The 1 Ton Blog

Here we are, a new year is upon us and with the state of the world economy it is all gloom and despondency.  Maybe I’ll generate more income from my sites to help alleviate this Finally got round to doing an update, which is below.  I have included all of traffic from when I started in June 2008, so it’s six month’s worth.

One of the interesting things is the Alexa ranking has dropped after the initial flurry.

I have also created several other sub-domains, not only on 1ton, but on other domains I own.  These are niche areas which are more specific to the UK as there is less competition there.  I have included the total income since I started from all of the other domains/sub-domains from Adsense, Ebay, Clickbank and Amazon.  Also the visitors figures are up to the end of December 2008.

I have now changed the link checking software I use as I have found something which I think is far better.  If you want to try it, you can get it here for nothing.  1 Ton Link Buzz

Also, if you have ever thought about creating your own Niche social networking site, have a look at Social Niche Builder.  OK, you won’t create the next MySpace or Facebook with it, but with work you could make a half decent Social Networking site.  It does require some tweaking, so knowledge of HTML is definitely required!!

If you are looking for a reciprocal link exchange, why not submit your link to The Caven Web Directory.  If you are happy to pay, then no reciprocal is required.

1 Ton (the main domain)

Indexed 1.175 links (down by 150 links) 469 unique visitors.

The 1 Ton Blog

3608 links (up by 2411 links) 521 unique visitors.

A Joke A Day

Indexed 6965 links (up by 5368 links) 2632 unique visitors.

Beauty Tips

Indexed 551links (down by 569 links) 96 unique visitors.

Budget Travel

Indexed 81 links (up by 19 links) 34 unique visitors.

Dog Training Secrets

Not Indexed 84 links (up by 22 links) 37 unique visitors.

Drop shipping and eBay

Indexed 148 links (up by 84 links) 43 unique visitors.

Funny Limericks For Everyone

Indexed 7362 links (up by 5725 links) 5954 unique visitors.

Healthy Lifestyle

Not Indexed 93 links (up by 28 links) 25 unique visitors.

Internet Marketing Secrets

Indexed 91 links (up by 27 links) 36 unique visitors.

Private Label Rights Advice

Indexed 84 links (up by 21 links) 26 unique visitors.

SEO and Traffic Tips

Indexed 95 links (up by 30 links) 35 unique visitors.

Starting A Home Business

Indexed 101 links (up by 35 links) 79 unique visitors.

The Beauty Store

Indexed 551 links (down by 569 links) 215 unique visitors.

Top Affiliate Tactics

Indexed 84 links (up by 19 links) 43 unique visitors.

Website Design Advice

Not Indexed 102 links (up by 37 links) 24 unique visitors.

The 2CV Resource Site

Indexed 5445 links (up by 4379 links) 315 unique visitors.

The Retirement Ideas Community

Indexed. 5327 links (Up by 4184 links) 607 unique visitors.

The Retirement Ideas Blog

Indexed. 305 links (Up by 279 links) 77 unique visitors.

New Site Added:

Social Niche Builder

Indexed. 5 links 2 unique visitors.

The link totals are combined from All The web, Alta Vista, Ask, Google, MSN and Yahoo. The unique visitor data is from AW Stats.

Alexa ranking for the domain, 2,574,033. A drop of 1,700,159.

Total Adsense income: $124-24

Total Ebay income: 31.01 (Euros)

Total Amazon income: £3-09 (Sterling)

Total Clickbank income: A Big Fat Zero !!

But, It does prove that you can make some cash on the web.  With a bit more effort, hopefully the income will grow.

Til next time …………………………….

I’ve been so tied up with other things that I haven’t got round to updating progress.  I promise that this will change and at the end of December / beginning of January I will post an update of what has happened over the last three months.

I bet you thought I’d made my first million and didn’t need to bother with this anymore.  Sadly, not so

Something you might be interested in, particularly if you are looking for ebooks on internet marketing, website building, SEO or anything related, you might want to have a look at E Books Online. At the moment they are having a sale on the cost of lifetime membership.  There are thousands of ebooks on every subject you can think of, many of them have resale rights, plus loads of private label material which is useful for content.  How much is this going to cost me I hear you ask.  Normally this would be £14-95, but it has been discounted by 33% so all it will cost you is £10-47.

You’ve only got til the end of January, so I would suggest you get there quickly before it goes back to the original price.

www.e-books-online.co.uk

I’ll be back with the updates in just over a month.

Have a great Christmas and a happy, healthy & prosperous new year

I mentioned in the previous post about a great piece of software. It was released a few weeks ago and was included as one of the tools in the Thirty Day Challenge. Currently it is still being developed, but even in the pre full version release I have to say it is one one the best tools I have seen if you are serious about niche marketing on the internet. It is called Market Samurai. I am not even going to attempt to describe what it can do here. I would just say go to the website and check it out. One of the things it has allowed me to do is keyword research for a particular niche. Armed with the information I have managed to get one of the 1ton sub-domains a Google PR of two. The sub-domain has only been up since July 17, so not a bad effort. It is also listed in DMOZ without any intervention on my part. It ranks number 5 out of 182,000 on a broadmatch search in Google and number 5 on phrasematch search out of 34,400. The sub-domain had received 929 unique visitors during September with a total of 2323 visits. 876 of these unique visits were from Google. OK, I guess you are wondering which sub-domain it is?? Funny Limericks For Everyone The keyword used is guess what? funny limericks. Check the results yourself in Google search. This sub-domain is not going to allow me to retire in luxury, but it has proved the effectiveness of Market Samurai. At the moment you can download the trial version which lasts for 40 days. The price for the full version will be $149 when it is released.

Back to the overall progress. A little late, but traffic for September is shown below.

Links and Alexa are still improving.

Here is a list of the sub-domains and whether they have been indexed and also how many total links they have pointing to them (data obtained from Link Popularity Checker) plus traffic info:

1 Ton (the main domain)

Indexed 1,325 links (up by 214 links) 24 unique visitors.

The 1 Ton Blog

Indexed 1197 links (up by 248 links) 67 unique visitors.

A Joke A Day

Indexed 1597 links (up by 465 links) 167 unique visitors.

Beauty Tips

Not Indexed 1170 links (up by 160 links) 10 unique visitors.

Budget Travel

Not Indexed 62 links (up by 29 links) 3 unique visitors.

Dog Training Secrets

Not Indexed 62 links (up by 29 links) 4 unique visitors.

Drop shipping and eBay

Indexed 64 links (up by 31 links) 5 unique visitors.

Funny Limericks For Everyone

Indexed 1637 links (up by 576 links) 929 unique visitors.

Healthy Lifestyle

Not Indexed 65 links (up by 32 links) 5 unique visitors.

Internet Marketing Secrets

Not Indexed 64 links (up by 31 links) 9 unique visitors.

Private Label Rights Advice

Indexed 63 links (up by 30 links) 5 unique visitors.

SEO and Traffic Tips

Not Indexed 65 links (up by 32 links) 5 unique visitors.

Starting A Home Business

Indexed 66 links (up by 30 links) 7 unique visitors.

The Beauty Store

Indexed 1120 links (up by 144 links) 21 unique visitors.

Top Affiliate Tactics

Indexed 65 links (up by 32 links) 19 unique visitors.

Website Design Advice

Not Indexed 65 links (up by 32 links) 9 unique visitors.

The 2CV Resource Site

Indexed 1066 links (up by 290 links) 47 unique visitors.

New Sites added:

The Retirement Ideas Community

Indexed. 1143 links (now indexed, Up by 580 links) 90 unique visitors.

The Retirement Ideas Blog

Indexed. 26 links (now indexed up by 23 links) 13 unique visitors.

The link totals are combined from All The web, Alta Vista, Google, MSN and Yahoo. The unique visitor data is from AW Stats.

Alexa ranking 873,874. An improvement of 186,689.

Total Adsense income: $7-74

Total Ebay income:0

Total Amazon income:0

The blog will be updated on a monthly basis, unless something dramatic happens which is worth sharing.

This post I have included some traffic info for August. Links and Alexa are still improving. I discovered why some of the link values went down last time. Link Popularity Checker had not picked up the data from Yahoo for some reason. I think it probably timed out.

Here is a list of the sub-domains and whether they have been indexed and also how many total links they have pointing to them (data obtained from Link Popularity Checker) plus traffic info:

1 Ton (the main domain)

Indexed 1,111 links (up by 387 links) 24 unique visitors.

The 1 Ton Blog

Indexed 949 links (up by 344 links) 90 unique visitors.

A Joke A Day

Indexed 1132 links (up by 528 links) 886 unique visitors.

Beauty Tips

Not Indexed 1010 links (up by 232 links) 11 unique visitors.

Budget Travel

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 0 unique visitors.

Dog Training Secrets

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 2 unique visitors.

Drop shipping and eBay

Indexed 33 links (no change) 4 unique visitors.

Funny Limericks For Everyone

Indexed 1061 links (up by 485 links) 366 unique visitors.

Healthy Lifestyle

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 0 unique visitors.

Internet Marketing Secrets

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 2 unique visitors.

Private Label Rights Advice

Indexed 33 links (no change) 0 unique visitors.

SEO and Traffic Tips

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 2 unique visitors.

Starting A Home Business

Indexed 36 links (up by 12 links) 1 unique visitor.

The Beauty Store

Indexed 976 links (up by 313 links) 37 unique visitors.

Top Affiliate Tactics

Indexed 33 links (up by 11 links) 0 unique visitors.

Website Design Advice

Not Indexed 33 links (no change) 0 unique visitors.

The 2CV Resource Site

Indexed 776 links (up by 494 links) 40 unique visitors.

New Sites added:

The Retirement Ideas Community

Indexed. 563 links (now indexed, Up by 546 links) 136 unique visitors.

The Retirement Ideas Blog

Indexed. 3 links (now indexed up by 3 links) 18 unique visitors.

The link totals are combined from All The web, Alta Vista, Google, MSN and Yahoo. The unique visitor data is from AW Stats.

Alexa ranking 1,060,563. An improvement of 121,386.

Total Adsense income: $6-85

Total Ebay income:0

Total Amazon income:0

Still not a fortune, but everything is moving in the right direction. I will try to include some search engine data in the next installment which will be at the end of September. There is also a great piece of software which I will talk about next time, perhaps before the end of the month.

Five more days and some links up some links down.  Alexa still improving.

Here is a list of the sub-domains and whether they have been indexed and also how many total links they have pointing to them (data obtained from Link Popularity Checker):

1 Ton (the main domain)

Indexed 724 links (down by 340 links) Weird!!

The 1 Ton Blog

Indexed 695 links (down by 344 links)Also weird

A Joke A Day

Indexed 604 links (Down by 224 links)

Beauty Tips

Not Indexed 778 links (Down by 118 links)

Budget Travel

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Dog Training Secrets

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Drop shipping and eBay

Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Funny Limericks For Everyone

Indexed 576 links (Down by 220 links)796

Healthy Lifestyle

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Internet Marketing Secrets

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Private Label Rights Advice

Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links) Just indexed !!

SEO and Traffic Tips

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

Starting A Home Business

Indexed 24 links (Down by 9 links)

The Beauty Store

Indexed 663 links (Down by 292 links)955

Top Affiliate Tactics

Indexed 22 links (Down by 8 links)

Website Design Advice

Not Indexed 33 links (Up by 3 links)

The 2CV Resource Site

Indexed. 282 links (Down by 30 links)

New Sites added:

The Retirement Ideas Community

Not Indexed.  17 links (Up by 17 links)

The Retirement Ideas Blog

Not indexed.  No links

The link totals are combined from All The web, Alta Vista, Google, MSN and Yahoo

Alexa ranking 1,181,949. An improvement of 237,159.

Total Adsense income: .73

Total Ebay income:0

Total Amazon income:0

On the next installment I will included some traffic info for the sites above.