Adsense was a gold rush for a lot of internet marketers in it’s early adoption however Google had to make several changes to improve the quality of traffic which resulted in a lot less profits for publishers. This was when phrases like “Adsense is dead” and “life after Adsense” were really common buzz words which no doubt you have come across on numerous occasions.

The strategy seemed to become less sites which offered greater quality content and a shift to promoting affiliate products and services and CPA opportunities. However the said warrior member recently went against the grain and adopted the following strategy.

• 1. More sites focusing on tightly themed niches or micro niches
• 2. Focus on popular products which can be found on sites such as Amazon, Ebay and Walmart (more likely to receive a greater RPC)
• 3. Greater emphasis on low competition keywords which have decent levels of traffic
• 4. Some of his greatest earners are sites with less than 30 pages, some sites with only one page are making $2-$3 a day
• 5. Builds 4-5 sies at a time and gets them ranking within a week
• 6. Content is always product descriptions
• 7. Relies exclusively on article marketing purely for back links
• 8. Occasionally ranks in the top 5 for keywords with no back links
• 9. Achieves up to a 75% click through rate

Just to add my 2 cents, the main key here which I believe is still rather under utilized is going after the low hanging fruit. It’s so tempting to go after that keyword which gets 500 to 1,000 searches a day rather than focus on the one which gets 50 – 100. You will have to do far less work to rank for those long tail keywords and spend more time building sites rather than building back links.

Also make sure your sites aren’t spammy, create good quality content which adds value for your visitors otherwise you may find your sites don’t hang around for long in the SE’s.

I am going to put this method to the test and see what sort of results I can come up with

For many people, making money with a small business has become much easier due to the advent of the Internet. There are quite a lot of things you can do to make money from home, and it doesn’t take a lot of time or effort to set it up. Sell items on eBay, or set up your own online store. In some cases, though, you don’t even have set up a store to get started. One of the best ways to make money online for many people is something called Forex trading, also known as “foreign exchange trading.”

Forex trading (also known as currency trading) is the buying and selling of currencies in order to make a profit. In order to make money, you need to be able to accurately predict movements in various currencies. As you can imagine, it isn’t easy especially if you are new to the game, but thankfully it’s not difficult to learn.

One way to do this is to read up on currency trading, which can take a lot of time. Of course, you should learn what you can, but you should do so by spending your time most effectively. Following are two reasons why currencies might go up or down in value.

First, changes in the interest rates in a country will affect that country’s currency. As an example, suppose that the USA raises interest rates. This makes US bonds more attractive to investors all over the world. This causes extra demand for US dollars which results in the dollar rising in value.

A currency may also change when a country’s major export either goes up or down in value. For example, Canada is a major oil exporter. When oil prices go up, Canada’s dollar, too, rises in value. This was true recently as oil prices shot up sharply. Oil prices now are dropping, so the Canadian dollar, too, is going down in value in tandem, and in some cases is faring badly against other currencies.

These are just two reasons why currencies can go up or down in value. Indeed, Forex trading can be quite complex.

It’s fortunate that you don’t actually have to know all the intricacies of the market before you can profit by trading. Those who have been professional traders have developed many Forex trading software programs. These programs will determine trends and signals so that you can find profitable trades that will help you make money. You need an Internet connection, and you need to install this software on your computer. The computer then takes real-time data and helps you generate trades with it.

These types of programs are a good idea if you’re just beginning in Forex trading because they let you make money while you’re learning about currency trading. As you become better and more knowledgeable about Forex trading, you can begin to make trades based on what the software’s telling you and on what your own intuition and skill tells you, too.

Shopping for one of these programs is quite easy, but there are some cautions to keep in mind. You don’t need a program that costs literally thousands of dollars. In fact, you can get quality software for about $100; the software is reliable and proven, and it can definitely make you money.

Also, make sure the company offers a moneyback guarantee. If the program works, there’s no reason why they won’t back it up with a guarantee. It’s some added piece of security for you.

Even if Forex trading has seemed unapproachable to you in the past, take a look at it. It can be easy to get started in and you can begin to make some pretty decent money with it. It’s also a lot of fun! Best of luck to you!

Ed’s method to test a market is to locate an affiliate product(s) related to your niche. There are dozens of affiliate networks where you can find products to sell as well as going directly to companies.

• The first step is to go in to Google and type in your main keyword for your niche followed by affiliate. So for example if I wanted to find affiliate products related to golf I would simply type in “golf affiliate”.
• Next you can go to affiliate networks to find products and here is a list of affiliate networks which you can join.

  PayDotCom
  ClickBank
  Shareasale
  ModernClick
  LinkShare
  Affiliate Fuel
  Commission Junction

• You can also become an affiliate at Amazon www.amazon.com. Amazon commissions are quite low but as Ed points out in the video we aren’t interested in how much we can make only that people are actually buying products in your chosen niche market. If people are buying your recommended affiliate products then that the provides the opportunity of creating your own product and making 100% of the sale price rather than 5%-15%.
• One place I don’t think Ed has mentioned so far is eBay which is another great place to discover niche markets. You can also become an eBay affiliate and promote any product that is on auction. Again commissions are low however their are millions of products in just as many niches being sold on eBay every day. To become an affiliate for eBay you need to join Commission Junction www.cj.com

So your job today is to find some products you can promote to test your market.

Today’s Videos

Finding An Internet Affiliate Program

A quick video on where to find affiliate products

Writing Your First Copy

Dan gives some tips on writing your first small piece of ad copy to promote your affiliate products.

Creating Amazon Affiliate Links

Dan explains how to create your Amazon affiliate link for whichever products you wish to promote to test your market.

Manipulating Images With Picnik

A tool which is going to be released for 30 day challenger’s is going to be released in the next few days (day 6 I believe) which is going to require your affiliate link from the previous video, a short bit of unique ad copy about the product and an image. This video shows you how to use a free online edit imaging tool called Picnik www.picnik.com to get your image of your product ready.

Overview of Day 4

Testing your market with affiliate products is very effective and some internet marketers make a lot of money simply promoting affiliate products and services however a lot of internet marketers would agree that having your own product is far more profitable for obvious reasons.

Dan mentioned a new function which I am assuming is going to be added to the Market Samurai tool, perhaps the ‘Publish Content’ function which will take the info collected above, compile it, and post it to a blog, maybe?

Today’s Videos

SEO Competition Using Market Samurai

This video explains how you can obtain a lot of crucial information on the top 10 ranking pages for a particular keyword you are interested in targeting using the Market Samurai tool. Data includes off page factors such as domain age, PageRank, Alexa Rank, Page back links, domain back links, .edu and .gov back links, DMOZ and Yahoo Directory and on page factors such as keyword in title, URL, description and heading tags as well as Google cache age.

SEO Competition The Old Way

In this video Ed goes through the original method for analyzing competition using the SEO tool for Firefox.

Overview of Day 3

Analyzing competition may be a bit overwhelming for newbies due to the amount of data which needs to be processed. Don’t let this put you off just concentrate on the main factors such as sites less than 3 years old, fewer than 100 back links to the page, less than PR3, no authority sites such as eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc and you should have any problems ranking on the front page for your chosen keywords.

I think I can smell some Google Knols cooking in the upcoming videos

See ya on day 4!