Whew! Three weeks under my belt, 42 sites built and $1,400.00 charged to my credit card later. Ouch! I got my first credit card bill from when I started outsourcing, buying 14+ domains a week and my UAW and Traffic Kahuna Memberships 4 weeks ago. That is pretty hefty, especially after recently reading about how some college kid is only paying $400.00 a month to outsource his back links, content and registering 31 domains a week. Of course he only buys .info domains for his xfactor sites and he can easily rank in #1 or #2 on page one after he sends a bunch of back links to his domains.

Speaking of .info domains for xfactor sites. Last night I was checking up on my rankings for a site I had launched last week and on page 3 at the top was the .info of my main keyword. He was outranking me and he only had 6 back links to his site which were all from his own little network of sites. I know because as I looked at each site that was back linking to his main .info, they all had the same exact set up. They are xfactor styled templates but not exact. Looks like the templates were made in Artiseer and the colors weren’t that ugly green and black theme but it you can definitely see the similarity. I have no doubt that I will outrank him as soon as my site goes through the google dance. It has only been indexed for about 3 days and it got clicks its first day of being indexed. So, I know it will earn me something! I just hope it can move up to page 1 quickly.

I recently asked all of my content writers to write me articles of 550 words. Previously I had them writing only 450 words at $2 per article. now that I am asking for 550 words, I am paying $3 per article. The reason why I wanted more words was so that I can get more anchored back links to use with Syndicate Kahuna (which is part of the Traffic Kahuna package.) SK is pretty strict on how often a keyword or link can be used. So anything under 500 words can only have 1 link. 550+ allows 2-3. My articles sent through SK show up within a week or so after they have first been submitted through the system. They show up in Google Webtools and Yahoo Site Explorer rather quickly. It definitely makes it worth the effort to have your articles spun for submission to it.

oDesk back link builder update: I had hired a guy through oDesk that was suppose to build links to 5 of my sites. We’ll call him “Foolboo”. The job was to have him build 50 links a week to each site. The guy had assured me all was well and he knew what was expected etc. He promised to send me an excel sheet on Tuesday showing where the links were located etc. Tuesday rolls around and no word from him. Wednesday (which is now really Thursday his time) I send him a polite email telling him I had not heard from him and asking for him to please respond. By Friday I had not heard back from him but when I check out his history, I see that he has been applying for more jobs on odesk over the past several days. So I fire his ass! After the paragraph below, this will become more amusing…

So I know there are a lot of people using scrape box. This started to peek my interest but I wasn’t ready for purchasing it because i just felt like spamming blogs was not my style. So I took advantage of some WSO of people promising you back links for really cheap. I ordered a package of 100 links for $1 and another package of 2100 links for $29.00. I am sure some of these offers are done through using SB. I started to get more curious about SB, so I read some more about it and from what I saw, it is really powerful at finding high PR sites to comment on. So I bought it and figured what I would do, is I will find blogs with PR of 4+ and then outsource blog commenters to post on this list I create for them.

So I posted a position on oDesk and it looks like I found some great deals. I was able to find 1 commenter that lives in the US and charges only $4 an hour. She said she can do my daily blog comment needs for only 2 hours of work. The other commenter is also $4 and she is from the Ukraine. The US commenter finished her first set quickly and followed my instructions. She kept saying how awesome the posting sites list was that I gave her because she said there were very few CAPTCHAs and she didn’t have to register to post. When I looked at the comments she wrote, they were 100% on topic as though she was really reading the posts. She also said she would be glad to do more of them daily too. I am pretty excited about that because this will help me tremendously with back linking new sites I build each week.

The Ukraine writer is also very good. She ended up getting a list compiled of a bunch of political sites (ewwww) and surprisingly; her comments were also on topic and appears as though she is generally interested in the posts. I can’t believe how well I scored on those two.

Here’s the funny part. Loser, previously hired, back linker, “Foolboo” had the nerve to apply for this new position! The one that dropped off the face of the earth and stole my $10 of his required upfront fees. I normally do not accept applicants that do upfront fees but he had a clean record at the time. I had interviewed him and spoke with him about 3 times before hiring. He already had an ongoing 2 month position as a back linker for another person (This is probably crap. Maybe he hired himself on another account to look legitimate. Anyhow, it was nice to leave him negative feedback to warn others about his worth ethics and to also reject his 2nd application with a big fat response of “You sir, are a thief!”.

UAW Submissions
I was actually speaking with my sister last night about my UAW submissions. She was mentioning how she wants to get some jobs on elance or odesk. She is a literature major and an English Grammar Nazi. I wish I was kidding. Anyhow, she mentioned how she would be interested in doing my UAW submissions for me. So I spent about an hour today training her on how UAW works and how to successfully get a submission done. We haven’t really talked about how much I would pay her but I am thinking I can pay her like $3 per a submission. I get 5 spun articles returned to me everyday, so i will probably have her do at least the 5 a day or possibly more since I am back logged right now.

I was just adding up how much all this outsourcing is going to cost me now. I am looking at $84 a day. That’s quite a bit considering I am only earning about $20 in adsense a day right now.

Here’s a quick update on my sites built from week 1 and some from week 2.

Site #28 – week 1#20, week 2 #18, week 3 #17

Site #29 – #10, still sitting at #10, #10

Site #30 – R#22, #18, week 3 #15

Site #31 – sandboxed, #18, week 3 #11

Site #32 – Ranking #26, now at #8, 38

Site #33 – week 1 #14, week 2 #11

Site #34 – week 1 #28 (boo! Hiss! another xfactor site popped up with 200+ links)

Site#35 – week 1 sandboxed

Site #36 – sandboxed, week 2 #13, week 3 #11

Site #37 – ranking #11 (there is another xfactor site ahead of me), week 3 #11 (other xfactor site is still 2 positions higher than me with only a few back links)

Site #38 – week 1 #28, week 2 #20

Site #39 – #11 (there is another xfactor site I am competing with and another one; only the template is not John’s exact), #13

Site #41 – sandboxed

Site #42 – ranking #24, 22

Site #43 – ranking #13, #11

Site #44 – ranking #12, 11