Keyword Research Tips – Use Google Adwords To Find Related Keywords
Posted on January 15, 2012
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Keyword research is critical for building the blueprint of your site and it’s critical that you choose the keywords that have some demand and not too much supply if you want to get good traffic to your site.
But how to do that is often explained very differently and also very confusingly.
So let’s simplify this is as much as possible.
I’ll be using the SBI’s Brainstormer (the alternative is Wordtracker) and Google Adwords to show you how to build a keyword list in 4 easy steps.
1. Determine your main theme (site concept) keyword
What is the key 
keyword of your site? What is the crux of the information you want to share?
This keyword is typically a one or two word keyword (rarely three word). Read more
3 Reasons Why Google Panda Updates Torched So Many Websites In 2011 – And How To Strike Back
Posted on December 10, 2011
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It is human nature to believe that current trends, especially favorable ones that help us, will continue forever.
John Mauldin, from his book Endgame.
The above quote from the book Endgame is written in the context of the recent global financial crisis where one of the fundamental root causes of the crisis was the belief that real estate prices will increase forever.
Sure, it sounds stupid when you read that right now but when you’re “in the game” and you’re benefiting from such rising prices (by trading stocks, capitalising from increases in real estate, etc.), your smart, logical mind loses the battle with the emotional, hedonistic mind which just wants to enjoy the bliss and doesn’t want to be interrupted by negative thoughts about the future.
As I was looking at many sites affected by Google Panda algorithms in 2011, this same quote came to my mind. And not surprisingly – the graph of affected sites looks very similar to the stock market crash graph…
Here’s why so many websites were reduced to ashes: Read more
SBI Conference in Anguilla 2011
Posted on November 25, 2011
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The SBI Conference in Anguilla was my fourth SBI conference and it was a blast.
Anguilla is a somewhat deserted place – it caters to people who want to get away from hustle and bustle. It also caters to people who look for luxury vacations.
So there’s not much to do on Anguilla – and that’s why it was so cool to be there. Read more
Optimizing For High Paying Adsense Keywords Doesn’t Work
Posted on October 23, 2011
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If you’re optimizing your pages for high paying Google Adsense keywords, you may have to rethink your strategy.
Here’s just a quick intro to this topic for those unfamiliar with it…
Let’s say you’re building a site about tennis and you run the keyword tennis through the Adwords tool to see which keywords pay more per click than others.
In the example above you see that “atp tour tennis” keyword pays roughly 3 times as much per click as the keyword “andy murray tennis”.
So you assume that if you wrote a page about “atp tour tennis” you would get paid much more than if you wrote a page about “andy murray tennis”. Read more
Start An Online Home Business With Site Build It! – And I’ll Mentor You
Posted on October 20, 2011
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If you’re thinking about starting an online business – meaning working from home – then consider my offer if you choose Site Build It! (SBI!).
My offer to you regarding Site Build It is the same as I give it to my friends when I show them how I live and work with my home based online business.
I offer to help them out if they buy through my link.
If you decide to buy SBI through my affiliate link, I will:
1. Help you out especially in the beginning phase when you have to decide for the right niche and keywords.
I believe I now have enough experience (I’ve made some mistakes and made some things right) to judge with good probability whether your niche will bring you more than 1000 visitors per day.
Trina from GrowingRaw.com
Posted on October 8, 2011
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Trina Cleary initially started a website to save her sanity while she cared for her kids at home until they started school. Her oldest starts school next year and the income from her sites will enable her to continue working from home. The freedom to avoid the child-care and school drop-off shuffle is priceless.
It’s an unexpected and wonderful feeling, but building my second SBI! site is what has led me to fully believe in myself as an online businesswoman. Let me share why.
Commonly received wisdom amongst seasoned SBI!ers is that the first year of your first site is a learning year. Even with SBI!’s help it takes time to figure out all the pieces of the site-building puzzle.
SBI! never advertises itself as a get-rich-quick scheme; rather it’s a work hard, pay attention and you will succeed beyond your dreams kind of system! However without SBI! I estimate it would take at least 3-4 times as long to accumulate the necessary skills and knowledge to be successful online. Read more
Best Adsense Placement Tips Post Google Panda
Posted on September 29, 2011
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If you’re looking for the best adsense placement tips you need to take into account the the Google Panda algorithm change which first went into effect in February 2011.
While it’s not spelled out obviously that ad-to-content ratio can be a problem, keep in mind that the Google Panda / Farmer update was designed to combat content farms – which in most cases make money with Adsense.
If you look more closely, you can find this question among many others that are behind the Panda algorithm:
Does this article have an excessive amount of ads that distract from or interfere with the main content?
Vanessa Fox also mentions ad-to-content ratio as one of likely factors behind the Farmer update. Read more
USA 2011 Trip – It’s Really About People And Not About Places And Statues
Posted on September 25, 2011
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I just came back from a nice trip in the USA and I am sharing this post partly as a journal of my travels and partly to share some thoughts on traveling and what makes it special.
So often the travels are based around attractions and places to see but in my experience the fondest memories do not come from non-living statues and places but from meeting new people and interacting with them.
My trip would have been far more boring and FAR more expensive if I didn’t know – or got to meet – some wonderful people.
I started my journey on 26th of August at Slovenian airport with my best friend and tennis buddy Urban. Read more
Pros And Cons Of Creating Your Own Digital Products
Posted on August 15, 2011
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While websites have been torched in the past by Google for black hat linking, cloaking and all sorts of other tricks, most regular webmasters never experienced any Google slaps – until this year.
It reminded many webmasters that the Internet business is not as reliable as it seemed to be –and that content website model that relies on free search engine traffic is extremely dependent on Google.
I think the large content website model is here to stay for a very long time – it just needs to be done better than 4 years ago.
But there is another option of getting traffic – creating your own digital products and using advertising and / or affiliates to create traffic. Read more
Is Fresh Content Really The King?
Posted on August 11, 2011
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Content is King – is what we’ve heard many times in the online business world.
If your goal is to receive free search engine traffic (and lots of it), you need to create lots of quality content.
But how does adding fresh content affect your traffic? What if you don’t add new content?
I have a smaller blog where I was observing the answers to these questions. Keep in mind that this is just one example and that in now way I can sayI have figured out Google’s algorithm – but I hope this gives you some food for thought. Read more
