150+ websites making $6-$100 per day. You Can Do This Too. My Online Business Strategy

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I have been marketing online for over 3 years now quite successfully. I am also a much sought after IM consultant.

The #1 question I get from prospective clients is, "What methods would you teach me in order to make money online?", or something of that nature.

Although I teach several methods to generate different income streams, my favorite method involves simple website creation using WordPress in conjunction with affiliate marketing to monetize.

My methods aren't anything new per se, but over the last several years I have perfected it in such a way as to maximize the benefits regarding organic search engine traffic and high conversions.

It's not uncommon for my sites to get 5000+ hits per month! And it's all free traffic!

I currently have 150+ websites that are making anywhere from $6 to $100 per day, I have about 4 that do $100 a day, the rest are all over the board.

Anyway... I wanted to share my basic business model here...

First and most importantly, the general idea is to produce a mini-authority website of 20+ pages that is optimized for 20+ keywords (including your main page and domain name keyword.)

The websites will have the pages listed on the left hand side of the site and all will link to internal pages. Each of the pages are, in and of themselves, researched keywords that will rank on the first page of the search engines and each garnish it's own share of organic traffic.

First you find a niche.

Then you start doing the keyword research.

The main keyword (for the main page as well as your domain name) needs to be relatively general.

Example:

Niche - Tattoos

Main Page (and domain name) Keyword - Masculine Tattoos

Internal Pages "Alternate Keywords" (listed on the left hand side of the website) - Tribal Arm Tattoos, Back Tattoos, Rib Tattoos, etc.

Using your favorite keyword research tool, the keywords MUST have at least 800 searches per month (exact match) and have manageable competition within the search engines. Let's just say 30,000 results or less (in Google) when searched for in quotes.

I build websites using WordPress (Wordpress.org.) I do this because quite simply, it's easier than building a static web page and it's much simpler to teach as well as implement.

When I build a site, I use a theme that has a left column sidebar and set it up to look like a regular website as opposed to a blog. For example, I take out page tabs, any unnecessary widgets, etc.

I then create a page to use as my main page (utilizing an already researched keyword that I will also use as my domain name.)

I go into the dashboard of the blog and under "Settings", I choose "Reading." Then I pick the page I just created to be a "static page" and my front page.

This allows a single post or page to be displayed as opposed to many posts like a blog has.

As you find your keywords, you will then create pages that will be clickable links using anchor text HTML within text widgets to be placed in the left sidebar of the site.

Once you create your site, you should have a very clean and basic website that has 20+ pages of content, that is linked to with keyword links on the left hand side of the page that are visible to your visitor no matter what page they happen to be visiting on your site.

All my websites are ranked #1 through #5 for all their target keywords (pages included.) 85%+ of my traffic comes directly from Google. The rest comes from people and or online entities who have linked to my sites.

My Website Qualities:

* They all target 5-10 different products per site.

* I recommend both informational products (ex: ClickBank products), and physical products (ex: Amazon, E-bay.) There are pros and cons for each. Informational products require more of a pre-sell, so in order to be more persuasive, your content needs to be at least 500 to 750 words per page. Physical products (tangible items) are great because you don't have to say as much and the competition is usually more manageable.

In building these sites, my goal is to be #1 in Google. In fact the power of this system is that all of the pages within your site have the ability to be #1 in Google, so you can only imagine what type of traffic and conversions that brings with it.

*Note - When done properly, 10% or more of your pages will rank on the first page of Google without you doing anything extra at all. I have found however, to get to #1 for everything, backlinking is key.

In the beginning, I wrote all of the content for my sites, and my backlinking (if needed.) At this point, I outsource almost all of my work in order to spend more time driving my businesses forward.

My online business strategy is an awesome business model that really works (To the tune of six figures annually for me.)

One great thing about this model, is that for the cost of one domain name (usually about $10 per year), and the cost of hosting (roughly $14 per month), you can set this business up.

*Note - Get a hosting company that allows unlimited add-on domains so that you can build more sites by just buying more domain names only.

Unless you pay for outsourcing, those are your only costs besides your time investment.

The sky is the limit!

As time permits, I will respond to any questions you post to this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author tjk1058
    Good information... wish I had the time to make this into an empire like you have!

    TedK
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    • Profile picture of the author pluto1
      Thanks for the detailed information. One should really sit back and absorb some of the points you have mentioned.

      Re: Pages as front static page, does it matter for Search Engines if the main page of the website or blog do not get fresh contents frequently. Does it affect the crawl rate?
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    • Profile picture of the author gabquotesl
      me too, having 150 websites to develop and maintain is a really hard task i have only 4 sites and it takes me 4 hours of work a day..
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      • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
        Originally Posted by gabquotesl View Post

        me too, having 150 websites to develop and maintain is a really hard task i have only 4 sites and it takes me 4 hours of work a day..
        Gabquotes You might want to give MOBS a try then! You may be doing things with your 4 sites that you don't have to, or counterproductive. Therefore, spending way more time on your 4 sites than you need to. And those efforts aren't helping any. I don't know your personal situation with your sites but that is just my assumption from what you are saying. Hope this didn't come across the wrong way. I can tell you I felt the same way once, doing so much work and not getting very far. But Gary and Loz, teach you in the MOBS forum, how to stop doing the things that are counter productive, wasting your time, and focus ONLY on the steps that are the MOST effective and least time consuming. You get way more bang for your buck.
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    • Profile picture of the author marcromero
      Originally Posted by tjk1058 View Post

      Good information... wish I had the time to make this into an empire like you have!

      TedK
      I'm sure he didnt do it over night. Just think one site at a time and you can get the same results. He has laid out the blueprint for you right here in this thread, take advantage of it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Greenwarrior
      Great information,thanks for sharing with everyone.
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  • Profile picture of the author LogoNerds
    Just curious, how long has it taken you to get 150+ websites online and making money at this level?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @pluto1 - Does not affect crawl rate. Hasn't mattered that there aren't new posts added.

      @LogoNerds - About 2 years, although it is important to note, that I reached 6 figures after about 1 year. BTW, LOVE your LOGO work.
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      • Profile picture of the author VictorKimura
        Hi, thank you for the information. It's great.

        Just wondering what's the best keyword research tool. I looked webceo and I believe some others mentioned another one which I can't recall now. Wordtracker which I've used too. I think the other one was called market samurai.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by Branlan17 View Post

          Question: What do you put on your main page? Any sort of opt-in or a review there? Just wondering how you monetize the main keyword or move the homepage people towards a product.
          The main page as well as the internal pages, are optimized for one specific keyword per page, using on page SEO (in order to rank in the SERPS and get the organic traffic.)

          All pages have their own content written around their own keyword. You can write reviews, stories, history around the keyword, etc.

          Each page will have anchor text links going to the particular product you are recommending on that page.

          I am a HUGE advocate of building your list(s), so yes I usually include an opt-in box, used in a text widget, within my left sidebar somewhere. Might as well take advantage of all of the traffic you're getting, right?

          Originally Posted by VictorKimura View Post

          Hi, thank you for the information. It's great.

          Just wondering what's the best keyword research tool. I looked webceo and I believe some others mentioned another one which I can't recall now. Wordtracker which I've used too. I think the other one was called market samurai.
          I honestly use the free Google Adwords Keyword Tool exclusively. There are many tools out there. I have heard a lot of good things about Market Samurai.

          Originally Posted by scararm View Post

          Congrats for your success, and sorry to ask but Im newbie here and my nature language is spanish, so Im curious what exactly means the term 5,6 or even 7Figures success, or something like that.

          thanks for your time and explanation.
          Thank you. The "figures" you refer to denote the actual number places in a monetary value. Ex: 5 figures could be $10,000, $30,000, $50,000, etc. While 6 figures might be $100,000, $500,000, etc. Understand?
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      • Profile picture of the author skibbz
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        @pluto1 - Does not affect crawl rate. Hasn't mattered that there aren't new posts added.

        @LogoNerds - About 2 years, although it is important to note, that I reached 6 figures after about 1 year. BTW, LOVE your LOGO work.
        This sounds great..i heard about this model a few years ago, glad to meet someone who is working it properly
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    Thank you for sharing! I am so happy to hear about your success. I am lucky to make $1 per day on my sites, but I am a total newbie. My income is slowly climbing because I don't give up.
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    • Profile picture of the author LegitIncomes
      Originally Posted by sarahberra View Post

      Thank you for sharing! I am so happy to hear about your success. I am lucky to make $1 per day on my sites, but I am a total newbie. My income is slowly climbing because I don't give up.
      $1 per day is great, especially if you are a newbie.

      $1 per day doesn't sound like a lot, but once you compile 200 sites, you are making $200 per day, that's $73,000/year which is well above the average median yearly income of a US household ($49,700).
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      • Profile picture of the author paulie888
        Originally Posted by LegitIncomes View Post

        $1 per day is great, especially if you are a newbie.

        $1 per day doesn't sound like a lot, but once you compile 200 sites, you are making $200 per day, that's $73,000/year which is well above the average median yearly income of a US household ($49,700).
        So true, many people just don't realize the power this gives them to quickly scale up their income. If you can develop a system for building a $1/day website efficiently and quickly, then it's just a simple matter of replicating the system and doing more work yourself and/or outsourcing it to multiply your income many times over!

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    • Profile picture of the author pavanchopra007
      how did you monetize your site??
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by pavanchopra007 View Post

        how did you monetize your site??
        Check out the rest of the thread. It's mentioned a few times.
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  • Profile picture of the author thebasta
    Hey what is the free worpdpress them you are using to has a left column sidebar and set it up to look like a regular website?

    Thanks for your answer....
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @thebasta - There are many. Do a search for themes inside of WordPress choosing ones that utilize a left sidebar.

      The one I talk about within my course is called "Fortissimo."
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      • Profile picture of the author jbsmith
        Great if this really works, we run a very similar system but typically our intent is to use the affiliate products (mostly info products unless the niche is an obvious candidate for physical products, then we run those as well)...instead of the 150- site approach we may test 40-50 and find our top 10-15 which we then turn into $15+K sites each year by then building out the content, backlinks and product offerings.

        What I find hard to understand about your system is how you keep the pages that you get to rank in top 10 in those positions for any length of time without continuing to develop content (above the initial 20-pages) or continue to mine for backlinks? Sounds fishy to me since pretty much any page that is ranked in the top 10 will eventually (sometimes weeks, sometimes months) drop out as it gets replaced with competitive pages unless. That means the site will sort of go through a curve - get indexed fast, get ranked within a month, stay there for a couple months and then slowly fade down where traffic is not cut off, but certainly decreases?

        Cheers,

        Jeff
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        • Profile picture of the author scorpio9
          Nothing fishy at all, this is the sensible way to do it. Wordpress is great for building sites quickly but I find if you use pages which are static as opposed to posts which are forever changing you get longevity in the SERPS.
          The first website I build about 5years ago using XsitePro has held positions 1 -10 in Google, Yahoo and other SE for past 3-4 years, I talking about multiple keywords for just the front page. Little of the content has changed in that time except I converted it to wordPress; I have not added any content in past 12 months. It did drop from PR4 to PR2 (but who cares?). from time to time I may add the odd backlink here and there but it has maintained its position for the main keyword ahead of skype.com and about.com I might add, how many backlinks do you think they have?

          Each month I'm reached by over 1500 different keywords and it's averaging 500+ visitors per day (95% unique) and it's not going away. So it is not true to say they ALWAYS drop out of the SERPS or lose traffic after a few weeks/month, if its done right it will last. Sounds to me like gpower2 is doing it the right way

          Lee


          Originally Posted by jbsmith View Post

          Great if this really works, we run a very similar system but typically our intent is to use the affiliate products (mostly info products unless the niche is an obvious candidate for physical products, then we run those as well)...instead of the 150- site approach we may test 40-50 and find our top 10-15 which we then turn into $15+K sites each year by then building out the content, backlinks and product offerings.

          What I find hard to understand about your system is how you keep the pages that you get to rank in top 10 in those positions for any length of time without continuing to develop content (above the initial 20-pages) or continue to mine for backlinks? Sounds fishy to me since pretty much any page that is ranked in the top 10 will eventually (sometimes weeks, sometimes months) drop out as it gets replaced with competitive pages unless. That means the site will sort of go through a curve - get indexed fast, get ranked within a month, stay there for a couple months and then slowly fade down where traffic is not cut off, but certainly decreases?

          Cheers,

          Jeff
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          • Profile picture of the author paulie888
            Originally Posted by scorpio9 View Post

            Nothing fishy at all, this is the sensible way to do it. Wordpress is great for building sites quickly but I find if you use pages which are static as opposed to posts which are forever changing you get longevity in the SERPS.
            The first website I build about 5years ago using XsitePro has held positions 1 -10 in Google, Yahoo and other SE for past 3-4 years, I talking about multiple keywords for just the front page. Little of the content has changed in that time except I converted it to wordPress; I have not added any content in past 12 months. It did drop from PR4 to PR2 (but who cares?). from time to time I may add the odd backlink here and there but it has maintained its position for the main keyword ahead of skype.com and about.com I might add, how many backlinks do you think they have?

            Each month I'm reached by over 1500 different keywords and it's averaging 500+ visitors per day (95% unique) and it's not going away. So it is not true to say they ALWAYS drop out of the SERPS or lose traffic after a few weeks/month, if its done right it will last. Sounds to me like gpower2 is doing it the right way

            Lee
            The great thing about Wordpress is that you can easily make the home page a static one (as opposed to a blog), and it's as simple as clicking a few items in the administration panel to get this accomplished.

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          • Profile picture of the author TimG
            Originally Posted by scorpio9 View Post

            Nothing fishy at all, this is the sensible way to do it. Wordpress is great for building sites quickly but I find if you use pages which are static as opposed to posts which are forever changing you get longevity in the SERPS.
            The first website I build about 5years ago using XsitePro has held positions 1 -10 in Google, Yahoo and other SE for past 3-4 years, I talking about multiple keywords for just the front page. Little of the content has changed in that time except I converted it to wordPress; I have not added any content in past 12 months. It did drop from PR4 to PR2 (but who cares?). from time to time I may add the odd backlink here and there but it has maintained its position for the main keyword ahead of skype.com and about.com I might add, how many backlinks do you think they have?

            Each month I'm reached by over 1500 different keywords and it's averaging 500+ visitors per day (95% unique) and it's not going away. So it is not true to say they ALWAYS drop out of the SERPS or lose traffic after a few weeks/month, if its done right it will last. Sounds to me like gpower2 is doing it the right way

            Lee
            I follow a similar system in that I utilize static pages instead of the blogs that many people prefer. For some reason I've always enjoyed the standard html static page instead of having to deal with the many different features associated with a WP Blog setup.

            Most of that is due to my knowledge of html and my lack of knowledge in regards to blogs. I haven't seen any evidence that using this method has hurt income production. Of course, I also can't say that I'm leaving money on the table by not utilizing blogs.

            Respectfully,
            Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author fred67
      Originally Posted by thebasta View Post

      Hey what is the free worpdpress them you are using to has a left column sidebar and set it up to look like a regular website?

      Thanks for your answer....
      Just Google Your Niche name followed by Free wordpress Themes and you'll get loads :-)
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        Fred, too long winded of a method bud...

        To O.P that fred replied to...

        Go into your WP, use default theme (will work ok, you can customize it later)... hit the widget section... drag the HTML widget over to the sidebar...

        create new page, set it to be presented as the main index page.

        Then add hyper links with your keywords that go to each PAGE (notice i didnt say POST)... and you will get a similar feel of what Gary does

        Hope this helps

        Originally Posted by fred67 View Post

        Just Google Your Niche name followed by Free wordpress Themes and you'll get loads :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew_Cheyne
    Hey Great Strategy,

    I was thinking about going into building mini-sites like these... Best of luck and I really love the strategy you have here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Firstrate
    This is a great strategy and you've given me tons of great ideas to think about so thank you!
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      jbsmith - Yes, it absolutely works. The pages that rank on the first page typically stay there because the keyword you researched has very manageable competition in the first place.

      At times, a page may slip a bit, and then you just backlink a little until it gets back to where it needs to be.

      Works like a charm.
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      • Profile picture of the author IM Outsider
        Thanks for sharing. Aren't there gurus out there charging $97 bucks for this advice!!! Keep up the good work.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by IM Outsider View Post

          Thanks for sharing. Aren't there gurus out there charging $97 bucks for this advice!!! Keep up the good work.
          Thank you.

          It's important to note, that most of these methods are not new per se, but they work.

          We tend to over complicate the process of earning money online. Most of us have the necessary information required to be successful, but often over think the process.

          Focus, commit 100%, take action, and DON'T give up!

          It's a sure fire way to make it, online or off.
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  • Profile picture of the author rolltide
    gpower2-what kind of backlinks do you use?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @rolltide - Nothing special. Traditional social bookmarking (Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious, etc), blog commenting, article submitting, you know the basic stuff.

      *Note* - When I create my websites, let's say it's a 30 page site, I will typically have 5+ pages rank on the first page of Google (and stay there) WITHOUT me doing any backlinking at all. The backlinking comes into play when you have pages internal pages on your site not get to page one. Then, and only then will I backlink the pages, thereby maximizing my results.

      I also, will backlink to get to the #1 position when necessary to get the lions share of the organic traffic.

      As mentioned above, at this point, I outsource all of my backlinking. In fact, I use a few Warriors to do most of my work.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        @dilawer - You can, but I always recommend owning your domain. It would be a terrible waste for you to do the work, only for your site(s) to be taken down on someone else's whim.
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  • Profile picture of the author dilawer
    great information, but will it be OK if i go with a free blogging service like blogger or wordpress.com?
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    • Profile picture of the author JRCarson
      Great post gpower2. Interesting way to set up the WP site...with pages vs posts, and text box with anchor text. I'm going to give it a try.
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  • Profile picture of the author giseo
    so what is your strategy for getting the sites number one in google. how do you do it?
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  • Profile picture of the author smartsites
    Awesome post. A couple questions if you don't mind. Are your 20 pages of content unique?

    Do you add all 20 pages at once or 1 page a day over the next few weeks?

    Do you use any type of auto posting software or recommend one?

    How long does it take your site to start ranking on first page of Google?

    Do you use any keyword software like Market Samurai?

    Thanks for the awesome post, I learned a lot and have been looking for an easy to follow method.

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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @giseo - some of the main site URLs (main page and/or domain page), get to #1 on their own merit. Mostly from the support of the internal pages.

      Also some of the pages get to #1 without me doing anything at all based on solid on page SEO methods.

      If not, as mentioned above, I do basic backlinking to get the pages to the top poisitions within Google.

      @smartsites:

      I have students that have created 30+ page M.O.B.S. sites in one day. I tend to be a bit slower and usually take a few days to build a site. Haven't had any issues in ranking either way.

      I manually post.

      Ranking time is not set in stone. I have had pages rank on the first page in days, and also have had pages take a couple of months. After creating a site and waiting for your pages to rank, build more!

      I am a big believer in using free tools. I use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool exclusively. It's great and most people just don't know how to use it properly. Most paid keyword tools are populated with the same Data.

      You're welcome
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      • Profile picture of the author Tony Marriott
        Originally Posted by jbsmith View Post

        Great if this really works, we run a very similar system ....................

        What I find hard to understand about your system is how you keep the pages that you get to rank in top 10 in those positions for any length of time without continuing to develop content (above the initial 20-pages) or continue to mine for backlinks? Sounds fishy to me since pretty much any page that is ranked in the top 10 will eventually (sometimes weeks, sometimes months) drop out as it gets replaced with competitive pages unless. That means the site will sort of go through a curve - get indexed fast, get ranked within a month, stay there for a couple months and then slowly fade down where traffic is not cut off, but certainly decreases?


        Cheers,


        Jeff
        From my own experience I can tell you this does work. In fact I make this work with only 5 page sites. I can get 24 hour indexing, 2 to a few days google page 1. Some backlinking to push it to the top 3 and then just leave it. I have sites that have been untouched for over a year and retain their top ranking.


        Originally Posted by sarahberra View Post

        Thank you for sharing! I am so happy to hear about your success. I am lucky to make $1 per day on my sites, but I am a total newbie. My income is slowly climbing because I don't give up.
        Congratulations that is excellent! You have already surpassed 95% of all would be marketers and have the basis for a full time business. $1 a day/$30 month- 150 sites $4500 a month. That is enough for most people to quite their day job. Not all internet businesses need to clever, cool, complicated, fashionable, cutting edge or have a fancy name with any synonym for "loads of quick cash" in it
        . BTW with improved keyword research it's not that hard to make that $10 a day.


        gpower2, this might not actually be a relevant question depending on how specific the keywords you target are, but do you ever have any issues with copyright infringement on very niche specific domain names?
        You should avoid trade marks and brand names in your domains. Some people do it and get away with it but many don't. I teach this stuff and I always recommend avoiding copyright problems. I have a recent real life example where a student created a web site with the name of a global toy manufacturer in it. He duly put the site on Google page 1 at which point he received communication from the company demanding the hand over his website. I don't know the actual legalities but he did end up giving his website away.


        So be warned


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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          @Joe.Mc - Haven't had any issues yet!
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          • Profile picture of the author longbow767
            Just wonder if you could share some of your links so I could check out some of your websites. Thanks much.
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            • Profile picture of the author terryd
              Originally Posted by longbow767 View Post

              Just wonder if you could share some of your links so I could check out some of your websites. Thanks much.
              Why don't you read the whole thread because he already has!!
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      • Profile picture of the author btzr

        I am a big believer in using free tools. I use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool exclusively. It's great and most people just don't know how to use it properly. Most paid keyword tools are populated with the same Data.

        You're welcome
        Hi,

        Thanks for the great insight!
        By "using it properly" what do you mean exactly? I've been using it too for a while now, I know how it works, can choose keywords and can do keyword research. But I wouldn't say I'm an expert. I know it is not a rocket science if one knows the general and exact rules (which are not shared usually. ). Can you give us a general rule of thumb how this works? You mentioned that a long tail should have at least 800 exact monthly searches. That's fine.

        Do you think that the Competition column can give you a clue as to a keyword is worth to pursue or not? Sometimes I found that the Competiton bar was "almost full" and wasn't that hard to rank 1st page in Google.

        And things like that. I'm pretty sure many would appreciate a little howto guide regarding this topic. If you have time of course. Thanks in advance!

        Btzr
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        • Profile picture of the author davidjames42973
          Yes! I've been making a nice stream of income building various mini sites over the years. It wasn't until I outsourced the project that I began to see some serious results.
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          • Profile picture of the author Gloria Joseph
            Hi outsourcing can be expensive for a newbie. Whats your advice for some one new without the cash to pay for outsourcing.
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            • Profile picture of the author gpower2
              Originally Posted by Gloria Joseph View Post

              Thats some good tips on starting out Gary, but seems a lot of hard work. Good advice though. I have learnt some stuff.
              Originally Posted by Gloria Joseph View Post

              Hi outsourcing can be expensive for a newbie. Whats your advice for some one new without the cash to pay for outsourcing.
              Gloria, Gloria, Gloria.. Of course it's work. Have you ever attained anything in life, worth having, without work? If it was easy we would all be millionaires, right?

              If you are a newbie (or if you just can't afford it) , I don't recommend outsourcing. This method is completely doable for free (aside from domain and hosting costs.) That's how I started out. Once you start to make some money, then you can start to invest in your business (outsourcing, etc.), to leverage it up.
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              • Profile picture of the author bentonmiddleton
                Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

                Gloria, Gloria, Gloria.. Of course it's work. Have you ever attained anything in life, worth having, without work? If it was easy we would all be millionaires, right?

                If you are a newbie (or if you just can't afford it) , I don't recommend outsourcing. This method is completely doable for free (aside from domain and hosting costs.) That's how I started out. Once you start to make some money, then you can start to invest in your business (outsourcing, etc.), to leverage it up.
                Gloria, may I suggest service trading, or bartering? Whatever it is you are doing or good at can be traded for something someone else is doing. Like my site says, "Everybody's an Expert at Something". This can help you out several ways.

                * You get your quality content without cost.
                * You can also negotiate a backlink here.
                * and you build another business relationship that'll help you further down the road.

                Hope this helps.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by btzr View Post

          Hi,

          Thanks for the great insight!
          By "using it properly" what do you mean exactly? I've been using it too for a while now, I know how it works, can choose keywords and can do keyword research. But I wouldn't say I'm an expert. I know it is not a rocket science if one knows the general and exact rules (which are not shared usually. ). Can you give us a general rule of thumb how this works? You mentioned that a long tail should have at least 800 exact monthly searches. That's fine.

          Do you think that the Competition column can give you a clue as to a keyword is worth to pursue or not? Sometimes I found that the Competiton bar was "almost full" and wasn't that hard to rank 1st page in Google.

          And things like that. I'm pretty sure many would appreciate a little howto guide regarding this topic. If you have time of course. Thanks in advance!

          Btzr
          Hi btzr,

          Regarding the use of the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT):

          I don't use the competition column at all. I use the basics. Results in Google (in quotes) needs too be 30,000 websites or less. You can use the allintitle: query (ex: allintitle: "your keyword"), withing Google to further search for your competition based on what websites are using that particular keyword within their title tag. It gets more specific this way. I like to see that number at 10,000 results or less.

          I pay attention to the Global and Local monthly search columns, I use "exact" match only, I add the estimated average CPC column, to get an idea about what people might be paying for a keyword that I am researching. I like to see this number at $1.00 or better. *Note - If all the other criteria are o.k., and if this column is not better than a $1.00, it is not a deal killer. I use it for insight primarily.

          I also use the trend column (the bar graph.) I like to see this column fairly consistent across the board. This lets me know that my keyword will continue to deliver traffic long term.

          Hope this helps,

          Gary
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          • Profile picture of the author btzr
            Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

            Hi btzr,

            Regarding the use of the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (GAKT):

            I don't use the competition column at all. I use the basics. Results in Google (in quotes) needs too be 30,000 websites or less. You can use the allintitle: query (ex: allintitle: "your keyword"), withing Google to further search for your competition based on what websites are using that particular keyword within their title tag. It gets more specific this way. I like to see that number at 10,000 results or less.

            I pay attention to the Global and Local monthly search columns, I use "exact" match only, I add the estimated average CPC column, to get an idea about what people might be paying for a keyword that I am researching. I like to see this number at $1.00 or better. *Note - If all the other criteria are o.k., and if this column is not better than a $1.00, it is not a deal killer. I use it for insight primarily.

            I also use the trend column (the bar graph.) I like to see this column fairly consistent across the board. This lets me know that my keyword will continue to deliver traffic long term.

            Hope this helps,

            Gary
            Thanks Gary! Really appreciate it.

            I was wondering how are you able to manage all these 150 (or more) websites altogether? Wordpress is awesome, but I'm struggling to manage 10 sites. Can you give a little insight how you scale it up? Thank you!
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      • Profile picture of the author giseo
        ok missed where you talked about the type of backlinks. any number of bl's you shoot for for each page?

        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        @giseo - some of the main site URLs (main page and/or domain page), get to #1 on their own merit. Mostly from the support of the internal pages.

        Also some of the pages get to #1 without me doing anything at all based on solid on page SEO methods.

        If not, as mentioned above, I do basic backlinking to get the pages to the top poisitions within Google.

        @smartsites:

        I have students that have created 30+ page M.O.B.S. sites in one day. I tend to be a bit slower and usually take a few days to build a site. Haven't had any issues in ranking either way.

        I manually post.

        Ranking time is not set in stone. I have had pages rank on the first page in days, and also have had pages take a couple of months. After creating a site and waiting for your pages to rank, build more!

        I am a big believer in using free tools. I use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool exclusively. It's great and most people just don't know how to use it properly. Most paid keyword tools are populated with the same Data.

        You're welcome
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by giseo View Post

          ok missed where you talked about the type of backlinks. any number of bl's you shoot for for each page?
          Some pages won't need backlinks at all.

          Others need some but it is impossible to say. Niches and competition will be different for every topic. BEFORE you create your site(s), you will have done your due diligence, so the amount of backlinking you will have to do overall will be minimal.
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  • Profile picture of the author thai
    great information. I was about to head that direction myself - my goal is earn $1.00 per each blog per day. My ultimate empire plan is 1000+ blogs which end up $1,000 each day autopilot Probably takes years for this to complete but that's my goal!

    Do you use personal hosted wordpress on all your websites? I'm looking to build my empire on blogger and wordpress.com.

    Do you write your own articles or spin others?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @thai - Sounds like a VERY attainable goal. Just keep at it!

      I use domains that I own via WordPress.org. I don't want anyone else having control over my content.

      I have both written and spun articles to use for content in the past. Currently, I outsource my content creation.
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      • Profile picture of the author culpetm
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        @thai - I use domains that I own via WordPress.org. I don't want anyone else having control over my content.
        Hey everyone. gpower2 is right about this. Don't use the free services. They can and will shut you down. A friend of mine recently lost his website because Blogspot shut it down with no warning. It was full of completely original material and there was definitely no blackhat or spam involved. We don't know why the site was shut down. My friend lost months of work.

        So, take gpower2's advice and only use domains that you own. If you use subdomains, then you can run hundreds of mini-sites for the price of one. Very cost effective.

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  • Profile picture of the author bryce84
    Thanks for posting, I have a similar business model. Good to see others talking about it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Val Wilson
    Great information - thanks for sharing.

    A couple of questions about your content. Is your content just informational, or is it important to include a pitch to the product you are targeting?

    I've tried outsourcing content creation before, but have never really been satisfied with the results - any tips on how to choose someone who can really deliver?

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @Val Wilson - Good question. For informational products, I tend to use personal story type pre-sell content. I have also found that topic history also works well.

      For physical products, reviews work well, along with customer testimonials, product benefits, etc. Not much in the way of pre-selling needed.

      I can't place his link here, but there is an article/content writer here on the Warrior forum by the name of Ed, that does a great job. Tell him Gary Gregory sent you and he will give you the V.I.P. treatment.

      You can P.M. me if you want the link to his thread.
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      • Profile picture of the author Val Wilson
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        @Val Wilson - Good question. For informational products, I tend to use personal story type pre-sell content. I have also found that topic history also works well.

        For physical products, reviews work well, along with customer testimonials, product benefits, etc. Not much in the way of pre-selling needed.

        I can't place his link here, but there is an article/content writer here on the Warrior forum by the name of Ed, that does a great job. Tell him Gary Gregory sent you and he will give you the V.I.P. treatment.

        You can P.M. me if you want the link to his thread.

        Gary, I can't send PMs - could you PM his thread to me? Thanks for taking the time to reply - much appreciated.
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    Great stuff, thank you for sharing!

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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    I dont understand why you would want to stuff 20 or so keywords into one website? Why not have 1 keyword and 20 websites?

    The bigger your net, the more fish you catch.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by ramone_johnny View Post

      I dont understand why you would want to stuff 20 or so keywords into one website? Why not have 1 keyword and 20 websites?

      The bigger your net, the more fish you catch.
      You can build 20 or more websites for 20 different keywords (I have done this too), however, I prefer my method for several reasons:

      1. You don't have to buy 20 different domains, saving you about $200

      2. The way I build my sites, the keywords aren't considered stuffed. Quite the contrary. Each and every page (including the main page), is optimized for only one keyword. In fact, there are also LSI keywords within each page to attract even more visitors to your website(s) over time.

      3. Google Loves content. When they spider your site, you are rewarded for having more content.

      4. *Most Important* - You're visitors stay on your site(s) longer. Sure they may come into your site via one of your pages, but when they get there, there is so much more for them to see, they wind up perusing your site for much longer. In this game, the longer your visitors stay on your site, the more likely they are to click through to whatever you are recommending, thus the more likely you are to get paid.
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      • Profile picture of the author arttse
        Also, the longer a visitor stays on your site, the higher your site will be ranked by google. Very hard to achieve this with a one page site.


        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        You can build 20 or more websites for 20 different keywords (I have done this too), however, I prefer my method for several reasons:

        1. You don't have to buy 20 different domains, saving you about $200

        2. The way I build my sites, the keywords aren't considered stuffed. Quite the contrary. Each and every page (including the main page), is optimized for only one keyword. In fact, there are also LSI keywords within each page to attract even more visitors to your website(s) over time.

        3. Google Loves content. When they spider your site, you are rewarded for having more content.

        4. *Most Important* - You're visitors stay on your site(s) longer. Sure they may come into your site via one of your pages, but when they get there, there is so much more for them to see, they wind up perusing your site for much longer. In this game, the longer your visitors stay on your site, the more likely they are to click through to whatever you are recommending, thus the more likely you are to get paid.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ross Dalangin
        Correct, because you can create it on sub-domains.
        When I create a site I don't usually add ads initially
        but right after G crawled it and I intend not to make
        my site looks like an MFA.

        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        You can build 20 or more websites for 20 different keywords (I have done this too), however, I prefer my method for several reasons:

        1. You don't have to buy 20 different domains, saving you about $200

        2. The way I build my sites, the keywords aren't considered stuffed. Quite the contrary. Each and every page (including the main page), is optimized for only one keyword. In fact, there are also LSI keywords within each page to attract even more visitors to your website(s) over time.

        3. Google Loves content. When they spider your site, you are rewarded for having more content.

        4. *Most Important* - You're visitors stay on your site(s) longer. Sure they may come into your site via one of your pages, but when they get there, there is so much more for them to see, they wind up perusing your site for much longer. In this game, the longer your visitors stay on your site, the more likely they are to click through to whatever you are recommending, thus the more likely you are to get paid.
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    • Profile picture of the author SantiSantana
      Originally Posted by ramone_johnny View Post

      I dont understand why you would want to stuff 20 or so keywords into one website? Why not have 1 keyword and 20 websites?

      The bigger your net, the more fish you catch.

      From doing the tutorials on Market Samurai and considering he is going for low comp keywords I would guess it´s to add traffic to the one site.

      If his main keyword showed, say 80 searches per day and he had 19 alternate elated keywords pulling 10 searches a day each he would be about tripling visitor counts rather than dilute the traffic all over the place.

      Then again I could be looking at it the wrong way, I´m just on tutorial phase with MS
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  • Profile picture of the author Gloria Joseph
    Thats some good tips on starting out Gary, but seems a lot of hard work. Good advice though. I have learnt some stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author Muhammad Hassan
      Thanks for sharing and congrats on your success.

      Here's a couple of things I took from the post:

      1) He says that his methods are not new - but he's
      making money. But how can he be making money
      without following a methods that's totally new,
      there's no secret and there's no magic bullet.

      Simple.

      You don't need them. You need a method that's
      proven to work and follow it. Granted there may be
      new ways of implementing the method, but the
      method is based on solid foundations.

      A lot of people are looking for the nest big Internet
      marketing thing - and not making any money. He's
      following an old method - and making money.

      2) People will not follow the method - although it
      makes money because you have to work.

      It's a business. It's Internet marketing business.

      Would you expect to make money from a hairdressing
      business without working? NO

      Would you expect to make money from a car repair
      business without working? NO

      Would you expect to make money from an accountancy
      business without working? NO

      If you want to make money from any business, including
      Internet marketing business, then you have to work.

      gpower2 is putting in work and getting out money.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by Muhammad Hassan View Post

        Thanks for sharing and congrats on your success.

        Here's a couple of things I took from the post:

        1) He says that his methods are not new - but he's
        making money. But how can he be making money
        without following a methods that's totally new,
        there's no secret and there's no magic bullet.

        Simple.

        You don't need them. You need a method that's
        proven to work and follow it. Granted there may be
        new ways of implementing the method, but the
        method is based on solid foundations.

        A lot of people are looking for the nest big Internet
        marketing thing - and not making any money. He's
        following an old method - and making money.

        2) People will not follow the method - although it
        makes money because you have to work.

        It's a business. It's Internet marketing business.

        Would you expect to make money from a hairdressing
        business without working? NO

        Would you expect to make money from a car repair
        business without working? NO

        Would you expect to make money from an accountancy
        business without working? NO

        If you want to make money from any business, including
        Internet marketing business, then you have to work.

        gpower2 is putting in work and getting out money.
        Thanks for that

        I always compare it to buying a gym membership and expecting to get results just by having the membership.

        Any legitimate business opportunity (online or off) requires work.

        Let's put this in perspective. I have owned several off line businesses as well. In the offline world, it is not uncommon for you to invest 20, 30, $100,000 initially, then spend thousands more monthly to advertise, paying staff, etc. Only to understand that it will most likely take you a couple of years (at least), to show any profit at all.

        Yet, when people look to make money online, not only are they not willing to do the work, but they are upset when there are no results after putting in a few weeks of work! I am speaking in general terms. Not everyone is like this, although I can tell you it happens more often then I would like to see.

        If more people understood going into it (an online business) that you get out what you put in, it would be much better for everyone.

        This system works guys, plain and simple. Follow the steps outlined within this thread, commit to it, work the plan, don't get distracted, DON'T give up, and you WILL make money with it, period!
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    Thank you! I bookmarked this! I like getting ideas on stuff like this!
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  • Profile picture of the author jlady
    How can you find exact match keywords that get at least 800 per month and low competition in google?

    I haven't found it, but I still have gotten medium competition words to rank just takes lots of backlinks.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by jlady View Post

      How can you find exact match keywords that get at least 800 per month and low competition in google?

      I haven't found it, but I still have gotten medium competition words to rank just takes lots of backlinks.
      I have explained a bit more about this above.

      You can definitely do it, using 100% free tools.
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      • Profile picture of the author FredJones
        Cool thread. Very decent job.

        A little while ago today, I replied to a thread in Warrior Forum on what is overlooked in IM. What you do definitely covers some of the many things grossly overlooked in IM.

        And yes, I would go for a 100-page site any day rather than a single-keyword site. Where's your leverage in a single-keyword site? God !!

        Let me cite an example of one of the sites Sudeshna and I own - and no, this is NOT to promote it but to set an example of how big a site can be and how valuable it can become - WebLiterature - Free Digital Online Literature Library - it has been discussed elsewhere in Warrior Forum also (I believe in one of Kneb Knebiah's thread, in which I had referred to it in a very interesting discussion that Kneb had - probably in the War Room - don't exactly remember where).

        Examine carefully and you shall see how it has gained some edu and gov links in time. And I am NOT talking about link spamming here - I am talking about editorial links coming from Gov and Universities. Last year (2009) it was discussed as one of the 49 websites in a leading university for websites of the year - agreed that they talked about the poor HTML deisgn (it was manually HTML-coded by me and was my first ever website and yes the design stinks) but the next site that was discussed was MySpace.com and an example of good websitte was Google.com.

        I hope you see the exact league that I am talking about?

        Now, why bring the topic up here? Because, while I have been idle on doing SEO on the inner pages of it, I did try to work on one of its pages on-and-off. It was super-competitive, but with time and a little (not much) effort it has come up to #10-#11 (toggles) in Google.com. The exact searches for this term used to show 6.73K per month in the older Google Adwords tool and shows up a little more than 100K now. It is a single-word keyword. The top-9 are all PR-5 or higher sites (including multiple PR-9 and PR-8 sites targeting the same keyword for up to the last 10 years, and some are Wikipedia and IMDB).

        What are some other examples? Well, did you check how many backlinks the typical Amazon or Nextag inner page has, when they rank on the first page? Did you see how much content does Nextag have to rank?

        The authority of the sites matter. And to leverage the authority, I would build a great umbrella site of 20 or 200 pages rather than a single-page website.

        This was just one of many reasons that I liked the approach of the OP.
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  • Profile picture of the author Branlan17
    Question: What do you put on your main page? Any sort of opt-in or a review there? Just wondering how you monetize the main keyword or move the homepage people towards a product.
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  • Profile picture of the author mikeroosa
    Just wanted to add something that may be getting missed here. These really aren't mini sites, but authority sites instead. Once you start building a site with 20-30 pages, you start ranking for your new keywords quite easily assuming you've got a good amount of backlinks to your domain.

    Another thing to add for those that have followed the xfactor method. John tries to sell you on product based sites, but I've found other types that work better such as health related and emotional related sites.

    Just my 2 cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gyromite
    It looks like you have a similar business model to "LMC" here. Seems like his sites may be more focused on a specific product, and your sites have multiple products based on a more general niche.

    Thank you for sharing. I am just getting started in a similar business to you and LMC. I've done a lot of my own article writing, but I'm starting to outsource it now because writing articles is just too time consuming.
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    • Profile picture of the author wkm3
      gpower2,

      This is great information. Thanks so much. I will need to reread it a few times I'm sure.

      One thing I'm finding hard to get my head around. When you mention build 20+ pages or create a static home page are you specifically talking about pages or could we use posts as well. Do you feel there is a difference to the search engines or our SEO value?

      Thanks for replying if you get a chance.

      Walter
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    • Profile picture of the author Luis Medilo
      Wow... That's a lot of websites! I was also thinking about this kind of strategy, long before I stumbled on your post. Hundreds of websites each earning a few dollars a day will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per day. So my strategy will be like this:

      1. Buy a decent web hosting that allows multiple websites (add-on domains). I have a shared web hosting account of up to 50 add-on domains. If I consume all the add-on domains, I'll get another account.
      2. Do some research on what's selling like hotcakes on the Internet. Compile a list of relevant keywords with high commerciality and low competition.
      3. Buy domain names related to the main keywords I want to target.
      4. Create websites using WordPress.
      5. Post content using articles I create myself, outsource from others, or spun from other articles.
      6. Update from time to time. Concentrate my SEO efforts on just a few websites and ignore the rest.

      Do you think this type of strategy will work?
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      • Originally Posted by loyski View Post

        Wow... That's a lot of websites! I was also thinking about this kind of strategy, long before I stumbled on your post. Hundreds of websites each earning a few dollars a day will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per day. So my strategy will be like this:

        1. Buy a decent web hosting that allows multiple websites (add-on domains). I have a shared web hosting account of up to 50 add-on domains. If I consume all the add-on domains, I'll get another account.
        2. Do some research on what's selling like hotcakes on the Internet. Compile a list of relevant keywords with high commerciality and low competition.
        3. Buy domain names related to the main keywords I want to target.
        4. Create websites using WordPress.
        5. Post content using articles I create myself, outsource from others, or spun from other articles.
        6. Update from time to time. Concentrate my SEO efforts on just a few websites and ignore the rest.

        Do you think this type of strategy will work?
        Sure, why not? Give it a go.
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        Originally Posted by loyski View Post

        Wow... That's a lot of websites! I was also thinking about this kind of strategy, long before I stumbled on your post. Hundreds of websites each earning a few dollars a day will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per day. So my strategy will be like this:

        1. Buy a decent web hosting that allows multiple websites (add-on domains). I have a shared web hosting account of up to 50 add-on domains. If I consume all the add-on domains, I'll get another account.
        2. Do some research on what's selling like hotcakes on the Internet. Compile a list of relevant keywords with high commerciality and low competition.
        3. Buy domain names related to the main keywords I want to target.
        4. Create websites using WordPress.
        5. Post content using articles I create myself, outsource from others, or spun from other articles.
        6. Update from time to time. Concentrate my SEO efforts on just a few websites and ignore the rest.

        Do you think this type of strategy will work?
        It surely can work and autobloggers do it all the time.

        However, another approach is less websites and more keywords for each. With this method you can enjoy many benefits. One of the main ones is it keeps it simple. You have less websites to drive traffic to, so you can focus your energies on a few. In addition, as you add pages of content for different keywords, you will get found by Google for all kinds of other keywords. Building supersites instead of smaller sites. Just a thought.

        Here is another idea, that Paula and Wanda (the 10k a month Amazon bloggers) shared in one of their posts. For many sites just certain pages are the money pages. When I look at one of my sites for example, one page has made me quite a bit, where the other pages have made me some. So as you build out your sites, keep that in mind. Instead of trying to rank whole sites focus on the pages that are showing promise within those sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jobfreetop
      GPower, let's deal in a realistic way with the TIME INVESTMENT you have mentioned...if you wouldn't mind...

      It's true to say that $24 is the startup cost of the domain and hosting. But what about the time involved? In your opinion, what is a REALISTIC timeframe for getting a site to bring in $2 per day ($0.1 per article per day according to your method)?

      For example, let's suppose you are doing it all yourself, you don't want anyone else involved, or simply you don't know anything about outsourcing, or hiring employees. You want to test it out for yourself.

      Presuming you know how to find the keywords, get set up, write content and so on, plus do the neccessary things to promote the site (which you haven't shared yet), in your judgment, how long do you assign in man-hours to the building and promotion of the site.

      For the avoidance of doubt (I sound like an attorney now!!), a simple calculation based on likening the site to a "perpetuity" - i.e. that it will bring in $1 forever and ever, considering that you can invest money in property or the stock market at about 12% annually, makes a single site worth, according to the "Discounted Cash Flow Formula for Perpetuities":

      365/0.12 = $3,041

      $3,041 is the so-called "present value" of a site which brings in $1 per day forever. (No one needs to know this jargon, but it is to illustrate a point).

      For a $2 per day site, the so-called "Present Value" based on the discounted cash-flow formula for a perpetuity is

      $6,083

      In other words, this is what someone (an investor) should be willing to pay for one of these $1 or $2 sites if you sell it on flippa for example. It also assumes that the cash-flow of $1 is forever and the rate of 12% is the stock market or property return rate forever...

      I'm getting carried away here. Back to the point in hand...

      For a $6 site (you claim your weakest site makes $6 per day), I roughly value this site at $18,250 again, provided it pays $6 FOREVER per day.

      This would be a "smart" price to sell the site, and also to buy the site. It is a fair price (in my opinion)...IF IT IS ASSUMED IT WILL PAY $6 DAILY FOREVER.

      NOTE: If it is only for 2 years say that the site will pay either $1; $2 or $6 per day, the valuations are as follows (using a very high 12% rate - the valuations would actually be a lot MORE using Bond rates at 3.5%)...

      $1 site values at $690.89 if it brings that $1 per day for 2 years, then nothing forever and assuming you can get a 12% return from other investments.

      $2 site values at $1381.78 if it brings that $2 per day for 2 years, then nothing forever and assuming you can get a 12% return from alternative investments.

      $6 site values at $2072.67 if it brings that $6 per day for 2 years, then nothing forever and assuming you can get a 12% return from other investments.

      I want to take the more conservative valuations as estimates for what each site is worth.

      So, can you explain to me, based on those figures, is this a good investment of TIME?

      For example, would you say, based on an alternative of working in "McDonald's", that $2072.67 is a fair reflection of the time put in to an average $6 per day site?

      In other words, would you say that you have done about 1 months work at 37.5 per week (150 hours) on the site to get it to $6 per day which would be the equivalent of paying someone about $69 per day for a 30 day month to work on the site.

      I know this paradigm doesn't take into account "once you've done it once, you can build a MASSIVE, PASSIVE income," but it would be useful to get your answers on this slightly technical point. It also assumes everybody's alternative is working in McDonald's for $69 per day.

      To clarify, if you are honest, would you say that you have done more or less than 150 hours of single-handed work on a $6/day site. If so, the model would seem reasonable to me from a very simplified financial analysis perspective...

      Summary of questions. Basically there are two questions:

      = In your opinion, what is a REALISTIC timeframe for getting a site to bring in $2 per day ($0.1 per article per day according to your method)?

      = Based on the "fact" that a single $6 per day (theoretically forever) site could be worth $2k even paying someone for a full month (at $2k) to build a single site (forget the scaling for now) would be an OK investment.

      Let me know your thoughts/ideas on this. Thanks for your post also! This is a topic that greatly interests me (scaling niche revenue sites). It seems like a NO BRAINER to get even ONE of these sites going...

      If you can give an estimation of the exact number of hours required to build the site PLUS the investment into your "formula", I can value the sites better, thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Andre Priyono
        The world would be nicer if there's more people like you, Gary
        It's great to read this thread.

        I'm a total newbie and i plan to do something like your business strategy discussed here before i read this thread.

        I'm thinking to use Market Samurai or Keyword Discovery, but i think that i could follow you using Google AdWords Keyword Tool, the free one from Google .

        Could you please tell me how to use that free tool comprehensively?

        I also want to know what registrars that you use?
        Is it GoDaddy or NameCheap?

        And what another tools do you use?
        Copyscape or DupeFree Pro maybe?
        Or any other?

        Btw, i have subscribe to your M. O. B. S

        Thank you very much for sharing such a tips, Gary.


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        • Profile picture of the author UMS
          Originally Posted by juannie View Post


          I'm thinking to use Market Samurai or Keyword Discovery, but i think that i could follow you using Google AdWords Keyword Tool, the free one from Google .

          Could you please tell me how to use that free tool comprehensively?
          If you read further back in the thread, Gary gives a pretty good outline of how he uses GAKT.

          If that still doesn't answer your query, then there's always the full MOBS course to help you out

          Originally Posted by juannie View Post

          I also want to know what registrars that you use?
          Is it GoDaddy or NameCheap?
          Gary uses NameCheap, as do I and probably the majority of other Internet Marketers. GoDaddy can seduce you with their initial cheap prices to suck you in, but you'll get hit by them with renewals.

          Also GD has the most awful interfaces, chock block with ads and upsells. Namecheap is a good, clean, simple design (IMHO)


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          • Profile picture of the author gregw2
            Originally Posted by UMS View Post

            If you read further back in the thread, Gary gives a pretty good outline of how he uses GAKT.

            If that still doesn't answer your query, then there's always the full MOBS course to help you out



            Gary uses NameCheap, as do I and probably the majority of other Internet Marketers. GoDaddy can seduce you with their initial cheap prices to suck you in, but you'll get hit by them with renewals.

            Also GD has the most awful interfaces, chock block with ads and upsells. Namecheap is a good, clean, simple design (IMHO)


            Peter
            GoDaddy works well if you use coupons. I used to use 1&1, namecheap, and name.com, but I found that using coupons with GoDaddy is least expensive overall.
            I also use valuedrops.com for expired domains that have names related to a niche that I want to develop a site in.
            fatwallet.com/forums/hotdeals lists coupons daily.
            I pay as little as 1.99-7.89 for a domain name this way. I also use the coupon codes for renewals and pay 30-50% less. So using GoDaddy is far less expensive for now.

            If anyone is serious about doing this there are ways to clone WP sites that can save a lot of time. You set up a WP site with all of the features that you want and then clone it over and over again, just changing the theme and then adding your content.

            You can do this for free by learning the the method. Just Google it.
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            • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
              Originally Posted by gregw2 View Post

              GoDaddy works well if you use coupons. I used to use 1&1, namecheap, and name.com, but I found that using coupons with GoDaddy is least expensive overall.

              I avoid GoDaddy like the plague, have read so many bad things about them (just do a search in Google) and my experiences when first searching for domains left me very wary of ever using them, even to check domain availability.

              I use Namecheap for most registrations now and also 1&1 in the UK, if registering .co.uk domains.
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    • Profile picture of the author K.Callwood
      Lots of excellent information here. It is important to emphasize the fundamentals when you first get into the IM game. Michael Jordan still shot free throws every day and probably still does.

      However, I think one of the biggest problems is the ability to find a profitable product to sell in a niche that isn't dominated by other savvy marketers. This was certainly true in my case. While I think SEO and organic traffic is wonderful, most of us have problems getting around the beginning question of: "What do I sell?"

      I think it was great to remind people that physical products do offer a chance that many IMers tend to forget about. Maybe I am wrong, but I think that people still pull out the plastic for physical products more than digital ones.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jobfreetop
      I love the fact that the site mentioned above (classic lit.) is hand coded by a non-graphic designer. I think it adds authenticity and this is how more sites online should be. Ironically, in terms of sales, I have got a considerably better result from the sites which have been made in the same way (or similar) because people warm to the fact you are not staring at corporate images and glitzy designs which can detract from your purpose of surfing the site and make you feel uncomfortable or like you're being groomed for something. Intrinsically, this kind of site screams of the good old internet, like when yahoo had a handful of sites in its listings, and the people seem to lap it up.

      On the other hand, it might serve the reputation of the site to have a design upgrade, but in my experience of university staff who talk about this kind of thing in their programmes and seminars, they are far more interested in the quality of experience for the user and the functionality than the kind of "Sodium Glutamate-laced" design that causes you to drool like a labrador who has just picked up on the scent of an open can of Rabbit and Cranberry Stew.
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    • Profile picture of the author Collier
      I know this is probably a newbie question but, for someone on a shoestring budget, is there anyway that something similar could be implemented without buying all the domain names. Like using 1 domain name and sub-directories. From what I'm understanding it would cost $100. to set up 10 sites and that's no problem when you're up and running but for me to get started I'd have to look for a way to use 1 domain and get started with that.
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      • Profile picture of the author FiveSmoothStones
        For someone who can't afford 150 domain names simply buy a few domains and build the wordpress sites on subdomains, using you keyword phrase as your subdomain. I am not sure there is any reason why you couldnt do this 50 times or more per domain.

        Example femininetatoos.genericdomain.com

        If you cant think of any great niches or dont have the time simply then outsource this work. You can do it cheaply and get back lots of niche keywords. You can then further research these before you dive into the blog building. Probably save you hours and hours.

        What about using a theme like Atomic Wordpress Themes that will put the clickbank and adsense ads in automated and has over 1000 niche headers?

        I was sure you were talking about adsense for most of this post then realized you monetized with clickbank, which I have never seemed to have much luck with. I have read about this system several times prior using adsense. AutoContentCash is one and includeds some great wp plugins to get backlinks and content.

        You mention only use pages and not posts but didnt read an explanation for this in this thread. I like to use content plugins that create add'l content and thus more trafiic. Any reason not to use posts?

        My advice is turn this into an efficient system and dont get bogged down in design and maintenence. I am prety sure someone over at fiverr would build your blogs for you while you are fast asleep.

        BTW after reading this I went over to a blog and have that wasnt monetized but was geting a trickle of traffic and added adsense. This morning I had a click for $1.50! 99 more blogs and its a done deal!
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        • Profile picture of the author Dr A
          Hey This site is great and so do the information. I am a new bee and I even don't have a site yet.

          I was wondering you guys have 100 of sites and what I check the hosting per month for a site is 10$.

          So 10 * 100 =1000$ Per Month.

          I cannot even think of it..
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          • Profile picture of the author gpower2
            Originally Posted by Dr A View Post

            Hey This site is great and so do the information. I am a new bee and I even don't have a site yet.

            I was wondering you guys have 100 of sites and what I check the hosting per month for a site is 10$.

            So 10 * 100 =1000$ Per Month.

            I cannot even think of it..
            Hey Dr A,

            You are thinking incorrectly. Hosting for 100 sites will still run you about $14 per month or so (if using a hosting company that allows unlimited add-on domains), and to purchase a domain might cost you $10 per year each, not $10 per month. You might pay $1000 for the year for 100 domains, but your income will far exceed that number annually.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by FiveSmoothStones View Post

          For someone who can't afford 150 domain names simply buy a few domains and build the wordpress sites on subdomains, using you keyword phrase as your subdomain. I am not sure there is any reason why you couldnt do this 50 times or more per domain.

          Example femininetatoos.genericdomain.com

          If you cant think of any great niches or dont have the time simply then outsource this work. You can do it cheaply and get back lots of niche keywords. You can then further research these before you dive into the blog building. Probably save you hours and hours.

          What about using a theme like Atomic Wordpress Themes that will put the clickbank and adsense ads in automated and has over 1000 niche headers?

          I was sure you were talking about adsense for most of this post then realized you monetized with clickbank, which I have never seemed to have much luck with. I have read about this system several times prior using adsense. AutoContentCash is one and includeds some great wp plugins to get backlinks and content.

          You mention only use pages and not posts but didnt read an explanation for this in this thread. I like to use content plugins that create add'l content and thus more trafiic. Any reason not to use posts?

          My advice is turn this into an efficient system and dont get bogged down in design and maintenence. I am prety sure someone over at fiverr would build your blogs for you while you are fast asleep.

          BTW after reading this I went over to a blog and have that wasnt monetized but was geting a trickle of traffic and added adsense. This morning I had a click for $1.50! 99 more blogs and its a done deal!
          I don't use posts because my sites (even though created using WordPress) are made to look like regular static websites, not blogs. Further, the sites use an internal linking structure by using keywords that are pages throughout the site, which give the sites more favorable ranking juice within the SERPS.
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        • Profile picture of the author marcromero
          Originally Posted by FiveSmoothStones View Post

          For someone who can't afford 150 domain names simply buy a few domains and build the wordpress sites on subdomains, using you keyword phrase as your subdomain. I am not sure there is any reason why you couldnt do this 50 times or more per domain.

          Example femininetatoos.genericdomain.com
          This could work but would not be as powerful. It's better to get a .com domain for each site/niche. If one were to build 10 sites per month this only comes out to around $100 bucks a month with godaddy. So really its not that expensive. Do that for a year and you got yourself an empire!
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          • Profile picture of the author capstan88
            Originally Posted by marcromero View Post

            This could work but would not be as powerful. It's better to get a .com domain for each site/niche. If one were to build 10 sites per month this only comes out to around $100 bucks a month with godaddy. So really its not that expensive. Do that for a year and you got yourself an empire!
            So is an addon domain get less attention or is it penalized by G?

            Since blogger blogs are basically subdomains and they beat out alot of IM sites I planned on doing a host per 10 domain names (probably wouldn't settle for subdomain default naming).

            Also you can use infos for this. $2 bucks apiece. Some say stick to com, org, net. I think info is there.
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            • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
              Originally Posted by capstan88 View Post

              I haven't failed at anything since I haven't tried any of this yet. I have two sites I've owned for 5 years and since I do make money from adsense and clickbank on those sites, I want to expand. But those ideas didn't come from wanting to make money. The monetization was added later.

              But everything I said in my first post still stands. 95% is rehashed and those guys don't make a dime from selling anything other than their IM products. Crack on me all you want.
              You are right, 90% of stuff in the IM niche are rehashed and just packaged differently..and probably 50% of the stuff in all other niches are rehashed and packaged differently too. That's the way it is in business, be it tangible products, digital products, info products.. etc..

              Do you see Sony Ecrisson, Motorola etc stop coming out with handphones because Nokia already have the same ones? More than 99% of the handphones out there are similar and have exactly the same functions, but why are they still able to generate revenue from them?

              Do you see Long John, Subway shunning away from the fast food industry just because Macdonald is owning everybody else? No, they just took the same idea and went at it with a different approach.

              and etc.. etc.. there are hell lot of examples out there if you want to look for them.

              It is TRUE that some people only make money from IM products (i.e making a living off teaching other people how to make money), but there are also tons out there that doesn't make money off IM products. WarriorForum is a internet marketing forum , naturally most of the people here are in the internet marketing niche..but there are tons out there not in the IM niche making a lot of money. (Want proof, go to clickbank look at the gravity scores for non IM products, if you don't know what gravity it, go and look it up)

              Great, you haven't failed at this business model. But judging from what you have said, you probably just want someone to tell you that it is possible for you to make it the first time so that you won't be wasting your time on it, because whenever you go, everybody seems to be saying the same thing and using the same method. And that(making it the first time) is definitely not going to happen unless you were born a internet marketing genius or have a lot of luck.

              The only way to know whether something works or not here.. is to try it out for yourself. If it works, then great, find a way to scale it up and expand, if it doesn't, learn from it, learn why it didn't work and how you can make it better next time
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        • Profile picture of the author gregw2
          Originally Posted by FiveSmoothStones View Post

          For someone who can't afford 150 domain names simply buy a few domains and build the wordpress sites on subdomains, using you keyword phrase as your subdomain. I am not sure there is any reason why you couldnt do this 50 times or more per domain.

          Example femininetatoos.genericdomain.com

          If you cant think of any great niches or dont have the time simply then outsource this work. You can do it cheaply and get back lots of niche keywords. You can then further research these before you dive into the blog building. Probably save you hours and hours.

          What about using a theme like Atomic Wordpress Themes that will put the clickbank and adsense ads in automated and has over 1000 niche headers?

          I was sure you were talking about adsense for most of this post then realized you monetized with clickbank, which I have never seemed to have much luck with. I have read about this system several times prior using adsense. AutoContentCash is one and includeds some great wp plugins to get backlinks and content.

          You mention only use pages and not posts but didnt read an explanation for this in this thread. I like to use content plugins that create add'l content and thus more trafiic. Any reason not to use posts?

          My advice is turn this into an efficient system and dont get bogged down in design and maintenence. I am prety sure someone over at fiverr would build your blogs for you while you are fast asleep.

          BTW after reading this I went over to a blog and have that wasnt monetized but was geting a trickle of traffic and added adsense. This morning I had a click for $1.50! 99 more blogs and its a done deal!
          If you are only seeking AdSense income then take your web page and paste it into the Google keyword tool and let it do the work for you. Use the principles that Gary is teaching or just use the keywords that it reveals and find the ones with the highest CPC and least traffic and rewrite your content on your webpage to monetize for these keywords or keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author Peter Lee
      Given that you've got so many websites, there could be a few with topics related to each other. Do you ever link one website to another with same or different IPs presuming that you may have a few hosting accounts. Like do you put a visible link on the blog to bring your visitors to the next blog if it is relevant and related. I'm interested to know because I get very different opinions about this. Some say it's ok while others say it is bad.
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      • Profile picture of the author Piper Anderson
        This seems like a good, simple method to follow. In fact, in the past few weeks, I've seen three different methods of getting your websites to make more money posted here. I've copied each of the three methods into word documents, and have purchased 10 domains for each method. Now, I'm in the process of creating the sites to go with each method (I've already got two up and am working on the rest). Once all the sites are up and running smoothly, I'll tend to them for a month, then compare the results I get between the three different methods I've seen posted on the WF.

        As a site flipper and affiliate marketer (I do a lot of both), doing a test of three different methods of increasing a site's income is a good thing, as it will not only help me make more money from my sites (especially once I determine which method is working best for me), but it will allow me to sell the sites for more money, too.

        So thank you very much for this information. I hope to be profitting from it shortly!
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    • Profile picture of the author kea55
      Originally Posted by Gyromite View Post

      It looks like you have a similar business model to "LMC" here. Seems like his sites may be more focused on a specific product, and your sites have multiple products based on a more general niche.

      Thank you for sharing. I am just getting started in a similar business to you and LMC. I've done a lot of my own article writing, but I'm starting to outsource it now because writing articles is just too time consuming.
      Yes,
      writing articles is waaay too time consuming, and when you get paid, its just a one off payment...no long term rewards like there are in a business.
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    • Profile picture of the author Moneymakergal
      Great info! Thank you so much for sharing!
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  • Profile picture of the author kenny5
    Someone could literally build their entire business on just the information provided I this post, thanks for the great info.

    I just hope people actually take action now!
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by wkm3 View Post

      gpower2,

      This is great information. Thanks so much. I will need to reread it a few times I'm sure.

      One thing I'm finding hard to get my head around. When you mention build 20+ pages or create a static home page are you specifically talking about pages or could we use posts as well. Do you feel there is a difference to the search engines or our SEO value?

      Thanks for replying if you get a chance.

      Walter
      No problem Walter.

      The main page of your site is to be created as a static page. Do NOT use posts anywhere within the site. Once you make internal pages, you create them as you normally would. They are linked for the visitors view by the links you are creating within your sidebar.

      The sites rank well in the SERPS using this theory.


      Originally Posted by kenny5 View Post

      Someone could literally build their entire business on just the information provided I this post, thanks for the great info.

      I just hope people actually take action now!
      You are absolutely right Kenny.

      Take MASSIVE action!
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      • Profile picture of the author LeeLee
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        No problem Walter.

        The main page of your site is to be created as a static page. Do NOT use posts anywhere within the site. Once you make internal pages, you create them as you normally would. They are linked for the visitors view by the links you are creating within your sidebar.

        The sites rank well in the SERPS using this theory.
        See bold. I don't understand what you are saying here.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by LeeLee View Post

          See bold. I don't understand what you are saying here.
          The site is created using a format that utilizes the left sidebar of a WP blog (made to look like a regular website.) In this sidebar, you are using anchor text HTML to link a researched keyword as a page.

          If you still don't understand, I will PM you an example of a M.O.B.S. site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Enfusia
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        No problem Walter.

        The main page of your site is to be created as a static page. Do NOT use posts anywhere within the site. Once you make internal pages, you create them as you normally would. They are linked for the visitors view by the links you are creating within your sidebar.

        The sites rank well in the SERPS using this theory.
        This one was news to me.

        Ok, just wanting to be 100% clear or maybe I'm slow.

        You are saying NONE of your content should be added as posts.
        And that all content you wish to rank for is added as pages only, am I correct?:confused:

        This one was new to me, I was doing static home and posts thereafter for all content.

        Thanks, Patrick
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  • Profile picture of the author netlexis
    How many times do you include the product link within the page - 1, 2, 3 or ?? Or is it dependent on how long your article is? And always as a text link, correct?

    I have a couple of site already built that sort of use this method, but I'm fine-tuning at this point and really appreciate your sharing your expertise.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by netlexis View Post

      How many times do you include the product link within the page - 1, 2, 3 or ?? Or is it dependent on how long your article is? And always as a text link, correct?

      I have a couple of site already built that sort of use this method, but I'm fine-tuning at this point and really appreciate your sharing your expertise.
      I usually link it at least 2 times on a page (with anchor text HTML) using a call to action.

      Example: Click Here To Find Out More!
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  • Profile picture of the author slix
    Thanks bunch gpower2. I am just starting out and this is finally something I totally understand and can get started with right away!
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  • Profile picture of the author mr.scriptor
    please teach me man! my email is goldpaidtoclick at yahoo dot com and iam waiting for you
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  • Profile picture of the author Housestacks
    Great stuff - Thank you for sharing and all the comments that were posted.

    I have heard the saying "rinse and repeat" so many times. I truly realize now IM is about building.

    There are so many ways to make money over the internet. I am a musician also and want to start teaching privately over skype - In a few hours I can make over $100 dollars a day and still have plenty of time for IM.
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  • Thanks for the info! I've been lost in my IM journey and now I have a place to start. I'm still pretty new and looking for a place to start is possibly the hardest part (at least for me).
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    • Profile picture of the author clint48
      If you find the keywords you use in the adwords tool you will not be able to get the exact keyword in your domain especially a .com or .net. What do you do instead?

      Clint
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by clint48 View Post

        If you find the keywords you use in the adwords tool you will not be able to get the exact keyword in your domain especially a .com or .net. What do you do instead?

        Clint
        Add a word at the beginning or end of the keyword (domain names only), ex: keyword lose weight, example domain name www.loseweightnow.com

        Also, I have had no problems ranking with other suffixes (.biz, .info, etc.) The .com, .net, and .org are more branded and are advantageous for this reason.
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  • Profile picture of the author sitepaw
    Very informative, sure will try it out asap.
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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    I do what you are doing also though some of my sites have many more keywords. And it certainly does work.

    For each keyword what would your typical backlinking strategy be? You briefly mentioned social bookmarking etc. But could you share a more defined plan?
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  • Profile picture of the author JayVance
    Thanks for the info gpower, this is great stuff. You really detailed how your business works so anyone can do this. I am working on similar sites now but putting the time in while having a full time job is proving to be difficult. But I stay at it every night.

    Thanks for the post and the inspiration!

    -Jay Vance
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  • Profile picture of the author Gyromite
    gpower, I know this is a silly question, but is there anyway you could give a more detailed walkthrough on getting your site set up as a static page so only your first article shows up on the first page? In WP I've gone to "Settings" and then to "Reading" and I've messed with this but I can't get it.

    My articles are all showing up on the main page, but I only want my first article there. Like you said earlier - I just want my other articles showing as links in the sidebar. Is there a theme you would recommend? What am I doing wrong here? I'm sure it's something simple but I can't seem to figure it out.
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Gyro,
      Go to READING
      Under display settings click STATIC PAGE
      Under front page click the name of the page you want from the drop down to be static.(You will see a drop down box and you can select the page you desire).
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  • Profile picture of the author Coby
    Great post! I have a similar business model.

    I have found using mulitple pages that target a keyword for each page can be very powerful. I recently build a new blog using this method and for one of the keywords my site is showing up as #1, in only a few days, granted the competition is super low but still. Here is a link to google for proof: Google

    My site is coonhounds.info, when I first indexed it, the site also showed two other pages at the #2, and #3 spots. However these have fallen now, but I still have number one. I also show up on page one for two other key words "english coon hounds" and "bluetick coon hounds" and middle of page two for "treeing walker coon hounds". I am not ranking for the main keyword yet but I have started building backlinks so I think as I add more content it will easily make its way up. Because the current success is with only about 5 pages. I am adding more pages daily between other projects.

    I also have sites that target a single keyword and I have found it harder to rank them and gets lots of traffic. Granted you can still get on page one and get some visitors daily but its 20-100 vs 20-100 for each KEYWORD/PAGE of your blog?

    In conclusion, this can be a very powerful method. The key is to find super low competition niches and provide good content. Throw in backlinks and your set.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
    Excellent info, thanks. I checked out your site--if i put in my e-mail do I get to see the next vid for free, or am I going to be offered a "special opportunity for the low low price of..." I like your method though, definitely seems like something that makes sense and I guess I would just have to figure out a few things:

    1) The math of how clickbank works and whether they have any affiliates associated w/the keywords I'm targeting.
    2) How to go about finding keywords to target. I understand the criteria you mentioned to determine whether they're good or not, but I guess maybe just open a listing of businesses and/or products and start going through everything you can think of?

    Thanks again for your time and the info.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      Excellent info, thanks. I checked out your site--if i put in my e-mail do I get to see the next vid for free, or am I going to be offered a "special opportunity for the low low price of..." I like your method though, definitely seems like something that makes sense and I guess I would just have to figure out a few things:

      1) The math of how clickbank works and whether they have any affiliates associated w/the keywords I'm targeting.
      2) How to go about finding keywords to target. I understand the criteria you mentioned to determine whether they're good or not, but I guess maybe just open a listing of businesses and/or products and start going through everything you can think of?

      Thanks again for your time and the info.
      You will get more free training vids bud.

      1) Not sure what you mean by the math of ClickBank? Once you discover a niche you want to create a site within, you then need to do the keyword research for words you find relating to that niche.

      2) Find a niche, find some products to promote (ClickBank or otherwise), find the keywords. People have their own way of doing this. I can't really get too into how to do this thread. I mean, you can check out my whole business model and how to do everything within my latest system launch, but I can't really promote that here.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
    That one tattoo site you use as an example is the perfect niche. I'll have to think about why that is for a bit. So far it seems good because it's not a nationwide product that has strong brands, like electronics or something, yet it has worldwide appeal. Also it's something people might impulse buy. Lastly it seems that the competition was pretty weak since a lot of people go to their local tattoo shops to get stuff done, so there aren't a lot of national/worldwide competitors...it just doesn't get much better than that.

    Was that one of your $100/day sites? If not it's gotta be close.
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  • Profile picture of the author mrdeflation
    thanks.,


    can you post a link to one of your 150 websites or PM me an example?


    much appreciated
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    @gpower2.

    I understand what exactly you did and in fact I wanted to implement this same exact method for my next review site. I have a question though:

    With your internal linking structure:
    1. you have 20 pages of content
    2. main keyword set as static page
    3. every other page targeting another keyword
    4. you put in the PAGES widget on your left side bar and every page's title is a keyword
    5. each one of those pages had an anchor text linking out to a product

    Would this be correct? I'm just trying to figure out what exactly is your internal linking structure. I mean when you say you have the keyword listed in your side bar, does that constitute as an internal link? Or are you linking pages to each other with anchor texts in the content.


    My idea is to create 8-10 pages on a site. Home page is where the review of a product is. All other pages are targeting niche related keywords, which then link back to the my home page where the review is.

    I would have the pages listed in the sidebar and also have a text widget with the product banner Im promoting.
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  • Profile picture of the author SoEasyMoney
    Just curious, how do you drive traffic; article marketing?
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    • Profile picture of the author Enfusia
      Originally Posted by SoEasyMoney View Post

      Just curious, how do you drive traffic; article marketing?
      Maybe I don't know zip but it would appear that he is gaining his traffic organically.

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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Originally Posted by SoEasyMoney View Post

      Just curious, how do you drive traffic; article marketing?

      Yes I would also like to learn more details on your methods for driving traffic. What are you doing for each keyword etc.?
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      • Profile picture of the author adamcm
        Hello gpower2,

        As mentioned in my PM, thank you for the great post. It gives me a lot to think about. I do have a few questions and hope you don't mind answering if you have time please.

        1 - I am a bit confused about your backlink process. You mentioned that sometimes you don't even need backlinks for the sites you choose. I dunno but I am having a tough time with this one as just about every micro niche i've looked at needed backlinks to get into the Top-10 let alone the top few spots. Are the people you are competing against not using any backlinks either? Is that how you are getting highly ranked without backlinking?

        2 - When you mention your keywords are >800 per month exact, do you mean your 20 keywords combined or each 20 has > 800. I realize this is probably not set in strone but am curious.

        Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author slix
    I am also confused with linking structure. I am stuck there!

    I've tried bunch of stuff, but it doesn't work the way I want. Since I saw few of gpower2 videos (which are great), I can see one of his websites, but I can't seem to mimic that linking structure.

    So basicly, my question is : do you make those links (keywords) on the left sidebar as Pages, Categories or Links? If you do, where do you actually put content if you are not using Posts?
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
    I'm very familiar with Wordpress so I'll answer what I think he is doing, and he can correct me if I'm wrong: The links on the left are all internal links to other pages on his site. All of the content on his site are simply more pages he has created, not other sites. It's very simple to do this in WP, you just add a page rather than add a post. It's clearly marked in the WP software editor.

    Osman, you are correct. His sidebar links go to another page on the same site with another targeted keyword. After about the opening paragraph, he has a call to action to click on "the best site for x product is _insert money site link_" Then at the bottom of the page he also has an 'ad' that he's created with another call to action to the same or similar money site. It's definitely well thought out and seems to be a good method.
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    • Profile picture of the author slix
      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      I'm very familiar with Wordpress so I'll answer what I think he is doing, and he can correct me if I'm wrong: The links on the left are all internal links to other pages on his site. All of the content on his site are simply more pages he has created, not other sites. It's very simple to do this in WP, you just add a page rather than add a post. It's clearly marked in the WP software editor.

      Osman, you are correct. His sidebar links go to another page on the same site with another targeted keyword. After about the opening paragraph, he has a call to action to click on "the best site for x product is _insert money site link_" Then at the bottom of the page he also has an 'ad' that he's created with another call to action to the same or similar money site. It's definitely well thought out and seems to be a good method.
      Thank you for the answer! I still have to play with the code, because my pages are actually creating as menu in the header instead of the sidebar on the left.
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      • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
        Originally Posted by slix View Post

        Thank you for the answer! I still have to play with the code, because my pages are actually creating as menu in the header instead of the sidebar on the left.

        Actually, this is not difficult do at all. Here is how:

        1. Create a custom menu for the navigation bar.
        2. Add the pages you want to display there (about, privacy etc..)
        3. Only those pages you placed in that menu will appear on the navigation bar.
        4. create 20 pages or how every many you want (I actually add those pages to nav bar as well by making a heading "articles" and make a sub menu with all the content pages.
        5. All pages titles should keywords you want to target.
        6. Complete form for All in one SEO plug in for each page.
        4. create a 2nd custom menu in wordpress and add all your pages (content).
        5. Add the "custom menu" widget to your sidebar and pick the 2nd custom menu you created.
        6. Done!


        Let me know if you need anymore clarity.

        Yeah I had an idea of the linking structure used here. My only other question is, how long is the content on each page? Any minimum amount to shoot for (500 words perhaps)?

        Folks, Im going to give this a try with one of my sites. However, I will only target 8-10 keywords. No posts, all pages. I will let you guys know of my progress.
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        • Profile picture of the author slix
          Originally Posted by Osman_M View Post

          Actually, this is not difficult do at all. Here is how:

          1. Create a custom menu for the navigation bar.
          2. Add the pages you want to display there (about, privacy etc..)
          3. Only those pages you placed in that menu will appear on the navigation bar.
          4. create 20 pages or how every many you want (I actually add those pages to nav bar as well by making a heading "articles" and make a sub menu with all the content pages.
          5. All pages titles should keywords you want to target.
          6. Complete form for All in one SEO plug in for each page.
          4. create a 2nd custom menu in wordpress and add all your pages (content).
          5. Add the "custom menu" widget to your sidebar and pick the 2nd custom menu you created.
          6. Done!


          Let me know if you need anymore clarity.

          Yeah I had an idea of the linking structure used here. My only other question is, how long is the content on each page? Any minimum amount to shoot for (500 words perhaps)?

          Folks, Im going to give this a try with one of my sites. However, I will only target 8-10 keywords. No posts, all pages. I will let you guys know of my progress.
          So far so good! I actually need some more help, if you don't mind. After I create pages, they still appear in the header menu, even though I have them in my links in the sidebar as well. Now I want to remove menu in the header completely. I don't need them there, since I don't wanna have 15-20 menu items in the header, obviously. More so, I would prefer not to go into sub-menus tweaking there simply because I don't need it! I currently have only 1 Home item in the header menu and don't want anything else there. I hope you can understand this!

          Thanks in advance.
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          • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
            Originally Posted by slix View Post

            So far so good! I actually need some more help, if you don't mind. After I create pages, they still appear in the header menu, even though I have them in my links in the sidebar as well. Now I want to remove menu in the header completely. I don't need them there, since I don't wanna have 15-20 menu items in the header, obviously. More so, I would prefer not to go into sub-menus tweaking there simply because I don't need it! I currently have only 1 Home item in the header menu and don't want anything else there. I hope you can understand this!

            Thanks in advance.
            Yes, I know exactly what you are saying. If you go to your header php in your theme editor, scroll down to where it has the code listed below. Then list the pages you want to exclude.


            wp_list_pages('echo=0&title_li=&exclude=put your page numbers here ie 6,14')); } so it looks like;
            wp_list_pages('echo=0&title_li=&exclude=6,14,110') ); }


            There are also plug ins but many make the individual page disappear from both the top and side menu which is not good when you need Privacy, Disclosure etc.
            After spending time with it, I found tweaking code to be the best and easiest solution.

            Hope this helps.
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          • Originally Posted by slix View Post

            So far so good! I actually need some more help, if you don't mind. After I create pages, they still appear in the header menu, even though I have them in my links in the sidebar as well. Now I want to remove menu in the header completely. I don't need them there, since I don't wanna have 15-20 menu items in the header, obviously. More so, I would prefer not to go into sub-menus tweaking there simply because I don't need it! I currently have only 1 Home item in the header menu and don't want anything else there. I hope you can understand this!

            Thanks in advance.
            Use the Page Link Manager plugin to control the menu in your header, and then the SimpleSideNav plugin to set up and control a menu in your sidebar. That's how I did it earlier today, anyhow--took me a little while to figure it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author radagar
    I agree with gpower2, and most of you guys, This takes time and research, you can get a site make $1 a day pretty quick, but you need a lot of work to make 200 sites like that...?

    Am I Right?,

    Maybe I'm wrong...

    With less time but a little bit of "an automated system" you can buy an aged domain, maybe under $15, do your keyword research and then automatically post as many content as you need, to fill the age of the domain, then do some tricks to get it re-indexed an after maybe 40 days Cashing!!!. From $1 to $7 per day. Then you need just to rinse and repeat...
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  • Profile picture of the author brendan1
    Correct me if i am wrong but one downside to using pages vs posts is that you can't use tags on pages. Maybe they aren't as important with 20+ pages though.
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    • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
      Not trying to thread-jack... but...

      One under-utilized section of a Wordpress "Page" is the SEO section at the bottom of the posting page. I like to add my SEO info to this section rather than worry about tagging.

      Take a look at the attached image, and take a look at this page.

      onesevenmarketing.com/what-we-do/on-page-search-engine-optimization

      Hope this helps.

      DeShon

      Originally Posted by brendan1 View Post

      Correct me if i am wrong but one downside to using pages vs posts is that you can't use tags on pages. Maybe they aren't as important with 20+ pages though.
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      • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
        Originally Posted by Droopy Dawg View Post

        Not trying to thread-jack... but...

        One under-utilized section of a Wordpress "Page" is the SEO section at the bottom of the posting page. I like to add my SEO info to this section rather than worry about tagging.

        Take a look at the attached image, and take a look at this page.

        onesevenmarketing.com/what-we-do/on-page-search-engine-optimization

        Hope this helps.

        DeShon

        I assume you can do that 'and' tag the post. Doesn't that give you a kind of double hit?
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        • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
          Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

          I assume you can do that 'and' tag the post. Doesn't that give you a kind of double hit?

          You can... I do it and I don't take a "hit" nor does it give me any more "juice".

          "Pages" does not allow for "tags", so I was offering a suggestion for adding your keywords (tags) to pages.

          You need to also optimize your TITLE and Description, because that's what's going to get people to click the link to your site.

          Your site can be #1 for a keyword, but if the site below yours has an attractive title and description then they'll get the click.

          I made a post on another of my blogs that's similar to the link that I provided in an earlier post, but this one goes into a little more detail about why optimizing your TITLE and DESC are just as important as getting to #1.

          http://web-businessmarketing.com/so-...ogle-now-what/
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    I would really like to see an example of this. If you would PM me one, I'd really appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author brunski57
    Hey Gary,

    How is your INTERNET connection out there in the woods?

    I thinking of moving further into the wild... only concern is losing my INTERNET speed. Heard satellite is just okay.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Guys, don't get hung up on the 'system' so much, it's the general principle you need to apply. Wordpress is just one way (though EVERY Internet marketer should know how to use Wordpress), you could do this with static pages in Dreamweaver or any html editor! I wrote my own 'lite' script to do the same. The point is you have a front page and lots of keyword-optimised subpages at a depth of just one and linked on the home page. It's not voodoo, seriously, just keep it simple and focus on the content and keywords.
    For a low-competition niche you can rank no. 1 with just ONE page, I've done it lots of times!
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    • Profile picture of the author bentonmiddleton
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      Guys, don't get hung up on the 'system' so much, it's the general principle you need to apply. Wordpress is just one way (though EVERY Internet marketer should know how to use Wordpress), you could do this with static pages in Dreamweaver or any html editor! I wrote my own 'lite' script to do the same. The point is you have a front page and lots of keyword-optimised subpages at a depth of just one and linked on the home page. It's not voodoo, seriously, just keep it simple and focus on the content and keywords.
      For a low-competition niche you can rank no. 1 with just ONE page, I've done it lots of times!
      Hey Guy, I agree with you 100% here, as I build all of my stuff from plain old raw HTML. Wordpress is great for non-coders, but HTML is really NOT all that hard. But I would like to mention two(2) things here you forgot, which totally simplify any website design.
      * CSS, or cascading stylesheets - They set the style and general look of your site.
      * Templates - Create your index page (without content) and use this as your basic framework for your other pages. Your site now has continuity, functionality and really powerful flexibility.
      * Quality content - It's not just enough to put content on your pages; it must be HIGH quality content. And Google tracks this with their advanced algorithyms.
      * Backlinks - Yes these too are highly important. The best way to get these, I've found, is to write (or rewrite) articles for sites like HubPages.com, Yahoo Answers and other similar sites.

      When designed in this manner, just add plenty of quality content and Google (and other search-engines) will love it just as much as any blog out there.
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      • Profile picture of the author TimG
        Originally Posted by bentonmiddleton View Post

        Hey Guy, I agree with you 100% here, as I build all of my stuff from plain old raw HTML. Wordpress is great for non-coders, but HTML is really NOT all that hard. But I would like to mention two(2) things here you forgot, which totally simplify any website design.
        * CSS, or cascading stylesheets - They set the style and general look of your site.
        * Templates - Create your index page (without content) and use this as your basic framework for your other pages. Your site now has continuity, functionality and really powerful flexibility.
        * Quality content - It's not just enough to put content on your pages; it must be HIGH quality content. And Google tracks this with their advanced algorithyms.
        * Backlinks - Yes these too are highly important. The best way to get these, I've found, is to write (or rewrite) articles for sites like HubPages.com, Yahoo Answers and other similar sites.

        When designed in this manner, just add plenty of quality content and Google (and other search-engines) will love it just as much as any blog out there.
        Good recommendations............that's essentially what I did. I use a modified version of the IPK template and it has really worked out well for me.

        Respectfully,
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        • Profile picture of the author dubur
          thx alot for ur method share,i like to try like u do....
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      • Profile picture of the author markowe
        Originally Posted by bentonmiddleton View Post

        Hey Guy, I agree with you 100% here, as I build all of my stuff from plain old raw HTML. Wordpress is great for non-coders, but HTML is really NOT all that hard. But I would like to mention two(2) things here you forgot, which totally simplify any website design.
        * CSS, or cascading stylesheets - They set the style and general look of your site.
        * Templates - Create your index page (without content) and use this as your basic framework for your other pages. Your site now has continuity, functionality and really powerful flexibility.
        * Quality content - It's not just enough to put content on your pages; it must be HIGH quality content. And Google tracks this with their advanced algorithyms.
        * Backlinks - Yes these too are highly important. The best way to get these, I've found, is to write (or rewrite) articles for sites like HubPages.com, Yahoo Answers and other similar sites.

        When designed in this manner, just add plenty of quality content and Google (and other search-engines) will love it just as much as any blog out there.

        That's four (4) things I totally agree though, I was just simplifying things from the technical point of view as Wordpress can be overkill sometimes. My little script uses CSS and Smarty templates, and of course the content is always quality (hey, I write it ). Hmm, I would offer that script as a WSO, but I just can't be bothered with answering all the support questions afterwards, cos people'll find all kinds of ways to break it!
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  • Profile picture of the author slix
    That little code did the trick. Code is a little bit different for me, but removing that line completely resulted in having only home button there. You just saved me a lot of trouble!
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Glad I could help. It can be really frustrating trying to figure these out. One thing to do is always save a copy of your code before you start tweaking it, in case you make a mistake.
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  • Profile picture of the author rapph
    Gpower2 thanks so much for sharing in your success strategies! I am a total newbie, and I have an unsuccessful blog with wordpress.org. I want to begin to build based on your type of model. My question is:

    Are you able to create multiple sites using Wordpress 3.0 and the multi user/network capability? I use hostgator with unlimited domains. Doesn't that take away from your unique domain names that have the keyword in them? My understanding is that each new site is an addition, formatted like this:

    original url.new url.com

    Am I missing something here? Any insight you can offer will be very much appreciated. Thanks again!
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Rapph, the add on domains is pretty confusing. But each domain can have its own individual name. You do not have to tack it on to the other name when you set up your websites. I had a number of accounts in an addon site and they all had their own websites.

      So lets say your original name is BlueWidgets.com and you also own RedWidgets.com. For WordPress you could set up your domains like this BlueWidgets.com and RedWidgets.com OR you could have bluewidgets.com and redwidgets.bluewidgets.com

      I recently moved all my sites from an add on account to reseller account and each was moved as its own domain. I left the main name behind.
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      • Profile picture of the author Plax
        gpower2,

        Thanks for some great ideas! I am a total newb, but this seems like something even I can do.

        Robert
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Hey guys, sorry for the delay in response. I actually run several online business, so my time is somewhat limited. I appreciate everyone's patience.

      Originally Posted by SoEasyMoney View Post

      Just curious, how do you drive traffic; article marketing?
      The system is made to take advantage of naturally occurring, organic search engine traffic. If you want to drive traffic alternatively, you can, but it is not entirely necessary.

      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      That one tattoo site you use as an example is the perfect niche. I'll have to think about why that is for a bit. So far it seems good because it's not a nationwide product that has strong brands, like electronics or something, yet it has worldwide appeal. Also it's something people might impulse buy. Lastly it seems that the competition was pretty weak since a lot of people go to their local tattoo shops to get stuff done, so there aren't a lot of national/worldwide competitors...it just doesn't get much better than that.

      Was that one of your $100/day sites? If not it's gotta be close.
      It's funny you mention this. The tattoo niche is actually a VERY difficult niche to crack. The reason I created that site, is because I wanted to have a test site I can show to my clients to prove to them how well the system works.

      There is no shortage of traffic in the niche, it's just that most people want to get design ideas online but don't necessarily purchase. They are saving their money to actually buy the tattoo.

      Example: the average conversion ratio online is 1% or 1 out of every 100 visitors will buy. In the tattoo niche, it is more like 1 out of every 400.

      The power of my system is the high amount of organic traffic that is generated. Simple put, more targeted traffic = more conversions. $$$

      Originally Posted by slix View Post

      I am also confused with linking structure. I am stuck there!

      I've tried bunch of stuff, but it doesn't work the way I want. Since I saw few of gpower2 videos (which are great), I can see one of his websites, but I can't seem to mimic that linking structure.

      So basicly, my question is : do you make those links (keywords) on the left sidebar as Pages, Categories or Links? If you do, where do you actually put content if you are not using Posts?
      The links are created using anchor text HTML, with your keywords (pages) being the clickable links. Further, they are placed in the left sidebar using text widgets.

      Originally Posted by brendan1 View Post

      Correct me if i am wrong but one downside to using pages vs posts is that you can't use tags on pages. Maybe they aren't as important with 20+ pages though.
      Tags on the pages within WP aren't as important with this system. Your on page SEO and internal page linking help with this.

      Originally Posted by brunski57 View Post

      Hey Gary,

      How is your INTERNET connection out there in the woods?

      I thinking of moving further into the wild... only concern is losing my INTERNET speed. Heard satellite is just okay.
      Ha...Ha...Ha..., it;s funny you ask. I don't get DSL up here and have to use satellite which is pretty bad. It is a personal choice of mine though, wouldn't change it for the world. I deal with the slower internet to live the life I choose.

      Originally Posted by Osman_M View Post

      Actually, this is not difficult do at all. Here is how:

      1. Create a custom menu for the navigation bar.
      2. Add the pages you want to display there (about, privacy etc..)
      3. Only those pages you placed in that menu will appear on the navigation bar.
      4. create 20 pages or how every many you want (I actually add those pages to nav bar as well by making a heading "articles" and make a sub menu with all the content pages.
      5. All pages titles should keywords you want to target.
      6. Complete form for All in one SEO plug in for each page.
      4. create a 2nd custom menu in wordpress and add all your pages (content).
      5. Add the "custom menu" widget to your sidebar and pick the 2nd custom menu you created.
      6. Done!


      Let me know if you need anymore clarity.

      Yeah I had an idea of the linking structure used here. My only other question is, how long is the content on each page? Any minimum amount to shoot for (500 words perhaps)?

      Folks, Im going to give this a try with one of my sites. However, I will only target 8-10 keywords. No posts, all pages. I will let you guys know of my progress.
      The content on the pages varies. 500 to 750 words for informational products. 350 - 500 for physical products.

      Originally Posted by loyski View Post

      Wow... That's a lot of websites! I was also thinking about this kind of strategy, long before I stumbled on your post. Hundreds of websites each earning a few dollars a day will add up to hundreds or even thousands of dollars per day. So my strategy will be like this:

      1. Buy a decent web hosting that allows multiple websites (add-on domains). I have a shared web hosting account of up to 50 add-on domains. If I consume all the add-on domains, I'll get another account.
      2. Do some research on what's selling like hotcakes on the Internet. Compile a list of relevant keywords with high commerciality and low competition.
      3. Buy domain names related to the main keywords I want to target.
      4. Create websites using WordPress.
      5. Post content using articles I create myself, outsource from others, or spun from other articles.
      6. Update from time to time. Concentrate my SEO efforts on just a few websites and ignore the rest.

      Do you think this type of strategy will work?
      That will work!

      Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

      Yes I would also like to learn more details on your methods for driving traffic. What are you doing for each keyword etc.?
      It's almost all organic! That's why I love this system. Each keyword (page) will rank on the first page of Google. If you have done your keyword research and competition manageability correctly BEFORE creating your site, the traffic takes care of itself.

      Originally Posted by adamcm View Post

      Hello gpower2,

      As mentioned in my PM, thank you for the great post. It gives me a lot to think about. I do have a few questions and hope you don't mind answering if you have time please.

      1 - I am a bit confused about your backlink process. You mentioned that sometimes you don't even need backlinks for the sites you choose. I dunno but I am having a tough time with this one as just about every micro niche i've looked at needed backlinks to get into the Top-10 let alone the top few spots. Are the people you are competing against not using any backlinks either? Is that how you are getting highly ranked without backlinking?

      2 - When you mention your keywords are >800 per month exact, do you mean your 20 keywords combined or each 20 has > 800. I realize this is probably not set in strone but am curious.

      Thanks!
      See my response above in answer to your question #1. I only backlink pages that need it once my site has settled into the SERPS. 10% of your pages will rank on their own merit! There are a few ways that I manage this when I create my sites. Too long winded to explain here. I will PM you some info about my system if interested.

      2 - Each keyword has to have at least 800 exact searches per month when using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool. If your keywords are searchable you lose the power of the organic search engine traffic that drives this system.

      Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

      Use the Page Link Manager plugin to control the menu in your header, and then the SimpleSideNav plugin to set up and control a menu in your sidebar. That's how I did it earlier today, anyhow--took me a little while to figure it out.
      Originally Posted by rapph View Post

      Gpower2 thanks so much for sharing in your success strategies! I am a total newbie, and I have an unsuccessful blog with wordpress.org. I want to begin to build based on your type of model. My question is:

      Are you able to create multiple sites using Wordpress 3.0 and the multi user/network capability? I use hostgator with unlimited domains. Doesn't that take away from your unique domain names that have the keyword in them? My understanding is that each new site is an addition, formatted like this:

      original url.new url.com

      Am I missing something here? Any insight you can offer will be very much appreciated. Thanks again!
      I use HostGator for M.O.B.S. sites and it is no problem with WordPress.org. When you add sub-domains, they show up as www.yousite.com, just like a regular domain name. looks no different.

      I have HostGator accounts with 50+ websites 1 main domain, 49 sub-domain url's, it's all good!
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      • Profile picture of the author brendan1
        I beleive part of the confusion here me be the terminology used. What Gary is referring to on Hostgator are "add-on domains" not subdomains.

        Subdomains is using a domain like www.bluewidgets.com and adding another domain underneath it to look like www.forum.bluewidgets.com

        An "add-on domain" is just adding another domain to your shared hosting account. Each addon domain is seperate but in a shared hosting setup you just have 1 c-panel instead of a c-panel for each domain.

        Cheers,
        Brendan

        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        I use HostGator for M.O.B.S. sites and it is no problem with WordPress.org. When you add sub-domains, they show up as www.yousite.com, just like a regular domain name. looks no different.

        I have HostGator accounts with 50+ websites 1 main domain, 49 sub-domain url's, it's all good!
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        • Profile picture of the author Jobfreetop
          Lee, thanks for the down-to-earth lightness. Believe it or not, I have partially created such a site (a few actually) and always mean to "get around" to properly making them profitable.

          Presuming I stick to one of these sites, would it be possible for you to point me towards a good plan of action for doing a reasonable job of promoting the site to get some organic traffic and clicks which is measurable.

          The reason I say this is because what tends to happen is the site gets created and a big campaign of tactics launches. This has worked really well in the past, but never with the kind of niche sites you might expect of this sort of project. For example, at a minimum, what would you do. As for me, I would:

          Submit 2 articles.
          Bookmark a page on the site.
          Bookmark a "bookmark of bookmarks" page.
          Ping the resultant pages.
          Create an RSS of the site and submit that.

          I guess this is too much of a minimum and therefore should include:

          Submission of 2 videos plus bookmarking/pinging etc.
          Creation of 5 web 2.0 feeder sites (so-called link wheel)
          10 directory submissions

          Would you say those things (8 things) are enough of a minimum? Plus all the on-page SEO stuff?

          Or do we need to go down that horrible route of using BlueFart software to create a gazillion spun (aka resource consuming/junk) blogs and Web2.0 sites and so on for "low-class" but needed link juice.

          If not, can you divulge a better plan? By PM if you want.
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          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            It's a good start, but most of it is not necessary...

            The keywords we teach you guys to get, are ones that hardly require any backlinks... the sites structure and choice of keywords all come together to produce a nice LSI Structured Document, a little like wikipedia, but done on a smaller scale.

            IF however, you want to boost your rankings, the steps you mentioned will help, not too sure about just 2 articles though...

            I took Gary's site to page one from page 5 for a term that had been sitting on page 5 for about a year, but he never touched it to use it as an example, that you dont really need to get backlinks if some of the keywords do well on their own, most ppl will navigate to another page; a page that could be one that is not ranking on the first 2 pages of google, so it kinda balances it self out...

            but when I got behind the wheel to prove a point of my method of getting backlinks, the lazy way, was via one source (article directories / blogs), within 5 days, he was ranked 6th... and that page, for the past 2 1/2 months has been making around 1-3 sales a day, at $17 - $21 a pop when a sale is made


            So what other sources are there to get links from if you feel you need to give your pages a push up higher in the rankings?

            1. social bookmarking.
            2. social media sites, like twitter, ok, twitter uses nofollow, but the blogs that take the rss feeds dont
            3. googlegroups, msngroups, yahoogroups.
            4. article directories
            5. blog directories
            6. craigslist
            7. classified ads
            8. forums (not sigs, but in actual posts - takes time to build a reputation first before placing links in posts)
            9. guestbooks
            10. press releases (which get you in google news, etc)
            11. your own network of personally owned sites
            12. other related sites you dont own.
            13. rss feed directories
            14. video sites (some dont have the nofollow)

            All the sources will be explained in the Gold Level of MOBS after the new year... though there's already 32 extra ones I added the other day, 42 more are going to be added next month... and after the new year there's going to be about 20-30 more...

            Our goal is to create an IM University, covering all aspects of making money online...

            Originally Posted by Jobfreetop View Post


            Would you say those things (8 things) are enough of a minimum? Plus all the on-page SEO stuff?.
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            • Profile picture of the author Jobfreetop
              Originally Posted by askloz View Post

              It's a good start, but most of it is not necessary...

              The keywords we teach you guys to get, are ones that hardly require any backlinks... the sites structure and choice of keywords all come together to produce a nice LSI Structured Document, a little like wikipedia, but done on a smaller scale.
              Have not read the thread properly yet so I have missed the offer so far. Will check it out later.
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    • Profile picture of the author Enfusia
      Guys, one simple way to do the promotion on these pages is:
      1. give a link from one or 2 of your other blog rolls to it the moment you push the page live.
      2. write 1 xomba snippet for your keyword and your new page will be indexed and have a 'little' traffic within 30 minutes to 1 hour (normally for me).
      3. Buy a list of 15 to 20 .EDU or .Gov sites. Put 2 links (not to many or The G will freak 'won't believe you') to each of your new pages all different links obviously.
      3. write an article submit to 300+ article directories (use a bot or farm it out if needed).

      next build more pages and follow above.

      Come back follow the money see which pages are putting coins in your pocket. Promote those pages with 1 more article. Then learn from them as to what you did right. Then build more just like them and repeat above process.

      You should find this to work rather well

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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        Originally Posted by Enfusia View Post

        Guys, one simple way to do the promotion on these pages is:
        1. give a link from one or 2 of your other blog rolls to it the moment you push the page live.
        2. write 1 xomba snippet for your keyword and your new page will be indexed and have a 'little' traffic within 30 minutes to 1 hour (normally for me).
        3. Buy a list of 15 to 20 .EDU or .Gov sites. Put 2 links (not to many or The G will freak 'won't believe you') to each of your new pages all different links obviously.
        3. write an article submit to 300+ article directories (use a bot or farm it out if needed).

        next build more pages and follow above.

        Come back follow the money see which pages are putting coins in your pocket. Promote those pages with 1 more article. Then learn from them as to what you did right. Then build more just like them and repeat above process.

        You should find this to work rather well

        Patrick
        These are nice tips Patrick and much like what I do. I generally use a little fast indexing tool and am indexed really quickly. I used to use Clipmarks.

        I also use a content site that indexes my content. This has been phenomenal at improving rankings for my keywords.

        Fiverr has some inexpensive .gov links or I outsource.

        AMR is outstanding for mass article submission.

        And I am featured writer at Xomba in one of my niches.

        So great ideas and I use them all. However, I just have tons of keywords and quite a few sites so would love to find some quick and effective methods to blast them all out there till I can get to them to work on them individually.
        Just one of my sites for example, has over 100 carefully selected keywords.


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  • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
    "It's almost all organic! That's why I love this system. Each keyword (page) will rank on the first page of Google. If you have done your keyword research and competition manageability correctly BEFORE creating your site, the traffic takes care of itself."


    Yes I have some words that do naturally rank on page 1. But if you are building a site around almost any niche that makes money and you have 20 pages, there are going to be a lot of keywords in there that just don't rank naturally.

    You shared earlier that you want 800 searches at least and under 30k competition, but that is hard to find for each niche.

    What is your secret ")
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

      "It's almost all organic! That's why I love this system. Each keyword (page) will rank on the first page of Google. If you have done your keyword research and competition manageability correctly BEFORE creating your site, the traffic takes care of itself."


      Yes I have some words that do naturally rank on page 1. But if you are building a site around almost any niche that makes money and you have 20 pages, there are going to be a lot of keywords in there that just don't rank naturally.

      You shared earlier that you want 800 searches at least and under 30k competition, but that is hard to find for each niche.

      What is your secret ")
      I would say that 10% of your pages will rank naturally. For the rest of the pages, you can pretty much use any backlinking processes you want to. You have already pre-determined that these keywords (pages) have manageable competition, so you don't have to work as hard as you might think to get the remaining pages ranked on page #1 of Google.
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        I would say that 10% of your pages will rank naturally. For the rest of the pages, you can pretty much use any backlinking processes you want to. You have already pre-determined that these keywords (pages) have manageable competition, so you don't have to work as hard as you might think to get the remaining pages ranked on page #1 of Google.
        Can you give a brief outline with a little detail on what you do for each keyword?

        Are you doing profile links?

        Would love to learn what you are doing for your 90% that are not ranking naturally.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          Don't do profile links like the service here someone does on forums, etc does... its not a good method of SEO, in fact, it hurts your site over time. And your rankings wont become stable.

          What he does 90% of the time? Spends all that money I guess on his Wife, Kids and his horses

          j/k...

          Article Marketing is one method that works well, other is to set up your own network of sites, mix in some social media sites, press releases, etc.



          Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

          Can you give a brief outline with a little detail on what you do for each keyword?

          Are you doing profile links?

          Would love to learn what you are doing for your 90% that are not ranking naturally.
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    • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
      Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

      "It's almost all organic! That's why I love this system. Each keyword (page) will rank on the first page of Google. If you have done your keyword research and competition manageability correctly BEFORE creating your site, the traffic takes care of itself."


      Yes I have some words that do naturally rank on page 1. But if you are building a site around almost any niche that makes money and you have 20 pages, there are going to be a lot of keywords in there that just don't rank naturally.

      You shared earlier that you want 800 searches at least and under 30k competition, but that is hard to find for each niche.

      What is your secret ")
      Good question. However, since you are building each inner page in a MOBS site fully optimized around a specific keyword, more of those pages will naturally rank on page 1 than you realize just using good onpage SEO. Use techniques on the inner pages such as linking to other internal pages using anchor text links.

      What I did was personally invest in SEOpressor plug in that was created by fellow WF member, Daniel Tan. You don't know how good that tool works with a MOBS site to help you with onpage SEO. Which will go a long way to getting your pages to rank naturally.

      You can find keyword for almost any niche that have at least 800 Global Searches and less than 30,000 website competition. Use extra FREE tools such as the "Wonder Wheel" and "Related Searches" which can be found on page 1 of Google under the "More Search Tool" dropdown in the left hand sidebar.

      Don't forget, you can build MOBS sites around both info and physical products. So the niches out there for you to build sites around are numerous! Plenty to go around!

      Hope this helped some!

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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Another way, is to blast some emails out to yahoogroup ezine lists (double optin)... give it a day or so, and you will find a LOAD of blogs taking the feeds from these groups and populating it on their blogs... I was shocked to find that I had over 1000 blogs linking to me in over a course of a week.
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
    My brother and I are considering buying this e-book. One question we had was "Why is someone who is making well over 6 figs giving out the info for his system which someone could then imitate and then be competition for the creator of the system?" I mean I understand the profit motivation of selling an $80 ebook, but if you're making hundreds of thousands, why would you undercut yourself by telling people about your niche rather than just continue on with the system which seems to have almost limitless potential profit? Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
      I've not read every post in this thread but if I understand correctly then this is a similar system to what I use. Either way, I'll share something some of you may find useful and might help to explain this strategy.

      Here are some actual figures from two of my websites that started out as an experiment. I'm initially going after one key word phrase only.

      Site 1 www keywordphrase.net
      Site 2 www keywordphrase.com

      The main keyword phrase I'm targeting gets 1000 global searches month for broad and 170 for exact. Sounds low? That's typical of some of the phrases I go after. The thing is it depends on the keywords. I go for keywords that can (and do) get searched in various permutations. For instance,

      how to use keyword
      keyword guides
      where to buy keyword
      keyword explained
      keyword for beginners
      advanced keyword uses
      etc etc

      Site 2 is a one page site plus privacy and contact pages - that's it.
      It's in position 3 of Google and here are some stats.

      Total visitors approx - 800 month
      Monthly visits for targeted key phrase - 72
      The remaining visits are mostly based on variations of the keyword phrase.
      Site earnings - approx five pennies per decade

      Site 1 has seven pages of content, all written for humans, all informative but all seven pages are still based on the same key phrase using some of the popular searched variations.

      Google positions 1 and 2

      Total monthly visits approx 7k across all seven pages
      Monthly visits for targeted key phrase - approx 150
      The remaining visits are spread across the seven pages
      Each page is linked via text widget, all pages are static pages. I'm not sure that really matters but I'll mention it as it's what the OP is doing.
      Site earnings anything from $30 to $300 per month.

      I have been using this strategy for about three years. My linkbuilding efforts usually add up to nothing more than a directory / article blast with submiter software. Occasional the odd EZA article etc.

      I use this strategy because a: it works b: I hate building links unless I absolutely have to.

      I pay very little attention to the numbers in keyword tools. All I'm interested in is, are the searches low enough that no one else bothers going after them and is it on a subject that people are seeking information, willing to spend money on that information and does the keyword get searched for in enough variations to increase the traffic.

      Multiple pages all based around the same keyword idea, linked internally wikipedia style is something people used to talk about but don't seem interested in anymore. I personally think it's now more powerful than ever.

      Lee
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      My brother and I are considering buying this e-book. One question we had was "Why is someone who is making well over 6 figs giving out the info for his system which someone could then imitate and then be competition for the creator of the system?" I mean I understand the profit motivation of selling an $80 ebook, but if you're making hundreds of thousands, why would you undercut yourself by telling people about your niche rather than just continue on with the system which seems to have almost limitless potential profit? Thanks.
      Someone always has to ask this question.

      My true motivation is that I sincerely enjoy helping people succeed, plain and simple.

      This system is only one of my income streams, so I don't need the income from the sales of this system.

      I am not undercutting myself. There is plenty of room for everybody. There are thousands of niches and keywords as yet to be discovered. I know it doesn't seem like that at first, but believe me there is. The internet in and of itself is VERY much untapped.

      This system runs on virtual auto-pilot for me now.

      Jump right in the waters fine.
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      • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Someone always has to ask this question.

        My true motivation is that I sincerely enjoy helping people succeed, plain and simple.

        This system is only one of my income streams, so I don't need the income from the sales of this system.

        I am not undercutting myself. There is plenty of room for everybody. There are thousands of niches and keywords as yet to be discovered.
        Thanks again for the info. I guess if there really are that many exploitable niches then it makes sense to share.

        We were just doing a little bit of tooling around on Google's keyword research tool and there really does seem to be a huge gap in competition between various niches. We initially tried some keywords that only get 1k or so hits/mo and the competition was much tougher than some others that get 5k+.

        Also, it's tricky to know whether certain sites can be overtaken. It seems like a key to this process is the ability to get the top 1-3 spots in google, and knowing if you can do it with minimal effort. Some of the criteria you list are good, but some others such as the number of backlinks to a site versus the domain, optimization of title/domain/heading/desc, are tough to know whether you can overtake a competitor. Is that something you go over in more detail in the ebook?
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    @jobfreeop, i think using the stockmarket is a bad example, they crash a lot...

    MOBS sites dont

    Gary will outsource most of his work, mainly articles.

    He'll spend probably no more than 2 hours, an hour most of the time, per day.

    In fact, i spend less than an hour a day, if that actually, I'm like Dan Brock, I'm a lazy bugga, and I collected over 1986 websites over the course of 4 years, generating a sod load of money each month.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jobfreetop
      Hi I am still trying messing with the figures.

      As I said, if we used Bonds instead (risk free compared with stocks) then the valuations I just gave would be about 4 x bigger for each site.

      Still, if I am valuing a site at $2k conservatively ($6 per day), how does that match with the amount of investment required INCLUDING TIME to set up a $6 site.

      What I'm saying is provided you can get the income of a single site to stay at $6 per day for a time period of 2 years to FOREVER, its worth between $2k and $6k for the site on its own, independently in terms of valuation, given that money decreases in value as we go on, and given also, I could just buy a property which would average out at 12% given historical average property growth.

      I know this is an analytical and theoretical paradigm, as stated, but I'd still like to know...as the calculations are a decision tool (actually I think it is called Decision Rule in finance)...

      People who run adsense for example would agree that the time issue (and investment) is an important issue to address.
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      • Profile picture of the author Lee Wilson
        Originally Posted by Jobfreetop View Post

        Hi I am still trying messing with the figures.

        As I said, if we used Bonds instead (risk free compared with stocks) then the valuations I just gave would be about 4 x bigger for each site.

        Still, if I am valuing a site at $2k conservatively ($6 per day), how does that match with the amount of investment required INCLUDING TIME to set up a $6 site.

        What I'm saying is provided you can get the income of a single site to stay at $6 per day for a time period of 2 years to FOREVER, its worth between $2k and $6k for the site on its own, independently in terms of valuation, given that money decreases in value as we go on, and given also, I could just buy a property which would average out at 12% given historical average property growth.

        I know this is an analytical and theoretical paradigm, as stated, but I'd still like to know...as the calculations are a decision tool (actually I think it is called Decision Rule in finance)...

        People who run adsense for example would agree that the time issue (and investment) is an important issue to address.
        You should analyse things like this but I think you maybe worry too much about it. I think try a few things first and then do the maths. The problem with over-analysing is it becomes too formulaic. Some things work and some don't. The rest can just be written off.

        In the example I used above, I can build these sites in anything from a couple of hours to a week, anything up to 30 or so pages. Some of them will earn $10 per month, some might do $200 month or whatever. The main thing is to build the site, move on, build another and then monitor it. The ones that seem to work - go back and invest more time into them. The ones that look like a waste of time, dump them. You might lose x amount of hours per year of wasted time. As long as it isn't most of your efforts then it's just part of your business model.

        My own advice, take a month or two, build ten or twenty sites, just do them, don't obssess over them, don't fuss over what theme to use, write them for humans, just keep an eye on them. After a few weeks / months, the ones that look worth tweaking... tweak.

        Over time you'll get better at it.

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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        As I said before bud..

        He'll spend probably no more than 1 hour a day to get it set up... MOST of his sites he doesn't touch at all... Just like all my sites, I haven't touched them since they were put up and they still make money... I got a site that has NO backlinks in the asset protection sector and consistently makes $5+ a day in adsense and I haven't touched it in 3 years.

        Once he's finished his first 20-30 page site (done in less than a week - if outsourcing the articles, which he does mainly now), he leaves it, and moves on to the next one. and so on.

        And if he has the time, he'll spend probably no more than 20-30 minutes to push some backlinks out there.

        Don't over think this man... The strategy is too simple to be too over analytic.

        Originally Posted by Jobfreetop View Post

        Hi I am still trying messing with the figures.

        As I said, if we used Bonds instead (risk free compared with stocks) then the valuations I just gave would be about 4 x bigger for each site.

        Still, if I am valuing a site at $2k conservatively ($6 per day), how does that match with the amount of investment required INCLUDING TIME to set up a $6 site.

        What I'm saying is provided you can get the income of a single site to stay at $6 per day for a time period of 2 years to FOREVER, its worth between $2k and $6k for the site on its own, independently in terms of valuation, given that money decreases in value as we go on, and given also, I could just buy a property which would average out at 12% given historical average property growth.

        I know this is an analytical and theoretical paradigm, as stated, but I'd still like to know...as the calculations are a decision tool (actually I think it is called Decision Rule in finance)...

        People who run adsense for example would agree that the time issue (and investment) is an important issue to address.
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      • Profile picture of the author prodigaljoe
        Originally Posted by Jobfreetop View Post

        Hi I am still trying messing with the figures.

        As I said, if we used Bonds instead (risk free compared with stocks) then the valuations I just gave would be about 4 x bigger for each site.

        Still, if I am valuing a site at $2k conservatively ($6 per day), how does that match with the amount of investment required INCLUDING TIME to set up a $6 site.

        What I'm saying is provided you can get the income of a single site to stay at $6 per day for a time period of 2 years to FOREVER, its worth between $2k and $6k for the site on its own, independently in terms of valuation, given that money decreases in value as we go on, and given also, I could just buy a property which would average out at 12% given historical average property growth.

        I know this is an analytical and theoretical paradigm, as stated, but I'd still like to know...as the calculations are a decision tool (actually I think it is called Decision Rule in finance)...

        People who run adsense for example would agree that the time issue (and investment) is an important issue to address.

        You are reading too many investment books. You are talking about valuations of assets of a MAJOR corporation or even a country. That is why you can valuate assets over such long periods.

        NO ONE will ever pay several years of revenue for a network of mini affiliate/adsense sites. You will be lucky to get a year of revenue. The reason is mini sites are not a solid business except for a few rare networks. You rely on Google algorithms, low competition keywords (which changes), and you are an affiliate. You own almost nothing so you will get almost nothing.

        Those sites don't make money infinitely nor do they grow. Most will wither as more competition enters the market which means you need to spend more time than you think to hold positions.

        The only way to ever see those kind of valuations with Internet businesses is if you have a major foothold in a market.
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          Thank you for the dose of reality, kind sir. Actually, I started off just for fun applying the formulae to the "business" of a single adsense site. Due to moving from forex into a specialised area of stock markets I am having to learn what the fund managers call 'real finance' from the ground up...so practising to remember some basic formulae. Please note, it is still my belief that forex is for the higher-skilled traders for a number of reasons out of the scope of this forum. Oh, well, there goes my dream of being a financial genius - as applied to a 20 page adsense site.
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  • Profile picture of the author magnates
    @ gpower2 .

    This is useful . You have given me another way of looking at things

    thank you for taking the time to share .

    It is appreciated .
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    I use 1and1.com, they're even cheaper... $6.99 for first year, $8.99 a year thereafter... I can't bring myself to pay $10 for a domain name or $14 a month for webspace for one site.

    And I pay $120 every 3 months for web space (dedicated).. this particular server has 112 sites on on it.. so it works out quite well.
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  • Profile picture of the author lukyjoe
    Why do you use pages and not posts? Is there a big difference? I ask this because I have a feeling that G00gle when it finds your site in a wp platform it treats it as a blog an there for expects fresh posts and new content continuously.

    And why exactly left sidebar and not right or any other combination?
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    • Profile picture of the author EFt
      Originally Posted by lukyjoe View Post

      Why do you use pages and not posts? Is there a big difference? I ask this because I have a feeling that G00gle when it finds your site in a wp platform it treats it as a blog an there for expects fresh posts and new content continuously.

      And why exactly left sidebar and not right or any other combination?
      I would also like to know the answers to these questions please?
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  • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
    Hola!, just a quick question, why it has to be the siderbar at the left hand side?
    All my websites were build with a premium theme and they all have the sidebar on the right.
    The position really SEO matters?
    kind regards
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve McBride
    gpower2,

    Thanks for the great thread. Not only was your original post very helpful, but I learned even more from the conversation that followed it.

    Being new to IM, I was drawn to the idea of making niche sites that make a small but consistent amount of money every day, and simply scaling up the number of sites over time. My one problem with this is that most of the info I've read on the subject is targeted at one or two page sites. My initial problem with this is a feeling that I wouldn't be really contributing to the greatness of the internet (which is important to me). I don't want to add to the giant pile of low quality websites that are piled up all over the internet (Not to say all one page sites are low quality, but everyone knows there are a lot of them that are). Your method seems to solve this problem for me. By making a site around a general niche, and having many high quality pages about different subjects within that niche you are not only ensuring long term rankings in google, but it forces you to have a hub of high quality information for certain people that would be interested in it, which in turn is contributing to what I believe is the greatest part about the internet existing in the first place. Your system makes this process much more fulfilling, which in turn can keep a newbie like me interested and motivated through those initial phases of hard work. Thank you for that! I am definitely starting this method tomorrow morning.

    It's cool to see you live in Paradise, I'm actually from Northern California as well. I live in the Yuba City/Marysville area, about 45 minutes north of Sacramento. It's too bad you live out in the woods. For my day job I work in sales for Comcast and I'd totally hook you up with a great deal on some high speed internet! haha. (obligatory plug: anyone in California that has Comcast in your area, PM me if you want to hear about some good deals, even if you already have service with us! You'd be surprised about what I can do for you.)

    Also gpower2, any chance you can pm me a link to one of your sites or something like it for reference? Trust me I have no intentions of competing in the same niche or for the same keywords as someone like you. That would be suicide, haha!!
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    hi gpower, thanks for your thread on making income off wordpress sites. I can't write a pm as I don't have 50 posts yet so I will write here....

    You wrote:

    "See my response above in answer to your question #1. I only backlink pages that need it once my site has settled into the SERPS. 10% of your pages will rank on their own merit! There are a few ways that I manage this when I create my sites. Too long winded to explain here. I will PM you some info about my system if interested."

    Could you please pm me about this system, thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
    Wich competition indicator you trust more: allintitle, or the one you put on the original post (only in quotes).
    Thank you for you valuable information
    kind kind regards !
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    • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
      I will let Gary answer most of these questions as they are directed to him, but I will be glad to assist on a few general questions here
      Originally Posted by CiberEmprendedor View Post

      Wich competition indicator you trust more: allintitle, or the one you put on the original post (only in quotes).
      Thank you for you valuable information
      kind kind regards !
      Hi Ciber, It doesn't come down to which one you trust more. Gary's experience and from what I've seen on the few MOBS sites I've built, both indicators are proven to provide the best initial information for the first glance at competition level. The goal with MOBS (and what helps make it successful) is you are setting up sites that focus on keywords with minimal competition. Hence one of the reasons your sites will naturally rank very high from the get go. The MOBS criteria is first check your keyword in Google in quotes. The # of competing websites should be < 30,000 Then check the keyword in Google prefixed with allintitle: You are good to go is the results is less than < 10,000. Having the keyword in the Title is a huge onpage SEO factor. If your keyword meets these 2 factors, as Gary says, you can rank naturally with little to no backlinking. But don't forget you do want to examine the backlink detail of each site on page 1 of Google for your keyword using a tool such a Traffic Travis or Market Samuari. Hope this helps!
      Originally Posted by bestitrix View Post

      Hi gpower2

      I also want to thank you for sharing one of your successful business online that is actually making real money. Its simple but its time consuming at the same time.

      I have read the entire thread from beginning up to this point. I have a few questions that I would like to ask and I hope you don't mind answering them.

      You've mentioned that you use .net, org, and .info. Do you also use other domain extensions such as .us, .me, .biz, etc.? If so, how do they perform in terms of ranking?

      Do you use any wordpress plugins on your sites? If so, do you mind sharing it with us?

      Do you ever register a new domain and develop it? OR do you buy a domain with age and pagerank so that its easier to achieve a better SERP.

      Lastly, The title of this thread states that you have about 150 websites. You also stated that your hosting your site at Hostgater using 1 main domain and 49 add on domains. So I'm assuming you have 3 separate accounts with Hostgator? my question is do you link each site that belong to a different account?

      Thanks again.
      Generally speaking, the only plugins you MUST use is: All In One SEO XML Sitemaps A link cloaking plug in of some kind There are some others I use personally that helps me, such as : SEOpressor Wordpress.com Stats Google Analyticator.........just to name a few And with MOBS, if you are new to Internet Marketing and starting out with no $, you should register a new domain and develop it. But I do know of a couple other MOBSters, more experienced in IM, that have purchased a highly optimized domain but changing the whole site around to meet the MOBS criteria. I assume there were some aspects of the existing site that meet MOBS criteria but needed some tweaking to make it better.
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    Hi gpower2

    I also want to thank you for sharing one of your successful business online that is actually making real money. Its simple but its time consuming at the same time.

    I have read the entire thread from beginning up to this point. I have a few questions that I would like to ask and I hope you don't mind answering them.

    You've mentioned that you use .net, org, and .info. Do you also use other domain extensions such as .us, .me, .biz, etc.? If so, how do they perform in terms of ranking?

    Do you use any wordpress plugins on your sites? If so, do you mind sharing it with us?

    Do you ever register a new domain and develop it? OR do you buy a domain with age and pagerank so that its easier to achieve a better SERP.

    Lastly, The title of this thread states that you have about 150 websites. You also stated that your hosting your site at Hostgater using 1 main domain and 49 add on domains. So I'm assuming you have 3 separate accounts with Hostgator? my question is do you link each site that belong to a different account?

    Thanks again.
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  • Profile picture of the author RunningBear
    Hello gpower2,

    First, thank you for sharing what you know. I am interested in getting into affiliate marketing and have a few questions.

    1. How are you defining low competition? Is it by the green competition bar in the Google keyword tool or the monthly number of searches? Sometimes the green bar says high competition, but there will be a low monthly number of searches.

    2. Do you have different hosting accounts for each of your wordpress sites or do you have multiple wordpress installations on one host? It almost seems like overkill to set up a full wordpress installation for a 20 page site.

    3. Do you think it is better to use html static pages or wordpress for a mini site if once the site is set up, it isn't going to be updated frequently?

    Thank you
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    • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
      Originally Posted by RunningBear View Post

      Hello gpower2,

      First, thank you for sharing what you know. I am interested in getting into affiliate marketing and have a few questions.

      1. How are you defining low competition? Is it by the green competition bar in the Google keyword tool or the monthly number of searches? Sometimes the green bar says high competition, but there will be a low monthly number of searches.
      Hi RunningBear, You don't need to worry so much with the green competition bar for judging competition. Actually, in the videos where Gary shows you how to use the new Google Keyword Tool, he suggests you turn the Green Bar Column off. You only need to judge keyword competition by typing the keyword, in quotes, into Google to see if the competition is < 30,000 But also search the keyword in Google again but this time, place allintitle: in front of the keyword. If those results come back < 10,000 sites that have the keyword in the title, you should be able to rank relatively easy with little to no backlinking. I'm not saying you might have to do any backlinking but won't have to do much.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
        Originally Posted by zosowolfpacker View Post

        Hi RunningBear, You don't need to worry so much with the green competition bar for judging competition. Actually, in the videos where Gary shows you how to use the new Google Keyword Tool, he suggests you turn the Green Bar Column off. You only need to judge keyword competition by typing the keyword, in quotes, into Google to see if the competition is < 30,000 But also search the keyword in Google again but this time, place allintitle: in front of the keyword. If those results come back < 10,000 sites that have the keyword in the title, you should be able to rank relatively easy with little to no backlinking. I'm not saying you might have to do any backlinking but won't have to do much.
        zosowolfpacker,

        Can you clarify this, please?

        I understand looking for the keyword or keyword phrase in Google with quotes - "keyword phrase"...

        But when you say add the allintitle: parameter, do you still leave the keyword or keyword phrase in quotes, like this - allintitle:"keyword phrase" and see if that is less than 10,000?

        Thanks!

        Chris
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        • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
          Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

          zosowolfpacker,

          Can you clarify this, please?

          I understand looking for the keyword or keyword phrase in Google with quotes - "keyword phrase"...

          But when you say add the allintitle: parameter, do you still leave the keyword or keyword phrase in quotes, like this - allintitle:"keyword phrase" and see if that is less than 10,000?

          Thanks!

          Chris
          Hey Chris,

          Nope, take the quotes away when searching by allintitle:

          So it would be allintitle:keyword

          Shows you how many competing websites actually have the keyword in their title. Very important onpage SEO factor. You will be amazed sometimes to find how many site owners leave this important piece out. Even for keywords in popular niches.

          Shreveport LA? Will be flying into Shreveport on business week after Thanksgiving. Working in the "big city" of Bossier City then on to West Monroe Been there a few times. Interesting place!

          Regards,

          Doug
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          • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
            Originally Posted by zosowolfpacker View Post

            Hey Chris,

            Nope, take the quotes away when searching by allintitle:

            So it would be allintitle:keyword

            Shows you how many competing websites actually have the keyword in their title. Very important onpage SEO factor. You will be amazed sometimes to find how many site owners leave this important piece out. Even for keywords in popular niches.
            Thanks for the clarification, Doug! Do you know if there is any particular reason why it's not taught to use the allintitle parameter with quotes? My understanding is that using it with the quotes was always a better indicator of who's using the the exact phrase in their titles.

            Using the allintitle parameter without quotes does show who's using it in their titles, but the results show any variation of how it's being used.

            Shreveport LA? Will be flying into Shreveport on business week after Thanksgiving. Working in the "big city" of Bossier City then on to West Monroe Been there a few times. Interesting place!
            "Interesting place!", huh? LOL! Well, I guess it's grown on me. 10 years of being in the same place will do that to you! PM or tweet me and let me know when you're coming through. Maybe we can grab a bite?

            Thanks again!
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            • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
              Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

              Thanks for the clarification, Doug! Do you know if there is any particular reason why it's not taught to use the allintitle parameter with quotes? My understanding is that using it with the quotes was always a better indicator of who's using the the exact phrase in their titles.

              Using the allintitle parameter without quotes does show who's using it in their titles, but the results show any variation of how it's being used.



              "Interesting place!", huh? LOL! Well, I guess it's grown on me. 10 years of being in the same place will do that to you! PM or tweet me and let me know when you're coming through. Maybe we can grab a bite?

              Thanks again!
              Hi Chris,

              To be honest, I have no idea why it is not taught to use the quotes around the keyword for the allintitle: search. I remember asking Gary this when he taught me that step. He said to use it without quotes and I trusted his expert judgment since he is more experienced that I am in this arena. But so for the allintitle:keyword without quotes has worked for my keyword research and seems to right on target.

              Yeah, I will have to see what my work schedule will be when I'm in town. I usually don't know until I get to my destination, but sure, we can grab a bite to eat if the schedule allows. Thanks for the invite.
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            • Profile picture of the author capstan88
              I'm going to assume that the whole purpose of the thread is to get people to buy your product.

              Using pages vs posts in your blogs is not new. Affilorama uses this method in blogs. What I see in your strategy is some basic info with no real strategy to get page 1 rankings. 1 left sidebar with internal linking in fact is a standard method.

              What I struggle with in starting out, is finding niches where the top 10 on a google search for the main keyword(s) is crackable. For instance, turkey fryer. Or lawn blower. Possibly I'm targeting Amazon products that are too popular.

              Which leads to my real point. I don't want to buy another training program that uses 'dog training' and is just some guy who 'says' he makes money in IM when in reality his hopes are to make money selling yet another rehash of 'how to make money in IM'.

              When someone sits down and develops a training product that actually walks a student through 5 different setups, blogs etc.. from start to finish, I think I might have to change my pants.

              But that won't happen, since the 5 walk throughs, after 6 months, can be reviewed by any new potential buyers of the product. And when they see that all 5 sites are failures, the product is not sellable anymore, and so it's back to using 'dog training' and alot of hype about your house, your horse, your clickbank sales and all the other garbage you guys use to sell your rehash.

              Tell me you use some real examples and do complete walkthrus, from finding a niche thru whatever means, to the final blog / site. Let me look at 1 or 2 of your 150 sites that are successful.

              Then maybe I'll try your product.
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              • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
                Originally Posted by capstan88 View Post

                I'm going to assume that the whole purpose of the thread is to get people to buy your product.

                Using pages vs posts in your blogs is not new. Affilorama uses this method in blogs. What I see in your strategy is some basic info with no real strategy to get page 1 rankings. 1 left sidebar with internal linking in fact is a standard method.

                What I struggle with in starting out, is finding niches where the top 10 on a google search for the main keyword(s) is crackable. For instance, turkey fryer. Or lawn blower. Possibly I'm targeting Amazon products that are too popular.

                Which leads to my real point. I don't want to buy another training program that uses 'dog training' and is just some guy who 'says' he makes money in IM when in reality his hopes are to make money selling yet another rehash of 'how to make money in IM'.

                When someone sits down and develops a training product that actually walks a student through 5 different setups, blogs etc.. from start to finish, I think I might have to change my pants.

                But that won't happen, since the 5 walk throughs, after 6 months, can be reviewed by any new potential buyers of the product. And when they see that all 5 sites are failures, the product is not sellable anymore, and so it's back to using 'dog training' and alot of hype about your house, your horse, your clickbank sales and all the other garbage you guys use to sell your rehash.

                Tell me you use some real examples and do complete walkthrus, from finding a niche thru whatever means, to the final blog / site. Let me look at 1 or 2 of your 150 sites that are successful.

                Then maybe I'll try your product.
                Dood in which part of his post did he even ask anybody to buy his product?! It's only in his sig and almost everybody else on here does the same thing in their same sig (asking people to buy their products through their sigs).

                If you don't believe this method works, then fine, don't do it. You talk about Affilorama blogs using the same method, so have you actually even used the same method and tried it for yourself? I bet not.... Maybe you did.. but you just created a site based on a certain product and then expect it to rise to the top #10 of google for the keyword you found overnight.. you know what??Thats not going to happen!!

                Yes a lot of stuff are rehashed and sold in different ways, but you have the ability to choose to buy or not right? The money is YOURS.. if you think you already know what you are going to get from the product you are going to buy and you don't need it.. then you DON'T buy it!!! It's that simple!!!!!!!!:confused:

                And products that walk a student from start to finish for a whole blog (seperate from the IM niches) DO EXIST, you just need to looker harder

                If you have problems with finding niches, then read more about it, work more on it, learn more about it!!!! If you have trouble finding niches yourself, what good would it do you even if he showed you a few examples of his own?!! Everything you need to know is already in the first post, all you need to do is to tweak it to fit your own style!!!

                People use dog training as an example for their programs because it's the easiest, and (read) because it's an EXAMPLE. Just think about it, if the owner of the product gave away a good breakable niche but there are at least 10-50 students taking the same program, what good would it do any of you? You all would be just competing among yourself (which makes no difference if its dog training or a breakable niche anymore), therefore it is of course better to teach you how to find your own niches rather than hand it over to you on a golden platter!!!
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                • Profile picture of the author gpower2
                  Originally Posted by kakaboo View Post

                  Dood in which part of his post did he even ask anybody to buy his product?! It's only in his sig and almost everybody else on here does the same thing in their same sig (asking people to buy their products through their sigs).

                  If you don't believe this method works, then fine, don't do it. You talk about Affilorama blogs using the same method, so have you actually even used the same method and tried it for yourself? I bet not.... Maybe you did.. but you just created a site based on a certain product and then expect it to rise to the top #10 of google for the keyword you found overnight.. you know what??Thats not going to happen!!

                  Yes a lot of stuff are rehashed and sold in different ways, but you have the ability to choose to buy or not right? The money is YOURS.. if you think you already know what you are going to get from the product you are going to buy and you don't need it.. then you DON'T buy it!!! It's that simple!!!!!!!!:confused:

                  And products that walk a student from start to finish for a whole blog (seperate from the IM niches) DO EXIST, you just need to looker harder

                  If you have problems with finding niches, then read more about it, work more on it, learn more about it!!!! If you have trouble finding niches yourself, what good would it do you even if he showed you a few examples of his own?!! Everything you need to know is already in the first post, all you need to do is to tweak it to fit your own style!!!

                  People use dog training as an example for their programs because it's the easiest, and (read) because it's an EXAMPLE. Just think about it, if the owner of the product gave away a good breakable niche but there are at least 10-50 students taking the same program, what good would it do any of you? You all would be just competing among yourself (which makes no difference if its dog training or a breakable niche anymore), therefore it is of course better to teach you how to find your own niches rather than hand it over to you on a golden platter!!!
                  Yeah, what he said!
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                • Profile picture of the author capstan88
                  Originally Posted by kakaboo View Post

                  And products that walk a student from start to finish for a whole blog (seperate from the IM niches) DO EXIST, you just need to looker harder
                  I haven't failed at anything since I haven't tried any of this yet. I have two sites I've owned for 5 years and since I do make money from adsense and clickbank on those sites, I want to expand. But those ideas didn't come from wanting to make money. The monetization was added later.

                  What research I've done with the trial of Market Samurai lead me to believe that a product is needed that focuses more on niche and less on everything else. Is that wrong? Whatever.

                  But I think I found one or two training products that might have more than the usual theoretical instruction.

                  And I'll probably quietly join the war room.

                  But everything I said in my first post still stands. 95% is rehashed and those guys don't make a dime from selling anything other than their IM products. Crack on me all you want.
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                • Profile picture of the author capstan88
                  Originally Posted by kakaboo View Post

                  Dood...therefore it is of course better to teach you how to find your own niches rather than hand it over to you on a golden platter!!!
                  In the inimitable words of the Greaseman... Please, don't call me dude.

                  I believe that when the product is released that focuses on the front end work, ideas, niches, developing keywords, long tail, whatever, getting around the big guys with pr 5. Using real examples, burned after the fact or not, will be a very rich man, woman, ... or dude.

                  Maybe it isn't possible. Has to come from practice. And staring at recent Digg entries, Market Samurai anchor texts. Whatever it takes.
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              • Profile picture of the author marcromero
                Originally Posted by capstan88 View Post

                I'm going to assume that the whole purpose of the thread is to get people to buy your product.
                I'm goin to assume you have been burned one to many times. I know how you feel but if you are going to continue in this industry failure is only a stepping stone towards your success. BTW If you had information that you believed could really benefit people and you spent long hours creating it wouldnt you want people to buy your product? Thats what this industry is all about, making money from home. Thats what this guy is doing but he is providing useful content in doing so.
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                  Originally Posted by marcromero View Post

                  I'm goin to assume you have been burned one to many times. I know how you feel but if you are going to continue in this industry failure is only a stepping stone towards your success. BTW If you had information that you believed could really benefit people and you spent long hours creating it wouldnt you want people to buy your product? Thats what this industry is all about, making money from home. Thats what this guy is doing but he is providing useful content in doing so.
                  As I stated, I haven't failed at it ... yet.

                  Ok I shouldn't crack on the original poster. I haven't read his mats. Looks like a numbers game. Maybe it works.
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  • I have never done any of this blog farming thingy, but I fail to see how building, growing and maintaining 200 websites for $5/day each could possibly be an efficient way of using your time as an affiliate, even if you outsource the whole thing (which costs money and time from you).
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    Very nice info. And great thread too. Thank you for sharing.
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    Very good information there Gary it's helped me heaps
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  • Profile picture of the author LetsGoViral
    Someone always has to ask this question.
    Well, it's a legit question. True altruism is very uncommon, so it's natural for people to get suspicious when there is someone who wants "just to help" not have the person convert in an email for the least or a lead, or a potential future buyer. Let's be honest with ourselves.
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      He wasn't sad why the poster asked that question...

      He's sad for the reason that lead up to that question...

      A common pattern you see these days is product owners are more about making sales, and dont lend a hand when the buyer wants.

      Gary is the real deal, he's heart is in the right place... He lives a comfortable life, and he wants others to share his experience.

      Gary and his wife operate Spirit quilts, check the bottom of the mobs site for a video of him and his wife, you can also visit their website too, full contact info, etc is all there to see they are real people working towards a real goal.

      The only one I can see doing stuff like this is, Gary, Anik Singal, Joel Comm's crew, And Allen (of this forum)... I wish there were more, all of which I have helped as well with donations, except for Anik as I can't find a page to donate to his efforts of building schools and tools etc.

      Originally Posted by LetsGoViral View Post

      Well, it's a legit question. True altruism is very uncommon, so it's natural for people to get suspicious when there is someone who wants "just to help" not have the person convert in an email for the least or a lead, or a potential future buyer. Let's be honest with ourselves.
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      Originally Posted by LetsGoViral View Post

      Well, it's a legit question. True altruism is very uncommon, so it's natural for people to get suspicious when there is someone who wants "just to help" not have the person convert in an email for the least or a lead, or a potential future buyer. Let's be honest with ourselves.
      For some people the pay off isn't always financial, it makes them feel good, so no it's not true ultriusm, but the pay off isn't money.

      Some people are even nice/kind/helpful because they believe in hell and karma.

      So no not everyone does something for a lead/money.

      There can be many reasons for people helping others at any given time, sometimes people get high off their own success and feel good so they want to help others.

      And sometimes you make as much money as you wanted to make.
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  • Profile picture of the author azad
    Wow! Nice strategy. I am also trying to do something like this. currently stuck at $300 per month.

    *Note - Get a hosting company that allows unlimited sub-domains so that you can build more sites by just buying more domain names only.
    I think you mean to say Unlimited Addon Domain. Where we can host unlimited websites.

    Thanks for sharing your stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author dude17111a
    Hello
    Can you use one server to create multiple blogs? I have my site at dude17111.com but i really use it as a warehouse to host my various blogs. BTW I love the detailed info you give. I did not think about the left hand sidebar layout.
    Thanks
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    Good information... wish I had the time to make this into an empire like you have!
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Carpenter
    I'm working my way through the keyword research methods touched on in this thread, the MOBS site, and some other videos and guides I've acquired. I'm hitting a road block with Google's updates to the keyword tool (and nearly all of the videos and guides I'm viewing utilize the old interface). Where I'm having trouble is getting the GAKT to provide me with related keywords that aren't extremely broad. Using the "feminine tattoos" niche as an example, I can't get it to return anything resembling the sidebar categories that were used on the example site. I've tried setting the match type to Broad, [Exact], and "Phrase", but none of them yield the results I'm looking for.

    I can't help but feel that I'm missing something painfully obvious here, but I can't seem to track down a useful guide that incorporates the new tool updates. I've spent the last few days studying this method (thanks Gary, by the way - this is amazing!) and I am tremendously anxious to start taking some action on this method!

    If anybody could point me (and others) in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
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    • Profile picture of the author UMS
      Originally Posted by Scott Carpenter View Post

      I'm working my way through the keyword research methods touched on in this thread, the MOBS site, and some other videos and guides I've acquired. I'm hitting a road block with Google's updates to the keyword tool (and nearly all of the videos and guides I'm viewing utilize the old interface). Where I'm having trouble is getting the GAKT to provide me with related keywords that aren't extremely broad. Using the "feminine tattoos" niche as an example, I can't get it to return anything resembling the sidebar categories that were used on the example site. I've tried setting the match type to Broad, [Exact], and "Phrase", but none of them yield the results I'm looking for.
      If I type feminine tattoos into GAKT, I get most of the related keywords used on the sample MOBS site.

      Did you sign in with your GAKT account before doing the search? That will give you more results, although when I just check now, I didn't bother logging in and it gave me enough results.

      Also, what do you have your "Locations" and "Languages" set to? These are available under the "Advanced options"
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      • Profile picture of the author Scott Carpenter
        Originally Posted by UMS View Post

        If I type feminine tattoos into GAKT, I get most of the related keywords used on the sample MOBS site.

        Did you sign in with your GAKT account before doing the search? That will give you more results, although when I just check now, I didn't bother logging in and it gave me enough results.

        Also, what do you have your "Locations" and "Languages" set to? These are available under the "Advanced options"
        I am signed in so I am getting more results. I'm set to U.S. and English.

        I've poked around a bit more and I think that the problem was that it was default sorting to "Local Monthly Searches". Is it best to sort by relevance and work from that list top to bottom? I changed it to "Relevance" and I can see a number of categories from the sample MOBS site.

        This brings up one question: the web-based results are sorted by relevance, but the exported CSV doesn't have a field for relevance. You could easily add an "Order" column with an ascending value in it, which would allow you to re-sort by the original relevance. Does anybody have any tips for working within the exported spreadsheets? Keith Dougherty has some wonderful videos around this topic that I've been learning from. Any other tips would be wonderful.

        Now that I can extract my keywords, I can go forward with this! Thanks UMS for getting my mind going. A little push in the right direction is definitely appreciated
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    • Profile picture of the author gregw2
      Originally Posted by Scott Carpenter View Post

      I'm working my way through the keyword research methods touched on in this thread, the MOBS site, and some other videos and guides I've acquired. I'm hitting a road block with Google's updates to the keyword tool (and nearly all of the videos and guides I'm viewing utilize the old interface). Where I'm having trouble is getting the GAKT to provide me with related keywords that aren't extremely broad. Using the "feminine tattoos" niche as an example, I can't get it to return anything resembling the sidebar categories that were used on the example site. I've tried setting the match type to Broad, [Exact], and "Phrase", but none of them yield the results I'm looking for.

      I can't help but feel that I'm missing something painfully obvious here, but I can't seem to track down a useful guide that incorporates the new tool updates. I've spent the last few days studying this method (thanks Gary, by the way - this is amazing!) and I am tremendously anxious to start taking some action on this method!

      If anybody could point me (and others) in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.
      You can also use Google's wonder wheel to drill down on the keywords and then type them into Google's KWT and Google search as already stated and check the results.
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  • Profile picture of the author briley knox
    My ? is how do you manage all those sites? What kind of soft ware to have use.....
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    • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
      Originally Posted by briley knox View Post

      My ? is how do you manage all those sites? What kind of soft ware to have use.....
      Briley,
      That was my same question to Gary when I started in IM. I'm not sure how he does it. But me personally, I'm starting to get enough websites to where I created an Excel Spreadsheet to track, where I am on each for each MOBS step while building my site.

      But the great part about all of this is, once your site is built and where you want it to be on page 1 of Google, just leave it alone and let it earn $ for you.

      All you need to do after that is just keep a check on where your site is ranking. If it happens to drop a few notches, just build a few backlinks to get it back up the scale. But this won't be often.

      In order to track your sites ranking, just go to SEO Book.com ~ SEO Training Made Easy and download the page "Rank Checker". It is 100% FREE!!

      I just track the ranking for my MOBS site domain keyword and all of the inner page keywords simply using this tool. That's all!

      If any page slips a bit, I just build a few backlinks and to push it back up.
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      I dont manage mine per se, I use SEO Elite, punch in my keywords, punch in my domain address, and BOOM, let it go to work... only need to check it once a month, if that.. if i see that the graph shows a drop for a page and its keyword, I spend no more than 30 minutes to put out another 1000-2000 links out there.

      Then I can go back to what i was doing - which probably is helping my forex members or playing poker down the casino

      Originally Posted by briley knox View Post

      My ? is how do you manage all those sites? What kind of soft ware to have use.....
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Originally Posted by briley knox View Post

      My ? is how do you manage all those sites? What kind of soft ware to have use.....
      I use a spreadsheet to track all my sites also. Each site has it's own spreadsheet. The sheets include my keywords, the URL for the article on each site, a list of the work to be done for each keyword etc.

      On the page with the list of work to be done I check off the work when it is completed. I also cut and paste a link to the main URL's I have used for site promotion. For example, if I made a Hubpage, I will have a link to it.

      When I want to work on the site, I pull up the spreadsheet, and I can see instantly what I have done. I have my URL's listed for quick copy and paste.

      I got the initial spreadsheet from a course I took and modified it for my needs. If you want the link just PM me.
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      • Profile picture of the author Luis Medilo
        Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

        I use a spreadsheet to track all my sites also. Each site has it's own spreadsheet. The sheets include my keywords, the URL for the article on each site, a list of the work to be done for each keyword etc.

        On the page with the list of work to be done I check off the work when it is completed. I also cut and paste a link to the main URL's I have used for site promotion. For example, if I made a Hubpage, I will have a link to it.

        When I want to work on the site, I pull up the spreadsheet, and I can see instantly what I have done. I have my URL's listed for quick copy and paste.

        I got the initial spreadsheet from a course I took and modified it for my needs. If you want the link just PM me.
        Hi LilBlackDress, will you share with me the spreadsheet you are using? Please PM me since I can't send PMs yet.
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        • Profile picture of the author ishamlaw
          Hi
          I love this info. This is the system i use for my sites. I combine this system with some offers from datafeedr dot com. I think this is a good site to find some affiliates products. Thanks gpower2 for all this value info.
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        • Profile picture of the author Gregster
          Hi LilBlackDress, will you share with me the spreadsheet you are using? Please PM me since I can't send PMs yet.


          DITTO.

          Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author ZanyZebra
        Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

        I use a spreadsheet to track all my sites also. Each site has it's own spreadsheet. The sheets include my keywords, the URL for the article on each site, a list of the work to be done for each keyword etc.

        On the page with the list of work to be done I check off the work when it is completed. I also cut and paste a link to the main URL's I have used for site promotion. For example, if I made a Hubpage, I will have a link to it.

        When I want to work on the site, I pull up the spreadsheet, and I can see instantly what I have done. I have my URL's listed for quick copy and paste.

        I got the initial spreadsheet from a course I took and modified it for my needs. If you want the link just PM me.
        Briley, thanks for your most generous offer... unfortunately i cannot send PMs (apparently i do not yet have enough posts to do so)... would you be so kind as to send to me..

        i much appreciate your generosity

        have a great day, zany zebra
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      • Profile picture of the author DanielleD
        Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

        I use a spreadsheet to track all my sites also. Each site has it's own spreadsheet. The sheets include my keywords, the URL for the article on each site, a list of the work to be done for each keyword etc.

        On the page with the list of work to be done I check off the work when it is completed. I also cut and paste a link to the main URL's I have used for site promotion. For example, if I made a Hubpage, I will have a link to it.

        When I want to work on the site, I pull up the spreadsheet, and I can see instantly what I have done. I have my URL's listed for quick copy and paste.

        I got the initial spreadsheet from a course I took and modified it for my needs. If you want the link just PM me.
        I'm not able to PM yet, can you PM me this spreadsheet? Thank you!
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  • I know I'm going to get seriously hammered here for even bringing it up, but I've got to say this thread seems pretty promotional of your MOBS system. I enjoyed the post a lot and you've given some great information--I even checked out a couple of your videos before you guys even started mentioning the system in the post--and I appreciate you sharing so much, but I was under the impression it wasn't how things were done here.

    Am I missing something? I know a few of you guys are pretty well-known on the WF and mean no disrespect, but I imagine if this was my thread I'd have been called out, so maybe you can clear it up my misunderstanding.

    Let's face it--4 of the guys doing most of the talking here have a signature link to the system being discussed in the posts. Again, if I'm missing something, my apologies. Seems a bit suspect to me but maybe I'm confused.

    Cheers,
    James
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Not at all James, in fact, I appreciate the fact that you brought up this point.

      I originally started the thread with the intention of giving out some useful information regarding what worked (and still works) for me regarding affiliate marketing online.

      Since I utilize this method, my signature link will have reference to my system.

      I am very blessed to have a lot of good friends and students of this system that also affiliate with it, so also have that information in their signatures.

      We have an online family that happens to care a lot about this system and are willing to help to that end.

      That said, we are all online entrepreneurs, and at the end of the day, would like to generate an income online.

      We are all trying to help one another succeed, at least, that's what I try to instill in my students.

      To be honest, they (my friends and students) weren't initially aware of this thread, and I had asked some to come and help me out in answering some questions about the system. I was sick for a couple of days, and didn't want the people in this threads questions to go unanswered.

      If you notice, their answers to questions only started happening later on in the thread.

      This thread was started as a way to help people out who might need some direction in their online business

      Hope this helps,

      Gary



      Originally Posted by dru-man View Post

      I know I'm going to get seriously hammered here for even bringing it up, but I've got to say this thread seems pretty promotional of your MOBS system. I enjoyed the post a lot and you've given some great information--I even checked out a couple of your videos before you guys even started mentioning the system in the post--and I appreciate you sharing so much, but I was under the impression it wasn't how things were done here.

      Am I missing something? I know a few of you guys are pretty well-known on the WF and mean no disrespect, but I imagine if this was my thread I'd have been called out, so maybe you can clear it up my misunderstanding.

      Let's face it--4 of the guys doing most of the talking here have a signature link to the system being discussed in the posts. Again, if I'm missing something, my apologies. Seems a bit suspect to me but maybe I'm confused.

      Cheers,
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Not at all James, in fact, I appreciate the fact that you brought up this point.

        I originally started the thread with the intention of giving out some useful information regarding what worked (and still works) for me regarding affiliate marketing online.

        Since I utilize this method, my signature link will have reference to my system.

        I am very blessed to have a lot of good friends and students of this system that also affiliate with it, so also have that information in their signatures.

        We have an online family that happens to care a lot about this system and are willing to help to that end.

        That said, we are all online entrepreneurs, and at the end of the day, would like to generate an income online.

        We are all trying to help one another succeed, at least, that's what I try to instill in my students.

        To be honest, they (my friends and students) weren't initially aware of this thread, and I had asked some to come and help me out in answering some questions about the system. I was sick for a couple of days, and didn't want the people in this threads questions to go unanswered.

        If you notice, their answers to questions only started happening later on in the thread.

        This thread was started as a way to help people out who might need some direction in their online business

        Hope this helps,

        Gary
        Gary, I am not sure that affiliates are allowed to have an affiliate link in their signature to a product that is not theirs on the WarriorForum. I was under the impression that it had to be your own product in the signature line?

        In other words if I am promoting some Clickbank dating product that I did not create, I don't think I am allowed to put it in my sig line on WF. Of course if they were involved in creating it, then it is allowed. Correct me if I am wrong.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

          Gary, I am not sure that affiliates are allowed to have an affiliate link in their signature to a product that is not theirs on the WarriorForum. I was under the impression that it had to be your own product in the signature line?

          In other words if I am promoting some Clickbank dating product that I did not create, I don't think I am allowed to put it in my sig line on WF. Of course if they were involved in creating it, then it is allowed. Correct me if I am wrong.
          You are not allowed an affiliate link in your sig. You are however, allowed to have a link to a domain you own within your signature.

          That said, I hope you understand that I created this thread to give people a simple road map they can follow to create financial freedom, for free.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          I've seen a lot of ppl use affiliate links in their sigs here and or a link to their site with affiliate links, which is against the TOS of WF.... seems the mods have missed all these hundreds of sigs that i have seen in the last two weeks.

          Originally Posted by LilBlackDress View Post

          Gary, I am not sure that affiliates are allowed to have an affiliate link in their signature to a product that is not theirs on the WarriorForum. I was under the impression that it had to be your own product in the signature line?

          In other words if I am promoting some Clickbank dating product that I did not create, I don't think I am allowed to put it in my sig line on WF. Of course if they were involved in creating it, then it is allowed. Correct me if I am wrong.
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    How you work that out James? people have asked questions, and all i see, is people answering them with a great amount of detail.

    re: sig link, is that why you replied so ppl can see your affiliate links and or websites?
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  • LOL Ok, man--carry on then. I can already see where this is going to go.
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  • Cool Gary,
    Thanks for the thorough response.

    It just seemed to me that the people responding (the same ones with the sigs) were making it a point to state your acronym every single time they posted, which isn't really necessary since variations of this system are all over the place--although surely not the same as yours. But I understand we're all marketers and network here more for just advice, and I also understand that when you're giving so much it's nice to get something back.

    Anyways, I'm not here to start a fuss or interrupt the flow--just think people should keep their eyes open a little, that's all, and it seemed strange to me that no one else had bothered even mention it. But maybe I was reading too much into it--I'm sure there's plenty of people on here who can think for themselves.

    I imagine if it was something to be worried about some people with more experience and footing here would have chimed in. Keep on keeping on.

    Cheers,
    James
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    • Profile picture of the author illumina8
      Hi, was wondering what platform you use to build your sites? are they wordpress? do you use wprobot to create them?
      how do you monetize them mainly and are they physical products mixed with digital products in what niches?
      thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author Scott Carpenter
        Originally Posted by illumina8 View Post

        Hi, was wondering what platform you use to build your sites? are they wordpress? do you use wprobot to create them?
        how do you monetize them mainly and are they physical products mixed with digital products in what niches?
        thanks
        If you read back through the thread, all of these questions have been answered to some degree. They're all built on Wordpress, using Pages instead of Posts. He monetizes them with affiliate products (ClickBank, etc). I'm assuming primarily (if not entirely) digital products. No mention has been made of Commission Junction, LinkShare, etc.
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        • Profile picture of the author Agoge Warrior
          Originally Posted by Scott Carpenter View Post

          If you read back through the thread, all of these questions have been answered to some degree. They're all built on Wordpress, using Pages instead of Posts. He monetizes them with affiliate products (ClickBank, etc). I'm assuming primarily (if not entirely) digital products. No mention has been made of Commission Junction, LinkShare, etc.
          Hey Scott,

          Wanted to answer this for you and the previous poster.

          You can use this method to market any type of product. Info or physical products work perfectly. So the number of products and niches are endless with Gary's system.

          I am actually working on my first physical product website, and so far it's coming along perfectly using the same steps as you would for info products. You only need to adjust the content writing style just a bit.

          For info products, you want to keep the writing style more along the lines of a "story" or helpful, knowledgeable "soft sell" content. For physical products, you can choose to do reviews, especially if the product is a specific model, etc or choose to do the helpful information content style. Discuss, the benefits of the physical product etc.

          Hope that helps!

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  • Profile picture of the author beelzebul
    @ Gary

    Can I ask for an example of site that you build ??

    I need to see it for better understanding...

    I can't send you PM because I don't have enough posts yet...maybe you can send me PM...I'd really appreciate that...

    Thanks in advance
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      he's already given you an example

      type in feminine tattoos in the search engine.

      Originally Posted by beelzebul View Post

      @ Gary

      Can I ask for an example of site that you build ??

      I need to see it for better understanding...

      I can't send you PM because I don't have enough posts yet...maybe you can send me PM...I'd really appreciate that...

      Thanks in advance
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      • Profile picture of the author Gregster
        Hi Loz,
        What has happened with your Website Builder Pro? Are you still going to release it, or are you now focussing on MOBS instead?

        Regards
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          After I paid my programmer $50k for to be done, he came out with some excuse some months later that he had some illness that prevented him from using his hands, as they swelled up or something...

          So, Gary and I are going to do something else instead - and work on something that I'm thinking of calling the "I.M. Machine", not only will it build sites for you, etc, but it will put your site in front of over 10,000,000 potential viewers, it'll take about 12 months of testing and what have you, maybe sooner, all depends on how fast my programmer can code these 13-15 modules inside it.

          Originally Posted by Gregster View Post

          Hi Loz,
          What has happened with your Website Builder Pro? Are you still going to release it, or are you now focussing on MOBS instead?

          Regards
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          • Profile picture of the author Gregster
            Thanks Loz for the 'heads up'. I had been keeping an 'eye out' for it. Maybe the new approach will work out for the better.
            In the meantime there is MOBS.... eh?

            Best wishes
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            • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
              Originally Posted by Gregster View Post

              In the meantime there is MOBS.... eh?
              Dumb question: What does this M.O.B.S. acronym stand for?
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              • Profile picture of the author gpower2
                Originally Posted by BillyBee View Post

                Dumb question: What does this M.O.B.S. acronym stand for?
                M.O.B.S. = My Online Business Strategy
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                • Profile picture of the author Marc Fields
                  I will echo others and say that the info shared in this thread is worth much more than a lot of wso I have bought to date!! Great business plan!! Thank you for sharing.

                  A couple of questions :

                  - When you need backlinks to a page, typically what type and how many do you get to rank high?

                  - I have some micro niche sites with 3-5 pages and they don't perform that well. Should I add 15 more pages around good keywords or should I start new sites from scratch?

                  - Do you use any special plugins (eg. all in one seo)?

                  Thank you again.

                  Marc
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                  • Profile picture of the author UMS
                    Originally Posted by Marc Fields View Post

                    - When you need backlinks to a page, typically what type and how many do you get to rank high?
                    Bit like asking how long is a piece of string. Obviously if you are going for an extremely competitive niche, you'll need lots of backlinks. However, if you are following the MOBS system, you'll be going for a niche that isn't too competitive, so if your site needs some backlinks, it may only need a few dozen, eg: blog comments, social bookmarks, article directories.

                    Originally Posted by Marc Fields View Post

                    I have some micro niche sites with 3-5 pages and they don't perform that well. Should I add 15 more pages around good keywords or should I start new sites from scratch?
                    Depends a bit on how competitive the niche you are in and how low they are currently ranking.

                    That said, adding more pages with related keywords is definitely going to help. As to how much, can't say without seeing the details of your site/s.

                    Originally Posted by Marc Fields View Post

                    Do you use any special plugins (eg. all in one seo)?
                    This has been answered previously in this thread.

                    Apart from all-in-one-seo, google-xml-sitemap and pretty-link, that's it.

                    Some people choose to use other plugins for analytics, but they're all optional.
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    Another questions I had in regards to internal linking:

    So I have 2 pages and each one of them is targeting a specific keyword. So PAGE 1 is targeting KEYWORD 1 and PAGE 2 is targeting KEYWORD 2.

    When I want to provide a link to PAGE 2 FROM PAGE 1 which keyword do I use as the anchor text? Is it KEYWORD 1 OR KEYWORD 2?
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Osman... you point links to your pages that contain that keyword your page is about.
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    This is a really great strategy. I took a few notes.
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  • Profile picture of the author illumina8
    Hi Loz,

    I am really stuck with something.. If you would kindly take a minute to help me out I would be forever greatful..!

    I am not experienced with making sites with wordpress on its own..I have however used firepow over a year ago to create afew wp sites that did well in fast indexing and rankings in top 10 for under 30,000 allintitle competing sites..

    I am now looking to create 100 sites + for targeted keywords under 50,000 competing sites.. I am looking for a creation/management platform that I can make the sites with and have optimum seo to get them indexed quickly and ranking well.. also monetizing plugins like adsense, physical products, affiliate offers, amazon, ebay, rss, articles, social bookmarking, youtube, yahoo answers etc...I also want to create static homepages for some sites to have a squeeze page also for cpa offers..

    I am stuck between deciding to go with firepow again or wp robot.. because i have used firepow and they have contact, about, privacy pages installed I know they work well and user friendly with good tuitorials on how to optimize sites to the best... but the cost is not cheap $137 monthly compared to wprobot one time payment..

    Can you please suggest anything that will help me in my major dilema i seem to be having in not knowing the best way forward,,

    thanks in advance ,

    Jamie
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Well, actually, my buddy Dan Nickerson who works for Joel Comm, has a application that alllows you to manage your wp sites... I'll get the link for ya when I speak to him next... but i dont think it does what you're wanting it to... my seo website builder pro was going to do all of that,and some... (thats what my programmer was working on about 4 years ago)... it could create like 1000+ blogs insde 30 minutes after filling in all the details, and it drip feeds content, then gets backlinks at the same time. it has some other features in there to make it look like a human is actually behind the site driving content into it and other stuff.

    this app that Im planning to put together is more refined than the seo website builder pro that i was working on, as i've had more time to think about all the things that have changed since then to incorporate that into the software.. there is nothing out there like it on the market....

    I dont have a price tag for it yet, but it's gonna be huge...

    btw, you dont want to have yahoo answers on it, it makes things worse, i've tried products that scrap content directly from yahoo answers and it was a waste of time.

    your best bet, is to just build them manually for the time being, adding posts to wp is not difficult... spend 1-2 hours a day adding articles to ONE site, and set it to future posting dates, to every 2-3 days, then work on the 2nd,and so on...

    all the best

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    • Profile picture of the author illumina8
      Thanks Loz,

      Much appreciated.. I am also looking at M.O.B.S as I could probably use some training as im rusty.. I wonder if they have there own platform to manage the wp blogs and so on..

      sorry to hear about your delay with the program anyway i hope you get it up and running soon..

      jamie
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        MOBS doesn't have that available as of yet, but that's where I come in to put my 15 yrs of experience online into the MOBS system - I'm a part of the upsell where I give hands on help on one on with the Gold Level members



        Originally Posted by illumina8 View Post

        Thanks Loz,

        Much appreciated.. I am also looking at M.O.B.S as I could probably use some training as im rusty.. I wonder if they have there own platform to manage the wp blogs and so on..

        sorry to hear about your delay with the program anyway i hope you get it up and running soon..

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  • Profile picture of the author smartsites
    I just wanted to say that I've paid way more for WSO's and other programs that didn't teach me as much as this forum has. What's funny is whenever someone gives out some free information everyone starts asking a gazillion questions and it's not easy keeping up with them all by yourself. I mean, Gary still has to run his own business right? So for Gary to actually invite some of his students to help answer everyone's questions is a true testament to the kind of person he is. At the end of the day we are all selling something and even if our goal is to give out some free information just to get some credibility to sell our product then so be it. I mean at least you've learned quite a bit before you even think about buying his product and I would much rather purchase a product after someone has proven themselves to me. So take this information and do something with it, I bet you could use the original guidelines, build a site and flip it to pay for the cost of his course.
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    • Profile picture of the author Luis Medilo
      I'm thinking about buying Gary's MOBS course. What's your opinion about this course, fellow warriors? I'm ashamed to admit that $77 is a bit heavy on my wallet (more or less the money left on my bank account LOL) but if it's very good and works as promised, I will buy it.
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      • Profile picture of the author singhavn
        Great work. I can imagine how much hard work you have put in to build that empire. All the best
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      • Profile picture of the author thaismr
        Originally Posted by loyski View Post

        I'm thinking about buying Gary's MOBS course. What's your opinion about this course, fellow warriors? I'm ashamed to admit that $77 is a bit heavy on my wallet (more or less the money left on my bank account LOL) but if it's very good and works as promised, I will buy it.
        IMHO, you should use that money to register your domain names and pay for hosting.

        That's just IMHO.

        I can tell you the keyword competition they explain in this thread for free does work just like said; it's easier for me to see that when I'm building sites not in English; not as many affiliates or adsense CPC, though, wich has been a problem to me with my sites; but with this thread I realized that there are also terms in English with such low competition, if you search for them.

        Lots of people all around this forum are telling how low competition sites DO RANK with almost no backlinks... at most, submitting 3-5 articles to a distribution service.It's just a matter of taking action and keeping it simple.

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        I am kind of stuck on the writing, thinking I will just outsource this part.

        I was spending so much time trying to tweak some premium designs, trying out plugins, etc., reading e-books, subscribing to memberships, fixing WP hacker attacks, lost many weeks with that and it made each new site take TOO MUCH time even to be duplicated from the previous one.

        Now that I read this thread + combined with another one I hope I saved, I started a .doc "blueprint" guide, it is one page with all the simple steps I need to take based on the free info from the thread + and a few more pages with copy+pasted parts of this thread I wanted to keep at easy reach. I will tape them together, the main page in front of the rest, with sort of my "daily routine" to try putting this system at use with 5 domain names to start off.

        I'll keep that blueprint in my desk, printed with HUGE fonts.


        If I bought any product at this point, it would just take away MUCH more time from actually building the sites. That's probably true to many people, too.

        After I see the first results with what I learned here for free (+ more than $100 on domain names I bought recently based on competition), then I will definitely spend more money with outsourcing more sites and buying more training.

        Will keep you all updated with my efforts.
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  • Profile picture of the author bookmarking
    I am using the very same technique presented in here and is working, but with a little remark:
    This is what the author of this thread say *the keywords MUST have at least 800 searches per month (exact match)*

    I find out that if a keyword has less than 3000 searches/month, is a wasting time keyword. 3000 searches/month gives you about 100 clickers or less if you are on the first page. What is it under 3000 is a work in vain.
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      Originally Posted by bookmarking View Post

      I am using the very same technique presented in here and is working, but with a little remark:
      This is what the author of this thread say *the keywords MUST have at least 800 searches per month (exact match)*

      I find out that if a keyword has less than 3000 searches/month, is a wasting time keyword. 3000 searches/month gives you about 100 clickers or less if you are on the first page. What is it under 3000 is a work in vain.
      There is more to be said about the whole question of number of searches. These are decisions you have to take when choosing a niche - if I am promoting a high-ticket item that could sell just one per month, but earn me a couple of hundred bucks in commissions, then a low search volume is fine, indeed I would expect it. If I want to sell 100 of the new Harry Potter book or whatever, I am only going to earn like 60 cents on it, so I want higher volume. To be honest, psychologically, I would rather work on a few high-ticket sales than lots of low-ticket sales! So it's not as simple as just saying high volume is better.
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      • Profile picture of the author bookmarking
        It is indeed a delicate balance between hunting highly searched keywords (but with high competition) and the little one highly targeted and with few clickers (and potential customers). Both have downsides: competition or little traffic (or no traffic at all).
        Anyway 3000 (what I was recommended) is not a high volume. Between 3000 and 10,000 is reachable with little to medium competition on some good keywords. What is it over 10,000 it is indeed hard to get on first page.
        That's my opinion.
        Anyway, if a website is well optimized for 7-8 keywords/page and has over 20 pages, you can go after both: under and over 3000. You never know what surprises Google give ya. I got fantastic position for huge traffic keywords (where I supposed that I have no chance), while other keywords that I considered valuable to me return no customers at all (even if they are targeted to my niche). So, trying both sides is the wining lottery ticket.

        There is more to be said about the whole question of number of searches. These are decisions you have to take when choosing a niche - if I am promoting a high-ticket item that could sell just one per month, but earn me a couple of hundred bucks in commissions, then a low search volume is fine, indeed I would expect it. If I want to sell 100 of the new Harry Potter book or whatever, I am only going to earn like 60 cents on it, so I want higher volume. To be honest, psychologically, I would rather work on a few high-ticket sales than lots of low-ticket sales! So it's not as simple as just saying high volume is better.
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  • Profile picture of the author dominionsam
    I'm a newbie, I'm gathering helpful infos like yours and acting on them
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author dominionsam
    can u give me an autopilot money making system for a try for two months so that I can I the means to purchase the full system. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author ryanjm
    ^^so far that seems like the toughest part: finding keywords that fit the criteria and aren't already mined out. Especially if you're using clickbank to find products w/over 30 grav...there just really aren't (m)any there that haven't already been tapped out. Maybe I'll have more luck at the amazon marketplace but so far I've gone through several entire categories of products on clickbank and they are _thoroughly_ mined out on every product over 30 grav for search terms that get as little as 1k searches/mo. In fact I've seen a number of sites that were targeting (as their main keyword) keywords under 500 searches/mo.

    The only solution is to find less obvious search terms, which in turn generate less traffic...so it seems like we're looking for that 1 in 1000 search term that has all the key criteria and isn't already snapped up.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Collier View Post

      I know this is probably a newbie question but, for someone on a shoestring budget, is there anyway that something similar could be implemented without buying all the domain names. Like using 1 domain name and sub-directories. From what I'm understanding it would cost $100. to set up 10 sites and that's no problem when you're up and running but for me to get started I'd have to look for a way to use 1 domain and get started with that.
      Do exactly that. Buy one domain, make a 20+ page site and when you start to generate some income, buy another domain, build a 20+ page site, etc., etc. Reinvest your profit in your business to scale it up to be where you want it to be.

      Originally Posted by dominionsam View Post

      can u give me an autopilot money making system for a try for two months so that I can I the means to purchase the full system. Thanks
      I just did.

      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      ^^so far that seems like the toughest part: finding keywords that fit the criteria and aren't already mined out. Especially if you're using clickbank to find products w/over 30 grav...there just really aren't (m)any there that haven't already been tapped out. Maybe I'll have more luck at the amazon marketplace but so far I've gone through several entire categories of products on clickbank and they are _thoroughly_ mined out on every product over 30 grav for search terms that get as little as 1k searches/mo. In fact I've seen a number of sites that were targeting (as their main keyword) keywords under 500 searches/mo.

      The only solution is to find less obvious search terms, which in turn generate less traffic...so it seems like we're looking for that 1 in 1000 search term that has all the key criteria and isn't already snapped up.
      Keyword research is the most important part of this and most IM business models. It is not as difficult as many make it out to be.

      Let me make a blanket statement here. There are PLENTY of keywords to go after. You need to focus on the longer tail keywords, and you can find plenty of them to fit the criteria necessary to use with this system.

      It is imperative that you think outside the box on this. When you search in ClickBank. The product owners will give you example keywords to use. These are keywords you might use to START your keyword research not to actually use. They are going to be either too competitive or over used.

      The secret to keyword research is to KEEP DIGGING!

      Niche and keyword over saturation is a myth. There is a TON of stuff out there for everyone here to make a fantastic living online, trust me on that one.

      As I stated before, this system works with keywords that have as little as 800 exact match searches per month. Remember you have 20+ pages that are each attracting at least 800 searches per month in Google. The idea is to have a site that is collecting all of this cumulative traffic organically.
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    • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
      I have in the last week searched in 3 broad categories (within Health and Fitness) using the Google keyword Tool, which all have plenty of Clickbank products to sell.

      I started with just a fairly open search term eg 'exercise' and repeatedly dug down through the results. I now have a large number of niches, most with at least one available .com/org/net domain, with very low competition (top 4 results all PR2 or less) and exact searches in the 1,000s.

      Also, don't be put off just because the exact keyword match .com/org/net are taken, look into it a little, are they 'parked' domains or poorly thrown together ones, check to see which domains are ranking in the top 3 to 5 and figure out whether you reckon they're easy to surpass, in which case you start work on your site and take it to number 1!

      There are a lot of potential niches out there, even in the most competitive areas, though it sometimes seems like everything is taken ... but, that is all Mind Games which is often the hardest part of being in business yourself, having control of the gremlin that snickers at you and tells you it isn't possible, which isn't true. Get your mindset right and it will all happen, you can't have time for doubt, as Napoleon said, 'I see only the Objective. The Obstacle must give way.'


      Originally Posted by ryanjm View Post

      ^^so far that seems like the toughest part: finding keywords that fit the criteria and aren't already mined out. Especially if you're using clickbank to find products w/over 30 grav...there just really aren't (m)any there that haven't already been tapped out. Maybe I'll have more luck at the amazon marketplace but so far I've gone through several entire categories of products on clickbank and they are _thoroughly_ mined out on every product over 30 grav for search terms that get as little as 1k searches/mo. In fact I've seen a number of sites that were targeting (as their main keyword) keywords under 500 searches/mo.

      The only solution is to find less obvious search terms, which in turn generate less traffic...so it seems like we're looking for that 1 in 1000 search term that has all the key criteria and isn't already snapped up.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    sure is mate.... but there are other venues to jump into as well, like, gheadshot... im quite happy with the $47 (front end product) content... i've not gone for the upsells yet, i still have the page open until i get the time to work on the stuff they show, and if it does work, then I will use the profits from that, to buy the upsell, then if that works, i'll buy hte next, and so on... i noticed that a review was made here stating that there were many of them, which made me put on the breaks and check the front end out first.
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    Wish mine would make 100+ a day.
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      Thanks for sharing. I know it's been said but this is really awesome information.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    Marc, try John Legers WebCompAnalyst, it gives off pretty accurate account of how many back links you need for a given keyword
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    • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      Marc, try John Legers WebCompAnalyst, it gives off pretty accurate account of how many back links you need for a given keyword
      I like that software as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      Marc, try John Legers WebCompAnalyst, it gives off pretty accurate account of how many back links you need for a given keyword
      Hi askloz
      Is it webcompanalyst better than Traffic travis or market samurai, seems very cool!
      tell me what u think Im looking for a keyword and resarch analysis tool
      regards
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    pradiprg, go back 1 or 2 threads, already revealed
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    He doesn't, he leaves it alone, that's the beauty of the strategy... if you do your keyword research correctly, your keyword rankings will remain mainly on the first page, or above the fold
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  • Profile picture of the author thaismr
    Thank you very much for this thread.

    Is there a harder type of keyword to rank, even following those numbers?

    If there are multiple brands selling that type of product, will that hurt my position?

    Examples: refrigerators, copy machine, etc. Because comparison sites, big brand stores, or brand name sites ("Samsung") appear at the search results page. Will they be too hard to beat in SEO? Even with 949 allintitle results and 11,800 "phrase" results? (it's non english market)

    Thanks!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author jlmconnection
    Thanks for all the information. this gives me another method to expand my business.

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    THanks for the great information. Makes a lot of sense and step by step guide to implement.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cameron Alex
    This is a great thread. keep up the good work. I also used to create a lot niche sites but it took up much time so i started working on my other online businesses. it does take time. my setup was a tad bit different than yours, instead of pages i created posts. I was able to create 50 sites, made some money, but it does take a while if you work fulltime. This system does work.
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    Thanks for sharing your strategy in such a detailed way. It's not necessarily something completely new, but it shows that diligence always produces results.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Gary and other MOBS people:

    Your example site of FeminineTattoos.biz is certainly ranked #1 for that keyword.
    But all of your other keywords in the sidebar are nowhere to be seen on the first page of Google Results.

    I didn't check them all, but I checked about 6 of them and none were even close to page 1 of the results.

    That's not exactly a successful site, is it?

    I am not knocking your system, BTW. I believe it is a good model. I am simply curious why you are using this as your example of success when you're only ranking for the primary keyword.

    My personal belief is that that keyword is an info-seeking keyword not a buying keyword.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      Gary and other MOBS people:

      Your example site of FeminineTattoos.biz is certainly ranked #1 for that keyword.
      But all of your other keywords in the sidebar are nowhere to be seen on the first page of Google Results.

      I didn't check them all, but I checked about 6 of them and none were even close to page 1 of the results.

      That's not exactly a successful site, is it?

      I am not knocking your system, BTW. I believe it is a good model. I am simply curious why you are using this as your example of success when you're only ranking for the primary keyword.

      My personal belief is that that keyword is an info-seeking keyword not a buying keyword.

      Chris
      That site was created as a test site for the M.O.B.S. system over a year ago. I created it and left it alone for over a year on purpose. I also created it in a very difficult niche to prove 2 points.

      1. 6 to 7 pages (not including the main page), ranked and still rank on Google's first page, without me building any backlinks to them at all. The rest were to be backlinked within the forum that was recently created for M.O.B.S. That's why I refer to it as a test site throughout this thread.

      2. After creation (in fact before it was completed), the site started to make sales and still continues to do so to this day. The point I wanted to illustrate here is that the system works so well regarding organic search engine traffic, that even a site that was created and then left alone has the ability to garnish over 400 organic hits per day, with the pages that do rank. Imagine what a site that has all the pages ranking on page 1 can do.

      I didn't really want that site to be talked about within this thread. Some people PM'd me about a example site and this is the one I had them look at. I think maybe one of my students might have mentioned it here.

      Oh well... anyway, that is the explanation as to why that site is the way it is.

      I invite you or anyone else to check out the page ranking for all the pages on that site in the next couple of months, after we maximize the site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        .I didn't really want that site to be talked about within this thread. Some people PM'd me about a example site and this is the one I had them look at. I think maybe one of my students might have mentioned it here.
        Gary - I appreciate your reply. In case anyone else reads this Gary said a lot more, but I cut the "quote" part short for brevity.

        I don't think anyone else listed a specific domain here, but I simply opted in to your video and saw you showing the domain publicly, so I didn't think it would be a problem to discuss it on this forum. Sorry if that was not your intention. No big deal since it's a test site as you said.

        I'm also curious as to why there is a discrepancy between the thread here, and your videos. Again, just asking (seriously) not knocking the biz. I think it makes a ton of sense.

        To be clear this is what I mean.

        In this thread the advice has been "build links until you rank on the first page and take that number one spot".

        In the videos you basically say (I'm paraphrasing), "You don't need to do any link building at all".

        The former makes more sense than the later, don't you agree?

        If there is one single takeaway that I got from the entire thread it is that the internal linking structure is key to your SEO effort. I learned this from the "Stomping the Search Engines 2.0" course that Stompernet put out a couple years ago. It was a huge revelation. I think your business model takes that lesson and implements it perfectly!
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

          Gary - I appreciate your reply. In case anyone else reads this Gary said a lot more, but I cut the "quote" part short for brevity.

          I don't think anyone else listed a specific domain here, but I simply opted in to your video and saw you showing the domain publicly, so I didn't think it would be a problem to discuss it on this forum. Sorry if that was not your intention. No big deal since it's a test site as you said.

          I'm also curious as to why there is a discrepancy between the thread here, and your videos. Again, just asking (seriously) not knocking the biz. I think it makes a ton of sense.

          To be clear this is what I mean.

          In this thread the advice has been "build links until you rank on the first page and take that number one spot".

          In the videos you basically say (I'm paraphrasing), "You don't need to do any link building at all".

          The former makes more sense than the later, don't you agree?

          If there is one single takeaway that I got from the entire thread it is that the internal linking structure is key to your SEO effort. I learned this from the "Stomping the Search Engines 2.0" course that Stompernet put out a couple years ago. It was a huge revelation. I think your business model takes that lesson and implements it perfectly!
          Yes, internal linking is always important. There are also ways that we maximize your pages for on-page SEO, like keyword saturation percentage, correct title tags, etc.

          Regarding your point about backlinking, this system will allow you to create sites that have pages rank on Google's first page without you doing any backlinking at all (this is what I refer to in my videos.) HOWEVER, to gain the maximum effect, I say to backlink the pages that you create that DON'T rank on the first page of Google. That way you have ALL of your pages ranking to take full advantage of all of Google's (and other search engines) naturally occurring, organic traffic.

          Further, I also mention backlinking any page to get to the #1 spot. Again, this will happen on the merit of the system itself at times, but to ensure a #1 ranking, watch your site (after creation), for about a month, to see where the pages rank within the SERPS, after that amount of time, backlink the stuff you need to in order to get it where you want.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    They dont need to be on the first page to get traffic

    and the tattoo biz is a popular niche, over a year old, hardly been touched.

    Hawaiian flower tattoos was one i worked on for Gary, was on page 5, now first page, was as high as 1st - 5th, but i haven't touched that for 3 weeks... and it's still on page one and it's still making him 1-3 sales every other day...

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    until it ranks first page
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    It's LOZ...

    I will reserve my thoughts on Traffic Travis... A free tool can only do so much.

    Any tool that Jon Leger comes out with, you should get!
    Any traffic generation tool or research tool that Brad Callen comes out with, you should get... these are the only two ppl i know in the SEO industry who know what they are talking about and the only software that I know of that produces the results!

    p.s
    I'm referring to software, unless you want to get link liberation.
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    • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      It's LOZ...

      I will reserve my thoughts on Traffic Travis... A free tool can only do so much.

      Any tool that Jon Leger comes out with, you should get!
      Any traffic generation tool or research tool that Brad Callen comes out with, you should get... these are the only two ppl i know in the SEO industry who know what they are talking about and the only software that I know of that produces the results!

      p.s
      I'm referring to software, unless you want to get link liberation.
      Thanks LOZ, I've just got webcompanalyst...what traffic generation tool from Brad Callen do u recommend...Im considering bookmarking demon, what are your thoughts about it?and what do u mean by get link liberation?...
      I appreciate your words about it since I see you are a well experienced warrior
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    • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
      Only problem with most of these software tools is that they're PC based, not much fun if you're struggling along with an older MAC

      And I know a few more people (than just John Leger and Brad Callen) in SEO industry who know what they're talking about and aren't just creaming it for their bank accounts, without caring about the suckers paying for outdated/useless information. Although I'd agree they're few and far between


      Originally Posted by askloz View Post

      It's LOZ...

      I will reserve my thoughts on Traffic Travis... A free tool can only do so much.

      Any tool that Jon Leger comes out with, you should get!
      Any traffic generation tool or research tool that Brad Callen comes out with, you should get... these are the only two ppl i know in the SEO industry who know what they are talking about and the only software that I know of that produces the results!

      p.s
      I'm referring to software, unless you want to get link liberation.
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  • Profile picture of the author lorenzmac
    gpower2 this is such a great thread. I plan on making mini sites just like you. I do have a question though, isn't it hard to get backlinks to all of your different keywords to rank in google?
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    gpower2's name is GARY guys

    Lorenzmac, nah, getting backlinks is the easiest thing to do.
    But it depends on what level / quality of links you want, is the question... quality links, high powered links are the hardest, and more time consuming.

    One's best bet is to earn as much as they can and re-invest it back into their SEO business, create a large network of COMMUNITY sites, AUTHORITY sites on a particular niche, etc, host them at different data centers across the globe, different ip addresses, then you can CONTROL the manner in which links are retrieved from.
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  • Profile picture of the author chubbsky
    Your strategy is very similar to Affiloblueprint by Mark Ling. Either way, this is definitely a solid strategy to earning a consistent income online.
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    This type of system has been around for years. I first became aware of something similar from reading a thread on Sitepoint 3-4 years ago and then the same guy wrote about a similar system on his blog. But Gary has a much better system from the looks. I have had some WP sites setup but Gary has shown me what I'm doing wrong from reading this thread. Trouble is I hate all this keyword stuff, I prefer just to build a web page and if the traffic comes so be it, I don't like reading stuff myself where I pick up that the author is trying to promote keywords. I have started to redo some of my blogs, I think the key thing I have learned here is to make them less bloggy So I'm turning posts into pages etc, not sure if the left nav thing is too important but will change some.... I need to check the videos out too, sounds good. Who cares if Gary makes money from getting traffic to his blog from this, well deserved and there is no reason to be worried about that. We all want to make money and if we can help people at the same time then ALL is good. I try to focus on subjects for my websites that offer to help people or the world in some way, things like organic foods, eco products etc.

    I do wonder how long this system will last before google spits it out as it does with anything like this once it becomes popular...
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    • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
      I think that the thing with this method is that it can actually provide what Google wants, real information from a site that has multiple pages, not just a single page designed for Adsense or affiliate, but for a niche that would maybe get a bit lost within an authority site.

      The feminine tattoo is a prime example, it benefits from being that focussed, rather than being lost amongst the massive world of tattoos, yet has enough different aspects to be explored in a niche.

      Google seems to have a bizarre take on things sometimes, but can't see that it would make sense to strike off sites like this, if it is what those searching wish to find.


      Originally Posted by EFt View Post

      I do wonder how long this system will last before google spits it out as it does with anything like this once it becomes popular...
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  • Profile picture of the author KBeamon
    Hey Gpower2
    I just receive an email from George Brown telling me to take a look at your video/product. Thought I would come over here to see what the w-forum is saying about it and came upon this thread.
    I must say you have helped with the missing links I needed to make this business work. So I guess I will purchase it and see what happens.

    thanks a bunch
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by KBeamon View Post

      Hey Gpower2
      I just receive an email from George Brown telling me to take a look at your video/product. Thought I would come over here to see what the w-forum is saying about it and came upon this thread.
      I must say you have helped with the missing links I needed to make this business work. So I guess I will purchase it and see what happens.

      thanks a bunch
      Thank you and good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    I'm finding that the keywords in the domains I already own have google searches well over 30k a month, more like 100 -150k. Is it possible to still use this system with this by getting more backlinks?
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      for sure...

      older the domain, more content you add, the more of that share you'll receive... concentrate on making it an authority site, concentrate on making good content, you'll end up getting more traffic by having others referring your link to others

      Originally Posted by EFt View Post

      I'm finding that the keywords in the domains I already own have google searches well over 30k a month, more like 100 -150k. Is it possible to still use this system with this by getting more backlinks?
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      • Profile picture of the author EFt
        Originally Posted by askloz View Post

        for sure...

        older the domain, more content you add, the more of that share you'll receive... concentrate on making it an authority site, concentrate on making good content, you'll end up getting more traffic by having others referring your link to others
        hey thanks for the tips loz!
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        • Profile picture of the author ishamlaw
          Hi

          One very good free wordpress theme do use is the press blue. This theme have the left sidebar and is easy to customize. To find this theme just google the name.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    you know guys... Google Analytics does a good job at tracking, with goal funnels, entry funnels, exit funnels, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    Nice tips, it is always the simple basic things that gets the traffic
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    I have a big question that I know will be a source of debate.

    Gary - your example site is a .biz
    Yet you rank #1 for the keyword.

    In your strategy how to you select the URL? Do you think exact match matters more than top level domain extension?

    The answer to this applies to pretty much every business model that relies on organic traffic, so I'm curious on your take, AND how you arrived at your conclusion.

    Thoughts very much appreciated. You have been very generous in this thread.

    (As a starter, my research here on WF shows that, apparently, Matt Cutts says TLD does not matter at all. I haven't found him quoted saying that anywhere myself yet).
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      I have a big question that I know will be a source of debate.

      Gary - your example site is a .biz
      Yet you rank #1 for the keyword.

      In your strategy how to you select the URL? Do you think exact match matters more than top level domain extension?

      The answer to this applies to pretty much every business model that relies on organic traffic, so I'm curious on your take, AND how you arrived at your conclusion.

      Thoughts very much appreciated. You have been very generous in this thread.

      (As a starter, my research here on WF shows that, apparently, Matt Cutts says TLD does not matter at all. I haven't found him quoted saying that anywhere myself yet).
      In the interest of keeping things simple, using my method, I simply find my niche (in this case tattoos), then find by sub-niche, which will be my main page (and domain name) keyword (feminine tattoos in this example.)

      My main page (and domain name) keyword, will be based on it's generality within my chosen niche, along with it's monthly searchability, as well as it's ranking manageability. This criteria has already been mentioned within this thread.

      I have found that regardless of the suffix I choose for my domain name, it will still rank well because of the overall power of the system.

      I rely on exact match criteria and don't pay attention to TLD at all.

      Hope this helps,

      Gary
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Gary - Yes it helps a lot.


    So lets say you were going after the "outdoor knitting" niche

    Assume OutdoorKnitting.com and .net and .org were taken.

    Would you generally buy either:

    1) OutdoorKnitting.biz (or whatever)
    2) MyOutdoorKnitting.com (has the exact phrase, but is .com)

    I'm assuming you go with #1
    Can you elaborate on what led you to conclude that TLD doesn't matter?

    I did a bit more digging just now and it seems Matt Cutts was quoted on some panels saying that .info is associated to more spam, and although the original algorithm paid no attention to TLD, there is no assurance it won't happen.

    But maybe, to your point, with correct on-page SEO the difference doesn't matter enough.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      Gary - Yes it helps a lot.


      So lets say you were going after the "outdoor knitting" niche

      Assume OutdoorKnitting.com and .net and .org were taken.

      Would you generally buy either:

      1) OutdoorKnitting.biz (or whatever)
      2) MyOutdoorKnitting.com (has the exact phrase, but is .com)

      I'm assuming you go with #1
      Can you elaborate on what led you to conclude that TLD doesn't matter?

      I did a bit more digging just now and it seems Matt Cutts was quoted on some panels saying that .info is associated to more spam, and although the original algorithm paid no attention to TLD, there is no assurance it won't happen.

      But maybe, to your point, with correct on-page SEO the difference doesn't matter enough.
      You are correct, I would go with #1

      Yes, I have found that with the correct on page SEO (and proper internal linking), the difference doesn't matter enough.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Hey Gary - one more question that I don't think anyone asked yet:

    You described the method you use to select "alternate keywords", ie, minimum 800 searches per month and less than 30k competing results.

    But what's the method for verifying "ability to compete" on the primary keyword?

    I've usually looked at average PR of the top 10 results, number of competing pages, and I also have an unscientific "eye ball it" approach where I look at the quality of the top 10 to see if any crap sites have ranked (it's a good sign that any "good" site should outrank it).

    What's your method?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      Hey Gary - one more question that I don't think anyone asked yet:

      You described the method you use to select "alternate keywords", ie, minimum 800 searches per month and less than 30k competing results.

      But what's the method for verifying "ability to compete" on the primary keyword?

      I've usually looked at average PR of the top 10 results, number of competing pages, and I also have an unscientific "eye ball it" approach where I look at the quality of the top 10 to see if any crap sites have ranked (it's a good sign that any "good" site should outrank it).

      What's your method?
      Don't worry too much about this. If you have done your keyword research and results manageability right, you won't have much problem in competing in the SERPS
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      • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
        Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

        Hey Gary - one more question that I don't think anyone asked yet:

        You described the method you use to select "alternate keywords", ie, minimum 800 searches per month and less than 30k competing results.

        But what's the method for verifying "ability to compete" on the primary keyword?

        I've usually looked at average PR of the top 10 results, number of competing pages, and I also have an unscientific "eye ball it" approach where I look at the quality of the top 10 to see if any crap sites have ranked (it's a good sign that any "good" site should outrank it).

        What's your method?
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Don't worry too much about this. If you have done your keyword research and results manageability right, you won't have much problem in competing in the SERPS
        I think Chris's method has much more merit. Isn't taking a detailed look at the top 10-30 results of a broad search (without quotes since that's how most people search) and looking at things like on-page SEO, PR and inbound anchor text a much better way to gauge your competition than simply "checking if the number of results is less than 30,000 for a quoted search and less than 10,000 results for an intitle search"?
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

          I think Chris's method has much more merit. Isn't taking a detailed look at the top 10-30 results of a broad search (without quotes since that's how most people search) and looking at things like on-page SEO, PR and inbound anchor text a much better way to gauge your competition than simply "checking if the number of results is less than 30,000 for a quoted search and less than 10,000 results for an intitle search"?
          Of course there is more to it than what I mentioned, it's just that it's not as necessary as you might think when you follow my detailed system information which hasn't yet been discussed within this thread.
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    • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      Hey Gary - one more question that I don't think anyone asked yet:

      You described the method you use to select "alternate keywords", ie, minimum 800 searches per month and less than 30k competing results.

      But what's the method for verifying "ability to compete" on the primary keyword?

      I've usually looked at average PR of the top 10 results, number of competing pages, and I also have an unscientific "eye ball it" approach where I look at the quality of the top 10 to see if any crap sites have ranked (it's a good sign that any "good" site should outrank it).

      What's your method?
      Just curious Chris, do you also check your data anywhere else?

      I have used numerous tools but am finding the best tool is just looking at the top results. I am also not concerned about the number of results. If the top is weak to medium I can compete.

      One thing I do look at is how much I can make. If it is an Adsense site for example, I check the Adwords Tool and get the CPC. Then I use a formula to calculate my monthly potential.
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  • Profile picture of the author speedbird
    This is really encouraging especially for upcoming new Internet Marketers. I look forward to checking out your strategy
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    • Profile picture of the author cymbals
      The amount of information being passed back and forth in this thread is great.

      I'll ask a techincal question - non-techies can skip this:
      I noticed in the HTML of the example site that there is a different class being assigned to each list item on the left - normally each of these would use the same class for formatting purposes, so I am curious why it was done in this fashion.

      Thanks!
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      • Profile picture of the author jonny01
        gpower, grateful if you could PM me contact details for your article writer (I can't PM yet), as I am having a hard time finding someone who is able to do a decent job.

        Great thread btw!
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by jonny01 View Post

          gpower, grateful if you could PM me contact details for your article writer (I can't PM yet), as I am having a hard time finding someone who is able to do a decent job.

          Great thread btw!
          @jonny01 - PM sent!
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          • Profile picture of the author cymbals
            Gary, Please PM me that info also, or is it AskLoz? Thanks!
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            • Profile picture of the author askloz
              btw... It's LOZ

              PM ya what exactly? can you let me know?

              Originally Posted by cymbals View Post

              Gary, Please PM me that info also, or is it AskLoz? Thanks!
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              • Profile picture of the author cymbals
                Originally Posted by askloz View Post

                btw... It's LOZ

                PM ya what exactly? can you let me know?
                Hey LOZ <g>, I was just asking about who does his writing, which he answered. Thanks, man!
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          • Profile picture of the author jonny01
            Got it - thanks!

            Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

            @jonny01 - PM sent!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Gary can you explain your primary keyword criteria or do people have to buy the ebook for more details?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      He isn't going to give you the details on his writer! Why would he? Just hire one in the Philippines. They have great talent there and it is affordable.

      Gary can you explain your primary keyword criteria or do people have to buy the ebook for more details?
      I explain it in the thread.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        I explain it in the thread.
        Ok let me be a bit more specific with my question because this seems critical for a student.

        Do you use the SAME method to pick your primary keyword as your alternate 19+ keywords? Same criteria of 800+ exact match and sub 30,000 results when searched in quotes?
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

          Ok let me be a bit more specific with my question because this seems critical for a student.

          Do you use the SAME method to pick your primary keyword as your alternate 19+ keywords? Same criteria of 800+ exact match and sub 30,000 results when searched in quotes?
          Yes, although you may note that the main page (domain name) keyword, can have more monthly searches (like 3000+), and the results can be up to 75,000 for competition, because the main page typically ranks better with the support of the other pages.

          For the internal pages, I stick with the 800 exact searches and the 30,000 results or less for competition.
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  • Profile picture of the author leebarclay
    I think it is wonderful that you shared your knowledge and expertise in such detail. That is what makes this forum such a great place... and such a valuable resource...

    For anyone reading your post that is motivated by it I say go for it... it really leaves you with no excuses....

    However I am old and lazy and that is to much work for me... I am a list builder and now that adswaps are the way to go I prefer list building and email marketing... It is very relaxing as well as profitable, and alot fun... never seems like work...

    What ever floats your boat...
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  • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
    Hmmm.. is it just me or does anyone else think that the above post looks like a thread hijack, smells like a thread hijack and quacks like a thread hijack?
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  • Profile picture of the author Sheryl Polomka
    gpower - sorry if this has already been asked, I haven't read every post.

    With your home page - does your home page promote one of the products that you are promoting or is your home page a general information page about all the niche products as a whole?

    I'm working on a site myself at the moment and trying to decide whether to have the home page set as a general page or having it promoting a product.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bryan V
      Originally Posted by Sheryl Polomka View Post

      gpower - sorry if this has already been asked, I haven't read every post.

      With your home page - does your home page promote one of the products that you are promoting or is your home page a general information page about all the niche products as a whole?

      I'm working on a site myself at the moment and trying to decide whether to have the home page set as a general page or having it promoting a product.
      On the example site he gave out, his homepage promotes the product in the exact same fashion the rest of his pages do.
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  • Profile picture of the author blitzonline
    Great Info! Great Thread! Thanks Gary!
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  • Profile picture of the author dawnbreaker
    I have read your guide gpower, which leads me to continue on making money online. I am a totally newbie in this field and I know that I need to undergo many tutorials so I can learn this things.

    And I found your course relevant to NPC3 which I proved that it is true. I knew that we cannot learn new things in one night, we need to find and follow some trends so we can reach what we are looking for.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulduncan
    Is there a wordpress theme that i can use which does not list the pages across the top under the header? I'm not that good with the tech stuff and i don't know how to make changes so that the pages only show up in the left column
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      paulduncan,

      While I am not that familiar with Wordpress themes, if you just watch the videos that are with Gary's product I believe anyone can make the code changes needed to remove those tabs at the top. He made it look really simple.
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      • Profile picture of the author Andre Priyono
        Gary, you're so great!

        Just want to know your suggestion about apply to AdSense?
        Could you help me sharing your great experience?

        What should i dos and don'ts ini order to get my site approved by AdSense?

        Thank you very much!
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Thanks Gary - that's exactly the added info I was after from you. I think the answer makes a lot of sense.

    I like how your model lends itself to any type of product such as physical (Amazon, CJ, etc) and digital (CB).

    Some keywords in the niche may be specific product keywords, for example, and you would be able to add product-specific pages to such a site easily. Product keywords and niche keywords can probably co-exist on a single domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
    Guys, you should really be saving this info.

    I use this site to save the stuff that REALLy grabs my attention, like this thread - PDFmyURL.com - Free & Online: Convert and save PDF from any web page

    I've saved the entire thread to PDFs on my PC.

    GREAT stuff. Save it!
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    • Profile picture of the author thaismr
      Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

      Guys, you should really be saving this info.

      I use this site to save the stuff that REALLy grabs my attention, like this thread - PDFmyURL.com - Free & Online: Convert and save PDF from any web page

      I've saved the entire thread to PDFs on my PC.

      GREAT stuff. Save it!
      Here's another idea: I like to save the most important parts to a .doc file, and then print it, so I can always have it at reach in front of my computer.

      When I have different windows open, like Goggle key tool, name cheap, etc., I always have the most important aspects to be reminded printed in front of me. The front page is just for the most important keyword comparison rules, so I don't go and register crap like I used to many times.
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  • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
    Ive been following this thread since its begining and taking action on it....
    I understand the main core of this system is keyword analysis, Its essential...The guidelines Gary gave on it are great...but one have to work on them hard to find the gold nuggets...so from the recomendation of askloz I bought webcompanayst software to help me out on that and now I have 5 keywords that match the criteria.....got my website all set with my domain, wordpress and I even bought a famous SEO Plugin to help me with the on site optimization...but now the hard part is to write the content....20-30 articles seems like alot of work plus I dont have enough keywords to build so many articles...

    what if I build 2 articles of 400-500 words per keyword only?

    Also can someone point me into the right direction to where I can outsource my content creation...since I think is kinda risky to outsource your content by revealling your keywords that you worked so hard to find...
    as anyone tried this company?
    theseoarticles dot com (cant post links yet)

    Thank you for your attention, its a pleasure to be in a place with like minded people
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  • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
    Gary you are THE man! thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author dejurs2000
    How many backlinks averagely you need in order to put your site on respectable search engine list in your chosen keywords ?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by dejurs2000 View Post

      How many backlinks averagely you need in order to put your site on respectable search engine list in your chosen keywords ?
      I mention this a couple of times within this thread. Too many variables to consider in answering this question intelligently.

      The system allows that some pages you create rank on Google's first page without you doing any backlinking at all. As for the pages that don't, assuming you did the keyword and competition research properly, it shouldn't take very many backlinks at all for you to rank on the first page of Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author beelzebul
    How about adsense??

    Can we implements adsense to the MOBS site or this methods just works well with affiliate program??

    In other words, is this methods will works well with adsense??
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by beelzebul View Post

      How about adsense??

      Can we implements adsense to the MOBS site or this methods just works well with affiliate program??

      In other words, is this methods will works well with adsense??
      I don't personally use Adsense on my sites. Not to say you can't, I just don't like the distraction. I prefer my sites to look cleaner and for the visitors to pay attention to my content.
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  • Profile picture of the author @seo
    i tried this so i got $10 from previous month from my first website. it is new one so i am doing slow seo for it. once it passes 1-3 month i build more backlinks so it get more visitors.....more revenue.
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    • Profile picture of the author madison75074
      Originally Posted by @seo View Post

      i tried this so i got $10 from previous month from my first website. it is new one so i am doing slow seo for it. once it passes 1-3 month i build more backlinks so it get more visitors.....more revenue.
      I use a reseller account for my hosting. Initially, I was using the gator package with add on domains which was a great deal. Then after adding so many domains, I found it very confusing. Finally after attempting to install a data feed on one of my domains, (and making a mess of it), a very helpful fellow warrior took a look and suggested I upgrade to a reseller account. It is not very expensive and I found it just simplified everything for me.
      Keep in mind, at the time, I was very new and everything confused me. That was less than a year ago. I now have over 120 sites. I've also sold a few sites and the reseller account is nice because I can give the buyer 6 months of free hosting which makes the site more attractive. The whole hosting thing seemed so complicated to me when I first started and I will forever be grateful to that one guy that said, "Man, go get a reseller account, this is a mess, no wonder you are confused!" LOL
      If anyone else is confused like I was, feel free to PM me. It's like one fellow marketer told me when I just was not getting it "You're drowning in a half a glass of water!"
      Thank you for the great info. My sites have started making money, but I see lots of room for improvement using the info you have provided. Looks like some good solid SEO. Thanks for being so generous with your ideas. This forum is priceless for someone like me who is still learning.
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      • Profile picture of the author roley
        Originally Posted by madison75074 View Post

        I use a reseller account for my hosting. Initially, I was using the gator package with add on domains which was a great deal. Then after adding so many domains, I found it very confusing. Finally after attempting to install a data feed on one of my domains, (and making a mess of it), a very helpful fellow warrior took a look and suggested I upgrade to a reseller account. It is not very expensive and I found it just simplified everything for me.
        Keep in mind, at the time, I was very new and everything confused me. That was less than a year ago. I now have over 120 sites. I've also sold a few sites and the reseller account is nice because I can give the buyer 6 months of free hosting which makes the site more attractive. The whole hosting thing seemed so complicated to me when I first started and I will forever be grateful to that one guy that said, "Man, go get a reseller account, this is a mess, no wonder you are confused!" LOL
        If anyone else is confused like I was, feel free to PM me. It's like one fellow marketer told me when I just was not getting it "You're drowning in a half a glass of water!"
        Thank you for the great info. My sites have started making money, but I see lots of room for improvement using the info you have provided. Looks like some good solid SEO. Thanks for being so generous with your ideas. This forum is priceless for someone like me who is still learning.
        thats why i do. Reseller all the way. I dont do addon domains its too messy and google can see what the heck your doing with multiple sites under one domain
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      • Profile picture of the author DanielleD
        Originally Posted by madison75074 View Post

        I use a reseller account for my hosting. Initially, I was using the gator package with add on domains which was a great deal. Then after adding so many domains, I found it very confusing. Finally after attempting to install a data feed on one of my domains, (and making a mess of it), a very helpful fellow warrior took a look and suggested I upgrade to a reseller account. It is not very expensive and I found it just simplified everything for me.
        Keep in mind, at the time, I was very new and everything confused me. That was less than a year ago. I now have over 120 sites. I've also sold a few sites and the reseller account is nice because I can give the buyer 6 months of free hosting which makes the site more attractive. The whole hosting thing seemed so complicated to me when I first started and I will forever be grateful to that one guy that said, "Man, go get a reseller account, this is a mess, no wonder you are confused!" LOL
        If anyone else is confused like I was, feel free to PM me. It's like one fellow marketer told me when I just was not getting it "You're drowning in a half a glass of water!"
        Thank you for the great info. My sites have started making money, but I see lots of room for improvement using the info you have provided. Looks like some good solid SEO. Thanks for being so generous with your ideas. This forum is priceless for someone like me who is still learning.
        I can't PM, sorry, but I was wondering if you could either reply here or PM me and explain how a reseller account works?

        I understand using addon domains, that's what I do now, but when I outgrow that I guess the next step will be a reseller account, but I'm not clear on how that works.

        Do you just "sell" yourself separate hosting for each domain?
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        • Profile picture of the author markowe
          Originally Posted by DanielleD View Post

          I can't PM, sorry, but I was wondering if you could either reply here or PM me and explain how a reseller account works?

          I understand using addon domains, that's what I do now, but when I outgrow that I guess the next step will be a reseller account, but I'm not clear on how that works.

          Do you just "sell" yourself separate hosting for each domain?
          Yes, I am sure I can Google this, but I never looked into what a reseller account actually was either, and I would be interested from an IMer point of view what this kind of arrangement means.
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  • Profile picture of the author code secret
    That is great!!!Well done!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dr A
      Hey gpower2:
      Thanks for the info. Sorry I am Novice. Yes you are correct that the domain cost 10$ or so once per year but the hosting is 10$ or so per month.

      SO if I have a site: DrA.com and I want to have another Drt.com. Is it possible or it will be DrA.Drt.com. and so on...

      Please advice by giving an example, So that I can understand.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by Dr A View Post

        Hey gpower2:
        Thanks for the info. Sorry I am Novice. Yes you are correct that the domain cost 10$ or so once per year but the hosting is 10$ or so per month.

        SO if I have a site: DrA.com and I want to have another Drt.com. Is it possible or it will be DrA.Drt.com. and so on...

        Please advice by giving an example, So that I can understand.
        Yes, it is possible. HostGator has a "baby plan" for instance, that allows you to set up your account with the Dr.A.com, and when want to add the Dr.B.com, you can add it as an add-on domain. HG allows unlimited add-on domains and they will look like a traditional Dr.B.com url, etc, etc.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dr A
          Thanks gpower2.
          I think one of your success could be that even you reply to a Novice like me...

          I better select a domain and host it and then follow you..
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          • Profile picture of the author gpower2
            Originally Posted by Dr A View Post

            Thanks gpower2.
            I think one of your success could be that even you reply to a Novice like me...

            I better select a domain and host it and then follow you..
            Sounds like a plan...
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            • Profile picture of the author JamieSEO
              Interesting business model. I have found that product creation has been earning me more, but it looks like it's worth giving affiliate marketing another shot
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  • Profile picture of the author Gregster
    Hi LilBlackDress

    Thanks muchly. Sorry for the delayed response. I tried to PM you when I got your PM, but it seems I am unable - as yet - to even reply to a pm

    Regards
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  • Just thought I'd chip in, Gary, and mention that I've almost got my site up on Page 1--2 spots away--for a very high end product and a search string that gets 8100 exact queries per month. I started this site upon reading LMC's thread, but I really think inter-linking all my pages through the sidebar has helped my ranking over this last week. Thanks for that.

    Cheers,
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  • Profile picture of the author daddeo
    thank you for sharing this gary im thinking of joining My Online Business Strategy
    can you pm me with more details .
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficEZ
    How does one keep his gig on page one on Fiverr? Is there some trick. I tried to resubmit my revised gig with new picture but could not get it accepted as a new gig?
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  • Profile picture of the author fengshui1988
    Thanks for sharing in such detailed about your system. It's just hard to understand how you keep your site on Google top page without new content or new backlink
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Peter Lee View Post

      Given that you've got so many websites, there could be a few with topics related to each other. Do you ever link one website to another with same or different IPs presuming that you may have a few hosting accounts. Like do you put a visible link on the blog to bring your visitors to the next blog if it is relevant and related. I'm interested to know because I get very different opinions about this. Some say it's ok while others say it is bad.
      I have tested both scenarios without any issues from Google. To answer your question, I have done this at times.

      Originally Posted by daddeo View Post

      thank you for sharing this gary im thinking of joining My Online Business Strategy
      can you pm me with more details .
      Not sure what you need for additional info. It is all included within this thread.

      Originally Posted by capstan88 View Post

      So is an addon domain get less attention or is it penalized by G?

      Since blogger blogs are basically subdomains and they beat out alot of IM sites I planned on doing a host per 10 domain names (probably wouldn't settle for subdomain default naming).

      Also you can use infos for this. $2 bucks apiece. Some say stick to com, org, net. I think info is there.
      Originally Posted by fengshui1988 View Post

      Thanks for sharing in such detailed about your system. It's just hard to understand how you keep your site on Google top page without new content or new backlink
      In my experience, Google treats add-on domains like any other regular domain in every way.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mirus
        Quick question..

        I have been marketing online for over 3 years now quite successfully. I am also a much sought after IM consultant.
        You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

        Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?

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        • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
          Originally Posted by Mirus View Post

          Quick question..

          You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

          Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?

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          Marketing online for more than 3 years does not mean that he was successful right at the start... I could start today (2010) as a newbie, become successful in 2014 and then say I have been marketing for 4 years.. I am sure you do get the idea.

          It amazes me at why people keep wanting to finding the negative stuff and poking holes at them rather than looking at the positive stuff and thinking how they can use it for their own business models...
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        • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
          Originally Posted by Mirus View Post

          Quick question..

          You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

          Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?
          In the original post of this thread Gary states that it took him "about two years" to get to 150+ websites. That post about his first website is from late 2008, which is around two years ago.
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        • Profile picture of the author UMS
          Originally Posted by Mirus View Post

          Quick question..

          You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

          Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?

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          Gary (like a lot of us) started as a novice to online marketing. I don't know how long it took him before he created his first site, but I know that I spent a good 6 months of research and learning before I created my first site.
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        • Profile picture of the author _jose_
          Originally Posted by Mirus View Post

          Quick question..

          You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

          Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?

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          REALLY? I can't believe what I just read.

          You think I care if Gary started 1 year ago or 3 years ago? Hell, I don't care if he started 6 months ago. He has a proven system that's working for him and for many others, that's all I care about. And did you see how much he is willing to help??? Time is money, everybody knows that and Gary is spending lots of TIME on beginners, and for free on this thread, be thankful for that alone.

          Stop looking for the missing link in this system and either get to work or just go on and use on of the thousands of others out there. People are trying to find the missing link because it seems to good to be true right? or maybe too simple?

          Gary: Can you make this system a little more complicated just so that it doesn't sound too good to be true? Thanks.

          Honestly, Gary has done great work in simplifying this as much as possible, the perfect blueprint and on top of that he's providing top notch support, something more and more nowadays.

          I read a lot on the WF, rarely post, but this one required it.

          Jose
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  • Profile picture of the author mbajla
    hello I nedd al ittle help with 2 WP blog sites. can you send your email please, I will write more info then.

    thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Man Ray
    In order to penetrate the online market, one needs to become competitive in terms of their virtual store, which is their website. One should keep in mind that there are various sites that are also hungry to have clicks, which could also be operating the same business as yours. In such way, one needs to set an edge that includes promoting sites and taking good care of your content.

    Using backlinks has been very effective in terms of directing a searcher to your site. Moreover, having backlinks from high-ranking sites will eventually be more credible. Backlinks are believed to strongly influence a sites in terms of gaining page ranks. However good sounding it is, there is also a limit in terms of backlinking. Anything more than a hundred is considered dangerous and might brought a de-indexed site.

    A home-based backlinking or site promotion may not get too intense as these, yet it's good to have an experienced to effectively rank your site. If one is thinking of hiring a page ranker guy, it should still come in moderation.
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  • Profile picture of the author infear_takao87
    Thanks for sharing... Anyway, I would like to know how much did you send for the hosting domain name for that 150+ website?
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  • Profile picture of the author ZanyZebra
    i would like to congratulate you on providing so much information freely to this group, in this thread... such was your sheer warmth and generosity i decided to purchase your product (even before i had asked some obvious questions like 'what percentage of the sites you set up are successful in reaching top 3 slots in google'?)..

    unfortunately i then experienced the opposite emotion... one of sadness and "disappointment" to say the least, as your purchase page cynically tried to upsell me, immediately, on an ongoing monthly membership, BEFORE i had even gotten to the download link for the product i'd only just bought, seconds before... how on earth am i supposed to know whether or not i want a monthly membership to a 'club' on something i haven't yet received the base product of?..

    this exposes an utter contempt for customers, who can't possibly have evaluated the product, and a huge self-serving interest in rifling through their wallet in a desperate attempt to simply extract yet more money from them, regardless...

    good luck with your business... i fear you have been reading too many of the spammy internet marketers and simply copying some of their selling techniques of 'questionable morality'... this is a great shame as you originally struck me as a nice guy with something to say, i strongly advise you to urgently review your selling 'techniques'... i'm out
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by infear_takao87 View Post

      Thanks for sharing... Anyway, I would like to know how much did you send for the hosting domain name for that 150+ website?
      Domain names cost me less than $10 per year. My hosting runs about $100 per month (give or take), only because I have several different hosting accounts. In theory, you could have most of your sites hosted on one or two domains, costing you less than $30 per month or so.

      Originally Posted by ZanyZebra View Post

      i would like to congratulate you on providing so much information freely to this group, in this thread... such was your sheer warmth and generosity i decided to purchase your product (even before i had asked some obvious questions like 'what percentage of the sites you set up are successful in reaching top 3 slots in google'?)..

      unfortunately i then experienced the opposite emotion... one of sadness and "disappointment" to say the least, as your purchase page cynically tried to upsell me, immediately, on an ongoing monthly membership, BEFORE i had even gotten to the download link for the product i'd only just bought, seconds before... how on earth am i supposed to know whether or not i want a monthly membership to a 'club' on something i haven't yet received the base product of?..

      this exposes an utter contempt for customers, who can't possibly have evaluated the product, and a huge self-serving interest in rifling through their wallet in a desperate attempt to simply extract yet more money from them, regardless...

      good luck with your business... i fear you have been reading too many of the spammy internet marketers and simply copying some of their selling techniques of 'questionable morality'... this is a great shame as you originally struck me as a nice guy with something to say, i strongly advise you to urgently review your selling 'techniques'... i'm out
      Thank you for initially understanding my true intentions in posting this thread.

      I would have to strongly disagree with you on the latter part of your message.

      First of all, this thread was started to give back to my fellow Warriors in hope that they could adopt the system I have outlined for free within this thread. Yes, I happen to have a link to my system within my signature, however, I dare say that most everyone else on this forum does as well.

      I want to specifically address your point about my M.O.B.S. system in general, if one decides to look into it further. If you decide to invest, you will have immediate access to a VERY thorough manual (almost 100 pages) and accompanying videos to fill in the blanks. This is ALL YOU NEED to succeed with the system!

      I repeat, THIS IS ALL YOU NEED!

      The single upsell you speak of (mind you, I have NOTHING else, no back end, no cross sells, no downsells, no exit pop ups, etc.), is only there as a way to outsource the business IF you want to. For example, if you work another job, or just want to spend more time scaling up the business instead of doing the busy work. I only put this in place because of the demand for such resources.

      I am a bit taken back by your comments especially because of all of the crap that's out there these days regarding all of the crazy tactics you speak of. So much so that I have actually lost money in launching my product strictly because I DON'T believe in spammy marketing tactics to promote your business and/or product. I am totally O.K. with that, because I remain true to my MOBSter community and I sleep better at night. Anyone who knows me understands this.

      That said, You don't have to purchase my system. My methods are laid out here within this thread for the most part.

      It's a shame how people jump to these negative conclusions about my intentions. Have we really become all that jaded?

      To your success,

      Gary
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      • Profile picture of the author ZanyZebra
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Thank you for initially understanding my true intentions in posting this thread.

        I would have to strongly disagree with you on the latter part of your message.

        First of all, this thread was started to give back to my fellow Warriors in hope that they could adopt the system I have outlined for free within this thread. Yes, I happen to have a link to my system within my signature, however, I dare say that most everyone else on this forum does as well.

        I want to specifically address your point about my M.O.B.S. system in general, if one decides to look into it further. If you decide to invest, you will have immediate access to a VERY thorough manual (almost 100 pages) and accompanying videos to fill in the blanks. This is ALL YOU NEED to succeed with the system!

        I repeat, THIS IS ALL YOU NEED!

        The single upsell you speak of (mind you, I have NOTHING else, no back end, no cross sells, no downsells, no exit pop ups, etc.), is only there as a way to outsource the business IF you want to. For example, if you work another job, or just want to spend more time scaling up the business instead of doing the busy work. I only put this in place because of the demand for such resources.

        I am a bit taken back by your comments especially because of all of the crap that's out there these days regarding all of the crazy tactics you speak of. So much so that I have actually lost money in launching my product strictly because I DON'T believe in spammy marketing tactics to promote your business and/or product. I am totally O.K. with that, because I remain true to my MOBSter community and I sleep better at night. Anyone who knows me understands this.

        That said, You don't have to purchase my system. My methods are laid out here within this thread for the most part.

        It's a shame how people jump to these negative conclusions about my intentions. Have we really become all that jaded?

        To your success,

        Gary
        Thank you for being big enough to respond to my criticism... i applaud you for such...

        i genuinely wish you the best for your business... however, my point remains, it is impossible for anyone to know whether or not they want/need an expensive, ongoing, monthly membership BEFORE having received the product and evaluated it!...

        as you will know, the upsell "technique" you use is well known and used by a number of spammy internet marketers, it does not serve you well... it especially 'jars' because you adopt a very different attitude in the forum, one which DOES serve you well...

        the problem is, there are a number of spammy marketers out there, ripping people off, cynically manipulating them with 'techniques' such as hidden forced continuity, etc... they are a fairly despicable bunch, thankfully the internet marketing community has slowly awakened to such practices, and the authorities have started to put in place measures to prevent the worst of these... and google is accelerating methods to remove spammy marketers from the serps... the quicker the better for everyone who is genuine, both vendors and customers...

        there is a very simple solution to your 'problem', and you know what it is...

        you seem like a genuine vendor, the solution is in your hands...

        either way, good luck with your business

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        • Profile picture of the author kakaboo
          Originally Posted by ZanyZebra View Post

          as you will know, the upsell "technique" you use is well known and used by a number of spammy internet marketers, it does not serve you well... it especially 'jars' because you adopt a very different attitude in the forum, one which DOES serve you well..
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          That's true, the 'upsells' are a norm.. but isn't that the way in any kind of business? The last time I remember, when I just wanted to buy a burger (not a Extra value meal) at Macdonalds, the counter girl always asked me whether I would like fries or drink along with it. Is that not counted as an upsell...? Especially if it was my first time at macdonalds and I dont even know how their fries or drinks taste like!!!! And I can't get a refund too unlike digital products!!

          When I signed up for my phone bill at one of local service providers, I just wanted a simple phone plan with 100 outgoing mins/month and 500 free SMS for a fixed amount of plan. But I got battered with data plans, data roaming, TV plans, broadband plans (Oh we have a promotion blah if you get this plus your phone plan you are entitled to 20% off etc , BLAH!!!!) Are they not considered upsells too? And I dont even know how fast their broadband works, what channels their TV plan has... I can't refund... and worst still I am going to be locked into a 2 yr contract with them if I decide to sign up!!!

          When I sign up for an insurance plan, I just wanted to cover my death...but naturally, of course , you would have guessed, you get hammered and battered with education plans, saving plans, elderly plan, retirement plan and whatever-crap-else-plan you can think of... I am sure you have had that kind of experience before too.

          It is funny when people find all that normal and don't complain in other business models, yet when it comes to the internet and online marketing, everything changes.
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        • Profile picture of the author profitsforall
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          there is a very simple solution to your 'problem', and you know what it is...

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          The simple solution is to realise that he's not the one with the problem... You are. I'm sure his conversion figures for the upsell show it's worth having. It's certainly not forced continuity.

          I bought the product and saw the upsell. A standard tactic. But I'm a grown up, I can decide whether I want to go ahead and make a purchase or whether I want to decline.

          You know what - I declined. Not because I was disgusted with a shady practise - which it isn't, but because I don't think the video does a good job of selling the Gold membership. I didn't understand what I would get for going to gold membership, exactly what level of help with outsourcing they provide (which the OP aludes to in a post to you). So if there is any sort of problem with the upsell page it might be that

          If I had a clearer idea of what gold membership entailed I probably would have bought the upsell and been thankful for the opportunity.
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          • Profile picture of the author dfs_dean
            This is a motivating thread! I commend Gary et al for the discussion, questions, answers, and comments. Especially Gary for the very transparent way he responds. Very refreshing.

            Anyway, (with all the sucking up out of the way ) I'd like to ask a question slightly different from most. Many sites have "site owners" welcoming visitors, and of course these folks pretty much match the demographics of the target visitors. Many have pictures to add trust and confidence that there really is a real person associated with the site. Here's the question: with so many widely varied niches where do you find the pictures to match the characters? Are they stock photos, friends, family, all the above? I'd like to use a similar approach but I'm afraid I'd quickly run out of friends and family, and I'd worry that stock photos would also show up on other sites.

            Again, thanks for the entirety of this thread.

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            • Profile picture of the author Bryan V
              Originally Posted by dfs_dean View Post

              This is a motivating thread! I commend Gary et al for the discussion, questions, answers, and comments. Especially Gary for the very transparent way he responds. Very refreshing.

              Anyway, (with all the sucking up out of the way ) I'd like to ask a question slightly different from most. Many sites have "site owners" welcoming visitors, and of course these folks pretty much match the demographics of the target visitors. Many have pictures to add trust and confidence that there really is a real person associated with the site. Here's the question: with so many widely varied niches where do you find the pictures to match the characters? Are they stock photos, friends, family, all the above? I'd like to use a similar approach but I'm afraid I'd quickly run out of friends and family, and I'd worry that stock photos would also show up on other sites.

              Again, thanks for the entirety of this thread.

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            • Profile picture of the author gpower2
              Originally Posted by dfs_dean View Post

              This is a motivating thread! I commend Gary et al for the discussion, questions, answers, and comments. Especially Gary for the very transparent way he responds. Very refreshing.

              Anyway, (with all the sucking up out of the way ) I'd like to ask a question slightly different from most. Many sites have "site owners" welcoming visitors, and of course these folks pretty much match the demographics of the target visitors. Many have pictures to add trust and confidence that there really is a real person associated with the site. Here's the question: with so many widely varied niches where do you find the pictures to match the characters? Are they stock photos, friends, family, all the above? I'd like to use a similar approach but I'm afraid I'd quickly run out of friends and family, and I'd worry that stock photos would also show up on other sites.

              Again, thanks for the entirety of this thread.

              Peace
              Thanks for your kind words.

              It depends on how you approach site building. I have created sites that have an entity behind them. This method, however, doesn't utilize a person behind the site necessarily. I typically have (besides the main content), contact and privacy policy pages, that's about it. I have found for this method, there isn't a need. You are still able to build trust and rapport, based on your site content and design.

              To answer your question though, I used to use stock photos you find online from free sites like: stock.xchng - the leading free stock photography site

              No need to worry about duplicates really.

              Hope this helps,

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      • Profile picture of the author zoeguy
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        First of all, this thread was started to give back to my fellow Warriors in hope that they could adopt the system I have outlined for free within this thread.
        I repeat, THIS IS ALL YOU NEED!
        What stands out in my mind here is this: This method is not like your typical "secret" WSO with 21 questions. On behalf of all those like myself who don't have the means to pay for courses that may or may not work I just want to say thanks to Gary for not posting this as another WSO and frustrate those who either can't afford it or don't want to buy another IM lottery ticket. Thanks Gary.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rough Outline
    This strategy is brilliant and it doesn't have to limited to just affiliate marketing and adsense/advertising revenue.

    You can outsource product creation for a niche and BAM you're selling your own product through this, not as easy as just whacking in an affiliate link but perfectly viable.
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  • Profile picture of the author SeoWizzard
    great information, especially for the newbies. Well said and straight to the point.
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    There are plenty of free stock image sites out there like FreeImagesOnline.com, freestockimages.net & turbophoto.com. You can also find lots of stuff on Google images, throw them into photoshop with some filters and some transitions and they become new pics
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    • Profile picture of the author gregw2
      Originally Posted by EFt View Post

      There are plenty of free stock image sites out there like FreeImagesOnline.com, freestockimages.net & turbophoto.com. You can also find lots of stuff on Google images, throw them into photoshop with some filters and some transitions and they become new pics
      You do not have to use photoshop either. There are free tools online that you can download that work quite well. I use 3 tools and combine them paint.net is one of them. I do have one photoshop tool (adobe photoshop elements 7.0), but seldom use it, because the free tools are so easy to use and do enough to satisfy my needs.
      Just Google for free illustration tools and you will find all that you will need.
      The only time that you may want to create a persona on a site like Gary is sharing, is if it is an interactive blog site, which these are not. These sites do not have posts, they have pages, and are static like a standard website, so there is no need to have a real or fictitious person displayed on the site. It would probably only distract from the content and intent of the site.

      I have seen this method before and have quite a few videos and manuals that teach this method, but not exactly the same way as Gary's MOBS is doing. I am taking what I already know and implementing this method into it and see what unfolds.

      Hey, if it does not work or if Google decides to penalize this type of site construction sometime in the future, I can always change the format to comply. It is not like I will lose my domains.

      Thanks Gary for the great thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
    Do you use a lawyer for your privacy policy / tos pages?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

      Do you use a lawyer for your privacy policy / tos pages?
      Yes. I have also used FreePrivacyPolicy.com in the past.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by Joe.Mc View Post

        Would you even need a privacy policy on a site that doesn't require the visitor to enter any personal information?

        Anyway picked up my first 3 domain names today for tackling this method of IM, was lucky to find pretty decent domain names as well. No time like the present to get started.
        Google likes to see a Privacy Policy. Keeps up appearences.

        Great job, nothing like taking massive action.
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  • Profile picture of the author FiveSmoothStones
    I am use Google Keyword tool to find niches but dont see the amount of google results for keyword terms. What am i missing here, or do you simply go to google and type in each phrase?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by FiveSmoothStones View Post

      I am use Google Keyword tool to find niches but dont see the amount of google results for keyword terms. What am i missing here, or do you simply go to google and type in each phrase?
      Yes, go to Google.com to type in your keyword (in quotes), to determine the initial competition results to look for.

      Don't forget the allintitle query to get a better idea of your real keyword (and website) competition in the SERPS.

      Example: Type into Google allintitle: "Your Keyword", in quotes. This will give you an idea of websites that include your keyword in their title tags. It will give you a more accurate indication of who you're REALLY competing with.

      Remember, I like 30,000 or less in competing results (when dong the Google search), and 10,000 or less when doing the allintitle query.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Hunter
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Yes, go to Google.com to type in your keyword (in quotes), to determine the initial competition results to look for.

        Don't forget the allintitle query to get a better idea of your real keyword (and website) competition in the SERPS.

        Example: Type into Google allintitle: "Your Keyword", in quotes. This will give you an idea of websites that include your keyword in their title tags. It will give you a more accurate indication of who you're REALLY competing with.

        Remember, I like 30,000 or less in competing results (when dong the Google search), and 10,000 or less when doing the allintitle query.
        Gary,

        So you do use the allintitle query with quotes around your keywords, like this: allintitle:"keyword"?

        Thanks!
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by Chris Hunter View Post

          Gary,

          So you do use the allintitle query with quotes around your keywords, like this: allintitle:"keyword"?

          Thanks!
          In a word, yes.
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  • Profile picture of the author ggnights
    Can you please let me know what the silver mobs package actually offers?

    Is is one ebook, a set of videos with you or both. And is it actually you doing the teaching on them or another affilate? Thanks, it did not seem to clear and I am interested.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by ggnights View Post

      Can you please let me know what the silver mobs package actually offers?

      Is is one ebook, a set of videos with you or both. And is it actually you doing the teaching on them or another affilate? Thanks, it did not seem to clear and I am interested.
      Sent a PM.
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      • Profile picture of the author ggnights
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Sent a PM.

        Thanks for the quick reply. I tried to reply but it won't let me till I have 50 posts lol. I understand it comes with the manual and support. How many videos are there that you are teaching in or how long is the length of the video for you. You can pm me back if you prefer. Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author imageworx
      Originally Posted by ggnights View Post

      Can you please let me know what the silver mobs package actually offers?

      Is is one ebook, a set of videos with you or both. And is it actually you doing the teaching on them or another affilate? Thanks, it did not seem to clear and I am interested.
      Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

      Sent a PM.
      I'd be interested in knowing this also, could you PM the same info also...thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author zelosx
    amazing information, I may try it
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  • Profile picture of the author neojr
    Just a question:
    Do you offer direct advertisement opportunities on any of your websites?
    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by neojr View Post

      Just a question:
      Do you offer direct advertisement opportunities on any of your websites?
      Thanks!
      Not at this time, I like to keep my sites clean and non-distracting for my visitors.
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  • Profile picture of the author amenwolf
    Nice tips there.


    Gpower2 don't mind sending me a sample or something?

    Cause I'm more of a look and learn kinda person.. words kinda get jumble up there.

    Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author roley
    You said you use subdomains

    Do you mean you buy 1 domain and then have

    keyword.yourdomain.com
    keyword.yourdomain.com

    Or are you buying 1 domain for each site your building?

    domain.com
    domain.com
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  • Profile picture of the author rparikh
    I am already working on the similar kind of strategy but after reading your notes i got some more good idea and improvement.Thank you for sharing great stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author SJstar
    This is a great method and I'd like to use something like this to develop and sell my own products.

    For those of you using this method, including Gary before he started outsourcing, how often do you check your sites ranking in the search engines? Is there a set schedule that you check them (say every 2 weeks, or once a month) or do you just check them randomly to see if they are still in tact.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by amenwolf View Post

      Nice tips there.


      Gpower2 don't mind sending me a sample or something?

      Cause I'm more of a look and learn kinda person.. words kinda get jumble up there.

      Thanks.
      PM sent.

      Originally Posted by roley View Post

      You said you use subdomains

      Do you mean you buy 1 domain and then have

      keyword.yourdomain.com
      keyword.yourdomain.com

      Or are you buying 1 domain for each site your building?

      domain.com
      domain.com
      I buy 1 domain for every site I build, I just add them as add-on domains to my HostGator account, so I don't have to pay for hosting for each one.

      Originally Posted by SJstar View Post

      This is a great method and I'd like to use something like this to develop and sell my own products.

      For those of you using this method, including Gary before he started outsourcing, how often do you check your sites ranking in the search engines? Is there a set schedule that you check them (say every 2 weeks, or once a month) or do you just check them randomly to see if they are still in tact.
      I usually check them once a month. I would rather busy myself with more site creation.
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      • Profile picture of the author amenwolf
        thank you for the pm =)

        sorry can't reply there, lack of posts =(
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  • Profile picture of the author seomasterstroke
    What kind of domains do you use? Have you invested in premium names, bought them from the after market or hand registered most of them?

    How long have you had these sites for, I mean, are they new or a few yrs old.

    I'm sorry if you've already addressed these issues somewhere in this thread...

    Thanks,
    Aditya
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by adityas View Post

      What kind of domains do you use? Have you invested in premium names, bought them from the after market or hand registered most of them?

      How long have you had these sites for, I mean, are they new or a few yrs old.

      I'm sorry if you've already addressed these issues somewhere in this thread...

      Thanks,
      Aditya
      I hand register all of them. They need to be domain names that are keyword related that have been researched before hand using my specific criteria.

      My sites are from 2 years old to brand new.
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  • Profile picture of the author brianbiv
    Very Cool information..

    Thanks. I'll keep that in mind. I learned something better today. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wiggy0618
    A lot of really awesome information in this thread - thanks to Gary for starting it, and to everybody else who has contributed, as well.

    One question though (I will say that I just skimmed/perused a good chunks of the thread, so if this was covered and I missed it, please just say so)...

    Is anybody using this strategy to point back to sales pages for their own products (stuff that they've created) and their own sites?

    If so, is your call to action on the articles pointing to the actual product pitch page, or a squeeze page?

    I'm sure the blogs will have an opt-in form somewhere, of course. But for the actual call to action what would be your recommendation?

    I am actually setting up a small network of blogs as a test for this kinda thing myself (will actually be testing a number of things). Was wondering if anybody had any experience on the result on overall conversion by driving traffic to a squeeze page (in which they get a freebie - in my case a video that not only educates but 'sells' the benefit that my articles promote - followed by a pitch for my product - in my case, directly under the video) vs directly to just a pitch.

    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Wiggy0618 View Post

      A lot of really awesome information in this thread - thanks to Gary for starting it, and to everybody else who has contributed, as well.

      One question though (I will say that I just skimmed/perused a good chunks of the thread, so if this was covered and I missed it, please just say so)...

      Is anybody using this strategy to point back to sales pages for their own products (stuff that they've created) and their own sites?

      If so, is your call to action on the articles pointing to the actual product pitch page, or a squeeze page?

      I'm sure the blogs will have an opt-in form somewhere, of course. But for the actual call to action what would be your recommendation?

      I am actually setting up a small network of blogs as a test for this kinda thing myself (will actually be testing a number of things). Was wondering if anybody had any experience on the result on overall conversion by driving traffic to a squeeze page (in which they get a freebie - in my case a video that not only educates but 'sells' the benefit that my articles promote - followed by a pitch for my product - in my case, directly under the video) vs directly to just a pitch.

      Thanks.
      Lot's of questions intertwined here...

      First let me state that yes, I have built M.O.B.S. sites that link to products I have created. In my case, there have been sales (pitch) pages, so I link directly to them.

      This is not to say, however, that you can't link to a squeeze page, but it depends on the situation.

      Traditionally, I have used squeeze pages (video, or otherwise), that give away FREE stuff to help with list building, and /or to promote a product of mine. I typically drive traffic directly to my squeeze pages through other means, although I suppose you could do it organically with a M.O.B.S. site.

      In my opinion, they are different approaches to two different things.

      My system, as outlined within this thread, is primarily an affiliate marketing method. I also combine opt-in forms on my M.O.B.S. sites as the niches allow, to build lists for the niche(s) in question.

      I hope this helps to answer your questions...
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  • Profile picture of the author mikemeth
    This thread is really motivating me to work more, really good job!

    Can I ask you for a sample site maybe?

    I have made some sites in a similar way, but have bad experience with backlinking, always getting sandboxed.
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  • Profile picture of the author jazzboy90
    gpower2,

    Thanks so much for sharing. Can you tell us what tool you use to build backlinks to your each page?

    Jazzy
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  • Profile picture of the author SJstar
    Hi Gary,

    I've been entrenched in this post all day and it's now apparent that I initially skipped over the posts where you supplied live examples via PM. It would be much appreciated if I could receive one as well; a visual representation sometimes just drives the idea home better than words.

    TIA and have a great weekend!
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexissalaam
      Hey Guys

      What's up I've been in the system for a few days now and I must say
      Gary and Loz has really over delivered videos are great not to long easy
      to follow which is very important cuts back on the boredom, the forum
      is a little tricky to get around but that you would expect being they're
      just getting started people are posting similar things in different areas
      but that will straighten itself out as things move along but if you've been
      in forums before you'll figured it out and I will give cudo's to Gary, Loz,
      J Smith and Peter Sundstrom for answering questions quickly you guys are
      really doing a great job in there. I know I missed a few of you guys but
      everybody is really doing a bang up job.

      Alexis
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by Alexissalaam View Post

        Hey Guys

        What's up I've been in the system for a few days now and I must say
        Gary and Loz has really over delivered videos are great not to long easy
        to follow which is very important cuts back on the boredom, the forum
        is a little tricky to get around but that you would expect being they're
        just getting started people are posting similar things in different areas
        but that will straighten itself out as things move along but if you've been
        in forums before you'll figured it out and I will give cudo's to Gary, Loz,
        J Smith and Peter Sundstrom for answering questions quickly you guys are
        really doing a great job in there. I know I missed a few of you guys but
        everybody is really doing a bang up job.

        Alexis
        Hey Alexis, thanks, we sincerely appreciate that.
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      • Profile picture of the author askloz
        Thanks Alexis, really appreciate it, we aim to please.

        Originally Posted by Alexissalaam View Post

        Hey Guys

        What's up I've been in the system for a few days now and I must say
        Gary and Loz has really over delivered videos are great not to long easy
        to follow which is very important cuts back on the boredom, the forum
        is a little tricky to get around but that you would expect being they're
        just getting started people are posting similar things in different areas
        but that will straighten itself out as things move along but if you've been
        in forums before you'll figured it out and I will give cudo's to Gary, Loz,
        J Smith and Peter Sundstrom for answering questions quickly you guys are
        really doing a great job in there. I know I missed a few of you guys but
        everybody is really doing a bang up job.

        Alexis
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    I also bought Gary's ebook as training material. If you are a newbie it will help you because he goes through EVERYTHING. If you are experienced you can skip lots of the "how to set up wordpress" and stuff like that.

    Gary - good job. One thing I suggest is you issue an update PDF document to cover off the differences in the Google Keyword tool now that it has changed. Many keyword search values are way lower than before and I'm seeing most search terms are 1/3 to 1/2 of the "old" values.

    Anyway, the ebook is solid. That said this thread contains literally everything you need to know (and Gary has said this himself), so you definitely don't need to buy the book if you are reading everything that's here.
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    • Profile picture of the author imageworx
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      I also bought Gary's ebook as training material. If you are a newbie it will help you because he goes through EVERYTHING. If you are experienced you can skip lots of the "how to set up wordpress" and stuff like that.

      Gary - good job. One thing I suggest is you issue an update PDF document to cover off the differences in the Google Keyword tool now that it has changed. Many keyword search values are way lower than before and I'm seeing most search terms are 1/3 to 1/2 of the "old" values.

      Anyway, the ebook is solid. That said this thread contains literally everything you need to know (and Gary has said this himself), so you definitely don't need to buy the book if you are reading everything that's here.
      Chris sorry for the dumb question,but why are the new GKT values different and how do you think that affects the technique in Gary's book?

      thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      I also bought Gary's ebook as training material. If you are a newbie it will help you because he goes through EVERYTHING. If you are experienced you can skip lots of the "how to set up wordpress" and stuff like that.

      Gary - good job. One thing I suggest is you issue an update PDF document to cover off the differences in the Google Keyword tool now that it has changed. Many keyword search values are way lower than before and I'm seeing most search terms are 1/3 to 1/2 of the "old" values.

      Anyway, the ebook is solid. That said this thread contains literally everything you need to know (and Gary has said this himself), so you definitely don't need to buy the book if you are reading everything that's here.
      Hi Chris, thanks for your kind words.

      The Google Adwords Keyword Tool changed right after I wrote the manual

      To compensate, I created a video within the members area (any M.O.B.S. member can access this), that goes over how to use the new tool exclusively.
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  • Profile picture of the author imageworx
    What is the success rate ratio/percentage for sites that turn a profit as opposed to ones that don't?...thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      @imageworx - This answer is relative to your situation. I consider 100% of my sites successful and profitable.

      If I have a site that makes one $25 sale a month, and have 100 sites like that, I have an extra $2500 per month that I didn't have before, right?

      That said, these sites typically do much better than that of course, so considering the only investment being your hosting per month (if you choose to pay monthly), and your domain costs (ex: once a year), you can see that the odds are tremendously in your favor.

      The only common denominator is you and if you are willing to take action on a proven online money making method.
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  • Profile picture of the author linkrumor
    Great post. I do a lot of work in the offline marketing world. What strikes me is how many of these excellent strategies could be applied, in miniature, by bricks-and-mortar business as an adjunct to standard marketing. There's still a largely unbridged golf between the online and offline marketing worlds.
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    • Profile picture of the author markowe
      Originally Posted by linkrumor View Post

      Great post. I do a lot of work in the offline marketing world. What strikes me is how many of these excellent strategies could be applied, in miniature, by bricks-and-mortar business as an adjunct to standard marketing. There's still a largely unbridged golf between the online and offline marketing worlds.
      I was thinking that too - I thought of an example of offline SEO, when companies call themselves AAAAA Widgets just to be first in the phonebook Well, it works, and Google can't do a thing about it!
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  • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
    Gary, I have about 5 niche sites setup now. Some seem to rank well in Google, but i'm not getting anywhere near the amount of traffic I need to see the sales.

    Does your programme have a one to one coaching aspect that would help?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

      Gary, I have about 5 niche sites setup now. Some seem to rank well in Google, but i'm not getting anywhere near the amount of traffic I need to see the sales.

      Does your programme have a one to one coaching aspect that would help?
      Yes, hard to diagnose what the obstacles might be. As a Gold member of our M.O.B.S. Club, you would have personal one on one access to me and other M.O.B.S. trainers to help address any problems you would encounter when building your online business with this system.
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      • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Yes, hard to diagnose what the obstacles might be. As a Gold member of our M.O.B.S. Club, you would have personal one on one access to me and other M.O.B.S. trainers to help address any problems you would encounter when building your online business with this system.

        Hi Gary

        How much is the Gold membership?
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by Cheapsnake View Post

          This sounds exactly what I've been looking for and from the rave reviews it's getting here it sounds like I'm not alone. So I just got done signing up for the M.O.B.S. system and the VERY first screen I get is a message from Gary telling me if I'm REALLY serious about making money with this system I need to sign up for the "Gold" membership at $67/month. Excuse me?

          I'm still excited about the system, but a little less excited about the sales tactics. What happens after I sign up for the Gold membership? Do I then need to sign up for the "Platinum" system if I'm REALLY REALLY serious about making money online?
          I have said this before in this thread and I will say it again. IF you decide to invest in the M.O.B.S. system, you do NOT need to take advantage of our Gold Member Club to be successful with this system, heck you don't even need to invest in M.O.B.S. at all, you have all you need posted here within this thread.

          Our Gold Member Club was created for people who are interested in outsourcing the business and getting personal access to me and other M.O.B.S. trainers and more.

          There are many people who would rather forgo doing the day to day of launching a business for many reasons, lack of time (work another job), to be more efficient, etc. In my years (online and off) as a trainer, I have experienced people who prefer to do it this way and felt it was necessary to include this resource for those who can use it. Based on member feedback, this has proved to be the case.

          I am surprised that this is looked at in such a negative light, especially these days when there are so many products being launched that have 2, 3, 4 upsells, downsells, cross sells, not to mention several exit pop-ups. M.O.B.S. has none of these apart from the one opportunity to invest in the Gold Membership that you have every right to decline, and upgrade to later if you CHOOSE to.

          Seems we can't please everybody, and we won't try to. We are only interested in bringing a legitimate business opportunity to the masses while attempting to provide state of the art support, so that we can all benefit in the long term.

          Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

          Hi Gary

          How much is the Gold membership?
          The Gold Member Club is $67 per month.
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  • Profile picture of the author EFt
    You say here you've been marketing online for 3+ years..

    Yet you posted 2 posts around the start of 2009 (not even 2 years yet), one asking what the best blog platform is and one asking for critique on your first website?
    Looking at this from another perspective... marketing online for 3+ years.. isn't the same as being an expert in blog software for 3 + years. Also, if we don't ask how do we learn? It is much better to ask what is the best blog platform and to have all that worked out rather than pretend you already know without researching. I have been working online since 1996 but I have only just realized in last 2 years that Wordpress is an ideal system. I have only just realized from this thread a lot of other things too. We learn all the time....
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    • Profile picture of the author celente
      Originally Posted by EFt View Post

      Looking at this from another perspective... marketing online for 3+ years.. isn't the same as being an expert in blog software for 3 + years. Also, if we don't ask how do we learn? It is much better to ask what is the best blog platform and to have all that worked out rather than pretend you already know without researching. I have been working online since 1996 but I have only just realized in last 2 years that Wordpress is an ideal system. I have only just realized from this thread a lot of other things too. We learn all the time....
      This is so true. I remember seeing posts in here many years ago, remember them.... stuff like "blogger or wordpress?" and oh have we come a long way since then.

      If you know how to use wordpress, then install it and go for it. If you dont know how to use wordpress, then get someone else to install it and go for it. simple really.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cheapsnake
    This sounds exactly what I've been looking for and from the rave reviews it's getting here it sounds like I'm not alone. So I just got done signing up for the M.O.B.S. system and the VERY first screen I get is a message from Gary telling me if I'm REALLY serious about making money with this system I need to sign up for the "Gold" membership at $67/month. Excuse me?

    I'm still excited about the system, but a little less excited about the sales tactics. What happens after I sign up for the Gold membership? Do I then need to sign up for the "Platinum" system if I'm REALLY REALLY serious about making money online?
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    • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
      Originally Posted by Cheapsnake View Post

      This sounds exactly what I've been looking for and from the rave reviews it's getting here it sounds like I'm not alone. So I just got done signing up for the M.O.B.S. system and the VERY first screen I get is a message from Gary telling me if I'm REALLY serious about making money with this system I need to sign up for the "Gold" membership at $67/month. Excuse me?

      I'm still excited about the system, but a little less excited about the sales tactics. What happens after I sign up for the Gold membership? Do I then need to sign up for the "Platinum" system if I'm REALLY REALLY serious about making money online?

      $67 is a really piddly amount for the level of help. Many people would charge double this for one hour of help.

      In my past life as a salesman i've paid over $900 a month for some one to one training.
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  • Profile picture of the author invitetheweb
    So to clarify, your using wordpress domains like mydomain.wordpress.com?

    Do you have any examples of your site layout you can link to me or PM me? You explained them in great details but a picture is worth a thousand more words. Great information and thanks for sharing. Always nice to have a good read with my morning coffee.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by invitetheweb View Post

      So to clarify, your using wordpress domains like mydomain.wordpress.com?

      Do you have any examples of your site layout you can link to me or PM me? You explained them in great details but a picture is worth a thousand more words. Great information and thanks for sharing. Always nice to have a good read with my morning coffee.
      No, I recommend using WordPress.org, that way you own the domain for the many benefits owning a domain provides.

      I will send you a PM of a M.O.B.S. site per your request.
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  • Profile picture of the author zionmarketingllc
    How much is the Diamond, Platinum, Galaxy Membership?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by zionmarketingllc View Post

      How much is the Diamond, Platinum, Galaxy Membership?
      An attempt at humor?

      There are no other memberships available.
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  • Profile picture of the author invitetheweb
    Thanks gpower, got the PM however I cannot reply until I reach 50 posts. Thanks alot!
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by invitetheweb View Post

      Thanks gpower, got the PM however I cannot reply until I reach 50 posts. Thanks alot!
      No problem sir.
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  • Profile picture of the author ediddy02
    Thanks for the Info,but 150 websites is that attainaible! for one person,i'd like to know how you developed to 150 cos thats pretty large
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by ediddy02 View Post

      Thanks for the Info,but 150 websites is that attainaible! for one person,i'd like to know how you developed to 150 cos thats pretty large
      Of course it's attainable!

      The obvious answer to your question is, one site at a time.
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  • Profile picture of the author ediddy02
    Thanks for the Info,but 150 websites is that attainaible! for one person,i'd like to know how you developed to 150 cos thats pretty large
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  • Profile picture of the author Cheapsnake
    My apologies to Gary. My comment wasn't meant to be upsetting. As I stated, I'm very excited about the opportunities M.O.B.S. presents and I think it's well worth every penny of the fee. In fact, I think the Gold membership may well be worth every penny of the monthly fee.

    My point (and my ONLY point) was that your brand new customer is hit with an upsell pitch before he/she ever has a chance to sample the wares that he/she has just purchased. It's like taking delivery of a new car and before you're even handed the keys the salesman hits you up with a new pitch for options that will make your new car better...maybe legit, but bad timing. Sure takes the thrill out of the purchase.

    To anybody out there that took this as a negative comment on M.O.B.S. - nothing could be further from the truth. I just finished the first 25 pages of the manual and I'm very impressed with the thoroughness and clarity with which Gary covers the issues. As a complete newbie, I'm grateful for his approach. In fact, I'm now more convinced than ever that this is something I'll profit handsomely from.

    Onward Gary.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Cheapsnake View Post

      My apologies to Gary. My comment wasn't meant to be upsetting. As I stated, I'm very excited about the opportunities M.O.B.S. presents and I think it's well worth every penny of the fee. In fact, I think the Gold membership may well be worth every penny of the monthly fee.

      My point (and my ONLY point) was that your brand new customer is hit with an upsell pitch before he/she ever has a chance to sample the wares that he/she has just purchased. It's like taking delivery of a new car and before you're even handed the keys the salesman hits you up with a new pitch for options that will make your new car better...maybe legit, but bad timing. Sure takes the thrill out of the purchase.

      To anybody out there that took this as a negative comment on M.O.B.S. - nothing could be further from the truth. I just finished the first 25 pages of the manual and I'm very impressed with the thoroughness and clarity with which Gary covers the issues. As a complete newbie, I'm grateful for his approach. In fact, I'm now more convinced than ever that this is something I'll profit handsomely from.

      Onward Gary.
      Thank you Cheapsnake, point taken.
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  • Profile picture of the author mark keeler
    Gary, thanks for this posting and the videos. You have a good rating with CB too. I look forward to joining your training.

    Cheers,

    Mark
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  • Profile picture of the author mark keeler
    Gary,

    I plan on joining up with you. Great videos. Would you like me to post you with OnlyWire? What website would you like book marked on OnlyWire? It will instantly list you on 27 sites that I have login info on.

    I just did a tweet on you too.

    Cheers!

    BTW, I live in the Bay Area.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by mark keeler View Post

      Gary,

      I plan on joining up with you. Great videos. Would you like me to post you with OnlyWire? What website would you like book marked on OnlyWire? It will instantly list you on 27 sites that I have login info on.

      I just did a tweet on you too.

      Cheers!

      BTW, I live in the Bay Area.
      I sincerely appreciate that Mark! I will send you a PM with the site I would like listed. Don't want to link here.

      Originally Posted by Joe.Mc View Post

      Gary

      I was just wondering what method of adsense you hae more success with, do you prefer to use image adds, text adds or a combination of the two?

      Edit: would it be possible to see an example of one of your sites, just so I know I am on the right track.

      Thank you
      I don't typically use Adsense on my sites (too distracting), not to say that you couldn't however.

      PM sent.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jayzee
    Thanx. Gr8 post I wish I could master these techniques. Hey can you tell us more about niche?
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  • Profile picture of the author skidog30
    Great info and thanks for sharing. Can anyone lend advice on what type of hosting is besnt t for this strategy? Is a hosting that can add unlimited domains under same plan OK or does Google and other engines figure out they are all hosted on same account?

    Or is it better to get a reseller hosting account where you can truly set up each site/blog as a separate site?

    Hope this makes sense! I'm wanting to use the Hostgator account sale, but did not know what type of hosting would be best for SERP and rankings etc.

    Thanks!
    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by skidog30 View Post

      Great info and thanks for sharing. Can anyone lend advice on what type of hosting is besnt t for this strategy? Is a hosting that can add unlimited domains under same plan OK or does Google and other engines figure out they are all hosted on same account?

      Or is it better to get a reseller hosting account where you can truly set up each site/blog as a separate site?

      Hope this makes sense! I'm wanting to use the Hostgator account sale, but did not know what type of hosting would be best for SERP and rankings etc.

      Thanks!
      Chris
      Hi Chris,

      I can only speak for what has worked for me. I use HostGator's "baby plan", and haven't had any issues with adding M.O.B.S. sites as add-on domains for ranking or otherwise.

      I will typically use a HostGator account for about 50 websites before opening up another account. No reason specifically, it's just what I do.

      So far, so good...

      BTW, Happy Thanksgiving to all you guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author skidog30
    Thanks for the response and information. Have seen a few posts where posters are saying to avoid putting all domains on one account, but most like you say have not had a problem. Just trying to get a feel for how to set this thing up from the get go to be successful like everyone here.

    Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and be safe.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author Lothar Evers
      Originally Posted by skidog30 View Post

      Thanks for the response and information. Have seen a few posts where posters are saying to avoid putting all domains on one account, but most like you say have not had a problem. Just trying to get a feel for how to set this thing up from the get go to be successful like everyone here.
      Chris
      It is always better to diversify and not keeping all eggs in one basket.
      This is why I own more than one Hosting Account and will add some more with these crazy Black Friday Promos ahead...
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  • Profile picture of the author skidog30
    Thanks. That is what I was thinking too. I'm curious if a Reseller account would be better, or just get a couple Baby or whatever accounts?

    Thanks,
    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author powercazh
      Hello Gary,
      Many thanks for this thread. I learned more from this than any other systems that I have bought in terms of how to do it step by step.
      Now setting up sites following your model.
      Will update you soon.
      Again thanks and more power.
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  • Profile picture of the author Duc
    Thanks for the great content.
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  • Profile picture of the author booyaah
    hi

    just in terms of joining your MOBS system are there any other costs required to work your system excluding joining fee then a monthly fee, plus domain names and hosting, are there any other costs......

    cheers
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by booyaah View Post

      hi

      just in terms of joining your MOBS system are there any other costs required to work your system excluding joining fee then a monthly fee, plus domain names and hosting, are there any other costs......

      cheers
      Don't need to pay a monthly fee unless you want to upgrade your membership to include personal access to me amongst other things.

      Other than that, there are no additional costs other than what you have listed.
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      • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
        Gary,

        One thing I can't figure out is why did you go through the trouble of making comments on nofollow blogs and submitting articles to nofollow article directories?

        Obadiah
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        • Profile picture of the author markowe
          Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

          Gary,

          One thing I can't figure out is why did you go through the trouble of making comments on nofollow blogs and submitting articles to nofollow article directories?

          Obadiah
          If I can chip in, no-one really believes that Google takes nofollow links absolutely seriously. I even caught the Googlebot FOLLOWING my nofollow links the other day!
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    • Profile picture of the author paulie888
      Originally Posted by booyaah View Post

      hi

      just in terms of joining your MOBS system are there any other costs required to work your system excluding joining fee then a monthly fee, plus domain names and hosting, are there any other costs......

      cheers
      Well, there would certainly be additional expenses unless you plan on doing all the backlinking and article writing by yourself.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author bestitrix
    Hey Gpower2

    You've stated earlier that all your post are 500 words or above. Have you ever written a post with less than 500 words? If so how do they rank without an type of back linking method?
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    • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
      Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

      Gary,

      One thing I can't figure out is why did you go through the trouble of making comments on nofollow blogs and submitting articles to nofollow article directories?

      Obadiah
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      If I can chip in, no-one really believes that Google takes nofollow links absolutely seriously. I even caught the Googlebot FOLLOWING my nofollow links the other day!
      Googlebot still follows nofollow links, it just doesn't pass any linkjuice or any other values like anchors and thus doesn't help with rankings. Help with indexing? Yes. SEO? No.
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      • Profile picture of the author markowe
        Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

        Googlebot still follows nofollow links, it just doesn't pass any linkjuice or any other values like anchors and thus doesn't help with rankings. Help with indexing? Yes. SEO? No.
        Do we really know that? I'm not convinced. Google doesn't take anything at face value - remember meta keywords?! - why would it necessarily discount nofollow links?
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  • Profile picture of the author darrellw
    gpower2

    What a great inspirational post - 1 question - do you write your own content, I'm getting ready to start building some sites but my only problem is writing, I don't have the money to outsource ( this would be the first thing I would do if I could afford it )
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    • Profile picture of the author djones
      This is some great information, and you are beyond cool for sharing it.

      Just wanted to say, "Thanks!" before I go back and re-read your post.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by bestitrix View Post

      Hey Gpower2

      You've stated earlier that all your post are 500 words or above. Have you ever written a post with less than 500 words? If so how do they rank without an type of back linking method?
      Yes, I have. If I am promoting a physical product, it usually doesn't require as much persuasion, hence the use of less words. Depending on the keyword and ranking manageability, they have both ranked well with and without backlinking.

      Originally Posted by darrellw View Post

      gpower2

      What a great inspirational post - 1 question - do you write your own content, I'm getting ready to start building some sites but my only problem is writing, I don't have the money to outsource ( this would be the first thing I would do if I could afford it )
      I no longer write my own content in order to be more efficient with my business. In the beginning I did, because money was more of an issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author mygrants
    wonderful post and yes it really works - something extra you can do with these sites is that you can collect leads by simply plugging in a lead-capture form - in any niche and then later do 2 things with those leads:

    1 - Market them your own Products Over & Over Again
    2 - Market them Affiliate Products Over & Over Again
    3 - Add Value by providing Free Content & Build Relationships
    4 - Sell those leads to the BIG Guys with HIGH-TICKET and HIGH-VALUE products in that Niche !!!

    Hope this helps :-) Also - you can find out an auto-blogging software but one that really works and is not a piece of a crap. I'm testing one now a days and will put up the results once I'm done testing every aspect of it.
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by mygrants View Post

      wonderful post and yes it really works - something extra you can do with these sites is that you can collect leads by simply plugging in a lead-capture form - in any niche and then later do 2 things with those leads:

      1 - Market them your own Products Over & Over Again
      2 - Market them Affiliate Products Over & Over Again
      3 - Add Value by providing Free Content & Build Relationships
      4 - Sell those leads to the BIG Guys with HIGH-TICKET and HIGH-VALUE products in that Niche !!!

      Hope this helps :-) Also - you can find out an auto-blogging software but one that really works and is not a piece of a crap. I'm testing one now a days and will put up the results once I'm done testing every aspect of it.
      Absolutely! The majority of my M.O.B.S. sites include opt-in forms. Why let all that beautiful organic traffic go to waste?!
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      • Profile picture of the author obadiahfenix
        Gary,

        Why did you build so many nofollow inbound links?

        Obadiah
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by obadiahfenix View Post

          Gary,

          Why did you build so many nofollow inbound links?

          Obadiah
          Not sure what you mean. The test site that I have been referencing here on this thread wasn't backlinked very much at all by me. We were testing some methods on one of the pages, but that's about it.

          Even though a link, is not a link, is not a link, I am forever testing and when I do build backlinks I build all kinds for good measure.
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  • Profile picture of the author Elvin
    thanks a lot gpower2. This is kind of what i had in mind, and after this loooong thread, i got the kickstarter i needed. Thanks for all the details and as i was reading, questions arised, but they were answered in the following posts of the original posts.
    I will start building a system like yours and let the WF know what i will have achieved. Thanks again for the info.

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    • Profile picture of the author RB
      Maybe I missed it when scanning, but how do you manage/keep track of all the sites and everything about them? I have been trying to find out if wordpress or static page sites are better. I then found out about XSitePro2 (no affiliate connection) that touts an organizational features to control and manage hundreds of sites.

      How do you recommending that with wordpress and your methods?

      Thanks in advance.

      RB
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        To be honest, once created, these sites require little to no maintenance, so I have used simple spreadsheet stuff to keep track of my sites. I also outsource the work at this point, so my only real responsibility is to take care of my members, clients, friends and colleagues.

        Originally Posted by RB View Post

        Maybe I missed it when scanning, but how do you manage/keep track of all the sites and everything about them? I have been trying to find out if wordpress or static page sites are better. I then found out about XSitePro2 (no affiliate connection) that touts an organizational features to control and manage hundreds of sites.

        How do you recommending that with wordpress and your methods?

        Thanks in advance.

        RB
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    Great stuff! Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author TimG
    Wow, I just spent the better part of 45 minutes digesting this thread and the tidbits of information contained throughout. This thread along with ththread by LMC really point out an extremely effective method of creating a very lucrative online business.

    Several years ago I had almost 300 websites online all earning a combined 5 figures from adsense every month. Unfortunately it was new ground for me and I failed to take precautions to include developing a sound/solid internal linking structure.

    Additionally I was not heavily researching my keyword phrases when building these sites because quite honestly it was easy as pie to send traffc to the sites using article marketing. Long story short is proper keyword research combined with a strong internal linking foundation and an even stronger backlinking system builds a very profitable online empire.

    This thread and LMC's thread really break down the nuts and bolts into building such a system......really wish these type of threads had existed about 4 years ago as they truly make life much easier for today's online marketer that is willing to put some effort into proper research and a strong concentrated work effort.

    Great thread gentlemen!!!

    Respectfully,
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by TimG View Post

      Wow, I just spent the better part of 45 minutes digesting this thread and the tidbits of information contained throughout. This thread along with ththread by LMC really point out an extremely effective method of creating a very lucrative online business.

      Several years ago I had almost 300 websites online all earning a combined 5 figures from adsense every month. Unfortunately it was new ground for me and I failed to take precautions to include developing a sound/solid internal linking structure.

      Additionally I was not heavily researching my keyword phrases when building these sites because quite honestly it was easy as pie to send traffc to the sites using article marketing. Long story short is proper keyword research combined with a strong internal linking foundation and an even stronger backlinking system builds a very profitable online empire.

      This thread and LMC's thread really break down the nuts and bolts into building such a system......really wish these type of threads had existed about 4 years ago as they truly make life much easier for today's online marketer that is willing to put some effort into proper research and a strong concentrated work effort.

      Great thread gentlemen!!!

      Respectfully,
      Tim
      Thank you Tim, I sincerely appreciate your kind words.
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  • Profile picture of the author gtree
    Nice sharing... i have now 3 sites with clickbank also i have an idea to apply for adsence soon....
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  • Profile picture of the author gskesavan
    What is your backlinking strategy? I am confused with building backlinks as am not sure if article marketing will help get my site rank up.

    If I missed out reading this, please accept my apologies.
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    • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
      I have a site that lends itself to being a product review site with links to amazon.com

      Would you build articles on the subject or actual product reviews?

      Also, if they are reviews, the products are quite expensive, so is there a way of utilising the reviews that are already out there?

      Chris
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      • Profile picture of the author paulie888
        Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

        I have a site that lends itself to being a product review site with links to amazon.com

        Would you build articles on the subject or actual product reviews?

        Also, if they are reviews, the products are quite expensive, so is there a way of utilising the reviews that are already out there?

        Chris
        I think the whole premise of this method is based upon unique content, so you'd need to have fresh content created for your sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author abbeynism
    Guy you are great. love the write-out - simple and short yet very valuable.

    Bravo!
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  • Profile picture of the author RickWilley
    Just curious... what is the average time spent building a first site? I tried making $ online before and it's a pain! I realize that nothing E Z is worth doing but as an over the road trucker where time is not only hard to come by but unscheduled and impossible to make any commitment to anything needing consistency! I tired SBI or Site build it before and would recommend that to anyone but the time and effort it took was to much for me given my occupation.
    Would this be different?....HOW?
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    • Profile picture of the author gregw2
      Originally Posted by RickWilley View Post

      Just curious... what is the average time spent building a first site? I tried making $ online before and it's a pain! I realize that nothing E Z is worth doing but as an over the road trucker where time is not only hard to come by but unscheduled and impossible to make any commitment to anything needing consistency! I tired SBI or Site build it before and would recommend that to anyone but the time and effort it took was to much for me given my occupation.
      Would this be different?....HOW?
      Most definitely this is different, with this type of system you can plan your site out before hand, once you have the keyword that you are targeting for your main page. You then need to decide which keywords you will target for your 19 other pages, but first buy the domain name with your main keyword in the title.

      Next you can work on content for your keywords. If you do not have time to write it then you can outsource it or you can use PLR as a starting point and rewrite the content infusing it with the targeted keyword.

      For someone that is already familiar with WP and content writing then it can be done in a day or two. If you take longer in writing content and placing your keyword into it then it can take longer, but still it can be accomplished in a weeks time. After finding your keywords your articles are going to take the longest to complete once you get used to setting up the sites.

      You do not have to publish all of the pages immediately. You can publish one page at a time, three at a time, or all of them at once if you are a proficient writer.

      After you are really accustomed to the methods and steps involved you might be able to set up more than one site a day. It is not unheard of to do this, especially if you have thousands of articles already stored on your computer, like I do. Then the only time consuming process will be the niche keyword searches. Next products to market.

      Some people prefer to find the product first and work the other way, finding keywords using Gary's method, and then building the articles (pages) around the keywords with the product linked to from 2-3 places within the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    A few important comments.

    First of all, this thread should be a huge lesson to everyone about the power of giving stuff away. Gary handed you a complete business model. You do NOT need to buy his course or his membership to put it to use. I know because I bought it and there isn't much more in there vs this thread.

    So he has given away a lot of info and helped people here.

    Wanna bet this thread is helping him rake in sales? For sure it is, whether or not that was the plan. And, BTW I think this is the most ethical form of marketing you can possibly have.

    The recipe:

    First tell your story and explain your business model almost entirely.
    Then offer more help.
    This makes people like you, and on top of that it kicks in the rule of reciprocity.

    Then, tell people they don't NEED your paid system (truthful).
    Combine the fact that people now like Gary with reciprocity and gereral laziness (easier to own a manual than scour 10 pages of this thread for info nuggets)

    It all leads to sales and nobody feels pressured. If anything we take massive ownership for our decision to buy.

    Anyway that's what I wanted to say. That and I'm surprised anyone would complain about the gold membership. Don't want it don't buy it. No reason to come here and bitch about it.
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    • Profile picture of the author Black Hat Cat
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      Originally Posted by Chris Thompson View Post

      The recipe:

      First tell your story and explain your business model almost entirely.
      Then offer more help.
      This makes people like you, and on top of that it kicks in the rule of reciprocity.

      Then, tell people they don't NEED your paid system (truthful).
      Combine the fact that people now like Gary with reciprocity and gereral laziness (easier to own a manual than scour 10 pages of this thread for info nuggets)

      It all leads to sales and nobody feels pressured.
      So, basically, it's a self-promotional thread designed to launch/promote his product. I thought those were against the rules here.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

        So, basically, it's a self-promotional thread designed to launch/promote his product. I thought those were against the rules here.
        Quote from page 4 of this thread:

        "Not at all, in fact, I appreciate the fact that you brought up this point.

        I originally started the thread with the intention of giving out some useful information regarding what worked (and still works) for me regarding affiliate marketing online.

        Since I utilize this method, my signature link will have reference to my system."
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
        Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

        So, basically, it's a self-promotional thread designed to launch/promote his product. I thought those were against the rules here.
        Foolish reply.

        Notice he NEVER linked to his product except in his signature, which is allowed 100%.
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      • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
        Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

        So, basically, it's a self-promotional thread designed to launch/promote his product. I thought those were against the rules here.
        There's no evidence that this thread will go away any time soon (like 500,000 responses, and 1,000,000 views...or something like that....), so, you may want to throw up a sig line and begin responding yourself...lol

        P.s. You're allowed to have a sig line just as much as he is
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    From the forum sticky http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...oderator.html:

    This is something most folks here never quite get their heads around. People create products on the subjects they know the most about. That also happens to be the area in which they can offer the most help to others. No coincidence there, and no conspiracy. Just plain logic.

    One of the guidelines I always used when I was moderating was a question: Is the information in this post useful on its own, without needing to buy a product? If so, it's a valid post. If not, it's not.

    The decision was based solely on the content of the post. I deliberately ignored sig files for purposes of answering that question, unless the poster made a reference that seemed to point to theirs. That provided a balance of interests that worked. People got to promote their knowledge and their products, in ways that were helpful whether someone purchased anything from them or not.

    Win-win.

    People pay waaay too much attention to the correlation of sig files and post content these days, and way too little to the value of the content itself.

    Self-promotion, if that's your motivation for posting, should be driven by adding value, not blatantly (or sneakily) shoving ads in people's faces.

    Put another way: If the post would be useful without the sig file, the poster has earned the sig file.
    Sounds very applicable here to me, this thread is valuable as it stands, it's a win-win.
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    • Profile picture of the author RSK3000
      Thanks for sharing your formula. How do you manage the regular wordpress updates? 150 sites will take a long time to update.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by RSK3000 View Post

        Thanks for sharing your formula. How do you manage the regular wordpress updates? 150 sites will take a long time to update.
        Outsourcing.
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  • Profile picture of the author gregw2
    Wow! What a bunch of complainers have begun to show up on this thread.
    Gary began this thread by contributing more than most WFO threads.

    Anyone with a little intelligence will derive more than they need to just from reading everything on this thread. They can choose to purchase the eBook or even become a member if they want to, but the truth is that Gary has given out everything that anyone with a little smarts can use to expand their online income or begin online.

    Why does everyone have to see wrong in marketing?

    It may be because there are some (many) marketers online that focus all of their attention on grabbing money from newbies without care to what they sell or give away, but here you have someone that is giving away more than most demand a payment for and...

    All I can say is that Gary deserves many kudos for what he has given out and all of the information in the responses that he has revealed.

    And..., if you can not see this, and still want to believe that it is all self motivated for personal gain, then you have missed out on all of it, and you do not deserve any of the information.

    All I want to do is thank Gary for starting this thread and sharing what he has learned with all of us.
    I have been marketing online since 2006 and I have never revealed my secrets or methods like this.

    I write for a few sites and share parts of my knowledge but not everything. So this is very incredible what Gary has done.

    He should be applauded for this SHARE.

    I have encountered the same thing over the last two years. I have tried to explain in simple terns to so many people what is required to succeed, and out of thousands only twelve have understood. So, I gave up and started sending everyone to an affiliate site, like any good marketer will do.

    Like any good marketer I also know that if I became an affiliate for Gary I would have the same results.

    What I am saying is that there is enough for anyone that wants or desires to learn how to become successful within this thread and Gary has handed it to you for free.

    You have to take notes and then apply everything that you have noted.

    And after you have some success you should come back to this thread and thank Gary and everyone that has been supporting him.
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  • Profile picture of the author Undercovercash
    I have a question I was hoping someone could answer.

    Is it bad to have that many sites on the same IP? I mean could google deindex all of your sites just because they dont like you have so many different niche sniper sites?

    I have around 80 sites right now and use two different hosting accounts and the same domain account.

    SHould I diversify even more?
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  • Profile picture of the author Heimir Finnson
    Hey Gary

    Awesome thread you got here.
    I myself created a few 5-page sites way
    back in January and I have not touched
    them since then, I still get a check from
    Google every single month

    I was wondering how you determine if the
    keyword is "a selling keyword"?

    That is, are people buying stuff using that
    keyword or are they just looking for free info.

    Cheers
    Heimir
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Heimir Arnfinnsson View Post

      Hey Gary

      Awesome thread you got here.
      I myself created a few 5-page sites way
      back in January and I have not touched
      them since then, I still get a check from
      Google every single month

      I was wondering how you determine if the
      keyword is "a selling keyword"?

      That is, are people buying stuff using that
      keyword or are they just looking for free info.

      Cheers
      Heimir
      You have to get a feeling for the difference between a keyword and a "buying" keyword.

      Generally speaking, a more general keyword may be utilized when a consumer is doing research before purchasing. People who are gathering information and/or doing research are NOT in the buying mode.

      You have to catch them when they are ready to buy.

      For example: The keyword "snoring", would be used when searching for (doing research to find) a solution.

      The keyword "stop snoring devices", is the keyword you use to search when you want to strangle (not literally ) your spouse because of their snoring, and you want to BUY the solution.

      Make sense?
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      • Profile picture of the author Heimir Finnson
        Yep, thanks buddy.

        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Make sense?
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        • Profile picture of the author tayuyaa
          It is not better to focus on 10 sites and optimize them till they reach the $100+/day?

          I guess it takes the same time to achieve this. Well, you're the man, what you have achieved is really great and juts make me dreaming of what can I do too with internet. Guy's let's work !
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          • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
            Originally Posted by tayuyaa View Post

            It is not better to focus on 10 sites and optimize them till they reach the $100+/day?

            I guess it takes the same time to achieve this. Well, you're the man, what you have achieved is really great and juts make me dreaming of what can I do too with internet. Guy's let's work !
            I think there is a big big difference in a site that creates $100+/day and one that creates $10+/day

            From my experience ...

            The first is more of an authority site in a competitive market. These need constant maintaining. Lot's of content. Lot's of promotion. You can't tend to set them up and leave them alone.

            Therefore, I would say that 100 niche sites are easier to set up than 10 authority ones.

            Maybe.
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnCalvinII
    I've just finished reading this entire thread (over the period of two days) and have to say THANK YOU to Gary for posting his system in the first place, and to all those who have contributed to it by answering questions about how the system works.

    The one thing I've realized, having actually read the entire thread, is that Gary really has given us everything we need to know in order to make it work. So Thanks Gary, not only for posting the system, but for being willing to take the time to answer all the questions.
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    • Profile picture of the author wingman7
      I have been following this forum for a few days and would like to thank the authors for their revelations.

      I would just like to ask some questions about finding a niche etc.

      I spend days, weeks, seeking sets of keywords that meet the required criteria.

      Surprised that you feel there are still plenty of opportunities as "mined out" seems a pretty good description of the phrases I have found.

      The major programs like Market Samurai, Traffic Travis, Micro Niche finder and Googles KWST all focus on finding low competition keywords. And you say "forget the competition" just go for 800+ exact match keywords with less than 30,000 competition?? Surely many of the competitors are high page rank sites which in a million years you will not topple....like Amazon, Ebay etc.

      Are you serious? If so, it undermines what the analyses tools are saying?

      And you say focus on "buying words" Well I agree but aren't they high OCI (Online Commercial Intent)words. Yes I know you can get a "feel" for them but OCI is pretty accurate too? Microniche finder uses.

      And to say you can write an authority site, in a day or less, including finding a niche, doing kw research, writing and posting 20 pages of articles, doing backlinks etc, is mind blowing! Researching and writing an information rich article on something you know little about, takes me at least 2 1/2 hours per article alone.

      And then you say some people can do it all in hours?? Its pretty amazing.

      But what I really want to ask is, how do you find unmined niches with qualifying keywords in wanted markets and find clickbank and hard products that are appropriate that havent been advertised to death?

      It amazes me that people still find opportunities in dog training with a million people targetting this niche?

      Sorry for the exasperation shining through. I have spent months creating an authority site, battled my way to no 2 and am staggered to find no traffic. Even though everything met the criteria of low competition keywords. The exact match searches were around 100 a month but broad 4500.

      Appreciate your comment.
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      • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
        Originally Posted by wingman7 View Post

        I have been following this forum for a few days and would like to thank the authors for their revelations.

        I would just like to ask some questions about finding a niche etc.

        I spend days, weeks, seeking sets of keywords that meet the required criteria.

        Surprised that you feel there are still plenty of opportunities as "mined out" seems a pretty good description of the phrases I have found.

        The major programs like Market Samurai, Traffic Travis, Micro Niche finder and Googles KWST all focus on finding low competition keywords. And you say "forget the competition" just go for 800+ exact match keywords with less than 30,000 competition?? Surely many of the competitors are high page rank sites which in a million years you will not topple....like Amazon, Ebay etc.

        Are you serious? If so, it undermines what the analyses tools are saying?

        And you say focus on "buying words" Well I agree but aren't they high OCI (Online Commercial Intent)words. Yes I know you can get a "feel" for them but OCI is pretty accurate too? Microniche finder uses.

        And to say you can write an authority site, in a day or less, including finding a niche, doing kw research, writing and posting 20 pages of articles, doing backlinks etc, is mind blowing! Researching and writing an information rich article on something you know little about, takes me at least 2 1/2 hours per article alone.

        And then you say some people can do it all in hours?? Its pretty amazing.

        But what I really want to ask is, how do you find unmined niches with qualifying keywords in wanted markets and find clickbank and hard products that are appropriate that havent been advertised to death?

        It amazes me that people still find opportunities in dog training with a million people targetting this niche?

        Sorry for the exasperation shining through. I have spent months creating an authority site, battled my way to no 2 and am staggered to find no traffic. Even though everything met the criteria of low competition keywords. The exact match searches were around 100 a month but broad 4500.

        Appreciate your comment.
        You ask some very good questions and I'll be interested to hear the answers from others who know more than I do.

        But I think you aimed too low when you decided to build a site for a keyword that only had 100 exact searches per month. That's pretty tiny.

        If you're going to build an authority site, you gotta go after much bigger keywords than that, don't you?
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        • Profile picture of the author wingman7
          Billy,

          Thanks for you comment. I clearly got the search thing wrong. 4500 broad seemed good to me! 100 exact is a whole different ball game.
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      • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
        Originally Posted by wingman7 View Post

        It amazes me that people still find opportunities in dog training with a million people targetting this niche?
        Even within dog training there are many issues.

        Think about all the types of dog.
        Think about all the types of behavior issues.
        What about the laws they keep changing with pets.

        etc etc
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        • Profile picture of the author dpepper
          Hi,

          I see everyone asking about templates or how to set your wordpress site up this way. I created one that you are welcome to download for free.

          It has 5 premade pages and all the about, privacy policy, etc already loaded. You need to simply change out the page name with your keywords, instructions are on the home page of the blog.

          You may use this template for your personal use only, you MAY NOT resell it. Here's the link so you can see what it looks like.

          Sample Site

          BEFORE you download this template it must be on a fresh install of wordpress or it will OVERWRITE everything on your site. Again use this only on a NEW site with NO content.

          If you want to download it here's the link:

          http://www.dpdesigngraphics.com/temp...templatewp.zip

          PS I will not be held responsible if you cannot read the above message in RED letters and overwrite your existing wordpress site. That is the whole point of the template to give you a new ready made site to get started.

          Sincerely,
          Dolores
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          • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
            Hello there,

            Just wanted to give you the heads up - your download is missing files, the actual theme is not in the download.


            Originally Posted by dpepper View Post

            Hi,

            I see everyone asking about templates or how to set your wordpress site up this way. I created one that you are welcome to download for free.

            It has 5 premade pages and all the about, privacy policy, etc already loaded. You need to simply change out the page name with your keywords, instructions are on the home page of the blog.

            You may use this template for your personal use only, you MAY NOT resell it. Here's the link so you can see what it looks like.

            Sample Site

            BEFORE you download this template it must be on a fresh install of wordpress or it will OVERWRITE everything on your site. Again use this only on a NEW site with NO content.

            If you want to download it here's the link:

            http://www.dpdesigngraphics.com/temp...templatewp.zip

            PS I will not be held responsible if you cannot read the above message in RED letters and overwrite your existing wordpress site. That is the whole point of the template to give you a new ready made site to get started.

            Sincerely,
            Dolores
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            • Profile picture of the author dpepper
              @ Oscar D

              Just wanted to give you the heads up - your download is missing files, the actual theme is not in the download.

              Thanks,

              I re-zipped the file and it should all be there now for some reason it didn't copy the folders, I'm going to blame that on human error - mine.

              This is not a theme it is a cloned wordpress site with all the fixin's already in it. So don't copy over an existing WP site or you will lose your posts.
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by wingman7 View Post

        I have been following this forum for a few days and would like to thank the authors for their revelations.

        I would just like to ask some questions about finding a niche etc.

        I spend days, weeks, seeking sets of keywords that meet the required criteria.

        Surprised that you feel there are still plenty of opportunities as "mined out" seems a pretty good description of the phrases I have found.

        The major programs like Market Samurai, Traffic Travis, Micro Niche finder and Googles KWST all focus on finding low competition keywords. And you say "forget the competition" just go for 800+ exact match keywords with less than 30,000 competition?? Surely many of the competitors are high page rank sites which in a million years you will not topple....like Amazon, Ebay etc.

        Are you serious? If so, it undermines what the analyses tools are saying?

        And you say focus on "buying words" Well I agree but aren't they high OCI (Online Commercial Intent)words. Yes I know you can get a "feel" for them but OCI is pretty accurate too? Microniche finder uses.

        And to say you can write an authority site, in a day or less, including finding a niche, doing kw research, writing and posting 20 pages of articles, doing backlinks etc, is mind blowing! Researching and writing an information rich article on something you know little about, takes me at least 2 1/2 hours per article alone.

        And then you say some people can do it all in hours?? Its pretty amazing.

        But what I really want to ask is, how do you find unmined niches with qualifying keywords in wanted markets and find clickbank and hard products that are appropriate that havent been advertised to death?

        It amazes me that people still find opportunities in dog training with a million people targetting this niche?

        Sorry for the exasperation shining through. I have spent months creating an authority site, battled my way to no 2 and am staggered to find no traffic. Even though everything met the criteria of low competition keywords. The exact match searches were around 100 a month but broad 4500.

        Appreciate your comment.
        It is VERY common for people who are new to internet marketing to overthink, both niche and keyword research.

        Trust me when I say there are enough niches and keywords for everyone!

        It is important that you think outside of the box when doing both.

        For example, take a look at the website 43Things.com. This website is SUPER easy to find a niche on.

        43Things.com tells you what topics are popular online right now!

        Once you arrive at the site, you will see lot's of words on the page. The more talked about the topic, the larger the word. If you click on that particular word, you will see tons of people talking about that particular topic.

        You can literally find out things you never knew about things you think you knew about. It's a literal goldmine for finding niches. If you refresh the home page, you will be given a whole new set of words!

        This is just one example of places you can find by doing a quick search on the Warrior Forum about niche research.

        It's imperative that you open your mind to what's possible.

        There are so many different affiliate networks with which to choose products. I name a few in one of my responses above.

        You can seriously Google most of this stuff.

        I use the free Google Adwords Keyword tool exclusively for my keyword research and it hasn't let me down yet. It is absolutely possible to find the keywords you need on any topic. You DON'T need to spend money on fancy keyword research tools.

        If you do your research right, you won't have to worry about too many high PR websites interfering with your ranking manageability. Besides, if you have a couple of PR6 or better websites on a page you want to rank on, who said you have to outrank them? There are 10 spots on Google's first page. I do very well with some pages and/or sites ranking in positions 3-10, it just depends.

        If you are getting frustrated with your methods for doing the above, it may be time to try different ways to do them.

        Like I stated before, there is a bunch of free information out there for people who aren't afraid to look for it.

        You must use common sense when learning to locate buying keywords. No tools necessary. For instance, the difference between the general keyword "snoring" and the buying keyword "stop snoring devices", should be evident. If you are constantly looking at superficial or general keywords without digging deeper, you will be hard pressed to find anything.

        You will get better and better as you go along. Trial and error is the only way.

        Hope this helps,

        Gary
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        • Profile picture of the author wingman7
          Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

          It is VERY common for people who are new to internet marketing to overthink, both niche and keyword research.

          Trust me when I say there are enough niches and keywords for everyone!

          It is important that you think outside of the box when doing both.

          For example, take a look at the website 43Things.com. This website is SUPER easy to find a niche on.

          43Things.com tells you what topics are popular online right now!

          Once you arrive at the site, you will see lot's of words on the page. The more talked about the topic, the larger the word. If you click on that particular word, you will see tons of people talking about that particular topic.

          You can literally find out things you never knew about things you think you knew about. It's a literal goldmine for finding niches. If you refresh the home page, you will be given a whole new set of words!

          This is just one example of places you can find by doing a quick search on the Warrior Forum about niche research.

          It's imperative that you open your mind to what's possible.

          There are so many different affiliate networks with which to choose products. I name a few in one of my responses above.

          You can seriously Google most of this stuff.

          I use the free Google Adwords Keyword tool exclusively for my keyword research and it hasn't let me down yet. It is absolutely possible to find the keywords you need on any topic. You DON'T need to spend money on fancy keyword research tools.

          If you do your research right, you won't have to worry about too many high PR websites interfering with your ranking manageability. Besides, if you have a couple of PR6 or better websites on a page you want to rank on, who said you have to outrank them? There are 10 spots on Google's first page. I do very well with some pages and/or sites ranking in positions 3-10, it just depends.

          If you are getting frustrated with your methods for doing the above, it may be time to try different ways to do them.

          Like I stated before, there is a bunch of free information out there for people who aren't afraid to look for it.

          You must use common sense when learning to locate buying keywords. No tools necessary. For instance, the difference between the general keyword "snoring" and the buying keyword "stop snoring devices", should be evident. If you are constantly looking at superficial or general keywords without digging deeper, you will be hard pressed to find anything.

          You will get better and better as you go along. Trial and error is the only way.

          Hope this helps,

          Gary
          Gary,

          Very encouraging, I take your points and will act on them. It seems I have been on the wrong railroad track. Flying along without seeing the trees. I will try to get myself under control and look a bit deeper.
          I would also like to say that having a dialogue is different to doing a course. The course gives you the information. The dialogue puts it into context.

          Appreciate it.
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          • Profile picture of the author Cheapsnake
            I just finished the M.O.B.S. manual, researched and determined my niche, signed up for more accounts than I can count and as I type this I'm listening to one of Gary's videos.

            However, at this point I know WP, understand the basics of IM (I'm a rank IM beginner in case it wasn't evident) and am ready to add content and hope to have something up that actually makes sense by the end of the week.

            My head is ready to explode but I'm pumped!!!

            Tom
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      • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
        Originally Posted by wingman7 View Post

        It amazes me that people still find opportunities in dog training with a million people targetting this niche?

        Sorry for the exasperation shining through. I have spent months creating an authority site, battled my way to no 2 and am staggered to find no traffic. Even though everything met the criteria of low competition keywords. The exact match searches were around 100 a month but broad 4500.

        Appreciate your comment.
        You threw the gauntlet

        So, I wondered can I find anything worth doing in the dog training field?

        I don't know, but I found a couple of fairly low competition keywords - each with at least one additional closely related keyword as well, with over 1,000 searches.

        One was 'long haired german shepherd' with 2400 exact searches and the other 'blue pitbulls' with 18100. The first had the .org/net available and the second didn't, but the .com/org/net sites didn't look competitive.

        By the way, my way of checking competition is less towards the number of returned results, more upon how strong the top 5 look.

        I've posted a full description of how I did this over on the Adsense-PPC-SEO forum, titled 'A guide to Keyword research when you think that there are no niches left!'

        As regards the traffic, somewhere along the line I think wires have got crossed, because checking Exact searches is the way to do it. I know that quite a few self-appointed gurus have been very casual about specifying this and thus wasted the time of numerous people, not to mention that I think some of the gurus hadn't a clue anyway. As a very rough (not to be taken as true!) guide position 'Numero Uno' will get visited by around 40% of the exact searchers. So, with 100 searches that would be 1 or 2 a day. In position 2, maybe half that? If you're receiving absolutely no visits, then look at what your description shows in the SERPS, will it entice someone to visit your site, if you've got brilliant description it could take all the traffic away from positions 1 and 3, in fact the whole page, if not it is unlikely you'll get any ... a good guide is to look at what you do when searching and deciding which site to visit.

        Often it is best to just move on, unless you can see that your niche can be highly profitable with just a few visits, or that you can build other pages around better related keywords. In my first frenzy of excitement I purchased dozens of domains, eager to set them up for Adsense, I now realise these weren't going to work, especially since the revised Google figures (Ouch!) and am doing what will work

        Hope this helps, as I think finding the keywords can be the biggest stumbling block for some who are maybe adept at all the rest. My weakness is all the backlinking stuff, pinging, RSS, uggh :confused:
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        • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
          Wow, Gary!

          Finally got to the end of the thread and it has taken a few hours, what with pasting notes and making the odd post as I went along, whilst also ensuring the wine glass wasn't empty!

          Thanks, so much, for all the information here. Of course I knew it all already :-) but still learnt some things - funny that. It has been a bit of a rocky ride through here, some highs and lows, but glad to see you say that all the info is here in this thread for those that want it.

          I'd be dubious of your motives if you kept saying, there's more to this than I'll tell you here, which no doubt there is. It is sometimes worth paying, to have the information one requires presented in concise video/pdf, rather than having to compile it all oneself, it provides focus. However, if one hasn't got the ready funds, then no need, just get on and do it, either way is fine.

          I had a whole lot more to say, but mind's gone blank - maybe it always was - so until it returns, thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author wingman7
          Originally Posted by Key Largo View Post

          You threw the gauntlet

          So, I wondered can I find anything worth doing in the dog training field?

          I don't know, but I found a couple of fairly low competition keywords - each with at least one additional closely related keyword as well, with over 1,000 searches.

          One was 'long haired german shepherd' with 2400 exact searches and the other 'blue pitbulls' with 18100. The first had the .org/net available and the second didn't, but the .com/org/net sites didn't look competitive.

          You have proved a point here. I'll try and follow your lead

          By the way, my way of checking competition is less towards the number of returned results, more upon how strong the top 5 look.

          Good point, not one the trainers clearly make...or maybe they do and I've been too overwhelmed to see it.

          I've posted a full description of how I did this over on the Adsense-PPC-SEO forum, titled 'A guide to Keyword research when you think that there are no niches left!'

          Great, I'll go and learn.

          As regards the traffic, somewhere along the line I think wires have got crossed, because checking Exact searches is the way to do it. I know that quite a few self-appointed gurus have been very casual about specifying this and thus wasted the time of numerous people, not to mention that I think some of the gurus hadn't a clue anyway. As a very rough (not to be taken as true!) guide position 'Numero Uno' will get visited by around 40% of the exact searchers. So, with 100 searches that would be 1 or 2 a day. In position 2, maybe half that? If you're receiving absolutely no visits, then look at what your description shows in the SERPS, will it entice someone to visit your site, if you've got brilliant description it could take all the traffic away from positions 1 and 3, in fact the whole page, if not it is unlikely you'll get any ... a good guide is to look at what you do when searching and deciding which site to visit.

          You're tapping into my brain here! Absolutely on the same wavelength. Appreciate you taking the time and applying the thought.

          Often it is best to just move on, unless you can see that your niche can be highly profitable with just a few visits, or that you can build other pages around better related keywords. In my first frenzy of excitement I purchased dozens of domains, eager to set them up for Adsense, I now realise these weren't going to work, especially since the revised Google figures (Ouch!) and am doing what will work

          Gee, its all been done before! I'm following a well trodden path. My big mistake with this site has been the keyword searches. I focussed on broad rather than exact. Although when I find a good keyword in exact searches the competition seems pretty massive. Guess I need to just keep on digging.

          With potential traffic so low I have been thinking its better to move on and find greener pastures.


          Hope this helps, as I think finding the keywords can be the biggest stumbling block for some who are maybe adept at all the rest. My weakness is all the backlinking stuff, pinging, RSS, uggh :confused:
          I see the "quote" box ending. My replies are buried in your post above...hope you can see them.

          Your help is appreciated...I will go dig!

          Go well and prosper.
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        • Profile picture of the author wingman7
          [QUOTE=Key Largo;2947587]You threw the gauntlet


          One was 'long haired german shepherd' with 2400 exact searches and the other 'blue pitbulls' with 18100. The first had the .org/net available and the second didn't, but the .com/org/net sites didn't look competitive.

          By the way, my way of checking competition is less towards the number of returned results, more upon how strong the top 5 look.

          Well I tried it...neither of these terms returns any searches on adwords KWST. Goodness knows why? Traffic Travis confirms these are low competition terms. Changed country focus to UK but nothing???

          Did some more research on my niche and found lots of keywords in adwords kwst and even a suitable URL with over 1000 searches but they all show as very high competition. Traffic Travis says low competition on many of them. Page backlinks are plenty for competing sites but few seem to be targetting the phrase. So conflicting and confusing?

          Reluctant to invest into site until absolutely certain keywords will pull.

          What do you think?
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          • Profile picture of the author Key Largo
            [quote=wingman7;2949029]
            Originally Posted by Key Largo View Post

            One was 'long haired german shepherd' with 2400 exact searches and the other 'blue pitbulls' with 18100.

            Well I tried it...neither of these terms returns any searches on adwords KWST. Goodness knows why? Traffic Travis confirms these are low competition terms. Changed country focus to UK but nothing???

            Did some more research on my niche and found lots of keywords in adwords kwst and even a suitable URL with over 1000 searches but they all show as very high competition. Traffic Travis says low competition on many of them. Page backlinks are plenty for competing sites but few seem to be targetting the phrase. So conflicting and confusing?

            Reluctant to invest into site until absolutely certain keywords will pull.

            What do you think?
            I wonder what is going on? Are you using the new Google Keyword Tool (the URL contains adwords.google not the one with sktool - I haven't enough posts to be allowed to put in URLs yet) or the old search based one, not sure if it is still active.

            I've checked again and getting the same results. Let me know.

            When you say they all show as very high competition, but Traffic Travis says low, where are you getting your high comp figure from? The competition figure that Google shows in the results table is nothing to do with competitiveness for ranking the keyword, in fact if anything the higher the better as it shows more advertisers buying that keyword.
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    • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
      Originally Posted by JohnCalvinII View Post

      I've just finished reading this entire thread (over the period of two days) and have to say THANK YOU to Gary for posting his system in the first place, and to all those who have contributed to it by answering questions about how the system works.
      That's cool that you spent two days reading the posts. My question to you is (and I hope you don't mind me asking) - what are you going to put into action over the next 7 days?
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnCalvinII
        Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

        That's cool that you spent two days reading the posts. My question to you is (and I hope you don't mind me asking) - what are you going to put into action over the next 7 days?
        First off, I apologize for not responding sooner but I've been a bit busy. You ask a fair question, and one that should be ask of everyone who says Thanks for the great information. If it's not applied, information is worthless. So here's my 7 day plan.

        Today (Day 1)
        1. Research products for a couple of niches I've been considering but haven't gotten around to reviewing.
        2. Research keywords
        3. After deciding on the keywords, research and purchase a domain.
        Day 2-4
        1. Write articles for the site. I'm struggle with writing so putting out 20 quality articles will take me a two or three days. Of course, my other work cuts into writing time also.
        Day 5
        1. Add the domain to my reseller hosting account.
        2. Install WordPress and create the site.

        Day 6
        1. Work on backlinks

        Day 7 - rest

        Day 8 - rinse and repeat
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  • Profile picture of the author CoreyJohnson
    That was some great information, you really got me thinking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
    WOW!! What an amazing thread, that was definitely worth reading!!

    I have a question, are the only monetize methods that you use Clickbank and Amazon?

    I am interested in this system, pm sent
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Oscar D View Post

      WOW!! What an amazing thread, that was definitely worth reading!!

      I have a question, are the only monetize methods that you use Clickbank and Amazon?

      I am interested in this system, pm sent
      Thank you.

      Absolutely not. You can use any number of affiliate networks currently available.

      ClickBank, Amazon, NeverBlue, Commission Junction, PepperJam Network, Market Leverage, E-Bay, the list goes on and on...
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      • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
        Originally Posted by gpower2 View Post

        Thank you.

        Absolutely not. You can use any number of affiliate networks currently available.

        ClickBank, Amazon, NeverBlue, Commission Junction, PepperJam Network, Market Leverage, E-Bay, the list goes on and on...
        You could also get some real world advertisers or trade their goods for space on your site.

        I have my hair cut and my gym membership for free all year because of my niche village site.
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        • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
          Very clever, that goes to show that offline marketing and the trading of a service for ad space can pay off.

          Well done on trading, I am impressed!!

          Originally Posted by freelance4money View Post

          You could also get some real world advertisers or trade their goods for space on your site.

          I have my hair cut and my gym membership for free all year because of my niche village site.
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          • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
            Originally Posted by Oscar D View Post

            Very clever, that goes to show that offline marketing and the trading of a service for ad space can pay off.

            Well done on trading, I am impressed!!
            Thanks.

            I may go for a weekly haircut just to get my money's worth.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rocked Steady
    so, are these mini-websites actually useful to people? what do they consist of? do they just have google adsense sprinkeld all over them or do you put affiliate links in there?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by Rocked Steady View Post

      so, are these mini-websites actually useful to people? what do they consist of? do they just have google adsense sprinkeld all over them or do you put affiliate links in there?
      Of course these sites are useful to people (that's why they rank well and stay ranked well.)

      I don't use Adsense on my sites.

      They have affiliate links within them, usually contained within a call to action or if a review site, a direct link to the product and/or system.

      ... on second thought, I will PM you with an example.
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    • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
      Originally Posted by Rocked Steady View Post

      so, are these mini-websites actually useful to people?
      I guess if someone has taken the time to find a niche that people are searching for and need an answer for, then the site could be a really useful site.
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  • Profile picture of the author nRehman
    Thanks for an excellent thread, I am sure this will help most of the newbies to get doing some productive thing and it will also give them confidence over the today's highly scattered IM that purely require patience and hard work without loosing hope.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author jlmkt
    Thank You, Gary for such an informative post and double-thanks for taking the time -- all the way through this thread -- to come back and answer questions and give explanations. I look forward to putting this method to use.

    One question, please? Could you explain your reasoning for putting the nav links on the left rather than right side? I know a few people asked earlier but did not see your answer (unless I just missed it).

    Lee
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by jlmkt View Post

      Thank You, Gary for such an informative post and double-thanks for taking the time -- all the way through this thread -- to come back and answer questions and give explanations. I look forward to putting this method to use.

      One question, please? Could you explain your reasoning for putting the nav links on the left rather than right side? I know a few people asked earlier but did not see your answer (unless I just missed it).

      Lee
      In my experience (and testing), I get a better click through rate based on the links being in the left sidebar. It has something to do with people naturally reading from left to right.
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      • Profile picture of the author davesharp
        Hi,
        I've just taken about an hour out of my evening schedule to read most of this thread and would just like to thank Gary for the info.

        It's not new, not secret and not complicated. So why oh why do I try to over complicate things! It is basic internet marketing and I am putting it into action right now.

        Thanks again Gary and everyone else who has contributed to this thread.

        All the best,

        David
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        • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
          Originally Posted by davesharp View Post

          It's not new, not secret and not complicated. So why oh why do I try to over complicate things! It is basic internet marketing and I am putting it into action right now.
          Cool. I think we all do this.

          We just assume it must be a lot lot harder than it really is.
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  • Profile picture of the author CiberEmprendedor
    Hi Gary
    First off I wanna thank you one more time for this thread...
    Since the first time I read your first post on it I got inspired and took action...Im making a mini-authority site, I invested in a keyword research tool recommended within this thread and I have 15 keywords that match the criteria and Im pretty sure I can rank well WITH THE RIGHT CONTENT...
    However its taking me forever to write my 15 artciles and make them make sense in the overall of the site...I made already 7 of them, however I want to outsource the rest of them...few days ago you kindly gave me in a PM the link to the writing service where u oputsource your content creation,
    I will definitely do it, but before to pull the trigger I would really appreciate your tips about how you give them your instructions to make your articles in order to make a good authority site that doesnt sound too salesly and aims to be helpful to the visitor without overlook the SEO optimization...how many keywords per article you give them to write on? you use some kind of logic about the series of articles you outsource (like for example you say to them: "make a 20 pages story or tutorial with this keywords, one per page")? Would they be able to come up with that? you give them the tiltes? oh my so many questions on this thing,beacuse as I write my own content I realize is not that easy to just come up with a bunch of articles just to stuff my miniauthority site with keywords...I want my ministe to be helpful to the visitor beacuse Im sure that will be translated in more rate conversion...
    I would really appreciate your orientation regarding the instruction u usually give to the writing services u use...

    Thank you again Gary
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by CiberEmprendedor View Post

      Hi Gary
      First off I wanna thank you one more time for this thread...
      Since the first time I read your first post on it I got inspired and took action...Im making a mini-authority site, I invested in a keyword research tool recommended within this thread and I have 15 keywords that match the criteria and Im pretty sure I can rank well WITH THE RIGHT CONTENT...
      However its taking me forever to write my 15 artciles and make them make sense in the overall of the site...I made already 7 of them, however I want to outsource the rest of them...few days ago you kindly gave me in a PM the link to the writing service where u oputsource your content creation,
      I will definitely do it, but before to pull the trigger I would really appreciate your tips about how you give them your instructions to make your articles in order to make a good authority site that doesnt sound too salesly and aims to be helpful to the visitor without overlook the SEO optimization...how many keywords per article you give them to write on? you use some kind of logic about the series of articles you outsource (like for example you say to them: "make a 20 pages story or tutorial with this keywords, one per page")? Would they be able to come up with that? you give them the tiltes? oh my so many questions on this thing,beacuse as I write my own content I realize is not that easy to just come up with a bunch of articles just to stuff my miniauthority site with keywords...I want my ministe to be helpful to the visitor beacuse Im sure that will be translated in more rate conversion...
      I would really appreciate your orientation regarding the instruction u usually give to the writing services u use...

      Thank you again Gary
      You are most welcome.

      Great job in taking action (most don't even get that far.)

      I will answer you generally here, and also send you a PM of a M.O.B.S. site so you can see a live example of what your content can look like.

      Each page is to be optimized around a chosen keyword. I like to have the keyword saturation be between 2 to 4% or so (for SEO purposes.) To make it simple, ask your content writer to write in your keyword every 60 - 75 words or so. Also point out that you would like 5-10 LSI keywords sprinkled in throughout the content.

      Using the new Google Adwords Keyword Tool, these additional keywords are already provided within the results you are getting when searching for your keyword(s). They don't need to have any criteria per se, you are only looking to get extra visitors when they happen across your site(s) by searching for these LSI keywords.

      Further, the content itself can be written as a review for a product (mostly for physical product sites), or as a personal story of yours as it relates to a particular product or system, a history about a product or keyword, or just good old fashioned general information about a keyword.

      The idea here is that you are pre-selling, NOT selling. That is the job of the sales page that people will eventually click through to.

      Hope this helps CiberEmprendedor,

      Gary
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  • Profile picture of the author barbarak
    Hi Guys,

    Sorry Gary don't want to intrude on your fab thread - but just wanted to tell everyone that I have found a great guy to do keyword research on the forum should anyone need help with this for their mobs sites.

    Just pm me and I'll send you the thread link. Hope this helps y'all.

    Regards,
    Barbara
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  • Profile picture of the author scortillion
    Thanks for the Info! I'll have to try some what you suggest.
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  • Profile picture of the author Texjd
    Finding a good product or item to promote is easy if you keep your eyes open everyday. Two good examples are watching the ads in Sundays paper. If the big boys are promoting something there is a good chance there's a very good reason. I've gotten many a good product idea from those ads. Another way to find products is to look around when you go shopping and see what people are buying. Muldane methods for sure but they work.

    I always write things down when I see them to go and do the research later when I have time. I usually have a list of 10-15 items waiting to be checked out.

    Not all are winners but many come to frutation. Don't overthink your methods, it will just keep you from taking action. If I find that one doesn't pay off as well as I wanted, I just sell it since they all make some money.
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  • Profile picture of the author iamchrisgreen
    OK STOP...

    We are now 10 pages in and I just want to ask ...

    "which bit of Gary's information have you put into action?"

    Gary is a top top man and as you can see he has answered most questions thrown back at him.

    I feel stirred to encourage the readers to put this into action.

    It works. It really does.
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    • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
      Question for Gary --- (and yes, I do know that a lot of questions have been asked already and that it's important to implement, but the fact remains that this is a useful thread and many people can benefit from ongoing insight for specific issues that are not the usual whiny newbie mewling.)

      So here is my question: for the 20+ internal pages, do you still want to see 800 or or more exact searches and the other criteria met for all those keywords? Or can you be more flexible and still have those pages show up on Page 1 of Google?

      Thanks for your help!
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      • Profile picture of the author gpower2
        Originally Posted by BillyBee View Post

        Question for Gary --- (and yes, I do know that a lot of questions have been asked already and that it's important to implement, but the fact remains that this is a useful thread and many people can benefit from ongoing insight for specific issues that are not the usual whiny newbie mewling.)

        So here is my question: for the 20+ internal pages, do you still want to see 800 or or more exact searches and the other criteria met for all those keywords? Or can you be more flexible and still have those pages show up on Page 1 of Google?

        Thanks for your help!
        For maximum results, I like to keep the criteria the same for the internal page keywords. You can be flexible about finding, let's say, more long-tailed keywords with less search volume for inner pages, but I have found that my criteria gives the most bang for your buck.
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  • Profile picture of the author phpnetpro
    Hi Gary,

    I'm commented on this thread before, but I wanted to ask something that crossed my mind.

    Personally, I've been running sites like yours for a while now and I make some nice money each month with them. The only main difference is that I basically only use Amazon as the affiliate program. I've looked into using CJ for some products, but honestly Amazon has been able to blow their prices out of the water on every single occasion so far (at least for the niches that I've done sites for). I guess I was just surprised to find out that you do it the opposite way because I was never able to find anything worthy from those sites for physical products. Do you find that it's just certain types of products that are priced better with those websites or is it just the coupon code that ends up making them priced lower?

    Thanks,
    Ryan
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by phpnetpro View Post

      Hi Gary,

      I'm commented on this thread before, but I wanted to ask something that crossed my mind.

      Personally, I've been running sites like yours for a while now and I make some nice money each month with them. The only main difference is that I basically only use Amazon as the affiliate program. I've looked into using CJ for some products, but honestly Amazon has been able to blow their prices out of the water on every single occasion so far (at least for the niches that I've done sites for). I guess I was just surprised to find out that you do it the opposite way because I was never able to find anything worthy from those sites for physical products. Do you find that it's just certain types of products that are priced better with those websites or is it just the coupon code that ends up making them priced lower?

      Thanks,
      Ryan
      This is kind of difficult to answer comprehensively because there are so many variables to consider.

      I like Amazon for physical products too. I do mostly informational products because of my sales and marketing background (you have to be a bit more persuasive when promoting informational products.)

      Regarding physical products, the other affiliate networks have good products for certain keywords and/or situations, and it really depends on your niche too.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    Hi, first of all, this is a great thread and there is some priceless info here.

    I have a question... I tried searching the thread but didn't find this specific question.

    What do you do regarding Amazon/Nextag/ConsumerReports ranking as #1/2 for your keywords? Generally, they will have zero or very few backlinks, and Amazon will be ranking for some random product but Nextag seems to have category pages for a lot of specific niche keywords, like "blue widgets" (or whatever) and are ranking strictly on their domain authority but have the keyword in the title/description/etc. If ConsumersReports is up there, they've usually SEO'd for that keyword, I've found.

    I've found a niche I'd like to go after with your system-- the majority of the keywords are dominated by authority type sites ranking because of their domain, and not at all because they are targeting the keywords. I'm just wondering if it's suicide to try to rank against Amazon/Nextag/etc on low competition/low searched keywords, using subpages rather than an exact match domain. :confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      This is a good point. It's important when doing competition research, that you determine what the pages PR is and not the sites PR. If the page PR is high, it may be difficult to outrank. Usually, however, it is the sites PR that is carrying that pages rank in the SERPS and you shouldn't have much issue in out ranking a page.

      Originally Posted by mattward View Post

      Hi, first of all, this is a great thread and there is some priceless info here.

      I have a question... I tried searching the thread but didn't find this specific question.

      What do you do regarding Amazon/Nextag/ConsumerReports ranking as #1/2 for your keywords? Generally, they will have zero or very few backlinks, and Amazon will be ranking for some random product but Nextag seems to have category pages for a lot of specific niche keywords, like "blue widgets" (or whatever) and are ranking strictly on their domain authority but have the keyword in the title/description/etc. If ConsumersReports is up there, they've usually SEO'd for that keyword, I've found.

      I've found a niche I'd like to go after with your system-- the majority of the keywords are dominated by authority type sites ranking because of their domain, and not at all because they are targeting the keywords. I'm just wondering if it's suicide to try to rank against Amazon/Nextag/etc on low competition/low searched keywords, using subpages rather than an exact match domain. :confused:
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      • Profile picture of the author bilaldsa
        Hi,

        Thanks for this encouraging and helping post, it really motivated me. I have decided to take action and i already found bunch of keywords they all have more than 800 exact searches per month and have less than 30000 competition.

        One thing i wanted to ask you is that how do you put your affiliate links in your posts? I have been planning on using amazon but i am not sure if i should use banners on the top and the sidebar like adsense or should i put the link in my text.

        Thank you again for your help! Also, it would be appreciated if i can see one of your website.
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        • Profile picture of the author gpower2
          Originally Posted by bilaldsa View Post

          Hi,

          Thanks for this encouraging and helping post, it really motivated me. I have decided to take action and i already found bunch of keywords they all have more than 800 exact searches per month and have less than 30000 competition.

          One thing i wanted to ask you is that how do you put your affiliate links in your posts? I have been planning on using amazon but i am not sure if i should use banners on the top and the sidebar like adsense or should i put the link in my text.

          Thank you again for your help! Also, it would be appreciated if i can see one of your website.
          Affiliate links are placed within content on pages using anchor text and/or call to actions.

          I have some banners placed appropriately within content on sites. I don't put banners in sidebars or use Adsense. I want my visitors to experience a clean, informative, and easily navigated site. Not too many distractions.

          I will send you a PM with an example site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mental-Freedom
    Thanks for taking the time to make this post. Much appreciated from someone starting out! I've had pretty low traffic to my site after 1 month now but I neglected proper keyword research until lately.
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  • Profile picture of the author mathew2812
    the best thread I have come across for a long, long time
    Thank you very much
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  • Profile picture of the author johnharvard
    Hey gpower2 thanks for posting this. Lots of good info both in the topic and the replies. You have really gone into a lot of good detail on how your method works.
    Am I correct in assuming that your MOBS training expands on this method with more detail? Can you give me a feel for how much more there is to be learned? 20%? 50%? Trying to get a feel for what new info might be learned in MOBS. Can you give me an idea on the areas that you go into more detail on?
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    • Profile picture of the author gpower2
      Originally Posted by johnharvard View Post

      Hey gpower2 thanks for posting this. Lots of good info both in the topic and the replies. You have really gone into a lot of good detail on how your method works.
      Am I correct in assuming that your MOBS training expands on this method with more detail? Can you give me a feel for how much more there is to be learned? 20%? 50%? Trying to get a feel for what new info might be learned in MOBS. Can you give me an idea on the areas that you go into more detail on?
      Thank you.

      Yes, but I hesitate in posting a response here. I would feel more comfortable addressing your questions in a PM, so........PM sent.
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  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    This thread has been alive for nearly a monthly now, with hundreds of responses and at least 30 or so "thanks" to the initial post....

    What have been the experiences of those who have used/tried this method/product? Has it worked for you? Has it not worked for you? Why? Why not?
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    • Profile picture of the author BillyBee
      I have been following this thread and decided to buy the product today.

      I have just gone through the entire manual, and it is GREAT. There is nothing left out. And it is completely step by step.

      There's absolutely no way in the world you could not make money if you followed through and put it into action with intelligence and common sense. And not over-thinking things.

      Now that doesn't mean that it won't take some work to do. It will take a fair amount of work. But I consider this one of the more legitimate and solid business models you can find. I say that because it's based on fundamentals, not anything faddish or black hat.

      This is the sort of course you would hand your best friend, or your mother, if they approached you and said, "Okay, how can I REALLY make money online?" You could hand them the manual and tell them to read every word and start with Step 1.

      I'm not connected to GPower in any way. I just wanted to give my honest thoughts because the guy deserves it for giving away so much great info in this thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author nonamewm666
    I wish i read this post 6 month ago. So that i can save my 6 month in my life. thanks bro , good job
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