to use Google API and can get exact results. 
Stand alone tool (windows only) from Wintzell.net that checks the top 1000
Market Samurai was updated again today and I really want to share a new feature with you. It’s called Promotion and it’s a very easy way to find do follow blogs/edu.gov/squiddo lenses/forums that you can comment on. Plus, and this is what I really like, it tells you which blogs have automatic ping back enabled. Enter your keyword and let MS find backlinks. Then click on a link to look at the blog post. If you like what you see copy the ping back code and insert into a post on your blog.
That’s all! If the blog has comments automatically enabled you’ll get a backlink immediately otherwise you’ll have to wait and see if the blog owner allows the ping back on moderation. Watch the video below to see how it works! Continue reading ‘Getting Backlinks with Market Samurai’
I’ve been using Market Samurai for a while and a couple of people have asked me how it’s working out. As I use linux I’m using MS on a virtual machine and it’s a little slow and every now and then doesn’t give me any results. Not sure if this is because of the way I’m using it or Google messing about! so it has been a bit frustrating using it. If any one is using it on Windows perhaps you could let us know if these are usual problems or a result of using it on the VM. The only way to get the free trial I can see is to register with the Thirty day Challenge (it’s free) then follow the download links once logged in. Continue reading ‘Market Samurai’
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