Being sick totally sucks. I should be thankful that this is my first cold in about 2 years. Yup, I have been flu and cold-free for 2 years and I am not sure why. I’ve been working out and eating pretty good. The only thing I can think of is that I have been more stressed about finances the past 2 weeks. I’ve been asking myself “can I make my goal?” “what if I fail?” what if I never break the $25-$30 barrier?” I am not even sure why I am freaking out when its obvious by last month’s performance that my income is increasing every month. I’m done freaking out and by the looks of my adsense earnings, I have broken my $30 barrier the past 3 days in a row except for Friday. Here are my earnings for the past few days:
Friday: $21.63
Saturday: $33.13
Sunday: $33.39
Monday: $32.42
Now when I look back at my earnings back in October 2009 for the first week of October, I did an average of $5.00 a day. Here I am 6 months later and doing $30 a day. Its amazing! of course it was not super fast. I can be pretty stubborn and and I was lazy. I didn’t really crack down and get serious until the last week of January when I made the decision to pump out 100 websites in 2 months. In the end, I only did 70 websites but that’s because I started to realize how much work 100+ sites is. trying to build them out and rank them is definitely a full time never-ending job. These are not sites you can build and forget because the minute you let them just sit is the minute your competition laughs in your face and steals your spot and your potential earnings.
Since I cut back on my site building, in fact I am not longer building any new sites, I’ve decided to slowly add content to my current sites. I am down to having 2 writers write my content each week and they are only doing about 10-15 a week for me. This is just the pace I can keep up with since I am still working on my forum profile back linking.
I’m still feeling pretty run down from this cold so I didn’t feel like doing much at all yesterday. I cued up some posts for Blog Blueprint and that was about it.
My main niche blog is #9 now. I think its just a matter of weeks until it is in its rightful spot of #3 again.
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I hope you feel better soon! I think the progress you have made since October is pretty amazing – just imagine where you might be six months from now!
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Thanks Michelle. I know I will be even more excited in 6 months form now.
You’ll get there.
You may or may not get there this month. Ranking is on a schedule of its own and sometimes it is just time that is needed. And that’s OK.
But, with what you have done so far, the money is in the bank already.
Do you ever play the “Isn’t it nice” game? Make statements that are true. Make many of them. Find everything you can think of that is good. Find some that you can reframe…put a positice twist on…
“Isn’t it NICE that in six short months I now have a passive income of $900 per month?”
“Isn’t it NICE that I KNOW how to produce passive income, income that comes in while I sleep?”
“Isn’t it NICE that with my skills and knowledge my passive income can grow and grow and grow,,, indefinitely?”
“Isn’t it NICE (Verrry Nice!!) that my income didn’t hit $50 too soon, because I would not have had all the sites I have now, which will bring even MORE abundance in the future”
“Isn’t it DARN NICE that *I* had the wherewithall to learn all of this, to stick with it, to outsource and get smart with my time to produce more, to be willing to learn all these technical things, try many new things, and to even get started on a venture like this?”
“And isn’t it NICE that in the desire to have a better life for myself and my son I’ve now set in place a system that will bring, not only enough to pay the bills, but an ever growing abundance that can make us financially free.”
“Isn’t it NICE to see those earnings continously moving upwards?”
Yup. It’s Nice…
Evita
Thanks for reminding me of this Evita. I’ve been doing my best to implement the power of positive thinking and basically the power of the words we speak. I am gonna start rewording things as you have suggested. “Isn’t it nice that by the end of the year I will be making more than enough money to survive without roommates?!” hehe
Yup, It is nice to be earning a passive income and it is nice to be successful.
hi,NoteworthyTips,i have a problem . Recently , i find a keyword (about 3 words),when i search by google adwords tool (exact), i get 1000 results per month ; MNF ‘s results is the same .but i search by wordtracker , get 6000 results per month (200 per day *30=6000). why they have such difference. Which i shall trust ?
Morever ,i find some keywords: google adwords tool (exact) results >>wordtracker rather than <<,,why they have such difference. Which i shall trust ?
I never use word tracker and rely heavily on the Google Adwords keyword tool but I am not suggesting that the GAKT is any better or more accurate than wordtracker. I honestly couldn’t tell you which is better. Ultimately only you can make the decision as to which tool to use.
Personally, if I saw a word at 1k monthly searches for exact match in the GAKT, I wouldn’t touch it unless I could easily rank my site and the CPC was worth it. And by easily ranking, I mean that the SOC has about 5-6 sites with a PR-/PR0 on the first page. Otherwise, it just wouldn’t be worth my time.
I have seen you grow so much during this time. Not only has your adsense earnings increased, but your internet marketing knowledge has increased. So many run away from these kind of opportunitites and you run towards the opportunity. Thats the difference people people who win and people who watch other people win.
Good job on your $30 day benchmark.
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Thanks so much for the compliments Fabian and for your support.
Sara, how do you index your profile? Are you using backlink index??
I was actually looking into getting backlink Indexer express or backlink booster today, but I am still on the fence about them. I know Terry talks highly of both but I am leaning more towards backlink indexer express because it is cheaper. To get my profiles indexed I have been using the feature in SEO Link Dominator to create an ice rocket feed with my profile links. I then take my list of profile urls and ping them in Scrapebox through about 8 different ping sites. This has been pretty slow at getting them indexed though. It’s taken about 3 weeks for my links to finally show up. From what I read about BIE, your profiles are indexed within 6 days.
Hey there. I just read a few of your posts and it was very motivational to think that I’m not the only one in the same boat. I’m on the same path as you…micro-niche adsense. I’m not at the $30 per day with adsense yet but I will be eventually.
Right now I have 13 sites, 11 of them are micro-niche. My daily adsense income is in between $10 and $15 just depending on the day. I also have been working on an Amazon website. This is my big earner, always bringing in $10 to $15 per day.
Keep up the good work, and keep on posting! I enjoyed it. Left my backlink out on purpose.
Hey Jacob,
Sounds like you are moving along with pretty good results so far. Honestly, $10-15 with 13 sites is pretty good. I never had that good of success with such a small portfolio of sites. Which is why I thought that having more sites would help but clearly that is not the result yet either. lol
Good research and good rankings are the key.
$10-$15 daily on 13 sites is indeed pretty good. I remember when I was stuck at 12 sites for a while, I would get so excited when I broke the $3 barrier!
I think the key is to expand on your sites as much as possible. I see a lot of people making one page websites and this really limits the websites potential.
Targetting, 5 or 6 long tails with 300 to 800 monthly searches can double your traffic once you get these keywords ranking. It takes a bit longer, but as long as you’ve got the site, it only takes a little bit more work to add content and some bookmarks and backlinks.
On a side note, I’m finding it more and more difficult to find niches with available TLD’s for the keywords. I’m starting to have to add short words to the end of the domain like HQ or spot. This does usually result in a slower progression up the serps but I’ve found that it doesn’t stop you in the end. Get the backlinks and get the ranking.
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Sara,
How many ezine articles do you submit per main keyword.. Right now I am submitting 2 each . Also other than article submissions , what software do you use for blog commenting ?
All my websites now have poor ranks as I did not do the backlinking yet.. I want to take the tips from you and start doing it the right way..Thanx a ton
Nivas,
I don’t really article market. I maybe submit an ezine article like once every 2-3 weeks and I tend to do it for sites that are in position #4 or 5 and I just want to try and boost them.
Article marketing works for many people but I just found it to be too cumbersome so now I mainly use Traffic Kahuna’s link exchange, Blog Blueprint, blog commenting and forum profiles.
For blog commenting I use Scrapebox to find high PR blogs related to my niche and then I have an outsourcer do my comments for me. She just uses something similar to Roboform for hers. I have used Comment Kahuna in the past and I seem to get good lasting back links with that because it finds high PR do-follow blogs.
Thanks a lot Sara…. So basically most of your backlinks are from blog commenting and forum profiles then.. I will keep you posted once I start my backlinking process this week
I guess with this post, you proved once and for all, that our sites can be “sabotaged” by our competitors. All along I am of the impression that no matter what our competitors do to our sites in backlinking, they can’t do any harm to them.
Maybe google also tags along the same line but who would have taught that your competitor churned out thousands of backlinks to your site to do the damage? This must be a rare case and that’s why your ranking was jeopardised.
And I must mention that You are indeed a very discipline and persistence lady. Hope I can someday possess some of your admirable traits. Happy journey!!!
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Hi Sara,
I just found your site a few days ago. Are you doing bigger niche sites, or like sniper sites. From what I have read it looks like you have a lot of them out there.
Hopefully in another 6 months you will be at $60 a day! It just all takes lots, and lots of time. I am currently sitting at $0 a day right now, but I am just getting started again after being gone for a couple of years!
G/L to you!
-Kelly
Hi Kelly,
The majority of my sites are 5 pages. A few sites have 7-10 pages but I am working on adding more content to my sites that are ranking the highest and earn me the most. Eventually I’s like to have a few solid authority sites.