This is the beginning of a series I am starting called “sold for $30K.” I will make it into its own category so you can reference it easily in the future. I am revealing alot of stuff in this vid as an overview of the detailed posts that are to come.
Most of you are going to ask me “where is the site you sold?” … “can we see it?” …and the answer is that I will never tell. I don’t think it is right for me to flood the site with traffic from here as that is not why the buyer purchased it. They bought it for targeted search engine traffic. And don’t go trying to find it either because it never had my name on it and was privately registered in someone else’s Godaddy account from the beginning (yeah, Vic taught me well on keeping things private). I actually bought the domain about 26 months ago and put the site on line about 19 months ago.. so you can see that it was not very old.
Now many of you are gonna also wonder if I did anything to make the site “black hat” and the answer is “heck no!” In fact, the site was so squeeky clean that Baby Jesus Darren Rowse himself would be proud. And I am gonna show and tell you everything I did, why and how. I will share with you the traffic stats and how I got that traffic, the right way. You see, there is a very common misconception that people who follow Vic and Griz do things shady, and that IS NOT true. We just know how to write very good, long content that uses keywords properly.. Content Is King dontcha know?
SO here is a tip for you already: when building a niche site…, long, infrequent posts (1,000+ words) with lots of good pictures and other media, are more valuable than 10 short blasts in a week. That’s right guys, if you can post only a couple times per month, but those 2 articles are full of keyword rich, helpful, loving content, you will do much better in the long run… the search engine spiders will love to hang around and take shits all over your pages! …And the human visitors will also benefit (more on this later)… and the money will also roll in.
We also know how to make friends online and work with them… just like those who make friends thru Twitter… we do the same, but do it thru emails instead of 140 characters. There area lot of other things we do that are nothing new and spectacular and are straight up white hat… we are just smarter than most of the other MMO cocksuckers out there, and that is why we get criticized. (sorry, rant there)
The site also did well on it’s own and made me money consistently. In fact, it accounted for about $900 per month of my online income. So, yes, I have dropped below the $5K per month now that the site is gone, but I am not upset for obvious reasons.
In this video blog post I also mention that the site never saw Twitter or other social sites, and that is true. You can’t make money on Twitter with niche sites like this. Anyone who tells you that is a flat out LIAR! Yes, you can make money with Twitter in the tech niche, the internet marketing niche, the MMO niche and you can even sell Twitter software from a niche site using PPC… but to have a real site in the real world without a brick and mortar business behind it, you are just WASTING YOUR TIME ON TWITTER!
This is not to say Twitter sucks. I have met some good folks like the Info Dude and Don the Business Development Dude on Twitter. but… Again, if you have a brick and mortar cabinet shop behind your Twitter account, then yes, you can get some business from that. But for niche bloggers/internet marketers building sites OUTSIDE of MMO and TECH, Twitter is a time sucker…blah blah blah, I am rambling. If you want to know how to make money on Twitter, then go see Josh at his marketing site.
You also will need to understand Wordpress if you want to follow along here. I am not structuring this video series for complete beginners, so if that is you, go get some help for your Wordpress issues. You can also get a free Wordpress blog setup for you from my good buddy Steve.
