Journey To Independence - An Action Oriented Approach

Thanks for the encouragement! Do you have some specific ranking gig in mind?

DAY 15

The good news is that two of my niches seems to be picking up, they have both one video on the first page of youtube. The bad news is that the traffic is from all over the world and not from the good paying countries.

I will give the views provider a comment to drip feed the views over 5 days (5k views total, 1k/day). I'll add all the other stuff also to be drip fed over that timeframe. I hope it works.

Total niches created: 12
Total visits to sites: 24 + 18 visitors from commenting other youtube vids



The download was from the niche I got traffic by commenting yt videos. CTR is 35% that is really huge.. since most days it's around 11%.. will see how it changes when I get more traffic. Downloads are low cause all the traffic is from low paying countries.

I have not launched any more niches during this timeframe. I created two legit niches and I have gotten total of under 18 visits from them to my sites (in two weeks timeframe). I don't know how many download if any have I gotten from those two because my MCL postback does not work with Adrworkmedia. I try to get it working but I have not succeeded thus far.

I did not achieved my goal of 215$. Not even a 10% of it. I just really suck in ranking ANY videos in youtube. I managed to rank 2-3 on the first page and most of the visits came from them but I did not do anything differently with them as I did with other videos and the competition was also not that big.

DAY 16-30

Total niches created: 12
Total visits to sites: 627 (50 from USA, that's 8%). That is 44,78 visits per day, 3,73 visits per site/day. Most of the traffic came from very bad countries in the sense of IM.



The CTR of the locker is 26% witch I think is average for gaming niche? Or should I aim for higher CTR?

TOTAL ERNINGS FOR MONTH 1:



As you can see, it's really poor.
In total I spent 34$ on HR views + 17$ for VPS + 10$ for VPN.

Total Spent month 1: 61$
Total Earned month 1: 19$

THE PLAN:

I don't have one. I am down a bit. I am spending 3x times the money I am making out of it + lot's of work hours.

My plan will be to find niches that US, AU, FR or any other high and normal paying countries are searching for (using Google Keyword Planner) and that includes fake and legit niches. For me, the hardest part is ranking the videos and my own laziness. Though, to rank videos, I need money and I need to rank them so that I make more money than I spend.

Don't give up you're going a good job you just need to put a extra effort to target high payout countries.
You are earning from that first day and thats the best part looking forward to your journey.

END OF THE FIRST METHOD

So, I let all my sites run on autopilot and I was searching for other ways to make money online. I have not added any new niches or made any work on the old ones.

10. OKT - 25. OKT

Total niches created: 12
Total visits to sites: 450, that is 34.6 visits per day, 2.3 visits per site/day. (5 sites out of 12 did not bring any visitors, 1 site brought 228 visits - most of the revenue also).

Earnings:
Widget Impressions: 429, Clicks: 105, Downloads: 7, EPC: 0.07, Revenue: $7.48

My 2 legit niches I set up get around 3 visits/day both. They have brought in about $6 so that's good. I made the sites really good and the video + proof are also very nice. EPC for one site was around 0.2, so that's good.

With that said, I will no longer continue with this method. I might create legit niches as I got hold of a very good site where I can buy e-books and then sell or give away them for free. I might use that site for other ideas in the future also.

Maybe I gave up on this method too soon but I only managed to make one niche profitable while other 11 pretty much failed. The investment was not worth it.

THE FIRST NEW METHOD

Actually, it's not new, the idea is very old but the set up is new. "Test things and do what works best for you" they say.. I think it's a good advice. I am going back to movie niche. I have been doing it half assed for a year now and I get around 100? from it every month.

It used to be pretty simple a year back and I was way too lazy back then. I uploaded one video, got 600 visits/day from it and made $18/day. Pretty sweet, isn't it? 400 views in vagex and couple of likes and it was ranked

Well.. it's nothing like that anymore. My ranking skills are rather poor (as pointed out in the journey). YT deletes videos at a lightspeed. If you think hack niche is hard for getting videos deleted, try movies niche and you shall never complain again. But why go into this niche then one might ask? Well, the answer is simple: SPAM!

When searching for movies on YT, all the first pages are full of trailers and other stuff like reviews, clips, animation etc (year back it was couple of trailers and then the movie niche videos). So I can't quite compeat with those videos and ranking a video is a waste as it get's deleted so fast. My plan is to upload 50 videos to YT every day and get visits from long tail kw-s. It usually takes me around 2 hours per day to do that.

What I have:
VPN (for logging in)
Bought Gmail accounts
My own created script that makes a page for the film, create tags and description, create a shortlink etc.
Video Spin Blaster

I have already done this uploading for some days and have uploaded more than 200 videos. I have no idea how many are up and how many are deleted as I do not bother to write down the video urls - there are just too many. I have 3 movie sites, while two of them bring in about 100 visits/day. I will update only the one site stats here because the other two are just there, I am not doing anything with them.

24.OKT

Visits to site: 200
Earnings: AWM $4.55 (EPC: 0.09), Adgate: $2.68 (EPC: 0.16)
TOTAL: $7.23

THE SECOND NEW METHOD

I am going to follow http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/making-money/533576-5-enough-edgematch-way.html thread. I have not done anything at all but I will as soon as I have some time.

25.OKT

I uploaded 50 videos and did not work on the second method.

Visits to site: 296
Earnings: AWM $11.30 (EPC: 0.15), Adgate: $6.70 (EPC: 0.21)
TOTAL: $18.00

I got lucky with an AU $7 pin in AWM. Got traffic from 76 different videos.

26.OKT

I uploaded 25 videos as I was very tired and didn't feel the best (still haven't done anything regarding the second method).

Visits to site: 384
Earnings: AWM $5.55 (EPC: 0.05), Adgate: $6.70 (EPC: 0.19)
TOTAL: $12.25

I am not pleased with AWM at all. My legit niches got 12 clicks yesterday and they convert with 30%. Yesterday I got 0 conversions, I got only 1-2 conversions on the best performing offers on AWM in movie niche. I think it's cause when the week is ending, they get a lot of traffic and the users have already filled the same offers from other publishers or the network has reached it conversions cap which is really unfortunate as I get a lot more traffic on the weekends. Did I mention they shave clicks?

Anyways, I will split test with MGCash. They allow copyrighted content and I have had good results with them in the past. I don't know how they are now so.. I will try to try them out.

Keep us posted man, you are scaling it a bit up, now do this x 100

27.OKT

I uploaded 50 videos today. Got some nice traffic. I have also changed the network as Adworkmedia does not approve this kind of traffic. I will test out other networks.

Visits to site: 538
Earnings: Network 1 $12.05 (EPC: 0.08), Network 2: $1.34 (EPC: 0.02)
TOTAL: $13.39

Today I discovered that almost all of my videos have been banned. It's definately disincouraging. The bad thing is that I don't know how YT connected all these videos. The message was that the account connected to this video has been banned. Is it the accounts provider fault then? Bad accounts?

I create the YT accounts from bought non-phone verified gmail accounts. I log in to the accounts using VPN and different IP-s. The videos are spinned and unique I guess.. I use the same description format but I change the order of the kw-s in description and tags. I also use firefox portable to log in to the accounts, it clears cache and cookies automatically.

The only thing that connects these accounts is that they use google url shortener and they all take the videos to the same domain. Also my user agent is the same (windows verison and browser version).

I would really appreciate if you have some ideas what might have caused the mass bann.

Sorry for not updating for couple of days. I sometimes forget and sometimes I am tired, don't have time etc.

28.OKT

As I said, almost 80% of my videos got mass banned on the same day. It discouraged me a lot but I still uploaded 50 new videos.

Visits to site: 161
Earnings: Network 1: $1.90 (EPC: 0.05), Network 2: $4.02 (EPC: 0.16)
TOTAL: $5.92

29.OKT

Today I decided to learn as much as possible about mass banning on youtube. I made a thread on BHW and CPAElites but got almost no answers. Then I searched BHW for info etc.

I made some serious changes and started tracking every video that I uploaded and all the variables that went with it.

ATM I have 4 batches of videos uploaded all with different characteristics. I am very happy that I found this gem tool just when I needed it:http://www.cpaelites.com/Thread-YouTube-...our-videos

I will want to know how often does YT mass bann and if my videos survive it or not. I have a lot of points in mind why the videos might get mass banned and some things I just can not control (too expensive and not worth the trouble). If I get some new data, I am sure to write it here.

Cause I was doing research I was not able to upload any videos (time).

Visits to site: 205
Earnings: Network 1: $3.80 (EPC: 0.07), Network 2: $4.02 (EPC: 0.25)
TOTAL: $7.82

30.OKT

Today I uploaded the different patches of videos and did all the work based on the research I had made yesterday. I uploaded only 26 videos though.

Visits to site: 191
Earnings: Network 1: $5.50 (EPC: 0.13), Network 2: $8.04 (EPC: 0.40)
TOTAL: $13.54

I will upload more videos today and will track their destiny.

Thank you for following!

Thanks for following

31.OKT

Uploaded 50 videos (5 per account). It takes more time and is more tedious when you have to check if the VPN ip is from the same subnet or not when connecting. Also writing up the videos url-s for tracking takes time etc. Thus far, the videos have been up for 6 days. Some have banned for copyright but others seem to be up. Maybe the mass bann will happen tomorrow or day after that. I am pleased if it's a week long cycle.. it gives me time to get some traffic.

Got a lot of visitors today, 2 halloween related videos got almost 100 visits each. I remember when there was this huge storm in US when NY was under water etc.. the day after tomorrow video got a superboost from visits Funny

Visits to site: 373
Earnings: Network 1: $14.65 (EPC: 0.20), Network 2: $6.70 (EPC: 0.22)
TOTAL: $21.35

Got lucky with a $9 AU pin submit.

1.NOV

I was hung over from last night and watched Star Wars and read the forums. Did not do any work BUT came to a nice idea. I will have to search more about the idea. Reading the forums while hi always gives some ideas

Visits to site: 230
Earnings: Network 1: $4.75 (EPC: 0.10), Network 2: $4.02 (EPC: 0.15)
TOTAL: $8.77

Will upload some videos today and search about the new idea. If it works.. It would surely boost my earnings.

2.NOV

Uploaded 50 videos, so far couple of accounts have been banned but not mass-banned. The traffic is very low though.

Visits to site: 88
Earnings: Network 1: $0.00 (EPC: 0.00), Network 2: $5.36 (EPC: 0.28)
TOTAL: $5.36

3.NOV

Did nothing except for reading on new methods and tricks.

Visits to site: 199
Earnings: Network 1: $4.75 (EPC: 0.11), Network 2: $1.34 (EPC: 0.08)
TOTAL: $6.09

Ernings have dropped. I have to keep pumping up more videos if I want to reach $20/day at the end of the month.

Interesting method you have going there, I'll be following you! Good luck

Thank you for reading

4.NOV


Uploaded 50 videos.


Visits to site: 215
Earnings: Network 1: $2.75 (EPC: 0.06), Network 2: $1.34 (EPC: 0.06)
TOTAL: $4.09


5.NOV


Uploaded 100 videos. Lots of older videos have been deleted, kinda a mass bann.


Visits to site: 247
Earnings: Network 1: $1.90 (EPC: 0.05), Network 2: $2.68 (EPC: 0.17)
TOTAL: $4.58


6.NOV


Had time to upload only 40 videos. Got hit by a big mass ban. Was lucky with a FR pin.


Visits to site: 182
Earnings: Network 1: $16.70 (EPC: 0.39), Network 2: $0.00 (EPC: 0.00)
TOTAL: $16.70


I am not quitting but it has become more and more clear to me that spamming shit is not the way to make money online. I put quite a bit of hours into this every day and my work is just not paying off. YT bans just too fast.


I am AGAIN changing the plans. I try to upload 50-100 videos per day to get SOME income (not working anywhere) but my main focus will be some other legit method. I am thinking atm what I shall start doing and then I'll report back here.