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Hi Mark,
When submitting articles for the $5 mini site I noticed the following:

In the $5 mini-site eBook I need to submit the 1st Article to the top 3 directories and the 2nd to include the top 3 plus top 15-30 article directories and so on...

In your video about the $5 mini-site the 1st Article goes to the top 5 directories and the 2nd to include the top 5 plus top 35 article directories and so on....

In the your audio interview with Josh Spaulding the 1st Article goes to the top 5 directories and the 2nd top 30 -50 article directories and so on....

From experience which option of the 3 would be most favourable to promote a mini-site?

Regards

Julian

Thanks for the quick response. That helps as I am doing some KW research right now.

Are you full-time IM yet? In your video you mention that you still have a regular job. Your site is a great resource and is much appreciated.

Mark,

When you test longtail keywords for PR on Google, do you search "with" or without "" quotation marks surrounding the keyword phrase? This would make a bog difference in the search results.

Thanks a bunch!

Hi Mark,

Regarding the $5 mini site, is it required for the targeted keyword phrase in the article to be exactly the same as the title? Example "get out of credit card debt" Can I use "7 easy steps to get out of credit card debt" as a title.

Hi Mark,

Do I need to add Contact and Privacy Policy pages as suggested in your video to my website? This was not mentioned or covered in Caroline Middlebrooks ebook and videos.

Regards

Julian

Yes, I think so - no clicks though. How do I check. Just 100 beause it's new, but I figured I'd get some percent.

About a week ago, I put up the website and have been following your $5 a day techniques with 4 articles submitted. I'm starting to get traffic, but no click throughs - over 100 page visits and 0 clicks.

Help please?

Hi Mark,

I came across a number of free article marketing spinning programs/software. Is there a specific free article marketing spinning program/software that you could recommend to assist with article marketing of my first $5 mini-site?

Regards

Julian

Hi Mark,

One thing I noticed in the Spyfu research is that there are VERY few niches in the $1 - $9 range. I've only found 2 so far (not credit cards or mortgages lol - tried that before. Boring!)

Is there a lower limit that you consider to be worthwhile in terms of profitability - say $1 - $5?

Thanks for your input in advance :-)

Hi Mark,
Which hosting provider would you recommend for the $5 dollar mini sites?

Regards

Julian

Hi Mark,
Should the article lengths of all 26 keywords selected for the $5 minisite be approximately 300 words?
Looking forward to your reply.

Regards

Julian

Thanks for the video and ebook download. I read it this afternoon and am already putting Josh's instructions in place. Will let you know how it goes.

Is there an ACID TEST for building a site to be monetized? The sooner one knows a site is NOT going to be profitable, the sooner one can begin building one that IS. I'm looking for a rule of thumb here, not necessarily a scientific algorithm.

Mark,
Do you know of any good software tools for tracking all of your websites?

I would like to know when using micro niche finder what competition numbers do you look for SOC

Hi Mark,
I've built the site exactly as per Josh's method. I also usually get on page 1 of google for the keywords. Also I have kept aggressively doing article marketing, even though the site has been up since March - so 2 to 3 articles per week using Josh's method and I have bought AAS too. The URL is the same as posted here. March got me $1.96, April $3.61, May $41.54 and June and July $27 each month. Traffic is around 300 visits per month. Any ideas what I can do to increase my earnings? Should I just leave it alone and just do an article a month and let the site mature? Any comments would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot
Sandra

Hi Mark, in your experience, for the articles that make to the first page of google, do they typically stay there for months/years or do they fall off after a few weeks. If the later, do you then have to keep churning out new articles just maintain the traffic for these keywords? If so, I can see this as being very time consuming. I guess what I'm wanting to know is how to keep your articles from falling off the first page. Is it just a matter of giving your articles some extra link juice? Great video by the way! :)

@Chandan -- great! Good luck!

Thanks a lot Mark. Just yesterday I watched the video and idea is really very good. I am going to implement it for my new blog. Hope I will get the result.

Sure Sandra -- that is up to you. If you want to grow the site, then you can attack new keywords, increase content, etc.

If you just want to leave it alone you can do that too. I recommend that you add some content or some back links once/month in maintenance mode.

Ultimately, you do what you need to do to get the results that you want, which will vary depending on what your competition is doing.

Hi Mark:

Could you please let me know what the ongoing maintenance of the site is? What do we do after the site is up and all 20 articles are published in directories. Thank you.

Sandra

I will be sending some traffic to your site. Thanks for the videos

Mark thanks very much for your input. Josh suggested a lady to work with the writer I will show her your comment and see if we can pint point the problem.
Kind regards
Michael.

@Michael -- If you are not getting traffic from EZA, then you need to ask if your EZA article is ranking for your target KW. If it is not, then there is something amiss with your keyword research.

If it is ranking and there a few views, then your article title and desc may need tweaking.

If you are getting view and no clicks, then you need to work on the call to action in your resource box.

So, which is it for you?

Thanks,
Mark

@Sandra -- Thanks!

@Maureen -- Yeah, Josh is great.

The website is only going to have 5-10 pages total, so there is no issue there. You can do the entire thing in a day.

For articles, my experience is that approval and indexing times vary so much that this is not an issue either. I guess if you did all 25 articles to 50 directories in one day that might be an issue, but I have never seen any problems.

Certainly, if it takes you a week or two to get it all done, then there is no issue that I have ever seen or heard about.

Hi,

Great work on the video Mark.
I have a question regarding the method ... do you have a recommended time frame for which you post the website and all of the articles? I would be afraid that if all links are posted too quickly, there's a chance of getting sand-boxed right out of the gate.

And based on experience, if you follow the plan, how soon after you finish the recommended article marketing do you generally reach the targeted potential of the site? I know there are no definitive timelines, but a ballpark would be great, ie - 2 weeks, 2 months, 1 year ...

thanks again for promoting Josh's method - I think he'd done a great job of giving mmo beginners an easy and attainable method for starting out.

Thank you so much for the great video. I read Josh's $5 mini site ebook a while ago and have put up a website as suggested. Am still busy submitting articles to directories. I'm doing so every couple of days. What happens when all the articles are in the directories. What's the ongoing 'maintenance' on the site so the traffic keeps coming? Also, could you please give me a link to the directories that are recommended.

Thanks a lot, it's great that I now have another 'take' on things from the video and audio interview.

All the best
Sandra

Michael - see what kind of traffic you're getting through Ezine Articles first. Are any of the articles on your site on Ezine Articles? I couldn't find one to check it out.

Hi Mark,

This time it worked perfectly.

Thanks for all your time

Hubert

Hello Mark,

With the link you sent me I can see it, but no download available

Is it possible to get a download link

Hubert

Hi Kent thanks for you input. Since I've already put 10 articles through the Ezine and the rest through about 50 directories do you thin I should keep the writting and placing new articles or do you think I should stop and just wait for the 6 months?
regards
Michael.

Hi Mark,

Sorry but I don't see any link

Hubert

Hi Mark,

The link is dead for me each time I tried since yesterday. Couldn't you just send me a direct link to my email, otherwise the 72 hours will have gone soon

Thanks in advance

Hubert

Michael - my two cents.... - Your Ezine Finance articles should get approximately 100 views each - over time (allow 6 months or so). If they don't - something is amiss with your keyword placement or strategy, or writing.

You should also be getting around 1 in 10 at least to click the URL in your resource box. I have the same problem and need to re-do my resource box to provide a compelling reason for someone to click it. Beyond that - I share the same struggle of getting a better ctr to the ads themselves - I think I need to strive to more closely follow Josh's game-plan.