30 Site Challenge…RESULTS!

Hello All,

I have decided that it is time to report on the results from my 30 site challenge.

For those of you who have been with me since, you know that back in March, I decided to challenge myself to a 30 site challenge.  I reported a few times about my results as the sites were growing, but I have yet to report on the finalized statistics and earnings so that you could see just how powerful niche marketing really is.  Well, today is the day!

I will be reporting on the order that the sites were launched, and will give you the month I launched it, the monthly adsense earnings per site, and the total Adsense through August.  I will also show you how the sites ranked from early August (that is when I began tracking their rankings) through today, September 17, 2011. I only logged a rank if it was found on page 1 or 2.  I did not look any further than that.  I earned commissions through a CPA Network as well, and I will report the monthly totals for that, but it will not be by site, as the main goal with my challenge was earning through Adsense.

Ok, Here It Goes

Site #
MONTH
APR
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUG
Total   Per Site
Rank    8/14
Rank 8/22
Rank 8/27
Rank 8/31
Rank 9/8
Rank 9/17
1
MARCH
0
0
0
0
2
MARCH
0
0
0
0
3
MARCH
0
0
0
0
4
MARCH
0.21
0
4.85
5.06
12
11
10
12
12
5
APRIL
0.1
0
0
0.1
6
APRIL
0.13
0
0
0.13
7
APRIL
1.5
0.21
0
0.22
1.93
8
APRIL
8.9
3
90.69
109.02
125.97
337.58
1
1
1
3
1
1
9
APRIL
0.49
9
44.71
68.3
17.28
139.78
0
10
APRIL
1.69
48
53.73
27.32
14.41
145.15
5
9
8
9
7
9
11
APRIL
0.3
114
91.85
75.77
101.11
383.03
6
5
4
4
9
7
12
APRIL
0.42
85
87
101.5
100.62
374.54
6
4
1
1
4
5
13
APRIL
1.5
0.48
1.46
1.14
4.58
0
15
APRIL
44
100.83
174.01
140.15
458.99
4
6
3
3
5
5
14
MAY
46
116.74
89.63
112.93
365.3
3
4
1
1
3
3
16
MAY
3
2.47
1.28
0
6.75
8
9
8
8
7
8
17
MAY
40.59
71.77
122.78
235.14
2
2
2
2
2
1
18
MAY
5.95
6.26
5.22
17.43
16
15
13
11
11
8
19
MAY
3
73.49
78.98
57.35
212.82
3
7
4
4
4
3
20
MAY
22
38.3
32.78
27.09
120.17
10
8
9
5
7
6
21
MAY
17
46.3
49.15
82.29
194.74
3
3
3
3
2
2
22
MAY
59.46
32.54
44.95
136.95
4
6
5
4
1
1
23
JUNE
12.71
27.76
51.67
92.14
6
5
5
5
5
4
24
JUNE
62.29
100.44
105.21
267.94
3
3
3
3
3
2
25
JUNE
28.6
100.41
52.09
181.1
2
5
2
3
3
3
26
JUNE
42.73
42.11
82.29
167.13
4
2
2
2
1
1
27
JUNE
0.14
0.54
4.18
4.86
18
8
9
8
4
28
JUNE
5.07
35.17
46.96
87.2
3
5
4
4
4
5
29
JUNE
0.54
6.7
17.9
25.14
10
10
9
9
9
7
30
JUNE
0
0.67
1.61
2.28
10
12
10
9
10
9
Adsense Totals
1005.32
1233.57
1320.27
3967.96

As you can see, only 9 of these 30 sites are not ranking in the top ten of Google.  But 9 are in the top 3!  Look at Site #11.  It has NEVER made it to the top 3 spots in Google, but it has consistently earned $70 plus per month! How about Site #8.  That baby has been #1 in Google 6 times out of the 8 I checked.

How about Site #24 and 26 – they were making good money right out of the gate.

You may wonder what I have been doing since my challenge.  Well, many of you already know that when I posted my August Niche Site earnings, I had to admit that I really had not worked at all for a period of about 2 months this summer.  I decided that it is September now, and I really need to get back to work.  I launched site #44 this morning, and plan to have site #45 up here in a couple of hours.

I hope that this is proof enough for all of you reading that this is where you need to be.  BUILDING NICHE WEBSITES!  Forget about all the hype about finding keywords that have a CPC of $20.00.  In the time it takes you to find one, and the months it will take you to rank, you can build 5 sites, get ranked almost immediately, and be earning while everyone else is fighting for the high paying keywords, then finding themselves on page 10 of Google.  In my opinion, it is not worth my time.  I figure every site I launch is going to average at least $40 month.  It took me 7 sites to figure that out, but once I did, the rest is history in the making!

So what now?  That is the question I am asking myself.  As I continue to build sites, which will be my main task forever probably, I do want to begin other ventures.  I plan to begin flipping sites here in the next month or so, as I have been watching the auctions on Flippa, and I am finding that the real money is in flipping your sites.  I would never flip all of them, but I think it may be worth it to set up an auction with maybe 5 of my sites that earn at least $30/month, and see what happens.  I saw an auction just the other day where someone had sold a batch of 10 websites that earned just under $200/month, and make over $4,000 on the sale.  What does that say to you?  I know – it says that my sites are earning way more than an average of $20/month, so if that person can get $4,000, I can surely get that at least.  I found another auction where the seller had ONE SITE that earned $500/month, and you won’t even believe what that one sold from… $11,000!  Is that unbelievable or what?  Spend an hour or two on a site, maybe $15 invested, and get $11,000.  Unbelievable. I would like to wait until at least half of my sites are about 6 months old, as there will be more proof of earnings, which will make the auction more successful.

Please let me know your comments on my reporting for the 30 site challenge.  I am interested to know what your thoughts are.

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Residual Income at it’s Best

For those of you who are regular readers of my site, you may remember when I posted my July earnings in early August that I had mentioned I had not worked at all in July.  Well, I did not work at all in August either.  I had planned to, but the month got ahead of me, had to do school shopping, daughter started soccer, and on and on…

With all of that said, it was really nice to see that deposit this morning from Adsense for $1,650.31.  I have done little to no work for 2 months, and I still made a nice little sum in July.

I do plan to wrap up the results from my 30 site challenge.  I wanted to wait until all of my sites were up and running, and would you believe it will be 3 months since I completed my challenge come the beginning of September.

I know that many of you are probably curious to see how my sites did from the challenge, and I do plan on giving you results for each one individually (without the site name of course :) )

I also plan to share with you my new challenge that I will be beginning in  September.  You won’t want to miss this one!

Until then,

Melissa

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June 2011 Niche Site Earnings

Wow!!!  I cannot believe how far behind I am on reporting my June 2011 earnings.  All I can say is baseball, baseball, and more baseball.  The life of a 13 year old baseball fanatic means less free time for mom.

For those of you who have been patiently waiting, I apologize, and I will try much harder to post July earnings in a more reasonable time frame.

All I can say is my 30 site challenge has paid off.  It was worth the time and effort spent, and my earnings have done nothing but increase even without my building more sites since exceeding my 30 site goal.

Here are my June 2011 Earnings:

Amazon: $50.69

Adsense: $1318.48 WOW! Increase of $603.65 from May!

CPA Network: $155.50

CJ: $123.64 (This was all from one site I launched in the last week of April 2011)

Total June 2011 Affiliate Earnings = $1,648.31 – An increase of $762.50 from May 2011

I have not yet decided what plan I will take now.  I will either build more niche sites, or do a little back-linking to get my current sites to the #1 position.  I almost feel as if this would be a waste of my time being that they will eventually rank #1.  Many of them are sitting at #2, with the rest rising, so I will probably decide to build more, and maybe outsource some back-linking to see what happens.

For those of you who are curious, I currently have 75 sites online, however about 20 of them are seasonal, so the majority of my earnings are from my 30 site challenge.

Oh and all the talk about the Panda update – did not affect my earnings at all.  We all need to stop worrying about what Google is doing, and keep on creating websites.  As always, I do not recommend putting all of your eggs in one basket.

On that note, I am signing off.  It won’t be long now before I am reporting my July earnings, which are already creeping up on June’s, and there are still 6 days left in the month.

Talk to you soon,
Melissa

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My First $100 Day in Affiliate Earnings

Finally!!! If you have been reading my posts for any time at all, you are familiar with how my internet marketing journey started, and how long it took for me to finally figure it all out.  Well, maybe not all of it, but enough that I am now consistently earning money online, and it is increasing just about every day.

Back in March, I started a challenge for myself – I called it the 30 Site Challenge.  If you have not read that post, you can read it here in a new window.

I have been posting my monthly earnings since February, 2011.  In that month I made a whopping $159.69 in affiliate earnings.  Nothing to write home about, but I was on to something and I finally saw light at the end of the tunnel.  In March, I earned $225.11, which was discouraging because at that rate, I would be stuck in my full time job forever!  Fortunately, early March is when I began my challenge.

It started slow, but then I found my niche in mid-April.  This is when things began to turn around.  I cranked out mini-sites that were strictly meant for Adsense and a couple of CPA offers that I decided to try out.

By then end of June (there is one more day of the month as of the time of this writing), I have launched 34 websites with 1 more domain name waiting that I am determined to launch by the end of tomorrow.

So looking back at the $225.11 that I earned in March, let’s take a look at how things were in April – I earned $344.43 (this does not include a website that I flipped, as I am not planning to consider that as part of my monthly earnings).

In May, my earnings tripled – I earned $885.81 in that month alone, and it made me more eager than ever to continue creating my little mini-sites.

Yesterday, June 29, 2011, my total daily earnings exceeded $100!

I used to say that I would never reach that amount in one day – hell, I could barely make that in a month prior to March, 2011.  Well, I did it!  My total earnings for this one day were $109.81, with $98.81 of that coming directly from Google Adsense!

I am not going to give you my earnings for June yet, as I will put that in my June earnings post after the end of the month, but I will tell you that you are not going to believe how I have succeeded with my 30 site challenge.

I do want to say that a large part of my success was from a premium Wordpress theme that I broke down and bought because of the reviews.  Well, those reviews that I read did not do it any justice!  My CTR for every site is phenomenal compared to what I was doing before.  That theme is called The CTR Theme. That link is an affiliate link, and if you decide to try it out, I just want you to know that I will make a commission from the sale.  After all, this is internet marketing, however, you will learn that I am not the type of person who will promote everything just to make a buck.  I only promote products to my readers that I have tried, and that I have had success with.

In summary, I want to tell you to either begin building websites, or continue building sites around the ones that are earning you money.  Once you find a niche that converts, keep at it.  You can do it.

Subscribe to my feed or bookmark this site so you will be updated when I post my earnings for the month of June 2011, and many months following.

To your success,

Melissa Ritter

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May 2011 Niche Site Earnings

May 2011 Earnings

Have you ever heard anyone say that you may as well give up on affiliate marketing because you will never succeed!  Of course you have – every affiliate who has ever launched a product tells you that you will not succeed unless you buy their product, which of course, is nothing but false hope.

Well, I am living proof that this is just not true.  If you have followed my blog at all, you will know that I am not a person who is out to sell you some worthless piece of garbage just to make my bank account grow.  In fact, I don’t even have a product, and frankly, I am perfectly fine with that at the moment.

My focus is strictly creating mini sites, and cashing in.  It has been a long road for me because at first I trusted those sponges who only wanted my money, and boy did they get a lot of it — at first.  Not anymore!  I finally have a system, and it works perfectly every single time.

What is it?  Informational niche websites.  That’s right – I said informational, meaning that I am not offering them a product to purchase, I am offering them information surrounded by Adsense ads, which is allowing my earnings to increase by a substantial amount every month.

Back in early March 2011, I decided to challenge myself with a 30 site challenge.  If you have not read that post, you can read it here (will open in new window).

My goal was 30 sites by the end of September 2011.  Well, I am way ahead of my goal, with only 5 sites left to launch, and it’s only June 2, 2011.  That’s right, I have launched 25 sites since March 7, 2011.  By site number 8, I had found my golden niche!  I just kept cranking out the sites, and you will be astounded by my May earnings compared to what I made in April.

The secret to my success?  An Adsense Wordpress theme called CTR Theme.  Yes, it is a premium theme, so there is a cost, but I will tell you that my CTR for the entire month of May combined was 13.56%.  That is a phenomenal CTR considering that April’s CTR was 3.88% because I had not begun launching sites with this theme until the last week of April!

I do not normally go on about a paid product as you will see in my affiliate product reviews, but this one will not let you down.

Enough about the theme, let’s get to my May 2011 earnings:

Amazon – $36.93

Adsense – $714.83 (increase of $500.05 from May!)

CPA Network (formerly referred to as Other Affiliate Programs) – $100.75

CJ – $33.30

Total May 2011 Affiliate Earnings $885.81! Increase from May of $541.48!

I recommend once again that if you are not building sites, you need to start right now.  I have brand new sites that are only a month or less old that made the following in Adsense earnings in just the month of May (this is not all of my sites, but it gives you an idea of what to expect):

$45.88

$44.40

$47.89

$113.62

$21.73

$84.88

Keep in mind guys these sites are all brand new. Every single one was launched in April or May!  The best part?  I only spent at maximum 1 hour on each site – some even less!

Don’t forget to check out the CTR Theme, I would not steer you wrong (and yes, it is an affiliate link).

Subscribe to my feed because I will be posting shortly exactly how I do it!

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My 30 Site Challenge…

Yes, I am challenging myself! On March 7, 2011, I decided that it was time to get motivated.  At that point, I had approximately 45 sites online.  I will admit that many of them are from when I was first trying to figure things out, so they are not all successful.  In fact, only about 10 of them are generating consistent income, but in the past couple of months, the traffic and earnings has doubled :) .

If you are building niche sites, do not let what I just said discourage you.  The fact is that I have finally figured things out, and I am cranking out sites easier than I ever thought possible. Hence, the 30 site challenge.  I told myself that I would give myself until the end of September, 2011 to launch 30 niche sites.

Boy, did that get me moving.  When you set a goal, if you’re anything like me, you want to reach it.

As of today, I have launched 11 sites, and today I purchased my 12th domain name for this challenge.  Most of these sites will be Adsense, however, I do plan to throw some Amazon sites in there as well (Site 4 below is an Amazon site, and it sold 5 products on Amazon just this month as it is very targeted (hint hint).

Here is the good news!

As of today, my brand new sites have the following rank in Google:

Site 1 – Not worth noting :) – Launched March 7th

Site 2 – Rank 1 – Launched March 19th

Site 3 – N/A – Launched March 19th

Site 4 – Was ranking between 2-4 for past 3 weeks, but it must be doing “the dance” right now – Launched March 19th

Site 5 -N/A (another one doing the dance) – Launched April 2nd

Site 6 – N/A – Launched April 2nd

Site 7 – Rank 8 – Launched April 9th

Site 8 – Rank 6 – Launched April 11th

Site 9 – Rank 7 – Launched April 23rd

Site 10 – Rank 9 – Launched April 23rd

Site 11 – Rank 12 – Launched April 23rd

As you can see, out of 11 brand new sites, all launched within the past 6 weeks, 5 of them are on the first page of Google, and most of them were earning Adsense in the first day. So far this month, these new sites have earned $10.49 from Adsense.  Not a bad start for sites with absolutely no back links.

The last thing I want to mention is about the domain name that I purchased today.  One of my older sites (from when I had no idea what I was doing) has earned $90.00 just this month in Adsense earnings.  I checked out the keywords used to find this site, and to my surprise, the top keyword for this site is not the site name, but is very similar.  The good news?  I checked into it, and found that it has 1600 Exact Match searches per month, and I got a top level domain name for it.  I wonder if I can get it to rank and earn $90/month?  Food for thought.

Be sure to check back at the beginning of May as I will be posting my Monthly Earnings update.  Talk to you soon.

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