It seems options trading has stolen the limelight for this website, it's not surprising since I update the options trading section more often than the affiliate marketing section. I haven't been dabbling much on it since I've spent most of my nights on options. It was easy to just buy low, sell high compared to affiliate marketing which has all sorts of factors that determines the sales. The highest commission I've made so far this year is in April and since then it has stopped performing. :-( That was just one of the affiliate programs that I concentrated on. Since I've figured out the part on how to make capital gains, it's time to work on my passive income...
I'm working on a new project which deals with generic phamaceutical drugs, my pharma merchant is currently concentrating on generic viagra but they are slowly introducing more generic drugs (cholestrol, diet pill, etc). I bought some keyword targetted articles for $1 each from Chris who had hired writers for his previous pharmaceutical website, he's stopped promoting his pharmacy site because his merchant stopped selling to US residents. Before the discontinuance of the US market, he made $400 a week from his pharma site alone. I guess, partly, I didn't buy these articles alone... it came with some lessons I could learn from him. Compared to others, he doesn't mind sharing his internet marketing wisdom.
I worked on a template for my own pharma site which merges the merchant's template codes with WordPress. I spent about 2 to 3 days working on the codes and figuring out which does what (because I'm not very good with PHP) and I'm very satisfied with the final site. Having wordpress as a partial backbone of the website will help with search engine optimization since pinging is extremely useful to inform the search engines of new content and to encourage the search engines' spiders to crawl my website. Currently, I'm just waiting for Chris to come online to give me more pointers after reviewing my website.
Interestingly, he told me that having sites with the same articles are not duplicate content as long as the template is different. This is something opposite of what I've heard on most SEO forums. Here are some stuff which I found interesting about him:
- He uses all white hat techniques
- He hires people to write articles and his blogs (I wish I have the money to do that)
- He put himself through college with the money he made from the internet
- He works for an online casino, also something to do with search engine marketing
- He's going to do a demonstration on PPC (Pay-per-click) advertising using $2500 on Google Adwords promoting affiliate programs that sell physical products.
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