Sample of My New Script

Posted on June 30, 2009
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So you want to know what I have been working on. Well this is a rough draft of my new script. I need to pretty it up some before I start rolling out new sites. I decided to test with a niche I used in the past so that I can compare my earnings from my old script to the new. The new site is WoW Loot Cards. I used the eBay API as well as the Twitter API to pull in and mix up some results based specified keywords. I would like to add a twitter login to the page so that folks can tweet right from my site. I think that would be pretty cool. I am using Twitter to bring in some related content to my site that I was lacking previously. I know it will be duplicate content in Googles eyes but at least it will be more content then I had previously. I do not have time to create my own content and I don’t want to pay someone to create it either. So my only real choice is to pull it from other sites using provided APIs. I also am pulling over the author profile image of each Tweet to give the site more images. I am hoping that this site will work for me for a while once I put the finishing touches on it. Heck I have even thought about selling the script if it works well for me. That way others could profit from it as well. Maybe… we will have to see….

Working on a new and improved script

Posted on June 25, 2009
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I spent most of this evening modifying my EPN script for niche sites. I am integrating Twitters API into it to include related tweets. Hopefully when I am done you will be able to login to your Twitter account and tweet about the niche. This should help with my “content problem” that I think I had a few months back. I am scaling back the EPN results to just 5 listings and Twitter to just 5 tweets on each page. I am not looking to keep the visitor on my site for long, I want them to click on one of the listings to plant my cookie. Of course I will keep the related search keywords function that makes the site dynamic. It finds related keywords to whatever the keyword is on the current page. This makes my site several hundred pages without having to do much work.

I think I have a few evenings worth of work left before I get my first site up with the new script. I am excited about it. I am setting myself a goal of $1000/month income through EPN within 2 full months. So that will give me July and August to make it happen. Follow along and use my techniques for your success too. Wish me luck!

Lady From Thomas

Posted on June 20, 2009
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It has been a while since I have posted. I am currently down to around $30 – $50 per month in EPN earnings. I really miss having that $700 plus per month coming in from EPN. On my journeys to find a toy for my son I stumbled upon a niche that I thought might be slightly profitable. Nothing huge. So I created Lady From Thomas to help folks find this hard to locate toy. I am also working on developing an iPhone app so my time is limited but I will try and post more frequently.

April is Going To Suck

Posted on April 9, 2009
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So a few things have happened. First EPN must love my sites because now my ACRU level is high and they are paying me $40 per ACRU in March. The only problem is towards the end of March Google decided they hate me and took 98% of my sites out of their index. This was my sole source of traffic. Without traffic I am lucky if I will hit $50 in April. This is a prime example of how you can go from $750+ a month to almost nothing in one month in affiliate marketing.

So my plan is to keep going after EPN commissions but to design one site and put all my efforts into that one site. I will make sure it has plenty of valuable content to keep Google happy. Then we will see what happens. So April is going to be a month that I design and setup this new site.  I will let everyone know when it is finished. So don’t look for much out of me this monh as I will be pretty busy. I hope to have my new site up and running before May gets here. Thanks for following my adventures in Affiliate Marketing so far.

What happened to March?

Posted on March 30, 2009
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Man… where did March go. I have to apologize to everyone for being so far behind on my niche sites. Tomorrow is the last day of the month and I have fell over a half month behind! I have been focusing on another project that I have a really good feeling about and I need about another week to wrap it up. I will update my earnings on the right in a moment for the month to date. I have still been earning but not as much as I should be since I am not promoting new sites. My traffic has taken a plunge over the last few days. I hope it is just a fluke. If it isn’t I will really have to get back to work with EPN because I liked the $700+ payment I got from them last month.  I am not going to hit my $1000 goal this month either. It is totally my fault. I get bored doing the same thing day in and day out. I lose focus and move on to new things. Well April is another month and I really cannot say at the moment if I want to go full force with EPN or work on my other project. I don’t have a lot of time since I work full time and have a family. My biggest problem with affiliate marketing is finding the time needed to be successful and using it wisely instead of wasting it on stuff that will not produce me any income. But if you don’t take risks how will you ever know the outcome.?

Niche Site for March 12th 2009

Posted on March 12, 2009
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Todays niche site is Delta Power Tools. Delta makes some very nice indusrtrial shop tools like table saws, lathes, band saws and more.

Niche Site for March 11th 2009

Posted on March 12, 2009
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Todays niche site is Buy Seiko Watches. Seiko makes some very nice watches. Be sure to check them out.

Niche Site for March 10th 2009

Posted on March 12, 2009
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Todays niche site is Buy Bluray Player. Blu Ray is so cool. If you have not seen a blu ray movie get up and head out to your local electronics store and check one out. The picture quality is amazing. I don’t own one yet but plan to soon in the future.

Niche Site for March 9th 2009

Posted on March 12, 2009
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Todays niche site is DeWalt Tools. Lots of searches on the web for tools. Lets find out if I can funnel some of those searches into sales for eBay.

Niche Site for March 8th 2009

Posted on March 12, 2009
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Todays niche site is Garmin GPS Units. Everytime I turn around I run into someone else that has a GPS unit. I do not have one myself yet. I was hoping that the iPhone would someday soon have turn-by-turn GPS. Do you use a GPS? Which one?

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