This year has been a roller coaster ride for me… taking me to my highest earning months and back down to some of my lowest where I am at now. It was like I finally got it and that is when Google decided to pull the rug out from under those people.  So now I am trying to learn what I need to change and what needs to be done to get back to where I was.

I am really just rambling on here as this was not thought out before hand at all.

Tonight I am going back to the basics and focusing on what I know. I took my one site that I have that is ranking #1 in google and I dissected it. It is a very small niche where I sell a physical product. Here is a little info on it that I think is important to know:

allintitle:keyword – no quotes – 515 results
google results  on broad keyword search – 10,600 results
Adwords Keyword Tool  – Exact – Global/Local – 720/590
Backlinks showing to site in YSE  – 40

So as you can see it really was not hard to crack this one.  I get around 30 visitors per day and that generally provides me with around 5 sales per day. This is a pretty targeted keyword with high demand and low supply of products.

Now after looking over this I decided that I could take the same approach but instead of a physical product I can do my EPN/adsense thing. I am going to search for keywords that have similar results as above. If I do this I see no reason why I should not be able to rank #1 again. I will check page 1 results before making that decision though. As I have learned that you should thoroughly look at the top 10 as those sites are your main competitors.

My plan is to start fresh and start small. After a few smaller victories I might try and scale things up a bit with a slightly more difficult keyword. But for now I need to take a step back and set some smaller goals. I have not had much success lately and feel that this is what I need to do at the moment.

I feel that I have all the bits and pieces of success in front of me but I just can’t manage to put the pieces together. I have a great arsenal of tools but I find myself not having the time to use them enough. I have a million ideas floating around in my head but I often times start them and then move on to the next thing leaving many unfinished things on the table. I think what it might come down to is that I have to pick one thing to focus on and just drive that until it is either successful or I am 100% sure it is a dud and I need to throw it out. I am probably moving on to new stuff to quickly at the moment and not giving a lot of stuff a fair shake.

So maybe what I have just inadvertently done here is wrote out a rough draft of what my New Years resolution should be when it comes to my affiliate marketing efforts.

Well that is enough rambling I need to go on over to the warriors forum and see if I can find a good WSO to retire on

I did it again! What you ask… I bought yet another WSO on the warrior forum.  LOL… It is like I can’t resist them. They are so tempting with their lure of overnight riches. Well to be honest I am really glad I got this one. I am in the process of implementing it now and will share more details on it soon once I get some results back. I will tell you that it is probably the best WSO I have gotten yet and I really think it does have the potential to bring in good money everyday with minimal amounts of work. I know that is what they all say… but I can actually see how this one could work and it has lots of room to put your own spin on it.  So it will either work and I will fill you in with the WSO url or it will fail and I will be starting a new site called WSO Anonymous where I will be the founding member… LOL…

Day 350 Year 2010 Stats
Thursday, December 16, 2010
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EPN $1.08
Adsense $1.49
CPAlead $0.23
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Total $2.80

Day 349 Year 2010 Stats
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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EPN $0.84
Adsense $0.59
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Total $1.43

Day 348 Year 2010 Stats
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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EPN $0.94
Adsense $7.88
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Total $8.82

Day 347 Year 2010 Stats
Monday, December 13, 2010
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EPN $2.40
Adsense $5.40
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Total $7.80

So I got the program working pretty well and have just a few minor issues to work out before I start thinking about releasing it. I have it setup to use proxies and after you import your proxy list you can check the response time on those proxies and it will use the fastest ones first and remove dead proxies from the list. That is all completed and working. I need to add some code to allow the user to limit the number of request per proxy. With allintile requests G will usually issue a temp ban after 15 or 20 requests. So I want to try and go down the list and do like 10 requests per proxy on like 2 second intervals to hopefully prevent a ban. There are 2 types of bans that they issue. The first one is just a captcha and we can now get through that but if you keep at it they will issue a ban that does not offer a captcha and then that proxy is dead for this until they lift it usually a few hours or days later.

All the proxy and keyword importing is complete. I still have to setup the exporting options but that is a piece of cake as I have done it before several times.

I might want to take a glance at the decapther api to see how easy it would be to offer that capability into the program. It would allow for completely automated use of the program which is what I am going for in the end for myself.

Other then that I only have to figure out how I want to handle registration of the software to try and limit piracy.

I am happy with how this is coming along now. I was a little frustrated with the Captcha part and I must say it was no walk in the park. It took a lot of tracking and research to crack it.

Day 344 Year 2010 Stats
Friday, December 10, 2010
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EPN $3.50
Adsense $1.12
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Total $4.62

Day 342 Year 2010 Stats
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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EPN $4.23
Adsense $3.11
CPAlead $0.34
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Total $7.68