Starting A Blog And Topic Selection Followup
June 30th, 2008 by CourtThis video will answer questions posted in the comments of the Choosing A Profitable Blog Topic and Why Almost Everyone Should Be Starting A Blog videos. This is all part of my new starting a blog video series that will include 50+ videos about creating a blog for profit. Make sure you subscribe through RSS so that you don’t miss any of the original videos or follow-ups.
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June 30th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Hey Court,
That answers my question about the difference between blogging and keyword sniping. Thanks. I’m wondering what the main income generation method will be with blogging? Seems like banner advertising or selling your own services would be most profitable as opposed to say Adsense for keyword sniping.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I anxiously await your entire series. I discovered the awesomeness of blogs and niche marketing quite by accident 5 years ago when I was working with Andy Beal at marketsmart. I happened to write a blog article about hacking the xbox, and using an inclusive pinglist I achieved many number one positions for xbox related terms, I passed on the information to my managers and never really followed through, instead I focused on web, graphic and software design. It seems that now I have a few years to catch up on and this video series seems to be exactly what I need to skip months of futile experimentation.
-Shannon
P.S. How would I go about getting a review for the software I linked in the link section of this comment? I am in beta for the Ultimate Link Building Toolkit I am developing lately.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Thanks for the great videos!
I have a question:
I’m starting a site on which I would like to offer several free downloadable PDF files, but before they download I want to capture their email address to build a mailing list. I’ve heard of aweber, but have never done this before. Is there a free way to do this with wordpress? What would you recommend?
June 30th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
I have heard of people having great success with this plugin:
http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/
June 30th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
thanks for your answer. much appreciated
June 30th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Good stuff man! When you get a chance message me so we can talk about stuff.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
When looking for a profitable topic you need two things…
A topic people are ALREADY interested in AND a topic people are ALREADY spending money in.
Forget about finding the magic undiscovered niche. I like to go after big niches with lots of competition, but look for something within the niche SPECIFIC to focus on. Even a small part of a BIG niche can be quite profitable.
June 30th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Another great video, thanks Court!!
July 1st, 2008 at 5:02 am
Hi,
Will you be doing a video concetrating on backlinks? This is the part I find hardest, getting people to link to you.
My blog is new so doesn’t get any traffic really, I think it is still sandboxed maybe, but how am I meant to get links back if no-one knows about it? Kinda like employers only wanting experience and you ask, well how can I get experience when no-one will give me a chance? In this case how am I meant to get links back when my site has no exposure via the search engines? Patience?
Would love a video on this.
July 1st, 2008 at 5:47 am
Courtney,
These videos are the best! What I particularly like is the length. I would think it would make the videos easier to search through also. Really well done. Thanks so much.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Hi Courtney.
I know this is off topic, but I need your help.
What is the easiest way to put a photo on a wordpress post. When I try to use the insert photo button on wp I keep getting an error message.
Hope you can help
Thanks for the videos, i’m looking forward to the rest of the series.
All the best - John
July 1st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Congrats–
3506 RSS subscribers!!!!!!
I’ve been watching it inch up day by day.
July 8th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hey Court,
I just noticed today that the Google Adwords KW Tool shows Approx KW Search Volume for the previous month and Approx Avg Search Volume for the last 12 months. Do you think we can also use this new information to determine the profitability of a KW?
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Thanks,
Sal
July 10th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Hey Court,
In the video, you briefly get into the Google AdWords Keyword Tool. I am very confused about the results, as in no way do they reflect the results of the keyword tools that we use (wordze, wordtracker). Sometimes the numbers are way higher, sometimes way lower? Would you be able to enlighten me on that please? Thanks.
July 13th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
RJ,
As to your link problem, do a search here on court’s blog there was a post on link building and using article marketer to get internal links to inner pages of your blog.
Also, write up a press release about your blog and submit it to prweb.com this will get you some back links as well.
Hope this helps you out.
Len