What The Hell Is Amazon Thinking?
I hit Amazon pretty often every day looking for new ideas for building niche sites. I was freakin SHOCKED today when I went to Amazon’s main page and saw the following screen (click on the pic to see the full size):
I went ahead and blotted out the inappropriate stuff. I guess Amazon doesn’t bother to screen what “other customers are looking at right now” results.
A Great Way To Find Keywords
I’ve been staying up on the Keyword Academy for the last few months and these guys are pros. I very much enjoy thier posts and their “call to action” style of writing. A lot of the MMO blogs I read are geared towards getting you to sign up to something through an affiliate link of theirs for something or other. I absolutely LOVE how Mark and Court work towards getting their readers to do something. They don’t just tell you to go do something, they tell you how to go do something.
Go to The Keyword Academy and sign up for their Keyword Crash Course. There is nothing they will email you that will not help you in your online marketing endeavors.
As for me I’ve taken many of their techniques and used them to find keywords that have heavy search volume but not much competition. I’ve used these keywords to drive more focused traffic to my websites through organic search results and it has been easy. Using the methods Court and Mark describe I have more than enough keywords to chase after. I actually have a list of keywords that have heavy search volume and little competition that are just waiting for me to have the time to focus on them.
If you are looking for ways to increase your presence in organic search results, sign up for The Keyword Academy. No affiliate links here, go do it for your benefit and make some money. It’s there for the taking!
The Niche Store Contest
Mark from The Niche Store Builder is holding a contest to give away a nicely built niche store built on the Build a Niche Store system and I want it! Mark planned this niche site out using the Number 1 Way to Make Money Online guide that the creators of the BANS system wrote. I bought the guide when it came out and have been busy using some of their techniques on all of my sites, new and old.
Anyone can enter to win and it really is a breeze to do. Check out the Niche Store Site Contest and sign up for the contest!
Been Having Fun
I haven’t posted here for awhile but I have stayed busy. Lot’s of stuff going on with the EPN network and BANS and I plan on posting some of my experiences here soon.
Anyways I have been enjoying Mark and Court’s Keyword Academy, which I will also post about soon. I’ve been using their techniques for the last few months and have been very successful with what they teach. Today I found a long-tail keyword that averages 10,000 searches a month (exact phrase) but has close to zero competition! I plan on sharing some of the stuff I have learned along with screenshots of increased traffic for my sites thanks to the techniques Mark and Court teach.
See you soon!
My Previous Post…
- Alcohol and Blogging
My previous post attempting to defend my sister’s honor is a good example of why there should be breathalyzers on computers. Google has a feature in gmail called Mail Goggles that prevents you from sending stupid things via email when you are annebriated. I wonder if theres a Wordpress plugin…
In other news, I found a plugin that easily turns your Wordpress install into a mobile-friendly version for when someone visits you on a browser from a cell phone. It works very well and is super easy to install.
I Will Cut You!
Destruction
Apparently, a searcher out there doesn’t know that I cut people. Above is a search result that landed somebody on my site. This is the danger of a) having a sister with the same name as a famous person and b) having a blog that mentions her name. My site is the number one search result for this search. Consider this fair warning.
Just know that that’s my sister and that I have your IP address. And I will cut you.
Yeah I know. If I can’t stand the heat, stay my a$$ out of the kitchen.
Practice Writing
Practice writing. Create a bunch of unique content using different mediums and watch your authority increase. Write on your own blogs and anywhere else you can get your keyboard into (besides Twitter.) Here are a few places I write articles to.
These sites don’t do much moderation, you can post pretty much whatever you want to as long as it’s not crazy spammy. I also write to the different article submission sites like goarticles.com and articletrader.com but these sites take quite a bit of time to moderate and get posted.
These sites are awesome for building authority and PageRank. My favorite has to be Squidoo, even though it starts a new Lens off with all no-follow links. With a bit of work/time those links turn to do-follows and really help you rank well.
Facebook To Offer Usernames
Facebook is finally going to allow everyone to have their own username! In a few days, Facebook will let anyone register thier own username so that you can direct your friends to your Facebook profile with a simple URL.
According to Facebook’s page on usernames:
Starting on Friday, June 12th, at 11:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile.
If you want your desired Facebook username, better be online 11:01 June 12th!
Google Squared Launches
Google’s new semantic search engine, Google Squared launched one June 3rd. Basically a semantic search is one that does not show search results based on PageRank relavency, but rather shows results based on semantics, or word meaning. Google Squared displays those results in a spreadsheet format and allows editing of search results for personalization, almost like a wiki. You can also save a Google Squared page.
Google squared is very new and should only get better. Getting structured results is a pretty new way of doing search and it seems like Google has hit the nail on the head with this. I’m anxious to use it to get better targeted search results for things like products I want to promote as an affiliate, for example this search for pickup trucks. As you can see, this is a much better way to do research that a typical Google search result for pickup trucks. The Squared search results break down individual truck makes and models, gives me a picture of each truck, a description of each truck, features of each truck, all without leaving the search results page. The typical search results page gives me a list of results with mostly pickups for sale.
Give Google Squared a go and see what it does to improve your researching.
Google Wants To Take Over Your Web
Google had a presentation for a room full of geeks a few days ago. They introduced Google Wave, a work in progress by the makers of Google Maps. Wave is being described as “What email would look like if it were invented today.” I just sat through the presentation and was blown away by all the features of Wave.
It’s a fairly long presentation. Basically Wave works to make everything you do to communicate and collaborate real time. The interface looks like Gmail but it’s not just about messages, it lets you create tons of content in an easy way that is able to be edited and added to by any one that is involved in that “Wave.” Want to reply to a particular part of a Wave? You can add content to a Wave anywhere you wish, like a comment. And all of this is done in a browser in real time. You can also add a new person to a Wave at any point and they would see that wave in it’s entirety. If this new person wants to see the Wave from when it first started there is a playback button that shows the Wave from the original content up to that point.
Google Wave
Google Wave is supposed to be released to the masses sometime later this year. There is an open API for developers that will allow Wave to be extended in tons of different ways. Google has big plans with this and looks like it’s trying to incorporate everything you do on the web into one place. Let’s hope Google is still the good guy.
