James Hume - Entrepreneur Blog

Ugh, should I just write this off as another failure? I’m getting a steady flow of traffic (more like trickle at 30 page views a day), but I’m not making any cash. In total I’ve made around $5 but I spent around $50 to get that money. $25 was spent on Adwords as an experiment to see if the site would convert. Well it did, and thats where I got a majority of my earnings. I’ve earned about $1.50 with organic shit. Damn this is annoying.

Good news is I’m advancing around 10 positions in the SERPs each day for my main search term. I originally wasn’t anywhere to be found for the term ’shot glasses’ but yesterday I was at position 173, today I’m at 161. So time will tell if I’ll rank decently. I spent $25 on some SEO work that focused on that keyword and got me around 100 backlinks (and counting), so I hope it will carry me to the first page. Doubt it though, competition is pretty stiff on that first page. 

So, why am I bitching? I’m making some cash, I should just repeat this process and build more sites and over time the site will increase in earnings because its only about a month old. Well, I spent $25 (didn’t really need to spend the Adwords money so count that out) to make $1.50 in a month. Hopefully I’m being really impatient; are there any experienced guys out there can comment on this?

I also started an affiliate campaign, and I’m getting ready to build some more sites today. Acquired a few domains for cheap, along with the two car sites that I need to build. I’ve got plenty to do this week. Expect a more thorough update this week.