What I love about the method is that there is no SEO required, which is all I seem to be doing lately, so I wanted a short break where I could see some quick results.
I have been taking action with this method for the last 2 days full time, so about 15 hours into it now.
Also during this time I have managed to read every single post in this thread. The number of people asking about "I chose the weight loss niche" and "what about panda and the sandbox?" were killing me and I almost skipped to the end, but I stuck at it as I wanted to read other people's results.
My thoughts so far:
Domain and Hosting
I had the hosting already and bought a domain with the owner protection from NameCheap for around $9.60, that's a pretty damn cheap price to try out the method, as it wouldn't even get you 2 gigs on fiverr in SEO land! Those complaining about "can I just put this on blogger?" need to get real and work out whether IM is for them if they are not sure if they can risk $10 trying out a method (or about $15 with a month of hosting included). Keep in mind that this is the TOTAL price of testing, there are no must-have tools or extras that you need to buy.
Niche & Products: I'm really not sure if I have chosen the best niche as I should have looked more closely at the quality and volume of products available (it is within the Health/Fitness market, but not weight loss haha). Keep in mind though I have only been going through Clickbank (due to the high % return) and may look at physical products too. However, I get a tonne of relevant alerts which is why I love this niche.
Posts & Visitors: I have made 58 posts in total to blogs/news/forums, these have mainly been in the last 24 hours. I make only high quality posts relating to the article, so this post volume isn't massive at all. At least half of these are auto-approve or forums. I have received a total of 24 unique visitors to my site so far (however I forgot to add the Analytics plugin on Wordpress until mid-yesterday, so missed a few I am sure). I don't trust my clickbank stats at the moment as they are showing 30 hops over, I think that it may be much less though. Either way, 24 uniques on day 1 or 2 of a small site is unheard of using SEO methods.
Wordpress Theme:The Wordpress theme was killing me for a while. I may have taken the wrong approach and went for professional looking review site, however have now calmed this down and made it look more inviting as though it is from an individual person. I have made a few modifications to how I worded my reviews and also padded them out a bit, I will continue to refine these as I pick up more information.
The review templates linked somewhere in the first 5 pages of this thread is what I have used, however next time I would choose something different as these had a few bugs.
Where Next?
I have a few more days left to go at this full time, so we will see if traffic continues to grow, which I expect it to as I am slowly building up the number of links to my site. Hopefully there are some conversions coming soon too. I also have some general information on the niche that people would find interesting, this would just be something that they can read as a freebie which would help add to my stick rate and also if I put it front and center it may make the different between a moderator accepting/denying my comments.
Thanks Meat
Thanks to Meathead for the method, I strongly believe that with the correct niche and products this could be a very big success, I just am too early to tell if I have the right combination!