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I should probably create a “Category” for Vgescape alone. Anyway, sorry, I forgot to add daily earnings for the last few days. Someone actually emailed me to ask about them. It may have only been one person, but that was enough for me to never forget to change them from now on.

Went through a bit of a slump from

July 20 to July 23, averaging 5.43$ / day.
July 1 to July 25, average = 4.84$ / day.
July 14 (day new ads were implemented) to July 25, average = 7.33$ / day.

So, with this progress, it is very possible to top August’s prediction of either 250 or 300$. Vgescape should be able to accumulate the 250$ or 300$ on its own, with other sites hopefully being able to contribute another 50$. But most of the other sites are being made to begin earning money in September and October as sites take time to mature.

I’ll be doing a Vgescape update every week or so from now on. Major improvements from July 10, 2006 to July 17, 2006: - Added border and images on top of the horizontal adsense banners. Follows TOS becuase of border - Added images next to ads to the left, follows TOS because of border. - Border matches each console. - All the images rotate through a php scrpt thqat chooses from many different images available. All seperated for each console as well. - Added site-wide 12 affiliates. Another 5 affiliate requests in the work. INCOME Income has gone up like crazy. Affiliate links began kicking in around the 14th and the images were implemented on the 15th. Therefore, that is where the spike in revenue comes from. Don’t think that revenue is steadily dropping though. The revenue for July 17th still has 8 hours to go (they update from Pacific Time).

So, the SEO experiment of my 100 mini video game sites will begin soon. Major problem I’ve been having is that I have cash on me and some money in paypal, but alot is scattered around. Parents want nothing to do with me financially. Two days ago, I finally got my brother to allow me to use his credit card. 500 Canadian Dollar limit though.

So, when some of his money clears up from the CC, I’ll be ordering my first 62 domains. About two of those are not for the 100 mini sites. I’ll be buying the other 40 or so domains soon. I need to find more keywords and niches

So as I already said, I began marketing Vgescape again. Although many people will say for search engines, site-wide affiliation is wrong, but even the corporations do it nowadays in the video gaming website sphere.

So I went ahead and found all sites ranking in the top 100 for generic gaming keywords and email’ed them off with a proposal for a site-wide exchange. My email was very simple, and nice. I made sure to mention a special quality in each site and names if I could to let the person know I actually know games and their site. I email’ed about 25 people. Already got 10-15 responses back, all saying yes .

My visitors are on an all time low, so I could not mention them. Instead I simply stated I have a google page rank of 6, and even the top tier gaming sites say yes. I haven’t seen a single gaming site with a pr 7. There used to be one, a Zelda site, but that went down to 6 as well.

The problem: I’ve only got about half the responses back. What if I get 20/25 affiliates in the next week? That is 20 new affiliates with 200 pages of my link! Thats thousands of new links in the span of a week.

Paranoid SEO’ers like myself are always scared Google penalizes for this. For this reason, I’ll hold off on my other marketing methods:

-Submitting Vgescape into 300 or so directories
-Commenting and backlinking my site in 100 gaming blogs
-Joining 50 new gaming forums and putting my site in the signature and trying to make an introduction post.
-Trying to get a link from Wikipedia.org (Valuable!)