An Internet Marketer’s Change In Direction
By · CommentsConsidering the fact that I’ve had 15 to 20 different jobs/careers since adulthood, it’s a bit amazing I’ve been full time with Internet marketing. I dreamed about and worked at being full time in the biz for three years before it happened. Success was very satisfying.
In the past year, however, I’ve felt the slow return of that familiar and restless feeling that resulted in the many jobs, careers, and businesses I’ve had in my life. Mainly, my discontent this time seems to come from the feelings of “needing to make a difference”. (I know that sounds cliché) I keep thinking of the parts of my past teaching career I liked and now miss the most.
My original reasons for becoming a teacher were not rooted in “wanting to make a difference in the world”. I simply grabbed onto the idea because I had just suffered a major failure in a business and I needed some solid footing at that time. My parents were both teachers and teaching seemed safe during that time in my life.
While in my first year of teaching, I already knew I was not exactly cut out for the administration hoops, immense stress and constant high energy levels required in the public schools. However, during the next four years of my five-year teaching career I discovered that I did have the ability to make a difference in a few students’ lives. I believe I benefited and inspired many “average” students, but what I most remember are the handful of troubled students I helped. That felt and feels good.
But the drawbacks of teaching were too much at the time and after 5 years I went on to another career.
However, my teaching career showed me I had the ability to make a major difference in a few young people’s lives. I could not help or benefit all of the troubled students I came in contact with; but there were a few I could. I’ve come to the point in my life where I feel it’s all but wrong for me not to use that gift more than I am. I feel a strong and spiritual obligation to do what I can to make a difference.
To all my many past and current students:
Yes, I know I have made a difference in many of your lives. I’ve helped some of you live the dream. I’m glad I was able to play a part in your success. But over time, I guess the main issue that has developed with me is that everything we do, everything I teach, is all about making money. Yes, I realize that making money is important. I myself love money and am not ashamed to say it. Money allows us to do good things, give our kids’ better lives, live without financial worries, etc. etc. But still, for me, money can’t buy what I feel is missing.
I will still keep my core sites of course. But for me, at this time in my life, I believe I’m capable of doing both; I can earn a good income with a few sites (that don’t take a lot of time) while satisfying my desire for helping others. I have to move myself in that direction.
There’s no need to go into all the details here, but in summary, I want to begin using my past education and training (while getting more) for building a new career/business around counseling and mentoring young people. As many of you know, my wife went back to school two years ago to pursue her dream of becoming a licensed professional counselor (LPC). She now has that degree and is about midway through the 3000 hours of supervised practice before getting her full LPC license. She’ll have both the LPC and LADC license, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor. I’m so proud of her!
During the past few years of living this process with her, I’ve developed a keen interest in joining her to build a practice together and possibly an agency in the future. We can see the possibilities for substantial personal and monetary rewards with a practice focused on children and their families. Of course I will have to spend time with more education and training to reach that point with her.
Why now?
Like I said, this feeling has been building for some time (6 to 12 months). It’s time for a change. For some reason, I’ve always been a roamer with careers/jobs. It’s time for me to add some other directions in my life.
Did the latest Google Panda update cause me to make the move now? No. I was well into this thinking and heading down this road anyway. But I realize, to continue as I am with getting new students in my current way, I would have to do some re-tooling. I knew before the update I would be making this change by the end of the year anyway.
A side note about your sites and Google updates:
For all those worried about Google, their sites, and the latest Panda update, I want to be very clear on this. The Panda update does NOT mean SEO is dead. I remember back in the mid 2000’s when Google did a massive update (I don’t recall its name now). Many, at that time too, were saying SEO was dead. You would have thought the sky was falling for many of those marketers back then; it was a really bad time for them. But after that “SEO killing” update, I, along with several of my top students have made many hundreds of thousands of dollars of income directly from Google’s organic search results.
Panda is no different. There will be as many of you reading this right now that have great success via Google after the Panda update as there would have been had there been no Panda update. (Please read that last sentence again so you are clear on that point.)
What’s next for my immediate future? I’ll begin trimming back some of my internet marketing work so I can focus on my new career. I won’t be taking any more monthly membership students and eliminate several of my other, most time consuming online ventures. I will keep my current students and support them through the summer or as long as they wish to remain with me. For them, I’ll end the weekly conference calls on May 24. But I will continue to provide personal and unlimited email support and access to the paid members as long as they wish.
(NOTE: If you are a member right now, could you include “MEMBER” in the subject line so I can get to your mail as quickly as possible.) Simply go here to continue submitting your questions.
Don’t get me wrong. I still love Internet marketing. I’m not leaving it behind; I’m just changing focus and adjusting things in order to have more time to satisfy my personal needs. I enjoy keeping current on the latest developments in the industry; I will continue that. Along those lines, I am still offering advanced Internet marketing coaching to a limited number of serious minded students and an entry level strategy package.
For all the rest of you, I will still offer general type support and help for those building online businesses. You can still contact me via the Warrior Forum (see the contact link above for those exact details) with your general questions.
Steve
P.S. Be watching for upcoming posts about the new strategies required for continued online success after the latest Google updates.
What You Should Know About Google’s Latest Update
By · CommentsWhether you are just beginning with Internet marketing or already rely on Google for some (or most) of your current site’s traffic, it’s extremely important you know about the recent changes happening with SEO.
As you may have already heard, Google changed the rules…again. It’s nothing new, and it for sure won’t be the last time. They have rolled out parts of this update (code named Panda) since the fall. By all accounts, they are still implementing new aspects of it on a regular basis.
Many sites are just now facing drops in their rankings. Some of my sites, for some keywords, have been affected too. (However, some of my big keywords have actually done better during this update…after all, there are as many winners as losers during each tweak of Google’s search algorithm.)
Of course no one knows (but Google) what all the changes are in the update. But we have a pretty good idea of its main focus. Basically, they are taking a harder look at on page SEO and the overall quality of sites’ pages. Specifically, they are watching more for over-optimization and over-advertising. Too many keywords, too many H1′s, too many bold keywords, too many ads…simply put, just TOO much “SEO” and too much “trying to monetize”.
There has always been much misinformation about SEO. It’s hard for beginners to understand exactly what is required. (hint: there is not much “exact” about any of Internet marketing).
Some of my new students, when they first start my coaching, still think a 5 to 7% keyword density is required (Yeah, there are many 8 year old web pages still proclaiming 7% is good…be careful where you find your info.) Now days, that high of density will fire up Google’s wrath.
If you are a current student, BE SURE to review on our member site my recent audios over the past few weeks. I go into great detail about how you should handle on-page SEO now.
Probably the biggest surprise about the Panda update is Google’s new focus on off-page SEO. Yes, they are hammering sites for over optimizing off the page. In other words, they are looking closing at our backlinking methods. They have devalued some of backlinks they rewarded us for in the past. I know, it seems really unfair; but Google gets to make the rules remember.
Again, all of my members should spend time listening to the recent info in the member’s area about all this. There are several hours of new MP3′s in the member’s area where I talk specifically about what you should do now AND stop doing now.
During the member calls in the recent weeks we talked about how it’s more important than ever to keep your links looking as natural as possible. In a nutshell, vary your anchor text greatly. Also, avoid link networks (BuildMyRank has lost all their Google love).
I can’t go into all the details here in an email, but for those non-members out there, my general advice is to keep your SEO work, both on and off page, as natural looking as possible. Google has always hated too strong of SEO efforts…but they hate it worse now.
If you are not a member now, you can join today using this 30 dollar discount code:
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You can join for a month, or stay for as long as you need to. After you join, you’ll have instant access to all my latest SEO info, detailed help with niches and keywords, best monetizing methods, weekly phone access with me, plus access to all the rest of my Internet marketing videos and downloads.
The Perfect Domain Name?
By · CommentsIn the early stages of learning Internet marketing, a lot of beginners focus WAY too much time on picking “just the perfect domain name”. I’m not really against them trying to find something they like, can be proud of, or even looking for one with a great keyword in it. But the problem is that they wrongly put WAY too much importance on getting “just the right name” for their domain.
For my members, I have an MP3 posted on the Classroom page about picking a domain name. It lasts about 20 minutes and goes into much greater detail than I will here.
But for non-students, I’ll give a recap here:
One of my sites, CactusCanyon.com, does not sell cactus or canyons…yet it ranks very well for a large variety of keywords. On the other hand, if a beginner was to somehow get a brand new domain name that had a SUPER great, super high-traffic, keyword in it (something like CarInsurance.biz just for an example), they may think they had hit the mother lode.
Sorry…But in that big area, even making a 50 to 100 page site with great content….and having that great domain name…won’t come close to getting it to page ten of the Google search results (much less page 1).
There is a lot more to ranking well with a profitable keyword than simply having a great domain name.
Sure, in very tiny niches, the keyword-rich domain name can help. But the larger the area and the greater the competition, the less of a factor it is.
I’m working in a very lucrative area now which proves the point well. The site’s domain name has a good keyword in it, we have about 100 pages of great content, we have been backlinking like crazy for 3 or 4 months now…yet the site still has only made it to page 7 of the search results for our big keyword (I’m actually very happy with that so far).
I guess my point in all this is for beginners to understand that buying a domain with “the perfect keywords in it” (and even building a great site with it) is just the beginnings of all the work involved before traffic will arrive.
The MP3 on the students’ membership site goes into great detail about such things as using dashes, comparing .biz, .info, etc., the age of domains, length of registrations, and more. But for pure beginners out there, understanding the basic points above is a good head start in choosing and building out a domain.
Remember, “Relentless Focused Action” on a workable idea with tried and proven techniques is all that’s required for success.
What’s Worse Than Taking No Action?
By · CommentsMany people have read my story and want to start their own home business like Kay and I did. A lot of them have read and studied the process but their big problem is their inability to take action and follow through. (Remember relentless focused action.)
That’s a big problem alright…no action, no success…100% guaranteed.
But there is, in fact, a worse problem to have. Allow me to explain.
A woman contacted me a while back about her skin care website. It was a beautiful site, but she was making no income from it…at all…zero, zip, nada.
I took a look.
She taught herself Dreamweaver and put together a pretty good looking site. It was all about skin care. It featured everything from sun screen to anti-aging to diaper rash ointment.
(Many of my more savvy readers are shaking their heads in pity right about now.)
I don’t have time to go into the details here, but let’s just say, as understatement, she had sort of made a deal breaking and fundamental mistake. This was not going to work at all without MAJOR off-page SEO effort.
Worse still, she had no backlinks, much less any concept as to what a backlink was…much less how vital they are…especially in big areas.
Worse still, she had the hosting with a company that charged $29 a month but promised “search engine submissions”. (that’s $29 a month for just one site!)
Worse still, I discovered that all her content was PLR (duplicate).
After several replies back and forth, she got a little upset with me. I know I have to walk a fine line when I critique someone’s site who has worked really hard and is proud of it. But I guess I wasn’t careful enough. She left in a huff to say it mildly.
So, from this example, there really is something worse than no action. It’s MUCH worse to take action that is WRONG and end up wasting all your time. She could have been out walking on the beach or something…anything at all…but now she had to at least think about the fact that she had screwed up. She didn’t want to face it right then, but the realization will eventually come.
If you don’t have the ability/motivation to take action, I can’t help you with that.
But what I CAN help you with is making sure your action is focused correctly. Nothing is worse than putting in the work only to realize it was misdirected and wasted.
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Compare Your Site To High-Ranking Competitors
By · CommentsAs you probably know, backlinking is an extremely important part of SEO (we call it off-page SEO). Backlinks play a huge role in how Google ranks sites. If you are one of my coaching students, you are aware of the amount of time I spend teaching the concept and the importance of backlinking.
In case you don’t know, a backlink is a link to your site from another domain. For example, if you submit and article to EzineArticles, your bio for the article can contain a link back to your site; that is a backlink.
If you aren’t one of my students, you may be at a loss as to why your site won’t rank on the first page. In many cases your site may in fact be BETTER than most of the sites that do rank on the first page for your keyword. How can that be?
Backlinks matter. It is the quantity and/or quality of sites which link back to yours that makes all the difference in how pages rank in Google.
Unfortunately, there are no backlink tools that are anywhere close to accurate. Even Google Webmaster Tools does not provide good results for how many backlinks sites have. And always take the free backlink tools’ results with a grain of salt…they are NOT accurate at all.
Here is a method that shows the differences between how Google sees your site vs. those sites that rank on the first page for your keyword.
With this technique you can see how much exposure and marketing your competitors have already done compared to you:
Search the keyword your home page is optimized for and find the top ranking site in Google for that keyword. Find a private owned site that ranks high for the keyword (don’t look at things like Youtube, Wikipedia, etc.)
For example, I searched for “mountain bikes” in Google and www.konaworld.com was the #1 result. I then searched for “http://www.konaworld.com” in Google and found 260,000 results. In other words, their URL showed up in Google over a quarter million times in some way shape or form.
Again, these 260,000 results are not all backlinks. Also, there are many backlinks that do not show in a search like this. This large number simply shows just how busy the site owners have been and how broad the site’s reach is.
Now, do the same search in Google for your own domain. Put your full URL in quotes in Google and search. How do the number of results for your URL compare to those who rank high in Google for your keyword? Oftentimes, those sites on page one will have tens of thousands of results while your site may only have a few hundred at most. THIS is one indication for why the other sites rank high compared to yours.
Of course simply having your site referenced more on the web is not the only factor for ranking well, but it is connected and important. This example simply shows how busy some owners are in marketing their website.
After checking your site and comparing it to the first page competitors, you may feel quite frustrated. You may wonder how you could ever compete with those high of numbers.
However, as my members in Steve’s Classroom have learned, there are “relatively” simple tools and methods available that make the playing field far more level; you CAN appear on the first page side by side with those competitors by using the proper techniques.
Your Missing Ingredients For Online Success
By · CommentsI’ve tried to explain the following concept in about 27 different ways to beginning online marketers. I still have some members and lots of folks just getting my newsletters who still don’t grasp this basic, but mandatory concept.
I’ll try it again with a new angle.
McDonalds is without a doubt one of the most successful businesses of its kind. But when was the last time they got voted for “best hamburger”? When was the last time their teenage workforce (for the most part) got voted as being the best employees ever? How about the best atmosphere in town? How about the best ANYTHING?
Nope, none of the above. Yet, they are hugely successful.
Sure, they want you to THINK they have “secret” ingredients in their burgers, but we all know they are so-so. They want you to THINK their employees are #1, but we all know the truth. Yet, they make gigantic profits all the time by simply applying massive action to a tried and proven plan (even if it may not brand them with top notch quality in their area…they go for fair to pretty fair quality with huge quantity goals).
What’s the deal and how is this connected with you and Internet marketing.
Most of you out there want to build your own little McDonalds money machine online in some way. Whatever….affiliate marketing, AdSense, selling your own stuff, etc.
But if you were trying to start a burger place and compete against McDonalds, here is how you would fail:
First, you’d spend COUNTLESS hours trying to find just the RIGHT recipe for the burgers. You would research and read and study and buy books and on and on and on trying to find the perfect ingredients BEFORE even making a few of them to try. (equate this to those of you who waste countless hours/weeks trying to find the exact right niche/keywords)
Next, after finding what you think is the “perfect” recipe, you’ll spend (waste) enormous amounts of time just planning the building. You will dwell on such things as paint, furniture, tile colors, and on and on. You will install and rip out things over and over trying to get it “right”. (equate this to those of you who worry WAY TO MUCH about how your site looks …even though it has no traffic)
I could go on here, but you get my point.
None of this is rocket science. There are no secret sauces for online success. Simple and mediocre recipes and paint schemes can make you filthy rich…IF you simply apply massive action with a reasonably thought out, tried and proven plan.
Too many of you out there dwell WAY too much on the simple stuff for which you just need to make a decision for and get on it.
Finding niches is easy. They are a dime a dozen. Finding them is NOT the problem. I help my new members with this. It always amazes them how easy it was to find simple, workable niche.
And for the website, man, that is the LEAST of your worries. WordPress on your own host with your own domain is dirt easy now days. Keep it simple in the beginning. Since there are NO visitors in the beginning, beginners only have themselves to impress with their hours and hours of wasted time building the “perfect” looking site.
Just get the basics up there and begin marketing it. Later, if it shows promise, you can go in and decorate a bit. Google could care less how “pretty” your site is. Ditto for Yahoo/Bing.
Ok, I hope a few more of you out there get it now.
Just form a basic, simple plan for now. Any plan that has some educated thought and planning put into it will do. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel. Learn what has worked for other people and simply repeat it with your own tweaked plan.
If you need help with it, I am here. Otherwise, spend just enough time to learn what an OK niche is, how to choose keywords for the niche, and then learn and apply heavy doses of off-page SEO to a well optimized site.
That’s it.
If you have spent more than one day “planning” this, you are wasting time and/or scared of failure. (uh oh, I know the truth may hurt for some of you….but that’s OK. I never sugar coat anything…especially in places I have been before.)
If you have questions and/or would like to consider my coaching program, contact me here.
As a teacher in this area, my most important mission is to get you on track and WORKING on a plan with potential.
Giant “Niches”: How Much Work Does It Take To Compete?
By · CommentsA while back I wrote about the options you had for building your business. You could either build many small niche sites or focus on just one or two large areas with plenty of potential.
If you choose the latter method (which I am all for if you are willing to go after it and stay in for the long haul), I’d like to make a few points here that may put the task in better perspective for you.
Success in big areas (which have lots of competition) usually requires plenty of content AND requires a focused backlinking strategy for either building quality backlinks or building large numbers of backlinks (and probably both).
For example, I searched “dog training” in Google (a very large and lucrative area for those sites ranking on the first page).
On the first page of those search results I picked out a site for this example (thedogtrainingsecret.com).
First I searched with an operator to find out how many pages the site has. With this search, site:www.thedogtrainingsecret.com, I see they have 786 pages on their site. That’s not a lot really compared to the numbers I’ve seen for other sites in large areas. Many have thousands and even tens of thousands of pages. But still, 786 is still a lot of pages.
Google likes to see plenty of great content on a domain. It’s not the whole picture for how the site ranks, but it does play a part. Of course the more pages a site has, the more long tail searchs they have the opportunity to rank for (and thus more traffic comes there way).
Next I simply typed their full http:// address into Google. There were over 3 million results! I use this type of search as a relative means of gauging the site’s reach with respect to backlinking. Sure, there are backlink tools available, but they are notoriously inaccurate. Of course this type of search does not come close to telling me their true numbers of backlinks. But it is an interesting search which shows just how “busy” the site owners have been in getting exposure for the site.
By the way, the 3 million number may sound scary to you. You probably can’t fathom how you could possibly get near those types of numbers. But really, once you get into the process and learn about the legitimate tools we use to build links with, you will see it’s doable over time.
I use my own sites as a measure of gauging just how much other sites have worked at marketing their site. For example, I’ve done far more backlinking to my CactusCanyon site than my WeberInternetMarketing site. CactusCanyon shows about 500,000 results and WeberInternerMarketing shows only about 70,000. Since they are my sites, those relative numbers give a pretty good indication of how much more time I spend marketing CactusCanyon. Therefore, when I see a site with 3 million results, I can really appreciate just how hard they have worked at marketing the site.
Are you thinking about tackling a large area? Search that area and run those searches I described on several of the sites which rank on the first page for the area’s main keywords. Of course, don’t pay attention to sites like Wikipedia, etc. Just look at those basic sites which are probably owned by individuals like you.
Do not be discouraged if you see giant numbers for some of the competing sites you check. Remember they did not build those numbers overnight. All you have to do is build a great, optimized site, get better quality and quantity of backlinks and YOU will be on that first page of search results!
That’s what is so great about Internet marketing; you are on equal footing with other individual site owners. Simply make your site more relevant in Google’s eyes and you’ll see your site on the first page!
Should You Consider Private Domain Registrations?
By · CommentsI had a question last week from a member about private domain registrations. People have varying ideas on whether or not to add the private registration when registering a new domain. Some people register every domain they own as private. Some never do. I’ll describe here my philosophy about private registrations.
I’ve registered many hundreds of domains in the past years. I’ve only registered a couple as private. (I’ll tell you more about those later.) Some registrars would have you believe the world will come to an end if you don’t register as private. Of course they make money from the added costs of private registrations and all the other services/products they try to up-sell. By the way, almost none of the up-sells they offer are worthwhile.
Almost all my domains are public. Yet, the world has not ended for me. In fact, I can tell you that the email account I have always used to register with gets almost no spam even after all these years. Also, I have not had many contacts or salesman call me due to having the info available in a WHOIS lookup. I might have had some over the years and know I do get a bit of junk snail mail. But it’s not a big deal really.
Since I am very open with who I am and don’t try to hide from anyone, having my domains registered as private really wouldn’t do much for keeping me anonymous.
Actually, more than a few times I have had people contact me about buying a domain that was not for sale. But they made good offers on some which I took. It’s possible those sales would not have happened without having the registration info public. (My AdSense sites have a contact button on them, but not all the rest do.)
Basically, I’m not trying to hide online and have not had many/any negative consequences otherwise for having public registrations.
As I stated earlier, I do have a few sites registered as private. One is a site I registered for a friend with a rather risque name. Therefore, I made it private. Another site I own attracted a very, shall I say, “radical” following. There were those who hated the service/product and those who loved it. They all went at each other pretty good on the blog (as I thought they might when I registered the site). Therefore, I registered it as private.
But it’s up to you to decide. If you feel you have to keep yourself completely off the radar, then make them private. If you don’t, people can do a WHOIS search and find you as the owner. From my experience over the past years, there really are not any “dire” consequences for keeping domains public.
If you decide to purchase the privacy for a domain, the WHOIS lookup will show the info for the company who runs the privacy feature and not yours. If there are ever legal issues (like trademark infringement), your identity can still be discovered via the privacy company with a court order.
Many Niche Sites vs. One Large Site: Which is Best
By · CommentsProbably the most common question I get from beginning marketers has to do with finding/choosing a niche or area to market. Next on the list usually has to do with building many small niche sites vs. one or two larger, long-term sites in more competitive areas.
Many people choose both approaches. But until beginners have some success, I suggest beginning with the small niche sites which have little competition.
Either approach can be very profitable. However, in the beginning a new marketer needs quick feedback to confirm the strategy and methods work. It’s important to know as soon as possible if there are flaws with the methods or the strategy. Otherwise, without the quick feedback, a lot of wasted time and frustration can occur.
Again, either a large number of small niche sites or one or two large sites in highly competitive areas can earn good income. But when a beginner with no prior experience begins building and marketing a site in a large and competitive area, it can take many months of hard work before having any indication the methods are correct.
Therefore, I try to guide my new students toward smaller niches where they can quickly learn the basics and see some results. Of course “success” with many small niche sites may only mean $20 to $30 a month. In most cases there is a very low glass ceiling and it’s not hard to quickly market and maximize the potential of these niche sites before moving on to the next.
After the beginning Internet marketer has shown proficiency with driving traffic to an optimized page with their chosen keywords, it’s usually time to think about investing time and focus into larger areas.
Of course, before moving into these bigger areas, it’s important the new marketer’s personality allows for it. I have known some students who only wish to stay in the small niche areas. Their plan is for finding good niches and building sites for them on a regular basis. Eventually, they’ll have many dozens or even 100+ of these small producing sites. Some personalities aren’t able to and/or don’t enjoy having to focus a long-term effort on just one or two sites; many personalities thrive on beginning and completing projects rapidly.
On the flip side, having to create many small niche sites drives some people crazy. Again, this depends on the person’s personality usually. I can’t very well “make” a person go against what feels comfortable. Therefore, I’ll go with each student’s “flow” and help them succeed no matter which path best fits them.
Ok, all that being said, many of us (including me) find themselves somewhere in between. I have many tiny sites and a few in larger areas that I focus far more time and effort on. I for one have just enough ADD in me to keep the tiny-niche-site-side of me going. However, it is the large sites that produce the best for me. The 80/20 rule applies here.
Here’s how I usually progress with advice to my students:
Learn the ropes with a small niche site or two and then begin investing regular and consistent time in a site that has huge potential down the road…even if seeing results in that big area will require much time and work.
It’s OK to continue building small sites along the way if you wish. But let’s be sure and begin a long-term project that offers great potential.
All things being equal (and of course they never are), 2 years of X amount of work on a site focused toward a well selected and competitive area will almost always produce more results than the same X amount of work focused on well selected, small niche sites.
You might read that last paragraph again just to make sure that important concept is clear.
But again, all marketers must go with their own flow and not force strategies upon themselves which feel uncomfortable.
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