I started AM in October 2010 after talking to Ashley.
I really thought it was easy - you just put down a few websites and money will just pile up into your bank account overnight! Reading the 30 Day Challenge I thought this cannot be it - it seems to simple and much too easy. So I started looking and searching all over the internet for information on how to make money in Affiliate Marketing - that is how my 1st website affiliatevirgings.com saw the light.
Well, I did not read just the 30 Day Challenge, I literally read more than 30 different versions of it I found everywhere. Strange enough, all recommended exactly the same steps and tasks as mentioned in the 30 Day Challenge - some added more steps, others use other marketing platforms, but in the end the 30 Day Challenge is definately THE GUIDE to follow if you are new!
Obviously I lost a few months researching "better ways" to make money - what a waste of time! If I had just followed the 30 Day Challenge I could have been much better off already!
One of the golden rules is to first create something that works - then multiply that working concept over and over! Well, I am for one still working a day job, so I only have time in the evenings and secondly I have a wife that blames me for wasting time in front of a computer. So weekends are the only time I have to work on my web sites. Again I broke the rules here - instead of building one web site and making it work, I bought 20 domain names (without research!) and started building my sites. Doing one thing to all my sites over a weekend - it took me months just to complete all of them!
To make o long story short, my web hosting company suspended my sites because I was getting too much traffic (consuming too much bandwidth) - this forced me to start all over again! I learned a valueable lesson - never use the same company for both your web hosting anf domain registration - now my web hosting is with HostGator and my domains with NameCheap.
The heading of this post is not spelt wrong - I was literally making cents with all 20 of my web sites - most days I even got sweet blue buggerall! Well as I built back links I was slowly seeing more than cents - until a week ago I was estatic to see $1 or $5 a month - combined income of all my web sites! Most of my domains experied begining of December and I only kept the top 10 sites with the mosty traffic. My biggest achievement was to earn my first $100 cheque from Google on the 27th of Novemeber which the will pay after 31 December! ($100 after 13 months of work)
WOW! All this just for a simple $100 ??? Nope! Something strange is happening - from 16th December my earnings jumped from $1 or $5 a month to a whopping $30 a day! At first I thought it is just a fluke, but since 16th December the daily AdCents changed to AdSense with a minimum of $30 a day - some days slighty higher but it seems that I am going to make more money this month than all the months combined since October 2010.
What is even stranger is that when I investigated on Google I found that 6 of my sites were not approved! Of the 4 that was approved, only 1 site is generating all this money! That site went from 10 and 20 hits a day to over 1,000 hits over night! So if you want to make money, follow the 30 Day Challenge to get your web site onto page 1 of Google! Just think how much you will earn if all your sites are on page 1 of Google? In my case, 10 sites x $30 per day = $9,000 per month!
I have got 1 site on page one, now for the other 9 ...![]()



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but it was FUN and very EXCITING while it lasted! Yesterday the peak of ZAR514 (approx $65) was achieved. First dropped to about $8 and now it is back at $1 to $3 combined for all the sites 