Another record-breaking Adsense day…
July 27th was yet another all-time Adsense record for me. When lots of other publishers are suffering, with auto-content sites being dumped from search engine results all the time, how do you consistently grow an Adsense income stream?
… by using the tools I’ve mentioned over the past few months… AdGold and Article Underground. There are 122 places left in AdGold as I write this, and Article Underground is closed because phase two sold out… that’s 700 happy members of Article Underground and no places left.
But, there’s good news if you haven’t yet got your place at Article Underground. Let me quote an email I just got from Mike Liebner….
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“With the waiting list swelling in size, as well as a few well placed pokes from marketing partners I have decided to offer a 3rd set of articles and a brand new Phase 3 membership. The membership will be open to the public on August 11, 2006.
There will be a brand new set of 400 articles bringing the total to three sets with 1,200 articles total for the savvy of you to play with!
I know several people have already expressed an interest in the 3rd set and I will be offering existing members a special offer when the brand new Phase Three set is released. I’ll notify you by email of the deal.
Now, as most of you guys already know from my adding Phase Two, adding a new phase of articles brings you benefits.
Allow me to summarize:
* 400 more articles means you’ll be getting a choice from among 3 sets, making it easier for you to get the articles you want.
* With 3 sets of articles - 1,200 total - you have the option of even more excellent AU content to use on your web pages.
* When article sets are released (on the 16th) and while supplies last, I will offer an up sell to a 2 pack or 3 pack, but when each article set hits 350 downloads it will be retired. Articles will never be sold to or downloaded by more than 350 members.
* The blogs - more article announcements means more web pages for the blogs to get indexed, resulting in more PageRank being generated which makes each of our links more valuable.
* Community - while the forum is already thriving, it will be even more exciting with more people to set up custom link exchanges, new member announcement blogs and other possible ventures.
I want to thank everybody for helping make AU such a great place. I will do my best to make sure all of you continue to be satisfied long into the future!
Best wishes for happy and fruitful article marketing! As always I welcome your comments and suggestions.”
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I know for a fact that Mike wants this third set to be completely sold very quickly… he’s pulling out all the stops to do it. If you want to grab a place as it become available, sign up for the notification list at: Article Underground
I’ll be releasing a new product in September to help you boost your Adsense check month on month. It’ll be great fun. If you already have an Adgold membership and an Article Underground place, you’ll be in the perfect position to use my new service to the full. 
July 29th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Another thing that kind of bothers me about AU… Mike points out, quite rightly IMHO, that for $97 a month from AU you can get any number of PR5 and PR6 links. I have to question the quality of those links though. If you and you alone have a link to your site from a thematically-related PR5 site (In AU’s case I assume these are generated by commenting/announcing at blogs) then that’s a great thing. What about when you have loads of people doing the same thing and commenting/announcing from the same page though? Your sole and therefore valuable link diminishes in value the more company it finds itself in, and I note further that Mike is airing the possibility of allowing complete outsiders to the AU systems to be allowed access to the link/commenting/announcing (call it what you will, it’s backlinks to your own sites) facility - for a fee, of course, and fair enough that is too.
Of what value will your links be then though?
BB
July 29th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Hi Bill,
Interesting point. I think you’re not noticing the extra links, though.
Each time you make a post to an Article Underground blog you can select up to five categories. Your post therefore has the opportunity of being on six pages… the index page and five category pages. When you consider the fact that you’re writing the post… so you control the linking text, the post content, the post title and the category selection, I think you’ll find the ability to do that is very valuable.
… although, not as valuable as being the only link from a PR6 on-topic page, I agree. But that would cost a lot per month for one link.
Use this to find out how much, roughly…
http://www.text-link-ads.com/link_calculator.php
Neil.
July 30th, 2006 at 7:10 am
In terms of traffic, getting a link from five pages on a site is a good thing. In terms of PR, though, would they not count the same as one link as they’re all from the same domain?
BB
July 30th, 2006 at 9:18 am
You may well be right…
“my research has shown that Google now counts multiple links from a single domain as just one link when it comes to PageRank and for the ranking algorithm. Hence a sitewide link is no better than a single link on a homepage.”
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/001202.html
July 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am
Bill, shouldn’t you be telling me?
http://www.kruse.co.uk/
July 30th, 2006 at 11:53 am
I already know what I think, I was wondering what you think! I’m only being so picky because I do genuinely think of joining from time to time, I respect what you do, I follow Michael Campbell, Andy Williams and dip in and out of a few others, Lazy Pig, etc… but then I think, well, if I’m going to have to sit there re-writing someone else’s articles perhaps I’d be better employed writing more of my own. Lack of hours in the day is my recurring problem. Anyhoo, I thank you for your prompt responses.
BB
July 30th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Hi Bill,
Ahh, just testing me, eh?
If you follow Michael Campbell, you’ll see that he strongly endorses Article Underground too.
…and who said anything about re-writing articles?
BTW, I totally agree with the “more hours in the day” sentiment. That’s why I bought into Rich Schefren’s system.
Neil.
July 30th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
I believe both yourself and Mike Leibner have referred to doing some reworking on the articles, yourself in response to my earlier query about possible duplicate content which was in turn mentioned I believe in Andy Williams’ newsletter (or maybe Michael Campbell’s, I forget which now). ML got a mention in there somewhere too.
What I’m thinking of using it for is my poster site, which features posters of all sorts, and sizes and subjects, so if I have a page on Mucha then linking back to it from a fine art-oriented blog would maybe be a good idea. Similarly my pages on Picasso etc. Or, f’rinstance, my page on surfing could be lniked to from amything appropriate, my Vietnam Reflections page - lots of topics there so lots of viable links to be had, I would think. But I don’t want Google, further on down the road, sniffing out the fact that a big chunk of my inbounds come from a very small set of blogs and penalising me accordingly.
The obvious answer would be to do a protracted link campaign, get lots of links from all over so that my UA BLs formed only a fraction of my back links. Ah, but then the old problem returns… no time!
And now I’d better get on with something!
BB
BB
August 4th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
Dude, you’re obviously not interested, so you can stop trying to talk yourself out of the purchase, lol. And since everyone seems to forget, I’ll remind you: Google is not the only search engine.