Seasonal "Micro" Niche Profits — $22,616.51 Case Study Revealed

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by WealthWithin

Again, I wanna thank you for your time. The best advice I got was, "The key is to figure out how to spend less time "fiddling" and more time "publishing"."

Cheers.
WealthWithin

Wealth,

This is so darn important, and nobody talks about it?

Prioritizing your efforts is key.

Money is generated with traffic, thus you really ... really
need to focus on traffic.

More pages.
More posts.
More keywords.
More videos.
More what ever you publish to get people in front of your
stuff.

Forget fancy graphics, headers, whiz bang effects, forget
the best site layouts, forget fiddling with adsense for hours
(especially when you have no traffic).

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by rconejr

Oh wow, great post, so glad you shared that. I'm just getting into this stuff. I just need to be able to quit my job and spend more time with my kids. I know this stuff still takes work, but I can work as hard as I can at my current job as a newspaper reporter and I won't make a cent extra I'd rather put that kind of work in for myself.
Thanks for the inspiration.

Hey RConeJr,

Anything is possible online.

I would create a plan of action right now as well as
a goal for yourself.

Before thinking about quitting your job thinking about
how you can earn your first $100 online. Be realistic.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by DonnaLeona

Hi,

Thanks for a great post! I'll be trying this out soon.

(Is that an apricot poodle in your picture?)

~Donna

Donna,

Yep ... that is indeed an apricot poodle. My buddy
"Otis" he get's me outside once in a while!

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Steve Steinitz

Hi Brian,

I like your practical approach, and your years of experience shine through. I thought I understood your business model until I read this:



That sounds like you are using subdomains but I'm pretty sure you are not. Can you please clarify?

Thanks for all the helpful information,

Steve

Hey Steve,

You probably get my methodology ....

Bottom line is this, each site is on it's own domains.
Some "sites" only have a homepage right now, regardless
some of these one page sites earned hundreds this
past month.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

Brian, am I getting this right? You're spending 2 hours to create and promote a blog. Then it gives you more than $50 a month without anymore effort? You don't do maintenance on your blog? Thanks

Ian

Ian,

That is correct.

Couple of things, I never said "blog".

I really hate that word (blog) because it confuses people.

I use wordpress to launch websites, simple as that.

Sure, Google loves fresh content, they also love all the
stuff I give them like:

• Quality Content
• Unique Content
• Outbound Links (no affiliate links)
• Keyword Domains
• No Sign Of Affiliate Anything (Google does not see my aff links - they are cloaked)

Thus they rank my stuff high, I get traffic and make money.

The key is to be able to walk away and launch more

Best,

[Charles Montgomery]

With non affiliate outbound links down your sidebar, dont you lose people and cause them to go elsewhere? It seems that this would hurt your conversions.

Also, how does having affiliate links and adsense links work together? What % of people click the adsense ads and what % actually click through to your affiliate links?

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Charles Montgomery

With non affiliate outbound links down your sidebar, dont you lose people and cause them to go elsewhere? It seems that this would hurt your conversions.

Also, how does having affiliate links and adsense links work together? What % of people click the adsense ads and what % actually click through to your affiliate links?

Charles,

I loose people for sure, however I am in the top
twenty of Google nearly 50% of the time with
minimal effort.

Thus I drive lots ... and lots of Traffic.

And the way I layout my sites most people do not
leave mysite through these types of links.

Let's say I lose 15% of my visitors to these links and
let's also assume I get 1000 visitors daily.

I am still left with 850 FREE visitors ;-)

Most people who do affiliate stuff would kill for my
rankings and traffic.

I have already commented about affiliate / adsense
issues.

Best,

[JasonC.biz]

Brian - thanks for the great post. I've just been getting started doing something very similar. Very little traffic and no sales so far, though mine are geared more the Christmas.

Anyway, a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1) What outbound links do you have in the sidebar, other than AdSense?

2) Do you use pages or posts in WP, and why? Or, do you think it matters?

Thanks,
Jason

[Microbusiness Media]

Hi Brian,

You have give some very valuable information on the power of niche sites vs. Athority sites. Thanks so much for sharing it.

I had a question about hosting. I had always read that you don't want to have domains from the same web hosting account pointing to each other.

How do you overcome this or is this even an issue? Do you actually have all of the sites linked together or just pointing to one site.

Rod

P.S. Are you the same Brian Johnson who wrote Commission Ritual?

[aztecdataservices]

Hi Brian

What do you use to cloak your affiliate links?

Thanks

Julie

Originally Posted by Brian Johnson

Ian,

That is correct.

Couple of things, I never said "blog".

I really hate that word (blog) because it confuses people.

I use wordpress to launch websites, simple as that.

Sure, Google loves fresh content, they also love all the
stuff I give them like:

• Quality Content
• Unique Content
• Outbound Links (no affiliate links)
• Keyword Domains
• No Sign Of Affiliate Anything (Google does not see my aff links - they are cloaked)

Thus they rank my stuff high, I get traffic and make money.

The key is to be able to walk away and launch more

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by JasonC.biz

Brian - thanks for the great post. I've just been getting started doing something very similar. Very little traffic and no sales so far, though mine are geared more the Christmas.

Anyway, a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1) What outbound links do you have in the sidebar, other than AdSense?

2) Do you use pages or posts in WP, and why? Or, do you think it matters?

Thanks,
Jason

Jason,

I link out to stuff that Google ranks high in my niche.
This way, Google stops by ...

See's all my god stuff (the kind of stuff they ask for at
the Googles webmaster guidelines) such as outbound
links, unique content, video and ...

They trust me.

Tada. I get ranked.

Forget pagerank.

Today it is all about "trust rank".

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by JasonC.biz

Brian - thanks for the great post. I've just been getting started doing something very similar. Very little traffic and no sales so far, though mine are geared more the Christmas.

Anyway, a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1) What outbound links do you have in the sidebar, other than AdSense?

2) Do you use pages or posts in WP, and why? Or, do you think it matters?

Thanks,
Jason

Jason,

Pages or Posts.

I like posts because they get feed into the rss feed
automatically, while their are now plenty of plugins
to also add pages into the rss feed I prefer simple.

Oh ....

One more issue.

The homepage - make it a static page so you can
control the content and make more sales.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Microbusiness Media

Hi Brian,

You have give some very valuable information on the power of niche sites vs. Athority sites. Thanks so much for sharing it.

I had a question about hosting. I had always read that you don't want to have domains from the same web hosting account pointing to each other.

How do you overcome this or is this even an issue? Do you actually have all of the sites linked together or just pointing to one site.

Rod

P.S. Are you the same Brian Johnson who wrote Commission Ritual?

Rod ...

I had always read that you don't want to have domains from the same web hosting account pointing to each other.

Who said I am linking my sites together.

I am not.

No need.

They rank out of the gate so linking together would be
something I would not risk.

Plus, again they are ranking!

People link sites together to push rankings.

I already got them!

Commission Ritual.

Yes.

One hell of a course and many of my students cashed
in as well this Halloween. Neat feeling to do what you love
and help people out.

FYI: I am hosting a free webinar this Friday as a
result of the positive feedback this post has received, look
for the webinar details soon.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by aztecdataservices

Hi Brian

What do you use to cloak your affiliate links?

Thanks

Julie

Shadow WP Cloaked

ø Link Cloaking Plugin for WordPress | W-Shadow.com ø

Used to be free, I still use the free version.

However, does not really matter "what" you
use. Just as long as the links are cloaked your golden.

Best,

[dmarze]

Hi Brian,

This is absolutely fantastic method. I will try it sometimes next week.

Thank you for sharing this powerful system.

D.Marze

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by dmarze

Hi Brian,

This is absolutely fantastic method. I will try it sometimes next week.

Thank you for sharing this powerful system.

D.Marze

Hey D. Marze,

Cool, let me know how it goes

Best,

[Ted Demopoulos]

Just threw up my first season Xmas site - low comp, around 6000 competing sites, a MicroNicheFinder SOC of 6, and OK traffic with a mega spike this and next month.
Two backlinks.

As of this morning, it's ranking at #2 in Google. Exactkeyword.org

No aff links added yet, just two pages plus privacy policy, contact us, etc.

Will probably cloak but not sure if it's necessary. A similar niche site is doing OK with non-cloaked Amazon links, but better safe than sorry.

Launched two more, but not ranked yet.

Thanks Brian - this will be interesting! I'm be adding a couple of twists to your outline to if it adds anything.

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Ted Demopoulos

Just threw up my first season Xmas site - low comp, around 6000 competing sites, a MicroNicheFinder SOC of 6, and OK traffic with a mega spike this and next month.
Two backlinks.

As of this morning, it's ranking at #2 in Google. Exactkeyword.org

No aff links added yet, just two pages plus privacy policy, contact us, etc.

Will probably cloak but not sure if it's necessary. A similar niche site is doing OK with non-cloaked Amazon links, but better safe than sorry.

Launched two more, but not ranked yet.

Thanks Brian - this will be interesting! I'm be adding a couple of twists to your outline to if it adds anything.

Ding ... Ding ... Ding ...

We have a winner!

Great results and I am glad to here it.

Ted,

I launched my first set of about 20 sites about a week
ago, about 75% are in the top twenty of Google.

Fun hu ;-)

Glad you liked the outline.

Best,

[Ted Demopoulos]

The second site (not yet indexed) is much more competitive and I decided to give a .biz a try. Then another .org

Then I've got the same keyword .net and .org which i might place on different IPs and try a couple of different things.

Having fun, and hopefully be making money from this too Brian
No assistant, not enough time, and lots of little sick kids at home try to help me today!

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Ted Demopoulos

The second site (not yet indexed) is much more competitive and I decided to give a .biz a try. Then another .org

Then I've got the same keyword .net and .org which i might place on different IPs and try a couple of different things.

Having fun, and hopefully be making money from this too Brian
No assistant, not enough time, and lots of little sick kids at home try to help me today!

Hey Ted,

Having an assistant allows me to continue to test
and keep current, were launching an unbelievable amount
of sites right now.

That being said, do it yourself for now.

Work your butt off ... launch as many as possible.

Then hire an assistant

Best,

[SteelyDan]

Originally Posted by Brian Johnson

My One Page "Micro Site" Thinking

Launch 50 sites each with 1 - 3 pages of content.

This "micro" network of sites would benefit from
having 50 pages of content on the domain root.

The power of a domain name is HUGE when it
comes to ranking online and my network of
sites maximizes and leverages this fact.

Launching a bunch of sites all at once was not
so hard as we were not trying to launch huge
massive "authority" sites but simple little one
page sites which focus on just a few search
phrases based on my golden rule.

One of the benefits of being so busy publishing
content is that most of the sites never really
got slapped by Google and none of them got
into trouble.

Awesome post Brian. I do have a question about the micro network of sites. Right now I am pretty much doing the same thing. Are you interlinking the sites together? So site A is linking to the other 49 sites, site B linking to the other 49 sites, etc?

[JasonC.biz]

@ SteelyDan - He just said in post 63 above that he is not linking sites together.

Jason

[Charann Miller]

Thanks for the great post Brian.

You've got so many different profit centers, you can continue to keep making money with these sites on autopilot, flip the domain names or flip each site for a nice chunk of change and you've still got plenty more to fall back onto, win-win-win I say.

Nice work.

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by SteelyDan

Awesome post Brian. I do have a question about the micro network of sites. Right now I am pretty much doing the same thing. Are you interlinking the sites together? So site A is linking to the other 49 sites, site B linking to the other 49 sites, etc?

Steely Dan,

No interlinking of sites ...

To much more, takes time away from publishing
and it is risky.

Why risk when I am already ranking so well?

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Charann Miller

Thanks for the great post Brian.

You've got so many different profit centers, you can continue to keep making money with these sites on autopilot, flip the domain names or flip each site for a nice chunk of change and you've still got plenty more to fall back onto, win-win-win I say.

Nice work.

Charann,

Yep ... That is all part of the master plan ;-)

Food for thought, when most affiliate's / marketers / web geeks
launch sites they get all attached to them. They try to improve
on the rankings by building links.

By just walking away and letting them age the rankings
come on their own. Then after several months you can
start some very slow link promotion to boost rankings.

Then you can either keep the sites for the revenue
stream (this is usually what I do) flip them or grow
them out ...

Powerful stuff indeed.

Best,

[DonnaLeona]

Originally Posted by Brian Johnson

Donna,

Yep ... that is indeed an apricot poodle. My buddy
"Otis" he get's me outside once in a while!

Best,

Well then I know you're a good man! I have an apricot poodle named Oliver. Poodles are misunderstood by many. The truth is they are nearly human.

Life is good: Developing websites for a living and a good dog to love.

~Donna

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by DonnaLeona

Well then I know you're a good man! I have an apricot poodle named Oliver. Poodles are misunderstood by many. The truth is they are nearly human.

Life is good: Developing websites for a living and a good dog to love.

~Donna

Donna,

Otis is my true buddy, I love to get out and take
him for walks, it's good for both of us.

Oliver ;-) I bet our dogs would have all kinds of
fun!

Best,

[mylindaelliott]

Hmmm. I will have to rethink some of this.

[Jonet Bradley]

Whoa, what an inspiring post--Thanks so much for sharing what's working for you, gives newbies like me the extra kick in the pants to really start making moves. I wish you continued success & I can't wait to get on the webinar!

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Jonet Bradley

Whoa, what an inspiring post--Thanks so much for sharing what's working for you, gives newbies like me the extra kick in the pants to really start making moves. I wish you continued success & I can't wait to get on the webinar!

Hey Jonet,

Just remember ....

We all start from the very same place.

Make a plan.
Take action.
Stay focused.

Best,

[Elmer Hurlstone]

Just a quick, formal, THANK YOU to Brian!

Based on the response to this thread alone and the number of PM's it has probably generated (I'm responsible for two or three) I'm amazed he has the time to spend answering, in detail, the questions posed in the thread.

Plus the PM's.

Makes me wonder how he's getting any other work done...

Elmer

[Mark-Dickenson]

Thanks for the great post Brian.

Just to let everyone know, Brian has posted some great info without even mentioning his product Commission Ritual in his sig, which Rocks!!

I just purchased it last week and learned a quite a few things that will make Google trust/like my site more...and the keyword research vids are money

I wish he didn't include the MH Ritual...that was my secret for a quite a while

Anyhow, the types of sites he is recommending you make in this thread absolutely work. This is exactly how I make my money

I just got done making some videos for my customers showing these principals in conjunction with the Amazon Holiday Toy List that just arrived in my inbox yesterday

If you do this combined with the suggestions that Brian makes in this thread, you will make money.

Using that list, I found 5 keywords with at least 8k(one had 27k) searches in quotes with 50k or less competition...in about 20 minutes

Thanks again Brian

Gotta run...I have some sites to make

-Mark

[Marhelper]

I know this is geared toward seasonal selling but I would like to use it for year round purposes ... thoughts?

[MJGrae]

Jeeeeeeze man, that's some great market research going on there. That's the kinda thing that makes millionaires, bud.

[Bruce_Richards]

its a winner

[maggie2]

Originally Posted by Brian Johnson

Kx,

Depends on far too many factors.

Average cost per click estimates (adwords tool).
If I can get a keyword driven domain.
Affiliate programs....

I will mention that I have targeted ebay and have
done quite well with that program as you can target
so many "true" niche keyword phrases.

Best,

Hey Brian,

What an awesome post! There's a heck of a lot here to digest.

You said in the post quoted above that you targeted ebay and that you can target so many "true" niche keyword phrases.

Could you explain what you mean by that, please? I am looking at ebay as a possible means of generating traffic and so any information would be helpful.

Thank you so much for this post. It has tons of great info.

[kx]

Hi Brian,

Had a few more questions in mind:

- Those 1-page websites that you have, how long are they on that 1 page? I'm assuming it's an article around your target keyword between 500 and 1,000 words?

- Do you use any copy-writing techniques in order to "persuade" people? or do you just have a goal to quickly send people from your site to merchant's site?

- What do you use for tracking visitors (if anything)?

Thanks in advance,
kx

[chukwuma]

Originally Posted by Brian Johnson

Hey Everyone,

I just finished up two months of seasonal niche marketing
and generated some amazing results. This post is an effort
to share some winning strategies with you, I hope you find
this post helpful.

I wanted to post my recent success with season
marketing, namely selling costumes, as an affiliate
prior to Halloween.

Having been a fulltime affiliate and AdSense publisher
now since 2003, I have made a great deal of money
during the late summer and early fall each and every year.

However, this year was one of my best years and I hit
a grand slam which was a direct result of new tactics
and strategies that I implemented.

My goal is to share the methods, tactics and strategies
I used to generate over $22,000 in revenue ($22,616.51).

I will answer any questions you have about my method
and why it works so darn well.

Before I jump in and share all the details, I want to
give you the facts.

First off these earnings were based on two full months,
September 1 through October 31, and the income was
generated from affiliate commissions through
BuyCostumes.com and Adsense.

Affiliate Commissions: $10,381.16
Adsense Earnings: $12,235.35

Total Earnings of: $22,616.51

About the AdSense earnings, I have a network of
quality sites that generate on the average $75 to
$125 in AdSense income which does NOT target
the Halloween market. So, part from my AdSense
income was from sites outside of the Halloween
market, however Halloween had a very big
impact as it does each Halloween season.

That being said, many of these other sites are
based on the same SEO principles I will share
with you.

I also had two webhosting commissions during the
Holiday period which resulted in $200 and, obviously,
these commissions were not based on my seasonal
marketing strategies.

I share these facts to provide you with true transparency.

What you also need to know is that ....

95% of the websites which were built during the late
summer were created and launched by my assistant
who just months ago had no real website building
experience or SEO experience, for that matter.

Why is this important and why am I sharing all this with you?

Simply because it means that if my assistant was
able to take the simple concepts I am going to
share with you here and put them into action
with these results, anyone else can as well.

My job was to grab domains based on targeted
search terms and her job was to launch the
sites according to my blueprint. It was really
that simple.

Thus, if you’re able to take away some ideas
and strategies from here and you then take
action and put my methods to use the sky is
the limit.

I am currently launching "micro" niche sites for
the holidays and am also in the process of
launching dozens of new sites that are not
holiday related targeting AdSense income.

The Concept: Part One (highly focused niche marketing)

My concept this year was to target very specific
costume search terms. Last year I went for massive
traffic and targeted "costume ideas."

If you research that term, you will find that it
gets a crazy amount of search volume during
the months of September and October.

However, the term is too broad and converts poorly.

During this October the site converted at: 0.65%
(less than one percent of the people purchased),
however the new sites I launched converted between
1.5% and 10%.

What I did this year was really based on my
Golden Rule of Internet Marketing, something
I have been developing over the past six to nine
months.

My Golden Rule of Internet Marketing:

Find out what people want or need and give
it to them by making it easy for them to buy.

The first part of my rule:

Find out what people want or need.

This is fairly simple and straight forward. It means
that you need to target search terms which you
know (as well as the searcher) exactly users are looking for.

The second part of my rule:

Making it easy for them to buy.

What does this mean?

If you have a site about power drills, you
should ONLY feature content about power drills —
no fancy web 2.0 buttons, no follow me on twitter,
no FaceBook apps, and no ad banners for products
that are not 100% on target.

If you follow my golden rule you will be left with
simple sites that are easy to navigate and easy
for your visitors to find the stuff they need and/or
want.

So, the results will be sales and conversion.

In fact, as mentioned my network of sites this
year converted between 1.5% and as much as 10%.

Site Conversions for My Top Producing Sites (in percentage):
1.2 %
2.2 %
7.9 %
2.7 %
1.9 %
1.6 %
2.2 %
2.0 %
1.9 %
3.2 %
0.9 %
2.4 %
4.2 %
1.7 %
0.8 %
8.3 %
2.1 %
3.4 %
3.0 %

As you can see, I had many sites converting very, very well.

The Concept: Part Two (launch as many sites as possible)

The second part of this year’s concept was be to
leverage on page SEO by using my special formula
(think adding outbound links, search term domain
names, unique content, and more).

In order to truly launch a lot of sites, I would not
have time for stuff I really never do anyway, such
as article marketing, social bookmarking, link
building, etc.

Mind you, I did a bit of link building ... but I truly
do mean just a little bit. As a matter of fact, for
most of the sites we launched we spent less
than ten minutes on link building.

Because of this, I felt that many of the sites I
launch would rank well but not amazingly well.

And so, most of my moneymaking sites this year
ranked between 6 and 20 on Google.

When I saw sites which were ranking in the top
twenty, I usually did nothing more to try improving
the ranking.

The powerful part of this is that ...

It gave me time to launch more sites which
often found their way into the top twenty
of Google with minimal effort.

We (my assistant and I) started at around
August 1st and began with about 20 domains
to target and launch sites on.

My plan was for small sites that had only five
to ten pages. However, I then began seeing
the power of my "niche site" plan and quickly
tweaked my thinking to simple "micro niche"
sites that often contained only one page of
content on the homepage.

This proved to be powerful as most of my content
(site pages) pages were on the domain homepage.

Let me further explain.

Typical Niche Marketing Thinking:

Launch 10 sites, each site with 5 to 10 pages.

The Network of Ten Sites Would Have a total
of 50 to 100 pages of content.

This network of sites would result in ten pages of content
being found on the domain / homepage / root of the
domain.

My One Page "Micro Site" Thinking

Launch 50 sites each with 1 - 3 pages of content.

This "micro" network of sites would benefit from
having 50 pages of content on the domain root.

The power of a domain name is HUGE when it
comes to ranking online and my network of
sites maximizes and leverages this fact.

Launching a bunch of sites all at once was not
so hard as we were not trying to launch huge
massive "authority" sites but simple little one
page sites which focus on just a few search
phrases based on my golden rule.

One of the benefits of being so busy publishing
content is that most of the sites never really
got slapped by Google and none of them got
into trouble.

Again, we did not:

• Submit articles
• Social bookmart our pages
• Do video promotion
• No three way link clubs
• Ect ..

I never really liked publishing content on the web
unless it was to my site. The exception for me is
videos.

The only link building we did do was based on one
or two items; one of which is my KeywordLuv
method and the other is simply posting a mini
article on another blog with one or two back
links to the newly launched site.

Simple and nothing that would backfire with Google.

The affiliate linking stuff.

I only promoted one affiliate program. Again,
the whole concept was to move fast and to
keep things simple. Thus I pulled a "search"
link to BuyCostumes.com which I could use
on all my sites.

I did not need to log into CJ.com each
time I put up a new affiliate link.

I just used my search link for all the sites and
I was able to track sales with each site’s own
PID tracking.

Also, I only installed one block of AdSense ads
into the sidebar which keeping AdSense out
of the main content and tried to push people
to the affiliate program instead. Regardless,
the AdSense click through was still strong
due to good blending of the sites.

Lastly, we used WordPress with the following plugins:

-All in One SEO
-Google XML Sitemap
-Shadow Link Cloaking plug-in (cloaks affiliate links for free)

In the end we launched about 120 sites and
did really well. Next year, should be really
interesting for sure.

I am now moving forward with launching a
"little micro network" for Christmas and the
holidays.

I will let you know how that goes.

Best,

The road to making money. Thanks for this post.
How do you manage to promote the 120 sites?

[goodmast3r]

Brian one more question, do you use branding in your domain name? Like windowsvistasoftware.com?

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Mark-Dickenson

I wish he didn't include the MH Ritual...that was my secret for a quite a while

If you do this combined with the suggestions that Brian makes in this thread, you will make money.

-Mark

Hey Mark ...

MH Ritual?

Since I coined the IM Term Ritual, I am wondering what
your referring too?

Glad you making money Mark and I am glad you like
Commission Ritual.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Elmer Hurlstone

Just a quick, formal, THANK YOU to Brian!

Based on the response to this thread alone and the number of PM's it has probably generated (I'm responsible for two or three) I'm amazed he has the time to spend answering, in detail, the questions posed in the thread.

Plus the PM's.

Makes me wonder how he's getting any other work done...

Elmer

Elmer,

I am not going to complain about the response I
have received with this thread. Anytime anyone
posts a thread such as this the hope is to spark
a fire ...

That being said yesterday was crazy and I did not
finish up on what I had planned.

That is ok however, I am self employed and have no
boss to answer to

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Marhelper

I know this is geared toward seasonal selling but I would like to use it for year round purposes ... thoughts?

Marhelper,

The methods work for any term online ...

Search for "internet marketing course" and you find
my 15 month old site ranking #2 on Google.

Search for "domain parking" you find my site beating
Google, and millions of other domain parking companies ;-)
(I think right now I am ranked number 3 on Google).

If you need money or rankings now then you target
keywords that other do not target, they can be seasonal, or
not.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by MJGrae

Jeeeeeeze man, that's some great market research going on there. That's the kinda thing that makes millionaires, bud.

Yep ...

And I am going to get my share ...

Right now while I can, In the last two months I have
registered about 300 domains and have launched about 200
sites.

This week my assistant will be started with batch number
two of Holiday sites, dog sites, hair sites, catalog stuff.

I hope others jump in (their is plenty of opportunity for everyone).

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by Bruce_Richards

its a winner

Hey Bruce,

Thanks! I know I feel like a winner after such an
amazing Halloween!

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by maggie2

Hey Brian,

What an awesome post! There's a heck of a lot here to digest.

You said in the post quoted above that you targeted ebay and that you can target so many "true" niche keyword phrases.

Could you explain what you mean by that, please? I am looking at ebay as a possible means of generating traffic and so any information would be helpful.

Thank you so much for this post. It has tons of great info.

Maggie,

True niche keywords:

Keywords with search volume, based on commercial products
or services that people buy often online with little competition.

Once in a while people email me and say they can not find
these types of keywords, the truth is their are so ... many.

Give me 90 minutes of research and I will have found
between 25 and 75 keywords to target ;-)

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by kx

Hi Brian,

Had a few more questions in mind:

- Those 1-page websites that you have, how long are they on that 1 page? I'm assuming it's an article around your target keyword between 500 and 1,000 words?

- Do you use any copy-writing techniques in order to "persuade" people? or do you just have a goal to quickly send people from your site to merchant's site?

- What do you use for tracking visitors (if anything)?

Thanks in advance,
kx

Content of about 400 words to 1000.

We start out with about 400 to 500 words, if we have
time and If we see the site is on page two of Google we
then add more content to the homepage with additional
outbound links.

This often results in a boost in the rankings ;-)

Sales copy - no.

No need, these are people who have already been sold.

Someone searches for:

kids cowboy costume

They land on your page with "kid cowboy costumes" ...
Those type of visitors sell themselves.

Awstats for tracking.

Again, keep it simple. And too be honest I really did not watch
the stats.

Rember: My job is to publish.

Not to over analyze.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by chukwuma

The road to making money. Thanks for this post.
How do you manage to promote the 120 sites?

Hey Buddy,

Read the post again ...
I did not have to promote.

I only posted one or two links to new sites.
That is all it took, that is the power of the method.

Again, read the post again. I think you missed some important
parts.

Best,

[Brian Johnson]

Originally Posted by goodmast3r

Brian one more question, do you use branding in your domain name? Like windowsvistasoftware.com?

No - generic terms.

Best,