Hi all,

Given that AMM5 now has a cloaking feature, I was wondering if anyone had considered (or implemented) redirecting their entire AMM site of several thousand pages to an affiliate landing page?

What are your thoughts on this: Pick a handful of profitable niches, build out AMM5 sites of several thousand pages each on these topics (either slow build or all at once) , and have all pages redirect to your affiliate landing page / white hat site. Coupled with use of all the promotional tools and a cookie stuffer script, I'm wondering if this is a good idea, or are there problems with this strategy?

Cheers, Ness

Well, if you will be using cookie stuffer, what's the point to redirect visitors to affiliate pages? Add some ads/popups on original pages, so you will make some extra money. And don't forget affiliate links / banners

Ness:

Yes, I am doing exactly that. I have a ton of White Hat Sites and I have the script in the same directory pointing to the main WH Site. I delete the index.php file so that my main WH site loads. I put a link to the sitemap on the main page of the WH site and it has been awesome at generating traffic for the WH sites.

Marten Davis

So, are you making money doing this?
I have to tell you, I have yet to make money with affiliate sites
and my adsense income is starting to take a dive.
I am in crisis mode to come up with something other than
adsense and for some reason I haven't been able to click
with affiliates.

I am making more money than ever using this approach to drive traffic to my WH Sites. It is working perfectly and I have not lost any sites in Google or other.

I have lost a bunch of sites that were only AdSense sites. All were before the upgrade, so I suspect that Google found the footprint of the template that I was using and just started banning all sites with it.

Right now, using AMM to generate traffic for my WH sites is by far the best use of the script for me.

I have been just trying to build traffic for a bunch of sites that are not WH and after I get sufficient traffic, I will monetize them with some product. Really doesn't matter what the site is, if you get great traffic, you can always find a product that is loosely related.

Marten Davis

Marten,

I really love your idea. I never thought that AMM could work in this way too. As far I can see, AMM has tons of "secret" ways to generate traffic. Very nice!

Yes, that is the main way that I am using the scripts.

I have not really figured out the AdSense stuff yet. I am not making enough $$$ to talk about. I can learn a lot about how to monetize those sites. I just started reading AdSensboy's book for about the 10th time again today to try to find my problem in that area.

I SHOULD be making money with the Adsense sites. Maybe someone is stealing my $$$ somehow.


Marten Davis

nobody can STEAL adsense income
people can "Steal" affiliate income if you dont implement the right security features

but in order to make any decent income with adsense you need TONS of sites, meaning hundreds of domains, just 10 or 20 sites alone will not do the math.
if you read this posts here it also said "I have a TON of WH sites"...

Hi Marten

Would you be willing to share the coding for it?

Thanks

Don't understand what you need?

I simplly have AMM installed and have a link on my main page to the sitemap.html page and the link.html page. I remove the index.php file, so that my index.htm page loads, and that is it.

Marten Davis

let me see if i get you rite.
eg your main site is marten.com
1) ur AMM is installed in a subdomain called amm.marten.com or 2) ur AMM is installed at marten.com

I do not understand how do you put a link from your main page to the sitemap.html and link.html
after you remove index.php file, you create index.htm and it automatically becomes your new main page?

Sorry I am very new at this, thanks for your patience.

Regards

No, AMM is installed on your main site. Then you put a link to the sitemap.html file, the add link file on your main page for the search engine spiders to find.

All you need to do is remove the index.php file and your site loads exactly like before the install and the AMM is in the background. You activate Cloaking and redirect all the hidden AMM pages to your main site. Works AWESOME and generates a ton of traffic.

Marten Davis

Hi Marten, this is what I did. I installed AMM and wordpress into the same directory. Both AMM and Wordpress has its own index.php I chg the filename of the index.php that of the progam I did not want so that it does not load up. Is this correct?

I do not understand what you mean by "you put a link to the sitemap.html file, the add link link file on your main page for the search engine spiders to find."

Thanks

That should work I guess, but what I did was not upload the AMM's index php altogether and that should work just fine. If you already uploaded it just delete the renamed index.php file, you don't actually need it as you already have your white hat site's index.php




Every site should already have a link to the sitemap on the main page. You could either replace the current sitemap with AMM's sitemap.php file, or just put another link and rename it to whatever you want but directs it to AMM's sitemap.php file on the main page of your site.

I could post an example site here if you want,

Also, if your current wordpress site already has .htaccess file in it, don't just overwrite it with AMM's .htaccess file, it might mess up the site. Just copy the file's contents and paste it in your current .htaccess file. Seems to work ok for me.

Btw, as a side note, I strongly suggest we follow Marten's steps, I had a site made a week ago using the normal methods of AMM, it was getting good traffic in only a week, about a 100 visitors a day, I activated adsense two days ago and about the next day the site was deindexed Was getting about 5 dollars that day too. Don't know if that's normal for other AMM users and if it will be reindexed again, but I think it's better for me to "hide the sites" in the background and point them to my white hat sites.

Besides, the monetization could be greater, maybe there should be a thread on "other AMM monetization strategies posted in the forums"

Hi Vendis

Would you mind posting an example? It would help greatly.

My Current setup--
So you are saying that
1) I have 2 sitemap file in the same directory. Remove sitemap.xml and sitemap.php, both seems to belong to AMM. Is it ok? I cant find any sitemap related to wordpress. So i just leave it alone?

This is my current .htaccess file. Anything wrong with it?
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule links.html links.php
RewriteRule privacy.html privacy.php
RewriteRule rss.html rss.php
RewriteRule sitemap.html sitemap.php
RewriteRule sitemap-([0-9]*).html sitemap.php?page_number=$1
RewriteRule tags-(.*).html$ tags.php?tag=$1
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ results.php?page_keyword=$1




Thanks

The htaccess is the same one that came with AMM, so if was there already yeah just leave it at that.

Don't delete the two sitemap files that came with AMM, you need those, I'm just saying you could just add one more link on you main page that points to AMM' sitemap file if you don't want to delete your current white hat's site sitemap file. I don't know how that would impact the site in SEO terms having two sitemaps though, but I would just use AMM's sitemap.

Hi Vendis

I updated my page. http://www.tangabriel.com/
The sitemap link is at the top, under the seashell, can u help to see if its done correctly?

There are 2 sitemap files, sitemap.xml and sitemap.php, which do I use as both of them belongs to AMM?

Thanks Vendis and Marten for your help n advice.

Regards

You can actually call either sitemap.php OR sitemap.html. Both will work the same.

Key is that the SE will be able to find all your background AMM pages that way. AMM AUTOMATICALLY updates sitemap.xml as new pages are added. I would suggest that you also submit the sitemap.xml file to both Yahoo and Google directly.

Marten Davis


Marten Davis

Thanks Marten

hi Marten,

did you try with niche store (from ebay, amazon and others yet) and install AMM on the same domain and point all pages to the main page ?

i have a huge niche store and now trying to boost them with AMM (from the background)..... niche store are a great things, since they are whitehat sites with thousands of pages (as many as you can grab).... i guess search engine don't consider the site as spam since it looks like (it really is) a store with thousand of products, just coming out....

Tim