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Don’t buy it

Rick — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:38:00 +0000

You heard me. Don’t buy that next Ebook. Don’t buy anything unless your online business is making money. Don’t spend all your online income on more e-books.

Use what you have and start building another part of your business.

Start with a basic plan.

Find Keywords with free keyword help.
Build a website using these keywords.
Start by using Comment Linking to get links to your site.
Start building Ezine Article articles to link to your site.
Start building traffic.

In my opinion the first thing you should buy would be hosting from Bluehost or Host Monster. You will get one free domain with your hosting. You will be able to host 100 or more WordPress blogs on either host without running out of space. Start with one domain and build a WordPress Blog based website. Build it either with a Static front page or as a Blog. You will get great customer support from either of these web hosts.

You can learn everything you need to know by researching online. There is so much information available on building wordpress blogs/websites you will be blown away.

Build your site. It will not be the “Mona Lisa”. It is your first site. You will learn a lot about adding plugins and changing templates. You can do that later. Build and learn at the same time. Do not spend a lot of time making your site pretty. Build pages and links to those pages. Again build build build.

A lot of the learning you need to get is from doing the work, not reading about someone who has done it before you. Just do it.

Get it going. Keep learning and researching. You need to become a good writer or a good buyer of good writing. Keep publishing and learning.

Once you start making a little money then you can invest a little of it on learning. Everything you need to know is available free online. Get good at Researching.

It takes most people 3 years at full time work to become good at something (a journeyman). It will not happen overnight. It took me 2 years part time to replace my full time income. Don’t sweat it. If it takes you longer that is ok. You may make the jump to 10 times your previous income faster than me.

Learn by doing it. Do not get stuck in buying the automated this or that for your site. Build keyword focused pages and add links.

Don’t worry about making money from your site until you have over 1000 links to your site and 30 pages. The key is your education, do not worry about making 20 cents in adsense income.

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My Internet Hobby

Rick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:27:00 +0000

I have a different hobby. I used to watch a bit of Television. I now watch very little. I used to sell stuff on Ebay. I sold over 10,000 items on eBay between 1999 and 2005. I now sell less than 200 items a year on eBay.

My Internet Hobby
I surf blogs to come up with knowledge and ideas to write articles about. I usually have 15 started articles on my blog. I just checked and I currently have 21 in progress. I title them and start the article and save it as a private post. I finish off a couple and schedule them to post every week. This way I always have articles to post on my blog.

I have another hobby that I do at the same time as I am researching articles. I am a comment poster. I post comments on most of the articles I read. I have several Blog identites. If the Blog I am reading is really good or I feel like it I will post on that article from a couple of identities.

I always try to make good relevant comments.
Often I will copy the comment into my blog and then write an article with my comment as the base of the article.

Three Hobbies in One
I really like reading other people’s blogs and this way I get a lot of learning, links and articles written at the same time.

IM by Rick.com is a Dofollow Blog. If you leave a relevant comment you will get a nice juicy Dofollow link.

Learning and writing about what I am learning.

Getting Link Love

Rick — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:56:17 +0000

There is a lot of commenting in internet marketing on Nofollow.

What is No follow.
From Wikipedia the definition is
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”

This means that with a nofollow put into the link Google will not follow or count the link against the person who owns the website but also will not count the link as a plus to the writer of the comment.

Most blogs now automatically include nofollow in the comments.

I disagree with Nofollow
Why I totally disagree with nofollow. I moderate all comments. My thank you for an actual comment it the active link. If I get even a whiff of you not reading the article and leaving a comment you are toast.

Why should the content you are putting on my website not benefit you as well as me?

I love comments.. State your thoughts on this one.

I Give you Link love
Any comment I approve from this blog will not have the nofollow attribute activated. It is very easy getting link love from me.

This is a Dofollow Blog. We love comments.