Day 22: Finished videos and more article distribution – The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment
(Sunday July, 12th)
The last 2 days have been really busy so I didn’t have time to work on the experiment. Today wasn’t really a great day for it either, but I was feeling guilty about it, so I forced myself to work a little before bed.
I watched the last two videos (technically, the adsense video is last, but I’ve already watched it). The first was about a tool for article distribution. Basically, if I understood correctly, you give it 3 revisions of the same article and it will mix and match those revisions and submit them to tons of article sites. Each article of course contains links back to your site, so it helps your site rank better in search engines.
It seems like a really good idea. It stinks that you have to rewrite each article 3 times, but if you think about the alternative (rewriting it and submitting it to all those sites yourself), it’s a no-brainer. It also cost $67 a month which is uncool. I’m not sure how I’m going to squeeze that out of my very tight budget. However, according to the link building videos, I don’t want to use it until month 2 of site promotion anyway. Maybe by then my site(s) will be bringing in Adsense revenue to offset the cost a little.
The second video talks about tracking statistics on your sites. They used statcounter.com instead of Google Analytics, but I didn’t really see anything that it did that Google doesn’t. Since I’ve already installed Google Analytics on my site, I’ll use it for now. I’ll test Stat Counter on my next site and if I like it better, I’ll switch.
Hooray! I’ve now finished watching all the core videos. Now to see how good I am at implementing them.
I also wrote one more article and submitted it to the article site. 3 down, 2-7 more to go.
Bed time!
Money spent: $0.00
Time spent: 1.5 hours
The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment – RUNNING TOTALS:
Costs:
Monetary costs – $192.76
Time costs – 42 hours @ $8.40 = $352.80
Revenue:
Google Adsense – $7.06
GRAND TOTAL:
-($538.50)
Tags: article distribution, cons, Google Analytics, link building, StatCounter, The Keyword Academy scam, time costs