I had planned to get the third site up and running tonight, but then for some reason I started keyword researching.  I don’t know why I started it, but I found myself in Google’s Adword keyword tools looking up CPC for a possible Adsense site.  My first keyword had a CPC of only $0.05, so it was a non-started.  My second keyword, however, brought back a $2.06 CPC!  Mind you that’s not like a $5 or $10 click, but I’ll take it!  On impulse, I jumped over to Godaddy to see if I could get a decent domain; talk about luck!  I was able to get the plain keyword domain dot com!  But, before I bought, I looked to see if I could find some content for it.  Yes, it’s another video site.  Looking off Youtube, I found roughly 2600 related videos, so that should be enough!

Now I just have to find the time to make this Adsense site.  I hate to take away from my ebay affiliate sites, but when everything just seems to be lined up for this site to be made, I gota follow.  The only problem I see right now is that I have NO clue as to what the traffic numbers for this thing is.  Oh well, if I can pull off $1 per day, I’ll be happy.

One more notch, er, site under my belt

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Two videos he did have really hit home to me, especially within the last 2 weeks.

Vic’s video on types of backlinks got me booted into thinking more about just using Bookmarking Demon for backlinks.  I started to seriously research directories submitted my eBay affiliate blogs for links.

Vic made things even clearer with his video on organizing your online work; my problem has been a lack of time.  Example, I have, over the past 2 weeks, created 3 ebay affiliate sites:

• HO Scale Model Trains
• Buy Snap On Tools
• Landscaping and Gardening

I’m looking to start using the actual BANS software when I get my Adsense check.  For the time being, I’ll keep these three sites on the wordpress blog platform and the newer sites for the BANS to test the results.  I would think that using blogging platform would be an advantage due to the nature of a blog’s ability to ping.

Now that I have these sites up and running, my main goal should be to getting those backlinks.  I’ve got another domain in my pocket for another ebay site, but I’d like to get more links first.  Problem is, I really want to get this next site going so I can age and start creating income.  I’ve run into the problem with having multiple sites: setting priorities.  Which is more important: creating new sites or getting links for existing sites?

I’m willing to bet that Vic would say Links!  You can never have enough links.  I have a list of over 2000 directories that I’m working on with my 1st site.  My question is, at what point do you start working on getting links for other sites or make new sites?  How many links is a good pause point to work on other things?

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While I was able to get some traffic from Google Trends, I didn’t have Adsense installed that day, so I didn’t know if that traffic was clickworthy. I added adsense the next day, missed the traffic, and got 1 click. whee…

The downside though was that in two days with adsense on Desty Online, my entire set of sites with adsense got smart priced! It couldn’t have came at a worse time! I had just posted a very popular funny video on my funny video site, and the traffic started to POUR in! I’m not kidding. I haven’t seen these numbers outside of a stumble upon spike. The numbers kept increasing! And the clicks started to pour in as well. The sad thing was that they were .01 to .03 cent clicks! It killed me!

So I wiped off adsense from Desty Online Friday, and now on Sunday my $per click is starting to return to normal.

There is actually a great business lession in all of this. When you have what you consider seperate businesses, but they are linked by a common infrastructure (adsense in the case of websites) be ready for a period of downtime as those changes take place. That downtime will effect your other sites, so don’t start a new push for traffic on those other sites. Smart pricing is not a fun thing! You waste your time, efforts, and valuable traffic.

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What exactly is the Rat Race Rebellion?  When I read those words, I instantly thought of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and Robert Kiyosaki.  I own the board game Cashflow.  If you’ve never played Cashflow, think of it as an adult version of Monopoly!

Danielle Babb is the woman behind all the talk of the Rat Race Rebellion.  Dr Babb talks about stay at home moms can work online and actually make money online.

Dr Danielle Babb is also the author of the book Make Money Teaching Online: How to Land Your First Academic Job, Build Credibility, and Earn a Six Figure Salary.

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What’s the Deal with Desty Online?

When I started this journey last year, I thought it would be cool to talk about business, my experiences online and off line. As time went on, I noticed that the well started to run dry. Even as I gained more knowledge and experience on getting search engine traffic, I would write about it, and once I wrote about it, what else can you say about it?

Last time I checked, Desty Online had a PR3, and some pages inside also had PR2 - PR3. As it stands, Desty Online makes some passive income, enough to pay for hosting for my sites on a monthly basis. I have sold advertising through the end of Feb 2008, so that’s why I haven’t made any changes. March 1st though, expect to see a new theme, and more posts, althought these new posts will have little to nothing to do with business.

A New Direction

I’m going to put Adsense back on Desty Online and start an experiment on post level keywords, along with evaluating Technorati as a source of search traffic. Supposedly, using Technorati tags could be a source of traffic, while I have used them in the past, Technorati has changed their format and their top tags is no long obvious, but that’s why I’m testing.

I will still answer emails either by personal email or through a post if needed.

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I was involved in an accident that involved me, my car, black ice, and the ditch.  I’m fine but the car is fairly banged up.

Online, I’ve been incredibly busy!

Right now I’m working hard to expand several made for adsense sites.  I know, conventional wisdom says not to worry too much about content, just to throw those keywords up to get the big G’s notice.  I have this PR2 blogger site that I started last year and I’ve finally gotten it to page two for it’s keyword.  I haven’t had much traffic on it yet, but that’s because it’s a holiday related site, so as we get closer to that holiday (see sidebar) traffic should start to pickup.  I just need to keep working it.

I also registered a new domain last week for my local niche.  I found the perfect wordpress theme, and am trying to post atleast twice per day.  Things are going well; I’m fleshing out my long term planning for the site and its upkeep.  Everything looks very interesting.

My funny video site’s traffic has slowed, and so has my adsense income. I’ve not been able to put as much effort into the site as before with the new projects, but it’s still doing ok.

My biggest enemy right now is lack of sleep and burn-out. I recently started weight training again, which I love; only problem is that takes more time away that I could be working on my online businesses. But, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, “I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.”

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As I’ve discovered over the last two weeks, however, if you’re serious about your online business, and I really mean seriously working it, then when do you actually have time to write about it??

My personal experience over these last two weeks has been to work my j.o.b., spend quality time with my family (wife is now going to school at night), and everything else is focused on my online business.

Masked Dispatcher, my funny video progresses on a daily basis, and is bringing in a semi steady income on a daily basis as well.  You know that you’re enjoying yourself when you are limited on how many posts you make by trading sleep time for computer time.  I’m still wondering about the adsense format, but everything else is great, so I can focus on content and backlinks.

On every meta-blogging blog they mention the importance of getting backlinks, and how you need to get them, etc, but they really don’t say how you do that.  I’ve actually invested some business income into a software tool that should help get those backlinks; we’ll see how that goes.

I’ve put my BANS plans on hold for the time being.  I’m more interested in focusing on creating niche blogs for adsense income.  I’ve seen the power of keywords on Internet traffic, and I’m addicted!  I’m wracking my brain to find another niche that I know something about, and that will make a decent click income from adsense.

An Online Business Niche Secret

I’ve discovered a contradiction over the last two weeks.  Again, looking at those meta-blogging blogs, they say don’t write for search engines, write for people.  I have to say no to that.  Here’s the secret:

Writing for search engines is writing for people!!!

How is that?  What do people search for?  What words do they enter into google, yahoo, or MSN’s search bar to find what they want?  THAT is what you want to focus your keywords on.  Not only putting those keywords into the blog title and all over the article itself, but if you’re starting a new niche, get that keyword into the domain name itself.

Now, if you constantly working on existing online businesses and trying to expand into new niches, when do you actually have time to write about what you’re doing?  You’re taking time away from actually doing it!  Yes, I’m taking time away right now just writing this, but it just struck me tonight.  Time to go back to backlinks!

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While I do target some keywords for Desty Online, it’s mainly a web journal about my experiences, so I’m not seriously using his thoughts and ideas for DO, but I am going full bore with the Masked Dispatcher.

WordPress Theme Change, Again

Court has adapted a Wordpress theme to take into account his tips from his Keyword Sniping.  It’s a really good looking theme and does great things for search engine optimization, so I downloaded it and am currently using it on Masked Dispatcher.  I’ll be using it for my Wordpress BANS when I finally get it going.

YouTube Based Ads Through Adsense

I had been given some great advice by Michael Martine for my funny video site.  You see, Michael was running a video of the day site before there were embedded videos.  Michael suggested that I use the video units from Adsense.  The video units create a video player that shows videos in a certain genre, that you select, and displays adsense ads in those ads.  It’s a great idea, when they work.

The problem I’m having is that the player isn’t showing 100% of the time.  When they don’t, you get a link “watch the latest videos on YouTube.com”, no ad.  If I’m throwing some traffic at a video and have been getting a 10% click conversion, I need those ads to be up all the time!

I’ve taken the video units down and replaced them with the 468×60 half banners again.  Maybe sometime in the future, the video units can be more reliable.

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 What Vic Said

Vic wrote an article about predicting what people will want to search about.  His example was Resurrecting the Champ, but instead of using that as his keyword, he focused on the boxer’s name, Battling Bob Satterfield and Bob Satterfield.

He knew that after watching the movie, people would want to know more about the real boxer, so that’s why he focused on the boxer’s name.

What I Did

On my funny video site, I embedded a funny video from the series Futurama.  Incase you haven’t heard, Futurama is going to be leaving the Cartoon Network.  It has been on the AdultSwim lineup for over 5 years, but the contact is ending.  The day after Christmas there will be a final Futurama marathon showing all of the episodes.

For fans of the show, I figured, they would want to know why it was going off AdultSwim, so I posted a video under the title of Futurama Leaving AdultSwim.  It’s a video showing what I consider one of the funniest clips from Futurama, which just happens to be a Christmas episode.

If you search Google using keywords such as “futurama leaving Adultswim”, “futurama leaving cartoon network”, “futurama leaving”, “futurama final marathon”, etc, you’ll see my post in the top 3 on almost all of those!  My search traffic has been 61.5% of my total traffic!  I’ve made some money off this article, now I just need to focus on converting that traffic into clicks better than I already am.

Something Else I Tried, but Nothing So Far

I tried using Bloggingzoom in a different way than I normally do with this article.  Instead of focusing on futurama leaving cartoon network on Bloggingzoom, I focused on the fact that the post was a Christmas episode, and was going after the funny Christmas video keyword.  I was trying to get some Christmas holiday traffic with that post, but so far I can’t see that I have.

I highly suggest that if you want more search traffic, you check out Blogger Unleashed and subscribe to the RSS.  Be warned, Vic has a mean sense of humor, so read everything first before you comment on anything

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