Monthly Archives: December 2009

Social Networking Saves Christmas

Many businesses have looked to social networking to build relationships beneficial to growing their business.  There is no questioning the power of social networking when used to engage customers, build respect and trust within a market niche.  However, there is also many personal benefits of social networking as what happened with me this past year when social networking saved Christmas. Yes, social networking saved Christmas … Continue reading

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DJChat.com doesn’t Understand Social Networking

Today I got banned from an online forum – DJChat.com, a DJ Chat  forum that promotes itself as “Real Networking for Real DJS”.  DJChat.com doesn’t get the concept of social networking.  DJChat.com obviously should change their tag line to “Almost Real Networking for Real DJs” until it understands social networking and how it can be used to actively engage its user community.  DJ Chat is … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas from Newfoundland

Merry Christmas from my family here in Newfoundland, Canada. This year has been a very busy yet rewarding year for me professionally and personally.  After having a successful career in the information technology industry for over 25 years, I finally started several blogs, grew my online presence, experimented with SEO and released two free comprehensive guides all in the span of 12 months. With Christmas … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website – Developing Keyword Rich Content

In the last lesson in my series on Building a Profitable Website I talked about registering a domain name relevant to your chosen niche. This lesson in Building a Profitable Website talks about building keyword rich content based on your previously developed long-tail keywords.  It talks about using hot topics in your niche and using these with your keywords to develop keyword rich content. Barry … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website – Registering a Domain Name

So far in my series on Building a Profitable Website I have examined how to identify profitable niches, select appropriate long-tail search terms and identify relevant topics and issues relating to those search terms. You should be well on your way towards having an understanding of some topic areas that you will be used to develop content in the coming days. Today’s lesson in Building … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website – Finding Hot Topics in Your Niche

In the last lesson of Building a Profitable Website, I focused on identifying profitable website niches.  Throughout the lesson I illustrated how to examine website topics, analyze those topics potential for profitability, select relevant keyword terms and develop long-tail search phrases. I had also asked that you examine several topics of interest and develop 15 – 20 long-tail search phrases that would be profitable and … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website – Identifying Profitable Niches

One of the most important and often most difficult aspect to building a profitable website is identifying a niche market to fill that is not over-saturated by competitors.  Sounds simple enough but think about this just for a second. Perhaps the most profitable niche to occupy involves credit cards.  A search in Google returns almost 69 million websites.  To compete in that niche will require … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website – My Strategy

Building a profitable website involves a basic strategy I have created over the last few years.  It has allowed me to build websites relatively quickly, have them indexed in the major search engines and generating revenue.  It involves some work but I have seen very consistent results and some very profitable websites. Barry WheelerBarry Wheeler is a blogger, novice SEO, geek and passionate Newfoundlander. Operating … Continue reading

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Building a Profitable Website

There are many websites and blogs that talk about building profitable sites and making money online.  In fact, several bloggers such as John Chow has made a living from telling people how he makes money online.  However, I have yet to find anyone who has successfully mimicked the successes of the elite bloggers and even fewer who reap the large rewards promised. Many of these … Continue reading

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