The book  follows a lot of the same context as you find on Problogger in terms of style and context. Of course you should probably expect this as Darren wrote a lot of the book. Overall I would say the book is a good read and has some really useful information. Its mostly theory and advice on things you should be doing when you build a blog. I would have liked it better if there where more explicit examples on some of the items the book covers mainly on stuff like revenue generation and private ad sales.

It would have been hard for them to give specific examples on a platform as the book’s focus was designed to reach a wide array of bloggers and not spend verbiage on any one specific platform. if you are serious about building your blog up, then I would say the book is worth the few dollars it costs and could probably help a lot of people learn to be better bloggers. I don’t really want to spoil any of Darren’s thunder so I won’t tell the specific tactics that are in the book, but I did pick up a couple of items that should help me a lot.

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income by Darren Rowse, Chris Garrett Read more about this book…

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Initially the themes can look a little over whelming, but if you dive right into them, then its not that difficult at all. For the majority of the themes you will need at least 4 categories on your blog and 5 is better as you will need a Featured category for most of the themes. Its then a matter of figuring out what the category ID is of the category you wish to feature and then edit the templates to handle it. Editing the templates is a little tedious, but not hard once you figure out where everything is located. The only way this could be better if Brian had written a plugin to allow you to set the categories and text of the featured sections from within the admin panel which would make it easier for users without comfort with modifying wordpress themes.

The themes are starting to have options which can be set in the admin panel, so this may be something that is on Brian’s list for a future release. Overall I like the way the theme’s look and its quite possible you will see one of the versions on this blog very soon. I need to create some images prior to installing it here to obtain the look I desire, but after going through the city theme this morning I’ve got some ideas how I can make one or a combination of a couple of the themes work out well for this blog.

Brian has a free version of the themes which you can download to try them out on your blog before you purchase, but the free version does not have near the customization features as you get with the professional pack. If you want a professional looking theme at a decent price then you may want to check these out and see what they can do for your blog.

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I’ve been reading a post series from Problogger on Ways to let your blog go and its a very good series, possibly one of the best things I’ve ever read on Problogger. One of posts in the series talks about time management for your blog activities and it describes exactly what has happened to me lately. I’ve become stretched too thinly with my activities. This is actually something that happens to a lot of people who earns money on the net and identify themselves as Internet Marketers.

I’ve seen person after person on various Internet marketing forums where someone states they are working their tail off but just can’t seem to catch a break and as a result they make very little or no money at all. Eventually they just give up. The gurus want you jumping from task to task, from site to site as it helps them squeeze more money out of you and you purchase their next major eBook that promises you the one thing that will launch your success. The truth is these people only want your money and they don’t want you to be successful. I’ve read quite a few of these so called eBooks and they pretty much all say the same thing. You don’t need any books, you can get everything you need from blogs just like this one or Problogger.net

Content is the only thing that matters when it comes to making money. Don’t try to sell the Make Money products as an affiliate. If you want to sell affiliate products then find products that appeal to a large segment of the population and just spend time creating good content. It may not pay off immediately for you, but it will pay off in the end.

These so called Gurus and I won’t mention their names have not done much in this world except build up massive lists and re-hash some content in an eBook with the same information you could find for free on the net with some well crafted Google searches. I don’t know of a single well known Internet Marketing Guru that has built any substantial site where you can see concrete proof of how their tactics work. What is the reason for this? If you do see their site’s its apparent those sites are not high traffic and if you have been around the net any length of time you know a site must have traffic to make any decent money.

The Gurus make their money by selling other people guides on how to make money, there is no other revenue stream that they use to make money and that is why they need you.

You will be a lot better off just picking a couple of websites in your chosen niche and focusing all your available time and energy on making those sites the best they can be. Spending time on 30-40 sites at a time will only serve one purpose and that is that none of the sites will become a money maker and allow you to realize your dreams.

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Utilizing this data will help you to design your blog posts to take advantages of weaknesses in popular phrases or even target the same phrases as the big sites target. Its not a perfect system and I still need to spend some time figuring this out and determining the best way to use the data, but its still early and I need to do some testing and spying on my competitors before I know exactly how I’m going to use this tool.

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MySpace has won another lawsuit against a spammer Scott Richter and his Web marketing company, Media Breakaway LLC of Westminster, Colorado. MySpace has been aggressively targeting people who spam their website. This is just an example of how a good thing gets abused by Internet Marketers. It was not too long ago that eBooks on how to market to MySpace and even software that helped you do this was sold throughout Internet Marketing forums all over the web. As a result you have MySpace fighting back and winning.

A lot of marketers do not think about these types of things when they post how to do something to generate traffic and then others start abusing the methods until they are worthless to everyone. That is one reason I don’t sell eBooks on the techniques I use to generate traffic. I publish posts at times that give some insight into methods I use, but i don’t publish my best secrets. Well I might once a lot of people start to figure it out and then I’m on to something else while others are spamming an otherwise effective method to the point that it does not work any longer. Wake up people and keep some secrets to yourself. You can make more money long term from the traffic than you can short term from an eBook.

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I’m always looking for other methods to earn money on the web and Amazon Mechanical Turk has some capability to earn a little bit or cash, but a better use for it is to get low cost workers to help you with your web promotion. Basically it works like this you sign up for an account and either request to be assigned an Amazon Mechanical Turk for you to perform a hit on. A Hit is basically an action. It can be as simple as providing feedback or it could be a blog review. The reviews are where it gets useful as you can us it to help build up your backlinks to a blog or other website. This is an interesting concept and it works similar to other lancing sites such as the many free lancing sites, except you could have a hundred people performing hits for you all at once. The terms are a little tough, but as long as you stick to the rules you could gain a lot of backlinks in a short amount of time, with just a little investment on your part. You can take a look for yourself at http://www.mturk.com

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What I will divulge is that I’ve been playing with a new traffic generation technique that was just staring me in the face for months and I did not realize what I was looking at. I’m not going to let it out of the bag at the moment, but will after I spend a little more time developing the techniques, but what I will tell is it is so easy to generate thousands of real visitors to a brand new website which will convert to revenue for no investment on your part. Some of the Gurus are using this, but for the most part these techniques are getting overlooked. I will show a screen shot and will be divulging exactly how I obtained these numbers on a brand new site later on so you may want to subscribe if you are not already subscribed.

This is a domain that I registered about a year ago, but never did anything with. In January I put up a wordpress blog and made a couple of posts, but did not actively promote it as I was working on other sites. You should be able to tell by the graphic that I found my little technique in the last part of May. At first it was not monetized at all so the May traffic did not produce desired results, but I quickly fixed that and the June traffic is going to net me a little money. I’m still working on the best methods to get the most conversion out of the traffic and I have some ideas which will increase the conversion rate. Its not bad, but its also not where I would like it to be. I’m looking at some other methods and using the same techniques to push traffic to my other sites which is really starting to pay off.

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The system was changed so the price to advertise is based on supply. So the more people who want to advertise on a blog, the higher the price. Now overall I think this is fair. But there are some items I don’t like about the new system. The first is all the blogs are really high priced, even ones that don’t perform. Before I could grab spots on blogs in the 20-40 credit range and get fairly decent ROI from those blogs. The price was cheap enough that I could buy a lot of ads and keep them running all the time. That’s pretty much impossible now. Earlier I wanted to purchase some ads and I did not even look at any over 128 credits. Most of the ones I looked at did not look to be one that would bring me any clicks or not very many. I went through 1000 credits in just a couple of minutes. Now I have the credits because at first I dropped a lot of cards and i never spent as many credits as I earned. So I have over 20K in credits in my account. It took a lot of dropping for me to build those credits and I don’t want to blow them all on a few days advertising.

For this reason I’m seriously considering just giving up on Entrecard. I just don’t have the time to drop every day like crazy and without doing that then I don’t see how I can make this worth my time. At one time I could drop on weekends to the amount of credits that where allowed and then throughout the week on my favorites and have plenty of credits to keep my blog out there on numerous sites everyday, but there is no way I would be able to do that now. I’m going to need to decide if I want to keep this up or just offer a contest for all my credits and spend my limited time on other methods of promotion.

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Am I the only one who finds this weird? Yahoo has its one search platform and while it has not caught on in the industry like Google Adwords has it is a competitor to Adwords. I will admit that I don’t have a lot of experience with Yahoo Ads. I was accepted into the program early on and I ran it a little on a couple of sites, but the ads where not really relevant to the content on those sites so I removed it and put Adsense back on those sites. It appears really the main people this program has been able to attract and keep are those who have been removed from the Adsense program for what ever reason. Regardless of my lack of experience with Yahoo, this just seems like bad business. Why would they pump up revenue for a competitor. Perhaps decisions such as this are why they have put themselves in the position to be acquired in the first place. Maybe Yahoo should take Microsoft’s offer since it seems they don’t have the talent needed to run their own business.

I personally think this acquisition will help the marketers on the net, especially those of us who derive revenue from contextual based ads. Right now Google is the leader in this area and as a result are able to set the tone for the market. More competition in this area will possibly mean a higher cut of advertising revenue for the people who actually generate the revenue. Microsoft has not made a lot of progress with its ads program, but combining both what MS has and what little progress Yahoo has made, should require Google to offer more incentive to prevent publishers from jumping ship.

Of course there is also the chance the merger will allow Microsoft to regain some ground in this area. Microsoft has a habit of being late to the game with these types of items and then pulling out ahead and crushing the competition. With the additional eyeballs the Yahoo properties will give MS, they may be able to start their road to dominance on the net. Guess we’ll just need to wait and see what happens.

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I figured I would give this a shot. I’ve got a few ideas for generating some leads. One of which is posting here. Yes those are affiliate links and if you join through one of them you will be come part of my team. There are some fairly savy marketers jumping on board here and there will be resources coming down the pipe to help people with attracting new members.

I’m betting most people who are reading this already have a built up profile that can be used to start building your team. It was just a year or so ago that MySpace was all the rage and many people where earning a lot of affiliate revenue from their friends list on MySpace. Well Myspace started cracking down and it got tough to send out your broadcasts. Well perhaps many of you still have some of those MySpace accounts. That is prime ground for attracting people to your team as Yuwie has many of the same features as MySpace and Facebook has. Plus wouldn’t it be great to give all your friends an avenue to actually earn a little of the money the generate for MySpace and Facebook. After all what do you have to lose? Setting up an account is free and it is really easy to use. There is a video that will explain exactly how it works so you cna make up your own mind. While the money you can earn initially won’t be a lot, but I would bet if you had just one MySpace account with a 100 friends then you would be able to improve those initial numbers in a hurry. What do you have to lose but a little time? Watch the video now.

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