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As Clare finished the monetization training within the Authority Site Center I was interested to hear her plans. Did she want to use my Adsense account to set up a few channels for her blog? “No I’m not going with Adsense, Jack’s not keen.”

Jack being Jack Humphrey, her mentor and owner of The Authority Site Center. It seems he made a strong point about how she was supposed to be building THE authority site in her chosen niche and Adsense lowers the tone some what unless you can just stick to a small block.

Personally I love the ease of Adsense and in my business model of build blog after blog it fits in nicely. If you’re not sure which affiliate programs work in the niche and you don’t want to spend time testing just use a good Adsense ready theme, set a stack of PLR articles to drip feed into it, do some promoting and then move on to the next niche.

I do take his point though that its too easy to end up with a page full of Google ads. She may start with just the one block but once she got a few clicks it would be easy for her to start thinking about using more and before you know it she’d have what would appear to be a made for Adsense site which is just what she is trying to avoid by building an authority site.

One other suprise was that he liked the review model that I favor when I do promote affiliate programs but he did it different to the way I was taught at Wealthy Affiliate. The way I was shown and still do it with success was to find the best 3 products in the niche and rank them as first, second and third. That way if the visitor doesn’t agree with your choice, you may still get the sale.

Jack recommends having only 1 link on the page to the sales page of your number 1 choice because he says by offering choices you encourage indecision and can end up with no click thru’s. He’s tested this to death and claims he gets far better results when using this method. I have no reason to doubt him and I will be trying it on the next one I set up or to better test it I may change one that is already up and running so I can compare the numbers.

Not suprisingly he recommends affiliate programs only as a stop gap while you produce your own product or set up a paid members only section. The members only doesn’t really fit in with her niche so she says she will be putting together her own ebook. It just so happened I had 2 PLR ebooks sat on my drive for her niche so she is modifying them. One will be a giveaway for signing up to her ezine as well as promoting the second one which she will be selling.

Traffic wise her site continues to grow on a daily basis and yesterday pulled in 358 visitors which I find pretty incredible for a site so young. She starts the Authority Site Center 60 day traffic building plan next week which she was told at the plans introduction webinar she attended on Tuesday will see around a 10 fold increase in her traffic by the end of the 60 days.

The traffic the site already gets put it in the top half in her group of new members with the best performing getting close to 500 although they didn’t all start on exactly the same day. The average in her group seems to be around the 250 mark with none getting less than 200 and I would imagine all things being equal that the variation would depend on the traffic available within the chosen niches.

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I was spending an hour on Commentkahuna this morning when the email came saying the doors were opening again today so if your interested, make it quick. they have 700 spots and thats your lot so with it being free it’s going to go fast!

Commentkahuna is free comment software that wipes the floor with other similar products that cost small fortunes. Basically you type in your keywords and off it goes to find you a stack of blogs related to your keyword which you can leave a comment on. Yes I know links in the comments have the “nofollow” tag but it still brings the spiders and plenty of human traffic.

They should change the “nofollow” tag to the “don’t count” tag or something because it can cause some confusion. The no follow tag simply tells the search engines not to count the link as a recommendation which means your page doesn’t pass on any page rank. It was developed to stop spammers leaving “great blog dude” comments all over the web to gain a ton of link love

However, spiders still follow the link and if your comment is thoughtful and offers real value it will also bring you plenty of human traffic.

As a member of PortalFeeder I got Commentkahuna a while back as one of the testers but i’ll admit it sat on the hard drive for a while once I read on the forum what exactly it did. I couldn’t really see it generating much traffic but then the reports started getting posted of how well it was doing so I gave it a go and i’ve been using it for a couple of hours a week ever since. Its a great peace of software and highly recommend you go sign up before the doors are closed, if they haven’t already.

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The power of Web 2.0 was demonstrated this weekend after Clare had started using the Web 2.0 Submitter and received over 200 unique hits on Sunday.

The Web 2.0 Submitter is a tool that comes bundled with her Authority Site Center membership although you can purchase it seperately if you aren’t a member. It works very similar to OnlyWire except instead of submitting your post to several bookmarking accounts it submits your post to news sites like Digg, Plime and Reddit as well as to sites like StumbleUpon.

Like OnlyWire it is not designed to cheat the system, it simply acts as a massive time saver. What would take hours to do manually takes less than one and the traffic return is almost instant. Its not just the traffic though because these powerful sites give you plenty of link love so its definitely worth doing even if you do the submitting yourself individually.

Another great tool she started using that is included in her Authority Site Center membership is the Buzz group. Basically its a Web 2.0 co-op where you spend an hour reading members submissions on the various Web 2.0 sites and then rate and comment them. This earns you credits which you use to get the other members then do the same with your submissions.

I fully expected the Authority Site Center to be heavily Web 2.0 powered as the founder Jack Humphrey wrote the book on the subject but I wasn’t quite expecting it to be so organized. He’s put several things in place like unique plugins and tools that have been designed to make life as easy as possible for the end user. Basically, Clare writes her posts and spends half an hour with the Buzz group and the rest takes care of itself.

Its about a 15 days since I signed her up with the Authority Site Center so pulling in over 200 uniques a day already is very impressive. She is sticking to the training program and recommendations and has made at least one post per day since getting the site up on about day 4.

Visit the Authority Site Center or visit the Web 2.0 Submitter.

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