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Good Day to All!

• Mon Wed, Fri (MWF)  Blog Networking (adsense, blog networking, posting)
• Tue, Thurs, Sat, Sun (TThSS)  Affiliate Marketing stuff

This schedule is now in accordance with the new online strategy that I'm going to implement. Its a 50-50, which stands for 50% blog networking, blog creation and blog posting for passive income and 50% for affiliate marketing.

So, expect to have update on this blog more often. I'm suppose to publish "My First PPC to CPA Campaign" article following the posting schedule today but unfortunately the draft post is in my Livewriter installed in my office. (I have clicked the save draft, instead of post draft and I just realized it when I'm on the way home)

Anyways, that's all for now. Just come back tomorrow for my PPC to CPA post and return often as I will be posting here more from now on or better yet subscribe to my feed so you'll be updated to my non-sense posts - lolz.

Thanks for visiting my blog and if you have a twitter follow me and I'l reciprocate. I just add a twitter widget on this blog which  looks cool btw!

Site Usage:

	Nov 5 - Dec 5	Dec 5 - Jan 5	Change
Visits	321	493	+ 53.58%
Pageviews	921	1,250	+ 35.72%
Average Pageviews	2.87	2.54	-  11.49%
Absolute Unique Visitors	236	306	+ 29.66%
RSS Subscribers	no data	12	n/a

Although improvements are evident in most of the aspects that we are monitoring, still the monthly visits and pageviews is not high.  There is also a notable decrease in average pageview which I suspect is because of not posting new content. Maybe they check the site, when there is no new content they leave.  I'm thinking of installing a random post the the homepage to improve the pageview.

Traffic Sources:

November 2008	December 2008

This month the traffic coming from referral decrease drastically, from 79.44% down to 59.03%.  Direct traffic and Search Engine traffic shows a big improvement which is good. This is an indication that blog post already started showing in the search results positioning itself slowly but surely under the affliate marketing / money making category.

With only 4 post added on the month of December, this only shows how lazy blogger I am.   I really need to post more to increase this site traffic!

Thats all for this lame post.. hope you are still with me for my next boring traffic stats post.

Zalds.com October 5 - November 5 Traffic Status:

• Visits : 101
• Pageviews: 319
• Average Pageviews: 3.16
• Absolute Unique Visitors : 68

Zalds.com November 5 - December 5 Traffic Status:

• Visits: 321
• Pageviews: 921
• Average Pageviews: 2.87
• Absolute Unique Visitors: 236

Well the traffic is still small but the site data shows a good trend.  The site traffic increased 217.82%  from previous month.  Unique visitors also increase drastically.  Majority of the traffic came from referring sites due to the link exchange and blog comment that I have done on the first two months.

This coming months I'm going to focus in adding contents and blog post to increase the organic traffic (search engines).  2009 will be busiest year for this blog and hopefully before the end of the year I should have atleast 1K visitor daily..

I'm going to post site report of this blog every 5th of the month to monitor the traffic status and blog development.  This way, I can regularly monitor and check whether I'm in phase with the goals that I shared to you in my previous post.  On the next report, I will include the post count, and subscriber count.  So far this site has only 8 posts, and 7 subscribers (according to feedburner count) - I really should write more here..

Still a long way to go....

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Hostmonster, where I previously host my sites deactivated my account due to site causing perfomance problems.  This is the main disadvantage of hosting my sites in shared server environment.  Support specifically told me that the account suspension is due to excessive use of MySQL to the point that it is causing issues for others users in the the server. Now, the big problem is that most of my sites are hosted under this account, so when they disable my main account most of my sites have been inaccessible which drastically affects my online income.

Since I'm satisfied to the service of hostmonster which lets me Host Unlimited Domains On 1 Hosting Account for only $5.95 per month, I then asked if its possible for me to just reduce the sites currently running under my hosting account in them.  Unfortunately,  the support told me that he received a direct instruction not to re-enable my account giving me this feeling that they really wanted me kicked-out from their server - so sad..   . Now I don't have other choice but to look for new hosting.

Opening new hosting account is one thing - moving blog (together with its content) to the new hosting is another issue. Somehow, I have manage to work around these hassles and after 3 days I'm happy to say that all my sites are now back online.

If you are curious to know.  I host my sites now in hostgator.  Shared hosting one more time, because its affordable and its easy to migrate and I can host unlimited domain in one account.  One thing to note, is that instead of using one hosting account, I now open two accounts and distributes my sites so as to distribute the traffic and SQL activities per account (not sure though if this will solve the problem that I encountered in my previous hosting account - lets see)

I enrolled for 6 months billing cycle and use some promo code saving me some bucks. case you want to know the hostgator coupon codes here they are:

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Then use below code to save some bucks:

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3. jury ($9.94 off the first month)
4. wordpress (1st month is $0.01)
5. GREEN (20% OFF first month)
6. 404page (1st month is $0.01)

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Now everything is back to normal.

I know most of the successful affiliate marketer are writing their goals so I must write one too.  GOAL is the MAP to success afterall.

To begin with, let me share you my long term and short term goals for www.zalds.com  Long term goals are those which I want to achieve after one year.  Under the long term goal are short term goals which is list of actions specifically design to meet my main goals.

Here are my long term & short term goals for this site:

(1)  After 1 year, I should earn atleast $5,000 a month (net) from affiliate marketing...

Super affiliates out there earns five figure dollar every month, I'm not ready to hit that amount yet and I also don't want to set my goal so high so I set my affiliate marketing earning to the achievable amount.  I believe $5000 net affiliate earning per month is just right.  Not too big and not too small.

To achieve this here are my short term goals:

• File a three weeks leave (Dec 9 - Jan 1) from my 8-5 work to focus building my very first PPC campaign. (done)
• Run atleast 3 PPC campaign on December 2008
• Add atleast 1 new affiliate campaign monthly thereafter.

(2)  After 1 year, I should earn atleast $500 a month from private ads...

This is the list of short term goals that I will try to achieve in relation to my long term goal of earning atleast $500/ month.

• Build loyal readers and subscribers list to attract advertiser to put private ads.
• Post articles related to my niche and position my site slowly & surely in the search engine ranking.
• Increase email subscription by offering freebies & site contest (you can subscribe now via email at the bottom of this post )
• Modify template to suit enough private ads space

(3)  After 1 year, zalds.com should have atleast 1000 daily visitors...

The 1000 visitors daily is free traffic coming from search engine or site referral and I hope that having this number of daily visitor will reinforce my short term goal listed in (2) so I can achieve my $500 a month private ads quickly.  I have created several sites that achieved 2K average visitors daily in 3-4 months of blogging so I'm very positive that I can also do it here in my money making site.  The 1K visitor question now is "How" and "How Long"...

• Continue adding content, case studies and money making earning report
• SEO post
• Commenting on other money making blogs
• Link exchange request (money making or affiliate marketing related sites) - btw, do you have a money making blog, interested in link exchange? just leave a comment and I'l add you in my blog roll help me achieve these goals thanks in advance..

There you go, my long term and short term goals.  For sure this will be a very exciting ride and I hope you'll join me and follow the milestone of this little site.