Adventures in Lifestyle Design from a Path Less Traveled
Website Building Update – Week 29
Well, I finished article spinning for website #6. I would have finished article marketing but AMA was giving me more problems this week and replacing a bunch of characters with garbage symbols in all my articles. Now I have to go back and edit all the crap out of my articles that they generously inserted for me…
Honestly, I’m getting pretty fed up with AMA. Anyone have any experience with Unique Article Wizard or any other comparable systems?
That just leaves website #1 left. I feel like I’m so close. I’m guessing I’ll probably be all caught up on article marketing next week.
I’m really starting to get weary of all of this article spinning and article marketing. I saw some videos that Amanda (aka TangoShoes) posted at Affilorama during one of the many breaks I take (out of boredom) during the day. I’m considering hiring someone from the Philippines for like $200 or $250 per month.
I understand that people from the Philippines mostly only write “technical English,” but that’s fine. Maybe I’ll just make a bunch of technical websites (build solar panels, registry repair, anti-virus, etc…). You know…the kind of stuff that if I were to try doing it myself, I’d cry.
If this is as good as I think it is, I could get 20 articles written AND spun every week. Even if I low-ball it and it’s 15 articles per week, that works out to over 750 articles in a year. Enough to build like 25 or 30 websites. All that for $3000 ($250 x 12 months).
I already have 5 sites earning me about $100 / week. With an extra 25 sites, that would be an extra $500 / week, or a total of $600 / week.
And these are just conservative numbers.
This could be very interesting…
Anyway, this week was pretty much the same as the past several weeks. Furious article spinning and article directory submissions.
Sales-wise, things were pretty good. I finally sold something from website #1, which hasn’t happened since November. I made a lot of mistakes with that site (mostly bad keywords), but maybe there’s still hope for it!
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Hey Clayton,
I’ve been really impressed with outsourcing to the Philippines. In my experience, it’s not very “conversational,” but the content is well researched and well written.
I will never write another article to submit to a directory or spin, it’s really cheap to have that outsourced. More importantly, it’s the only way for me to stay save while doing this.
For my main website content, I still write a lot of that myself or edit the stuff my writers give me.
Good luck with it!
Hey Clayton, keep it up man, you’re doing well. I feel your pain on the article spinning.
For website #1 couldn’t you add another bunch of articles with better keywords? Given that it’s aged a while, it will have some kind of trust with Google.
When I add new articles on low competition keywords to my 6 month old site, Google ranks them almost immediately.
@Devin, Man that sounds like a dream come true! Do you know how much time I dedicate to spinning and submitting articles? It’s insane! Thanks for another great recommendation about outsourcing!
@Keith, Thanks for the tip. Yeah, that’s what I’d like to do. Once I’m done with all this article spinning and submitting, I fully intend on taking my sites into a “slow growth” phase where I add one or two articles to each site every week. It’s comforting to know that new articles will rank fast with a 6 month old site (that’s almost exactly how old my first site is). Hope your sites are doing well, man.
Good work so far Clayton. Following you is exciting since I’m on the same path. Making $600 a week would be a dream come true for me. That’s like a full time salary of passive income!
I’ve worked with a couple people from the Philippines for web programming and have had pretty good experiences so far. It’s definitely a good route to go.
My goal right now is to get passive income through ecommerce sites. I’m outsourcing the tedious SEO link building and article submission process, so we’ll see how that goes.
@Tony, Alright! Another great testimony for outsourcing to the Philippines. Man, I’m so eager to do this.
Outsourcing is the dream, and I agree that AMA is a real pain. Im also interested in hearing if anyone can recommend an alternatives to AMA.
I got so sick of writing about boring subjects this week that I started writing about interesting things, submitting the articles to ezine and go, linking to my dull sites in the biobox. I guess its still good for link building, and it kept me sane. What a shame that such a lot of things that people buy are so unbelievably dull to write about.
Keep going Clayton mate you are well on track
@Rodderz Thanks for stopping by my blog. That’s pretty funny! I’ve never thought about just writing about whatever I want and then sticking a link to an acne website or a registry repair website. I guess you’re probably not doing it for the actual visitors clicking on the bio links, but rather the backlinks themselves.
Thanks for the encouragement.
Ive been following your blog for a few weeks now, found it through a few of your posts in the affilobluprint forums. Your way ahead of me, so its great to check in now and again and see how your getting along.
A quick question if you dont mind, how do people add avatars to thier comments. Im just getting started with blogs, been using dreamweaver up until now.
keep on keeping on