Lightning Round #6 is LIVE Now!!!!!!!!
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Try to keep it one question per post.. jesus.
1- It depends on the niche and how many good phrases or subniches there are. Typically if it's a content driven network, I'd go with a bit of both. Mix it up, no need to do just one or the other.
2- Yes, RSS is very powerful and I'm a big fan of scraping, but give links back to the author too.
3- Um.. sure?
4- There will always be money in porn, it's just not as easy or as cheap to make it like it was back in the day.
5- Something that focuses on CPM or something that will appease the users, perhaps a newsletter or contextual ads. You can also have them see one of those preview ads that adbrite pushes.
4-5 paragraphs of content with no more than 3 adsense ads in it. Put the ads as close to the content as possible, and use images that are small and content relevant over the ads to increase CTR's (not illegal with adsense), also put a 1 pixel border around them to keep yourself safe just in case. Make the ads look like content, and use the 468/728 ads in between the paragraphs of content.
If it's in terms of traffic and how to attract them, use message boards or social networking groups to locate your target niche, and give potential users an incentive to stay and generate content. You may also want to run a contest or two to get them jazzed up about it. Running a "tell your friend" link too can't hurt.
If it's in terms of monetizing, adsense or YPN is a good choice, but make sure you keep everything completely relevant. Utilize the picture advice for adsense that I wrote in one of the answers above. If it's a very very niche site, and you are able to get a minimum of 2k uniques to it, you can apply to TribalFusion or Casale, they love very targeted niche sites that don't have a huge or broad number of comeptitors.
Also try and strike up syndication deals or partnerships with potential competitors who have been in the market space for longer than you. If you grow larger, you can cut them off or buy them out and dominate your marketshare.
I have no idea, ask your affiliate manager. Maybe something with lead gen in mind that is easy to get signups for that don't require a credit card? Something along the lines of email/zip submits that payout $1.10 or one of those bizopp offers than payout $4 or so for people looking to get rich with a home business. Those two do very well with a small budget. You have to figure out a niche or two for yourself that you can potentially do well with marketing and creativity goes.
Both. Why limit yourself to just one? That would be silly.
I can't really say, not because I don't want to, but because they change so often. The thing is that one shitty ppc engine may be better for 10 specific niches, but bad for 500 others. There are so many to choose from it's really a game of trial and error with your niches to pick something that works. In your case since you are based in Germany, I would target German traffic with German contextual ads. I'm sure the amount of ppc arbitragers for that is slim to none, so you can easily gain the upperhand with the knowledge from here.
There are a lot of scripts that you can buy or get for free. We use a custom one. You'll have to search the threads here for names of some, or ask around, or even just search the engines for something, compare the pros and cons of each, and use your best judgement when you buy it.
You can always try using blog search engines like feedburner or technorati. Yahoo also has a good one, and I know Google is trying to have a good one. If it's not blog traffic you are interested in, then try doing a unique search on an engine for "RSS + niche" or "RSS + keyword", that may get you some better and more unique results.
Have you run into any copyright issues with your scraper sites? Or does a link back, like you mentioned, usually ease a pissed off author. Im using allot of copyrighted shit and am worried that I may run into trouble down the road.
That is a good idea and one I have been mulling over for quite some time.
German traffic is a two edged sword, actually.
The traffic numbers just do not compare to US traffic. People who speak English (most) also use english pages a lot of the time.
Still, thanks for bringing that back to my attention.
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German traffic is a two edged sword, actually.
The traffic numbers just do not compare to US traffic. People who speak English (most) also use english pages a lot of the time.
Still, thanks for bringing that back to my attention.
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Probably to late, but an example would be content from the associated press and others like them.
Cloaking will always work to some degree just so long as search engines don't require you to pay to get every domain you want inside their index. It still makes lots of people a lot of money, but you do have to focus more on volume now than before. It's not an easy or simple field to get into, so if you want to really take a crash course, go to seoblackhat.com and pay to join his forums, I don't know from experience, but I heard they have a lot of good material on there. There are also a bunch of other black hat boards, just search for them or ask someone here, I don't know them all offhand.
You're welcome.
Niches, ehh, anything really. There is no ONE sacred niche, just don't use the "mesothelioma" shit, because that is a flag to be banned quickly and every idiot goes for that. You have to decide on your own. I used to use nichebot.com has a good place to find niches. Some people here use nichetaxi.com too (I think that's the url). There are so many tools and programs now that you can easily use and find niches. Try and look around at things that cost a lot of money for a sale, usually B2B stuff or medical procedures, and make your mark there and start up.
I wish I had resources, but I am all self-taught from it. It's not that tough of a concept, and I did all of my learning through trial and error, and asking other people questions about it.
Never ran into any issues. The most trouble you can encounter is someone emailing you asking to remove it, which you should. But syndication through RSS works in many ways, they help boost your readerbase, but they also create means for other people to syndicate your content on their site, even though you get a link back. Which is fine in my book, but it seems a few people here and there have issues with it.
If you are knowingly using copyrighted information you should definitely get permission for it first. With RSS that doesn't apply because the author is allowing people to accept the feed and syndicate it. But if you are doing something else and literally using copyright content without RSS then you either need to remove it or get permission to use it. Again, the most that may happen is you'll get an email from a pissed off person asking to remove it, by which you should comply and apologize, but you may want to ask if it's okay if you give a link back (which you should have done in the first place).
No problem. Just put it into German, not English. I'm sure with the big rise in ad spending online from the EU countries you can capitalize on it with content sites or arbitrage sites even. Hell, I don't know German well enough to write about it, so you have me beaten! Goodluck, and definitely keep me posted on it. I am very curious to see how it pans out.
This sounds like one of those ebook interview challenges. I would never limit myself to those two things, and even so, they are way too general to give out any sort of good answer. But sure, I'll play along.
I would take the blogger account and make it a fan based blog about something with very little competition, but with enough monthly searches. Then I would take an affiliate program that focuses on magazines or movie rentals, and use those programs as an incentive to join or use if they want to get very secret information about the person or topic you are blogging about. I would also use aweber and make an email newsletter and upsell them through offers on that maybe? All I know is it would be a royal pain in the ass to look after and monetize, but it would work if you keep up with it, and if not, well, then next time don't buy an ebook with silly questions and answers like this one.
1- Absolutely not. Take the money you are going to spend there and just donate it to charity, because it will have better use there than in the 7search campaign.
2- You're asking the wrong person. Ask Quadszilla over at seoblackhat.com and tell him you love WickedFire more than SEOBlackHat, he likes hearing that.
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