tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58514219021358462532012-01-27T20:32:09.163-05:00Originally I set this up as a summer project during college. Now I've got a real job, but I'd like to continue this. My current goal is to knock out a $100 dollar day within at least two months, hopefully sooner.Brandonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger601100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-16850839159947582822010-05-31T15:55:00.003-04:002010-05-31T15:58:33.510-04:00

Yeah, I know. It's been years. But guess what? Real jobs suck. Somewhat to my shock, I'm still getting checks every now and again from this stuff. It's been almost 3 years. That's insane. So you know what? I think it's time to start putting some spare time back into this. There's clearly money to be made.I think I'm going to be a tad more aggressive in my goals this time around. I want

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-19173709492772135702007-09-19T22:01:00.000-04:002007-09-19T22:20:49.494-04:00

Well, school is underway, I'm settled in and things are crazy.I thought I'd have more time for this stuff, but one class in particular is taking up a lot of time. To go off on a little bit of a tangent/rant it's a programming class and he uses an email grader to check your output. He tells you what the name of the input and output files are (so you can grab the data to manipulate), but you

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-86073579747192723512007-09-02T20:55:00.000-04:002007-09-02T21:00:40.412-04:00

Yeah, I bet you thought I was dead...or at least that I gave up. Actually, neither is true.This stuff has gone on the back burner a bit, as I'm getting ready for my return to college. I've been spending time with friends and family. Also, I got a proposal for my senior project completed and accepted. I've started research and work on that.I apologize for the complete lack of updates. I

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-6153782758036312472007-07-31T22:39:00.001-04:002007-07-31T22:51:53.259-04:00

I gave up counting days, lol.I'm in a bit of a rut right now. I'm having trouble making things work. I've hit a lot of setbacks. Things just aren't working well.I'm making things easier on myself. I've been getting frustrated, so I decided to just let that go. I would spend all day working on this, yet really get nothing done. I'm changing this. I have a very simple goal for each day.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-83209407347706950592007-07-24T01:21:00.000-04:002007-07-24T01:27:04.461-04:00

I realize my posts have grown rather infrequent and for that I apologize.Things have gone downhill lately. I won't really get into it, but I've been having a hard time making things work. I'm not giving up but I'm a little exhausted and frustrated.The couple ideas I had seem so powerful, I just can't quite crack the code to it. I KNOW there is huge gains to be made, I just need to come up with

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-19460077440445397652007-07-16T00:50:00.000-04:002007-07-16T01:02:59.246-04:00

Wow, long time no update.Well, I'm still unsure on Squidoo. Some of them are still doing ok, others aren't. From what I heard, the reason many sites dropped (or get deindexed) was because a spammer got a hold of Squidoo and made something like 70,000 lenses in just a few days. I'd imagine it was someone using a scrapper (script to steal content from other sites to make you a bunch of automated

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-19603260354475328012007-07-10T01:44:00.000-04:002007-07-10T01:50:22.745-04:00

Well, it appears the Squidoo drop wasn't just my imagination. A couple of you have noticed it as have a lot of people at the Warrior Forum. While I wouldn't call it completely dead, it does hurt the viability of marketing that way. I knew it was only a matter of time before this happened. Squidoo has almost NO real information on it, just IMers trying to make money. Squidoo even advertises

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-45072792656895823922007-07-07T02:42:00.000-04:002007-07-07T02:48:31.293-04:00

...perhaps my new goal might not be as achievable as I once had hoped. Perhaps I'm wrong and just unlucky but I'm starting to think that the Google love to Squidoo is wearing off. While I don't keep a close eye on all of my lenses, I do watch my more important ones. In one day, nearly all of them dropped at least 4 spots. Many of them are dropping off the first page. I had also noticed that

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-85141657804704674392007-07-06T02:55:00.000-04:002007-07-06T03:04:06.745-04:00

Holy cow, I can't believe it's the middle of the summer already.My lack of updates is really only because I'm at the same things. I keep remembering to update the blog really late at night, lol. Nothing really new or exciting happening, just me trying to keep the cash flow going.Sales have been really slow lately. So I'm starting to up the ante a bit. That's something I've realized about

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-34243858575583154272007-07-03T02:43:00.001-04:002007-07-03T02:45:50.281-04:00

No update yesterday. I hardly do anything on Sundays.Today I did a couple lenses and worked on my tool some more. I actually got a semi-functioning trackback harvester created. Not bad for a days work from a guy who hardly knows Perl, lol.I think I'll get back to making more pages tomorrow...I've had enough programming for one week, lol.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-33701753373553246162007-07-01T02:00:00.000-04:002007-07-01T02:03:28.063-04:00

Not a great day...it was one of those days where everything seems to go wrong. Nothing big in particular, I just kept messing up little things all day and frustrating myself.I'm going to start getting back to really working on what's paying me. I've been slacking in that department (not that I haven't been working, but I've been working towards different things).My pay is starting to sag a bit,

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-84763698296886004242007-06-30T03:09:00.000-04:002007-06-30T03:19:52.745-04:00

Spent most of the day working on my tool. And slacking...lots of slacking...Still, I have big plans for my tool. I got my error checking cleaned up and it now submits to 8 different sites. I have all sorts of plans for this baby...it's gonna be pretty wicked. So many ideas I want to implement.I think I'll make a "go through all my lenses and push the submit button" on squidoo bot. I'm really

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-3004186516643381652007-06-28T23:57:00.000-04:002007-06-29T00:07:08.249-04:00

Sorry I missed updating last night. I was coding like a mad man into the late hours. I get in a zone where I HAVE to fix my code before I do anything else. By the time that was done, it was 3:20AM.I've really been working hard on this social bookmark submitter. So far it can submit to 5 different sites. I'd like to get it up to at least 10. I need to figure out a better way to keep track of

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-69815116056934909012007-06-27T02:34:00.000-04:002007-06-27T02:38:23.326-04:00

I just spent about 5 hours straight working on Perl...only to discover I can't figure this effin thing out. My brain hurts.I have no problem getting it to login. I think that's working ok. But I gather up all the data I think I need to submit to a social bookmarking site...try and make it work...and it doesn't. The thing that's driving me insane is that you get NO feedback as to what you're

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-76305432674814818932007-06-26T00:46:00.000-04:002007-06-26T00:51:36.804-04:00

Pretty productive day for me. Did 2 lenses and learned lots of Perl.I was successfully able to use Perl to login to Digg (whoopdeedoo right? It was mainly just an exercise in learning how to use Perl to submit a POST form). I was halfway through trying to make a Digg submission tool when I remembered Digg uses captcha...doh...Oh well, the basics are there to apply it to another site.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-35385559538231161962007-06-25T02:48:00.000-04:002007-06-25T02:50:37.718-04:00

Not much has happened, sorry for the lack of updates. But I didn't feel like updating to say, "wow, I'm lazy."I'm gonna learn Perl. Should be fun.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-32555673444664706212007-06-23T16:12:00.000-04:002007-06-23T17:06:10.600-04:00

Hey, you guys get a bonus post.The reason for this? I'm pissed beyond belief. Somebody has copied a ton of my lenses. They took the exact same keywords, paraphrased my lens, then spit it back out. Some of them outrank mine on Google. That's disgusting. Do your own work, don't steal form others. Perhaps they read this, who knows? So whoever you are, I hope karma catches up to you. You

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-58105334681042972322007-06-23T03:06:00.001-04:002007-06-23T03:08:42.051-04:00

Wow, is it really day 50 all ready? 1 site done and 3 sales today.Another late night with a short post, sorry. Pretty much the same song anyway...I need to work harder...get focused...set a schedule...you know, what I've needed to do the last 3 weeks. Man I'm a procrastinator. I don't get myself sometimes. I've got a great thing in front of me and I'm pretty much settling for mediocrity.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-72805757811391422322007-06-22T03:06:00.000-04:002007-06-22T03:11:27.738-04:00

Sorry, this post is gonna be kinda short. It's really late and I just remembered I didn't post.1 lens done and 2 sales today.I think I'm gonna learn PHP. That, or Perl. From what I'm reading PHP is the smarter choice at the moment, so I'm not sure. Just trying to get PHP setup is a bit of a pain though. We'll see. At least it's easy to install Perl. I think I'd do Perl, but I've noticed

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-68039004397300059752007-06-21T01:27:00.000-04:002007-06-21T01:33:36.458-04:00

I did one lens and had 3 sales minus 1. Lol, I knew that sale was coming back. I noticed it about a week ago. Somebody payed by check. Yeah...I bet that's a real check. No shocker, it bounced.I've noticed my posts are getting more and more boring. Sorry, I just don't have much to say at the moment. I continue to waste way too much time reading about new tactics that I generally have no

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-54133367590548139372007-06-20T02:27:00.001-04:002007-06-20T02:30:01.550-04:00

Lost internet for awhile again, I have no idea what's going on with my ISP.Made two sales today, didn't really get anything done. I need to stop that. I keep saying that, but I'm addicted to new information. I'd be making a lot more if I'd just stick to making more lenses, but I really enjoy trying to learn new tactics.I'm also interested in learning how to program to automate tasks (say,

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-38188096680460710492007-06-19T12:32:00.002-04:002007-06-19T12:33:56.503-04:00

A big thunderstorm knocked out my cable last night, so no update.I did a couple lenses and, sadly, had no sales for the first time in awhile.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-1409964271772217242007-06-18T01:18:00.000-04:002007-06-18T01:23:16.870-04:00

As I promised, I didn't do squat today. Played some golf with the old man.I have a little under 2 hours to get another sale :P Currently sitting at about 92 bucks for the day, lol. So, so close. I was shocked to see so many sales...perhaps extremely lazy people going, "OH CRAP IT'S FATHERS DAY!" who didn't even have time to go to the store, so they locked their door for 10 minutes and

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-41131757050252303362007-06-17T03:05:00.000-04:002007-06-17T03:16:11.231-04:00

1 sale, not much work done. Lazy day. Tomorrow will be equally lazy.I did sit around and do some interesting research. Apparently I was a bit too late on the gold rush though, lol. What you could do was search for old blogs that had been deleted but still had links pointing to them. You could then sign up for a blog and use their domain name. The number of page rank 3,4 and even some 5

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-38371454034147884152007-06-16T00:40:00.000-04:002007-06-16T00:55:57.116-04:00

Another lens done today and one sale. That's ok I suppose.I think I really need to go into overdrive over the next couple months. I've got the knowledge I need, now I just have to start going. Wait...didn't I say that last post? Yeah, I forgot to mention, I'm a huge procrastinator. Seriously though, I really need to get working. I was working my butt off the first couple weeks and now that

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-48597214103045398462007-06-15T00:38:00.000-04:002007-06-15T00:42:03.490-04:00

2 lenses done and 3 more sales. Pretty decent day.I wish Clickbank wasn't so slow with sending my check. It worries me a bit. It says "it will be sent within 15 days of the end of the pay period" so I guess I'm still ok, but holy crap, could it take any longer? I wonder why they don't offer an option to get payed with paypal.Sorry some of these posts are getting short and boring. But there

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-48357974238046346152007-06-14T00:08:00.001-04:002007-06-14T00:13:13.390-04:00

Doing my update a little early today in case my internet dies again. 1 sale today, although I still have a few hours left that still count towards today :P.I finished two lenses. Other than that, pretty uneventful.Edit: Dur...I forgot something pretty big.Squidoo updated their stats! You can now see where your traffic is coming from, what keywords they were searching for, and if they are

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-38340623082790527392007-06-13T12:05:00.000-04:002007-06-13T12:07:17.814-04:00

Sorry again...me and my ISP are going to have a chat soon. That's the 2nd time in as many nights I've lost internet and the 4th time in about two weeks.I had a couple sales, didn't get much else done, given the no internet.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-52012790766042974172007-06-12T15:50:00.001-04:002007-06-12T16:02:46.186-04:00

Sorry about the no update last night. Again, my internet died on me.I made 2 lenses and had a nice 4 sale day. I see one of my lenses dropped off the first page :/ Sucks, but that one had been behind somebody elses lens for almost a week now, so I don't think it was doing much anyway. My scheme might bring it back up, we'll see.Speaking of the scheme, I've gotten several more first page

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-84684119429648986422007-06-11T03:02:00.000-04:002007-06-11T03:07:37.267-04:00

Had a couple sales today. Not bad. I made one lens and more of the same research.As I mentioned before, I think it may be time to just start pumping out some lenses. My pages seem to be sticking long enough to where I can at least make some money off of them.I've decided to motivate myself a bit by offering myself a reward. I'm normally a bit stingy with money, to say the least. Everybody

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-2954599841026170162007-06-10T02:32:00.000-04:002007-06-10T02:41:43.069-04:00

Not much to report today. Still fighting strange Google problems.I really think I just need to let it go. I've gotten decent at keeping them up for awhile, might as well just try and make money with what I know. I've been spending way too much time trying to solve it. So much so that I'm getting very little actually done.No clickbank sales today, which is disappointing. On the other hand,

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-12618806870112295862007-06-09T02:33:00.000-04:002007-06-09T02:47:34.415-04:00

Made another lens, nothing special.The problem I noted earlier hit another one of my lenses. That drives me NUTS! If my lens isn't attached as a "related" site, I'm in the 4 or 5 position. Then, some lens (who isn't optimized for the keyword) becomes dominate for some reason, and I end up in the related position and drop like a rock because I'm forced to follow the less optimized lens. I

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-66975465993726938602007-06-08T13:21:00.001-04:002007-06-08T13:48:41.807-04:00

Sorry for the no update last night. I was over at a buddies house having a bit of a LAN party. It was raining really hard when I got home, so I didn't feel like trying to bring my computer back in in the pouring rain.Made another lens. No sales though :/ Also, the other day I had managed to bring one of my lenses back up, only for it to drop again today. Hrm. Google, I just don't get

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-44654668342039798892007-06-07T02:58:00.001-04:002007-06-07T03:24:16.554-04:00

Pretty good day. 4 sales. One lens done and plenty of research and testing.Good and bad news really...one of my lenses has been pulling in a lot of sales. How many? Probably about half. That's great that a lens is pulling in so much cash, but a little scary, because I can't afford to lose that sucker.First off, I think I've been able to move my pages up a little. Essentially, there are a

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-53484128549544099402007-06-06T02:53:00.000-04:002007-06-06T03:20:48.434-04:00

A couple sales today, but I'm not satisfied. I want to start seeing lots of sales. Heck, I'm barely on pace to match my last pay check, I can't have that!I think I need to limit my time I spend on forums, I'm just addicted to the darn things. Instead focus on making more lenses. I should probably make a 2 lenses a day rule. Nothing else happens until I finish a couple lenses.I did another

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-17544979745421415922007-06-05T03:01:00.000-04:002007-06-05T03:12:12.606-04:00

Crap, crap, crap. This degrading rank problem isn't going to go away. I managed to make one sale today, so at least I didn't get blanked, but that doesn't make me feel any better. I was on a really good roll the last week and this drop in rankings just hurt me pretty bad.I've got two options from here and I'm unsure which one is the right one. I can:1) Research, scheme, test, and do anything

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-29681736396422933602007-06-04T12:53:00.000-04:002007-06-04T12:59:22.735-04:00

Sorry about the no post last night. I have an excuse though, lol.Like I had planned, I didn't do much yesterday. Later in the night, I checked my stats and much to my displeasure, my Clickbank for the day was empty :( It was the first time in a week that I got blanked on Clickbank and the first time in 6 days where I hadn't made two sales. Boo. That got me motivated to get back to work. But

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-35746306230175259252007-06-03T03:07:00.000-04:002007-06-03T03:24:45.227-04:00

Another pretty slow day, as promised. Although I did get around to making another lens. What time I did spend working on this was mainly more research and brainstorming ideas. Tomorrow will probably be pretty lazy too. Back to the serious grind Monday.I had pretty good sales day. I woke up to 20 bucks, very late in the day had 35. In a matter of a few more hours, I finished with 75. Pretty

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-51087456499874601992007-06-02T03:01:00.001-04:002007-06-02T03:03:50.004-04:00

More research about Adwords and what not. I really didn't do much today. I'll probably not do much tomorrow either. I need to recharge a bit.A somewhat promising day finished being just average. I woke up to 50 bucks...and I'm going to bed with the same 50 bucks, lol. No sales at all throughout the day. Boo. Oh well, 50 bucks is 50 bucks.

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-8268639320254023492007-06-01T02:47:00.000-04:002007-06-01T02:59:42.418-04:00

Today I did the usual, 1 lens and a couple articles. Lots of research. I think I've been doing more research than work lately. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I guess both.I remember what I was going to say the other day. Ezinearticles makes me mad. They didn't give me platinum membership. They gave me "basic plus." Which means I get to submit 15 more articles, wait days on end for

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-57392352927975462762007-05-31T02:55:00.000-04:002007-05-31T03:19:50.948-04:00

I made a couple good lenses today. Had a little over 70 bucks in sales and my first check should be set at the end of tomorrow! Woot. I'm really happy with it too, over 325 bucks at the moment. I also have around 30 with another company heading my way. That's maybe 50 bucks less than what I would have made pushing carts. I'm really happy with that.I had a bit of a scare today. You know how

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-23299816817304229442007-05-30T02:41:00.001-04:002007-05-30T02:48:33.586-04:00

Another routine day. One lens, a couple articles, and lots of research. Did over 30 bucks in sales. Not my 130 of yesterday, but I'll take it :PI really need to get a schedule going though (haven't I said that like 3 times now?). It's really messing me up to be working on this sporadically all day long. For one thing, I never feel like it's really time to relax. I just keep going on here

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-32960807352310438022007-05-29T02:07:00.001-04:002007-05-29T02:35:54.344-04:00

Wow. Just...wow.I wake up this morning (ok, afternoon, I'm a night owl) and check my stats like I usually do. My Clickbank account had 60 bucks in it for the day already! I had made 60 bucks in my sleep. At that point, I thought to myself, "So that's what success feels like." I know my adventure is just getting started and I'm going to see plenty of setbacks along the way, but at that point,

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-15662486685196022812007-05-28T01:56:00.000-04:002007-05-28T02:13:57.891-04:00

Not as a productive day as I would have liked. First off, I again hung out with my brother most of the day. Then I sat down, ready to work, and started working on a lens. I had been thinking and typing for a good 20 or 30 minutes and I thought to myself, "I should really save this in case something happens." So I copy it and get ready to paste it into notepad (don't ask why I didn't just hit

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-9076425507890486492007-05-27T02:29:00.000-04:002007-05-27T02:57:32.555-04:00

Another similar day. One good lens and a couple articles done. Still waiting on ezinearticles to approve me, won't happen for awhile. Good thing they take weekends off.Another disappointing no sale day. I swear this business may just kill me by the end of the summer, lol. I can't figure it out for the life of me. The page produced 3 sales within the first 30 hours and got me really pumped,

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-77467830532122919242007-05-26T02:30:00.001-04:002007-05-26T02:44:14.544-04:00

I've had a couple comments I see :P It's nice to know people are interested.I finished another good lens today. I've found that spending more time researching and writing the lenses really does give better results, so I'm focused more on that. I spent nearly two hours just researching my keywords.I also wrote a couple more articles and manually requested my ezinarticles membership get upgraded

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-80415906840892996692007-05-25T02:03:00.000-04:002007-05-25T02:13:37.486-04:00

A fairly productive day today. I finished two good lenses with some promotion done. I also did a couple GoArticles. I guess I'll be contacting ezinearticles manually tomorrow, as they still haven't increased my membership.After a three sale day yesterday, I went down today. Still, I had one sale, so I'm still happy.Tomorrow I plan on supporting my new lenses with a couple articles and doing

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-81008413091415585502007-05-24T02:35:00.000-04:002007-05-24T02:47:59.705-04:00

I wrote 4 articles today all around one site, really trying to dominate that niche. Ezine continues to be slow on upping my membership.I was pumped to see that one of my lenses landed number 3 on the first page, plus number 7 for a term I wasn't even going for. That was one of my new pages using my new "don't really try and sell them" strategies, which seem to convert way better. And boy did

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-89590583456400332712007-05-23T02:29:00.000-04:002007-05-23T02:30:49.875-04:00

Not much done today. Spent most of the day with my dad. I wrote a couple articles and started looking into autoresponders. I think I might fork over the money so I can start building a good list. Seems like it should be well worth it.I need to start looking over my pages and figure out why I'm not converting better.Oh, and ezine still hasn't upped my membership yet, argh.I'm really tired, so

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-83060542635108256822007-05-22T02:55:00.000-04:002007-05-22T03:18:16.788-04:00

Another couple of really nice lenses done. Still waiting on ezine. That's killing me right now. I need to be able to put up more articles, but ezine is probably one of the slowest sites I've ever seen.I think I'm making progress, but I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I should be seeing more progress given how much work I've been doing. I'm looking at other people and seeing how

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-28475897831024663192007-05-21T02:48:00.000-04:002007-05-21T02:58:21.050-04:00

I didn't do too much today. It was a lazy Sunday. Still, I got one well promoted lens up.I made another sale last night, so that was sweet. I still feel I'm behind where I should be though. I think that's because I haven't kept a focused system. So I just wrote down every step I'm going to take for each site I make. I'm also refocusing my efforts into more specific keywords and niches. I

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-67692751365625856942007-05-20T03:14:00.000-04:002007-05-20T03:17:29.376-04:00

A rather disappointing day. After I thought I finally had the key figured out, I get nothing the following day. Blah. I'm really starting to doubt if I'm ever going to get this.I found some other blogs from people who did things very similar to what I'm doing now, the only difference is, by day 16, they had already made 400 bucks. Gah. I need to figure out what I'm doing wrong, because

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-32034471355949148412007-05-19T01:50:00.000-04:002007-05-19T03:02:55.937-04:00

EDIT: I GOT MY FIRST SALE!!!! Either I got lucky, or there really is something to that new trick I learned. Two hours after I made it! Holy cow!Redid my layout, if you didn't notice. I liked the other one but apparently a lot of people thought it was a bit too harsh on the eyes. I guess I could understand that. I like this one better anyhow.Did 2 lenses with my new plan of better support

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-77549272533396963022007-05-18T03:10:00.000-04:002007-05-18T03:14:31.614-04:00

It's really late, so this post won't be too long.I really want to get this stupid no sales monkey off my back. I'm slowly starting to trickle some traffic in, but no converts yet.I'm realizing that the initial thing I was told of "just make a million lenses on long tail keywords" isn't working out. I need to support each lens. So I worked out a plan where for each lens I: right at least 2

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-77908998419056636372007-05-17T02:10:00.000-04:002007-05-17T02:23:28.476-04:00

Today was an interesting day. I didn't pump out very much content today. I got one good page up. Most of today was spent revisiting some of my better sites I had done.I went through and tweaked a whole bunch of sites. I realized some very stupid mistakes I was making. For example, in one site it was a bit of a "how to" with some affiliate links mixed in there, along with some non affiliate

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-73221860044930249542007-05-16T02:46:00.000-04:002007-05-16T02:59:19.539-04:00

Relatively productive day today. I wrote 5 good pages plus 1 article to finish out my 10 on ezinearticles. Just waiting for my platinum membership now.That fast indexing method did get all of my pages indexed. One of them is ranked 6th on the first page! I was pumped about that. The other two were for less competitive keywords, yet ended up on page 5. I'm a bit confused about that. I did

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-27673890194322080482007-05-15T01:40:00.000-04:002007-05-15T02:01:08.748-04:00

Bah, the indexing trick is still failing me nearly 60 hours later. I swear, Google is trying to make me go insane. I really want to start perfecting my sales pitches and site setup, not worry about if I'm doing something wrong. I really just want to keep pumping out content, but I'm sitting at something like 20 lenses (some of them 12 days old) and NONE of them are indexed. Even the

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-21694343129474392182007-05-14T02:15:00.000-04:002007-05-14T02:18:33.533-04:00

Not much to report today, it wasn't a "work super hard" day. Wrote 3 lenses. My "30 hours" trick is now at hour 36 with no success. That's a little discouraging. I think I'm doing pretty good as far as picking keywords, setting up my pages, writing articles, and stuff like that, I just can't get any of my work indexed. I think I'll be in decent shape once/if my pages ever get indexed. I'll

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-33549134031203241022007-05-13T02:16:00.000-04:002007-05-13T02:24:36.778-04:00

I'm kind of debating how I want to approach this. At first I was pumping out lens and articles left and right, not really worry about their quality too much. They were just good enough to get the job done. I'm starting to think I should do a little more quality work. More importantly, get keyword targeted at people who are close to buying something, reeling them in, then hopefully getting a

Brandonnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851421902135846253.post-28621969453876242382007-05-12T14:02:00.000-04:002007-05-12T14:12:00.955-04:00

I just started this and I'm already a few days underway.I've been focusing on mainly bum marketing strategies, since I don't have much cash to start off with. I plan on adding a couple traditional websites and maybe an AdWords campaign or two if I start seeing some success.I've been hard at work publishing articles and squidoo lenses. I've yet to see any results, but nearly all of my work isn't

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