Breaking the ranking barrier
All else being equal the number one impediment I have found to website success is the ranking barrier. Unless you can rank well in google and yahoo for fairly competitive terms your ability to make money online will be severely hindered, in most cases. While there are many exceptions of sites that are able to archive success virally without search engines, this isn’t the norm.
The gurus and experts who are able to rake in thousands of dollars a month in profit from their sites often have very good search engine rankings. The benefits of good rankings are irrefutable; free, targeted, continuous, human traffic.
On the other hand buying advertising is often a loser’s game. Adwords is expensive cause you got to pay BY THE CLICK. Text link ads, link partnerships, sponsored links don’t deliver the same ROI (return on investment) as superb search engine rankings. While many people are able to convert their ad dollar into a positive ROI, the majority of webmasters simply lack the ability to do this, and thus squander thousands of dollars in a what is an exercise of futility. This also ties into my prior post of why making money online generally sucks. There is too much competition and ranking is becoming increasingly difficult for most people due to the huge influx of new sites and arbitrary google penalties and filters.
So how do you break the ranking barrier? If the answer were easy I wouldn’t be writing this blog; instead I would have already ranked my sites for high traffic keywords and be counting my money.
So there is no answer besides what you probably already know about seo.
In conclusion:
-Older indexed domains tend to rank higher than newer domains
-Strong AGED links copunt more then low PR new links
-Original content is important but it isn’t essential to ranking well
-Use anchor text for keywords your trying to rank
-Target multiple keyword phrases that are less competitive than two word phrases.
I with I could write a more detailed writup but I don’t have the answers.
Easy method to make money online in one week
I am going to let readers in on a very easy way to make money online in just a week and with a small investment. Obviously, to make money online you need traffic, but getting a lot of traffic without paying a lot for advertising tends to be difficult. This writeup will show you have to avoid having to spend money on ads while still making money.
The easiest niche to monetize by far is Myspace. All you need is a content generator and ads such as adsense, paypopup, etc to get started. Why is myspace such a good niche? Very easy to rank. You can get thousands of visitors a day with google by targeting 3-5 keyword myspace terms, where as other niches such as pharma, legal, healthcare, etc are much more difficult. As soon as you get traffic you make money. Pretty simple.
Here are the steps:
Step one: Generate a keyword list of myspace related terms. Traffic equalizer had both a content genrator and a keyword gnerator, but there a dozens of keyword generator programs out there.
Step two: Get a content generator that creates automated php database pages from those myspace keywords. I highly recommend traffic equalizer. Using traffic equalizer here is my keyword list and automatically generated pages:
(copy these URLs into your blrowser to see what I mean)
http://iamned.com/myspace4/1/index.html
http://iamned.com/myspace4/
Each of these links is a sitemap that links to individual pages.
Make sure that your landing page is somewhat userfriendly and looks legit instead of spam.
Step 3: Register a throwaway domain, get shared hosting (a single hosting account that allows multiple sites such as http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml), and generate 1000’s of pages using your content generator and keyword list.
Step 4: Point links to the sitemap pages. Getting links is easy. Stick links in your forum signature, buy a high PR link. A PR5 or better links will quikly get your site indexed.
Step 5: Sit back and make money. Within a week or so your pages will be indexed and hits and ad revenue will start rolling in.
On the down side, your domain will probably be banned from google withi na month, but you can always just register a new one and repeat the process. Using this method you can make between $20-50 a day per site and the more sites you have running at once the more money you make.
The costs are very low. The domain costs between $2-10. Hosting is $10 a month. Traffic equalizer costs $150, but it can be used unlimited number of times. If your good at programing you can build the content generator yourself.
The most important aspect of this summary is the niche. Myspace is the best niche because getting heaps of search engine traffic is easy. The downside is that the CPM is low, but you are making money and having a low CPM is better than a high CPM and no traffic and money.
Hope this helps.
SEO/marketing blogs that missed the mark
Yesterday I wrote an article about why blogs fail, and last week I outlined some of the best and worst ways of promoting your blog. In continuing with my blogging theme, I present a list of some of these worst SEO/internet blogs. These are blogs that in one way or another, failed. By dissecting why these blogs, many which had a lot of potential, failed bloggers can learn not to make the same mistakes.
#1 BluehatSEO.com
I have been a long time critic of bluehatSEO, and in spite of getting a lot of criticism, It looks like I have been vindicated. Bluehatseo hasn’t been undated in over a month. The last post was made on October 17. It’s as if the blog has been completely abandoned. Even if Eli does return it is probably too late because most of his readers have probably deserted him. Although I disagreed with nearly everything written, Bluehatseo had a lot of potential, but by now the damage is irreparable.
#2 tattooedmarketer.com
Laucnhed about six month ago by Wickedfire moderator, SEOmike, the blog hasn’t been updated since October 3rd. The problem with the blog is that it wasn’t sufficiently promoted and most likely in frustration and boredom SEOMike stopped updating it.
#3 Seo-blackhat.com
Written by an anonymous blogger and wickedfire member, seo-blackhat tired to gain noteriety by claiming that shoemoney faked auction ads stats and later by finding a blogrush explioit. Both attemppts at linkbait failed to build any momentum. The blog hasn’t been updated since October 23rd. Another problem besides lack of updates is that the blog doesn’t load properly in firefox. The comments section is misaligned and pushed to the very bottom of the blog.
Five reasons why blogs fail
The success or failure of a blog ultimately falls on the blogger. Many times I have noticed that a blog that at one point had a lot of potential ‘die’ due to the negligence of the blogger. Traffic and comments steady declines and updates become increasingly infrequent. The most common causes for blog failure are as follows:
1. Failure to update the blog frequently and consistently
This is one of the leading causes of blog failure. If you don’t update your blog on a consistent basis readers will grow impatient and bored and eventually forget about your blog altogether. In order to RETAIN readership it is imperative that you update frequently and consistently. I simply can’t stress this enough. If you are too time constrained to write content yourself hire a content writer to fill in. While a paid writer won’t be able precisely duplicate your writing style, it is better than not writing anything.
2. Boring, regurgitated content
Ideally a blog should be a platform to cover less mainstream topics that ‘traditional media’ overlooks. Quality, unique content stirs discussion and debate. It’s the job of the blogger to engage the reader, and writing compelling, thought provoking content is crucial to retaining and building readership. Copying stories from AP and pasting them in to your blog or scraping content while appending ‘+ digg + furl+ add to facebook’ buttons at the bottom is a surefire way to bore readers, as is writing content-less 2-4 sentence posts. Instead, offer readers an original perspective and make sure your posts have substance.
3. Failure to deliver on promises
If you make a promise to unveil a ‘killer app’ or a groundbreaking tutorial, but fail to deliver readers will probably get irked. While you will probably be forgiven if you offer an apology, over time failing to live up to expectations and commitments can be very detrimental.
4. Over monetization
While is is understandable that bloggers want to make money for their efforts, a line must be drawn where advertising becomes excess and intrusive. For example, running auctions ads, three adsense ad blocks, and a dozen text links ads ‘blocks’ would probably be excessive. By overdoing advertising you dilute the CPM value of your individual ads while muddling your blog. Instead of coating your blog with ads, charge more money for only a few ads so you make the same amount of money, but with less intrusion.
5. Censoring comments, disabling comments
Censoring comments or disabling comments all together defeats the purpose of of a blog, because blogs thrive on active engaged readership. If you have a fragile ego and are sensitive to criticism blogging probably isn’t for you. Inevitably someone will flame you, drop spam, but you have to take it in stride.