The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part III – Final Rankings

Posted on August 12, 2008
Filed Under SEO | 5 Comments

It’s been now 2 months since I’ve posted the articles on 4 different sites. You can check how the link experiment began in part I and what happened in part II.

Remember; all those pages also got another link from my previous post so that should have helped them somewhat to rank better.

Holidays On Thailand Islands

Posted on August 4, 2008
Filed Under Travelling Free | 16 Comments

I’ve been traveling to Koh Samui and other Thailand islands in the last 16 days so that’s why you are no seeing any new posts here.

It’s been a great experience from the holiday perspective and from the online business perspective - or maybe I could say enjoying freedom while doing almost nothing for my websites.

I took my laptop and found some nice places on Koh Samui where there was free wi-fi in the restaurant. So I had my pad thai, checked my emails, updated a few Content 2.0 pages and went swimming again.

Free wi-fi on Koh Samui

The power of internet allows you to earn money while doing minimal maintenance work on your authority content sites. I’ve had my best month so far and I’ve done the least work in this month in the last 3 years of my journey into the internet marketing arena…

The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part II – Ranking Results

Posted on July 12, 2008
Filed Under SEO | 3 Comments

It’s been now almost 1 month since the first part of the link experiment and I can show you some interesting results.

One reason why I had to wait so long was that buzzle.com takes sometimes 2 weeks to publish the article and then it can take a few days for Google to index it. This eventually happened with the article on ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com and buzzle.com but NOT on squidoo.com.

I cannot find the article on Google even if I search for the title of the article in quotes. Squidoo stats also tell me that there has been no traffic to that page which is live now for almost a month.

I’ve used googlerankings.com to check where each site ranks for the keyword best central vacuum. I’ve had 2 articles written and then rewritten so I got 4 versions of articles which I believe don’t trigger the duplicate content penalty in Google.

Google Adwords Reveals Real Number of Searches Instead of The Green Bar

Posted on July 8, 2008
Filed Under SEO | 9 Comments

I was doing some keyword research with the Google Adwords tool when I saw that Google returned number of searches for a specific keyword instead of the familiar green bar.

Google Adwords results

The green bar before gave just some idea of the traffic but you couldn’t really tell whether that was 50 or 500 searches per day.

Chitika Alternatives

Posted on July 1, 2008
Filed Under Earn money online | 5 Comments

If you are a Chitika publisher, then you’ve surely noticed a big change in your average CPC and earnings in May. Unfortunately, for most publishers this resulted in much lower earnings than before.

You can see some of the comments in this post:

What the f is going on with Chitika?

There was also quite a bit of discussions in the Chitika forums and other IM forums like Digital Point.

I use to get around 0.35 per click 6 months ago in my vacuum cleaners niche. Later, the CPC dropped to around 0.21 to 0.25 and was quite stable there.

The Most Powerful Link Experiment - Part I

Posted on June 14, 2008
Filed Under SEO | 7 Comments

One of the best ways of building links is submitting them to article directories which allow you to include links back to your site in the resource boxes or even in the body of the article.

Some of these sites are authority sites which means that Google trusts them a lot and will rank keyword optimized articles very high in its own search results.

But the problem we all face is how can we make the best of our time and money and not waste time submitting articles to sites that won’t send us any traffic and won’t improve the pagerank of our site.

That’s why you need to find the best site – or at least a few best ones – which will give you the best results for your invested energy, time and money.

I’ve submitted my share of articles to various sites and have narrowed the best ones to 4 main sites that send me traffic and sometimes even show pagerank above 0 on the page of my article.

My SBI Offer To YOU

Posted on June 10, 2008
Filed Under Site Build It | 16 Comments

My offer to you regarding Site Build It is the same as I give it to my friends when I show them how I live with the income from my SBI sites. I offer to help them out if they buy through my link.

If you decide to buy SBI through my affiliate link, I will:

1. Help you out especially in the beginning phase when you have to decide for the right niche and keywords.

I believe I now have enough experience (I’ve made some mistakes and made some things right) to judge with good probability whether your niche will bring you more than 1000 visitors per day.

Chitika Now Available For All Types Of Content Sites

Posted on May 25, 2008
Filed Under Recommended | 17 Comments

As you probably know, Chitika ads were until recently only product based. That’s why Chitika also approved publishers into their network only if their sites featured products. (They especially liked product review sites.)

But now they have introduced Chitika Premium, which includes non-product ads. There are two tricky things with this ad though:

1. It shows only to the US traffic.

2. It is behaviorally targeted – so it shows only to certain US traffic.
Chitika doesn’t explain what that means but my guess is that the ad will show only to visitors who came to the site through the search engine query. Read more

Off to Phuket

Posted on May 17, 2008
Filed Under Travelling Free | 6 Comments

Not many posts from me lately… I took a one week vacation in Phuket, Thailand and then returned back to Slovenia, so lots of things happening right now…

Before you check the photos, I want to add something; a few months ago I was reading a blog post which was something like “A Day in the life of… (I forgot the name)”.

The guy who was interviewed was making around $20,000 per month, mostly on passive income (Adsense, affiliate programs, …).

Worried About the Competition Online?

Posted on May 4, 2008
Filed Under Blogging advice | 11 Comments

I recently chatted with a friend through Gmail, and she was slightly worried.

She was building a site in a certain niche and found out that other people were building their sites on the same concept. She used SBI and actually found a couple of SBI-ers building their site in the exact same niche.

Should I continue? Do I stand a chance now that even someone using an SBI system is going for this niche?