Something I never did was tell you how you should do that. I’m currently doing a test on a site of mine for two different keywords and seeing which way is best. One keyword has individual pages for each variation. So a page for grey dress pants, one for blue dress pants and on. The second keyword has one page, with all the keywords/colors added in. I didn’t use the exact keyword for all the colors, but I worked it in enough in variations. And I’m going to see which one is better. I’ll judge this basis on which one ranks the most variations in the top 10.

The second thing I’m doing is that I’m working on what I’ll call “hobby sites” mainly on web2.0 properties (blogger, wordpress, and my own domains). Hobby sites are the sites that you’re interested in and talking about. Usually it’s really easy for you to work on this site, but you don’t end up making any cash. This still holds true and the hobby sites aren’t being built to earn money. But I’ve noticed that some of my older hobby sites (3 years+) are actually strong forces (high PR, natural links, strong holdings for most keywords, mainly SE traffic). I’ve started to casually hand off links to some of my money sites. I don’t do it in a spammy way. I’m very careful, but I want more of these hobby sites to pass links off. I find that polarizing topics are the best (ie: anything politically). The reason is that you can express yourself how you want. There will be people that agree, people that are warm to your ideas and people that will absolutely hate it. And they’ll link to you from their sites telling you off. A link is a link.

The third thing is a move in diversification. I want to sell advertising space on a website. I know there is money on this, but I honestly don’t know much about it. I’ve started putting this into action. I have to build a very clean, informative site. We’ll see how this goes. I’m going to make one niche type of site that will do this. I’m also going to create a site for my local city that ranks for specific keywords and see if I can sell advertising space on my site locally (through email). I’m not going to actively go door to door because I want something that I can apply to every city I want, regardless of where I live.

These are currently the items that are in development. I’m hoping I can report on this within 6 months and give an idea of how it is working.

Edit:

One of my “hobby” sites has become very strong lately. The traffic has picked up. And that’s what I want. I want power I can push. I don’t need to monetize the site. Check out the jump in traffic below.

But at the end of the day, pissing and moaning won’t help you.

I don’t have any particular beef with WordPress. I like the way it works and it is easy. The problems revolve around security. You have to keep WordPress up to date and the honest truth is that I don’t look at some of my sites for quite a period of time. The only real thing that I want is a commenting system on this site because I like to have people comment. I could develop something in PHP to allow me to create a completely static HTML page with my content and implement a commenting system at the bottom. This is really just too much work for me. So the plan now is to really just harden WordPress. I’m not to a point where I can just not update it. I wish I was, but I’m not. I want to get to that place.

So I’ll keep you posted and hopefully I can come up with something that is quite hardened and I can leave for quite sometime.

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Copywriting Resume Experiment

Ever since I got my copywriting literature I’ve been dying to try this. I want to take my regular resume and make a new version of it with applied copywriting techniques. I’m going to send it out to a bunch of local job listings and see what happens.

The resume is the ultimate sales copy that I’ve never poured more than 10 minutes of my time into. It’s one sheet of paper that needs to stand out, be read and viewed by the reader as something valuable. All I’ve ever done is list who, what, when, where and why on it. I think most people do that.

I want to test out copywriting and what I’m learning. I want to try to work in as much as I can, including a headline. It’ll be a fun experiment and a valuable learning tool.

Amazon Sniper Sites

Yes sir, the next sniper site experiment is going to be completely for Amazon. I suppose the main reason for this is paranoia. I just don’t trust Google. I think they don’t like the concept of sites like this and it’s hard to tell. The rules are incredibly vague, so I’m not sure if I have made for adsense (MFA) sites or if they’re value.

I am actually pretty surprised with my Amazon results so far with the few sites that I actually have set up right now. Plus I don’t have to worry about Amazon freaking out and banning me. It’s not going to happen unless I’m spamming or something along those lines.

3 Product Creations

This is actually different than what the heading suggests. I’m going to make three products (one of which is complete) that fit into specific categories of development.

• You’re selling someone else’s product and they close down
• You’re selling cheap $7 reports
• You’re in a no competition niche

The first product creation listed has already been complete. I’m in the testing phase of the sales letter though, but you know the story. I was selling a product as an affiliate for year and the idiot vendor ends the affiliate program. Since there are no competing products I made my own. That’s the situation of the first one listed.

Second, this is for a site I have that is selling $7 reports. I actually bought a site and made a cheap $7 report for it. The idea behind it was purely testing. I wanted to see if I could sell something in this niche by myself. I planned to see how the report would sell and if it did well I would just make a better report to sell for more.

Third, I have a site that I bought in my more naive days to build a product. It was before I ever learned about market research. Creating a product in a niche that has no products is like internet marketing suicide, but there’s still a part of me that wants to try. It is in a niche that is growing and relatively new. It’s the growth I want to tap into. I rank first in Google for ‘niche name training’ and from the start I wanted to make a training manual. The plan with this one is to make a report and see what happens. If it is something that sells than I could very easily be sitting on an untapped niche.

Flip Sites Online and to Local Businesses

I’m very interested in trying this out. Flipping the sites online, just means to people that want to buy them on auction forums. That would mainly be new internet marketers looking for sites that are already set up. Depending on traffic, content and earnings you can make a little bit of scratch. Not huge amounts of it though, but something that might be worth my wild to pursue.

The business side of things seems much more profitable. Business owners are retards when it comes to internet marketing stuff. I can pick up domain names that are brandable and an owner might want to have it for that reason. We’ll see how that pans out.

Operation Screw EzineArticles

That’s right. Recently I had my EZA account downgraded from Platinum to Basic PLUS. My article review times are like 10 days now and all my articles are getting rejected now. They recently added a post to their blog that they’re at war with affiliate marketers. I won’t link to it though and there appears to be no Google cache to link to.

With 2729 live articles I’m officially ending writing for EZA. I don’t feel like writing high quality articles for them because they go on my site. I’m not producing long fulfilling articles for any article directory because EZA backlink juice is crap at best and the click through rates are pitful with a fulfilling article. Without some way to cliff hang there is no reason for clicking. So fuck’em.

The plan is to find alternative approaches to this whole thing and obviously that is a work in progress. But I have some interesting routes to go down now. Maybe this EZA crack down will make me more money because I’ve finally given up the article directory crutch and moving onto bigger things. Time will tell.

My Friend and I’s Business Idea

I mentioned somewhere in a post about this, but a friend and me are working on a project. He was actually approached by a business to do a project for them. My friend got on MSN messenger in the morning and was just going to pass the project onto me. He didn’t have time to do it and I was more than willing to flex my new PHP skills. Well that morning he messaged me we tossed the idea around. Hungry niche, a lot of customers and they have money.

We’re going full blast at it. We started at the first of October and we have to finish the project by November 1st. We are practically done now. This is going to be my first real attempt at an offline business. I’m going to keep you guys updated on this because there are a lot of valuable things that I learned from affiliate marketing that I want to apply to this business.

Well, this is all the planned topics and experiments that I want to hit on. Feel free to leave a message on anything else you would like to see. Hmm, over a 1155 words. I guess when I said that this post was short… I lied.

There are a lot of different options you can choose from that are server side programming.

CGI/PERL: When I got my first webpage in the 90′s, this was the language of choice. Pretty much all hosting will have this because it’s just so old. Personally I’ve never known how to program in perl, but you can still do it.

Server Side Includes (SSI): I’ve done very basic programming with this in the past. You can tell pages that use it by the extension. They typically are listed as .shtml. I’m not exactly sure how versatile, but it’s definitely an example.

Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP): This is the language of today basically. It’s the one that I sat down and learned. It’s like a lot of the other languages out there like java, C, C++, etc. That made it pretty easy for me to learn in a relatively short period of time. Go with PHP if you’re looking for something to learn because it has the most free information available online to learn and the most community forums with active people.

I thought it was important for me to explain to you why you should be learning this. Like I said with my very first post, this is an advanced blog. I want to talk about advanced topics. In this case, PHP gives us a lot more power to automate. This is the only reason that I want to use it.

The problem you’re going to run into is that you’re going to have too many websites at one point. You’re just going to run out of time every single day because there is just too much to do. When you can automate a 1000 page website instantly, than you’re rockin’ the shit.

This is why you have to learn server side programming because that’s exactly where we’re going with this blog and I’m definitely not going to give you a copy of the language you’ll need to do things.

Well, it’s been a while since I last posted. I put things on hold with the old blog because I felt things getting stale. It was like I was writing blog posts, for the sake of just writing one. I didn’t want my blog to be that way, so I took sometime off to figure out some things.

As you should be picking out right now, the blog is on a subdomain now, and it is that for a reason. I want to talk about more advanced topics now. I’m sure you’re getting sick of the same old shit from blogs. I took a peak in at the Warrior Forum the other day to see the same old shit, with the same old topics and the same old advice. It annoys the hell out of me and I certainly hope it annoys the hell out of you.

I want this blog to be the next evolutionary step in my process as a webmaster. I didn’t want to tear down and redesign the old blog. I wanted to keep it up as a catalog of information that I was using as I grew as a webmaster.

For that reason I welcome you to the new blog…

But before you get excited, this site is going to be about much more advanced topics. A lot of things are going to be over your head, but I promise you the information is good. I’m just giving you a warning now that the topics are advanced in nature.

Also if you take a look at the blog, you’ll probably think it looks like a blog, but a little different. That’s because it is a fully customized front end and a WordPress backend. This is probably going to make it into an advanced blog post, but there is a reason I did it. WordPress has a very easy to use backend administrative area. Sometimes the front end stuff just doesn’t look the way you want it to. Now, I can just do whatever I want.

I thought I’d give you guys a shout out to the advanced blog. It’s not fully finished yet. There are a few things I need to tweak. Also as I get more posts the site should fill out better.

Cheers,

Christopher