Hi Jeremy,
Sorry I haven't been in touch much. I had the holidays to deal with among other things.
Tasks accomplished recently:
1. I did make single blogger sites for each of the models with keyword based domain names, linked them together and then linked to them from my Squidoo page. Within two weeks Google had shut down three of them for triggering the spam filter. So I removed the remaining ones immediately as well as the links from Squidoo. I see that domain squatting is not simple, and I don't think it's really my goal to learn how to do it.
2. Traffic on the site is still low. The webmaster tool in Google is showing more of the profile back links, as well as the ezine article links and such. I aggregated my profile URL's into an RSS feed, and went ahead and linked to that from my blog. Currently there are only 50 profiles, but the majority of the other sites that I checked on Knowem.com have little or nothing to offer. I subscribed to the newsletter mentioned in the forums, Paulie Ciara's Backlink newsletter, and try to choose one of those each week to add.
3. I am working on a downloadable ebook like I had in my wireframe. Mostly I am cutting and pasting information from my site so that it's not hugely time consuming. I signed up for the Netbook Buyers Guide ebook from NetbookReviews.com, and they do a nice set of follow up emails afterwards as well.
4. I made a Facebook Page.
Questions:
1. I started the clustered posts, but I need to solve the menu problem for me to even easily navigate the site. What day would work for you this week for a Skype session?
2. I'm not too keen on signing up for a paid newsletter service before there's traffic to the site. I set up a mailing list in the Cpanel, but I am not totally familiar with the settings in cPanel, as I use different hosting. What are your suggestions for being able to capture email address for two or three brief follow up emails to folks who download my ebook?
Hope all is well after that fire!
Best,
me
Friday, October 15, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Q4 2010 is here
I had a lot of personal holiday time last month, continuing frustration with menu trouble on the site with no time to schedule for a session with Jeremy to solve it, and using too much time on building profiles.
Hopefully I'll get the menu problem worked out this week. I am not happy having to deal with website issues, as it always saps my interest in content production. I have a lot of content to get written.
The link to my RSS feed for web2.0 profiles: http://rss.icerocket.com/xmlfeed?id=144499 . Not sure it's more than a huge waste of time. Good for branding if you are building a brandable site, I suppose.
Here's hoping everyone's Q4 goes well. "I'm dreaming of a black Xmas!".
Hopefully I'll get the menu problem worked out this week. I am not happy having to deal with website issues, as it always saps my interest in content production. I have a lot of content to get written.
The link to my RSS feed for web2.0 profiles: http://rss.icerocket.com/xmlfeed?id=144499 . Not sure it's more than a huge waste of time. Good for branding if you are building a brandable site, I suppose.
Here's hoping everyone's Q4 goes well. "I'm dreaming of a black Xmas!".
Monday, September 13, 2010
Ezine Articles
Ezine articles are a decent way to get targetted traffic to your site. Of course, you have to invest time in writing a decent article. The higher quality the article, the more views you'll get, and if you use some marketing know-how, you can get some very high click through rates.
EzineArticles.com now offers their authors a Title Tool. They claim that these titles are gleaned from searches that land readers on the site. This may be true, but I haven't been impressed with the results.
I took two titles in my niche and wrote two original pieces. I'm a Platinum Author, so within 48 hours my articles were live. I have several pen names and have seen some articles get tens of views on the first day, hundreds in the first few weeks. Some of my articles have an outrageous 30% click through rate, and others a dismal less than 1% click through rate.
The titles that EzineArticles.com gave me didn't take off for views. I can't blame them for a lousy click through rate, that's more my hooks or lack thereof.
I then used some of the "templates" that EzineArticles.com offers and that I've found very helpful for both getting past writer's block and getting views. First one was their "7 things" template. The article is a lot more successful in views and click throughs than the first two.
Then I hit some keyword research tools looking for some keyword phrases that are getting searches. I can't tell you yet the results of the test, but I did write a new ezine article: http://ezinearticles.com/?Netbook-Computers---Asus-Vs-Toshiba&id=4965878
EzineArticles.com now offers their authors a Title Tool. They claim that these titles are gleaned from searches that land readers on the site. This may be true, but I haven't been impressed with the results.
I took two titles in my niche and wrote two original pieces. I'm a Platinum Author, so within 48 hours my articles were live. I have several pen names and have seen some articles get tens of views on the first day, hundreds in the first few weeks. Some of my articles have an outrageous 30% click through rate, and others a dismal less than 1% click through rate.
The titles that EzineArticles.com gave me didn't take off for views. I can't blame them for a lousy click through rate, that's more my hooks or lack thereof.
I then used some of the "templates" that EzineArticles.com offers and that I've found very helpful for both getting past writer's block and getting views. First one was their "7 things" template. The article is a lot more successful in views and click throughs than the first two.
Then I hit some keyword research tools looking for some keyword phrases that are getting searches. I can't tell you yet the results of the test, but I did write a new ezine article: http://ezinearticles.com/?Netbook-Computers---Asus-Vs-Toshiba&id=4965878
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Life with Google
So I subscribed to an interesting newsletter about backlinks. Nice. Informative. Some great tips.
And some things that I could never stoop to on the internet.
I have some Google alerts set up, and at least one of them is largely full of reprinted articles. The same ones over, and over, and over, as if the articles had some interesting content. But they don't. All the links stripped, nobody notices that the products no longer exist. Today as I read through the newsletter I signed up for, I realized that largely these are Google bot bait. Yup, pre-scheduled PLR articles that nobody read because nobody cared.
Please, if you use the internet as well as market, publish unto others what you would have others publish unto you. I, for one, prefer real content, written by a real person. Thanks.
And some things that I could never stoop to on the internet.
I have some Google alerts set up, and at least one of them is largely full of reprinted articles. The same ones over, and over, and over, as if the articles had some interesting content. But they don't. All the links stripped, nobody notices that the products no longer exist. Today as I read through the newsletter I signed up for, I realized that largely these are Google bot bait. Yup, pre-scheduled PLR articles that nobody read because nobody cared.
Please, if you use the internet as well as market, publish unto others what you would have others publish unto you. I, for one, prefer real content, written by a real person. Thanks.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Update 20.8.2010 and Skype
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the note and update about your computer and timing.
The kids are in back to school mode, so my work on the site is slow.
Summary of Actions:
1. I updated all the buy links on all the pages, since I'd been waiting to hear about the server move before doing that. Since your note last week indicated we won't be moving server, I did get them taken care of. I noticed today that there are a number of programs that did not approve my application at cj.
2. In the process of adding another 10 WEb2.0 sites with the fellow I work with on fiverr.com. By building out only 10-20 a week, I think it's more natural. By paying him, I will save 50% over Knowem.com. Sorry that means in order to check out the profiles you'd need to search for **** on the sites.
3. I only made one more forum post, nothing spectacular.
4.I did read an interesting article from SiteProNews, something I've been a subscriber to for over 10 years: http://www.sitepronews.com/2010/08/15/social-media-marketing-doesnt-replace-seo/ .
Questions:
1. Thoughts on contacting the CJ advertisers who rejected the application?
2. Forums????
3. I looked through my emails and either I'm going senile or I wasn't aware you'd be out of communicado again. Having the forum up might help with communication, as you could just make one post for everyone to see. Your thoughts?
Timing for Skype:
Looking at my schedule, thinking that Wednesday evening my time might work best. Say 17:00 GMT+2 = 8 am your time. Too early? Otherwise I could do 20:00, which would be 11 am your time.
best,
me
Thanks for the note and update about your computer and timing.
The kids are in back to school mode, so my work on the site is slow.
Summary of Actions:
1. I updated all the buy links on all the pages, since I'd been waiting to hear about the server move before doing that. Since your note last week indicated we won't be moving server, I did get them taken care of. I noticed today that there are a number of programs that did not approve my application at cj.
2. In the process of adding another 10 WEb2.0 sites with the fellow I work with on fiverr.com. By building out only 10-20 a week, I think it's more natural. By paying him, I will save 50% over Knowem.com. Sorry that means in order to check out the profiles you'd need to search for **** on the sites.
3. I only made one more forum post, nothing spectacular.
4.I did read an interesting article from SiteProNews, something I've been a subscriber to for over 10 years: http://www.sitepronews.com/2010/08/15/social-media-marketing-doesnt-replace-seo/ .
Questions:
1. Thoughts on contacting the CJ advertisers who rejected the application?
2. Forums????
3. I looked through my emails and either I'm going senile or I wasn't aware you'd be out of communicado again. Having the forum up might help with communication, as you could just make one post for everyone to see. Your thoughts?
Timing for Skype:
Looking at my schedule, thinking that Wednesday evening my time might work best. Say 17:00 GMT+2 = 8 am your time. Too early? Otherwise I could do 20:00, which would be 11 am your time.
best,
me
Friday, August 13, 2010
Weekly Update 13.8.2010 and Skype?
HI Jeremy,
Sorry I wasn't able to get to Skype on Thursday. I've got some family issues going on with one of my teens. It was a slow week in terms of our site, sorry.
Summary of Actions:
1- I didn't use Knowem.com's service. I use their site to get info on the various Web 2.0 services, since they present right on the site the Alexa rank, Yahoo links, and Compete.com data. I decided to see if I could get some help cheaper at fiverr.com, which was recommended by one of the partners in the forums. I posted a suggestion for a gig and got two replies and one person has worked out just fine. I basically try to do 10-20 a week, but didn't get any more done this week. The list from last week is the majority, and I am always **** for the username.
2 - I made three more community postings, including changing my sig on that one site that didn't like the website in the URL. See what you thnk:
http://forum.***.
http://forum.***.
http://www.***.com/
3- I published another ezine article:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-
all the best,
me
Sorry I wasn't able to get to Skype on Thursday. I've got some family issues going on with one of my teens. It was a slow week in terms of our site, sorry.
Summary of Actions:
1- I didn't use Knowem.com's service. I use their site to get info on the various Web 2.0 services, since they present right on the site the Alexa rank, Yahoo links, and Compete.com data. I decided to see if I could get some help cheaper at fiverr.com, which was recommended by one of the partners in the forums. I posted a suggestion for a gig and got two replies and one person has worked out just fine. I basically try to do 10-20 a week, but didn't get any more done this week. The list from last week is the majority, and I am always **** for the username.
2 - I made three more community postings, including changing my sig on that one site that didn't like the website in the URL. See what you thnk:
http://forum.***.
http://forum.***.
http://www.***.com/
3- I published another ezine article:
http://ezinearticles.com/?Top-
all the best,
me
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