Apr
Some of you might be familiar with my BANS from scratch series which I shamefully never finished. The case study in that series is a site called Project Cars For Sale.
Well, Project Cars for Sale has been running for a little bit over a month, and has brought in a total of around $150.00, which isn’t bad at all considering the time I’ve put into it. This site doesn’t make as many consistent sales as my Honda Parts Store, but the commissions are WAY higher. I’ve had 2 $50 commission sales from this site (cars sold). The rest of the money has come from some “off niche” (unrelated items people have bought).
The real reason for this post is to show that with Google’s recent PageRank update, project-cars-for-sale.com now has a PR of 2. The great thing is, I did VERY little link building with this site. I put a link in my signature on ONE forum, and got a PR2. imagine if you put a little actual work into this?
On an unrelated note, Poll Factory has sold its 25th copy since its launch on CashTactics this past Friday. Thats $1400 or so in a 4-5 days. Looks like Mr. Graph needs an update! (by the way, i haven’t updated that since February. Its not that I “stopped” making money).
12 Responses so far to "A small update on my BANS series"
April 30th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Eric, thats awesome!
Yeah, I’ve been doing some casual link building. I remember the post you put up a while ago about being in forums. I just didn’t get it at the time.
Since then, I’ve been doing reading up as well, and finding out more about SEO.
Hey Eric, are you finding your Quality Score becoming better with the link building, or are you not doing any PPC at the moment?
I rely heavily on PPC, but still finding my keywords being pretty expensive – $0.12 in a keyword that has maybe 3 competitors??? Like what the heck???
So I’m wondering if even making an effort in SEO will even affect me at all (in terms of reducing my keywords costs).
Whats your thoughts?
Kunal
April 30th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hi Eric,
I am one of those that bought, but download page did not work, sent you an email but no reply,
cheers
kevin
uk
April 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Hi Kevin. I never received your email, which address did you send it to?
Anyway, i think i found your order, its the only email with “kevin” in the address. I will send you an email now
May 1st, 2008 at 1:32 am
Hi Eric,
Thanks for sending over email. Just replied to your email.
Cheers
Kevin
UK
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Eric!
I’ve been coming to your site before Poll FActory, WHERE THE HECK was the info on this before it became so mainstream!
wow.
Thanks bro for keeping me in the loop …
I’m just bugging you, buddy. Well done on teh success.
May 4th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
That’s great news on Poll Factory Eric, and all the other successes you have recently had. It just goes to show that hard work and determination do eventually start to pay off.
I’m one of those 25 that have bought it so far, and I’m looking forward to putting it to use this week during some of my off time from the real job.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Eric. I got into PPC maybe… ohhh… couple months before you launched this experiment site.
I kind of went thru the same shakedowns as you (hard learning, lost money, learned more). Just like you, I went thru a few months of just optimizing campaigns, where I got to a point of turning a negative cash flow operation into a profitable one.
I figure, perhaps you would like to swap email contacts or something so we can discuss constructivly, out of the box thinking to make future affiliate gains.
I, too, just finished school, and took computer engineering – and probably pretty similar to how you started out, and are going about your affiliate marketing “career”.
Drop me a line when you get a moment.
May 5th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Kunal,
Definitely get me on AIM sometime.
LostSh00tingStar
May 5th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
hey Eric.
sorry no can’t do buddy! I don’t use AIM. I also work during the day, and bust out the Aff marketing at night!
email is pref.
May 15th, 2008 at 12:37 am
yo! whats up?
Hey Eric, quick question about bans. If I have an existing website, can i incorporate the ebay part into this site?
Thanks buddy!
May 17th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Hey Eric, I couldn’t find a contact link on here…unless I’m just blind. Can you get a hold of me? I have a quick question.
Thanks
January 6th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Buddy!
Just browsin’ your website here.
Hows the affiliate marketing going? did you break 100k/mth yet?