Market Leverage

Posted on March 6, 2010
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So I have been with Market Leverage (ML) for some time now. I have earned $43.85 with them during that time. I always hear great things from people about them. I have been contacted several times by affiliate managers asking me what they can do to help me earn money with them. I often see them having contests and giving away very cool prizes. I think this is the type of thing that EPN should be doing more of.

I would like to start working more with ML and try and build up some good earning sites with them. I don’t know why I have a hard time making money with their offers though. I know people are making a ton through ML so why can’t I? Maybe I am choosing the wrong offers… or not marketing them right? Well I am going to give it another go.

ML just announced that on Monday March 8th, 2010 they are going to be releasing an all new publisher dashboard. From what I have seen of it so far it looks to be a good improvement. I am not sure if the stats will be realtime but I do remember in the past that I could see commissions come in from the same day within minutes or hours of the action.

So I just setup Diabetic 100 to promote a CPA (Cost Per Action) offer. Basically I will get $1.40 for every person that clicks through for the 100 free recipe offer as long as they put in their email address. Submitting their email address is the action that results in a $1.40 commission for this particular offer. CPA offers can be great earners if you can drive traffic to your sites. I put this site together real quick tonight and have more work and pages to add to it yet.

I close this post with saying… if you want to work with a good affiliate marketing company that will work closely with you if you so choose then head on over to Market Leverage and signup for your account today. I had no problems getting approved when I applied but I do believe I was required to speak with someone in person before they allowed me in.

EPN Niche Site 14: Wow Thats Cool!

Posted on March 3, 2010
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My best site in 2009 that dropped off to about 40 views per day just took off again today after I refreshed the theme and setup autoposting again on the site a few days ago. I think I will hit 400 page views today on that site versus only about 50 yesterday. I hope it keeps up as it was one of my best performing sites.

I am still working the keywords and found another one that I think will pay off. Pink Dog Crates is a new domain that I just registered. Maybe another week of this and I will do a post about the keyword tool that I am using. I will tell you that my adsense earnings are on the increase since I started using this tool. I am getting some clicks through to eBay as well. I also logged into my amazon account today and found that one of the keyword banner ads I put up on one of the sites I did with this new keyword tool generated a sale of a Kindle yesterday. I can’t wait till that sucker ships and I see my commission on that. I am thinking it will be around $15.00. That will put that domain into profit already.

EPN Niche Site 13: Loving My Keyword Tool

Posted on March 3, 2010
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Man I really hope this keyword tool that I am using works. So far it is bringing me in a little traffic. These last 2 sites (12 and 13) will be the real test. I love the tool itself. I can’t wait to share it with everyone when and if these sites start to pickup some traffic. Like I said before… I don’t want to share it until I know it works well.

If it works out well for me I am going to code a plugin that can make wordpress pages from a text file that contains the keywords I want to be in the page titles. The rest of the page I would dynamically create based on the page titles. Maybe I would offer this plugin as a freebie to anyone that signs up for the keyword tool via my affiliate link.

Todays EPN niche site is Cheap Waffle Maker. This is a new domain registration.

EPN Niche Site 12: A Newer Hybrid Site

Posted on March 1, 2010
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I took some of the keyword research I have been working on lately and incorporated it into my site layout. I also changed the theme as I was growing tired of the one I designed.

I pulled a bunch of keywords using my new tool that it said I could rank pretty easily for and placed them all into the titles of wordpress pages. These are now static pages on the site.

Then I am also using my new autoposting techniques to schedule posts over the next year automatically.

I am also introducing more adsense ads into the mix as I want to try and increase my earnings with them this year.

So there you have it… going forward this is probably what I will be doing. That is unless I make more improvements along the way.

Take a look at Buy Carpet Shampooer to see the revisions. This is a new domain registration. The main keyword for the site does not bring in much traffic, I think it was like 30 couple visits per month. Many of the others that I am targeting though bring in thousands per month. It will be interesting to see what happens with targeting these keywords and not having them in the domain name. I am hoping for good results from this site.

Looking back to 2009 EPN Niche Sites

Posted on February 28, 2010
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I just pulled some EPN reports from 2009 and looked at what sites brought me in the most money. Then I am looking at those sites now. Most of them are no longer in the top 10 sites this year. Mainly because late last year or early this year I turned off all auto-posting on all my sites due to a cron problem. I never went back and addressed those old sites. Tonight I totally revamped my site from last year with my highest income. I basically converted it over to my new system but with a different theme. I will be curious to see if this site starts to perform better after these changes or not. I am planning on going back and looking at all the sites that made me decent money last year.

I Might Need Keyword Research Rehab

Posted on February 27, 2010
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I just can’t stop playing around looking for good keyword niches to try out. I just put up Purple Acoustic Guitar today. It is a new domain registration. Those keywords are supposed to get about 1,300 searches per month. From what I am seeing this should be on the first page of Google in about 3 days for those keywords.

Still Playing With Keyword Research

Posted on February 26, 2010
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ok… so I might be addicted to keyword research :)

I just love trying to find keywords with a high search volume but low competition. I have no idea if I am any good at it yet though ;)

I guess time will tell and I am sure I will have to get some backlinks to my sites. I might look into an article writer as well. Any one have any good experiences with an article writing service that you would want to recommend?

Today I found Sweater Drying Rack. It is showing 4,400 searches a month with only 2,230 exact search results. I think I could rank first page on that one with a little work. It looks like it drops down to about 1,000 or so searches during the summer though. Adsense ads run about .79 for those keywords according to my new tool that I am testing out. This new theme I am using is looking pretty nice. I like to put adsense in the left sidebar and amazon in the right sidebar. Then I am trying to put together some content in the middle with some eBay ads mixed in. I wanted to give a site with multiple affiliate offers like this a go and see what kind of results I get.

I also want to say that I think the biggest factor in my earnings going from hundreds of dollars to thousands of dollars is when I made the move to wordpress. If you are making sites and not making the money you want give worpress a try. It is a little bit of a learning curve but it is worth it. I get more traffic to my wordpress blogs then I ever did to any of my non-wordpress sites. Also my sites with wordpress don’t seem to get dropped out of  G as quickly… Knock on some wood… I don’t think I had any of my wordpress blogs dropped yet at all. I have not went back and checked them all though.

Another Site to Test Out

Posted on February 25, 2010
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Here is another site that I am just starting and want to try to build with some static content. I want to see where it lands for my chosen keywords and then I will do a little more work to try and improve on it. Most Expensive Guitar basically lists the most expensive guitar available on eBay. I know that most people are probably not going to buy it but I found that as long as I keep my revenue up with eBay I still do well even if they buy an item that is different then the one they originally clicked. That is not supposed to be the case though from what I read. I found this keyword using my new keyword tool that I will be giving a full review on when I am satisfied with my testing.

EPN Niche Site 11: EPN Payday?

Posted on February 24, 2010
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I thought today was supposed to be EPN payday. My payment is just showing pending in my account. Well maybe it will still show up in my PayPal account tonight sometime. Anyone else get their January payment yet?

Todays EPN Niche site is The Doll Clothes. It is an expired domain that I picked up that has a PR1 rank.

Continuing my testing…

Posted on February 23, 2010
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So this site is no where near complete… actually just started it tonight. I don’t even like the theme but could not find one yet that I love. I just wanted to throw it out here this evening to have it get indexed. I am curious where in the SERPS it will fall with very a little content and just one page.

Tom and Jerry Toys

I know that I am probably not going to get rich from this site as most the items are relatively cheap. What draws me to this keyword is the fact that Google says 2,400 people per month search for it and it only has 92 exact search results. When I say exact that is searching with quotes around the term.

I am using a new tool that I am not disclosing yet until I determine if it is worthy of a recommendation. What I find interesting is that it said 92 exact searches for this phrase. If I run the phrase in quotes in my browser I have gotten exact counts of : 26,700 and 275,000. So what is correct? Why am I getting different figures? Well if I up the results per page to 100 then I get the 92 count. Very interesting. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I will be very curious where this page lands when it gets indexed.

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