Self Hosted Blog For $50 Only… Or Free
I have often talked about how some people think making money online is easy. Seriously, some people do really think it’s a piece of cake. Well, believe it or not, making money online is not easy when starting out, but it starts to get easy over time. The longer you’re in it to learn, the easier it will become.
I have also talked about the need to have some little html ideas and general internet knowledge. Believe me, this will really help you in the long run especially if you do not have extra money to spend on simple html task like building landing pages or implementing some code snippets onto some pages of your website.
Okay, lets get down to business. Starting today, I am offering to help anyone who wants to start blogging get started with all the tools and assistance necessary to kick off to a good start. What do I mean by this? Well, I will provide you with the support you need, help you tweak your themes(CSS and HTML), provide you with the best plugins, and help you implement Google AdSense for blog monetization.
I will literally help you all the way until your blog is up and live. Now, you may be wondering what my catch is… It’s really simple. For me to be able to offer you all of the aforementioned services, you will either need to sign up for a hosting/domain through a company whose hosting services I promote, or you will pay me just $50.
Here is a breakdown: If you do not currently have a domain and hosting account, you will need to sign up here. Signing up will mean you do not have to pay me anything for me to provide you with the above services.
If you d have a hosting or domain, then all you have to pay is $50 to get you self hosted blog up and running. For those who may not understand what self hosted blog means, it means a blog that resides on your own server and domain. It’s very different from having yourname.blogspot.com . Just like my blog, http://www.iverifythem.com which is a self hosted blog.
I believe this should do it. If you have additional questions, please direct them to me via the contact page or just drop comment below.
JD
The Easiest Way To Screw Up Your Ranking on Google
For every internet marketer or affiliate out there, if you do not believe in organic results for the offers you promote, you may be missing out on a lot of free prospects to your offer pages/landing pages.
I have been doing PPC for a while now and for some of the offers I promote, I do build landing pages and register a dedicated domain for them. One day, I thought to myself, why not just turn these landing pages of mine into pages that would pop up on search results. This thinking made me do some SEO magic that turned out to be beneficial at first, but went gaga some weeks later. Read on to see me mistake.
Whenever I perform searches relating to some offers I promote on the internet, I find out that many of the first page result are promoting what I’m paying(PPC) for. In my mind, I was like, if they could do it, then I probably can try to do it. Maybe, not beat them, but at least get some decent traffic from organic results.
So, I decided to spruce up my landing pages with some SEO magic. Within days, I was appearing on the first page of Google for my keywords, but not too much traffic since I was ranked around 10th on the first page.
As days passed by, my ranking for my chosen keywords and phrases jumped to number 3 position behind the company whose offers I’m running. Seeing this made me happy and I felt like an SEO guru.
I maintained this position and I started making some organic sales through my SERP rankings. About 2-3 weeks later, I performed my normal keyword search to see where I rank, but to my surprise, I saw my rankings go down to position number 5. How did this happen? Well, a new site that’s about some days old took the position number for my main keywords and key phrases.
I didn’t feel comfortable seeing this since it was my position 
. I do understand this happens and I understand relevancy matters, but my content and everything was more than relevant. This new website happen to be in a blog form. So understand here that sites that come in the way of blogs get good rankings and better crawl rate than ordinary sites.
After all of this happened, I had one goal; TAKE BACK MY POSITION. I SEO tweaked my site in a way SEO experts wouldn’t advise. I introduced the h1 tags on my site to see if I can reclaim my position since I was not having any h1 tag in it before. So, I put up about 3 h1 tags on a single page, and my page was crawled by Google the next day. About 3 days later, I found I was not appearing for my keywords and phrases any more. I mean I was not even appearing up to 1000th for my keywords and key phrases. I was only showing on the result pages for my domain. Weird!
I later on researched on “overuse of h1 tags” and found out it is mostly considered spamming and manipulating the search engines when you have more than 1 h1 tag on a single page. You may have as much as of the other h tags as you want, but not the h1 tag. I learned my lessons immediately and reversed the changes I made earlier.
In a nut shell, I went from being ranked 5th on Google to being nowhere on Google. This is a lesson to anyone out there who wants to do some SEO magic. Before starting to spruce your site with some “SEO magic,” make sure you research into whatever SEO technique/element you wish to implement before the actual implementation.
I have since removed all the excess h1 tags and I am in the process of reclaiming my position. I am currently on the third pages for my keywords and phrases. My hope is that I get back to my original position.
JD
Avoid Obama Grant Scam and Any Other Government Grant Kits
Today, the FTC held a press conference on the Obama grant scams, stimulus grant scams and other grants/stimulus related scams flooding the internet. I believe the FTC must have received a whole lot of complaints about the companies peddling these scams. So today, they officially made a statement regarding these scams.
I believe there would still be millions of out there who would still fall for these scams. The main reason is not far fetched from the fact that some people are lazy to research into online offers that promise unbelievable and unimaginable returns or gains. As I have always said, and I’ll iterate once more; before diving into any online money making program/offer/venture, make sure you research on it like you’re writing a research paper; doing this pays off at the end.
In a nutshell, all the Obama grants, stimulus grants, government grants and any other grants that ask you to pay any fee are under the radar of the FTC. The FTC argued that all government grants can be found on grants.gov… If for some reasons you’re interested in government grants, grants.gov is the best place to get them for free.
If you would like to read more on the Obama grants/stimulus grants/government grants, go to FTC press release.
Have you been scammed by these grants guys? If you have, kindly share you experience(s) in the comments section if you would like others to learn from it.
JD
My Best Facebook Offer
I have run different offers on Facebook(FB) with no success. I am aware I’m not the only one who hasn’t gotten the desired conversion rate on Facebook as I have heard many people talk about their frustrations about its non-converting nature. The only key to winning the non-converting nature of some offers on Facebook is continual trial and testing until the desired result is achieved.
So, I tried and tried, tested and tested. Sometimes, I run offers that gets hundreds of clicks within hours(at $0.30) with no single conversion. While my offers we;re not converting, I was losing money but was focused at the same time. Over the last week, I decided to try an offer that pays $1. That’s right 1 buck. It was an “attacking” first page email submit offer. I said attacking because the landing page wasn’t cluttered and its call to action was intimidating(can’t resist). Another reason why I opted to run this offer was because Facebook is the best platform to give me the needed audience and cheapest cost per click.
I tried this offer out on Facebook and my click through surpassed anything I have ever seen before on FB. This may not sound so nice to some, but I got a 10% CTR on an offer that’s mainly targeted at one gender. With this offer, I was able to cut down my cost per click(CPC) by more than 100% while my conversion rate was within the range of 25%.
With my results, my confidence in Facebook advertising was raised a little. and my ROI was at about 100%. I’m sure you may be wondering how I was able to go from 0% conversion to about 25%, right? Well, I think I did everything differently. I decided I really don’t have to run offers that pays tens of dollars before I can make money. I said to myself, $1+$1+$1… and so on will make good money if I have good click through rates and good conversion. This simple thought led me to try the $1 offer on FB.
If you have issues with conversions on Facebook, I’d like to offer some tips that has helped me; they may help you too…
- Since Facebook ads are less targeted/contextual compared to the search engines, not every offer will do well on there. Mostly, offers that require little or no payment will do well.
- Again, since most ads that appear on FB are not triggered by a user’s search word/phrase it is very unlikely for most offers to do well. In this case, an offer that is in the form of a giveaway will mostly do well.
- An offer that is unique in it words/content and image will also do well. Here is an example: If you use Facebook regularly, you will find that the most advertised free offers are the Mac Book Air in varieties of colors. In my opinion, I think people get tired of ads they see too often and this basically will result in lower click throughs and lower conversion. An offer like this, in my opinion, will be hard to revive for high CTR and conversion.
- As with most offers, first page conversion offers will be good on Facebook. Scenario: If I could run an email submit offer(first page email submit to convert) and was at 25% conversion, what can one say about offers that don’t convert on the first page? What can one also say about offers that require some payments or converts on 2nd or third page? You can decide that yourself.
- Generally, I think VERY CHEAP offers and any other offer that appeals to a broad range of Facebook users of either gender or a particular gender(i.e. dating) will do good. Other examples will be free items that are new on the Facebook ad platform(not like the Mac Book Air).
In this post, I haven’t talked about all the offers that I think may offer the best results. I have only talked about some criterion to consider before running an offer on the Facebook platform. You really don’t have to agree with all I have said here, but test for yourself to see if some of the offers I have condemned here still hold any good.
I have heard people talk about grants offers and Google money this, Google money as some of the best performing offer on Facebook, but I think these offers are getting old by the day. These offers would still receive some decent clicks and conversions, but I think it has reached its peak and it’s declining real fast.
As usual, feel free to comment below, share your ideas, thoughts, and suggestions.
JD
SEO, Rocket Science?
Any serious webmaster or blogger knows SEO is paramount to the success of their websites or blogs. With blogs, SEO is kinda made easy since most of the apps and plugins are SEO friendly. For websites, it is the general believe that you have to do this, do that to get ranked on the major search engines. In my opinion, I think some SEO experts, webmasters and bloggers overhype SEO implementation. My SEO experience seems to be very different from the hypes surrounding it.
I have been building websites for a while now, but over the last year and half, I have seen numerous opinions about SEO and some tricks that need to be done to rank high on SERPs. I do take note of most of these tricks and I implement them in the best way possible.
Over the last week, I set out to enter a niche that is very very saturated. When I mean saturated, I do really mean a saturated niche. I got my target keywords together, and I was ready to go. In less than 5 days, I got my desired result on SERPS; not just Google, but Yahoo! too.
So what trick or magic did I perform to get ranked on the first page(between #1 and #10) of SERPs in just 5 days?
Sincerely, I really didn’t do wonders to get ranked in just 5 days. I actually launched 2 websites and 1 is doing extremely well on SERPs and the other is catching up. So, here is what I did:
- Having known the niche I was going into, I sat down and thought about an appropriate name for the domain name. The domain name I chose was related to my main keywords. In other words, one thing I did was to make sure I have some of my keywords in my domain name. I believe this really helps when you need to get ranked on SERPs.
- When I got my domain name figured out, I decided on my page layout. I opted for a one page website and I had my keywords smiling in it. I also had my target keywords in my page title.
- What sealed the deal was my immediate sitemap submit through the Google Webmaster Tools. This way, I didn’t wait for Google to crawl the web before finding me. Instead, I took my sitemap to them and it was crawled in less than 24 hours after submission. Submitting your sitemap through the Google Webmaster Tools gives the Googlebot unfettered opportunity to access and crawl your pages ASAP. I have consistently done this each time I launch a website. I have read about the Google Sandbox and many other stufss regarding SEO, but none of them seems to have happened to me. Since I have been launching websites, it usually took less than 7 days for my pages to appear on Google.
These are basically what I did. I may have done other things that contributed to my rankings which I am unaware of, but I am sure if you just take these simple steps when launching a website, you will do good in a matter of days. I’d like to point out though, you may not be the first page, but gradually, you will pick up. Another secret is more keyword infusion and update to your websites.
I didn’t even have one backlink, and this made me go WOW! It’s good to have backlinks and all that for PR, but for SERPs, I really don’t think it’s that important.
I give the SEO experts their credit and I am not dislodging the “experts” of their ideas and hardword, I’m just saying SEO is not a rocket science. So what have you done that made a difference in your rankings on SERPs? Fell free to comment below.
JD
