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Hi, welcome to my blog. In this part of my world, I talked about how to achieve financial freedom by learning how to make money online through creating sites and earning from them.

Below are some current and past make money projects that details my learning journey.

My current experiment in making 50 amazon site niches. If you have not been following this challenge, best place to start is this resource page for the amazon challenge, that lists all the articles that I have written so far.

My experiment in making 1000 a month through adsense in 9 months.

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Thursday, 22 December 2011

50 amazon sites challenge progress report #3

Want to learn how to make money with amazon? Follow my updates on the 50 amazon niche sites challenge resource page.



Since the last update, things have been moving along quite nicely. First, the progress!
  • I have added two more amazon sites, making the total to 8. 42 more to go!
  • I got my FIRST sale from the first batch of newly created sites (site 4). These domains were registered 2 weeks ago with no content and backlinks. Now, it is making sales. Who says you can't make money with new sites?
  • I have spotted another 2 niches. Domains have been purchased but the sites are not built yet so I didn't put them here in the table below.
  • Good news is 7 out of the 8 sites have started to receive search engine traffic. That is quite nice given that most sites are less than 2 to 1 week ago. Anyway, you can check out the numbers below. 
Note: The traffic stats are for the month of Dec only while the cost and earnings are accumulated across months.

SiteNicheCreated Cost Monthly EarningsMonthly Visitors Type
1ToyJun 2011155 45567Purchased
2ApplianceNov 201125NA37Self Written
3WineNov 20116743216Aged
4ApplianceNov 201130674Self Written
5BicycleDec 201125NANAOutsourced
6StorageDec 201120NA21Outsourced
7ApplianceDec 201110NA8Outsourced
8BeddingDec 201134NA6Outsourced


How many backlinks to rank a niche site
I will have a separate post on this topic but I want to note here that I have been experimenting wtih different backlink services to see what is the minimal to start getting search engine traffic. I don't care which keyword I am ranking for. As long as the backlinks can give the site enough PR to start drawing search engine traffic, I am good.

This is why you see different cost of building the sites above. This is mainly due to the different backlink services I am trying. Some are more expensive than others hence the price differentiation.

Once I have more data, I will create a post on the different backlinking services you can consider for your amazon sites. 

Future posts on how to make money with amazon
I am learning a lot of how to set up these amazon niche sites. These lessons will of course be shared but I want to share what readers want to read first. Below is a list of possible topics that I can write about. YOU tell me what you want to read.

  • 5 new ways to generate ideas for amazon keywords. I am not be using amazon.com, google keyword tool or other tools that have been fully exploited by other marketers
  • Achieve better conversion with the right site layout. I have experiment with a few themes and layout and have a sense of how to layout a site to achieve higher conversions for amazon sales.
  • How to outsource effectively so that you spend the minimum amount of cost for each site.
  • A detailed case study for one of the sites above where I will REVEAL the site's url!
See you in my next amazon site challenge progress report!

3 comments:

Barry said...

I'll be happy to read more about these topics


Achieve better conversion with the right site layout. I have experiment with a few themes and layout and have a sense of how to layout a site to achieve higher conversions for amazon sales.

How to outsource effectively so that you spend the minimum amount of cost for each site.

A detailed case study for one of the sites above where I will REVEAL the site's url!

Anonymous said...

Can you tell me how do you track sales from amazon. Looks like we need to make tracking id. but i don't know how.

Also, i crossed $50 from amazon this month. I am hoping best amazon month. This is true potential.

James said...

Achieve better conversion with the right site layout.