Dave, Baby Beth and a Niche Inspector update

This is a quick video of myself with my new niece Elisabeth. She was 8 pounds at birth, and is doing fine. Right now, she is like a cute little lump. She doesn’t even cry! (At least, not yet).

As far as the Niche Inspector goes that I’m working on, I finished going through the PLR Articles today. I think what I’m going to do is to write the landing page myself, which I’ll do tomorrow. At that point I will start to put the site up. I’m also going to use Google’s keyword tool to try and find some more keywords related to acne. If anything really stands out, I’ll create some content on these topics for the site. Google’s keyword tool can be found here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal. I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow.

That’s it for now!

To our success,

- Dave

John Chow at the Affiliate Summit

Earlier today, I was able to watch a one hour video on affiliate strategies at www.JohnChow.com. It featured John Chow (naturally), Zac Johnson, Amit Mehta and Kris Jones. All of them are very successful, but all of them approach the industry in different ways. I’m not really focused on affiliate marketing in the way these guys are at the moment, but it was still well worth my viewing. There are just so many angles to this internet thing, it boggles my mind sometimes.

Anyway, of all of them, Amit really stood out for me. He is a very smart guy (not that the other guys aren’t, lol) who used to work at MIT. One thing he said that I found interesting is that he has PPC campaigns in all three search engines. What’s more, he finds that he converts more sales using Yahoo and MSN, as opposed to Google. The reason for this, he suspects, is because search users who use Yahoo and MSN tend to be less sophisticated and are more likely to buy online. I thought this was interesting, and it may very well be true.

Amit also mentioned a tool called winner alert that helps you with the split testing of ppc ad campaigns. Again, split testing and ppc ads are something I’m planning on looking at in the near future. However, If you are running multiple campaigns, I can see it coming in handy. Check it out here: http://www.winneralert.com/

Amit also praised Google’s adwords editor as being the best out there. All four of the panellists agreed that social media was the hot topic now, and would likely continue to be in the future.

When I listen to guys like this, I find it inspiring. I’d like to be up there with them at some point. One step at a time

Today, I worked on my PLR articles some more. I’m not quite done them yet, but I’m getting close. Reading PLR articles just puts my brain into a fog. Regardless, I’m committed to building my site this way, and that’s what I’m going to do.

On another note in my previous post, you may have seen a comment from Genesis, who runs http://plrarticlepacks.com/. Looking at his site, I thought the prices he was offering for his packs were very reasonable. What is interesting about his service is that you can pick the article topics, and then his service will write them for you. In addition, if you’re willing to pay a little more, the articles will be exclusively yours. I may try this service myself in the future, we’ll see.

That’s it for now. Tomorrow I’ll hopefully finish off those PLR articles, and maybe I’ll get that video of my niece put up.

To Our Success

- Dave

PS – one thing I loved about winner alert was the guys sales letter. He did it in a kind of un-salesletter way. Very funny.

PLR Articles – A Good Thing?

OK, this is going to be a fairly quick post, as I seem to have lost my internet connection from my apartment. I’m not sure what is going on with Telus. The problem appears to be on their end though. I’m going to wait till tomorrow. If it’s not working then, I guess I’ll have to give them a call. I’m currently writing this from my laptop in a coffee shop, rather than my beloved Mac. It works, but it’s not ideal.

Anyway, with the Niche inspector thing, I’m pretty sure I’m going to try creating a quick and dirty site using the keywords “acne solution”. I have no great interest in acne, but Myleena’s philosophy is that this shouldn’t matter. Find a niche, exploit it as quickly as possible, then move on to the next one. OK, let’s do this one then.

Now, the problem is that I have no great interest in (or experience with, thank-goodness) acne. So, what do I do? For this site, I’m going to try and using something called Private Label Rights articles. These are articles that you can buy online cheaply, and modify them however you want. There are two problems with PLR articles, however:

1) They can be very poor in quality

2) Other people may be using the same articles that you are. If this is the case, you may get smacked down for using duplicate content by Google.

Now, the articles I purchased were from http://www.niche-content-packages.com/. I’ve heard that these are high quality PLR articles. We’ll see. I’m planning on give these articles a quick and dirty rewrite, inserting the phrase “acne solution” where I can. This will form the basis for my site.

Looking at the articles, they are not bad quality wise. Still, I’m wondering if I wouldn’t be better off just heading off to the Vancouver Public Library and writing them myself. I’m not really sure at this point. Time will reveal all, I suppose.

Tomorrow I’m planning on a) getting my regular internet connection working b) work on these PLR articles, and c) hopefully, see my new niece again.

To Our Success,

- Dave