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This is a Rare Opportunity to Pick up a Unique Online Business of Your Own.

I am selling one of my established websites, along with the software product I created myself.

This product is only about 8 months old, and has not come close to reaching it’s true potential.

You can be the exclusive owner of the website, domain, blog, forum and the software product, or one of a few Private Label Rights (PLR) owners to the sales page and software.

I have put a lot of time, effort an money into building this business, but I haven’t promoted it like I should have, so the exposure to the site and product is very low.

There is a lot of opportunity to really make a hit of this site and software product.

So, due to other projects I am working on, and not having the time to give this site the attention it deserves, I am going to sell it.

I could sell this site on Sitepoint.com or some other web site selling service, but I wanted to give my newsletter subscribers and my blog visitors the chance to pick it up first.

Here are the details

Mike

I don’t normally promote someone else’s products on my blogs, but Chris Rempel, the Lazy Marketer, has put out a really useful product for a very fair price.

His VIP Essentials package, gives you the templates and instructions for building his Conduit sites, which are a different kind of review site.

The best part of the VIP Essentials package, and the reason I wanted it, was for the Wordpress Review Site Template.

Today I put together my first Conduit site using the VIP Essentials blog template.  Here is my Quick Review Of site, that uses the VIP Essentials Wordpress Review Template.

I love this concept of building a review site within Wordpress.  It’s really just a matter of copying and pasting the product information into the appropriate fields in Wordpress.

You don’t have to know HTML and create, modify or update static HTML web pages.  This Wordpress Review site system makes creating review pages very easy.

Another reason I love this review template and how it’s integrated into WordPress is, as I’m sure you know by now, the search engines love blogs.

With a few pings and a little social bookmarking, there’s no reason your blog shouldn’t be indexed in Google in a day.

The VIP Essentials Wordpress template is great, and works well out of the box.

However, it wasn’t setup to use some of the Wordpress plugins that I like.  So, I had to make a few changes to the template to use my favorite plugins properly.

I also improved the search engine optimization of the template, and added an RSS feed button and social bookmarking buttons.

If you are interested in creating review sites, this is something you need to check out.

I love this Wordpress review site builder, so here’s what I’ll do for you.  When you purchase the VIP Essentials through me, I’ll give you the changes I made to the templates.

You’ll just need to copy the files I changed to your web host.

I’ll also provide you with my favorite plugins, and some information on how to use them properly.  Again, you’ll just need to copy the plugins to your Wordpress plugin folder, turn them on and make a few changes to the settings.

These templates and plugins will make your review site a lean, mean, easy to use, SEO machine.

I’ll also provide you with any help you need getting your first VIP Essentials Review site setup and running properly.

So, it’s time to get your VIP Essentials Review Site Builder and get started.

Here’s what you need to do:

1.  Purchase the Review Site Builder
2.  Contact my Helpdesk and give me your Paypal receipt number

I’ll then be in touch and let you know how to get the files I modified to enhance the review site builder.

Mike

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You can have a website that doesn’t convert well, but if you get enough traffic you can have great success.  A ton of traffic overcomes bad conversion rates.  Once you have traffic, you can always improve your conversion rates, but you first need traffic to determine your conversion rates.

So, this is how I go about getting traffic to a new website.

Blog Good Content

If you have web hosting and a domain, install a Wordpress blog on the domain.  Wordpress is easy to install, and search engines love blogs.  It’s common for me to see my blogs indexed in just a few days after making a few posts to them.

I often see my blog indexed before my main page, and since my main page is linked to by my blog, my main page gets indexed.

Write good content to your blog at least two times a week, every other day even better, or every day for the best results.

When writing to your blog, try to think of search terms people might use to look for the info you are providing - these are called keywords.  Use the keywords in your title and in your blog post.

If you use keywords that are too popular, like “make money from home” searchers will never find you because of the expert competition.  You want to find less popular keywords - sometimes called long tail keywords.

When you write a good blog post, Digg it, Stumble it, and submit it to Social Bookmarking services.  Here is a good tool you can use - http://www.socialmarker.com/ (I don’t do this for every post I write, only my best).

It takes a while to signup for all the social bookmarking sites, but they can bring you some good traffic and get you in the Google top ten for your chosen keywords.

Submit individual posts to the social bookmarking services, not the main blog page, and not your site main page.  You can always link to your main page from your blog posts and from you sidebar links.

Only submit a post to the social bookmarking services once, and don’t do them all in one day.  Spread the submissions out so they look natural.

Take your best posts and re-write them slightly so they are unique and submit them to http://ezinearticles.com and http://goarticles.com Have a Bio box that creates curiosity and points to your website.  This is also known as Bum Marketing, and this is a great bum marketing resource .

Good content on your blog, and incoming links to your blog will build traffic, page rank and best of all - credibility.  This in turn will lead to people visiting your money pages, and you making sales.

Get Incoming Links

Take some of your blog content, re-write it slightly again, or use new content and create a Squidoo lens , or a Hubpage , or even better - both.  From the Squidoo lens, or HubPage, or both - link back to your blog, or your main page.

Submit your Squidoo lens to http://lensroll.com

Submit your blog RSS feed, your Squidoo RSS feed, and your Hubpage RSS feed to http://feedage.com and http://rss2.com

Another good way to get incoming links is to comment on blogs that are dofollow, this is becoming very popular, but you need to do it right.

I have a DoFollow Blog Resource dedicated to DoFollow Blog Information.

Commenting on dofollow blogs is something you will want to continue to do on an on-going basis.

Following these steps will definitely get you listed in the search engines, and if your keyword is not too competitive, they could land you on the first page of Google.

Mike

I have been trying to centralize my internet marketing services in one place, instead of having them spread over several domains, with out one centralized list.  I don’t mean bringing all of the web pages onto one domain, but a list of everything I have on one site.

So, I have been looking through my domains looking for some of the services, and products, I provide.  Through this process I have found products and services I have forgotten about and haven’t marketed at all.

You know the saying “out of sight, out of mind”?  I want to bring all my offerings into one domain where I can keep them in mind, market them in one place, and always know where I can find a link to them.

I should have done this years ago, as I created new offerings, but I guess my organizational skills have not been all that great.

So, after finding some of my favorite products and services to start with, I needed to find a website template I liked, to make-over my website.

This ended up being more work than I anticipated, but hopefully it will be worth it

I still have a lot of other products and services that I need to add, but at least I have a good start now.

If you are just starting with internet marketing, I suggest you start centralizing your internet marketing services and products now.  It will save you a bunch of time later on, and it makes sense to have all of your IM services and products listed in one place.

You don’t need to have them hosted in the same place, or on the same domain, but you should have a link to them from your central IM hub.

If you have been doing this for a while, you really should have a central service/product site.  Without that centralization you will forgot about some of what you offer, because they are not linked to from any central location.

If you’re like me and haven’t done any centralization, but see the need to - get ready to do some work

Here is my start at centralizing my IM products and services.

Mike

Here is just one great use for the tool - finding great, keyword rich domain names.

I have used this process to find domain names before Google provided real numbers, now this technique is more relevant than ever.

1.  Go to the Keyword Tool , and type in one or two words about your niche, words you want in your domain.

2.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page after the tool has loaded the keywords.

3.  Click on “text” by Download all keywords:  This will allow you to open notepad and it will contain the keywords.

4.  Goto Godaddy.com - Goto Domains -> Bulk Register

5.  Copy and paste the keywords in the notepad file into the box.  Notice there is a 500 name limit.

6.  I suggest you only select .com names

7.  Enter the captcha numbers, click Go and watch it work.

Most keywords will already have a domain registered.  Scroll down to find those keywords that don’t have a domain registered yet.

I then copy the domains that are available form the bottom box and paste them into another notepad file.

I then scroll through the names looking for the best domain names.

Now, I will then take my top domain names and go back to the Google Keyword tool and look at the numbers.  I look at the estimated traffic and the competition.

If I think the traffic numbers are good, and the competition is reasonable, I will keep the keyword/domain on my list.

When I have narrowed my list down, I then do an exact search in Google, using quotes - example “fly fishing”.

I look to see how many pages I will be competing with, I like to keep this less than 30K.  I look to see if there are Adwords ads.

If there are no Adwords ads, the keyword probably does not pay - unless you have found a gold mine keyword, but that doesn’t happen much these days.

I also like to look at some of the top listings, to see if they are taking advantage of social marketing (have been stumbled).

If they are not taking advantage of social marketing, you may be able to work your way into the top 10 since you have the keyword in your domain and you will take advantage of social marketing.

I also like to look at the top 5 or so listed websites to see if they are taking advantage of on page SEO.

If I think I have a shot in the top 10, I will keep the domain on my list.

I will then take what I think will be the best domain, buy it and point it to my web host.

Now I have to write some content related to my domain keyword, and put it on my site, and apply some social marketing love to the content.

After this is done, I look for some affiliate programs to plug into the site.  If you can’t find an affiliate program related to your niche, you can always use Google Adsense.

This all takes a while, but if you get a good keyword, that gets a fair amount of traffic, with good content, and the keyword is in your domain, you stand a good chance of making money.

The worst that will happen is you’ll have spent $10, and worked a few hours for no return.

But, all is still not lost.  People are always looking for good content websites, especially with good domain names.

If nothing else you can probably sell the site and make a little bit of profit.

So, give this system a try.  It’s helped me find some great domain names.

By the way, I have a few domain names for sale, and established websites for sale.  I just don’t have enough time to give them all the attention they need.  You just might find yourself a gold mine there!

Mike

If you have previously used the keyword tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordTool you know that in the past Google never provided actual traffic numbers.  They only gave you a graphical representation of the traffic trends over time.

The tool was useful for helping you come up with more keywords, but little else.

Now that the tool reports actual traffic numbers, this changes everything.  The change makes the Google keyword tool gold!

Or does it?

After doing some testing myself, and reading about some others who have tested, I don’t belive the numbers are accurate.

I’m not convinced their Ad Position, CPC and traffic numbers are correct. I am bidding on keywords the tool says should be at position 1-3 for .05, and I’m paying about.20 for position 3.6. And, I’m only getting about 1/3 impressions compared to their traffic estimate.

Others who have tested, claim that the traffic numbers are inflated about 2 to 1.  So take the numbers with a grain of salt
So, does this make the tool any more valuable than it was before?

I think so.  If the numbers are not accurate, hopefully they are relatively inaccurate - meaning, if the traffic is overstated 2 to 1, hopefully that applies arccos all keywords.

If that is the case, the tool will be very useful for comparing keywords, to determine which keywords have the most traffic for the least competition.

I’m sure over the next few weeks, as more testing is done, we will learn how accurate the numbers really are.

Coming soon, I’ll provide a tip to help you easily find quality domain names using the Google Keyword tool.  I’ll show you how you can spend $10 on that domain name, and turn it into much more $$$.

I’m in the middle of writing it right now, so it should only be a few days.

Mike

I recently posted an article “DoFollow Blogs Versus NoFollow Blogs“  on Ezinearticles.com and GoAritcles.com.

I was happy to see that people were picking up my article and posting it on their blogs.  Unfortunately, one of the first that I know about that picked up the article was a blogger who is stealing my article content.

This blogger has my article, word for word on his blog with no references to me, or my “About the Author” box.  So, I did the work of creating a good article, and this idiot gets quality content for his blog with no, or very little, work.

It appears they scraped the content of the article and stripped off the Biography box.  This is a violation of the article directory policies, but they won’t go after violators, it’s up to the author to go after them.

I noticed other articles on the blog, and I suspect they were stolen just as mine was.

So, I have sent the blog owner a nice message, asking them to give me credit.  We’ll see how that goes.

This is the first time, that I know of, I have had an article used like this.

The only way I knew of this thief, was I have a Google Alert setup to look for the keywords “dofollow blogs”.

When I got my alert email today, I saw my article title.  I thought great, my article is starting to get picked up.  Then I went to the site to find there is absolutely no reference to me, or my site.

This type of behavior could make article marketing (Bum Marketing) absolutely worthless.

So, if you are doing article marketing I suggest you setup some Google Alerts related to your article titles so you can spot content thieves.

We all need to be diligent on finding these people, and confronting them nicely.  Then, if they take no action, we need to contact their web hosts and report them for copyright violations.

Oh great…the email I sent this person is a bad email address - I should have known that.  So, now what do I do?  Try to find them with Whois?

Guess I’ll try to find an email via their whois info.

If any of you have experience with this content theft kind of thing, please leave your experiences in the comments.

Mike

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