The main project I am working on these days is how to make money online which is coming along nicely. We are going to have a free seven day course soon, along with a private training area and forums. Right now we are building out the free areas and the premium sections will launch soon.

One of the better resources I have been reading is Penelope Trunk’s career advice blog. She posts the deepest stuff, I love her work. The way she looks at the world is so interesting.

I have also been watching a lot of Shane Dawson and Meeka Kitty. There is so much cool content on youtube, I look forward to watching it continue to evolve. Go check out some of their videos.

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Two of the other sites I’ve launched are demo sites of the Game Website Builder. The first is GamesViking which can be found at Viking Games. The second is Shooting Games Online, which I particularly like the background of and the domain name is one that I was surprised wasn’t yet taken considering the search volume that phrase has.

The next project I will begin work on is my Starcraft 2 Strategy Guide at Starcraft 2 Strategy Masters dot com. This

News of the Day: Google says the Ad recessions is over and that they will begin hiring aggressively again. That is good news for anyone lucky enough to get a job with them, as they are probably the most profitable technology company in the world right now, and their future outlook looks really good due to YouTube soon becoming profitable due to more of the big tv networks beginning to advertise with them and with the new video compression technology they recently acquired.

May the web traffic be with you!

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The only very successful blogger I know of who links out to other sites a lot is Aaron Wall of SEOBook. In many of his posts he links out like crazy, sometimes to 10 to 15 different articles at different blogs. One of the reasons he does this is because Aaron Wall doesn’t make his money directly from selling ad space on his blog, he makes it from selling his own products. He mainly writes blog posts to build trust with his potential customers, and get high search engine rankings for keywords he deliberately targets with his posts as Google’s ranking algorithm gives you more points for linking to good sites so he does it to increase his rankings. The other reason he links out to blogs in particular a lot is because when you link to other bloggers, they usually see that you linked to them, so linking to blogs its a great way to market your sites and products directly to bloggers, and get them to link back to you.

When you first start profit blogging, you might consider linking out to other blogger’s posts to get noticed by other bloggers in your niche, but eventually I would recommend cutting down on it and focusing on building perceived authority. That’s where the biggest money is.

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(edit to video – You don’t have to pay for credit cards of course, but you do have to pay interest if you don’t pay them off each month, that’s why credit card companies have big payouts on their affiliate programs.)

Part 2 of How To Pick A Good Website Domain Name That Will Dominate Search Engine Rankings Video

Its important to put some time into thinking up a domain name for your business, blog, forum, or seo project. Your domain name is a big factor in how highly you will be able to rank in search engines(search engine traffic is the most valuable and highest converting kind of traffic there is), the perceived value and credibility of your content and product(which determines how much people will pay for it and how many will buy), your click through rate(ctr) and quality score in Google Adwords and how much you will pay for each click(people click on ads with domain names that have the keywords they were searching for in them which gives them a much higher CTR and therefore adwords quality score), and the rate at which people will remember your domain name and return to your site or come to it in the first place. All of the aforementioned things will effect how much money your website will make. If you don’t pick a good one your business will suffer, so think of a few good names and ask your friends what they think is the best one before you settle on your final choice.

If you do some searches on google, you’ll notice that many of the top 10 domains ranking for the top 10 results for just about every short tail keyword are the homepage of the domains, they mostly all have the keyword in their domain name or part of the keyword(many times the first part of the domain names listed is the keyword that you search for), and they always have the keyword in the title of their homepage. This tells us that google likes to rank sites for the keywords in their domain name as it usually is a very good indicator of what the site is about and therefore is the most relevant to the keyword being search for.

In the above videos there are examples on the keywords ‘web hosting’ and ‘credit cards’ because they are the main keywords for two very high profit niches, and they have enough competitors in them to be able to see trends in the Google ranking algorithm. They are also niches that anyone can compete in as all you have to do is promote affiliate products for them(just about all big web hosting companies have affiliate programs, and there are lots of credit card affiliate offers to promote just search google for ‘credit card affiliate’ or ‘credit card affiliate program’s’). All you have to do is buy a domain name that targets a medium or low search volume keyword(found via the Google Keyword Tool, I consider any keyword that gets over 1,000 searches per month to be medium volume), make sure the keyword you are targeting isn’t too competitive and has subpages and domains that are PageRank 4 or lower being listed in the top 10 results(this tells you that it will be easy to rank for), install wordpress with 1 click through your host, write 5 to 10 posts/articles that are 300 to 500 words long and put them as posts on the blog, get some backlinks, and in a couple weeks to a couple months you will be ranking in the top 10 and potentially making yourself a decent income from the information product you are selling and or the affiliate offer you are promoting.

Attributes Of A Good Domain Name

1)A good domain name should target one high search volume keyword(and only one) in your niche. For example, WebHostingGeeks.com targets ‘Web Hosting’(and its #2 for one of the most profitable keywords in the world, ‘web hosting’). You can find high volume search terms by using the google keyword tool(search for a short tail keyword, sort by ‘exact match’, look at how much monthly search volume it has- anything over 1000 is good, and click the column that shows how much people are paying per click to see if its a profitable niche). Ideally your domain name should be the high search volume keyword you want to rank for, but if its taken just tack a word onto the end of it like ‘guide’ ‘tips’ ‘free’ ‘book’ ‘forum’ ‘guru’ or anything else you want that sounds good.

2)The first part of the name should be the high search volume keyword you want to rank for, or it can be the last part. This will really help your seo, and your google adwords quality score if you plan to buy traffic to your product pitch page or affiliate product pitch page(and if you don’t have a product you should have one, digital information products are easy to make). It will also help people remember you when they think of your topic, because say for example they need web hosting, they’ll think ‘web hosting geeks dot com’.

3)Set the first part of the ‘title’ of your homepage to the high level search term in your domain name. By title, I mean the title tag in your html. This is very important for SEO.

4)If the domain name you want is taken, try the .org/.net/.me/.us version, or add a word on the end of it like “free” “how to” “guide” “geeks” “guys”, just a short word that will add brand not hurt the seo.

5)When other websites link to you, lots of times they will use your keywords in your domain name as the anchor text of their link. Link anchor text is very important in SEO, and having the keyword you want people to use when linking to your in your domain name helps a lot.

6)The domain name alone should explain the purpose or topic of your company, so your visitors know exactly what your site is about just by looking at the domain name. For example if you want to do a review of a product have your domain name be something like Blog Mastermind Review rather than Alice’s Review World. This will also help with seo and your search engine rankings.

7)It should be short and catchy. Its hard to remember long domain names.

8)If you ever need to use a dash between words in your domain name, only do it for a .com and only use one.

9)Only use .com/.net/.org (.info, .me, .us should only be used for SEO sites only, or as a last resort).

10)Domain names should be easy to spell, easy to say out loud, and catchy.

11)Try to make the words in your domain start with the same letter. Like MaverickMoneyMakers. It makes it easy to remember and its catchy.

12)It should be easy to type in. For example you can type facebook with one hand, try typing ‘face’ right now and see what I mean. When people are sitting at the desk at work and get bored, one hand takes them to facebook.

A Look At The Most Popular And Successful Domain Names And Their Attributes

The top 10 Most popular domains it the world right now according to Alexa are-

1.google.com
2.yahoo.com
3.youtube.com
4.facebook.com
5.live.com
6.msn.com
7.wikipedia.org
8.blogger.com
9.baidu.com
10.myspace.com

Some of the things these have in common are they are all short, they are all dot com’s (except wikipedia), and their domain name explains what they are(google is a googole of in tools and information, facebook is a book of faces, myspace is a site where you can setup your space). Your user should be able to tell what your site is about by just looking at the domain name.

The 10 most popular technorati blogs are-

1.huffingtonpost.com
2.techcrunch.com
3.engadget.com
4.boingboing.net
5.mashable.com
6.lifehacker.com
7.arstechnica.com
8.stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com
9.gizmodo.com
10.smashingmagazine.com

All of these domain names are keyword rich, and are very catchy. Most of these blogs get updated multiple times per day with high quality content, which is very important to their success.

The current top 10 Clickbank Product domain names according to CB-Analytics are-

1.twittertrafficmachine.com
2.the-cb-code.com (this is only because he wasn’t allowed to use ‘clickbank’ in his clickbank product name, he also owns theclickbankcode.com it just redirects)
3.reversephonedetective.com
4.fatloss4idiots.com
5.earth4energy.com
6.fapturbo.com
7.maverickmoneymakers.com
8.magicofmakingup.com
9.truthaboutabs.com
10.moneysiphonsystem.com

These top 10 Clickbank Product domain names all have many of the attributes mentioned above. Also notice they all teach something that appeals to mass audiences. Half of them claim to teach you how to make more money, which is probably the biggest niche there is. All of these products make hundreds of dollars a day for their owners, some of them make thousands of dollars a day, and mostly all they are are digital information products that anyone can create.

So in summary, put some time into picking your domain name. It will pay off, and its a big factor in your online success.

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For more info, a great blog that I read and recommend is How To Make My Blog. Top notch information on Pro Blogging from a successful blogger who really gets it.

If you have any comments or questions please feel free to leave them! See you in the next post.

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I think it helps to not be boring but its not THE key to success, though to really dominate your niche market it helps(which should be your long term goal). I think the real key is Quality Content + Marketing. As long as your content is quality and solves a real problem, and you market it well to the right audience, you’ll attain a comfortable level of success.

Bill Gates is kind of boring and he is one of the richest people in the world (I think #1 at the moment).

Aaron Wall of SEO Book is kind of boring(at least his voice is in his videos , but he probably makes more money than anyone in the SEO training niche. He banks off his professionalism, his great business model, his massive amount of high quality content, his passion about his topic, and his marketing efforts.

I say- Passion + Comedy + Great Info + Great Headlines = Not Boring = Interesting = Trust = Sales And Signups = Money.

To be interesting, talk about things that people actually want to learn about, like how they can improve their life in some way. Teach them a useful skill that you are better at than most people- like how to make more money, how to write better, how to build a better blog, how to cure their acne or diabetes, how to lose weight, how to play a game well, etc.

A high level of enthusiasm in your writing or videos is also important and really helps with not being boring, but don’t fake it. Be Real. People know a faker when they see one, and it will immediately make them lose interest in you. You can’t build long term success by being fake. Gary Vaynerchuk, Frank Kern, and Eben Pagan all make a point to be very real and enthusiastic in their videos and writings, and they all make millions of dollars each year selling their information products (Gary sells a book besides all the wine he sell). Their enthusiasm rubs off on their readers/viewers/fans, and it really helps to build trust, which is so key in the sales process.

Be Cool. If your visitors don’t think you are cool, they aren’t going to come back. “Cool” is a pretty abstract term, and whats cool changes all the time, but basically things that are cool are ‘remarkable’ and attractive to their target audience, and its something you kind of just get a sense for after you’ve lived in this world long enough. As Frank Kern says “Stack The Cool.” By giving away great information and content, being confident, and being passionate about your topic, you will have a pretty easy time building interest in your blog and products.

Do things better than everyone else in your niche, and you will get noticed (with a bit of marketing).

Don’t speak to your customers through your blog or business in the form of an impersonal corporate voice, it will make your audience lose interest immediately. Speak to them with your own voice to pull them in, and if you are interesting and give them value they will become your fan and buy your products, sign up for your email list, and become a long term customer of yours. The two most important words in online copywriting and blogging are “you” and “because” according to copyblogger. You should use these two words a lot, because the word “you” makes people feel like you are talking directly to them(people don’t to be thought of as part of a mass), and the word “because” is important because you always need to explain why your subject is important to know about and how knowing about said subject will improve your reader’s or customer’s life.

Just some ideas to keep in mind when blogging, developing your products, and making your landing pages. Do you have anything to add to this? Leave a comment below .

If you haven’t heard this yet, check out the Interview With Shoe Money and Aaron Wall, its a good example of how to be not boring. Check this if you want to Learn How To Get Traffic With Twitter.

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Linking to your past articles in your post is also good for deep linking . Use anchor text that is related to the article you are linking to to help with your search engine optimization.

Not only that, but linking to your previous posts in your new posts is a good way to turn nuisance webmasters who scrape content and repost it to their sites to try to rank in the search engines into a good thing, because when visitors read your content that’s posted to the scraper sites, the visitors will click the links within the scaped content that lead back to your site so you will get the traffic, and a free backlink link to your site. Most content scrapers scrape content on a mass scale and upload it to a network of scraper seo websites, and the webmasters don’t have time to remove the links in the posts that go back to the creators site, so this technique works pretty well to turn a bad thing into a good thing.

It also helps to update your blog every day or every other day, so your subscribers will be used to seeing your high quality posts in their RSS reader, and be eagerly waiting for new ones to read.

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This audio is about a year old but the information is still spot on.

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They talk about the power of free reports and how good they are for attracting subscribers to your ‘above the fold‘ email list opt-in form.

She talks about how you should personally say to your new email list subscribers “Hey thanks for joining my list. If you every have any questions or things you need ask me personally and email me.” Build relationships with people on your list, it is key to your success. As John Reese says your list is like your ATM machine.

She emphasizes that you should know EVERYTHING about your niche. Become a master of it. That’s the only way you’ll ever be able to dominate part of your niche’s market share.

She seems to make most of her money from social networking in every form. She interviews people, she interacts with her subscribers and customers, she constantly asks her visitors what they want, what problems they want help with, and she monetizes her blog the right way- with her own product. If she isn’t commenting on many other fitness blogs, she should be, as it can be a big source of traffic and network building.

You have to work hard to make money online. It takes ambition. But anyone can do it if they try hard and keep trying, learning, and evolving.

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He talks about how valuable organic Google traffic is for making money compared with social media traffic from sites like twitter, stumbleupon and digg. Its pretty long but well worth a watch.

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5) Top 10 Tips For Earning Online in 2009 @ RetireAt21

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ShoeMoney says 95% of his 13,000 opt-ins on his new ShoeMoney program came from twitter. They talk about the fake blogs popping up that recommend products like http://hugoramsey.com/(see this) and how they are dominating ppc ads on facebook, google etc.

“I honestly think that Twitter is THE best advertising medium at the moment.” -ShoeMoney

“I think Twitter right now is an absolute gold mine.” – ShoeMoney

“I feel like a dumba** now because I should have been building my list a long time ago” – ShoeMoney

Great interview, check it out.

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