It’s been 8 days since I last updated my blog. Sorry about that guys and gals.
First, I wanted to update the site that I talked about in my previous post. I was very excited in the first post when I talked about how adding 5 new pages of content resulted in a boost in rankings within just a few hours. It was at #11 prior to adding content and as soon as I added more pages it went up to #4. Well, 8 days later it is sitting at #2!
And now for the bad news. This site is not making me any money! It is averaging about 22 visits a day. In the past 7 days it has only earned $2.33. Granted, if it was earning at least $2 a week it would be earning me $8 a month x 12 months = $96.00 a year. Still worth the domain registration and outsourced content fees but still! Last month it did earn $10.96. This website is a prime example of how things can be a hit or miss and you really don’t know how well or how poorly a site will perform. Perhaps this site would do better if I just removed adsense and slapped some amazon affiliate links on it. I think with earning only $10 a month with it, I am definitely considering that option. I am interested to see if I can at least match that earning with Amazon or if not, earn more.
Adsense earnings for the past 7 days $235 with a daily average of $33.57.
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Hello!
To be frank I’m only building my 1st batch of adsense sites ))) 30+ $ per day is really great passive income! You could slowly invest into building more profitable sources of income, like authority sites or affiliate snipers
$2 in a week is better than some of my duds! You really can’t predict how well a site will do. At least you have another avenue for monetization to try.
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Carrie, what is your definition of a “dud” ?
Evita
Sites that have made less than $10 in 3 months.
.-= Carrie´s last blog ..March Earnings =-.
hey there Sara.
just to inform you that i had only submitted my site to digg.com
and google webmaster
and the newly published site gets indexed the next 3 hours!
it was only the digg and google webmaster
nothing else. ezine articles also were waiting for approval.
i used to wait an average of 7 days (sometimes 10) for a new site to get indexed.
22 views a day is quite alot. props to tat.
thanks for your wonderful tips. have a great day!
That’s awesome! I digg my sites but still they did not index any sooner than 5-7 days on average.
Hi Sara, popped along to your blog via your link on XFactor… Yes, I have quite a few sites that make either peanuts or zip with adsense, which is frustrating considering that they were researched for the potential of adsense. I tend to switch ‘em over to eBay products and on the whole make better income that way than thru adsense for these sites.
Calfred, wow – that’s quick indexing! I’m more at the 7 days a site stage. Must give digg a try out!
Regards
Joseph
Are you getting irrelevant ads? Is it a niche that may be less into buying? (But I know most of your sites are about products…)
Where is your traffic coming from? Seems to me that when I get traffic from Go0gle Images, the CTR is horrible. Sometimes my sites have pics that are ranking well there before the sites rank well in the web search.
Maybe try some variables on the ad color or placement…. just in case folks looking for products in this niche are just a bit different…
And, then again, let’s say you have 10 sites like this… that’s a thousand bucks extra a year…. nothing to sneeze at…
Evita
Yes, the site is receiving relevant ads and I do not believe my traffic is from google images because this site in particular does not allow google image bot to index my photos per my robots text file. I later on discovered that was a mistake since people get a lot of traffic from images but in the beginning of my micro site empire building I didn’t want my images indexed.
I am going to see how it performs over the next month or two and then at that point decide on whether or not to get rid of adsense and go with another monetization method.
As Evita said above, I have found that the ctr on goog images is ridiculously low. I suspect that depends a lot on your market though, and your products you are selling. I stuck an image of Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse of True Blood fame) on my site (very much a related site, by the way) and was attracting about 200+ uniques a day simply because of that image. But it was all because the ladies loved his abs!
Anyhow, as Evita also mentions, if you have 10 sites making 10 bucks then that’s an extra 1k per year. It is, but if you can improve on that without having to spend a whole heap of time on each site, then why not? Its the time for money factor coming into play, which is very much what the whole internet marketing ethos is about, I’m sure you agree?
Regards
Joseph
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hey Joseph, that’s a pretty cool tip; post images of popular celebrities and briefly mention them in a post to get a boost of traffic. haha!
I agree with you about finding a way to improve a sites earning power. I feel that some niches might do better with affiliate products with images right in front of the visitor’s face versus an ad text link.
Hi Sara, it sure does pull in the uniques! However, its monetizing those uniques that really does pose a question. No doubt about it that if there is a technique of doing so then it could be a nice money earner!
Re the product images – totally agree! Stick a big, bright image on the screen and you may well start to see a site bringing in much more income. Its just a case of sitting it out for a bit and seeing if adsense is gonna work out. If not, why not change it and enhance overall prospects of our monetary gain while at the same time meeting the needs of the site visitors. After all, is this not precisely what Google wants?
.-= Joseph Archibald´s last blog ..Sookie Stackhouse 1-9 Complete Audiobook Collection =-.
Yay for the increased ranking – boo for the lack of click throughs. I’d be interested to hear more about an Amazon test. I think there’s got to be potential for higher earnings there.
I think I will stick it out for another month or so and then if no improvements, I will look to Amazon.
I just discovered your blog through a link on Warrior forum and looking forward to following your journey. I am also working on some niche sites right now and hope to have 100 niche sites (Adsense and Amazon ones) by the end of the year.
You are definitely right about not knowing how a sight is really going to turn out. It can look a lot different on paper than in real life. Good luck!
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Hi Tiffany! Thanks for stopping by and following my blog.
Keep me updated on your site building/earning process. I am very interested in how amazon micro niche sites perform.
Sara
How are things going with UAW? Do you think it is still having a positive effect? How much would you say it improves your rankings? It looks good, but i cant shake the feeling that most of the places you will get links from will be useless.
Hi Dan,
I recently quit my UAW membership since I could not afford to keep both UAW and Blog Blueprint, I decided to stick with BB for a few months and see how things go. I’ve been using them a little over a month now and I am still happy with my links that are showing up in YSE.
UAW is not a bad service, I just don’t think there is much long term potential with using them and it takes so long for links to show up.
Oh darn, I just wrote a long post re UAW and because I entered the wrong captcha the post went up in smoke…. Guess I’m gettin old!
To cut a long story short then… I used to use UAW on and off for over a year. The point I was making that if used carefully and methodically it can be a good part of an overall strategy. Further, although it does cost $67 a month, all other parts of an SEO strategy need not be paid-for services.
Here is one way I found to be pretty cool in how to use UAW…
Set up some good articles in a few do-follow article directories, so for example ezinearticles, go articles, amazines, article dashboard etc. Link those articles to your site. After they are in place, bomb the articles which I call anchor articles with a mass UAWs. This way your anchor articles will grow vastly in strength and thus the juice back to your money site is so much greater.
Further, you can set the UAW to whatever you like – 800 submissions straight off the bat is no big deal. The anchor articles soak up this sort of abuse and really seem to thrive on it, actually! One example – I set up an article re archery not long ago, I bombed it using UAW and when Goog did their PR update – about 3 weeks or so ago, the article in EZA had climbed from a PR n/a to a whopping PR 4! The article ranks just above my site at postion 4 which was my mistake, actually, but I’m sure you get my point…
Kind regards
Joseph
Hi Joseph,
That is a great idea and I definitely see how that could work. Its good to hear that you have had good success with UAW.
I have just been frustrated with not seeing the back links stick long term and since UAW does not post on their own network of blogs, they cannot control which blogs will be here today but gone tomorrow. Which is why I am partial to BB since the posts are being put onto personally owned blogs By Steven and Tim.
Hi Sara, sure, BB seems like a very workable alternative to UAW. However, are you keeping up with the chat that’s on XFactor forum right now about BB? Seems like there’s a mass exodus in progress. How are you youself finding “life” with Blog Blueprint?
Have a fine day!
Regards
Joseph
Glad I found your site – pretty informative, candid, and helpful. Found you from http://matthewdc.com in his “helpful links” section.
In any event, just wanted to drop some cred on Joseph’s idea…that’s pretty intelligent, a great way to use UAW (which software resulted in $1100 in affiliate sales from Jan-April from two runs), and I’d gladly pay you for that tip…really cool idea.
I wouldn’t, however, avoid using UAW on your main site – just tone down the submissions to a trickle and you’ll be fine.
Re: UAW and it’s effectiveness long-term: totally worth it. It took my site from a PR n/a to PR 1 — which isn’t really much, but I didn’t expect that — and grabbed me 200+ backlinks (from one run, which is not common) — so it’s paid for itself for me.
I use it to grab backlinks, but also generate pre-sales to sales pages/review pages. Hence the $1k+ this year (that’s OK for a noob, I s’pose).
Anyhow, I’m not trying to sell you on UAW, just thought I’d chime in. Thanks for your blog – I’m looking forward to reading how it goes.
–James
.-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Can Adding Content Super Charge Your Website Rankings Part Two =-.
Hi James,
Thanks for letting me know about Matthew’s blog. I stopped by and read some of his latest posts.
That is fabulous that you generated $1k in sales from UAW runs. How long have you used the service?
Again, I am not saying its a bad system I just want to see someone report they have long term back links. I first used UAW on my first few niche blogger blogs back in December 2008 and i used the service until march 2009. Of the several article submissions used that focused on two different blogs of mine, there are only 3 back links (at one time there were 50 back links showing from my UAW runs) that still show from those runs on blog #1 and 0 back links on blog #2. This is why I feel UAW does not have long-term back link potential because they cannot control the blogs or directories that suddenly vanish.
Sara -
I think it depends on niche, the articles themselves, etc.
My PR went up after a UAW run, and with the total 300 backlinks and high SERP that resulted, it was just too good to give up.
As far as how long I’ve used it: February of this year. I followed Mike’s advice from his blog (don’t know if you want direct ref’s here or not, it’s mikeiser.com) and it seems to have solidified my sites.
Before meeting Mike, I just did the XFactor style:
Ezine submissions, get them published –> cross-post (cut and paste) to ArticlesBase and GoArticles…60-80 backlinks via 15-20 articles apiece. Those links stay.
And I do love XFactor, but it takes time, so I think I’ll do what Joseph suggests: EZA/etc. submissions then UAW runs there, see what happens.
I’m a true fan of UAW, it offers a lot of control, and if you don’t want to use them, you can use SEOLinkVine and buy article credits — this way you do about the same thing, but w/no monthly subscription.
Have no idea how well that works, though, I’ve just purchased 5 credits, I think for about $15 or so.
UAW and SEOLinkvine have different directories (so does My Article Network, and SEOLinkVine + MAN are owned by the Callen brothers, Matt and Brad), so posting the articles to each platform would mean the maximum link juice — so long as you spin your display URLs/KW’s, as well as content…
So, I’m going to try running a little experiment. See if UAW Joseph’s style gets more play, or if a combo of UAW/SEOLinkVine + 1-2 articles the “old school” XFactor way works best.
The less writing, the better…except I love to write.
One last thought: I’m not sure why the links drop off. I know I’ve tried a service called “Developer-hut,” and if they’re good at SEO they SUCK at customer service, but they do generate backlinks.
I bought a package for 100 do-follow links (blog comments and social bookmarks), and will use them again on other projects, but the tracking data showed that within 14 days, my BL went to 100 then back down…settling at 15. The price is $14.95 for this package…
Not bad, but I’m paying $67 for UAW (which I also sell as a service on Elance, so it’s paying for itself in spades) — so I’m going to keep using UAW at least as a time-saver as I build sites.
Which, because of my love for my Elance clients, isn’t going as strong as I’d hoped.
You asked a short question and got blogghorrhea from me, sorry! In short:
yes, I’m stuck on UAW. Only because, by using it, I’ve gained PR and got over a grand in sales.
I think it depends how you use it, not sure how much traffic it generates, but I’m convinced it’s at least resulted in some serious sales by getting the word out about my aff products, and getting the cookie on their hard drive…and this product has a 120 day cookie, so this can really snowball!
The best way to use the software, imho, is to write **great content** even for the article submissions — don’t skimp and then cross your fingers. Remember the articles wind up on someone’s blog…so will they get published? Do they have staying power? And: it’s hard to beat the time savings.
BTW, what’s this “BB” that you all are speaking of? Blogger’s Blueprint?
Not familiar with it.
–exits, stage left, with wife of 16 years, to some undisclosed, impromptu “date” a.k.a., “Kids, mac n cheese is in the pantry…Momma and Daddy need some high-carb, fattening, yummy downtime…with the newborn…”
.-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Can Adding Content Super Charge Your Website Rankings Part Two =-.
Hi James, you’ve got some really interesting points of view to share with the community on here, you really have! You said you were a “newbie” (don’t you just detest that word) in your previous post but that’s obviously not the case.
With regards to utilizing UAW and blasting your anchor articles at ezinearticles etc etc. Well, I thought this would turbo charge the original XFactor method of simply getting some powerful backlinks from the article directories. Yes, it does turbo charge them and yes you will see definite benefits, but I’m afraid that there is more work required for anything other than a low level keyword that has not much in the way of competition. I’m still at a loss to understand how John XFactor got anywhere with his original system, but then perhaps he’s talking about it working some 4 years or so ago when the competition was much, much less fierce.
There is however, something to be said if you wish to utilize your EZA articles to drive traffic to your sites via your bio. You can supercharge your article by smacking it up with backlinks from UAW and there seems to be much more power from this than if you were to do the same thing – linking straight from UAW submissions to your websites. I have not done enough of this to say for sure that you would get Google top 5 every time, but probably most of us know the power of a simple EZA article in Google rankings.
The way I used this method was to get link juice to my sites, rather than turbo charge the article. As I mentioned previously though, I made a mistake with one of those articles and entered my prime keywords in the title etc. and its sitting pretty in Goog rankings – 4th, one place above my website for the same keyword. The keyword gets around 14k searches a month according to both Goog Keyword Tool and Micro Niche Finder. So that’s pretty good going in my opinion!
Lastly, yup – BB is indeed Blog Blueprint. Its suddenly gone down in my estimation because of their extreme lack of posting and no feedback from their support as to what the heck is going on. $57 US a month for your information (although if you get caught out with the nasty tax then up that by $10) and a very similar set up to Linkvana – Dave Kelly’s very neat system, which costs $147 monthly. Not for the faint of heart!
Take care!
Joseph
James, how did you get credits to SEOLinkVine? I looked at the site and it looks like it hasn’t launched.
It would be nice if it is credit-based and nor membership-based but I can’t find that info (although I didn’t spend too much time looking).
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Hi James, many thanks for the feedback – much appreciated and great for the ego! ;->
I’ll step aside for now and let others comment rather than hog Sara’s blog all the time…
Thanks indeed!
Regards
Joseph
It’s fine Joseph. Hog away. lol
@Joseph Yes, I have been reading up on that thread and I am not sure why a few people are having problems but the majority of people are still having their posts published immediately; myself included.
Its still good for me and working out well.
Ok Sara, I’ll do a little more hogging of your blog but will make sure not to get carried away! Thanks for giving me the go-ahead, hehe!
I’m sticking with BB too, even though I am tempted to utilize Linkvana at the same time, just to see how things pan out. As mentioned – I used LV before quite a while back and found no benefits from that service. However, my techniques are more advanced now (purely down to so much trial and error and money down the drain (or toilet, depending on your preference)) and thus it could be the utilization of LV in tandem with BB could be a very workable and successful scenario. What do you reckon to that?
Off to bed, catch up with you in the morning – have a greatly productive day!
Regards
J
I am pretty curious about Linkvana too but I am afraid of such a large monthly cost and some posts getting placed onto blogs with PR1 or lower. I have never used LV so I can’t say whether or not it is a good service.
Why did you feel you received no benefits from the service the first time around?
Yes Sara, cost of LV is high for sure. The only way you can get your true buck’s worth out of it is to understand how backlinking works and how to get the best benefits from such a “machine” as LinkVana.
I personally am happy to get backlinks from PR1′s and also PR0′s. If its a quality and growing site then this is all I am looking for in my backlinking strategy, rather than high PR alone.
I’m not too sure why I did not get much benefit from previous use Sara – perhaps as I mentioned, it was because I was a little niave about a really strong strategy for my sites back then. I suspect its not the case now, therefore it could be a good time to revisit LV. We’ll see…
J
Sara, I’ve been waiting for an update! How are things going?
I agree with Joseph on using UAW on articles linking to your site. I’ve seen others talk about this and starting doing it with other article submission software (can’t afford UAW). The benefit is not just the link juice but I think also a lack of volatility with your own site. I find as I add direct BLs my sites bounce around alot so backlinking the backlinks seems more stable.
I also have a feeling (experience and reading) that a constant, steady stream of BLs is good. This is one of the few reasons UAW is appealing to me, b/c of the ability to drip out links. I just wish there was a cheaper alternative. Plus I agree with you Sara, I have to wonder about the long-term stability of the links as the blogs accepting the articles could disappear over time.
But what really cracks me up is what a small world IM is. My buddy James just stumbled onto this blog even though Sara is an old friend of James’ idol, Mike. And I’m pretty sure I know Joseph from WF.
.-= Carrie´s last blog ..March Earnings =-.
Sorry about no updates. I feel I have not been very productive this week. I think I have managed to work on my sites about 5 hours each day. I just got the Thesis theme yesterday and spent the entire day revamping one of my blogs in the single parent dating niche that I had prior to becoming an internet marketer. And dating has also distracted me. Focus Sara, focus!
Yes, the dripping from UAW is good. I had submitted over 100 articles through UAW in the past 3 months and I have received about 15-20 back links from each submission but once again I will be curious to see if these slowly drop off the face of the earth.
It is a small world in the IM world. A small, amazing world!
If UAW links seem to die off over time maybe you just have to keep them rolling out for a site to keep the counts steady. Not sure that is such a good long-term approach, though. I do like the idea of BB better, seems more stable.
I love the Thesis theme and have considered buying but as usual, couldn’t justify the cost. I can too easily get caught up in making my blogs pretty.
In regards to dating, maybe you should start am IMer dating blog. All virtual. Everyone could try to impress the opposite sex with their SEO knowledge and what not and if things work out, you get married and merge your adsense/CB empires
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THAT was comedy!
.-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Can Adding Content Super Charge Your Website Rankings Part Two =-.
That made me giggle. That would be awesome to be in a relationship with another IMer, although maybe we would be competitive.
“Oh yea, well my adsense is already at $52.35″
“Well, I’m at $55.67, so there!”
Then again it would be nice to have dinner conversation of “Oh so my site that is 2 months old moved up to #4 today”. because I know my sister looks at me like I am speaking a foreign language when I say such things. lol
For the thesis theme, I can get a bit carried away too. I spent about 6 hours yesterday tweaking my personal blog where I talk about diet and exercise and I then converted one of my HTML xfactor sites into wordpress and used thesis on it. (It looks awesome by the way!)
That is an advantage (boyfriend/husband in IM). If I try to tell my non-IM husband tonight that I think I just backlinked by Clickbank sniper into the sandbox he’ll have absolutely no clue what I am talking about nor can he provide any moral support.
I thinks it’s worth having a nice looking site for certain niches. I always figured if one of my sites were to do very well I would consider buying a premium theme. But yes, it’s very easy to lose a few hours tweaking!
.-= Carrie´s last blog ..March Earnings =-.
Yes, I can’t agree with you more on the dating thingy – wouldn’t it be fantastic if – as you ladies have been saying, you could turn to your partner with a big smile on your face and announce your success of making $5 from adsense or whatever, only for them to congratulate you and think you an utter star! Rather than getting a snap glance from them which litterally means “BIG DEAL! Now get a real job!” Most of what I say goes right over the top of the head of my partner – even when I tell her that I built a site that is now competeing with the hotel she manages for top spot in Google! “Oh, ok”, she says…
Regarding themes for worpress – I too used to get thoroughly caught up in how my sites looked and even went to the stage of employing someone to build ‘em for me – not that I could afford it! But I remember some time back reading an account by a guy that’s named Bear who is well known in SEO circles for his massive income from adsense. He said that he makes his sites look really crappy and even his articles are not great, but people have one of two options when they get to his site – either leave or click an ad. From then on, my websites are all simple as can be. I spend much more time on the quality of my content and on backlinks cos this is what’s going to get me cash in my bank account, and not a diddly doo looking website!
Regards to all!
Joseph
(Oh darn it! I got the captcha wrong again and all my writing disappeared. Fortunately I saved a copy this time – once bitten twice shy!)
By ‘eck (English expression), good day to you Carrie! Very nice to see you on Sara’s blog and what a small world it is indeed! How is the photography business coming along?
As you can see Carrie, rather than writing for people on the WF, I’m spending my time commenting on very high quality blogs instead! Its rather a lot more fun, to be honest. As you said yourself, constant writing is exhausting!
You are quite right – backlinking your strong backlinks (anchor hubs) is a very good strategy – much less volatily than mass backlinking to your own website straight off the bat. However, even the best backlinking strategies will cause quite a bit of volatility in the search engines – or the dance, if you prefer, so its nothing to worry about too much when it does happen. I do tend to find that with this method the “dance” is much more serene, and although I love to watch salsa, I’d often prefer to take part in the waltz because its a bit more gentle.
Definitely got it right Carrie that a steady stream of good quality backlinks is going to get you far in the world of SEO. If UAW is particularly appealing and you feel that its going to really boost your campaigns, then it may be worth assessing just how you can afford the $67 monthly fee – for example, find someone to share the cost with or whatever – but no matter what, find a way! Obviously if its working out for you, then you’ll most probably be making some decent financial returns to cover the costs and then perhaps re-invest in something else with the extra proceeds.
This is the way I see it, so I don’t often hold back on investing upon some service or piece of software that I sense is really going to do the business for me. Much of the time it does not, but then that’s in part down to my own errors and not the producer of the software or the service. After all, its easy to get a bit frustrated and go flat out in collecting links, particularly if you are fairly new to the concept of SEO.
I would be very happy for you to use my own UAW, Carrie. However, they track IP’s and are very fast to tell you when they feel you are breaching their terms of service in this fashion! (Why don’t you send over your articles to me and I’ll pop them on to UAW for you? But don’t tell anyone I said so :-@ ).
There is no doubt one of the very best ways for a backlinking campaign however – is free – the use of do-follow article directories and web 2.0 properties such as squidoo and hubs (if you can get them up past the 70 mark) etc. Even though you will not be getting much backlinks from the method of utilizing free services such as these (unless your info is really hot and you attract folks to backlink to your sites this way – food for thought when they talk about quality content!), fact is – the quality of the backlinks are huge and Goog loves most of them, its a slow drip feed of links you’ll be getting which is perfect, plus the footprint of your work is non-existent, which cannot be said for many of the paid-for services around.
The problem however, is the amount of writing and re-writing, but there is an answer to this too, at least to some extent. Get your hands on a really good quality spinner and it cuts the workload by leaps and by bounds!
Sorry, ranting on again and hogging Sara’s blog a bit… Over and out for now!
Kind regards to all….
Joseph
Thanks Joseph, you are very sweet and helpful!
.-= Carrie´s last blog ..March Earnings =-.
Oh shucks Carrie! I’m blushing. Actually – no problem. Let’s see what we can do to get things really up and running, shall we!
J
Hi Sara,
Will you be having some dating updates too? LOL. For the uaw blogs that fade out is it just that people aren’t posting anymore on them or is it that the links are actually removed?
Deb
I am not sure if its just a matter of my articles posted on their blogs that are getting de-indexed or the blogs themselves have disappeared. I just know over the past year my links have dropped off of the face of the earth.
uh…holy toledo. that was entirely, embarrassingly, shamefully much too long of a comment. hard to judge that sort of thing in a little window…((gasp!))
yeah. sorry!
.-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Can Adding Content Super Charge Your Website Rankings Part Two =-.
@ Joseph (re: a comment that must still be in moderation)
Thanks for the kind words. No, really, I’m a newbie – first site ever was set up last October, then first gig from Elance in November, taken off from there (more as a freelancer who’s currently swamped vs. IM’er whose first few sites are doing very nicely from the sound of it — I honestly thought everyone was doing the same thing: XFactor just works).
But thanks for the input. I don’t label myself a newbie for a sense of false humility, but I’m a voracious reader and I put into practice what I’ve read from XFactor and other IM’ers, notably MikeMan @ MikeIser dot com. I don’t know half of what it seems everyone else has forgotten, and I don’t own half of what everyone seems to have purchased. I just got into a bad place financially, in one of the worst times economically, found XFactor’s ebook to be written *just for me* (since I’ve always wanted to write for a living, which he says that in order to make it, you need to write your fingers off), and then I’ve just been monkey-see, monkey-do…
You just need to find something that works, don’t change it and see if it works, and when it works….keep doing it. I’m not that smart, really — I just follow smart ppl. All the credit goes to them.
@ Carrie — again to a comment that must be in moderation:
Re: SEOLinkVine article creds: funny thing about that — shortly after I purchased the article credits, I received an email from their tech, asking, “How did you find the page to buy the credits?” In response to my question, “WTH? Why can’t I access the service??”
I’ve since been able to access their service, but I s’pose I was that freak accident…Not sure why Brad CalleN decided to close that off, other than a QA perspective.
.-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Can Adding Content Super Charge Your Website Rankings Part Two =-.
Aha James! You hit the nail on the head there and let me quote you please…
“I’m not that smart, really — I just follow smart ppl…”.
This is a huge problem for relatively new to mid-term IM’ers – the finding of someone they can trust implicitly and who will not just drip feed bits and pieces of info, which ultimately can and does lead to confusion, frustration and giving up.
If you can “sniff” out the real smart ppl on the internet, no matter what stage you are at with your own IM career, that makes you ULTRA SMART! Then yes, only then is the philosophy of monkey see, monkey do one that should be followed.
Regards
Joseph
BTW –
Notice you Tweeted that you built your first site using Thesis, have you seen Joel Comm’s (I think) “Socrates” WP site builder?
Seems much easier, wondering if anyone’s tried that. Much less coding, and also cheaper.
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