Why am I doing this? Because I strongly believe in Linkdozer. I am already 2 months in the program and I’m absolutely thrilled with it. I already see great results, all my links (and I mean ALL OF THEM) show as backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer, and the amount of information I learned at Kristina’s forum (including the many many videos that she put out for us) is just incredible. Just to get to watch those videos on basic and advanced SEO is worth the entire $97 monthly fee. Now you’ll get them for $67 the first month.

I think by now you have noticed that I haven’t advertised something that I don’t use or don’t like. If I don’t like it, I say it so. Linkdozer is just not one of those. I truly, heartily recommend it. And for $67 in the first month is a steal. Just think of the many crappy ebooks you buy constantly for $47 and the sort. I think it is a no brainer, but it is up to you.

The offer is for a limited time only so hurry to get it before you have to pay full price for joining Link Dozer.

How does this work? You join under my affiliate link and then send me an email to marika(dot)charalambous(at)gmail(dot)com telling that you have subscribed and giving me your Linkdozer forum username to double-check your info and paypal address. I’ll check my affiliate commission, if I get credited (i.e. if you went through my link), I will refund you $30 from your first month payment. Just make sure you join under the aff. link 1091, so check for this number when you join. You can also pm me at the Warrior Forum or at the Microniche Adsense forum with the information, on both places my username is kislany.

Please note that if you’ve visited the Link Dozer site through another person’s affiliate link previously, the sale may not be credited to my account, so I’ll be unable to offer you the rebate. I can only give you the rebate if I got a commission from your joining, so do click on my affiliate link when buying 

After the experience I concluded that spinning an article not only sux, but it’s pointless. I mean writing a paragraph full of synonym words and hoping to cheat Google in thinking that the articles are unique is simply silly. I never touched content spinning anymore, until now.

To be honest, while I was writing unique articles, it took me a long time and I got bored silly in the process. So I discovered various software that would do the basic spinning and I gave them a shot. Well, the results were so-so, I had to do additional spinning by myself and I really got something better out of it with two software. One is Senuke which is a great program in itself, so I’m not going to write much about it, everybody should know about this software! (btw check out the Senuke forum for the various success stories that people have posted, the forum is free to access even without registering, so it’s worth checking it out), and the other is the Magic Article combo, containing the Magic Article Rewriter and the Magic Article Submitter.

Ever since I started using these two, particularly in submitting my spun articles to the various sites that these two offer (Senuke the various blogs and Magic Article Submitter the various article directories), I’ve seen quite an increase in my backlinks in Yahoo Site Explorer. And we know that Google only shows maybe 10% of the links, while YSE updates their links every single day.

Btw, just a quick note on Senuke - if you haven’t tried it out yet, you can try it for 7 full days for free. As the subscription is via Paypal, all you need is cancel the subscription in your Paypal account and you won’t even have to contact the Senuke guys for it. Also if you really push hard for those 7 days, all your work will give you weeks ahead that you wouldn’t otherwise have.

So where I’m getting at is how different I am thinking now to a few months before, when  I first came across article spinning. Now having these automated tools that save me not only hours, but days and weeks, if I were not so busy as it is with setting up my websites and selling them, I could go back to Elance and simply get jobs on article spinning. The money for these software would come back in the first 1 or 2 jobs, lol. Something to consider, I guess.

Anyway, if you haven’t come across content spinning so far, and you’re curious what the heck I’m talking about, here are maybe the best introductory videos I’ve seen on the subject. Pay attention as they explain the proper syntax very well and they’re truly enlightening.

Check out LinkDozer, owned by Kristina, you will learn a few interesting things just by reading the sales letter.

Then come back, watch this video and go download the free spinner that Kristina is talking about in her second video.

I’m quite excited as I started to see some sales lately from Amazon, which hasn’t happened before, at least not to this extent. All my previous sales used to be random and one or two at best in a month. Amazon has also a minimum of $100 threshhold for sending out the check, and just as I was talking about my Adsense earnings, that I would never see a check from Google - ever, so was I also thinking about Amazon - a lost cause.

Up till now. I’ve realized however that the Xfactor’s Adsense course is quite a multilayered plan of action. It not only works for Adsense (although it gears completely to it) but it can be successfully used for Amazon sales as well. Not so much for digital downloads such as ebooks or software, those products need a different type of presell though. But for Amazon the course is perfect!!

If you’re like me before, wondering when you’ll ever get that darn first Amazon check, I seriously urge you to give Xfactor’s course a shot. I would never recommend it if it didn’t bring me results, but alas it did.

Here is a breakdown taken from my Amazon affiliate account of my earnings, hope it is enlightening. Now I know there will be those people who are making massive money from Amazon and they’ll laugh at my meager funds, but think that I haven’t earned so far a dime from Amazon for a whole year, I’ve only started increasing my sales since I’m setting up Xfactor style sites and learning lots in the process how to tweak this and that to work with the Amazon products optimally. And as my December sales show, the growth is exponential and it will increase much more.

Q4 2008 (when I first set up my first Amazon affiliate) - $0
Q1 2009 - $0
Q2 2009 - $1.20
Q3 2009 - $5.50 (this is when I started with site flipping and setting up blogs with Amazon affiliates added to them)
Q4 2009 - $147.11 with  October $7.24, November $48.06 and December $91.81

I was wondering whether the December sales have something to do with Christmas, and while they might, it’s not a strong point as my niche sites have nothing in terms of gifts, presents, and things that people usually buy each other for Christmas. They are more on the side of utility items (filters, pipes, etc), things that need to be purchased no matter what day or season of the year.

I have also received recently my latest Adsense check with almost $200 (which I still need to deposit). Btw, my Adsense earnings would be much higher by now, but I have two customers who are buying Xfactor sites from me on a monthly basis, so every month I start again the whole process as soon as I bring some sites up to a level to sell.

It’s really fun to see my Adsense and Amazon sales increasing with a minimal effort from my part. Now don’t get me wrong, there is lots of work involved, but once you learn the basics, the rest is mostly easy stuff. Once you get Xsitepro to set up your sites, after the second or third one your developing time will go down to a fraction of what it would otherwise be if you had to do a Wordpress blog, for example. With a first unique article written, I am now able to set up a niche site in about 30 minutes or so, with my rss feed setup and submitted to the major rss feed directories, with the sitemap submitted and with the analytics and webmaster tools installed and in place.

Oh and if you give Xfactor’s course a try, you can find me often at his forum. Thankfully he changed the entrance fee from a monthly based to a measly $27 or so, which makes it a no brainer for me. Between the tips I picked up there and the many questions the users who are dealing with the same are asking all the time, I’m set for a constant learning.

Also you can now have an anchor text in your link thanks to Keywordluv. If you already know how this works, go ahead and comment (I will delete spam though as I won’t have my blog become a link farm). If you don’t know what Keywordluv is, let me explain briefly.

Usually when you comment on a blog in the name field you add your name. Some people add their keyword instead but this type of comment is usually deleted by webmasters as it clearly screams ’spam’. Keywordluv simply allows you to add your name AND your anchor text to one of your keywords right next to it in the comment. The anchor text will be the link back to your site. This is how you use it:

In the name field instead of typing John or Alex or Jordanne, you now can type John@internet marketing. Because one of the next fields is where you add your own website, that field is used to take the ‘internet market’ part of your name and link it back to your site. So now it will look like: John from internet marketing

If your comments are simply ‘well done, great job’, ‘I like you site’, and doesn’t add anything to the discussion, your backlink from here will be  very short lived 

Check out my first test comment on this post to see how it looks like.

Many people are content with this and are happy to work for a boss due to the job security that this offer. Or does it? It might have been true 20 or even 10 years ago, but nowadays bosses can fire a person as fast as flipping a switch and it has happened too many times to count. We all know of somebody who got fired for various reasons, and most of them had nothing to do with the person being unprofessional or unproductive. Working at one company until retirement is something of the past.

Throughout my 20 years of working in the corporate world, I’ve seen it all and I’ve had enough. This is why my decision when I wrote my first blog post on the subject on November 24 last year. The truth is I was never really ‘clicking’ with bosses. I’m a rebellious type and I had always problems with authority figures, particularly when they happened to be my bosses

I’ve first started with jewelry but that is lucrative for very few and I’ve realized soon enough that if I start treating jewelry making more than as a hobby, I will get bored of it soon, so I slowed down with it.

And then it was internet marketing.

I’ve learned a lot and I still am a newbie at it. But I’m plowing ahead slowly slowly and I am positive that one year down the road from now I will have my income on autopilot as many other also have. One year ago I wouldn’t have believed that I would quit my job in a year only, yet here I am. So I am confident that I can reach my new goal as well.

I know that my life will be a bit more difficult since not working for a boss means that you’re paying your own salary, so slacking off is no longer an option, the boss is not there to pay you for browing and watching Youtube videos. Sometimes I’m putting in as many as 11 hours on setting up new websites, on getting backlinks to them, on writing articles, but I’m happy. I’m happy that I can do it in my own time. I can wake up any time I want, I can spend more time with my husband, and I can work until late at night without worrying that I have wake up the next morning to run to my day job. For now, that’s all it matters.

I’ve actually come across it by accident the other day. I searched for reviews on one of the product I wanted to buy and I landed there. And funnily enough the reviews were quite bad. This is when I realized that this site is not purely an internet marketing type of affiliate reviews we’re so used to. This is an unbiased mega-site (free) where anyone can join and post reviews (good or bad) to products they’ve purchased or at least used. Since I used a lot of products, I have plenty to write about so I naturally joined.

Btw, if you don’t want to learn about new products to buy, then don’t join! This place is like a drug, it pushes you to learn about many new things that I promise you, you’ve never even heard of before. Warrior Forum is nothing compared to the products and programs you’re learning about here.

Oh and I forgot to mention, by rating products, commenting and rating comments you also earn money. Before you hit the back button with ‘oh that’s another one of those’, let me tell you that no, it is not. Your comments and ratings are unbiased. You don’t have to comment positively to a product that you hated and asked for a refund. All you have to do is comment. Period. At least 100 words to be eligible for getting your credits.

Btw, this site is perfect if you’ve ever been scammed by a product before. Now is your chance to tell your story to everyone to know and stay away from that product or person or company.

Just head over, check it out and search for any product that you’ve even tried out and see the reviews. Maybe you’ll get a taste of adding your own comments based on your experience with the product, you might be pleasantly surprised

Well during the latest software update, I’ve noticed some new features and as one seemed particularly interesting, after quickly viewing the online videos that John put on is website, I’ve decided to try it out. And spent right away a mini fortune *gulp*.

The feature is the option to check for the exact keyword com, net and org domains. This is simply golden for micro niches that Xfactor’s students (myself included) are using. We need exact domain names for our sites and it used to be not only a hassle but also time consuming to find a few good niches, open Godaddy or another domain registrar in a new Firefox tab, go back and forth between MNF and the browser to check that the keyword is actually good, if it is then check for the domain, if the domain is available, register it, etc, etc. It used to really go slow like a turtle. Now on the other hand…

I don’t even start my serious research before I checked that the domain is available and that with one click only. All I need to do is click on the relevant column in MNF and instantly I konw if the domain is available or not. If one of the 3 main extensions is available, I then make my MNF proper research, then if the keyword is really golden, set that domain aside for purchase, and simply move on. No longer I need to go tab between software and browser to check for domains. I mean imagine that before finding a super great niche might have ment wasted time as I had to find out at the end of my research that the domain was taken

During my last run with MNF, I came up with 6 great domains so once I put them aside in MNF and then decided to buy them, I could buy them in bulk directly from the MNF screen,which would bring me to the domain registrar screen. Did I tell you that I spent a small fortune on domains just the other day and all that took me less than 5 minutes? That’s how fast checking for domains and finding great keywords that you can develop into websites became now using Micro Niche Finder. If this is not the perfect accessory for Xfactor’s Adsense course, I don’t know what. Like I said before, I’m tickled pink…

It’s not one of those overhyped written by gurus ebook, it’s a serious book on all aspects of SEO.  It is written for internet marketeers, for web masters, for serious companies, for everyone who has an online presence and wants their site to rank high in the search engines. The language flows smoothly and it’s very engaging. The studies shown in the book are not only interesting, but also highly relevant. For example the chart on the interaction between the organic and paid search definitely enlightened me on how people browse the web when they see various relevant search results.

The internet is overloaded with information on SEO and although much of the information is relevant and factual, a lot of if is crap and unreliable. And how would you know whom to trust and based on which advise to work and promote your site? I could go for one of the Stompernet or some other expensive courses  ($1000 and up)  or I can just try to sift through all that information overload the net currently presents me with. If I have the time for it. That’s why I felt the need for a serious new work on SEO that one can fully trust and follow, that one can use in the daily work and to truly learn from. Ever since Aaron Wall’s SEO book came out a while ago, nothing else came close to it. Until now.

I’m not going to list here the table of contents, you can find it at O’Reilly’s and of course you can also buy the book directly from there. Btw just a hint, Amazon.com has it for cheaper right now so it might be worth shopping for the book there. Here is the link at Amazon if you are interested: The Art of SEO (Theory in Practice).

If you are truly interested in all aspect of SEO and in honing your online marketing skills (the true skills that make one become a serious player in the field and not just go after the latest fad that someboy at the Warrior forum ads as a latest WSO, get this book and use it as your SEO bible, it’s worth it. I’m not yet finished with the book but from what I’ve read so far (I’m halfway through it), it is worth every penny of the $30 or something how much it costs to get it. Oh and try to get the actual book, not the ebook. We all know our habits when it comes to ebooks: we download it to our pc’s and forget about it until the spring cleaning when all the ebooks get wiped out as not beeing relevant anymore.

The tip (which is obvious for many, but it seems not for all) is not to go for cheap products at Amazon. I keep finding websites during my online strolls advertising cheap Amazon books or other products at $4-5 a piece. Well, if you think about it, Amazon’s commission is 4-6%. I woke up to this (known) reality when I got one day a nice commission of $.05 cents for something that a person bought from one of my niche sites. I followed the link to see what product it was purchased (in your Amazon affiliate center you can do that) and wow, the product was selling for peanuts. Well, with 5 cents a commission I will definitely not get rich any time soon…

So I’ve started to replace the products with higher paying ones. I hardly go for anything lower than $80, else it is simply not worth it. I mean if you’re promoting a product, you will input the same effort in a cheap one as for an expensive one.

Of course if you are a very strong affiliate and have tons of Amazon shops and products, then the 5 cents do add up, so this post is not for you. It is for those of us who earn a buck or two by writing articles, product reviews on our site, where Amazon is not our main money maker. It is just so much nicer to get that first Amazon check (minimum threshhold is $100) sooner rather than later, is it not?

Now what does this little plugin do? Well, niche sites seem to be the latest rage. All the new internet marketeers are into creating niche sites that bring in Adsense revenue for one major reason: easy money. And it’s true. I mean who wants to create huge authority sites like the Problogger and such? Having 10 small niche sites instead, each with its own little Adsense code that brings you money while you sleep is much more tempting. Plus let’s face it, authority sites need lots of work, time and investment. Niche sites, well, don’t, at least not so much.

So having said that, I think I’m talking to the majority of my readers here, so this tool is really a useful little thing. Let’s say you create your site and you want to add Adsense code to it to get the molah coming in. Well, before you actually add the code, don’t you want to know whether your page will bring in some revenue or not? Whether your keywords are targeted for the ads you’re gonna serve? Google is fickle and if you keep showing irrelevant ads that noone is clicking on your site, you will get penalized.

So what this little tool does, is simply gives you a preview of what ads will be served on your page based on your content and keywords. All you need is to install it from here, restart Firefox and you will see a new Adsense Preview button on your toolbar at the very top (where you have File, Edit, History, etc, it’s going to be the last option). So go to your targeted page (or site) and click on Adsense Preview. You will have an option for the ad size you want to (pre)create. Select the size and that’s all really. In a second or two  you will have a preview of the ads that Google pulls to your site. Now you know if your page is targeted enough for the keywords that you are trying to rank for. I mean if you’re in the meat slicer market and you have ads about contact lenses, that’s bad.

I’ve just check this very site with the Adsense Preview and the ads were all targeted around Cyprus. Well, doh, no wonder since even the domain is relevant to Cyprus, my location. That’s why I don’t even have Adsense on my site as it’s not targeted enough. I’m not focusing on one small area of internet marketing here, this site is my ‘online diary’ for everything that I want to talk about related to my journey to become a full time internet marketeer.

Now let’s see one of the sites I sold recently, affiliatestips.com. As you can see from the screenshot below, the site targets nicely what is ment to target: the affiliate niche, link building - bringing in traffic and niche marketing. Perfect.

So now you have a great way to check your site for Adsense ads and that’s not all. Even if you’ll never put Adsense on your site, it is important to check the relevancy of your page based on your keywords you’re targeting, and Adsense is perfect for it. I”ve also heard tips of actually adding Adsense for about an hour or so, to see what ads are served, but this plugin takes the pain out of creating a new ad, fancying it up and adding the code on your site, which will be taken down later on anyway.

And by the way, don’t worry about clicking on the ads on that preview box, they are not counted by Google, and you won’t get paid (or penalized) for it either.