This happened to me just this past week, I was working on some link building for one of my newer sites, only about 6 weeks old which had been doing alright in the search engines. I was updating the blog twice a day with new content and haven’t stopped in the content adding, so 2 posts a day for the last 6 weeks. I seemed to have did a few too many links in the one night and the next day saw my traffic drop considerably. I checked the Google search results and noticed that i wasn’t even in the top 50 results, compared to the front page results i was achieving before.

So you are probably wondering, alright, your in the sandbox, how the hell did you get out, as thats all I’m interested in. Well what I found to have worked was to continue building links in the same fashion as the first time you were sandboxed. I built about 15 links on that first night, then was sandboxed, so a few days later i built another 10-15 links, still sandboxed the next day, so i tried again another few days later building about 10-15 links, and viola. The next day yielded not only the previous rankings for keywords i was trying to achieve, but the site was ranking higher. Now I had this problem with two sites, as I were building them at the same time, one was a more specialised niche than the other, but both the same general area.

So the thing that worked for me was to continue building links for the site, at the same rate you were BEFORE you got sandboxed. That is my trick, it has worked this time, but if im sandboxed in the future and it doesn’t work, ill let you all know.

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Some older readers of my blog may have seen all my posts on the MySpace sites and such I used to run, and subsequently sold. Yes I did make a bit of money from them, and no I haven’t reinvested, nor have I bought anything substantial, although many cars have been very tempting. Thus now I have a bit of money to play with, and have been looking around at spending it, in the form of developed sites, and domains, and even developing sites from scratch.

DNForum has seen a little bit of recent activity from me, as well as Sedo, TDNAM, and some other domain auction sites. I have been on the prowl for 3 character domains, and recently picked up a L-N.com and a LLL.net for $600+escrow fees and $1100+escro fees respectively. I have been doing a lot of research into 3 character domains and have noticed some very impressive trends over the last 5 years, and if they continune to rise, ill be looking at making quite a nice profit from them. These are domains Im not looking at developing, moreso just sitting there parked waiting for the right time to sell.

In other news I have been registering some good search termed domains in the tattoo, maps and lingerie industries to develop and optimise for search engines to gain some traffic to these sites. There is still a bit of work left for developing them and I would like to hire some people to do this for me, but have never been satisfied with the quality of work I was getting. So therefore most of my time has been spent on developing the domains myself. Most will be running content and being monetised by affiliate offers, whats that, why not Adsense. Well I used to be quite a prominent Adsense user, and make some great money with them, but I learnt not to rely solely one one source of income, so have therefore spread around over many affiliate networks, running many offers from many companies. I sure do love the payout of a sale over a few clicks.

In other news, I am still helping out a few friends with their websites, I recently setup the DirtBiker domain with a vBulletin forum, as the old XennoBB forum on Trailrider was quite useless. The guys down there have been quite good in posting, and the forum should grow quite well considering all the new content that gets added. Another site, yet to be uploaded, is a lingerie ecommerce site, I have no experience in ecommerce sites, although have been quite enthusiastic about opening one, but am yet to find a product to sell. Anyway, I have been advising a good friend on how to run the site, market the site, and really make some decent money. He had all the wrong ideas, and I set him off in the right direction, lets hope he listens and does well.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed my second post and if you have any 3 letter/number coms/nets/orgs for sale, let me know, also if you have any questions you want answered, im happy to answer them in future blog posts.

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So its been a touch over two years since I started this blog, with aims to make regular posts, it seems my work got in the way and I didn’t put in the effort enough to keep you all updated and informed. In those two years I have watched as John Chows blog has grown to making a 6 figure income yearly from blogging, yes his quality has gone down and now makes very little, if any quality blog posts which have any valued content at all. I am in the business of making money, and yes it is just business, so I may be returning to make money from this blog, but in the mean time, I’ll give the viewers what they want.

In any business, if you want to make money, you can do many things, one major point i always put forward is to find a business that is making money currently, then use ideas from it to make it better for the customer. Googles sole business plan is to make their business work in favour of the customer. AdWords revolves around the searcher, if your ad has a higher click through rate, then your ad is favoured over other ads which have lower CTR’s, this is because Google is giving the searcher what they want. This is also benefits Google massively, as the more clicks they get on the AdWords ads, then the more money they will make, thus at a lower click value, but overall, will make more money due to the volume.

To make money online, find sites which are doing well, which are at the top of their industries, then see what they are doing better than the other websites, and also see what you can do better than them, If if you do compete against them and have better features, cheaper prices, better content, better services, then you will succeed in business. You will make money.

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So Jonathan has posted about 20 comments on the blog over the last couple of months, he really misses my posts. Heck I miss my posts, but ive been spending sooo much time buying new domains, building new sites, making more money, not even throwing in the playboy lifestyle i life going out heaps, or even the mass amounts of uni work and assignments I have. Though if the people want me to re kick off the blog and post more consistently, then I’ll do it. For the people. By the people.

Ill promise one post a month, but I’ll aim for a post a week, keeping you all up to date on what I have been doing, what I would like to be doing, and what you can learn from what I have learnt. So Jonathan, you have your wish, I’ll be back buddy, and bigger and better than ever.

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I was checking my emails tonight and noticed an email from AGLOCO, I had signed up months and months ago and never installed the toolbar, but still recieved the service emails. When i read through it, the email was pretty much asking members to do searches on the ASK search box on the AGLOCO toolbar and click ads.

If every AGLOCO Member did 4 to 5 Ask searches a day and they clicked on average just one ad, the revenue generated for the AGLOCO community would be US$6. 00 per month per Member. This would be a great start to building revenue for Member distributions.

Now to me that is pretty much suggesting that the AGLOCO members click on ads, and correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that against the Google (ASK is part of the Google Search Network) Terms of Service. To be asking members to use the ASK search box is one thing, but to nearly be suggesting to click on ads, is quite unethical.

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