I set myself a few goals at the start of the year and been tweaking them over the past month, including adding a whole new site to the mix. I thought i'd share my targets with everyone here, firstly it'll be handy to document my targets and secondly i can update you all on the progress too.

Site 1: www.buyandgo.co.uk

By end of 2008 i want the site to be consistently achieving the following:

1000 UV's a day
Earn £32.88 a day (this equates to £1000 a month / £12000 per annum)
Achieve top 5 rankings for the following phrases (Discount Codes, Voucher Codes, Promotional Codes, Discount Vouchers and a couple of other combinations with lesser significance)

At first i thought these would be a very, very tough target to crack, but initial progress since the new year has been very encouraging and as of todays date the sites stats are approximately:

125 UV's a day
Monthly income of around £150+
A couple of top 10 and mostly top 20 rankings for its primary keywords


Encouraging foundations to build on, but then i decided i did'nt want to put all my eggs in one basket so widened the net of my targets to include a second site, this time a completely separate industry but one i've successfully SEO'd before.

Site 2: www.firsttimebuyersite.co.uk

By the end of 2008 i want this site to be consisently achieving the following:

500 UV's a day
£16.44 a day income

I've not set myself any ranking targets for this site, and the site, although based on a domain from my portfolio, is newly developed. Current stats are pretty much at ZERO for everything.

If anyone has any pointers they like to offer, free links they'd like to give or of course if anyone has any questions about how i'm SEO'ing the sites etc,  i'd be glad to hear from you all.

If you read alot of affiliate marketing blogs, you'd be lead to believe its an over saturated market, but its really not that bad, realistically there may be 5-6 'real' players and a fair amount of PPC.

There is one site head and shoulders above the others in terms of SEO, and looking at their backlinks and SERPS they have a serious budget.

I want to make them public so i can't backtrack on them. It'll be interesting to see where i (or the sites) am in 11 months time...

Well i've done hardly anything on the first time buyer site, but perhaps i ought to look at this again given the tough economic climate at the moment.

Buyandgo.co.uk was going very well (and almost hit my target of £1k per month) but a think i pushed the links a little to hard, the site has now got a new domain name and has been 301'd to VoucherCodes.me.uk.

Income is'nt great at the moment and probably around the same as when i originally posted (£150) but the spikes have been encouraging and i still think i can hit the £1k by Christmas, i'm trying at the same time to build up some smaller sites to spread the risk if the big earner goes missing in the serps.

Thanks for sharing ...

It seems like you're both on your way. Well done!

Not putting all your eggs in one basket is a very good idea

 

Well we are looking at you ash as we are new bie. We expect a lot from you. So will you please tell us your secrets step by step.

Rite now I am into blogspot.com mainly and earning money by posting at there with my adsense codes. But I am not satisfy with my performance and want to improve.

I heard and read from somewhere that people are earning even $500/daily from adsense. Is that true or possible ?