Interview with 9 Niche Site Building Experts

If I want to invest my time in doing something and want to learn from someone then I need to know that they are getting results from what they teach.

That is crucial and one thing I highly recommend you do yourself.

Anyone can make a rehashed course with old information but people who prove that what they are doing works are the ones to follow.

Which leads me onto this:

Interview with 9 Niche Site Building Experts

9 hugely successful niche site builders have spilled the beans on what they do,
including:

- The precise niches they’re in.

- Their link-building strategies.

- What tools and software they use.

- Their outsourcing strategy.

- Exactly how much $$$ they make.

- What IM methods work and which don’t.

- Precisely how they make their sites.

- …and huge amounts more.

One of them is Jan Roos whom I have been following for a while now. Jan has sold more than $1 MILLION of Amazon products and knows more than most people about what it takes to create high converting sites.

Then there’s Cary Bergeron who knows how to create wildly profitable Adsense sites
and flip them for huge profits.

Just these 2 guys alone have taught me a lot.

There are 7 other interviews with experts in their own right too. Here’s the link again:

Interview with 9 Niche Site Building Experts

These interviews could really give you the encouragement and advice you need to
kickstart your own online journey.

Tony Newton

Tony

Increase Traffic & Rankings with Social Media

Social MediaNow I’ll be the first to admit that when it comes to social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+1 and the like, I’ve never been a big advocate of using them.

I’m just a ‘stuck in my roots’ SEO and organic traffic guy.

But saying that, I’m also not averse to making changes to help my business either. So I’ve been looking into various methods and have started implementing them on my sites. Like everything I do, I’ll track the results and if they work I’ll do more of it and if not I’ll dump it.

Using Social Media To Increase Your Rankings

The main reason I’m looking into them is because there is a lot of noise recently in the SEO communities that say apparently sites utilizing social media are getting better rankings. They appear more ‘real’ and have real people behind them, as compared to sites that don’t have any social aspects or interactivity at all.

The first thing I’ve been looking at are Facebook fan pages.

Facebook Fan Pages

I’m sure you are aware of what these are. Simple pages that you create on Facebook that advertise your business (and website).

I’ve created a few before but they were, well how can I say it….basic!

So it’s no wonder why I never had any results with them.

Last week I bought a WSO called FB Slider because I loved the look of the pages it created. In fact, they are like mini websites but all contained on the one Facebook fan page. This means I can now create great looking fan pages that aren’t boring anymore.

I’ve started adding these to some of my sites to see if it makes a difference in their rankings and also the traffic they get direct from Facebook. I love the software and it was well worth the money (although it’s not your normal $9.97 WSO it is very professional and you can make awesome looking fan pages in minutes without the hassle of trying to make them look appealing yourself. Plus there are some great bonuses too!).

—> Grab FB Slider here

Increasing Interactivity

Another thing I’m currently looking at is the comments I get on my niche blogs. Most of the time I turn them off as they can be a hassle to deal with.

But apparently Google sees sites that have regular comments as a big plus, so it’s something I need to test for myself.

So I’ve just picked up a copy of WP Comment Ninja to automate the whole process for me without having to approve anything myself.

I don’t buy many products from the Warrior Forum (WSO’s) as they can be very disappointing sometimes.

But I’m happy to say this one and FB Slider are 2 of the best buys I’ve made in a long time.

WP Comment Ninja automatically posts comments on my blogs that are drip fed to look natural. Not only does it come with 1000 comments built in but you can upload your own comments too.

Why would you do this?

Well as you know, Google loves fresh content and interaction on websites. WP Comment Ninja gives you both. Your site looks like it is getting unique comments from your readers and the content grows on each page automatically.

I’ve got to say, for less than $9 (currently) it’s an awesome WordPress plugin!

—> Grab WP Comment Ninja here

To Sum Up

Social media is something I KNOW I have to get more involved in. So I’m dipping my toe into the cold water to see if it’s something I need to dive into very quickly. I will of course post any results here.

Tony Newton

Tony

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3 Way Links (Updated for 2011)

3 Way Link BuildingI explained how effective 3 way link building was back in this post in November 2009. The reason why it works so well is because it is far more effective than reciprocal linking which doesn’t carry the same weight as it used to do. But in this post I’ll show you how you can automate the entire procedure so you don’t have to do it manually anymore.

Firstly, this is how each method works:

Reciprocal Linking

Reciprocal Linking

3 Way Linking

3 Way Linking

Whilst reciprocal linking does still carry a small amount of SEO benefit, it’s certainly not as effective as it used to be. This is mainly because Google saw how easy it was for websites to link to each other and it could ‘game’ rankings when used extensively.

3 Way Links on the other hand give more weight because they are classed as ‘one way’ linking. As I explained in this post, you can do this manually by creating another website which you use to link out to other sites but the incoming links you have pointing to your main money site.

In the last 12 months I started using a service called, unsurprisingly, 3WayLinks!

It’s a service by Jonathan Leger who has created some superb tools including The Best Spinner. What 3WayLinks does is automate the entire 3 Way Linking campaign. It can be used on any website including WordPress blogs.

All you do is enter your site details and add a resources page onto your website. You will start getting links pointing back to your website and your links page will automatically start growing and linking out to other sites too.

This is effective in 2 ways:

#1 – Obviously you are gaining backlinks, so your rankings will increase in the search engines.

#2 – You’re linking out to other related sites which is seen as increasing the visitor value of your site.

You can choose 3 different keywords that are used as anchor text to point to your site. So not only are your links increasing over time, you also get a variety of link text which looks more natural to the search engines.

Plus, you can choose to only link out to sites in the same category as your own. When search engines see you link to other related sites, this is a positive thing as you are giving more value.

You can add up to 50 sites in your 3WayLinks account and they will all build backlinks that are generally completed after 2 months. You get at least 250 links to each site (some of mine have more than 500).

What I love about the whole process is it is automated. You can install the resources page (or WordPress plugin) in about 2 minutes, then just sit back and watch the links come in. You can see all links in and links out from the control panel.

I think it’s a great tool that has certainly made an impact on my own niche sites, so I highly recommend it.

Click Here to check it out.

Tony Newton

Tony

Why ClickBank Sucks for Make Money Online Products

ClickBank RefundsToday ClickBank introduced a new terms of service which states that they are going to charge higher fees if you’re refund rate is above 15% for a period of 60 days. This is to encourage people to make better products and in turn lower refund rates.

But as most of you will already know, when you sell or promote products in the make money online niche then you will struggle to get refund rates that low especially if you use ClickBank.

You see, as easy to use as ClickBank is to have your own affiliate program for your products, it’s also FAR too easy to claim a refund.

And most freebie seekers know this already.

All you need to do is send one email request or fill in a form and say that the product wasn’t as you expected and BANG…there you go, enjoy your free product.

As a product seller it is increasingly frustrating when you see the same names doing this over and over again.

Maybe if they want to reduce refund rates they should have a tighter procedure and ask some questions when the same people are refunding all the time?

That is why I would say I’ll probably never promote a make money online product through ClickBank again.

But I will say that it’s different in other ClickBank niches. Most buyers in the other niches don’t tend to buy lots of products in the same niche from ClickBank, so they don’t realise just how easy it is to get a refund.

Anyway, that’s just my quick rant of the day!

I’ll now go and continue to get my WSO ready for launch later today….

Tony Newton

Tony

Finding Recurring Affiliate Programs to Promote on your Blog

Recurring Affiliate ProgramsUsing affiliate marketing is a great way to monetize your blog. You don’t need to create a product, deal with customer support or any of that.

Just promote your affiliate links and make a percentage of every sale you refer.

Simple!

However – If you do what all the so called ‘gurus‘ tell you to do, you will have no doubt tried to promote affiliate products from ClickBank.

While they do pay quite well, they have one fundamental thing wrong with them:

They have far too much competition.

That’s because EVERYONE who is trying to make affiliate commissions uses them. That makes your job even harder.

Fortunately there’s a solution.

Here’s a secret database of more than 160 HIGH paying recurring affiliate programs that you can use today:

http://www.tonynewton.co.uk/watch/160affprograms/

Each one comes with:

1) Name of Product
2) Description
3) Product URL
4) Commission Payout
5) Affiliate signup URL

And there’s a niche that you are sure to be interested in:

Arts & Entertainment
Betting & Gambling
Dating & Relationships
Education & Languages
Exercise & Fitness
Finance & Loans
Forex & Investing
Green Products
Health
Home & Garden
Hypnosis
Internet Marketing
Parenting & Family
Self Improvement
Software & Services
Sports
Weight Loss

This means you can beat the competition in its tracks and start earning commissions fast!

What makes them even better is they are all recurring products which means you get paid over and over again, not just once like most affiliate programs.

Hope you like them!

Tony Newton

Tony

Are 1 Page Blogs Now Dead?

Are 1 Page Blogs Dead?In a recent post I talked about the difference between building small niche blogs or building authority blogs. Each of them has their advantages. But since the Panda update a lot of people now believe that small (thin) sites will drop down the rankings.

Well with anything I do online, I always test and try things myself to prove whether something is correct or not. So recently I started creating small niche Adsense blogs just to test whether they can make money on their own and rank like I would hope.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been making money with Adsense since 2003 but recently I have been focussing on product creation instead of building Adsense sites.

So this was a welcome change!

So I picked out 5 sites to build all in one niche. Created them with one post as the homepage and the normal static pages such as Privacy Policy and Terms of Service etc. Basically they are just one page sites ranking for one keyword.

I built them towards the end of August and every one has made money and is ranking in the top ten of Google for their term. One makes more than $1 a day but the others are more random.

Maybe this is a temporary thing and the Panda update might affect them but to be honest, I’m not bothered! If I can make a site in 2 hours that earns money every month and is an asset I could flip for $500-$1000 then I’ll happily keep building them.

Also, I did very little promotion on these particular blogs too. Nothing like what I do for my other sites.

Now I do have authority blogs too, so I’ve got all bases covered but this was an interesting test. Actually since then I’ve created a LOT more of them and am enjoying getting back into the Adsense game again. So much so I’m creating a course on exactly what I’m doing and how I’m building these small sites and authority blogs too.

So stay tuned for that one!

I guess having more than 200,000 clicks on my Ads and some months reaching 28,000 clicks I must have done something right over the years and would love to share it with others to help them make money blogging with Adsense too.

So are 1 page blogs dead? Well no I don’t think they are.

Tony Newton

Tony

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Using the Trophy Pigeon Method

Trophy PigeonThis post follows on from my post yesterday about ways to make your blog more popular. There is a recently released product which I bought myself called the Trophy Pigeon method.

It’s being sold on the Warrior Forum and you can download it from here. Its concept shows how to get 10,000 or more visitors to your website within 7-10 days of implementing it.

Sceptical?

Yep me too, that’s why I decided to buy it and see what it was all about.

So I opened up the 29 page pdf report, skimmed over the first few pages until it then said how the traffic was generated. At first I said to myself ‘you’re kidding, I’ve known about that for years’ and I was thinking it might just be rehashed garbage that you get a LOT of on the Warrior Forum. It’s one of the methods I mentioned in yesterdays post.

Nevertheless I carried on reading and things started to get interesting. You see, I have used this method myself in the way that everyone else uses it.

But this was different.

The way that Chris (the creator of the method) uses the Trophy Pigeon method is totally different.

Warning – It involves putting more effort in than the standard way of doing it.

But that’s a good thing because most people will put the method to one side and look for something easier.

The Trophy Pigeon method is all about certain types of blog posts. But they are done to get hundreds of other sites linking to them. Not only does it benefit for getting great link juice but the traffic you can receive can easily be as Chris describes.

He often gets up to 100,000 unique visitors within 48 hours of launching this method.

Can you imagine what that traffic can do for your own websites?

So I will be using the Trophy Pigeon method myself and I will report my results here on this blog. If you haven’t grabbed it yourself yet, then I highly recommend you do. You can get it from here.

Tony Newton

Tony

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How to Make My Blog Popular

Popular BlogHow to make my blog popular is a question that is asked by hundreds (possibly thousands) of bloggers every year.

They have a great looking blog which they created themselves or paid hundreds of dollars for someone to make it for them, yet each time they log into their traffic stats they see 4 or 5 people have visited the day before.

There’s nothing more frustrating than writing everyday only to see that you’re just getting no results from it.

So what’s the answer?

Well there are lots of answers to that question but let’s look at some ways you can use today to get more traffic to your blog.

Method #1 – Write Quality Content

Sounds obvious right? But in reality SO MANY people get this wrong. The best way to increase your blog traffic is to write quality content that appeals to your target audience.

And it works 2 fold:

Quality content will connect with your readers. They will anticipate your next post and keep visiting your blog. They will also tell their friends about your blog.

Which brings us to the second benefit, people will link to your blog from their own blogs. When this starts happening you open the doors up to lots of ‘link avenues’ that will bring in traffic. What’s even better is the traffic is already targeted to your market.

Writing quality content has multiple advantages in bringing in and KEEPING traffic connected to your blog.

Method #2 – Create Link Bait

This can overlap the previous method but the point of link bait is to create something that other blogs and websites will naturally link to. So it can be a quality blog post, free report, free product, free software. Basically, something of value that will appeal to your target audience.

Give it away and people will link to it.

Top lists work great for this. Just create a list of 10, 20 or even 50 popular things in your market.

It can be the top blogs in your niche, top tips to achieve something, top people you aspire to be like. Hopefully you get the point.

The great thing about this method is it works 2 fold too:

You’re providing a valuable resource, so naturally other blogs will want to link to your top list as it gives their readers more value.

If your top list is a list of other blogs or websites, THEY will want to tell their readers and link to your post. So you will get streams of traffic from the blogs you have listed in your top list. You can guarantee they find your list by emailing them and telling them.

So again, you get 2 excellent new ‘traffic avenues’ with this method too.

Method #3 – Write for Other Blogs

Yes we’re talking about guest posting. You can create content for other blogs and get them to post it. This will of course have a link back to your own blog so you’ll get some great targeted traffic, as long as you choose related blogs to post on.

Bloggers naturally want great, unique content for their blogs. If they don’t have to write it themselves then it’s impossible for them to turn down.

Blogs such as ProBlogger have guest posts on a daily basis. This is because Darren gets quality content and the authors get free traffic from his popular blog.

It’s truly win-win.

So take a lot around and list the top ten blogs in your niche. Send the owner an email introducing yourself and ask them if you can write some unique content for them. If they agree, just be sure to write the best content you can and submit it to them.

Just continue to do this until you have gone through as many blogs as you can find.

Guest posting gives your blog targeted free traffic that can last for years.

I Could Go On But….

Of course this list could continue on and on but hopefully just these 3 methods will give you an idea of how to make your blog popular and get that traffic you have wanted for ages.

Just be sure that your blog is high quality and you’ll keep a large percentage of the traffic coming back for years to come.

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Tony Newton

Tony

Flipping Adsense Sites – Case Studies

Flipping Sites For ProfitJust in case you are not aware of how profitable Adsense sites can be, they routinely sell for 15-20 times (or more) their monthly revenue.

So if a site is earning $10 a day, that’s $300 a month and could sell for anywhere between $4000-$10000.

These crazy amounts are far more than the regular 6-10 months earnings that everyone talks about. You only need to look at sales on Flippa to find examples of these Adsense sites selling almost everyday.

And that’s exactly what I’ll do now…

OK so I’m looking through the “Just Sold” category on Flippa and here’s one that was sold yesterday (6th October 2011) :

Diabetes Site

Flipping Adsense Sites

Flippa listing – https://flippa.com/2649031-175-adsense-month-pr-3-6k-unique-visitor-month-10k-pageviews-no-reserve

Website – http://www.online-diabetes-information.com/

The site was averaging $175 a month yet sold at auction for $4990.

That’s approx 28.5 months revenue.

Aquarium Lighting Site

Flipping Adsense Site

This one ended 2 days ago (5th October 2011)

Flippa listing – https://flippa.com/2650342-221-monthly-profit-google-adsense-2-5-years-old

Website – http://www.saltwateraquariumlighting.com/

The site was averaging $178 a month and sold at auction for $4000.

That’s approx 22.5 months revenue.

Stop Sweating Site

Adsense Site

This site was sold 8 days ago (30th September 2011)

Flippa listing – https://flippa.com/2642729-established-pr4-health-website-290-monthly-4-special-bin-bonuses-included

Website – http://stop-excessive-sweating-now.com/

The site was averaging $290 a month and sold at auction for $5497.

That’s approx 19 months revenue.

So if you’re not building Adsense sites yourself, you should be asking yourself why not!

They are generally quite small sites that target a specific niche. Content can be added on an on-going basis to keep Google happy but the main thing is you get the sites making $5-$10 a day. That way you can flip them for $4000-$5000 every day of the week.

If they make more money each month, the more you will flip them for.

The concept is easy to follow, scalable, repeatable and hugely profitable!

Inside Lump Sum Profits are case studies of people doing this and literally making a killing. I’ve done it myself and still do, although I am busy with other stuff too, so I’m not as dedicated to building as I was 5 years ago.

But I’ve still had more than 200,000 clicks from Adsense so I must have done something right!

I hope you enjoyed this post and please feel free to leave your comments below and share on Facebook.

Tony Newton

Tony

Making Money with Niche Adsense Blogs

Adsense Niche Blog ProfitsThere are many ways to monetize a blog. Paid advertising, affiliate marketing, CPA ads, text links ads, the list goes on and on. One of the easiest ways to monetize a blog is to put Adsense ads on them. The reason I say it’s the easiest is because Google will automatically show relevant ads for you. You don’t have to choose certain ads and guess what your visitors need. Just throw on some code and let Google take care of the rest.

So as easy as that sounds, Adsense just won’t work for all blogs. If you’re in a market where there are not many advertisers for instance, you just won’t get targeted enough ads to show and even worse they won’t pay very much when you get clicks on them.

So what’s the answer then?

Niche Adsense Blogs

The great thing about niche Adsense blogs is that you can target them for specific keywords and markets and build small blogs that are guaranteed to pay well when you get clicks on your ads.

Some great examples if high paying Adsense markets would be finance (loans, credit cards, stock market), medical, legal, education and the health and fitness market (to some extent).

By building blogs targeting these markets you won’t need a lot of traffic to make some decent money, especially if you can create a range of these blogs and keep on churning them out. All you need to do is pick your keywords, write some blog posts and create your blog with Adsense on it. Then throw some backlinks at the blogs and that will increase your rankings.

Higher rankings = More traffic = More money!

OK, so I’ve obviously simplified the process there but that is really all there is to it. Just create your own system, or follow someone else’s system (there are dozens of Adsense courses out there) and start building your own niche Adsense empire.

I’ve been making money with Adsense since 2003 and had more than 200,000 clicks on my sites. Now I’ll be honest, I haven’t concentrated solely on Adsense and have many other income streams but it’s still been a nice little amount each month.

My Adsense Clicks

But there’s something better than earnings a few dollars here and there and that is…

Flipping Adsense Blogs for HUGE Profits

The real money is made when you decide to sell your blogs. This is because sites or blogs that make money with Adsense get one of the highest returns currently from virtually any other monetization method.

We’re talking a 10 times monthly earnings lump sum minimum. Some Adsense blogs get 20 times monthly earnings or even more than that on regular occurrences. It all comes down to the age of the blog, its market and how much money it is making. The longer you keep the history going on the blog, the more money you will get when you sell it.

Established Blog + History of Traffic & Earnings = $$$$

Just check out recent sales on Flippa and you’re bound to find Adsense blogs selling for 10-20 times there monthly earnings. Flipping them is where the real money is made.

So that’s how to make money with niche Adsense blogs. Just build, earn, and sell.

Rinse and repeat.

Lump Sum Profits is a great course by Ryan Moran. I bought it and it’s full of really useful tips on building sites just like how I have just described. Personally I got a lot of great tips from the interviews as it’s interesting to see how each of them make money flipping sites for huge amounts of money.

Tony Newton

Tony