Any REAL SUCCESS story?

[mataleao]

If someone else has success, it doesn't always mean you will. There are lot of factors that play into this such as niches, keywords you pick, how you seo and monetize. You just have to do it, there is no substitute.

Read my journal, I have not made much money yet, but I am at over 30 blogs. I realize it will take time as with all things SEO. I have spent a lot of money on software, domains and outsourcers. I follow Mike's linking blueprint, my blogs are all indexed within 3 days and some of them are already ranking for my keywords. The thing is even if you don't get that much traffic from your original keyword list, the long tails from autoposts is what will bring more traffic in. I have used programs that cloak and would make blogs/websites from CJ product feeds, so I know it works and long tails are very important. Even if my blogs don't make money right away, I know that down the road I have an automated blog that gets posts indexed and traffic, I can always go back and figure out the monetization.

[mikejmu]

A success story would be nice, but I think it is still way to early for this. Even those that bought the program a couple months ago should only start to be making money now according to the blueprint.

I'm not a newbie to Internet Marketing. I bought the program over a week ago and I'm only now starting my first autoblog. The reason it is taking time is that I'm actually trying to understand everything before I jump in. I could have put up 20 crappy autoblogs in this time, but I know that if I don't follow the instructions and use the tools recommended that I will simply fail. I don't expect to see any cash for another couple of months, especially since I'm seasoning domains. I don't expect profit for at least 4 months as I'm spending money on tools.

Point being, this is not a get rich quick program. I would rather get $15 every day for the rest of my life then a big $5000 tomorrow and then nothing else. We are building recurring income. Patience is a must.

[pilgrim]

I have 1 blog making 35.00 a month, but it's not 100% ABBP; Though most all of the plugin setup, reccomendations, and seo structurings are. It took 2 Months to see a return on that blog. The monetization method is Amazon. The money pages are hand created. The traffic is supplied by automated content provided by RSS feeds (crediting sources and mostly partial content). and I believe that particular process is scalable though I'm only just starting to explore the tactic and niches.

I also have one website that gets traffic, plenty of clicks; but no sales. And I was for sure that it was going to be a 50$ a month blog. 3 Months into its development it was getting plenty of clicks and plenty of traffic but the clicks were just not converting. Still all is not lost. I might can make it worth something by trying a different monetization strategy later. The traffic itself is powerful. I might turn it into an adsense blog later.

AND THATS about all I've had time to do since the 2.0 release. heck I havent even finnished 2,0 all the way; just not enough time. But before the Blueprint I had attempted about 10, and had about 10 failures (made 70 dollars adsense over the course of 8 months and that is still in my account balance today ). So far there's better money in coding and supporting you guys' needs and wishes; and not diligently playing along would insult business sense ya know; plus im half decent at it.

[Mike Johnson]

I have 1 blog making 35.00 a month, but it's not 100% ABBP; Though most all of the plugin setup, reccomendations, and seo structurings are. It took 2 Months to see a return on that blog. The monetization method is Amazon. The money pages are hand created. The traffic is supplied by automated content provided by RSS feeds (crediting sources and mostly partial content). and I believe that particular process is scalable though I'm only just starting to explore the tactic and niches.

I also have one website that gets traffic, plenty of clicks; but no sales. And I was for sure that it was going to be a 50$ a month blog. 3 Months into its development it was getting plenty of clicks and plenty of traffic but the clicks were just not converting. Still all is not lost. I might can make it worth something by trying a different monetization strategy later. The traffic itself is powerful. I might turn it into an adsense blog later.

AND THATS about all I've had time to do since the 2.0 release. heck I havent even finnished 2,0 all the way; just not enough time. But before the Blueprint I had attempted about 10, and had about 10 failures (made 70 dollars over the course of 8 months and that is still in my account balance today ). So far there's better money in coding and supporting you guys' needs and wishes; and not diligently playing along would insult business sense ya know; plus im half decent at it.

Glad to hear it Hudson. Let's see what you can do after you complete the Blueprint.

In case you guys don't know it, Hudson is the creator of BlogSense.

Mike

[dxdesq]

I've been following the Blueprint to both build new autoblogs and bring old blogs back to life. I have two jobs so the building goes rather slow for me, but I just keep going and am starting to see real progress.

-- I have two old blogs that had started strong two years ago, but never made much money and had been neglected for the last year. Site A had never made money, and Site B hadn't made money in about a year and only had about 10 visitors a week! I followed the ABB to re-season them and started daily posting with PLR. I followed the link instructions. Both sites are showing remarkable improvement! One is now getting more than 300 visitors per day and earning money almost daily. The other site is growing slower, but has still made more in the last month than in the previous two years!

-- I've started two other blogs with the blue print as well. One is a review and comparison site, the other is a hobby site. The traffic is improving for both sites every week. The review site has made about $20, which I think is pretty good for this early in the game! The other site is just about done seasoning.

Overall, I can say I'm really happy with the road map that Mike has provided. For the first time I feel like I can see an actual path to make a living with blogs. I'll definitely check in later when I can say that I'm paying my mortgage too!

[Faith]

I've been following the Blueprint to both build new autoblogs and bring old blogs back to life. I have two jobs so the building goes rather slow for me, but I just keep going and am starting to see real progress.

-- I have two old blogs that had started strong two years ago, but never made much money and had been neglected for the last year. Site A had never made money, and Site B hadn't made money in about a year and only had about 10 visitors a week! I followed the ABB to re-season them and started daily posting with PLR. I followed the link instructions. Both sites are showing remarkable improvement! One is now getting more than 300 visitors per day and earning money almost daily. The other site is growing slower, but has still made more in the last month than in the previous two years!

-- I've started two other blogs with the blue print as well. One is a review and comparison site, the other is a hobby site. The traffic is improving for both sites every week. The review site has made about $20, which I think is pretty good for this early in the game! The other site is just about done seasoning.

Overall, I can say I'm really happy with the road map that Mike has provided. For the first time I feel like I can see an actual path to make a living with blogs. I'll definitely check in later when I can say that I'm paying my mortgage too!

Thanks for the great update!

Keep us posted.

Mike

[frank44]

Hi Badstart - that's great news! Can i ask how long it's taken to get to this stage from when you started implementing the ABB system please?

[bobsherman]

You know what's interesting...? I believe I ordered ABB 2.0 in July /2010 and in the first two weeks I devoured the literature. I wanted to blitz it right away (coming from Mage and having already spent a bunch of money). Then I started experimenting, looking at the plugins.

I'll tell you what... if you are a big picture guy like me ( I have to see the big picture before i can start really making decisions, as the big picture affects decision direction), learning the plugins takes a very long time.

Sure you can slap it all together and get an Auto Blog up...but will it be optimized? Will it be value added? maybe, maybe not.

So I guess what I'm saying is that it's already Oct/2010 and I am still learning some of these plugins, so I'd say expecting to make money in less than 4-6 months isn't very realistic. Yes I know you can, with the Mage system I was making money with Ebay in only two weeks. But i could see (especially after the Mayday update) if I left things how they were, I would be starting from scratch any way and I had already put time and thought into the niches and domains, I didn't want to lose that value. So I deleted the sites completely (while they were still making money). I know sounds, crazy, but I'm thinking long term here. I know you can make money, I've seen it, experienced it. But it just takes time and there is a LOT of auxiliary learning that has to take place if you don't come to the table with knowledge of how to use these tools or even if you know how to use them, you still have to know the right strategy or you end up crashing and burning all that hard work anyway as social networking sites delete your accounts for spammy reasons...etc...

So am I a success story, not yet. But check back here by Jan-March of 2011 and I bet I'll have a great story for you

[AmadsimiSak]

i've had up and downs since starting with mage since starting in IM a year ago this month......i got going in ABB1.0 then decided to try media buying which was hard and kind of lost steam over the summer....(funny, when i looked at some of Mike's old posts on Blackhatsoftware seems like he tried everything too) but i liked the idea of owning properties/domains.......ABB 2.0 link tree is still daunting to me but i think the more you do everything definitely the easier it gets........the biggest recommendation i could make for anyone who has old sites or big mage type sites sitting around is go into your cpanel AWstats webalizer and look thru the most visited posts...and if they suck then clean those posts up and add additional content around those....especially if you have any sites selling products going into holidays that is my focus on improving those sites and really making them shopping friendly with more categories/adding phpbay to site search on sites/having entry homepage with links to unique articles like " top ten products",etc..stuff people are looking to buy......for that niche,etc....im also adding text links to amazon at top of posts on some sites where i went to the amazon section and sorted by biggest sale % markdowns, took that amazon link to that page and then had the text link at top say soemthing like "Visit Amazon's 50% off sale on Bikes" or something like that specific to the site......that way if that autocontent sucks they might click on that and much better than a banner.

ps- i dont freak out if it dont have every latest plugin perfect with aBB...analysis paralysis..i have the main ones and you can always go back later and fix settings,etc....but its important to just start doing it, learn keyword research, write unique content, and try stuff.......sites dont have to be perfect on day 1.....i have been playing with reviewazon this week......really awesome software

[bloovan]

Just to update... I now have 62 autoblogs going, and my income is over $3K/mo from those.

I'm only autoposting 1-2 times a week, so these blogs are still in their infancy. As they grow, I expect my income to grow as well.

I did have a bit of a headstart, as I worked on sites that were already seasoned for a year.

Thought I'd share, to keep everyone motivated.

That's awesome, Rita! Nice job.

Are most of your blogs the same 'type' or did you experiment with different types of blogs?

And how long have you been working on them ABB style (after seasoning)?

Calvin