<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:59:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Internet Cash Checklist</title><description/><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>87</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-9190833237618309427</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-24T17:59:29.032-07:00</atom:updated><title>Public Domain Web Content</title><description>It started simple enough, a friend had an old book and was thinking about turning the contents into web based content for their website. For some reason I was the one who had to research the Public Domain/Copyright Expiration information as I had happened to mention that I heard you could repurpose old content as new material and resell it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had saved an article on a guy who took an old sales book on selling Model T Ford's and used the find and replace feature in wordpad to create a whole new book about selling modern cars and sold it as an eBook with a premium price tag. Only I gave the article to someone else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I came across this amazing tidbit of information at &lt;a href="http://www.paulallen.net/"&gt;Paul Allen's Blog&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Payscale used public domain data from the federal government to attract search engines and go from 10,000 monthly visitors to 1.2 million, primarily through natural search traffic (and word of mouth) without spending any money on advertising. And now, it has wage data on 5.5 million US employees, nearly 5 times as much data as the leading traditional wage consulting firm. Using public domain data to attract initial customers, and user generated content to keep people coming back and signing up for your free salary comparison reports, so you can upsell them to your $19.95 for six months subscripton to more detailed reports that can help someone get a pay raise, is a brilliant business plan. I'm very impressed with this company and its model. It generated $5 million last year. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;So using Public Domain Material is in no way the small potatoes or rare occurence that I had previously thought.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately I don't have as much talent or resources as Payscale to boost my traffic like they did. I do however have some public domain material that I am currently working into fresh web content and have found a few sources for more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem is that the public domain stuff available online has been picked up by at least one or two other websites; and more if the content is somewhat more relevant or useful or related to high paying keywords.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So I'm starting my Public Domain experiment with some I found Offline, working some other online stuff into the mix later.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It's crazy to think that this one source will create a several hundred page website of useful information which isn't available anywhere else online.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/08/public-domain-web-content.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-9202701626447356234</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-19T13:53:27.962-07:00</atom:updated><title>Domain Names Vs. Pay Per Click</title><description>I have a problem.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I get bored and I start doing keyword research to pass the time. Its worse when a new niche has entered my mind and I have new keywords to work and play with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats what happened the other day. I started looking into a new hobby, like I need another, and started doing keyword research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Using my standard approach I found a very good, available domain name. But I stopped buying domain names a while ago, at least until I can build out and develop all the ones I already own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mistake was doing the Cost Per Click research. You see the domain name I had found was a combination of threee keywords. Those three keywords in combination were getting as high as $3.50 per click from advertisers. With the domain name I would naturally rank high already and with some good content...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I bought the domain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have to wonder about the advertisers that are willing to pay $3.50 per click when they could own the domain name for the price of two clicks and with very little effort create a long term stream of customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well now I own it and can expand the keyword reach with subniche keywords and increase the expected revenues without ever having to sell a product.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact it is those advertisers who overlooked this domain name that will be paying me for the traffic I will be generating.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/08/domain-names-vs-pay-per-click.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-8735357415305410061</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-17T15:06:40.144-07:00</atom:updated><title>Another Craigslist Secret</title><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I was scrolling through some articles online and came across an idea to streamline your &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Craigslist&lt;/span&gt; Postings that I don't think I ever shared before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Its an email organization idea &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shockwaveprofits.com/make-money-on-craigslist.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;found here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Basically it involves &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;creating a master email account to which all of your other email accounts will be forwarded. (You use different email accounts to post similar ads to improve your chances of not being flagged as spam)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;That way the only thing you need to do is log into one email account to confirm your new ad postings.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 4px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 4px;"&gt;Its a quick idea but it saves a ton of time and eliminates the hassle of constantly trying to remember every password for every email account.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/07/another-craigslist-secret.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-8345159327435095623</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-08T18:00:47.086-07:00</atom:updated><title>Craigslist Marketing Refinement</title><description>I'll admit that I use &lt;strong&gt;Craigslist&lt;/strong&gt; sporadically to help increase my web traffic. It doesn't always bring in the tons of traffic I had expected when I first got started but it is a steady trickle and its easy to use. Sign up for an account and you can keep track of all of your listings and automatically relist them when they expire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That being said I came up with an interesting idea today while playing with &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/trends"&gt;Google Trends&lt;/a&gt;. I put in several search terms for one of my websites to compare the amount of searches for each one. It returns a handy graph with Search Volumes for each of your keywords as well as pages of interest (good for comments if its a blog) and where the searches come from.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That last part is what got me thinking. They narrow it down to not just countries but states and cities in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What good is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well now I know that two cities with the highest search volume by far are from an area easily covered by Craigslist. All I have to do is work my link into the appropriate category.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No more randomly targeting cities or competing against the flood of posts in NYC, LA and SF for a little extra traffic.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/07/craigslist-marketing-refinement.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-368849236394126336</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-06T09:02:25.902-07:00</atom:updated><title>Mashup Websites</title><description>A quick way to easily compile an auto updating website is to use the developer API's from the leading websites online such as YouTube, AMazon, Ebay and others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully there are people out there working on this and publishing their work with a creative commons liscence. People like Chris Sampson over at &lt;a href="http://www.c-online.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.c-online.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His latest version of the EbayYouTube Amazon Mashup works great. To see a sample test that I did this morning look at my &lt;a href="http://www.traditionalarcheryequipment.com/"&gt;Traditional Archery Equipment&lt;/a&gt; website. Of course you have to sign up as a developer at Ebay and Amazon but thats free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The rest is mostly cutting and pasting your code into the stufftochange file and your product list into the products file.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.c-online.co.uk/index.php/2008/05/17/my-modified-version-of-the-45n5-mashup-script/"&gt;Click Here to Download Chris's Version of the Mashup Script&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or if you want to know a little more about it try &lt;a href="http://www.45n5.com/permalink/howto-build-a-youtube-ebay-amazon-mashup-affiliate.html"&gt;checking this out at 45n5.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know if you have any luck implementing this script. I would love to see the variations people come up with.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/07/mashup-websites.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4422072846369071198</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-03T13:04:04.648-07:00</atom:updated><title>Development VS. Parking</title><description>Last year, or maybe a little more than that, I told everyone to buy into the 4 letter domain names as they would be a great investment opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And they still are if you can find them cheap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However a recent post over at &lt;a href="http://trafficbuilding101.blogspot.com/2008/07/domain-names-with-no-traffic.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jenny's Blog&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/a&gt;has me thinking about the difference between parking and development.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see each of my 4 letter domain names are considered a long term investment. I'll maybe resell in a few years for a good ROI.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But they, for the most part, have been parked since purchase. They get a decent amount of traffic for a non promoted domain name. The problem is that they dont make any money from the pay per click ads that the parking companies provide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I have been thinking that over the last year and a half I would have been better off developing something, even if it was a simple couple of pages of content to get indexed, rather than parking and forgetting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was an ebook floating around about increasing the value of your domains but it was out dated and mostly contained black hat techniques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So now I'm thinking that any parked domain that isn't at least paying for itself needs to be removed from parking and have a site built on top of it, wether advertising is included or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That way in a few years the domain will be indexed, have a few backlinks and maybe some decent traffic adding a little extra juice to the sales price.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/07/development-vs-parking.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-8106762210688509896</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-07-03T11:54:45.897-07:00</atom:updated><title>How to REALLY Do Keyword Research</title><description>Here is a link to a free video discussing keyword searching.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is an important subject that many people often over look. Personally I was targeting a narrow range of keywords and working my way to the top of the search engines for each site. Seeing how many sets of Long Tail Keywords they are going after in this video you can be assured that I will be looking for more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.michellemacphearson.com/nichebotdigger/keywordresearch.html"&gt;How to REALLY Do Keyword Research&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"During that second Webinar, Jim Morris offered a KILLER resource. A free PDF that outlines a plan of action for your sites; based on how much time and effort you want to put in to your marketing. You can download that PDF here. You will absolutely want to implement what's inside, it's content, no BS (just like I like it).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take a quick look at the single page PDF document offered with the video and you will see how much work is involved even with minimal web promotion.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/07/how-to-really-do-keyword-research.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-1125462571163190882</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-29T14:44:00.238-07:00</atom:updated><title>Easy Content and Backlinks</title><description>OK,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just realised exactly how lazy I was, here I am recieving targeted news and blog posts in my email everyday and doing nothing with them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm talking about &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/alerts"&gt;Google Alerts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sign up for a free account, and they send me relevant newsworthy web pages and blog posts whenever they come up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;News to post about in any blog with any keyword that I want, hell I can use the &lt;strong&gt;Blog This!&lt;/strong&gt; tool in my toolbar to over simplify the process, and a Google Blogs Alert that not only provides me with updated opinions but options to add a comment to any relevant post. (even nofollow tags create traffic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if content is your problem, &lt;em&gt;and it shouldn't be&lt;/em&gt;, try &lt;strong&gt;Google Alerts&lt;/strong&gt;. That and a few articles from &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.articleyou.com/"&gt;ArticleYou.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and a &lt;strong&gt;Wordpress Theme&lt;/strong&gt; and you'll be in business.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/easy-content-and-backlinks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4592751600488674209</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-28T23:02:17.550-07:00</atom:updated><title>Blog Comment Backlinks</title><description>Recently I posted about my new found appreciation for the &lt;strong&gt;Comment Kahuna Software&lt;/strong&gt; in its ability to speed up my ability to build up relevant backlinks to any of my websites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you don't have it, get it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, Blog comments on my mind I came across a competitors website that relies heavily on blog commenting to generate backlinks. It isn't something that I see all that often. But in viewing their backlinks I was able, &lt;em&gt;if I wanted to&lt;/em&gt;, post a comment everywhere that they did without doing all of the research that they had already done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I could always out do them by generating links by other means.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then I came across this video over at &lt;strong&gt;YouTube&lt;/strong&gt;, it's sad that you have to wade through so much crap to find something this good but thats why I'm posting it here:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zLyFL-x_rwU&amp;amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zLyFL-x_rwU&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So you don't burn out your eyes squinting like I did here is a copy of the search terms he used so you can copy and paste that into your book of baclinking tricks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;"keywords" "powered by wordpress" "leave a comment" - "no comments"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/blog-comment-backlinks.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4022246996427660771</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-28T07:54:50.204-07:00</atom:updated><title>Link Building Update</title><description>Ok,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I apologize. I was supposed to post this picture and the amount of new links the other day and I totally forgot. Actually I was working on a new website using some potentially incredible software and lost ALL track of time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Anyway here is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rankbullet.com/"&gt;Link Building&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Information as of last Tuesday for &lt;strong&gt;RankBullet.com&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/uploaded_images/backlinks3sm-761218.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;16 Inbound links from a one time use of Version 1 of the Rank Bullet System. As I mentioned before it has changed a lot since Version 1, Version 2 is a lot more powerful, however I have held off on attempting to use it as the end results for Version 1 have not fully come in yet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And already I have a Version 2.1 in mind.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/link-building-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-3639173004427797840</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T12:40:28.139-07:00</atom:updated><title>Building Social Media Backlinks the easy way</title><description>Social Media and Social Bookmarking are all the rage right now in building traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But I  have to admit that I am woefully far behind on this gravy train. There are too many sites and too many differing rules at each for me to focus on all but a handful. Then it really comes down to the matter of wether this traffic is really worth the effort for your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But isn't more traffic always better?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No. Targeted traffic is better. The type of things on most social media bookmarking sites that get passed around are usually of the tabloid type of information. Something pop culture, current event related or really bizzare.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that fits the content of your website then you are looking at a goldmine of traffic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If however your websites sells your services as a nanny, or used car parts in the michigan area then the traffic will be of little use to improving the bottom line of your business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So what to do?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond bookmarking your own website on your favorite bookmarking websites there is something that I encourage all of my customers to implement on every page of their website. A simple bookmarking button that allows a visitor to say, "Hey, I like this site (or information) and I wanted to share it with everyone else online."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a passive, non-intrusive button that allows your website visitors to easily share the contents of your website with their extended internet community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However there are a multitude of bookmarking sites from which to choose from, which buttons do you include and which do you omit?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thankfully the people at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.addthis.com/"&gt;AddThis.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; have created a &lt;strong&gt;Free&lt;/strong&gt; all in one button that can be quickly added to any page of your website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even if your content isn't something that gets people bookmarking it at a furious pace even one visitor bookmarking your website will help others interested in the same subjects to visit your website from their network. And these people will be more likely to also bookmark your content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The passive role of the bookmarking button can be like a snowball rolling downhill as far as traffic is concerned. The longer its up there, the more visitors will be building relevant backlinks for you and your targeted traffic will continue to grow.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/building-social-media-backlinks-easy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-8128602234526567418</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-18T12:54:38.207-07:00</atom:updated><title>Rank Bullet Challenge</title><description>OK,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here it is one week after I started building backlinks for the Rank Bullet Web Site, page really, and I'm up to 13 inbound links from that first day of work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/uploaded_images/backlinks2-710297.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While there are surely more to come in the following weeks as the various websites and search engine spiders catch up with my flurry of activity I have been working on Rank Bullet 2. It is an improved system, working out the kinks from the first one while expanding its horizons to a greater amount of websites.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But once again I will not use these techniques on my original Rank Bullet System as I want the inbound link figures to acurately reflect the least possible amount of inbound links one would get for their investment in my services.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/rank-bullet-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4154978852897619926</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-13T08:04:58.291-07:00</atom:updated><title>Third day of the Rank Bullet Challenge</title><description>Just a quick update here on the begining of the third day of my own &lt;strong&gt;Rank Bullet &lt;a href="http://www.rankbullet.com/"&gt;Link Building&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Challenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I spent the first day executing what I plan to be the basic Link Building Package to get some inbound links for the Rank Bullet website (page really). I keep being tempted to go above and beyond, to do some link building that would be done with more expensive packages, or to do the the basic package a second time to double my links, but I want this to as honest of a test as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, no work has been done after the first day of link building. Here it is the begining of the third day, roughly 48 hours after I started building links and Rank Bullet now has three inbound links.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoo Hoo right? But we'll wait and see how they all start trickling in over the next few weeks.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/third-day-of-rank-bullet-challenge.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-6599057694282432629</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-10T14:45:27.515-07:00</atom:updated><title>Link Building Experiment</title><description>&lt;div&gt;Jenny, who just started her new &lt;a href="http://trafficbuilding101.blogspot.com/"&gt;Traffic Building&lt;/a&gt; blog, Got me started thinking about some of my recent ideas on building traffic when I came up with what could be an ultimate system for generating large amounts of relevant and quality backlinks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;No links from any website with a page rank less than 1, in fact most would be from page rank 4 and above. No spamming, no link farms and no blackhat seo techniques involved.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;The idea which I call &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rankbullet.com/"&gt;Rank Bullet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a culmination of two years trying to build links and putting in long hours with very little to show for my efforts. In fact it is only recently that I have seen the skyrocketing effect of my increasing inbound links.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;So I have an experiment going. The following picture is a screen capture of the amount of backlinks for the above mentioned Rank Bullet website. As you can see as of today there are Zero.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/uploaded_images/inbound-links1-703649.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I will start building out a 1 or 2 page minisite tomorrow and begin using my new proprietary system for generating quality inbound links.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I will update everyone on this blog at least weekly, June 17th and 24th and July 1st and 8th.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That way I will be held accountable for my new system and we can all see the effects that it has on both my inbound links and search engine rankings.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/link-building-experiment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4540882106527406518</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-06T09:53:14.450-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>free links</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>business promotion</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>business publicity</category><title>Free Online Business Promotion</title><description>It amazes me how many small business owners who come to me for Search Engine Optimization for their already existing website haven't done one of the simplest things, one thing I consider to be a first step in building your business' online presence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a business owner that is always looking to reach new customers your website is a very important part of making yourself available to servicing your customers needs. But if nobody knows about your website then it isn’t being effective in bringing in new customers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the old days a brick and mortar type business would set up shop and invest in an advertisement in the local phone book to bring in customers from the surrounding area. To be honest, not much has changed. Sure, you may not have a physical business location but the popularity and terrific potential of the local phone book is still a massive customer building option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone book advertising can be expensive. The costs of printing and delivering hundreds of thousands of phone books to every residence have to be paid and those costs are pushed onto the business owner looking to make a decent return on their investment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But on the internet publishing costs can be minimal, allowing the major phone book companies to give away free phone book listings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That’s right Free!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why? Because they want to have a useful web presence to keep visitors coming back and because they want to know about your business so they can attempt to sell you on upgrades and more expensive packages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the mean time your business name, website address and maybe even phone number are getting out there to potential customers looking for your type of service or product at no extra cost to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The best part is that there are only four major Business Directories which make up the largest segment of online traffic and they all offer free listings for your small business website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.askmryellow.com/home.php"&gt;http://www.askmryellow.com/home.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bizweb.com/"&gt;http://www.bizweb.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.superpages.com/"&gt;http://www.superpages.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.yellowpages.com/"&gt;http://www.yellowpages.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I can’t recommend Yellow Pages enough. It has shown me a great customer response and it is the only Free Business Directory that creates a backlink to your website which is indexed by the search engines.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And as any business website owner should know generating backlinks is imperative in search engine placement and ranking for your business related keywords. To add icing to the cake YellowPages.com is a Page Rank 8 website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So if you are online to make money and expand your existing business by exposing yourself to new customers then the free business listings with the phone book directories can not be ignored.pages is the only one that creates a backlink to your website</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/06/free-online-business-promotion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-6285264801202845836</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-26T01:24:42.110-07:00</atom:updated><title>Why not get a Real Domain Name?</title><description>The other day I was driving and happened to notice a business van with proffesionally designed magnetic signs attatched to the side and rear doors. Spotting a domain name I took a closer look, OK I'm a geek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, instead of being a regular domain name it was the url for their MySpace account. It was either a plumber or electricians van.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How proffesional is that?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You spent the money for the signs, is it that much harder to put up a quick website that is far more proffesional than any MySpace will ever be?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are people that intimidated by putting up their own business website that they would rather resort to shody access simply because it is free? Did they get an unbelievable quote from some "Proffesional" web design firm and decided that it wasn't for them?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The truth is that it costs me a little over 50 cents a month to put up a website. Thats not counting the time I put into research and design, but for the most part I usually far out weight that 50 cents by adding ways in which the site can monetize itself or other ways in which I can cover hosting costs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If your advertising budget can't be stretched to cover an extra $1 a month then you may be doing something wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After all what do most business's pay for Yellow Page ads? I can't remember the last time I picked up a phone book. I'll always look online to find contact information and pricing.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/04/why-not-get-real-domain-name.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-5681654757342570304</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-08T11:20:31.724-08:00</atom:updated><title>Click Attack Shuts Me Down</title><description>I had never heard of a &lt;a href="http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/02/27/banned-from-adsense"&gt;Click Attack&lt;/a&gt; until it happened to me. First at one website then another. Just a handful of visitors but an unusually large amount of clicks. It scared me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did notice however that Google hadn't credited my account with any money for the clicks and so I thought that they knew it was either some jerk or a computer program accidentally clicking every link on my website. Obviously none of the clicks would be coming from my IP address as everyone knows that clicking your own ads is a serious violation of the terms of service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then Google suspended my account. I immediately appealed and after further investigation Google reinstated my account.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A piece of advice from Adsense, If you suspect that invalid clicks may have resulted from a visitor to your site Google suggests that you review your site's logs for any suspicious activity and &lt;a href="https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/request.py?contact=invalid_clicks_contact"&gt;notify them with your findings &lt;/a&gt;.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/03/click-attack-shuts-me-down.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-3754365043146210248</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-27T22:02:10.338-08:00</atom:updated><title>Getting More Traffic</title><description>Getting more traffic to each of my finished websites has been somewhat of a priority of late. It's something that I easily neglect as I move from project to project.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Came across this useful little page: &lt;a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-get-a-massive-amount-of-traffic-to-your-hub-or-website"&gt;How to get a massive amount of traffic to your hub or website&lt;/a&gt; and realised that I know so little about social media that its time I started learning. Despite what some people think I am not online all the time, and when I am its usually to do something specific or to do some research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I haven't had a lot of time to study the ins and outs of every new social media/bookmarking site that comes online. I have a few recent favorites, yet even these I haven't fully explored the possibilities. So I'm making a rule, Learn everything there is to know about one specific site in a week.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I already started with &lt;strong&gt;Craigslist&lt;/strong&gt;. Wether or not it's a traffic generator is debateable, I personally have had mixed success. And yet I created a spreadsheet to track my ads and to streamline operations there. Further experimentation is required, &lt;a href="http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=724424"&gt;this thread at digitalpoint &lt;/a&gt;may be of some help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YouTube Rocks; if you have the right kind of videos. And making great videos is time consuming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think I'll try the &lt;a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/"&gt;StumbleUpon&lt;/a&gt; toolbar next, from the post above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sounds worth trying.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/02/getting-more-traffic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-5538647798520670992</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-25T09:25:52.241-08:00</atom:updated><title>Making Money with Ebay Affiliates</title><description>In my pursuit of trying every way to make money online I haven't really had the time to explore the &lt;strong&gt;Ebay Affiliates&lt;/strong&gt; route to decide if its worth the time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I recently purchased the first finished website and domain name utilizing the Ebay Affiliates code and Googles Adsense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The problems are that the previous owner did nothing to promote the site, &lt;a href="http://www.buycarauctions.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;BuyCarAuctions.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. It isn't indexed in any search engine, it has no backlinks, the onpage optimization is lacking and the Google Adsense returns irrelevant ads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thats just the begining of the list I have as far as changes to the site go.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it gives me something to do besides trying to rank highly for my own name @ &lt;a href="http://www.1chrismiller.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris Miller&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; .com</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/02/making-money-with-ebay-affiliates.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-5206036777930738935</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-20T07:41:31.553-08:00</atom:updated><title>Building Online Stores</title><description>Finally just finished building out &lt;a href="http://www.womensdiscountjewelry.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women's Discount Jewelry&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, my latest online store.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For something that was supposed to be the easiest concept in the world to build, it took me two days to finish up the four page site. And I haven't even started building backlinks yet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the time was taken up by researching and writing useful original content. The rest was tweaking out various settings to get it to look the way I want. The funny part is that I have two textbooks on their way in the mail and when I finish learning those the whole store will have to be revamped anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I finally bought the domain name last week due to going through my old lists. Last year I bought &lt;a href="http://www.womensdiscountperfume.com/"&gt;Women's Discount Perfume &lt;/a&gt;while thouroghly burnt out from working too much and accidentally thought I bought the jewelry domain name. I then proceeded to purchase jewelry related pictures until I realized my mistake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The perfume store was going to be my first attempt at building an online retail site, only the trial version of &lt;strong&gt;Actinic 8&lt;/strong&gt; stopped working when I moved it to the new laptop. It just stopped being able to FTP even though all of the settings were correct.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So after all of the work I put into the perfume store I had to shelve the idea and moved onto other things.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like now its time to go back and redo that store the same way I did the jewelry store.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/02/building-online-stores.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-7656567617708398612</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-10T17:51:54.125-08:00</atom:updated><title>Old Domain Name Wish Lists</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/uploaded_images/domain-names-755056.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/uploaded_images/domain-names-755053.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Recently I have been going through old domain name wish lists. It's something I do once or twice a year, I look at old lists of domain names that I had wanted to purchase for whatever reasons, but never did, and see what is still available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I first started domaining the list was huge, and everything on it was available. That was only a few years ago. Those names that I did not purchase are no longer available, some haven't been for quite some time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There are a few that fall between the cracks and I have recently purchased them, in part because of my failure to exploit the whole 4 letter domain name thing as much as I  should have.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But what suprises me is the stuff that people are buying, stuff that for whatever reason was on my shopping list: &lt;strong&gt;GoGoZombie.com&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;FuckStupidPeople.com&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;PaleBlueDot.com&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I don't even have half a clue as to what I was thinking when I added those to my wish list, but someone else, out there, seems to think they are worth the investment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;All I have to say is thank God for &lt;a href="http://www.domainpunch.com/products/dna/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Domain Name Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. I can type up a huge list and have it check them automatically while I do other things. It's &lt;strong&gt;Free&lt;/strong&gt; so if you are just starting out domaining give it a try.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/02/old-domain-name-wish-lists.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-5562032996207889210</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-02T15:19:57.038-08:00</atom:updated><title>4 Letter Domain Name Sales Heating Up</title><description>If you had read my &lt;a href="http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2007/02/4-letter-domain-resource.html"&gt;previous posts&lt;/a&gt; about getting in on the 4 letter domain name action you would have purchased some very valuable internet real estate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because it finally happened, all of the 4 letter domain names were bought up. As of November 2nd 2007 there are none to be had for a simple registration fee.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of &lt;strong&gt;last weeks&lt;/strong&gt; 4 letter sales suprised me:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;vncc.com $5,618&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;imal.com $4,200&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;svag.com $4,080&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;fimi.com $4,051&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;mgas.com $4,000&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;wmwm.com $3,600&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;ofen.com $3,500&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;wobs.com $3,000&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;govx.com $3,000&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;gorf.com $3,000&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;amyi.com $3,000&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;sowo.com $2,600&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;kitu.com $2,110&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;wnds.com $2,020&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;At one time I had a list of over a thousand 4 letter domain names still left. Did I buy as many as possible? No.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now I plainly see that was a mistake. At that time the 4 Letter domain names were selling on Ebay for roughly $15 all day long. Now, unless its a xzq type 4 letter name, its selling for $100 or so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And prices are going to keep climbing at a steady pace.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/02/4-letter-domain-name-sales-heating-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-8304522922510369335</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-21T17:12:25.653-08:00</atom:updated><title>Craigslist and Website Traffic</title><description>As most people noticed I mentioned an article in the last two posts about making money with Craigslist that no longer works.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, because of that article, and my recent boredom, I produced a short 7 page eBook that served no function except to be humorous. I called it the &lt;strong&gt;Amazing Taco Bell Hot Sauce Packet Diet.&lt;/strong&gt; It's a free download that I only promoted through a single post on Craigslist Forums. (It took me about an Hour and a Half to make but I was having fun.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Within 8 hours it was downloaded over 400 times, and a blog which had never made any money on &lt;strong&gt;Adsense&lt;/strong&gt; quicky became my daily best performer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The traffic has since died down. Much like the traffic bursts I would experience on my RV Selling site which made me a tremendous amount of money in a short time compared to some of my other sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am currently investigating further ways to use the Craigslist Eyeballs, for now here's a &lt;strong&gt;YouTube&lt;/strong&gt; video I found interesting on the subject of using Craigslist for increasing traffic to your website:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="355" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOAYUoiPkzA&amp;amp;rel=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vOAYUoiPkzA&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/craigslist" rel="tag"&gt;Craigslist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/adsense" rel="tag"&gt;Adsense&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tag/website+traffic" rel="tag"&gt;Website Traffic&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/01/craigslist-and-website-traffic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-3801854307413207727</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-11T16:14:05.244-08:00</atom:updated><title>Wow, Most Viewed on YouTube</title><description>After winning a most viewed in a day award for one of my video's on YouTube I have also been slowly climbing in rank for the most viewed award for the month of &lt;strong&gt;January '08.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to think it was all due to a silly little ebook on &lt;strong&gt;YouTube Marketing&lt;/strong&gt; and a few experiments that got me there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its not all happy and sugary though. After I redirected a few domain names that weren't making money from being parked and redirected them to affiliates which I thought would draw in tremendous amounts of income I had some problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The affiliate sites and redirected URL's weren't making anywhere the money, or seeing the traffic I had expected. So I bailed on the experiment, maybe too early but whatever. The problems arose when the people at &lt;a href="http://www.namedrive.com/?ref=2610"&gt;NameDrive&lt;/a&gt; thought I was promoting my domains, which is a Terms of Service Violation at most parking companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank God they are there listening, unlike some other companies on the 'net. They were open to the reasons I had for the sudden increase in traffic and accepted my explanation, along with screenshots of my affiliate experiments as well as pointing out some sites that were still running the affiliate program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So for anyone who reads the &lt;a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/344353/adult_friend_finder_plus_craigslist.html"&gt;Craigslist and AdultFriendFinders Article&lt;/a&gt;, beware, not only is this no longer possible, AdultFriendFinder does not pay out anywhere near expected, and switching away from their program may be a detriment to your standing with your current aggregator.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/01/wow-most-viewed-on-youtube.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37749806.post-4295605246377104576</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-03T11:51:24.202-08:00</atom:updated><title>Adult Web Sites and the New Year</title><description>First off Happy New Year Everyone. It's 2008 and despite the way the economy seems to be going I have a good feeling about the stability and security of online income for the new year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As some of you know I got started in the domaining game by purchasing a large amount of Adult related domain names that I thought I could resell for a profit in a very short amount of time. That never worked out as I had planned and I ended up stuck with a few domain names which I had no interest in building a website around. (Thanks Matt for &lt;a href="http://www.rectricity.com/"&gt;Rectricity.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though the adult related domains have been doing decent income from simply being parked I had a renewed interest in them after reading &lt;a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/344353/adult_friend_finder_plus_craigslist.html"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://adultfriendfinder.com/go/g927085"&gt;Adult Friend Finder&lt;/a&gt; and their affiliate program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They pay $1 for each unique visitor, per IP address, in a 24 hour period. Some of my Adult related domain names have at least 10 uniques a day, and even parked they're getting as much as a 40% Click Thru Rate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the experiment begins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll use their downloadable web page to host under one of my 4 letter domain names and draw some traffic to it, (at the same time submitting it to &lt;strong&gt;Archive.org&lt;/strong&gt; to increase its value in the long term) and I'll temporarily forward one of my adult related domain names already seeing decent traffic to my &lt;a href="http://adultfriendfinder.com/go/g927085"&gt;Adult Friend Finder affiliate URL&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The difference between a 40% Click Thru Rate on a $.06 ad and $1 per each visitor could mean a hell of a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll keep you updated.</description><link>http://www.internetcashchecklist.com/2008/01/adult-web-sites-and-new-year.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Chris)</author></item></channel></rss>