Day 7

Day 6 - $5

Day off again, I am too lazy in weekend. $5 /23 clicks from Adsense, pretty good. I earned money even I didn't do anything, SEO rocks!

But my earning/click is pretty low, i am gonna remove the adsense tom.

Day 5 - $1.21

Day off today, I got 10 clicks today from Google Adsense, no sale from affiliate product.

Day 4 Earning: $30.78 - Working Hours: 6 hours

I just made my first affiliate sale today, and I earned $30 from it. Adsense gave me additional $0.78 for 8 clicks. Oh it's less than 10 cents/click, I think i should just start another topic. But I will keep adding at least one post/week at the acid reflux blog.

I find a pretty good keyword to start my new blog, "How to build up muscle", I went to library to do some research and come out with 2 posts. Then I create my new blog, the url is: http://howtobuildupmuscle911.blogspot.com/ , I remember clickbank has a pretty high grav muscle-building product. I picked up the product and immediately bought a domain name at dotster to hide my product's hoplink.

I haven't added any adsense on it yet because blogcatalog doesn't seem to like a blog filled with adsense. I will place the ads after they accept my submission.... getting smart now.

What I do Today - Promotion/Build Link

• I found a very good blog directories list today here: http://www.web-directories.ws/Press/Blogs/ , I submit the top 10 blog directories today, so good many of them are free and has a high PR.

Day 3 Earning: $0.39 - Working Hours: 5 hours

Finally here is my earning snapshot, 3 clicks for $0.39, the earning/click dropped a bit in day 3. Two people subscribe my email list and no sale from my affiliate product. According to Google analytic, 40 unique visitor per day come to my blog from search engines. The longest time a visitor stay in my blog is 30 minutes, reading 14 pages of my blog. Glad to see that people don't click the back button immediately :)

Also, one of my keywords is ranked #13 in Google "acid reflux tips", I think Google loves blogger.

What I do today - Promotion/Link building Section:

• Again, I submit my blog to 3 directories.
• I join a forum about heartburn and acid reflux, but it doesn't allow me to post in the next 24 hours. Hard to find a health-related forum which allow signature.
• I read some information about RSS feed in digital point forum today, see if I can create one by this weekend.
  

What I do today - Content/Keywords

• I write a unique post "Obesity and Pregnancy" in my blog today. I found a website to help me submit to digg/stumble today. Here is the url: http://www.socialmarker.com/ , not 100% auto like onlywire though. But i think bigger social bookmarking site like digg and stumble don't like robot submit.
  
• Also, I add my new post's link in my squidoo lens.
  
• I think this topic is not earning well, only averaged 10cents/click. I think I need to find another good topic to work on. I am thinking to start a loan-related topic or stock trading blog.
  

Day 2 Earning: $0.94 - Working Hours: 4 hour

I got 5 clicks today($0.94), and one email subscribed. Less than 2 cents/click is bad I think. I think it is a good start :) However, I open my mailbox and receive an email from blogcatalog and it says my blog submission has been declined.

"Your blog was declined for the following reason: The URL you submitted is not a blog, is solely for commercial purposes, or is suspected to be spam."

Again here is my blog: http://acid-reflux-tips.blogspot.com/, does it looks like a spam or MFA blog?

What I do today - Promotion/Link building Section:

• Google analytics is sending me data today, I've got 28 unique visitors. I then check the traffic source, it showed that 3 people who are typing my affiliate products name - Refluxamine - in search engine are coming to my blog. Hmm...not bad, my blog post (refluxamine) is ranking #22in GoogleSERP, ranking #22 (against 14,700 results with quotes) still get 3 visitors/day is pretty good I think.
• I create a squidoo lens, and I hope I can get some traffic from it, I will update the lens everytime I have new post. Here is my lens: Heartburn Cures
  
• I write a very general heartburn article and submit to ezinearticles and goarticles, i just do this for backlinks, and therefore i didn't care much about the keyword density.
• Submit my link to a few directories today. I type "heartburn" - submit link at Google to find the directories that related to my topic, am I doing right?
• Play around yahoo answer, answer a few questions and put my blog url in the source area.
  

What I do today - Content/Keywords

• I add a unique recipe "Hearty Beef Stew" in my blog today. I submit to digg/stumble and onlywire. Someone tell me I cannot submit too many stories from one unique URL in stumble, is that true?

Day 1 Earning: 0 - Working Hours: 9 hour

I created a blog at blogger.com 6 days ago, it indexed in Google early today. So I am going to start my journey today. I haven't done any promotion yet and therefore, it has no traffic now.

Here is my blog: http://acid-reflux-tips.blogspot.com/
(it talks about acid reflux, heartburn, GERD and some digestive problems)

So far I've written about 20 unique contents, along with 24 heartburn-free PLR recipes.

What I do today - Promotion/Link building Section:

• submit my blog to http://www.blogcatalog.com/
  
• add my blog to Google Analytics, but it needs 24 to 48 hours to receive my blog's data
• add my newsletter autoresponder (aweber), many people told me email-marketing works, but personally I never bought anything from email ads.
• add the affiliate products, refluxamine. I tried this before because I am really a patient of heartburn, it helped, but honestly the price is too high. You can buy the similar product at half price over-the-counter. But hard to find good product in this niche, I would just see how it goes.
• register for all the social bookmarking site at onlywire, it wasted me more than an hour. So many things to do in day one :(
  
• start submitting my blog to the free directories with PR, here are some free one way links I found it in one of the DP member's thread. hmm...at least 200 directories, does anyone know any manual-submitting services, I don't mind a little investment. I search Google, and it costs $100 for 150 directories, too expensive I think I should do it myself, maybe 4 to 6 directories a day.

What I do today - Content/Keywords

• I use Wordtracker/Google keyword Trends to determine keywords for my content. Here is a problem that I always face, especially I am doing health-related topic. For example, "acid reflux symptoms" has 100 counts/day with 115,000 results in Google(with quotes), but "acid reflux symptom" (without the 's') also has 100 counts/day with only 16,300 results. I always fall in the wordtracker's trap and write a post about "acid reflux symptom". However, it never appeared in good ranking because I found out that even you type the keywords without 's', Google will only show the website with 's'. Bear with my poor English, I hope you understand what I am talking about.
  
• today I pick the keyword "natural cures for acid reflux" for my post, 70 count/day, constant searches in Google trends, and around 10,000 results in Google with quotes, 3 pages of adsense in Google's SERP too. I think it is a good keyword, what do you think?