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Selling El-Cheapo Kindle eBooks for El-Bigo Profits

by Joseph on May 17, 2012

My blog is ranking at 12th in Google.com for “Joseph Archibald scammer“. LOL! I never thought in all my years I’d be labeled as a scammer. Don’t you just love this internet marketers game!

Stumbled upon a goodie here, and its not a scam either, in case you are now wondering

I’ve become something of a prolific reader these days (I’m particularly fond of the weepie romance novels ) and the publication I’m about to discuss with you is defo one of the better purchases I’ve made this year thus far!

For me, the methods discussed are nothing exactly new. After all, I created and uploaded my first Kindle eBook over a year ago. But this publication acts as a good refresher and also adds a few nice twists along the way.

What’s more – its easier now to add eBooks to Kindle and its well worth knowing about the changes that are taking place.

Most of us have heard about self-publishing on Amazon – specifically in this case, publishing eBooks on Kindle.

In fact, Steve Scott wrote a super blog article about his own adventures with regards to publication on Amazon Kindle. You can read that here…

http://www.stevescottsite.com/make-money-amazon-kindle-books

Now, I don’t know about you, but whenever it comes to product creation, including the crafting of eBooks, I tend to have a blind spot.

You hear time and again about the best way to make money online is to sell your own products, right?

But what if you are like me and you suffer from a “creativity blind spot“?

You can read all the books you like about how to come up with ideas, but when it comes down to it, you can sit for hours, days… wondering what you’re going to do.

Here’s food for thought.

Amanda Hocking (mentioned in the eBook I purchased today) who was until recently working a full time job, has made $2 million US from self publishing eBooks on Amazon. You can read about Amanda here…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Hocking

Let’s get back to business.

The gentleman who wrote the eBook I purchased today has managed to make $1300+ from crafting and publishing eBooks on Amazon Kindle over the past 4 months.

Now, okay, that’s not a million. Its not even a livable wage, unless you live in Malaysia and eat only rice and drink home made moonshine (like I do). But fact is, he’s just a normal sort of guy, just like you and just like me. And he’s only getting started.

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Make Money on YouTube

by Joseph on May 14, 2012

Quick update on the YouTube video rankings work that I’m doing, and I think quite a few of you are doing also.

Here’s a link to my last post about using YouTube videos to make money online.

I’ve been choosing fairly low-end keyword phrases and going after them in terms of ranking in Google with my YouTubes using Animoto as the video creator (Animoto is a GREAT tool for short video creation).

If you wish to purchase the 1 year Animoto Plus package, it normally costs $30 (very cheap and well worth the price!). By using the following link, you can get 5 bucks off that price…

http://animoto.com/referrals/pyetqrza

I’ve targeted about… hmmm… 15 different keyword phrases with my YouTube videos over the past couple of weeks.

I’ve not achieved rankings for everything I’ve been targeting, but I’ve managed to get five or six 2nd spot rankings (or some place around there) in Google. That’s within the past 2 weeks.

Okay, I’m not saying this to boast about my incredible SEO ability, LOL! Its pretty easy to do. All I’m doing here is “tapping into” something of a loophole.

I suspect Google will be happy to keep this loophole wide open for quite some time to come, since they own YouTube and they probably make a huge amount of money (in one way or another) by allowing YouTube videos to rank very well in Google.

All I’m doing here is figuring out what Google like. What is in Google’s best interests? If I can figure that out, then I will “milk the system” heavily because I know that Google will like me for doing so!

This intelligence in itself can make you a lot of money.

There’s something I want to point out with regards to making YouTube videos and ranking them in Google.

I’ve made a bit of a mistake by following the herd to some extent.

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Harness the Power of Pinterest – its the Coolest “New” Tool on the Block!

by Joseph on May 11, 2012

Be sure to read the bottom section of this post!

If you’ve not yet used Pinterest then I’m not going to start ramming the idea down your throat like I did with Google Plus

Although some folks are saying it could benefit your website’s SEO, I’m not sure by how much. Somewhat unquantifiable.

Nevertheless, there is – I suggest to you – gold in them there hills – you just have to start searching for it. I’ll give you one or two tools to help you on your way…

What’s more, at the moment, there are not many Pinterest accounts/ webpages/ images showing up in Google’s top ten. I found one today as a matter of fact. I suspect we will see many more Pinterest accounts/ webpages/ images showing up in Google’s top ten as the weeks pass by. For me, as an SEO sort of guy – this is very exciting!

We could have another Google Images on our hands but a much more powerful “version” of Google images from the point of view that it actually benefits us as website owners tremendously.

When folks click our images on Pinterest, they actually travel through on the URL we’ve tagged our image with (using the Edit tab).

With Google Images, most visitors don’t actually visit our website at all – they simply either look at the image or copy it and they never visit our site. I’m not aware of the intricacies, but Google hosts our images, so Google are gaining the benefits from all those who click on our pics within Google Images.

What’s even more – Pinterest is already a MASSIVELY popular website, and yet its only about a year old. Thus, it makes sense to jump on board now – in my opinion.

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6000+ Unique Visitors in One Month – to a 10 Week Old Blog

by Joseph on May 8, 2012

I’ve actually changed the facts a little bit in the title to fit my needs – you’ll soon understand why.

I’m an SEO guy by nature so trying to get traffic to a website by means other than by relying on SEO for Google can pose a tricky one for me.

And as you may know, I don’t generally optimize my blog, other than on-page. Very rarely have I gamed the system by “physically” obtaining backlinks to this blog.

That’s not to say I’ve never done it, but its a rareity.

Now, here’s something that disgusts me, for want of a more appropriate word.

A friend of mine emailed me today and told me that he’d attracted over 200 unique visitors to his blog in just one day.

That’s not a big deal for many folks. But, truth be told, I’m averaging close to this per day on my blog.

Check the graph just below here for my blog’s stats over the past week.

Page views tend to be around 380, which is pretty decent, and there’s a decent amount of daily return visitors. Fairly healthy stats on the whole, although I’m having to work HARD to achieve these results…

I mean – does Pat Flynn work 30 times as hard on his blog than I do on mine? No.

(As a sidenote – my return per blog visitor in cash terms is actually far higher than Pat’s is, and I have you – my blog reader – to thank for that!!).

My time investment is not leveraging the sort of results that I’d want. No where near…!

I’ve been working at this blog for over 2 years now.

My Blog Stats for the Past 7 Days 6000+ Unique Visitors in One Month to a 10 Week Old Blog

My Blog Stats for the Past 7 Days - May 1 to May 7

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My friend’s blog is around about 10 weeks old!

Yup, you read that right – his blog is about 10 weeks old and already he’s reached the same visitor count to his blog that I receive on mine.

What the ….?!!!

6,000 unique visitors this month to a blog that is only 10 weeks old (this figure is based on an average of 200+ uniques per day for the month of May).

So what’s his secret?

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Piggy-back off Authority Sites

by Joseph on May 6, 2012

I just realized that my blog is ranking at the top of Google search for this keyword phrase:

“I am useless and cannot complete a task”

LOL! Some days this is quite true, so Google are quite right in this instance to be ranking my blog at the top

This post is in relation to my previous post about using YouTube videos to funnel visitors either to your own websites or to your affiliate offers etc. I would say that the following information is proof enough that these methods are working very well right now.

The following article is written by Jon Leger (creator of The Best Spinner among other excellent software tools).

If you’re having trouble ranking post-Penguin, go post your content on Blogger, Tumblr, LiveJournal, Yahoo Answers, PRWeb and the like. Google is ranking pages on those sites like crazy because of the authority of the root domains.

Here are a few examples:

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A Google SAFE way for Making Money Fast!

by Joseph on May 5, 2012

If you’ve not heard the podcast I did with Joe and Justin over at AdSenseFlippers.com, then here’s the link to that…

Joseph Archibald podcast with Justin and Joe of AdsenseFlippers

I purchased a WSO the other day and started playing around with the concepts to see what was what.

It was Nate Rivers of Strayblogger.com who brought my attention to it. He’s now using the methods taught in the WSO too because a number of his own websites were hit in the recent Goofy algorithm update.

The Goofy search is in a right mess at the moment! All sorts of rubbish at the top, where lots of really good sites have been dumped.

The basis for the WSO was to “build” YouTube videos (lots of them) and get them ranking in Google.

You can purchase the product here – its only about 9 bucks or something, and its 9 bucks VERY well spent indeed!

Make Money With YouTube Videos

Anyhow, this is my take on procedings.

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