I’m Back - Some Things Have Changed & Some Haven’t!
- Author: onedollaraday
- Filed under: General Thoughts
Jan 31,2008
After a year or so having a bit of a break from the whole niche/internet marketing world, I’m back and trying to catch up on developments in that time.
What’s new?
- Keyword Avalanche has become Niche Rockets and the monthly membership is a massive $147.77 per month. Wow! Now, I do recommend this site but not at this price. It is the only monthly membership I currently hold though and I’m keeping my membership though because the forum is useful and they do provide a decent amount of content each month. Fortunately for you guys, you can try before you buy, plus get a discount on the monthly membership:
- There seems to have been some kind of storm about selling links on web sites which I’ve totally missed. From what I can gather, nobody really knows if it’s ok to sell links using TLA anymore or what effect it has on your rankings/pagerank? Can anyone update me on this?!
- “Web 2.0 properties” seems to be the current buzz phrase
- Videos are all the rage
Niche Rockets $1 7-day trial & $50 off the monthly price thereafter [aff]
What’s the same?
- Good one-way links are still important
- Content is still king
- Article marketing still works to some extent
- “Gurus” still don’t actually tell you how to make money
- Stupid prices are still fashionable (see $147.77 above)
Anyone have anything to add to these lists?
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6 Responses for "I’m Back - Some Things Have Changed & Some Haven’t!"
Welcome back
I was clearing out my Google Reader a couple of weeks back but figured that you were worth keeping in, just in case 
The storm over selling text links is pretty much if you don’t use rel=”nofollow” in the links (eg. if you sell via Text Link Ads) and Google spots it then your PR will be reduced or zeroed completely, this method being used by Google to hope/assume that it will put off advertisers buying links from your site. It seems that for most people, once you either remove these links or make them nofollow, Google will return your PR.
However this PR change hasn’t seemed to have affected rankings, visitor numbers or anything else, just that little green bar for each site, so most people are just ignoring Google and carrying on their business, which is the best idea in my opinion. Why let Google dictate how you can make money off your site?
Well that’s my take on it
Look forward to hearing more on how any projects you left going have been going and anything new on the horizon
Hi Sarah, thanks for keeping me! Interesting stuff about the text links. I have TLA on most of my sites and a couple of them have decreased in PR by 1, but I figured this was most probably because I hadn’t been promoting them as much over the pst year. Will have to do some more reading on this, but I’m inclined to give Google the 2 fingers like you are
I’m going to be trying a few different ideas to start with and then go with what seems to work.
Must catch up on your blog too to see what you’ve been up to!
Welcome back
Thanks Adam!
Glad to see you back! The “Whats the same?” list above cracks me up- so true
Cheers Mr Chance, glad to raise a smile!
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