Make Money Online

We’ll, the 30 day project is getting close to wrapping up. We’ve implemented the use of the Digital Point keyword tracker and are tracking about 300 keywords. Since we’ve started doing this, I’ve been amazed at how quickly Google and MSN are picking up our new posts and getting them in the index. I noticed a few of my posts we’re ranking in the 150 range on the first day the post was live and down to the top 10 within 3 days. Granted, these are long tail keywords, but it’s still great to see such a quick success from MSN. Google has been getting our new posts into the index and SERP’s within a day or two. See the screenshot to the right for an example, the post was made live on November 20th.

As of 10/24 we have a total of 23555 total uniques. Just to remind you, last month the site had 88 total uniques. Since our original goal was 2,000 uniques, we’ve WELL surpassed that goal. You can see that a vast majority of those uniques are from StumbleUpon. Unfortunately those visitors only come for our linkbait, and not for our content.

As for our second goal, 150 total posts, we’re close. To date we have averaged 4.2 posts per day. Our goal is 5 posts per day and in the next 6 days we need 49 posts. In the next 6 days we need 8.16 posts average. That is 4 posts per day. I’ve seen Andrew have 10-12 post days and I’ve done 10-15 posts per day so I know it can easily happen.

Our third goal was $100 net earnings. To date we’ve earned a couple bucks from a few different affiliate, less than $5 total. Adsense, our biggest earner is at $36.99. Average daily income is around $1.66 per day. We need that to go to $9.8 per day if we’re going to hit the goal. Unless we really pick up our organic search visitors I don’t think we’ll hit that goal.

Here are a few screenshots from the project:

Daily traffic.

Visitors from Search Engines (including StumbleUpon and Digg):

So far the project is going great in my estimation.  As of today we’ve had 2,405 unique visitors which obviously surpassed our initial goal of 2,000.  Adsense seems to have picked up today and our Adsense total is about $7.  Not much, but good for a site 8 days old.  I know you may think that with 2400 uniques $7 is pitiful and I agree.  Most of the visitors were from social sites like Stumbleupon and Digg and those visitors typically show a VERY low CTR, but they link up which makes it all worth it.

Google is beginning to index more of the site, still slowly.  So far we have 31 posts published.  15 from me and 16 from Andrew.   31 posts in 8 days averages out to 3.875 per day which is well above the 2.5 we need to hit our 150 posts total goal.  That includes me being sick yesterday and not doing anything.

Tomorrow I’ll be working on brainstorming for a good piece of linkbait so we can get some links.  Without an influx of links, we’ll be fighting till the end to get our Adsense earnings up.

That’s all for this update.  Please let me know if you’d like more or less info on this project.  I assume people like this series since my FeedBurner subscribers, but I’d like to hear it from you.  Obviously I’m trying to be transparent by giving out the URL and disclosing earnings and traffic.  If you’d like to see different stats, let me know in the comments!