Well as some of you may already know, I have been banned from AdSense. I have appealed, but have not heard anything as of yet. I don’t think my account will be reinstated however.

I have recently joined a few affiliate companies. Max Bounty, Never Blue Ads and Market Leverage. I’ve always had a CJ and Click Bank account. I will be using these companies to monetize the sites, along side something like Kontera or EchoTopic for the contextual side.

My plan is to find niches using the Free keyword tracker, then look at the competition quickly using SEO Quake. I will then buy the domain and hosting and install wordpress using Fantastico. Get a skin, install my core plug-ins and then write the content myself after researching the niche.

The main part I think will be building the links. I will look for blogs and forums within that niche or related to the niche in a broader term and post around and have the link in my signature and posts. If I need a large amount of links to rank #1 I will probably buy them, or buy links off other people and have my link put in their signature.

So it’s the 4th day after the promotion has finished, and I thought I’d update every one on the progress the site is still making.

As expected, the traffic is dropping by a lot because the promotions have stopped. However, I am still getting traffic daily from those initial 2 days which is good. The pay is brilliant. $1cpm from Adbrite and $0.20cpm on the banners from RMX.

Above you can see the stats. Please remember sunday is still ongoing. The orange bars are return users which is low.

So to promote my blog, I’ve decided to give away $100 by PayPal. Nice ‘ey?

All you have to do is write a review about my blog on your blog, then register on my blog and then post a comment to this post with your name, email address and the link to your review. That’s it, that easy!

If you win, I will email you and ask for your paypal and send you $100USD no catch.

Look forward to reading your reviews and feedback!

So I was lucky to get a review copy of an Image promotion service by Hugeforum on Digital Point forums. The service looked good, and because I had 20+ iTrader I qualified for the review copy. I was the first person to reply and I got the review!

HugeForum messaged me asking me to place a statscounter code on the site, which I did then a few hours later he started. I was shocked at the fist days stats. I got 12,074 hits and 10,528 uniques! Impressive. I thought it was just a hoax and the traffic would never return.

Day 2 was just as good! 12,621 hits and 10,372 uniques. Wow, I used AdBrite, RMX and Paypopup to monetize the site. Adbrite is paying roughly $1CPM, whereas RMX are paying me 20cents which is not bad. Paypopup are paying me $1.80CPM which is nice.

I will see how day 3 goes, as my review was only 2 days. So far it looks good.

Below you can see my Statcounter stats:

I do recommend the services provided by HugeForum if you can afford them.

You can see the thread here for more information.