So who would have thunk it? Corporate websites are an amazing source of research. They obviously can afford top draw talent to do their research for them. I am really enjoying leeching all these great keywords from them.
I am finding low competition keywords with £14 per click!! I don't understand what any of the keywords mean, but someone out there does. I am going to have to do some painstaking research now. I don't think I will be short of work to do any time soon.
Friday, 28 August 2009
Big Value Leads?
OK, so I'm carrying on with my research and I stumble onto some keywords that some big players are after (namely IBM & BT).
The truth is, I have no idea what these keywords mean. It is some sort of big business corporate service. The search values are pretty low but I am wondering what sort of prices these leads are worth. If a corporate closes a million pound deal from one of my leads its gotta be a nice payout.
I don't know if this is a dead end or not but I am now setting about reverse engineering corporate websites to see what keywords they are targetting, to see if I can get in there and grab some of the action.
I hate dealing with corporates, but I have experience selling to them so I am pretty sure, with a little research, I could get a conversation with the right person.
The truth is, I have no idea what these keywords mean. It is some sort of big business corporate service. The search values are pretty low but I am wondering what sort of prices these leads are worth. If a corporate closes a million pound deal from one of my leads its gotta be a nice payout.
I don't know if this is a dead end or not but I am now setting about reverse engineering corporate websites to see what keywords they are targetting, to see if I can get in there and grab some of the action.
I hate dealing with corporates, but I have experience selling to them so I am pretty sure, with a little research, I could get a conversation with the right person.
Killer Niche!
Doing my usual keyword research and I stumble onto a MAJOR niche.
I find around 30 keywords that are all achievable within the same niche. Top keyword has 50,000 exact searches each month.
I am going to sacrifice quantity a little to go for quality within this niche. It is nice to come across something like this, especially as a quick call round turns out one of my friends has contacts in this niche. (And no, sorry, I am not going to share this discovery, but I will teach you how to find your own).
Been looking at website leasing recently. This is a great business model, I am going to test it out and see how it works for me. What I like about it so much is that if you lease a site with natural results and traffic, its a big hook to keep someone on the line. It also allows you to commit more resources than normal as you retain ownership and will make any shortfall up on the backend.
I've also decided to get a ghost writer to create me an info product for one of my sites. This is partly because the affiliate providers in this niche have rubbed me up the wrong way. If all goes well I will create a nice product, advertise it, then flip the site.
Someone managed to convince me to go work tomorrow to let them finish up some loose end, so I am giving up my saturday. Looking forward to having a few weeks coming up where I will dedicate 100% of my time to IM.
I find around 30 keywords that are all achievable within the same niche. Top keyword has 50,000 exact searches each month.
I am going to sacrifice quantity a little to go for quality within this niche. It is nice to come across something like this, especially as a quick call round turns out one of my friends has contacts in this niche. (And no, sorry, I am not going to share this discovery, but I will teach you how to find your own).
Been looking at website leasing recently. This is a great business model, I am going to test it out and see how it works for me. What I like about it so much is that if you lease a site with natural results and traffic, its a big hook to keep someone on the line. It also allows you to commit more resources than normal as you retain ownership and will make any shortfall up on the backend.
I've also decided to get a ghost writer to create me an info product for one of my sites. This is partly because the affiliate providers in this niche have rubbed me up the wrong way. If all goes well I will create a nice product, advertise it, then flip the site.
Someone managed to convince me to go work tomorrow to let them finish up some loose end, so I am giving up my saturday. Looking forward to having a few weeks coming up where I will dedicate 100% of my time to IM.
Last Day
Last official day of work in the office today. Feels very strange, I worked so hard to build this place up and now I'm leaving it behind.
Can't really get my head into work mode right now, need a break from all this.
Complications with working out a solid agreement with my current business partner are also pissing me off. He has gone all wishy washy and my patience is being tested.
I am impatient by nature, I want quick results, all this procrastination is driving me crazy. I just want to define a work agreement and move on.
Been reading the forum today. The amount of misconceptions regarding keyword research and SEO are amazing. In many "Gurus" attempts to dumb down systems to make them sound easy they completely ignore the fundemental concepts involved in keyword competition analysis.
I'll be honest, part of me wants to keep quiet and not mention my techniques. This would certainly keep down the competition, but I remember the people who helped me when I was getting started and to be honest very few people will like my method because it actually involves learning theory. Unless it involves clicking buttons without any thought process then many people lose interest.
I've started creating a keyword research course that I am going to release for free, no opt ins or affiliate products running off the back of it. Just some videos to help people make money.
Too many people who post in the forum have hidden agendas and multiple accounts, it can be tricky to pick out the real information versus the hype. I won't be shouting about the videos, I'll probably just make a single post and put them in there then leave it at that, so they are there if people look hard enough.
This will be secondary to making myself money of course so I cannot guarantee when it will be finsihed.
Found out today I am entitled to a small payout from government, around £1,500. Which isn't too bad. Also I will be paying liquidator out of overdraft, which will then be transferred into long term loan, and once liquidation is complete and assets cover liquidations costs I get that refunded to me. So it's kinda like getting a back door loan. I'll have a bit of fun with that cash on PPC.
Can't really get my head into work mode right now, need a break from all this.
Complications with working out a solid agreement with my current business partner are also pissing me off. He has gone all wishy washy and my patience is being tested.
I am impatient by nature, I want quick results, all this procrastination is driving me crazy. I just want to define a work agreement and move on.
Been reading the forum today. The amount of misconceptions regarding keyword research and SEO are amazing. In many "Gurus" attempts to dumb down systems to make them sound easy they completely ignore the fundemental concepts involved in keyword competition analysis.
I'll be honest, part of me wants to keep quiet and not mention my techniques. This would certainly keep down the competition, but I remember the people who helped me when I was getting started and to be honest very few people will like my method because it actually involves learning theory. Unless it involves clicking buttons without any thought process then many people lose interest.
I've started creating a keyword research course that I am going to release for free, no opt ins or affiliate products running off the back of it. Just some videos to help people make money.
Too many people who post in the forum have hidden agendas and multiple accounts, it can be tricky to pick out the real information versus the hype. I won't be shouting about the videos, I'll probably just make a single post and put them in there then leave it at that, so they are there if people look hard enough.
This will be secondary to making myself money of course so I cannot guarantee when it will be finsihed.
Found out today I am entitled to a small payout from government, around £1,500. Which isn't too bad. Also I will be paying liquidator out of overdraft, which will then be transferred into long term loan, and once liquidation is complete and assets cover liquidations costs I get that refunded to me. So it's kinda like getting a back door loan. I'll have a bit of fun with that cash on PPC.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Hubpage Test 1st Page
My test hub is now on first page os USA results for its main keyword (18,000 exact searches for main keywork per month).
I didn't actually do any more work on it, it made its way up there itself.
I will need to do a little work on it to get it near the top of the page but im not too bothered about it, I was just doing a test of a theory. I will use this method to promote my articles so they get first page rankings.
I should really make a video of this for the forum. I have been trying to make some videos but I keep loosing my place in them and giving up. I might have another pop a little later.
Met with the liquidator today. A nice chap, he ran me through all the options. Should have things wrapped up here within the month (Not a moment too soon).
I didn't actually do any more work on it, it made its way up there itself.
I will need to do a little work on it to get it near the top of the page but im not too bothered about it, I was just doing a test of a theory. I will use this method to promote my articles so they get first page rankings.
I should really make a video of this for the forum. I have been trying to make some videos but I keep loosing my place in them and giving up. I might have another pop a little later.
Met with the liquidator today. A nice chap, he ran me through all the options. Should have things wrapped up here within the month (Not a moment too soon).
Friday, 21 August 2009
Incansoft Software Dissapointing
Big Mike's software is really well priced and packaged but it isn't generating me as many backlinks as I expected.
I have been playing extremely slow email tennis with Diego trying to work out why I am getting such poor results.
I have seen people post in the forum that they get 30+ links from using socialbot. So far my record is 2 links from it.
I have gone out and bought some other software to play with while they get their act together. Right now we are spoilt for choice with the amount of software on offer.
One really cool thing that caught my eye was something called IMacro. It is a free plugin for Firefox that records your actions and repeats then. You can also pull out data from an external file.
"So what?", I hear you say.
Well... It means you can automate things like Angela's backlink packet, or signing up for social sites. It can even be used with a third party captcha breaking service to make things fully automated.
It is not for basic users, but for anyone who feels comfortable learning some basic scripting it can save you the annual $1500 for SENuke if you want automated social site posting.
I'm going to play around with it if I get the time. Right now I am busy trying to perfect my blog creation and promotion system. Running into lots of annoying technical glitches and wasting time researching which plugins to use. Hopefully in a couple of weeks time I will have worked out most of the kinks.
I have been playing extremely slow email tennis with Diego trying to work out why I am getting such poor results.
I have seen people post in the forum that they get 30+ links from using socialbot. So far my record is 2 links from it.
I have gone out and bought some other software to play with while they get their act together. Right now we are spoilt for choice with the amount of software on offer.
One really cool thing that caught my eye was something called IMacro. It is a free plugin for Firefox that records your actions and repeats then. You can also pull out data from an external file.
"So what?", I hear you say.
Well... It means you can automate things like Angela's backlink packet, or signing up for social sites. It can even be used with a third party captcha breaking service to make things fully automated.
It is not for basic users, but for anyone who feels comfortable learning some basic scripting it can save you the annual $1500 for SENuke if you want automated social site posting.
I'm going to play around with it if I get the time. Right now I am busy trying to perfect my blog creation and promotion system. Running into lots of annoying technical glitches and wasting time researching which plugins to use. Hopefully in a couple of weeks time I will have worked out most of the kinks.
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
Things Progressing
I have got the majority of the first batch of articles back and they seem pretty good value. Just going through the process of creating and uploading the blogs. Right now I am taking a little time to experiment with different plugins and services as once I get into the swing of things I don't want any down time.
I have laid out a plan that involves creating 360 blogs in 3 months, with each blog having 500-1,000 one way links pointing at them, and also getting backlinks to the pages linking to my blogs.
It's a tall order and will cost a fair bit in outsourcing fees, but I feel this is a safe investment. On this scale of optimisation the 'per blog price' reduces greatly. I am estimating that each blog will cost $60 to do all of the following:
I know some people will be scratching their heads at the $60 and thinking it's very cheap (it is, I have spent a lot of time working out this process), but it does not include mine, or my (possible) business partners time working 10 hours a day for 3 months to make it happen.
I say "possible" as we are still working out some details, but I will know for sure in 2 weeks if we will be working together again (he is co-director of company I am closing down).
My hub test is top of page 2 in Google now for its targetted keyword. I like this position as I use my 'sling-shot' method to make it jump to page 1. All that basically is, is adding some more content and another boost of links straight after. Then next time google bot comes and finds new content and registers links it will hopefully put me on first page. I'll probably do that this weekend as I am busy with work right now.
I have also had a few ideas for new tests once this one is finished. One will be a 'Big Mike Test'. I will use all of incansofts software to build links (I bought all of it lol) to a site and see how many I can get just by using their programs.
And another test will be an article distribution test. I will write 6 articles for the same keyword and build links to each article using a different distribution service. I will then sit back and see which article ranks quickest and highest.
These tests won't be conclusive, as they would need to be repeated hundreds of times in all categories to be anywhere near scientific, but they should be fun to watch and I will hopefully gather some useful data.
I have laid out a plan that involves creating 360 blogs in 3 months, with each blog having 500-1,000 one way links pointing at them, and also getting backlinks to the pages linking to my blogs.
It's a tall order and will cost a fair bit in outsourcing fees, but I feel this is a safe investment. On this scale of optimisation the 'per blog price' reduces greatly. I am estimating that each blog will cost $60 to do all of the following:
- WordPress installed
- Domain name registered
- Unique content written and uploaded
- 500-1,000 one way links generated from a mix of authority, directory & blog sites
I know some people will be scratching their heads at the $60 and thinking it's very cheap (it is, I have spent a lot of time working out this process), but it does not include mine, or my (possible) business partners time working 10 hours a day for 3 months to make it happen.
I say "possible" as we are still working out some details, but I will know for sure in 2 weeks if we will be working together again (he is co-director of company I am closing down).
My hub test is top of page 2 in Google now for its targetted keyword. I like this position as I use my 'sling-shot' method to make it jump to page 1. All that basically is, is adding some more content and another boost of links straight after. Then next time google bot comes and finds new content and registers links it will hopefully put me on first page. I'll probably do that this weekend as I am busy with work right now.
I have also had a few ideas for new tests once this one is finished. One will be a 'Big Mike Test'. I will use all of incansofts software to build links (I bought all of it lol) to a site and see how many I can get just by using their programs.
And another test will be an article distribution test. I will write 6 articles for the same keyword and build links to each article using a different distribution service. I will then sit back and see which article ranks quickest and highest.
These tests won't be conclusive, as they would need to be repeated hundreds of times in all categories to be anywhere near scientific, but they should be fun to watch and I will hopefully gather some useful data.
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