Worried About the Competition Online?

I recently chatted with a friend through Gmail, and she was slightly worried.

She was building a site in a certain niche and found out that other people were building their sites on the same concept. She used SBI and actually found a couple of SBI-ers building their site in the exact same niche.

Should I continue? Do I stand a chance now that even someone using an SBI system is going for this niche?

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A Must Read For Every Blogger

If you have a blog and your goal is to make money with it, then read on…

Ken Evoy, the CEO of Sitesell.com has recently posted a new page which explains, in detail, why blogging is not the best way to build a successful online business.

I suggest that you head over to the Blog or Build page, prepare yourself a drink and read the full page. It’s long page so take your time…

(And if you are using Wordpress as your blogging platform, don’t skip the »Nitty Gritty Wordpress vs. SBI! Comparison«!)

Back already?

Let me share my experience with content sites and blogs (especially this one) and explain when you should use each one.

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The Longest Useful Comment I Ever Got

Today I received the longest unique, useful comment ever on my tennis blog.

Scroll down on this page:

Pete Sampras Vs Roger Federer - Who Wins?

And you’ll find a comment from Jeffrey which is 1494 words long!

That’s not a comment, those are 2 or even 3 articles! And Jeffrey’s English is excellent too.

There are a couple of long comments on this blog too and I want to thank all those that contribute!

So what was the longest comment you got on one of your blogs? (Feel free to post a link to your post with the longest comment!)

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Where I Find Ideas For Niche Websites

If you’re having trouble finding a profitable niche with not too much competition, then you’re about to find out where to get tons of ideas.

The Easy Way

The easy way is to subscribe to 2 lists where you really won’t be spammed with tons of promotional emails.

1. Nicheaday.com

NicheaDay.com is a project from Scott Standke and it does exactly what it says: you’ll get an email every day with a niche idea, high PPC bid price from Overture and up to 1000 keywords already attached to the email.

These are sent from Nichebot.com in cooperation with Jim Morris.

Niche a Day from Scott Standke

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My Definition Of Success

I am writing this post on my Caribbean cruise on Freedom Of The Seas ship. Today I met many SBI-ers and Ken Evoy was the first to give an opening speech.

One thing that he asked everyone to do is to define success.

So here’s my version:

You are successful when you have reached the limit of your potential.

This is of course totally independent of everyone else.

And the most important thing to keep in mind is that we are all limited.

We are limited in our IQ, in our communication skills, in our ability to decide, in our ability to stay focused on a certain task and so on.

Some of this abilities or skills can be improved with practice and some cannot.

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Bloggers Head To Head

I just learned of an fun contest between Tyler Cruz and Gyutae Park who are going head to head on who is the better blogger.

Actually the contest is about getting more RSS subscribers, more traffic and so on.

So it’s up to us to vote for one of them.

Well, I vote for Gyutae Park for two reasons:

1. The posts on WinningTheWeb are more useful to my interests. And I also liked the cutely disguised Adsense ad in the header.

You guys are so creative when it comes to making money with Adsense, I give you that.

2. Gyutae Park actually emailed me (although I know the main part of the email was copy / paste ) and I asked for my support.

So there you have it. You got my vote.

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And The Winners Are…

Thanks everyone for commenting and helping this blog grow in quality content and interesting discussions.

In case you don’t remember, I promised a few prizes for the best commenters in December.

Choosing the prizes was a hard decision but eventually I had to make it.

So let’s get straight to the point…

The winners for the most valuable comments on this financial freedom blog are:

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Why I Don’t Follow

Well, I never followed “the herd,” but this is not really about following other people – it’s about the “do-follow” movement that’s becoming quite popular.

I recently came across some posts and groups discussing the pros and cons of having a do-follow plug-in installed on a Wordpress blog that passes the pagerank to the commenter’s blog.

Here’s Sarah’s take on “no-follow, do-follow” and here’s what Deron Sizemore posted about his thoughts on the do-follow links.

You may also want to check what Darren Rowse had to say in the comments of the latter post.

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Christmas Links To 12 Blogs

I received a Christmas link today and would like to share 12 more links to other websites.

Here’s how the game goes:

1. Each day until Christmas link to 12 blogs. (different ones each day)

2. Hopefully the spirit of Christmas will create many helpful links from blogger to blogger.

3. Pay it forward if you receive a link from someone sharing the 12 links of Christmas.

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My Pissed Off Response To A Link Exchange Request

I got an email a few minutes ago asking for a link exchange with one of my sites. My site offers information about everything related to conferencing, has a PR 4 and is listed in DMOZ and Yahoo directory among others.

I usually delete suggestions like you’re about to read but this one really pissed me off and I even spent 2 minutes writing my response to hopefully help this guy get on the right track. (and to release my negative emotions )

Here’s his email:

—– Original Message —-
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 11:32:14 AM
Subject: Submission from “Contact” form

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First Name: Jim
Last Name: John
E-mail Address: chirag.shah@(Ok, I won’t be so bad to really show his email although it’s tempting ) .com

Respected Sir, Read more

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