How long did it take you to reach $100/Day???

I stopped reading after that.

No offense, Jason, but you really need to stop believing everything you read.

 

Don't doubt the power of natural search traffic. There are plenty of webmasters including myself who make the majority of their income through natural search traffic. Although investing in links to raise your SEO is a form of advertising somewhat, it's not exactly direct.

Good words of wisdom Jennifer. Essentially your strategy is much the same as mine. I find my earnings go up and up month by month. It's almost like working a job and getting a pay raise each month, who can beat that?

Linkbaiting is the best way IMO to build NATURAL (the best) links if you can do it effectively.

The bait the author is referring to is The 50 Hottest Women in Sports. With over 1,200+ Diggs and 800 backlinks gained from this one linkbait alone, it's easy to see how powerful these can be.

Sex sells - this one is a no-brainer.

Thanks for sharing the link Jason.

 

I already know the, "power", and the reality of natural search traffic. Just like I know the reality of, "In less than 24 hours, across two days, the linkbait resulted in over 1.4 million pageviews."

But, hey, if you believe it, more power to you.

Yes, money can be made. What's often left out in that statment that is read on such boards is...how much is made, and how long it takes to make x amount.

What's your url, webwork?

 

True, natural search traffic takes time because your domain needs to be aged and the competition of the keywords you're targeting also come into play. When I make a new website I drop some content then let it hibernate for about 5 months.

How much you make also depends on the niche and keywords - naturally, this kind of information people won't give you, it's something you have to find out for yourself.

I have 13 sites, how much they make varies widely. I am almost to my $100 a day mark (currently hovering around $50-60 average)... I will be there hopefully within another 3-4 months at most as I drag sites out of the sandbox which I've put in hibernation.

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I take every marketing method into consideration with an open-mind. You can check the numbers on successful linkbaits when it comes to diggs and backlinks gained with simple tools. I'm sure you've heard of popular Diggs bringing down hosting accounts because of overages with bandwidth... This is one of the only negatives that comes with the instant success of a popular linkbait.

 

As a keyword tool I only use adwords. It's from google and as by far the biggest search engine they surely have most accurate data.

Apart from that I look at 5 - 10 TOP competitor pages, extract keywords, look at their pages and design. I see what they are doing, how they write, which questions they ask and how they market to their visitors. I research and research then I implement, test and optimize. I do all of this over and over again if needed until I achieve results I desire.

 

It also depends on what you are offering. If purely affiliate marketing then yes could be quick... or never you better be sure you know what you are doing and be flexible to make changes constantly. If on the other hand it is very important to get very targeted traffic, then give yourself 6-9 months and spend alot of time optimizing you site for relevant natural search, once the foundation is built you will be cruising.

 

Perry - I have no reason to advertise in my niche. Instead of advertising i created a network of sites within that niche. I can influence search engine results and gain #1 position in a matter of days by linking back to a particular site within that network under certain keywords. Even if i bid high with PPC i still wouldnt see the results i get from SEO for free.

There are a lot of people making good money who have never advertised in their life. I think you're thinking more about the quick dollar, marketing some ebook through ClickBank rather than building a network of blogs and bringing in organic traffic.

 

Not to mention that SEO traffic generally converts better. Each on his own though. Some like PPC and we like SEO. It's great that we see diversification of opinion.

 

I seem to be a lot like the original poster.... one day I make $100, the next $2...for me it all depends on what social bookmarking website picks me up

 

So true, targeted buying keywords IMO are the best things you can capture for bringing in sales/leads.

 

What are your sites that are ranked high, amedia?

 

It took me 2 months to get to $100 dollars a day online I did it writing and selling ebooks! No start up costs or investment. The only thing you waste is time if it fails.

 

No, none of my sites are islands - sites that are in related niches are interlinked; and although in my initial launch stage I only build 100 links or so to get page rank, over a year they develop thousands of links. So I don't leave anything stranded

And I'm not concerned about forcing huge amounts of visitors to my site. I concentrate on buyer focused keywords - pulling in people who are either specifically looking for the product I'm selling, or they are poised to buy something in my category, so I'm leveraging traffic very carefully. So even a site with just five visitors a day in its first month makes sales right away.

In my earlier days I was just creating these huge sites with tons of free articles and information on different niches, and because my content wasn't buyer -focused (it wasn't focusing on attracting buyers) all that traffic was basically a waste! Now I focus on making the most out of the tiniest trickles of traffic. You can have a site that gets 20 visitors a day and make hundreds of dollars per month from it - even thousands if you're in a high commission niche.

Over time as these sites age they organically start to attract larger traffic numbers. So I don't fret about not hitting tens of thousands of visitors in a month. Even 100 hungry buyers visiting my site can be a goldmine!

Jennifer

 

I agree that linkbaiting can be wonderful - I've started doing this on a few of my blogs and it's really fun! I'll take a controversial news item related to my niche and make a blog post about it and reference the original news source, then take a few moments to ping my blog post, bookmark it a few places, and Digg and Stumble it, and voila! A whole cluster of new folks just found my site. And if it's a controversial subject, people will chime in with comments on the blog, which also creates a fervor of spidering activity since the search engines love blogs that get lots of comments.

Jennifer

 

They are for a City, related to real estate, but i dont share any of my adsense sites on webmaster forums.

 

Well I have just started so I have a ways to go. Hope someday will make that mark

 

This is the kind of thing people generally don't understand. I have one site affiliate which gets about 100-150 targeted visitors a day and it out-earns the adsense across all 13 of my sites combined (roughly 1,000 visitors a day).

 

Riiiiiight. Now how did I know you were going to say something like that?

Hey, at least I didn't say, "If I had a dollar for everytime...." this time!

 

Believe it or not, there are in fact webmasters on a webmaster forum that do have websites which rank in Google (suprise, suprise!).

I find it odd how you would doubt something like this, especially here on DP. It's like going to a guitar forum and saying "Show me your guitar or else I won't believe that you play!".. It makes no sense.

 

Of course there are sites that rank in Google. If it is indexed, it is ranked.

lol say what?! I'm sorry, but that one didn't even make sense.

Oh, please, you and I both know why you and the others will not list your site(s), so don't even go there with that guitar analogy shit.

I love asking that question to such posters, knowing full well what they are going to come back with, in addition to them not even replying back.

Works every time!

I do this because nobody else will. They don't want to be made the bad guy here.

Me, I don't give a shit.

There are a lot of good people out there who really want to make their site a success so they can quit their job. They read this highly-overrated seo, and posts from posters who lie or exagerat their numbers to be somebody (whether it is on seo or not), and then they get their hopes up, only for it to be bashed all the hell after seeing the reality of it with their own eyes.

This includes ridiculous "free methods for bringing in tens of thousands of hits a day."

So many follow all of this crap without doing their homework first, and after so many times of it not working, and then seeing the reality of it all, they land up quitting in discouragement. They either make only a few sales, which takes them weeks and weeks to do, or none at all.

I've seen and heard it all too many times.

I had one e-mail from a customor of mine last month on this very thing. She was ready to throw in the towel.

You and others don't like what I say, and you don't like being called out in front of others? Sorry, but I don't much care. I only care about the good people out there who want to know the truth, and or hearing the WHOLE story so they don't keep getting discouraged, thus landing up quitting too soon.