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To start off with my goal is clear and attainable. My current situation is this; I run a few small niche sites and average around $120 a day profit, so I am looking for over 2000% growth.
Here are the rules:
1) Within one year of the site going live (< 2.5 months) I want to hit this
2) I will not give up
3) It will be with a brand new domain and site
4) I am starting with just over $5,000 (however, more may be added if the checks lag behind too much, but that will be accounted for).
5) It will use affiliate programs as well as AdSense
Here is what has already been done:
1) 1 link from a previous site has been pointed to some placeholder content, google has indexed the site with no title, I may add some more links soon
2) Site design has been outsourced, almost complete
3) An outsourced programmer has been confirmed for the CMS
4) An LLC has been formed for the company
5) 10 contractors have been hired to write continuous content
Here is the timeline:
1) Design done within another week
2) Programmed and ready to go live within 2.5 months from now
Expectations:
1) I imagine I will need a few million impressions per month to obtain this, but I want to be at this level within 1 year
2) I might have to hire a full time programmer and a few content writers along the way
I am sure a lot of other unexpected things will happen along the way, but just wanted to make an initial post much like rfungs, I will next update when the site is completed.
Wish me luck.
P.S. Multiply my daily goal by 365 ;-). I may not respond to PMs, don’t be offended, I’m just busy.
Oh, did you mean $1.90 per minute not second?
if it was per second, that's probably Bill Gates.
And Success, you probably hang around some really high circles...
no one I know makes that kind of money. $50k/year is probably a lot already.
I know some lawyers that charge $125/hr and some others that charge around $600 (and then there is also those patent lawyers and class action lawyers. On some of those big cases they win I imagine they are making something like $1,000/hr after they get their commissions figured out and such.
Wal Mart probably makes $1,000/second.
what do you do when you're earning $1000/day, or $30k/month, _besides_ saving for retirement, investing in real estate, etc,etc?
what would you do for _fun_?
$360K/year probably puts you in the top 5% of hourseholds.
Season ticks to your favorite sports as well!
Aston Martin DB9, no question about it.
Now I think that instead of a $1 million home, I buy a million dollar business. My biz consultant was telling me about something he was trying to buy for a million - a four store retail operation, brand-name. Everything is "automated" - the accountants do all the work, except for purchasing. The current owner spends 30% of his time on the golf course, and the other time doing purchasing and just running around the stores to visit.
Right now a big house is a money pit because of the Boomers retiring in 10 years or less. They all have big houses, everyone's in real estate now... so what will happen when they start retiring? Everyone HAS to sell those houses, that's where their money is tied up... hence, glut of big houses, drop in market value. It's just supply and demand.
Buy a ranch style house, no stairs, big accessways for wheelchairs and the like. Guaranteed in the Retirement Wave that those will sell the hotest.
Anyway - my wife and I have always wanted a custom built home. Kind of house that has a swimming lane in the second floor. Saw a modern architextural display with this - we loved it. But first we'll need to have multiple income streams, have so much that something like this will be a minor expense at that time.
And I'm going to resist the expensive car. It just makes everyone else feel bad about themselves. No, I want to be a stealth millionaire. The thing is, when you really have money? You don't give a #*$! what other people think. Like my consultant, I never would have expected he could afford a million dollar investment! I see this time and time again with *business owners*. It's the posers who work a corporate job that try to look "rich", and are blowing their money away. Like my cousin's husband - they have a nanny, buy expensive wines all the time, huge house, etc. etc. But if the guy would cut back and buy a business, he could outdo his current lifestyle and be truly rich in a short time.
Thankfully, he's too vain to do it, and be competition for the rest of us.
... I have to say thanks again for this thread. It's very motivating. It opens my eyes to new possibilities, makes me eager to try new things and expands the boundaries for us all.
$360K/year probably puts you in the top 5% of hourseholds.
In the US, it puts you in the top 1 percent.
Back to topic, if you do SEO, it is possible to go from 0 to $2739.726 daily with one site scoring well on big money terms.
Back to topic, if you do SEO, it is possible to go from 0 to $2739.726 daily with one site scoring well on big money terms.
mfishy - I just can't seem to SEO. I have as high as PR as my competitors, but these damn 301/302 page jackings I think are really screwing me up. I know of at least 4 sites linking to me via 301/302 and they are coming up in an allinurl: search for my domain that I've optimized the most. I used to be in the 90s during the sandbox, but I think now I am being penalized because of these pagejackers and can't even be found. I'm about 6-7 months in from googlebot's first spidering.
I guess I just got the wrong link exchanges.
While linking is still important at this stage there are other things you should be doing.
After my 301/302 page jacking issues get fixed up what other stuff could you recommend? I think I've done as much as I can on page stuff and a wide variety of anchor text. Anything else, I've been reading about google optimization for a while now and thought I had everything down pat. Until last update I was #1 allinanchor: then got hit with this page jacking and my competitor who was also in the sandbox moved to #1 allinanchor: and took the #1 spot in the SERPs. I can no longer be found because of this page jacking.
at least 4 sites linking to me via 301/302
I just thought of something:
The 301 redirect is a 'permanent redirect' which does not cause problems with the search engines, it notifies of a discontinued page and gives the new location.
The 302 redirect is a 'temporary redirect' which seems to be scoring content for the site doing the redirect. Would it be possible to reverse this effect?
Follow me through this thought process...
1) Rename your page so that their 302 redirect points to a page that is no good.
2) Feed a 301 'permanent redirect' from the discontinued page to the new page. (This does not award any content or PR to the other site, but lets the search engines continue to find your content which is now counted as yours)
3) Then link to that other site with a 302 from the new page theirby gaining their content through a 302 redirect of your own.
It seems that the logic is there, maybe someone with a little more server knowledge can point something out.
wow, that does suck if it's all to your index file...
how about get a few cheap domains linked to your site, and 302 to the other sites?
I would just hate to see you miss your goal only because of some fools with a 302 redirect. what a bummer.
I've been inspired enough with 1+ year of Adsense, but thanks for adding fuel to the fire. I already had started down the path of how to take a jump from earning hundreds per month online to earning ... well, UPS club... so I could exceed my offline income.
My own rules - adapted from yours in #3 (added maybe) and #4 (10% of your dollars):
1) Within one year of the site going live (< 2.5 months) I want to hit this
2) I will not give up
3) It will be with a brand new domain and site (maybe)
4) I am starting with $500 - using existing hosting at no additional cost.
5) It will use affiliate programs as well as AdSense
My content strategy is different - I have 2 strategies that are complimentory, and low cost without off-shoring. I've spent about $100 so far, but not actually started the online aspect.
I'll report back - perhaps in my own thread - on more. Primarily, I want to get the traffic and email addresses (double-opt-in) to allow $10K per month to be a minimum. Currently < $1000 from Adsense per month.. somehow I wound up in March with non-Adsense ad revenue going higher than $1k (& it was cash up front, not affiliate), but it may have been a one-time event.
No details will be spilled on specific traffic or content strategies... yet. Both are slight twists on mainstream approaches - one I see has worked for someone who is doing it in a different vertical market, and one is very vulnerable to theft by scraping/repackaging (and I will be paying for copyright to protect it).
General area is business and finance.
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but how is your work progressing? any updates?
also, have you learned anything about your process that you can share such as 'things you should never do'?
I am a bit disapointed the programmer took so long, but it was sort of expected, programmers always take long.
I have a full listing in google and a few backlinks in yahoo listed. I'm still thinking of ideas on how to get a lot of links and broaden advertising beyong AdWords.
In terms of things you shouldn't do: Don't expect everyone to follow your deadlines. However, the free time between updated of the CMS and design has allowed me to work on some other projects and I have another big site planned as well and 2 others (big sites) in the works. However, the one I am referring to in this thread will still be the one with the most potential I believe.
Until the next update,
Peace
Cheers,
BAD
I'm sure it won't last, but it feels great to be the first person to post here who's actually done it.
And before you ask, 20 months, £200k on PPC and more help and friends made on here and places like this than I could ever have dreamt of.
Thanks!
Out of curiousity, how far are you along in your mission? Haven't been keeping up, and 15 pages is too much to sift through! :)
Rick
[edited by: Richard_Overvold at 9:20 pm (utc) on April 28, 2005]
