Well, as you may have gathered, I haven’t had much to blog about recently. In fact, a lot of the blogs I read seem to have gone quiet too except for the recent excitement over the AdSense Secrets alleged scam. The reason I haven’t had anything to blog about is because I haven’t been doing anything particularly new - a lot of my current projects are still work in progress:

The site I’m having done at RentACoder isn’t going particularly well and I’m close to cancelling that.

The site I’m doing for a colleague at work is going very slowly as it’s turned out to be a bigger job than I thought. Turns out that the membership script I bought is appaulingly badly scripted and I’ve had to totally re-write parts of it. Unfortunately this was the lesser of two evils - the other being write the script from scratch myself! Anyway, that is nearly done now, and it’s working quite nicely.

The adult niche site I set up in Feb continues to go from strength to strength with over £275 earned this month. I really can’t believe the success I’m having from this! I’m now trying to rinse & repeat this on another niche to see if I have similar success and, to that end, put a new site live earlier this week.

The niche site giveaway experiment was a success. Certainly a lot of people downloaded the free site and we covered our costs by up-selling the article packs. Next stop on that route is to repeat the formula but try to sell the niche site rather than give it away!

In the offline world, my flat purchase still hasn’t happened and I’m getting more and more frustrated by the day…!

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I released my first new site for some time today. It’s for a niche adult product (ooo err!) with a ticket price of £70 (~$140). I will receive 25% commission for any sales through the affiliate scheme I have chosen.

The plan is to initially drive traffic through an AdWords campaign - the good news being a CPC of 2p gets me on the first page of Google results so, if I can convert even a small percentage of traffic, I should see a nice return. Looking at it another way, I will only need 1 visitor per 875 to make a purchase to break even!

One other thing about the site is that I am only targeting the UK market, so using a .co.uk domain name and AdWords campaign to only target UK searchers on a very tight group of keywords in order to keep advertising costs as low as possible.

In time, I hope to get this site up near the top of Google, so the next stage will be search engine submissions and links from my high PR sites in order to get in indexed quickly, followed by trying to get some good back-links.

Phew! It’s good to be back in the game!

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