[Case Study] Noob 0 -50€/Day in 100 Days

This is my first case study, the reason i'm doing this is so I can keep track off my progress, get some input from other members and don't get de-motivated easily.
My goal is to make 50?/Day consistently mainly through Adsense but also with CPA, Content locker Pro. This all within 100 Days by March 21, 2012.

I started with IM last summer with zero experience. Managed to get my first site to rank 1 within a month, my second site within the second month and had about 10k visitors a day which converted to 10-12? adsense.
Then I got banned from adsense because of my own stupidity, got demotivated and threw in the towel.
Now I have 2 friends who are willing to set up an adsense for me under their name, I will use extreme caution handling the accounts and thinking twice about if my site is suitable enough before I slap on my adblocks.

Since i'm studying abroad I have about 8 hours of free time a day working on SEO, I don't know how to fill all this time working on my sites yet but I will give it my best try.

So lets start:
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Budget: 1000? spread over 100 days.
Spend So Far: 0?
Earned So Far: 0?

0 out of 10 sites online
0 Sites Flipped
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[DAY 1] December 13 :

Spend the whole day researching keywords ended up with a big list:

[SCREENSHOT]

- 30 Keywords
- 1000 to 50000 [EXACT] Local searches
- Ranging from 2 word KW's to 8 word long tail KW's. Longest is 38 Chars
- Average of 0.25/0.90? CPC (Some higher than that)
- EMD or Similar to EMD Available
- Weak competition on Page 1
- Traffic Travis = 80% Relativly Easy / 20% Easy
- Most of the keywords are Health or Fitniss Related with Authority site competition which hasn't optimized for the keyword.
- almost non of the keywords are buyer keywords or something that will lead to easy conversions

I will keep looking for keywords each day for at least 20-60 minutes to see if I can find something more profitable.

[DAY 2] December 14 :

To boost my motivation early on I will start with low search and low CPC keywords. Later on in Jan '12 I will go after higher keywords.

Selected these 4 keywords:

KEYWORD 1:
Market Samurai Competition Analysis

KEYWORD 2:
Market Samurai Competition Analysis

KEYWORD 3:
Market Samurai Competition Analysis


KEYWORD 4:
Market Samurai Competition Analysis
Lowest CPC Possible, but since it seems ridicilously easy to rank I will just go for it. Even if its just 0,50? a day.
Since the keyword is related to viral media ideas I might aswell put a content locker or some other CPA offers on it.


Plan of Action:
I will start writing 3 articles of 500 words for each keyword. Additionally I will find 5 youtube videos per keyword and download them (I will have a use for this later on).
I have set my deadline for this to 6PM Sunday 18 December, the day I will register my domains. Until then I will also revise a plan to start ranking and have set a budget of max 50? for that week.

Good luck bro!
I'm gonna follow your case study!

Theres like a million "case studies" that start that never finish.

Best of luck to you, use this thread as motivation and prove me wrong that you will finish it.

Patel said:

Theres like a million "case studies" that start that never finish.

Best of luck to you, use this thread as motivation and prove me wrong that you will finish it.

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Thanks, you'll find out soon enough .

When I worked on my sites in the summer I set similar goals. I promised myself to not stop until I finish the sites and rank them on spot 1.
I did nothing short of that, I diddn't stop till I ranked on spot one and made some nice but brief income and this within much less than 100 days.
Only reason I quit was because I did not know about CPA, Content Locker or Clickbank, I thought a Adsense Ban was the end of it. Now I know more and i'm much more motivated then I was back then, all my sites from then ranked or still rank on spot 1.

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Budget: 1000€ spread over 100 days.
Spend So Far: 30€
Earned So Far: 0€

4 sites online
0 Sites Flipped
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I'm on [DAY 5] and way ahead of my deadline, this is how far I am:



Plan of Action:

What I will do between [DAY 5] & [DAY 8]
- Tweak and finish sites with designs + Plugins
- Youtube Videos

Plan to rank these sites:
Before I will start around [DAY 9] I am going to research the best way to Diversify my backlinks, I won't outsource anything so that I can replicate what i'm doing once I get the hang of it.

My idea of diversifying my backlinks, this is my plan for each site for each week:
(I will put at least another 10 hours into research before I start)

- 2x Rewritten or Spinned PLR Articles and news articles.
- 30x WEB 2.0 With first re-written and then spinned articles
-> 100x Bookmarking
-> 100x Wiki Links
-> Quality SB Blasts later on
-> 20 High Quality BL on a very popular Social site with a site authority of 100, page authority of the linking page will be around 40
- Perhaps I will outsource a few XRumer blasts but i'm not sure yet.
- Links in YT Profiles and videos.
- Perhaps some twitter and facebook magic, both of lowest priority and concern right now.

(This is in no particular order, I will have a real plan up in a couple of days using these methods)

Other Things I can make use off:
- Scrapebox. Have AA low OB PR4-6 List + GOV, EDU List
- A huge database of PLR articles, most of them only used 10-100 times before around 2005 - 2007
- NO Hands SEO. I'm currently blasting my older site with this as we speak so I can see what kind of effect it has before I start a run on my new sites
- I probably will invest into a VPS and perhaps Senuke, either cracked or I will buy 1 month.
- 10 Daily private SOCKS5 (Proxies). Not sure if I can use SOCKS5 with any of these programs



Could use some input or pointers if i am missing anything. The next couple of days will be extensive Backlinking method research.