Here are my new projects. Listing them here for two reasons actually. First is to show others what I am working on in my ongoing effort to pass on what I learn and second for the SEO purposes.  This blog gets crawled about every 2 days so I want my new sites to get indexed quickly.  Here they are.

• NursingJobsWatch.com which is an online resource for travel nursing jobs.
• MYRCAircraft.com which is a radio controlled rc airplane oriented website.
• BestOceanfrontHomes.com is a new site to highlight oceanfront homes for sale.
• MyBestInternetDeals.com is a site featuring the best deals on the Internet.

For those of you looking to learn how to make money online using niche blogging I highly recommend you visit Garry Conn’s website at HowToBuildANicheBlog.com and take advantaage of his knowledge. Yes it does cost a little but out of all the “how to” sites and books I have seen out there, this one is the real deal.

The website www.howtobuildanicheblog.com has a free introductory 10 minute video explaining what is going on.  This is a membership site but the plans are very, very reasonable.  Garry has given a lot away over the past year in way of advice, examples and general education on making money online so I do not have a problem with paying for this one and believe me you will be glad you did too. In addition to the video you also get access to his forum and the template that he developed for niche blogging.

To find out more information on Garry Conn’s new video and program visit his main site at http://www.garryconn.com/garry-conns-membership-site-is-live.php where there is a full write up on what he is offering. This is one investment I highly recommend if you are serious about learning how to make money online from one of the best teachers out there.

This is an unsolicited blog posting based on my own personal experience.

Ever try to ask some of the top make money online bloggers a question and get an answer? Not that easy is it. Garry has taken care of that as well with the setup of BloggingQuestions.com where you can submit questions and get an answer. This site covers a wide range of topics important to bloggers and website developers and provides straight up answers. To top it all off it is FREE as well. I am a big believer in the old adage “what goes around comes around”.  I think that is why Garry is seeing so much success in his online endevours. He gives away a lot of information that normally would take weeks if not months to research.

Like I said before, if you haven’t made GarryConn.com or BloggingQuestions.com one of your daily stops then you need to now.

About a year ago I decided to turn the site into a blog using Word Press as my blogging platform. The changeover went smoothly and went well for a couple of months. Then withough any explanation the Adsense revenue stopped. In fact the number of impressions that showed up in my Adsense account panel dropped to an average of 0 to 2 a day if that much. I examined all aspects of my site and could not find anything wrong. I tried several different WP layouts and still no change……….. Adsense was seemingly dead.  My Google analytics showed the same level of traffic but zero impressions on average in Adsense. This went on for a couple of months while I scratched my head.

Finally last week I decided to take the site back to a static html format. I rebuilt the site as a “directory” style website which will provide answers to about any question a visitor in this niche could have. I kept Adsense on the site and within 24 hours of re-launching the new site it was indexed in Google and voila…..  Adsense impressions immediatey climbed to the level they were a year ago. Click throughs are going up and for the first time in almost a year income is being generated via Adsense from this site.

I still cannot figure out what is going on. I have adsense on other blogs but they do not do well. Have I overlooked something with regards to Adsense and Word Press? Although blogging format provides for easier updates to my sites, am I losing income because a conflict of some sort that I am not aware of?

I would like to hear from any of you who have had the same problem.

My potential new client has said in return for doing SEO work on his website I can have one year of Adsense placement using my Adsense ID. Basically I optimize his site and my payment comes from whatever income is generated by Adsense and other affiliate programs. The site is in a fairly high payout niche and it would offer an extra incentive to me to ensure the site becomes higly visible.

What is your opinon of an arrangement like this? The only thing that bothers me is what if the site starts generating a good income stream then in 12 months I have to give it up? hhmmmmm

Step 1: I build a nice looking website that is pleasing to the eye complete with different gift certificate purchase options and information. This site is constructed in such a way that as each holiday throughout the year rolls around, I can quickly change the look to reflect that holiday.  In the case of the one I am working on now, it is Christmas oriented.

Step 2: I go to my local Staples or Kinko’s and I get 1000 business cards made that say “Looking for a gift certificate for a holiday gift?” or something to that effect.  I put the website addess on it along with some names of various types of certificates (monetary, dinner, actual gift, discount, etc…) and I start passing them out.  I always keep at least 100 cards with me at all times and my goal is to hand out 100 cards a day. If I run out I simply go and order another 1000.

When crunch time comes for gift purchases hopefully those people you have handed them out to will pull them out and go to your website. Don’t hesitate to email your friends and family with the website address and ask them nicely to pass it on to thier friends and family as well.

There you go. Two simple steps to market your holiday gift certificate website offline and generate online affiliate sales. Simple but effective (especially if you live in a smaller town like I do.)

Garry Conn is definitely not like that. In my opinion he has emerged as the only real “make money online” guru around. Why do I say that? Garry gives detailed, step by step instructions on how to set up money making niche websites. For instance, take yesterdays posting titled “Make Money Online Building A Blog About Gardening“. Garry explains the process from keyword research all the way through domain name selection and everything in between to set up a blog that will make money using adsense. He even provides a list of available domain names that he has researched.  Garry also gives his thought process to each step so the reader can fully understand why he is doing what he is doing in selecting and building a niche site.

This blog posting isn’t the first time he has provided step by step instructions of this nature. He has done it several times and each time he lays it all out there for anyone to follow.

Of course he has developed some tools for the serious web entrepreneur but for the most part Garry gives away what he has learned. I am a firm believer in “what goes around comes around” and they way Garry gives away and shares his knowledge can only mean that he will be successful in all he does beyond his wildest dreams.  I for one want to thank Garry for what he has shared.

If you are serious about learning how to make money online, then visite GarryConn.com and subscribe to his RSS feed and keep up with what he has to share.

I was very suprised at the end of the first day just how long that list had become. There were several hundered names on my list and the more I listed the more came to memory. Why am I telling you this. Try this same drill and see how many names you know. That is your core list for your holiday niche site. Let’s say you have a list of 200 people (it will probably be much much more than that) and in a best case scenario each one buys something from your Christmas affiliates at an average lead or sale price of $5.00 that is $1000.00. Ask them to send the link to your holiday affiliate website to their friends and it grows even more.

SImple idea isn’t it? Just make sure your holiday niche site is professional looking, not one of this single page splash sites that scroll down forever with multiple testimonials saying how wonderful everything is.

I would be interested to hear if any of you do this for the upcoming holdiday season and what your results are. With a site like this using your friends and family, you don’t have to worry about SEO or search return rankings. All of your marketing is done offline.

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……..)

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………..