My $5/day Mini-Site Formula
March 19th, 2008 | 71 comments
A couple weeks ago I wrote a blog post titled “Should You Target Longtail Niches or Competitive Niches.” The main thing I wanted to point out with this post was that targeting competitive niches is profitable, but targeting long-tail niches is profitable as well, they are just two separate models (techniques.)
In that post I mentioned something that I never imagined would have cause as big of a stir as it did. I mentioned the fact that I have created niche mini-sites many times over that were bringing in $5/day within 7 days.
About 20 minutes after publishing that post I started receiving email after email from many readers wanting to know how I do it. Many of you also asked in the comment field of that post, which ended up having over 50 replies!
Well, I promised a free report, so for the past few days I’ve been working hard on it.
It’s now complete and you can download it through the following link:
http://www.5dollarformula.com/
Note: If you are currently a member of my mailing list, check your email. The direct download link has been sent to you!
This report is somewhat short, at 17 pages, but I outline the exact process I go through when creating my niche sites, which typically start bringing in $5/day within 7 days of their creation.
Enjoy the report! I’m off to have dinner with Claudia, Aaron and my Parents 
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19th March, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Josh — I’ve been waiting for this. Excellent. Just landed in Singapore and will read tonight. Thanks!
19th March, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Hey Josh,
Sweet and to the point. The info in this report fits in nicely as an additional revenue stream alongside my current promotion methods.
Thanks!
Alex
19th March, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Do you think it is OK/wise to use rewritten PLR content on the site. Obviously, submitting PLR content to the article directories is a “no no.” Thoughts?
19th March, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Great content Josh!
Love the no-fluff style.
I use this method myself but use wordpress blogs which are fully SEO optimized.
If anyone is interested, the next step to these mini-sites is to put up an opt-in box to collect names and email addresses.
Simply offer a free related report or article.
Once you start building a list you can email back-end offers. It’s so easy to do and can really increase your bottom line with just a little extra work!
~ Peter Tremayne
19th March, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Wow…nice $5 Dollar report! Just finished read it and get valuable info from you…thanks for sharing Josh…I am currently starting my new adsense site..can you give me some review about my site? I am curious whether my site can convert…and earn $5 a day…please give me some comment…thanks and all the best!
19th March, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Hey Josh,
Just read your report “$5 Mini-Site Formula”.
Top Notch, as always.
No hype, No B.S. Just real life, practical information to make money on-line.
I appreciate your good work.
Best,
Scott
19th March, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Great little report and it fits in perfectly with the strategy that I advocate in my ebook. You can use WordPress to build the mini sites and use the content of this report to find the niches and market them.
@Mark, I would say PLR would be fine for this kind of thing. If the site got some traffic you could always branch out into something better later.
19th March, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Thanks for taking the time to write this report Josh. It is simple but powerful. 17 pages is plenty when it shows a person exactly what they need to do. There is so much clutter online, it is nice to have a guide that cuts through all of that.
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20th March, 2008 at 3:23 am
Josh do you recommend we use a wordpress blog for the $5 mini site formula.
The report is excellent. Thanks for sharing
20th March, 2008 at 6:03 am
Hi Josh,
I believe that the stuff you teach in this report is just amazing.
It could easily sell for $17 – $27 per pop.
In anycase here are two questions:
1. What if that certain niche didn’t have a good amount of searches like maybe 5 – 10 searches per day but there are like 19 advertisers on average with $0.50 – $2.98 per click, what do you think?
2. Since I’ve asked this once it wouldn’t hurt to rephrase the question,
“If I have absolutely no interest in that niche, then created that minisite AND wrote some articles based purely on PLR, with a few keywords phrases in the article… is this acceptable?”
3. With regards to the sig links in articles, would it always be wise to only insert 1 keyword phrase repeatedly or a few?
4. would you advocate using blogs that can be integrated with RSS feeds and social bookmarketing techniques
for marketing purposes?
5. did you create a totally different IP address, or hosting account (non subdomain based) in order to host the domain name you have in this report?
- like for instance :
http://www.wewantloans.com could actually be a subdomain of http://wewantloans.joshwebsites.com
… you know, some web hosts only allow you to have 1 main directory then the other upcoming domains you
get have to be tagged as “add on domains”, but still HOLD the http://www.xyz.com format.
I’m pretty long winded but it will help clear some doubts, now and hope to hear from you soon.
Vern
20th March, 2008 at 8:51 am
Just downloaded it, I will read it with much attention. Thanks.
20th March, 2008 at 10:18 am
Are you not scared of having your adsense account suspended?
20th March, 2008 at 10:28 am
Suspended for what? Teaching people how to make Google more money?
20th March, 2008 at 1:08 pm
Josh,
Interesting report. Do you need to keep submitting articles to keep the ranking in the search engines as it seems that they slip after time without new links or submissions. Thanks.
20th March, 2008 at 2:40 pm
@ Mark – Great, hope you enjoyed it! PLR content can and will rank. But I still don’t like using it…I just like unique content. I’ve never done a whole lot of testing though…it would probably work just fine. I know Tim Gorman told me once that he has quite a bit of unchanged PLR published to some of his mini-sites and they’re are ranking nicely.
@ Alex – Thanks alot; I’m glad you enjoyed it!
@ Peter – The main purpose of these mini-sites is to make adsense and affiliate income. If you wanted to build a list in these niches there are much better ways to do so.
@ Black – Great, I’m glad you enjoyed it. In order to find out whether or not you’re site is converting and/or making $5/day, just login to your adsense account
The site look good.
@ Scott – Great, I’m glad you enjoyed it
@ Caroline – Your report popped into my head not long after I finished the report. I got your emails. I was away most of the evening yesterday and have several pages of emails backed up. Catching up now!
@ Victor – Glad you liked it!
@ Sandra – I’ve never used one, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt! Caroline has a nice, free guide that explains the process.
@ Jordan – Well, I wouldn’t be happy
But as far as I know I’m not violated the Adsense T.O.S. I haven’t displayed any performance data other than my earnings, which is allowed. I mentioned ways to increase CTR, but I didn’t mention the CTR any site in particular receives. If you know of a term I violated I’d be glad to hear it though!!!
20th March, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Sorry missed a few people who’s comments were held in moderation.
@ Vern
1. I don’t look at the # of advertisers because it doesn’t mean anything to me. If I were researching my competition for a SEM/PPC campaign it would, but not for this. There really are no “what ifs” with this for me. This is exactly what I do.
2. Sure. I don’t like PLR but it can rank. So if it’s an informative article it will still work.
3. I normally user anchor text for 2 links and the 3rd link will be the actual URL.
4. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with using a blog CMS for a mini-site. However, contrary to popular believe, pinging services and RSS feeds aren’t going to help your rankings.
5. I have this site hosted on my dedicated server, which has several IP’s with different c-classes in it.
However, subdomain based addon domains won’t hurt you. I believe linking between your own sites is strong when sites are on different c-classes, but other than that there is no difference.
@ Olivier – Hope you enjoy it.
@ Harry – I do continue submitting (at no set schedule) but when you’re dealing with long-tail keywords they normally hold their rankings for far longer than competitive SERPS.
20th March, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi Josh, do you think that Cost/Click average $0.80 – $4 is a good niche to start?
20th March, 2008 at 3:47 pm
@ Black – It’s probably above average…not sure if it will yield $1 per click, but it looks good.
20th March, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hey Josh – Appreciate the focused nature of your ebooks and I’m giving your $5 formula a shot.
Read your SEO ebook as well and I understand the importance of keywords in the tags. Had a few questions about domain-name selection, however…
How important is it to have the keywords in the domain name itself?
Is a subdomain as effective as a domain name, or does that look weak?
Hyphens, no-hyphens… What’s your take?
As always, appreciate your insights and the discussions in your comments on your posts. Cheers.
20th March, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@ Web – It’s always good to get your main keyword in your URL, but it’s not THAT big of a deal. It’s one of the many little things that isn’t extremely important.
Just focus on the important things, as outlined in “The Easy SEO Book” and you’re good to go
hyphens are said to be the most SE friendly way to separate words in URL’s, tags etc., but once again, it’s not something that is going to make or break you.
20th March, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Josh;
Love the ebook. concise and informative, no time wasting BS. THANKS!
Dan
20th March, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Josh, my hero,
Your report is great. Sounds very similar to what I’m doing.
I wanted to add something at this moment, because I got burned in the past:
Look at the trends. Check http://www.google.com/trends for your search phrase to see if it’s not seasonal by any chance. For example, if you search for hunting related niches it really depends whether the number of searches your tool gives you are when the season is high or low. Sounds simple, but it is important. Because in general you’re not very passionate about the niches that are profitable and you might not be aware of the seasonality.
20th March, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Hello Josh! thank you for your quick reply…!
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21st March, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hi Josh,
I love reading your stuff here, this report is a real gem of a find for someone like me struggling to get started. I consider myself very technically savvy, but I gotta admit this Internet and Affiliate marketing thing is a science. One thing I’d like to see from you, if it’s not asking too much from your bag of tricks, is something more detailed when it comes to key word research. I think your report gives great examples, but there are so many tools out there and so many methods that it can really make you spin.
Thanks again for the great info.
23rd March, 2008 at 5:23 am
Hi Josh, another question, I do a research on spyfu and the cost/click is average $0.80 – $4..but people click on my adsense site i just earn average $0.05-$0.20 per click.
So is it really cost/click with a minimum of $1 show from spyfu.com is a high-paying niche markets?
23rd March, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Hi Black,
There are many reasons for that and like I mentioned in the report; SpyFu only gives you an idea of which markets may be worth targeting.
Adsense payouts can be reduced by any number of things including smart pricing etc.
Overall SpyFu has been somewhat accurate in finding high-paying niches, but I don’t consider it a full-proof tool for it. It is the most accurate way of finding high-paying niches I know of though.
23rd March, 2008 at 5:13 pm
Josh,
I just ordered the download link, so I come back with my comments later.
Juhani Tontti
24th March, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Great advice. It’s definitely very do-able, and after your site has been up a while, more is easily attainable. I have been setting up sites like this in my free time for several years now. After a while, the $150-500/site really starts to add up.
24th March, 2008 at 9:08 pm
@ Stefanie – Glad you enjoyed it. After you realize the value of several sites bringing in $5 a day it gets exciting doesn’t it
24th March, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Josh,
Have you heard of Keyword Country? I thought of your $5/day method as I watched their videos. It looks to have some very useful info but does cost a bit depending on how long you use it for. It also shows you the average cost per click of all bidders. If you have time, click my name and watch their videos. I would like to get your opinion. Free is good, but sometimes paid gets you there faster.
25th March, 2008 at 2:28 pm
@ Victor – Pretty neat find! It all depends on how accurate they are. If they deliver what they promise they’re going to be very popular in the near future!
26th March, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Re getting your adsense account suspended..
Sorry – I was not very clear…
What I meant was that your Mortgage web site (and presumably some other of your $5 per day web sites) could be considered an MFA or ‘Made For Adsense’ web site – which Google frown upon…
26th March, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Thanks for the great resource, Josh! I’ve got AMD, too, and it’s helping me to pull in a steadily growing number of sales. You never cease to provide solid, useful content. Thanks a million!
Okay, I have a question. In “5 Dollar Formula” you mention looking at the number and quality of incoming links via Yahoo’s Site Explorer. What number of incoming links should I consider as ideal when evaluating competitors’ sites? Also, I assume quality links would be coming from .edu and popular sites related to the theme. Would off-theme links be considered in determining quality? I’m just looking for a few parameters here so I don’t attempt to have my homepage rank for a keyphrase that’s too competitive to work with your formula. Thanks!
26th March, 2008 at 3:41 pm
@ Jordan – No problem, I guess I should have thought of that, as so many people believe all MFA sites are bad.
Google doesn’t like spam. If you build WebSites that contain good, unique content, they are white-hat. Just because they are monetized by Google Adsense doesn’t mean they are bad.
So, my response would be “No” I’m not worried in the least bit. I’m filling their serps with good content, so they should happy I’m doing so
26th March, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Not only that — but some have even speculated that Google has been slow to smack sploggers because they make money when people click on the adsense ads. So, if you are putting up a reasonable site with heavy adsense, Google is thrilled.
27th March, 2008 at 2:32 am
Two questions. One for Josh, and one for the masses.
Josh – how long does it take you to set up one of your $5 / day sites. Could you break it down for me – the amount of time you spend setting up your articles for your mini site, and the time it takes you to write and submit your articles for the ezines (assuming you’re not using a ghost writer)
Followers of Josh – Seems like there’s quite a few of us trying out Josh’s formula. Anyone had any success yet? I’ve created a few pages on my site and submitted two articles to a handful of ezines, but I’m still waiting for the articles to get approved. How are you doing?
27th March, 2008 at 6:34 am
Okay, 2 from me too. I’m going to reply to Josh and also to webdiggin.
Josh – I fully agree with you that what you are building is MFA but it does not mean you will get knocked off. Simply because its relevant content. Besides, I’ve seen countless of people get ranked with these tactics (big time underground marketers too) so its not an issue.
WebDiggin – in response to your question. Yes, I’m testing it out as well and so far I’ve got about 20 uniques on average. Its only my 3rd day so I can’t say much more. I’m testing it using blogs so if you are using the same formula it should work better but I’m testing using affiliate programs. I’d like to exchange notes with you when there is time. Also, I hope you will get good results because if you achieve success this means I can too. So, I bid you all the best in your article writing efforts.
… and yes… it does take a lot of article writing efforts if you aren’t well versed in that certain niche!
#
Oh wait…. its 20 unique per day. I’m still testing….
#
By the way, just 2 quick questions:
1. Regarding hosting with c-classes features, would you recommend liquidhost.com like before?
I mean what kind of hosting would you recommend for doing niche sites, dedicated or otherwise?
2. Jon Leger is going to launch instant article wizard 2.0 soon and it looks pretty good.
- what do you think about it?
- will you be promoting it too?
If yes, it would do us a great favor if you promote it too and can offer a bonus, I’d gladly buy from your link
Sincerely,
Vern
27th March, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@ Mark – Yeah, in order to report it you have a send them a form (forget what it’s called) and it’s more work than it’s worth.
However, as you know, my report teaches you white-hat methods.
@ Web – Well that’s going to depend on the person. I can have a mini-site up and running within a day, but I have awesome writers who I outsource the writing to. Setting up the site is as easy as finding a nice template and uploading it to your server. As far as the articles being approved, yeah, it can take a day or two, but it shouldn’t take any longer than 2 or 3 days for them to be approved. Mine are typically approved within 24 hours, but I submit alot of articles with alot of different pen-names.
@ Vern – I HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend LiquidWeb (not liquidhost) Best host I’ve EVER dealt with! However, multiple c-classes aren’t part of their plans. It was just something I requested and was lucky enough to have it granted. If you get a shared hosting account with them you probably won’t be able to get multiple c-classes. If you get a dedi with them just do like I did and request it before you order. If you go through them let me know
I really like multiple c-class hosting. You can use seohosting.com for that if you want a cheaper plan or you can get a dedicated server somewhere and request it.
I definitely don’t think it’s something that will “make or break you” it’s just something I like, as it makes it less obvious that all of the sites are from the same person.
I may be way off though. It’s just a personal preference.
2. I saw his video and I’ve got to say it’s the best looking spinner I’ve seen If I were to use a spinner that would be the one. I probably won’t be promoting it right away simply because my schedule is booked.
27th March, 2008 at 2:16 pm
@WebDiggin — I have my keyword research done for 2 sites. Site 1 is up with 6 original articles on it. Site 2 is up with no content yet. I have purchased an additional 25 original articles for use as article marketing content for site 1. I will let you know how it goes.
27th March, 2008 at 2:17 pm
I forgot to mention — I also purchased Article Post Robot via Josh’s affiliate link in Article Marketing Domination.
28th March, 2008 at 5:46 am
Vern – you’re head of me. Got a site up, but I don’t have any traffic to it yet. (None of my articles have been approved yet)
Mark – you know, I didn’t really think about outsourcing the article marketing aspect, but maybe I should. I finding researching stuff about keywords I know nothing about time consuming…
I think I’m going to have to cough up some cash. Submitting articles by hand is time consuming and annoying (tweaking the html for layout, etc)
Keep the stories coming – if you can do it, we all can do it.
28th March, 2008 at 5:50 am
@WebDiggin — I just found a new writer through Josh. If you are interested, drop Josh a line – he can hook you up. I’ll let him give you the contact information, since it is his source.
28th March, 2008 at 7:15 am
Hi Guys,
I’m back… boy – you know with the amount of conversation here – Josh can easily turn this into a $7 report. LOL.
Anyway I’m going to go in order since I need to discuss a little with some other topics:
Hi Josh, how are you doing?
Hope I don’t bother you too much with all my questions! I checked with Liquidweb and they are really good. But the thing is the VPS hosting alone cost about $60 per month.
So, I think I’ll put this thought on hold for the moment since I’m using a shared hosting for now and that my current one
is a shared hosting too.
but I’ll get it from you if a need arises next time round. (what about kiosk.ws?)
You’re right though, I don’t think the c-classes thing will make or break my marketing campaigns.
I need to focus and test it out myself with a few other niches to report back.
Josh… I went to copyscape and there is a subscription fee needed to enable the plaigarism check.
- do you have a free resource I can use to detect this due to PLR or some writers that try to rip us off?
- also, please can you drop me your trusted article writer and so I can contact?
Hi webdiggin,
I have to tell you something.
my first day of setting it up I had about 22 unique. Now, it could be a fluke but I’m sure it has something to do with fresh content generation and I believe Google likes this.
Also, I’m glad that you already have started submitting articles.
Writing on a subject that you don’t already know is not as easy as it seems.
Research, and some basic article writing skills are required.
The key is to have a good number of people or readers clickin on your URL in the resource box.
Then, it depends on the website you are diverting them to. I’m using a blog and so far have made no sales yet.
- hmm…. perhaps I will need to do something differently.
- after a week I’ll try a different approach
To ALL,
I have to tell you and Josh can agree with me.
If you are low on cash and find it difficult to research about something you do not really know much about…
YES . it is hard and it requires work.
But because I personally know and tested some stuff and things that Josh teaches, I know in the long run I’m creating an income I can depend on.
The best part?
Its pretty much automated once its in place.
Did I scare anyone with the ‘hard’ or ‘work’ part?
Cheers,
Vern
28th March, 2008 at 5:00 pm
@ Mark – Thanks for the commission
About to send the articles Emily wrote for you now.
@ Web – I’ll be writing a post announcing my sisters writing service very soon.
@ Vern – Doing well, thanks. No bother, glad to help.
Did you see their shared hosting plans? https://www.liquidweb.com/cart/content/shared/
I’ve never used kiosk, but I believe Mo over at http://www.thecaymanhost.com/blog/ doe s and highly recommends them.
CopyScapes’ basic URL search is free, but the premium service is very cheap! It’s well worth the couple cents per search you pay. I don’t know of any other free alternatives though.
28th March, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hey Josh,
I posed a couple of questions a few days ago, but they seem to have gotten lost in the shuffle. Here they are again.
In “5 Dollar Formula” you mention looking at the number and quality of incoming links via Yahoo’s Site Explorer. What number of incoming links should I consider as ideal when evaluating competitors’ sites?
Also, I assume quality links would be coming from .edu and popular sites related to the theme. Would off-theme links be considered in determining quality? I’m just looking for a few parameters here so I don’t attempt to have any of my pages rank for a keyphrase that’s too competitive to work with your formula.
Thanks!
28th March, 2008 at 5:57 pm
@ Paul – I completely missed your questions, very sorry about that!
The # isn’t extremely important. I did say to look at the quantity and quality, but the quality is the most important. There is no certain # I look at. If the site only hase a couple hundred or so that’s a sign of weakness and should be a factor in your overall decision.
Whether it’s a .com, .net, .edu, .gov or anything else is irrelevant! SEO’s loves to say that .govs and .edu’s are treated differently in the SE’s, but they simply aren’t. The reason they tend to rank well is because of their nature. Obviously .edu and .gov sites and pages are going to get linked to more often by organizations etc. so they are naturally going to rank higher.
With that being said I’m not saying it’s not goo to receive .edu or any other type of link, I’m just saying just because it’s an edu doesn’t make it special.
I believe off-theme links are still counted nearly as high as on-theme links. That’s something many people would argue, but I’ve seen loads of sites (some of my own) rank very well with primarily off-theme links.
Hope that helps.
29th March, 2008 at 8:45 am
**1st SALE, and I wanted to give up earlier**
Josh & WebDiggin,
Since my only accountabilities are you.
Here is my report and to ALL who are reading. Please enjoy this.
1. I read and implemented Josh’s report on a niche which I think its quite underated… the CPC’s was not interesting but I decided to have a go anyway.
2. Monday 23rd March:
I set up a blog with only 2 posts and they each have a URL link to my selected ClickBank product.
-> Its a top performing product which I felt had great testimonial, an opt in, visuals and you gravity count.
-> I had bolded some keywords which I thought was related to the niche to emphasize readership friendly posts.
-> ALL are unique Posts and no PLR.
3. Tuesday 24th March:
It was the first time my blog went LIVE. I didn’t see it get indexed in Google on the keywords I wanted….
BUT
-> I had 32 ‘unique views’ to my blogsite.
-> I was blown away because i did NOT submit any articles yet (they were in approval mode)
-> I had ONLY 2 posts up
-> The site did NOT have a picture of anything except on the niche product
4. Wednesday & Thursday 26th & 27th March:
I had statcounter installed so I could see what kind of visits I could get.
-> my first 7 articles went live and I immediately had it indexed, but what counts is the clicks in my resource box URL’s like 7 – 15% conversion
-> all keywords had only 6 – 11 searches PER day.
-> I had competition but I didn’t worry because they didn’t have a great PR ranking.
Some Facts:
-> I got *terrible* unique views during these two days
despite my aricles that went LIVE….
-> those views where 16 on Wed, and 8 only Thursday
-> I’m like, “what the heck, right?”
5. Friday 26th March:
I felt really tired and chilled the entire day… I had lunch with an IM buddy and spent the next of my night going for a “financial management class”…
went to sleep early.
6. Saturday 29th March TODAY:
-> I just wrote another 3 more articles, with numbness in my mind.
-> I wanted to quit and move on to the NEXT niche. you know…
“the next best thing, right”.
-> checked my statcounter for my traffic.
-> 15 unique today, not bad.
Friday was the best…
I had 23 unique views… my traffic is working out.
Ready?
Then, I went to check my dormant Clickbank account.
1 SALE, $18 deposited in my Clickbank account. on 28th March 1pm like this.
Cool, right ?
SUMMARY:
a) 8 Articles, 3 more pending approval
b) 2 blog post on my blog
c) 7 days (last sunday night included)
d) 85 unique visitors
e) 1 CB Sale today 29th March,
which means I have 1.1% conversion rate.
Just a big “HURRAH” from my side here.
Josh. You rock my buddy.
And I encourage anyone that if I could do it, anyone can…
Look…. I’m a TOTAL uninterested person in this niche. So, you know how it feels when you are writing content you know 0 about and don’t enjoy writing….
Yes, it takes some work.
But IT WORKS!
I’m going to continue testing to see if I can get some fairly consistent results.
But in anycase, please keep in mind that I’m open to any questions here …
Speechless,
Vern
29th March, 2008 at 9:46 am
Vern — this is awesome news!
31st March, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I have your $5 a day report, I undrestand it fully
it’s an excellent report. Here’s my problem:
If possible do you think you could go into more
detail about getting that first page ranking, as I
have deciede to go the adsense route.
I don’t want to spend time and money only to
find I’m not getting that position due to bad
research on my part.
Thanks, William Foster.
31st March, 2008 at 8:39 pm
@ Vern – Congrats
@ William – I’m glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the compliment.
The first page rankings will be a result of the links within your articles in the article directories. They aren’t the strongest links out there, but when you’re targeting low-competition keywords that provide enough “juice” to do just that.
Well, I would say it’s going to take time and research no matter what. If you aren’t 100% confident with your own research how are you going to be confident if you don’t try
Good luck!
1st April, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Josh,
Just tried to download your book, but your autoresponder link is broken. Hopefully just a glitch that will be fixed shortly.
Anyway, I can’t wait to get your book, based on the comments, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for.
Charles
1st April, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Hi Charles,
Sorry for the inconvenience. I just did a test opt-in and everything worked on my site. That doesn’t always mean anything though.
Could you describe the exact problem?
Thanks for letting me know!
1st April, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Actually I just got your book, but this time I used the form at the top of your page. Before I used the bottom form. Could be my error or there is a broken link down at the bottom form.
Anyway,I’ve already started reading your book, looks great.
Charles
1st April, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Now I see what the problem was. The form at the top to the side works, but the form at the bottom, which I just stuck in there today, didn’t.
I’ve removed that.
Enjoy the report and thanks again for the heads up!
13th April, 2008 at 3:11 am
Well I gave your report a try and started a high-comp site with only homepage and 1 article. I submitted two articles to ezine on Thursday and received a click on Friday for $1.58
Then today I received 3 clicks worth $4.80! Not bad, I still have 18 ghostwritten articles to submit to article directories to make it 20. Nice plan Josh. I might have to do a handful of these sites.
13th April, 2008 at 3:40 am
Great job, Matt!! Keep it up
14th April, 2008 at 11:15 am
Hi Josh
Just wondered if you (or any of the people using this the 5$ method) have noticed any impact on PPC revenues from the credit crisis?
I have implemented some of your wisdom on my site (still some way to go
) and had noticed a significant pickup in visitors, CTR, and revenue in March. The trend has continued for visitors and clicks in April, but the revenue has fallen off (previous average per click was around $0.90, now it is more like $0.30). Has anyone else noticed anything similar?
Thanks for all the info. The time is near when I will get sick of submitting articles manually, and actually give you some commission on a purchase of APR
Neil
14th April, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I haven’t personally noticed a decrease in credit related niches. Your account may have been hit with “smart pricing” if your earnings have dropped considerably.
I would drop all sites from your account that have very low CTR’s and see if it makes a difference.
14th April, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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15th April, 2008 at 11:07 am
Josh
Thanks for the reply. However I can’t follow your advice since I only have 1 site at the moment!
Since posting the query yesterday I’ve had 4 clicks averaging $1.00 – so perhaps it was just a normal fluctuation.
Neil
15th April, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Josh,
I would drop all sites from your account that have very low CTR’s and see if it makes a difference.
Can you explain what you meant by above sentence?
Also I find that the long tail phrases that I do well in ezinearticles as well as buzzle and other directories with are good for a bit but then when others use same phrase they will push down my pages deeper into google so I lose clicks. What do you do when that happens ?
Deb
16th April, 2008 at 11:27 am
OOPS one more thing. Can you explain more about judging if a site is an authority when you try to determine if phrase can work? Do you find that the bum guideline of seeing if there is 10,000 competing using quotes is a good mark for ezinearticles doing well in engines?
How do you determine “acheivable” when you look at Alexa? What numbers would you use?
Deb
8th May, 2008 at 7:32 am
Thanks for this, I’ve been trying it out and although it does work I don’t know if writing all those articles is worth it just for $5 a day (for me anyway). Getting up to $5 a day is fine but my article traffic always seems to taper off after about a week or two.
Dan
8th May, 2008 at 2:15 pm
@Dan;
I don’t want to speak for Josh, but here is my $0.02
From my perspective, the important thing to realize is that this is a two part strategy. The initial traffic comes from articles. In some cases that traffic will fall off (although great articles may take on a life of their own and provide traffic for a long time).
Longer term, the backlinks from your articles will create good SE rankings for your long tail keywords. This can take a while (1-4 months in some cases), and depends on lots of things including how well you do in selecting keywords.
So, my advice (which you did not ask for) is to double check your target keywords and stay with it. If you are #1 in google for a search term, you can have that traffic every day for a long time with little maintainance.
Hope that helps.
8th June, 2008 at 11:28 am
Hey Josh
First, thanks for the awesome guide. I’m just getting started with it and have a few questions.
Most importantly, can you give me a rough estimate on how long these mini-sites maintain that $5/day after the initial article submission traffic dries up?
Also, about how long does it take for the google serp traffic to take over for the submission traffic, and is there a gap in between?
14th July, 2008 at 4:40 pm
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11th September, 2008 at 10:27 am
Hi Josh
Just thought I’d let you know that I’ve been trying out your $5/day formula properly (up until now I’ve been using article marketing to try and boost my main site’s rankings).
It’s amazing, i’ve picked my niche, set up my site, and submitted 8 articles to ezinearticles.com (nowhere else yet). Yesterday I got 10 visitors, 2 clicks, and $5.94 in earnings! I can’t wait to see how the site performs when I’ve done all my submissions.
Thanks for your great information and guidance.
Neil
11th September, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Hi Neil,
That’s great to hear! Keep up the good work. It’s nice seeing something actually work isn’t it
14th September, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Much love to you Josh. I made my first money online a little while back with your $5 a day Mini-Site Formula.
It’s funny how I made my first dollars with a free report after spending so much money on paid products with no success. Go figure.