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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th July 2014, 01:30 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,773
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Google's New 1 Month Filter: Did You Get Hit?

This is pure nonsense. You're making it out as though Google is some omnipotent God that cannot be fathomed by mere mortals. People have been making money by manipulating rankings forever...people...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th July 2014, 01:09 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,773
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Google's New 1 Month Filter: Did You Get Hit?

People denying this is something new or that they don't see anything happening, aren't really in the SEO game. They're the "content content content" drummers that don't really know how links work...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 18th July 2013, 08:24 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 752
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Free shipping versus not - Any definitive studies or resources?

Thanks for the responses guys. I guess our problem is that our shipping costs are HIGH because these are heavy items. Also, most people will buy several items because of the type of goods they are,...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 12th July 2013, 10:59 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 752
Posted By ryanjm
Free shipping versus not - Any definitive studies or resources?

Hi all, just wondering if there are any good websites or studies that people have done out there to compare customers' preferences between free shipping and paying for shipping?

My issue is that...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 12th July 2013, 10:48 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 799
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Need Help in LTL Shipping for Furniture Products within USA

Well it was bumped by advertising spam, but here is some info for anyone in the future looking into this:

You need to get an account with UPS or R&L freight with negotiated rates. Discounts are...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 21st February 2013, 12:29 PM
Replies: 119
Views: 30,416
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Do NOT use Magento for your Ecommerce site

You guys must have gotten lucky then because I've installed around 7 extensions, and each one had a problem with another one. I've paid to fix issues 7 different times.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 20th February 2013, 06:36 AM
Replies: 119
Views: 30,416
Posted By ryanjm
Do NOT use Magento for your Ecommerce site

Just throwing this out there as a PSA for anyone that wants to build an Ecomm site for a small/medium sized business. I did a lot of research before I went with this platform, and I think it's been a...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 16th January 2013, 06:58 PM
Replies: 68
Views: 11,817
Posted By ryanjm
Importing from China - What's your best advice and/or resource?

I'm about to begin importing products from China for my e-commerce site. We currently dropship from U.S. suppliers, but I've found their sources, and we can now brand these products as our own while...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th December 2011, 12:31 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,112
Posted By ryanjm
Re: No Clickbank vendor replied to my email...

Meh, I disagree with this. If he's showing you his site, you can make that quality determination yourself in a 10 second glance of his site. The sales per day for another product has nothing to do...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 01:47 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 2,679
Posted By ryanjm
Most expensive WSO or Internet marketing course?

Just wondering what the most expensive WSO or IM course someone has seen was priced at, and what it included (roughly)? This could be anything from a simple WSO video/ebook, to an in-person weekend...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 12:30 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,112
Posted By ryanjm
Re: No Clickbank vendor replied to my email...

Holy crap, that's the main problem right there. You have to think about the product creator's position as well. For instance if you asked the "Diet solution" guy to read that email, you're basically...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th December 2011, 12:14 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 17,519
Posted By ryanjm
Re: The top-earning Amazon affiliates!

^This. There are lots of different ways to make that kind of money. Myob's method is one way. SEO is another. There are probably more as well.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th December 2011, 12:22 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 17,519
Posted By ryanjm
Re: The top-earning Amazon affiliates!

It only takes a few successful affiliate sites before you can understand that almost any amount of money is possible.

That $30k/mo check is what I would consider a good place to be after 2 years...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th December 2011, 12:12 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 680
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Are Amazon & The Like Easy to Beat For #1

Amazon? No, it's not easy. They are in tons of my niches and even when you overtake them, it might not be for long.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th December 2011, 12:21 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 772
Posted By ryanjm
Re: What are good numbers when choosing a KW?

Unless your product can be bought internationally, then the only figures you should be looking at are local/exact match. An acceptable search volume is directly related to the price of the product...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th December 2011, 01:41 PM
Replies: 110
Views: 3,638
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Has Google Destroyed Your Business?

While I do think there is some hypocrisy in letting an e-commerce site pass, which exists solely to make money, and penalizing an affiliate site, you can easily pass these guidelines if you create...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th December 2011, 12:41 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 681
Posted By ryanjm
Re: One Mega Review Site or Many Separate Sites?

As others have said, do both. I prefer medium sized sites that maybe have 5-10 pages of great content. The problem with doing a mega authority site is that if that site gets penalized by Giggle for...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th December 2011, 06:59 PM
Replies: 152
Views: 28,081
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Common Flippa Scams and How to Avoid Getting Ripped Off

This is false. I have bought hundreds of high PR domains that have retained their PR through multiple updates. The key is understanding how PR works, and finding the domains that will retain PR.
Forum: Local Meetups, Mastermind Groups and Warrior Events 9th December 2011, 10:45 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 2,214
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Looking to form a Mastermind group in Denver colorado

Check meetup.com. There's an SEO group in Denver and Boulder. Problem is that the levels of knowledge are so diverse that depending on where you are with SEO it might not be worth the time to go. I...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 10:43 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 334
Posted By ryanjm
Re: One site or multiple sites?

Um, no, I don't know what you mean. How much have you had to drink tonight? :D

To OP: Depends if you think the people visiting your site will be interested in all of the topics or not. If they'll...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2011, 10:36 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 3,133
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Does it pay to buy backlinks?

If you aren't paying for links, you're not really even in the game. Anyone saying they don't work, or that Google can detect them, etc... is clueless. I don't mean that to offend, it's just a fact.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2011, 10:28 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 745
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Why do you think my site did not rank - ill show you my url

This is a really common mistake/problem I see in affiliate marketing sites: People get so wrapped up in SEO that they forget to actually make a good site. Is the site visually pleasing? Does it have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2011, 10:24 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 393
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Advice needed please

Honestly I think you're going to run into a brick wall because in order to convince them to write content, they would have to understand that a backlink is useful for their site. You might have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th December 2011, 10:21 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 526
Posted By ryanjm
Re: question about link exchanging?

Not really.

And regarding link exchanges--the best way to do those is if you had another website that you could place their links on. For instance, you ask for them to link to Site A, and in...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:47 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 525
Posted By ryanjm
Re: To those who do affiliate marketing..

It might just be that I suck at clickbank, but in general I find most of their products to be crappy, overpriced, and/or scammy sites. I don't think I've ever been to a CB site that didn't have just...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:33 PM
Replies: 108
Views: 4,393
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Which marketer do you follow

I follow people who aren't selling any info products to other IM'rs. I find that most people who are selling IM products generally are not making serious money doing real IM work. The guys making...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:15 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,261
Posted By ryanjm
Re: What is the Very Best Product on Clickbank?

The real question you're asking is, "Which products are making you guys a ****load of money?" Anyone making a lot of money on any particular product isn't going to tell you because they don't want...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th December 2011, 09:06 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 922
Posted By ryanjm
Re: When did you have your first 200$ month?

January of 2011, so about 2 months after first starting.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th October 2011, 01:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 302
Posted By ryanjm
Product suggestions for Movie niche? Clickbank?

Hi guys,

Just wondering if anyone out there has any product suggestions for a site that would have movie reviews on it. I looked at the Clickbank "download movies" stuff but everything I've read...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st September 2011, 06:15 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 904
Posted By ryanjm
Re: For the SEO experts.... what is the best strategy? Solution A or B?

I'd go with B. Seems like Google doesn't like sites that are too targeted lately with no anchor text variety, etc... I think you would have better luck creating an authority site covering all of the...
Forum: Website Design 11th August 2011, 12:07 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 912
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Switching themes on a live site

By "another directory" do you mean another web domain? I've got plenty of junk ones I could install and tweak the theme, so that's definitely an option. Or do you mean I could install wordpress in...
Forum: Website Design 10th August 2011, 09:20 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 912
Posted By ryanjm
Switching themes on a live site

I've searched around for this but haven't found a good answer yet:

I have sites that are getting traffic, but I want to change the Wordpress theme to something better. The issue is that the new...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 24th July 2011, 08:18 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 1,879
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Traffic Travis Screwed Me Over

^I thought that's what he meant too. It just isn't finding backlinks. Altthough, I'm not sure how he didn't notice that every site registered "0" links...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd July 2011, 11:30 PM
Replies: 100
Views: 3,861
Posted By ryanjm
Re: To Spin or Not to Spin Articles.

You can do what he does on a much smaller scale and have success with lots of keywords. You can also join co-ops which allow you to tap into even more powerful networks of sites. Definitely not...
Forum: Programming 23rd July 2011, 08:21 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 509
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Was my website hacked? Info: shows another website

Thanks Jake and Det. Figured that was what's up. I'll contact them today.
Forum: Programming 22nd July 2011, 06:14 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 509
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Was my website hacked? Info: shows another website

Thanks a lot. Kinda what I thought too since the site showing up in info: is the same placeholder page that used to show up for my site. Also my password isn't very easy to guess/crack.
Forum: Programming 22nd July 2011, 04:27 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 509
Posted By ryanjm
Was my website hacked? Info: shows another website

I have a PR4 site that had some issues when it was transferred from another webhost. When I checked info:sitename in Google, it shows another site. My site also shows that it's PR7 because the site...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st July 2011, 07:40 PM
Replies: 236
Views: 18,741
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Article Marketing: is the spin really necessary?

Thanks for sharing. So to setup these relationships, do you just write to them and say, "Hey, I'll provide you with free articles if you link back to my site." And then you just manually go out and...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st July 2011, 07:30 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

Sounds reasonable to me. If you deleted my awesome review 3 months ago, I forgive you :)

It's easy to think bad things when you don't know why a post was deleted and you know the forum has an...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st July 2011, 11:01 AM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

FYP: All of whom are there because they want to make money. :D

To be clear: I've never bought a product that I felt was a scam, complete waste, etc... What you have is what Paul mentioned: A newb...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st July 2011, 10:36 AM
Replies: 236
Views: 18,741
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Article Marketing: is the spin really necessary?

Interesting. A few questions:
1) This 25,000 site network-- Is this something you subscribe to, or are you quoting some sort of figure from Ezine that says how many sites they have that actively...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2011, 08:56 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

^I've seen bad reviews before. Definitely not saying that. However this forum could exist on newbs alone. The guys who never make a dime and just buy WSO after WSO waiting for the thing that will do...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2011, 08:47 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

^You're right, I could be wrong about the forum as a whole and perhaps there is just a rogue mod or two that lazily deletes anything negative. All I can tell you is that I've had posts deleted that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2011, 08:38 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

^Obviously you're correct. Hence the rest of my post where I mention that I think the main reason it was removed is because there is a huge incentive to appease the WSO creators. If someone's running...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2011, 08:29 PM
Replies: 113
Views: 5,062
Posted By ryanjm
Re: A note to WSO buyers and sellers

I am glad to see this. I have posted a legit negative review for a WSO that I bought before, and it was promptly removed without notice. I was 10000% careful to make it as fair as possible, didn't...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2011, 08:16 PM
Replies: 236
Views: 18,741
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Article Marketing: is the spin really necessary?

Depending on what kind of business you run, this could go either way. Your idea of writing for syndication requires good writing skills, and a narrow focus on a particular niche that you are...
Forum: Offline Marketing 18th July 2011, 07:27 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 5,095
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Marketing to Attorneys

"certified specialist" etc... is really the only one I could see someone screwing up. False or misleading advertising goes without saying in any profession.

Evie - When you spoke with all of those...
Forum: Offline Marketing 15th July 2011, 11:17 PM
Replies: 222
Views: 13,405
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Be Honest Now... Local Business Marketing is a Nightmare

^^Does not surprise me. I had a website ranking #2 for "bankruptcy lawyers in city" and getting searches every day. I could not GIVE IT AWAY for a lawyer to try for free for a month. A small...
Forum: Finished Contests & Challenges 12th July 2011, 09:36 PM
Replies: 559
Views: 88,576
Posted By ryanjm
Re: I challenge you to MENTOR a warrior in need...

I've had to re-pop my popcorn several times now since these have been delayed/cancelled right before air time 3 times. I'm down to my last bag of popcorn. Don't make me listen to the series with a...
Forum: Offline Marketing 12th July 2011, 07:47 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,225
Posted By ryanjm
Re: any success with liquor stores?

No experience with that market, but I can tell you that 99% of people are going to choose a liquor store the same way they choose which McDonald's to go to: Find whatever's close.
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th July 2011, 11:59 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 1,977
Posted By ryanjm
Why don't more businesses spend money on SEO?

Just a question for you offline veterans that have talked to lots of business owners. Is there a common reason or reasons why more of them haven't spent money on SEO to try and attract business? Is...
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th July 2011, 11:54 AM
Replies: 163
Views: 14,419
Posted By ryanjm
Re: From 0 to 15k$ Steady Income Per Month in Less Than 3 Months - No Hassle Offline SEO Business

I like this idea, I just can't get around the fact that small towns = no searches. No searches = no one calls business. No one calls business = they don't want to keep paying you, even if you sell...
Forum: Website Design 3rd July 2011, 11:08 PM
Replies: 59
Views: 4,593
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Which is the best WP Theme for local businesses?

^^I just used it today to create one of my offline sites. Really easy to modify. The site has 'just enough' of all the right mods needed to easily change the design. It's probably the easiest theme...
Forum: Website Design 3rd July 2011, 10:31 AM
Replies: 59
Views: 4,593
Posted By ryanjm
Re: Which is the best WP Theme for local businesses?

I actually like the look of that Mystique free theme that marketingrep posted. That paid theme for $97 honestly does not look very good. It's incredibly dated looking, no rollovers, cramped text...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd July 2011, 03:49 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 916
Posted By ryanjm
Re: What services do you provide for $1k a month

Definitely agree that there is more out there. Groupon is one that we plan on trying for a dentist with a strong upsell channel.

Perhaps I just haven't explored this area enough, so thanks for...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd July 2011, 11:22 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 916
Posted By ryanjm
Re: What services do you provide for $1k a month

^thanks for the response fernando. I agree with some of your points, but here is where I start to lose you:

Certainly there are some companies that you can become creative with their advertising...
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