I’m Published!
As you know, if you have been following me from the beginning, I LOVE Public Domain and the opportunities it presents. I am thrilled to let you know I have my first book on Amazon kindle. Check it out: Classic Children’s Tales B0040ZNROW. I was asking myself why a year had gone by and I still hadn’t done anything with my ideas on using public domain. The best I can come up with is that I always felt that I didn’t know enough, there was a crucial bit of information I surely must need.
So, obviously, that wasn’t the case and here I am, published on Amazon. This is the first in a 12 volume series. Each will have 31 stories and they are mostly from the 1700-late 1800s. I really gave a great deal of thought to making major changes, then decided against it. The stories are representative of their times, and, I think it provides the parent an opportunity to talk about racism, class, and, oppression.
If you want to know more about Public Domain, and all the money making opportunities it provides, I would strongly suggest you go and visit Logan and Debra over at Public Domain Treasure Hunter. The site is filled with valuable information, and, also sign up for the newsletters. The newsletters are delivered frequently and I wouldn’t miss an issue. They provide you with REAL information and there is no reason why you shouldn’t be bringing in money from PD works – unless you are like me and wait so long before taking action. I have corresponded with Logan and Debra a lot over the last year and they are always ready, willing, and able to answer a question- even to the point of doing research and including a lesson in a subsequent newsletter.
Are your sites listed on Google’s webmaster tools?
If you don’t have your sites, all of them, listed on Google’s Webmaster Tools, then you could be in for a shock. You will recall me telling you about the hundreds of clicks and thousands of page impressions I have, but no money from adsense. Well, I just discovered that without my sites listed and verified as mine, Google doesn’t know they are mine, legitimately mine, and so that is what has most likely been the problem with lack of adsense payout.
I have lots of sites, everything from Amazon sites to blogger blogs and I never had any idea that I needed to sign up to webmaster tools and log my sites.
It’s easy enough to do so if you haven’t done yours, go there now and take care of it!
Adsense and building networks
Do I ever have a problem with adsense! What’s worse, I can’t figure out how to get it fixed. Here’s what’s going on: I have over 55,000 page impressions, almost 500 clicks and all I have made is $1.19. Clearly, something is wrong somewhere. BUT…….you can’t actually access the adsense people. You are directed to the online help, the forum, and FAQ. And when you can’t get help from there, where do you go?
If you know how to get to the adsense people, please drop me a line and let me know.
I have finished my four baby sites for the first network but have been too busy doing the mundane things of life to get my mother site started. I have it mapped out in my head, I just need a few hours to get the domain registered and the site online. My mother site will be about the size of my four baby sites combined so I have a lot of work to do.
Have you been getting emails about all the latest ‘guaranteed to make you rich’ programs? Ian Ross recently released a squeeze video about his never before released secret system to make thousands…..start making money within the hour, quit your job next week……..I am so fed up of the BS. I had the opportunity to look at his secret online software and it is the same old, same old: Do keyword research using the standard tools, pick a killer niche, write some articles, social bookmark, and watch the money roll in.
And people are putting hard earned money into buying this nonsense, some are probably using money that should be going to food or groceries.
Why can’t they do an honest ad that says ‘this system isn’t new, but it works, don’t give up, just keep at it’.
If you haven’t found a method that works for you yet, just pick one. And stick to it. If you don’t see money coming in within a week, keep going, if you don’t make any money in a month, keep going. What stops us making money is the constant changing and not seeing anything through.
Talk to you soon
Making money online: building networks
Sorry I haven’t been posting for several days. As the title says, I have been busy building networks. You have probably heard all the talk about networks – if you haven’t you haven’t been keeping your nose to the ground….or ear to the wall.
Networks are a series of micro niche sites that all feed into each other, and also feed into a mother site. I started out using an html template, and because I don’t know html my first site took 8 hours just to get the basic framework up. I have probably spent the same amount of time tweaking and refining and I still have a ways to go.
This clearly isn’t going to do anything for me when there are only so many hours in a day, so, I am now using a WP site. I spent so long with my head swirling with HTML that I actually started to forget the basics of WP!
As a result, I only have two sites built for my first network but the rest will go much faster. I am going to start off with 4 sites and a mother before I start my next network. I need to have a chunk of money by the end of September and this is how I am going to bring it in.
Stay tuned!
Alexa 832,839 – still moving up
I am thrilled to say I am still moving up by thousands of spots a day. For such a new site, and with a newbie at the helm, I still think this is a great achievement, even though I say so myself!
I was asked yesterday what I was doing to be moving up so quickly. I mentioned the things I have been telling you here, tweaking, SEO on-page, reading lots about SEO and applying the bits that I understand. But one of the things I forgot to mention is forum posting.
I belong to several active forums and post frequently. One is Tiffany Dow’s 30 day Challenge where she has set us up as a yahoo group here 30daysperformance@yahoogroups.com , I am also taking part in Ed Dale’s 30 day challenge which has a forum component, and there are a couple of other forums that I have posted on a lot in the past though I am not doing so much now. One of these is the Warrior Forum where I also link to this site in my signature.
Even though I don’t post much on the WF any more – because I am trying to concentrate on taking action and less on reading about taking action, my previous posts still contain links to my sites.
So, all in all I have to think that this must be helping.
What do you think? Are you actively posting on forums?
Google Page 1
Yes, I made Google Page 1 with seven of my long-tail keywords, and I am on page three with two others. www.ruthsshop.com is moving fast and furious through the ranks and even I am amazed at the speed of progress.
It was only about 10 days ago when I was sitting at 4 million + globally and I wasn’t even showing any rankings for the U.S. I was so far off the charts. Today I am happy to report I am at 1,100,091 global and 280,722 U.S.
I am still tweaking and will probably be tweaking for another couple of weeks. I have completely re-written my home page and tried to be more welcoming to my visitors. Obviously it is working. I am also doing some on-page SEO. Nothing major mind you, just being more focused on keyword placement and long tail keyword use: again I think it’s working.
I would also say that my traffic has greatly improved since I installed WP-Robot and I am not using it to its fullest yet as I still haven’t read the documentation. I am using it judiciously and keeping all of the potential posts in draft form. That way I can look at them first and either delete them, or, make a decision about re-writing them and using my own unique words for a review. Amazon doesn’t allow you to change the wording of their reviews so it is either all or nothing.
I did get an email from a friend telling me the big G is de-indexing sites that use robot. I haven’t heard anything through the grapevine about that though. I will let you know if I do.
In the last couple of weeks I haven’t touched www.how-to-fly-fish.com and, as soon as I feel comfortable with my ruthsshop site then I will put my attention on my fish. I am struggling keeping up with both those sites and also this blog: how do people manage when they have multiple sites?
Outsource!
It will be nice when I can bring in enough money to do that – especially the tech aspect!
That’s it for now. Let me know if you have any questions about what I am doing and I will get right back to you.
Onward and upward.
First real product sold!!!!
Checked Amazon this morning and found I had actually sold my first real product. Not a book, not something by luck, but an actual grill table. Now, I just need to figure out how I did it and how to repeat it!
Still tweaking www.ruthshop.com and still going up crazy in the ranks.
Look out for a theme change
I am really not happy with this theme and I will be changing it as soon as I find a better one.
And on a sad note, I just lost 22 posts! I deleted one of my categories without saving the posts first because there is a note directly beneath the categories saying you won’t lose posts, they will just be moved to the General Update category. But they were not!
groan…..Oh well, such is life. I am not going to fret. It is too nice a day.