Bankruptcy to Millionaire

So Adam commented that he thought I had given up on my blog. That all I was posting was American Idol bullshit.

Yes, it was complete and total bullshit. But there was a little method to my madness. And I bet many of you caught on to exactly what I was doing.

But, to Adam, if you think this blog is sunk, and now totally worthless (which is probably is. But I don’t give a fuck.) , feel free to visit wealthstore.com (as requested you do by Adam) and pass your own judgement as to who’s site is worth more.

I’ll tell you why I post 5 goddamned American Idol posts in a second. But first a brief comment on Wealth Store.

I went to the site, and immediately realized why Adam, was perplexed with the American Idol posts. That blog gets in my estimation exactly 0 natural search results a month.

Now let me be clear, B2M also got approximately 0 search results per month as well (actually more like 15, but most of those were probably my friends searching my name “Tevin Anderson”). And since I have no real purpose for this blog other than to document my success, failures, and what I’m learning.

Now I am NO SEO. I am an SEO retard actually. If you’re looking to make money online with SEO you need to be reading Vic, Court, and Grizz’s Blogs.

So I found out something kind of interesting. My posts on B2M were indexed in less than an hour in the search engines. So I wanted to try and capitalize and see if I could get natural traffic, that converts on an affiliate offer. Now since I didn’t have a high PR site that I could perform this experiment on other than B2M. That’s what I did.

Fuck it. Call it selling out if you like. I had some very interesting results.

I decided each post would be keyword focused. I would put a text link early on for an affiliate offer. Then I put an affiliate offer banner at the bottom of each post. The offer was an email submit for american idol season finale tix.

So the good news first. In the two days that I posted the posts, I got over 1000 unique search visitors. And I am getting roughly 80 a day after the event.

I was ranking on the first page for search terms like “songs sang on american idol gives back” or “songs on american idol gives back”, etc. They were long tails, but still getting tons of traffic (at least by this blogs standards).

I got about 8 clicks on the ads, and no opt ins. If it were pay per click (adsense), it would be great, because I would actually have made money. haha

I did all of this without any link building, so I can only imagine what a BMD run will do for something like this. I can’t wait to take what I’ve learned and apply it to a BANS site.

If I can take this info, and use it to rank for long tail keywords that actually convert. woooo…. I can only imagine.

Anyhow, if you were confused by the american idol posts. And you didn’t get what was going on. Now I hope you do.

Cheers all.

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