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The Importance of Article and Post Titles

Garry Conn — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:20:44 +0000

I received a very challenging question today from a reader of mine named, Don, who has a blog called Essential Health Nuggets. He is faced with a situation I am sure many people are faced with. He is passionate about his natural writing and feels turned off with the idea of changing his style to conform in a way that will enable him to rank better in the search engines. Basically in the email he wants to know if he should continue to write using the style that is comfortable for him, or if he should change his style which will enable him to possibly rank better in the search engines, but cause him to be unhappy. Here is a copy of his email:

Hi Garry

Thanks for your friendly approach. Ok then …

My question is: I find writing to be “spider friendly” is artificial and a departure from one’s natural style. But I also realize that there is minimal organic traffic without bowing to the SEO Gods.

Do I stay with my gut and just write what comes naturally … or do I shoot for a keyword density of 2%, download a bunch of keyword software and spend my days doing something I really hate?

Surely at the end of the day there is more value in unfabricated content?

My blog is at http://essentialhealthnuggets.blogspot.com

I update twice a week and get between 10 and 70 visitors a day … and I make zero bucks!

Many thanks

Don

Here are my thoughts. Most search engines, especially Google, illustrates the importance of natural writing. I have to agree. While I have experience with writing content in a way that is geared towards pulling rank in the search engines, learning how to adapt your writing style can be tricky.

Instead of changing your writing style there are actually other things that you can do towards optimizing your articles to rank better in the search engines. One of the most important things you can do is with giving your article an excellent post title.

If you are more comfortable writing off the cuff then my advice would be to name your article after you finish writing it. Re-read what you wrote and summarize your article giving it a title which would also be something that a user would be likely to search for in a search engine.

An Example of Bad SEM Copywriting

Garry Conn — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:24:53 +0000

Almost every day I receive an email from people telling me that they are copywriters and can provide me with excellent content that will allow me to rank well in the search engines. I am always open minded to evaluating the quality of these writers as my business is much easier having other people write content for me rather than doing it myself.

When I receive an email like this, I’ll respond back and ask them to provide me with a 75 to 100 word example of their work. In the email back to them I give them a hypothetical keyword phrase that I would like to rank for and ask them to write about it. In most cases they fail to provide me with a quality example.

Recently, I asked a writer to provide me with a sample based around the keyword phrase “Cheap Bottled Water” and today I received the email back and the result of that drove me to write this post on my blog. Here is a copy of the content provided to me.

Cheap Bottled Water

Most people have turned to bottled water as an alternative to tap water since they think it is safer. Cheap bottled water has become a popular item in many people’s shopping carts. However, make sure that the cheap bottled water is up to the set standards before consuming it. There is cheap bottled water from various stores at comparable prices. Remember cheap bottled water may not be ultimately healthy compared to tap water.

Most people think that copywriting for search engine marketing is all about keyword stuffing. In the case of the writer who provided me with this sample above, he felt like he had to use the phrase, “cheap bottled water” constantly and in almost every sentence.

While I am not a Google Expert or a hardcore SEO, I do know one thing. Google does NOT like un-natural writing. The content above, totally sticks out like a sour thumb. The above content is clearly and obviously written in a way that is intended to trick Google. There is no pure and inner quality within this work. It is totally superficial and it totally doesn’t do ANYTHING for the end user. In other words, and to put it bluntly, the above content is garbage.

When you write content geared towards ranking in the search engines, there is much more involved than just stuffing keywords. Well, in fact, stuffing keywords isn’t good at all. My advice to you if you are trying to write content for search engine marketing is to simply write about the topic (keyword phrase) that you are targeting. Be natural and write your copy in a way that is understandable to others (as if you were writing a letter to a friend). If you do anything other than that, then you’ll be writing for search engines, where search engines want you to write for people.

The Reasons Why I Am Successful With Making Money Online and You’re Not

Garry Conn — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:51:26 +0000

I don’t sell things very often on my blog at all, whether this may be a product or a service from a trusted business or friend or a product or service of my own. While this post may come at a strange time because my next post will be an announcement telling you about the release of my 60 minute video I have to offer, I think that is ok, because the history of my blog will back me on this. I simply don’t sell a lot of things on my blog.

With that said, I want to talk to you about some of the reasons why I don’t sell things very often on my blog. You see, I am who I am as a person. I understand that I am gifted in many ways and I have some extraordinary talents. However, who doesn’t? Everyone has their own gift that makes them unique. And my gift is not any more extraordinary than your’s.

What does that mean? …

Well… the answer is simple. It means, that my perceptions of other people and how they run their blog are the same as your perceptions and how people run their blog.

Let me give you an example of my thinking on this, and this is totally true story.

I have an online friend who runs a blog and I subscribe to his blog. I think the person who runs the blog is a great guy. He is someone I enjoy talking to and someone who I don’t mind offering my advice and lending a helping hand.

Even though we have a great online — and at times, business — relationship, when I visit his blog and read his articles a few things happen:

Every single post written was created for the purpose of making an attempt to sell me an affiliate product that I know for a fact hasn’t been fully tested and approved by my friend. Yet, he expresses his approval of this product and insists on me purchasing it. I make a lot of money; however, I am not blessed with enough money to purchase a new affiliate product 7 days a week and 365 days in a year.
Every single post written explains to me why I need something. How the hell can someone really know what I need unless I tell them what my problem is? Secondly, how can someone know what my problem is unless they have asked me if I had a problem in the first place? Never tell me that you know me better than I know myself.
Every single link on the blog, I have trained myself to look at the status bar on my browser to inspect the link to see if it is either an affiliate link or a masked one. I’ll be honest too, because of how thoughtless this individual is, I purposely strip out the URL and or do a Google search for the home page, either case cheating him out of his commission if I so choose to purchase.

Ok Ok Ok, so maybe this is just his game and all these sales pitches don’t apply to me. Then I say to myself, “Well… ok, you’re right Garry, indeed he is a fellow Internet Marketer, so I am excluded from his wishy washy sales pitches. He is selling to his own list and I am just an equal standing next to him within the business of Internet Marketing.” That should make me feel better, right?

{ … wrong … }

… It doesn’t, because this then creates a new problem.

The new problem is the fact that I disapprove of how my online friend is running his blog. How it upsets me to see how he is attempting to lure people into purchasing products that — and without any hope — falsely claim that they help people learn or perform in a way that will enable them to make money online. This all of course is being done while he shapes and molds his online identity as being a good guy. He uses his offline credentials towards enhancing his online superficial and manifested one.

So, I’ll share a story about my life working in the corporate world as a manager and shed some light on my OFFLINE credentials.

Before throwing away my job as a successful regional manager and making the decision to work for myself, I learned a lot about customer service and managing people. As a regional manager I found it very interesting to see how each store performed differently based on the store level management.

Of course when I would pay a visit to the poor performing stores, things would be right as rain. I would be fed the normal BS and often I was lied to or my questions being asked would be answered in ways that would mask or cover up issues that needed to be addressed.

No one tells the boss the truth. It’s just like asking a 13 year old teen to tell the truth about whether he smoked a cigarette or left the house late at night to be with a girl. So knowing this, and knowing that it was very unlikely that my awkward presence in the poor performing stores would actually reveal the truth to the problem, often I did something a little different that enabled me to figure out why the various stores were performing poorly.

Most of my stores were located in various shopping malls. Frequently I would take advantage of my salary wage and do my own shopping in the other stores in the mall. While I shopped, I understood that the employees and even store level managers had no clue of my position with my own company. I used that to my advantage and allowed them to service me while I evaluated their own skills.

Often I would create situations that caused employees to think out of the box, often these situations would require the assistance of a manager and for the manager to also think out of the box. The plot always was geared with the same objective: To see how well the manager dealt with the situation I created. And the situations created were typically things that would require the individual to think for himself rather than seek resolution found in a store managers operations manual.

In the situations where I was impressed with the manager, I would thank him for providing the service and then mention to him who I was and what my position was with my company. Once revealed and the store manager knew who I was, I would then compliment him on his abilities and skills as a manager. Often I would also make a file on this individual for future recruitment. However, the purpose to all this isn’t recruitment, although, that is always a possibility at any given time. The short stream of the reason behind all this is simple.

I needed someone to accurately evaluate my poor performing store. I have already proven to myself that the staff in my store act differently around me. When this happens, I can’t get a true reading on why the store is performing poorly. The solution: I need a skilled equivalent to go into the store and observe what I can’t observe myself in its natural state. And what better person can you find to go in undercover than a top performing manager of another store?

And so that is what would happen. A favor would be returned to me and that favor would be in getting the top performing manager from another store visit my poor performing store — for free — and secret shop it while I would eat a very leisurely lunch in the food court while surfing the Internet using my corporate laptop on public WiFi. Often I would day dream about ways I could end my job and start making money online.

A few hours later I would meet back up with the manager who secret shopped and evaluated my store and we would discuss his findings. Often a written report was made and handed over to me, which gave me the synopsis as well as the blueprints to correct the problems. In most cases I would keep the action plan as is without change. Executing the plan was always the simple part. In the few cases if the plan suggested to find a new manager for the store, well guess what? I already had my replacement.

What Does All That Mean?

Well, this story all ties into how my friend is running his blog and also how he has the desire to make money online. The problem is in how he is operating his blog and how there are similarities with the way he is doing it in comparison to how a few of my former managers were operating their poorly performing stores.

My free secret shopper and store evaluation reports usually revealed the same thing. Lack of customer service, lack of employee accountability, lack of customer service training, and lack of leadership ability in the store manager. Often the report provided to me by the top performing managers of other stores expressed that they had the perception that their best interests weren’t being kept in mind by the staff as well as the managers within my store. In many cases, it was communicated to me that my staff was overaggressive, displayed lack of personal interest, and failed to connect with the manager who was secret shopping my store. In summary, the volunteer managers who secret shopped and evaluated my few poor performing stores often felt treated as if they were numbers rather than individuals with needs.

Show Me The Money…

The money does not come by running a blog where every post published promotes a product. The money is not in the list that constantly distributes fictional situations that attempt plant seeds into the minds of subscribers in hopes that it will germinate into profitable sales.

Show me the money and show me how to make money online! Ok, so consider this… in order to make money online you must figure out a way to utilize the strengths of your people. Rather than treating your readers, list members , and RSS subscribers as calculated numbers of units sold, treat them like the unique and super talented individuals they are.

What The Heck Does That Mean???

It means that in many ways, you may be looking at your people, your readers, your list members, and RSS subscribers as if they were customers, where in reality they are actually more like your volunteer employees. If you channel and embrace the powers of your followers and find the hidden skills and talents within, you can then foster that power into your business model.

For me, my business is in search engine marketing. My business is very simple. I need content so that I can I target traffic in search engines and convert that traffic into money. I earn money online primarily by using Google AdSense. In order to make money online with Google AdSense, once again… I need content. The more content that I can get streamed into the search engines, the more money I make.

How Do I Get More Content?

Well, you’d be amazed with how much free and high quality content I can get in exchange for a one hour phone call. Typically, I get around 8 to 16 hours of free content in exchange for a one hour phone call. What is 8 to 16 hours worth of content? This is content that would take me 8 to 16 hours to write myself. Time is money and one hour invested towards helping someone and offering my advice is an excellent trade for receiving 16 hours of free labor.

One of the mainstream strengths within my people is the fact that they are all very skilled and highly motivated writers. Most are writers who want to learn how they can apply their skills on the Internet in a way that can earn money. When I provide them with a solution towards learning, they are willing to volunteer their time towards providing me with content, therefore making the exchange well worth both our effort.

Money is a form of merit. Value comes in many forms and it also comes in indirect ways. To find success online, you must learn how to see the alternative values in elements that many people commonly overlook. In order to gain a better understanding of who I am and my background, you have to realize that I am not rich. I have a job just like everyone else does. Some people are plumbers while others are home builders. I happen to have a self made career with online business, specifically with search engine marketing. With that being said, this business doesn’t and never has afforded me the option to invest money into any of my projects. In order to achieve what I want, I have to manufacture my own currency to use towards the project.

If you have played the popular board game, Monopoly, you would know that the game involves having “play money”. However, even though in the real world this “play money” holds no value, in game play it means everything. With that said, a huge part of what I do online is in printing massive amounts of this “play money” that represent value to interested prospects.

A large part of being successful in online business as well as offline business is in extracting alternative currency and exploiting the value in it to use towards getting the results that you want without having to spend your own money doing it. If you can successfully do that, then you can do anything.

Follow Me On The MoreNiche Blog and Learn About Affiliate Marketing

Garry Conn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:00:48 +0000

Andrew Slack, Co-Owner and Business Development Manager for the MoreNiche Network has hired me to provide readers with high quality content on their blog. MoreNiche is a premium affiliate network that allows bloggers and publishers, such as yourself, to earn excellent commission for promoting products and services found within their network.

Their blog is geared towards helping people find success with affiliate marketing. This is a topic that I can provide a lot of excellent advice and offer some amazing tips. I will be publishing two articles per week on their blog, one published on Sunday and the other published on Thursday. My articles published on the MoreNiche Blog will help you learn more about affiliate marketing and how to find success with it.

The MoreNiche affiliate program provides very competitive compensations compared to other similar networks such as Pepperjam and MarketLeverage. For every conversion you make (sale, lead, or even phone call) you can make up to $300 dollars. Within their network, you will be provided with amazing marketing tools as well as individualized support.

I want to personally invite you to subscribe to my RSS feed on the MoreNiche blog. Here is the URL:

http://feedproxy.google.com/GarryConn/MoreNiche

Also for those who prefer to receive full updates by email you can subscribe using this link:

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=GarryConn/MoreNiche

If you haven’t joined the MoreNiche Affiliate program, I strongly recommend that you do so. When you join you will automatically be awarded with a $15 sign up bonus. You can read my first article titled, Increase Affiliate Marketing Conversions Creating Online Videos.

For those who don’t know, I also cover the topics of search engine optimization, marketing and ranking over at SeoHosting.com’s blog. If you would like to read content geared towards helping you with search engines, especially Google, I want to invite you to subscribe to that RSS feed as well. Here is the URL:

http://feedproxy.google.com/GarryConn/SeoHosting

Once again for those that prefer receiving full updates by email you can subscribe using this link:

http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=garryconn/seohosting

I currently publish three articles per week on SeoHosting.com’s blog, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. These three articles in addition to the two articles on MoreNiche are of course in addition to my normal seven articles I publish on GarryConn.com. I publish one article per day on my own personal blog, each aritcle goes live at midnight.

By the way, you can find my most recent articles from both the MoreNiche.com blog as well as the SeoHosting.com blog displayed directly on my sidebar.

P.S. I really want to take my Christmas tree down and put it back in the attic. Before I can do that, I still need to give away some unclaimed gifts.

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Google Updates Their Submit Your Content Page

Garry Conn — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:00:55 +0000

I am subscribed to the Google AdSense Blog and if you are into learning more about Google AdSense, I would recommend subscribing too. I read a blog post on the AdSense blog published by Steffanie Johnson who explained that Google just updated their Submit Your Contentpage.

“We updated our Submit Your Content site with more information about distributing your content through Google products such as Web Search, Maps, YouTube, and iGoogle. In addition, we launched our Content Central blog, featuring tips and information from Googlers who work on different products.” Steffanie Johnson said in the post.

The update is very nice and it brings many of the more modern services up to the forefront. One of the services that interest me is Google Gadgets. There was a time where adding you url into Google was of prime focus. And still to this day, people add their sites to Google. But as the Internet continues to shape and mold itself into a large super network of sharing and distributing, I think Google is making great efforts towards adapting their engine to accommodate for that.

Google Gadgets interests me because it is a system that allows users to create a unique way of sharing information with others. A Google Gadget can be something as simple as syndicating an RSS feed or as complex as creating an interactive video game.

A user can create, promote and share a Google Gadget. Most importantly, other users can search and find the Google Gadget created and even add it to their own iGoogle home page.

If you are a blogger and a publisher, you might want to also pick up a subscription Google’s Content Central Blog. This is one of Google’s newer blogs that was created back in September of 2008. The blog isn’t updated too often but when new posts are published, such as the Submit Your Content announcement, these items may be of interest to you.

Google’s revised Submit Your Content page brings Webmaster Tools, Local Search Inclusion, YouTube and Video Sitemap Inclusion, and Items For Sale inclusion, such as Google Base up to the top of the list. Also with the improved linking and navigation, I find it much easier for new users to discover these services for the first time and learn more.

What does that mean for you? Be creative. Let’s say that you have 5 blogs that you enjoy reading a lot. You can easily create a Google Gadget that syndicates their content and then share this gadget with 20 other friends by allowing them to install the gadget you created on their iGoogle home page.

You could also create an iGoogle Gadget that syndicates the RSS feed of your own blog. You could then create a small advertisement on the sidebar of your blog that encouraged your readers to install it on their iGoogle home page.

The odds of actually getting people to set your web site as their home page in their web browser is slim to none. However, with services such as Google Gadgets, you have a great chance at owning a section of real-estate on your readers home page.

Ask Me a Question, Get an Answer (Part II)

Garry Conn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:02:28 +0000

What questions do you have so far in your process of learning how to make money online? There are quite a few new faces here on the blog. Welcome! I am happy to have you here as a reader. Likewise, all my regulars, I very much appreciate you reading the blog over such an extended period of time. With that said, this post is very short because I am going to everything over to you.

Every once in awhile I do these Q n A style blog posts where I give my readers the opportunity to use the comments towards asking me questions. My goal is to answer every single one.

What are you stumped on? What is preventing you from pushing forward in this business? Having an issue your blog? Do you want to know more about CSS? Are search engines kicking your butt? What is a widget? How do RSS feeds really work? Why does WordPress update so often? Should I purchase this particular product? Whatever the question may be, I want to help by providing you with an answer, opinion or suggestion. For a lot of my silent readers, this is a perfect opportunity for you to ask me something that has been on your mind for a long time.

Drop a comment below with your questions and then get an answer.

Concrete Advice For Making Money Online With Niche Blogs

Garry Conn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:34:04 +0000

According to Wikipedia, concrete curbing is the process of adding a raised concrete edge to a street, walkway or paved path. A concrete curb is used for both cosmetic purposes, safety and to aid in proper drainage of a roadway.

According to the results found in the Google AdWords keyword tool, creating a niche blog about concrete curbing can make you some very decent money. The search term concrete curbing receives an average of 6,600 searches in Google per month. Google AdWords advertisers are paying up to $4.63 per click. The concrete curbing search result page in Google has only 527,000 search results making the base competition relatively low. Scanning the results on the serp page shows me that many of the sites listed aren’t very optimized in terms of SEM and SEO. Let’s take a closer look:

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

In this screen shot you can see that keywords related to the term “Concrete Curbing” have an estimated Avg. CPC of $4.64 and have an average monthly search count of 6,600. Additionally, you can see that this niche also has some excellent material for multiple articles.

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Make Money Online Building a Blog about Gardening

Garry Conn — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:25:09 +0000

Do you like gardening? Can you write about it? If you can answer yes to both of these questions, then in this article I can show you how you can make money online by building a blog about gardening. A gardening blog is a perfect niche blog to start because in my research it seems like there is an almost endless amount of material that you can write about.

Using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool as well as my trusty copy of Micro Niche Finder I can see that advertisers are willing to pay good money to display their ads on your blog. The only thing you need to do is create the blog, produce the content and score AdSense Money. Let me show you more of my findings.

Level One: Primary Keyword Filtration – Gardening

When I start my search for a niche topic I do a search for primary keywords such as using basic words like: car, boat, education, gardening, house, etc. Doing this gives me a list of more focused words. We’ll call these secondary keywords. Here are two screen shots:

Google AdWords Keyword Tool For Gardening:

Keywords related to the word gardening sorted by estimated CPC.

In the above screen shot the secondary keyword phrase that has caught my eye is the term, garden lighting. In a few minutes we’ll talk more about this.

Micro Niche Finder For Gardening:

In the above screen shot you will see that Micro Niche Finder has also reported a similar keyword phrase, garden lights. I use Micro Niche Finder to cross reference when doing my first level primary keyword searches in order to see if I can find matching secondary keyword phrases in both programs.

Ask Me a Question, Get an Answer (Part I)

Garry Conn — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:45:30 +0000

Ask me a question and get an answer. It’s as simple as that. Need some help with something, ask me a question. Want to know my opinion about something, ask me your question. Want to know if I like a certain make money online program better than another, ask me and find out. Do you want to know if I am really human or a machine, ask me and discover the truth.

Every once in awhile, I do a post like this where I allow everyone who reads it an opportunity to get a reaction from me based off the question they ask. I will answer as many questions as possible and avoid all the difficult ones. lol

Seriously though… if you need help, curious about something, or just want to know something stupid and off the wall such as, “Hey Garry, which do you like better… cats or dogs?” drop me a comment below and fire off your question.

This is a great opportunity for you if you need advice about…

Blogging
WordPress
Search Engine Marketing
Search Engine Ranking
Search Engine Optimization
WordPress Themes
WordPress Code
Internet Marketing
Making Money Online
Business, Product, Service Marketing
Niche Blogging
Social Networking
Social Network Marketing
Digg
Propeller
StumbleUpon
FaceBook
FriendFeed
RSS Feeds
Yahoo Pipes
Google AdWords
Google AdSense
Yahoo Publisher
ClickBank
Commission Junction
LinkShare.com
PepperjamNetwork
Article Writing
Tagging
Keyword Targeting
Domain Name Selection
Web Hosting
HTML Code
CSS
Twitter
WordPress Plugins
Sitemaps
FeedBurner
MarketLeverage
OpenSource Software
…. just to name a few things.

How To Build Micro Niche Web Sites

Garry Conn — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:24:45 +0000

Lately, I have been keeping myself busy building micro niche web sites. It has actually been a lot of fun to do. These micro niche web sites that I am building are very simple, one page, web sites. They are very useful and provide some excellent information to people who find them.

For over a year, I was on this super big micro blog building kick. Mainly for the ease of use in publishing content on the Internet. However, I am starting to believe that building micro niche blogs aren’t quite necessary. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with building them; however, building micro niche web sites work very well too.

Part of the reason why I am building these micro niche web sites instead of micro niche blogs is for the fact that if one of these niche sites hits off very well, I can always go back to it and install WordPress, Drupal or any other open source CMS that floats my boat.

I have been using Google AdWords keyword tool coupled with Micro Niche Finder to help me find very nice keyword phrases to target. When I find really cool keyword phrases that I want to target, I buy the matching domain name, if available. From there, I have a nice little template HTML that I have designed and I also have a .PSD template saved in Adobe Photoshop for my main header graphic.

I do pretty much everything I do with a blog in terms of SEO. I register the site in Google Webmaster tools, I make sure that I write content that compliments the primary and secondary keywords I am targeting and overall I make sure that the content is truly helpful for people.

A few days ago, I partnered up with an online buddy of mine — he reads my blog often — and together we created a neat little system. I am in charge of doing the keyword research, buying the domain name, building the site, registering in Google Webmaster tools, setting up Google Analytics, and plugging the site with a few high quality backlinks. My partner is in charge of writing the content, and I must say that he is doing an excellent job with this.

You would be amazed at how cheaply you do do what I am doing. I ordered a new HostGator.com account using their Baby Plan. The cost is only $9.95/month; however I got my first month discounted down to $0.01 because I used the coupon code: hgc25. I already have a copy of Micro Niche Finder; however, you can purchase your own copy for $99 dollars. It’s well worth the money. You visit this page and enter your name and email address to watch a free online video demonstration. A better solution, but a little more expensive, is a program called Keyword Elite.

Amazingly, we have a very simple system that seems to be working very well. I research the primary keyword, and then I reseach a handful of secondary keywords. From there I email my partner the list and he will then write the content based strongly off the primary targetable keyword while also providing a nice balance with using the secondary keywords provided.

So far we have built about five sites, nothing has been indexed just yet in Google as that can take around 7 to 14 days or longer. Once these first round of micro niche sites get indexed, I am real curious to see how well they do in the SERPS. In many ways, this is really an excellent test and I look forward to discovering the results in the up coming weeks.

Prior to finding my writing partner, I had built one site and after about a week it ended up getting indexed and then a few days later it landed the top ten listing in the search results. I was real pleased with this and that one site is what triggered me to do more. After two weeks of having this one site indexed and ranked on the top results, the domain name has already been paid for.

While that might not seem like a lot of money, when you deal with high volume though, this can add up real quick. That is my goal here with the partnership I have with my writer. We have a very simple php script that rotates our AdSense code on the page. When people visit the site, our AdSense code is randomly displayed. Sometimes his code will be visible, while other times mine will be visible. The end result is that we basically split the profits.

The great news is that we both put in equal amount of time per site. It takes me about an hour to do the keyword research, order the domain name, set up the web site, design the graphic, register it in Google Webmasters, set up Google Analytics, plug the site with a few backlinks and send my writer the work order. With all that, it also takes my writing partner about the same time to take the primary keyword and secondary keywords and proceed to write high quality content for the site. Each site has around 1000 to 2000 words. Once again, I am eager to see what the results will be and I hope that this little project will prove to be worth our time invested. Stay tuned…