I’m at Affiliate Summit East 2011

Posted by Chris Monty in August 20th 2011

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Just a quick word to whomever happens to be in NYC. I’m in the Big Apple for Affiliate Summit East at the Hilton New York. I waited too long to book a room at the Hilton, though, so I’m staying at the luxurious Park Central down the street.

I’ll be here until Tuesday, August 23, 2011.

Looking forward to my first-ever ASE.

As for my blog auction, some joker hit “Buy It Now” and then started kicking the tires, SO I had to re-list it on Flippa. The drama should come to an end by mid-week when we see if it sells or not.

Frankly, I’m torn. If it sells, great I could use the extra cash. If it doesn’t, it’s kind of my baby anyway.

We’ll see.

Until later.

Affiliate Summit East 2011 Party List (cash-bandit.com)
Affiliate Summit East 2011 Passes on eBay (tjantunen.com)

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Selling My Flagship Blog

Posted by Chris Monty in August 8th 2011

Well, after debating about it for months, I’ve finally decided to sell my flagship blog.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s been doing OK. It helped me quit my job and it gets millions of pageviews every month.

The problem is, the advertising revenue just isn’t where I want it to be. The problem is that I went into the “breaking news” niche, which means I really don’t have a niche.

We go from sports to politics to tech and back again. Advertisers don’t know what the heck to target on my site.

I get tons of traffic, but at $0.25 – $0.50 CPMs, it’s just not worth it.

Sure, I’ve had plenty of upper-4-figure months and a few 5-figure months, but now it’s time to knock it out of the park. I woke up one day and realized I’ve been trying to do it all along. I’ve been on an OK path since 2007, but I could have been on a much more lucrative path. That all changes…now.

I’m selling my flagship site at a hefty premium, then I’m going to reinvest that capital into ramping up my CPA and affiliate marketing efforts.

The auction for my site ends in less than a week so I’ll keep you posted as to how much it sells for. Stick around. This is going to be good.

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, CPA Marketing, Make Money Blogging

Google Adsense: A Decent Month So Far

Posted by Chris Monty in November 15th 2010

I’m encouraged by the fact that it’s only November 15 and I’ve already racked up almost $500.00 from Adsense so far this month (see screencap below).

That means that this month will probably end just slightly above average…and that’s just Adsense, which really only makes up maybe 1/10th – 1/20th of my income on a month-to-month basis.

This is not rocket science. Don’t be discouraged. Anyone can do this. The key with anything pertaining to the internet is TRAFFIC. When you’ve got tons and tons of traffic, everything else just falls into place. Without it, you’re dead.

So how do you get traffic? Why should your site or blog outrank Joe Schmo’s site? Backlinks, people. BACKLINKS! You’ve got to have more quality links than you’re opponent, plain and simple.

So how do you get links? Oh sure, you’d like me to tell you about all the ways that every other guy on the internet tells you to get links. “Go do some blog commenting.” “Make up some classified ads.” “Post in forums.” “Write some articles.”

Sure, those are all well and good. But if you want to really start rising in the ranks, what you need are some relevant, in-text links. No trashy spammy footer links, no auto-generated Xrumer links. Those are all fine in enough quantity, and if you mix them with other kinds of links.

What you need, though, are some MONEY links.

What you need to use is a system called 1WayLinks. Jonathan Ledger created this system as a way to broadcast your links across the internet. It’s actually a fairly nice, mostly white-hat way of getting quality links.

Actually, I’m not going to get into it here, because I really don’t want everyone and their brother signing up for this.

I use it myself on a few of my sites, as I do all the products I will tell you about on this blog. If you want to outrank your competition, you need to use 1WayLinks. Thanks to 1WayLinks, one of my sites is on page one of Google out of over 1 BILLION search results…that’s 1,000,000,000 competing results, folks. This is not something to be taken lightly.

That’s how you get traffic.

If you sign up through the link in this post, feel free to hit me up for some advice on how to use it.