I tried to stuff some meaningful keywords in that title above. I do an abysmal job at that on Lost Ball. I could get a few more readers if my stuff was more easily found in Google. I like all eight of you guys but I need more distribution.
As you now know I am a fan of Blogging Unleashed (and pretty women, snowboarding, hockey, The Wire and cycling, but I digress). Pretty cool lessons are found on that blog. I hope you all have either made Vic’s acquaintance by now or already did before you read my most timely posting. As much as I like what Vic is posting, I kinda dig some of his link partners just as much and maybe more.
Have you checked out Grizzly on How to Make Money Online? I did this morning. His blog is about making money with Blogspot blogs. I’ve been dropping niche sites on Blogger for awhile now. Kinda got tired of buying domains and creating Wordpress blogs all the time. Particularly if the niche idea I had in mind was questionable at best. I hate wasting PLR articles but what the hell are you going to do with an article on colon cleansing? Or jewelry making? The hell do I know about either one? Nothing. Do I want to know anything? Negative. Do a lot of people have a problem with a dirty colon? I suppose they do. I’ll give them a Blogger blog stuffed with Adsense to make it worth my while to half-ass re-write the PLR and stuff them with relevant short-tail and long-tail keywords.
Anyway Grizzly teaches you how he does it. He pushes his thumb in the eye of Web 2.0 a bit and shows you how he achieves stellar rankings in Google for the hardest of keywords. It’s about the long tail keyword. He suggests the more LTK you have then the higher you will rank for your primary keyword. Additionally, I like that he suggests beginners utilize a few authority sites like Squidoo and Yahoo Answers. He also instructs you on how to make your site worthwhile if you are trying to make money with Adsense. I’ve learned quite a bit on how poorly I’ve done in this regard.
One thing that he suggests, that I have been doing, is trolling in my keyword stats for words that got people to my site. I just liken it to a snowball effect. I’ll build a blog on Blogger. Re-write slightly my PLR. Drop it into an RSS2B4 project and post to the blog once a day. After about 2-3 days I’ll start having visitors. I’ll look at my Google Analytics stats to see how they got there. I’ll make a note of the keyword and use if for a later post. Normally this is done by scraping an article using Orwell Pro and simply writing a new title I post with, a quick intro and maybe a conclusion. Of course that post will draw more search engine activity and subsequent visitors that found the site with even more crazy keyword phrases, which I’ll later use.
If the blog does well on Blogger then maybe it’s time to get serious and buy a domain and build a Wordpress blog. I now have a groovy set of keyword phrases I can use. The testing has been done. I can (but haven’t) collect emails for later shameless promotion and pimping. Honestly I haven’t built a WP blog off the results of Blogger blogs yet. Too hard to go back as I’m constantly trying to move forward.
And I’m not sure why people decided to discount Blogger. It’s been over 6 months since I last posted that I was using Blogger. And I still am. I get a lot of traffic with them. All I do is bookmark them at Squidoo, Tumblr and Delicious. I’ll claim them at Technorati. Maybe a spurl here and a furl there. Yea, OK, I’ll Stumble the damn thing too. This takes about 10 minutes per new blog I guess.
How to Make Money Online is a Blogspot blog. Griz is ranked top ten on Google for “make money online”. The blog is no great shakes visually. But there it is ranked top ten out of 34 million websites for “make money online”. Gurus tell you to use WP. Beats me why. Guess they have something to sell. I use WP if only to use Teli’s Wordpress Datafeed Import Script. Now that is something you can’t do with Blogger.
Anyway, I like Grizzly’s How to Make Money Online. And I think you will too…if you don’t already. I think you people are holding out on me and not telling me about these great sites in the hopes of perpetuating my failures and whining and bitching for your entertainment.
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Grizzly // Jan 28, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Does this make me number 9?
You made me laugh and I thought I should mention that blogger also looks much uglier than wordpress which is great at getting people to click ads in a desperate rush to escape – didn’t seem to work with you though as you actually read my posts… Damn.
Thanks for the nod btw and best of luck. Great writing style.
Griz
Tiger // Jan 28, 2008 at 4:15 pm
If you enjoy the kind of information Grizz and Vic are sharing, you might like to check out Court’s website too.
When it comes to making money online, it’s not about driving traffic, but driving t-a-r-g-e-t-e-d traffic.
Enjoy your writing style by the way, pretty refreshing, and the ‘6 fingered bowling ball niche’ was a riot !!
April // Jan 28, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Sorry Splork, please forgive me. Here are a couple of sites I am subscribed to.
blendworx.com – currently there’s a case study for butt implants.
http://mikesmoneymakingmission.blogspot.com/ – check out Mike’s celeb blogs as this is where he makes his money. Taking advantage of you guys who can’t resist a pretty girl!
Oh, BTW, I got BMD on Thursday and so far I’m very pleased with it. I’ve just got to wait to see how the SERPS go.
April
Splork // Jan 28, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Dammit Tiger. I have a hard enough time coming up with shit to write about as it is. I was going to write about Court’s site in a few days. Eh, I will anyway. It’s not like more than 2 of the 9 read the comments anyway.
Splork // Jan 28, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Thanks April. Those are some more good sites to check out. Maybe I’ll build a directory of sorts on here. It’s not like I care or understand what that will or won’t do to my outbound link PR link strategy or lack thereof anyway.
Splork // Jan 28, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Thanks for dropping by Grizzly. Pretty cool you’d take the time to do so.
BTW – I had to laugh. As soon as I made the post it got indexed in Google. No surprise there. What was funny was if you search for my post title “Using Blogger Blogs To Help You Build Niche Sites” obviously my post would come up first in Google. Guess who was #2. Yep. You. Click here to see.
Grizzly // Jan 28, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Splork that is too funny – I’m slippin’
Love your writing and I think you have a few more than 9 – there has been a good stream coming from your site to mine. I will have to repay the favor.
Thanks again.
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Diane // Jan 29, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Splork,
April mentions BMD above what does that stand for?
Splork // Jan 29, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Diane, I wondered the same thing when I saw her post on Blogger Unleashed (I think). Big Money Downline maybe? I’m just not sure.
April // Jan 30, 2008 at 5:21 am
BMD = Book Marking Demon. It’s one of the main ways Vic gets links to his sites.
Splork // Jan 30, 2008 at 8:30 am
Oh good grief. I knew that. I even wrote about Book Marking Demon in the post about Blogger Unleashed. Duh
April // Jan 30, 2008 at 11:04 am
Splork, I take it you haven’t bought BMD?
I have to submit other people’s sites too to make it more natural looking.
If anyone want me to submit a URL or two just contact me via my contact form on my blog.
I need url, a few alternative titles, some keywords and a few descriptions.
Splork // Jan 30, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Hey April. I haven’t, but I may in the near future. It looks and sounds pretty cool. And thanks for the offer. That’s awesome of you.
Diane // Jan 30, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Thanks for clearing that up April. I might just take you up on your offer!
Ray // Jan 31, 2008 at 1:56 am
Hey Guys,
What’s the url for Court’s website?
Splork // Jan 31, 2008 at 8:27 am
http://courtneytuttle.com/
Barry // Jan 31, 2008 at 12:25 pm
This may be a repet, since my confuser has been acting up.
This is a bit off topic, but maybe it’s interesting.
I just got an email from someone who is interested in placing a paid ad on my web sites.
I don’t know quite how to respond or even what the ethics of this are.
Any thoughts?
Barry
Glenn // Feb 2, 2008 at 9:36 pm
I’ve gotten several of those requests for ads and banners on my sites lately … read them carefully, looks like spammers to me. I’m just a bit wary about the way the request is worded and the disconnect between the email address and the name in the email … and all the emails request almost the same thing.
I haven’t responded to them and probably won’t. Who knows, with Google on such a rampage to catch anyone selling links, it could be one of their under cover agents testing you ….
Freddy // Feb 5, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Barry:
Why would you think there was an ethical problem taking a paid ad on your web site? Isn’t that what over a billion sites do?
Having said that, I have gotten about a dozen requests lately to put a paragraph of text, stuffed with exit links, on the bottom of articles on my sites. They always use GMAIL addresses, and different names, but all the requests are the same.
They are writing semi-coherent paragraphs, and TARGETING them to content that is related on my site. They want PERMANENT links for $10 – $15 each.
Is that what you folks are getting?
Whatdyall think?
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