EPN Niche Site 10: Expired Domains!

Posted on February 23, 2010
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It always seems that I can never find one expired domain at a time. Usually when I find ones I want I end up with 4 or so at a time. Todays site is an expired domain… that makes 3  out of the last 4 sites expired domains. Guess what? Site 11 is going to be an expired domain too! I also have 2 more expired sites that I am bidding on and I found a private site that I made an offer on as well.

On top of all that going on I am working on 2 more Wordpress blog that I am not going to serve any dynamic content on. Everything on them will be static unless I login and make a new post. I want to experiment with this a little. I have some good ideas that I need to test out before spilling my guts here…

Todays new EPN niche site is Computer Games 4 Cheap. An expired domain that is currently sitting at a PR1 level.

EPN Niche Site 9: Some New Ideas

Posted on February 22, 2010
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So I have been really doing some thinking about niche marketing. My sites are mainly large sites with mostly dynamic content, so I can set them up and let them do their thing. Another approach to this game is to do some keyword research on a few select search terms and setup some static pages that are optimized on those terms. So I am playing around with this idea and think that I found a way to use a thin site to get 100+ visitors per day. The key is to find niche keywords with few exact searches in Google but 3,000+ searches per month. I am going to test this out sometime in the next week or so and if it works for me you can expect a full report here on my blog.

But for now here is my latest EPN niche site, Coffee Maker Store. This is a PR1 expired domain name that I picked recently.

Amazon Niche Site Commission!

Posted on February 18, 2010
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I logged into my Amazon affiliate account last night and was pleased to find $2.70 worth of earnings for this month. This is not much but it is from my first and only Amazon niche site that I setup a few months back, Electric Guitar Store. This site was very basic and has no auto posting setup. I think it is time to modify my new plugin to pull either eBay titles or Amazon titles. Then maybe show the Amazon item with eBay items available as related items. I think I will get to work on that this evening. I just read about a guy getting his account suspended again over in the EPN forum. I want to be more diversified in case that day would ever come for me… I think going forward I need to do one Amazon site for every EPN site I make and maybe some that promote both.

EPN Niche Site 8: Bored

Posted on February 18, 2010
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You know doing the same thing with these sites day in and day out is getting kind of boring. I wish I knew of some way to get me more excited and motivated. I keep thinking of my 5k goal and yes that does motivate me but it seems a far ways off. The last couple of months with the drop in the holiday season I have been moving backwards with earnings. That is somewhat depressing. Well I guess I shouldn’t complain… I feel that I am doing pretty well with affiliate marketing at the moment… but I want to do better. I want to be one of those people that you read about making 10k or more per month someday. So what actions do I need to take to move in that direction? That would be an awful lot of niche sites at the pace I am going… lol… Thoughts? Please share!

Discount DVR Recorders is a new domain registration and is our 8th site using our newly designed plugins.

EPN Niche Site 7: Expired Domains

Posted on February 16, 2010
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Expired domains can be a great way to get some quick traffic. I have picked up some good ones that have brought in hundreds of EPN clicks per day from the beginning. I usually look for a few things.

1. The site is indexed in Google.
2. Valid backlinks in Google and Yahoo.
3. Usually glance at Alexa rating and keywords they show sending traffic.
4. Use the wayback machine to see what the site was previously about.
5. I like to see a PR of 1 or more.

These are just some of the things that I usually do. Then again sometimes I am busy and skip a few steps…. or most of the steps ;) That leads me to my most recent expired domain purchase… which I don’t recall doing this stuff with… I just checked it and it is a PR4 site. Problem is that it is not currently in the Google index. I guess that is why I only paid $10 for it at GoDaddy.com. Who knows maybe they will pick it back up… Buy Stanley Products…I can dream right?

EPN Niche Site 6: Getting Smoother

Posted on February 15, 2010
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Things are getting pretty smooth now setting up these sites with the new layouts. Yeah I know that I probably just jinxed myself… but what the heck!

Discount Drum Machine is our latest site and is a new domain registration.  I got an expired domain name coming up for my 7th site and I also have a few bids out for a few more.

EPN Niche Site 5: Special Characters

Posted on February 13, 2010
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I was really getting sick of having to keep updating my code to accept different special characters. I was doing a simple php str_replace to take a special character and turn it into a space or just remove it. I did a little more digging and decided to use this line of php code:

$string = preg_replace(‘/[^a-zA-Z0-9_ -]/s’, ”, $string);

This takes my title and removes everything except a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _, -, or a space. It simply removes all special characters from the string… in this case my title. I let the wordpress title keep the special characters but just don’t pass them on when doing my keyword and API calls.

So that should be the end of most of my special character errors. I pushed the updated code out to all my new sites using the batch file I wrote about in the previous post. I am loving that!

Our 5th EPN niche site is Good Digital Cameras. This is a new domain registration. One thing I love about this site is that I can come up with almost limitless titles for the keyword Digital Cameras. Many of which include specific model numbers and brands. This is great for those long-tail search engine results that I am looking for. I think I will be doing more sites like this soon… that have model numbers and brands in the titles.

Batch File to Upload A Plugin To All My Sites

Posted on February 13, 2010
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So I was getting tired of making revisions to my plugins and having to go back and upload it to each site manually. I did some digging and found a way to automate this process.

1st step: Create a batch file with the following contents and call it fileup.bat

@echo off
echo user %1> ftpcmd.dat
echo %2>> ftpcmd.dat
echo bin>> ftpcmd.dat
echo cd /www/wp-content/plugins/pluginname/>>ftpcmd.dat
echo put %3>> ftpcmd.dat
echo quit>> ftpcmd.dat
ftp -n -s:ftpcmd.dat %4
del ftpcmd.dat

The %1 -4 are variables that we will pass to the batch file when we call it.

%1 = username
%2 = password
%3 = filename
%4 = ftp host

Depending on your host I would think you might have to edit the directory location for the plugins.

2nd Step: Create anothe batch file to make all the calls and name it whatever you would like.

call fileup username password widgetfilename.php ftp.domain1.com
call fileup username password widgetfilename.php ftp.domain2.com
call fileup username password widgetfilename.php ftp.domain3.com
call fileup username password widgetfilename.php ftp.domain4.com
pause

Make sure both batch files and the file you are uploading are all in the same directory. I put the pause at the end so that you can scroll up and verify that all the files transferred successfully. I just set this up this evening and it is working great. Now with every site I create I will add an entry to the second batch file.

This would allow me to say switch from EPN to Amazon in the click of a button after I just edit my plugins and quickly upload them to all my sites with this batch file. So this is key when and if something would ever happen that I had to quickly make a mass change.

Thanks to howtogeek.com for a great article that got me started in the right direction for what I was trying to do here.

I hope this helps some people out. I sure know it is going to save me some time!

EPN Niche Site 4: Getting Tired

Posted on February 12, 2010
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Man am I tired tonight. I guess all this snow we have been getting is wearing me down little by little. I am posting this new niche site and going to bed!

Pex Tubing Shop is a new domain registration.

EPN Niche Site 3: Wasting Time Finding New Niches

Posted on February 10, 2010
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Man is it ever easy to waste time finding new niches. Do you have any good resources to find niche ideas? I keep going back to eBay to look for ideas in their category lists. I also check out google.com/products and hit refresh every few seconds. This gives you a list of what people are searching for. Although it seems to be somewhat repetitive.

This is what I came up with today… Buy Pachinko Machine. This is a new domain registration.

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