Comments on: Are you a great Webmaster or Online Marketer? http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/ Hawaii Online Advertising, Search Engine Optimization and Marketing Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Hawaii Online Advertising » The Best Blog Traffic & Monetization Posts of 2006 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-1481 Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:41:45 +0000 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-1481 [...] There seems to be two main ways to go. You can focus all your attention on one blog that you hope will earn an impressive profit or lower the bar and create several, where the combined profit is impressive. The idea of only making a few bucks per day, but on many blogs sometimes never occurs to people. Both strategies work. It’s just a matter of personal preference. [...] […] There seems to be two main ways to go. You can focus all your attention on one blog that you hope will earn an impressive profit or lower the bar and create several, where the combined profit is impressive. The idea of only making a few bucks per day, but on many blogs sometimes never occurs to people. Both strategies work. It’s just a matter of personal preference. […]

]]> by: Administrator http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-10 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 04:46:07 +0000 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-10 Each site can be somewhat similar but be careful to avoid duplicate content. I would even go as far as to make things that are unique like a copyright notice or phone number into an image that can't be spidered. If a person or competitor finds one site, they can find all your sites. You also want to avoid cross linking the sites to each other. This is a huge red flag. Search engines can use these types of “finger prints” to identify all your sites and penalize all of them at once. You should market and link the sites in a natural way and avoid listing all the websites on the same directories. Instead of listing all your websites on a “Widgets Directory” list the Hawaii Widgets website in a Hawaii Business Directory and list the California Widgets website in a California Business Directory, etc. Each site can be somewhat similar but be careful to avoid duplicate content. I would even go as far as to make things that are unique like a copyright notice or phone number into an image that can’t be spidered. If a person or competitor finds one site, they can find all your sites.

You also want to avoid cross linking the sites to each other. This is a huge red flag. Search engines can use these types of “finger prints” to identify all your sites and penalize all of them at once. You should market and link the sites in a natural way and avoid listing all the websites on the same directories. Instead of listing all your websites on a “Widgets Directory” list the Hawaii Widgets website in a Hawaii Business Directory and list the California Widgets website in a California Business Directory, etc.

]]> by: Barbra Sundquist http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-9 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:49:49 +0000 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-9 This is an important point. I have membership site #1 that took me about 2 weeks to develop. Logo, website, forum, content management system, payment system, etc. Once it was up and running I cloned it for a slightly different target group (but same content works for them) and it took about half a day total. This afternoon I cloned #3 and it took about an hour. Replicating websites to serve niche markets is going to increase my revenue dramatically - and it's fun too! This is an important point. I have membership site #1 that took me about 2 weeks to develop. Logo, website, forum, content management system, payment system, etc. Once it was up and running I cloned it for a slightly different target group (but same content works for them) and it took about half a day total. This afternoon I cloned #3 and it took about an hour. Replicating websites to serve niche markets is going to increase my revenue dramatically - and it’s fun too!

]]> by: Administrator http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-7 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 05:33:18 +0000 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-7 That’s the whole point. Driving traffic to a website and converting it into sales is not easy and it takes a lot of work. It also requires a lot of specialized skills that take a long time to master. People with those skills don’t exactly need to beg for work. Those sites you're working on are all in very highly competitive categories and should have a higher payout when you're done. After you have your <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usrecallnews.com/consumer_product_recall.php">product liability</a> or <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usrecallnews.com/blog.html?page1_fda=92efc32f148a4ef8154f0f932dc8c21d">personal injury</a> website up and turning a small profit you can move on. I highly suspect that your <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usrecallnews.com/blog.html">product recall</a> website will eventually be bringing in at least $10 per day by this time next year. (Especially if you keep spamming my Blog with your links every time you make a comment. LOL. ;^) Even if you have 50 websites that are only making $2 per day, it’s still $36,500 per year. That’s the whole point. Driving traffic to a website and converting it into sales is not easy and it takes a lot of work. It also requires a lot of specialized skills that take a long time to master. People with those skills don’t exactly need to beg for work.

Those sites you’re working on are all in very highly competitive categories and should have a higher payout when you’re done. After you have your product liability or personal injury website up and turning a small profit you can move on. I highly suspect that your product recall website will eventually be bringing in at least $10 per day by this time next year. (Especially if you keep spamming my Blog with your links every time you make a comment. LOL. ;^)

Even if you have 50 websites that are only making $2 per day, it’s still $36,500 per year.

]]> by: Everett Sizemor http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-6 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:31:29 +0000 http://hawaii-online-advertising.com/blog/2006/04/19/are-you-a-great-webmaster/#comment-6 <a href="http://www.usrecallnews.com" rel="nofollow">Recalled Products</a> is another good area, but it's extremely competitive and you are going up against .gov domains for first page listings. Not your easiest competitors to be sure. Awesome and inspiring blog entry, and I'll send my clients here when they ask why I charge so much for <a href="http://www.firstpagefitness.com" rel="nofollow">Internet marketing</a>. I just wanted to make a note that it's not "that" easy to get up to $5 per day. You need to design the website, which can take days or weeks of hard work. Then you need to write the content, which can take another few days or weeks, depending on how well you want to write it. Then there is the on-page <a href="http://www.seoverflow.com/seo-checklist.html" rel="nofollow">search engine optimization (SEO)</a>, which takes a few days, followed by the off-page SEO such as quality link building on authoritative sites, writing and distributing press releases, writing and distributing articles to share with <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com" rel="nofollow">online publishers</a>, etc. Once you have finished all of that, you need to pay attention to log files and user activity to optimally make use of the AdSense, MSN Ad Center or Yahoo! / Overture listings that appear on your website. And all of this for $5 a day!!! The trick is to look at the big picture; the long-run... If you keep the website up for a few years and it gains a reputation as a good site / portal, you can move to Chile or Indonesia and live like royalty by paying third-world prices and making US dollars. Early retirement. Recalled Products is another good area, but it’s extremely competitive and you are going up against .gov domains for first page listings. Not your easiest competitors to be sure.

Awesome and inspiring blog entry, and I’ll send my clients here when they ask why I charge so much for Internet marketing.

I just wanted to make a note that it’s not “that” easy to get up to $5 per day. You need to design the website, which can take days or weeks of hard work. Then you need to write the content, which can take another few days or weeks, depending on how well you want to write it. Then there is the on-page search engine optimization (SEO), which takes a few days, followed by the off-page SEO such as quality link building on authoritative sites, writing and distributing press releases, writing and distributing articles to share with online publishers, etc.

Once you have finished all of that, you need to pay attention to log files and user activity to optimally make use of the AdSense, MSN Ad Center or Yahoo! / Overture listings that appear on your website.

And all of this for $5 a day!!!

The trick is to look at the big picture; the long-run… If you keep the website up for a few years and it gains a reputation as a good site / portal, you can move to Chile or Indonesia and live like royalty by paying third-world prices and making US dollars. Early retirement.

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