How would you spend $200 in this business?

[ed_banger]

Have you considered blogs?


I'm a fellow newbie, only been in the biz about 3 months, but I'm getting a sale about every 4-5 days now.

$200 would get you a nice chunk of domains. Find nice niched keyword domains, install wordpress, write 11 posts with 100-120 words, and 1-3 pictures per post, all linking to the sponsor. Link trade and/or join a building/linking project.

The key is to get prime SE traffic.

I'm finishing up my 50th blog, and will be doing some more domain buying and building the next batch of 10-15 blogs for the November project (a bunch of us are building blogs within the same 3 niches, and then we interlink them all to jump our SERPs for the keywords we're targeting).


Run the numbers... 40 blogs that get 100 unique visitors per day from the search engines... 25% CTR to the sponsor = 40 * 25 = 1000 unique clicks to the sponsor each day. At a 1:1000 ratio (remember, this is targeted SE traffic for keywords specific to the niche/site you're promoting) you're getting 1 sale per day.

I can build a blog in under 3 hours now... 1 blog per day is my normal workload, and then I also outsource the blog posts. So for every 3 blogs I write, I outsource 1 blog.

[mark6188]

@ed_banger

I've thought about buying some keyword specific domains. There's actually still quite a few good names available if you micro niche.

Right now google does seem to give new domains good rankings based on the keywords in the name.

One of my domains gets about 20-30 hits daily on a specific keyword, and is converting at around 1:200.

Thanks for your feedback.

[ed_banger]

Originally Posted by mark6188

@ed_banger

I've thought about buying some keyword specific domains. There's actually still quite a few good names available if you micro niche.

Right now google does seem to give new domains good rankings based on the keywords in the name.

One of my domains gets about 20-30 hits daily on a specific keyword, and is converting at around 1:200.

Thanks for your feedback.

I'd say it's definitely worth it


Here is the stats for a blog of mine. Micro-niched.

Domain registered: Creation Date: 08-oct-2009

Installed the blog software and wrote 8 posts on the 15/16th of october. Pinged it, linked it up to 10 of my blogs. And that's it.

Here are the statcounter stats for this site:



According to niftystats, the sponsor is getting 50-60 uniques each day (graph looks identical in shape) so this blog is getting almost a 50% CTR to the sponsor.

This is the first blog I made for this particular sponsor... 402 uniques sent to the sponsor so far since launching the blog. I registered 3 domains to use for this particular sponsor. Once I get the other 2 set up, and if they bring in the SE traffic like this one, and if the sponsor converts at a decent ratio (1:1000 or better), I'll probably do another 5-10 blogs pushing this one sponsor.

[mark6188]

Hey, Ed.

How many different hosting companies are you using? I've read setting up the linkwheel requires at least 3 unique ips and private whois info.

At HowlingWulfs blog, he goes into some detail his venture into blogging for porn. Good stuff.