Day 32: Built Another Site – The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment


(Wednesday July, 22nd)

I wrote the first page of content for another site today. I posted that and put the finishing touches on the WordPress settings.

My wife wrote her first article for distribution, so that will give her her first link when it gets published.

I still haven’t heard from the Keyword Academy Support team about reactivating my account. I decided to just go through the registration process again. I was worried that I would have to create a new account, but thankfully, they give you the option of reactivating an existing account. They also detected that I was using the same PayPal account, and charged appropriately (ie $33, since I re-joined the premium membership). So for any of you thinking about cheating and getting multiple months for a dollar each, you’re out of luck.

I also sent out some emails for link exchanges for this site today. Lis Sowerbutts site about online income was one of the ones I offered a link trade to. She was not only was nice enough to link to my site, but also wrote about it in a post.

The post was more criticism than commendation. But it was constructive criticism which I find very helpful. In fact, comments from her post and also from an email I got from Courtney Tuttle (one of the Keyword Academy guys) a couple weeks or so ago, are making me think that I should revise some of my experiment’s terms and methods.

They both made the point that learning the ropes of Internet marketing should be treated like school. You usually don’t get paid to learn (it’s usually the other way around), but it pays for itself down the road. I think I may be doing you readers a disservice by putting you in the wrong mindset, and making you think that you’ve failed if you haven’t been fully reimbursed for your time and money within the first six months of online money making. Making money online is like starting a business (in fact, that’s exactly what it is). Building a business takes time, even if you already know the trade. However, if you, like me, are completely new to a particular business, you’ll need to spend time learning it. That’s just the way it is. So is it really right for me to count the time I spend learning the system as an expense?

When I get the time, I’ll probably make some revisions to my experiment. If you have something to say about this, please post I comment. I would love to hear from you!

PS – Checked Adsense today and I had some more clicks. My total revenue is now up to $12.58! Woo Hoo!

Money spent: $33.00
Time spent: 2 hours

The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment – RUNNING TOTALS:
Costs:
Monetary costs – $225.76
Time costs – 52 hours @ $8.40 = $436.80
Revenue:
Google  Adsense – $12.58

GRAND TOTAL:
-($649.98)


Day 30: More Article Distribution – The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment


(Monday July, 20th)
Due to a combination of being very busy for 2 days and very lazy for the next day, I haven’t worked on my sites in 3 days. I was feeling really guilty about this today so I got back to work. If you’ll recall, I needed to write 2 more articles for article distribution for promoting my first site. I wrote and submitted both of those today. That gives me 5 links from articles and 3 links from link exchanges. That means I have fulfilled the first month’s site promotion minimums for that site and it only took me 15 days (including the last 3 that I did nothing)!

In the Keyword Academy videos they said you are supposed to write between 5 and 10 articles per site for distribution in the first month, but that there are diminishing returns, especially above 10. If I only had the one site to work on, I might go ahead and write 10 articles instead of just the bare minimum 5. But since I have 19 other domains that need to be worked on, I think my time will be better spent working on those.

I still haven’t heard back from The Keyword Academy support team about my accidentally canceled subscription (if you missed the whole PayPal fiasco, you can read about it in day 26). But, I wrote the email late Thursday night, so they’ve really only had 2 business days to respond. When I first joined the Keyword Academy I sent an email to them through the support portal and got a same day response, but that was when my account was still active, so I’m sure that they give members priority over non-members. I’ll give them a couple more days to respond before I write again.

More good news on the Adsense front: I got a few more clicks that have brought my revenue up to $11.41! I love seeing those clicks!

One more thing: today is day 30th of The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment! (please, hold your applause) I feel that I have accomplished quite a bit this month. To commemorate this historic event :-) I’ll be writing a “first month overview” post soon. I know you’ll all be waiting with bated breath to read it.

See you next post!

Money spent: $0.00
Time spent: 1.5 hours

The Keyword Academy Scam Experiment – RUNNING TOTALS:
Costs:
Monetary costs – $192.76
Time costs – 49 hours @ $8.40 = $411.60
Revenue:
Google  Adsense – $11.41

GRAND TOTAL:
-($592.95)