A very inspiring podcast
July 26, 2008
Yaro Starak has recorded a very interesting and inspiring podcast with Alborz Fallah who started the website caradvice.com.au.
Caradvice is ranked in the top car websites in Australia, just behind sites that are run by big media companies like NewsCorp.
Alborz created a blog on a topic he loves and is passionate about and has turned it into a successful business. I think we see people all of the time creating websites purely for profit, sometimes they work, but mostly they fail. Just check out the sites for sale on sitepoint, most of them are crap. I am just as guilty as anyone though.
I think a lot also can be said for just working on one or two websites at the most and putting everything into them. Running multiple websites in many ways is just not practical and I think you waste time running from one niche to the next. Pick a niche that you love and write good content - it can be as simple as that.
This has worked for me to some extent with my Beijing site. At first I was running around trying to get links, but after a while I realized that if I wrote a funny/interesting/informative post, people would just link to it naturally. I think Google also prefers this. Link exchanges, link swaps and blogrolls are basically dead.
The hardest part to this of course is finding a niche that you are passionate about and is profitable. It is something I am going to have to spend some time thinking about once again when the Olympics are done.
Shoemoney quits webmasterradio
June 11, 2008
Just after I wrote about how much I enjoyed listening to Shoemoney on webmasterradio.fm he quits. I can understand though, as I am sure a lot of work goes into preparing for the show, getting guests and writing a recap every week.
I have been pretty diligent lately working out everyday and one thing that keeps me going is having interesting podcasts to listen to. If anyone knows of any good ones, please let me know.
Podcasts are great, but they seem to be overshadowed a little now by video. Video is also great, but if it is only a shot of an internet marketer speaking, I can’t really see the point.
Facebook marketing podcast
December 3, 2007
Ed Dale has recorded a great podcast on marketing with Facebook. I had read a couple of blog posts by people saying they weren’t impressed with Facebook’s new PPC offerings. Ed’s podcast sheds some light as to how Internet Marketers might be able to make money from it.
When you have something as popular as Facebook, you really need to learn how you might be able to leverage its popularity. I have some ideas as to how I could promote an ebook I have written.
One thing I didn’t know about was Facebook pages. You can create a page for free to promote your business. Here is one I just started to promote my Beijing Olympic site.
Are you going to stop selling links?
October 27, 2007
I can’t believe how much people are talking about the latest Google PageRank update! It even made the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper in Australia (at least the online version).
It’s not going to stop me selling links, at least on this blog. I am still making money with Text Link Ads and Linkworth, so it is going to be interesting to see how this income goes.
One thing I can see happening is that there are going to be more sponsored posts in blogs and linking from articles rather than from links in sidebars and blogrolls. Google kind of made the market for buying and selling links and now they are trying to close the market. Perhaps it is a good thing, I am not really sure right now. Selling links has become a very good source of income for many bloggers, especially where Adsense didn’t work so well.
I agree with what Darren has written on the subject:
I think that what Google has done this last week means that we’ll see more and more of the text link selling go further underground. We’ll see it happen less using systems like TextLinkAds and more happening in less transparent ways.
And if Darren is right, which I think he is, the internet is going to become an even less trustworthy source of information.
Shoemoney and John Reese podcast
June 14, 2007
I downloaded this podcast yesterday. Shoemoney and John Reese are two of the most successful online marketers at the moment and it is great to hear them talking together. It is a bit of a promotion for AuctionAds, but there is still some great info and tips in the podcast.
It was the first time I had been to John Reese’s new income site. What a great domain! I wonder how much he paid for the domain.
Advertising with StumbleUpon
March 2, 2007
I have created an ad campaign with Stumble Upon. I listened to a good podcast about StumbleUpon on Webmasterradio. The podcast details how you can utilize StumbleUpon to get traffic to your sites.
I have put $25 into my account as an experiment.
Shoemoney interviews Google Adsense Product Manager
February 5, 2007
This interview is about a week old now and I just got around to listening to it today. All Adsense publishers should take the time to listen to it. It is interesting to hear a Google employee talk about issues and problems that get discussed verbatim on webmaster forums.
Things like how smart pricing works, click fraud, accidentally clicking on your own ads and the new Adsense policies. Shoemoney also asks him about YouTube revenue sharing for publishers, which is a very exciting development for video producers. It sounds like they will be using some Adsense technology to calculate revenue for publishers.
I have been thinking of an idea for a video site the last couple of days so I was very interested to hear how this might work.
