Keyword Academy Case Study – Link Building Timeline

Is there a link out there? Nope just the Tasman Sea!

This is the fourth  part of the Keyword Academy Case Study series – if you are new here you may want to start with part 1, part 2 and part 3 (Postrunner tutorial) So now we have the keywords chosen, the site installed – now what? Well first – particularly if this is a brand new domain – which mine is – you need to get the site indexed.  There is a sure fire way to do this – find a site which is being crawled by Google a lot – and get a link from it. I used Postrunner obviously – and many people there will tell you their site  has very fast indexing – most of them don’t lie either. Once I find a site that gets crawled a lot and gets sites indexed easily I carefully document and remember it (i.e. I scribble its name semi-legibly on a post it note and stick it on the white board). How To Know If  A Site has Quick Indexing Two types of sites seem to get quick indexing in my experience: authority sites sites whith lots and lots of updating content This site is an authority site (google  lissowerbutts.com [...] Read more »

Case Study: Choosing Keywords – Installing a Niche Site

Wellington on an unusually still day!

This is the second part  of my Keyword Academy  Case Study series  – if you missed the initial post you can check it out here. Keywords are everything in this business – start with the wrong keywords you will fail – I can prove that – been there done that – either failed to rank the site at all – or got to #1 – only to discover no money in the keyword! I have my own take on keywords – the Keyword Academy videos focus on looking for products – but personally I prefer services. Will I reveal the niche or the site. No – sorry not going to happen. The reasons why are quite simple: if I reveal the site people will help by sending me links – invalidating the experiment; if I actually start making bucket loads of cash from this site – I will suddenly have a whole lot more competition! So no hard feelings – I will tell you this about the niche: its a 3 word phrase describing a business need; its a service that  businesses pay good money for; its nothing at all to do with Internet Marketing or Making Money Online its [...] Read more »

Passive Income Online – How Much Does It Cost To Start

Passive income – to my way of thinking is the best income to have. Why? Because I’m bloody idle that’s why! Oh and because I know its possible to. My partner and I own several rental properties in New Zealand, we bought them several years ago and every month we get paid the income from them. Is it passive income – sure it is – we’ve never met our tenants, we don’t mow lawns, we don’t take calls about broken toilets at 2am – my property manager does.  Property investment can be as active or as passive as you want to make it – but you have to pay someone to do the work for you. Property investment is not risk free either. Our rental properties are exposed to interest rate risks, tenant availability, natural disasters, property manager going bad etc etc. If we’d borrowed the amount the bank was prepared to lend us a few years ago we would be in a nasty position now. Making passive income online, to my way of thinking is a much better thing than making passive income from property investment. Why? The risks are lower much lower. The investment required is much lower. It’s [...] Read more »

Update on the first month of my BANS Empire

OK I started buying domains on 10 April and now I have over domains. Buying of course is the easy bit! To date I have only got 7 sites setup. SALE, GRR! Originally uploaded by Peter Kaminski The GoDaddy sale is still on so you can buy a info domain for $1.99c (plus 20c registration fee). That’s cheap compared to a com at $9.99. Though you might want to hesitate before you jump in. Six of my BANS stores are on info domains and not one of them are currently indexed. What does that mean? If you put the exact url of the domain liswidget.info for example in Google it will return no results – but put the url exists – well not that one but you get the idea. No one searching on Google will find my stores My first info was indexed for a couple of weeks: it even bought me in a small commission. Then Google did an update early May at it disappeared, the other info stores have either been briefly indexed and dropped or never indexed. The low price of info domains obviously attracts bargain hunters but also spammers. It appears that Google has decided [...] Read more »