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It is now official. According to Ken Fox of Blogini fame, the Blogini 2.0 prelaunch begins Tuesday, April 3rd at 12:00 PM Eastern Time.

I expect to have access to the new sales page and a bunch of videos demonstrating the new features and structure sometime this weekend. I can then decide which level I want to join at. I’m definitely joining. Ken is offering a boatload of features and has made the membership very affordable. The features in the highest level are extremely enticing, though, and I look forward to discovering all of it.

Over the next two days I’ll be attending an “Internet Wealth-Building Workshop” being put on by the Internet Marketing Center, here in Minneapolis. I’ve mentioned before that this is the company founded by Cory Rudl many years ago, so definitely a reputable group. I feel kind of excited. I love learning about Internet marketing and expect some gems. I’ll let you know!

Have a good weekend everybody.

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Lots going on today. I started to look into the issue of smart pricing because of the relatively low earnings I am receiving on adsense clicks.

Smart pricing may be due to perceived conversion rates after a click on your site. It may be based on how targeted the traffic is perceived to be on your site. It may be based on a whole bunch of things that nobody but Google knows for sure.

As a result I decided to take the adsense blocks off a number of my sites, the ones that I have promoted the least. Instead I added Omakase ads from Amazon. That should work out okay, at least in the short term. I applied for Azoogle Ads which, as I understand it, is a CPA network. I also applied for the Yahoo! Publishers Network. Approval is pending on both of those.

Another replacement option that I already have is CBadbox, which is clickbank ads in a contextual sort of format. I’ll play with those a little tomorrow.

It’s great to be aware of so many options — and I know there are many more.

I’ve also been checking into a couple of options for earning some income off of parked domains. I’ll write more on that once I get more information and make some decisions.

Thanks for visiting! Have a good one…

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Not quite as much fun today. I was working with NicheBOT 2 and Keywords Results Analyzer and trying to replicate a process for finding easy to rank for keywords that is recommended in my coaching class. No go. It’s amazing to me how different all the keyword tools are. Each one of them seems to excell at a different function, and measure the data it mines in just a little different way. Like “competition” in one means something totally different than “competition” in another, and where they draw their data from can be so different.

There is a soon to be released program that looks fabulous for identifying longtail keywords for adsense sites or article marketing. At least I hope it is released soon. I want it. I have another little program designed just for quickly identifying niches and keywords for bum marketing. The program recommended in my class is for adsense primarily. It’s super powerful and very exciting, but costs a bundle and you pay as you go. It could add up real fast.

So today got a little frustrating trying to learn a new program and connect the dots and they weren’t connecting. What I often do in that case is print out and read the manual, and I just may do that.

Blogini 2.0 really is coming very soon. Building up the back end has taken longer than Ken Fox expected, but he wants to make sure it is done right. I have an inkling of what he has planned, but am anticipating some videos to pull it all together. That should be fun.

Thanks for being here. Have a great weekend.

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Fun day today. I learned a lot.

In my coaching program we’re creating blogs to build high PR for the purpose of selling links. I like the process and how familiar I am getting with navigating wordpress. It’s actually amazing that I blog here on a wordpress blog almost everyday, but I hadn’t felt comfortable with the navigation until now. Very cool. I’m going way past the basics.

Started playing with some new software for a few minutes this afternoon. It’s called Amazon Hunter and it interfaces with Adwords Editor. It searches Amazon.com and comes up with products based on your keyword and price range, then formats adwords ads and adgroups. You paste this info into Adwords Editor and you’re ready to go! I guess I’m going into promoting Amazon Products with adwords.

That seems to be a quicker way to earn some money than building niche content sites and article marketing, at least as evidenced by the folks on the 5 Bucks a Day forum. It’s another forum I really appreciate. There are some fairly experienced marketers there, but mostly people are experimenting and sharing what they’re learning. Very supportive group.

Dennis Becker, the creater of the 5 buck concept and forum, got us a great deal on the Amazon Hunter software.

Check it out if it sounds interesting. Also, I’ll mention the Keyword Avalanche membership opening one more time. If you haven’t checked it out, I recommend it. The opportunity will go away fairly soon.

Again, click here: KA $1 Trial Membership — and use these to get in — user: kashe — pw: vault.

I hope everyone else is having as much fun as I am at this game!

Have a good one…

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A little over a week ago I wrote about trying Auction Ads, which puts a block of eBay ads on a webpage. I haven’t paid a whole lot of attention to the ads over the past 10 days, but did check them out yesterday. What I found was a bunch of ads that have nothing to do with my site content. Not cool. I guess if you’re not getting keyword specific auctions you are getting very popular auctions. Still didn’t cut it for me.

Now I am trying some Amazon Okamase ads on one of the sites instead. Let’s see how that goes. So far, they are more keyword specific. Amazon is frequently criticized because of the low commission percentage, but I’ve been reading more positive comments lately. Like, people don’t buy one thing when they go on Amazon, they buy $100s worth of products. So it’s worth a try.

One on my site is showing Auction Ads that are appropriate and I’m keeping those there for now. It’s a good idea to try a number of options, right? CBAdbox is another option, although it reminds me quite a bit of adsense. It uses Clickbank products. Maybe that’s next.

Has everyone been seeing the “2007 Authority Black Book” being promoted everywhere? I’m surprised by who is coming out with it! It’s by Jack Humphrey of Content Desk fame, and it’s free. Sorry, I don’t have a link. I wonder what it is leading up to? There’s gotta be something!

That’s it for now. Have a good one everybody!

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