Welcome to part 3 of showing you my progress with my automated niche blog. It’s rather a short update than a complex follow-up post, but I think there are some things worth to mention.

As I already told you in the last post, I have ordered a custom blog header from a guy on the DP forums. Today he finally got ready with it and I’m just done implementing it (which in fact was as easy as substituting the current header file with the new one). I think he did good work, especially for paying him only 7 bucks!

Beside the header, I’ve also implemented some link selling code from TNX, a great link broker I’m using for several months now. You simply have to include their code and the rest is up to their spider which crawls your pages and automatically ad text links from people willing to advertise on your site. You don’t have to do anything beside waiting for your points to get credited in your TNX account (1000 points are currently worth $0.95, a PageRank 0 link gives you 6 points). So far over 100 pages of my blog are indexed and I think the first links will be sold within the next days. Let’s see…!

Another thing worth to mention is the increase in my Alexa rankings. Slowly but steadily the rankings are climbing. But to be honest, this is mostly because I personally visit my blog quite often to work on it (e.g. managing the posts, design, comments…). And since every visit counts towards these rankings, it’s only a matter of time before one will see the rank increasing. The good thing is, that this will also increase the value of links sold on my blog posts and pages!

Ok, nothing more to see for now, but more post will follow!

Bye bye,
Querblogger

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