There’s a Blog in my Soup

Today I’m launching an ebay auction for sponsorship of the 50 Bloggers in 50 States Roadtrip. I am going to be travelling a huge distance for this project. I figure might as well sell ads on the van, right?

You can view the auction here: Roadtrip - 50 Blogs in 50 States - Extreme Ad Package!

The starting price is $497. Which in my opinion is way under-priced, I can see this going as high as $2000 or more.

What you receive:

• 1 ad on my van in the back window for everyone to see. I will be travelling more than 5000 miles over the span of this roadtrip - it will definitely get a lot of eyes.
• You will be one of my featured sponsors and be listed on ALL posts relating to the Roadtrip.
• You will also receive a link on my blogroll.
• A 125×125 pixel banner ad.
• A 468×60 pixel banner ad. In the top header by the search bar.
• Vocal mentioning on EVERY Video / Podcast relating to the Roadtrip.
• I will be taking a picture of each blogger we interview holding up a poster with the logo’s of my Featured sponsors.
• I will also be stopping by any radio stations / tv stations / etc who will let me.

So far my site gets 1000 hits per day. IF that were the only feature it would be a steal - that’s 365,000 banner views spread out over a year. 1 banner for one month alone currently runs $30.

Imagine the exposure your website, blog, product will get. This is huge.

Each interview will not only be featured on my blog -but each blogger will also be writing a blog post about the event linking back to my site. I currently get 1000 hits a day - I’m expecting this roadtrip to bring raise that to 20,000/day - and you will have a 1 year banner. Not to mention your 1 year of van-side advertising.

This is the surest way to explode your business. If you want to take your business to the next height you need to place a bid TODAY the Auction ends in 10 days. Don’t wait. Don’t get left out in the cold!

BY THE WAY IF YOU HAVEN’T SUBMITTED YOUR BLOG TO THE DIRECTORY - You better do so now - it’s the ONLY way to get a chance to be interviewed!

Submit your Blog to the American Blogger Directory

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What if you could make twice the money from an ebay store?

You can make the initial money for the sale of whatever product it is that you’re offering, but as a double whammy you can also make an affiliate commission for referring people to ebay.

Just think about that - you can make as much as $25+ per person who signs up for ebay. Plus if your site is targeted strictly to your product, add some other related affiliate banners, good seo, maybe a lot of tutorials relating to your items, and some ppc advertising, and you’ve got a guaranteed income online.

Here’s an example: Say you’re selling products that help people train their pets. Now say you put up a wordpress blog with a ton of tutorials and post an ebay feed with all of your products to your site, using your affiliate link. Now if anyone buys from you - you not only get the sale but the affiliate commission. Add PPC and a newsletter and you’ll explode your business!

Stay tuned - I’m working on an ebook about Niche Affiliate Marketing, and will be launching it in a few weeks.

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Today, I’ve decided i’m going to try my hand at podcasting.

This is my introduction to the world of podcasting. I will be delving deep and revealing my results as to how well podcasting can help improve a blog’s reach.

Feel free to subscribe to my podcast.

 

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Hey,

I’m not really a hotshot blogger, in fact I’m quite the opposite.

I don’t believe I have all the answers, or that I’m all that special. I do have confidence though in what I’m saying, and I know it works.

I believe humility is an important characteristic to encompass, and I know I’m not the perfect person yet. Which is why I am asking you, my readers the following questions:

What would you like to see on this blog?
What would you change about this blog?
What suggestions do you have for this blog?
Ultimately do you enjoy this blog, or do you think I’m full of fluff?

I have been told that the ads are a little excessive - but right now I’m just testing a bunch to see which ones I’m going to keep, then I’ll dial it down a lot.

I’m probably opening a can of worms here, but I know I have a lot of room to grow - and I’m not one to think I’m better than anyone.

One other question: Do you think I should start a podcast - and blog about the results of using podcasts on blogs?

I’d like to thank all of you who comment on this post, in advance - you are really what makes blogging such a fun / important part of my life.

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You should notice the add above under the search button.

It basically tells anyone who has IE to get a better browser aka firefox.

For each of those who download firefox I receive a buck. But why waste the space if a viewer already has firefox? Obviously they’re not going to download it again, right?

You can do this easily if you follow these steps:

1. Download and install “Who Sees Ads”
2. Add this code to your header file for your theme:

<?php function ae_detect_ie() { if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && (strpos($_SERVER
['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], ‘MSIE’) !== false)) return true; else return false; } ?>
</head>

3. Next you will need to configure an ad context in Who See’s Ads. Go to the admin panel for the Who Sees Ads plugin.

    - Choose a name for your ad context. I chose ‘firefox’.
    - Now go down to second option from the bottom it should say:
                    X if (<scroll box>) {<display>}
    - You will want it to look like:  
                    X if (<(ae_detect_ie())>) {<display>}
    - Now drag and drop that row below where it says Active Rules.
    - Put your ad for firefox in the form that says: Ad code.
    - Click Save Context.
    - Now go back and create another context and call it -  ifhasfirefox.
    - Find the rule:  if Any condition  then

    - Move this to Active Rules and Put your adsense code in the Ad code area and save.
    - Now go back to the first context you made and put the following rule under the previous rule in active rules.                   if Previous conditions fail, try context   

Basically this will tell the script that if the first condition is not met which would show the firefox ad, then show the second ad which is the ‘ifhasfirefox’ ad.

You can see this script in action on my site - just load my page in firefox and internet explorer. Let me know if you have any questions or need help with this.

 Please note in order to promote firefox and earn money you will need to be a member of adsense you can sign up here:


 

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This is just too good.. Seriously, what will they think of next?

Etsy has started selling a Cat5 style his / hers wedding band set for geeky couples. My wife would kill me if I bought her one, she knows I’m a geek, and she’s pretty geeky herself - but in total denial.

I could also see making some sort of necklace like this, as well.

Watch out though -they retail for $175!

More…(Gizmodo, Gadgetell, DVICE)

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Hirosito is an interesting word. Why am I blogging about Hirosito?

Tonight I was searching for niche keywords. I’m a big fan of the tv sitcom heroes,  so I put heroes into my webceo, under the ‘get suggestions’ tab. What I’m looking for are good niches with a high KEI.

Heroes yeilded Nada. After heroes, I tried the word “hero”. Still nothing. My favorite character on the sitcom is Hiro Nakamura. So the next term I put in was Hiro with an “i”.

I was flabbergasted when it pulled up the term: Hirosito.

I had no clue what Hirosito means but the kei is: 9,501,221.183. This is huge it’s the largest find I’ve ever found. Of course my blogging about Hirosito may create an influx of competition for this word, but I’m curious to see what may happen if I can rank in the top 10 for Hirosito.

According to webceo there are about 234,215 searches for Hirosito daily, however there’s only 5,770 competing websites.

I’m not the first to capitalize on this term obviously. According to hirosito.info - hirosito means internet marketing or seo. Someone who practices hirosito is an expert internet marketer.  Because I found it while using “Niche Marketing”, I personally am going to use it to mean Niche Marketing.

In the spirit of that, I am going to replace ‘niche marketing’ with the term hirosito, in future blog posts,  as an experiment in seo. Of course some believe hirosito, may actually mean HI, Rosito, which is definitely a possibility. Anyway you look at it, it is a cool word.

What are your opinions on Hirosito? Do you know any other meaning for Hirosito?

Want to help my hirosito experiment be a success? Blog about it, and link to this post.

One side note, my wife says Hirosito is a name, and that could certainly be the case, but it is a cool niche search anomaly.

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Here is a little secret: .com’s only matter to major business sites, and big time blogs. The key to successful Niche building, is BULK SITES. The more the better.

If you have the money - by all means go and buy up 100 .com websites for $800.

If you’re poor like the rest of us - or a bit frugal - you might want to try .info names instead.

Godaddy.com is running a special right now where you can actually buy .info domains for $.99! No, that is not a typo. You could buy 100 domains for $100.

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I recommend going and buying at least 10 domains right now. Of course before you buy your domains you should definitely research some profitable niches, I highly recommend using webceo to do this.

My suggestion for creating and choosing the domains is to research your chosen niche, find the 3 keywords that appear the most, 4 keywords max, and choose a domain like: keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.info - I’m not a super expert at this though, I’m still experimenting myself - have you had any experience using dashes vs no-dashes in domain names? Let us know!

Stay tuned, as I am building a couple Profitable Niche Sites myself and will be running a contest and actually giving away my most productive niche blog. You don’t want to miss this! Subscribe now and stay up-to-date!

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