Yellow Dog Ventures

My resolve is growing. My intention to increase the amount of time I spend on productive activities is taking shape, and that means clearing out some of the junk.

Today I unsubscribed from a whole bunch of mailing lists. It takes so much time to read all those emails, and each one sends me to another page with an offer of some kind. I trust I’ll hear about whatever is important through the forums I regularly read.

The second thing I did is cancel my subscription to a couple membership groups. That will save both time and money. If the value isn’t there, no sense in holding on. I sometimes think I don’t want to miss out if something good does come along, but that’s nuts. So I’m cutting ties.

The forums I really appreciate continue to be Keyword Avalanche and 5 Bucks a Day. KA does have a monthly fee and is well worth it. 5BaD is a free benefit of purchasing the 5 Bucks a Day ebook, which offers a ton of value.

The remaining monthly memberships are to PLR programs, Article Underground, and Niche Marketing on Crack. I’ll evaluate those too, and only continue to subscribe if I can really identify some value in them. With Blogini 2.0, I’m paid up for life. A great deal. I also belong to InfoGoRound, and that membership is free as long as I submit 1 article a month. I get great PLR from IGR, and they offer other features that I’m not using yet.

With the other PLR sites, I get really well written articles in niches I like. But, am I using enough of it? Is there any point to just letting it pile up on my hard drive? Probably not.

It wasn’t my intention to start evaluating the programs here, but looks like I got a start. To be continued…

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My focus this weekend has been on adding a number of articles on taxes to my finance site. I got these articles through a Warrior Forum WSO a short time ago, and am finding them really well written and informative.

I’ll finish editing and publish the new articles tomorrow and then start to promote like crazy to get some traffic. I’ll do that by submitting the site to directories, posting comments on blogs, submitting to social bookmarking sites, and announcing the pages on Article Underground blogs. That’s a start. Then I plan to do some article submissions too. I’m guessing I’m even a little late getting these pages up, but it’s good info and we’ll see what happens. So far I only have adsense on the site, but I’ll also add some affiliate links. I’m really enjoying doing this.

I learned of a really cool tool today, courtesy of Dr. Andy Williams. It’s called a Keyword bookmarklet, and clicking on it brings up a report of all the keywords and related keywords for the website you currently are looking at. Very cool tool. I only played with it briefly, but it looks like it brings up all kinds of keywords that aren’t even on your site, sort of like I would suspect of an LSI tool. I’ll play with it somemore and let you know what I find. You can find the tool at: www.seoprotoolz.com. Have fun!

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I am struck by how much I don’t know!

Like, if someone links to my blog, how do I link back?

I have learned such an incredible amount these past months and made great progress but I stumble on such details. But I am learning, and I will be able to link to others’ blogs at some point.

Today I built another adsense website. I really like the sites I’m building as a result of my adsense coaching class. I submitted articles the other day to ezinearticles.com and they were approved. I’ve had some page views and gotten a few clicks. So, progress.

My plan:

1. Build the 5th site in my first block of sites.
2. Submit 6 articles for each site to ezine articles.
3. Mass submit the 6 articles for each site using Article Post Robot.
4. Create PR4 & PR5 backlinks to all sites by connecting to each page from the Article Underground blogs.
5. Submit all sites to social bookmarking sites using Bookmarking Demon.
6. Begin the article outsourcing process over again.

Then evaluate. If it looks promising, I’ll start the whole process again with another block of niches.

I have identified enough niches to build about 35 adsense websites similar to these first ones. The question that comes up is how to I do the keyword research after this? Keyword Elite is just not working. Not sure if it is all due the Overture deal or not. I’m in the process of exploring NicheBOT to see if I can get all the data I need using that tool.

I was offered free tickets today to a seminar that Derek Gehl’s IMC group is putting on in Minneapolis in late March. I jumped on it! What a reputable group! Derek was Corey Rudl’s right hand guy and has taken over the business following Corey’s death. This is cool news!

That’s it for now. I’m sure open to constructive feedback…

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I learned today that Keyword Avalanche will be opening for new members nearer the end of January. This rarely happens, so if you’re interested, visit soon, or you’ll lose your chance.

Keyword Avalanche basically offers everything a marketer needs to know to succeed online regardless of niche area. They cover white, gray, and black hat techniques and everything in between. There is a private forum that is very active. I visit daily. There’s a ton of good discussion going on. The tone is friendly and encouraging. There are detailed explanations of how to implement all sorts of techniques. There are discounts on products, a membership to NicheBot 2 for keyword research, 200 exclusive articles a month, and audio interviews with experts. It’s really loaded.

One of the biggest benefits is first hand access to Tim Gorman who is THE expert on article marketing, along with experts in a bunch of other fields, like blogging, tag and ping, mindset, etc.

Do check it out now if you’re at all interested. Now that I’m in, I wouldn’t let it go.

That’s it for now.

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I’m poised to focus heavily this week on adding dozens of pages to my websites, make posts to my accompanying Blogini blogs and to announce the articles on the Article Underground announcer blogs. I was checking out my websites tonight for indexing, page rank, and backlinks. Pretty bleak.

I have found that when I announce the articles on the AU announcement blogs, they do get indexed pretty quickly. So that is the plan this week. I actually have all ready added the articles to the sites, just haven’t published them yet. I’ll need to do lots of editing to make them at least a little original and then upload. Sounds like a plan. Sorry if this is too boring.

That’s all for now.

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