Can the “D List” Help With Search Engine Rankings

The “D List” is a group of blogs which have removed the “no-follow” tag from their comments. To learn more about it check out the Comments DoFollow post.

After removing the NoFollow from Home Business Ideas I have seen a good increase in contribution to the blog. Hasn’t been enough traffic to to be significant but I’m happy for any extra visitor I can get.

Now its time to check to see if links in blog comments can affect search engine rankings. Read the rest of this entry »

How To Find A Niche

I received this in the mail today. A promotional piece from Duncan Carver, which is also a pretty handy tutorial on finding profitable niches.

The email is reproduced in full:

Duncan Carver’s - “Online Marketing Today”

Friday 23rd February 2006
http://www.onlinemarketingtoday.com

Hi Brian,

Ok, so if you read my email on Tuesday you’ll recall the
market I’ve selected to tackle for our nothing held back
“idea to profitable online business” project is “worm
farming”. I received quite a few emails from readers
thinking this was quite an odd ball market to enter, but
there is logic behind Duncan’s madness (sometimes).

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Free Niche Package

I received an email from Joel Comm today with a gift of free niche products. This is part of his Christmas give away.

Joel is a super successful internet marketer with amongst other things very large mailing lists. This was advertised on one of the lists.

The package includes :

Five niche packages ( Allergies, Coffee, Flags/International, Podcasting, Solar Power) each with the following:

Top 10 Gizmodo Tags of 2006

Its always helpful to understand which products are in the most demand. Here’s a nice little summary which may help.

The top 10 Gizmodo tags of 2006, based on what visitors clicked on the most:

1. Cellphones

2. Gadgets

3. Portable Media

4. Laptops

5. iPod

6. Home Entertainment
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Start-Up Money

Here is something a little different. Could be a good way of making a few extra dollars or just used as a way of getting some start-up money for your online business.

The site is called myLot. In essence its a paid to post forum with an interesting twist. They also pay you a percentage of the earnings of everyone you introduce to the forum.

The last part is important. If you are in a position to introduce a lot of people to the site then you can have a residual income with no activity required on your part. There is currently no minimum activity level required. Quite a refreshing change from traffic exchanges.
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