I’m Making Money Now!
I’m starting to make money, and that makes me happy! Honestly, it’s not a lot yet, but it’s more than I’ve made using other methods in the past.
- Month of October so far:
- $18.42 Adsense
- $12.88 Ebay
- $2 Amazon
And I’m really only getting maybe 60/visitors per day across all of my sites. That’s pretty good!
Sorry I’m not giving more exact numbers about traffic, but I’m only using wordpress.com stats right now, and I just don’t have time. But these are close numbers.
I have 48 sites up now! And they are still just little babies. Hopefully, Google will continue to love them as they grow. Still, only a small portion of the thousands of posts are indexed.
I Have 38 Sites Up Now.
I now have 38 Mages sites up now! Most of them are very recent, as in the past couple days. They really vary, as I’ve said. Some are adsense, some ebay, some cpa.
My traffic and clicks continue to increase, but the numbers are still very small. I’m thrilled, however, that they are increasing.
Thankfully, some of the sites I was able rebuild with the exact same keywords, so those sites no longer have 404’s, and I’m getting instant traffic as soon as I had them back up.
Most of my sites are still not indexed, so I’m excited to see my earning skyrocket in the next 4 weeks as my traffic is bound to increase.
I’ve now loaded all the domains I had sitting around, as well as about 10 expired domains. My next step is to buy some cheap .info’s, and load them as well. Then, as money starts rolling in, I’ll buy more aged expired domains, as recommended.
I have my sites spread out on the hosting companies I list in the sidebar. So far, so good with all of them. They are all CPanel based, and loading the full CPmage was a breeze. Well, actually, host nine, I loaded each site with WPMage, not CPMage.
Updates on My Progress and The Fire Sale
Greg had a fire sale yesterday! If you were on my subscriber list, you knew about it. He also posted it in the WF. And so far, I see lots of new Master Mages have joined us in the Mage Forum.
As for my progress, I am pleased. I made $2.70 in adsense yesterday, and had 6 epn clicks. This is still chump change, I know, but I’m more interested in the trends. I’m getting more clicks and more traffic. About 3 sites have around 500 pages indexed now. Most of my sites still have zero pages indexed. The spiders will come, it’s only been a week.
So, the trends are promising. I mean, yesterday my adsense eCPM was $27.83!
$1.28 Adsense Click Today
I got an adsense click today worth $1.28! That’s not too shabby for one click.
I don’t have much else to post. Things continue to pick up. The sites are getting more traffic. Not making big bucks yet, but it will take 3-4 weeks before the sites even have good indexing. I look for trends. And the trends are good because they continue to increase.
Curious thing about one of my sites. I was getting about 20 hits/day. It was set up with adsense. Three days ago I took off the adsense, put clickbank links up instead. Instantly it seemed, and ever since, zero traffic. What do you all think? Does Google hate clickbank ads and they deindexed me that quickly? Today I built an altar and had a burnt sacrifice to appease the Google gods that I had apparently offended.
Getting Traffic & Clicks Again with WP Mage
Well, since my sites starting going back up again a few days ago, my traffic and clicks are coming back, thank goodness. Most are from 3 of the 10 or so sites. Those three are sending the bulk of the traffic. Most of the rest have no traffic yet. The earnings are chump change. Sadly, most of the traffic is from the formerly indexed pages, so the visitors are getting 404 errors. I’m learning how to fix those. On one of those high traffic sites, I at least put some ads on my 404 page, so they won’t be a total loss.
I still have 10 or so of my sites to recreate. I also plan to start some brand new sites with new domains from 1and1 hosting. I get some free domains with my hosting package I just bought. Those may perform better since there won’t be any 404’s at all.
Funny thing… hours after I had recreated one of my sites, I got a couple adsense clicks! Very encouraging!
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.
My Expectations
I thought I would write a post now about what I expect from WPMage. I’m not so naive to think that it will make me rich in a month. Nothing ever will. And Greg Jacobs doesn’t promise that, either. Rather, I expect what he says, but I base it even more on what other beta testers are seeing. I read their success (and failures) in the forum that Greg provides for Mage buyers.
Basically, it will take 3-4 for my sites to even be indexed, and even then, longer for them to be fully indexed. So in about 4 weeks, I expect the clicks to start trickling in, both from adsense and ebay. At that point, realistically, I’ll be happy to make $50/week. Then, it will continue to increase. By week 8 or 9, I expect to make $100/week. Some sites will get the google dance at this point, and some will sandboxed altogether, so the earnings will stay stagnant for several weeks.
About 4 months from now, though, Google will likely give my surviving sites better rankings, and then the earnings from these sites could easily bring in $500/month, or more. I really have no idea.
Keep in mind, however, that as I earn money, I will reinvest a good portion of it back into the business to buy more domains, and create more of these sites. That’s the key here, to do this en masse.
So, you can see, I have reasonable expectations. And so far, I’ve never heard of any system that can get these results for so LITTLE effort. That’s what I paid for, the ease of creating these sites.
I will definitely post as the money rolls in. Oh, if anyone is looking for a system that will make you rich in a week, and doesn’t cost anything, don’t buy this. You will have spend a little on domains and hosting, on top of the cost of the product. I hope to earn back my investment in 2 months, if not sooner.
