Update on MMOBay.net.  Its been a fantastic month.  Its been under 1 month and we have over 375 registered members and have had well over 100 auctions already.  Very very shortly the site is going to break the 1000 uniques/day mark, probably today. 

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How did I get the site going in only 11 days? Easy, I spend a LOT of money. I’ve spend around $2,800 in advertising for this month and most likely will spend that for the next 2 months until I hit 1000 members. Once that happens I will probably cut my budget back to $2000/month.

In other news, I was taking a look at some of my other sites and noticed that I have a new #2 site. My myspace site has overtaken by photoshop tutorial site by about 3,000 uniques last month. Looking closer I’ve realized that I was making very little of the Myspace site, less than $150/month. Thats horrible for the amount of traffic its been getting. Currently I just have Yahoo ads on it, but I’ve decided to try some affiliate programs and signed up to Adultfriendsfinder. Yes, its a adult site, but being a Myspace site its pretty crappy to begin with, so I don’t think adult ads will make it any worst. I’ll try it out for a week and see what happens.

From what I’ve heard/read adwords works on ratings, when you start a new campaign you have an horrible rating, than over a few weeks it builds depending on a number of factors. If things go well your rating goes up and Google gives you better ad placement which in turn cost you less. So $.56 cents/click wasn’t too bad for my first day. I decided I would just let it run on day 2 to get some more stats, then yesterday I did some optimizing. I dropped some crappy keywords that were costing me a lot but weren’t very targeted and decreased by bid on some words where I didn’t have much competition.

Day 3 & 4 have seen some improvement, I now averaged about 95 clicks/day at a CPC of $.32 cents. Not too bad. Theres still probably some optimizing I could do to get it even down lower and hopefully in a few weeks my rating will increase and I can get that down even more. I’m hoping to get it down to $.20 CPC.

Having a low CPC isn’t everything, besides people visiting my site, I want them to signup. I’m going to let this campaign run for the rest of the month, if I see a low conversion rate, I will then increase my bid on some more competitive keywords in the hopes of a higher conversion rate.

Earnings
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Google: $1,212.10
Yahoo: $243.43
Intelli: $123.95
Tribal Fusion: $349.41
Amazon: $121.20
Misc Earning: $892.00

Total Earning: $2942.09
Advertising Spent: $362.00

Total Profit: $2580.09(5.5% Increase)

Traffic (Growth of Unique Monthly Visitors)
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Total Growth - 4.6% Increase (10,059 uniques)

Pretty good month. Both traffic and earnings increased, even though my advertising budget almost doubled.  But I’m still a little disappointed since I have yet to break the $3,000/month barrier.  I feel like I’ve been stuck around $2,500-$2,800 for way too long.

Also I went to have my taxes done, it was pretty much what I expected, I owe around $2,500 to the gov.  I’m planning ahead for next yr, since most likely I’ll have to pay a lot more.

My Amazon affiliate site was growing very nicely during March until Google sandboxed me, now my site is a no show in the SERPs.  It’s not the first time I’ve had a site put in the box, most of the time it takes about a month or 2 to come out, although one of my sites was sandboxed for about a yr, so its really a crap shoot.  Since the success of my first Amazon Affiliate store, I’ve opened a second store about 3 days ago.  I’m probably going to continue creating AStores since they’re very easy to start and take very little upkeep.  As I said before I use Associate-o-matic.  Its $99, but well worth it since you get unlimited licenses.

So for example “Web Hosting” would be 10,000 points, while “Best Web hosting in New Jersey” would be 450 points.

The points represent how many points you need to obtain a page 1 ranking in Google. Note these are just arbitrary numbers and don’t really mean anything.

Now, there are many SEO techniques you can use to obtain your page 1 ranking. Heres a simplified list.

1) On-Site SEO - 500 points
2) Off Site SEO - 5 - 1000 points

#1 basically consists of the work you do on your site. Good page titles, SEO friendly URLs, domain name, keyword density, inhouse links, H tags and meta tags.

So if you perfectly SEO your site, you get 500 points. Now when going after keywords/phrases that don’t have much competition, doing this might be enough to get a page 1 ranking. In the example above you can see the “Best web hosting in New Jersey” only takes 450 points to get a page 1 result.

However going after a more competitive keyword/phrase like Web Hosting takes many more points.

#2 basically consist of all the sites ranging from PR0 - PR9 that link to your site. So for instance if a site that is PR4 links to your site using your keywords you might get 15 points. If they link to your site without your keywords you might only get 10 points. Getting a PR8 site to link to yours with your keywords might give you 500 points. So you can see that getting high PR sites are worth it.

In our example above, “Web Hosting” is a very highly competitive keyword, so even with perfect SEO, your going to need a lot of sites with good PR to link to you before you get a page 1 ranking. So as you can see its sorta like a game where you try to get as many points as you can and the more points you get the close to page 1 you get.

Again, these numbers are not based off anything and are completely arbitrary. Its just a easy way that I’ve been using to explain how SEO works.

I purchased this site mainly for the reason that it would be a great addition to my other 3D Tutorial site and since that has been very successful for me I thought I’d give it another try. To domain name is good, I can definitely SEO it and hopefully within 2-3 months be on page 1 or 2 for the keywords. Having the other site which is #1 in Google will definitely help this new site since I’ll be linking to it and I already have a long list of contacts that have 3D sites, so I can easily email everyone and get them to link to it as well. I should be able to make my money back within 6 months if all goes well