Update: Blogsvertise Experience

About a week ago I mentioned my recent Blogsvertise experience. Well, a couple of days ago, I had someone from Blogsvertise contact me, letting me know about an upgrade for advertisers.

If you contact Blogsvertise and let them know you'd like to pick and choose who blogs about your product/service/website, they'll enter you into a new system for the standard campaign types.

Currently, when you sign up for a new campaign, you pay $20 per post that's it. Random people blog about it. With this new system, you can submit to a specific blogger (seeing their domain) and request them to blog about your website. No guarantee they'll blog about your website, as its at the descretion of the blogger, but this is a much better alternative to just paying and hoping you get your ad on a few different URLs.

I'll probably give Blogsvertise another go. This is the exact solution I'd want to get more links from various IPs.

SprintDevices.com for sale

I've put up SprintDevices.com for sale at DP. If you're interested, go ahead and post there at that thread or send me a PM via DP.

- Adam

My Recent Blogsvertise Experience

After seeing a post over at DigitalPoint about Blogsvertise, which I'd never heard of, I decided to give them a try. The campaign is quite finished yet. Out of the 10 posts I ordered, I've received 7 posts so far.

I've gotta say, I'm pretty disappointed with the lack of URL reach they've got. ALL 7 POSTS WERE BLOGSPOT. Now, if you don't know what Blogspot.com is, it's the URL that Blogger uses to host all their blogs.

I don't know about everyone else, but I did not want to advertise in various blogs for branding purposes or for some viral marketing tactic, but to get my site more "juice" in the search engines. I don't want 1 IP linking to my site. I want various IP's linking to my site. Blogspot has 1 IP.

Also, not like PayPerPost or some of the other blog advertising networks, you pay a single fee per post. Blogsvertise is $20 per post. No more, no less. Quality isn't based on price. In fact, you have no option to choose quality of site.

My Vote: Thumbs down.

Conclusion: If you have the money and means to do a massive viral compaign, I'd recommend hitting up all the blog ad networks, but as far as SEO benefits are concerned, be prepared for several blogspot links.

PS - Maybe my site wasn't "interesting" enough to put on other URL types besides Blogger blogs. Then again...

- Adam

Immediate Edge in BETA

Dan Raine, the guy behind the $15k Challenge, is starting another type of challenge. He's going to launch a new web-based business every month and he's calling this new site: Immediate Edge.

He had some of the subscribers from the $15k Challenge fill out a questionaire on what type of services we'd like him to build each month.

Personally, this interests me a lot. The few successes I've had I wouldn't call "lasting business ideas", so to see a professional have an idea and see that idea flourish into a stable passive income each month.

I hope to learn a lot in the next couple of months from Dan. He seems to know his shit and he gives it away for free, which gives him so much more credibility in my eyes.

I'd sign up at his new site he's starting ASAP. If you're curious about making money online, this is the site to learn from.

This is why I like this forum

Over at the WarriorForum, someone asked if it's possible to make $143 per day. They need to make that to go full-time and move to a nice community. I love these types of threads over there, because their are sooooo many terrific people over at the Warrior Forum who give excellent answers and personal information about how they did it and what they're currently making.

Giving Simplified SEC a go

I ran across SimplifiedSEC in the DP forums about 6 months ago and was pretty impressed with just the design. If the design of a site is something I like, I can tell you that I'm going to spend a little bit more time on it.

I was always a little curious about SimplifiedSEC, and so, I finally spent a few minutes last night and signed up. I watched the video, which was about 13 minutes and started building.

I have a few URLs that are just sitting there, not making me ANY MONEY, so I thought I'd put up a couple and see how it works.

I have 3 words...

Am. Maz. Ing.

I was WOW'ed by the fact how easy it is. It literally took me 2 minutes to get the site up. I spent 5 minutes customizing a new template (no footprints), then 3 minutes scraping keywords for the niche and then uploaded everything. The pages are created so fast it's not even funny. I ran a couple pages thru Copyscape and had no problems with unique content.

All in all, for $70 a month, I think it's priced way too cheap. Granted, their capping it at 100 people, but still, you could triple the price and sell out just as easily.

I'm going to post again once I've made a few bucks from it. Now that I have a custom template, I'm going to through up about 10 sites this week and see how everything goes. Well... 10 sites is going to take me like 30 minutes so....maybe I'll do 200 sites this week. That's about 30 a day, which isn't that much.

If you wanna get on board, you better hurry. I hear it's nearly sold out.

Google Arbitration Test: Case Study

As I said a few days ago, I've started doing a case study on the Google Arbitrage method. What spirred this on? Well, this PDF on Google Arbitration by Brad Callen really did it for me.

I've pretty much found a few niches, put up a site, grab a thousand keywords per niche and then cut-n-paste into Adwords, setting the daily amount to $200 and CPC to $0.05. All sites are on the content network too, which is something mentioned in that report.

Here are links to the sites and stats so far:

Site 1: 5 impressions - 0 clicks
Site 2: 2084 impressions - 0 clicks
Site 3: 713 impressions - 0 clicks

I set these up late Friday night. Sites 2 and 3 have ALL their keywords inactive now. I've realized that you need to get a few links in the beginning to keep the keywords alive, or they're just go to inactive, and you'll have bump up the bidding to $0.10+.

What's next? Well, I'm going to pick a few more niches and try to get some clicks right from the start. That's gotta happen for the $.05 clicks to stay that way and not go inactive.

How did I pick the niches? I basically made sure they had high Adwords via Google Sandbox tool and that was pretty much it. If they had over a thousand keywords in Keyword Discovery, then I went with it.

I think my ad copy sucked, so I'll work on the copy for the next testing batch. I'll also keep a couple sites only on the search network, instead of using both content and search network, just to see if there's any huge difference.