How to find niche?

August 27th, 2008

I admit during my first 3 years in the Internet Marketing, searching a good niche is really hard for me. I don’t know how to start or where should I start. Since you’re reading this post I bet you have also strugling this problem.

Selecting and finding a niche is one of the most critical part of creating your Virtual Real Estate. No matter what promotion you made if you don’t get the good niche to target then for sure it’s a failure. But if you select a good niche the success is almost there.

You need to understand that when we said target a specific niche, this mean you need to target a specific group of person not topic. Sometimes webmasters and newbies thought that niche is a topic. For example you selected the Golf niche, your target here are the golfer, they are the group of people who are playing the golf. I will discuss more about this in the future for now let’s focus on how you can find a good niche.

The easiest way to find a niche is to become a problem solver. Yes that’s true.  If you see problems of every group or individual then instantly you’ve find a good niche. All you have to do is find solution of the problems.

if you look for a
group of people that have a nagging, annoying,
frustrating and itching problem, these are THE
best type of people who are willing to exchange
money in order to get hold of an information
product or some service to solve that problem.

Rather than spending to much time using your marketing and keyword tool researching that don’t even answer “What is the solution of a specific problem” why not do this.

Ask your self what product or service you want to start. Does this product will help people or group of people to solve their problem? For instantce, I am planning to create  my ebook called “101 ways to find good niche”

Does that will solve problem of newbies who are strugling finding niche? There are so many people on the net that really facing this problem. In this case I found a good niche, a group of people willing to buy and information that will solve their problem.

I will give more tips and technique in technical ways on how to find best niche on my next post so watch out…

Does Buy And Sell Website dead?

August 26th, 2008

I have been in this business for more than 3 years now, I admin during the pass 2 years selling website is like selling cookies in the street.  I may say it change my financial life, during those days I am making from $3,000.00 - $7000.00 a month just selling websites most of them are turnkey websites.

The price of sites those is ranging from $50 - $30000 or even more for a site with great content and site with PR.

I have sold my first site for $100 , that is the first time I discover that there is money in selling website. Since then I started creating websites and selling them. As I mentioned it’s really easy to sell websites those days and I can even sell my PR 3 website to $1000 and that take me almost 8 hours to developed that site only and build some traffic and back link to it.

But this days, I noticed the dramatically drop of website price early this year. The competition is very high this days, and most of those sellers keep droping the price of their sites even they have high quality site. Now earnings from selling website is slowly droping a site that making $1 a day before is raning from $800 - $1400 but this days you’re lucky if you can sell a site like that for $250.

For those who want to dive to this type of online business, please be prepare to compete with other but don’t forget to value your Virtual Real Estate. If we seller keep devaluing our Virtual properties because of competition and we want instant money sooner or later the value of virtual properties are no more.

If you want to become successful in this business, build the value of your site. Why not keep it for while and start building traffic for it and you will see sooner or later the value of you site will increase.

If the owner of myspace.com sold it right after he developed the site do you think he sold the site for $600,000,000 or the owner of youtube.com if they sold the site after 1 month or two month after they developed it would you think that google will buy it for 3Billion dollar?

To answer the question “Does buy and sell website dead?”: My answer is No, but you need to make your site valuable to make more money on your site. Don’t be hurry when selling your website.

Does back link from internal page of PR 10 considered as PR 10 back link?

August 26th, 2008

I’ve got a report today discussing this matter, in this article the author insist and he is very confidence when he told this.

If you’ve get a back link from a site main index have PR 10 google considered your back link from that site as PR 10. I am little bit confused with this, how come that your backlink from that site is PR 10 if your backlink is located at a page of that site with 0 page rank.

But if you get a back link from a high pr site for sure you are getting a backlink from authority site ang search engine love sites that get back link from site with high PR specilly if that site is PR 10.

A big jump of fellow pinoy for the busby seo challenge

August 26th, 2008

I am happy to see a website of fellow filipino jump from rank number 9 to rank number 5, there are 5 days left and if we support this fellow pinoy I am sure we can help him to push the site to the top of the line for the keyword busby seo challenge.

For those who are supporting this site, may I apeal to you guys to give some back link to http://pinayspeak.com/ and use busby seo challenge as anchor text. We help this fellow pinoy to move to the top as our Filipino proud.

I thought 3 days ago that the contest is almost done and we already new who will win but this big jump of pinayspeaks show’s that the contest is still going on and there will a chance to all site even site at the bottom of the contest.

Good luck pinayspeak, contact me if I can help in any way…

Indonesian’s webmasters dominate the busby seo challenge

August 25th, 2008

5 days left before the  busby seo challenge conpetition will end, and we almost know who will win in this contest. It seems that Indonesian webmasters dominating the entire contest. Currently 4 of the top 5 sites are all own by Indonesian webmasters.

We only now waiting the official proclamation of the winner of the contest and waiting which of these Indonesian website will be in the top 3 rank for the serp.

It’s now clear to everyone that you can’t out rank or defeat alone a group of people who are helping each other.

I want to congratulate all Indonesian webmasters, you did a great jobs guys, see you on the next SEO contest we learn much on this contest and we have a good competition on the next seo contest :)

Does anchor text no longer that important in google?

August 23rd, 2008

It’s been almost year or more when I first heard latent semantic where google is trying to implement in their search engine algorithm many webmaster and seo experts have been discuss this before but many argument was happened until conclusion if the said technology or not was implement. The said technology latent semantic is that it will give more importance to relance not just the specific keyword or phrase. For example if you search in google for the keyword Philippines , the new technology will not only focus on the keyword Philippines but the relavance of keywords such us Filipino, Pinoy, Filipina, Manila all these keywords are related to Philippines.

Lately, many webmasters and seo expert again opened up this topic and now it seems google is implementing the said technology.  Many webmasters and seo expert were affected and complaining that they lose their SERP for their target keyword. In my observation also to my sites, it look like there is a basis of what they are claiming that google is not giving so much importance now to the anchor text we are using to build our back links.  Instead seems google algo now balancing all the keywords and phrase you’re using to anchor your back link.

If we analyzed, using the same anchor text all the time to build your back link is like keyword staffing in your page where most search engine penalized a page or site doing this keyword staffing.  The search engine company maybe noticed the abuse of this technique that is why they are slowly discredit same anchor text.

Busby SEO Challenge Pulling down

August 23rd, 2008

My busby seo challenge entry is continuesly dropping for the past 3 days, as I mentioned on my previous posts that you can’t relax on this competition, I just stop building back link for the past 2 days and now my site drop very fast.

The reason why I stop building link is that, I can’t find ways to build  link any more lol and of course I have other job to do in my online marketing. But I hope some of my old link building technique and I have done when they matured I can get a few push to the top.

But thanks to the back link I am getting from other sites, specially from pogung77 he gave me back link from his busby seo challenge entry.

Meta tags are they still matters?

August 22nd, 2008

If you explore every webmasters forum on the net and some webmaster and seo related blogs and articles. You will read different thoughts about using meta tags. Many of them saying that google is no longer care about meta tags and some of them say they are. Well I guess most or all of them agreed that title is one of the most important in onpage optimization.

In my own opinion, observation, testing, and experience I am still believing that google is giving some importance to to all page meta tags. If not why that google using meta description of the site when showing a search result, not all the time but I have seen many search result that google is showing the meta description of a certain page or site.

In my understanding, google or other search engine will not care about your meta tags if you used it as keyword staffing.

But let’s accept the facts, that unlike old days most of the search engines give very high value to webpage and website meta tags, but because most of webmasters and blackhat seoer abuse it, the value was loose.

But if you ask me if they are still important, well they can help.

Another Filipino Site on First Page for the keyword Busby Seo Challenge

August 22nd, 2008

The busby seo challenge is about to end, there are 9 days left, and it seems the Indonesian group of webmaster dominating the contest. They even out rank the group of 80 french webmaster in the contest. I am glad that another Filipino website beside my site have been move to the first page of google SERP for the keyword busy seo challenge.

Now two Filipino website with very simple design have been move to the top 10 of the contest. Another proof that search engine don’t care designs, but they do care what the site have to offer to their visitor and who link to your site.

For now SE, specially google love sites with huge of back link.

25th death aniversary of Ninoy Aquino

August 21st, 2008

Today Filipinos are commemorating the death or assassination of the former Senate President and Oposition president during the regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, Ninoy Aquino. Ninoy Aquino was shot on his arrival at the Manila International Airport.

Filipinos are worth dying for!


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