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Some people seem concerned about WPMage because they don’t have an ebay account, or maybe not even an adsense affiliate account. I made this video to show you how easy it is to monetize these sites with CPA offers, or with any affiliate network that gives you html banners.
Basically, the mage sites are installed with a plugin that allows you to put any html on the top of every post in a few seconds.
I only have 2-3 sites up so far using this method. I gotton a few clicks on them, and will start making money from them as the traffic increases. Again, still just little baby sites. I’ve heard Greg say that other Mages are making loads of money with CPA.
Even just a zip submit banner can make money with this sites. I mean, if you have tons of these sites, with tons of posts, and tons of zip submits, you’re bound to make money. I’m anxious to start making more Mage sites with the zip and e-mail submits. I’m not crazy about the repeat bill offers, I’ll stay away from those. 
Making Over $10 Per Day
For the last few days, I’ve averaging around $10 per day. I’m getting around 75 ebay clicks every day. I got 91 yesterday! They are paying me $.14 per click so far. Yesterday I made $5.56 in adsense.
Funny quirks…
- One of my adsense sites had 13 clicks, but only 7 page impressions! I think that means someone clicked an ad, then hit their back button, and clicked another ad, and so on. Who does that? LOL
- I THINK the majority of my ebay clicks are from a bot. The site is getting around 50-60 clicks per day, but I don’t see ANY traffic in my stats. It’s possible the statcounter was installed wrong, and so on. But from what I’m reading, it’s likely a bot. For now, no big deal. Ebay seems happy to pay me for them, anyway. But in the long run it could hurt my pay. If that starts to happen, I’ll switch out for adsense on that site. No biggie.
- One of my sites that had not recieved any traffic for 2 weeks, all of a sudden has 90 visitors in the last 2 days! Google found it!
- Here’s a good one… A lady e-mailed me via the contact form on one of sites asking for a price quote for one of “my” products! Hilarious!
- I’ve installed a handful of WPMU sites loaded with the mage plugins. If you know WPMU, and have questions, I’ll give you more info. It’s pretty neato! I might buy a really nice expired auction domain someday and use it for this purpose. Super easy.
- As much as that one site had more clicks than traffic, I have a couple other sites getting 40 hits/day, with no money-making clicks at all.
- I do really think one of my sites was banned by the Google gods. No traffic for several days, and it was getting 25/day. Interestingly, it happened the very night I took off the adsense and put up clickbank ads. Coincidence? Does Google hate clickbank? Anyone know?
- I’m now monetizing across several different networks. Just FYI.
Here’s a special tidbit for those of you who read through this entire post… If you’re thinking of buying the Mage, go get a Commission Junction Account and start applying to a bunch of merchants. I’ll tell you more in a couple days. **Hint, hint.**
WP Mage Ramblings & Tips
I thought I would just ramble on this post and relay to you some of the tips I’ve learned about WPMage.
- The CPMage and WPMage packages come with the necessary plugins loaded and configured. Things like all in one seopack, wordpress stats and more. I’ve learned that I can unzip the package, and add any more plugins I want, so that every future install will also have those plugins. A nifty little timesaver if you want to customize your sites further.
- For my adsense sites, I’m following xfactor’s method of putting just one large block of adsense at the top, which is exactly how the mage installs itself. I just simply disable the sidebar adsense widget.
- I’m creating unique ebay campaigns, adsense channels and amazon tracking ID’s for each site. In addition, tracking ID’s for the CPA offers I have running.
- Greg recommends tweaking the front page with a little unique content to make it look nice in case of a manual review. I have to admit, I’m lazy, and haven’t done this. My front pages simply have an ezine article, but NO links of any kind. To do this, when I first install the site, I insert only one keyword, use no translation, don’t select any monetization methods, and pull only from ezine. After the site is installed, I go into the admin backend, and use the posting mage to load the rest of the posts with ebay, amazon, whatever.
- I did build my own “template.” It’s not a theme, but what Greg calls a “template.” The template defines the layout of the posts. So, for example the, template below is the one I’m using most often. I created it mainly so that my ebay links would display above the content. Then, amazon, then the content. These templates can be configured in any number of ways.
- {$KEYWORD}
[affmage source="ebay" results="100"]{$KEYWORD}[/affmage]
[affmage source="amazon" results="10"]{$KEYWORD}[/affmage]
[mage source="flickr"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage]
[mage source="answers" backup="article"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage]
[mage source="tags"]{$KEYWORD}[/mage] - To include a CPA offer or clickbank product on my posts, I add the code to the whydoworkadsense plugin under CODE #3. Then I change the settings to display code #3 on the pages. Done!
- I am using translation on just a few of my sites. The most readable are en|fr|en or en|es|en. Others think this makes the article 30% unique. You can translate back and forth from like 20 languages, but it becomes more awkward to read.
- Soon, I’ll experiment with creating foreign sites. With the mage, I can translate my articles to end with, say, german. I would use a german .de domain, and be sure to include my eBay Germany ID, and then I have a German site with no more effort than building my US sites. I might try this with just adsense, too. Someone said the German adsense pays nicely.
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?
WP Mage Makes Indexing Easy
Okay, I just spent all of 30 seconds submitting this new blog to around 50 sites for quick indexing. (Yes, I remembered to turn off the privacy setting.)
I was able to do it that quickly because right in the admin backend of my CPMage is “Index Mage.” It’s hard to describe, but it basically fills in my site’s information and has quick links to submit it to several indexing sites as well as several social bookmarking sites. I’ve used many tools for this purpose, but this is just way too easy.
