Thanks guys. Its great to be able to hears noobs say they are finally making some money for a change.
It probably should'nt take you 7 hours to create 20 articles, atleast no with this method. At most it might take you 2 1/2 hours.
Has anyone thought about rewriting an article then spinning it through power article rewriter? Make like five extra copies and post each additional copy every month (so as not to get the market too saturated or make them suspicious).
Here was the idea I had. Do a five page white hat site that you will promote with article marketing. Spin each of the five articles into five additional for a total of 20 articles. (and five for article marketing) Submit five to AP, and send the other fifteen over the next two months (have a series of dated folders, for example drop one article into the 10/10/08 folder another into 10/20/08 folder etc).
Use UAW to submit five articles, the "sixth" additional set spun by power article rewriter (not all in the same day so as not to get your site blacklisted from google) For the links on the article directories, use a cloaked clickbank product, your main page, and the specific page the article refers to.
Have adsense and maybe a custom banner with a link to a clickbank product for your niche on your five page niche site.
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Profit
I was doing some calculations and if you get 4$ per article it should be 80$ up front when you have your AC stuff published. The beauty of it is that most of PLR (even the "good" stuff which I rewrite from still reads at a 6th grade level) is complete shyte, and while I am by no means a NYT professional journalist, my work is pretty good. (how I type on this forum isn't an example of my work

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Secondly, since my articles are cobbled together from different sources and not just rewritten (and targeted for a better paying adsense niche, how AC makes its money), there will be less of an oppurtunity for saturation, allowing the submission of the additional 15 total spun articles.
Think about how many times those generic PLR articles have been rewritten on AC, probably four times or so, so getting your spun unique articles submitted on in demand topics should be easy as pie. When I write my unique articles I am in control and I know the proper keyword distribution, which is hard to do with a pos PLR.
Not to mention with article marketing your site should get a ton of backlinks and make some good passive income with clickbank and adsense.
I will have to test this out, but the full testing will take about a month.
I am also just going to start rewriting 40 articles a day for a week or so to really get the hang of talking on dragon. (It is a learning process for anything, especially the punctuation. I am used to putting pen to paper)
Basic process would be writing articles - 150 minutes Assuming it actually takes you 30 minutes to write a unique article. I prefer to make mine professional and add at least three sources together. I don't just read wikipedia for example to write an article, pull from a host of sources.
Spinning AC articles and UAW (25 total) - 30 minutes
We want to do a good job here, mixing up clauses and sentences, not just synonyms.
Uploading custom wordpress package/Finding niche Registering domain - 100 minutes
Of course I have a custom wordpress template that I have made with all the correct plugins built into a special package called BlackWidow (not for sale sorry). Completely unique fresh factual content that I calculate should turn into about 100$ an hour over a year.
This should be upload, tweak the normal settings, activate plugins, paste original five articles etc
Uploading first 5 spun articles to AC - 10 minutes
Uploading 15 extra spun articles to AC over a period of next two months - 30 minutes
UAW submission to massive amounts of article directories (PA Rewriter and UAW can probably overlap, because the steps of ending introduction/conclusion etc are very similar) - 50 minutes if you know what you are doing for 5 articles.
370 minutes total - 6 hours 12 minutes, and allow for some extra bullshit time, so lets just say 8 hours.
Even at that lets brainstorm here. 80$ for the articles up front from AC, a dollar a day from adsense would be 365$ a year, and 200$ a year from a specific clickbank product promoted in your articles.
These estimates are very very low for a decent niche whitehat site. I am doing this intentionally so people see that I am not overvaluing the numbers.
If with article marketing you can't get at least 50 visitors a day after a month with the amount of backlinks from UAW, you are full of fail.
Approxiamately 16500 uniques a year (I took out a months worth since it takes a little time to build up backlinks with article marketing)
I can get 10%+ CTR with adsense with my optimized WP template easily.
You should be able to get at least .20 a click unless you are smartpriced or creating a niche site on a retarded topic with no advertisers like a blogging one.
330$ a year in adsense. 1 clickbank purchase per 500 visitors at 15$ = 33*15$= $495
825$ for 8 hours of time the first year, and your site is probably going to be around for more than a year since it is on automatic and only gains in trust with time.
That is 100$ an hour and free money after the first year. By the way, this doesn't even count the thousands of cloaked backlinks on your article submissions that link to a clickbank product.
It all comes down to work my friends. The CS mostly sucks especially with the egay banhammer. I still have a plan but this CS pays out first day of the month, so less risk of ban.
Seriously guys there is your 9 to 5. If you want to make anything more than a sporadic big payout (unless you are the elite of the elite blackhatters) you need to go white. A little hard work, plus intelligence equals profit. So get off your ass and just start doing. Make 100 sites in a year or something, that is only like 2 hours of work a day. Anyone can do that.
After the first year, you will still probably making the same amount in the second year with no work required other than installing updates to newer versions of wordpress and maybe doing a new article per site every couple months. (which would only be two articles a day)
Please someone let me know if they think my estimates of 1$ a day in adsense and 1 out of every 500 laser keyword targeted visitors purchasing a clickbank product is ridiculous.
P.S. Also the AC backlink will work great for your white hat site.
P.P.S. Don't be a dumbass and flood AC with your spun articles, 20 of the same in a day or something. This will just end in fail. It also won't affect me, because I can write well and am submitting them over a long stretch of time. (and not submitting more than 3 extra spinnings of the same unique article)