Greg is giving away Adept Mage Memberships…
Here’s the latest with the program launch. Greg Jacobs is giving away 60 day free trials for the adept mage level.
On that sales page, Greg included my review of the keyword mage.
Adept Mage vs. Master Mage
I should make it clear that I have purchased the Master Mage membership, which give me access to ALL that the mage system offers, and I speak of these features often.
The Adept Mage membership is a slimmed down version of the Complete Mage System. It includes only some of the tools and downloads. Adept members get the plugins that I use in my sites, but you can’t install the whole site like I can. The plugins are the important part, though. They create the posts and ebay, amazon and adsense ads. The adept mage also gets the domain mage tool, keyword mage tool and a couple others. If you can’t afford the expert mage system, at least get the adept version.
Oh, and both get access to the forum, but master mages have an extra private board.
Sorry if this is confusing. It is hard to explain. Post comments with questions, and I’ll do my best to answer them.
How the Mage System Works
I will describe a little about how the mage system works. Basically, with a few clicks you can install a wordpress site fully loaded with posts, adsense, ebay and amazon ads. It comes loaded with necessary settings and plugins.
Greg has two packages for the expert mages. One is called cpMage, and from it’s backend, you can install multiple sites VERY quickly. Literally, in less than 5 minutes.
The other is wpMage, which will install one site very quickly. One of my hosting accounts is a reseller account, so I’m using wpMage, and putting a different domain on each account.
My other hosting is shared with only one cPanel, so I’ll be using the cpMage again there.
Both are easy to set up, and of course, Greg has step by step pdf and vido tutorials. I can load all of the packages without using the tutorials now. It’s that simple. (And you have learned by now, that I’m not an expert. 
About eBay’s Quality Clicks
To answer a previous comment, I really can’t compare my payout from ebay now to their previous plan, because I wasn’t promoting them before this.
Before my sites went down, I had 47 clicks, and was getting about $.14/click. But from my understanding of this new system, they will be continously judging the quality of my traffic, and that $.14 may increase, or decrease. If my traffic really stinks, some clicks could be worth $0.00. Yes, I actually read their policy. It’s a snoozer!
So the bottom line is that until the end of the month, the price showing in my EPN reports is not in stone. At the end of the month, I believe they will adjust that month’s click pricing. Does that make sense?
Minor Setback, but Moving Forward
Okay, a little drama in the last few days. SuperGreen Hosting (aka JustHost.com) suspended my account for going over my CPU usage. Oops! I was really bummed for a few days, and didn’t do anything, just stewed about it.
I went to the Mage forum and got tremendously wonderful help from Greg, his team, and the other mages.
All my sites were on this one host, so all my sites went down, and of course, so did my traffic and clicks.
In the last two days I have regrouped, and am moving forward with a better plan. I hope all of you can learn from my mistakes, and avoid the headaches I may encounter along the way.
First of all, having my account suspended was in no way Greg’s fault. I simply posted too many posts, with too many translation versions, I think. Now I know how to keep a closer eye on my usage limits. (I’m learning, too.)
I now have three hosting accounts: SuperGreen, 1and1, and Hostnine. I will spread my sites out amongst all three. I will not translate at all. I am starting with only a few hundred posts, and a couple sites have 5,000 posts. Later, I will add more posts to the smaller sites.
In some ways, I’m glad I had the chance to start over. It was very easy for me to develop a new “template” or layout of my posts so that my ebay ads show on top. I also have chosen more lucrative keywords and ebay categories for my sites. I’ve added proper tracking codes to all my sites.
Really, I’m only set back two weeks, and in the grand scheme, it’s not a big deal, although I was very disappointed, yes.
Funny thing, hours after I got one of my sites recreated, I already had an adsense click! The traffic is still coming, but they are getting 404 errors. I can see that my sites now have hundreds of pages indexed, but I think those are pages from the previous versions of my websites. Basically, the indexing will have to start from scratch for all my sites.
So, it will be another couple weeks as I watch my indexing, traffic and clicks increase again.
I can say that the other mages in the forum continue to have increasing success, and that gives me assurance that I’m on the right track.
So, sorry this blog has come to a standstill as I get indexed again. Bummer.
Getting Traffic Now, and Clicks!
It’s been almost 2 weeks since I launched my first WP Mage sites, and I’m starting to see some traffic. I’m estimating about 300 visits total across those original 25 sites. Most are coming from the search engines, and with the most obscure keywords! Some of the search phrases are just hilariousand SO specific! They include…
- indian love making video
- memorex mltd3222
- lighting kits for indian wedding
- noble energy stamford
- subway scrabble codes
- create kpi in qc in excel
I mean, really, only with this system could I ever rank for such weird stuff.
Now, I know I’m not supposed to spend too much time checking stats, but let’s consider it research for this blog, so it’s important, right? (Good, I’ve rationalized that away.) FYI, when I check for how many pages are indexed with SEOQuake, it’s just a small fraction, like a couple hundred pages. I have over 125,000 created thus far. SO….. the traffic should start to explode when more and more pages are indexed.
I haven’t done anything to speed up indexing apart from used the “index mage” for some of my sites.
So, all this traffic is nice and all, but it’s worthless unless it’s making me some money. So far I’ve made around $5 in adsense. Not really worthy of a happy dance or anything, but it’s a start. I’ve gotten about 40 ebay clicks. They show zero value so far because the money they earn me won’t be calculated and reported for a month. So it’s impossible to say right now exactly how much money I’ve made with EPN.
I’ll keep you posted.
I’m a dollarnaire! Doo dah, doo dah.
