The Bad: Thought I’d offer up some personal accountability for things I’ve been doing of late, you know, to make money online. So I posted a couple of weeks ago about how I should be saturating the directories with articles. Making mad posts to my blogs. Filling the web with content. How is that going you ask? You shouldn’t. I just can’t force myself to write or re-write another article at this point. So I don’t. There are better things to do with my time until I can muster up the proper amount of motivation for that endeavor.
The Good: On a positive note, my Squidoo efforts are paying off with Atlanta-sized traffic. It’s good stuff. Yahoo is loving the Squidoo now. Well, more like Yahoo is loving the keywords that I am choosing to build those lens on Squidoo. So I continue to try to build on that success. It’s really hard to ignore a system of sorts that brings in 500+ visitors a day to a lens that takes 15 minutes to build. And Google hasn’t even poked it’s arrogant nose in to see what is going on.
The Ugly: I wish I could write about some stupid-ass affiliate product that is being offered. Sadly I get very few spam emails from the guberus anymore due to the “great purge”. I’m like a comic who has quit watching TV. I have no material. I know Brad Callen is offering up some new PPC spy tool that has got everyone excited. I bought a spy tool a while back called Adspy Pro. It was cheap and worked but I just don’t feel like risking money on ads to try to sell some crapbank ebook. If everybody is copying successful ads won’t all the ads eventually dilute the market? I guess if you’re a PPC pimp then this tool will rock your world. I won’t be a buyer.
What I’m more interested in is writing blogs that are like LifeHacker. Or those that are on Weblogs, Inc. Not these boring niche blogs the guberus keep telling us to write. You know, I bought into that whole long tail keyword crap like a chump. Much like the “stop building portals” garbage I kept hearing a year ago. Wanna take a guess which websites still make me the most Adsense money each month? Yep, the NPB portals. I will threaten again to fire up NPB and drop another batch of portals to pollute the web with. Of course the portals that are working are getting all their traffic from Google. And these portal sites are the crappiest things around. So much for Google’s vaunted quality control. Incidentally, Yahoo has de-indexed the lot of them.
Anyway, I know people say to focus, but good grief, how in the world can you constantly write and re-write PLR for niche sites? I’ve been chugging on that for over a year now. I have no problem taking a break and working on something else from time to time. So I’m probably going to start building blogs, like Lost Ball, and just write what comes to mind. I have other interests than simply grinding on cheesy guberus that I think I could write about. It is so much easier to just write what you know or care about. If nothing else I just have to get going doing something. And I’m also going to keep working Squidoo until Yahoo stops caring. I have an idea how to utilize Squidoo/Yahoo to maximum potential. I’ll sell you the idea in a $47 ebook when the potential wears off.
Sorry for the ramble. Thought you’d like to know what an ordinary dude is doing.
4 responses so far ↓
GiGi // Oct 25, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Hey Splork,
Cool on the Squidoo stuff! I tried a couple, but didn’t put much effort into it. Maybe I’ll try again.
I wanted to let you know that I won a free ticket to the Affiliate Incubator Seminar that just finished up. Having not been to an internet marketing seminar of that caliber before, I was totally excited! Anik Singal, Russell Brunson, Ewen Chia and Jermaine (just before his big Nitty Gritty launch) were there among others.
You’d be proud of me - I didn’t buy a thing! I hardly need to anymore with all the crap I’ve bought over the last few years. And it wasn’t all a hard sell - it was mostly content.
But it WAS really informative and I learned a lot of great tips and ideas. Anyway, I’m doing a blog of the experience for anyone who wants to know what happens at one of those.
You can check it out at:
http://www.virtuallifeline.com/blog/
GiGi
Splork // Oct 25, 2007 at 8:17 pm
Cool. Thanks for sharing! And I’m glad you kept your wallet safely hidden in your purse. I don’t think you’ll ever regret not buying. You might regret making that expensive purchase though. At least that is how it goes for me.
Brian // Oct 31, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I don’t know, but I must be doing something wrong, or not doing something right that I should be doing. I put up Squidoo lenses, and I’ve gotten SQUAT for traffic.
Maybe I’ve just been lazy. Man I get lost trying to register links all over the place. Maybe its a matter of being more organized, so I don’t forget where I’ve done it and where I haven’t.
Splork // Oct 31, 2007 at 5:08 pm
All I do with Squidoo is find the right keyword/keyord phrases. Use one of my blogs to get the URL indexed by Google/Yahoo and any other spider that comes by. Then rake in the thousands of dollars a minute the traffic generates.
Some of my lens bring in traffic. Others don’t Those that don’t after 2 weeks or so are dropped. They only take like 15 minutes to build so if they flop, who cares? er, that’s be me. I don’t care.
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