Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at
1:13 am
You have found a winner! After a long time spent on doing keyword research, you finally found a perfect keyword that has high volume of searches per month but with relatively low competition. If you just optimize your web page with this keyword and get some back links to your web page, you will rank in the first page of Google in no time and attract all the traffic to your website and cash in big fat check!
Waits a minute! Before you get too overexcited with it, take a closer at it one more time carefully. Often times, the keyword that you come up with is something strange like “Newark taxidermist deer”. While the keyword make sense for someone who’s looking for a taxidermist in Newark, it is not as easy to come up with content that make absolutely sense for that keyword.
Here’s the thing. The search engine like Google and any other search engines don’t care about the punctuation. This give you flexibility when writing your keyword optimized content for these tough keyword phrase as you don’t have to write nonsense in order to fit the keyword in. For example, you can write something like “…consult a Newark taxidermist. Deer hunters have always relied on the expertise.” Get what I mean?
It is important that you use some creativity as part of your keyword research and content developing strategy to workaround those tricky keywords. With a little bit of extra effort, you can easily out rank those great terms that most of the less motivated webmasters fail to do so.
Friday, November 27th, 2009 at
10:43 pm
There are many different revenue sources you can earn from your Virtual Real Estate. One of them is sell advertising space on their niche VRE site. It is like people who own a real estate in the ‘real world’ alongside a highway who rent billboard space to advertisers to earn money from their land property. Simple text link or a banner ad is two of the common types of advertisement that people will run on your site. Your Virtual Real Estate is nothing different or complicated that this.
But there is a prerequisite, which is your site need to have good and consistent number of traffic in order to attract people or advertiser to shell out great amount of money in exchange for a billboard space on your VRE site. Depending on the niche and the traffic your site is getting, it can be a lucrative method of earning extra money. Your ability to secure and to persuade those high paying advertisers is going to be based on the number of visitors to your site and how the visitors come to your site, whether they are targeted visitors or not.
First thing first, you need to start planning and implementing a system to build a steady flow of targeted traffic to your site before you’ll able to find someone interested in spending money to put their billboard on your VRE property.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 at
8:08 am
There is no secret that the search engine like content, especially fresh content. The search engine spiders are programmed to fill their appetites with not limit of juicy, fresh and new content. The more content they can find, the happier they become.
The reason why you should drip feed your website with content and fresh news regularly is the search engine spiders are ‘trained’ to come back to your site more often. Search engine like Google, Yahoo and MSN absolutely like the sites that regularly adding new content, so if your website is constantly being updated, the spiders will crawl your website more often and thus more of the pages will be indexed and get ranking.
Now you know the important of drip feed your website, but are you going to setup the mechanism that will automatically upload content onto your website on regular basis? Well, there are a lot of content management systems have an easy interface for you to add preloaded content and publish it at predefined schedules.
Drip feed allows your website to grows at a steady pace automatically and publish new content on a regular basis. You can expect to draw a great deal of attention from the search engine spiders and of course, more traffic to your website and thus more money.
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at
1:14 am
You probably have heard of this phrase thousands times. Indeed, list marketing is one of the most profitable ways to make money on the internet. What that means is that you need to get the contact detail of your visitors and customers so that you can contact them and offer them something whenever needed.
When we talk about virtual real estate, the first thing that comes to people mind is to make money with Adsense or affiliate program. While this model works and will continue to be a profitable way to make an extra affiliate income, there are another powerful way that can increase your profit exponentially and that is list building. In niche marketing, you need to generate a list of subscribers to your newsletter who are passionate in the niche as well. This will allows you to send them relevant product offer that will help them in one way or another.
So what would you do to build your niche prospect list? You can create a series of newsletter or e-course related to your niche and offers it for free to your visitors to subscribe to your mailing list. You can bribe people to subscribe to your newsletter by giving them a free report or special gift to sweeten the pot to subscribe to your newsletter. Once you turn your VRE into a list-building powerhouse and have build a huge list, you will be able to use it to send offer to your list and make money on demand.
If you haven’t starts to build your first list yet, you are losing big time. Go and start building your list now, it could be one of the best strategies to make money in the niche!
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at
2:47 am
Most people when heard about VRE site, they usually think of a big, fat, content-rich sites that attract visitors like a magnet attracts metal shavings. The site is not just a dozens visitors per day but thousands visitors coming to their site each and every day and earn a substantial amount of Adsense earning or affiliate commission.
It is very possible if they have a good promotional strategy of their VRE site. However, there are plenty of possibilities to make a nice income using the Virtual Real Estate methods which will be laid out later with a smaller and tighter niche. This is also the recommended method for you to get started, to start small but still get a nice paid!
Let’s say you find a particular sub-niche for a very particular type of product with only a handful of relevant keywords that look promising and it appears as if you’ll be able to rule top spots for those terms very quickly. The question is, should you run away from this niche because of its inherent size limitations or try to dominate this niche before anyone else?
The answer is clear. You should put everything you know to attack that kind of niche and dominate it as quickly as you can with the resource you have. Even if it just earns you $9.95 per year, it will cover the domain name registration and hosting expenses for that niche. Once you VRE site is up, the maintenance work required to stay toward the top is usually minimal relative to high competition niche. You don’t have to spend too much time updating and promoting it like you would for a competitive niche. If you break it down based on the amount of work involved, creating these smaller VRE niche site can offer better return on investment especially if you are doing it all by yourself.
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at
2:15 am
Building a successful Virtual Real Estate (or VRE) starts with selecting good keywords. Before you start building your VRE site, your first goal is to do a proper keyword research and get as much of highly targeted relevant keyword with low competition but high searches. This will help you to get high rank in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) for the keywords that your prospective visitors used to search for the information with less effort.
Once you find those targeted keywords, you need to optimize the article in your VRE for them to achieve maximum results. The keywords that you choose to optimize your site for will have big influence on how the search engines see your VRE site is relevant for. So you would want to make sure that your VRE have the maximum curb appeal.
You should make keyword research part of your marketing plan from the very beginning. If you do your keyword research well at the beginning, you are doing yourself a massive favor. The time that you spend on doing keyword research will worth every minute. It will save you a lot of time in the long run and from wasting effort promoting wrong keywords that won’t bring you any visitor.