Jeff Johnson has some fantastic free information on his blog, and it’s all the start of a free tutorial. On top of that he is giving away a SEO Ready version of wordpress, which is apparently pretty powerful.
Things are going well here. I will update in a few days.
Chris
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.
Wish me luck.
Chris
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.
Chris
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.
~Chris
