Make Money online

Rules:
1. Keyword .net and .org domains available challenged.
2. Who has Best ranking of the web site in Google (5 points) and who has earned most with Google Adsense (10 points) in one month.
Start Date:
End Date:
3. Loser has to buy the winner dinner.
4. Challenge keyword phrase : Example : Credit Card Debt Forgiveness
5. Local Search Count of  above 1000 a month.
6. The Strength of Competition (SOC) under 50.
7. Adcost above $1.5.
8. Number of Back links (MOB) 10 - 30 backlicks.
9. As part of the competition the site is only allowed to have one blog post.


For example: Our challenge keyword phrase ?Credit Card Debt Forgiveness? has a Local Search count of 1600 a month. The level should be above 1.000. The Strength of Competition (SOC): I target everything under 50 at the moment The Adcost is above $ 1,50 and a Number of Back links (MOB) that is reasonable around 10 - 30 backlinks.


Tools Use:
1. Search for keywords : Micro Niche Finder (MNF) or Market Samurai
2. Domain name Host : Namecheap or Hostgator
3. Wordpress Theme:  Greenback Theme 2.3 from Peter Coughlin
4. Wordpress Plugins: all-in-one-seo-pack, bayrss, google-analytics-for-wordpress, privacy-policy, ReviewAzon, rss-footer
5. Ask my oDesk team to write articles.
6. Make Video youtube.com or animoto.com
7. Get the site indexed. www.ismysiteindexed.com
8. Use an article of more than 400 words you can use an four word phrase in the anchor text summit to ezine.
9. Post some articles on Unique Article Wizards (www.uniquearticlewizard.com)
10. Google Analytics.
11.  Making comments on articles with backlinks to his site.
12. Use market sumurai check ranking position in Google.


Ongoing Tracking Keyword:
a. Adsense eanrnings: $
b. Google on keyword (Broad position):
c. Google Phrase position (between " " ):
d. Quantity Backlinks:



Tip Note:
1. Normally adsense money comes from EZA and UAW is usually good for backlinks but not traffic.
2. Stats on the Ezine and UAW articles:
    a. Example: Submitted 13 articles to Ezine which resulted in 657 views and 90 clicks.
    b. Submitted 3 article 500 words which spinned with ContentBos to UniqueArticleWizard.com

Example winner Result:
How did I achieve with the website CreditCardDebtForgiveness.net this result:
- The total number of articles submitted to ezinearticles.com is: 20
" Simple Understanding of the Credit Card Debt Forgiveness Concept - Avoid Bankruptcy " with 442 views and 76 clicks is the best viewed and clicked article.
- The total of articles submitted to UniqueArticleWizard.com (UAW) is 5.
The articles were wrangled with ContentBoss.com with the articles I submitted to ezinearticles.com.
- I made 3 video's with animoto.com of which "Consolidating Credit Card Debt"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN-qsYqPTOc ) is ranking number 1 of 37 video's and at the Web Google search 35 place.
- The total number of Back links for CreditCardDebtForgiveness.net is 273.

following basic cost structure:

$300 - initial evaluation, recommendations and strategy

Site-Buildout - per page costs outlined thusly:
Flat fee for basic site build (regardless of how large/small): $50 (this covers the domain itself, and my time installing wp, plugins, configuring everything, and setting up the basics)

1 page of keyword content (800 words) $8 (at cost, what I can get that done for via the wonderful writers here!)

estimate of # of articles (SOC/10) + 1 (minimum 2)

# of Articles * 9 = $X

OK, here’s the 60-day backlinking experiment that I will be running and documenting in this sub-forum starting on Thursday 17 September 2009.

Hopefully this ambitious public experiment will help many Warriors here and you’ll enjoy the ride!

I don’t remember seeing anything like this on Warrior Forum before so it should be interesting and possibly sort out a few SEO/SEM myths from facts (and maybe prove that different Search Engine strategies can each achieve the same objective).

Starting on Thursday 17 September 2009, I will simultaneously run 4 different SEM (Search Engine Marketing) strategies on 3 different NEW GoArticles in the same niche plus one BRAND NEW website BUT with approximately the same search volume for the 4 different keywords.

This is not really an SEO experiment in the sense that I can’t do much with on-page factors like internal link structure and H2 tags etc as the three articles are examples of so-called ‘parasite hosting’ on GoArticles and the fourth will be relying on WordPress SEO power and Ken Fry’s SB101.

Why GoArticles?

GoArticles are particularly responsive to backlinking but I will choose keywords where there are currently no GoArticles on Page 1 of Google USA (though I live in London, UK) or at least no more than one at the moment.

Each article will target a different keyword within the same niche, be just over 500 words and use the exact keyword phrase 5 times. I will try to have a roughly similar search volume for each keyword (at least 100 searches a day) and a roughly similar degree of difficulty for ranking.

Why 60 days?

In my experience, it takes time to get serious search engine traction with a money site (some Web 2.0 sites generally fade out fast) and this experiment is about building a stable, high, long-term rank for each article.

4 different search engine strategies will be used:

Article 1

Normal backlinking using the backlinks of Angela, PJ and my own WSO (including only IRRELEVANT sites to niche) – 50 backlinks per week for 8 weeks (60 days), minimum PR 5.

Article 2

Backlinking only to RELEVANT sites, blogs and forums (are they of higher value given their topic relevance? Let’s see) – 50 backlinks per week for 8 weeks (60 days), minimum PR 5.

Article 3

SENuke Pro including Link Wheels with all feeder sites backlinked using the backlinks of Angela, PJ and my own. Some articles used in each of the Web 2.0 sites will be spun by Power Article Rewriter to an originality degree of about 40% (I usually hit about 43% judging by SEN). Other articles will be spun by Human Rewriter (which I haven’t used before but Jeremy Kelsall rates highly).

Though I’ve had plenty of success with my own backlinking methods, I have briefly trialled SENuke a couple of times in the past without much success – could have been the proverbial ‘nut behind the wheel’ - but this time I want to use this experiment to fast-track my learning curve on SENuke.

Helpful Warrior Tom Brite is my SENuke wingman (he has awesome SE Nuke buyer bonuses by the way) so hopefully we can all learn the nuances and insider tricks of SEN Pro during this 60-day experiment.

Wild Card – Test 4

I will also create a brand new site on Thursday, a dot com site with the search phrase in the domain name, install a WP blog as the main site (not in a sub-folder), change the Permalink post names section to be more SEO-friendly, add more RSS sites to ping, install Warrior Jeremy Kelsall’s Content Blender plugin (more on that later), Google Sitemap Generator, All-In-One Seo and Google Analytics.

I will create 60 highly spun versions of a few articles and set up the blog to publish one each day. More importantly, one inner page post URL (the first post) will be added to Warrior Ken Fry’s SB101 WSO which relies solely on social bookmarking backlinks. This site will get no other juice except from the daily posting of a seemingly original article (with cloaked aff links at top and bottom like the GoArticles), WP’s SEO-friendliness and SB101.

And...

Each GoArticle will have two cloaked affiliate links in the same call to action sentence, using offto dot net, one at the top of the article (permitted in GA) and one in the Bio Box.

Each article will direct to the same Clickbank product (each with a different Tracking ID), a product with a respectable gravity of roughly 100+ (probably) and each keyword should show as anything from “Easy” to “Doable” in SE Nuke and have a green or yellow SOC (Strength of Competition) result in Micro Niche Finder.

I’ll post screen grabs of these when I choose them. I will also choose a niche with universal relevance across the world – that rules out reverse phone lookup, dammit!

A new ClickBank account will be created for this experiment.

My secondary goal at the end of the 60 days (approximately 17 November 2009) is to sell, one, some, or all of the article accounts and the website here on Warrior Forum and/or at Flippa.

Value estimations on site flipping can be volatile but I will look to sell each article account for a minimum of 10x monthly revenue e.g. if one of the GoArticles is averaging $100 a day and $3000 a month, I will TRY to get $30,000 for it but let’s see what happens. That could be too ambitious.

I know that a GoArticle is not as attractive to a buyer as a standalone website and there are always fears about GA changing their rules (on affiliate links, for example) or Google suddenly slapping them (as they have done with Squidoo in the past) so my valuation is lower than the 12-24x monthly profit ballpark with normal websites.

Time will tell there.

However, website buyers are ultimately attracted to revenue, be it from a popular YouTube video or any other form of web property so hopefully that stage in this experiment will prove as interesting to you (and me) as the SEM stage.

By the way, I have absolutely no interest in promoting one method over another and am only interested in what WORKS in this ‘race’ between the 3 articles and the new website.

I will not be favoring any one approach and will be doing all four simultaneously over the 60 days with my outsourcer backlinking Article 1 (IRRELEVANT sites), me backlinking RELEVANT sites for Article 2, SENuke doing the ‘heavy lifting’ on Article 3 and SB101 carrying the hopes of a generation for the brand new website.

I make no income predictions whatsoever but let’s see how the race goes.

As the experiment unfolds, I will post screen grabs of GA article views, ClickBank hop stats, commissions, Analytics stats etc.

Hopefully 200 Warriors won’t jump all over these keywords when the experiment begins which would artificially distort the results of this test.

Being able to show the keywords, site, articles and progress is what will make the whole experiment worthwhile.

So, one niche, three GoArticles, one brand new site and 4 different SEM strategies.

Let the race begin and feel free to chime in with your questions or suggestions (parameters can be modified before the start) as we go…

More details soon as we get closer to the kick-off.

By Terry Kyle

MAS:1087
ArtBot: 281
ASH:127
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1495 Article Directories
+ 30 Blogs (with the Free version of FTS)
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1525 blogs/directories to submit each article to (potentially), no monthly fees.

Brad's a fairly big name in IM, and especially where it concerns working with offline folks (he offers a MUCH larger and more complete range of services than I do, so we're not in competition, per se...he prolly wouldn't have time for the little businesses I'm working with, but...no matter)

Anyway, he's got lots of good info and clearly knows his stuff. I'm always reading and researching to help me do my job better, but one thing he said, re: long tail keywords had me scratching my head.

After watching his video, I slept on it, and then watched it again, and after all that, I still disagree with his position.

You can see the vid for yourself here: http://www.bradgosse.com/ (video # 2 on long tail keywords)

Essentially, his position is that you ought not target long tail keywords, but just go for whatever BIG keyword you want (on the thinking that you'll capture the long tail stuff naturally by taking this approach).

On that point, I can agree. Yes. If you make the "big keyword" your focus, you will naturally and by association, capture a number of long tail keywords on your way to the top, HOWEVER....and here's the part I disagree with.

Just because that is so, I do not see the wisdom in intentionally bypassing a focus on the long tail, on your way to the top.

Here's why:

First, it's like building a house, roof first. By going straight for the jugular, you have NOTHING acting as a foundational support. In business terms, what this means is that while you're spending money and resources in pursuit of "The Big Keyword," you are not getting any near term payoff, or if you are, it's entirely incidental and mostly luck (ie - by not specifically focusing on any long tail keywords, yes, you may capture some, but you won't be exerting any sort of control over which, and thus, over what traffic streams you might be driving to your site).

Second, IF you ever make it to page one (which, in a huge market like that is a) very much NOT a given, and b) an exceedingly time and resource intensive process, you're gonna have a huge payday, no doubt, BUT...you can get there just as easily (and perhaps even MORE easily) by focusing first on specific, easy to rank for long tail phrases, building up reliable streams of traffic that both pay you in the short run AND long term, and while they're doing that, they're helping you grow your authority as it relates to the larger keyword.

So...while he's an extremely smart guy, and while I enjoy reading what he has to say, I have to admit that I don't agree with all of it.

It just seems less efficient and more risky to take his approach.

Generally, for a very low SOC keyword (say 0-12 or so), I'll begin with two articles.

If the SOC is 13-20, I'll hit that one with 3 articles, and then generally add 1 article for every 10 "step ups" in SOC (again, this is just a broad generalization at present...a rule of thumb, not something I'd call the gospel!.

Initially, when I drip-fed my articles into MAS, I'd do it at a rate of 100 per day, but more recently, I've just been slamming them through all in a single day and it hasn't seemed to make much difference (I notice that I do a bit more "dancing" for a few days, but that has been the extent of the effects I've seen so far).

I don't currently use any of the subscription based services. Instead, I use a combination of free and paid (one time fee) tools (EZA + Scribd + ASH + MAS + FTS) - and I recently got the list from Big Mike of the directories that his Article Bot submits to, and am comparing it to what I've already got. If there's not too much overlap, I will be buying that one and adding it to my system as well!

Recently, I have changed my approach to marketing.

Initially, I was trying to "market my websites," which, for me meant shooting a single article to EZA, and then thru my established (largely automated) system.

Unfortunately, while this had the effect of improving the rankings of all my pages, it seldom had the effect of landing me on page one with that and nothing more (mostly, this is because I tend to pick keywords with higher SOC's than I probably should, but I am something of a contrarian...KNOWING that MNF is a popular piece of software and KNOWING that folks will naturally gravitate toward the lowest SOC's, I aim a little higher, counting on less in the way of "new" competition, and knowing that I can grind my way past existing, established sites with my existing system.

So the big change for me has been to focus on one keyword and one page rabidly (spend a full day setting in motion drip feeds for that keyword), then move on to the next one on my list.

Initially, I was worried that by doing so, I'd run afoul of Google, but thus far, this worry has not materialized (I mean, not beyond the "normal" dancing with Google when new links are incoming and they're trying to decide where to put me).

This means that for individual keywords, traffic develops more quickly and the site gets put on a paying basis more quickly, although on the flip side, it also means that certain OTHER keywords get outright ignored for longer, but, I tend to arrange my keywords by monthly searches (highest to lowest), so as a general rule, it's a tradeoff I can live with.

I've recently picked up two super easy ways of getting loads of traffic ("almost" no matter what niche) without a lot of extra effort.

Method #1 - There's a lot of "low hanging fruit" on the net where niches are concerned, but almost everybody is teaching, "look for cpc's of at least a buck" - and that's good advice...the higher the ad cost, the more your cut is, so obviously higher is better, BUT...since almost everybody is teaching the "dollar threshold" I've found that if I dip just ever so slightly below it (say, $0.75 - $0.99, almost no one is optimizing for that stuff, and they just fall into your lap amazingly quick...now, bear in mind that there are some economies of scale here...if you go for a niche with 800 searches per month, and an ad cost of a buck, and I go for a niche with 4000 searches a month, with an ad cost of $0.75, it's statistically more likely that I'm gonna come out ahead, even tho my chosen KW is "below threshold" - and that's the key bit...really...I've NEVER been on an IM site (and before I found this place, I read extensively) where anybody was even TALKING about KW's with an ad cost of less than a buck, and that's a good thing! It means that if you take the plunge, you'll have the playground almost exclusively to yourself!

Method #2 - You know, when you're doing KW research, inevitably you'll get results for the times people misspell a keyword (ie - "jewellry" - check it out with MFN... a LOT of people misspell that word!). Trouble is...if you're like me, you're a bit of a grammar Nazi when it comes to your sites, so it's hard to take advantage of the (often bountiful) traffic that gets generated by simple misspellings.

But I started experimenting with Zombie Articles (rewritten PLR stuffs), related or not to the KW at hand...doesn't really matter, as all you want are the links...and trying to rank for those misspellings solely on the basis of intentionally misspelled backlinks, and....it works.

Like a charm does it work! And again (based on the niches I've looked at so far), it appears that almost no one is doing this. If you check out the MOB for almost any KW, you'll find that you only need a very few backlinks to rank for it (now, in some cases, it's funny, cos apparently the misspellings are rampant even with the providers, so you'll find some instances where this is not the case)...but by and large, you'll be able to find new KW's that you can rocket off a few articles for and net yourself some quite handsome increases in traffic, and that's good stuff

If you're hung up on the particulars of HOW (or how much) to spin an article, here's the simple three-step dance I use in all my article spinning (Note: I uses MAR):

1) Paragraph replacement. I start here cos it's the easiest. Wholesale rewrite paragraphs to give me 3 variants of each paragraph in my article. Takes about five minutes.

2) Synonym replacement. Go thru the paragraphs and variants and pull out individual words. Find other words that mean the same thing and drop them in. Note that in some cases, you'll need to do a phrase replacement to get the grammar correct...no biggie. Takes about another 5 minutes (don't use "all instances!" button, or whatever it's called - can totally mess up your day

3) adjective replacement - if you're writing about an awesome new widget, it can be described as awesome, fantastic, wonderful, incredible, absotivelystupendously excellent, gottahaveitnowwondermous, etc, etc.... Just drop in a few variants to help describe whatever you're writing about (again, being mindful that at times you'll need to edit a phrase, rather than just a single word, in order to make the grammar work), and that's it! Another five minutes spent here.

For grins, if you have any humorous elements in place, take a moment to vary those as well (maybe another five mins, if you have any).....

And in fifteen to twenty minutes tops, you've got a {most excellent|WONDERFUL|fabulous|terriffic, well-spun|fabulously well-spun|fantastically crafted} article base that will spin out many unique (or unique-ish) variants, if you're worried that one day, big G will go hunting for duplicate content.