2017 Splogging Adsense Journey

redrays · Jul 9, 2017

seyer said:
Helpful insights as always! If I may pick your mind a bit:

How much would be solid full time US income? $50k/year?

About Serp Shaker: Does it generate a fixed amount of posts upfront, or does it drip content over time? I understand you have to manually write the articles first and spin certain phrases and words for localization or whatnot? Just want to understand better.

Why don't cheap domains work anymore for your strategy? I've split test .com's and $1 domains and they seem to perform the same over a period of time.

Good luck, I'm sure you'll be able to get back on track and return even stronger.

1. Definitely possible with good niche selection and intelligent scaling.

2. You can do it either way, the tool is fairly flexible. The content is creating using protected words, like "Plumber in {city}", in the title. You then fill the Serp Shaker database with a list of cities that are inserted for {city}, and a post is created for each city. Of course, localization is just one option - something like "Best {keyword} Widget" works just fine as well. Nothing has to be done manually, and most of the process of building sites can be automated once you know what you're doing.

3. Indexing rates. When you're generating 15-30k post sites with tags, it ends up making a huge difference. After a month a .com will be nearly fully indexed while a $1 domain will have a few thousand pages indexed in many cases.

itz_styx · Jul 9, 2017

sblogging still works fine and you seem to scale it well, so it should make you enough profit!

you could make more on the long run if you promote rev share offers btw. might not show as fast initially, but later your ROI will be much better as compared to using adsense.

living2xl · Jul 9, 2017

seyer said:
500 sites or $500/month?

For this batch of sites, mostly these new TLDs from namecheap.

500 per month per account
I would try to limit the amount of sites per account as if you get a ban you have to port the content over again to new domains if they had been used with a banned account
can you give some examples of tld's which you have used the most?

seyer · Jul 9, 2017

living2xl said:
500 per month per account
I would try to limit the amount of sites per account as if you get a ban you have to port the content over again to new domains if they had been used with a banned account
can you give some examples of tld's which you have used the most?

Picked up about half of those TLDs except for faith, party, science, racing and cricket.

What's a safe way to deal with payments from multiple adsense accounts? Do you send the checks to different addresses with same name? Or is same name same address just fine? Or is it best to create separate bank account/payee details per adsense account

living2xl · Jul 9, 2017

seyer said:
Picked up about half of those TLDs except for faith, party, science, racing and cricket.

What's a safe way to deal with payments from multiple adsense accounts? Do you send the checks to different addresses with same name? Or is same name same address just fine? Or is it best to create separate bank account/payee details per adsense account

Same address
You can spin the addresses a little
For example if it says 17 bla bla road
you just say 17 bla bla rd. or 17 bla bla str. or st. or street or whatever
Just change it around a little
if the postcode is right the postman will find and locate you
The name should be different but with UK banks you can get it deposited regardless of the name so I get UK adsense accounts. I dont know about other countries.
Get trial azure and trial google console accounts and set up windows vps on them to access the accounts and you should never taint or give yourself away, so each vps only login to one g account

seyer · Jul 9, 2017

living2xl said:
Same address
You can spin the addresses a little
For example if it says 17 bla bla road
you just say 17 bla bla rd. or 17 bla bla str. or st. or street or whatever
Just change it around a little
if the postcode is right the postman will find and locate you
The name should be different but with UK banks you can get it deposited regardless of the name so I get UK adsense accounts. I dont know about other countries.
Get trial azure and trial google console accounts and set up windows vps on them to access the accounts and you should never taint or give yourself away, so each vps only login to one g account

Golden advice. Much appreciated!

seyer · Jul 9, 2017

itz_styx said:
sblogging still works fine and you seem to scale it well, so it should make you enough profit!
you could make more on the long run if you promote rev share offers btw. might not show as fast initially, but later your ROI will be much better as compared to using adsense.

Thanks for the vote of confidence. If you could kindly point me to the right direction as to where I can find out more about rev share offers and which specific networks you recommended for splogs that would be highly appreciated.

itz_styx · Jul 9, 2017

what niches do you promote? i mainly promote adult, if you want some good affiliate networks for that just PM me

seyer · Jul 10, 2017

Decided to make an excel monitoring sheet so I can divide the project into batches based on when I created the sites. This will also help me decide which batches need nurturing with regards to any indexing / ranking needs. All data pulled from adsense reports. Will be updating weekly / bi-monthly.

Also, I'll be updating this simplified P&L sheet. Looked back at some hosting costs and they're a little higher than I initially mentioned in this thread.

sanuras · Jul 10, 2017

Following, good luck

Mickey Galhotra · Jul 10, 2017

Any update?

craze3 · Jul 10, 2017

Definitely following this. Best of luck to you! I think the key here is intelligent scaling...

IPlease · Jul 10, 2017

Just back to check in. Hope you are finding this journey to be what you expected.

seyer · Jul 11, 2017

Mickey Galhotra said:
Any update?

IPlease said:
Just back to check in. Hope you are finding this journey to be what you expected.

Hey guys, as mentioned in my previous post I decided to update this every week / every other week depending if something notable comes up. You can expect something in 3-4 days. In the meantime I'm just checking up on the blog network every so often and making sure everything is getting indexed, and if not I just run pings and queries to help them along. No artificial backlinks.

Thanks for tuning in, cheers

seyer · Jul 17, 2017

Time for the weekly update.

Average daily earnings for the past 7 days: $8.5/day

Top level P&L:

Weekly breakdown of new sites for this journey, relative to site creation dates:

Some questions for myself, to be answered after 2 more weeks of testing:

At this rate of earnings, how often should I create X amount of sites to sustain X amount of revenue?
Given the volume of sites, they are probably cannibalizing each others' traffic, so how many more niches should I tap?
Currently not doing any backlink except for scrapebox rapid indexing -- how to automate creating backlinks for each new post for ALL sites?

Mickey Galhotra · Jul 17, 2017

How many articles are published on your each site and have you written them yourself or you've copied it from other sites and using them on your site after spinning them? Which domain extensions are working good for you (traffic wise, indexing wise, earnings wise).

I'm following your journey and willing to do the same.

Thanks for sharing

seyer · Jul 17, 2017

Mickey Galhotra said:
How many articles are published on your each site and have you written them yourself or you've copied it from other sites and using them on your site after spinning them? Which domain extensions are working good for you (traffic wise, indexing wise, earnings wise).

I'm following your journey and willing to do the same.

Thanks for sharing

Each site posts new content regularly in random intervals. The newer sites have about 50-100 posts and older ones have maybe 3-5k posts, all of them continue growing indefinitely. Yes they all post spun content -- I developed my own spintax format which works well for my niche.

I'm not seeing much of a difference in domains. But some experienced members on here have preference for .com's, so I suggest you test it out

whitehat2 · Jul 17, 2017

Good to see some real tactics.... Thanks for sharing!

seyer · Jul 18, 2017

Throwing in a mini update -- stuff I did in the last 24 hours:

Ran another round of rapid indexer blasts for all sites across 44 indexer services, but this time i used sitemap xml URLs in the blast -- don't know if that helps or even works, lol.

I also started running experiments in adsense for my money-maker ad unit which is now getting about 25k impressions per week (25k across the whole splog network, 2-3 placements per article). This may lower earnings/RPMs short term, but that's ok, since I'm also looking at traffic growth alongside earnings as a key metric of success.

Also, just yesterday I received about $120 in paypal for commission sales from residual traffic from some really old software product sites:

Yeah, that's pretty much all the money I got in there.

I'm pondering whether to use this money to scale this journey further right now, as I've used the time between updates to lock down niches (2-3 broad niches) and content sources and already prepared templates for my next 750 to 1,000 sites. $120 can help me put up 500 new sites at most.

seyer · Jul 20, 2017

Partial update:

Average daily earnings for the past 7 days: $9.3/day

First batch of experiments (97 sites) have completed their first month. Interestingly, 32% of the sites are getting traffic, while only 17% are bringing in money so far. I have not generated any artificial backlinks, will consider doing so once my 2 batches are finished with their first month and see how that affects traffic.

Here's the updated P&L for the whole splog network thus far. Minor tweak: I adjusted the report to reflect April 25 as the start point, which is the day I returned monetization to adsense for my 53 pre-existing sites. Just to be more accurate in reporting the P&L and representing accountability for costs, etc. Note that while the whole splog project is now in-the-green, much of this journey is still funded by the pre-existing sites prior to the journey.

In other news, the spare money mentioned in the previous post I used to buy reverse rotating proxies and a new hosting account for a 100-autoblog p0rn project monetized by CR. Might make a separate journey for that.

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