Comments on: Starting A Journey Towards Financial Freedom – Q&A

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:54:41 +0000

Hey Mark,

Here’s what I did: I chose 50 keywords and posted a job on GAF for 10 articles. Then I chose 5 writers based on their reviews and gave each of them 10 articles.

In my case, I got 20 very good articles, 20 medium and 10 poor ones.

I then chose one writer for my full project of 100 articles and gave her some extra cash so that she did a really good job. She bid $6 per article on my first batch of 10 and I offered $8 per article for 100 if she did a really good job.

Right now she is writing my fourth batch of 100 articles…

I use the 20 medium articles for article submission sites and the 10 poor ones I never used at all…

By: Mark van Tuel

Mark van Tuel — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:16:35 +0000

Hi tomaz,

I really like your blog, my compliments.
It is very informative and motivating.

I had a question about getafreelancer.com.
You mentioned to outsource the 225 articles to GAF. Is it smart to do the whole job to one writer or spread over more?

Maybe you can make an article with the do’s and don’ts for outsourcing content.

Thanks for you informative posts and good luck

By: Tomaz

Tomaz — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:21:41 +0000

Hi MV,

Thanks for stopping by!

I earn 99% of that income from 2 SBI sites – my tennis and my vacuum cleaners site. Tennis site was started in November 2005 and the vacuum site in July 2006.

The tennis site earns approx. $2,500 per month, the rest of the $11,000 is from the vacuum site.

So let’s say $8000 comes from the vacuum site; around $4000 comes from Chitika, around $3000 from Adsense and the rest from Amazon, CJ and some other affiliate programs.

Traffic? On my tennis site: between 1200 to 1500 daily visitors and on my vacuum site between 2500 and 3500 daily visitors.

I got a little bit lucky with the vacuum site at the start since I started targeting the right keywords although I had no idea at that time that the competition was really poor.

The tennis site took a long time to start ranking for keywords in high demand like “how to play tennis” and “tennis drills”. It’s just continuous work although it doesn’t feel that way since tennis is my passion and my expertise…

Go with what you know…

By: MV

MV — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:56:47 +0000

Hi Tomaz,
your postses are always extremely interesting.
In the answer to the mail that you have received, you have written what time you earn around $11,000 for month…. This datum is extremely interesting for who, like me, earn currently few Euro per day.

So I ask you some more informations on your actual situation:
Can you tell us these $11,000 comes from how many sites? and from what type of sites?
I don’t ask you to say the urls or to disclose your niches sites, but only I would like to know how many sites serve for reaching that figure. What kind of sites, how old are they …. and so long.

Besides it would be useful to know how many visitors have these sites and thing you use for making to yield them: adsense, chitika, ebay, amazon, other affliate products ….. and in what percentages these compete to your earnings.

I think if you will tell further informations on these $11000 your advise will be great, and every blogger thar reads this wonderful blog learn something more

Thanks, MV

P.S.
I apologize for my poor English, I am trying to improve it

By: Yogi

Yogi — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:52:50 +0000

Thanks Tomaz, Your posts are always very motivating and provide guidance for a new webmaster like myself.

Taking your advise I am now into the planning stages for my next website which is going to be product focused and I plan to use all the advise you have so generously offered from time to time, on this blog and SBI forums