Comments on: May Earnings Posted

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:18:39 +0000

Thanks Bristolboy!

By: Bristolboy

Bristolboy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:36:42 +0000

These are still very good earnings and much better than mine! Stick at it and I am sure it will come good! Plus you had a good increase in earnings over last month so it is really good news all round!

By: JamestheJust on Elance

JamestheJust on Elance — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:39:42 +0000

Oh, and before I forget: I refunded SEOLV — will have to post on that later, just didn’t like the reports I’d heard/read about — excited to try out Article Ranks thru ur link! Will be this month, so you can pencil that in for your June totals.

By: JamestheJust on Elance

JamestheJust on Elance — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:38:16 +0000

Yeah – can’t complain when you get paid w/o trying – hang in there, if you made $400 without having to dig a ditch, mop a floor, muck out a stall or some other “Dirty Jobs” sorta work – it’s all good.

When my wife and I moved here, I was going to open up a brick – n – mortar of my own, one I was good at (remodeling) — market tanked!

So…it wasn’t long before I found myself doing internet mktg/freelancing…and despite the highs/lows: it’s some of the most rewarding work I’ve done.

It’s easy to get frustrated because you’re not where you want to be, but you’re no slouch, either: you’ve got the know-how, now it’s a matter of building on what you did right.

You don’t get paid for doing it wrong. So: congrats on that!

By: Ruth - Web Career Girl

Ruth - Web Career Girl — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:47:45 +0000

I still get very nervous about what I’m doing and think the sites aren’t good enough so that’s why at the moment I decided to focus on coming out with a lot of new, good quality sites. Then hopefully I’ll backlink them and see some real improvement. Hopefully you’ll see the same too once you start getting more content out there.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:50:55 +0000

Thanks Kelly.

Michelle – the only problem is I don’t think my portfolio is that solid. I will definitely need to expand somewhat. But focusing on one or two sites like you mention is exactly what I want to do. I think my main niche site could do much better but I need to dedicate a month or two solely to it.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:21:12 +0000

Carrie – Even though you might not be at where you want to be right now, you’ve built a solid portfolio of sites that will serve you well in the future. If it helps at all – I was stuck at the $300 or so level for several months. I had been building, building and building sites, but not putting the needed effort into backlinking them, and it felt like I wasn’t going anywhere. What I decided to do was choose two promising sites – one with a high CPC that was ranking #9 or 10, and another affiliate site that was ranking #5 – and for a month I pretty much put all my work effort into building backlinks to just those two sites. Fortunately neither was sandbox, and although they jumped around quite a bit, in 4-6 weeks I claimed the #1 slot for both and saw a nice increase in my earnings. I know you do a lot of backlink building already, so I’m not suggesting that this is necessarily what you need to do, but my point is that I needed to change up my strategy to see some changes. It sounds like you have already decided to do this a bit in terms of creating content, and I hope you see results soon from your efforts!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:05:29 +0000

Carrie,
Don’t get discouraged. I have only been doing this for 2 months and I have changed my plan several times.

I plan on creating a lot of sites so I can find the good ones, and hopefully make those into authority sites. I figured this could take up to 5 years!