My Experiences with the 10 Day Cash Secret (so far…)
In my last post, I wrote about Neil Shearing’s 10 Day Cash Secret. From everything he wrote about on his blog, it seemed really promising, so I decided to purchase it and try it out.
The first blog / datafeed store I set up was at www.bestcatanddogstuff.com. I found it fairly easy to set up, as Neil created these online video’s of himself setting up a website. So, you get to watch what he does step by step in order to see how he does it. Having said this, however, I did have some trouble getting the CRON jobs set up correctly. A CRON job is a unix command/function that is critical to get the 10 Day cash secret to work properly. After several communications with my web hosts technical support, I was able to get it to work (or so I thought, more on this later).
I found a datafeed related to pet supplies, and uploaded it to my website. At first, it didn’t seem to work as promised. The 10 day plug in was publishing All of the posts at once, and not one every 5 minutes like Neil promised. I sent an e-mail to Neil, and he informed me that I needed to change the publishing interval due to the time zone I live in (I’m in Vancouver, so I’m in the pacific time zone, as opposed to England). So, instead of setting up the time intervals for each post as 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, etc, I needed to set them as now, 420 minutes, 425 minutes, etc. I’m not exactly sure why this worked, but it did.
So, my blog / datafeed store started to publish these posts every 5 minutes. What happened? Well, this did result in search engine spider’s crawling my site like I have never seen before. I had something like 300 visitors from google bot, yahoo bot, etc, on the first day. I was pretty impressed. Within a week, I had a few natural searches coming from google to this site. Not bad, I thought.
Now, here is where I may have made a mistake. After allowing the blog to publish new posts every 5 minutes, I thought it might be wise if I changed the publishing frequency to once a day. My reasoning was that I thought I might be punished for spamming if I allowed the 5 minute publishing to continue. Note that Neil did not recommend to do this. I did this on my own. It could have been mistake.
The other thing I did that might have been a mistake was that I was very aggressive in uploading datafeeds. On a shared server, I think Neil recommends a 1000. Well, I uploaded something like 10000 to the server. This seemed to work fine, but on March 31, the posts just stopped publishing. I’m not sure if this is related to the amount of posts I had uploaded, or some quark with the 10 day system where it has trouble with publishing posts between months. I’ll note, however, that I did set up other 10 day cash secret websites. All of them seem to have stopped publishing on March 31. Perhaps it is a better idea to upload smaller datafeeds (1000) and let those run? As well, perhaps it is ill advised to allow those feeds to run over a change in the month?
One thing that is a pain is that when you have a datafeed that stops publishing, your blog is left with thousands of unpublished posts that are hard to get rid off. This is another advantage to keeping your datafeeds on the smaller side, in case something goes wrong.
Today, I tried to do two things with my 10 day cash secret websites:
1) At www.bestcatanddogstuff.com I uploaded another smaller datafeed in an attempt to get it publishing posts again. So far, however, . I’m not sure why this is, as it did work before. It could be due to the fact that there are ait does not seem to be working whole bunch of unpublished posts in the blog, I’m not really sure. If you check this site out and you see an umbrella as the last post, the new datafeed I uploaded isn’t being used.
2) I recreated from scratch another site I created at www.swimmigpoolsandpumps.com. Again, although I uploaded a brand new datafeed and did everything the same as last time, it doesn’t seem as if the new datafeed is publishing. The only difference I can see is that this blog is using wordpress 2.5, as opposed to wordpress 2.3. Could this have made a difference?
Regardless, I’m a little bit frustrated at the moment. Tomorrow, I plan on revisiting another one of these sites that I set up in an attempt to get it publishing every 5 minutes like it used to. It used to work, why doesn’t it now?
Oh, and do you want to know how much money I’ve made so far? I have one sale from the cat and dog site, for a total commission of $4.78. Hmmmmm.
I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow, I suspect.
- Dave
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:08 am
Looks like this 10 day cash secret is very time consuming.