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For those of you who love incentives, today’s post is for you.

if you buy the online handbook ($9.99), and Google SEO Supervisor ($4.95 shipping), I will mail you a $25 visa giftcard, making you an easy $10 and getting two products completely free.

The offer is only valid for the first 20 people. Order them both and email me (raithe @ gmail . com) your receipt as well as the address to ship the card too. There is no catch here, you spend $15 to get two great products and net a $10 profit from a $25 gift card.

Once the 20 cards are gone, its gone… so act now or miss out. There really is NO CATCH.

This is just a quick post listing some links that I have found in the past few days that you might find interesting. Check them out:

Matt Cutts Link Building Interview - Google Webspam Guru announces that it is okay to buy your way onto Digg’s frontpage, he did it himself.

Gaming Twitter for thousands of backlinks

Digg - Story Deserves Freshness Algorithm

Definitive guide to Fark and getting massive traffic

If you found anything interesting, post it in the comments.

Hey everyone, I am posting this from my Top Affiliate Challenge team room here in Nebraska. For those of you who have been reading my blog for less than a month, I make my online income report post once a month about my online earnings. These income posts are never meant to be for bragging purposes, but rather so that I can be completely transparent about what I earn online, so that years down the road I can show everyone my journey to wealth and how much hard work and dedication it involves, contrary to what many ebook sellers tell you. By being completely transparent about what I earn online also allows me to show you my biggest mistakes, and what I have learned from the most. The more mistakes I have, the more I learn from, and the more I show you how to avoid. My monthly online income reports are a summary of where I made my money, and where I lost my money.

Blog Statistics
Numbers in parenthesis are stats from last month to show improvements or declines.

Google Pagerank 5 (5)
Seomoz Pagestrength 4.5 (4)
Alexa Rank 92,193 (165,703)
Technorati Rank 8,190 (7,328)
Technorati Authority 467 (507)
Total Visitors 4,151 (5,058)
Total Pageviews 9,550 (12,770)
RSS Subscribers 633 (555)

Advertising

Adsense $27.01 ($35.03)
Paid Reviews $140 ($210)
125×125 Ads $125 ($95)

Affiliate Marketing
Market Leverage - $15.75 ($5.25) (Sign up for Market Leverage)
CX Digital $10.75 ($0)

Consulting / Clients

Link Build & Viral Marketing - $1900 ($2050)

Total June Online Revenue - $2,218.51 ($2460.90)
Income Per Day - $73.95 ($79.38)

Conclusion
While many 18 year olds would be more than happy with almost $74 per day, I am actually unhappy with that number due to the fact that I have had two good months before that and it is on a decline. Being as I am competing on the Top Affiliate Challenge, I know that my July stats will be slightly off since I am focusing my time there, rather than solely on my blog. On the other side, if I win the Top Affiliate Challenge, my July earnings will have a nice spike to them. Either way, I am going to spend the next few months optimizing everything I am doing so that my earnings are more consistent and on a slight growth rather than decline.

I would like to give two shoutouts. The first would be to Randall of XY7.com (who sponsored my team on the Top Affiliate Challenge). Randall is a great guy and an excellent marketer. If you ever join xy7.com, ask for him as your manager. Randall and I will definitely be doing business together in the future.

My second shoutout goes to the team at Market Leverage. They are also a sponsor of the Top Affiliate Challenge (unfortunately I haven’t done any of their offers due to our team not having a login setup). Market Leverage and their crew are readers of my blog, and have recently purchased TWO 125×125 advertisements for a month, and are also sponsoring me some KILLER prizes for a blog contest that launches when I get back from Nebraska. I have barely started making money from them and they are already providing excellent support, prizes, assistance, and their dedication to the present-day “little guys” shows that they are believers in the long term. They have provided me with more money (in prizes) than I have made on their network, which shows that they truly care about their affiliates. I will definitely be using them as one of my primary long term affiliate networks after I get back from Nebraska. Thanks Jennifer, Deborah, and the ML team!

ONE FINAL NOTE:
I will not be making any blog posts about the Top Affiliate Challenge until I get back. The reason for this is because of a few things. First, The episodes they film need to be edited/cut, uploaded, and then released on the site at 1:00CST the next day. The duration between when I am writing and what people are seeing is confusing for people to read, and especially for me to remember what you could have seen. The Top Affiliate Challenge had a ton of problems when it launched, but so far the episodes are getting better and better, so if you gave up watching the show after the first episode, I encourage you to start watching the newer ones and see the difference in quality. For those of you who are wondering why I pulled my last post, it is because I sent a ton of MIXED SIGNALS that I didn’t intentionally want… (I wrote the post at 2 in the morning, in addition to the already huge lack of sleep I was getting). Thor has put a ton of work into this show and it is not an easy task to do what he had the courage to launch. In addition, the editing crew behind the TAC are improving their skills after each and every episode. You can see a clear difference in episode 1 from episode 5, and I know that episode 6 will be even better. For those of you remember my low quality TAC audition video, I would be the LAST PERSON to ever call someone out on their editing skill.

I hope that cleared up any unintentional mixed signals that I said in my last post, and since its nearing 1am again I am going to stop blabbing before I put my foot in my mouth again and say something I didn’t mean, seeing how I turned my monthly income post into another content blab post. Long long long story short, expect very few mentions of the Top Affiliate Challenges on my blog (other than a huge post when I take all the money home).

Way back in March, I made the post that I was looking for people who were interested in selling their sites to me so I could expand my portfolio. Since that post, I have received dozens of offers, but unfortunately most were for websites that were either web directories, cheap proxies, image hosting sites, or myspace resource clones. However, every once in awhile I find a diamond in the rough.

This diamond in the rough I am referring to was called DietHack. It is a PR6 diet/fitness authority blog with over 1200 RSS readers. It receives a ton of search engine traffic and is in a very high paying and high traffic niche. This excellent site was listed on the SitePoint.com marketplace and I bought it for $3500 through a buy it now offer. The listing was only on Sitepoint for about three hours, so I was very quick to snatch it up.

The moment I hit the buy-it-now offer, I knew the site was valued at $6000-7000 if I resold it that day. I had no doubt in my mind that the site was undervalued at the $3500 price, but the previous owner had a writer who bailed on him, so he could not run it himself. His loss was my gain. I was planning on porting the site from Blogger to Wordpress, getting a new design, and hiring a team of writers, when my plans changed. I received an offer for $5000 (A $1500 profit) within 72 hours. I would rather have continued running the site than taking the $1500 quick buck route, but after multiple talks with the owner, we settled on $9000. While I knew the site would be worth $10,000 in a few months, A $5500 profit for a few hours worth of work was undeniable. I flipped the site and now the new owner is already writing posts and is working on building the site into a fitness blog powerhouse. The new owner also has at least one other site in that niche, so this was a smart acquisition for him because he can leverage the traffic to them both, not to mention the related powerful PR6 links.

All in all, I made $5500 profit for two hours worth of work, and the new owner got a phenomenal site for less than the $10,000+ I valued it at. In my opinion, it is a win win situation for both parties, and I will be watching the site closely to see how it grows. I wish Mike the best of luck!