A Buck A Night

I think I found the answer to this weird spike. I’m pretty sure that this site sent some users there. It’s the only place I can figure out. The Best Selling Guide website was using a generic amazon tag, so I added a new one and am tracking those hits.

I think that $19 whole dollars might be enough to justify treating the other categories like the books; if you click on a genre it shows a list of best sellers if you click on a book, it takes you to a detail page, but if you click on a category and then on an item it takes you right to Amazon. If I keep some of the item info and use item detail pages it should help my keywords and searches. Since I don’t really think people are searching for best selling electronics, it should help people when they search for specific items.

And if I add RSS feeds for the categories, that’ll probably help too, with link bait.

Not that I think anyone’s searching for “best selling books” though

I took the adsense ads off the autoblogs; specifically the Tila Tequila one and the Kim Kardashian ones.

Google doesn’t allow adsense ads on blogs with adult content. And since most people looking for those sites are looking for porn, I could get my adsense license yanked. It’s not making much at the moment, but it could. So off they go.

No closer to my goals. Nose to the grindstone and all that rot.

Sometimes people repeat themselves and really irritate me. Like Jon Leger, who revealed in one of his “dollar deals” a method for gaining a lot of backlinks very cheaply. And then the night after, I got the same method in an email from him where he said the tip was worth $67 but he gave it to me for free for re-opting-in to his email list.

Sheesh.

Anyway.

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I must have been sleeping last week- Google has acquired feedburner.

What’s that mean for me? And this site?

You can integrate your feedburner feeds with your adsense account!
Got a hot feed with lots of readers? Bam! Lots of ad readers!

Yay for ads!

Sometimes I’m sad about the encroaching monetization of our lives. But then I go to feedburner, select a feed, go to monetize, and connect the feed with my adsense account. That makes me feel better.

My current goal is $10 in 7 days; my thinking is that I’d go from one buck in one night of passive income to over a buck a night for a week running.

However, some mysterious force has convinced eleven people to order something from Amazon.Com (and no, I can’t tell what site it came from ) and I’m over ten bucks for this week. That’s from amazon.com alone; I’ve also made about four bucks from referrals to the Dollar Deals ( see sidebar –> ).

So, with that, I’m going to have to change my goal to “more than one dollar a night for a week straight.”

After convincing myself that I personally crashed the shared server that the portallane.com site lives on (well, the mysql crashed, anyway ), I turned off some of the logging and the stats programs that I had installed. It was probably for the best, but I’m definately a stats junkie.

So I’ve been updating the Thanksgiving Recipes site and the Justice League America Movie site and letting the rest of the portallane.com sites just go their automatic ways. I did learn how to embed youtube videos, and I used this plugin to make it easier. But now I have a lovely video of “how to make a pumpkin pie.”

Focus, lad, focus.

Somehow I managed to turn off the adsense deluxe panel, so even with the 200-300 unique visitors, nobody has given my adsense account any movement toward the “buck a night” goal of ten bucks in seven days.

However, I do want to thank the three of you who found something of use over at the Dollar Deals page. Thanks!

So, my focus is currently on, letting the autoblogs run and not bothering with more or less, making good posts to my several blogs, and trying to find uses for those dollar deals myself. I did find one source that might prove interesting if I were to use the “cheap content” generation idea on that page. In fact, I’m going to sell that idea too. It’s one of those “if I had more time in the day” ideas that I never really got around to.

ps
I discovered that my otherwise awesome host ( site5 ) limits a site to 15 concurrent mysql connections, so it’s probably not feasible to run a large autoblog site on a site5 hosting account. )

There’s a fascinating tool at google called “Google Trends.” Using it, you can see trending through the weeks or years for random topics.

As you sit and punch keywords into this tool, you can probably find some with cyclical patterns. For instance, the blue line to the right is more cyclical than the red line.

So, I’m seeing us on the cusp of a “Thanksgiving” Spike and the best keyword for thanksgiving is probably “recipe.” Because that’s what people do on Thanksgiving; they eat. So check out “thanksgiving recipes” at this new Thanksgiving Recipes blog.

Jon Leger sent me another exciting email with tips on how to earn my dollar a day ( or a buck a night ).

He sent some horrible, horrible untargeted traffic to a landing page and made over an 8.85% conversion rate. He made over 300 dollars from this one idea. The program is easy to convert and very popular. Want to know more? Check out this link!

He’s selling the idea for one dollar. I spend more than that on coffee, even if I don’t go to Starbucks!

The “Adsense Deluxe” Plugin doesn’t have to be just adsense.

You can use it to substitute other ads in ( or probably whatever; an image, a header, whatever ) into your text. So I’m currently using it on Tila Tequila Fan Site to present an allposters ad. Because in the template I’m using, other sites on that domain are also using the same one; so I can just swap in different all posters ads for different fan sites.

Seven day earnings have dipped a little; a few days in a row, I made absolutely no money. However, I’ve applied to a new affiliate program and have started up two new websites that are aimed at making some good money.

First, I’ve got some blogs going on over at Portal Lane, which is a domain I originally purchased thinking I would write a portal framework but I’m actually using a multi-user wordpress installation. Second, I have a more active hand in the blog happening at justiceleagueamericamovie.com, which is a love of mine ( superhero movies, even the bad ones like the Hulk ). Third, I got roped into buying “your shitty site.com” which will be an aff site for … website tips. So we’re hanging in there and moving along.