January 2007 Archives

29/01/07 - Another Shopping Site

I have 'launched' Smart and Green, a Shopping Portal.

Whereas Compare Sat Nav is a price comparison site, Smart and Green is more of a virtual catalogue.

So why did I bother and how much will this benefit me? More

29/01/07 - Another Week...

Refreshed after a weekend break, I am getting a move on.

The David Fiske project was designed to prove whether there is room on the Internet to make money through affiliate schemes.

The answer so far is there certainly is scope but it takes a very long time to crack the code. More

27/01/07 - 3 Sales in 2 Days

Okay, nothing really to shout about but it is better than no sales!

The total amount of sales is now 11, and has bumped the conversion rate up to 0.35% (today) from the average of 0.20%.

In other news, I am currently working on a massive shopping portal using data feeds for anyone and everyone.

The potential of this is huge as each product has it's own SEO'ed .html page, with an SEO'ed URL. More

21/01/07 - A Change In Tactics

Computer Chooser is up and running and as of next week, will benefit from at least one day a week of full devotion.

It has also managed to get into Google in less than 3 days which is good going!

I have added Google AdSense to Computer Chooser and the advertisements that appear s far are promising.

I have had around a third of the total number of advertisers come back and A-OK the site but I need the other two thirds to come back soon. As with most sites I build, I am using Tradedoubler as the main affiliate source. More

19/01/07 - Computer Chooser Launched

The first of my two new sites (Computer Chooser) is now available at http://www.computerchooser.co.uk

As promised, I will now reveal what I have in mind for it and why I chose to built a site about computers. More

12/01/07 - New Themes

I have decided upon what it is I am going to devote several months of my life to full time.

I will have three sites in my empire:

I am aware that these markets are huge so I will be focussing in on small niches.

So why have I chosen these areas and what benefits can I deliver? More

11/01/07 - A More Definitive Explanation

Let's stop and regroup.

I have 24 hours left on my Wordtracker account and have to come up with either one or several good niches to tackle.

I have come up with some ideas but they are proving to be over populated areas, or in all fairness, not strict niches. More

10/01/07 - Perhaps a Little Overambitious

Perhaps I have bitten off more than I can chew!

The diet website idea is no more. After doing some keyword research, the KEI values that Wordtracker retrieves are all less than 1 (i.e. don't touch these with a barge pole).

I suppose I shouldn't be too disappointed! But it does mean I have to go back to the drawing board. More

10/01/07 - Entering the Property Market

I have decided upon the second and third site to be added to my humble empire.

The choices go against my own advice of choosing niches but hopefully I can pull this off.

Price comparison works for CSN but it requires a manual update every Monday. It is imperative that this update is made otherwise my prices start falling out of sync with the real world.

So the two new sites will primarily consist of static content. More

09/01/07 - More Writing About Passions

Okay, so during the last lecture, I briefly explained that if you want to make money on the net, you need to write about a passion.

I already have a consumer electronics site (namely Compare Sat Nav) and so am looking to diversify and create a portfolio of affiliate based sites.

The first question has to be "how many sites are we looking for"? More

09/01/07 - Write About a Passion

There is no doubt about it, to be seen in the search engines, you need a lot of well ordered, well titled, keyword optimised pages with well written content.

At the moment, I am playing a sitting game waiting for Google's indexes to be updated with my html page names instead of the old "?q=..." blurb.

There are tasks I can carry on with. I can research even more keywords. I can add more static content. I can add pretty pictures. I can exchange links.

But with my new ambition of having a portfolio of David Fiske sites (an empire if you will), I need to come up with some lucrative ideas for other sites. More

08/01/07 - Popular Affiliate Niches

In deciding what else I can invest my time in, I suppose it would be worth looking at what other affiliates are doing with their time.

Using Lee McCoy's website as a starting base, I will take you on a magical mystery tour of sample websites and determine which markets are therefore probably best to leave along (at least in their raw form - niches should be OK). More

06/01/07 - Can I Make a Living Here?

I suppose I should have asked this a long time ago but did I didn't!

Is it feasible to assume with a lot of work, Compare Sat Nav and any other affiliate sites I set up can earn me a reasonable income?

I understand that it takes a lot of work but given that, is the idea feasible?

I posted this to the A4U Forum and here are some of the responses I received: More

05/01/07 - The Website Child Theory

I want to share one of my theories with you. It is a theory that states that all websites are like our own children.

We conceive an idea about our website. It may start with “wouldn’t it just be easier if…” or “I’ve thought of a niche idea…”. However it starts, it is an idea that is conceived.

You set around creating your site. You bolt bits on, you may integrate API’s or embed external content. After careful manipulation, you end up your baby – a fully functional website.

Here is where people fail. More