Highlights of The 30 Day Challenge
August 10, 2006 on 10:30 pm | In Boosting Revenue | No Comments
…the above graphic is a screenshot of the first 10 of over 100 video/audio sessions that were ripped and posted on the 30 Day Challenge over… welll… 30 days in July. The challenge is to make a whopping $1 in your first month of internet marketing. Not a very ambitious goal, but the content is a rare free offering, that is great for beginningers! I don’t quite get how these guys make money or justify this expenditure of their time… but hey, it’s a ton of content, and content is much of what is all about these days. Perhaps this is a “link baiting” trick where they build a ton of traffic and interest in 1 month, with a secret plan on how to monetize it.
yTo help my own commitment to memory, I’ve loosely summarized what I learned from this content.
The 30 Day Challenge
BONUS: I’ve attached a PDF on How To Write a Sales Letter compliments of The 30 Day Challenge.
Example: Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vintage Guitar
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Use the Keyword Selector (also found now under TOOLS on YolkSmoke)
Use this to find keywords with results in the 30,000 - 70,000 range.
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Use the Yahoo Resource Center
Use the “View Bids Tool” to confirm that your niche has paying ads in the range of .30 - 1.25 or so. (or more!?)
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Amazon Test (local Barnes & Noble is better)
The “Guitar” keyword has 8000 books… which is too big to be a real niche, so go for a smaller niche, blues guitar, acoustic guitar…
BE SILENT: “Outrageous profits bring ruineous competition”… so talking about your site in a marketing forum is stupid. First Rule of Fight Club is don’t talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club, is don’t talk about Fight Club. Don’t be a proud sausage maker! Your profits will dwindle immediately. So we can’t talk about our obscure niches.
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Google Ads Test
(a) On google.com, click “preferences”, and change to “100″ results, to see lots more results at once.
(b) Type Guitar, and find this ad confirms this niche is profitable… people are making money in it:
http://jamorama.by-right.com/?gclid=CMOkhobes4YCFTMcGAod3U72Pg
[I’m tired of editing these notes… so from here on, it might only make sense to me. Go check out the 30 Day Challenge Video/Audio content!
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Google Trends
Guitar shows spikes around Xmas, but steady trend on both search & news for 2004 and 2005.
Lacrosse has an obvious seasonal cycle in search, but news is steady UNTIL turn of 2006… a huge story “2 Duke Lacrosse Players are arrested”. POINT BEING, Google Trends helps you break out NEWS from search results, so you don’t mistake a positive search trend from one that has bad press.
Looking below, you’ll see that the top regions for searching “guitar” is Phillipines & New Zealand. Should you be focusing your marketing on Phillipines/New Zealand? NO. The averages are means, and the population of Phillipines or New Zealand is small, but proportionally they have a lot of guitarists.
Upper right, change region to US, our target market.
Upper right, change time to MAY 2006… and you will see a pulsing wave… which is the weekend! Your target market for Guitars is searching on weekends for guitars! VERY HELPFUL for your marketing campaign (Promos/Auto-responder information, etc..)! And some keywords are more common during the weekdays!
COMPARE “Fender Guitar, Gibson Guitar”
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Blogger - Create a Blog
Be sure to set site feed to SHORT, so people are forced to visit your site for the full article, if another is publishing your feed.
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Blog & Ping - Use Pingoat.com
Click “general” tag at the top to select all.
Don’t select other languages, but DO select “special services”.
MUST DO 2 to 3 times PER DAY, and PING everytime!!!!!!
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Get Flock Browser, since it has a news reader built in.
(paid advertisement? I think so.)
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Google News - Vintage Guitar
Click on RSS Feed icon (orange icon) and in Flock drag it into his Vintage Guitar News favorites folder.
Click the blog button in Flock
Copies part of this article into your blog.
Then you humanize it, by adding your own editorial content about the article.
TAG the post since it helps search engines pick it up, and FLOCK lets you do this.
SAVE TO WEB SNIPPETS, right click any image or TEXT, and you can bring this into blog post later!
DRAG AND DROP web browser link into your post, makes it a clickable link.
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Coin Collecting
Coffee Shop Secrets
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FLY CATCHER
Aweber.com Autoresponder - is the backbone of MANY successful online businesses, as it lures people along a path of investing their time with little nuggets of information to arrive at the HOOK, buy something!
+Bang out 7 days of auto-responders right away… the more that have offers, the more money you will make.
+Search “Vintage Guitar filetype:PDF”
1st EMAIL - Be friendly, reference their first name, and:
+ send them a YouTube video on the topic of your site.
+ A reader (Bob in Denmark) sent me this video and I’d thought you’d like it (makes it seem like a big fan base)
Let me know if you like it.
Talk soon,
NORTH
PS: If you have any buddies who play guitar, feel free to send them to my site and I’ll puit them on the list too.
Here’s my site in case you lost the link:
http://www..yolksmoke.com
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http://www.underachieverlife.com/portal/Forum/tabid/62/view/topics/forumid/1/Default.aspx
Ads Black List
July 21, 2006 on 8:39 am | In Boosting Revenue | No Comments
Use this free service to figure out which LOW paying adsense sites to filter out!
AdsBlackList.com is entierly free project and it’s purpose is to enable you to maximize your AdSense revenue with minimal effort.
How? Very simple. By providing you with list of most commonly filtered websites whose webmasters use AdWords to attract visitors for low price click so they can convert it to high price click on their own MFA (Made for AdSense) site(s). In order to STOP these type of actions going on your sites, all you need to do is to paste our specially generated list to your AdSense Setup -> Competitive Ad Filter list. Your revenue should substantly increase.
A Young Investor & Something About 22 Dollars
July 11, 2006 on 10:05 pm | In Boosting Revenue | 1 Comment
Now this isn’t exactly on topic, but we are all here to make money, no?!
Chad Lapa is only 24 years old, however his financial experiences far outweigh his age. Chad has been visiting Casino Niagara for the past 3-4 years, and in that time he’s won enough money to 1) pay off his student loans, 2) buy a $40k luxury sedan, 3) take trips to Europe, and now, 4) play golf seemingly full-time. Chad’s taken a lot of his winnings and poured it into the stock market because, if tradition holds up, his luck and brilliance will make him a lot of money there too. 22 Dollars is his blog exploration into the world of day trading and finance, so give it a look.
Get Paid to Blog!
July 6, 2006 on 11:17 am | In Boosting Revenue | No Comments
Ok, so I’m trying out this service, PayPerPost.com to see if it will actually make us a nickel? Actually, it’s supposed to make us a fast $10.00 of hard cold cash! CHA-CHING!
The basic premise is that PayPerPost.com is a marketplace for advertisers and bloggers. The advertisers hire the bloggers to write or review their products, services, etc… and the bloggers get paid to do so. The catch is that the reviews must remain neutral, so no bashing the products you review. Ok, fine… my feelings are, so long as you choose products and services you like yourself, and write an honest review, you’ve only got something to gain… CASH! So far, the web site is very easy to use, and in about 3 minutes I was able to write this review and give them a shot.
I’ll update you in the coming few weeks on if the $10.00 made it into my paypal account.
In the mean time, check out PayPerPost.com yourself, and let us know what YOU think.
How to make $20 a day in 3 months?
June 29, 2006 on 11:08 pm | In Boosting Revenue | No Comments
Every once in a while, a newbie asks others on forums how to build a profitable adsense web site. Over at Digital Point Forums this question was asked this month, and there are a FEW good repllies… read through the whole post to get a rough idea of what others are doing… then join Digital Point and start reading… you’ve got a long way to go!
The highlights of the post are:
Create a good original article and aim to be on Digg homepage
Well, i’m making just over $100/day after 4 months, so i think i can answer you. I am basically a total n00b, but this worked for me:
Step 1) figure out what your site will be about - this should be something you know about or are passionate about (like your hobby) - do some research to see if it’s a money-maker, or of there is too much competition
Step 2) get a decent (cheap) webhost (mine is $6/month)
Step 3) build your site, paste in your adsense code
Step 4) spend every waking moment learning, reading EVERY post here at DP, and the ‘other’ big Webmaster forum - learn from what others have done, tweak your site, read and learn more, sleep for a while, learn more, read more posts, ask questions, and read more
Step 5) repeat step 4
Moral: there is NO easy “Step by step” way..
Now, OP: It’s possible to make $20/day with Adsense within 3 months, but you have to invest a lot of time and effort, and most importantly of all, pick a topic/theme/niche very carefully that you can devote a lot of time to nurturing. Don’t pick a mesotholemia site and slap Adsense on it like 5 billion other noobs out there. Pick something that you know, that you can work on for anywhere from 2 to 8 hours a day without it feeling like a chore. While you are constantly adding content, you should be SEOing your site, exchanging links with like-minded websites/webmasters, and slowly but surely building up your base. And of ourse, you will have already done everything humanly possible to get into all of the three major search engines.
Do all that, and you should be doing close to $20/day within 3 months. And of course, spend a lot of time on DP reading all the pitfalls and mistakes of other noobs so you can avoid them.
Join a link farm
Join a link network of any kind
Get down hearted
Join any programme of any kind that states FRED EARNS OVER $4000 a day because he joined X,Y or Z
do what I do and spend hours looking at my stats all day
copy others content
do
post quality related articles
get quality links from quality similar sites
add regular freh ORIGINAL content
come up with an originalish idea
work your tits off creating content
create a good internal link structure with Key words
About creating content - one of the things is I plan to have like 20 - 40 articles writen a month; how do you think how many pages actually is necesarry to do good? will this be fair amounth of pages in 3 month time to drive any significant traffic?
(1) Increase traffic as much as you can. [most effective factor >
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(2) Use google heat chart
(3) Just mix up the google ads with webpage content [look and feel wise]
(4) Put google ads on top portion of page
(5) Do some mathematics and find out which format of ads is bringing more money and from which page, and apply the best combination.
SEO’d for some very popular search terms. I actually stumbled into it by accident. I noticed in my logs i was getting hits from Google for a few particular terms - when i checked my SERPs for those terms, i was on page 10 or 20, but i started working on those keywords/phrases since they seemed to have a head start, and after about 30-45 days I was on page 1 in the SERPS.. 30 days after that, i’m number 1-5 on some of those search terms.. There are a few other ’secrets’ that i have - i’m considering making an ebook with my “secret SEO sauce” and selling it for $5 - would anyone be interested?
BTW, since school has let out, i’m down to only about 2,100-2,300 uniques per day.. and my earnings are down from my peak of $147/day to averaging $40-$75 day.. I guess i wont be quitting my day job as soon as i’d hoped, but i’m still very pleased to be making this much after only 5 months!
Create a website that will be ‘buzz’ worthy. I like entertainment type sites and include easy ways for visitors to tell their friends about your site. You want to find ways to make your site viral and also give people a reason to return. Just build your site up like this and you will get to the point where growth happens without your efforts.
Get PAID with Commission Junction
June 4, 2006 on 10:38 am | In Affiliate Programs, Boosting Revenue | No Comments
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