Wordpress Mage ❘ WP Mage

I've been a Beta Tester of the Mage System since the very beginning. What is it? A way of making residual income from blogs. Best part is it's "set & forget" - no SEO involved. No keeping up the Content. You make money from referring people to eBay/Amazon/Commission Junction/Adsense and other programs.

The Full Mage System has been sold out but a few more copies will become available in a couple of days. It's not cheap. Around $900 but you'll recover that investment pretty quick by throwing up dozens of websites using Wordpress.

Here's what Wordpress Mage is all about - from the horse's mouth, Greg Jacobs -

All my Top Earning Sites have one thing in Common. They all follow the Pimping your site method.

Meaning that they were already REAL and established websites. These are sites that are NOT in the internet Marketing niche. Nothing to do with making money, nor previously had they overly been monitized.

My top earner is a technical forum in an industrial niche that I administer. This is well established in its niche and has a nice selection of REAL backlinks (not that I built) and PR4. It would normally get about 100-200 unique visitors a day visiting the forum which is pretty much a buy/sell exchange for the equipment.

When I started off on the Mage, What I did was take the forum and converted it to Wordpress and used the SimplePress Plugin. So I had a forum on Wordpress.

What I did then was generate a bunch of keywords for various industrial products and used Posting Mage to create and backdate about 5000 posts. Now it has had its ups and downs, however what has happened is all these Mage posts have been indexed by google and given the SAME authority as the High Quality Industrial Forum Posts.

Meaning that I have 5000 pages of essentially affilaite feeds that are pulling long tail visitors for the actual product name that they are already looking to buy.

On average I get about 1200+- visitors a day to this site ALL from natural search results of which about 200 are going to the Forum and about 1000 going straight to one of the Mage pages and then quickly clicking through to eBay (as there is nothing to click on those pages except eBay :) (yeah thats about $100 EPM)

My other big site is similar in a way. Way back in the old days, I had a hobby of collecting various Asian antiques and selling them on the internet and eBay. So I basically had an old-style homebuilt e-commence site. (Registered in 2003 I think)

Now this did ok, and way back then I went through all the motions to link build/exchange get it in directories (remember DMOZ)

So the years went by, and I got out of the physical items business, but I still had the site going and it still had authority within its niche. So what I did was leave up the homepage and all the other stuff and backdated about 11k posts on Antiques and let it Fly. I havent touched it yet and it has earned into the 5 figure range so far.

Some of my $1000 sites are like the two I described above and there are a number of exsiting sites and blogs that I bought from other people and just left as they were and pimped out the Mage on the backend. There are also a few where I bought a nice expired domain and applied an intresting stratgey where I recreated some of the old content.

You can do this via the Yahoo/Google Cache, Internet Archive or for more Advanced users a little tool called Warrick
. If you recreate the content on a site, the search engines assume that it is the same thing, even though the owner and server has changed

The Point behind all of these methods described is you are basicly piggybacking on already established trust and established.

In the $1000 and downwards range I have a bunch of site that I have bought as expiring domains at godaddy and actually pay someone to post on them for a few weeks- month. This posting establishes it as a credible site and then I load up the backend.

Then down at the bottom of the barrel are the pure-automation sites. These are the ones I stick up en masse and I have never gotten more than $500 a month, with ones that are indexed averaging about 30 visitors a day, - maybe total of $3-4 a day each - $100 month on average

Now that doesnt sound like much, but these are the sites that really only require me to input a domain and paste a keyword list and we are done.

I also have quite a few sites in the Google Graveyard (deindexed). This has happened to quite a few and I noticed a few trends in the process

- Mage Sites with Google Analytics installed had MUCH higher % chance of going down (dont use it)
- Careful about using Webmaster tools for your Mage sites. Sometimes it is ok. But it also draws association
- I hardly ever use Adsense along with Amazon/eBay feeds. For one, the products reduces your Adsense click value and secondly it makes Google take a harder look at your page.
- I have one shared server account that had ALL but one of its Mage sites deindexed in one swoop. Any site I would put up after that would get a small trickle of traffic and be de-indexed pretty quickly. So obviusly that IP address was flagged.
- Google Frequently does manual reviews. More than you know, they employ thousands of people in India and the Philippines to look at and rate millions of web pages everyday. %90 of the time they quickly glance at the home page and then leave. If you can spend a few minutes to make your homepage look nice, then it really helps. Ways you can do this is to hand select an article for your home page and remove the affiliate feeds or to just make a static like page with some nice big pictures. If anybody wants to see an example of one of these sites, drop me a note and I will send you.
- Also note (this is for dedicated server owners) on one of my dedicated servers all the sites on one of the IP's did get slapped around by google, but it did not effect any sort of the rankings of my other straight up sites. So the point is that when an IP gets flagged, it means that someone is going to take a close look at your site. Its not a blanket, IP/Server ban
-Yahoo and Bing are slightly less advanced and basically rank on brute force of links. So I have had a number of sites de-indexed by Google, but still get enough traffic from Yahoo and Bing to put them close to the $1000 a month range

So you need to remember this is a business. If you site gets De-indexed, who cares. Put up another one. If your shared sever gets flagged, get over it and move on. By the time this stuff happens you will be making enough so that it is no worry.

Lastly.....
And as for How Long to get earnings and get indexed. Well assuming you are only using expired domains, I have found it can take up to 1-2 weeks to get enough pages indexed to really get things going, and after that another week to start seeing earnings. So to be fair you need to give yourself at least 3-4 weeks from putting up a new site to start seeing the monies.

Backlink building I am sure is a great thing to do, but I have never done it. So perhaps that is something that will help as well.