Yellow Dog Ventures

I have been working diligently getting the Niches-in-a-Box sites up and running. This involves a whole bunch of tweaking of the pages in FileZilla — a whole bunch. The training videos are the best I’ve worked with though. My head is also spinning from researching affiliate programs. Wow! But I’m getting there.

Then there’s the promotion. I swear I’m going to become an ace at promotion! I’ll promote the heck out of the NIAB sites and my old adsense sites.

These old adsense sites are, by the way, no longer adsense sites. I read too much about Google going after people who have a bunch of made for adsense sites and shutting down their adsense accounts. I don’t have a ton of made for adsense sites, but am not up for the risk. So I have removed some adsense blocks from each of the sites and added some pretty good affiliate banners.

I’m going to promote the heck out of those too. The niches are still red hot.

If you’re into marketing and adsense, I highly recommend reading Eric Giguere’s blog — memwg.com. He’s innovative and leaves out the hype.

That’s it for now. Thanks for visiting!

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Wow! I have spent the week pretty super focused uploading and configuring some websites that I purchased. The effort feels intense, but gratifying. Today I have worked on the attached blogs - activating plug-ins, editing themes, etc. I feel accomplished. The next step is to load the blogs up with content using the post timestamp and drip it on over the next year.

I mentioned JP Schoeffel’s Niches-In-A-Box membership awhile ago, and I did decide to check it out. These sites are pretty cool. Pretty advanced. High quality. I’m learning a whole lot. Ultimately I’d love to be able to make sites like these for myself, but that’s a long ways off.

Next week, I tackle the “Mini Money Sites” project that Dennis Becker has taught the members of “Earn1KaDay.” I have all the tools I need and now I have to dig in and learn to put them together. I hope to get 2 or 3 sites up. It’s a really valuable, and inexpensive membership.

The step after that is learning to be profitable with adwords. This intimidates the heck out of me! Not sure I have the courage.

Something else I mentioned a few weeks ago is the AdSpyPro software that allows you to learn what keywords and campaigns are profitable through adwords. Today a new program was introduced that allows you to protect your landing pages from being spied upon. It’s free! Here’s the URL: http://www.ppcdefender.com/  (I just learned it might not really serve it’s purpose though…)

That’s enough for now. It’s time to enjoy my weekend!

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I’ve been digging around in Google Analytics a little bit today. I’m pleased to see some visitors are coming. Thank you!

My original intent for this blog was to chronicle my ventures into the world of internet marketing. But, I’m finding the day to day stuff is too boring to write about. Yuck. What might be more interesting is if I focus on the stuff I’m learning — my successes, dumb stuff I do, and opportunities I become aware of.

It’s so clear that I’m still way too quick to fall for the buzz on a sales page and want to jump on new products. This is especially true when they’re about getting traffic or building links. Put a limit on the number that are going to be sold and you got me!

This occurred recently when I purchased Trackback Spider. I jumped on the bandwagon based on another marketer’s recommendation and sense of urgency. I think I made the wrong decision. Trackback Spider builds backlinks to a site by posting trackbacks on niche blogs. The goal is to attempt so many trackbacks that you’ll catch some bloggers who don’t know enough to delete your trackback or block them to begin with — and then you’ll have a backlink in a relevant niche. Everything is cloaked to help hide your identity and make it look legit.

I haven’t used it. I did watch all the demo and install videos. And I realize I’m not comfortable using it. It’s cheating and taking advantage of people — it’s spamming. I really hate spam. Why would I do it to someone else?

I didn’t really catch what the gist of the product was about before I jumped in with 2 feet. I realize now and I will back out. Lesson learned. I need to be smarter as I read sales pages, plain and simple.

A good thing I checked out recently is a product called “The Barking Videos.” Fun name and it took me awhile to figure out how the creators arrived at that, but I got it. The videos are short takes on about 14 different traffic generation methods. They include reference to some really cool websites that I had no clue existed. I can take these and run with them. I was already aware of each of the traffic methods and knew techniques for utilizing them, but I learned a lot of new stuff that looks effecient and effective. They’re incredibly informative and quite well done.

Okay, so I did add an adsense block to my blog. It’s a small one near the bottom of the sidebar. I just checked now and the site is indexed finally, but I still don’t know what took so long. I also don’t know if the adsense made the difference. I guess I’m on my way to learning how to test.

That’s all for now. Thanks for visiting.

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I created a new blog about 2 1/2 weeks ago in the natural health niche. I have posted to it almost daily, and I am shocked to find that it is not yet indexed by google. Very interesting.

I have submitted the site to many social networking and bookmarking sites. I have claimed it on Technorati. I made some comments on several PR4-6 blogs. I ping with each post, but it’s still not indexed! What’s going on here?

The most recent websites I created were indexed in about 3 days. The 2 differences I can identify are that those sites have adsense on them, and I used Article Underground’s blog system to announce the pages.

I haven’t done either of those with this site. Actually, I chose to let go of Article Underground because I wasn’t taking advantage of it often enough to make the program worth the subscription cost. Instead I wanted to try out a couple other link building plans instead. (Whether I stick with those or not remains to be seen.) But I’m definitely revisiting my decision to drop AU and just may sign up again.

I also didn’t want adsense on the blog, but I’m going to put a block on there now to see what happens. I can always take it off in a couple weeks.

That’s all for now. Have a good one!

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So Google Cash Detective was launched today and sold out its initial 500 copies within hours. Wow! I am an owner of Google Cash and like it. I also like Chris Carpenter the creator of these, and I’m glad for him.

I passed on GCD probably mostly because I’m not an Adwords master and couldn’t justify the expense. I did buy AdSpy Pro by JP Schoeffel, for a pretty small fee. JP claims his script will do just about what Chris’ will for a small percentage of the price. JP is still offering his product as a special offer if you want to check it out on the Warrior Forum.

These are programs that allow you to spy on other people’s adwords campaigns, by the way. You can do some research with them to identify successful campaigns and then one up them to take over making the profits.

I recently bookmarked one of my new sites (a Blogini blog) on Stumbleupon and got 150 visitors within the day. Pretty cool. I’ll have to figure out how to replicate that. I “stumbled upon” a couple other sites today and am curious about what will occur. I understand that even though the web 2.0 sites can send a ton of traffic to a site, the visitors are not as likely to click on adsense or make purchases.

I’ve got a bunch of fun projects going right now and I’m having fun working on them. Lots of variety. Cool.

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