Sunday, January 27, 2008

Same Old Problems

I am running into the same old problems with my online ventures. I am using Keyword Elite and doing tons of research. The software has so many features that can be used to make money. I keep going back and forth in what I am trying to accomplish. I just realised what I was doing, again. I lost my focus. I need to make a better game plan. I am still learning the software and how to use it effectively.

I need to dedicate my efforts in a more organised manner. There are two main goals I have an interest in right now for Keyword Elite. I can use it to create AdSense pages and I can create affiliate campaigns. I noticed today that it will take some time before I have enough data to set up good PPC ad campaigns, so I am going to concentrate more on AdSense for the next week or so. As I am doing this I will also be setting up my PPC research so that it will be ready for a good effort by next weekend.

As far as AdSense goes, I am going to try two different strategies. First I am going to write articles that are optimized for certain keywords and post them on GlobalInternetFortunes.com. The other method I am going to use will be to set up websites that are optimized for certain keywords that will get me top positions in the search engines and see which of the two methods gets me better results.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Lots of Work

I worked for about 10 hours online today, after 8 hours of my day job, and I can't wait to see what kind of results I will be getting. I did a lot of work on www.VideoGamersStore.com today. I used Keyword Elite for some keyword research and then I optimized some pages for the search engines. I am looking to get some traffic from natural searches. I used keywords that did not have many results so that I could rank high for them. I also set up some optimized pages for keywords that get lots of searches and the websites that rank well for them are not optimized very well. I am working a lot on this stuff and it still doesn't seem to be paying off. I am also running a couple of PPC campaigns on a search engine that is not Google because it is much less expensive. I have a few click thrus and it didn't cost me the way it does on Google. Tomorrow I plan on optimizing a few more pages on VideoGamersStore.com and also setting up another BANS site and optimizing it for free traffic. Lots of work done today, lots more to do. Although I haven't had the results I am after I am actually enjoying what I am doing. I like it more than my day job and am excited about moving to it for full time work.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Recent Progress and Findings

I have been quiet as far as my blog goes for a little while now. I have been working like crazy though. Actually, I have been learning a great deal. I think last time I wrote on this blog I had created my article directory and had made a few cents from AdSense. Well, I am still struggling with getting the AdSense thing really rolling. But, I have been watching the training videos for Keyword Elite and I am amazed at what this software can do! My research seems endless and the fruits of my labor are still unrealized but I sincerely feel like I am about break out any day here.

I believe that writing articles is a great form of website promotion. My Alexa rankings have climbed multi millions of places since I started using this technique. However, I am banned for now from ezinearticles.com for using a PLR article. If you change the content enough then you can use the article but I didn't and I don't know when they will allow me to come back and write for them. There are other article directories, like mine, that are good but they just don't have the same comfortable interface as ezinearticles.com, or the nice price tag.

As I watch these training videos from Keyword Elite I implement the strategies. Right now I have an ad campaign on the Microsoft Ad Network for a PLR product I have on my computer. I just set it up a couple of hours ago so there is no action yet. I plan on setting up some more AdSense sites today and maybe figuring out how to redirect web pages. The redirect idea comes from the training. I plan on promoting affiliate products. If I begin doing well the owners will find out what I am doing by seeing where the traffic is coming from, steal my keywords, and then outbid me. I don't like this idea so I am going to try to set up a redirect page on my site for each of the affiliate products I promote.

Monday, January 21, 2008

Big and Rich: Read This And Downline Building Will Be A Piece Of Cake!

Big and Rich Mike Dillard is a home business guru that became a millionaire while still in his 20 s. He says the biggest secret to his success is to spend money on educating himself continuously. It s no secret that you can find the industry leaders and ultra-successful entrepreneurs congregating at the same place numerous times throughout the year.They re religiously attending conferences, meetings, courses, boot camps, and live events to gain any piece of extra knowledge to give them an edge in the market place. The amount of money and time they spend on their education year in and year out would probably scare you.Here s the secret if you want to make it big and rich with a downline list the size of a phone directory. Don t ever stop learning.Pick up a book, article, or newsletter to feed your brain daily. Go out of your way to mastermind with other leaders so you can think and act as they do. To help you get started, here are a few resources that have helped me tremendously, and allowed me to enjoy the wealth and freedom from home that 99% of home business owners only end up dreaming about.* Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker It doesn't matter how much you know about advertising, prospecting, and building systems if you re mind doesn't have the right set of beliefs. You won t see the level of success you want. T. Harv Eker refers to these beliefs as your money blueprint . It s the set of conditioned thoughts your mind holds dearly with regards to money, success, and your abilities. Fix the leaks in your subconscious mind, and your downline building will become effortless. You can solve the mystery of any of your past failures very quickly.* Magnetic Sponsoring by Mike Dillard If you simply want to throw your money down the drain on purchased leads and chase your aunt and uncle away to join your business, then don t read this book. Mike Dillard says the key to building a home business is to market You, Inc , and solve people s problems by showing them a solution. Don t talk about your company or products because people don t care to hear about those. Show them a solution, and give them help without asking for anything in return. Market yourself, your knowledge, and willingness to give freely so prospects will be attracted to you like a magnet. * Hypnotic Writing by Joe Vitale The most important skill in building a business from home and online is copywriting. If your written word can do all the selling, telling, and prospecting for you, you re on your way to a huge income. Joe Vitale is known for his writing and using written persuasion to get people to buy. In his book Hypnotic Writing , he says to write a sales letter with one question in mind. What s in it for me?
That question is what every prospect reading your website is thinking in the back of his or her mind. If you re sales copy doesn't answer this question thoroughly and convincingly, your readers are out the door faster than a fire drill.
By: Shiraz Khan
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Shiraz Khan is a marketing expert in the Home Business industry, with a strong reputation for having an easy-to-learn training approach. To learn more about his 7-Figure Home Business training, visit www.MeetShiraz.com for a free 10-day E-course.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Learning More And More...

Yesterday was my best AdSense day so far. It was also a day of learning. I earned $0.95 from 3 clicks and I have no idea where 2 of them came from. So I learned the lesson of ad tracking. I have ad tracking on almost all of my sites but I cannot figure out where those clicks came from. I have been working like crazy on my article marketing methods lately. I did mess up real bad though. I have been using ezinearticles.com for my submissions. I didn't read all of their policies. I violated one of their terms of service. I am not allowed to use the site for who knows how long. Bad idea! They have been getting me traffic. I am really liking this idea of article marketing. I like it so much that I started my own site up for article marketing.

I am also using other article directories for submitting articles for affiliate products. I have received tons of PLR articles from give aways and stuff on the Internet. I read a few of them and they are terrible. There are tons of spelling mistakes and grammar errors. So, I took an article, found what it was about, and did a search for a keyword from it on ClickBank. When I found a product I thought would be saleable I rewrote the PLR article and submitted it to a couple of directories. On each one I have a resource box that I can put my name and affiliate link into. Now it is just a waiting game.

Looking back in review, I have a website where people can submit articles, which gives me free content for my AdSense, and they can also use these articles for content on their own website. I have also been writing my own articles that give me free advertising space for my affiliate links. Since I just started using this method for affiliate marketing yesterday I don't have any success stories for you yet. I am going to continue using these techniques for now, at least I have more data to back up a better decision. It seems like things are starting to come together for me. Now I just need to get the ball rolling a little faster.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Article marketing

Well, yesterday I was talking about getting an article site like ezinearticles.com set up for AdSense. Today I did it. Now, I need to get more authors to link to it or, use it for their own articles. How I'm going to do it is a good question. I know that many people use article directories to get their articles published and get their site link on many different sites. I need to find a way to drive visitors to this new site and I am not exactly sure how to do it. I also need to fiddle with it to get it to look good. It is very basic right now. I also need to add links to it on my other sites for good measure. Since I am writing about it here I guess I could give it a plug. Check it out at http://www.globalinternetfortunes.com and let me know what you think.

Now, to go back a little here, I talked a while back about focus (in one of my past posts), and if you have followed my story at all it may seem like I am jumping around all the time. I try something, write about it, put a link to it on my site because I am an affiliate for it and then move on to something new. This is a progression. I did start making money on AdSense but it was very little and I realized what one of the more popular sites is doing and decided to give it a shot. I am focusing on AdSense for generating an income.

With this article marketing site I am using it as a way to have many different pages all with AdSense ads on them. I also get to have other authors give me content for free (ideally). When they do this it is beneficial for the both of us. I get another page of content that I can put AdSense on and the author get a link to their site from the same web page. Another benefit to the author is that this article is also available for another person, who is looking for content for their site, the opportunity to publish this article to their site with the author's bio box in it with another link back to his/her site. By doing this I have created a win-win-win situation. If all goes well then I should begin seeing my AdSense income increase here shortly.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you where I got the software to create such a website so quickly. I used a script for article marketing from ArticleDirectoryPro.com which is very simple to use. It took me about 2 hours to get it up and running. Most of that time was spent waiting for files to upload to my server. They even give you a few hundred articles to put on your site immediately so that you can get started right away. I am going to go ahead and look at some of the other bonuses they gave me and see how it will help me get traffic to my new site.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Disappointment Once Again

I have not had much success this weekend on AdSense. I made about $0.02 and I don't understand why. Maybe it is because I didn't submit anymore articles. I also remember submitting an article to another article directory, one that submits it to many other directories, for free. Maybe the extra traffic came from that submission. I will try one more time to mass submit an article and see what that does to my income. I also set up a link page on my website and that has been getting some links back to my site. Although I haven't been getting listed on Google I did find my article on the first page of results on Google from ezinearticles.com which was pretty neat to see. It helped me to realize what that site is doing to generate content and AdSense income. They get people to write articles for them and they turn it into a web page that has AdSense on it. Then, since they have so many links back to their site they get high ranking in Google and thus their page gets high placement on the search engines. I need to do something similar and maybe I can get more AdSense income.

Friday, January 11, 2008

It's Working

My website, Aspects of Astrology, is finally getting me some AdSense income. I have been following the advice from NicheRockets.com, which gives you a $1 trial that lasts 7 days, and getting good results. I took the 7 day trial and learned enough to start seeing positive results. I made $0.22 yesterday and $0.55 today. I know that these results are not very good but they are getting better. I was so happy yesterday that my site had even been viewed and even happier today when I saw that it got more views and made more money than yesterday.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Where I Am And Where I Am Headed

I have spent this past weekend working on a few different things. I am still awaiting the big payday but I am making progress. I am working on my keywords and optimising them for my websites. I am also working on getting links from other sites to my websites to help improve my search engine rankings. For the next five days I am going to be working on my Wordpress blogs. I am writing one about Video Games and another about Migraine symptoms.

I have bought another program to help me with AdSense. I am focusing on AdSense now and the websites I am working on and optimising are for AdSense. The program I bought, EasyWordPress.com, goes into great detail on how to use wordpress to create many AdSense blogs which are kind of like mini websites. It also tell you how to optimise these pages for search engines and how to rank high on the search engines by using reciprocal links.

For example, I want my video gamer's blog to rank high for ps2 cheats and for addictive games. So, by linking this text in this blog to the blog I want traffic to and optimisation for I have set up one more method for getting traffic to my site. Tomorrow I will describe another technique I am learning to drive traffic to my websites.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Moving Right Along

I have spent the past couple of days working on my website about the different Aspects of Astrology and have made a little progress. My Alexa rank has increased about 8 million spaces and my link partners are growing. I have also been posting comments in blogs to get links back to my site. I have also began to realize that I may have chosen a tough niche with Astrology but I am learning more now than I have before. I know that I am about to break out of the long streak of no AdSense revenue.

I found a great website called NicheRockets that gives you a 7 day trial of their product for only $1. I know that there is no way I can get enough use from the software in a week to actually profit by then and buy the software but I know that I will eventually get it. The welcome/quick-start guide is amazing. All of the information I just mentioned about search engine rankings has come from that manual.

There is also a forum that you can get involved with where people who are actually making money on the Internet give you advice and tell you how to do specialized tasks that you may not know how to do.

Anyway, now that I have been studying the material from NicheRockets and figured out that it may take me quite some time to dominate such a competitive niche as astrology I can move on to something a little less difficult and start having some success then move on to the bigger and better things.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Optimization

I have found some information on how to get better rankings in the search engines. I have started to employ it but it takes time. It requires you to get links from other sites to your site. When you get the link from another site, you need to use anchor text. What that means is that you use the keyword you are trying to rank high for in the search engines with and embed it with your link to your site and have the other sites show it on their site.

There are a few ways to do this. one is to directly contact other site owners, or through link exchanges, and display their link if they display yours. Another way is to do blog searches for topics related to yours and leave comments about their posts with your link in your post. Another, more viral form of linking is to submit articles, with linked text in the article and in your author bio.

Here is an example:

To get more information on the different Aspects of Astrology go to http://www.gilbsy.com/astrology