In the $5 mini-site eBook I need to submit the 1st Article to the top 3 directories and the 2nd to include the top 3 plus top 15-30 article directories and so on…

In your video about the $5 mini-site the 1st Article goes to the top 5 directories and the 2nd to include the top 5 plus top 35 article directories and so on….

In the your audio interview with Josh Spaulding the 1st Article goes to the top 5 directories and the 2nd top 30 -50 article directories and so on….

From experience which option of the 3 would be most favourable to promote a mini-site?

Regards

Julian

Definitely WITHOUT since this is how most people search.

Are you full-time IM yet? In your video you mention that you still have a regular job. Your site is a great resource and is much appreciated.

When you test longtail keywords for PR on Google, do you search “with” or without “” quotation marks surrounding the keyword phrase? This would make a bog difference in the search results.

Thanks a bunch!

Regarding the $5 mini site, is it required for the targeted keyword phrase in the article to be exactly the same as the title? Example “get out of credit card debt” Can I use “7 easy steps to get out of credit card debt” as a title.

Agreed Mark 🙂

I just find that for the purpose of protecting my markets it’s easier to work with personas/pen names.

Plus if you’re passionate about the niche then the persona will come easily and be extremely convincing and downright honest 🙂

A little imagination goes a long way – without lying of course!

I like that idea. I don’t consider protecting your identity lying (neither did Mark Twain or Dr. Seuse). Just don’t lie about the products and you should be fine.

Hi Julian,

I agree with Mark on this – the more “natural” your page looks the better. Plus bear in mind the human review factor.

I’m starting to work with the ideal of personalities for About Me pages. One per niche and just create a person that suits that niche. I don’t mean flat out lie about it but it definitely adds to the “feel” of any site overall. People are then dealing with a real person if you get me?

I definately would. Privacy is required by AdSense TOS, and contact is rumored to impact rankings (although I am not so sure about that).

Do I need to add Contact and Privacy Policy pages as suggested in your video to my website? This was not mentioned or covered in Caroline Middlebrooks ebook and videos.

Regards

Julian

Thanks, I checked view source and it looks good.
I also – greatly – appreciate your warning me about having someone click on my site.

Well, I would certainly never recommend that you ask a person in another city to click one single time on your site. That would be against the AdSense TOS. So, I would never recommend that, even though it would confirm proper operation.

However, you should do a “view source” in your browser and make sure that your adsense ID is in the code correctly and that there is nothing in the code about “test mode”.

Yes, I think so – no clicks though. How do I check. Just 100 beause it’s new, but I figured I’d get some percent.

Well, 100 clicks is a pretty small sample. Are you sure that your adsense ads are configured properly?

Help please?

I came across a number of free article marketing spinning programs/software. Is there a specific free article marketing spinning program/software that you could recommend to assist with article marketing of my first $5 mini-site?

Regards

Julian

I definitely go for some sites in the $1 – $5 — I have one site, for example, that makes $3 every day. I am happy with that.

One thing I noticed in the Spyfu research is that there are VERY few niches in the $1 – $9 range. I’ve only found 2 so far (not credit cards or mortgages lol – tried that before. Boring!)

Is there a lower limit that you consider to be worthwhile in terms of profitability – say $1 – $5?

Thanks for your input in advance 🙂

I always recommend people start with hostgator — it’s inexpensive, easy to use, has good customer service and supports wordpress well.

Here is my affiliate link http://www.masonworld.com/recommends/hostgator if you are inclined to use it.

I think you can still use coupon code WordPress to get the first month for $0.01

Regards

Julian

Yes, since most article directories have a 300 word requirement, that is recommended. EZA has a 400 word requirement if you want to use 4 words in your anchor text in your resource box (I think) — so longer is recommended for them in that case.

Regards

Julian

Baron — like most things in life — it depends. The colors are not bad. If your result is green, you can usually win the keyword easily IF the competition has few backlinks with that phrase in the anchor text.

Thanks a lot
Sandra

If you just want to leave it alone you can do that too. I recommend that you add some content or some back links once/month in maintenance mode.

Ultimately, you do what you need to do to get the results that you want, which will vary depending on what your competition is doing.

Could you please let me know what the ongoing maintenance of the site is? What do we do after the site is up and all 20 articles are published in directories. Thank you.

Sandra

If it is ranking and there a few views, then your article title and desc may need tweaking.

If you are getting view and no clicks, then you need to work on the call to action in your resource box.

So, which is it for you?

Thanks,
Mark

The website is only going to have 5-10 pages total, so there is no issue there. You can do the entire thing in a day.

For articles, my experience is that approval and indexing times vary so much that this is not an issue either. I guess if you did all 25 articles to 50 directories in one day that might be an issue, but I have never seen any problems.

Certainly, if it takes you a week or two to get it all done, then there is no issue that I have ever seen or heard about.

Luis — everything is working now.

Great work on the video Mark.
I have a question regarding the method … do you have a recommended time frame for which you post the website and all of the articles? I would be afraid that if all links are posted too quickly, there’s a chance of getting sand-boxed right out of the gate.

And based on experience, if you follow the plan, how soon after you finish the recommended article marketing do you generally reach the targeted potential of the site? I know there are no definitive timelines, but a ballpark would be great, ie – 2 weeks, 2 months, 1 year …

thanks again for promoting Josh’s method – I think he’d done a great job of giving mmo beginners an easy and attainable method for starting out.

Thanks a lot, it’s great that I now have another ‘take’ on things from the video and audio interview.

All the best
Sandra

If you go to the link that was emailed to you (the long ugly one), then you should see it at the bottom of the page. Let me know if you cannot find it.

Hey Hubert – Having some trouble with ScreenCast.com. There is a direct download link on the page at the bottom. Is that working for you?

ScreenCast is working on this issue. Will let you know when it is resolved.

You should also be getting around 1 in 10 at least to click the URL in your resource box. I have the same problem and need to re-do my resource box to provide a compelling reason for someone to click it. Beyond that – I share the same struggle of getting a better ctr to the ads themselves – I think I need to strive to more closely follow Josh’s game-plan.

The video was a really good idea, it makes it much easier to understand for those who prefer to watch than read. The two together make an awesome product!

Thanks again

This time it worked perfectly.

Thanks for all your time

Hubert

With the link you sent me I can see it, but no download available

Is it possible to get a download link

Hubert

Just to let you know the video link is not working.
When will that be fixed?
I’m looking forward for that.

Cheers

Luis

Just to let you know the video link is not working.
When will that be fixed?
I’m looking forward for that.

Cheers

Luis

Sorry but I don’t see any link

Hubert

The link is dead for me each time I tried since yesterday. Couldn’t you just send me a direct link to my email, otherwise the 72 hours will have gone soon

Thanks in advance

Hubert

Thanks!

I only read the report in the last week and just viewed your video yesterday. One thing that I am confused about is Josh says to use broad match in the google tool, but you say to use exact match.

I hope Josh is correct or else all of my work this week is for naught. My numbers are wonderful with cpc and with google with Josh’s version, not so much with yours. Which is correct?

Thanks for the video, you did a great job!

My mortgage blog gets roughly 20 visitors a day. I ask a specific NAT question about it on your forum, with the link to it, which is http://www.mortgagemade.com. CTR rates on it are very low too.

Traffic source.. well, I have not installed Google analytics, which I should, but I would assume most traffic is through Google since the site is totally article driven. Maybe I misunderstood the question.

Thanks again – great video btw – just finished it. Highly recommended.

Are you saying that you are getting real traffic, and that traffic is not converting to clicks, or are you saying that your clicks in the mortgage niche are not paying decently. Or both?

My reaction to http://www.buyhomeblog.com/ is that it is a very nice site, but that it is not well-optimized for AdSense. On an AdSense mini-site, you generally want AdSense to be the only way off of the site. So if you are seeing a low AdSense CTR, you might consider a larger (square) ad block in the posts and ditching the CPA ads in the sidebar.

Where is the traffic coming from?

Let me be a little transparent here with my question. I’ve got two decent niche blogs up – neither is great, but neither is crap either. Those two blogs are presently making me less than a penny a day – combined.

I don’t get it. I’ve got good unique content on both, I’ve got some syndicated content on one – but it’s good. One uses your NAT mortgage theme, the other is one that Garry set up for me. Traffic is decent, but not great. I do quite a bit of social bookmarking on both. One has about 15 article links back to Ezine Articles.

The mortgage themed site can be found with a similar question in the forum section here – and the other is in my link. Thanks Mark!