Couple Questions ~ SEO/Adsense/Keyword Tool/Sandbox/Etc...

by xTrav Banned
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Greetings. I have a few questions for the experts. I will lay each question out as it's own entity, to make it easier for you to answer. This makes it easier for you to just skip the questions you do not have the answers to and only respond to the ones you have knowledge of.

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Question #1: How does a complete noob start from scratch and get some sites up and ranked FAST and start making some $$$ FAST? Is this possible? Let's pretend that you had 1 month to take a noob from the streets and teach them everything that you know about SEO, website design, and internet marketing. This noob has computer skills and will follow your every instruction without questioning it. What tips would you give him? What tools and resources would you have him read or purchase?

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Question #2: Can one internet marketer who uses the free Google Keyword Tool be just as successful as the internet marketer who uses a paid tool such as Market Samurai?

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Question #3: Any tips for using the Google Keyword Tool? Should I use broad, exact, or phrase match types? Should I have the box checked or un-checked that says 'Only show ideas closely related to my search terms.'?

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Question #4: There are so many different views, opinions, and misinformations about the difficulty levels of ranking for certain keywords. I have heard many people say to stay away from certain keywords or certain niches because you will never ever rank for them or if you do it will take 2 years. But then I also hear people claiming that they know how to rank for any keyword that they choose no matter how much competition there is and supposedly they are able to do this rather quickly, like 1 week or 1 month or something. What is the truth?

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Question #5: Is Adsense still profitable? I heard one of the top internet marketers in the entire business refer to Adsense as the welfare of internet marketing. But then I have heard countless other people say they are making $1,000's per month etc... Is it possible to make $1,000's per month? Or is the method that they are referring to simply having 100 niche websites that all make $30 each per month? I guess the main question is this - should I put forth the effort into niche sites with Adsense or no?

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Question #6: I hear a lot about people getting their Google accounts banned for some type of illegal or shady Adsense practices? What types of things can get ya banned and how do I avoid it? How realistic is it to get banned?

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Question #7: Is the Amazon associates program still worthwhile and profitable or no?

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Question #8: What exactly is the Google Sandbox? I hear this term a lot and Im not 100% sure I understand what it is and why it happens? Why would Google throw someones site into a virtual Sandbox? Supposedly this big name internet marketer was recently working on some authority niche site and all of a sudden he said his site was dropped from Googles rankings and was thrown into the sandbox? He was freaking out about it and saying that from his past experience he realizes that being thrown into Googles Sandbox is a very bad thing and that there is pretty much no point of return and it is better to just scrap the site and start over. Is this true?

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Question #9: I hear the terms competitive keywords and non-competitive keywords thrown around a lot. What is considered as competitive and non-competitive? Is it the number of searches per month these keywords are getting?

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Question #10: When doing keyword research, what is the minimum number of monthly searches to look for? How much is too much or how many is too few to not even bother with? One guy recommends to target keywords with at least 1,000 searches per month and a CPC of at least $1. Is this good advice?

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Question #11: When trying to rank for a keyword, where should you place most of your focus? Trying to rank the domain name that has the keyword in it to get traffic to your homepage of your website or to try and rank each individual page or blog post?

For example: Let's pretend that my domain is www.tedsfishingtricks.com
Should I put all of my focus into trying to rank for 'teds fishing tricks' so that visitors can come to my site?

Or should I focus on each page? If I had a review on the site titled 'super duper fishing bait guaranteed to work', should I instead focus on ranking for 'super duper fishing bait' so that people can come click my affiliate link?

Or should I focus on both??
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Thanks in advance for any answers to my questions!
#couple #questions #seo or adsense or keyword #tool or sandbox or etc
  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Beaton
    You have a long way to go my friend but keep working at it. Try posting one question at time, I'd love to help you but your list is a bit over whelming.
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    • Profile picture of the author xTrav
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      Originally Posted by Jonathan Beaton View Post

      You have a long way to go my friend but keep working at it. Try posting one question at time, I'd love to help you but your list is a bit over whelming.
      Thanks for the inspiration and motivation. This is what fuels my fire. Soon I will own all of the #1 spots in Google and make all of the monies $$$. This I guarantee. Guys like me are a threat to you kids and it makes me smile A lot.
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