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A stop word is a word that google ignores in a search phrase. Words like "the", "a", etc...

Great Post! Could you explain what backlinking strategy you are using?

Thanks,

Gav.

First of all if you go back Hoody you will see more or less all of your questions have been answered

[at least to the extent they're likely to be answered]

What is more, answered very early on in the first few pages...

So to help LMC I'll reply with what I've just read [I'll note however I'm only up to page 7 as I just started reading this afternoon while busy with other stuff]

I'm assuming he uses SEO Hosting - SEO Web Hosting with cPanel and Multiple Class C IP Addresses ?? As he kinda implied that when he replied to one of the earlier questions with that link as the answer.
[they are owned by hostgator btw]

However he said he has also has dedicated servers as well as shared hosting.

Still a bit of the mystery for me. But I assume he has a very detailed set of generic and specific instructions that he hands to them.

However, before getting into outsourcing I STRONGLY recommend doing [and others have recommended this too] it yourself on a small scale with a handful of sites.

THEN once you have got it sorted you can massively scale up via outsourcing.

Better to do it slowly right, than very fast wrong.

In this situation when it is composed of many little tiny pieces you should only once you know you're doing it right then try to speed up the process via outsourcing.

He has already said this is his gold and he won't give out the exact details [rightly so too].

However... he has already mentioned a few details which you might be able to follow along to arrive at the "answer":

There is a LOT of info there... even if you can't work out exactly how he is doing it, it should at least provide you with an idea or two of your own as to how to go about effectively. It certainly has for me

This is just a generic tip here from me personally:
a) use sites with feedback ratings
b) give them a small job first to test them out before deciding on BIG jobs with them
c) be very detailed in your instructions, they can only be as good as you let them be. You give them vague crap instructions, you can expect vague crap back


I'd still recommend starting out doing it yourself.... because as others have also noted it, he succeeds because he has got a grasp of the whole package. This includes the psychology of the sales writing etc.... if you can't do this effectively yourself then how can you expect to outsource it out ultra cheaply to somebody else?

LMC could you give me a short answer to my question?

As you mentioned that you outsource everything, can you recommend the link building service you use as it seems to me that they do a very good job.

WOW.. .LMC this is some golden information!!! I can't believe you are giving these great nugglets for free!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!

How can you get backlinks into someones sidebar or footer? When you say you get more backlinks that your competition...I ahve noticed that a lot of times the site with the most backlinks is not always in first position. So are you saying that you will get more backlinks that any in the top 10, or just more links that first place?

Yep totally agree. While content is king backlinks has a lot to do with it as well. Example. Brand new toy site getting awesome Google traffic starting to rank high on Squidoo has another squidoo competitor. More or less same url only difference is I have a hyphen and the other url has an underscore. That Squidoo has 33 backlinks with this keyword as anchor text while mine has a whole one backlink. Here's how I know it is not the content. The other lens has a whole 238 words while mine has 2500 words of content. Yes unique and written well. So backlinks do matter and you can imagine what i am spending my time doing - building quality backlinks!

I rather not discuss my strategies on finding products, it is the core to my business.

I can tell you that I first look to see what people are buying online.
I then look to see what is being offered to me in regards to what people are buying.

From there...

That is where the money is.

I use about 6 different strategies to finding good products and niches.

I'll give away one.

I use Ebay Pulse to see what people are buying. It constantly changes with trends and by breaking apart the broad (pulse) category you can find some really interesting niches.

Example... did you know people buy bird cages? I for one didn't. The niche has tons of opportunity, I have yet to enter the market, but if you look into the niche you can see that it breaks down into sizes:

Small Bird Cages
Medium Bird Cages
Large Bird Cages

then there is the specific bird in regards to the cage:

Canary Bird Cage

I pretty sure one of the above is available and has a great search.

Hello LMC,

You mentioned that you don't use any stop words, prefixes or suffixes in your domain names.

Did you test domains with these things in them in the past and found them not to rank in the serps?

Best Regards,
Don

They aren't in one basket, they are in over 520 baskets. What are the odds google is going to de-index every one of his sites overnight?

Show them one. If they still can't do it, find new writers.

To share a successful business model and help others...

Maybe it was to help you and you're not quite bright enough to realise that?

Stop looking a gift horse in the mouth and start realising that someone has given you a business model that genuinely works, makes money and doesn't require you to invest hundreds of dollars to buy it.

Stop looking for the catch, say thanks and get on with - this is a 7 figure business model!

On CJ, when you are accepted into affiliate programs, often times the program managers will mail you coupons, sale banners and so forth.

Great thread. I know for a fact this works because I do something in a similar way on a similar (attempted) scale.

I think the main point and path to success is there are ( at least) 2 parts:

1. The planning/strategy ( finding niches, getting domains, keywords to target, affiliates,etc)
2. Implementing it, the setup- Getting your content up, getting your links,etc.

My big problem is the 2nd part. I tend to do very well at coming up with ideas, even registering the domains and all of that. But when it comes time to set everything up I have a hard time just doing it.

It's "easier" to an extent when you can and have budgeted for outsourcing. I could kick myself because at certain points I've had the funding and plans to outsource different things and then just didn't act. Sometimes its better to be a buyer than a seller, and I have found ( after spending countless hours building links and submitting sites myself) many tasks are better outsourced. You just have to know what you are doing. You outsource the monotonous grunt work ( for example, you do the research to know what kind of links you need and what anchors, etc, then get someone else to do the repetitive tasks) and the specialized things you don't have the skill or time/interest in doing/learning.

I guess I consider myself fortunate because I really have the first part down. I find a lot of people really struggle with the idea part, figuring out what to market. That comes very easily to me.

Some such as myself get caught up the second part and others have troubles with both/all aspects. A lot of it is just about DOING.

I know a lot of comments have warned people about not jumping into something and buying 100s of sites or anything just because one person is successful with this. I understand that, IF you don't figure out the strategy/research part first.

However, I have NEVER failed to make a profitable site out of a Keyword domain, provided that I actually DID THE WORK. I'm not bragging, maybe I'm just good at choosing niches after years of trial and error with many aspects of internet marketing. There's really a whole lot involved in all of it. Someone like LMC can layout a basic outline/blueprint for it, but there is a lot of work required to figure it out for yourself.

As far as outsourcing goes ( I notice a lot of questions about finding outsourced help), I look for providers in forums/places that are established and have a feedback/rating system. Then start with a small test. A lot of people will offer cheap intro/test packages of their work. Keep in mind, at least IMO, it is your job to figure out what you need to do and then delegate it. The outsources providers are only going to be as good as you allow them to. Same goes with the success of your sites. If you have bad strategy like chasing after the wrong keywords, using weak domains, bad link anchor text, etc..it's not going to turn out well. But if you really know how to hit all the aspects it's pretty much as simple as: get domains, get content, get links, monetize= make money.

There are some people you can pretty much tell step by step exactly how to do things and they never will or they will limit themselves. For example, i have a friend I've helped out a lot, probably too much. My own business has suffered as a result of spending so much time explaining to others. My friend has a handful of sites that each make at least a few dollars a day. He could easily have a few hundred sites like that. Instead he's struggling. I guess he's "content" but not really content if you know what I mean. And he's probably doing better than most people who are into internet marketing. You read so many people on forums who have never made money or done much when some things are relatively simple. You can get domains for a buck and hosting for free. Content and ideas come from your own time at your leisure. it all comes down to doing things. Don't proceed blindly but don't get caught up paralysis by analysis.

guess I'll take my own advice and go work on a few of my few hundred sites that still need to be setup.

Dru-Man,

LMC may use different rules however, I use the following parameters as a general guide, and this has seen relatively good results. These search figures are based on Google search only.

SEARCHES PER DAY - At least 60 exact searches per day.
PHRASE SEARCH - less than 60,000. Less than 30,000 is a definite goer.
ALLINTITLE SEARCH - less than 1,500. Less than 500 is a definite.

PBR would be calculated as such...as calculated by Market Samurai for a given keyword (below).

"how to play an acoustic guitar"

ESPD (exact searches per day) - 19
SEOT (expected clicks or search engine traffic) - 7
SEOC (search engine competition ) - 25,200
SEOTC (seach engine competition in title) - 344
SEOTCR (search engine ratio based on SEOTC/SEOC) - 1%
PBR - 6%

As you can see, this keyword wouldnt qualify, as the ESPD is too low. What you are looking for is high ESPD, high SEOT, low SEOC, low SEOTC, low SEOTCR and a PBR of at least 15%.

I dont intend to hijack the thread, I just thought I would share what works for me...

Hope this helps dude.

Thats a great technique, where do you buy your domains?

And also what is ur main monetization model....adsense, affiliate marketing? i havent ready everything since its so long....

But i do want to build a huge pile of sites too.

Hi Ramone,

I am not saying it is the case, and I am not disputing what you are saying. I was making another point, albeit very clumsily!

I think I am just going to go back to work. :-/

Use VPS servers, cost like ~$25/mo.
Put up 30-40 sites and they cost less than a buck per month to host.

Here is your answer to the question about searches brittlesnc...

See below for your answer...

Hi LMC, I was wondering if you use any domain other than .com.

Smart move. That will guarantee you never suffer the dreaded Google slap from "clones".

Joe I think that's a good point and what you're saying is technically true, but I can tell you that if I owned that many sites and relied on Google for almost all my traffic there's no way in hell that I would want Google to know about all my sites (or be able to easily figure it out). That's just an unnecessary risk if you ask me. One day out of the blue they could decide that your sites aren't providing enough "value" to users, and de-index them all at once since you made it so easy for them to find all your sites.

Not nitpicking at all.

Id much rather avoid if possible investing 18 months of my time, and a fair amount of money towards building a large network of websites, only to have them penalised by missing something that could've been answered here in a few minutes.