Feedburner
November 29, 2005
I have spent some time signing up for a feedburner account and adding some RSS feeds for my sites. I have been blogging here for more than a year haven’t paid much attention to these kinds of services. Actually, I am still yet to add this blog.
I have added feeds for dot Japan and Japanese Diet. Feedburner has quite a few cool features like being able to generate some javascript so you can then add the feed to a regular HTML site.
Most people say “content is king” when it comes to websites, but you still have to spend around half of your time surfing looking for ideas to get traffic, finding new affiliate programs, finding new affiliate program features, analysing your statistics and reading other blogs and websites.
Pity those poor people with no Internet access at work…
Problem with getting access to house 5
November 28, 2005
There seems to be a problem getting access to the property I am considering purchasing. I am waiting to organize a building inspection of the property. Even though the property is now vacant, the realestate agent seems to be causing some kind of hold up. It is quite frustrating not knowing exactly what is happening.
Hostels.jp Indexed
November 25, 2005
My hostels.jp site has now been indexed by Google. I have about 30 pages indexed already - not bad since the site has only been up for a week.
If you would like to see how many pages are indexed by Google just enter in the Goodle search bar:
site:mydomain.com
Loan approved for house 5
November 25, 2005
My loan has been approved for my house number 5. It is amazing how easy it is for me to borrow money. I wish it was as easy to borrow money for realestate investment in Japan.
I am just waiting to get a building inspection done, and if the inspection proves the house is in relatively good condition I will go through with the sale.
It is the last week before we enter December. I will be assessing how I have done this year in the coming weeks. I probably won’t meet my goal of have $600K in property, but I will come reasonably close and in hindsight it is probably better to research every deal and not move too quickly.
If this year has been relatively good, I am hoping for a bumper year in 2006.
It is amazing the difference of how I use to think:
“I want to be rich”. “I want to retire early”. “I want to run my own business one day”.
Now I think of concrete ideas of how I can increase my wealth and passive income, set goals and try to meet those goals.
“I want to create 10 websites that earn $5 a day”. “I want to buy 5 properties that return an average of 10% a year”. “I want to buy a site which has a page rank of 5 and has no advertising and will return a passive income of $100 per week”.
If you are in debt, have little savings, no financial goals, tell yourself: “2006 will be my year”.
Join the journey…
Thanksgiving in the US
November 24, 2005
I believe it is Thanksgiving today in the US. Being brought up in Australia, I don’t know exactly what this means except for a drop in traffic on my sites. I hope everyone in America has a nice holiday. I am looking forward to my own holiyday at Christams. And by the way what is black Friday? I am totally confused.
Launch of Hostels Japan
November 22, 2005
I have spent last night and the better part of this morning working on my new site:
I am always optimistic about each site I launch, but I believe I could have good profit potential with this site. There is a good chance one of the larger hostel/hotel booking sites could be interested in purchasing the site.
All the listed hotels are currently from the bookhostels, which I have been an affiliate for a while now. It converts quite well and they have a good interface to check your stats. Lonely Planet uses them on their site.
I am hoping that hostels, ryokans and other budget hotels will eventually contact me directly for advertising.
Work on jp domain
November 22, 2005
I have been working hard on my new domain. Again, design isn’t fantastic. It will be another Mambo site. Mambo is something that is not something which I can do everything I want, but I think it will suit the site.
I have seen the .ws of the domain on sedo for $9000. This is the price for the domain only with no traffic and no website. I think the .jp could have potentially more value.
Not that I am interested in selling it for now. If I can set the site up and get some traffic to it, it could be my best new site. Well, who knows.
.jp domain
November 21, 2005
I don’t know why but I looked up a one word .jp domain on a subject I thought could be useful. I couldn’t believe my luck to find that it wasn’t taken.
.jp domains can be registered at godaddy. A .jp domain costs a whopping $99.
I wouldn’t usually bother, registering a .jp domain, but I remember seeing a similar and related domain sell for a four figure sum on sedo.com’s recent sales section. (If you can believe those figures).
I know not everyone sees domains an investment, but I am sure I can’t go wrong with this. A domain that I registered last year and decided not to renew is now listed on sedo for $850! Who knows if it will sell, but I could have easily re-registered for $10.
I have been disappointed before, so I know if you come up with something good it is better to register it straight away. I thought it was only me, but I have read on forums how registers record every search look up and people have conspiracy theories that domain registers then sell these lists.
I have never seen such a list but I wouldn’t be surprised if this happens.
Google to provide free web hosting
November 20, 2005
With all of the latest toys Google is offering to help web publishers, I was wondering if we will soon see Google offering free web hosting for small to medium sites.
I don’t mean free hosting like Geocities but a regular site with no advertising on a regular domain.
Why do I think this will happen?
As the number of advertisers expand, Google will require more quality web publishers. They will need to help people who can create great content but may not have the technical skills to create a website. Perhaps some kind of Blogger CMS service.
They will also need to prevent spammers from using the service, but I am sure Google will be able to come up with the technology to prevent this.
Google are also rumoured to be buying up old network equipment, so bandwidth should also be less on an expense for them.
The web is an exciting place to be for webmasters now
November 20, 2005
I cannot believe the number of changes that are going on currently in the competition for internet publishers and for companies advertising on the internet.
I have just spent a bit of time updating all my sites with Google sitemaps. Google is now allowing you to submit your site and you can get statistics on your sites - all for free! Anything which can show Google how good your site is must be a good thing. In some ways it is also giving Google a tremendous amount of data on sites on the Internet. I can’t help feeling sites that don’t follow Google’s latest initiatives will fall behind.
I believe that this will create various opportunities for SEO marketers and internet marketing businesses to keep up with all of the latest technology. I am sure we will see SEO becoming a full-time profession like accounting; companies will either hire internal staff or outsource this work.
