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vincent_tan · 03-12-2011 01:35 AM

Masterpiece Phase 1 Plan

Seriously I got no idea whether my plan can allow me to reach $1,000,000 at the end of Dec 2011, the key to success is to test, test ,test and keep testing. Exciting!

So here are the stuff that I brainstormed. If you want to use a mind map to brain storm (you probably should since mind mapping is a better way to help you come out with ideas), try out Xmind. It is a free software so go ahead and use it.

1. Create a badly needed product for HealthMoneySuccess

I have been running HealthMoneySuccess, a personal development blog, for around 2.5 years and I did not create a single product for it. Previously, I procrastinated about creating a product since I don't know how my readers will react to me selling products to them.

However, I think it is time to create an awesome and highly valuable product that will be able to help them in areas of their life. If I'm selling a solution to a problem they have, I believe I am doing something good.

I already have an idea for the product that I am going to create. However, I need to decide whether I will go with it in an ebook style or a membership site. I need to make a quick decision and go ahead and do it. So step 1 is to create a product and I will follow through to learn more about product launches.

2. Niche Sites

This is something that caught my attention in the year of 2010. I'm still a student of SEO and creating niche sites that sell products. I already have 3 sites (1 old site and 2 new sites created recently).

However, I did not do any massive marketing for these sites. The 1st site make some sales every now and then but I will not count it in this MDC. However, I will count in exceptional sales count due to different marketing strategy.

Since the 2nd site and 3rd site was just created recently (no sales yet), I will count any new sales that I made into the MDC.

I will not create any more new sites as it takes up too much time to maintain all these sites, and not forgetting my blog HealthMoneySuccess (HMS). So instead of creating new sites, I will be rethinking about my strategies to market these sites.

That would be all for now, and I will update this journal again soon.

Cheers,
Vincent

vincent_tan · 03-14-2011 02:26 AM

Niche Sites

Niche sites are sites that cover a particular niche and try to sell affiliate products. Currently I am building back links to these sites by spinning articles and submitting it to article directories and blog networks. I am halfway through spinning articles for my 3rd site and it will be done soon by this week.

I will subsequently follow up by using a product to build backlinks to my 3rd niche site. This product is something that I had never tried before and it is called Blog Blueprint. It build backlinks by me writing up a short post and include an anchor text that I want to rank for and submit it to a network of blogs.

I'm trying out a new method to rank for the site and due to the recent Google algorithm changes, I do not know how the results will turn out to be. So I will update as I go.

Product for HMS

I decided to write an ebook. It does not cost as much as setting up membership sites and it is easy to deliver to the customers.

I had mind-mapped the ideas and content that I want to write about in Xmind. I'm all good to go to start writing the ebook.

Anyone have any ideas about what program to use to write an ebook? I am trying out Open Office but it seems that I can't do much to change the design of the ebook.

That would be all. Time to get to work.

Cheers,
Vincent

vincent_tan · 03-24-2011 01:43 AM

1) Niche sites

- Working on my third site. Spinning articles is really tedious and it doesn't seem like any fun. I decided to outsource it. Put the job on oDesk and waiting for reply.

- Decided to try out a new software on building backlinks. Signed up with blog blueprint and will try out the software to build backlink to niche sites.

- Made some sales through my previous niche site but I will not count them into this MDC since it is not a result of something that I did after the MDC.

2) Blog - HMS

- Made a big affiliate commission of $200 USD. It is my first time to make such a big commission. My regular commission lies around 20 to 30 bucks. 200 seem pretty awesome. Maybe the Universe reach out to my desire to earn a Million Bucks in this challenge.

- I want to build up my blog in the meanwhile I am doing this challenge. I will write one guest post per week for other blogs.

3) Time Management

- This is crucial for me since I am going to have my exams in about a month plus time. I am juggling between my studies and building up my blog and niche sites.

- I spent most of my time now revising for my exams. However, I aim to commit at least 2 hours per day to work on my income, blog and niche sites.

vincent_tan · 03-29-2011 02:28 AM

Niche Sites

- Outsourced the spinning of my articles. Too much of a hassle to do it myself.
- I didn't do anything with Blog Blueprint yet. I'm considering outsourcing it or do it myself. Will decide by this week.

Blog

- Guest post - ongoing
- Ebook project on hold. Will complete my niche site project before moving on to writing Ebook.

Prasad · 03-29-2011 04:45 PM

Hi Vincent,

Your work is really motivating for me. You are working really hard on getting this done and its really awesome!
I will keep taking inspiration from people like you whenever I feel low.
Thank you!

vincent_tan · 03-30-2011 07:48 PM

(03-29-2011 04:45 PM)Prasad Wrote: Hi Vincent,

Your work is really motivating for me. You are working really hard on getting this done and its really awesome!
I will keep taking inspiration from people like you whenever I feel low.
Thank you!

Hi Prasad,

Thanks for dropping by. Let us work hard in this MDC.

Cheers,
Vincent

vincent_tan · 04-04-2011 11:46 AM

Weekly Update

1) Niche Site

I am going to be more transparent over here. I will show the site and the keyword I am going after. This acts like a challenge too. It helps me to see how good is my SEO skill and how fast can I get my site to rank number 1 in Google.

Site: Eczema Diet

Keyword going for: Eczema diet

Current rank in Google (According to Scroogle): 30

Note: I'm using Scroogle because it offers a more unbiased ranking for my site.

What I Did Last Week:

First I would cover what I had did last week.

1) I had signed up for a spinning software that will help me to rewrite articles faster.

2) Spun 3 articles.

3) Wrote 3 150 words articles and spun them.

4) Built 60 backlinks (with my 150 words articles) to my site using Blog Blueprint.

Comment:

Things seem to be working pretty well for me currently. My site is pretty new and right now it is already ranking in the 30th position for my keyword. What I am going to do this week is to continue to build more backlinks to my site.

I had outsourced some articles to be rewritten and it is supposed to be back by last Sunday. However, things cropped out for my outsourcer and I got to wait for her reply.

Even though 30th position in Google isn't something to be really excited for, it is still a good start given that I only recently work on the site. Let see how fast I can rank this site to 1st page of Google.

What I will do this week:

1) Continue to build backlinks using Blog Blueprint. (100 links)
2) Complete my article spinning. (4 more to go)

2) Blog HealthMoneySuccess

What I Did:

1) Podcast - If you're interested, you can check it out here.

2) One guest post. (Halfway through)

Comment:

I want to work on one project at a single time. This is why I did not start working on my ebook. (I hope this is not my excuse

)

Once I finish my current project (building my niche site to rank number 1 in Google), I will move on to start writing my ebook for HMS.

So right now I will focus on marketing for HMS by writing more guest post.

What I will do this week:

1) Write one more guest post
2) Look into Zazzle
3) Look for forums to share articles and market HMS.

vincent_tan · 04-12-2011 04:18 AM

1) Niche Site

I am going to be more transparent over here. I will show the site and the keyword I am going after. This acts like a challenge too. It helps me to see how good is my SEO skill and how fast can I get my site to rank number 1 in Google.

Site: Eczema Diet

Keyword going for: Eczema diet

Current rank in Google (According to Scroogle): 18 (previous 30th)

Note: I'm using Scroogle because it offers a more unbiased ranking for my site.

What I Did Last Week:

1) Spun 4 150 snippets.

2) Tried out a newsoftware and managed to built some web 2.0 and social network backlinks. However, did not continue after trial since I felt that the software is giving me more work to do instead of saving time.

3) Built 80 backlinks to my niche site.

4) Received 4 new rewritten articles from my outsourcer.

Comment:

Pretty good. I'm already at 18th position on Google (30th last week). Right now is all about building backlinks back to the site to push for rankings. Building backlinks isn't sexy but I want to ensure that my methods are working before trying to oursource the backlinking job. It would save up tons of my time.

I had received 4 new rewritten articles from my outsourcer and I think I can further improve the article. Will see what I can do with it this week.

What I will do this week:

1) Continue to build backlinks using Blog Blueprint. (70 links)
2) Complete my article spinning. (4 more to go) >> Didn't proceed to do this last week as I tried out the new linking software and use it to built backlinks. Since I am not using the software now, I can complete my article spinning this week.

2) Blog HealthMoneySuccess

What I Did:

1) Written one post.

2) One guest post.

3) Wrote forum posts in 2 similar niche forums.

4) Comment on a few blogs. Since a long time that I last left comments on other blogs. Lets see how well this method works.

Comment:

Marketing, marketing, marketing. Isn't anything else to focus on except on gaining new readers.

What I will do this week:

1) Podcast

2) Commenting on a few blogs that interest me each day

vincent_tan · 04-19-2011 01:12 PM

1) Niche Site

Current rank in Google (According to Scroogle): 15th (previous 18th)

Note: I'm using Scroogle because it offers a more unbiased ranking for my site.

What I Did Last Week:

1) Built 90 back links to site using blog blueprint.

2) Social bookmarked my 2 page of my site.

3) Spun 4 articles.

4) Collected a bunch of high PR sites to post on.

5) Submitted 2 articles to 15 article directories

6) Created one campaign using Linkjuicer for one web page.

Comment:

For this week, I would aim to complete submitting all my articles to the various article directories. I also aim to start submitting my sites to web 2.0 pages this week.

Ranking has been pretty good. The site is slowly climbing up the rank and 5 of my 7 pages are at the top 40 position in Google.

What I will do this week:

1) Build backlinks using Blog Blueprint. (20 links)
2) Submit 4 articles to article directories
3) 2 Link juicer campaign
4) 4 submission to 10 web 2.0 sites

2) Blog HealthMoneySuccess

What I Did:

1) One podcast

2) Commented on 3 blogs

Comment:

Didn't do too much for my blog this week.

What I will do this week:

1) Write one post

2) Mindmap ebook content.

3) Create a new follow up series in newsletter.

julzie · 04-20-2011 03:49 AM

Hey loving your journal - this is great stuff! I feel inspired just reading it! :-)

vincent_tan · 05-10-2011 01:33 AM

(04-20-2011 03:49 AM)julzie Wrote: Hey loving your journal - this is great stuff! I feel inspired just reading it! :-)

Thanks for dropping by.

I love what you are doing over at your site (I read your updates). Keep up with the good work and spur each other on.

Cheers,
Vincent

I didn't update for 2 weeks over here. I have been busy with my final year exam recently and I didn't do too much for my niche site and blog.

Anyway, my niche site is currently lying on 11th for my keyword. Not too bad as I didn't do too much to push it up the rankings for the past 2 weeks.

My exam will end at end of May and I will be able to schedule more time for my work.

Cheers,
Vincent

vincent_tan · 06-01-2011 10:16 PM

I finally finish my exams and it is time for me to get back into working on my site.

First of all, I have to update the earnings that I made.

I started my site for about 2 months time and the results are starting to show. Even though I didn't work much on it for the past 1 month (exam period), it started to rack in sales. $99.45 exactly.

It is a form of passive income and I think the potential of the site is much more than only a hundred bucks per month.

I will start to work on the site again to push more of my keywords to the first page of Google (preferably in the 1st position) and the sales will improve as it goes along.

That would be all for now. See you in the next update.

Cheers,
Vincent

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