This week saw the normal level of activity for my make money online experiment for beginners. I created one more post on the highly competitive site, participated in another blog carnival, and got one of my articles rewritten and submitted to an article directory. I am certainly not working this site particularly hard right now - just building some solid content that is actually useful to a reader who might find my site.
One thing that I did do this week that I didn’t expect when the week started was create a new blog on Today.com to support the site. It is going to be loosely related to the “debt” niche site that I am trying to make some money off of. It will be a “personal” blog where I talk about subjects that are keyword related to the money niche. Once I get that site built up some I might start sending some links over to the money site. I haven’t decided if I want to do blogroll links, in post links, or a combination of the two once I get to that point.
One of the reasons I created the supporting site was that I could very easily start submitting it to the same blog carnivals that I was submitting my money site to. This would be killing two birds with one stone and it wouldn’t really add that much work to my plate. I can easily pump out 500-1000 word articles on the Today.com blog so it made sense to start it now and get backlinks to it at the same time I was getting backlinks to the money site. It just made sense to me.
So without further ado, the numbers:
Money Stats
- Earned: $0.00
- Spent: $0.00
Content Stats
- Number of posts - 3 (+1)
- Number of words - 3798 (+1298)
- Number of comments - 2
- Pages in Google Index - 2
- Pages In Google Index * - 1
- # of targeted keywords in the top 100 - 2/134 (+1)
- # of targeted keyword in the top 20 - 1/134
- # of targeted keyword in the top 10 - 1/134
Links Built
- Carnivals Participated In - 3
- DoFollow Comments Left - 0
- NoFollow Comments Left - 0
- Link Exchanges - 2 (+2)
- Blogroll Links - 1 (+1)
- Post Links - 1 (+1)
- Hubs/Squidoo Lenses - 0
- Web Directories - 0
- Articles Written - 2 (+1)
Links According to Yahoo Site Explorer - 10 (+9)
Links According to Google - 0
…make money online…
I have realized that these updates might not be that helpful because they don’t do a really good job of showing the differences between weeks. I plan to come up with a solution to make this information much more accessable to those who want to follow along. I also have realized that there isn’t that much reporting on other aspects of this experiment: things like traffic, add placement (which is non-existent right now), and the performance of the supporting sites all come into play and make an impact on the overall performance of the money site.
On several occassions I have been strongly tempted to start using some of the paid tools that I use to get links to this site. I have restrained myself in the interest of scientific curiosity and experimental integrity. If I cheat, I am giving up on the notion that a noob can go around and make some money online if he applies some elbow grease and ignores the hype. I really want to prove this to myself more than I want to prove it to anyone else. I like to think that the internet is the last place that the American dream of hardwork reaps rewards.