Once you know a bit more about what goes on behind the scenes of websites, blogs and traffic, you’ll stumble across some advice telling you to leave comments in the blogs of other people.  It was believed that this would create a backlink to your website - and help you move up the Google rankings and/or get indexed more quickly.  This piece of advice became redundant a few years back though, when the default setting on comments in blogs was changed to “nofollow”.

Nofollow - What is That Then?

Before the nofollow tag was set, if Google’s crawler visited the other person’s blog, it would find your comment, spot your website url and go off to investigate your site.  When nofollow was set, this stopped.  The tag told Google’s robot to not follow the link!  Ooh er missus!  So, all that time you spent commenting on people’s blogs was wasted. Well, it turned out that most comments weren’t real people like you and I at all.  Spammers had written nifty little automated robots that simply wandered around the internet leaving comments on everybody’s blogs.  A number of blogs do not moderate their comments, so when you post a comment it appears on the site automatically.  What these robots did, therefore, was to create hundreds/thousands of links back to their cr*p site, with rubbish on it. Selling you meds, or similar things you had no interest in!

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At some point, you have to wonder how the heck you can tell people about your website. Daunting!

Your choices are pretty much one of these:

1. Tell nobody, I built it, they’ll come, right?! They might, they might not.  My first website went down a storm. The world and his dog visited … it made me loads of money. Now, nearly 2 years on, I’ve still never advertised and it’s still getting 20,000 visitors per month!  My next 19 didn’t take off in the same way.  I’d paid full attention on the first one to proper keywording. Now I don’t. It was as simple as that.  For me, I know that writing good SEO copy will bring in visitors, yet I still fail to do it.  The style of this blog is “right out of my head”. I literally am writing it to a friend, you, as if we’re sat in a pub.  This style doesn’t make for high SEO results, high rankings … and therefore, high visitors. But this blog makes me happy - so that’s what it’s here for.  This blog is about me documenting my finds, for myself mainly and any friends who want to know things.  It’ll never set the world alight, probably.

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Well, I’ve been fascinated by Wordpress since I first discovered it … now really regretting the months/years I spent poring over really complex systems of getting a website together.  First I learnt html, then I started fiddling about with all the free Content Management Systems online.  In fact, my first successful website was written in dotNetNuke - free but such a pig (slow) to update that it can literally take me 30 minutes to write something as small as this first paragraph and get it live online!

I am so glad I found Wordpress.

What I love most about Wordpress are all those lovely plugins.  Before, if I’d wanted some extra functionality it’d take me a lot of money to have things developed just the way I want. Now, with Wordpress plugins, I can get pretty much 99% of exactly what I want, instantly, and always under $40/£20.  Now, obviously a lot of Wordpress plugins are free, but sometimes you’ve just got to admit that somebody spent a LOT of time building a plugin - and if it achieves exactly what you want, then they DESERVE the cash!!

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I was just surfing around the Net … *coughs* … er, that’s real work, honest!  And I came across a blog entry where it was pointed out that you can pay less for clicks at night.  So, that seems a great idea doesn’t it. Pay less for your google Adwords PPC clicks when advertising Clickbank products.

But I don’t think this is something I’d advise. I think you should be paying MORE for your Google Adwords adverts. Yes. MORE. No … keep reading, you’ll like this!

If you are using Google Adwords to promote clickbank products, then there’s a really nifty piece of analytics you can use to your advantage, that needs NO setting up.  This fountain of information is just sitting there waiting to be plundered by you for your evil deeds… *insert menacing cackle*…

When you’re logged into Clickbank, if you go to Reports, Analytics, you can select a date range and see at what time people actually BOUGHT.  So, if you know the hours of the day when people are actually buying Clickbank products from your website, why on earth would you be showing your adverts the rest of the time? Doh!

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Car boot sales, charity shops, local shops, supermarkets - every time I go out I pass books for sale at knock down prices, end of line bins in shops, charity shops with shelves stacked high. I see CDs, music, video, audio … it’s everywhere!

Media at discounted prices. And I wonder …. I look and I think “if only I had some way to check the price of these items quickly, perhaps I could make a killing selling them online”. But until now I couldn’t work out how to do this. I could use a PDA and search each one individually on Amazon as I went around, but that’d take FAR too long. I could pick three likely items, write the numbers down, check when I was at home, then dash back to buy them if I found out they were selling higher online.

If You Can Buy it Cheaper in One Place and Guarantee To Sell It Somewhere Else Higher, That’s a Profit … Right?

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