Month: September 2022

Sep 7

September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

There are a lot of comments and blog posts about the evils of duplicate content.

I searched, and Google returned with ‘About 583,000,000 results’.

Most of those results were about how duplicate content was evil and you shouldn’t do it.

That’s misleading at best and outright B.S. at worst.

From my testing and Neil Patel’s testing, we have come to essentially the same conclusion.

Duplicate content will only harm your site if you have multiple pages with the same content on the same site.

Having the same content on multiple sites won’t hurt you.

Having the same content, in different formats, on multiple sites will help you.

There is no duplicate penalty, but there is little chance that a page with the same content on a different site will rank.

By the same token spinning an article in the way I have suggested in previous emails will give you hundreds of quality articles on the same subject.

The best spinning tool I have found is SpinRewriter, https://go.wm-tips.com/write, and I have been using this tool for years.

It just keeps getting better and better.

Regards,
Brent.

Information is freely available, and you can sell it.

Information is freely available, and you can sell it.

As you should.

Sep 6

September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

People don’t like to think for themselves.

People don’t like to search for information themselves, or perhaps their search skills are extremely poor.

No matter what the cause, people like to be able to buy something that explains what they want to know.

It doesn’t matter that most of them won’t put any of what they learn into action.

The fact that they could is good enough for most of them.

They had an itch to know something, your product scratched that itch, and they are happy.

Just because the information they seek is freely available does not mean you can just grab it and use it as it exists.

The best way to use it is to treat it like PLR and rework it from your point of view.

That reworking makes it unique and much more saleable.

Your thoughts and opinions are what they are buying, not the content.

They probably have megabytes of the same information on their hard drives already, but the itch has come back, so they buy more.

The itch only stops when you begin putting the information into action.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. I did some training a while back called CopyRiddles.

The concept is that writing great bullet points into your sales pages can change your pages into cash-sucking machines.

Written correctly, they create a dissonance in the reader, which can only be resolved by buying the product.

The training isn’t always available but will be coming back on the market soon, and I wanted to give you the chance to take the same course.

Have a look at the sales page here

copyriddles.com

, and decide if you’re interested enough to get John’s daily emails.

I find them well worth reading.

Sometimes you can’t justify the cost.

Sometimes you can’t justify the cost.

Sometimes you can’t.

Sep 5

September 4, 2022September 4, 2022

I’ve completed writing the program I’ve been working on and looked at the cost of buying a license.

The license is required to make the program saleable, it’s free to develop the program, but it cannot be distributed in that format.

The cost is too great for a single year, and I don’t get everything I want with a simple payment.

The cost is $399 USD which translates to nearly $600 AUD.

I would need two licences to do what I want, and I’m not prepared to pay that much per year.

So, the search for a new tool begins again.

Sometimes you’ll come across the same dilemma.

Do you buy the tool or search for a different one?

Not all tools are created equal, so you must assess each one carefully.

Each tool has limitations and quirks.

You need to determine if you can live with or work around those limitations and quirks.

Sometimes a free tool will do the job fine, and sometimes you’ll need to pay a fee.

Paying a subscription is usually the best unless you can get a special offer on a popular tool.

Even paying a subscription, which is supposed to keep the developers financially incentivised to keep their software current, doesn’t always work out.

You may remember the Vidnami debacle.

GoDaddy bought them out and then closed the software down without a replacement.

Web hosts shut down despite monthly income.

Google regularly shuts down platforms and tools that have been running for years.

Choose your tools carefully and keep your backups current.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Whenever I change tools, there is always a learning curve until I feel proficient in using them.

Too many people pick up a new tool or training and never complete it.

I include myself in that group as well.

It’s easy to get distracted and not get back to what you were doing.

I suspect a significant part of that is the flood of information we are bombarded with daily.

Computers and the Internet were supposed to make our lives easier.

Instead, they have made our lives more disjointed and polarised.

It’s hard to focus on the task at hand.

That’s why this training is excellent.

You don’t get the next module until you complete the previous one.

Staying on track doesn’t take much time, and it’s easy.

Check it out https://go.wm-tips.com/reviews.

Even trashy novels can teach you things.

Even trashy novels can teach you things.

Not always useful.

Sep 4

The Simplest Ways to Make Money Online for the over 50s.

Some of what I have learned has ended up as an email.

Today isn’t an exception.

The book suggested that the word OK came from World War 1 battlefield communications.

Apparently, every morning there was a morse code transmission to all troop positions with the numbers of soldiers killed in battle the previous day.

0 k meant no one died, which soon became known as an OK day.

It seemed logical to me, but I did some additional research and discovered that the linguists think it came from an editorial joke 175 years ago, well before WW1, and spread from there.

I prefer the first explanation because it makes more sense than some dozy editorial joke with a different meaning going viral.

Without the book, I probably would never have done the research.

The lesson for all of us is that you can never trust what you see, read or hear as being gospel truth.

For an example, see the image of the city on Mars that the A.I. tool created for me at

Brent’s Newsletter

By Brent Milne

You should question everything because so much is biased by an agenda that’s not in your favour.

The question to ask is, “What if you’re wrong?“.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. While I always do my best to point you in the right direction, there is no guarantee that what I think is the right way is right for you.

Only you can determine that.

Whether you want to write stories, novels, blog posts, emails, tweets, sales letters, etc., you will have to write something to market online.

The goal of all that writing is to persuade the reader to take some action.

To that end, it’s in your best interests to make sure that your writing is persuasive and the best place to develop that skill is here.

https://go.wm-tips.com/reviews.

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Only 1% of people will visit your website more than once.

Only 1% of people will visit your website more than once.

If you’re lucky.

Sep 2