My Hitler video has been described variously as hilarious, brilliant, stunning, really funny and extremely clever but it was also called linkbait. Now linkbait is where you just put something up to create a bit of controversy and therefore get more traffic to your site. I wouldn’t spend five hours working on something just for a bit of linkbait though, I would diss somebody in text!
I have to say that it took me some time to realise that you could actually, and I hate this word, monetise the internet. For years I understood that you had to physically sell something on the internet to actually earn money. The reason was simple. I had an estate agency and the internet generated leads in the form of clients who came over and bought a house for sale in Spain. Simple really. However that is slightly removed from actually earning money on the internet. That is a real world business supported by a shop window of the internet presence.
I have been developing a lot of websites recently and it is actually embarrassingly easy to rank websites for certain keywords in Spain. With a little thought and a small amount of backlinking you can be on the first page of Google.es within a few hours at times. Why is this though? Why doesn’t Spain get websites?
I talk a good game.
But sometimes I don’t follow through usually because of lack of focus.
I was taught a lesson and humbled into action last weekend by my daughter. Now recently turned 18 I have taught her about buying domains and selling websites. I have bought her Market Samurai as anyone who is serious about internet marketing really should do but the truth is I didn’t really buy her it because Market Samurai comes with two licences when you buy it so you can give it to your outsourcer or in this case my daughter.
Last week on a couple of blogs I suddenly noticed a huge traffic spike, much more traffic than expected on a couple of blogs. I had a quick look at analytics and discovered that it was all to do with the general stirke in Spain on Wednesday the 29th of September. Keyword ranking for that term had gone crazy as had searches as people due to be flying out or already here wanted to know what would be happening.
I have a shedload of domains now, some with sites set up on them, some waiting in the queue to get a site set up on them and some I haven’t got a clue what to do with. As I have said before often I do a lot of stuff and anything that can give me an advantage, not against competition but more against the clock, is welcome. I have found something that is excellent to do this.
If you use wordpress and have a lot of domains you should really check out this new tool now.
Facebook had a conference this week which might well change the landscape of the internet as we know it. Just in case you didn’t know here are a couple of facts about Facebook:
1) There are over 400 million people on Facebook.
2) They are all throwing sheep at each other and poking on a regular basis. (Basically this means they are actually on the site and doing stuff and interacting with the aps)
3) Facebook allows adverts.
Life is simple if you make it that way. To start up a business online you need very little really. A lot of enthusiasm, more than a little knowledge and some basics of putting together a website. However if you really want to get ahead there are various things that you need to know and various tools that is advantageous to have. Let’s look at them in turn over the next few posts on the blog here.
Sometimes I have time to crank out a few articles and you get to see them on this blog and a few others I write on like Houses For Sale In Spain. Sometimes though on my lesser known blogs I don’t really have too much time to write and they get criminally neglected meaning they lose some of their appeal and impact.
As you will know if you have read the recent posts in here, I spent the majority of last weekend working and working a lot. One of the sites that I set up I have now started uploading content to. www.tldrentals.com is an idea I have had for some time to put powerful domains in the hands of small and medium sized businesses for ranking purposes. What do I mean by that?
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