[Journey] Growing A Money Site Network To $10,000 A Month!

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Set a goal back in July to not drink any alcohol for the whole month of August to prove to myself I could do it. Managed to pull it off and went out last night to celebrate (yea, celebrate not drinking by getting steaming) but I'm hungover to fuck now so today is a write off and I won't be doing much if anything at all IM related other than dailies on my VPS and clients rigs.

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staypositive said:

haha.. so u managed to hold 30 days wine quota into one night my friend?

take care!

P.S. love your journey. !

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• Noticed a few of the Manual T1 and SERE/RX T2 pages have popped onto page two for their keywords but not sure if it will hold as they have been dancing for a few weeks.
  
• Either my Pocket crashed or I deleted everything when I was drunk but either way its a bit of a nightmare as I had a load of social media strategies saved to it that I wanted to use if I started a vlog. Luckily managed to get a bunch of it back by scanning Reddit.
  
• Processed another batch of content orders and posted them out to the BN and money site network.
  
• Read my kindle.
  
• Completed weekly servicing.
  
• Ran theme/plugin updates across the networks.
  
• Did a little more keyword research for my next website and planned it out in my note pad based on stuff I have worked out from testing over the past 5-6 month.
  
• Although I was planning on waiting out on any more content orders for a while, I think I might push another few hundred dollars worth of orders out for the remaining money pages on my main site to link from the BN to it. If the whole BN theory works and links do have to age in around 5 month I rather get them online now rather than later and then the income from this site will help me scale in the future into more sites.
• Been approached to beta test a new Amazon link localiser so I will give it a try but I can see it being an uphill battle for them to beat AAWP now.
  
• Gave up on reading don't sweat the small stuff. I don't rate the book at all. I feel it's trying to push ideas based on a dream land of love and harmony that doesn't exisit making it hard to action most the ideas and points in it. Updated my reading list post with its rating.

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• The cheap T2 PBN blast is rolling out that I got a few days back now. Curious as to help the BN posts and money page react.
  
• So I tried to read meditations for a third time and ended up putting it down within half an hour again. I decided there must be a better translation out there as so many people say its an excellent book so I did a little research and saw a bunch of people on Reddit recommend the Gregory Hays version so I ordered it of Kindle. Only read the first few pages and it is much better so looking forward to reading it. Did the same process for the history of the Peloponnesian War. Tried to find one for the prince but couldent find one.
  
• Processed todays incoming content batch. Checked over the work of the writer posting directly to the domain and she’s doing a good job.
  
• Started planning a small BN, probably 10 domains made up of old dropped domains as I am curious if the age of the root domain has much of an effect on fresh pages. Going to pick up a few lower spec PBN domains too so waiting out until Friday to see whats in stock.
  
• Topped up my copyscape credits as theres so much content coming in right now i’m burning through the credits.
• Came up with a theory for a PBN test to build it out as a full website so I spent some time researching a method to do it. Found plugins that should let me try it so I plan to give it a try on this next round of PBN domains.
  
• A few more of the Manual Web 2 T1 stuff from a few month back have climbed up onto the second page for their keywords.
  
• Updated the system on how I track my tests to keep it all in one spreadsheet rather than 3 different places. In theory it should make it all easier.
• Read my kindle.

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• Assessed my full PBN system and decided to overhaul and expand it. Made a PBN/Money Page linking matrix and think I can utilise it much better. Planned out a whole new system as well as an expansion and how I want to go about overhauling the domains.
  
• Reached out to a bunch of PBN domain brokers for expansion, started processing the lists of a few of them but not planning on buying anything until I have seen whats available from all brokers.
  
• Tested some WordPress plugins to try and find a way to reach my goals with the PBN and I think I have a bunch that will work. If the theory works I will have a custom one coded to make it easier. As they are T1 PBNs/BNs I doubt site speed will be as important so I don’t think running so many plugins will be an issue.
  
• I have been going over the analytics/SERP data for my test network for about a week now but had so much on that I just haven’t had time to break it down. Although a few of the pages where I was trying to tweak my old SER method have climbed with some stuff getting on page two, the majority of it has either dropped out of the top 300 totally or stayed still. On the flip site the stuff with the manual web 2.0 T1 is doing much better, almost all of its keywords on both the money site network and test network have climbed, some only a few pages, some unto the page 1/2 point dancing between them. Although I never pointed any PBN links to the test network pages, the money site network pages I pointed them at have done the best out of everything I have build since starting the journey making me want to push even more money into expanding into PBNs/BNs. On a side note, I intentionally limited some of the test network domains total word count as a little internal tests to see if the total word count across the whole domain has any effect on SERP positions. Although it could do with more testing it defiantly seems that having over 30,000 words on the money site helps it ranker higher. I probably won’t do much more testing on that and just pay my writers to put 30,000 words of filler content on my money site domains from now on for me. It will actually save me a little money too as I picked the 50,000 words figure out of thing air and had been working to that. Anyway, the test network sites were never designed to rank first page for anything so I deleted the rank tracker and analytics profiles for them and turned off auto-renew subscription in Namecheap. I also repurposed them to a sort of test PBN to try and set them up as I want my live PBN with all of the plugins before trying it on a domain worth money.
  
• Read my Kindle.
  
• The hosting for the Bridgenetwork had a CPU spike again but it settled almost instantly by the look of it so the auto freeze never kicked in. I’m not 100% sure but I am using an indexing service on the bridge network as I don’t want non-contextual to it and I think the CPU spikes maybe the indexing service. No idea what they do but my thinking is that their system saves all the links up throughout the day and then processes them all at once sending a whole bunch of crawlers to the bridgenetwork. Just a theory but its the only thing I can think of as I checked my updraft settings and it never even ran today.
  
• Noticed a problem with the hosting of two of the PBN domains, the domain is online and lets me login but when I try to do anything with posts or pages it just loads a white screen. If it can’t be fixed I will just push it to new hosting and renew from updraft.
  
• Started updating my PBN domains and realised EasyBlogNetworks are actually really restrictive on what they let you add plugin wise. Its a bit of a pain so I might move the PBN domains to another hosting provider as EBN are pretty expensive too.
  
• Realised the IFTTT macros I set up a few days back have actually been helping me stay in a schedule as the days are blending together so I set a few more up.
• On the healthy body/healthy mind side of things I Had my calf checked out as it keeps cramping and apparently I have torn the muscle tissue so she said to take it easy until Monday so I will get back to running then. Looking to try a 3 month period of a good diet maybe the keto diet, working out, sticking to nofap, no alcohol and keeping above 6 hours productive time in Rescue time Monday-Friday, just planning it out now and waiting for Monday to see if I can run without my calf cramping up.
• So I managed to get 7 of the PBN domains the way I want them, 2 are having the problem with the white screens and one is giving a database error. Thats problems with three out of 10 domains hosted with EasyBlogNetworks. I will give it a few days to see if the problem domains get fixed or not and then look into moving them to a different host. I will look to start increasing their word count with human spun filler articles from tomorrow and go over my PBN metrx to try increase the efficiency of it. I also realised that one of the domains had all of its content on it but I hadn't linked out at all from it for some reason so added in my links.

expheria said:

Wish you all the luck into reaching your goal

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baidovich said:

It would be nice if you put an earning update along with your updates

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• Processed another bunch of incoming content orders but i’m going to hold the articles until I have processed the PBN orders over the weekend to see how many PBN domains I end up with,
  
• The PBN with the database error from yesterday is fixed so I set it up in the same way as the other one.
  
• Although I have read "start with why" before a friend linked me a video on Simon Sinek and he seems switched on. Had a little binge session on his YouTube videos and decided to reread start with why once my current reading list has been caught up with.
  
• Processed more domains from the domain brokers and do far very little has actually caught my eye Nargil is dropping his list in over the weekend and a friend who sells me any over flow he gets is sailing but when he gets back he’s going to give me a shout if he has anything too. I have been toying with the idea of dropping $5000 on domains too but keep swaying two and fro on it but from the stats I have seen of the domains on offer right now I would struggle to spend $250 in all honesty.
  
• Spent some time researching the Scrapebox article scraper plugin as it seems to be able to automate the posting of filler content to both the BN and PBN and it turns out I already own the plugin anyway. I am a bit nervous to let the plugin lose on either the PBN or the BN after I accidentally trashed the first BN with SER but I will probably give it a test run on either the trashed FBN domains or the old test network domains I scrapped yesterday.
  
• Read my kindle.
  
• Spent some more time research vlogging equipment and editing techniques. I think it will be a nice creative outlet while still being productive to help with personal branding but also something enjoyable.
  
• Ordered a low spec VPS to test the scrape box article scraper plugin to manage self hosted domains.

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• Read my Kindle.
  
• Put the finishing touches to my money site plan for future money sites I decide to build out.
  
• I negotiated a 10% discount for any of my readers wanting to use Looplines Autoapproved list a while back. We have both been crazy busy but it is now online, updated my blog to reflect this as well as my pretty links and you can get it via this page on his website - http://www.autoapprovemarketplace.com/ser-verified-lists-shaun-marrs/
  
• Received the login details for the VPS I ordered last night so set it up with the tool I plan to run from it and requested a licence refresh on my Scrapebox to use it, just waiting for that to go through now.
• Processed a large batch of incoming content but still going to hold it until all potential PBN domains have been processed.
  
• Finished planning out the PBN stuff I want to do, just waiting to settle on some domains. In total I have 32 money pages that I want to try and rank for.
  
• Rebuilt out a clients SER rig as he changed his mind in how he wants to use the tool.
  
• Scrapebox licence has been activated so started testing the Scrapebox article scraper plugin on my test network it does 90% of what I need and I can’t see any errors from it on the test network but I have had to reach out to Loopline for assistance with getting the plugin to use a custom login path as all my BN/PBNs are set up like that rather than the default wp-admin.
  
• Went over the keywords I want to target with my PBN and broke down what can be posted to the domains I already have an uploaded them.
  
• Remembered I accidentally used some T1 content as filler for some bridge network posts and never reordered it so pushed it out to one of my writers.

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• Setup some new Alfred macros.
  
• Read my kindle.
  
• Finished posting the content for the initial batch of content for the pages I selected last night.
  
• The two PBN domains that were having the problems with random white screens a few days back seem to have been fixed so I brought them unto date with how I have decided to run my PBNs now and added the content to them but noticed the exact same problem seems to be happening on two of the other domains with easyblognetworks so I am looking to move them to other hosting packages.
  
• Finished processing the domain scrapes I was sent and forgot how weak scraped domains are. I probably have around $700 worth of domains short listed across the domain brokers but I have decided to reach out to a few for their premium domains to see what they have on offer there.
  
• Noticed that the SER based money site I kept going seems to be in freefall for the past few days, hoping it manages to pull its self togeather but I plan to focus on PBNs and BNs with Manual T2s from now on.
• Processed the last few batches of content for my BN/Manual web 2.0s test but I have ran out of time today due to processing so many potential PBN domains.
• Received a few sets of premium PBN offerings, spent some more time filtering through them and decided to take a few from that set too. Total PBN expansion is probably going to cost $1500-$2000.
• While processing the premium PBN offerings I came up with a more efficient method of estimating a domains strength so ran my current PBN domains through it as well as the scrapes to add the stats to the PBN matrix spreadsheet I set up a few days back.

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• Finally got around to setting off a new test with SER against a random made up URL to try and get it to build some higher quality links.
  
• Had to spend some time rebuilding my dropbox paths as Loopline has updated his folder structure for his list or something and my dropbox wasn’t syncing with it correctly.
  
• Setup some new IFTTT’s as well as planned out some possible integrations for various services for future use.
  
• Completed weekly servicing.
  
• Reached out to Sven from GSA to have a feature added to SER to enable it to post directly to categories within self hosted WordPress blogs to make it easier to automate the posting of filler content to my PBNs/BNs. He said he has added something to the next version for it.
  
• Started pushing out a few content orders for the new PBN domains.
  
• Checked the results for the higher quality SER link test from earlier today and the link yield is pretty low. I may revisit it in the future but for now I am putting it on the back burner.
  
• Spent some time updating my PBN matrix with the details of the new domains and a tweaked the way it displays a few bits of data to make it easier to read in the future.
  
• Added the new PBN domains to my hosting, just waiting for their DNS to update before I can set them up. I will probably wait until tomorrow before doing anything with them though.
  
• The scrape box dev got back to me about the problem of not being able to login to my domains with custom login paths and the problem is fixed now so I will look to start automating filler content to the PBNs and BN later in the week.

Somiibo said:

Good luck! I'm doing some social media blogs as well

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• Did some math for my content requirements to fill up the PBN domains and it works out at around $550 mark in total bringing the whole thing in just under budget. I reached out to my writing team to try get estimates of a completion ETA but its all over the place due to them having a bunch of work on as well as real life stuff so I may have to take on a few other writers for it to supplement my team.
  
• Started to build out my new set of PBN domains.
  
• Tweaked some of my work flows and typed up a few work instructions for VA’s to set domains up for me but i’m not 100% sure I will go ahead with it or if I will just do it all myself.
  
• Spent some time going over the pages from the network that have used auto generated content in their link pyramid vs 100% unique article or manual spins and the auto generated stuff is definitely under performing when compared to the manual stuff. Not sure if it is Penguin 4, Fred a combination of both or something else but I am dropping all auto generated content from my projects moving forward.
  
• Canceled the subscription to some rented PBN links I set up as I now plan to do it myself with my new domains.
  
• Agreed to do some keyword processing for one of my clients against the keywords he has shortlisted to try and narrow them down to keywords that are realistic.
  
• I found out that Kindle have a pretty decent data tracker available to help me track my reading but it is only available on child accounts behind parental controls for some reason. I set a childs account up to test it and the feature works perfectly but I am unable to export the highlights I make on that account. I have contacted Kindle support to ask if there is any scope to have the data tracker added to the kindle owners account as its is a good feature or at least have the highlight sharing restrictions removed.
  
• Read my Kindle.
  
• Spent some time looking for an easier way to setup BN and PBN domains from scratch. I noticed WP Fresh Start a few weeks back and decided to get it to give it a try as its only $20 but should save me 5-10 minutes per domain. Tried it out on 3 domains now and its pretty simple to use but lacks a bunch of features that could make it perfect but I might take advantage of this with my own tool in the future if I have it made.

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• Started to plan out how to push content orders out to my writing team while keeping everything organised as best as possible. I think I have a working system but it will probably need tweaking as content orders go out.
• Processed an incoming content order and pushed it out to the old PBN/BN to link to money pages on the money site network.
  
• Finished reading Meditations and updated my reading list post to reflect it. I tried reading Rich Habits but it seemed like a waste of time after reading the first two chapters so I dropped it and moved on to On War. I also updated the description of each tier in my reading list to better explain what each tier means to me.
  
• Read my kindle.
  
• Finished the initial set up of the last few domains from my recent PBN domain purchase. They will need a little tweaking when I start to post content to them later but for the most part they are done. I know I am leaving a few footprints to save time and money, but the sites I am targeting with them were never designed to be powered up with a PBN. If it works then I will design the next batch of money sites around PBN/BN usage.
  
• Pushed out a $250 content order to split between about 7 writers. Its about a half of the content required for the new PBN and I will just resend orders to these same writers once they deliver to complete the rest of the required content.
• Did my first serious test of posting out filler content to the bridge network using the scrape box auto scraper plugin and it seems to have worked perfectly so I am happy with that. I will probably do a few more runs testing it on the BN before moving it over to the PBN.
  
• Spent some time researching Imgur as a possible future traffic leaking source for future projects. If I do start my vlog and do the whole digital nomad thing then I think I will try a few blasts to videos to see how it does.
  
• I was browsing the SER forum and noticed another user had made a suggestion that would make it realistic for users to use human wrote articles in SER rather than spins while keeping their costs down. Brain stormed a little on the idea and added a few suggestions to the thread. If this gets implemented then I will be going live with an idea for SER links on T1 and T2 for a number of projects with the goal of diluting my anchor text profiles as well as increasing the number of referring domains to my projects to help mask BN/PBN links. Heres the thread - http://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/23238/do-not-submit-same-article-more-than/p1
  
• Noticed a bunch of movement on what used to be my zero backlinking domain with one jumping onto the first page and more pages from my other site have jumped onto the second page. The third site I was focusing on seems in freefall.

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MonkeyJohn said:

I cannot remember...did you end up building some links to the "zero backlink" site?

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