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one good thing about blogging on your own domain is that mybloglog, awstats or google analytics will show you the keyphrases and keywords that're leading organic SERP traffic to your site. [the social traffic will show up as 'direct address' traffic]

If you see specific brandnames or products showing up, especially for more searches, just focus on that area.

also, if you look at your keyphrase log on a month-by-month basis, you can spot the seasonal niches from the bunch.
 


What site do you prefer for spawning blogs that support your main network? I see benefits in both blogspot and wordpress...

I use both for supportive blogs and like blogger for one reason you can monetize your supportive blogs, where as WP you can not! The only problem I see is that if you are monetizing your supportive blogs with adsense and then also using the same adsense account to monetize your main network Googles going to catch on, see thats why I fuscking hate Google they are running a monopoly on the whole web game.... even though I do monetize my blogger blogs with YPN I usually launch blogs there with my main Google login that belongs to a host of other Google accounts including adwords, Google Analytics and what not..

Is there any other alternative to free online blogs that are monetizible? Im not going to buy 1000 domains just to set up a network of support blogs. I guess I could set up another G account, but the IP remains the same and is also trackable.

What are your thoughts, BTW the blogs that I am launching to support my main network are not outright spam blogs, but do have useful content, not original, but useful.

Jerxs
 
Ok, if you have one main money blog, then you could have a network of 'feeder blogs' to give link weight to your main blog.

I like to use a hosted wordpress blog, so i dont have all this nonsense with violating ToS or having the free blog provider snatch my blog away cos they don't like it.

If you want to create a feeder blog network to point to your money blog, you can use yahoo 360, blogger, geocities and all the freebie sites you can.

I don't like using adsense to monetize, unless I can't find a matching aff prog.

You could use a mix of aff mktg and adsense, but i don't.

The fewer options you give your traffic, the more likely they'll do what you want.

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The other thing I like about wordpress is you can use plugins like feedwords to automate rss scrapes and posts, so i have blogs which i havent touched in 8 months, generating content every day.
 
you want to identify the key concerns/problems in your niche.

let's say weight loss.
--losing weight is just the first step, but bigger concerns might be:
-is it safe?
-will i continue to keep the weight off?

these are what i call 'deeper' questions.
browsers will typically ask "how much does it cost?' "what does it do?' type questions.

people who are seriously about buying the stuff (say a new car), will ask 'deeper' questions like:
-how much does maintenance cost?
-what would insurance be for a model like this?

so your keyphrase should include deep keyphrases to scoop out the buyers.
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The quote above really got me thinking because I've never thought of it this way. Thanks! I suppose a good way to find out what types of questions people are asking would be to do some research on Yahoo Answers and base your blog posts on the questions in your niche asked there.
 
Thanks Andrew for this very informative thread. So how do you do CPA? Do you have aff links in your text or do you promote with banners, or both? Which is more effective?

I'm personally going to try both.
 
Hi Andrew, I just started a dieting blog (Daily Apples Health News - A Real World Look At Health, Diets, And Staying Fit! if you want to see it).

I found a few APs that are high paying and (supposedly) high converting.

I'm putting the ads at the end of each post, and I'm doing my best to match the ad to the post as closely as possible.

However, I just read your post that offering the fewer choices to my traffic the better.

Would you (OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER) mind telling me what you think of having multiple offers on the blog?

Thanks a lot!
 
Mr. Wee what happened to this post? I thought you were going somewhere with this. I just quit my job expecting to be the next dot com asshole, I mean mogul.

OK, Andrew. You have seen my style of writing. I'm a crazy dude who makes money online and I'm successful and I do have a samll following who enjoys my bluntness and cursing because its real and not proper and fake like some people. Meaning its me.

Do you think there is room for an ass like me in the blogging industry or will I piss too many people off? And what would you do to monetize my skill?

I enjoy blogging more than I thought I would. Shit it beats checking my stats all day and ads, fuck ;)
 
Blastyourass said:
Do you think there is room for an ass like me in the blogging industry or will I piss too many people off? And what would you do to monetize my skill?

I enjoy blogging more than I thought I would. Shit it beats checking my stats all day and ads, fuck ;)
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A bit off subject, perhaps, but I love your fuckin' blog! The "$100-a-day weed-whacker" idea is great. Talk about outside the box.....
 
WebbLasVegas said:
A bit off subject, perhaps, but I love your fuckin' blog! The "$100-a-day weed-whacker" idea is great. Talk about outside the box.....
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thanks peeps. yeah i'm just being myself and i want to help the new entries into online marketing with real ideas where they can make money online and off.

it's not like most people can start making money right away at this shit and theres ways to pursue an online career without working at wal mart or something. Plus there are more ways to make cash then adsense and CJ offers.

thanks for the support and comments because they fucken make my day and i guess i'll continue to offer my white trash, cursing money making blogging style because its fun and me. Andrew Wee, John Chow, there is a new dot com asshole in town :) and I'm going to monetize the fuck out of it with beer ads and call girl affiliate offers. I'll be rich.:D :rasta:
 
Hi,
I am in the midst of projects, so i missed this post.

Offers, whether your own or a 3rd party direct merchant or aff network one, can be divided into:
1) complementary
2) overlapping

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an overlapping offer is like for 2 products serving roughly the same function.
for example a diet pill, and a ultra diet pill with fiber.

A user will likely use one of those types of pills.

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a complementary offer is like a diet slimming belt and a diet pill, a user can use both items at the same time.

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my personal rule is that I run multiple complementary offers, keeping it to about 5-7 usually, to avoid giving too much choice and confusing the prospect.

imagine visiting a diet site and finding 20 choices...too damn confusing.

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think also in the sequence you present offers.
there's a temptation to present the offers with the highest payout, but i'd suggest offers with the highest possibility of conversion.

no sense getting a single $40 CPA lead, when you can convert many times that with a $5 offer.

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Ok, so can you promote competing offers?

sure you can.
let's look at the diet pill, and the ultra diet pill.
I'd promote the regular diet pill first, and maximize my conversions.

Then i'd promote the ultra diet pills to the people who got the diet pill (assuming i captured their leads into some sort of mailing list) and try to get them to switch to the premium product.



CorrectAD said:
Hi Andrew, I just started a dieting blog (Daily Apples Health News - A Real World Look At Health, Diets, And Staying Fit! if you want to see it).

I found a few APs that are high paying and (supposedly) high converting.

I'm putting the ads at the end of each post, and I'm doing my best to match the ad to the post as closely as possible.

However, I just read your post that offering the fewer choices to my traffic the better.

Would you (OR ANYONE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER) mind telling me what you think of having multiple offers on the blog?

Thanks a lot!
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I get this question frequently: "Teach me how to autoblog/splog/maintain 1,000 blogs without having to do anything about it"

I focus on branded blogging - eg. my belief is to have one good blog, pull all the traffic from there, and push it to an affiliate or other offer.

The other way is to maintain a whole bunch of blogs, getting variable traffic ranging from a trickle (most time) to huge traffic and redirecting it to an offer, or you could choose to iframe or mask your landing page from the SEs if you chose to.

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But back to the original question.

If you're starting out in blogging, I'd suggest you do one blog and do it manually (which is kinda the point with this thread).

Blogging is very different from trackback or pingback spamming, or article or press release spamming, or PPC for that matter.

So it's good if you do it manually, test out various strategies, like tweaking your RSS feeds and keyword tag optimization, and measure their effect.

If you've got an idea (backed by your tests) which shows something is bringing in massive, relevant traffic that converts, by all means abuse the hell out of it.

Shift those techniques to your other offers/niches, tweak again to maximize your conversions.

If you haven't heard the success mantra already, it's 'test, test, test....and test'.

With a single blog, it gives me more time to look at my awstats and google analytics and do something like geotracking and geotargeting more intensively.

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If you've mastered (or think you've mastered) the fundamentals and really want to autoblog, you should understanding RSS feeds/content scraping and usually the combination of a wordpress blog and the feedwordpress plugin is a pretty good combo. Else google for 'rss publishing wordpress pluging' or something similar.
 
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