The recipe for a $200K per year job

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What are the stats of the sites ranked above you. Look at that first

acesfullokc said:
Hi, great posts, and very informative.

I've started a project of my own based on this thread. The problem is, I am having trouble getting ranked. The market is wedding planners for a specific city. It's a pretty specific niche, i thought, however, there are some titans at the top of the rankings. Anyone have any pointers? I'd like to PM a URL to anyone who could lend me any advice.
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Great thread as well. I do something very similar and it works great!
 


acesfullokc said:
Hi, great posts, and very informative.

I've started a project of my own based on this thread. The problem is, I am having trouble getting ranked. The market is wedding planners for a specific city. It's a pretty specific niche, i thought, however, there are some titans at the top of the rankings. Anyone have any pointers? I'd like to PM a URL to anyone who could lend me any advice.
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pick up seobook, look at what your competitors are getting links from.

So far:

Keyword research finished
Got the domain
Competitor research finished (for a couple of the markets)
Have my specs I need for the site done, I think I'm going to do this in Drupal, hiring a coder to do all my mods.
Got my linkbuilding plan done, going to use some of the sites I've built for another project that would go perfectly with regional keywords.
Got an idea what I'm going to charge.
Got some content topics that I'm going to send to the copywriters.

Going to find 2 other easier niche as well, get some content on those so when the first site is complete, the next 2 sites will be indexed and out of the sandbox.

Hoping to get this up and running before Thanksgiving, ranking before the end of the year for some of the markets.

Sale by beginning of the year;)
 
Im trying to keep building my brands locally. I'm having some success with recognition, but again, promotion is always one of the hardest things. I need visitors to gain credibility and credibility to gain visitors. As a brand builder, we threw a costume bar crawl the other night for my site, Drink In Tempe! and it went really well. The clincher is attached.

Josh
 

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Let me throw my question out here. What if I do a search for a niche and find one site exists on the main page followed by several directories like citysearch, etc.

Could I find a business in that niche that doesnt have a site, or does but it ranks poorly, create a new website and domain, get it listed on the 1st page and then approach the business with that site and show them what they can have?

The only problem I see with this is, if the business turns you down, you are kinda screwed, right? Then you are wasting your time making a site.

What do you think about this, or is this really what the original post is about.

Other than writing, I am new to this making money on the internet thing.

Thanks
 
YP Scraper

Do any of you have a working copy of a Yellow Pages Scraper?

If so, pleas PM me and I'll pay for a working copy

Thanks and great thread :)
 
Usually you don't find info like this for free but I tell you what, great idea. Like everything it takes time and work and little bit of money for some things.

Great post.
 
Great post with good content. Will use this info to grow my biz. As I am acting like a sponge and soaking up all the best info possible as I have a desire to be a successful independent businessman.
 
Please comment on this ad copy: Anyone have suggestions how it is I contact business owners?

What if you could connect with people searching for the very thing your business offers? Traditional methods like the Yellow pages let people find your business by the genre, but that's very imprecise. It's akin to carpet bombing. What if you could laser target your clientele?

Perhaps you have a Happy Hour that's very popular around town? Or you have a Tuesday night special that brings in the crowds. How would someone be able to know this from the Yellow Pages? Even advertising in local publications around town requires that 1) Someone sees your advertisement 2) They remember something that they weren't originally looking for up to a week later! (If they see your Tuesday Night special on a Wednesday morning) 3) They act on your advertisement.

Traditional advertising relies on reaching your demographic -- a group of people who share habits, traits or qualities that are likely to make them patronize your business. Once you reach your demographic, it's a game of percentages; How many of the potential clients will see and act on your advertisements?

BlankInMyTown.com is part of a network of websites local to Arizona, specializing in Nightlife. Unlike other websites, we don't just sell advertising space. We sell targetted advertising. For example: Joe Drinker searches Google "My Special Keywords". When he comes to BlankInmyTown.com, we are able to see what he was searching for. Knowing that he is looking for a My Special Keywords, we can show your advertisement. Maybe you want to show up for, "Special Keywords in my Town", Simply request that as one of your keywords, and every time someone searches for that, your ad will display prominently.

Our Ad Packages:

Package 1: $1000/month: Includes a site section dedicated to your establishment with pictures, a review of positive qualities of your establishment, a bartender bio, and a "recommended drink". You can pick 5 keywords that you'd like your ad to display for. In addition to keywords, you'll be put in our "rotation" for regular traffic. Traffic that does not come from search engines doesn't have a keyword associated with it, but chances are they are looking to drink in Tempe. Though less targeted, this traffic is still extremely valuable. Additionally, our professional photography staff will cover one event at your establishment every month. This means you'll have a photo gallery dedicated to the event, and sponsored by you. Above each picture of good looking people, having fun at your establishment, we'll have your advertisement promoting your next event.
 
Directory structure

Thanks for sharing this info.

I am trying to implement this and struggling on how to go about structuring the directory.

I have picked my Niche and aiming to structure the site that i can roll it out to all the areas where businesses in my niche are located. Im targeting the UK therefore i will be having most of the UK cities and areas on my directory.

I am using phplinkdirectory btw.

So do i have my main site with all the cities listed on the first page, then each of those cities link to a category page (for when i move on to other niches) and then from here my Niche LP is accessed?

cheers in advanced for the any help with this.
 
This post really makes me think about starting something in our small country. I am really wondering if that could be applied to cities with about 2000 habitants. We are still behind you US guys if it comes to online business :(
Using WP_MU seems the perfect tool to get a city+niche.com domain adding subfolders for every businesspartner. Thanks for this heads up :)
 
Lingo: How are you liking phplinkdirectory?

Got things brewing again due to the holiday break. How is everyone else doing with there project?
 
@Techhustle

PHPLinkdirectory are a bit sneaky. Tried to install their free version but ran into problems. Was then told to try their latest 3.0 version (costs $30 i think) ran into the same problem again. Then was found out that area on their forum that deals with support for the latest version cost $10 to access. I paid this and still havnt got the support. Holding tight till after the new year to see if things get better.

Ill keep you updated.
 
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