I can't believe another month has gone by since my last post on this blog. And of course, my last post was a progress report on my attempts to make money online. So what has happened in that last month?
Google Slapped!
Every single one of my websites was Google-slapped, and it was through no fault of my own. My hosting account was hacked and a software robot was then used to seek and edit every file on my hosting account that was named index.html or index.php.
The effect of the changes was to add an IFrame to the page which linked to a site containing malware.
Not surprisingly, when GoogleBot found these links, it dropped my sites like a hot brick. Fortunately, I found the changes within less than 2 days of it happening and restored the original files. Unfortunately, the GoogleBots got there before me.
After the clean-up, I submitted a reconsideration request to Google and they reinstated my sites to their previous positions in the search engine results. The whole episode took about 9 days, which made quite a dent in my hit counts as the majority of my traffic comes from Google.
Overall though, the number of hits my main site gets on a daily basis is increasing slowly. It is up about 300% on the traffic I was getting 6 months ago.
Sales
With more traffic to my main site, I've had more sales. It's obvious - the more people who see your product, the more will buy it. The sales have been of affiliated Clickbank products, but at 75% commission, the actual revenue has been very good.
Product Launch
I have been working on an important new feature for E-Power-Wrap, which is just about to be released as version 2. This new feature is User Registration. Basically, when you create an application with E-Power-Wrap 2, you have the option to force the users to register it the first time they run it.
So what is the benefit of User Registration? It might sound like a fairly trivial development to E-Power-Wrap, but the benefits are pretty huge. You see the Registration system links directly with your Aweber account, which means that anyone who wants to use your application has to add themselves to your list. (And we all know that "the money is in the list", don't we?)
Imagine this situation: You create an application with E-Power-Wrap 2 and then you give it away from your web-site or from any of the hundreds of download sites on the Internet. Each person who downloads it will have to join your list to use it.
Now, how about giving it away with Giveaway rights? Suddenly the whole thing becomes viral and the potential for building your list becomes massive.
E-Power-Wrap 2 will be available very soon, and you can even download a FREE trial.
Training Course
You've probably heard at least one of those "rags to riches" stories about some guy who comes from the poorest-of-the-poor backgrounds, works his way up, and eventually becomes a multi-millionaire. A prime example of this is UK multi-millionaire Sir Alan Sugar, who started off selling beetroot on a market stall and then electrical goods from the back of a van he bought for 100 pounds.
The question is, what makes him different from the other other kids he was at school with? They had similar backgrounds and exactly the same opportunities, but they are not all millionaires. In fact, the chances are that none of them are.
The difference is that even at the age of 16, Alan Sugar thought the same way a millionaire thinks. He saw business opportunities and grasped them. He had the same entrepreneurial spirit that millionaires have.
When you run a business, whether online, offline, or both, you could plod along making a comfortable living, go out of business, or take your business up to such a level that like Alan Sugar, you become a millionaire.
Since I read the Millionaire Stealth Secrets course, and the numerous free gifts that come with it, I feel that my eyes have been opened and I now see a future where my online activities will bring me a lot of money. Already my main site has increased its traffic by 300%, and I have new products on sale. My confidence in my online abilities is much higher, and I have been able to set myself some challenging goals.
My main goal is to earn £100,000 (about $160,000) online before the end of 2011.
A few months ago, that was just a dream, but after reading Millionaire Stealth Secrets, I KNOW it is possible.
The amazing thing about the course is that it boosted my confidence in my online business so much that I had made back the purchase price of £97 by the end of the first week.
