The Longest Useful Comment I Ever Got
Posted on March 21, 2008
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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!)
Interview With Ken Evoy - Part IV - The Future Of Internet
Posted on March 14, 2008
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This is part 4 of the interview with Ken Evoy. Here are the links to part I, part II and part III.
Tomaz: What do you see as the future of the Internet? What’s the future of SiteSell?
Ken: Some years ago, I wrote that search engines were essential to the Internet and they were like the best bargain in the world. And search engine optimizers got it. But I don’t think the average small business person really got it.
And now, eight or nine years later, people still say that one should not get used to them because they can’t last forever.
There was this ridiculous interview of a Forester researcher were they asked her if Facebook will replace Google. And she actually thought it could. Her reasoning being, “Well, you know if you want to go to Hawaii now, you can just ask a friend on Facebook instead of doing the search in Google.”
Now, how stupid is that? Because thirty years ago you could ask a friend if you’re going to have a vacation in Hawaii without using the Internet.
You know, Facebook is an activity. It’s fun, it’s valuable, it connects people and all that stuff, but its not a gateway to the Internet. The search engines, as far as I can see for the next five, ten years, are still the main highway to the Internet.
And that sounds obvious, but it’s a bold statement to say because to predict anything beyond six months in the Internet is very dangerous. Things change. Gigantic killers come out of nowhere. Major new technologies happen.
But people use the Internet to search for information.
Interview With Ken Evoy - Part III - Can You Become Financially Free With SBI?
Posted on March 10, 2008
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To read part I and part II of my interview with Ken Evoy just follow the links…
Tomaz: Since my blog is about financial freedom, I want to ask you this question:
What do you think is a typical journey of someone who has achieved financial freedom with SBI? And how much do you think they usually earn per month?
Ken: It varies so much, Tomaz. And some people start part-time because they have a full-time job where they work sixty hours a week.
Some people start full-time like a stay-at-home mom whose children have just gone off school so she has six hours a day to really work. She picks a good niche, starts to see traffic, and starts to make income three to six months, which becomes the main family income in a year or in eighteen months.
Why SEO Will Soon Become A Waste Of Time And Money
Posted on March 8, 2008
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Google has recently written a post Why Data Matters where they explain how their algorithm has changed over the years.
Here’s the first main point of that story:
On the academic side, the National Science Foundation started a “Digital Library Project” which made grants to several universities. Two Stanford grad students in computer science named Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on this project. Their insight was to recognize that existing search algorithms could be dramatically improved by using the special linking structure of web documents. Thus PageRank was born.
Where we are now with SEO
a) ON-page SEO: Pagerank + keyword in title
From my own experiments and experience, I know that pagerank is still a very healthy factor in rankings.
Actually pagerank + keyword in title are the most effective things you can do on-page (of course if you have some pagerank regardless of the anchor text of the incoming links) to rank for a certain keyword.
Here’s an experiment I did on my tennis blog www.tennisthoughts.com:
Interview With Ken Evoy - Part II - The Biggest Obstacles Of Online Success
Posted on March 6, 2008
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This is part II of the interview with Ken Evoy…
Tomaz: What do you think is the biggest obstacle of success for the technical part? And of course what stops people from succeeding (personality traits)?
Ken: The biggest obstacle is lack of knowledge. For a small business person who wants to start his own site, there are just too many barriers in terms of themselves learning HTML and FTP is just a scary concept.
People don’t even understand the concept of a server, how a website works on the Internet. Something as basic as that. So what FTP does and where those pages go sounds so simple to you and me, but it’s fundamental as that. People hear about search engine optimization and their eyes are really getting scared.
So the whole thing starts to look like it’s impenetrable. So what do they do? They hire a webmaster who they think knows these things but most of them really don’t.
Interview With Ken Evoy - Part I - The 80:20 Of Building A Successful Website
Posted on March 4, 2008
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This is the first part of my interview with Ken Evoy which took place on the SBI cruise in January 2008.
I am very grateful and honored that Ken took the time to answer my questions and allow me to publish this interview here on this blog.
Just a short introduction to the first question: if you are not yet familiar with the 80:20 term, then follow the link to the Pareto principle to understand it better.
I first wanted to ask Ken, what he sees as the most important parts of building a website - from the view of tools and from the view of personality traits…
Tomaz: What is the 80:20 to building a successful website? What is your opinion from the view of tools?
Ken: There’s an 80:20 to process, and there’s an 80:20 to tools. The 80:20 to process is you have to fundamentally understand how the Internet works. And one of the primary functions that people use the Internet for is to search for information.
Financial Freedom Online Tips – 2nd March 2008
Posted on March 2, 2008
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Here are some interesting stories and resources I found this Sunday to help you get closer towards financial freedom with your online business:
1. Problogger posted 12 cpm alternatives to Adsense. CPM of course means, that you are getting paid for impressions which can really add up with high traffic websites.
A couple of those companies actually have quite low requirements in terms of traffic so you can test them on a some low traffic sites you might have…
2. Matt from BloggingFingers released his first ever e-book about blog monetization strategies. Oh, and did I mention that it’s free?
Matt explains a few important topics like when to monetize your blog, what kind of monetization you can use (CPC, CPM, affiliates, …) and how to succeed in the long term.
Go grab it now before it’s too late…
Where I Find Ideas For Niche Websites
Posted on February 18, 2008
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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.
Finding Good Keywords For Product Oriented Websites
Posted on February 14, 2008
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If you have a product reviews oriented website and are doing the keyword research with Wordtracker, you can sometimes run out of keywords too quickly.
Here’s an example:
Let’s say you have a tennis racquet reviews website and one of your main pages will contain Wilson tennis racquets.
So you go to Wordtracker to find out which Wilson racquets people search for:
As you can see, you don’t have many useful keywords here since there are just a few models listed. You get a similar results if you search for wilson tennis or something like that.
Financial Freedom Online Tips - 12th Feb 2008
Posted on February 12, 2008
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I’ve been trying to catch up with the latest USEFUL articles in the blogosphere that will help you make more money and eventually become financially free.
Why USEFUL in all caps?
Well, in my humble opinion, there is so much information out there that’s just plain entertaining, link baiting with no real juice or just regurgitated articles of things written and told million times.
So here’s what I found and I recommend you read (and possibly download!):
1. Caroline Middlebrook has written an excellent ebook on How to create niche sites with a Wordpress blog. I’ve read the ebook and it’s excellent.
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