Three months with PIPS

I have been now three months with the Plug-In Profit Site (PIPS). I learned quite a lot from the 30-day training, but the information from this and other sources is overwhelming. You can't do every thing at the same time, as you will mention below.

This blog is my attempts to evaluate my own progress with PIPS, exchange comments with other PIPS-sters, and to give advice to whom who would like to start with the PIPS program or who have just started with PIPS. In the following paragraphs I will summarize what I have achieved in these three months.

• I gave my website a totally different look using NVU, a free software program to build or update your website. Although it's a lot of work it's very important to make your website look differently than other PIPS sites and to get noticed by the search engines. My website counts now 4 pages (home page, other opportunities, articles and links). I have learn a little HTML, which is important for onpage search engine optimalization and updating the website. My website has been indexed by Google one and half weeks ago, and it starts directly with a page rank (PR) of 4. My website has also an Alexa rank (2,223, 756)! It's not within the 100,000, but it's t least indexed and you know where to start from here.
  

• I have seriously started sending articles about one month ago every day to article directories, and most of the PR=4 is due to the links from these articles back to my site. It's the easiest way to get backlinks when you start building up your site. My links went from one to 1,500 in 30 days, using the latest version of Link Popularity Check. Here you can see at least that your hard work results directly in something. Although you can send articles manually, I use the latest version of Article Post Robot, an affordable software ($127) to submit automatically my articles to 450 articles and 50 mail lists. With this new version you can also add your own article directories or e-zines to the standard list.

• I have also tried to get (reciprocal) links from other sites, but it's more difficult. Especially it your site is not indexed by Google and other search engines like Alexa. It's a lot of work if you do it manually, but I use Reciprocal Manager, which helps to automate many aspects of management of the links and the links page on my website. But now with a PR=4 it's easier to get my website linked. I am now getting more link requests from other sites.
  

• I have started to put some Adsense ads on my website and blog and have earned some dollars from last weeks. Although it's not much, but it's the beginning and I am trying to improve it.

• Blog(s): This is one of the areas that I have neglected, but I am starting now to do some work on them.

• My first checks: I have a sign-up for Empowerism, and another one for Secret Affiliate Weapon (from the Clickbank).

It's for now. Now looking back after 3 months, I think the first months are the most difficult period for every one who starts an affiliate program. Unless you have tons of money to buy leads, links and to put ads on e-zines from the beginning, you have to work hard to be able to get some results. During this period, it costs you only money to invest, but you don't see any direct results. There is a lot of information and many guru's are trying to learn you and especially to sell you something (at a discount rate!). If you are not careful you can loose money and achieve nothing from switching from one guru to another.
If you have comments or questions, please feel free to post on this blog. I will update my progress with PIPS and other individual affiliate programs.