Polite SEO, what the heck? Anyway, I want to use this post to rant on something I have noticed lately. There is a widespread problem of people selling magic SEO (search engine optimization guides) promising to get you on page 1 of Google in very little time. This has always been a pet peeve of mine, as many of these guides completely misrepresent their accomplishments and SEO in general.
You will often find a guide that claims to teach you how to rank #1 in Google for a competitive term in less than 48 hours or some other outlandish claim. Those who have been doing this for a while spot the issue with these guides immedialy, but people new to SEO are less fortunate. The author typically shows examples of terms they rank for and normally includes proof. For example, they may show that they rank #1 for the term widgets sale, which when searching Google shows over 18 million competing pages. What they don’t tell you is that the exact search results (search in quotes) for this term returns less than 2,000 competing pages, and more importantly than that no one is searching for their term.
I have seen countless “guides” sold at the warrior forum claiming to offer you a magic formula for ranking for terms like this and it boggles my mine why the authors aren’t called out on it.
Anyway, in my opinion this isn’t Polite SEO (whatever that is ;) Sorry for the rant…
The new site, referred to here, has been indexed by Google today (3rd day, 3 pages indexed). The crazy thing is I still have another niche site that is about 9 days old and it still isn’t indexed. I will never understand how random the indexing process seems.
I am happy this one indexed fast though and believe it or not I received some traffic from Google today for a longtail keyword. That is a good start if you ask me. My articles aren’t even up yet. According to the stats one of the visitors that came from Google stayed at the site for 29 minutes. That is also very encouraging. I also had two clicks on eBay auctions, with no registrations yet. Still, a good start.
In other news, I registered a new domain for my next niche site which is created in the same method as my first $10+ / day site (all using JD’s methods). The primary keyword for this new niche has 21,000 competing pages and is searched for 185 times per day. I have gathered 9 additional keyword all searched for over 50 times a day with less than 20,000 competing pages. In edition to these keywords, this niche 100’s of branded keywords (i.e. If the niche were guitars, Gibson Hummingbird). Therefore I should be able to continue to add new pages to this site and target an almost unlimited number of longtail keywords. All of these items are bought daily on eBay and have popped up on http://pulse.ebay.com on a daily basis. My prediction and my hope are that these two sites are going to push me over the $20/day mark.
Finally, I recently downloaded the free version of G Lock Fast Blog Finder and think it is pretty darn good for being free. For those of you who don’t know it finds blogs (that don’t use the no-follow tag) based the keyword you’re targeting and lists them by Page Rank. It saves all your keywords as projects and keeps track of when you posted comments. It also spell checks your comments for you and allows you to social bookmark the post. Pretty awesome.
This weekend I bought a brand new domain for a site in a brand new niche (to me) and put up a site in about an hour (following JD’s plan, with some slight modifications). I so confident in the niche/keywords that I have every reason to believe it will become my first $10+/day site (about time!).Â
Lets look at the details (vague, but I need to protect the niche).
Primary Keyword
The primary keyword has less than 12,000 compeiting pages in Google
The primary keyword is searched for 1,000+ times per day via Wordtracker
The primary keyword and the domain name are one and the same!
Secondary Keywords
All have very low competition (less than 20,000 pages)
Others searched for as much as 800 times per day
Monetization
Primary monetization will be from the eBay affiliate program ($25 per registration, plus commissions from won auctions). The niche has 1,000’s of items listed on eBay with completed auctions, so we know these people are buying. Prices for the items in eBay range from $1 to $1,400.
Google AdSense - 2 strategic placements
Other
10 Unique Articles currently being ghost written
Extensive Social Marketing campaign
Manual directory submission to 200 directories (PR 4 - PR8)
4 of the Unique articles are going to have two variations, which will be submitted to Ezine Articles and Article Dashboard.
Goals
Indexed by 1/27/08 - Hopefully before, no telling really as it appears to happen randomly for my sites (14 hours to 2 weeks)
Ranked #1 for the primary keyword by the end of February - This alone should generate 500+ unique visitors per day at a minimum
Earning $5 - $10 / day by April
That is about it. I think that I have hit the jackpot with this niche/keyword combination and really think this one will be bigger than all my others (current best site is $3-4 per day).
I post updates for this site periodically. Wish me the best!
Since starting JD’s 6 month challenge I have been trying to find a high quality ghost writer to write articles for me at a reasonable price. This task took me to eLance, to the Digital Point Forum, and to the Warrior forum. Since November I have utilized 3 different ghost writers and I received 3 entirely different experiences. The ghost writer I found on the Digital Point forum charged $4 for 400-500 word articles. Pretty cheap. I ordered 1 article to make sure the quality was up to my standards and I am glad I did… The article was terrible. To the authors credit, it did pass copyscape, but it appeared to be written by a 5th grader. I re-wrote it and submitted it to Ezine Articles to boost the marketing efforts of one of my sites. Lesson learned: You really do get what you pay for.
I came to the conclusion that I needed to bite the bullet and pay a little more to insure that my site has some “sticking power” and to actually provide quality content to the visitors of my sites (what a novel concept). Fortunately, my next experience with a ghost writer was an absolute joy. Thankfully, I discovered Annette Jensen from http://jensenwriting.com/ and from this point on she will be my ghost writer. She showed extreme professionalism, met the deadline and provided articles of even a higher quality that I would write myself… I could not be happier & by all means if you are looking for a quality, consistent ghost writer you should certainly go with Annette Jensen. She is worth every penny.
Chris
*The other writer was decent (not nearly as good as Annette), and missed my deadline by over a week.
When I first started working in Internet Marketing I briefly dabbled in Pay Per Click via Google Adwords. I logged onto Clickbank, found a non-internet marketing product with a decent gravity, gathered a list of keywords and setup my first campaign. Believe it or not I ended up making about $40 from my first campaign and for one reason or another I stopped running the campaign (I was cash strapped at the time and didn’t have the funds to fund the campaign).
Anyway, the one thing the largest internet marketing blogs have in common is the income source of the authors. Almost everyone uses PPC & CPA (Cost Per Action) offers. Making $50,000+ per month from PPC and CPA offers is not uncommon. Now before I get into the gist of this post, it is important to note that niche marketing and implementing the tactics learned in JD’s $100K challenge will continue to remain my primary focus (currently have 4 niche sites up and am working on the next one). I spent too much time in 2007 going from one thing to another with no real focus. I am not going to let that happen this year.
With that said, I am eager to learn as much as I can learn about PPC & CPA offers in general. If these bloggers can profit as much as their profiting, there is no reason I can’t at least earn enough to pay my mortgage (which is one of my main short-term goals). The obvious beauty of PPC is that the income is pretty immediate and it doesn’t take months to ramp up as it does building Niche sites focusing on AdSense or Affiliate offers.
My first step in this process is to go ahead and register for a handful of CPA Affiliate companies. I have been told that they do not accept everyone and that the registration process can be long and cumbersome. Great. So, today I am going to register to the top 2 or 3 and cross my fingers.
I have a content site that is about a year old and is consistently my best performing site. One of the keywords I am targeting has 130,000 competing pages and I am now ranked 10th! The site has about 10 content pages at this time and I rank in the top 30 for all of the keywords I am targeting, except 2.
As my rankings increase, my income from the site increases. That is precisely why I have decided to learn absolutely everything I can about Search Engine Optimization.
About a month ago I met another fellow Internet Marketer that lives in the Chattanooga, TN area. We have enjoyed sharing ideas and may work on a couple of projects together in the future.
I know there must be other people in the Chattanooga area that are involved in Internet Marketing. If you live in or around Chattanooga Contact Me if you’re interested in chatting.
Ruck from Cash Tactics has created some stellar free reports that are more valuable then some $79.99 eBooks I have read. You can checkout his free reports here .
Also, Jonathan Leger recently released a free report titled SEO Myths Exposed. The report does require opting in, but it is well worth it. Here is a list of the Search Engine Optimization myths that are discussed:
Myth #1: Google Knows All and Sees All
Myth #2: Google Will Not Rank Duplicate Content
Myth #3: You Must Get Links From Related Subject Sites to Rank
Myth #4: Your Site Must Focus On One Subject To Rank
Myth #5: High PageRank Means Good Rankings
Myth #6: To Maintain Good Rankings, You Must Add New Content
Myth #7: The Biggest Myth: Ranking in Google is Hard
Every time I logged into my blog over the past 2 weeks I have been hit with a warning message that I need to upgrade to the new version of Wordpress. Well I unforuntately decided to do it last night and things went awry.
Thankfully I now know how to backup my blog and have set it up to backup weekly.
