I don’t know much about this, but I was talking to John Chow last night about advertising on his website and he was brought this guy up. I never even heard of him, but I guess the guy claims to be making over 237k a month from his laptop and was a construction worker at first then moved into this. I mean who knows it could be true cause I know a lot of this stuff goes on through internet, but I just never heard of this guy so its hard saying if he is or not I don’t think he is, but who knows.

I have friends that are rolling in with cash through affiliates and etc, so its possible. I know one guy that has no over head and he makes around 37k a month on affiliates, and pratically does nothing, and this is profit I’m speaking. I know we bring in some major income at times sometimes I’ll do around 1k profit in 1 hour, but 237k is a lot.

Check it out at http://www.thousanddollarprofits.com

Tell me what you guys think.

Link baiting, how fun. Don’t we all like links when it comes to search marketing. Links is what makes us rank higher in the search engine and the result of that is more traffic to our website, so we will not have traffic if we don’t have links. And of course we will have no revenue and sales, and thats what we want.

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Blog building tips, another great post. Blog building is time consuming thats for sure, but the idea is to start getting the people in there so you can hook them in. Once you get 150 subscribers leverage them and grow your blog. Then you can turn that 150 maybe into 200,300, and so on. Just let it move forward, and let your readers promote your blog for you. (more…)

You know I’m setting here thinking today of marketing online, and all this advertising that is going on from service related websites, and etc. The thing is a lot of websites that offer services are driven by search engines or PPC a big majority of the time, which granted not all the time, but generally they are. The thing is with community driven websites you have a source for traffic and the benefits of advertising your own innovations is huge.

Sometimes thats the hard part people can create something that will make a lot of money, but sometimes they don’t have the money to invest to make it happen. Which don’t take me wrong if your a great viral thinker and can think strategically with out frustration’s you can make it happen, but believe me it takes a lot of patience and practice to build something from scratch trust me I’ve done it and I’m doing it, but ok lets get back to the community driven website topic and then I’ll move onto other things.

The benefits of having a community driven websites is very beneficial like I said earlier, but you can do major things with it if you can build a community based website you have it made. I can’t remember the success rate of starting community driven website, but a big majority of them fail and this comes back to being patient again, and being motivated. Quite honestly I think a lot of people get excited about starting one such as forums, blogs, or anything community related, but then they start taking easier ways out that don’t work as well, and boom thats the biggest mistake any one can make.

Keep your fist up and stay at what you want!

For example lets say you keep taking a test over, and over again at school, but you never ever can pass it. Lets say this is a test only 5/100 people pass, but you keep failing, and this test will get you a lucrative paying job that will earn you 30 times more then what you make now. Well after awhile you start to think to your self that its ok if you fail and its ok to work at this other place or work for someone else because generally thats what every one around you believes, so what do you do you mix in with the pattern.

Be a leader, not a follower, for example when people go to college there constantly trained to work for someone else. They pratically drill it in your mind that working for other people is the thing to do. Which granted yes there nothing wrong with that there is some huge paying jobs out there for people, but for someone thats going to start a living online and be a successful entrepreneur you have to think outside the box which granted yes college is a plus plus by every means, but I’ll tell you one thing college does not teach you anything about online marketing or the trades that certain people have learned on there own by putting a lot of effort into something.

Think about it does your college teach you how to become a millionaire off ranking keywords on the search engines? No I don’t think so thats stuff you’ll learn on your own, these are your own trades that you’ll learn, and develop over the years. The same thing goes with starting a community driven website you’ll learn how to build trends into the website that no one else could ever tell you how to do. Its simple, but it will take time, time, and patience until you get to that level and don’t fall off believing what every one else believes around you because part of being successful is believing in your self and what your wanting to do (your the leader).

Always keep a great passion and motivation, don’t lack in stress even if your broke and struggling just remain patience because it takes time. If you can remain patience while building a community online and keep working at it, then it will happen. Now if your always stressed out and struggling then its not going to happen as fast because one thing I have learned to be quite honest is that when your building a business of any sort it takes more patience and strong believes then any one could imagine, but just look at it like its something thats going to be fun and your going to be motivated and you understand it can take hours of work night and day for 6+ months before you get results and if you can have this mind frame things will happen a lot faster.

I think a big reason why certain online business grow so slow is because of lack of work, and lack of patience, and determination. Think of it, when your determined at something you always succeed, and am I right or wrong? People that are motivated and believe always succeed now don’t have no excuses in your head like well thats because they actually had a vision or they knew how to do something, but the bottom line is before you can make something happen you have to try. Then your visions will start to come into place better.

Thats pretty much it, internet marketing is a strategy, and always will be. Building communities, advertising, and investing is nothing, but a big strategy. Thats why I find it funny because sometimes clients come to me, and they think there going to get rich off $500 dollars a month, but sad to say it takes a lot more money then that to make money thats profitable which granted you can start small, but with online marketing its something that you have to keep putting money into, or time before it comes back hard to explain, but hey good luck, and sorry guys didn’t mean to go off 10 different direction with all this.

I was just checking Shoemoney.com website out and looking at his RSS feed which I generally check his blog out every day and a few others, but I wanted to see who was in the lead. Looks like its pretty even, but for some odd reason I think Jeremy has something up his sleeve because Jeremy has been working with PPC marketing for awhile, and not say John is not a smart marketer (with blogs), but I think Jeremy could easily exploit his RSS feed by setting up some landing pages then using PPC to increase it (speaking he hasn’t already).

Theres been a lot of sites thats used ppc to increase there rss feed, e-mail list, and etc (thats how v7n.com started). Thats actually something we might do this next month using keycompete.com which I have been checking into. Most of our traffic comes from search engines which are very competitive terms such as website design and etc were officially on page 9 (in our data center some centers are reading page 15) for internet marketing and its coming up, but most of that traffic is directed the other way such as services and etc.
I need to set the site up where it will funnel all the traffic into the blog and rss feed (landing page), so it will shoot the RSS up, and when I got to thinking of it I’m quite surprised Jeremy’s not doing this yet, or if he don’t have it planned. I don’t know exactly what type of Ratio rate that would have on the landing page with PPC because I focus on organic search a lot, but I’d imagine you would get a quite a bit sign ups if you funneled the traffic right, and then there on out you can leverage the people you got subscribed into a more viral space such as posting quality content and hopefully the people that are subscribed will start spreading the content by linking to it or through out social networks.

Which granted you can use organic search and drive it to your blog, or a landing page so you can hook people in. Which there is a difference in the two of them take a look below on how the two can be different.

PPC - Well with PPC you can drive traffic thats fast, quick, and target your precise keywords. Which is great, but the down fall of it is you’ll have more money invested into PPC then what you would organic search, but either way if you optimize your PPC correctly you can keep the clicks pretty low, but the traffic at a steady rate, but you’ll have to continue paying out to keep traffic coming, keep in mind its still wroth the investment speaking your RSS is going up.

Organic Search - The great thing about organic and this is why I love organic search so much is that you can use it on a landing page or funnel the traffic into your landing page, but once you get the rankings established generally the traffic just keeps coming and you don’t have to keep paying money out. You can either build links naturally or buy them a lot of people prefer to buy them then they leverage there users for link baits and etc.

Conclusion

Which granted there is several ways of getting a feed up such as using Digg, Reddit, Forums, Search Engines, and just networking all together. Either or social networks are great for building links, creating buzz, and you name it. I just seem to think Jeremy has something up his sleeve to win this content I actually think its a great contest because it really gets there head on about increasing there RSS subscribers up, so in the long run it will actually benefit both of them.

Also keep in mind if your really wanting to learn more about getting your RSS up or whatever pay attention to what people do. For example right now would be a good time to pay attention to shoemoney.com and johnchow.com and see what there doing to get there RSS feed up you never know you might learn something you don’t know already.

Check more into it at

Shoemoney.com

Johnchow.com

Ever heard of the saying buy an old domain and build links into it. Well the reason being is because old domains always rank better, they are like gold in Google’s eyes. For example you have a domain that is dated back to 1999 and you build links into it the results of the links being built into it will have a better outcome then what building links into a new domain would. New domains hardly even rank I just registered a domain the other day that is brand spanking new and it has got a bunch links naturally, but its still not ranking for any of the anchor text which of course this is what new domains do.

Generally it takes a good 2-3 years for your links to become highly effective. Now doesn’t mean you can’t build links into a new domain and it won’t work, but it will just take a lot more work then what it would on an old domain. Thats why if you can find a domain that relevant to your business and it will work use it. Unless your really focused in on the branding of the domain which personally that would be me.

I have a client that does monthly link building with us and hes got a pretty old domain, but whats quite surprising is that he hardly built any links into his domain, but yet hes ranking for some very competitive key terms. Put it this way it shot from page 10 to page 1 with hardly any link building for a very competitive key term this is because his domain age is old. I also had another client that had a domain from 1996, and he has a page rank 3 domain, but yet hes ranking for some very high brand name keywords that are being searched for and he is currently the largest reseller for Hallmark Ornaments.

I was thinking the other day I wish I had all my old domains from 15 years ago that I registered I just pratically let them fall off the earth. If i would of had these domains I just could not imagine what they would be worth today I had one domain that was www.his.com I think thats what it was, I just remember having a bunch of short domains for websites I was playing around with, but I let the fall off.

If you have a chance of buying some old domains that have links into them and its related to your business model buy the domains and 301 redirect the whole thing to your website this should give your new domain some trust. I do know a few people that have done that I had one client 301 redirect like 5 of his domains he had that were super old that he was just setting on and he said he got excellent results from it, which I’d imagine so because they was all old domains and had links into them that was related to his company.

You know I’m starting to wonder if this is just Google bug, or something to that nature you’d think they’d penalize other sites then these sites. I know some websites that are really under the radar beyond the radar that did not get hit, but certain sites that are at a more organic approach got hit hard.

I have been looking at every ones rankings for the last 4-5 hours and checking into a lot of sites that I know of, and I knew what there ranking were before, but guess what? All there rankings are still the same quite interesting. None of these sites rankings have went down at all, there all high as they have always been. Here in a month or so I have a quite of few friends that got hit and I’m going to ask them if there traffic has went down, and if not this comes to tell us that Google has a pr bug, or pr had nothing to do with there traffic.

Which I highly do know that page rank does put more juice into sites such as document importance and etc. Generally the more pr you got the more your keywords count for. Its just sometimes people get all to caught up on page rank and forget about other things. Well how is some important ways that we can all tell if these sites are losing any traffic that got hit.

Make a list of all the sites that got hit and record there compete.com rank, and Alexa ranking. Do that today, and then in a month or so check back, or better yet check back every week or so. Then see if there traffic or ranks are going down at all. Like I said I will be communicating with a lot of people I know to see if there traffic has went down at all such as searchenginejournal.com and etc.

For any one thats is famaliar with Pay-Per-Click they know there is some value using it as a marketing trend, but there is some excellent ways of generating competitors keywords. I was reading an interview done with Kris Jones the other day and he was showing how he used keycompete.com to generate keywords that resulted in 15k a month in profits through affiliates using keycompete to mime his keyword list, and quite honestly I never even bothered with this tool until I was reading this the other day, my mind has just been so focused on organic search.

You can use Key Compete to mime up your keywords for you and scrape your competitors keywords so for example you want the keyword list that www.remax.com is using well you would just type in www.remax.com in the keycompete search field, it will then bring back all the results it has scarped into there database. Pretty cool if you ask me, and you can scrape from numerous domains therefore you can mime up a large list and set a low bid on your campaign settings.

If you’d like to take it to even another level and mime up more keywords you can use Aaron Walls SEO tool which is called Free Open Source Keyword List Generator. This tool will generate long tails and you can combine certain keywords for example say you are trying to combine the word “tips” into 1000’s of other words such as web design, website design, html, css, and etc. It has a box below it where you can put in tips then it will add it into the text string for all the given keywords in the box above. Check it out they have a little bit more clearer details done on video and some documentation for the tool at Free Open Source Keyword List Generator.

If your someone wanting to get a keyword list mimed up that are low paying keywords this would be the way to go. I just can’t believe the information and data that is available on the web. Tools like this can mime you up keywords faster then you ever imagined, and make you a lot of money specially through affiliates. Which granted it will probably take some time to get it just right, but once you get the hang of it you should be on your way.

Which I’m not an affiliate marketing king or anything, but I do understand all the aspects of search specially organic search which I major in organic and I’d have to say I’m a guru with that (speaking I’ve ranked some of the most competitive keywords out there), but as far as affiliates go this would be the way to go. You can make some major money with Affiliates. Another thing that is so great about Affiliates is that it requires no over head (employees), so therefore you can work on your own and make large sums of cash, but not have to deal with people.

One more quick note I almost forgot,  Key Compete even has a long tail generator which is an additional cost. The service runs at about 40.00 dollars per month (the long tail generator is additional), or you can just run a test and export a list for $10 dollars and see how well it works. I did a few test on a few sites and wack got there keyword list. I will definately be using this tool in the future for keyword research on PPC with affiliates once I get the time to set down and play with some affiliate offers.

You know I have been thinking the past few days to get more into affiliate marketing and just explore other areas on the web I haven’t really got to explore such as affiliates and etc. The thing is if you make your living off the internet don’t ever get stuck at doing one thing specially depending on Google, or anything like that. Another thing is specially with all these website getting penalized from Google here lately and some of them were very reputable websites.

Focus on building something other trends and channel them into your website. Which I’m not saying don’t focus on Google because Google can make you some killer money through search results and ppc, but try to focus in other areas you can make money off the web, or other channels you can use as a source of income and traffic that will convert and be beneficial for you. Putting your eggs in one basket is bad, you always need them back up sources no matter what.

Think about it all your traffic comes from Google, but then boom you get hit you know how to do nothing else, but work with search engines. You’d be kind of screwed don’t you think, so try to focus in on other channels right along with the search engines. Always have them back up trends just encase one trend fails.  You should be thinking like this anyways any successful entrepreneur that makes there living off the web would know this.

You know last few weeks I have noticed Google has been doing some updates on numerous things well it has changed a few aspects of there search engine results. I also think Google is trying to get more strict on there organic search such as bringing back a so called cleaner results and I think there algorithms are getting more precise with there search results.

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