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

hi @Shaunm
i was reading this post, http://shaunmarrs.com/profile-and-forum-contextual/
can this same trick be used for "Guest Post Comment" to make them more contextual ?
how do you do it ?

Yarharharharhar said:

viewing your sites as an investment is golden. I like that. theres no need to be number 1 when 8th pays the bills.

I hope your authority site takes off well in 2018. Alcoholism is shitstorm, and depression is its piggy-backin bitch. what an ugly terror they make.

whats the total word count for your authority site, and how many images does it have? whats your plan to make it a success in 2018?

how many adsense ads are you putting per page? have you done everything you can to increase your rpm.

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Exactly, I am looking to shift my churn and burn mindset ASAP as i'm sick of putting so much effort in just for Google to slap it all away in the next update and switch to seeing all my sites as a long term investment. The /r/juststart community have helped me see that you don't need your site to make you anything quickly, most of their sites make nothing or very little the first year as they are based around lasting as long as possible. To keep the math simple, I rather spend $100 on a site and have it earn me $100 a year from the second year onwards than a site mate me $200 in the first year then get slapped.

Totally agree, i'm going to try the whole healthy body healthy mind thing for 2018, I want to start running again, switch the keto diet and stop drinking. It's unreal how much cash I have wasted on alcohol. Back in 2014 I was spending around £1000 a month on going out and getting so drunk I blacked out. Looking back, I am kind of glad I did it all then though and got it out of my system so I can knuckle down now as i'm in my 30s.

By authority site do you mean my personal blog? TBH i'm not too fussed about making that a success, if it makes money then great but I initially used it as a knowledge dump as I was repeating myself at least once a week spread across the various Forums and Skypr groups. I basically did a knowledge dump and tytpes up everything I knew about SER in one place so I can just link to it. I don't use SER anymore though, havent since August so I have flipped all the banner ads to crypto based ones and plan to use the site as more of a journey log. I am pretty sure I have been hit by every major rollout in the past 18 months as well as a number of smaller ones too so its kind of going to be like an attempt at the whole rising from the ashes thing. If by images you mean the custom artwork then it currently has about with about 100 left to be delivered.

I only have two adsense ads per page on my adsense site now to see if it helps recover the site from the 12th December update, it used to have six ads per page. Regarding RPM, it is low when compaired to my amazon RPMs and over the past 6 month to a year all adsense RPMs have falled due to major advertisers pulling their ad spend off the platform. This thread from a few weeks back would suggest my RPM is pretty high when it comes to adsense levels though. All traffic is Organic with the majority being from the USA, UK and CA.

hadron said:

hi @Shaunm
i was reading this post, http://shaunmarrs.com/profile-and-forum-contextual/
can this same trick be used for "Guest Post Comment" to make them more contextual ?
how do you do it ?

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I haven't used SER since August and I am a mac user so don't have a way to boot it up and check. Is guest post comments a new catagory or something? On the main project page where you add your URL that you want SER to build links for, scroll down and see if there is a data field for the content to be used when posting to a guest post comment engine. I don't remember the macro off the top of my head but it will be in the article you linked, I think its %article%, place that in the content field then do a dry run building links to a made up URL to see if it works.

One thing is that a bunch of the engines have a character limit set by the CMS. If I remember correctly microblogs will only ever let you post 200 characters for example no matter what you do.

I have to admit you're the toughest and most consistent individual I've seen in along time --- Your push motivates me alot ! I thought this was going to end pretty soon with daily charts and progress reports but was proofed sooo wrong. .

You amazed me bruh --- I'd admit ! Good luck and Happy New year.

Hello Shawn,

Can you recommend hosting providers for your PBNs? I have been searching for hosting and it looks like it will cost $100 for one year of hosting and $9-10 for the domain. Or maybe I am missing cheaper alternatives? Maybe hosting several sites in Digital Ocean, one per droplet (as each droplet has a unique IP).

Thanks,

Topiano said:

I have to admit you're the toughest and most consistent individual I've seen in along time --- Your push motivates me alot ! I thought this was going to end pretty soon with daily charts and progress reports but was proofed sooo wrong. .

You amazed me bruh --- I'd admit ! Good luck and Happy New year.

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Cheers man

masta2133 said:

Hello Shawn,

Can you recommend hosting providers for your PBNs? I have been searching for hosting and it looks like it will cost $100 for one year of hosting and $9-10 for the domain. Or maybe I am missing cheaper alternatives? Maybe hosting several sites in Digital Ocean, one per droplet (as each droplet has a unique IP).

Thanks,

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There is a guy in the BST, I think he is called pbn.hosting but I cant find his thread for some reason. He is still pretty expensive though in all honesty, I just put them all on shared hosting for now and cloudflare them. There are a few guides on how to do it online if you Google them. There is a relitivly new crypto out called Substatrum that will make the process even easier then cloud flare it is works as they hope.

Shaunm said:

Cheers man



There is a guy in the BST, I think he is called pbn.hosting but I cant find his thread for some reason. He is still pretty expensive though in all honesty, I just put them all on shared hosting for now and cloudflare them. There are a few guides on how to do it online if you Google them. There is a relitivly new crypto out called Substatrum that will make the process even easier then cloud flare it is works as they hope.

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Thanks Shaunm,
May I ask you what is the best way to buy expired domains, what metrics matter to you, do you have any recommendations to give ? I did my own research but I am just looking for your individual perspective.

masta2133 said:

Thanks Shaunm,
May I ask you what is the best way to buy expired domains, what metrics matter to you, do you have any recommendations to give ? I did my own research but I am just looking for your individual perspective.

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I have used a number of brokers over the years, pretty sure that Nargil is the only one still selling out of who I have purchased from in the past though. I was mainly planning to use bridge networks though as they are much cheaper and were getting good results before the rollout on the 12th. Still going over my money pages looking for patterns though and I think they will still work.

Shaunm said:

Welcome to my journey to growing my fresh money site network from close to $100 per month to what I hope will end up being over $10,000 a month one day.

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Is it $10K per day or 10K per Month?

If it is 10K per Day is really BIG amount.

K.H.R said:

Is it $10K per day or 10K per Month?

If it is 10K per Day is really BIG amount.

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Its per month.

• Found a pattern in the off page for the pages on my domains that were slapped and came up with a way to test it but it will probably take a few month to see if it works or not. Most the stuff I have seen online about the rollout points towards one single blog post saying it is a keyword issue but i'm not buying into it just yet.
  
• Made a new system to better track my freelance writer jobs using Upwork, Trello and Google Calendars.
  
• Bought a bunch of audio books on Audible in the new years sale. I used my monthly credit to pick up a Jack Ma book. I have seen a few YouTube videos with him in and I think it should be worth listening to.
  
• Posted to my various forum accounts to keep them warm.
  
• Cleaned out my SERP tracker as I had a bunch of stuff for legacy projects and tests that were short term for trying to fault find on the 12th December update.
  
• Received 10 articles that were initially intended for one of the sites hit on the 12th but I will repurpose it and use it on the zero back linking domain I have as the niches should blend together without problems.
  
• Listened to Audible.
  
• Ordered a new article for my newest site as I plan to add at least one new article per money site per month.
  
• Started to post the new articles to their money site domains.
  
• Recorded and published my first YouTube video for my YouTube channel.

cola33 said:

Hello Shaunm, i want to ask you a few things about building a manual GSA SER site list. Could you help me please?

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I published these guides on building your own auto accept list a few month back, to my knowledge, they are still the best around. Feel free to ask anything else in this thread rather than in private messages as I get asked the same questions alot and this way more people get to see the answers.

• Started pushing out live jobs to my freelancers using the new system I setup last night. So far it seems like it should be a smoother process but different freelancers want their jobs pushed in different ways so it will need some tweaking over the coming days.
  
• Checked my over nights and the SERPs for my main site seem to have not recovered as it used to since the rollout on the 12th. I am hoping it will bounce back up tonight but the site is profitable now and even with around 60 hits per day it should make $144 per month. Not the best but its better than nothing.
  
• Ethereum managed to climb to the $900 mark over night with OmiseGo falling slightly. I am looking for a buy in ratio of at least 1 ETH = 50 OMG but its still slightly off. I’m hoping over the coming days it will balance out so I can increase my OMG holdings.
  
• Posted out more of the MS filler and T1 content across my networks.
  
• Noticed that a number of bridge network domains have been deindexed at root level. I expect this is due to a penalty of some sort so I have taken the sites offline to reduce the load on the hosting packages. Not sure why it happened but I will keep an eye on the other ones. Curious if these getting deindexed maybe a reason my site suddenly fell but I don't index check them often so I don't know when it happened.
  
• Spent some time going over the keywords for the various money pages I have live, due to my two earning sites having been hit by the rollout on the 12th, I have decided to focus all of my efforts onto a new site that I have been building over the past few weeks. The hope is that if the two I have now fall out of the SERPs due to the rollout on the 12th then this new site will hold its ranks as it is being built totally differently. I have reached out to my current writing team offering them T1 writing jobs for the project.
  
• Researched a few different hosting companies as the ones I am currently using for some money sites keep having problems.
  
• Listened to Audible.
  
• Changed the formatting of some of the categories on my personal blog to make it easier to navigate.
  
• Spent some time training one of the freelancer writers I work with explain when I give them specific keywords and tell them where and how many times to use them. Hoping he just does what I tell him rather than ad lib and go his own way again.
  
• Recorded and uploaded the second video for my YouTube channel.

Following this thread as well, glws.

Frenzied said:

Following this thread as well, glws.

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Cheers man i'm hoping for big things in 2018!

Shaunm said:

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• Started pushing out live jobs to my freelancers using the new system I setup last night. So far it seems like it should be a smoother process but different freelancers want their jobs pushed in different ways so it will need some tweaking over the coming days.
  
• Checked my over nights and the SERPs for my main site seem to have not recovered as it used to since the rollout on the 12th. I am hoping it will bounce back up tonight but the site is profitable now and even with around 60 hits per day it should make $144 per month. Not the best but its better than nothing.
  
• Ethereum managed to climb to the $900 mark over night with OmiseGo falling slightly. I am looking for a buy in ratio of at least 1 ETH = 50 OMG but its still slightly off. I’m hoping over the coming days it will balance out so I can increase my OMG holdings.
  
• Posted out more of the MS filler and T1 content across my networks.
  
• Noticed that a number of bridge network domains have been deindexed at root level. I expect this is due to a penalty of some sort so I have taken the sites offline to reduce the load on the hosting packages. Not sure why it happened but I will keep an eye on the other ones. Curious if these getting deindexed maybe a reason my site suddenly fell but I don't index check them often so I don't know when it happened.
  
• Spent some time going over the keywords for the various money pages I have live, due to my two earning sites having been hit by the rollout on the 12th, I have decided to focus all of my efforts onto a new site that I have been building over the past few weeks. The hope is that if the two I have now fall out of the SERPs due to the rollout on the 12th then this new site will hold its ranks as it is being built totally differently. I have reached out to my current writing team offering them T1 writing jobs for the project.
  
• Researched a few different hosting companies as the ones I am currently using for some money sites keep having problems.
  
• Listened to Audible.
  
• Changed the formatting of some of the categories on my personal blog to make it easier to navigate.
  
• Spent some time training one of the freelancer writers I work with explain when I give them specific keywords and tell them where and how many times to use them. Hoping he just does what I tell him rather than ad lib and go his own way again.
  
• Recorded and uploaded the second video for my YouTube channel.

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Nice informative video. I would suggest a dedicated server for hosting your money sites. Never had a problem with OVH.

masta2133 said:

Nice informative video. I would suggest a dedicated server for hosting your money sites. Never had a problem with OVH.

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I was looking at getting a dedicated server a while back. Is it OVH where you need to know how to set everything up yourself?

Havent had much free time today due to a bunch of offline stuff.

• Spent some time researching the Cardano crypto currency. I still prefer Ethereum and OmiseGo so will look to increase my OMG stack rather than purchasing Cardano as its looking over extended right now and due a price correction.
  
• Started typing up some T1 content to try help keep costs down and speed up this test I have planned for my new domain.
  
• Started to put some time in on faulting finding for the update from the 12th December. Went over my current main site looking for possible reasons the effected pages might have been hit. I have seen a bunch of people saying it is due to keyword permutations but my effected pages don’t match up with that.
  
• Picked up some more OMG as the ratio against ETH just keeps getting lower so I decided to bit the bullet and just increase my stack at the current ratio. If it gets better I can always pick more up.
  
• Started to receive articles back from my writing team so posted them out to the networks and pushed additional jobs out to them.
  
• It seems theres some problem with a few of my freelancers writers account on upwork and they are unable to accept or submit work so I have moved over to email for now.
  
• Started penning notes down for my Bridge Network video.

Keep it up man, your consistency is a real rarity with regards to bhw journeys.

Hey Shaunm, thanks for putting this journey together. I really appreciate it. I want to ask you a couple of questions regarding your PBNs. Do you remember when did you started seeing changes to your positions after you added the PBN links? Did you also had any links before?

Watched your journey video the other day, a really unique perspective you have there. I've always thought people coming out of the military/ jobs like that are prime to start earning money as they have a reasonably good wage, very little costs & nowhere to spend their money, so when they come home they have a decent amount saved up to invest.