Written by Jeremiah Smith on April 7th, 2008 at 11:52 am

One of the hardest parts about being an SEO professional is pricing your services. You don’t want to charge prospects so much they run away, but then again you don’t want to eat into your profits and sell yourself short either. Before learning how to price your services, first determine your worth. Christine OKelly, the Self Made Chick has very interesting articles and one of them can teach you how to determine your value or worth.

First, I will give you an example of a good pricing structure and then explain it in detail:

  • Keyword Research of Niche Category Terms - $75 - I will research a maximum of 5 different keywords for your website. For additional keywords the price will be $50 for every 5 keywords/phrases over the first 5.
  • On Page Optimization - $150 - This includes the first 3 pages, each additional page is $100/page.
  • Link Building - $200 - This includes between 50 and 100 links from related sites with high PageRank. (For this I recommend outsourcing link building as it is the hardest and most time consuming part of SEO. One good resource for outsourcing link building is Directory Submission They are a directory submission company and getting 100 directory submissions can cost you as low as $20.)
  • Error Checking & Repair - $35 Inspection - $35/hour for error repairs. (Quote the client on how many hours it will take you to fix the errors and promise to stop before going over your quote. Never go below 1 hour because your time is worth it.)
  • Site Submission - $35 - Submit site to all major search engines and be indexed within a few business days. (I highly recommend setting up a Google Webmasters Account if you haven’t yet: Google Webmaster Tools In order to generate XML sitemaps for use with this site go to: XML Sitemaps Generate a sitemap for every client whom you want to index in Google and all the other search engines and submit it through your webmaster tools account. Google will index the site sometimes within the same day.)
  • Analytics Reporting - $10/month or week or day - (Use a Google Analytics account and set up analytics reporting to email the client a report automatically every period(m/w/d) This way they see what you are doing. Let them know it takes a while before results show so they don’t pay to get a bunch of reports of no traffic.)
  • Copy Writing - $120/page - I recommend outsourcing this also: SEOCopyWriters These guys are really good and very fair priced. Call them before you email them and let them know specifics on your copy writing needs. Also let them know Jeremiah Smith from SimpleTiger referred you ;)

With this pricing structure you have total control over what your client receives and how much it costs them. You can both agree on a price with details before signing a contract and then neither of you will have any unexpected costs. If I were to consult or analyze any prospective client’s site, I would initially inform them that most likely they could use all of the services outlined above. Then if the price is simply too high, you can cut away services until it meets their budget.

Some clients may only want link building for instance. You and your client will both know that it costs $200 or so for a link building campaign, and if that’s all they want then thats all you have to do. This saves all the sweat and work of going back and forth and trying to work out details on every single contract you make with each individual client. You spend less time writing contracts and more time completing them.

What about my monthly income?

Much like changing oil in a car keeps it new and strong, tweaking website syntax, keywords, and links help maintain high rankings. The more competitive the industry (like insurance, law, real estate) the more important this continual maintenance is to the high rankings of a site.

One of my clients requires work almost every day in order to stay in the top of the rankings, this is slowly getting easier as the domain name ages and as I learn new tricks to automate each process.

So charging someone for this contract on a monthly basis is pretty easy:

“After we get all of this up and going I will need to do continual keyword research, on page optimization, and website submissions on a frequent basis. I charge a monthly fee for each of these services, but you will receive a discount off of each service since I will be more familiar with your site and needs. The longer the contract with me, the better your discount”

Give them a discount for a longer contract with you so that they will be more inclined to purchase the longer contract. This is absolutely no trick at all because the longer they have their site optimized, the better the results are going to be in the long run. If they have had their site optimized for over 2 years with you, they should really be rolling in the business. It also makes things easier on you because you can more easily set up goals for the client and for your self, and trust that you will have an income to provide those services for the length of the contract.

Try to make changes to your pricing structure before you advertise it and determine if you need to factor in any other services like design elements, server clean up, landing page creation, PPC management etc.

If there is anything else you think I forgot to add please post a comment and let me know. If you have any questions I would be more than happy to answer them.

For more info check out Andy Beal’s post on “Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make

If you are looking at getting your business off the ground quick, or would just like a professional PPC manager for consulting, please call my friend Greg Goodson with Sawtooth Media.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on January 18th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

Web CEO Certified

I am now certified by Web CEO Universty as an internet marketing professional. Their course is actually much harder and comprehensive than I thought it would be. I am now certified competent to provide expertise in the following fields(even though I have been for a while):

  • Search Engine Marketing
  • Web Analytics
  • Bid Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Affiliate Marketing



The “Internet Marketing Professional” course covers the following skills:

  • Internet niche research, advanced keyword competitiveness analysis and keyword strategy;
  • On-page and off-page search engine optimization for enhanced Web visibility;
  • Advanced and site-specific optimization techniques;
  • Website structural optimization;
  • Rank monitoring and ranking trends analysis;
  • Setting up link partnerships, improving link popularity and external site theme;
  • Site quality assessment and site quality management;
  • Web Analytics, visitors’ behavior analysis;
  • Website conversion and ROI analysis and improvement;
  • Advanced PPC strategies;
  • Advanced Bid management;
  • Setting up, running and analyzing e-mail marketing campaigns;
  • Setting up affiliate programs and optimizing their performance.

Last but not least, I get the cool “Certified” flare for my website that you can see at the top of this post and in the sidebar in the about Jeremiah Smith section.

I definitely loved taking this course and I will continue to go back and reread the course contents in the future. One of the best parts about the Web CEO University course is that all of the contents are updated constantly and nothing is ever left out of date. In every lesson there is a selected readings list which has articles from big guys in the search industry like Rand Fishkin, Jill Whalen, Andy Beal, Bruce Clay, Aaron Wall, and many more.

I actually purchased Web CEO 7.5 Professional Unleashed for only $250 because of a special deal they were having. I downloaded the trial version and thoroughly enjoyed it and decided to purchase the Professional Unleashed version for $479, but then one of the support angels(that’s what they call the customer support professionals :) ) emailed me a discount if I purchased the full version right away.

I highly recommend downloading a free version of it here, and give them all of your info because I am positive they will give you another discount soon there after. The training course comes with the SmallBiz Unleashed and Professional Unleashed, and I definitely recommend getting it. If you want an extremely thorough and pretty quick way to break into SEO or Internet Marketing, this training course has all you will need. If you are an expert, the tools alone are very helpful. If you have never even heard of SEO and are interested in learning it, this course will take you from no knowledge to professional status very quickly.

Even if you already are an expert, the collections of articles in the Selected Readings sections of every lesson are enough on their own.


Click on my affiliate link to download Web CEO for free here, and you will receive a free training course with any version you purchase.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on January 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

long tail graphIf you try to rank for the term “insurance” good luck. You have better chances of ranking for the term “Google”. If you try to rank for the term “long term care health insurance atlanta ga” it is much more likely you will get a higher position in search engine results. Now think about this, someone who searches for the term “insurance” is obviously not too motivated to purchase long term care or auto insurance because they aren’t being specific enough. Companies like State Farm and Progressive control these vague keyword waters. If you sell long term care health insurance then you probably don’t want to receive a ton of traffic from searchers seeking auto insurance because they are most likely not interested in what you sell. If you only sell to people in your geographic area, then you should be targeting even more narrow terms.


Using specific terms like “long term care health insurance atlanta ga” instead of generic terms like “insurance” is actually called using long tail keywords. People searching for a very specific term are much more likely to buy and therefore long tail keywords naturally have a higher conversion rate. Jamie Clarkson explains Long Tail in her article below:

What Is The Long Tail?

By: Jamie Clarkson

The “long tail” is a term used to describe a type of marketing or business model that focuses on a string of “niche” products and services, rather than the top few hot products. The phrase “the long tail” was coined by writer Chris Anderson, who subsequently wrote a best-selling book by the same title. Anderson and his concepts have since become very prominent in the internet world, having an influence even on major search engines. The term “long tail” comes from the look of a graph charting the popularity and inventory of products and services. At one end of this graph appears a short spike where the sales of mega-products can be seen, while on the other end there is a “long tail” mapping less popular products, in other words those with low demand and sales. It is claimed that the future successful business model will be in following the “long tail,” i.e., selling many less popular products and services, rather than chasing the megahits. The arguments of Anderson and others concerning the long tail include that, with large enough storage and distribution, these less popular products could do as well or better than the bestsellers in the long run.

One very successful company that is often cited as an example of the long tail is the online seller Amazon, best known as a bookseller but also a merchant of many thousands of other products. What we are really discussing is simply the “supermarket” or “superstore” business model, providing numerous small volume products rather than a few megahits. In reality, the long tail has always been around, but it hasn’t been named as such. “Diversification” is one word that describes this type of marketing to a certain degree.

In this regard, in a surprising move that may mark the end of theater-release movies and that follows the “long tail” business model, in November 2006 superproducer George Lucas announced he would quit making such movies, instead turning to TV. Lucas said that for the same price of making a blockbuster hit like “Star Wars” he could create 50 or so two-hour movies for TV instead. This same sort of thinking is occurring in almost every significant field of business.

One thing that has made the long tail more feasible for all types of business is the internet. The internet and the type of technology it represents have had an enormous impact on traditional business models and popular mainstream media, such as the television, radio and music industries. This impact will continue to be felt for many years to come, and the term “the long tail” is likely to become permanently entered into the business vernacular, as more people base their businesses around it.

Using Long Tail for SEO is a time consuming process but you would way much rather have a tremendous conversion rate than tons of traffic depending on the application of your marketing.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on January 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

600px-us-federalreservesystem-sealsvg.pngIf you live in the United States, you have probably heard of the Federal Reserve System. If you look at the front of any dollar across the top it says “Federal Reserve Note”. You also may have heard of the IRS. Do you know where your income taxes go? Would you believe they pad the pockets of a few very very very rich men? Did you know that the Federal Reserve is actually not publicly owned or governmentally operated? It is a private corporation and the U.S. government has 20% stock in it. The depths of this demonic system in control of us all are detailed very well in a 3.5 hour documentary you cannot miss, view it here.


After viewing the above video and learning the sickening truth about why you should quit paying income taxes, head on over to NonTaxPayer and contact Mr. Champion so you can become a nontaxpayer. A good analogy I read goes something like this:

“If someone stole your credit card and charged up tons of things and opened new credit cards and bought a house and car, would you just pay it all off and let him ripoff you and your friends and family? Would you cancel the credit card, refuse to pay for it, and try to get the criminal thrown in jail?”

Since 1913 our country and every single person in it has been completely under control of the Federal Reserve. Every economic crash that has ever occurred was manufactured very quickly by a few extremely powerful men behind the curtains of the Federal Reserve. Since before 1913 they have been working their reach deeper and deeper into Washington and have been able to adjust interest rates to manifest this “business cycle” BS that you and I believe and try to forecast and work with. Ultimately, they do it to add a small sense of reality to this game you and I are being forced to play.

Study the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and J.P. Morgan. Study the Federal Reserve, IRS, and the 16th Amendment. Understand where your taxes go and demand no taxation without representation. The U.S. Constitution was created by the people for the people in order to protect the people from a growing government. You still have rights, but they are being taken away. Study your rights, use them, and defend them. Do all of this before you get an RFID chip.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 30th, 2007 at 2:20 am

After your child turned 16 would you sell him? Thats hardly an appropriate question. After you have devoted tons of time, focus, and money to something like an income blog why would you sell it? Even if your site is not currently bringing in a profit for you, there are so many reasons why you still shouldn’t sell it.

Estimated Value

Your site automatically has a value from the moment you buy the domain name. Many people go by the old tried and true method of: your site “…is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.” Though you may feel like your site is worthless, you would be amazed to know that a site so silly and extraneous as icanhascheezburger.com would actually be worth $1.7 million.

Using tools like dnscoop.com can actually help you determine the current value of your blog or website. A calculator like this uses certain measurements like Alexa Traffic Rank, Google PageRank, Technorati tags, and inbound links to determine the worth of a site.

True Value

Your site’s actual true value is only evident when someone is willing to pay a certain amount for the site. Though the dnscoop calculator may say that SimpleTiger is only worth $1,256, I know that I would not sell it for that because of the value I have invested in it and plan to invest in it.

If someone were to offer me $1,500 for the site, they wouldn’t have a deal. $15,000 on the other hand, then I may be able to work something out. It is really all up to you. If you want to find out real quick how much your site is worth, offer it for sale online at SitePoint and just see what kind of bids you receive. If the bids don’t meet your fancy, then don’t sell the site.

The average value of a site is determined by taking the total amount of profit it yields per year, and multiplying that sum by 3. If your site brings in $1,000 in sales per year, then it is probably worth around $3,000. The thing about this measurement is it doesn’t include the worth for opportunities set forth in owning a certain site. If your site has a particular brand established with it, and even though the site is worth $20,000 it could mean the difference between being in business and being out of business. This would apply if you own an online store or use your site to sell products from your store.

Conclusion

Honestly, if you want to know what your site is worth just ask. Ask people who are actively searching to buy a site and see what they think it is worth. I highly recommend holding on to a site for as long as you can. If you no longer feel like maintaining it, then sell it before you quit maintenance as the value of your site will drop with your will to improve it.

Independent Thoughts

Ideally windows backup software should be updated regularly in order to avoid data recovery failures. With online file sharing the risk always remains. This is why investing in a data recovery program is a good idea. Also, a data recovery group helps a lot as well.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm

I recently posted an article about flipping blogs for profit and I discussed some of the different methods on how to make money from blogging in the long term. There were actually two questions I felt compelled to answer: Should I build a blog, or should I buy a blog?

While most methods work for 90% of bloggers, you are still entitled to try as many new things as you possibly can. If you have time, I would fill it with trying new things, because that is how tremendous discoveries are made. The methods tend to be biased with my own personal conviction on these topics, mixed with my professional opinion.

Before we make the decision to build a blog or buy one, lets dissect the two ideas just a bit more:

Build a Blog

When you build a blog you have a deeper connection with the blog and how you want it to look and function. Nobody knows exactly what you want to take out of a blog more than you do.

When I first started my blog, I started it with the idea that I could coach other businesses on internet marketing. Later I began to move into teaching people methods for making money online while simultaneously quiting their day job and automating their income. As you can imagine the latter topic meant more to me and my blog slowly grew to fill it.

No blog you could ever buy would have the flexibility for you to change focus from one niche topic to a completely different one without losing traffic, popularity, and money. SimpleTiger only had a small audience of about 10-15 daily visitors when I first got it up and running, even though I was churning out good pillar articles every day I was having the hardest time enjoying it, which showed through in my work.

I sat back one day and thought for a moment, I started a marketing firm and I wanted to write about that marketing firm and marketing ideas on my blog, but I don’t enjoy writing about these things as much as I enjoy doing them. Imagine if Michael Jordan was just a coach. I realized that my blog had an identity it didn’t deserve because the owner didn’t have the will to follow that identity. I learned that in order for your blog to really be identifiable to an audience, it has to first be easily identifiable to you.

So with an audience of 15 and a subscriber base of 3, I decided to change the identity of my blog to something more interesting, and something I liked writing about and teaching. You see I know a ton about marketing, and I learn new things about it once every few weeks. I learn new methods for making money online and automating your lifestyle in order to join the New Rich a few times per day. When you are on a personal journey that you feel others may be on themselves, it is very likely that what you write will be highly effective in acquiring a reader and subscriber base. You can then turn what you are learning into a means to a full time income.

As your blog grows so do you, and vice versa. People who have been reading your blog for a year have probably seen you go through new phases of growth and as they see you becoming more popular it motivates them to do the same. I know Caroline Middlebrook is motivated personally by the work of Yaro Starak, and Yaro is motivated personally by the work of Darren Rowse. I consider Darren one of the biggest, coolest bloggers and he got their by going on his journey, being honest with his readers, and helping people like Yaro and Caroline. I look up to each of these people in ascending order and it helps me see my way through to where I would like my blog to be someday.

One of the hardest parts about building a blog is you are ultimately taking nothing and making it something, then making an income from that something. Building a blog is definitely not something for the less determined, but making an income from it is even harder.

The good thing about building a blog is that you are able to watch your self build on your past successes and experiences. When you pick up a strangers blog, you have no experiences or lessons learned with that blog, and your chances of losing traffic are far greater due to the fact that the traffic that is there has already experienced the blog owner going through a growth stage and doesn’t want to witness it again.

Buy a Blog

As I mentioned in an earlier post, you can go to a site like SitePoint or DigitalPoint and purchase a blog in the same day you decide to go this route. Some blogs and sites are fairly cheap, but the money makers are going to cost you. It is a general rule of thumb that a blog or site pays for itself in 1-2 years. So if a blog is turning $200/month the asking price will range between $2400-$4800. I wouldn’t go over $4800 unless I loved the niche and knew what I was doing. If you can get one for closer to $2400 or a one year break even point by all means do it.

Chances are when you buy a blog, there will be a lul in the traffic for a moment, but if you do everything right there may instead be an increase in traffic during the transition. People like to see change for the better as long as you can define better.

Lets say you are about to buy a blog about technology from someone and you don’t want to lose a single visitor, instead you want to increase traffic during the transaction. I would recommend following this list of steps to ensure you keep up the traffic:

  • Get the original blogger to announce the new owner of the blog and let the audience know that you will be owning, operating, and writing to the blog from now on
  • Write a post, and get the owner to post it to the blog before it moves over to your server. Include somewhere in the post a thank you to the owner and your new audience
  • Ask the owner if you could implement a poll before the blog makes the transfer. The poll will ask the audience what they think of the design and if it could use an update. People tend to like to see something they are investing their time and energy in actually improve and grow, changing a design is a good way to do this.
  • Over the next few weeks you should dive headfirst into reading all of the posts on the blog. It may be nearly impossible for you to read the entire blog within a week or two, but you should do your best to catch up with the audience you already have. Also, it’ll help you learn the style of the blog and if you need to change the style you will be able to slowly so you don’t shock the audience and turn anyone away.
  • If you do need to change the writing style or topics over time, write more than one post at a time; one with the old style and one with the new style, this way people will be able to see the transition.

Before you buy a blog, its a good idea to learn everything you can about that blog. Dig deep into it and read as much as you can. See how it works, what the audience is like, what kind of questions they ask etc. You have to know that blog beginning to end and every little tiny thing about it in order to run it better than the original owner.

Conclusion

As you can see I am obviously more for building a blog than buying one. If you have built your own blog and it really takes off and works well for you, after time its a good idea to buy one in order to duplicate the process of income blogging. As I have mentioned before, you can always hire a writer to post to the blog for you, this way you don’t have to worry about most of these issues.

Try building a blog on your own, and target a very niche category. Target a category like dog training, boating, or something very specific and see how well it works for you. Creating a less niche blog is a much harder way to make an income than making a very specific blog.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 18th, 2007 at 4:45 pm

I’m sure you guys are as tired of the last design as I am, so I decided this weekend to update it. Here is the new design! I actually took a free template and worked on it for a few days and ended up going through about 3 different revisions of colors and logos before I was happy.

Building a blog to look beautiful can definitely affect the way you write to it. Now, because my design is more clean and professional I feel like I need to write more clean and professional.

I have just added a poll widget that allows me to take polls of my visitors and see what they think. Give it a shot:

Which design do you like more?
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If you have any requests or ideas, please don’t be afraid to ask. Thank you guys for all of your much needed support.

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An internet telephony voip should be reliable. This is why voip com and vonage are favored above other services. The popularity of skype phone has been a major force in putting up voip software online too.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 14th, 2007 at 4:51 pm


Making money online opens up a world of opportunities. For many people like me, there really might not be anything better than sitting at home for a few hours a day and writing interesting articles in your blog, especially if you make a good full time income from it.

There are several resources at the end of this post that will help you do everything I discuss here.

Ever since the advent of internet advertising, anyone who owns a website and knows how to use it may sit anywhere and make as much money as they want.

Flipping a blog is much like flipping a house.

Buy a house, clean it up, make repairs, renovate and update it, then sell it for a profit. This whole process sounds easy, and you can make a lot of money, but there are plenty of things that can go wrong.

Flipping a blog is actually a little easier because you don’t have as much physical labor and legal issues to deal with. There are a few different options for blog flipping, either you can be the flipper, or the person who buys a blog, improves it and then sells it, or you can build a blog from scratch until it is making an income, and then sell it.

Build A Blog For Profit

In my mind, I would rather build one from scratch make it turn a profit, and then hold onto it. The reason most people sell a blog is due to the fact that, just like a house they require maintenance.

This is where hiring out comes into play

You can hire someone to manage the blog for you, including posts, advertising, and new ideas, then you don’t have to worry about doing any of this your self. This kind of job usually won’t pay to well for someone else so expect them to want to work remotely and on their own schedule. You can work up a contract that determines how many posts they must make to the blog monthly as well as what topics you want them to cover. You can look at their portfolio and get a good idea of their past work.

One good way to pay someone like this is by following an “employeecentric” method. With this method, you pay the employee and treat them so well that they happily write really good compelling content for you.

Lets say I have a blog about are that brings in around $2,500 per month. $2,000 of the profits are generated from Adsense, Kontera, Affiliate Sales, etc. The other $500 may come in from advertisers who currently pay for space on your blog. Simply pay the new blogger whatever over the $2,000 per month the blog is yielding. This way you will have a very dedicated blogger who is also motivated to write as much high quality content as he/she can.

Replicate The Process

After you have one blog running like this, buy another blog and offer your writer the added bonus of either writing for this blog as well for more money, or training another blogger to write in the style I want for an extra income. It takes a lot to get someone to operate creatively along the same lines as you do, and when you have someone who can, get them to manage all of the other writers and you will have an automated and fast growing popular publication.

I actually got this idea while going way off topic in my head while watching The Devil Wears Prada. Meryl Streep is editor in chief for an extremely popular fashion magazine called Runway. She has all these people working under her that know exactly what she wants. You don’t have to be as cold and mean as her at all, instead when you find someone who knows what you like and is happy to provide it, do not let go of them. Treat them like gold and they will help you automate your blogging income.

Selling A Blog

Building a blog and selling it allows you to take a little bit of money and build a good blog, then sell it for a huge profit later on down the road. This method is too “retirement minded” for me as I would much rather a passive income that occurs no matter what I do.

When building a blog that will be sold, minimum amount of money and time invested is the key. For this reason a great deal of brainstorming should preempt whatever site you decide to build. Look at what Twitter has done. They took a unique idea for a social and viral marketing platform, manifested it into creation, and now they could sell the entire thing for a huge sum of money. Everyone who works with Twitter could possibly retire comfortably if the company was sold.

What Should You Do?

The best part about all of this is you can do all of it. Every one of these methods will allow you to make money blogging, and work together to secure an income. If you build a blog from scratch, make it turn a profit, buy another blog with that profit, take that monthly income to pay someone else to manage the blog, then buy a few more sites and duplicate the process. Eventually, if you get tired of the continual work required to keep the sites up and running, you could sell the entire thing and live off of the profits. Hmm, I think I might do this.

Resources

 

SitePoint - This site is like eBay but for websites. You can buy high dollar sites, start up sites, or sell your own.

 

DigitalPoint - Much like SitePoint, this site hosts a really good forum where people can exchange info on site purchases and negotiations.

 

oDesk - This site is a virtual assistant for any technical help you need.

 

Elance - Much like oDesk, you can hire writers, marketers, sales reps, programmers, coders, etc.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 14th, 2007 at 3:05 am

Many of you subscribed to read the Simple Tiger SEO Training Course, and I wanted to let you all know that the course contents page is now updated so you can click through the course contents at will. You may also use the course contents list below:

Course Contents: 8 Lessons

  1. Search Engines - How they work and why you need to know
  2. Keywords - The backbone of SEO
  3. Optimizing Pages - Putting your knowledge into action
  4. Site Structure - Become a file architect and search engines will love you
  5. Website Submission - Let ‘em know what you’ve done
  6. Website Maintenance - Like changing the oil, this is just as important
  7. Special Optimization Issues - Unusual things pop up often
  8. Building Links - By far the hardest part

Thank you again for all the help and support. My next course will target making money from blogging. You can count on new SEO and blog information every day. Feel free to subscribe to my RSS feed via email.

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Written by Jeremiah Smith on December 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm

You might want to quit your 9-5 job. You might want to quit living paycheck to paycheck. I can tell you, I sure have. Blogging can be an open door for you if you feel the need to gain control of your time and finances simultaneously.

Blogging actually requires a lot of work in the beginning, but after you figure out how to get the ball rolling, you may only have to work 1-2 hours per day, every other day or so. It may seem too good to be true, but trust me, its not. Not until you have put in the initial work required, at least. I began blogging last month and currently I am turning a small profit from my blog. I have noticed a surge of people wanting to do the same thing lately, and I feel the best way to do it is listen to a master. There are quite a few pros out there you should emulate if you really want to get your blogs off the ground and turning a profit. Bloggers like John Chow, Yaro Starak, and Caroline Middlebrook offer tons of insight and let you know exactly what they are doing to turn profit from their blog, but it takes a lot of reading and years of work to get to the same level of income as they are at.

Long Standard Methods

One old method is to start a few blogs, monetize them, write the content necessary, and then market them. The other method which I prefer is the one blog long term method. With this method you build one strong blog and get it to turn a profit, then later down the road you duplicate that process and make an honest living. Another good method for acquiring a money making blog is to simply buy one. You can purchase blogs through SitePoint that already have good traffic and income and simply own and manage them. The problem with purchasing a blog that already has traffic and income is that they usually cost a lot more than starting a new one would, upwards of $10,000+.

I plan to purchase a new blog later down the road, but for now I will simply run Simple Tiger until I am ready for the next big project.

Best Blog Building Method

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