First 100$ day!

I just had my first 100$ day today - $187 in fact. I'm no stranger to making money online, But 99% of what i get is from referrals. Well today i got my first 100$ from my own website (not referral income!). I know a $187 isn't that amazing for some of you, But i can't help but feel so very proud and excited! I owe it all to you guy's and the amazing advice and help you give on BHW!

All traffic came from bookmarks and search engines. bing/yahoo. Google hates me haha but honestly, I figured i would spend more time working with a search engine that does not want to eat my face every 10 seconds and focus on earning the green, seems to have worked!

Thanks BHW members - You're all amazing!

Heres my locker stats, Not posting my other monetization screens. Ill add that the locker is OPT OUT. there is an exit button, But people seem to enjoy the software download.

congratz, whats your business?

miedy said:

congratz, whats your business?

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Well, I'm certainly not going to go blurting it out. But i can tell you there is no sales on the website. It's pure ad revenue (cpm 14% CTR on the niche). I just never had the traffic to make it worth anything before now.

Congrats mate. now it's time to scale it up. keep going

Don't spend money on Blonde

Kazi_Haque said:

Congrats mate. now it's time to scale it up. keep going

Don't spend money on Blonde

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haha, thanks man. Now that i know the site has real potential i believe your right. Time for some social media me thinks.

can you tell some brief detail what kind of website you have?

Congratz with you bro... $100 a day is my goal too!! Are you making cpa site?

Well done bro.

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Can I just say.. If I hear one more person tell someone else to 'scale up' I'm going to scream.

Half of you sit there talking about 'scaling up' as if it's as easy as just moving a slider a few notches up.

It's like um, yeah, gee thanks I hadn't thought about scaling up.. The only thing all of us are ever doing is SCALING! We don't need to be told "wow, gratz dude, now scale up!" by some noob who's read a few threads and thinks he's a damn pro.


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Congrats, man! Keep it up and big money to you

BlueTurtle said:

Well done bro.

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Can I just say.. If I hear one more person tell someone else to 'scale up' I'm going to scream.

Half of you sit there talking about 'scaling up' as if it's as easy as just moving a slider a few notches up.

It's like um, yeah, gee thanks I hadn't thought about scaling up.. The only thing all of us are ever doing is SCALING! We don't need to be told "wow, gratz dude, now scale up!" by some noon who's read a few threads and thinks he's a damn pro.


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I am going to say one more time to OP to scale it up. Now you can scream

The reason i told him to scale it up coz most of us stop doing what we are doing when see money is coming. nothing is easy in life. so take it easy stop calling us noob coz you are the one who think you're damn pro

Kazi_Haque said:

I am going to say one more time to OP to scale it up. Now you can scream

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Kazi_Haque said:

The reason i told him to scale it up coz most of us stop doing what we are doing when see money is coming. nothing is easy in life. so take it easy stop calling us noob coz you are the one who think you're damn pro

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Most people stop working when they start making money? Really? Where do you get that wonderful statistic from?

In my experience it's the opposite. Most people work harder during success and quit during failure.

I think I'm a pro? Why? Because I'm sick of hearing noobs obvious crap like "NOW SCALE UP!" every 5 minutes whenever someone creates a thread about success? It's BS. People do it because it makes them look as if they're sitting on $5k/day and handing out advice from their own experience.

The truth is, if you weren't a noob you would know that a lot of stuff CANNOT be scaled up.

You can't just push the 'SCALE ME' button 10 times.

He's doing SEO/bookmarks. We don't know where he's ranked.. It's not the sort of thing you can scale up. He can build more sites, expand his site or maybe build a list but the only thing you can really 'scale' is bots/spam and to a lesser extent paid advertising.

Even in paid advertising you can't just move a slider. Usually you're already peaked out if you're profitable. To scale you'd have to increase bids which will potentially damage your profitability.

The whole 'scale up' thing is used by a few people that know what they're talking about, and consequently noobs pick it up and start talking about scaling their cat up. lol.

BlueTurtle said:

You can't just push the 'SCALE ME' button 10 times.

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Think there could be a profit in that niche?

As for scaling up, The niche I'm in scaling up is as simple as getting more traffic and finding better monetization methods, thats about all that's available. Other then a complete design rehall (Current design seems to be juicing CTR at it's maximum though).

downornot said:

As for scaling up, The niche I'm in scaling up is as simple as getting more traffic and finding better monetization methods, thats about all that's available. Other then a complete design rehall (Current design seems to be juicing CTR at it's maximum though).

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Yeah, one doesn't really 'scale up' in SEO etc.

The term 'scaling up' was used a lot for stuff like posting on classified ad sites where scaling up meant going from 10 posts to 100, to 1000 and so on.

It's just silly because it's not like you were going to just sit on your ass was it? You didn't need some guy telling you to scale up, lol I'm sure you already planned on getting more traffic, building more sites etc. It's your business and you have your own business plan to follow.

downornot said:

Think there could be a profit in that niche?

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Hehe, definitely

My dad used to keep asking me to build a bot for him where he could just push a button and make money.

Version 1: $$ Money Button $$

Version 2: New feature! $$ Scale Button $$ -- Version 2 of our fantastic super push button software will now not only transport you immediately to the nearest caribbean beach with a cigar in hand, but now we have a brand new, state of the art BIG RED SCALE BUTTON! Yes, folks! You heard me right. A REAL LIVE SCALE BUTTON! Now you can push the big red $$ SCALE $$ as many times as you need to. Each time you hit scale then push $$ MONEY BUTTON $$ You'll be transported to a caribbean beach, not only with a cigar, but a massive bag of money! Yours now, for only $9.99 !!

Really Nice Information dude..

BlueTurtle said:

Hehe, definitely

My dad used to keep asking me to build a bot for him where he could just push a button and make money.

Version 1: $$ Money Button $$

Version 2: New feature! $$ Scale Button $$ -- Version 2 of our fantastic super push button software will now not only transport you immediately to the nearest caribbean beach with a cigar in hand, but now we have a brand new, state of the art BIG RED SCALE BUTTON! Yes, folks! You heard me right. A REAL LIVE SCALE BUTTON! Now you can push the big red $$ SCALE $$ as many times as you need to. Each time you hit scale then push $$ MONEY BUTTON $$ You'll be transported to a caribbean beach, not only with a cigar, but a massive bag of money! Yours now, for only $9.99 !!

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Sounds like something you would find on WSO heh heh

WayneInc said:

Really Nice Information dude..

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What type of information would you like? ask and maby i can answer, But don't expect me to give away anything that could cause me to have an influx of competition :3

Yes i agree with you..u can find all this information in WSO...btw its gr8 starting..

downornot said:

Sounds like something you would find on WSO heh heh

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downornot said:

What type of information would you like? ask and maby i can answer, But don't expect me to give away anything that could cause me to have an influx of competition :3

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Actually now you mention it, it is interesting that you've gone after bing. I've never been a fan of SEO due to the nature of Google. I tend not to like unstable businesses. If I put in 3 months work I don't want it all to go down the drain because of some search engine change.

Bing however looks interesting as a supplement to getting traffic in via media buys + social.

I'll hit you with a few questions if you don't mind:


1) Traffic

Right, so I see there's a bing keyword tool here http://www.bing.com/toolbox/keywords

Did you use the bing keyword tool to find keywords that have a good search volume on bing, or did it just happen that a niche you had picked had a lot of volume on bing?

I haven't researched this, but everyone up until you now, has said they get about 2-5% of their search volume from bing and 90%+ from Google. I've also seen a lot say the bing traffic doesn't convert.

Possible reasons:

A) They've just researched niches that have high volume on google, but not so high bing volume
B) Perhaps bing has gotten *significantly* better for marketers in the past 3 months.


So for simplicity's sake I'll re-phrase the questions:

Q1) Did you use the bing keyword tool to find a niche with a lot of bing traffic.
Q2) What % of your traffic is from bing and what % is from social. This is key one since if 90% is from social then bing still isn't terribly hot for marketers.


$187/day is a very good chunk of change for 1 web site with SEO, so if it's mostly from bing then that makes bing a very serious consideration.





Thanks!

WayneInc said:

Yes i agree with you..u can find all this information in WSO...btw its gr8 starting..

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wth are you going on about..? :-/

what kind of CPA network did you used right now dude?

vahnz13 said:

what kind of CPA network did you used right now dude?

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Why do people ask such retarded questions. How is that useful at all? How will that help anyone make money?

This is as useful as asking what kind of car he drives. It puts people off answering questions when they get hammered by basic useless questions.

He could be using ANY network. IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE! Any legit network will pay. Pick one and push traffic.

Or are you trying to fish for his niche by asking this? Pretty lame.