Website Building Update – Week 24
This week consisted of more furious backlinking to my first set of websites. It is very boring and repetitive work. Heavy metal and fantasies of backpacking through Cinque Terre keep me going despite the boredom.
I finally finished all major SEO efforts on website #4 (get your ex-boyfriend back niche), and I’m almost done with website #2 (weight loss niche). There’s just a little bit of automated link building with Article Submission Helper to do, but I don’t want to do it too fast and risk getting penalized. This is a huge relief for me. I feel like I’m finally starting to get all my SEO under control, plus there’s this wonderful mental space that gets cleared away knowing that these websites can take care of themselves (for the most part) now.
Now I’m turning my attention to website #6 (get your ex-girlfriend back niche). This is mostly a matter of article “plug-and-play” work since I had all the content for this site outsourced.
Again, the strategy here is to focus most of my time on what has actually made me money (weight loss and get your ex back). This is classic Tim Ferriss 80/20 principle in action. I’ll get back to websites #1 (panic attacks), #3 (dating advice for men), #5 (tattoos), and #7 (learn Japanese) once I handle my money makers.
While working on website #6, I noticed that some lazy jerk stole some of my articles so he could do some cutesy Valentine’s Day post on his trashy blog. He copied them word for word, which really pissed me off. I normally wouldn’t care, except for the fact that not all of the pages on website #6 have been indexed yet, and I didn’t want Google or any other search engine to think that his stolen articles were the originals. He finally took them down (without even an apology, I might add), so I didn’t have to resort to my Plan B, which would be to completely destroy his blog (get him banned from search engines, banned from adsense, report him to his hosting company, contact all the clients he has listed on his site, and contact all his sponsored andvertisers).
My girlfriend decided that she wants to build one of these websites herself too, so I am teaching her how to do that and showing her the ropes. She is still working full-time, so her site will come together much slower than my sites.
Two more sales this week and one rebill for something I sold a few weeks ago. It’s been kind of slow lately, and I’m starting to feel pretty poor. I think I can hold out for another month or two on savings. After that I might need to sell my car or get a job at McDonald’s. Hoping my big pay day comes soon…
February 14th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Hey can you share with us your click bank analytics? I’m super curious! Glad to hear you got that guy to remove the post~!!! How did you run across that? Kinda like a needle in a haystack thing huh?
February 15th, 2010 at 11:19 am
@Amanda, Hey, Clickbank has been kind of odd for me lately. I’ll post a screen shot this Friday on my next update. For awhile I was getting like 50 or so hop clicks per day, but recently that’s tanked down to like 15-20 hop clicks. I’m not really sure why that is. My search engine rankings and overall traffic levels are more or less the same. I can only guess that somehow Valentines Day has had a negative effect on things (two of my sites are geared toward dating and relationship advice). I thought VDay would have helped them, but whatever…
I found the plagiarized article after checking copyscape. I don’t do this very regularly, so it was just dumb luck on my part.
February 16th, 2010 at 4:01 am
That’s interesting Clayton, my hops are really low too. For example for my learn guitar site I have between 50 and 70 visits per day but only 5 or 6 hops. I”m pretty sure there’s something wrong with that. I’m trying to uncover the reason.
February 16th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
@Keith, Hey that’s strange. I wonder if they are having some kind of issue with their tracking?
February 18th, 2010 at 1:53 am
Hey guys,
Sorry to interrupt. Does any of you use Google Analytics or any other forms of tracking beside the one by CB?
I have Awstats on my Bluehost account but not sure how accurate it really is though.
February 18th, 2010 at 3:47 am
Hi Huddson,
I use Google Analytics. I think Awstats is reasonably reliable though from what I hear.
February 19th, 2010 at 10:43 am
@Huddson, yeah, I use Google Analytics too. I’m not very smart and I don’t know how to check awstats…