Another $300+ Day and What is Online Business Pyramid?
Hello everyone!
I haven’t updated my blog for some time, and there are several reasons to that. It would be interesting to share with you since these things happen sometimes so I’d like to know how you overcome these!
After some pretty successful period I’ve noticed that traffic to my main income site has somewhat dropped. The incomes vanished as well and I faced 0$ income days. What I have to say, when you have only 1 site that is making you money from 1-2 pages that are holding high positions in google for a couple of converting keywords… that is not a business – I’d call it pure luck.
Once the positions drop for some reasons, you lose EVEYTHING. That’s it. Realising that I’m still not having a business caused some sort of depression, and I really couldn’t do anything for several days – even article spinning and posting. I even stopped to send new topics to my writers.
Instead, I installed STALKER Call of Prypyat and dived into the world of the Zone. The game took me aroud a week to play, really cool! But – I couldn’t do anything related to my online business while playing STALKER. I completely lost my focus.
Well, I got a grip finally and started wrorking at improving my rankings for the money site. Created several blog satellites around one keyword that is now in position 5 in google. Interlinked them and added articles with links back to my money page.
I also started creating profiles on high-PR sites (PR 7) with links back to my money pages. In order not to lose thses profiles too fast, I added some articles when needed, made some posts if high-PR resource is a forum, to appear a real person.
As usual, work gets rewards and my traffic increased back, and yesterday (Feb 23) I’ve made 150$ from 5 sales of product and 154.68$ from 3 sales of another product. Nice 304.68$ day!
Online Business Pyramid How I See It
As I’ve told already, 1-2 pages making money from 1 site from 2-3 high positions is NOT a business, just a fraction of it. That’s why I’ve created a concept of my online business pyramid:
The foundation is so called “google salary” – easy to earn income that comes on a monthly basis. It’s generated daily from simple clicks on adsense ads. That income saves the butt in case all other projects fail, or sales dry out etc. To make 500-700$ monthly from adsense, I need to make 16-22$ on adsense every day.
Foundation Project Estimations:
Considering 0.25$ per click, I need 80 clicks per day. With moderate 10% CTR, I need 800 visitors per day to my adsense sites. Supposing my site is in positions #1-5 in serps, I need approx 2500 searches per day for my keywords (of which 800 will click-trough to my pages). If I’m targeting keyowrds with 3000-3500 searches per month exact, I can get 100 searches per day per each keyword. So I need total of 25 pages optimized per each keyword in top positions. That’s 5 small 5-page sites.
Supposing my estimation is too ideal, I take 10 adsense sites with 5 pages of content each. That’s 10×10=100$ on domains. 5 pages x 10 sites x 3 article variations = 300$ per content (3$ article + 2×1.5$ rewrites). Total investment – 100$ + 300$ = 400$.
That would be nice to hear what are your own thoughts on building online business?
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Hey again –
I have a question – wouldn’t it seem pertinent, rather than building a satellite system of blogs, to simply article-market? If you’re going to do all that much work, to build the sites to push the one main site, I mean, don’t good link bait articles do the same, with less work?
Just curious, as I’m up to about 9 sites/10 more going up shortly (soon as I finish my freelance writing gigs) – I’ve outsourced the content writing to a team of 3 writers for the moment.
In any event, I understand what you’re up to re: satellites, and I hear that system bandied about (30 day challenge comes to mind), but I’m just curious why the need when articles on Ezine, etc. seem to do that.
Again: not challenging your logic, simply trying to understand it. The reason I ask is that I am definitely interested in $300/days, and have solid SEO’d and ranking sites, taking the 1-3 pages in G, B, and Y across the board – but it seems the satellite system simply quadruples the ranking problem.
Rather than ranking one site, you’re now trying to rank 6.
Lastly, as to your CTR on G, I wouldn’t actually mention that too much – it violates G’s ToS, you might get dinged. I will say, for the record, that if you aren’t seeing low double digits in CTR, you may need to re-think your AdSense placement.
Are you simply using the XFactor system? Again: just curious, as I’ve had up and down days, but averaging low double digits (as close to a number as I’ll get, though I don’t want to get dinged by G for discussing CTR).
I’ve been on many blogs where the Ads are text-wrapped, or there are more than 2 blocks of AdSense / page, all of which drives down CTR and finally CPC.
Otherwise…please do explain the satellite system a bit more – how do you make that work? I’m vaguely familiar, and not sure I’m on board with it unless it means I can drive up sales. Thanks!
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Hi James!
Thanks for the comment,
You’re absolutely right about building satellites networks! It takes a lot of time and effort and in 2007 I built all my satellites manually. From A to Z. Most of the satellites I had were blogspot blogs filled with dupe content and with links to my money pages.
These satellites aren’t updated since 2008 , but all of them are still having hundreds of visitos per month, and I’m making sales from my banned site that get traffic through these satellites. (It was banned not for using satellites
due to spammers).
THe logic behind building them now is similar – get backlinks from satellites to my money site and build backlinks to my money site AND satellites. If I get a flood of links to the money site, I may end up under google’s filters, and if I build links to the other properties, links from them become stronger and my site gets higher rankings over time. Kind of saving the back.
Why I do this? Actually, the software does this for me – EVO II. This is analog of SENuke, but it’s completely automated, so I just spend 2-3 minutes getting a new article to add to my blogs, and the soft does the rest – publishes the article, adds backlinks, creates RSS, submits it, etc…
THis is not to promote the soft, no way. It’s quite expensive – 157$ per month, but with a smart approach it can be a good weapon in SEO efforts. I’m just testing it to see if my rankings improve. I see some positive changes, but the potential is a lot bigger.
I don’t rely on the soft and still sniff for good backlinks manually, and add them manually. I also surely do a lot of EZA submissions myself, and get new articles written everyday by my writers.
XFactor was absolutely right – why bother with a lot of unnecessary work when you can do the trick with simple things! But…it’s OK for adsense sites that target pretty low competition keywords. PR 0 backlinks are enough sometimes to get top positions for these keywords…
It’s not common for more competitive terms – that’s why I try to use combined approach – satellites, articles (EZA and Unique Article Wizard..), blog commenting, blog network links, profiles on high-PR sites… and definitely PR backlinks from related sites!
Yes 300$ a day is agood income, it comes from the nature of products I promote – physical products with a good commissions. That’s why I’d recommend to promote MarketHealth.com products, the avg orders can sometimes bring up to 100$ at once. What I also found, it’s better to target high competition kws with a strong buyer indicators than hunt for low competition “related’ keywords… It takes more time to get ranked, but once you ranked – wow just count the $$$ coming in
bowtrolwarning.org is a good site that makes $$$ (not mine though). Ranked #1 for “bowtrol” 
But authority sites tend to convert a LOT better than snipers, again my experience.
Btw James, you’re right about CTR, I think I’ll change the theme of my sites to what XFactor advises, sicne my adsense CTRs are awful… one-digit and close to zero ))) Maybe because I make more impact on CJ products than adsense.
I will try to discuss the satellites a bit more and I think it deserves a separate post, now doing a note about this.
Will reply to your other comments soon!
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Thanks for answering – I’ve been thinking about this approach and the reasoning behind it, I believe you’ve answered – it has to do with your level of competition.
I have ranked on page 2 of G, 1 of B and Y for most of my sites, make G’s first page on a number of SEO terms and get good BinG love, but in any event, I have noticed that I make sporadic CJ sales – have just added Amazon and will see how that goes.
Love the CJ, high ticket items and all. Will look into Market Health, and thanks for taking the time. $300/day….that’s only happened to me once. Today was a $125 day, but that’s only the 2nd time…sporadic, as I say.
All I do is SEO, UAW and EZA/GoArt’s/ArtBase…oh, and BMD (if I’d ever learn to use it right) along with SocialBot and a couple of RSS feed submitters…and one heck of a ping list…
Anyway, I’m definitely thinking about concurrently creating the physical product sites more often – have about 3 now with only one really ranked in G pretty well.
i’m rambling at this point. need to go, but thanks for the tips, really helpful.
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Sure James. You’re welcome!
The only thing I also noticed, but this is my 100% personal way of doing things. For me personally, most efficient output is when I work on 1-2 projects max. Like, I promote 1 site and create another site in the same fashion like fisrt site.
I can apply the same SEO strategies to both of them, and the repeatable tasks are almost the same. So, it helps me get focused.
When I’m unfocused, that happens if I take 3-4 different projects at a time (like PPV + CPA offers, SEO site and adsense) – I end up spending LOTS of time onlie, but my whole business is stagnating! I’m ramling as well!
There are lots of ways to profit, but seems that good old “2007 way” of working on my biz makes me most return on investment. I spent 2008 playing with PPC a lot, 2009 was hospital from hospital, couldn’t concentrate on business a lot. Now I’ve just wiped out 99% of guru’s emails, closed unnecessary memberships, postponed paid traffic projects and concentrated on 1 site. In just 1 month I jumped from 1800$ to 3900$ in income.
I’ll invest these money into doing the same kind of sites! Using the same kind of SEO that I do now. And then….. maybe play with other ways to profit.
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Sorry for lots of misspellings, I’m typing in from notebook typepad =) Always missing letters
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