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Self Made MindsSelf Made MindsSelf Made Minds is run by two Internet entrepreneurs Al and Scott. The aim of the site is to share experiences and knowledge that weve picked up along the way. Neither of us have a job and rely solely on our businesses to put bread and beer on the ta Articles
Domain research for investing & leasing
2007-10-25 13:03:00 OK today I’ll jot down very quickly what I have been doing with some success as regards looking for domains, finding one’s that may be suitable and backing that up with data. We can all look at a generic domain and agree that it has value and may be brandable but I am not really on ... More About: Research , Domain , Investing , Leasing
Lessons learnt from having my wallet stolen
2007-10-24 15:09:00 As I’m currently away (actually just got back but posting abroad proved something of a problem) this is one of those personal experience types of post, normal posting will resume tomorrow (unless Scott has something else planned). At the moment I’m sat in a café in Brazil having just enjoyed my first Brazilian ... More About: Stolen , Lessons , Wallet
My Top 5 places for moments of genius & inspiration
2007-10-23 11:54:00 Whether it be problem solving, thinking up new concepts and ideas or trying to overcome ongoing obstacles it is sometimes hard to see the forest for the trees sitting in front of my computer for hours on end. I have never worked that conventionally, I have usually done my best work in the evenings - to ... More About: Inspiration , Places , Moments , Genius
That?s a wrap! - Friday 19th October
2007-10-19 11:00:00 One of the worlds first successful prosecutions of porn spammers. Prosecutors said Kilbride and Schaffer, both 41, had started their spamming business four years ago and earned more than $2m (£1m) in commissions. Source Guardian. Excellent find by minstrel about on Digital Point showing why Recoprical Links are not dead, via SEO Blackhat. ICANN look to release single digit ... More About: Friday , October , Wrap
Knocking $4,000 off my tax bill by having fun
2007-10-18 11:42:00 When this post goes live I should be sat on a train on the way to the British Innovation Show, where I’ve got free press access to the event. This is the sort of show that I’d enjoy going to anyway and the fact I can do it as a legitimate business expense (i.e. offset ... More About: Bill
Lease a domain and triple it?s value
2007-10-17 11:42:00 I’ve only gone and done it! - leased out my first domain After my shenanigans with replica weapons I got the wife on board so that she could research and email companies and we signed up a deal that rewards all our efforts very well indeed. Leasing a domain is something I am going to put ... More About: Domain , Domains , Lease , Triple
Crossing the great divide
2007-10-15 11:30:00 Making money online certainly isn’t as easy as some would like to make out, in fact at times it can be pretty damn tough going but there are opportunities online for most kinds of people and having a closer look at those main 4 groups of current earners shows new opportunities ripe for stepping into by a ... More About: Great , Crossing , The G
Customising Ads to Your Visitors
2007-10-15 11:08:00 This is one of those idea sharing, make it up expand it as you go along posts. One of my main forms of revenue generation is the displaying of ads, however some ads work better with different types of visitors so this post is about how you can maximise your revenue without alienating readers due ... More About: Visitors
That?s a ?I wasted Friday afternoon on a game? Wrap!
2007-10-12 10:28:00 Over on Blog Storm Patrick has done a cool list of the Top 100 SEO and Internet Marketing blogs. 61 Billion Searches Conducted Worldwide in August 2007 Google Sites ranked as the top worldwide search property in August with 37.1 billion searches conducted. Of that total number, 31 billion occurred at the Google search engine and 5 ... More About: Game , Friday , Afternoon , Wasted , Wrap
Buy for 2 years income and repay yourself in one year
2007-10-11 11:29:00 Still bargains to be had I bought a website with an old friend who wanted to invest money with me last month, he doesn’t work online, the most important point being that it was zero maintenance as it would be unfair for me to have to run a site and him profit so we bought a site advertised ... More About: Adsense , Income , Years , Year
Chitika Premium Publisher Review
2007-10-10 11:52:00 I’m a fan of Chitika and I reviewed them back in July. Since then I’ve been invited to participate in their new Premium Publisher Program, they are due to do a press release about it today and asked me to write up my opinions, so here goes. I’ve checked with Ryan my rep there ... More About: Review , Remi
We know who you are and what domains you own
2007-10-09 11:01:00 An interesting but ultimately scary tool was released this week which you may not all know about, yet. Registrant Search by Jay Westerdal allows anyone to search for a person or using personal information and get a report on all domains they own dating back to 2000. DomainTools has the most extensive whois database on the internet containing ... More About: Domains , Mains
Coping without Google
2007-10-08 18:46:00 If you have an advertising based content site as your Internet business model changes are you are going to want to keep on the good side of the big G. Google can be a fantastic source of free traffic and also provide a very good income stream for sites but for many publishers if you ... More About: Coping
That?s a wrap! - Friday 5th October
2007-10-05 09:44:00 Google starts offering Adsense payment via Western Union (not in all countries mind). BOTW.org are giving away $10,000, to enter just enter the promo code when submitting, winner will be picked by Shoemoney. On the subject of give-aways, ProBlogger has $54,000 worth of prizes on offer at the moment. Happy Birthday ProBlogger and Darren also explains why Problogger ... More About: Friday , October , Wrap
Free Burma!
2007-10-04 11:29:00 [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style. display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://bloggingtom.ch/wp-conte nt/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","play er1","380","333","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","333"); s1.addVariable("width","380"); s1.addVariable("file","/wp-images/multime dia/20071004-free-burma.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","/wp-images/multim edia/20071004-free-burma.jpg"); s1.addVariable("lightcolor","0xFF6347"); s1.addVariable("overstretch","true"); s1.addVariable("fsbuttonlink","http://blo ggingtom.ch/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/ fullscreen.php?f=/wp-images/multimedia/20 071004-free-burma.flv%26r=http://blogging tom.ch/archives/2007/10/04/free-burma/"); s1.write("player1"); I think the video says more than my words ever can. Thanks Tom for asking me to participate in this. Related Posts:$1 million online competition and more!.....Ethically Crea... More About: Free , Burma
Backlinks from authority, .edu sites & more
2007-10-03 10:38:00 Authority Sites & their web search Reading a post on Acorn the other week there was a suggestion that linking to specific results in authority sites like BBC & CNN could be an easy way to get you a valuable backlink. After a quick check it seems search results from the BBC and CNN are being indexed ... More About: Backlinks , Authority
Keyword Research with a little help from our Google
2007-10-02 12:34:00 I’m currently researching the keywords I want to promote over the Christmas buying season, as my gadgets site is established and already does pretty well from the search engines my primary promotion method is going to be SEO. I’m not going to write about the products I’m promoting here (as that would be rather ... More About: Google , Research , Keyword , Keyword Research , Litt
Ten companies that need to fire their I.T. manager - today!
2007-10-01 10:24:00 As the internet matures our use of it evolves, it doesn’t usually matter which you prefer the www or the non-www. Today we often tend to drop the www when typing in internet addresses into our browsers. In fact I have noticed the bbc.co.uk omitting the www part this year when mentioning their url which is a change ... More About: Companies , Manager , Fire , Ager
That?s a wrap! - Friday 28th September
2007-09-28 11:07:00 Article over on ProBlogger about 46 (possible) tax deductions for bloggers, by the looks of it some of these are assets (e.g. computers) which are a bit more complicated than monthly costs, so I’d ask an accountant about that or you could run into the taxation problem Scott wrote about previously. Have you seen Live video ... More About: Friday , September , Wrap
How to lose 80k visitors a month and survive
2007-09-27 10:34:00 It’s a fickle industry really, one minute you can ride the crest of a wave and then next you hit a wall, well after my domain faux pas I thought I would also share the loss of 80,000 visitors per month as well, I think I should call this sober up September While it ... More About: Survive , Visitors , Month , Mont
Taking Your Site Mobile
2007-09-26 13:54:00 I travel a fair bit on both business and pleasure and when away I become totally reliant on my mobile phone, I don’t use it so much for calls but I do use it extensively for checking email, news (mainly football results), my sites and making the odd blog post. I use the mobile version ... More About: Mobile , Blogging , Site , Taking , Bile
Case Study - Don?t replicate my domain leasing faux pas
2007-09-25 10:43:00 My plans for world domination ran into erm…… a bit of brick wall this week, if you want a laugh then I suggest you read on This is on the subject of leasing domains and my previous post where I talked about becoming an internet landlord, if you remember that post I mentioned a ... More About: Study , Domain , Case , Leasing , Faux Pas
SEO Checklist (for Dummies)
2007-09-24 13:46:00 I’ve mentioned before that I’m a fan of checklists and after seeing some of the comments or our recent site reviews I thought it would be a good idea to create an SEO checklist. If you have any suggestions on things that we should add to this list please let us know. I like to break ... More About: Dummies
That?s a wrap! - Friday 21st September
2007-09-21 12:31:00 John Reese launches BlogRush a service for bloggers to share traffic by displaying each others post titles, it goes somewhat viral in the blogging community. We’re currently testing it and will report our findings soon. Cool story on what would happen if Google were really evil, found this one via SEO Black Hat Coolest Gadgets hits 50,000 ... More About: Friday , September , Wrap
Site Clinic - Website Review : Gadget Box (Part 1 - The Site)
2007-09-20 12:53:00 Time for our second site review and this site is one right in my niche, gadgets. This is going to be a 2 part review, in the second part we’ll go into the shopping experience and affiliate scheme. Site : Gadget Box Description: Welcome to The Gadget Box - gadgets, gizmos, boys toys, gift ideas Shop Page rank: 4 Server ... More About: Website , Review , Part
What to look for in a website you want to buy
2007-09-19 11:03:00 I was asked a question on Marketing Chat the other day and it probably deserves a post, what would I normally look for or do when I found a website that I wanted to buy that earned it’s income mainly from Adsense? Keep in mind I have only learnt from my own mistakes so those lessons ... More About: Website
Automatically Increased Affiliate Revenue by 15%
2007-09-18 21:10:00 Last week I got round to one of those jobs that I’ve wanted to do for a while and that’s making my affiliate links a bit more visitor friendly and readable. I’ve mentioned before how I automatically convert links to sites that I have a relationship with to their corresponding affiliate links, I’ve now taken ... More About: Affiliate , Blogging , Affiliate Revenue , Revenue , Ally
Taxation and capital assets - important for all webmasters
2007-09-17 10:24:00 Running websites often starts out as a hobby for most of us and progresses into a career once you realise the potential income available if you devote more time & effort to build your portfolio. One of the biggest misconceptions soon arises which I want to mention today as it is an easy mistake to make and can have ... More About: Webmasters , Taxation , Capital , Import , Mast
That?s a wrap! - Friday 14th September
2007-09-14 16:07:00 Chris did an experiment to see how much traffic he would receive from John Chow if he became a top commentor, he got a whopping 14 visitors, I reckon he’ll get a lot more by publishing the case study Great analogy over on Dosh Dosh about Link Bait and the mullet, yes I did ... More About: Friday , September , Wrap
Site Clinic - Website Review : Tattooed Chicks
More articles from this author:2007-09-13 10:30:00 Today is a site review day whereby we get a URL and some info and have a quick look over a site to see what can be improved upon and then throw the door open to you guys as well if there is anything you wanted to add. Site : Tattooed Chicks Description: Tattooed Chicks, A Place For ... More About: Website , Review 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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