Ok, friend, here it is. This is how I think anyone reading, can go from $0 to $100 a day in affiliate/ad income with almost no work and but a minor investment in 2012.
Is this a plan for income overnight? No. This is a 12 month plan. It’s a plan for anyone who can put their entrepreneurial ADD on hold long enough to focus on one thing for an entire year (you know… the way real business people do). This is a plan to generate a lasting income from a solid business; A plan to reach $100 a day initially, and push from there to $1000 a day and beyond.
This is not a “new” concept either. It’s just a smart one. You ready? Here goes…
(Note: If you were able to buy one of our Unstoppable Authority Sites last week, you can implement this on them. If you didn’t, you can build a new site for them, no worries at all.)
Overview
This plan is about good keyword research, extreme(ly easy) long tail traffic, and outsourced content.
It’s based on the idea that the long tail of search becomes longer by the day, and as much as we see those exact money keywords becoming ever more competitive… the tails of those keyword markets are growing longer too. The original principle of the “long tail” is that the tail grows towards a length where there’s more traffic to be gained there across all the different keywords than there is by getting ALL the traffic that can be got from that major 1 or 2.
Anyone who’s gotten traffic from the search engines knows that when you look at your traffic sources, you always get traffic from long tail keywords you didn’t even know existed; much less intentionally targeted. And the way you get that traffic is by publishing quality content on long tail keywords, to your quality, authoritative site. You’ll end up mentioning words in your articles that will make them match search queries for other weird long tail variations. And the longer a keyword is, the more variations (of word order alone) it potentially has.
The most important factor however, is that the longer a keyword is – generally – the more specific it is, and the further the searcher is along that “buying scale”. Here I’m talking about long tail BUYER keywords. Keywords 3, 4, and 5 words long that are the name of a product or some question about it. Those are money keywords and in tens of thousands of keyword markets across the web, no one’s targeting them. In fact, people don’t even know they exist.
This plan is how you can take advantage of that fact with minimal effort, and maximum long term reward.
Step 1: A Niche
As always, you need a niche to get started in. Don’t think of the most way out, bizarre market here. Think mass markets. The bigger the market, the longer the tail. It doesn’t mean you’ll be competing with the big dogs for any keyword like “weight loss”. It just means you’ll be following the money, and picking out a spot in an already profitable market to claim as your own.
This is a niche too, not a product name this time. Like I’ve said before, nothing wrong with that, this is just something that also works.
So pick weight loss, or Forex, or dating, or electronics. Something with a tonne of products available that’s always coming out with something new, where there are a lot of products that get searched for by name and a huge amount of search volume overall.
There are plenty of markets like this and at this point you don’t even need to be too discerning (we’ll do that on your keywords). Anything with a tonne of products, and a tonne of searches, where money is being made, and you should be fine.
Step 2: Get a domain
If you can, try to find an old domain on the subject/main keyword that’s indexed in Google. (Just grab the url of it, go to google and search info:thedomain.com to check indexing. If it comes up there, it’s still indexed.)
See if you can find something that’s cool, neutral and informative sounding. In big niches like those, it’s not hard to do. You can use Godaddy domain auctions, dynadot auctions and many other services, (like those we talked about in UA for those who have it) for this purpose.
An old domain will be a big advantage in your new market, particularly in ranking for your long tail keywords. That said, if you can’t get an old domain, it’s not the end of the world. Register a new domain with a neutral sounding name, the major keyword in it if you can, and you’ll be all set.
Step 3: Keyword Research
What you need here is about 100-200 long tail keywords that relate to product names in your market.
NOTE HERE: The ONLY way this plan can go wrong, is if you pick keywords that can’t be monetized well. I’ve made that mistake before. So sticking to product name keywords (even if it’s products you can’t be an affiliate for… you can always monetize with Adsense) is vital.
This is the first place your small amount of work is to be done. You probably need to do this research yourself. But 100-200 keywords in a big market is not at all difficult to find.
What you want here are keywords that APPEAR in the Google Keyword Tool. That’s it. It doesn’t matter if Google shows they only get 10 exact match searches a month. That’s enough. Writing an article on that keyword will mean you get traffic from it and other variations of it. And even if that keyword doesn’t bring traffic, the next one on your keyword list will (Remember you’ll have 100 of them).
So if your niche is LCD Tvs, and you see the keyword “Vizio 42 LCD x1090” and it gets 100 exact match searches a month… that’s a winner. You’ll probably end up finding one product, say “Sony Bravia B1080” and that’ll have 5 or 10 keywords below it that all get over 50 exact match searches a month. Grab all 10 of them (not including variations where you could have the same piece of content rank for multiple keywords). You’ll reach 100-200 keywords before you know it.
You don’t need the keyword with over 500 or 1000 exact match searches with this plan. When you’re targeting a product name term for a one product minisite, that opposite is true… but again, this plan is different. We’re going to be making money on the aggregation of lots of small chunks of traffic from lots of keywords and lots of pieces of content.
What about competition? It won’t much matter.
There aren’t a lot of keywords that only get 50 or 100 exact searches a month that are replete with high level competition so you’ll be fine on most of these keywords. Plus, even if you get a handful of the keywords with competition that’s too high, remember, it’s a balance thing. Publishing enough content on enough of these keywords and you’ll run into an equal number of keywords where you instantly rocket to position 1, as keywords that are too hard to break on to the first page for.
Finally… I’m saying that keywords with any amount of search volume is fine, but I don’t mean higher volume keywords are bad. If you come across good keywords with higher search volumes, that have 3 or 4 words in them and don’t seem too competitive, by all means include them too!
The key here is continual posting, and continual growth. That said, once you’ve gotten 100-200 product name keywords in your niche that get at least 50 exact match searches each per month, you move to step 4.
Step 4: Set up a WP blog on your domain
Won’t go into detail here. Do it like we recommend in Firepow, NBI, UA or if you can’t do that, find a good tutorial on youtube somewhere. There’s nothing much you can do wrong here that would destroy your chances of success provided you’ve followed the other steps.
Are there things you can do to tweak things here? Of course. But you can worry about those later.
Step 5: Find a content writer
This is key. You’re going to find a writer who’s going to work for you on a part time basis, continually writing and posting content to your site each week.
There are no shortage of content writers available online. You can use Elance, try the Warrior Forum, or use the writers we use. You just need someone who can write great english, with some decent research, to a formula you’ll give them, and who can also learn how to post to WordPress based on your instructions too.
Your creating good instructions for a writer is your next little piece of work. Only needs doing once, so it’s no big deal. You want at least 600 word articles, divided into subheadings, with a neutral tone, information and possible reviews on the product. You can use the exact formula from UA if you have that, but if not, sticking to the above works fine.
You should be able to get a quality article like this written for $7-9 a pop.
When it comes to posting to your blog, you’ll have to show them:
- How to write a good Title for the article (to include the keyword but be catchy and curious at the same time)
- How to set the permalinks with the little feature below the post title bar (just making the permalink the exact keyword)
- How to set the Meta Title (just copy/paste the post title) the Meta Description (an interesting and benefit driven sentence or two about what’s in your article) and the meta keywords (just the single keyword that the article is on)
- How to set a “More” tag (just click the little Split Box icon in WordPress) on each post.
- How to bold each subheading (Obvious)
And that’s almost it.
This set of videos I did is a couple of years old but will still show your writer each of these points above in a simple fashion.
You should be able to get them to post your article for an additional 50c or so. It’s a 5 minute job of copy/paste once they know the instructions.
NOTE On Monetization: To begin with, you don’t even need to monetize your site with an affiliate link or ad block. You’re not going to be earning money overnight with this method so there should be no rush. Further, it may yet prove to be a benefit in the eyes of Google if you don’t monetize your site immediately, but wait until it’s indexed (or re-crawled if an old domain) and even ranking before you throw aff links in.
It’s a test of your discipline too. Are you really in this for the long term? Can you handle waiting two months to even put up your monetization links? If you can’t, then this model isn’t for you.
Next…
You need to decide on a frequency for posting.
This comes down to your budget. At minimum you’ll need to do 2 articles a week, but if you want to push right up to 1 article a day, that’s even better.
That’s minimum $15 a week investment. Probably less than you spend on coffee or eating out each week. There aren’t any other costs than this, so it should be affordable.
Picture what’s happening so far…
You’ve got an authority site set up, possibly on an old domain, that’s publishing two articles a week, every week, on long tail, low competition money keywords.
In a month, you’ve got 8 pieces of content out there. After a year you’ve got almost 100.
What happens to that content and how does it make you money?
Let’s have a look as we move to step 6…
Step 6: Promote that thing
Right now, you’ve got quality content targeting money keywords coming on to your site afresh each week, with no work of your own. That’s a powerful position right there.
As long as your site is indexed, you’ll find that a percentage of the content you add, will rank, and bring traffic for SOME keyword, even without you doing anything to promote it. That just happens with these types of keywords. Not all of them will do that, but a percentage of them will.
To take it up a notch, you need to convince Google of this site’s authority. And you have to do what you can to grow that authority.
How do you grow the Authority? With Backlinks.
So if you like, your work each month can consist of merely trying to get backlinks for your site. It’s not even important that the backlinks point to the individual pages in this method, and it’s not even important that you build 10 links a day or anything like that. If you were able to get just a handful of quality links each month to this site, that would add up, and the effect would be felt.
It’s mostly just important that link juice passes through that homepage of your site and filters down to each of your pieces of content. This will demonstrate your authority and make it so that eventually every piece of content your site publishes carries more weight in the search engines.
For this, I don’t even need to lay out a specific plan for you, because most kinds of link building will help for this purpose. If you can get 5-10 good backlinks for your site each week, just pointed to your home page with a related anchor text, that should suffice. But you can take it to a higher level if you wish/are able. Let me instead just make suggestions:
1. Get an Onlywire.com account, create accounts at each of the services and submit every second post that goes to your blog, through Onlywire. That will be a tonne of backlinks worth over time.
2. Use your services like ActuallyRank or BuildMyRank to submit maybe 10 posts/comments a month with a backlink. See UA for full instruction on using those services.
3. Ask your writer to write an EXTRA two articles per week of just 300 words each, on any keyword in your niche, and ask him/her to submit them to an article directory like GoArticles with a link in the author bio of one of your target keywords. That should cost an extra $7 a week and will have a tangible effect on your rankings when it accumulates over time.
4. Buy some links. Use somewhere like DigitalPoint forums to buy some anchor text targeted high PR links from blog posts on related sites. Even a couple of PR2 blog post links a month (cost, maybe $15) will have a big effect on rankings.
5. If you’re committing just to this site, you might even choose to get a bit social. Set up accounts on Stumbleupon, Twitter & Facebook for your site, build a community of relevant friends, share links of all kinds, and drop a link to something of your own once in a while (Note you don’t have to link to your money posts here, and you don’t just have to add posts to your site that are for monetization… something to think about 
) The links/likes/shares you get from this will benefit your SEO.
The key here is consistency rather than a big blast. As long as you’re feeding SOME new link juice to your site each week, you’ll notice the rankings and traffic of each of your pieces of content growing over time.
You’ll also notice that new pieces of content you add start to get indexed more and more quickly. If you can do this for even 6 months you’ll see how much authority your site can build up. After that, you can claim long tail keyword rankings almost at will. And it only gets better from there on out.
KEY: Try to put some plan for your link building in place. Even if it’s only a 5 link a month plan, make it something that happens every week and every month. And repeat it. Repetition and gradual growth is the key to this plan.
Expected Outcome
Continuing to follow this promotion plan while your content is continually being added should gradually see your product name posts ranking page 1 for their target keywords. As visitors start to flow from those keywords, sales will be inevitable, even if your presell content isn’t that great. You’re getting motivated buyers to your site. The rest is easy.
The more you post and promote, the more ALL of your content should gradually rise in the SERPS.
Then you can look at your traffic stats, see which keyword areas and product names are (easily) getting the most attention and you can expand those ones out, adding more content there, focusing more link building there, and so on. That will scale up your income even faster.
There’s nothing else involved in this plan. You’ll just keep doing the same things, over and over, and watch them yield greater and greater results thanks to those all powerful laws of compounding.
How Does It Get You To $100 A Day?
Let’s look.
I’ve done scenarios like this many times before, but let’s take the worst one I’ve ever done.
Let’s say you earn $10 commission from your affiliate offer. And your offer converts 1 visitor in 100. You need 1000 visitors a day across your site to make $100 a day.
If you have 100 pieces of content, that’s each article on your site getting 10 visitors a day. It rarely works out like that, and will usually be something like 2 articles on your site get 100 visitors a day each, another 6 get 50 a day each, and another 50 articles get 10 visitors a day each for a total of 1000.
There’s nothing unrealistic about that. Remember, these are all long tail keyword gems. None of these are high competition phrases.
And if even one of those factors is different (say a $20 commission, or a conversion rate of 1 in 50… neither of which is even close to unrealistic) you’re looking at $200 a day instead of $1000. $6k a month instead of $3k.
If you’re reading this, there’s no reason you can’t make this plan happen and achieve these results.
Final Notes
Remember: LONG TERM. This method isn’t going to be making you money in month 1, maybe not even in month 2. But you HAVE to persist. When you do it for 12 months, there’s NO WAY… read that again… NO WAY, that you can’t have a valuable, profitable asset on your hands, that’s both making money, and has the potential to be sold for a good sum.
UAS Owners: You can do this in addition to pursuing a “multiple product site” strategy laid out in UA, where you try to rank for one new product in your market at a time. Don’t do it instead of. You could feasibly get a plan like this cranking while you’re just working away link building for your first 3 keywords. The linking you do for those three pieces of content will help out all the content that gets added by your outsourced helper.
Questions: I know not every little detail of the plan is covered here – what exactly you should say in your bid for an outsourcer, or what widgets you should have in your sidebar – but I want to stress the simplicity of this plan. If I haven’t mentioned it above, it’s because it’s not important. It’s because you can make money without knowing the answer to it.
Don’t get bogged down in the tiny questions you don’t know the answer to. Focus on what you DO know the answer to, and work on that. Your chances won’t be destroyed if you get some small detail wrong. A small hole WON’T sink this ship. Ready, Fire, Aim. I find myself telling people this a lot lately.
All of that said, if you think you have a big important question, I’ll do my best to answer in the comments below.
So happy holidays my friends! Here’s to an extremely prosperous 2012!
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Thank you Andrew…Great post!
Hi Andrew – You’ve simply overdelivered here. I’ve got UA and also UAS and I am beginning to see the importance of an authority site. I am willing to put in 12 months of consistent hardwork and I am sure this will turn out to be the most profitable year for me. Thanks for sharing these amazing insights!
Hi Lloyd,
Me too! How about we keep each other accountable on this?
OK so I hardly know you and you me, but I see you are an action man and it is always good to have a wingman to help you keep track.
The plan that Andrew has laid out here is longterm and does require that discipline. Sure there are costs involved but nothing like what some people have to dig up to buy a franchise for example. This is a truly a low cost start up plan that will work, as I have sites like this that do what he is saying. I am wanting to scale up my SEO business and this plan will work for that too. The long tail is getting longer and more valuable.
So a once a month how is it going – you up for it?
Let’s make this aim to be re-reading this post 12 months from now with a solid asset under our belts.
Cheers,
Greg
Thanks Andrew. Always find these types of posts inspiring, even though this is what I do mainly. There is always something that I slack on and your reminders put me back on track. Merry Christmas!
Thanks
Is there still a case for mis-spelled words?
Geo
Not any more George, no. The spelling auto-correct killed that a long while ago now.
Excellent post Andrew and VERY doable for those who will just stick with the plan and be persistant… committing to a won’t quit attitude and treating their business like a “real” business and not a hobby!
Again… excellent post and action plan Andrew.
Very generous of you to share for Free.
Have a great day!
Mary Dee
So easy and so difficult at the same time!
It is easy because anyone can do it, and difficult because it is very hard to keep working when you don’t see immediate results, even if you know you are on the right path.
But on the other hand, having no immediate results also means that you end up with passive income, which is a good motivation to keep working!
I hope in a year from now I will be able to come back and say how good this method works.
Thanks for the post Andrew.
Thanks Andrew, really find your stuff great. I just need to figure out how to think like you!!
Merry Christmas.
Hey Andrew,
This is a great post, I enjoyed reading it a lot. This is something that I have been doing now. The only difference is that I target keywords that get at least 300 exact searches per month and I monetize that traffic with Adsense. I am going to sell that site after 10 months for about $10,000 or more.
It’s always great to hear something from you,
Matt
Andrew, this is a fantastic plan. Simple but very efficient in it’s goal of $100 or more income per day. I’ve purchased a few of your ready made authority sites and will be applying this plan for 2012 to both sites, to give myself twice as much of a chance to meet those goals of wuitting my day job next year.
Again, thank you for all your insights and willingness to help.
Thank you Andrew – it all means dedication and consistent work – sort of like a j o b but more rewarding in the end.
Also thanks for all the interesting posts you wrote in 2010 and wishing you and yours all the very best for 2012.
I tailored your system to my business and it has made a world of difference-huge results. Thank you Andrew.
Andrew,
Wonderful tips! My trouble has always been simplicity – and you nailed it! I have several sites to work with on your system and so will examine each of them starting today!
Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Bob
Spot on Andrew!
I know from as far back as the days of Adsense scraper sites that this works.
This has always worked!
Great post.
Happy Christmas!
Dave
Look at it this way – if you’ve spent the last 12 months trying to earn money online – and failed, then doing it with this plan means you WILL make money in the next 12 months.
I have UA and UAS, so I’ll be adding this method to my UAS sites. Getting them both earning $3-$5 month each after 12 months seems well worth the effort to me.
Now to find a good writer that i can rely on!
Even though we live on opposite sides of the globe it looks like Graham and I have ended up here after a best forgotten path via recipe sites.
Since following the UA and UAS course I am convinced that Andrew, Josh and his crew have an honest intent and always deliver more that expected. The big issue at this end is keeping up. And their model is a good as any that I have seen.
Ha! Previous post should have said $3K – $5K month Oops!
Andrew,
you always give great free content
and ALWAYS over deliver
thanks a lot,
Happy Christmas
Matt
Outstanding Stuff, Andrew!
I’m proof that it works. At the beginning of 2009 I was dead set on making some extra passive income on the Internet to supplement my income from my job. So I did some research and picked a niche that I had some interest in (interest helps keep you motivated to stick with it). I also was lucky enough in my research to stumble across a supplier who provides stocked websites (for a monthly price), and all I have to do is provide content – basically build feature pages and reviews for certain products that I research traffic on.
So yes, I have the extra added feature of an ecommerce dropshipping site, which Google LOVES! (I do wish it was a WordPress site though – I’m rather handcuffed with this wysiwyg non-interactive, no-plugin website. But it still does well!
Anyway, I only build a couple of pages a month, get backlinks to those pages, and now as I get close to my 3rd anniversary with this site, it gets about 250-300 visitors a day, and has made no less than $1000 per month commissions for 5 months straight.
It’s a process though. I made my first sale 2 months after launching the site (my products probably avg about $25 in commissions per sale and about 25% commission rate – these are a little higher than most affiliate marketing commissions due to the dropshipping ecommerce model). After my first year I was averaging about $200-$300 per month in commissions. After year 2, my monthly income doubled to around $300-$500 per month. After (almost) year 3 my monthly income has nearly TRIPLED to $1000 – $1500 per month!!
I fully expect to be making $3000 or more per month by the end of 2012. My goal is to be making $10,000 / month by the end of 2014. (with not much effort, I might add!)
Try getting these returns on investment in the stock market!!
But I only build a couple of pages a month
I might add that the only reason I don’t have far more pages of content than I already do is due to Internet marketing ADD, which Anthony mentioned in his article. I’ve been so intent on “diversification”, (I have a TON of mini sites doing next to nothing), that I’ve largely neglected my golden goose! I think that is going to be my New Years resolution. I’m gonna be more intent on FATTENING the golden goose!
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for sharing this great piece of content.
It takes patient and consistency in taking action before getting any results but I think it is definitely worth it. A good reminder that doing keyword research is important if I want to get results from SEO.
Looking forward to more content from you and Merry Christmas
Wow, great post! Some great tips in here.
Mate. This great advice and will help me focus. Definately gonna follow this plan through. Too many times I have built sites and moved too quickly onto another one without doing much, if any backlinking. The key, as you say is to build out sites over time focusing on gradually adding content and backlinking to the home page and inner pages. I have just become a member of Build My Rank and can see how this will benefit me in the coming months. I will probably need to look into other link building methods for link diversity. Give the big G what it wants. Thanks mate.
Thanks Andrew
Great post!
Hey Andrew,
Thanks for the great focusing article…
Once one understands the basics of this biz, its then just the planing and follow through that make the difference.
Have a wonderful holiday and exceptional new year,
jessie
Thank you so much Andrew. Thanks for really wanting to help us. If it wasn`t for UA I wouldn`t of got going on my first “profitable” site. And you keep on giving!
Bless You!
Hi Andrew,
I am a big fan of your contents and love everything you deliver. I have you UA product and is definitely one of the wonderful courses I had ever acquired.
Thanks for everything!
Amitav
Great post, Andrew. I built an authority site from what I learned in UA and it’s making some nice Christmas sales from Amazon. I’ll use this post to help pump in some more traffic.
Awesome Keith – nicely done!
Hey this was an awesome post. This business model is the no-frills approach and goes against all the hype that is so prevalent in the IM space, but it does work. Especially since google has updates in their algorithm that wants these types of sites. So stay focused and you will make money.
Wishing Andrew, Josh and Elysia a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your willingness to share your knowledge and experience. I have UA, 2xUAS and a dropship pet supplies website so all I want for Christmas is more time. I am building slowly thanks to your guidance and I will be successful, I can see and honestly believe that now. Success is possible with persistence, perseverance and dedicated bloody hard work. Thanks again and catch you in 2012!
Hi Andrew!
Thanks for your great post. It looks like great plan for my New year
I am your follower for some time and I must say that you always deliver great stuff. You made this plan available for free and makes a great christmass present for me
Thanks again!
Have a great Christmass and New Year!
As always Andrew, your content is always relevant, easy to understand and actually makes sense!
I’ve had similar ideas lately about building sites like these. It definately sounds doable.
Great post, Andrew!
Very good ideas for a big website. I’ve done a lot of microniche sites before, but now I’m starting in the big ones with average results so far. I’ll try your advice.
Thanks!
Excellent post Andrew…
This is a great reminder for us to just keep things simple!
Many thanks again
Paul
Andrew, what can I say? Thanks so much for posting this. Unfortunately I missed out on getting a UAS, but this makes up for it a bit. Thanks for the wonderful Christmas gift.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks so much for this post and for everything you have taught me in the past few months through UA. This is certainly something I will be implementing in the New Year.
Again thanks so much and a very merry Christmas to you and yours.
Kay
Thanks for all the information you share with us. Happy New Year and good luck.
Andrew – thanks so much for being generous with this plan; it’s a great Christmas present. All the best for a great New Year.
MaryC
Andrew, my appreciation and respect for you grows steadily with time. To be honest, I forget how I first got on your list but I consider it a good day. You exemplify what it is to be an ethical marketer and how to go about it.
A great example is this post. You give away freely good information that you could very reasonably charge for. Then you definitely over-deliver on your paid products. I’m at the point now that if you offer something that appears remotely useful to me I’ll push the “Buy Now” button without hesitation.
Thank you for your wonderful information and great products and especially for the example you set.
Merry Christmas to You and Yours
Joe
@ Mary My condolences on not getting in on UAS. Not to rub salt in the wound, but I did get a couple of sites. While UAS is definitely a fast-trak method that makes things easier, you can also definitely do the same on your own following the free advice Andrew gives here and elsewhere. Good luck to you.
@Joe,
Thanks very much for the condolences and encouragement.
Mary
My goodness, what a gift of so much great content and a blueprint to proceed. Very much appreciated Andrew.
Thanks Andrew! I did get one of your UAS sites, so this will just make it easier for me to follow along with the steps to get my site ranked!
Like so many others have said you definitely over deliver!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your team and your family! I know my 2012 just got a bit brighter!
Thanks!
Cindy
You’ve reassured me what I plan on doing for 2012 is right!
I’m fed up with juggling my sniper sites and am looking at a long term business model now, nice post
Thank you Andrew
I love longtails. It always amazes me some of the things people type in and things that I rank for that I never went after or even knew existed. I have been building larger sites since getting Panda-mized and those longtails really add up. I have new sites that get really good traffic even though they are not ranking well for their main keyword yet. They are making sales from all those buyer keywords too.
That’s a great plan of action you have laid out. I am not at $100 a day yet but this is pretty much what I have been doing and I am seeing it start to work. Business success in any field requires focus and a plan of action to stick to. If folks can focus and stay away from shiny objects I know this plan will work for them.
“ready, AIM, fire.”…was what you meant to say?
and what youy proofreader should be spanked for?
No, ready, fire, aim. Think about it
I’m in.
I ‘pulled down’ a couple or more of my sites post Panda, took Adsense off ‘em etc with the intention rigging them up ‘real proper.’ This may be a way forward…
Thanks, Andrew. In addition to the solid information in your post, you always remind us of how important focus and commitment are to inevitable success. As a UA and UAS student, I look forward to your emails.
Happy Holidays to you, Josh and Elysia. Josh has been a big help with UAS so many thanks to him.
Excellant Andrew as always. Now to truly implement and crack this once and for all.
Have a great Chrismas and new year mate.
This was one of my favorite posts and I’m already putting it into action. Being a UA student you have helped me to finally break into affiliate marketing – I haven’t reached my goals yet but I’m slowly making progress for the first time. You are one of the few marketers I follow – as you always put out high quality, solid information. Have a Merry Christmas!!
Thanks for the great post. I’m a UAS owner and I love this idea and am going to put it to use! Hopefully this will be my year to finally be an online success.
Jeez Andrew ….what sort of Guru are you????? How dare you imply I wont make $4,563.21 in 12 minutes work a day?
Seriously, what you say makes perfect sense and is easily doable.
My personal challenge for 2012 ( and you) is the following: find a niche that I have never worked in and implement your system as outlined above. Carry it out no matter what, I will report back on a monthly basis on progress.
I will be interesting to see where I am in a years time.
Regards
Nick Johnson
Haha Nick, I don’t discount that claim… 12 minutes a day for 5-10 years… you could be nudging a few grand a day
:)
Andrew
Wow. This is some seriously good content, Andrew. Really sets the bar high for moving the “free line”. This plan is by far more in-depth than many of the paid courses on the market. You’ve left nothing out … very rare my friend. That’s why I continue to be an avid fan and subscriber.
Thanks for all you continue to do for the community.
Best,
Scott
Thanks for that Scott
Made my days reading all the kind words here. You guys are the best.
Andrew
My approch to marketing is getting easier now days thanks to the information you guys bring to the table when I choose a keyword I know it will be profitable and I know I can get number one rankings thats how confident I am these days.It has taken myself sometime to understand all this but I am gratefull for people like andrew. Cheers I hope everyone a big 2012
Hi Andrew,
You are mentioning that we can use writers we find in Elance, forums either your writers – what does it mean? Do you have a service for which I haven’t heard?
Thank you,
Tenko
I definitely like this approach. It sounds very appealing. I’m going to do this with my UA sites and my site that I started during the UA coaching. I will still link to some internal pages if they seem worth it, but most of my linking will go to the homepage, and barely any links will go to internal pages for low volume keywords. I might do the writing myself though and continue to hire people to create the links for me. It’s worked well so far.
It seems hard to get my head around getting all that traffic and sales from keywords with so little traffic. My page that I promoted for UA coaching had page 1 rankings for multiple keywords, but they were more like 300, 800, and 1000 exact matches. The page makes sales each month, but the traffic is still quite low even with page 1 (pos. 2, 3, 4, etc.) rankings for decent volume keywords. Creating pages for keywords that get much less traffic seems like it wouldn’t do much. My first site is starting to gain a lot of authority though, so I guess I’ll be able to test this very soon.
Thanks for the great advice Andrew! I definitely need to do this.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Excellent article, Andrew!
You’re one of the few marketers whose presentations I always look forward to because you’re truly sharing from your heart.
Many thanks again and wishing you a most harmonious and prosperous year in 2012 and beyond!
Best regards,
John
Andrew, this is the exact read I need to kick start my new year, a great plan, simple, sensible, strategic, brilliant, cheers for the push, great stuff, Stephen (ps. I never get your posts in to my email, how do I do it)
Hello
How do I create a ready waiting list for my product?
Andrew, this is a really good plan and I’m doing something very similar with my UAS sites and a couple of others in the same vein.
I’d like to point something out here in regards to keyword research that may cause some grief to those following this blueprint. If you are building sites in the tech niche or any other niche where there is a high number of products coming out, the keyword tool WILL be highly inaccurate when applied indiscriminately.
This is because it’s based on historical data and not what’s happening right now.
You may see a keyword with 3,000 monthly exact searches and think wow, what a great keyword. You spend time getting an article written and linking to it. Once you get to the top of the rankings for this keyword though, you see only a trickle of traffic. Why is this happening?
The reason may be that this product was created in 2010, had lots of searches picked up by the keyword tool in late 2010 and early 2011, but has since been replaced with a newer version.
The answer is to double check with Google Trends before going ahead with a keyword! Not with every keyword, but with those you suspect may be time sensitive. If the keyword you are considering had a huge spike and has since died off completely, scratch it and move on. If it’s showing steady or increasing searches over time, it’s a winner.
Taking the time to check Google Trends will put you way ahead of the curve as most marketers don’t do this. You will be able to spot trends before others, but most importantly you’ll avoid spending time on losing keywords!
Hi Andrew,
Kathy
Just saw this post, and wanted to drop a quick line to let you know that a PLAN is exactly what I needed. I am a UA member, and think you guys are some of the best, most helpful guys around. Thank you so very much for putting this blueprint together. I’m SO CLOSE to making sales now, that I honestly think your plan is going to be what finally pushes me over that last hump! Thank you!
Great to hear it Kathy – keep up the good work and let us know about your progress!
Hey Andrew, I bought one of your courses a couple of years back when I first started looking into internet marketing. Yes, your description of ‘entrepreneurial ADD’ is most apt.
I implemented your scheme in the Plug and Play Niche system but didn’t really keep going – my attention was diverted to many other things. Anyway, to my surprise last week, I received an affiliate cheque from Amazon. It wasn’t much – a couple of hundred bucks but it showed me that what you teach does in fact work. This was a site that I’d abandoned a year and a bit ago and for which I never got onto Page 1 of Google with.
I agree with others here – you’re a nice, decent and helpful bloke. Are you on Facebook by chance and open to ‘friends’?
Cheers,
Nicola