Niche Affiliate Site using a Forum – Part 1
By · CommentsI build new Site as Case Study today. It is personal Finance Niche(www.personalfinanceblog.us) and I am using vBulletin as forum software. I install several plug ins such as Stock Trader which user can do Stock Trade from Forum.
Why Personal Finance Niche? There is many affiliate programs and adsense payout is great however competition is great as well. I am following Netbusinessblog steps and kinda trying to compete with his case study.
I will follow exactly how he did and some.
Step One is done, setup site up and running.
Step two is build some backlinks via using web directory submission service, article writing.
Step three will be post some contents in forums and from there, I will try to increase traffics via Contest, Stock Trade games, etc.
Case Study – Local Business Directory – Part 1
By · CommentsI was browse WickedFire.com today and I found this post The recipe for a $200K per year job.
Local Search Engine Control
If you’re like me, I use Google or have used Google in the past to find restaurants or supply shops in my area. If I am looking for a chinese place because I just moved to the city of OceanSide, then I type in:
oceanside “chinese restaurant”
What I see is that there are roughly 25,000 listings for that phrase. That’s under the 40K mark which I set for myself as an upper limit for a niche term to dominate. This becomes important, as you will see in a minute.
Using whatever methods you want to build pages that will get ranked (usually social network building) you can pretty much get anywhere from 1 to all 10 listings on the first page of Google for that 3 word phrase. There are a variety of ways to do this, but I am not going to get into that, because that is an extensive course in of itself.
If the search results were over 40K results, then it would be tougher. If there are only 5,000 results, then you’d probably get all 10 results on the first page. For example:
rosamond “chinese restaurant”
So I could dominate the city of Rosamond, Ca. for this niche. It’s a small town out by a race track on the outskirts of L.A. county.
OK, so where do you go with this? Easy. Here’s what I did.
Let’s say we start with Rosamond. You go in and you capture all 10 spots (or as many as you can) for the key phrase you are going after, and on those pages you promote a fake chinese restaurant. Where the name of the restaurant would go, you call it “Your-Name-Here Chinese Restaurant.” There should be links on the page to one or two high PR restuarant guides, as this will give you even more link juice and help you capture as many of the listings on the 1st page of Google. You also link to your website where you describe your services, and you have a phone #.
Next you put together some kind of marketing campaign for restaurants. You want to hit all the restaurants in that city, whether they be chinese or pizzarias. Doesn’t matter. You do some direct mail pieces to them. You have to have REALLY good creative in this piece to grab their attention. If you aren’t a great writer, outsource this to elance, or invest in a really good copyrighting course.
Tell these owners how they may increase their revenue by 208% (or whatever percentage is factual based on how you spin what you’re telling them) by being on the 1st page of Google, blah, blah, blah. Pull up the stats and make it compelling. 80 to 90% of people won’t look past the 1st search results page. Use stuff like that.
The clincher here is you tell them that you put your money where your mouth is. You won’t charge them a cent unless you can get a page on the first Google results page that mentions their company and is fully controlled by them. This means they can say whatever they want on the page. You’ll need to make sure it still has enough anchor text and keyword text to not drop its listing spot.
Now you can charge them for this service. In my case, this was a $900 one time charge, or $197 down and then $97 per month for a year. Most take the $900, ONCE they see results.
and Another Post Easy Way To Make 100k/Year
Exp Level: Basic – Mid-level (The heavy rollers who want to make a shit-load of money can do this To)
Cost: $150 – $600 depending on software, advertising you want to do, etc…
The concept: you create an online directory tailored to a specific niche and sell advertising/listing upgrades to niched businesses.
**note: works REALLY well with offline businesses (at least that’s what I’m currently doing)
The building blocks:
1. You’ll need data. I had a YellowPages.com Scraper made and pulled data from specific categories
2. You’ll need directory software. You can make your own or buy some.
3. You’ll need a niche (daycares, pet stuff, etc), or you’ll need to go very local. and by very local I mean get suburb about it. (ex: you live in Dallas, do Plano/Frisco businesses to start with)
Obviously you can grow this bitch into anything you want, but these are the essentials.
I suggest adding some niche/local recognizable brand CPAs to your site ad ‘featured advertisers’ to give the feel that the big dogs are already advertising on your directory. Not to mention start making money off the traffic you’ll be driving to the site.
Then, start campaigning your services to the businesses listed in your database.
It requires some works but many of work, I will outsource. My Budget will be around $500-$600.
Today I bought 3 domains.
ellicott-city.net, baltimorerestaurant.org, and localz.us
and I bought some bulk business database from DP and I will use phpMyDirectory as my base directory backend which will cost me $99. I will try to list first page on terms like “Ellicott City Chinese Restaurant, etc” then Selling Spots and Localz.US will be ALL US Listing Site.
Next 2 days, I will install scripts and start loading some Data to test.
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New Blog Theme
By · CommentsI purchased this great theme for many of my blogs…I know it is not exclusive or unique design but hell, I like it. First 2 weeks of 2008 earnings are great..hope your earning are great too.
I have Several Main Objectives for Next 2-3 Weeks;
Trying to hire full time employee to maintain my sites, update contents. Hire more freelance writers for my blogs. Clean KW for Dating Program from Azoogle Save Money for Elite Retreat($5k)
Happy New Year..Let’s Make More Money Online in 2008!
By · CommentsHappy New Year everybody..Looks like I made little bit over $100k, mostly comes from Contextual. In 2008, I wish I could break $200K or more. I will concentrated on Affiliate Marketing more and will be hire Virtual Employee so I could do more jobs done. I will blog about my progress in 2008 more often.
I wish you makes more money online in 2008.
You think directory business is gone? Think again.
By · CommentsI got an email from one of biggest UK web marketing firm and they said they like to purchase bulk listing in one of my directories. It was like $1300+ for one job. After done with first directory, I sent them emails about my other directories with special price.
Now, we close another quick bulk listing deals and I just made well over $5000 for this month from my web directories. Time to build(buy?) more backlinks for my directories.
Build quality web directory with proper theme, spend little $$ to build backlinks, traffics and it will pay you in long run..if not, putting your own sites to add little backlinks to your site. Don’t forget to use different IP address.
Buy Hosting Plan at HostGator which is $9.95 per month and it is well worth it. offering free listing first and cheaper feature listing and it will pay you hosting fee at least. Nice domain name will helps alot too.
Las Vegas for PPC Classroom Live Trip was Good
By · CommentsI stayed 4 days at Las Vegas for PPC 2 day seminar. It was great, lot of people(I think it was 250+) who wants to make money online like these speakers. Did I learn anything? well not so much, little tips here and there but of course they will not reveal their secrets until you buy their $1995-$2995 coaching program. Amit Mehta has special priced at $3000 coaching program which will last 6 month and I was amazed people lined up and pay for it. He has to increase number of students to accomdate more buyers..very quick $200k.
I had great time to meet and speak with these Gurus, Online Millionaires. They are very professional and very friendly. One thing in common in these Gurus, they can speak and can sell to the public. They make you think you need these coaching programs.
I met Andrew Wee who is with Amit now to promote his coaching program. You might see Andrew posts or blog posts from many major SEO, Make Money Online Blogs, Forums. Nice guy and it was nice to chat with him.
QJ Network is on Sale at Sitepoint – is this real?
By · CommentsAfter I browsing Sitepoint and I found QJ.net network is on sale for several million dollar as minimum bid. It is amazing network with great amount of contents and traffics. If you can pull out some money from investor, bank, or local angels, this will be great investment.
Yes folks, that’s right, QJ.net “The Quick Jump Network” is accepting buyout offers in the X,XXX,XXX to XX,XXX,XXX range.
Started in 2005, QJ.net is a profitable network of review and news websites making more than 60k per month with hardly any of the networks monetization potential tapped. There is potential to monetize this network well into the mid xxx,xxx range with very little overhead.
QJ.net has top 1,000 Alexa rank World wide and rising and ranks the 381′st most popular domain in the USA as of 12-17-07.
Interesting tactics, I would contact to bigger network to sell it instead of posting Sitepoint. I am sure big Media company will buy this QJ Networks.
I just wondering why they spent $20 and put sale in Sitepoint.
“2 Days of Pure “PPC” Training From The Top Experts In The Industry…”
I am going Las Vegas for 2 day class..I am leaving on Nov. 30th and coming back on Dec. 3rd.
I was debating to go to Pubcon since I am there anyway but Pubcon still cost alot of money.
I might try PubCon next year.
What Topics Will Be Taught At PPC Classroom LIVE?
We’ve got key speakers coming in who will discuss strategies that even Jeremy and
I will be taking notes on! Here are some of the topics we’re really going to dive deep into…
– Keyword Research (We’ll Do It LIVE)
– Split Page Testing Like You’ve Never Seen
– PPC with Content Pages
– Taking Your PPC Results And Expanding Into OFFLINE Marketing!
– Starting Your Own PPC Consulting Business
– Using CPA Networks with PPC…
Well, speakers are,
Anik Singal (Co-Founder PPC Classroom)
Jeremy Palmer (Co-Founder PPC Classroom)
Amit Mehta (The $10,000 A Day Ad Spender!)
Rosalind Gardner (Affiliate Marketing “Queen”)
Greg Cesar (The Google “Czar”)
Kirt Christensen (A True Adwords Expert!)
David Bullock (“Taguchi” Testing Expert)
Mark Widawer (Landing Page Expert)
Well, it only cost $295 for 2-day class and it is sold out to 250 people..
It is my first PPC type trip and can not wait to see other people who trying to make money online.
I will update what I learn and about this class. Happy Thanksgiving and Have Happy, Safe Holiday.
Need Motivation or inspiration?
By · CommentsCheck this out. Shoemoney had posted his March 2007 CJ Account balance img. Damn. Now that is amazing. We all wish that can happen to all of us. Anyway, I got to work until I get same level or better balance than he does.
So You thought Make Money Online Easy?
By · CommentsSo You thought make money so easy right? Get domain, setup simple html Landing page, get 1000s keywords from keyword generator and start PPC campaigns with Adwords, YMS, and Adcenter. Then you watch money rolling in..how easy is that. NOT!!!
It is just hard to make good profit from Online business. But many bloggers, online users who makes big money sounds so easy and that is why so many people come and go.
It is more than a full time job. It takes so many hours, so much affords to get established. Things are change so quickly and you need to think ahead and be prepared.
I am pulling my hair, screaming last 10 days to figure it out how to come up with better keywords, understanding market and industry but more I digg in, there is more stuff to learn but it start showing some progress. Because even though Your QS is good but if KW is too common, you won’t get any traffics, so You need good long tail keyword which is not easy task. Don’t bother to create extra long kw because nobody will search.
PLEASE, Don’t Expect Earn Money by just Throwing 1000s Keywords without any thoughts, tracking. It does not work that way anymore. You need to think outside of box which I am still learning from testing how to think outside box.


