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January was the absolute bomb!  I again at least doubled my previous months income, and actually more than doubled it!  If I can pull that off again, I can go full time.  But I’m not counting on that.  I think a lenient estimate would be that I could match my day job’s income within three months… Then I’ll just wait it out a while as I save up, and then I’m outta there!

Also, I broke another income goal on the Goals page!  And I hit my best day ever last month!  Getting close to that $100 a day manual review they all say is there.  We’ll see how that goes when it gets here.  I’m confident my sites are beyond fine.

I also snagged up four PR2 domains to put into a certain little network to start feeding me in some drippy links to my sites.  Gonna be pushing authority and IP diversity like a mofo.

I don’t have much to say besides all of this.  I’m sitting at around 25 domains for Adsense and need to flesh the rest out, which I’m constantly doing.  Outsourcing galore.  I’m going to start attempting to limit my monthly outsource costs to $500.  That has been accelerating growth enough as it is.  I think that’ll be fine for now.

I’ve also been selling some services, such as full blow sites and some link packages.  I have a couple of new services I’m about to sell.  If all goes as I hope, I should profit a grand on it.  I’ll report back on it.

I just gotta keep fleshing the sites and pumping the links!  Best of luck to everyone else.  I hope to see us all continue to climb.

In arbitrary fashion, I now have the 26 domains that I will be focusing on for the duration of the year and possibly longer until they are all fleshed out and ranking.  I made this decision based on Safari’s Top Sites on the Small setting!  Hahaha.  I liked seeing all my sites spread out like that.

This month is amazing.  I’m about to hit my first four figure month, and breaking beyond that significantly!  Things are growing so quickly.  Increased revenue has allowed me to increase my outsourcing.  I’ve been able to test out some really interesting link packages, and I’ve been getting articles written by the boat load.

Google’s new algorithm tweak for content above the fold didn’t hit any of my sites except one, and it only moved it down two spots on the front page.  And I’ve already recovered one of those spots.  A lot of other folks got thousands of sites hammered.  That is why I build quality sites with quality content meant to engage users, not trick them into clicking.  Not meant for robots to rank.  Long-term business planning is the only sensible plan.

So these 26 domains land me in all kinds of niches and are meant to have activity all across the week.  The idea is to get a nice, level, stable income rolling in.  Right now I get huge spikes and dips.  We’ll see how it goes.

By the way, keep looking at the four case studies that are still rolling!  They are all making some interesting movement finally.  I can’t wait for them to hit #1 so I can start reporting income!  Keep grinding and thanks for reading.

I had an old site that was so beautifully designed but I really overshot as far as what I thought was possible.  Luckily I had about 15 articles written on one mini-aspect of that huge niche, so I got a new domain for it and used those articles for the re-worked site.  This will be far more likely to earn me some cheddar now!

My lady also took the initiative to design and write 10 posts for an EMD we have with 40k exact searches!  She knocked out a huge portion of that site in one sitting!  I can’t be thankful enough.  She’s super supportive and celebrates my every little victory.

I also scooped up a couple very interesting EMD’s in two crazy niches.  I won’t say what they are, but it’s about as fringe as it gets.  They will be extremely fun to write.  I plan on writing them both myself instead of outsourcing just as fun projects.  One is a 9,900 exact search term and one is 12,000.  They have about 60 cents to 1 dollar CPC’s.  Me rikey.

I’ve told myself I’m not going to develop beyond 26 sites until they are all ranking and earning.  This means they will all have all of the content I intend for them to have and are all being backlinked like mofo’s!  Those should easily get me out of my day job.

Oh!  By the way, I’m a third of the way there.  I’ve been having some of this highest days I’ve ever had as well.  More records being broken.  I remember when $15 was a good day.  Then I remember a month later that $30 was my exciting days.  Then $40.  Now I’m seeing in the upper $50′s regularly now.  I haven’t seen a zero dollar day in months.  My low days are now at least in the double digits.  Heck.  To Da.  Yeah.

Yesterday was glorious.  As a matter of fact, just as predicted (read: hoped), January has been incredible.  The daily income average is up by over $10 and two of the income goals on the “Goals” page was met!  $50 in one day is now marked off.  Ganksta.  So is $500 in one month.  Bawlin.

The lady and I have busted out some pretty decent keyword research over the past five days and found some good exact match domains that we’ve now scooped up.  I’m capping site development at 26 sites until all of them have my required amount of content and are ranking somewhat.  Unfortunately, only about 7 of those are even developed, so that’ll probably take us through the year.

The Case Studies are still moving along quite nicely.  Don’t forget to peek at those occasionally.

I also have over half of my domains at NameCheap now.  Some have to sit at GoDaddy until they’ve been in my account long enough.  By March I should be able to shift all of them over and bid good riddance to bad rubbish and also enjoy cheap privacy on the domains.  That’s what’s up!

Introducing SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act

So Congress had a decent idea, but executed it poorly.  No big deal.  That happens daily.  But this bill hits close to home for all of us in the Internet Marketing world, and that bill is the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA.  Some folks have taken to calling it the Stop Online “Privacy” Act, because that’s what the bill has the potential to do.  It can stop our online privacy.  The point of the bill is to allow people put an end to others stealing their content, such as text, streaming videos, sharing music files.  That’s a good thing.  Intellectual property rights are a big deal to anyone intellectual enough to create something.  They should get paid for intangibles, not have a bunch of dunces share it around.

However, for some reason Congress saw fit to “crush a fly with a crane.”  There is no need to blow apart a lego castle with an atom bomb.  This is where this bill fails and potentially harms people online.  It has “guilty before proven innocent” written all over it.  All someone has to do is claim your site is pirating their content and blam (whap, wom, pow, whatever sound effect you prefer really) your site is frozen.  The bill allows the accuser the right to restrict your advertising (Adsense, Adwords, Media.net, etc.), and the ability to restrict your access to currency shifters (Paypal, AlertPay, MoneyBookers, etc.).  Basically, they can freeze your cash flow and income until it all gets sorted out.  That is why people have a problem with it.

GoDaddy’s First Mistake in the SOPA Battle

GoDaddy made some retarded-ass statement that they supported this bill.  Now, I’ve been with GoDaddy since my first domain about ten years ago.  They used to be owned by a pretty cool dude, Bob Parsons, who founded the company.  Then he sold the business and now is executive chairman (“Here’s a nice spot in the company, now step aside, sir.”).  Now these goofballs decided to publically back this bill, regardless of all the hooplah coming out of the internet marketing community a.k.a. The people who buy all those damn domains!

NameCheap’s Campaign Against SOPA and GoDaddy

The link to GoDaddy’s statement hit the forums and hit Twitter and it was all over.  The internet marketers continued to cast their vote with their wallets.  They started transferring domains away from GoDaddy.  GoDaddy quickly tried to be like “Wait a second, now we see why everyone’s pissed!  We are changing our stance on SOPA.  We hate it, too!  Just don’t transfer your domains, please!”  NameCheap saw an opportunity to capitalize and did.  This was a couple of days ago.  They basically put out their own statement and said “We at NameCheap don’t support SOPA like one of those registrars out there.  Neener Neener Boo Boo.  Oh, and we give you free privacy lol!”  Which is true.  Free privacy is the bomb.  So people started transferring their domains to NameCheap.  NameCheap played it like a bawse.

NameCheap’s MoveYourDomainDay

So then on the forums and Twitter people start making noise like “My domains are in transfer limbo, screw NameCheap!”  NameCheap caught wind of this and made another blog post to the effect of “People, chill… We are pissed too.  Your domains aren’t transferring because GoDaddy is purposefully only sending partial Who Is information!  And this is us putting them on blast in the public eye.”  So GoDaddy apparently was cornered as NameCheap swung its mammoth registar Thor hammer and struck a blow true to the evil overlord.  They decided to have an official MoveYourDomainDay and offer extra cheap transfers with a free year extension on the domain, still with the free privacy.  GoDaddy agreed to stop being assholes.  But then they kept being assholes.

GoDaddy – The Dingleberries of the Domain World

GoDaddy had to quit screwing around with NameCheap’s business, so they started trying to piss off their own customers.  I guess they figured if they made the process of transferring out really convoluted and annoying, some customers would just give up.  So they added a part where you have to scan and present a Photo ID before you can get ahold of your own stuff.  Did I mention they are assholes?

NameCheap 2 – GoDaddy 0 in the SOPA Wars

So this catches us up to the present.  I’m sure there’s going to be more drama for us to :popcorn: at and trollolol about.  But this is the game as it stands at the time of typing.  If something really delicious happens I’ll come back and edit this.

SOPA, GoDaddy, NameCheap, and TrickleCheddar

So where does this leave me?  What am I to do in the midst of this retardation and chaos?  I’m about to scan my driver’s license and transfer my domains to NameCheap.  I wasn’t going to because I’m a nice empathic person who gets a kick out of fighting for the underdog, but then GoDaddy started being doucheroids so screw it.  An extra year on a discounted transfer plus free privacy means I’m in!  It sucks that I’m about to renew all of my domains at one time, but oh well.  One less thing to do next year.  Plus it’ll help me with taxes.  Last minute of the year purchases for the win!

Lesson to be taken here:  Lessen your own expenses when the opportunity arises!  Domains are a significant expense in this business, and privacy can double that expense, that is unless you get it for free from NameCheap!