It actually got near sixty degrees here today. I'm in Michigan and summer here is just a shoulder season. As I've grown older, my "hate" of winter has deepened to the point that I have Florida on my mind most of the time.
I long for the day when I can pull up stakes and move to the land of sunshine and oranges. I figure two years. By then I will be making $100 a day from my Interent interprises and be able to sit back and coast. Although if you talked to anyone that knows me, they would tell you I have been coasting for years now.
I opened the back up site "backlowpain.com" this past week and am now starting to build backlinks for it. I also opened another site where I intend to market a product called Herpaflor through the ShareaSale Network. I am about 90% done on the building of that site. Doing things a little differently with this one however. I'm not exposing it to the Search Engines until it is completely built and I have backlinks established to it. I'm going to purchase 100 backlinks for the site. They are all PR0 blog sites but the cost is dirt cheap to get them. There are two views of thought on buying links. Google frowns upon it, no doubt. On the other hand I've come to the conclusion that the key to being successful marketing on the Internet is all about backlinks and traffic. Traffic begins with backlinks. I'll take the 100 and use them as filler, then build some quality BL's on my own.
This "industry" if you can call it that, is filled with people selling information on how to. Everyone and their brother has a "program" you can purchase to show you how to make money on the Internet. In order to get you to purchase that program they flaunt their successful sites and do tell you how they did it. Find a product, build a site, collect your profits. What none of them do is tell you how they started the site on Monday and had 285 backlinks by the following Friday.
It's all about SEO and 80% of SEO is "quality backlinks". Quality backlinks from sites with strong page ranks is what gets you up the ladder in Google. So, that is what I need to master. If I can become an expert at building quality backlinks, everything else will fall into place.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Finally some Traffic
I opened my fourth site this week. None of the four sites is completly built. The first site, a dating service review site, looks the best and it could generate profit, but has no traffic as of yet. Very competitive market that I can see will take a couple of years to build into a profitable venture.
My second site is an Amazon eStore. I'm bucking a stacked deck on that idea also. Getting traffic to an eStore that is nothing more than a copy of a small portion of what Amazon carries is again going to be an SEO nightmare. Even if I get the traffic built up, I won't be able to hold it.
My third site, has some traffic. I'm getting 6 to 10 visits per day. It is a review site for a good product. But the traffic is the result of using the products name in my URL. I can see them taking the site from me ddown the road because I've used their trademark name in my domain name.
I've opened another site in that same niche and will concentrate more efforts on it. Meantime I'll run links from the site that is getting that little bit of traffic to the other and vice versa. As both sites are for the same products, it will at least help me build links.
I registered yet another domain today in that same niche, but even more focused. I'll open that site up within a couple weeks and then feed it with links from the other two.
Meantime, I'm getting a better handle on Wordpress. I can see where I have to master Expression Web however if I want to build more professional looking sites. Wordpress is very good for blog type sites, and you can make it work well for regular web sites. But, long haul, the Expression Web is going to be the better program to have a complete grasp of. If I master Expression Web, it will make my Wordpress sites all the better for it.
On my way, but this isn't going to be a short journey to success. As my knowledge grows, the "box" I think within expands. When I can step outside that box and be comfortable in doing so, I will be in the position to make more than a living on the Web.
My second site is an Amazon eStore. I'm bucking a stacked deck on that idea also. Getting traffic to an eStore that is nothing more than a copy of a small portion of what Amazon carries is again going to be an SEO nightmare. Even if I get the traffic built up, I won't be able to hold it.
My third site, has some traffic. I'm getting 6 to 10 visits per day. It is a review site for a good product. But the traffic is the result of using the products name in my URL. I can see them taking the site from me ddown the road because I've used their trademark name in my domain name.
I've opened another site in that same niche and will concentrate more efforts on it. Meantime I'll run links from the site that is getting that little bit of traffic to the other and vice versa. As both sites are for the same products, it will at least help me build links.
I registered yet another domain today in that same niche, but even more focused. I'll open that site up within a couple weeks and then feed it with links from the other two.
Meantime, I'm getting a better handle on Wordpress. I can see where I have to master Expression Web however if I want to build more professional looking sites. Wordpress is very good for blog type sites, and you can make it work well for regular web sites. But, long haul, the Expression Web is going to be the better program to have a complete grasp of. If I master Expression Web, it will make my Wordpress sites all the better for it.
On my way, but this isn't going to be a short journey to success. As my knowledge grows, the "box" I think within expands. When I can step outside that box and be comfortable in doing so, I will be in the position to make more than a living on the Web.
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