Today, at the pool, a young man joined me in the lane. That is no problem; we often have to share a lane. But, this person was battling to swim the 50m on the first leg. His style was all wrong, and he was working very hard on it. I gave him some tips.
Google hates spammy content that has no value for the end user. Their efforts to control the flood of crappy AI-generated content from the idiots means that some good sites will also be penalised temporarily. This is a massive opportunity. Many of those delisted sites will be abandoned, and the domain names will become
Google hates spammy content that has no value for the end user.
Their efforts to control the flood of crappy AI-generated content from the idiots means that some good sites will also be penalised temporarily.
This is a massive opportunity.
Many of those delisted sites will be abandoned, and the domain names will become available to purchase cheaply.
Many of them will also have been ranking for a ton of keywords.
All you have to do is dig around the expired domain sites, check the stats on those sites for the last 3 – 6 months, buy them and replace the pages that were ranking with pages that will get the ranking back.
Once you monetise those blogs, you’ll be in the money.
Ranking = traffic = cash.
In the last few weeks, I’ve been exploring the concept of creating good-quality articles using AI tools.
It is possible, and the articles can rank very quickly.
I spent most of today using a free tool called Make (formerly Integromat), which can interface with Google Docs, Sheets, and Drive.
It can also interface with ChatGPT, Dall-E, and WordPress.
I have managed to get it to create posts with a feature image in less than a minute.
I don’t have it integrated with WordPress yet; that’s tomorrow’s task.
Why would I bother with this?
I have over 80 domains and hundreds of websites.
I want to sell many of them off, but they’ll sell better if they have good content and some rankings.
It wouldn’t hurt if they were also making some money as well.
Full automation is not a good thing.
With full automation, you lose control of the content creation and your blog.
Particularly when it comes to AI.
AI lies, makes stuff up, and sometimes lives in a fantasy world.
So you can’t just let it do everything, but it can make the tedium of creation much faster and easier.
Semi-automation is the key here.
You do not need to post 100 posts a day.
3 – 5 a day scattered throughout the day is more than enough.
You need a pause between creation and posting.
With semi-automation, you can produce 30 posts for a single website in a single day and stagger the posting over a week or two.
This would allow you to regularly add content to your blog with only a couple of hours of work a week.
That sounds a bit like a Dr. Seuss story starter. In a room, with a sigh and a glare, I declare, “I do not like webinars anywhere! Not in a hall, not with a mocha tall, not in spring or fall. They chatter and shatter my patience thin, not even a snack can make me grin. Give me a book, a walk, anything at all, just not another webinar call.
In a room, with a sigh and a glare, I declare, “I do not like webinars anywhere!
Not in a hall, not with a mocha tall, not in spring or fall.
They chatter and shatter my patience thin, not even a snack can make me grin. Give me a book, a walk, anything at all, just not another webinar call.
With every ‘Next slide, please,’ my interest flees.
Oh, let’s find new ways to learn and tease!”
Written by ChatGPT.
It’s not.
The reason I don’t like most webinars is because they spend the first 20 minutes fluffing around with who’s on the call, BSing with each other and other pointless chatter.
Then, they’ll spend around 20 minutes going over the ‘meat’ of the webinar and finally spend an hour with their sales pitch.
The sales pitch is often for a tool or program that is overpriced and usually ineffective after six months at the most.
The biggest bugbear for me is that they’re held at 3:00 AM here, and they often claim there won’t be a replay.
Well, they can get …
I’m not playing that silly game.
When there is a replay, I record it so I can get other stuff done. I cut out the starter fluff and the sales pitch and finally watch the ‘meaty’ bit.
Sometimes, after all that, I don’t bother to save the core stuff because it’s useless.
However, webinars sell, apparently.
What to do about that?
Make evergreen webinars that people can access at any time.
Leave out the BS fluff at the start and limit the sales pitch to a short 3-4 minute pitch at the end.
The concept is to make the core of the webinar useful.
Something similar to a lead magnet that’s keyed to the pain points for the niche you’re targeting.
Take one part of the pain and provide a solution that works.
The sales pitch at the end is for either an affiliate product in the same niche or your product that provides more potential solutions.
It could also be a course or a fixed-term membership.
AI can create all the ideas you need to put something like this together in a matter of days.
But here’s the thing that most people miss about webinars: you get a list of people who want to know more about the niche.
People sign up for webinars without thinking about being added to a mailing list, and they expect to get emails that they will open.
P.S. Learning how to ask ChatGPT or any AI tool is the key to your long-term success.
There are many interesting videos on YouTube about prompt engineering, but from what I’ve seen, most of them are more interested in getting views and likes on their videos than teaching you anything useful.
That’s not true of all of them, of course.
Trevor, on the other hand, really, really wants you to succeed.
So he puts as much information in his videos as possible, without the fluff, so you can understand not just the prompt but the intent behind it.
No matter where you get your traffic, you need to start with a bridge page to the affiliate offer or your sales page. Why? Because most of your traffic, except from your email list, will be cold traffic. They’ve shown interest by clicking your link, but that’s it.
The only four? No, but possibly the most important four. Passionate. Purposeful. Profitable. Portable. While I’m not totally convinced about the passion requirement, it is important that you at least have an interest in your niche. Without that, you’ll need to be making money very fast, or you will
While I’m not totally convinced about the passion requirement, it is important that you at least have an interest in your niche.
Without that, you’ll need to be making money very fast, or you will get bored with constantly working in a niche that holds little interest.
You’ll probably quit before you reach your income goals.
However, if you’ve built it the right way, you will have something to sell.
If you are only doing this to make money, get a job.
You should think that you can make a difference in someone else’s life or that what you’re doing is worthwhile in some other way.
It probably doesn’t need to be said that you do need to make at least enough money to cover your costs.
Profit is not a dirty word, despite what some others might think.
Being able to work wherever you happen to be is one of the best aspects of an Internet business.
You may have noticed that I go on holiday whenever I feel like it, but the emails hardly ever miss a day.
How would you feel if you could go on holiday for as long as you like and have all your expenses covered by your Internet business?
Where would you go, and for how long, if you could do that?
The key to that is building an email list.
One of the fastest ways to build a profitable email list is to create a membership that drip-feeds a low-cost email course that solves a pressing issue in your chosen niche.
A series of 5-7 emails is enough, but any number that covers the problem and provides a viable solution is the aim.
You can break up a PLR product for the emails rather than sell it in its entirety.
Once they’re on your list and the drip-feed sequence has ended, keep emailing them with news about the niche, etc.
There are a couple of ways to get ranked on page one, and then make sure you get to position one for almost any keyword in almost any niche. To most of us, SEO is a dark art that seems to require roots from obscure plants dug up by the light of a full moon after midnight.
There are a couple of ways to get ranked on page one, and then make sure you get to position one for almost any keyword in almost any niche.
To most of us, SEO is a dark art that seems to require roots from obscure plants dug up by the light of a full moon after midnight.
You’ll also need to be able to chant special incantations while dancing naked around the pot that boils those roots and then apply the resulting liquid to your computer keyboard.
Wait.
That’s not right.
You’ll only destroy your keyboard and possibly your computer like that.
Don’t do it, OK?
And don’t send me photographs or videos of any naked dancing.
According to people who study these things the content of your web pages only counts for the humans visiting, so make that great content.
That content will not help you rank because the Google bot cannot read your web page.
Like most computer programs, it only searches for what it sees as relevant text.
The relevant text is the keywords you want to rank for.
The bot looks at the URL, the page title, what’s in the first H1 tag, and what’s in the H2 tags.
If it finds the same keyword or a semantic equivalent in those places, that’s what you’ll rank for.
OK, that’ll get you to page one.
It might get you to position one, but there is a way to ensure that happens.
Look at the snippet on that keyword ranking page.
Duplicate that snippet at the top of your page, and you should get to position one in days.
Position one gets 35% of all the traffic searching for that keyword.
Let me know how that works out for you if you try it.
Make them an offer they cannot refuse. Sounds very gangsta. It’s not. Think about this for a moment. Around 5% of Internet Marketers make enough money regularly to live comfortably. The rest scrabble around, not really knowing why they’re not making money.
Affiliates are pure gold for successful marketers.
They bring a constant stream of free traffic that is already pre-warmed.
However, many of those affiliates will not bring you good prospects.
This is how you fix that.
You supply your affiliates with a PDF that has their affiliate link embedded inside to use as a lead magnet.
They don’t get to rewrite anything in the PDF except their affiliate details because if they don’t have copywriting skills, they’ll almost certainly screw it up.
Use the same principles you’d use to build a bridge page for your product, but allow them to use it for free.
OK, so how do you do this if you don’t have good coding skills?
Head over to LeadsLeap and build one there.
The PDF they create can promote any page or product anywhere.
This is a Pro-level tool, and the Pro level on LeadsLeap costs $20 per month, but you won’t need any special skills to make this work.
I get many friend requests, ‘people’ wanting to strike up conversations with me via FB, etc. I always check their profile and their posts before accepting. 90%+ are fake accounts. It’s mostly young women, apparently. They show a lot of flesh in their short entries.
None of my younger relatives have nothing on their FB accounts.
None of them have accounts that are less than a year old.
None of them have accounts with no or very few friends on their lists.
What, then, is the purpose of these fake accounts?
I think they’re building up a bot army to sell likes and posts to unsuspecting wannabe marketers.
You’ll find them on Fiverr touting their credentials, but you’ll get fake likes and posts, not real humans.
The people in my friends list are real people; some I already knew, some have real-world stuff in their FB posts, and some are marketers touting real products but also have non-marketing stuff on their timelines.
What would be the benefit of just accepting everyone who asks?
I don’t think there is a benefit, but I think there are definite negatives.
From what I’ve read about the FB algorithm, it will only show your latest post to a small subset (10%?) of your friends and followers.
If you get good engagement, they’ll show it to a few more.
This means that having many fake people in your friends and followers list who will not read or like any of your posts will negatively impact your ability to get your posts read by real people.
FB does this because they want you to pay for ads, not grab free traffic.
Cull your friends list to improve your posts engagement.
Check their profiles and get rid of the fakes.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. In a really smooth transition, this tool can help you turn dusty PLR into engaging social media posts.
You’ve heard the old saying, “If you fail to plan, then you’re planning to fail.” It. Is. True. Unless you stumble into getting it right through sheer dumb luck, things probably aren’t going to work out well in the end. The good news is you don’t have to leave your PLR future wholly to chance.
True statement for everyone unless you have used it to generate subscribers, traffic to a website or income. You’ve left money on the table if you have any PLR that you haven’t used. :: Waves hand in air:: Yep, I have PLR on my hard drive that I haven’t used…yet.
