Yes, I Am Still Kicking

Wow, has it really been a year since I last posted? Where has the time gone?

Much has happened over the last year. Around the first of last year, I developed some pretty severe health problems and had a drastic change of careers in my offline world. Due to all of that, I had to let some things in my online world slide a bit and just focus on my own projects during the last 12 months.

Not to mention, I wanted to test some things that were circulating around on the internet. Not only for my own sake, but for the sake of my readers as well.

One thing I would like to report, BANS is NOT dead in the water as most would like you to believe. I know, my last post reflected that I could no longer recommend the popular site builder. Conflicting and confusing, to say the least. Yes, I was pretty bitter over the de-indexing of nearly all of my sites - including my top earners. I thought since I had escaped all other "slaps" that I was safe. However, when I really scrutinized those sites, and I mean stepped back and objectively looked at them, I came to the conclusion that it was really all my own fault.

I "thought" I had a lot of great content and articles on those sites along with the listings, but in all honesty, I didn't. In the end, they were thin affiliate sites. Very few pages would have actually stood alone in the eyes of a search engine and when you took away the listings, the sites were really of no value to the world wide web.

So, I decided to eat my crow and try once more. This time following the N1Way Guide that the builders of BANS put together. My thoughts were to give it one more try and see if I could make a site stick. The end result was that it worked out fabulously for me. I'm sorry folks, I'm not going to share the site here. I am done sharing my big money sites in a public fashion. But I will say that I followed the guide to the letter and now have a few sites that are earning great money per month - even with eBay's new affiliate model. Matter of fact, I think the sites perform better on the new ebay structure than they did before.

Did I learn anything new from the guide? Not really. They were all steps that I already knew needed to be taken, I just never followed through with everything I needed to do for every site. The guide did help me lay it all out, step by step, and gave me a checklist to follow and focus on for each site I built.

In all honesty, the knowledge contained in the Niche Site Blueprint is applicable no matter what you are using to build your Niche Affiliate Sites. It is not just for BANS or WordPress/phpBay users only. The guide is literally for anyone in this type of business that is wanting to succeed. It is good, sound advice for any building platform. If you have not had a chance to read it, then I encourage you to get a copy. If you follow the advice and do the work, and I mean really do the work.... I can almost promise you that you will be earning five to six figures a year from now.

If you don't want to purchase the guide, that's ok. A lot of the most important steps have already been highlighted here on my blog and many others. I will see if I can find a collage of the best posts around the web that will give you a guide, or structure, to follow.

My phpBay sites are still performing for me just as wonderfully as they always have. The two that were de-indexed, once again, was my own fault. There was nothing but listings on both of them. Pretty much no content whatsoever. The plugin is still a quite stable performer and valuable asset to my WordPress sites.

There are a few other plugins I haven't mentioned much about to you all that I will soon be talking about. Some of you will know of them, but most will not. I'm excited to be bringing you the information about them.

I am also finishing up some testing regarding how those of you who cannot spend any money can get started in affiliate marketing for absolutely nothing. I am also excited to bring you these results. There has been demand all along for those who wanted to get started in affiliate marketing, but did not have any money to spend. I hope to maintain a healthy balance of my posts between the information for those who are new and those who are veterans to the industry.

I also want to report that the project with USFreeAds has also been a huge success. I will see if I can revive that post and get you all a discount for the ebook, if you have not already bought it. Once again, the information within it is a goldmine if you will actually do the work.

All in all, I believe 2010 is going to be an exciting year for us all and I hope you will stick around for the ride. So, for those of you I haven't heard from in a while, what have you been up to? How are things faring for you?

Take care my friends and I will talk to you soon!