I found by accident yesterday Wednesday 14 Oct 2009 your blog & been reading it for hours & all the quality good info questions & answers from your students posting on this blog.
?I am an “intermediate” beginner to IM been reading IM 18 months, been & passing out of info overload stage & finding “systems of IM” that feel right for me.

Your non hype no BS approach & quality info has convinced me to buy your eBook Lazy Affilate right now within the hour. ??See i been learning to make (so later outsourcers cannot BS me re web design seo etc) by own very rough looking web sites & i got a krav maga self defense martial art opt in newsletter of 1000 approx.
At Jan 2009 i for my site KravMagaThailand.con was on alexa.com global 9 million rank & via a few very scrap book rough shod (but good info) home made free krav maga ebooks with my opt in links only in them which I put my ebooks & ereports freebies on Scribd.com people can free download them & a few ads on craigslists & other basic zero cost beginner SEO organics – forum posts etc??i jumped http://www.krafmagathailand.com from 9 million january 2009 alexa.com to higest rank was 780,000 one week but generally by may 2009 alexa.com rank averaged 1 million with 11 min average visitor time on site for kravmagathailand.com

This was an expeeiment & my efforts while i grafted hard hours i did v basic untidy learning curve beginners standard and free SEO jumoed me ?up alexa.com by 8 million! (krav maga thailand is not a popular search either…)

Only money made was site got people to self defence martial arts krav maga seminars i do. So now i going to buy your ebook and use kravmagathailand & me list to feed what will be a global focused krav maga self dedense site authority wordpress i own kravmagafist.com & selfdefensemartial.com & selfdefencemartialarts.com (sp of domins might be off, no sites on there yet but GREAT domains!)

The self defense niche might not be “desperate” but i got a second niche that is with over 16,000 contatcs email B2C within B2B sector and from same biz B2B 25,000 contacts permission to email (not IM related ) on database from professional service B2B business i had 7 years in ireland i had which i used to & still can can permission email newsletter every 6 – 8 weeks. ?Now the 16000 are DESPERATE & just got a quality plr all rights ebook I can sell & a mini freebie e-report of main ebook totally relevant to this market to test it out.

Step 1 i gonna buy your ebook right now!?Study it & amend & mould as it seems your “System” & honesty re IM info is right for me.

I m irish but also canadian cittizen i did university in charlottetown PEI “down east” 89-94.

God Bless
Gerry
Pattaya Thailand

P.S. If anyone wants free e-reports 30 pages up You can get several krav maga martial art combatives ebooks free no opt in needed either on Articles page of ?http://www.kravmagathailand.com/
The info might save your life from violent attack & my gift to you all. Layout is crap but info is good.
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You deliver a lot of value on forums as well. I’ve read your posts and they are pure gold.

Franck.

Thanks for the comments and praise, dude. I can only strive to continue and improve the level of quality that I deliver as time goes on.

Just shoot me an email at chris@jv-web.com with your original order receipt and I’ll send you a link to the “thank you” page, which has my newsletter signup.

Just submit your actual email address there to receive my rants, sarcastic mailings, etc. from time to time.

Cheers!

-Chris

You obviously have a very good head on your neck
(to use the old country vernacular)

You know I just have to go on a little rant here

The internet needs more people like you. Because it is getting populated by, as you called it in one of your copies , “snake oil salesmen”
Just as in “real” life , you be honest with me and you have a friend for life. And quid pro quo. You are right, deliver quality and the world will beat a path to your door. Just keep it up. Success has a way of getting to peoples heads. Like I said , you seem to have a good one. I am 47 now, I wish I was as sensible at (I think I read 23(forgive me if I’m wrong)23 .
One thing that I am good at is spotting talent. You have it!
Leave it to the Canucks! ( I used to live in Quebec and Montreal)

Anyway enough drooling.

My long winded question is , How do I change my Email address with you? Because I am about to filter out the trash. So to speak.This is the first time I ever thought , Hey this guy doesn’t email me enough. Haa haa.
I probably could find out,but I’m too lazy (Ha Ha) Little joke.

By the way, I like reading about Thailand , I’ve
been there many times when I was in the U.S. military. Great country, nice people. I was in and out of Pattaya beach many times.

RESPECT AND REGARDS
JIM
SAN DIEGO

Yes, if you can scale it up after your initial “test” into becoming an authority site – then I’d say that would be just as effective.

The mini-sites are an easy way to target seperate keyword clusters, but in the end, search engines really see each PAGE on your sites as a seperate entity when it all boils down, so either way, it wouldn’t really matter.

Perhaps the biggest benefit of STARTING OUT with mini-sites at first is that it “feels” easy.

And it’s easier to get things going if there’s not a million tasks hanging over your head from the start.

It’s just: build a small site or two, focus on product keywords, get links, gage traffic conversion, optimize ads on site…

…and THEN – if it’s working well – then scale up with authority sites and so on.

So it’s more a matter of preference, really.

Eating an elephant one bite at a time

-Chris

If the steplessdiet site is yours, I’d say that your marketing channels are unfocused. Your visitors are literally being bombarded with stuff, and there’s no clear direction for them to take.

Between the adsense center panel, the 30 affiliate banners and the navigation links – it reminds me of walking down a busy marketplace in Thailand with vendors shouting at you continually, trying to get your attention.

For right now, focus on ONE product to promote. Get the adsense off your page.

And don’t just use the standard banners. That’s the lazy way of doing this, and banners scream “ad”.

Instead, in the top-fold of every page, feature the most profitable product to promote, and then lead the visitor to either a more-detailed review, or to the merchant page directly.

Read Part 2 again in my confessions ebook for more tips on how to do this – it explains a lot about structure, layout, and effective affiliate promo pieces.

But a final piece of advice is this: You might consider building an email list in this market, because the “fitness” market buys stuff all the time. The lifetime cycle of a customer is far longer than, say, someone looking for a registry cleaner program.

So keep it simple – one product. The only other offer on your site should be for something free in exchange for a newsletter signup.

Thanks Tony,

-Chris

Thanks for yet another very ‘enlightening’ post!

Umm, you may be sick of these questions on authority sites by now buuut I have just one more…

Would it make sense to start with a minisite, and if it becomes successful, simply expand that minsite turning it in to an authority site – rather than create 4/5 minisites in a niche and then finally create another as an authority site? (seems like a long winded way round?)

Thanks Chris

P.S. Like the way you funded surfing with IM, my big plan is to move to the french alps (or somewhere with snow basically) and spend most of my time being a snowboard-bum! lol