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Duplicate Content Penalty Debunked

Dec01
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Well, for those of you loyal readers who have been following this blog, the verdict is in. The idea was to create 10 identical blogs and see if they were penalized in the search engines for duplicate content.

I varied the link building strategies and also mixed up the posting order, but that’s about it. The results are in and duplicate content seems to be a myth. I did not see any penalty for using content over and over again on different sites.

I will now sell the ones that were least successful and keep the biggest earners. Thanks for following this experiment.

TomG.

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Blog Flipping For Profit – Get Started!

Dec01
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hello everyone!

As some of you may already know, I’ve been involved in the Blog Flipping Fool launch for the last 8 weeks or so. Since I made some real money flipping blogs, I really do think this is the way to go. In my ebook, I outline the exact steps you need to take to go and make some money. The ebook can be found here: Flipping Blogs For Profit.

As in all efforts, if you don’t take action, success will never come. Flipping blogs takes some work. I think the work part scares many would-be millionaires off! The thing is, flipping and/or creating blogs can be very profitable. There are two parts to the plan. The first part involves creating and/or aquiring blogs to sell. You then promote them using methods in our ebook or methods outlined here on this blog.

The second part (watch out, here’s the money part) is where you decide which blogs are so profitable you add to your blog empire and which blogs will be for sale. In the long term, you will have two types of blogs. The first type is the blog that brings in a nice passive income. You keep these blogs and continue to promote them. They provide your income base. The second type is the blog you built for sale. These blogs will provide the cash you need for expenses and future expansion.

This strategy is working very well for me. I encourage you to get the ebook and give the methods a go. You won’t be sorry!

To your great success!

TomG.

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15 Ways To Get Traffic To Your Sites

Nov15
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hello fellow Internet Marketers! Today I have a special treat! A guest article from Hamida over at InternetMarketingRamblings.com. This post has some fantastic information on traffic generating methods. I use them myself. Enjoy!

TomG.

These are my top 15 favorite ways to get traffic to my own sites (in no particular order):

1. Participate in related forums using a signature link that points to your site – Most of my traffic to this blog comes directly from my sig link at the Warrior Forum. I frequent a number of other forums as well where I link back to some of my niche sites. You can find lots of different niche forums here: Big-Boards.com

2. Social bookmark your sites using either Social Poster or Social Marker. I don’t get a ton of traffic this way, but if you have a newsworthy topic you may get a few visits here and there.

3. Leave comments on other people’s blogs and link back to your site.

4. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and quote your website as the source – this works better for some niches than others but I manage to get quite a lot of traffic this way.

5. Write articles and submit them to article directories – some people like to submit to a number of different article directories, I personally prefer to submit just to Ezinearticles if the aim of my article is to get traffic to my site. More top article directories are Buzzle, Goarticles and Searchwarp.

6. Write a Press Release and submit it to Webwire (I don’t do this very often as it’s hard to find a “newsworthy” topic for some of my niche sites, but when I do it can generate a lot of traffic). This isn’t free, but at $19 isn’t overly expensive either. If you want to go the free route I recommend Pressbox, Free Press Release and i-newswire – you can find more free press release sites here

7. Use Pay Per Click e.g Adwords, MSN Adcenter, YSM – this isn’t something I’ve tested extensively, but it’s definitely high on my list of “things to do” for 2009. Free advertising is great, but I think a mix of both free and paid will be even better!

8. Submit a blog to a blog directory – because most of my niche sites are blogs I submit them to the top blog directories (I just Google “blog directory” – the top ones will come up on page 1 and 2 of Google)

9. Submit you RSS feed to RSS feed directories – I submit to Feedagg, Feedest and Feedage (your feeds can rank quite well in the search engines using these sites).

10. Nothing beats good SEO for traffic. I can’t really go into SEO here because there’s too much involved, but simple steps such as optimizing the titles of your pages for searched for keywords, using a keyword rich domain and so on can make all the difference to how you rank.

11. Have a link to your site on community sites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc. I personally only use Twitter (I have a Facebook profile but don’t use it for marketing purposes) – whenever I make a new post to my blog I announce it on Twitter and it brings me traffic.

12. Create a freebie product to give away e.g a free report or ebook. Include your affiliate link to a more comprehensive product or include links to your site.

13. Submit your site to the hundreds of free directories – Check out the original SEO friendly free directory list – http://info.vilesilencer.com

14. Submit videos to video sharing sites like YouTube. Include a link in the description and within the actual video – I haven’t done much of this yet but from what I’ve seen it works well for many people.

15. Create small “feeder” sites with Squidoo, Hubpages, Wikidot, Weebly etc and link to your “money” site (or direct to merchant if you like). Both of these can rank well and send good traffic to your main site.

You’ll probably have noticed that a lot of this can be very time consuming (even working full time online I couldn’t possibly do all of this myself) so I highly recommend outsourcing some of the more tedious tasks like social bookmarking, creating web 2.0 sites, articles, directory submissions etc if you can afford it. If not, then stick with the tried and tested methods like article marketing until you’re making some money.

Hamida

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Make Over $3000/Month Blog Flipping! New Ebook Shows You How

Nov09
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

After a ton of research and feedback, it is finally here. I have produced what I think will be called THE definitive guide to blog flipping. For those of you who can’t wait, here’s the direct order link:

OK, that link was for those of us who can’t wait for a review, itchy trigger finger and all. For the rest of us, here’s the skinny:

What’s Covered:

1) Blog Flipping Basics – What is blog flipping and how we do it.
2) My 5 Hottest Niches – Yes, I tell you what they are, no kidding!
3) Keyword Selection – Detail on what to write about and which keywords to target and how.
4) How To Setup Your WP Blog – Step by step information with pictures on how to setup your blog.
5) What Plug-Ins to use – My favorite plug-ins with links.
6) How to Promote Your Blog – Promotion is key to traffic and income. I show you how.
7) How to Get Your Site Indexed – Here’s a tip. Mine get indexed often the same day.
8 ) How to Get Top Dollar for Your Blog – The ways to squeeze more money out of each auction.
9) How to Make Money when the Auction Closes Cheaply – Ways to make a disaster a success!
10) Quick Cash Secret – A quick cash strategy that makes over $100 for a couple of hours work. I use this strategy over and over again when I need quick cash (and who doesn’t)?
11) Resources – Where to go for the goods. I tell you where!

And lots more! You get a tremendous value for your dollar! Right now, during the pre-launch phase, I am giving you an almost 50% discount off the regular price! Yes, only $27 for the next few days. Go get your copy, you won’t be disappointed, I guarantee it. Grab your copy now, here:

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Internet Marketing Lessons – Future Directions

Nov01
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hello everybody!

I am sorry for the less than frequent updates to this blog. I will get you some useful information and updates today. First off, comments on the coaching program. It turns out that this is very hard work. Creating 2 blogs per customer per month filled with great content is pretty time consuming. But I don’t stop there! I also configure SEO plugins and social plugins and other secret stuff to keep the SE’s happy and get the blogs rankings. Then I go to my special social bookmarking accounts and get them links. Then we do some article marketing. Think about it, 10 customers, 20 blogs, TONS of work. Why am I saying this? Well, I think I will close the doors once I get these fledgling blog flippers on their way.

Again, why mention the mentoring? I will tell you. When building a business, it is not always easy to get started. I wanted to help people get started with their businesses. I see that labor-intensive offerings cannot be sustained unless you outsource the whole operation. If not, your own business will eventually suffer because you cannot put in the effort to maintain and expand it.

OK, you’ve been patient with me. This post’s informational part starts here. I have proven that blogs are the way to go. Build them and profit from them or sell them. Problem is, takes a lot of work to get a successful blog going. There is the blog content itself and there is the promotion. After all, you can have the best, most informative content out there, but without promotion, you’ll have a deserted blog.

So how do we make all this easier? Well, PLR will help. Appropriate use of private label rights aka PLR articles will help you keep your blog fresh. Here’s how to set it all up. Simply use WordPress’ post scheduling feature to load up 20 articles at a time and set the posting frequency to 2 days. That will keep your blog fresh for 40 days. Set the posting frequency to 3 days and you are good to go for 2 full months. That effort will leave you with plenty of time to actually go out and promote your blog. You can use social bookmarking and article marketing. Article marketing is easy if you rewrite your PLR articles. One tool I use is Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Preferred. Basically, it works like this. I read the PLR article out loud while putting it in my own words. The finished product is a completely rewritten article perfect for the article directories. I submit a few versions to the top 20 directories for traffic and links. Well, that’s all for now.

TomG.

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Blog Flipping Mentoring/Coaching Program Opens!

Oct25
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hello,

You are not going to see any ridiculous hype or red or bold
fonts, etc., etc. What you ARE going to see is a solid offer
that will make you money.

I am the author of the (currently) most viewed thread on the
WF. In it, I showed how I made over $100/24 hours. I did this
by flipping a brand new blog with no traffic. I finally made
$120 for the blog, $50 moving it to my customer’s server, and
finally $50 for more articles. Total for this new blog: $220.

There were many ways to improve on the profits. The first
and most important way is to provide income. There are many
other ways to skyrocket the profit on a blog sale. That is
where my offer comes in.

Here’s the offer: I will create two blogs for you. I will setup
the right plug-ins for SEO purposes and I will start building
links to your blogs. I will create a promotional plan for you and
show you how to get lots of traffic quickly. I will work on the
monetizing strategies so that your new blogs make money. I
will then provide you with killer sitepoint.com listing copy. You
can then sell the blogs for a nice profit, or keep them and sell
them down the road for a great profit.

But what’s the cost? The first month will be at a discount. The
cost is $395 for the first month and $495 thereafter. Since the
mentoring is setup as a PayPal subscription, you can cancel it
after the first month through your PayPal account. You don’t
have to wait for us. You don’t even have to tell us, PayPal will,
so no stress to you in any way. Each and every month, we’ll
check your progress and build 2 new blogs and promote them.
You should be able to run your business after one or two months
with us.

Limited time and slots. We already are near full capacity. We
have about 2 open slots left. We only want people who really
want to make money and who can spend at least 7 hours each
week to succeed. That’s only 1 hour/day. If you are not serious
about building a business, please do not apply. Thanks. Those
who do will make money online and build a successful business.

OK, I’m serious, how do I sign up? Here’s the link:
Blog Building Business Coaching

To Your (GREAT) success,

TomG.

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Blog Flipping Thread Spreads To Other Blogs!!

Oct20
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

Hey, looks like other bloggers have picked up on my post at the WF about the blog flipping experiment. That thread is the number one thread on the forum with over 13,400 views! For those who missed it, here’s the link: 24 Hour Blog Flipping Thread. Anyway, Jamie over at Affiliate Extreme 101 had some nice things to say about us: Nice post about us!. Thanks for the shout Jay!

TomG.

PS – Almost forgot! If you want the .pdf of the blog flipping thread with the step-by-step instructions, visit the Blog Flipping Fool to download it for free -> Free Blog Flipping Report!

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WordPress Blogs VS. Plain HTML – Which Is Better?

Oct14
2008 2 Comments Written by admin

I saw a post over at the WF asking which is better, plain html or WordPress blogs. I have some opinions on this one as I have been playing with WP sites a lot lately and here’s my take:

1. Once you get some themes you like and plugins you need, WP is a blast. It is so easy to add new articles to the site without fixing links and such.
2. WP pings all the sites about your updated content – powerful SEO stuff. Don’t underestimate the power.
3. I can instantly change the look of the site whenever I want. Keeps it fresh.
4. Moving the site can be a pain.
5. Plain html is faster.
6. Plain html is a much smaller drain on the server.
7. Plain html is so much easier to move.
8. Plain html allows complete control and backups are easily done.
9. Plain html does not have database vulnerabilities for hackers to exploit.

Well, I hope this helps you decide for yourself.

TomG.

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Made The Switch To Feedburner

Oct14
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

OK everybody, don’t know how many of you have subscribed to my feed, but I am posting this to get you to update the feed. I have switched to feedburner to make it easier to subscribe to my blog and to have better formatted feeds. Hope this helps. Oh, and I love the feed stats, it can get addictive looking at your subscribers.

TomG.

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Duplicate Content Penalty? Let’s Test That Theory Out!

Oct09
2008 Leave a Comment Written by admin

One of the more pervasive pieces of advice floating around internet marketing circles is not to use content more than once. The story goes something like this: You buy an article pack for your site. These articles have appeared on other websites so people say you must rewrite them by at least 30% to avoid winding up in Google’s duplicate content filter. If Google senses that your content is a duplicate of something published elsewhere, the theory is that your website will get dumped in the supplemental listings which are hidden by default and almost never clicked on. Of course this is really bad news for you because you won’t get any traffic. Is this true, however?

I want to see if this duplicate content penalty story is true. I am going to test the assertion out. I will create 10 blogs about weight loss, my favorite subject currently, and I will use my weight loss PLR package and some other PLR I bought from the WF to fill them up with content. I will do some minimal changes like website name, titles, meta tags, order of the posts, little title variations, etc. I will vary the links to the sites and also make sure they appear on different IP addresses. See the section that talks about hosting for a discussion of why I am doing this.

As soon as I set this all up, I will be posting the urls for everybody to take a look. We’ll see if the websites get Google love, traffic, revenue.

TomG.

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