Submitting Articles and Building Links

February 14, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Quite a productive day today. Much better than when I last wrote.

I’m still in the process of re-reading “5 Bucks a Day,” and compiling my list of projects, which is good. Even better is that ideas are coming to me from all over the place. That’s even better! I watched a video on CPA (cost per action) today and have lots of ideas from that. Then there’s minisites, bum marketing, adsense websites, authority sites, etc. There are countless ways to build revenue streams but focus is still vital. Build with one technique at a time and finish what I start. That’s so key to success.

I submitted some more articles to Ezine Articles this afternoon. I’m close to where I can be promoted to platinum status so articles can be approved in hours rather than days. I’m reading on the Keyword Avalanche forum that Ezine Articles is becoming more selective about what it will accept. Looks like they don’t want any articles that even appear to promote specific products. That’s good to know now, but a little late for some of my new adsense sites. I outsourced the articles and some came back looking very promotional. Oh well.

In addition to submitting articles, I have been bookmarking the pages on my sites with social bookmarking sites. I’m doing it a page at a time so it doesn’t look spammy at all. I also created a whole bunch of links to my pages from the Article Underground blogs. The point is to get links and more links. I’ll just stick with it. I’m also continuing to register with article directories in order to use Article Post Robot, which will distribute articles to hundreds of the smaller directories. The signing up process is the time consuming one. The article posting will be the easy part.

Priority for tomorrow is writing an article for InfoGoRound. If I submit one article a month, my membership is free. I don’t understand how they do it, but I sure appreciate it.

That’s all for now. It’s a good day to give someone a hug… Happy Valentines’ Day.

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, Article Marketing, Outsourcing, Progress Updates, Social Bookmarking

Adsense Code

February 3, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This afternoon I was checking out one of my new sites and it appeared H&R Block had hijacked the adsense blocks. How could this happen? The niche has nothing to do with finances or taxes. I also checked out some of my older sites and the same thing was happening. Boo!

Remedy: I went into all the adsense code and changed the parameter not to allow image ads, only to allow text ads. That appears to have taken care of it, but it was a bunch of work. I know now I should have set it up this way in the first place and will from now on.

In the process of fixing this, I also cleaned up a lot of the html on my pages and improved the SEO ‘on page’ stuff. It kept me from getting anything else done, but was very productive. Maybe some of these sites will start producing a little better now.

One thing I have done is redesign all the sites I initially made with Instant Adsense Templates. I think I’ve said it before, but buying those now feels like a huge waste of money. I know I’m getting off on a better foot if I design the sites from scratch and that’s what I’m doing. That’s one benefit of XSitePro that I really appreciate. Setting up the page layout is a piece of cake and there’s tons of room for creativity too.

That’s all for now. Stay warm!

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, SEO

Adsense Websites: Progress and Planning

February 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment

I am struck by how much I don’t know!

Like, if someone links to my blog, how do I link back?

I have learned such an incredible amount these past months and made great progress but I stumble on such details. But I am learning, and I will be able to link to others’ blogs at some point.

Today I built another adsense website. I really like the sites I’m building as a result of my adsense coaching class. I submitted articles the other day to ezinearticles.com and they were approved. I’ve had some page views and gotten a few clicks. So, progress.

My plan:

1. Build the 5th site in my first block of sites.
2. Submit 6 articles for each site to ezine articles.
3. Mass submit the 6 articles for each site using Article Post Robot.
4. Create PR4 & PR5 backlinks to all sites by connecting to each page from the Article Underground blogs.
5. Submit all sites to social bookmarking sites using Bookmarking Demon.
6. Begin the article outsourcing process over again.

Then evaluate. If it looks promising, I’ll start the whole process again with another block of niches.

I have identified enough niches to build about 35 adsense websites similar to these first ones. The question that comes up is how to I do the keyword research after this? Keyword Elite is just not working. Not sure if it is all due the Overture deal or not. I’m in the process of exploring NicheBOT to see if I can get all the data I need using that tool.

I was offered free tickets today to a seminar that Derek Gehl’s IMC group is putting on in Minneapolis in late March. I jumped on it! What a reputable group! Derek was Corey Rudl’s right hand guy and has taken over the business following Corey’s death. This is cool news!

That’s it for now. I’m sure open to constructive feedback…

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, Article Marketing, Keyword Research, PLR Articles, Progress Updates, Social Bookmarking

Focus and Updates

January 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Would I be better off with a new blog theme, something more sophisticated? Maybe. I do really like the semiologic themes. I also like looking at yellowdog. Oh well.

As of today, all 3 of my newest sites are indexed. It just took a few days. I have to keep building links, though I know the content is good and the keywords are good and the sites will work.

Focus continues to be an issue for me. I recently read an ebook called “5 Bucks a Day” in which the author, Dennis Becker talks about making a list of all the ways you can come up with to make 5 bucks a day, and then begin implementing 1 of these ideas each week. The earnings are cumulative, so by the end of a month you would be earning 20 bucks a day. I think I’ll read it again to make sure I’ve integrated what he’s suggesting. A lot of his emphasis is on focus. Along with the purchase of the book, Dennis also offers a forum for masterminding and pretty valuable downloads and discounts. I think it’s a really good value.

That’s all for now.

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, Progress Updates

Getting Indexed by Google

January 27, 2007 By Leave a Comment

The news today is that one of my 3 new sites is now indexed by Google. I don’t know exactly when I initially published it, but 3 days ago I submitted it to a bunch of social bookmarking sites, and then 2 days ago I linked to it from some Article Underground announcer blogs. I have a couple links from 2 different sources, and the site is indexed. Pretty cool and pretty fast! Now my job is to get hundreds or thousands of links going that direction. I’ve started the process of submitting articles to ezinearticles.com. I know what to do, and now I just have to do it. I’m pretty excited though!

Goldy Gopher

I tried to upload this picture for my last post, but couldn’t remember how. For a refresher, I refered back to a tutorial by Guido Stiehle that I used as my introduction to WordPress. The tutorial covers all the basics of getting a WP blog uploaded to your server, making posts, blogging and pinging, and using themes and plugins. It’s really well done, and it’s free. This tutorial and a couple others by Guido can be found at EasyWebTutorials. I highly recommend them.

Thanks for visiting. That’s all for now.

Filed Under: Adsense Websites, Progress Updates, Social Bookmarking, Tag and Ping
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