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WOW - busy few days. I've set up the structure for Websitemonthly-training and Stmaconsulting lite (Website Monthly Members get free access to the consulting lite of course - and a discount on the PRO).

Now comes the hard part - Giving you the training materials you need. I've set up a "synopsis" of what we will be covering in stmaconsulting "lite". If you have some experience Websitemonthly Training is probably going to bore you.

However, what we will be giving you through the consulting site will be right up your alley. So don't fret -- We have members of many skill sets and we are going to try to help you all.

Ed Charkow

Website Monthly

Hello all,

I'm not going to be posting here for a few days. Eric and I have decided that one of the biggest things that is lacking in Website Monthly (and all our membership sites) is training and mentoring.

I have a HUGE job ahead of me to get the video's done, the tutorial system set up, and to help give you the tools you need.

Basically this will result in two new membership sites being added to Website monthly.

Stmaconsulting , and Website Monthly Training.

Along with Stmapartner it's going to end up being one heck of a training, mentoring, and affiliate education site.

I don't think I've ever seen anything that does what we will be doing here - it's a dang nifty concept.

So I'm going to cap off where I am here.... and I promise I'll be back

I've presently earned 1800ish in commissions - with recurring revenue. I've sold a couple scripts, and in general it's getting to the point where I can't tell what is coming from these efforts or from my general duties as the sites owners.

I can say that the site's I've put up here are getting traffic, indexed, and driving people where I want them.

But I can keep doing this ---- or teach you step by step how to do it - I think it's better if I teach.

Remember the key here is to just do SOMETHING everyday.

Ed Charkow

Happy Easter to you if it's something you celebrate. I've been toying with the idea of making something to work with Amazon - and I found some pretty nifty scripts.

I'm doing a lot with RSS and Datafeeds for these upcoming projects, so adding in some Amazon Stores might just be a good idea.

I'll test one or two of them out and get back to you with what I like and don't like.

I realize that we don't have an amazon datafeed product or site maker. There are ton's of free and paid ones out there already ---- no need to reinvent the wheel right?

Hope you all had a great Weekend.

Ed Charkow

I'm rather impressed. One of the first sites I made in this experiment was Worst Golf Swing and I set a blog up on the backend - Called of all things - Worst Golf Swing.

It was just meant to be an informational site where golfers could be directed towards the other sports networks sites, but I'm getting traffic from all the SE's and some daily visitors.

Anyway, I'm going to look into ways to monetize for golf besides adsense -

Ed

I cleaned up Whatshewishes and Secret Marketing Discounts today.

Pretty much both are live and I should probably get promoting them -- I'll be giving you guys who have your own programs full access to Secret Marketing Discounts shortly (next update to the members area (Monday).

Ed

Today was spent supporting and catching up on things like phone calls to members who needed it.

To be honest I'm just to tired to try and code, make a website, or even blog

I spent quite a lot of time building the latest script in Website Monthly, my kids are being rotten , and it seems that i've had more than normal support issues and clients just needing a helping hand this week.

So instead of making a mistake or screwing things up - I'm taking a wee break today.

Ed

Unlike yesterday I actually spent some time today making something for this little project.

http://www.secret-discount.com

Basically a list builder with a small revenue stream built in. I'll be letting all Websitemonthly and Warrior Alliance members in the "provider" side.

I used SEOCLICKBANK to make it - just modified the form a little.

I'm not totally done - I still have to modify the template a bit and set up some advertising of my own in there before I make it public (wait - I just did). Ohh well, just a thought for ideas.

I made this one for the Internet Marketing crowd, but plenty of other concepts. I could have made it for ebayers to showcase their stores, bands to give away music, etc...

Ed

http://nothing.golddave.com/wp-genericfooter-plugin/

1) Download the WP-Genaric Footer Plug-in
2) Unzip the File
3) Upload to your Blog- Into the wp-contents / Plugins Folder
4) Open you Blog
5) Go to Plugins ( on your dashboad of Word Press Blog) Activate the Plug In
6) Go to Options - Click the Wp-genaric Footer Tab
7) Insert your Footer in the Text box
7-a) Make your Footer a Keyword anchor text link with the true A Href=" "> Keyword Text" /> ( true html- can't post code here)
8) Hit save and your done.

What you just did is adding your Keyword Anchor text link to Each And Ever Blog Post you make automatically. Each time you blog you should have anchor links back to the blog and the site, with this tool you can do it once and never have to worry about it again.

Instant SEO keyword Backlinks each time you post. ( Make sure you have a good RSS Ping List!!)

If you post to your blog(s) just 3-5 times a week, you will start to see an increase in traffic. I post daily on many of my blog sites. It's a routine for me, and has never let me down as far as Adsense income and Affilate sales.

Eric

I literally went on a 16 hour programming spree yesterday so I did NOTHING in regards to this project.

I did complete a new feature for Wordpress that will allow you to populate your blog with Raw Datafeeds from Kolimbo.com.

Hint: Go register at Kolimbo

Figured I'd spend tonight sort of tabulating things out from an income point of view. My initial goal when I started this was to get to 2k in 2 months. I also had a private goal of setting up a bunch of original themed sites (the sports network) and a number of adsense sites.

I've been building adsense sites for others for a long time, but not building my adsense 'empire'. I've always concentrated on affiliate programs because I have more control. Something about Google just pulling the plug makes me nervous. It's a mistake in my marketing plan that I want to correct.

Anyway, things time wise haven't been going my way.

The baby came and Eric had some personal things go on in his life that made him not here as much.

Couple that with the amount of work it takes to keep Website Monthly and the membership sites up and running properly - I'm horribly behind in what I wanted to accomplish -- even if I am doing pretty good financially.

So I felt that it was time for me to analyze what I've accomplished and where I am at.

Adsense has not been a big thing for me ever. I try to build up sites to increase their value to sell them. I've made about 10 dollars in the last few days off the sites I've done as part of the "experiment" here.

What I've made:
http://www.highschool-hero.com
http://www.whatshewishes.com
http://www.camping-survival-tips.info/
http://www.forex-train.com/
http://www.quarterbacked.com -- pushing it off to eric to update. I've set up the site and all that fun stuff. Eric will do a better job keeping it updated.
http://www.improve-golf.com - just a site from one of the membership sites.
http://www.worst-golf-swing.com - A Xsitepromonthly site with a blog attached.
http://www.golfwarz.com - Using a scriptmonthly script - it's viral

I also set up some pages to sell Ads2rss, location generator, and seopaydotcom. I've written a couple articles that talk about using scripts to create pages that others grow for you and ran a small adwords campaign.

I've made quite a few sales this way, but not the way I expected. Instead of buying the script right then and there..... tracking shows people moving on to check out Scriptmonthly or Websitemonthly. I'm acting like an affiliate here - just like you would be. That little link that says something like: Click here to find out how to get this script as a package, is working pretty good.

I've sold 1 membership to scriptmonthly - I get 50 percent of $297 and then $97 per month. I've also sold 4 memberships to Websitemonthly - most at the 97 per month pricing, but I had one over the weekend with the new pricing at 197 down and 97 per month.

I've also sold two copies of Ads2rss......

With out breaking out the calculator......

I'd say I'm close to the 1k mark - and I haven't even monetized most of the sites I've made with anything other than adsense. As I grow these other sites, and add in the ones I'll be working on this coming week...... I'll start to utilize Ebay to really crank up the income.

I'm NOT A POWERSELLER. I'm A EBAY DABBLER -- SO I will be learning with you. Sometime ago I sold lot's of sites on ebay and then would sell of the server I filled up. I did that with a lot of sites from places like dotcombuilder -- an impossiblity these days.

However, with the new scripts coming into websitemonthly over the next week, I think this is an avenue that you and I should explore together.

I still haven't scratched the surface of what's inside these sites. I haven't put up any of the old NSS or Affiliatesitemonthly sites, I haven't used any of the PLR article stuff, and I haven't used all the scripts in Scriptmonthly.

I have however made a profit - and enough to do some investing in things like a press release for Golfwarz or High School Hero. I think I want to wait till I have a little more of the network completed though.

I have a bunch of ideas for just that little snippet of code I put in the other day -- ya know the one that runs Whatshewishes.com. I'll also be showcasing seopaydotcom and seoclickbank over at http://www.stmapartner.com -- I have a lot to do so I'm done typing for the night

In the every growing market for Adsense and Affiliate income checks, I am continuing to pick HOT MAIN STREAM topics.

http://davinci-code-news.com/
The Da Vinci Code is a popluar and controverisal theme, the Movie by Ron Howard staring Tom Hanks is Due out in theathers May 19th. Therefore I am building a site ( BLOG) on this topic.

Also in The MAIN Stream what s hot or potentially Hot. The spin off of American Idol called America's Got Talent. So the site http://www.americans-got-talent.com/got-talent/ ( blog up and the main site to be finished). Americans Got Talent will Air this summer on NBC TV and could be a summer blockbuster event. If it hits, I will be right in line to get the majority of the traffic, if it doesn't hit, I will still get enough traffic to make the domain and current efforts worthwhile.

There are several new NSS and ASM Sites that are in the back end of Website Monthly and I will Add those to my Hub Do It Yourself Site and cross link with all the othe sites I have put up in this Project.

Need Hot Topics? Read a Newspaper, watch TV, read the MSN, Yahoo or Google News or go to http://technorati.com/ they list the latest hot search topics from their site. Yahoo and Msn have this feature I blieve, I just don't have the true links handy.

Till next post. Your comments, feedback and questions are welcome
Eric Gehler

I've added all 50 states to High School Hero finally - along with some Meta-tags.

Still don't have a deep crawl from Google but I'm getting traffic from somewhere -

Probably do a press release sometime this coming week.

Well, I've succesfully installed and set up Blog Logic. I'm actively setting up 4 new sites with Eric using it to capture a nice little niche we have sort of jumped the gun into.

I'll post the urls later -- but I wanted to talk about what Blogologic and what's in WebsiteMonthly have to do with each other because I have found a nifty way to really take advantage of things here.

First off the blogs I'm installing will all have ads2rss and I'll be using the feeds with RSS Rebound.

I'll be putting these feeds into my secondary feed list with Blogologic and they will end up mixing my feeds, adding my ads, and spreading things around.

I'll end up promoting all the blogs and related ads and materials through all of them - hands free.

I think I'll be using rss2affiliate as well - which while it's not included in Website Monthly I've talked the programmer into letting me sell it to you guys at a really cheap price.

The RSS tools that we include in Website Monthly are important to your syndication - I hope your using them.

We have a wordpress plug in under development that will make posting all these private label articles and direct from feeds straight to a blog -- automatically, on schedule, with random features to minimize footprints.

I don't know how to make life any easier on you -- what you need to work on now though is getting your blogs in place, getting some traffic now, and getting established.

There are dozens and dozens of possiblities for you to be putting a few sites up a day with what's in Website Monthly...... each one can have a blog in a subfolder helping to drive traffic.

What you do now - really takes off in a few months. Don't NOT do things just because your busy. Take an hour off of screwing around everyday and just do it.

Remember I've increased your free hosting to 15 accounts and I'll probablyx be making it unlimited soon...... so hosting better not be your excuse

Ed

O.k. Yesterday I suppose - I normally don't do the weekend thing but the new baby has just changed the dynamics around here so much that I had to do some catch up work.

Added a bunch of new stuff to the membership sites - added a sub site on whatshewishes.com and I've also done a trial run of Blogologic.

I'll let you all know how it goes. Eric and I are going to try and tackle a new niche over the weekend. Shhhh it's a secret (But we will tell you of course).

I'll be using Blogologic a bit till I get the Wordpress Plug in complete - I think ours might just do a better job with footprints, server load, and some more things.

So specifically what did I do for the experiment today:

1.) Added blog to whatshewishes.com
2.) Downloaded and installed a free copy of Blogologic.
3.) Set it up to start adding content to whatshewishes blog.

Depending on the "type" of content I end up with I'll decide to ditch it or not.

Ed

I've put the next site that will be in ASM up. Here is a demo: Disaster and Camping Survival.

I'll have it up for you tomorrow in the members area.

After I get it up, I'll be personalizing this one a bit. I'll add a blog and possibly a way for folks to tell about their camping trips or survival stories.

Maybe do a few things..... I'll sleep on it.

Ed

The other day I added a very small script to Scriptmonthly.com. Some of these full sites and mini scripts I'm adding are for your own use. -- Not because they aren't great little solutions or tools, but because the support selling them in mass would be a nightmare.

Other reasons may be that they include portions of open source code that is just not fun to make legal to sell with out letting it be known.

One of these little additions is a script to allow folks to input information in a form, including a picture. Another part of this little script shows what everyone put in the form.

I'm using it at whatshewishes.com to show the men what the ladies wrote.

You could use this script for testimonials, garden tips, or since you can embed a hyperlink in them you could use it as a showcase for anything you are affiliating.

Make sense? It's a great way to also have others increase the content on your sites.

Ed

I reskined the front side of What She Wishes this morning.

It's given me some idea's for you guys on how to use that little snippet I just put in the members area at Scriptmonthly for you.

- Use it to power a testimonial script

- Use it to power fun sayings and quotes

- Use it to "SELL" products and services. - YOU can enter in a hyper link if you use the html code.

- Use it as a resource list. You could like a few hundred images of e-books, along with the link to buy them.........

I'm sure you get the drift. Show me what you do!

Back in the swing.

I recently Uploaded the new Nichesitespecial turn key website that is available also through Website monthly about Forex. I made Forex Online Trading

I changed the color scheme for myself, Added a few Graphics to work with my alt keyword tags, Added a Word Press Blog, and Took the Feed from that word press blog and included that to the index page.

The blog allows me several benefits. 1) Keyword Backlinks with every post. 2) Fresh content on my home page using the RSS feed. 3) SEO Backlinks and Quick indexing from the blog and ping strategy.

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Quick note on SEO and getting Traffic to your site.

In the STMA Forum I listed a long ping list ( SEO Section). With every site I put up, I attempt to put a blog in a sub-directory. Each post I make I include a Keyword Back link to the Home page, and a Keyword Back link to the Blog. Because of the extensive Ping list, The spiders crawl the sites very quickly and indexing and deep crawls come quickly as well. Blogging on your topic is the fastest way to get traffic to your sites.

Scriptmontly has several new RSS products that will also help making life easy to get traffic to your sites.
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A 5 minute Plan.
Blog at least one daily to your website(s). Include the keyword links. If you are lost for Content, go a Google, MSN or Yahoo News Search on your topic. Grab the content, modify slightly and comment on the story in your blog. Presto!

In my American Idol site and blog, I have received over 60K hits for March, and 1878 hits for the first 5 days of April. Just Do it!!!

Spent a few minutes tonight showing you what you can do with location generator and the newest database for that application.

High School Hero

I activated a few more states, and did some interlinking.

That's all for today. I did take a peek at the stats.

MSN has only hit a few pages and google just hit and ran. -- I'll start an aggresive link campaign and maybe an article distribution or two. Once I'm actually indexed I'll do a press release.

That should take care of it. If I can get people posting in it - I won't have to do anything else.

I put up a forex site today - I know Eric did as well and he will end up stomping me .

Eric is much better at SEO than I am. I really recommend you pay attention to what he is doing in regards to that. He is also quite the master at milking a blog for all it's worth in regards to back links, incoming links, msn and yahoo traffic, and getting ranked well in google when you come out of the sandbox.

His Idol site is already getting google traffic which leads me to think that you CAN link yourself out of the sandbox early if you link well and have a plan.....

Anyway, you can see the forex site here: Forex Train. You can install this one automatically (it's an instant install site) from affiliate site monthly.

Ed

I finished the database work on Location Generator - It's available in the membership area for Script Monthly.

I've activated a few states at High School Hero. I have to write a few more 'articles' inside and clean up the front page - But I will wait till the spiders have hit a couple times.

Once they do I will edit the templates some to include links to other sites in the new network, and do a little more SEO.