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Back on September 10th I made a posting about wanting to be in the www.45n5.com/top100/ top 25. At that time I was near the botton at 333. Today I found this blog at 270. Thats quite a leap in one month. Still a long way to go but better than I was.  I know this is a useless post…….. I just wanted post about moving up what has become my favorite list of blogs.

WIll have something more substantial in my next post about learning seo.

Do you make money from your niche sites during the various holidays? If not you should be. You don’t even have to worry about ranking on the search engines if you do it right. Build an online holiday resource center for your friends, family and local community. More and more people are buying online and the trend is not slowing down. By making a “holiday gift resource site” you are actually providing a service to your friends and family.

Take Valentines Day for example. Build a nice looking Valentines Day oriented website. Invest a little in it and make it look classy. Research and write some articles on the history of this day and how it is celebrated throughout the world. Put a fiew pages on the various traditions of Valentines Day as well as quality articles. Ad your affiliate banners and links in a tasteful way and make sure it doesn’t look like a billboard and voila, you are ready.  Send an email to your friends and family and tell them there is a place online where they can find most, if not all their Valentines Day gifts, flowers, cards, chocolates, spa gift certificates for the wife or girlfriend and much much more.  Take out an ad in your local newspaper highlighting your site and let the local community know that as Valentines Day approaches they can go online and take care of everything, especially if their valentine is hundreds of miles away.

Now do this for all the major holidays throughout the year and you should see a steady income as each site becomes active during the run up to the holiday.

Here is my holiday list:

• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza
• New Years
• Valentines Day
• St. Patricks Day
• Easter
• Mothers Day
• Fathers Day
• Grandparents Day

That’s ten niche sites that I can work on throughout the year and starting about 45 days ahead of time start letting people know it’s available.

So, there you go. One way to make money online and provide a service at the same time.  (Just be careful not to be labled a spammer by your own family and friends……..)

Yes you read correctly.  I am of the opinion that the current economic problems may actually be good for those of us who make our living on the Internet. Why? For one thing gas prices are keeping people from getting out to go shopping so the alternative in today’s world is to shop online. Also people are now tighteing their purse strings and looking for the best deal. Where do they find the best deal? On the Internet of course. With the holiday season coming up those of use make money online should start to work our individual niches to be ready for the buying season. More people will buy online this year than ever before.

Instead of looking at the economic situation as a doom and gloom crisis, look at it as an opportunity. Those who adapt, improvise and overcome and work through this will be solidly set through this time and when it is over and back to normal.

So, turn on the TV, watch the news and smile and say to yourself “This is a great time to make money online”

What do you think? Am I crazy or do I just have a great positive mental attitude………..

I have learned a lot about SEO over the past 18 months. I am by no means an expert, but I have had good success with my websites ranking on Google. Most of my sites are in the top ten for their primary search terms and others are still climbing.

I am a big believer in sharing what I know. Others have shared with me and helped me so I want to pass the info I have accumulated on to others. If I don’t know the answer to your question I will be upfront and let you know. No BS here. So, if you are starting out on your SEO journey and learning the basics, post your question and I will answer each one based on my personal experience.

I look forward to hearing from you so ak away……….

Although I write primarily to those who wish to learn SEO and try to share what I have learned, there is more to the success of a website than the whole SEO process. We all know what a good SEO campaign consists of and we all try to incorporate those steps and items into our websites.  But there is more that can be done to make your online presence a success.

I am of the opinion that you should spend at least the same amount of time marketing your website offline as you do online. You heard right. Good old fashioned 20th century marketing that is “sans Internet”. I know some of you younger folks may have a hard time grasping the concept of marketing without the use of the Internet, but it is possible.  Old school traditional marketing techniques coupled with old school guerilla marketing methods can increase the amount of traffic you see.

Here is my list of 6 ways to effectively market your website offline. Beware, some of these are off the traditional path but effective.

• Place an ad in the back of your favorite niche subject magazine. Does your website cover “beading”, then place a text ad with your website url in the back of BeadStyle Magazine. You would be suprised how many people look at those ads.
• Every letter you drop in the mailbox should have your website address on it. Even if you hand write it in pen, people will see it. There are quite a few people that handle your letter before it reaches your destination and your niche website address may catch the eye of one of those people.
• You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 business executive to use a business card. If your niche is winter sweaters for small dogs then get a couple hundred cards made up that state exactly what you do with your website address on it and take them with you everywhere. Each time you see someone with a small dog give them one. What a way to break the ice. You can also take them to the pet shoppes and leave them.
• Attend networking events such as trade shows (take your cards – see above) and chamber events and get to know people. Let them get to know you and what you do.  Listen to what people are saying and when the opportunity arises, let them know you have a solution to their need and give them your website.
• Do you live in a high traffic area?  Is there a digital billboard in the area? Check into running an ad on a digital billboard. Most of these billboards offer multiple advertisers the opportunity to display in rotation and as a result you can often find your website url in front of thousands of people for a lot less than you would imagine.
• Become an expert in  your niche and seek out speaking opportunities. Teach others what you know and of course explain your website is a resource for them.

What are your offline marketing methods for your website?