I have been talking about fiddling about with SEO for sometime now, and I can officially say that at this moment in time I am 100% SEO and 0% PPC. There are couple reasons for this. Some personal, some financial.

The fact still remains that PPC is great for making huge sums of money fast, and SEO is good for making money for the long hall (you’ll read that on every blog known to man ).. O.k. Great, now that we have that out of the way… Simply put I just plain like SEO better. Why? Because it fits my personality a little better then PPC. PPC is high stakes gambling, and SEO is lower stakes gambling. PPC you gamble with your money, SEO you gamble with your time. At this moment in life I have more time to throw away then money! Further more, given the recent events of my life the last month ( i.e. my father almost dyeing. ). SEO just suits my life better. I almost took a month off being online when my father got sick and I when I came back online I was still earning $50 – $80 a day. No, It’s not millions or $1000’s a day BUT it’s nice income to have when you literally aren’t doing any work. Let’s face it folks, when a world renown surgeon says to you, “Your father could die at any moment with in the next 48 hours”. The last thing on your mind is optimizing and watching campaigns!

But listen, I’m not trying to convert anyone to do anything. If you like PPC, then stick with it. If you need to make a profit today, this second, this minute and have a spare credit card sitting around then GO CRAZY! I’m simply saying that after some soul searching the last 2 years I like SEO. : )

With that said, I don’t mean to brag but right now i can rank for almost any keyword that isn’t ridiculously hard to rank for like ‘ Payday Loan ‘ or ‘diets’ or ‘Make Money Online’.  Which might sound like I have it made, BUT … Because there is always a but… SEO takes time, and the harder the keyword the more time it takes. My usual goal is to try to find low competition key words with lots of searches. That research takes time and sometimes a few weeks to rank for. And even with the most careful planning a word or site might be a flop. Then you are back to square one attempting to figure out if the problem is the webpage, the word, or the offer.

Recently I tried my hand at a competitive keyword, just to see if I could do it. Three months later I am on page one in Google for this word! It’s not the 1st spot, but it’s page 1 none the less. But I am having little to no sales. Which is a bummer, but I’ll start tweaking some things and see what changes. Here’s the thing though, I now know I can do make it for a more competitive keywords. This very fact opens up a world of possibilities to me. If every 4 to 6 months I can rank for a money making keyword then i’ll be golden !!! Because let’s face it $50 to $120 a day is nice, but after taxes it’s nothing you can live off of. Plus, my goal is $100,000 a YEAR!

Now, your next question… How do I rank? Well, I can’t tell you in exact detail because if i did then everyone would do it. I can however tell you that 95% of what I do I learned online. Yup. It’s all over the internet on how to do it! The other 5% I learned by networking. Brenden from 20YearBillionaire.com is pretty much a genius and taught me some stuff. And I know I talk about Tyler ( TylerCruz.com ) a lot – But he’s pretty much an amazing human who has really helped me from day 1.

I feel like I have so much in my favor right now. Now I just need to do something with it!

Love,

Becky

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Usually the best way to tell if a company is any good, is to see how they handle something going wrong. This is especially true when it comes to Affiliate Networks. I learned this first hand with Amped Media a couple weeks ago.

Just a couple days before the end of July I got an e-mail from my affiliate manager at Amped Media stating basically that they were removing about $1000 from my account. A publisher said my leads were invalid and the money was going to be removed. Plain as that. No further explanation. No real sincere apology. Goodbye thousand dollars….

Need less to say i was a bit …um… annoyed and angry! With the offer I was running I could understand if some leads were invalid, BUT NOT $1000 worth! Furthermore, it was the end of the freaking month. They had all month to determine that some of the leads coming in were invalid! It seemed to mean that something fishy was going on.  That either Amped Media, or the advertiser of offer just didn’t want to pay. And guess what folk? If this was the true, I have ZERO way of proving it. There word against mine… Someone was up to some funny business, but all my affiliate manager could say was , “Sorry”.

Don’t get me wrong, I am NOT saying that I don’t believe in ALL scrubs. Scrubs are a way of life. What I am saying is that the way this was handled was ridiculous. Advertisers , or networks for that matter, can’t say on the DAY PAYMENT is due that they don’t want to pay! That’s like eating all your meal at a resturant and then saying it was horrible. Then demand the meal to be free!

Furthermore, I have been with Amped from day one. I have been loyal to them. I run there offers before anyone else, sometimes even at a lower payout! I couldn’t believe that this company wasn’t willing to go the extra mile for me. Especially after all the hard work I have done for them! I’m not a super affiliate yet, so $1000 is a lot of money for me! At the very least they could have met me half way, or done something for me. So, I sent some honest e-mails to my affiliate manager. I was even pretty close to closing my account all together!

Then I got a phone call & an e-mail from , Nicole ( affiliate relations director), stating that the advertiser was unable to “provide ample proof for most of the scrub.” Apparently I wasn’t the only one who was effected by this advertiser…. And that money would be returned to my account with any delay in payment! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

In the end I was paid most of all of the money I earned this month, which really made me happy. And I got a nice e-mail from both Nicole and my affiliate manager apologizing for the mess. It’s the personal touches from Amped that I like.  They make you feel like you count , even if you aren’t there biggest affiliate. They understand that even if you are only earning them $5.00 a day; #1. Your probably working hard to earn that $5.00 a day and #2. You might be there next BIG Super Affiliate.

At the end of the day I would still recommend Amped Media to anyone looking for a great network to join!

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Love,

Becky 

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I haven’t updated, written, or even turned on the computer in a month. That is because on Tuesday night, July 13th my life changed in a matter of minutes.

At around 7:30 PM July 13th my mom called and said my father went to the hospital. He unexpectedly passed out, but came to. She call an ambulance when he passed out. However, when they came he was awake, and alert but they urged him to go to the hospital anyways. His only complaint was stomach cramping.

My father was in perfect health. Perfect blood pressure. Perfect cholesterol.  In fact, he had just had a complete physical and the doctor deemed him to have “ the body of a 50 year old”. Not bad given my dad is 65. I’ve seen my father sick once in my entire life. About 15 years ago he had a urinary track infection… Thus, very fact that he was even in the emergency room was a bit un-nerving.

At around 8:00 pm my sister, boyfriend and mom all gathered in an ER waiting room. Besides for a little pain in my dad’s stomach, he looked good. We all surmised it was heat exhaustion. He had been working outside all day on a hot humid day without much to drink. Heat exhaustion symptoms include muscle cramping, passing out, and sweating. So, of course, heat exhaustion, to all of us made since.

At around 9:00 Pm we were still waiting for a dr. to come in and evaluate my dad. My sister, mom , dad , boyfriend & I were all joking around about random stuff… When all of a sudden my dad sat up in bed, in excruciating pain, screaming. Then, without warning, passed out and turned blue. He turned blue…. Blue with white lips…..

I ran outside the room and got a doctor and then my life became a blur.

A social worker showed up out of no where. She informed us that my dad had an 8.6 cm Aortic Aneurysm that had ruptured. My sister collapsed in tears against the walls behind me repeating, “I can’t do this. I can’t do this. I can’t bury dad.”

I ran back in the room where my dad was and grabbed his blue face and said, “DO NOT Die on me Dad. You are NOT allowed to die. You have to be at my wedding someday. You have to be there to walk me down the isle.” And I was immediately removed from the room.

The social worker informed us that his odds of survival were low, and that we could take the elevator to surgery with him. He was, by a miracle, a wake at that moment. We all anticipated it being the last time we would see him. We thought we were saying our goodbyes.

The surgeon soon showed up and told us that my father has more then likely lost ALL of his blood. Most people with a ruptured aortic aneurysm don’t make it to the hospital alive. Those who do usually don’t make it through surgery. Those who do usually don’t make it through the first 48 hours after surgery. Those who do usually have major organ damage and need dialysis , organ transplants, pacemakers… the list goes on. He gave us less then a 0.1 % chance. Yes, LESS then  0.1 % .

And so, my family and i gathered for the longest 5 hours of all of our lives. Because of an amazing group of miracle workers, including the big man above, six hours later my father was transferred to the ICU, he was alive. By 10:00 am the next day my father’s kidney’s were working at 100%. 48 hours later he was out of the ICU, and 7 DAYS later he was released from the hospital.

The doctor’s themselves are calling him a miracle. One month after all of his organs are working, he can take walks around the block, go to the store. He gets tired easily, and lost a lot of weight, however, his recovery is miraculous thus far. They say it will be 6 months, to a year before he starts to feel like himself again.

This crazy month has been life changing. It has taught me how incredibly fragile life is. How you can wake up one morning and your day be how it is every other day. Then by bedtime your life has forever changed. And make no mistake, YOUR life too could change forever in seconds….

It has taught me the joy of a flexible income. My earnings have dropped over the last month. However, not by too much. Without touching the computer for 30 days I am still earning! And this type of flexibility has allowed me to be there for my family and my dad during this month. Stumbling onto internet marketing a year and a half ago let me made it so when everyone else had to go back to there day job, I was there to get my dad a cup of water when he needed it. In this way internet marketing has changed my life. The countless hours I have used staring at this computer screen finally paid off….

Love,

Becky Marie

Hello everyone! In my efforts to NOT put all my eggs in one basket over the last couple weeks I have dove into the world of e-mail marketing and dabbled at article marketing. Both endeavors make me feel like I did 2 year ago when I stumbled across the world of Internet Marketing. That is, they make me feel like I have no clue what I am doing. Further more, I am putting in a bunch of time with little results.

First things first… I while ago I was dabbling at the idea of playing with e-mail marketing with host gator. But they wanted about $100 – $200 a month for it. I just didn’t think that was wise investment at the time. Then a little birdie told me about Aweber. Oh how i love this company. If Aweber were human I would kiss and hugs it and buy it dinner. The cost is amazing ( $19 a month! ). The Tracking is amazing. The support is amazing. It makes set up and sending your e-mails idiot proof. Oh, AND Aweber has this meter that tells you if your e-mail is SPAM. I would highly recommend it to everyone!

So, I have my software, I have my tracking, I have my list & scribers but what I don’t have is very good click thru. Look at these stats:

Email #

Sent

Total E-mail Opened

Total Clicks

1

256

130

85

2

233

42

12

3

208

59

36

4

185

40

25

5

158

28

10

6

270

27

3

E-mail #6 , which I made blinding RED & BOLD , is particularly sad and pathetic.

Despite the horrible click through I’ve made an amazing… Drum roll please… $29.15 in the last 9 days with e-mail marketing. Which is, again, pathetic, but also means that there is potential. I just need to learn how to unlock it…. Advice is welcome with open arms!

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In other news my average earnings for the month of June ended up calculating out to be $105.30. And , while it is way to early in July to get excited about it, my average daily earnings for July is currently at $121.80. As with all things online this could change in a heart beat, so I try to keep myself level headed about it! 

Also, I wanted to let everyone know that I have made a change for the better in my blog contest. You could now win a $50 Amazon.com Gift Card, Inglorious Bastard’s Blue Ray disk AND Digital Photo Keychain. All You have to do is sign up for my e-mail subscription by [ Clicking HERE ] . And Wha-La You’re signed up. After 50 people sign up a winner will be chosen at random.

Love,

Becky

This month has been great as far earnings go. I have been breaking my personal earnings records left and right. Before this month I wasn’t ever able to break the $100 a day profit mark with SEO. This month I shattered it and had a day where my earnings were $175.94! Logically my next goal is to have my 1st $200 day! To get a sense of my progress since January. Here is a chart showing my steady increase in daily earnings.

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Still, even more exciting news, my daily average earnings for this month is currently calculating out to be $95.76! This is again shattering any of my previous average earnings with SEO OR PPC. Here is a chart ( because who doesn’t LOVE charts? ) of my average daily earnings for each month since January. Oh, how I love seeing that line steadily increase!

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Now more then ever my original goal of making $100,000 a year does seem so impossible. In order to reach that I would have to make $273.97 a day. I still have a ways to go, but I’m slowly getting there!

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In completely un-related news I did get my blood work results back. Everything they were testing for was in the “normal” range. Which simply means that if I do have cancer it is not late stage , or aggressive. Which is still great news! I go back to the doctors in a few weeks for more tests. They will probably take more blood, and do a biopsy of all the swollen lymph nodes.

So, that’s it folks.

Love,

Becky

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For the last 2 months I have had 2 pea size swollen lymph nodes on my collar bone. Suspecting my body had some sort of infection I filled an old prescription of amoxicillin that was laying around the house. After I finished the prescription my lymph nodes were still the same size, one was marginally bigger. I still thought nothing of it, but my mother kept bothering me to get them looked at.

2 days ago I went to the doctors…. And apparently I had more swollen lymph nodes basically all over my body. He took chest x-rays and blood. To sum it up, the doctor is concerned I may have lymphoma (Cancer of the lymph nodes ) … No masses were found in the chest x-rays and I will get the blood work results this week. The blood work will indicate if further tests need to be done, it will not say if I do or do NOT have cancer. But, Wow, ya, Lymphoma.

And so, as anyone can imagine a lot goes through your head when you are only 30 and a physician says the words “I am concerned about cancer”. My main question to myself has been, “If I do have lymphoma, then what?”

Would I still want to do internet marketing? Do I still want to do my other business? What about traveling? What about kids? What about Marriage? What about the my doggies?

And the truth is Internet Marketing lets you have a particular life style that I enjoy. The work schedule is extremely flexible. You can work at 2:00 AM or 2:00 PM, doesn’t make a difference. It’s constantly changing and challenging. Everyday is different. The possibilities are endless. With internet marketing I could travel! Go out to nice dinners more often. Do more weekend adventures. Do less laundry and more living. I could spend more time with the people I love, all while still maintaining an  income.

BUT with that said, I was put on this earth to save animals, period. And frankly with my other business, I’m not saving them. I’m just walking them and training them. There is just something not satisfying about it. I want to be able to spend more time at the wild life rehab. center that I’ve been working at for 10 years now. Not just once a week for a few hours like I do now. And maybe do more volunteer work. At the SPCA maybe. Put my skills and college education to good use.

If YOU were told you had cancer today were would you want your life to be? How would you want your life to be? Are you living, or at least working toward the life YOU want? Listen, most of us never think about death. And when we do we think about it in the context of other people. Furthermore, if we do think about it with ourselves we think “when we are old and die”. This entire experience has truly taught me the fragility of life. 70% of people with lymphoma have ZERO symptoms. It’s taught me that wasting a day ( or days ) is sad. My current average earning of $70 a day is all fine and dandy but if I truly want to make a living at this, I need to kick it up a notch!

So, here I am. Waiting to see if I have caner or not. And planning how the hell I’m going to kick it up a notch.

And so I ask you, what would you change if you had cancer?

Love,

Becky

Am I a millionaire? No.

Do I know what I need to do to become one? Yes. Read On.

Yesterday I had a slight blow in my SEO progression. I had a site hit the #2 spot in Google for a fairly hard to rank keyword. According to my calculations once this keyword hit the first page of Google it would generate at a minimum of 1000 impressions a day. My goal on this site was to have at the very least 4 conversions a day.  At only 4 conversions a day I would be bringing in another $120 – $150 a day. Again, my original goal was ONLY 4 conversions out of 1000 impressions. Which would have been insanely easy!  Except (yes, there always seems to be an exception) I miss calculated how many impressions this keyword would give me at this position. Instead of my previously calculated 1000 per-day impressions, this keyword only should have ( and only did ) give me about 20 impressions. Um, Ya. Talk about disappointing….

But, I wasn’t too bummed out. The truth is the keyword was hard to rank for, and I WAS able to do it. Meaning that now I know it is possible for me to rank for more difficult keywords! Within this world of internet marketing with every mistake you make you learn something. And every time you learn something you are one step closer to “figuring it out”. And so with this mistake I take one step closer to my original goal of $100,000 a year.

The thing is what if you someone told you,

“All you have to do make a lot of money is work your butt off for 2 or 3 years. But  you have to put this work a head of almost everything. Ahead of family, yourself,  your friends, your dog. Then after that 2 to 3 years I will give you lots of money to be able to live the lifestyle you’ve always wanted, Guaranteed. I just need your complete dedication for a couple years.”

You’d do it in a second right?!? Of course you would! That’s the thing with the internet. The possibilities and opportunities are insanely endless, even if you don’t know a thing about it! If you dedicated your mind and heart into becoming successful at internet marketing at some point YOU ARE GOING to start to “get it”. Period. You need to understand that you’ll fail, and you’ll lose some money. But you will start gaining small grains of knowledge with every mistake you make and over time make money. If it was something people could figure out in a week reading by 1 e-book, then the entire world would be doing it and they’re not. To me internet marketing sometimes feels like a stick with a million dollars hanging from the end of it that I’ll never catch up too. However,  I truly believe that sooner or later the stick will break and I will catch up with the money.

So, that’s how you make a million dollars online. You don’t give up. Ever.

Chasing money

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Questions? or Thoughts?

Love,

Becky

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One of the main reasons I got interested in affiliate marketing was the idea that I could use the extra income to pay off my credit card debt. However what ended up happening was my other business took a turn for the worst and for a short time I had to essentially live on my credit cards. Now that things have bounced back I am returning to the goal of paying off these darn things, and using my marketing income to achieve it – hopefully.

So, while other affiliate marketing bloggers have the goal of buying i-pads and flat screen TV’s I have the non-glamour boring goal of paying off debt. Here is why. #1. My debt is a significant financial burden and stressor on me. #2. Not that my boyfriend and I are engaged yet, but we will probably be at some point. Because my parents are retired and on a fixed income, it’ll be mostly up to us to pay for a wedding. I don’t see how I am going to financially afford a wedding without paying off these credit cards. 

With all that said, and while I’m completely honest with you… I am no saint, and Here is MY downfall… I like to buy things. I don’t buy excessive things as in I need to be the show ‘Hoarders’, and I don’t buy expensive things. But I do tend to buy more then I should. Recently when I go to the store I’ve been trying a new technique. I say to myself, “Is this a ‘want’? Or a ‘Need’?”. But my mind has a way of manipulating it’s self into making everything a ‘need’. For instance, I saw two cute dresses at the mall last week and my mind said to it’s self, “Well, clothes are a ‘need’. I ‘need’ clothes. “ The total price tag was only $55.00. BUT $55.00 purchases add up!

Now lets crunch some numbers & make a plan!

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My Personal Finance

Debt ( RED ) & Minimum Monthly Payments ( Orange )

Credit Card Name

APR

Balance

Monthly Payment

HSBC Credit Card 14.99% $ 799.29 $ 31.00
Orchard Bank Credit Card 14.99% $ 270.25 $ 30.00
Chase Credit Card 29.99% $ 722.76 $ 24.00
NY & Co 20.99% $ 102.00 $ 10.00
Juniper 14.99% $ 2,818.12 $ 35.92
Prosper Loan 8.00% $ 497.42 $ 47.00

Total

  $ 5,209.84 $ 177.92

Other Personal Monthly Bills

Company

Amount

Mortgage (My part ) $600
Electric / Gas (Changes Monthly ) $100
Cable $20
Student Loans $118
Approximate Food $150
Approximate Entertainment $150

Total

$1,088

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My Business Finance

Account Fee’s $100
Advanta Credit Card $60
AMX Credit Card $50
Miscellaneous
(Changes Monthly )
$550
Cell Phone $125

Total

$885

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TOTAL MONTHLY EXPENSES =

$2150.92

Ok. So, here in lies the problem…. If I continue paying off my credit cards using ONLY the monthly payments I will NEVER ( And literally NEVER ) payoff my credit cards. Lets say conservatively I make $70.00 a day online ( 7 days a week ) , and $40 a day (weekdays) with my other business.  That averages out to $2900 a month. Thus, leaving an average of $749.08 left over. Which may seem like a lot, but every month something comes up that sucks up this extra money. Lets face it, when you own a house un-expected things come up and an extra $700.00 a month is really not much. Also, I haven’t even calculated in a savings account or retirement. Both of which I should be investing in. To sum it things have gotten better, but I have a long way to go.

Goals to pay off credit card with Affiliate marketing in 1 YEAR!

- Reduce Spending ! I Mean it this time! I’ll report back to you each month with my expenses and I expect you to yell at me for each stupid purchase.

- INCREASE Affiliate Marketing income to $150.00 a day or More by 2011! This is 100% do able. $80 more a day is nothing!

- Make $100 or more a month on this blog by 2011. I’ll start this by introducing my first ever blog contest starting in my next blog post! ** Also, don’t forget to follow me on Twitter [Click Here ] , Facebook [Click Here ] And Subscribe to my RSS Feed [Click Here ] . ***

- Pay $100 a month on highest interest credit card ( Chase ).

Any other ideas on how I can pay off these credit cards? If so let me know!

Thanks!

Becky Marie.

 

I know it’s superstitious of me but I am always hesitant to write posts about my online successes. Sometimes I fear l the minute I put it down on “paper”, is the minute it will all come down crashing… But the truth is in the last month and a half my online earnings have been the best they have ever been! Since mid- April I’ve been earning an average of $70 dollars a day! $38 dollars has been my lowest earning day, and $97 has been my highest. Additionally I’ve earned $300 from individuals who wanted to advertise on my sites.

While I’m no super affiliate just yet, all in all I don’t think these earning are too shabby! Especially if you consider that it was only a year and a half ago that I didn’t know a mere little once of anything about internet marketing! And considering that I’m 100% self taught with absolutely zero computer or programming training. Still, this is NOT enough for me to live off of… But it’s getting closer!

All of this has been earned completely with search engine optimization. The fact that very little money is going out, and my average $70 a day is 100% profit feels great. BUT… But… It’s also scary because I am only mildly in control of my earnings. What I mean is relying on remaining #1 in google for 100% of your income is scary! All that has to happen is for google to reconfigure things, and bump me and I’m out! No more money for you. This is not to say that I am using any black hat techniques, or SPAM pages to get me to #1. I’m simply saying that google is incharge of my pocket. I have all my internet marketing eggs in one basket, which means if I don’t branch out I will crash. Look at what happened to Brendan, from www.20YearBillionaire.com, he was earning $6000 a day and google gave him the boot. Now he’s “only” making 200-ish. Thus, my goals are to get a couple more sites to #1. Sites that have higher payout, and are for more popular keywords. I have one site on the way already. Also, I’d like to start earning a little money monthly from this blog. So, I’ll need more readers… Thus, I’ll need to post more often! And lastly, look into getting more paid advertisers for some of my other sites.

So, that’s it for now my friends! What are your thoughts folks?

Have a wonderful weekend! I look forward to hearing from you.

Love,
Becky : )