I’m Busy Doing ‘Real’ MMO Work
Posted on May 16, 2008 by Troy Duncan
I have spent the last week securing the tools and registering with the web sites that will help me promote my affiliate sites. I don’t have the money for PPC or any paid traffic. So I decided to focus on organic search engine, social networking, and social bookmarking traffic.
I have been setting up a cluster of sites that will help me build my link popularity. It has been a pain identifying sites that have dofollow links. Building this network of sites have been labor intensive and tedious. I have spent a lot of time registering for sites and configuring accounts.
Some of the types of sites that I have in my cluster are:
- Free Blogs
- Classified Ads
- Press Release Directories
- Web Site Directories
- Article Directories
- Social Networks
- Forums
- Social Bookmarking
- Social News
- Groups
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Make More Money By Eliminating Time Wasters
Posted on May 8, 2008 by Troy Duncan
I have decided to eliminate time wasters from my life. Because my money is currently low, I have to dedicate more time to making money and building my business. Some of my most notorious time wasters are:
- People who don’t add to my life and seem to always take
- E-mail, text, postal mail, and voice spam
- Blogs and RSS feeds
- New and emerging technology and web sites
- Analytics and market research
Here are my solutions:
- I deleted contacts of people who haven’t given me anything in the last year. It could be advice, money, support, or anything else I consider valuable.
- I forwarded all of my e-mail accounts to Gmail for their impressive spam filtering ability. I’m going to remove my name from all e-mail subscriptions, telemarketing lists, mailing lists, and any other lists.
- I have reduced the number of RSS feeds I subscribe to. I used to subscribe to over a hundred feeds but now I’m down to 12. A lot of blogs just regurgitate old information, offer little value, and are always trying to sell junk.
- I spend too much time trying to become a first adopter of new technology and trying to find the next marketing opportunity. I’m going to spend more time with proven traffic drivers including Google, press releases, article marketing, classified ad sites, AdWords, and social news.
- I will only look at my analytics once a month instead of every hour. I can’t believe the amount of time I waste, just to learn 2 more people visited my sites.
What are your time wasters? and How are you going to eliminate them?
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It’s time to clean house
Posted on May 3, 2008 by Troy Duncan
I have started the process to clean out my old ways and thoughts about making money online.
First, I don’t have to monetize everything I am and do. Therefore I will be removing the banners and ads from this site.
I’m working on changing the categories, adding a Archive sections, tweaking the design, and conducting some behind the scenes configuration of Wordpress.
The most important change will be the title of the blog. It will now be called “SavvyGrind - A Born Again Monetizer”
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SavvyGrind has been Born Again
Posted on May 3, 2008 by Troy Duncan
After conducting some research into the making money online industry, I have came to an enlightening conclusion:
Fear and Greed runs the Make Money Online industry!
Everyone is afraid of someone else muscling in on ‘their’ keywords. As a result, no one shares any ‘real’ strategies about how they are ‘really’ making money.
All you get is blogs full of affiliate links, fake earnings reports, and a lot of regurgitated non-sense.
Many, self-proclaimed experts, are greedy and all about money. Shady is a characteristic that comes to mind when I think about these pretenders. A large percentage of them are snake oil salesmen who are relentlessly pimping their ‘empty’ ebooks, webinars, workshops, subscription sites, conferences, and software.
I’m here to tell you that there are countless ways to make legitimate money online. But it takes hard work, time, energy, money (not a lot), commitment, passion, endurance, planning, understanding, blood, sweat, and tears.
As of this moment, this blog will be a journal of my quest to quit my job and become FREE!
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How To Make Big AdSense Money On A Shoe String Budget
Posted on April 22, 2008 by Troy Duncan
Don’t be afraid to go after highly competitive keywords. Long-tail keywords tends to dominate our portfolios. This is great, but also diversifying your portfolio with high paying clicks can be very rewarding.
Most of us lack the money to compete for the high paying terms. But these clicks dwarf our normal per click revenues and can pay out more than 100 times low paying clicks.
Consistent link building, page optimization, and high conversion rates over the long haul are key to reaping high payouts. Be prepared to spend the time and work that is necessary to tap into these lucrative keywords.
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Avoid These 10 Keyword Sniping Mishaps
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Troy Duncan
Keyword sniping can be a lucrative marketing strategy. Far too often though, many people make critical mistakes.
There are many potential pitfalls and mistakes that plague keyword sniping campaigns. Try to avoid the following mishaps when implementing keyword sniping.
- Lack of targeted keyword research
- Using duplicate content
- Using content that hasn’t been properly optimized
- Poor ad placement on your site
- Creating only 1 site
- Insufficient link building activity
- Building links that all have the same anchor text
- Not tracking and analyzing site statistics
- Stopping a campaign before 6 months
- Focusing on low performing sites
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Building Backlinks For Keyword Sniping
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Troy Duncan
Link building is necessary to increase your link popularity, SERP, and traffic. Increasing the number of inbound links will increase your link popularity.
All inbound links should include the keyword in the anchor text. Also, make sure that the anchor text varies for links.
There are 3 sources of inbound links to build your link popularity.
- Internal clusters are links to your home page from all other pages within your site.
- External clusters are links to your home page from your other sites.
- External inbound links are links to your home page from other sites.
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Creating Your Keyword Sniping Site
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Troy Duncan
After choosing a keyword, the next step is to build the site. There are many different types and ways to build a site. Blogs, forums, directories, and traditional web sites are some of the options.
Start your site off with at least 10 pages that contain 300 words of content. All pages should also contain a link back to the home page, with keywords in the anchor text.
Include keywords in your page title tag, H1 tags, footer, content text, alt tags, link title tags, domain name, meta description, and in the site name.
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Which Keywords Should I Snipe?
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Troy Duncan
Selecting the right keyword to target is critical. Some keywords are more difficult than others to snipe. There are many tools and criteria to consider when selecting a keyword.
- Daily search volume should be over 100 searches per day.
- Competing pages should be less than 1,000,000 pages per day.
- They should have value to an affiliate or Adsense advertiser.
- KEI should be above 25.
These are loose guidelines for choosing a keyword. Brainstorming for topics is the most difficult task in keyword sniping. Use phone directories and newspapers to help you brainstorm.
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Make Money Online With Keyword Sniping
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Troy Duncan
Keyword sniping is targeting one keyword to dominate the search engine rankings. It involves targeting 1 keyword, for one or more sites, to rank high in search engine results. This is a highly effective way to dominate a niche.
Most sites use pages within their sites to target a specific keyword. Keyword sniping involves using entire sites to target one keyword. This gives you an advantage over your competitors.
Creating a successful keyword sniping campaign is easy.
- Choose a keyword
- Set up the site
- Create content
- Build links
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