As promised, heres the latest  update on the A4U Competition. Since the last post the sites have gone live, mine has been indexed and even had a couple of users find it using long tail keywords. I’ve had some nice comments from people regarding my site, especially from Mansoor, both on A4U and over on his blog.

I have been accepted for 2 more merchants, which has pushed the number of gold lockets up from 30 to just under 100. I have decided that rather than adding them all in one go, I am going to add a few a day over the next 20 days or so. It takes me about 10 minutes to add 3 new products, including editing the image to fit my site design. So I am expecting to spend about 3.5 hours on adding products which I will add to the timesheet now rather than 10 minutes each day.

I have also spent an hour this morning doing a little bit of onsite SEO on the homepage, adding the content I wrote a while ago, spinning lots of unique versions and submitting to 10 different article sites (will do some more at a later stage). I have set my outsource worker onto building 60 links for the site as well, which isnt taking up any of my time, but cost £3.50 so I will record this below as well.

I think I will end up going over my 10 hour ‘limit’ as I had only expected around 50 products, obviously 100 products has added another 3 hours of work – although it also gave me some inspiration for a new script to write which would mean I could have added all 100 products in a few minutes

A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Total Time Spent: 8.5 Hours

A4U Gold Jewellery Competition Earnings: -£3.50

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