tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36725186172470556892024-03-19T06:03:29.878-07:00Taong Grasa - Earn Money OnlineStreet Beggar trying to earn money onlineSuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-24134034005493126682010-02-01T02:35:00.002-08:002010-02-01T02:44:37.555-08:00Day 31 : 60-day ExperimentIsn't it funny that I'm aiming for $10 in adsense on the second month when I haven't even placed a single ad unit on my site? Well, I only realized that after re-reading the goals. So I placed the ads and despite the dismal traffic, I managed to get two clicks! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoN5YynZhAwNc2eeoH4GfM_Ns7fX4WfHXbGTwHVBVydDN1vVTJlqWpb9sT6FoGpvghEWGW0IhveelL-F999bE_Bib3f_wYJOVdX-XNmYy_7due82VXJCPihye9yWS_S63B8l8-xzF-qR_/s1600-h/day_30_status.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfoN5YynZhAwNc2eeoH4GfM_Ns7fX4WfHXbGTwHVBVydDN1vVTJlqWpb9sT6FoGpvghEWGW0IhveelL-F999bE_Bib3f_wYJOVdX-XNmYy_7due82VXJCPihye9yWS_S63B8l8-xzF-qR_/s320/day_30_status.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433222512214064658" /></a><br /><br />And that's not all. I'm happy to announce that the site is already inching its way to the first page. The last check on Google Webmaster Tools showed that it's already in position #13. That's a few notches away. But guess what, when I checked the results from google, I'm actually at #11 already. One notch higher and the main goal of our experiment is already done.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NlJsl-qPBElIEIIYntup_hnOtDr8QqNpAVs4kV3iX030Zjl8Qunbac99rbtcFsB2cAW2ZQnJISKKo_nhDnKAxfaCVLn_O_5kqhiQfmvUzuecOGnA41oIPiPhOg1DQNSrr3GUgFR_rlh4/s1600-h/first_day_adsense.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 95px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3NlJsl-qPBElIEIIYntup_hnOtDr8QqNpAVs4kV3iX030Zjl8Qunbac99rbtcFsB2cAW2ZQnJISKKo_nhDnKAxfaCVLn_O_5kqhiQfmvUzuecOGnA41oIPiPhOg1DQNSrr3GUgFR_rlh4/s320/first_day_adsense.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433222452448011618" /></a><br /><br />I think it will be a matter of days before the site finally land on the first page. Not bad for a lazy person like me. But to be honest, the promising results fired me up. Let's see where it goes.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-72664577602753260202010-02-01T02:35:00.001-08:002010-02-01T02:35:19.932-08:00SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-68239695630253617022010-02-01T00:44:00.000-08:002010-02-01T02:51:23.198-08:00Day 32 : 60 Day ExperimentLet's strike while the iron is hot.<br /><br />Today, I did the following:<br /><ol><br /><li>Posted comment on 6 PR4 blogs</li><br /><li>Posted comment on 2 PR5 blogs</li><br /><li>Posted comment on 3 PR6 news site</li><br /><li>Published another post (with main keyword)</li><br /><li>2 tweets + multiple RT on the celebrities I follow (I'll post more about it)</li><br /></ol><br /><br />Basically, that's what I've done for the day. Hopefully it will help push the site to page one by tomorrow. I'll let everybody know if that happens. <br /><br />At this point, the traffic is not that great. So, I'm banking on the prospect of the first page. I checked my competitors and I think I can outrank some of them. After I land on #10, the next logical step is to shoot for #7.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-42805846257069303242010-01-28T03:21:00.000-08:002010-01-28T03:37:41.048-08:00Day 28 : 60-Day Page 1 ExperimentOk folks! After 10 days, I'm here again. It's almost the end of the first month and I would say that I'm very far from my targets. It's not an excuse that we had a major software implementation on my day job and I didn't really worked on this project for five days. Actually for the whole ten days, I barely did anything save for some commenting. But then again, the schedule is already set. So, no excuses there.<br /><br />Just to refresh, my primary goals are <br />(1) to land in first page of Google for a chosen keywords<br />(2) to earn $10 for the first two months<br /><br />As of today, I don't see my site on the search results on my primary two-word target keyword.<br /><br />If there's any consolation, I actually landed in page one for two secondary keywords. Take note that only difference between the main and the secondary keywords is the second word. The first words on both keywords are the same. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0dMAzQmrgExWXIrItv3KEa9oeucXxMNsgnJhMj2RuUwUdCCdcWK8wzHTIRQoZ3wbnFtQNMVBmvGxMsU1G9RRDwMOIro1lfZzdxQYotULiM0pgYCOUvXhmvKMhge_metrMSUKimrPn7Ah/s1600-h/top_search_qeury.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 169px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0dMAzQmrgExWXIrItv3KEa9oeucXxMNsgnJhMj2RuUwUdCCdcWK8wzHTIRQoZ3wbnFtQNMVBmvGxMsU1G9RRDwMOIro1lfZzdxQYotULiM0pgYCOUvXhmvKMhge_metrMSUKimrPn7Ah/s320/top_search_qeury.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431750440998263506" /></a><br /><br />I think I'll have more time starting tomorrow so I'll work on this again.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-27216539913773865412010-01-18T19:57:00.000-08:002010-01-18T21:18:19.521-08:00Day 18 : 60 Day ExperimentIt's been several days when I last posted an update but just to give you a quick update, here they are.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sitemap</span> - Installed sitemap and submitted to google webmaster tools. Sitemap helps google crawl all your relevant pages. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Entrecard </span>- For some reason, my website is not yet approved by Entrecard. I don't know why but then, that's ok. I'll just try <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">New Posts</span> - There's a total of 13 posts but only 10 are published. The rest are scheduled.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Forum Posting</span> - I found a great online community that discusses<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Commenting </span>- I found a site which is a potential goldmine for traffic and link juice. And I think quite a number of people are already exploiting this site. I can't tell you yet but I promise I'll post them at the end of the 60 day experiment. I only made four comments here and I got 15 visitors. A few more comments were made at a U.S. based technology blog. Again, that's for link juice purposes.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Twitter </span>- I also created a twitter account. I now have 8 followers but with very few tweets. I'll improve on this over the weekend.<br /><br />By the way, below is the chart of my analytics account. Not bad, eh?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeue9Ec8H0tyAuZIUDbOq6gB9K_Ls94pLyiL3EbIlAvD5oMxjQWIlv5WlEIiQapPiMlxwIqhLqVmGc0L77xoFixhvV-oFNQy0NhOvukdjV9iLcstkmCZmcGiCgD7jKGUGr5Rq2271r2Bc/s1600-h/analytics_day17.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUeue9Ec8H0tyAuZIUDbOq6gB9K_Ls94pLyiL3EbIlAvD5oMxjQWIlv5WlEIiQapPiMlxwIqhLqVmGc0L77xoFixhvV-oFNQy0NhOvukdjV9iLcstkmCZmcGiCgD7jKGUGr5Rq2271r2Bc/s320/analytics_day17.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428315289135951010" /></a><br /><br />Again, the progress is very slow but I actually got an uptick of traffic yesterday. The traffic is mainly referred by my comment on the news site where I left my comment. <br /><br />If you haven't noticed, there are five visitors from Google. They are not my main target keywords but any visitor is highly appreciated. Also, the bounce rate is pretty low. That's promising. I attribute that (low bounce rate) to the design of the template.<br /><br />The next few days would be extraordinarily busy (if i'm not yet drowing!) on my day job so I'll give an update after a few days again. Probably on Monday, Jan 25 which is the 25th day. That would be almost half the mark and let's see what would be the progress. :DSuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-9046460954672588782010-01-13T23:51:00.000-08:002010-01-14T01:53:10.934-08:00Day 13 : 60 Day Experiment<h3>First Visitors</h3><br />I got my first visitor yesterday courtesy of some referrals from the websites where I commented. Since most of those websites are U.S. based and/or targeted to U.S. internet users, it's not surprising that almost all who visited my site are stateside. <br /><br /><h3>Search Engine Visitor</h3><br />On the search engine side, I got my very first SE visitor courtesy of Google. Apparently, the site is already #4 in a certain keyword. It's quite surprising because it took only a few days and now, my site is in #4! Yup, you read it right, I'm already on the first page. But it's no reason to celebrate just yet. That's not my target keyword so it's just a bonus. But nevertheless, I'm still happy. I mean, very happy!<br /><br />So what else did I do? Here they are.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Entrecard </span> - OK, it's no longer popular as it was but based on my experience, it's a good starting point of getting enough traffic. This will also be my source of future exchange link partners.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Amazon Affiliate</span> - Yeah, I placed some affiliate links already. The links are not intrusive, though. Hopefully it converts. But of course, I'll need the traffic.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Forum Posting</span> - Yeah, I should have done that the other day. But now, I joined in a forum where there are discussions about my target keyword. There are lively discussions so I joined. No links yet. :D Here's a little tip. Since this is a skin disorder, it is the women who gets affected very much. So basically, it is them who mostly search for the term. The dummy accounts I created are females, too, so that when I join into their conversation, I'll be "IN". But of course, I have to be careful.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Blog Commenting</span> - This is where I got my first visitors. <br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">New Post</span> - I just published my eight post and two more to follow immediately. I already scheduled the two new posts with two days interval. <br /><br />As I have said, I'm very happy with the initial results considering that I wasn't able to complete my plans and was even delayed on some items. <br /><br />That's it for now! Ciao!SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-63910390490921054502010-01-12T17:13:00.000-08:002010-01-12T17:30:05.068-08:00Day 12: 60-Day ExperimentOK, my previous post is actually on Day 11 and I was talking about what I did for Day 10 and what I plan to do yesterday (day 11). Of all the link building that I plan to do, I only managed to bring up 2. That is the PR4 unrelated website and the PR2 unrelated website. I chose those two because I also own those sites and I know that the google spider is crawling them pretty frequent. Also, I know that I won't be able to do the other links because I'm drowning again on my day job!<br /><br />And what has been the results? After barely 12 hours, my site has been indexed!!! You read it right, folks! I'm quite surprised, too! So I manually checked the site if it is appearing on the search results. Well, it is not. But that's fine. I'm still happy because my posts has been published less than 12 hours ago and now, they are already indexed. For me, that's a sign that I'll be able to reach my primary goal of bringing the site to page 1 within 60 days. <br /><br />And take note, this is sitting on a sub-domain. As I have told you before, I don't want to spend a single penny here. <br /><br />So what's left to do now? I'll do the rest of the link building, of course!<br />(1) PR3 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website<br />(2) PR1 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website<br />(5) Incoming Links from unrelated websites<br />(10) comments in various blogs<br />(10) forum posts with signature linked to the website<br /><br />I'll have to do the rest and maybe add some more contents. I have at least three on the pipeline. That will definitely help in "freshness".<br /><br />That's it for now!SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-58200438275304730332010-01-12T00:29:00.000-08:002010-01-12T00:51:18.112-08:00Big Discounts at JaguarPCFor those who missed the <a href="http://bit.ly/6NE0li">JaguarPC Holiday Promo</a>, you can still buy their <a href="http://bit.ly/6NE0li">11-year anniversary promo</a> which I think is better than the previous one.<br /><br /><h2>VPS One Plan</h2><br />Guaranteed Ram 448 MB <br />Burst Ram 1GB<br />Disk Space 25GB<br />Bandwidth 450GB<br />Price $21.22<br />Coupon code <a href="http://bit.ly/6NE0li">VPS11YRS</a><br /><br /><br /><h2><a href="http://bit.ly/6NE0li">ORDER NOW</a></h2><br /><br />I have one VPS One from them which I got for lesser price last year but if you compare the specs of my VPS to the one they are currently selling, mine pales in comparison. Damn. But the inconvenience of moving to another server discourages me. Anyhow, I'm still happy with my current plan.<br /><br />Take note that with fast customer support and Jaguar's dirt cheap price, I can't find any other company that will beat their service. At least up to now. However, I still find their shared hosting to be a bit high. But then again, their shared hosting is rock solid (I know because a friend is hosting there).SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-48018723132050514882010-01-11T18:43:00.000-08:002010-01-11T19:20:40.186-08:00Day 10 : 60-Day Page 1 ExperimentOk, yesterday was the 10th day and I'm here again to give you an update. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to complete the 10 posts that I planned. Actually, I only managed to complete 7 posts. But I’ll make use of them for now. One of them is more than a thousand words anyways. Seven posts would be enough, I think. <br /><br />On top of that, I also installed the Google analytics tracking code. That will come handy in the following days when I get down to analyze the traffic. You know, where those visitors are coming from, how many visitors are coming from search engines, etc. I also added the website in Google Webmaster Tools. It’s a very handy tool and where I would be able to know when exactly the Google spider crawled my site as well as what are the keywords seen. If there’s any problem, I can then tweak the site to solve the issues. And by the way, you submit the sitemap through the webmaster tools. But I’ll do that once all the posts are published.<br /><br />So today, I’m going to start link building to my new site. Here’s the strategy that I’m planning to use. Take note that it’s not proven. It’s an experiment for me and I’m not sure if this will actually work. <br /><ul><br /><li>(1) PR4 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website</li><br /><li>(1) PR3 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website</li><br /><li>(1) PR2 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website</li><br /><li>(2) PR1 Incoming Sidebar Link from unrelated website</li><br /><li>(5) Incoming Links from unrelated websites</li><br /><li>(10) comments in various blogs</li><br /><li>(10) forum posts with signature linked to the website</li><br /></ul><br />At least that’s the plan. Save from the forum posts, I think all the others are easy to do. I already have the PR sites where the links will be coming from while I also have plenty of the completely unrelated non-PR sites. What’s important here is that the websites where the link will be coming from are already indexed by Google. I’ll also make the anchor text varied although I’m not really sure about that. The PR4 website will carry my main keyword as its anchor text.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-46912144401003699492010-01-09T08:20:00.000-08:002010-01-09T08:30:34.856-08:00Day 7: 60 Day Challenge (Contents and Layout)It's the seventh day of the project and I'm almost at the end of the first 10 days. As stated on my previous post, the original plan requires that I have 10 posts at the end of the 10th day. I only have 5 posts ready by today and bringing that to 10 posts would be a real challenge for me. I can tell you a lot of excuses but in the end of the day, I still need to come up with 10 posts or else, the project will be delayed. That's something that I don't want to happen. Regardless of how busy I am, I need to produce that 10 posts. <br /><br />But hey, who said that it would be an easy task. I already stated earlier that the real challenge in the setup of the blog/site is producing the content. But being hard to do doesn't mean that it is not doable. I'm still optimistic that I'll be able to come up with 5 more posts in the next 3 days.<br /><br />On top of the articles, I also prepared some logins in some related forums. They are actually not exactly related but they are somewhat in the same industry. They will be used once I start linking in the next couple of days.<br /><br />So again, the price-point this type of laptop is very high. But let's see what we can do. We'll do our best and we wish you good luck too!SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-68647474251266008162010-01-06T17:55:00.001-08:002010-01-06T18:12:30.852-08:00Day 5 : 60-Day Page 1 ExperimentOK, I missed posting yesterday. The progress has been slow the past two days as my day job required more time from me. So there's little time left for other things. Consequently, this project is part of 'other things'. But that's okay, it's only the fifth day of the experiment. So, it's a small hiccup.<br /><br />So, what did I do? I create two more posts but I haven't published it yet. So what I have on my little website is one entry (FAQ, 1600 words). It has no incoming links yet so I must say, it's still on stealth mode. Though the site is already up and running, I don't expect google to index its pages.<br /><br />On another note, I'm quite elated with the keyword I chose. You see, the more I research on it, the more I feel that I found a very good keyword. With that, I become more and more optimistic that this project will be successful. Of course, I also tell myself that this may not work but regardless, the experience will help me on my next projects. At this point in time, I must say that I already learned quite a number of things or at least, implemented things that I read about before.<br /><br />So let's just say that this project will now add another purpose. On top of my original goals, it is also my exam that I need to pass. Ok, it won't be hard to pass. Because if it make $100 by the end of March, I'll get a 3 (passing grade). But $100 by end of February would mean 1 (highest grade). haha.<br /><br />For the rest of the week, I'll add more articles and then hopefully by the middle of next week, I'll be able to assemble 10 posts and then publish them. By then, I can start my link building.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-6703063017982126572010-01-04T04:10:00.000-08:002010-01-04T19:42:48.822-08:00Day 3: 60 Day Challenge (Contents and Layout)<h3>Content</h3><br />I've written my first content for the keyword that I chose. Actually, it was done yesterday. To give you an idea on what keyword I chose, I decided to give you a very nice hint. It is something to do with a <span style="font-weight:bold;">skin disorder</span>. It is very common and a lot of people are searching for more information about it as seen in the External keyword tool.<br /><br />The first content is a FAQ. It's just a rewritten article. The original content came from various sources. Since it is a FAQ, it was easy to make 1500+ words. But I don't expect the same for succeeding posts and they will be limited probably to within 200 words or less. As stated in my announcement, I'll be posting 10 of them in the next 10 days. That's one and there's 9 to go.<br /><br />Once the first 10 is published, I'll start with the linking and promotion of the blog and on the side, I'll be creating new posts probably 2 per week. In all, the aim is 25 posts with a target of 200 words each. Just to be clear, I don't think I really need the 200. For me, as long as the post is relevant to the topic and most importantly, provides value to my would-be visitors, it's done! Be it only 50 words or 1000, it doesn't matter.<br /><br /><h3>Site Layout</h3><br />I'm choosing <a href="http://kwatog.com/wp-templates/panglaowp">Kwatog's PanglaoWP</a> as my template because it is a very basic and squeaky clean template. The template is actually based on iNove. Mike of Kwatog.com has modified the template to add new options, a second sidebar and a number of widgets. I specifically asked Mike to add some widgets specially inside the post itself. I've seen the template working at <a href="http://bohol-beach-resorts.com">Bohol Beach Resorts</a> (of kwatog) and <a href="http://davaoresort.com">Davao Beach Resort</a> (of skiper). <br /><br />Another reason why I chose the template is because once I used it, there will be less exit points for the visitors other than the ads. I've seen it work for one of Kwatog's site which is now generating a healthy 6-7% CTR. <br /><br />Now, my target is modest. If I'll have a 3.5% CTR and get 100 visitors daily. That simply translates to 3.5 clicks per day. As my target is $1.00 per click, that would be $3.5 per day which in turn is equivalent to $105 monthly. That $100 target is for long term. <br /><br />So again, wish me luck. By the way, if in case you have some questions, please shoot a comment. I'll try my best to answer your questions as soon as I'm free.SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-74580331292063783502010-01-03T17:46:00.000-08:002010-01-04T01:14:16.593-08:00Day 2 : 60-Day Page 1 ExperimentYesterday, I announced that I'll be embarking on a little experiment to land a brand new website in page 1 of Google search using free tools. Today is the first day of the project and the most important thing for this day is the keyword. <br /><br />Much of the day has been spent for searching for keyword. I'll let you know at the end of this project what would be that keywords but for now, I'll keep it to myself first. But as earlier said, the keyword is related to medical field/medical condition. To help me a bit, I narrowed the lists to the medical condition (disease) that I might be familiar with either because I had it, the family had it, or someone I know is experiencing it. With that, I'll hit two birds with one stone. One, I get to research on the topic which may benefit my family and then at the same time, publish it on the website that I'll be creating.<br /><br />Several hours later, I finally chose a set of keyword about a medical condition that affects 1% of the population. You might say 1% is too small but with roughly 6 billion, we're talking about 60,000,000 people affected. But more importantly, someone from my family is actually affected by this. So off I went to research for keywords. <br /><br />As I have said, I'll only be using Adword's External Keyword Tool. Here's the screenshot of the keywords I picked. The screenshot that you are looking at is actually from the broad range type. I also checked the exact and phrase lists and picked the keywords that consistently appeared on three list types. For this experiment, <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0a9pHe34H7A7NM3sYRXXFrq1-CznsE-cIc5sWk_IQKhQHM-QnSDMiRB-64IDSi1Hi3acVV5obY8ag7rRWd9tfpESrEpZoB56pr67eaxtYsSWybyCIkZJ1tOEEjnk2lWiyx5LVT7ZSziP/s1600-h/keyword_screenshots.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs0a9pHe34H7A7NM3sYRXXFrq1-CznsE-cIc5sWk_IQKhQHM-QnSDMiRB-64IDSi1Hi3acVV5obY8ag7rRWd9tfpESrEpZoB56pr67eaxtYsSWybyCIkZJ1tOEEjnk2lWiyx5LVT7ZSziP/s320/keyword_screenshots.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422324351300285954" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here's the list.<br /><br /><h3>Keyword #1</h3> <br />Search Result : 668,000<br />Local Volume : 8,100<br />Global Volume : 4,400<br />CPC : $4.58<br /><br /><h3>Keyword #2</h3><br />Search Result : 330,000<br />Local Volume : 2,900<br />Global Volume : 1,900<br />CPC : $4.13<br /><br /><h3>Keyword #3</h3><br />Search Result : 359,000<br />Local Volume : 3,600<br />Global Volume : 2,900<br />CPC : $4.03<br /><br /><h3>Keyword #4</h3><br />Search Result : 478,000<br />Local Volume : 5,400<br />Global Volume : 6,600<br />CPC : $3.53<br /><br /><h3>Keyword #5</h3><br />Search Result : 1,890,000<br />Local Volume : 12,100<br />Global Volume : 9,900<br />CPC : $4.26<br /><br />I'll be concentrating on keywords #1 and #2 as I believe it would be easier to rank for those. As I still consider myself a newbie in this field, I have the following criteria on choosing the keyword from the list.<br /><ul><br /><li>Search Result - should be low. If I can get a keyword with 200,000 results and below, I'll use it provided that the volume and CPC is good. :D</li><br /><li>Volume : At least 2,500. The more, the better. It's useless, anyway, if rank in a keyword that nobody is searching for. </li><br /><li>Average Cost per Click : It must be at lest $3. Of course, I won't be getting that when someone click on my ads but I'll be happy if I get $1 per click. That's a good 30% of the estimated CPC.</li><br /></ul><br /><br />Other than that, none actually. I heard that SENuke, Micro Niche Finder and Keyword Elite would make your life a lot easier and much more effective. But then again, I'm broke and like most of you, I wouldn't want to shell any of my remaining funds for this. But that's not to say that I won't be trying those softwares in the future. If I get some success again and bring this thing to the new level, I'll definitely try them.<br /><br />That's it for now!SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-34829515630708732422010-01-02T07:19:00.000-08:002010-01-02T08:22:40.683-08:0060 Day Page 1 Rank Experiment on 2010Since it is a brand spanking new year, I want to embark on an experiment. A lot of things has changed in the last 8 months. While I was busy with my day job (that ate up all my time), I failed to update this blog. Actually, I got left behind by the fast changing SEO landscape. Moreover, the financial meltdown has dampen the the advertising market. It's understandable but together with the financial crisis, came my online earnings. Old strategies no longer work. My already meager income came down to a trickle. Heck, I almost failed to reach the Adsense threshold for the month of December.<br /><br />In that note, I need to find a new way to earn money online. Ever since I embarked on this online journey, I met failures and some relative success. It's time to start anew. In the next 60 days, I'll be updating this blog with what I'll be doing for this experiment.<br /><br />The main objective are as follows:<br /><ol><br /><li>Land on Page 1 of a three-word keyword which would be related to medicine/medical.</li> <br /><li>Earn $10 from adsense on the second month.</li><br /></ol><br />Secondary would be the following:<br /><ol><br /><li>Earn from ClickBank (haven't tried it before)</li><br /><li>Get PR1(it's a long shot, actually)</li><br /></ol><br /><br />Since I'm broke (as I have always been -- that's why I'm Taong Grasa), I don't have money to buy softwares or links or articles. So I'll have to do all the things for free. That's also the reason why I have 60 days as target. So what are the techniques that I shall employ? Here they are.<br /><br /><ol><br /><li>Keyword Research : Google Adwords External Keyword Tool<br />Relying on just one tool may not be a good idea but I really don't have money to buy professional tools. <br /></li><br /><li>Article Writing : PLR/MRR/EzineArticle rewriting. I'll hand code on my free time. I know it would be hard and time consuming but my target is just one article per day in the 2nd to 10th days of the experiment. I might need some help from a friend, though. But that will be for free, of course.</li><br /><li>Hosting - again, I don't want to pay for anything so I'll do it in a WordPress Mu powered free blogsite(much like wordpress.com). I'll tell you about it in later posts why I chose it.</li><br /><li>Links - I can't buy links so I'll be asking some reciprocal links from some friends online. I'll do manual submissions to at least 20 directories. If I still have some time, I'll increase it to 50.</li><br /><li>Promotion - Yahoo answers (10 questions), forum postings(50 posts , related or otherwise) and blog commenting(100) will be utilized. I might provide the lists of URLs of my posts/comments. Just maybe. It depends.</li><br /></ol><br /><br />The question is, would I succeed? I don't know. But guess what, whatever is the outcome, I'll be happy with it. Let's see what the metal tiger (2010) is going to offer. This experiment is actually inspired by Terry Kyle in his <a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/124306-terry-kyle-s-big-60-day-backlink-experiment.html">post</a>.<br /><br />Wish me luck!SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-63687079365361337752009-05-09T07:53:00.000-07:002009-05-09T08:38:51.791-07:00Earned My First Payment from Chitika<p>Ok, I know that I was AWOL for more than four months. I'm not supposed to post another one but I was too happy, I need to tell the world that <a href="http://chitika.com/publishers.php?refid=kashieca">Chitika Premium</a> paid $21.25 last May 1. <br /></p><br /><p>It's totally unexpected. Back in February, I tested putting their minimall just above the commnet field. I never really expected that I'll be paid because only search-engine visitors from north american territories are considered. And though the site I put it into has 80% of its visitors coming from search engines, only a fraction comes from the US and Canada. But I put it there anyways. And to my surprise, I hit the $20 minimum payout.<br /></p><br /><p>I'm currently setting it up also on my other websites. I love it!<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-57927216597614090222009-01-04T22:33:00.000-08:002009-01-04T22:34:21.791-08:00Crucial Web Host Downgrade Specs of Split SharedI was browsing Crucial Web Host articles after reading an article about them. And I noticed that Crucial Web Hosts packages no longer have the same specs as before. To give you a brief idea, here's the most striking of them all.<br /><br />From : http://www.crucialwebhost.com/hosting/split-shared/<br /><blockquote>We isolate 25 clients on a Virtual Environment (VE) to increase security and maximize performance.</blockquote><br /><br />To : http://www.crucialwebhost.com/blog/high-availability-split-shared-hosting/<br /><blockquote>With Split-Shared hosting, you are not lumped in with hundreds or even thousands of other hosting clients. A typical Crucial VE contains 30-50 client accounts. This greatly reduces the risk that other hosting clients will be able to effect the performance of your Split-Shared hosting.</blockquote><br /><br /><p>Now, I'm praying that Crucial Web Host will not annoy their current customers who availed of their old package like me. But it would not come as a surprise if they inform us at the end of our existing contracts that our package is no longer available. That's not really a problem with me as I barely used 3 GB for all my sites and I only use around 40GB of bandwidth. The allocation was 250GB and 2.5TB of bandwidth. But the problem is I have around 8 domains in my account and that's 3 domains more than the new limit of 5.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Oh well, if that happens, it's time again to move some of my sites elsewhere. The new price is also too high at $25 a month. So basically, it would no longer be practical to buy another account with them as those sites do not make $20 a month combined. Besides, the $25 price for a 5GB space/50GB bandwidth is no longer attractive even if you say that your account sits on a vps with only 30-50 sites on it.<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-45832210154230773562008-12-20T07:22:00.000-08:002008-12-20T08:40:48.986-08:00Adsense+Analytics Integration<p>I just signed-up with the integration of Analytics and Adsense today. It's a great addition to the already useful information that Analytics gather and display. You can now see what contents are giving you money. I think it's one of the missing links that makes Analytics and Adsense indispensable. Sweet!!!<br /></p><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJnzrsrEd8z_mTM_z6MhI_-LelKHPHi7FjCtx-d-DkfI18tFqtDYbIVd75FfAtLV47G4WGyDU4ETCD7sLSkyzOBD6604Kv6nwk3NSTQPsJLu_use9JHnqFqwpQNO5pUZx2-X3fPENrx61/s1600-h/analytics_adsense.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 314px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaJnzrsrEd8z_mTM_z6MhI_-LelKHPHi7FjCtx-d-DkfI18tFqtDYbIVd75FfAtLV47G4WGyDU4ETCD7sLSkyzOBD6604Kv6nwk3NSTQPsJLu_use9JHnqFqwpQNO5pUZx2-X3fPENrx61/s320/analytics_adsense.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5281912886452744434" /></a><br /><p><br />In case you didn't see, the link is under the Contents Menu.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Currently, only one site can be integrated. Or maybe I just don't know how to do it yet. But at any rate, it's a welcome development and I simply love it! Kudos to the Google teams who worked on it. Keep them coming! <br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-42509537720544069752008-12-11T07:56:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:06:46.352-08:00The Google 2008 Zeitgeist<p><br />Based on the latest <a href="http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2008/#top">2008 Year-End Google Zeitgeist </a>, the following are the top rising keywords for Singapore and the Philippines. I'm currently studying the report for my next project.<br /></p><br /><br /><h3>Fastest Rising in <a href="http://filipinosg.com">Singapore</a></h3><br /> 1. edison chen <br/><br /> 2. olympics <br/><br /> 3. facebook <br/><br /> 4. iphone <br/><br /> 5. f1 <br/><br /> 6. google map <br/><br /> 7. htc <br/><br /> 8. maps <br/><br /> 9. wiki <br/><br /> 10. beijing olympics <br/><br /><br /><h3>Fastest Rising in Philippines</h3><br /> 1. cabal <br/><br /> 2. y8.com <br/><br /> 3. psp <br/><br /> 4. comments <br/><br /> 5. emo <br/><br /> 6. friendster.com <br/><br /> 7. naruto <br/><br /> 8. multiply <br/><br /> 9. mozilla <br/><br /> 10. realize lyrics <br/><br /><p><br />I have been targeting some the keywords mentioned here albeit I'm more focused on the long tails. Of course, these keywords are highly competitive and it would be hard to be at the top of the SERP. I'm not that good with SEO yet so I'll just focus first with the long tail as long as my target rising keyword is there.<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-17412277621882713422008-12-08T03:06:00.000-08:002008-12-11T08:07:11.533-08:00November Revenue Report<p><br />It's belated but I'll post it anyway.<br /></p><br /><ul><br /><li>Adsense : $286.15</li><br /><li>TLA : $147.83</li><br /><li>Project Wonderful : $0.00</li><br /><li>Total : $433.98</li><br /></ul><br /><h3>Bleak December</h3><br /><p><br />At least one post in seo philippines forum has confirmed that eCPM has dropped significantly. And that's exactly what we see on our websites... plunging as much as 46% in eCPM. If you can see $0.05 to $0.10 cost-per-click in November and earlier, what we see now is $0.01 and a max of $0.03 per click. We still get the same number of visitors and the same CTR.<br /></p><br /><p><br />We're still lucky that we were able to launch a community site and it already starts contributing. So for now, we're still at 60% from previous month. Still, that's too low we might not be able to hit $200 for the month of December for adsense. <br /></p><br /><p><br />We're expecting a decline from TLA as one of our sites saw its Alexa rank plunge to 1,000,000++ mark. Page rank also lost one notch for that site while the main money driver has seen its Alexa rank dip by 40,000 but with the same PR. That contributed to lower TLA rates on both sites.<br /></p><br /><h3>What We Are Doing</h3><br /><p><br />We need to harness everything entrecard has to offer so we plan to drop ecs again starting this week. There are several posts are also on the line which will be posted within the month (some are already posted earlier this month). And lastly, we are doing a comment barrage as well as exchange link in various websites.<br /></p><br /><p><br />Hopefully, all these changes will provide fruitful results sooner than later.<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-10349586597602597162008-11-27T06:52:00.000-08:002008-11-27T07:01:43.752-08:00Crucial Webhost Went Down<p>For several hours today, several of my sites went down with the disruption of service from <span style="font-weight:bold;">CrucialWebHost</span>. It was the first time that it happened to me in my almost one year with them. No explanations were given aside from the fact that the VPS where my account sits in is down. <br /></p><br /><p>To their credit, they were able to restart the service after a few hours. Support promptly replied to my ticket but then again, you wouldn't know how much was lost in those hours. It's a small glitch but a costly glitch. And it came when most of my visitors come -- between 5pm to 7pm when most of the corporate users starts to browse their favorite websites before going home.<br /></p><br /><p>But will I move to another host with what happened? I don't think so. My experience with them is commendable since I signed-up with them. But it sure taught me valuable lessons.<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-36972849178874114882008-11-23T00:53:00.000-08:002008-11-23T01:00:59.412-08:00Where is Boy Bastos?<p>Do you wonder where the creator of BoyBastos.com is? Well, I assure you that he is free as you are. He continue to setup new sites and posting in his blog much like everybody. He may have been 'arrested' last September but we all know that he's out of the NBI headquarters in no time. We don't even know if he was charged with anything or not. Actually, the real term is that he was 'invited' by the NBI. I think it's just a kind of political circus brought about by Ms. Loren Legarda which the media bought and made the issue fly high in the clouds. <br /></p><br /><p><br />The scandal may have served Loren for her political ambitions but they may not know it, Boy Bastos has gained more than anybody else. It made Mark's site more popular in the internet and for sure, he's still there operating sites like that of Boy Bastos. Boy Bastos is just a victim of political persecutions because if Loren is serious with her so called convictions, the sites I know(and sometimes visit?) must have been shut down already. As a matter of fact, Mark's other sites include <strong>Bilyar.net</strong>, <strong>Bembang</strong>, <strong>Bembang Blogs</strong>,<strong> Jolaks and Thoughts in Binary : A Secret of Mark Venzo</strong>. Oh, did I say that he has even interviewed a lot of actresses that made his <b>Bembang Girls</b> site even more popular and added some class with it. <br /></p><br /><p> But as an online enterprenuer, we must be aware that Mark was treated with some kind of political persecution. He had it coming, of course, when he use used Loren Legarda's name as the registrar of his site, Boy Bastos. That kinda grabbed the senator's attention (or at least her staffs) and made war on him. In order not to experience what Mark went through, Yuga has listed down 10 ways to avoid political repurcusions from so called moralists. If you ought to know, you can go visit Yuga's post at <strong>http://www.yugatech.com/blog/curious/10-ways-to-avoid-the-boy-bastos-treatment/</strong><br /></p><br /><p>It's still good to be aware of what's happening around. Though the law in the Philippines is lax, we must still be careful with who we play with... stay away from the influential and powerful. <br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-8577676455097154782008-11-21T07:05:00.000-08:002008-11-21T07:20:05.721-08:00CBOX Annoying Pop Up Ads<p><br />I have been using cbox shoutbox plugin (free version) for a while now and never took notice of the pop-ups that it has been serving on my site. I know that the free version has ads in it but I thought it's not through the annoying pop-up. All the while, it was the chiklets that was installed in the site that was the culprit. Besides, cbox already displays link ads inside the shoutbox and pop-ups will be an overkill. And I was DEAD WRONG! <br /></p><br /><p>I have since removed cbox from the sites where I installed it and replaced it with wordspew. It's a plugin for wordpress started by jalenack and is being continued by Pierre. During Jalenack's time, I did not use his plugin due to sql injections issues but contributions from users and the successful handling of the project by pierre solved most of the issues. You can download the plugin at <br /><a href="http://pierre.sudarovich.free.fr/index.php/2006/02/28/ajax-shoutbox/ ">http://pierre.sudarovich.free.fr/index.php/2006/02/28/ajax-shoutbox/</a> <br /></p><br /><p>Hopefully, my visitors will take notice of this. At least, they will have one less annoyance when visiting my site. But more than anything, I hope Google will take notice of the improvements that we've implemented.<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-84701124728954037042008-11-10T17:59:00.000-08:002008-11-10T18:00:58.335-08:00SEO Experiment : Strike While The Iron is Hot<p>A little experiment last week surprised me when in less than an hour after I posted an article, hundreds of users visited one of my sites. Oh man, that site is just actually a test bed for my SEO expiriments but somehow, google noticed the post a few minutes after I published it. <br /></p><br /><h3>What I Learned Here?</h3><br /><ul><br /><li>Strike While the Iron is Hot - I saw an issue worth posting from a news website. It's about three hours after the original story was published online and five hours after the actual event showed on TV though the issue is already clogging emails for the past few days. I immediately created a post regarding it after realizing that there's not much results in google if you search for it. I created the post in 15 minutes and after 45 minutes, I got 250 visitors. </li><br /><li>Read your Inbox - there's a reason why people send those nonsense emails, including the chain-emails. They either like the contents of the email, they share it with their friends or they believe on what the chain-email tells them and do what it says. Either way, it generates interest and therefore, you may hit a gold with it.</li><br /><li>Post Title - it works, believe me. I carefully selected the title and basically, it was the keyword that I used in searching in google.</li><br /><li>Choose your keywords very well - A little hint. It's a controversial topic. People like controversies, people falling from their pedestal and things like that. A giveaway... SEX sells!!!</li><br /><li>Do it Even if you don't like it - I don't even like the topic but it sure gave me a lot of traffic. So as long as you give your visitors what they want, people wouldn't care if you like the topic or not.</li><br /><li>As always, Google is your bestfriend and Big Brother. So follow him and be obedient, OK? It's for your own good.</li><br /></ul><br /><p>Unfortunately, I did not expect it and the template of the test blog is not optimized for adsense. As a result, it did not generate a lot. The CTR is less than 1 percent but that's ok with me. It proved something and whatever I learned from it will be definitely used later. As a matter of fact, I might create a niche blog for it. I think that post will give me a good number of visitors for a while. I would be more than happy if it stays for a week. <br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-18347027588420913352008-11-04T18:13:00.000-08:002008-11-04T18:20:19.271-08:00A Start to Follow Webmaster Guidelines<p><br />Feeling the wrath of Google dawning on the rest of my sites, I decided to finally follow the Google webmaster guidelines. First in my list is the NOFOLLOW requirement. All links from my wordpress sites now are already converted with NOFOLLOW tag. At the same time, I asked for reconsideration from Big Brother G for one of my websites. Again, that's through the Google's webmastertools<br /></p><br /><p><br />But applying the changes in a number of wordpress-powered site would be a pain in the ass. I sure not going to update my posts manually. One way to go around with it is to perform a SEARCH and REPLACE in the database but I'm too lazy to do that and that would also mean if I fail to monitor the outgoing links later, I'll again have DOFOLLOW links. And so I chose to use a modified wordpress <a href="http://whatjapanthinks.com/wikipedia-nofollow/" rel="NOFOLLOW">NOFOLLOW</a>. Presto, my links are good but except those in the sidebar. But that's manageable.<br /></p><br /><p><br />I say modified version because I the downloaded plugin is specific for Wikipedia. And since I want to implement the NOFOLLOW tag in all my links, I updated the code in the plugin. Huh! Do I need to explain that in detail? Maybe not. Am I going to share the modified version to you? I guess so but wait a little. I'll update this post later to provide you the link.<br /></p><br /><p>As I have said, revenue from Adsense has already become a vital part of our budget and i already have a quota to follow. And since the Big G is my main source of online income, I better follow the rules(which I always do, anyways).<br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3672518617247055689.post-72845937975284750342008-11-01T22:14:00.000-07:002008-11-02T22:14:56.009-08:00Online Vagabond October Revenue Report<p><br />It's time again to give you an update on how much we earned for the month. You see, this endevour has already made my wife join into it. Two heads are better than one, right? Actually, she's been helping me for the past year already. So without further delay, here's the report..<br /></p><br /><h2>Oct 2008 Earnings Report</h2><br /><ul><br /><li>Adsense : $418.35</li><br /><li>TLA : $133.15</li><br /><li><strong>Total : $551.50</strong></li><br /></ul><br /><p>Despite the slump in organic referrals from google for one of the sites starting at the second half of october, adsense revenue is still higher than the previous month. It could have gone higher had that site not drop from the ranking. But thanks to Yahoo, revenue for the problem site rebounded. It's still below the usual target but I'm still happy with it. We expect a slump for the month of November so we are trying to find new avenue to earn money online.<br /></p><br /><p>But one thing we learned here is that we really need to keep our site updated. I think it's one of the most important things that SEO gurus always say. One new post every week would be good enough but if there really is no time, at least once every two weeks. I know frequency also depends on your niche but we should strive better to give our readers something new or otherwise, they will no longer revisit your site. <br /></p><br /><p>Also, I might start converting the live links at the sidebars to NO FOLLOW to conform with the Google Webmasters Guide recommendation. Yeah, I know that I should have done that earlier and it may have been the cause of my drop in search engine rankings. But hey, I'm just human. :) Hopefully, google will reconsider my sites again.<br /></p><br /><p>As for this site, I think a template change is in order. Though it doesn't carry ad units, I think it is still good to make it look better in the eyes. By the way, the revenues from our online properties has already been vital to our budget, it helps pay some of the bills already. In that note, there's more pressure to keep the revenue at a certain level. To be specific, adsense revenue should be at least $300 a month. <br /></p>SuperSawsawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04609435198293854425noreply@blogger.com0