Link Building, Subscribers and Lost Focus

January 30, 2010

I’m back!

I took the last several months off working on a couple of projects.

In fact, I just rolled them out and now I am ready to share them with you but first I want to let you know about my mistake.

The mistake I made is walking away from this blog and neglecting it. I haven’t posted in awhile and subsequently all of my SEO placement has been lost. Basically, I have many loyal subscribers but I am not sure why. Every time they’ve come back to this site there hasn’t been any new content. That is a fatal mistake. Especially since I haven’t been actively promoting through other methods.

As a result, I lost any traction that I had. That is the bad news. The good news is that I’ve rolled out several cool new websites/blogs.

- WordpressNicheIncome.com: Dedicated to Wordpress How-To Videos

- SixFigureProducts.com: Dedicated to the only online business success model that truly works

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Internet Marketing Question…

August 31, 2009

I have an Internet Marketing question to ask you and I would like your feedback.

Here’s my question: I have put together over 30 videos on how to set up wordpress blogs A to Z, and I will be adding new videos on a monthly basis. Should I set up the site like the Butterfly Marketing Script (not an affiliate link) or should I set it up like a community, where I offer free information and a couple of payment levels for more videos (igroops.com)?

I’ve been wrestling with this question for a month or so, which has prevented me to move forward and offer this great content. I have access to both and feel that both are probably good systems to release it with.

The biggest advantage of using Butterfly Marketing is the ability to have a One Time Only offer presented when somebody signs up. That function I like. It appears that igroops.com does not have that. I did send an email to the sales team at igroops to confirm this. If they do have it, I may end up setting up the site on this system.

The benefit with igroops.com is to really create a community of like minded folks and bring them together. It has a bunch of tools to help you do this and so I would create more of a soft sell.

So there is my dilemma…

Obviously, I want to get the biggest bang for my time. So I have been apprehensive to launch the product because fear of chossing the wrong platform. I know, this violates the rule of action. Hopefully you can understand my dilemma.

If it were you what would you do?

Please leave a comment and let me know your thought….

Thanks

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Website Hosting For Blogs and Salespages

July 15, 2009

I want to share a recent issue that I had with my website hosting service. Actually, to be completely transparent, the issue that I am going to share effected other areas of my business as well as my personal business.

About four months ago I started getting email notifications from my hosting service that my sites were deactivated and that I would need to call their support 800 number to resolve the problem.

To fully understand the severity of this, you also need to understand that I have A LOT of sites up. And the better website hosting services allow you to add multiple domains (they operate independently.) So when one site was deactivated then all the sites under that account were deactivated.

As you can imagine this situation directly affected my income. Needless to say, I immediately took action and easily got my sites reactivated.

What had happened, and I don’t know how, my account was hacked and spammers were using my account to send their trash to many unsuspecting targets.

AND IT WAS COMING FROM MY DOMAINS!!!

I will give the hosting service credit. They listened to me, and they helped me do some things related to my sites to protect myself from these attacks.

The larger problem, I would come to find out about a month and half into it, was that they have a three strike policy.

You guessed it. My accounts were hacked for a third time and I was contact by them (Hosting Service) and they politely asked me to move my sites to another hosting service.

I don’t want to vilify the hosting service, so I won’t, but I do want to stress the point, that you must protect yourself.

Don’t share your hosting login details with anybody, even your virtual assistant.
Make sure you establish a difficult password. Maybe even use the system generated password system.
Don’t use the same passwords for all of your accounts

Hopefully following these three steps you can eliminate any problems you may have. It is human nature to spend time on immediate task, I am just like that, so normally I do not pay attention to these articles. My recommendation is to be careful.

Recommendation:

As I mentioned earlier in the post I have a lot of sites up and generating cash for me. Needless to say I have them spread out on different hosting platforms for two reasons:

First and probably the most important is that I spread out my risk. If the sites go down, the server goes down for any reason it won’t effect of of my income;
I discover new hosting services through recommendations. So when I have a new project I try them out.

Currently I am using Host Monster and I am really happy with them. The next time you need a service you should check them out.

Thanks for reading this post!