Adsense and traffic stay down. Back to risky traffic building exercises.

There was no progress in traffic and Adsense since my last post. Worse, my SERP for the current main keyword went down even more, and currently I'm on the seventh place. Fifth place for the second one does not bring much traffic, too. All this coupled with the usual Sunday drop in traffic translated into the lowest traffic figures I've seen since the mid September. Here is the chart from Google Analytics:



Adsense followed the suit and showed me the figures between $40 and $50, today being the record low of $23. Well, I already felt the taste of $150 per day, and I want those and more back. I'm running a pretty aggressive link building campaign of course, and I also want to leverage every possible advantage I may have. After some hard thinking I decided to try a 900-pound gorilla that I have on stock. The problem is - I can't really tell if that thing kicks me up or down.

Let me tell you the story in more detail. On my main site in addition to Adsense I run several affiliate programs, including Amazon. I have a decent Amazon affiliate module that generates a page for every item in Amazon inventory, plus quite a few overhead pages like categories and searches. I can't tell you how many pages exactly, but we are talking HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS here. Halfdeck's tool is crawling my site for the second full day in a raw, and so far it found 150159 pages.

I used to have many of them indexed way back. They brought me some weird traffic, but unlike Adsense the only person who ever bought anything through my Amazon affiliate id was my wife. I decided I did not like that and spent quite some time figuring out how to get those pages de-indexed. With the help of robots.txt I succeeded, and I managed to bring number of indexed pages down to around 300 meaningful ones.

Now, after musing some time over Dan Thies's teachings, I realized I may possess some nuclear weapon. The idea is that your internal links do matter for your pages ranking, as well as external ones - as long as those links are on pages that are indexed. Granted, internal ones are not as valuable as external, but they still can pass some link love in the needed direction. So, you want as many pages as possible to be indexed.

I did internal link structure optimization already for all of my meaningfull pages, and this gave me some nice results. Now I want to bring this further, and use hundreds of thousands of pages instead of just three hundreds. Even when the amount of link love from the single page is marginal, multiplied by thousands and thousands it creates some serious force. If I manage to get just 1% of those pages indexed, we are still talking about more than 1500 pages here. This should propel me to the top SERPs in no time. At least this is the plan :).

Now, there is a possible flip side to it, at least I can think about one possibility, and it worries me a lot. What if most of my content pages just get lost among the heaps of Amazon inventory? While I really doubt that my money making pages can disappear in such a manner, other pages (especially the ones without external link love) easily can. Well, I guess I have to watch this closely.

I removed the corresponding disallow line from robots.txt a couple of days ago. Google reports it did crawl my site since, but no changes to the index so far. I'm waiting and watching...

Killing deal from Jason Potash

Just stumbled upon that thing today, and opened an account as soon as I realized this can be a real cash machine. While not in the Adsense circle, Jason Potash is a no-nonsense name on the Web, and I believe the new project of him will not go underwater.

So, what he is for now? The new deals site. No, not about Adsense. If you are familiar with the woot.com, you know the concept. If not, the concept is really easy to grasp. They strike a deal with different manufactures and retailers, and have a one day sale for just one product. Today they sell golf clubs, tomorrow - radar detectors. Dirt cheap. And limited quantity.

That thing works, I watched it working. I bought from woot.com several times, and I saw how the counter goes down to zero in an hour or so on some things.Jason Potash's site is going to have killing deals on internet marketing stuff, one deal a day every day, 365 days a year.

So, how can you (and I) profit form it? Affiliate program with permanent lifetime two-tier commissions! It does not get any better than that, does it? You get a thick slice every time the person you referred buys anything. And a bit thinner, but still very respectable slice from what the person referred by the person you have referred buys.

In life, you usually find out about something good when it's too late -- like getting the skinny on a huge golf club sale that ended yesterday. Or, being handed a Denny's 50% off coupon when you just ate there like two hours ago. We all know, sometimes life sucks.

Well, this time... YOU will be the one who is laughing, *if* you go check this out before word gets out. Everyone will be talking about this new site next week. You'll see. Right now, this is by invitation-only and closed to the public. There is no cost to join and the profit potential is really big.

And all that is done under Jason Potash name - means the odds of that thing getting really big are very good. And the site is not launched yet! This is a chance to get in early, way before other guys - means others will sign up under your referral! Hurry up, and use my affiliate link to sign up! Yes, sure, I want you to sign up with my affiliate link - it does not cost you a dime neither in real money, nor in opportunity cost. Here it is: killing deals from Jason Potash

P.S. - Whatever you do, do NOT sit on this. The sooner you check this out, the better your potential to make some nice passive income, every month.