I can’t beleive it’s been 3 weeks since I last posted anything here, time flies when you are enjoying yourself. So much has happened that I suppose I should update you, but first happy thanksgiving to all our my American readers,friends and aquaintances.

WordPress Goldmine has had some great additions in the past few weeks. First off several of the members are now providing writing services at a fixed rate of 1 cent per word, this has benefitted everyone. All the writers are hightly qualified and producing some truely excellent content quickly and on time.

We also have a member producing some of the best converting adsense themes you’ll find anywhere.In the few weeks since he launched them the thread has become one of the businest in the forum.

In additon one of the real sucess stories of the forum Chris has produced his first book Called the Crossroads Methodology it’s an excellent book and completely without hype or BS. I don’t recommend much but this is one book I think everyone should read. Chris only joined in July and in the few months since then has built a substantial business from what he’s learned. This isn’t your typical IM book Chris takes things you already know and turns them on their head.   His Confessions of a Newbie Internet marketer is also a much read thread in the forum and should be a must read for anyone who lacks motivation.

Recently we’ve also been looking at creating various tools and products for use of the members, 2 are still in the planning stage but one has made it to fruition and is being made freely available to the public.

Is My Site Indexed serves three purposes

1. It checkes if your site is indexed and shows you what google can see, which can be very useful for spotting errors

2. It gets new sites Indexed Quickly

3. It provides a number of anchor text back links to your Site.

Finally we recently passed out 1300th member and 18,000 post. Each month WordPress Goldmine Is going from strength to strength and redefining the meaning of over delivery and value. If you haven’t checked us out yet why not see what you are missing.

Do you want to change you life?  Do You want to Work where you want when you want? Do you want to become a full time Internet Entrepreneur?

If You answered yes to one of those questions then isn’t it’s time you did something about it?

It’s June 1st today so why not dedicate the next month to laying the foundation of a long term business.

I am not suggesting that at the end of the month that you’ll be able to retire but I am saying that you’ll have a usable system in place that you can build on. Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is an Internet marketing career. I’ve been doing IM for over 4 years now it’s only in the past 9 months that I’ve finally got myself organised so that I can work a few hours a week if I wish and still maintain my income.

If you are willing to sacrifice 30 hours this month and $30 then you can succeed.

The first stop you should make is ezinearticles.com. Ezinearticles is a great place to research business models.  There are loads of categories here find one that appeals to you. Once you click on a sub-niche you’ll see a link to the top Authors in each niche. Follow this link and you’ll get a list of the Top Authors in that niche. Now all you need to do is to click on some of their articles and look at where their resource links go.

This way you’ll get to see the business model they are using, and believe me if they have bothered to write lots of articles it is working. Follow the process to the end and see all the tricks and tactics they use

It’s now down to you to replicate the business model.

Even creating your own product can cost less than $30.  The graphics on my Twitter Tips and Tricks Site cost me  $17, the domain cost me $9. I wrote the book in less than a day. Although I am giving away the product at the moment I could start to charge for it or even sell it as a complete business package via a site like sitepoint or digitalpoint.  Check out the graphics at www.twittertipsandtricks.com

Go On do it now!!  Build For Your Future

It’s no secret that I very rarely use this blog to promote anything and if I do I can guarantee it’s worth you considering it.

It’s also no secret that one of the keys to my success over the past year is Micro Niche Finder. It has allowed me to target niches with very little competition and lots of searches. Adsense income alone from sites I’ve biult around niches and keywords I’ve found in the past 6 months was $500 last month and affiliate commission was similar.  Not bad for a $67 product.  However that price is about to change.

Version 4 of Micro Niche Finder was released this week and it’s had major improvements. Gone are the wordtracker stats and they have been replaced with Stats from Google.  The immediate impact from this was that by rerunning some old searches double the number of results were returned .

Other changes Include the Strength of competition indicator being moved and replacing it on the main dashboard is a Commercial intent indicator, basically an indication of the likely hood of someone buying who uses that search phrase.

Within 2 minutes of the upgrade i had found a search term for a Nintendo Wii that had almost 1000 searches a month and only 47 competing pages with a comercial intent indicator of 89% not bad for a first attempt.

Unfortunatly with the improvements the price is due to go up so if you have been thinking of buying Micro Niche Finder now is the time to buy it. James Jones the creator has added more videos that show you just how powerful MNF can be.

http://income-academy.com/recommends/mnf

Over the past 10 days I have been reviewing all my old sites old tools and e-books i’ve bought. I try to do this once or twice a year and it always suprises me how valuable this excecise is. I’ll freely admit I make the same mistake that many people make, I get a great idea for a site then go ahead and build it but before i’ve got it as profitable as possible  I’ll have another idea and move on to another project.

These 2 to 3 weeks session where I review everything allows me to focus on the sites and get them profitable again. 2 sites I spent a day working on last week have already made me over $120 in the past 3 days .One of them was a domain I bought placed wordpress on and promptly forgot about it.

One week later it’s getting almost 40 visitors a day the sales alone would now make this site worth around $500 if I was to sell it. But whats even better is that I’ve built it in such a way that I can sell adverts in the form of review spots which rotate on the front page so as the traffic increases I can increase the charges for these. Without doing this review I would probably have left this site to expire.

What makes this whole process much easier is a free tool i’ve discovered called Bubbl.us this allows you to create a visual representation of your workload  . You can use it to plan sites or even use it to plan your work for the day.  I’ve been using it to plot the promotion I’ve been doing on each site. I was using whiteboards and spreadsheets for this but I usually forgot to put something on there.

I really do urge you to check it out and I’ve got a nice Gift for the best suggestion for using it so please post your comments below.

A few final notes today. Firstly if you are doing affiliate marketing how would you like to own a site that made over $5000 in the first 2 months? Or a site that makes $142 from 34 visitors before lunch? Chris Rempel the author of Confessions Of a Lazy Super Affiliate  has released a new VIP guide called The Conduit Method. The guide consists of 13 pages and a video there is no fluff and I’ll guarantee that you’ll get more information from it than most 100 page guides written by so called guru’s . It only costs $14.95 and is well worth the cost. You can read more about it by clicking the following link: The Conduit Method

Finally it’s my Birthday on July 1st and so to celebrate I’d though I’d open up another One to One mentoring Program. I usually only do this once every year as it takes up a lot of my time. Unlike other mentoring programs I am available to you via email or skype every day and there is no time limit on the mentoring. I still talk regularly with people I mentored 18 months ago! If you need a way to get motivated and really kick your earning up a gear then this is for you. As Ever I strive to keep the costs down so the cost will be $167 and will include various useful resources. Places are very limited as I find 5-10 people is the most that I can handle. If you are interested you can email at admin [at] income-academy.com  It would be helpful if you use the Subject mentoring . I’ll then send you more details

Until next time..stay lucky

Mark

I really need to get my act together and keep this blog updated! Over the past 2 months I’ve been really busy with my Personal mentoring membership site, My Plr article site and I’ve moved into affiliate marketing in a big way.

I am pretty much letting my adsense sites die now and any that I do build are based on high quality unique content with adsense added as almost an afterthought. Adsense is far from dead but the time and effort you need to expend to make a site earn $5 a day is not really worthwhile any longer. Compare that to an affiliate site which might take the same amount of time and effort but by choosing the right product the rewards are much higher.

For example I know a product that pays $20 commission and converts at just over 3.5% For every 100 people that go to the site I earn just over $60. Take the same niche and an adsense site, for every 100 people that go there i may get 20 people click on an advert If I could earn $1 per click I would still only earn $20 And trust me when I say that $1 clicks are pretty rare in most niches.

If I wish to earn more money I can create an adwords campaign and drive traffic to the site immediatly. If you haven’t yet thought about creating an affiliate site you really should give it some serious thought. Also don’t let the thought of adwords or the horror stories of people losing thousands of dollars put you off trying an ad campaign. For the past 2 weeks I have been running 5 campaigns testing some theories and I’ve spent less than $20 so far. These campaigns are earning me $40 to $60 a day.

Keep checking back i am currently producing a step by step guide to Affiliate marketing aimed at the complete newbie.