Blogging ExperimentBlogging ExperimentThe Blogging Experiment will chronicle my quest to take a brand new blog from earning absolutely nothing, to a full time income in just one year's time. The countdown is on and to be honest I have no idea whether or not I'll make it but either way, y 
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Take Blog Promotion Offline!
2008-06-09 15:02:00 When people hear about blog promotion, they immediately think of SEO techniques, link building, and other online promotional efforts. It certainly makes sense to promote your blog using these methods but conducting some offline promotional efforts is also worth considering. A few years ago, it was not that difficult to get a high SERP ranking because ... More About: Promotion , Blog Promotion , Offline , Blogging , Blog
Content is No Longer Enough
2008-06-06 17:53:00 The saying that “Content is King” has been passed around online for as long as I can remember. But the simple truth of the matter is that in this day and age, good blog content just isn’t enough. You need to use effective optimization and promotion techniques in order to attract a large number of ... More About: Blogging
5 Reasons to Twitter
2008-06-04 15:01:00 I’ve written about Twitter in this space before but the more time I spend on the site (I’ve been “tweeting” for about 4 months now) the more uses I’m finding for it. And, while the site has recently been less than reliable in terms of uptime and all its features, I would still highly recommend ... More About: Reasons
May 2008 Income Report
2008-06-02 22:14:00 It’s that time of the month again for the income report of this blog (and the spinoff business created by leveraging this blog) If you read the April income report, you’ll notice that in one short month, I’ve transformed this blog from a modest $1500 per month profit to just under $5,000 per month. This was ... More About: Internet Marketing , Earn Money , Make Money Online , Report , Income
Do You Have A Mastermind Group?
2008-05-30 17:32:00 I never realized how important it is to have a mastermind group of like minded people when you are trying to accomplish something. Over the past 5 years of my full time internet marketing career, I had basically been living in a cave. I would work on our private projects and not interact with anyone ... More About: Internet Marketing , Make Money Online , Motivation , Group
10 Mistakes That Will Kill Your Blog
2008-05-29 21:01:00 Excessive Ads - Hey, there?s nothing wrong with making some money from your blog (that’s why your reading this blog right?). But, when your advertisements begin to take up more space on your blog than your content, you?ve got a problem. People visit blog to learn and discuss topics that interest them. They want to ... More About: Internet Marketing , Blog , Kill
Using Your Content Wisely
2008-05-27 21:00:00 When you start a website or internet business empire, you are going to spend a large portion of your time writing content. That’s what the original and main purpose of the internet is (sharing content). What most people don’t realize, is you can create content once, and re-use that content for different purposes. This has been one ... More About: Internet Marketing , Make Money Online , Content
How To Retire In 15 Months
2008-05-20 21:51:00 I don’t know about you, but I have no desire to “work” until I’m 65 years old like many people are required to do. In fact, thanks to my internet ventures, I am technically retired right now. In other words, I don’t have to work another day in my life if I don’t want to. ... More About: Make Money Online , Retire , Months
My Experiences with Niche Stores
2008-05-15 18:36:00 With all the commotion over Max’s recent post Simple New Business Makes $222.73 per Hour, I wanted to give niche store building a shot. A lot of the comments replying to Max’s post asked how he managed to get organic traffic so quickly and what kinds of SEO things he did to drive traffic etc. ... More About: Affiliate Marketing , Earn Money , Make Money Online , Experiences , Stores
Free Money Monday - 4 Winners - $25 Each
2008-05-14 04:58:00 I’m feeling a little generous this week and I have an extra Benjamin sitting in the old paypal account, so I’ve decided to give away $25 to 4 different readers. Here’s how you can get paid for practically doing nothing. All you have to do is place a link on your website (either a blog ... More About: Site News , Money , Earn Money , Free , Winners
Should You Start An Internet Business?
2008-05-12 18:30:00 I have a strong belief that making money on the internet is NOT for everyone! If any of the following statements match your current situation, then you should look elsewhere to make money… - You want a magic button to push that makes you money. - You don’t have more than $300 to your name. - You don’t want ... More About: Business , Internet , Internet Business , Internet Marketing , Make Money Online
How To Learn SEO Fast
2008-05-08 01:42:00 Search engine optimization (SEO) is probably one of the most desired skills to learn as a website owner. When you know how to do SEO, you have no limits to the amount of money you can make online because you can literally create unlimited traffic to your websites without paying for each visitor (like PPC). I ... More About: Internet Marketing , Make Money Online , Fast , Learn
Think Pennies?Get Pennies
2008-05-07 04:08:00 How much money are you making on the internet? Chances are, it’s right around the amount you think you are capable of earning. Call it the law of attraction, a strange coincidence, fate, whatever you want, but the results you are getting right now are exactly what you are thinking about. When you are looking to ... More About: Make Money Online , Motivation
Tool for Finding Domain Names
2008-05-05 15:37:00 One of the most critical tasks when starting a new blog or any online project for that matter is finding the perfect domain name for it. While the domaining business is booming and there are millions of blogs already online, there are still great domain names out there to be had for reasonable prices. However, ... More About: Internet Marketing , Domain , Domain Names , Tool , Names
April 2008 Blog Income Report
2008-05-01 10:41:00 Seems like everyone likes to see income reports on blogs, so I figured I’d amuse you and share my April results. April was our first full month of ownership since taking over Blog gingExperiment.com on March 27th. I didn’t post a March income report since there were lots of things in transition between the ownership change… I’ve ... More About: Report , Income , 2008
How To Become A Guru Online
2008-04-29 17:39:00 Ah, how great it must be to be a make money “guru”, right? Well, I’m no guru myself, although I’ve been called that through some nasty emails lately. I’ve been getting emails like “You’re just like all the other gurus out there” or “You’ve turned into one of those gurus who won’t share the exact details ... More About: Online , Guru
Know Your Role: Finding your Blog?s Persona
2008-04-25 16:40:00 Very often when you first start blogging, people will tell you that you need to find your voice. They’re of course talking about your style of writing and the personality you want to portray but I’ve recently been thinking quite a bit about the different rolls or persona’s bloggers use. Obviously every blogger has their ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Role , Persona
New Test Business Makes $222.73 Per Hour
2008-04-23 00:41:00 As I mentioned at the end of my last post, I’ve been testing a new mini business idea the last few days. Personally, when I set out to make money on the internet, I tend to build businesses rather than little money making machines. I just have higher expectations for the online businesses that ... More About: Business , Internet Marketing , Make Money Online , Test , Hour
Training Class Registration Now Open
2008-04-21 17:29:00 Just a real quick post in case the email I just sent gets tossed in the spam folders… For those of you interested in learning the real life, step by step process my partner and I use for buying and selling (or building and selling) websites, the training class registration is now open. A quick recap: The class ... More About: Make Money Online , Training , Open , Class , Registration
3 Cheap Sources of PPC Traffic
2008-04-21 14:14:00 When it comes to pay per click (PPC) advertising, the first company everyone thinks of is Google. More experienced advertisers will also know of Yahoo and Microsoft’s pay per click advertising options but for a large portion of online advertisers, that’s where their knowledge of PPC ends. The “Big 3″ as they’re know are certainly ... More About: Traffic , Cheap , Sources
Your Customers Are Busy Too
2008-04-18 16:04:00 What is the most valuable part of your life? It’s the only thing in the world that is limited… TIME This is something most marketers and internet business owners forget about. Of course we know OUR time is valuable, but we tend to forget that our customers and readers have limited time as well. Especially in the future, when ... More About: Internet Marketing , Customers , Busy
How To Buy And Sell Websites Class
2008-04-17 17:35:00 Before we purchased BloggingExperiment.com a couple weeks ago, we were in the planning stage for our next business idea. The next business we were going to tackle was supposed to be a training class to teach people how to buy and sell websites and make tons of money (like we’ve been doing for 5 years ... More About: Earn Money , Make Money Online , Websites , Sell , Class
An UGLY $33 Million Website?
2008-04-16 12:37:00 Every once in a while I come across a complete surprise when I hear about a website that was sold. I like to pay close attention to which websites are selling and how much they are selling for. It helps me pick potential niche markets and business ideas, and helps me determine what types of websites ... More About: Website , Make Money Online , Million , Ugly
Wrong Market = Empty Bank Account
2008-04-15 06:54:00 Sometimes knowing what not to do is as good as or better than knowing what you should do. This post will hopefully be one of those cases for you… Do you know one of the top reasons why people don’t make money online? I’ll tell you. They pick the WRONG market! Not all niche markets are good ... More About: Internet Marketing , Market , Bank , Wrong , Account
The 3 Part Formula of Copy that Sells
2008-04-14 17:02:00 Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to make money online. As Max mentioned, it’s a great way to “get your feet wet” in online marketing because “you don?t need to buy inventory or build complicated websites to start an affiliate business.” In fact, I’ve seen successful websites based solely on sales pages ... More About: Formula , Part , Copy
Step By Step Case Study Project
2008-04-11 18:50:00 I’ve been thinking a lot about the survey I did a couple weeks ago. The basic feedback I received from everyone is they want to watch me create a brand new website business, make it profitable and then sell it, all while incorporating various aspects of internet marketing. There are a few logistical issues with ... More About: Site News , Study , Internet Marketing , Make Money Online , Project
3 Fast And Easy Ways To Make Money
2008-04-10 18:21:00 Seems like everyone is looking for the fastest and easiest way to make money on the internet. Over the last 5 years or so, I’ve tried literally every technique there is. Here are 3 quick and easy ways to make *some* money online. Side note - because these are fast and easy methods, it means the ... More About: Money , Internet Marketing , Make Money , Make Money Online , Make
Best Type Of Web Business To Start (Part Deux)
2008-04-09 22:05:00 Picking up where I left off yesterday regarding the best type of web business to start… 4) Affiliate Part ner Website An affiliate website is when the sole purpose of the web business is to promote other companies as an affiliate, and earn a commission for any sales you refer to them. Affiliate sites are very common and ... More About: Business , Start , Type
Best Type Of Web Business To Start
2008-04-08 19:32:00 I’ve been getting lots of emails lately about which type of website is the best or most profitable to start. Seems like everyone has their own ideas for what the “perfect” business is, so in this post I’m going to lay it all out there and you can decide for yourself based on these proven ... More About: Business , Start , Type
5 Linkbait Ideas Any Blog Can Use
More articles from this author:2008-04-07 19:09:00 In Max’s recent poll about your favorite topics, the subject of driving more traffic to your blog came in a very close second. In the spirit of giving the people what they want, I want to discuss what I consider to be the single best method of driving traffic… Linkbait. Not only does a great ... More About: Ideas , Blog , Blog Marketing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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