Buying Links on Ebay

I have bought links on Ebay for a very low price. Now, however a site that did benefit from this strategy has been hit with a PR0 site wide. It used to have a PR5 and sub pages had PR4 and PR3.

Now they are all PR0 and I wonder why. There were many links coming to the page. Now I heard before that you could not get penalized on inbound links. Not so sure.

Perhaps a new Algo check sites known to sell links. Perhaps they monitor link sellers. The total links and traffic has gone up month after month so that is not the reason.

Selling on the internet

As many of you know, search engine optimization (SEO) is very important in how you rank in the search. Most people want to a get top ten listing in all the big search engines, but this is hard because you have a lot of competition.

So many people search for words that get a lot of clicks but have little competition. They use tools like Nichebot or word tracker or keyword discovery. These tools will help you locate Terms with little competition and lots of clicks.

The key is to find the right keywords and to place them in your body copy so that the search engines will give you a top ten ranking. This will in turn create traffic for your web site. Hopefully, this traffic will convert into sales and you will be able to survive.

The problem is that even when you sell an item, you have a lot of expenses which eat into whatever money you make over the Internet. For this reason, most companies on the Internet do not last long.

In addition to search engine optimization, you need to have a good business plan. You need to calculate before you go into business how many sales you need to survive. That way you can quickly gauge if you reach your target.

I will discuss more about this in the future, but for now bad as use a rough rule of thumb. Most products sold over the Internet will generate about $10.00 in usable money. Now, now calculate how much money you need to live. For a parole, is that you need $100.00 a day. So, if you sell items you make enough to survive.

Now think, how many clicks do I need to sell ten items. A rough rule of thumb is that you need 100 items for each successful sale. Now calculate the number of keywords that you have. It you get position one on the search engine, you typically get 10% of the total traffic. Position two 5% and position three 3%.

I got these figures by looking at overture and then looking at how much traffic I was getting for that particular keyword. It is important to be in position one because you get the lion’s share of the traffic. Still you will not be position one for all key words but if you get enough keywords, you should have sufficient traffic to generate the needed ten sales.

Finding Money on the Internet

You can find money on the internet. There are many sites that will pay you to do things. Sites like Payperpost that pays people to post reviews on their blogs.

The internet has many different sites which will pay you like istockphoto will pay you for photos.

Save Money on Hotel Bills

Quick way to save money on hotel bills? Yes!

If you travel a lot and I do then you know hotels are expensive, well Hotel Reservations to the rescue. They are offering a $100 rebate on your hotel stay. Also they offer up to a 70% discount on hotels. It is easy go to hotelreservations.com and sign up.

But hurry, this offer ends soon. You must book by January 31, 2007 for stays before March 31, 2007. Go there TODAY!

Trying to convince people about using my
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services.

1. The Strategy you use to achieve it

Advertising using Google Adwords and Overture/YSM.

2. How long it took you

Working on it the campaign since 2004.

3. What tools you use?

Nichebot.com and SEO Elite.

Also I went to John Tan's Blog.

5. A link to www.JohnTanBlog.com

Payperpost

So how is payperpost doing? That service that pays bloggers to blog.

Well take a look at this chart.

Posts tagged payperpost per day for the last 30 days.

Get your own chart!

Finding Success with SEO

We need to learn new ways to place high in the search engine rankings. Here is a new artcle from SEOBRO about how to attain this. The article is Finding Success with SEO.

Hope this article help people trying to improve their rank in the search engines. The key is high quality relevant links from high PR webpages.

Be careful! CEO detained for taking pictures.

Last year I was in Miami taking pictures of hotels and cops told me to put away the camera. It seems that terrorists take pix of buildings so nobody is supposed to take pix. Just recently the CEO of Fotolia was arrested in Paris for taking pictures. He was later released, but the message is so clear. It seems that we stepped into a time warp where NAZI Germany won WWII. Smile for the camera POLICE STATE!

Speaking of Miami, the supposed cruise ship capital of the world. Here is what really happens on board a luxury cruise ship.
BTW, don't take pictures there either I had my camera taken away. It seems like we are scared of our own shadows - like frightened cockroaches that hide under the refrigerator when somebody turn on the lights.

According to police, terrorists carry foreign currency, maps, cameras, and speak with funny accents. Sounds like a tourist to me...

MySpace Surveys

Here are some Myspace Surveys to spice up your site from a fellow warrior. Hope these surveys can help you. There are no charge so you can use them.

Tell me what you think. :)

Currency Tracking

There is a web site called http://www.wheresgeorge.com/ that has a list of dollar bills and where they have been.

Why is this important you might ask? Because if you have a land based "brick store" most of your customers will be from within 10 miles of your store. Few if any will travel more than 50 miles to go to a store. They may commute 50 miles to work, but when it comes time to buy they will typically choose a store that is near their house. Notice the pattern of dollar bill movement in the wheresgeorge currency tracking tool, the bill will circulate in a small town.

In contrast, with an internet based "click store" most of your customers will be from other states hundreds of miles away, but even here you will find that your small town is the US of A. More than 90% of your sales will be to the US. Yes a few sales to Canada and Europe, but few sales elsewhere.

India with 1 billion people and China with 1.3 billion will account for less than 1% of total sales. It seems that the internet turns the US into your "small town" area.

We can now optimize our website for selling to the US, by running Google adwords from 5PM EST - 11PM EST. We do not want any clicks from Midnight - 5AM as most of our customers are sleeping.

Also you can target the geographic ares from where you get your clicks. And finally we can place ads in websites that get a high percentage of their traffic from the US.

Long Tail Keyword Strategy

To do well in the area of long tail keywords yopu need for each web page to have:

Page Title with long tail keywords in it

Page Name contains the long tail key-words

Headline with long tail key phrases in H1 tag

Subheads with long tail keyword in H2 / H3 tag

Meta tags - Desc & Keywords

Keyword Density of long tail key phrases should be 2% - 6% of body copy

Pictures (many) on page with [i]long tail keys[/i] in ALT TAG, picture name and desc

Podcast of page for visually impaired

Site Map points to each page

Page has links to other pages in the site - link cloud

RSS FEED on page points to additional content

Anchor Text on page has [i]long tail keyword [i] in it and points to other sites with more information

LINKS from blogs and other websites to the the page and have [i]long tail key phrase[i] in the anchor text

More SEO in 2007

I plan to post more SEO stuff in 2007.


Maile Ohye offers XLent Google SEO advice

Dude, this advice is so straight, this ain't no mirl with a manbag. :)

Incredible but true

I took a chance today and filled my lawnmower with Ethanol instead of Gasoline. It was a nervous moment as I pulled the starter cord. Would my mower sputter and die? Or worse yet give off sparks and catch fire?

None of these things happened. It worked fine. It started like regular and I mowed the whole back yard. There were no unusual noises or thick smoke. Although I did notice that power was about 80% of normal gasoline and that there was a smell like a brewery coming out!

It was 95% grain alcohol and 5% water that I used for fuel All my life chemistry teachers told me that you could mix no more than 10% alcohol with gasoline or the engine would not work. That you needed a special carburator to burn alcohol, well, guess what, all lies...

The mower, a troybuilt with a honda engine worked fine with alcohol. In fact, you could barely tell the difference. I was amazed.

All these years I could have been using alcohol made from plant waste, but I believed that grain alcohol might somehow harm the engine. That it would not work.

Well, my next victim will be my scooter -- it is a standard four cycle engine, and then if all goes well my pickup truck.

The lesson for today is don't believe everything you are told.

In all the year I have been on the internet not a single person has said "Guess what, you can run your mower on Ethanol - ITS EZ!"

They all act like you have to be a rocket scientist to make your own fuel.

Increaing Profit by using Strategic SEO

Customers rely on reviews and reports about a product, even feedback from friend, before they make a decision to buy it.

But corporate executives have a far more precise way to determine the value generated by a product.

Money.

If a product cannot yield a profit, that product is cut from the line.

You have heard of the 80-20 rule in that 80% of your sales are generated by 20% of your sales staff, but I have found that the 95-5 rule is more accurate. In other words 5% of your products generate 95% of your profit.

You will find that the bulk of your revenue is generated by a few STAR products. Having those products rank high in the search engines is paramount. You must spend a lot of time testing web pages and improving them to generate sales, but you should also spend some time optimizing them for the search engines -- this is Strategic SEO.

Most of your effort should be directed at optimizing pages that feature high margin top selling products that help power your business. Products that are low margin and do not sell well should not be optimized as the rate of return for your time is very low. Focus on helping your star products do even better and get rid of the boxes collecting dust in the warehouse.

Keyword Tool

My fave keyword tool is wordtracker. I use WT a lot, but if you cannot afford WT, then nichefinder gives you a free month of testing.

Another tool that you can use is overture keyword locater. It is also free.

Make use of Overture/YSM Bidmax to see how much bids are on that keyword!

English translation test

This test is to see your proficiency.

You Know British English 80%

Well your result says it all really. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. under 35% ugly.... under 60% Bad .....61% to 100% good

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 47% on variable 1

Link: The American English Translation Test written by egoslap on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Fun things to do to get exposure!

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This is a great way to get your name out there!

Highest Paying Keywords

I have been searching for highest paying keywords using Overture Bid Max Tool and come up with some beauties. They are categorized as 5-9.99, 10-19.99, 20-50, so far no over $50 a click keywords.

This information is quite valuable to people choosing what keywords they want on thier pages. As some minor "mizpellinz" will cause a drop in value. It is best to have great content that allows users to come back again and again to your page. A list of highest paying keywords is not enough.

Here is the page with the highest paying keywords.

Highest Paying Keywords

When looking for high paying keywords you will find that certain sectors pay more than others. Among the top paying are {real estate, refinance, stock market, and legal}. For example the term "new york personal injury lawyer" pay Yahoo a whopping $41.00 per click!

Thats a lot of moola for a few clicks, no wonder Yahoo bought Overture.
This is much better than getting a nickle a click for the lowest paying keywords.

In fact there is a web page some of the Highest Paying Keywords.

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