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The $100 Harvest Holdover: 5 Pillar Affiliate Report #341

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The 5 Pillar Affiliate Report is for SiteSell.com affiliates only (click here for 5 Pillar Report #341). This e-zine, together with the Quick Start Guide, the 5 Pillar Marketing Guide, and the SiteSell Promotion Center, forms the backbone of the #1 affiliate program in the world.

This week, 5P News announces the $100 Harvest Holdover and highlights a new, powerful Case Study.

The Article section shows you how to promote both SBI! and the 5 Pillar Program with a winning strategy.

Pearls From The Affiliate and SBI! Forums features the following...

• Using eBay techniques for SBI!...
• Local Sites..."KISS" Strategy: 5 Simple Tips

Click here to read this issue of the 5P Affiliate Report. (Affiliates only. Not an affiliate? Register today.)

A New Addition to the Hall of Fame: SBI! Xpress #273

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Site Build It! Xpress ("SBIX") is for SBI! customers only (click here for SBIX #273 and recent issues). It boils down the near-infinite Net marketing and e-business noise into "only what you really need to know."

This week, SBIX News announces a new addition to the forums Hall of Fame.

Articles cover Niche Market Made Easy, and Infolinks.

Finally, Pearls From The SBI! Forums features the following...

• Some good points about 3 columns vs. 2
• Time For A Good Thread On Being Rejected By Google AdSense
• My traffic is 10X more than a year ago :)! What’s yours?
• In Defense Of Blogging AND In Self-Defense Vs. Flashy Hares
• The Mad Guy's Weekly Challenge... Are You Mad Enough?
• What Happens To An SBI! Site In A Recession?
• Go away, don't read/watch the media, come back, cash checks!
• TIER 2/3 Pages By You Vs. C2 Pages By Visitors
• About Blog Directories
• Local Sites..."KISS" Strategy: 5 Simple Tips
• Monetizing Local Businesses
• You Must Move Forward
• Where Do Long Tail Keywords Fit In? Setting The Context...

Click here to read the three most recent issues of the SBI! Xpress. (SBI! owners only.)

It's The $100 Halloween Special!: The SiteSell Edge #096

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The SiteSell Edge is for people who aren't yet SBI! customers (click here for The SiteSell Edge #096). It boils down the near-infinite Net marketing and e-business noise into "only what you really need to know."

This week, News From The SiteSell Edge announces the $100 Halloween Special, that an SBIer made it to the Oprah Show, and a new search in Search It!.

The Featured Article covers "We" or "You" For Your Site's Voice.

Click here to read previous issues of The SiteSell Edge.

About Blog Directories

Ken's Blog

The topic of "blog directories" is something making the Webmaster forum rounds lately.

We predicted years ago that directories would become less and less important, that even the mighty Yahoo! (way back when, their directory was more important than any Search Engine) would not be able to keep up with algorithm-based Search Engines that will only get faster, more complete and smarter with time (directories, by contrast, are human-reviewed).

Sure enough, even Yahoo!'s directory delivers near-zero traffic nowadays. That, believe it or not, was the original goal of submission, just like listing in the engines. But that is history forever. There may be the exceptional niche directory, but nowadays you list in good directories only to get a quality inbound link or three (i.e., as part of your site's Inbound Link Program).

However, if you can easily afford the $299, it's still probably worth listing at Yahoo!'s directory as part of your link program (even though Google no longer specifically mentions Yahoo! by name). If you can't afford the fee, don't bother. There are tons of ways to build inbound links and you only need enough to get the traffic "snowball" started.

Now let's talk about directories and blog directories for a second...

In Defense of Blogging AND In Self-Defense Vs. Flashy Hares

Ken's Blog

I just read the following article in WIRED, titled...

"Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004"

The title pretty much says it all, but the article is worth a read (not for the content, but for the lessons we'll talk about). As I read it, it reminded me of when I was a medical student.

There were certain classmates of mine who really rubbed me the wrong way. Super-self-absorbed, always (subtly) bragging about the latest and greatest procedure they had done, about some big-name professor who "loved" them, always self-portraying as very, very cool and authoritative. Meanwhile...

Last Week of the Halloween $100 Special: 5 Pillar Affiliate Report #340

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The 5 Pillar Affiliate Report is for SiteSell.com affiliates only (click here for 5 Pillar Report #340). This e-zine, together with the Quick Start Guide, the 5 Pillar Marketing Guide, and the SiteSell Promotion Center, forms the backbone of the #1 affiliate program in the world.

This week, 5P News highlights the new affiliate marketers landing page and last week's self-organized SBI! Conference.

The Article section shows you how to promote both SBI! and the 5 Pillar Program with a winning strategy.

Pearls From The Affiliate and SBI! Forums features the following...

• Try to imagine an in-person version of the forums

Click here to read this issue of the 5P Affiliate Report. (Affiliates only. Not an affiliate? Register today.)

Orlando SBI! Conference A Big Success SBI! Xpress #272

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Site Build It! Xpress ("SBIX") is for SBI! customers only (click here for SBIX #272 and recent issues). It boils down the near-infinite Net marketing and e-business noise into "only what you really need to know."

This week, SBIX News announces the success of the 2008 Orlando SBI! Conference, what one SBIer called "an in-person version of the forums."

The Articles section covers how to set up your own local SBI! meeting, the WIN-WIN consultative approach for InterNETwork Marketers, Doba.com's unique dropshipping solution and a tutorial on how to use E-junkie to sell your digital or tangible products.

Finally, Pearls From The SBI! Forums features the following...

• A Webmaster Gets It
• Niche Market Made Easy
• Choosing A Niche With Legs
• True-True-But-Unrelated
• Article on Membership Sites (And How To Think About The M) :-)
• How to find and up-and-coming niche? Same as real estate.
• Pros and Cons of 2 Column and 3 Column Look And Feel
• More On 3 Columns Vs. 2... Be Careful
• These Folks Don't Carpet Bomb

Click here to read the three most recent issues of the SBI! Xpress. (SBI! owners only.)

How Do You Find an Up-and-Coming Niche?

Ken's Blog

How do you find an up-and-coming niche? By thinking of it as real estate. Would you buy "up-and-coming" real estate in an area you don't know?

Of course not, it may be "going nowhere" real estate. But my best investments have been real estate in places that I know and love. When you know a place, opportunities arise. They are about as high-return and low-risk as is possible in the investment arena.

Before I had much money, as a medical student I paid my way through school by playing cards in Las Vegas (I'm not a gambler, just good at math). Janice and I used to drive down to Miami Beach for vacations. We knew both locations well (30 years ago now, phew!). I can remember telling her, "Geez, I wish we had money. These would be the best investments we'd ever make." And indeed, they have gone up in value by a multiple of 100 at least (even with the latest downturn)!

New Yorkers make money by picking the next part of Manhattan (and now the next borough!) that they believe will become discovered and go up in value. Those who are the most tuned-in do very well.

Now... think of your niche as a piece of e-real-estate. In a sense, that's exactly what it is. It's a concept. It's in people's minds. It's what they are searching for. So...

BOO! The $100 Halloween Special Is Baaaack!: 5 Pillar Affiliate Report #339

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The 5 Pillar Affiliate Report is for SiteSell.com affiliates only (click here for 5 Pillar Report #339). This e-zine, together with the Quick Start Guide, the 5 Pillar Marketing Guide, and the SiteSell Promotion Center, forms the backbone of the #1 affiliate program in the world.

This week, 5P News announces the start of the SBI! $100 Halloween Special and an update about the explosive growth of SiteSell Services.

The Article section shows you how to promote SBI! in these days of economic uncertainty.

Pearls From The Affiliate and SBI! Forums features the following...

• The Meltdown, SBI! and... You.
• Earned $100K in My Spare Time

Click here to read this issue of the 5P Affiliate Report. (Affiliates only. Not an affiliate? Register today.)

It's The SBI! $100 Halloween Special! SBI! Xpress #271

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Site Build It! Xpress ("SBIX") is for SBI! customers only (click here for SBIX #271 and recent issues). It boils down the near-infinite Net marketing and e-business noise into "only what you really need to know."

This week, SBIX News announces the SBI! $100 Halloween Special, a discussion in the SBI! Forums about the effects of today's economic climate, and the growth of SiteSell Services and affiliate income.

The Articles section covers how to use Facebook to promote your business, instructions on how to create a CSS-driven template, and a quick tutorial about using SBI! Includes to make site-wide changes to the look of your site.

Finally, Pearls From The SBI! Forums features the following...

• Don't lose site of the social networking ball
• A Puzzle I Would LOVE To Solve -- Anyone?
• One-on-One "Show Me"
• For More Information On Teaching SBI! and e-learning...
• Where did THIS thread come from? Hall of Fame! :-)
• Running on the links treadmill
• Pros and Cons of 2 Column and 3 Column Look And Feel
• Yes, the SBI! Snowball Works
• Hey hey ho ho IE6 has got to go. Ha ha!
• Earned $100K in My Spare Time

Click here to read the three most recent issues of the SBI! Xpress. (SBI! owners only.)