Adventures in Lifestyle Design from a Path Less Traveled
Website Building Update – Week 27
Well, let’s keep going and start the next six months of this…
I fought back an urge to apply for a retail job at the mall, and decided to keep working full-time on these sites for another month. If things don’t start to improve more by then, I’ll probably get some kind of crappy job just to pay rent / pay down my credit card debt / dump into outsourcing.
This week, I’ve been slogging through some more backlinking for websites #3 and #6. Almost done with the article marketing part of my backlinking for these two sites.
This week has been cool too because I made my second sale ever from website #3. A whopping $2! But it’s just one of these trial offer things. When the trial is over, I’ll make another $29. I also got a sale from my weight loss site, which hasn’t happened in a while either and I made my first sale from website #6. I’m feeling hopeful about all this!
Anyway, not much new to say. Just doing all that oh-so-fun stuff like spinning and submitting.
Here’s my screen shot this week:
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Owesome stuff!
You really motivate me!
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Hey Clayton,
I remember that you spun the articles and submit them to Ezinearticles. For the bio box there, do you link each article you submitted there to each page of the site or just the main URL?
And do you have any instances where the articles you posted on Ezine ranking better(or worse) than your site’s pages with the same keywords?
@Zenji, Hey man, thanks for stopping by my blog.
@Huddson, I deep link to the direct article and also to a related article on my site. So, if the article was on “how to get a woman’s phone number” I’d link to http://www.mysite.com/how-to-get-a-womans-phone-number/ and http://www.mysite.com/how-to-get-a-date/
Oh, almost forgot… I’m not really sure if any of my articles out rank my main site. I don’t really track the position of the articles. I have noticed that I get a fair amount of traffic from Ezine Articles, Self Growth, and Articlet though.
Hey Clayton,
Just came across your blog. It’s cool to see blogs from people who haven’t made it yet. I’m on the same 4HWW path as you. I’ve got a few ecommerce sites I’m trying out and tried my luck at an affiliate site.
I’m curious on how your set up your sites. Is there a post on it somewhere? We might be able to help each other out.
Tony
@Tony, hey man, thanks for stopping by my blog. I set up my sites based on how they teach over at Affilorama.com. I’m a little too paranoid to list my actual websites here right now (I guess I’m just afraid someone could find one and hack it or something), but I might change my mind once I have a more comfortable income.
Anyway, http://www.wowblackbook.com is one of Mark Ling’s websites (he runs Affilorama) and there’s a bunch of us that just build niche websites like these. Maybe you’ve stumbled across a few of them while searching around on Google…
Keep at it Clayton man!
@Tony, I use WordPress for all my sites.
@Keith, Thanks man. Whenever I start to feel down about this stuff, I know I can always count on you and the few other people that visit my blog to kick my ass and remind me not to become “the bald fat man in the red BMW convertible.” (Tim Ferriss reference)
Hi Clayton.
I joined ABP in Dec 2008 but didn’t really start to get into it until about 6 months later because I was off doing my thing in Thailand.
Firstly I built a clone of Mark’s Blackbook site by spinning all the content but felt guilty about it because I felt I was cheating. I had already bought xSitepro and learned how to use it in building that first site. However, it wasn’t until I got my teeth into wordpress that I was able to be a little more imaginative with my first serious blog designed to be a journal for me and a place where I can make a few sales but more importantly build a list by giving away free stuff.
@Sean, Hey man, I’m really jealous of you for going to Thailand!
You’ve got a nice blog. I’ll have to show it to my mom. She is a baby boomer that’s tired of working. I keep trying to tell her about affiliate marketing. Man, this would be so easy for her (mostly because she has more than enough money to outsource everything). But she’s convinced that she is “too old” or whatever to do this.
I like the analogy of buying a house. I’m too poor to buy a house, so I just went out to a vacant piece of land and started cutting down trees and nailing 2×4′s together (no wonder it’s taking me so long). My mom actually can afford a house, so she could just simply buy one lickety-split (outsource everything and make more money than she could possibly need)!