Real Content Site Building Is On The Rise!
December 8, 2005
Content Site Building Is On The Rise!
A neat thing is happening on the web. Sort of an e-renaissance in a sense. A small but hardy and professional group of internet niche site publishers is picking up on the boom in internet real estate development. They are becoming WIRED, and it means awesome, content-rich niche sites are popping up all over the net.
Almost every surfer on the web has run into a junky site intended only for them to click an ad. You know the kind of site I’m talking about…no content, nothing of value to the visitor, and very frustrating to land on.
This is the intention of the developer. They WANT you to be in a hurry to get away…through one of their pay-per-click links.
These sites are fast disappearing from the big engines. This is great news. What’s even better is the sites that replace them in the engines are starting to look very nice, both in design and quality of content.
More and more searchers are starting to actually find answers to their searches on the first try again!
Rest assured, the people behind these new content sites are not the same people they’ve replaced. These are folks who actually care about their visitor experience on their sites. They want their visitors to come back again and are providing enough value to visitors to actually bookmark them and do just that.
What “World Internet Real Estate Developers” have re-discovered is that asset building is far more successful, responsible, grown up, and profitable than building spam sites.
They are starting to build sites that they are proud to show to the world, and the world is responding with great enthusiasm! Even the engines are treating these developers with the respect and admiration they deserve.
Good content makes good “cents” too. Of course that phrase has been bandied about so much in the last year that it seemed as if everyone was talking about it but few were actually practicing what they were preaching.
The value of a fairly aged content site with a few hundred visitors a day is very high compared to just a year ago. Many people invest in one or two of these niche sites that are already in the engines and getting traffic when they find them for sale.
And a good investment it is! If you can get someone to part with a modest traffic site that is already seasoned in the engines, you are lucky to snag one for anywhere from
$5,000-$100,000+ depending on the niche, products, and income of the site.
The developers of rich content sites are not only walking to the bank with daily income that rivals the corporate salary they replaced, but can cash out of a network of niche sites at very tidy sums. A fairly large network of sites, from 100-1000 could net the developer millions of dollars in fact.
Who is buying? Other large developers and even very large Fortune 500 companies along with investors of all kinds who turn the network traffic into gold of their own.
It is very much like the real estate boom after the last world war. Many many developers lined their pockets by developing new housing all over the country for returning soldiers.
The internet is in dire need of great sites. If you think the net is full, you are only partially right. Combined with some great sites with great information in hundreds of specialty niches from fly fishing to scrap booking, there is also a great deal of junk out there taking up a lot of space.
Anyone who has been on the net for awhile has experienced her fair share of lost surfing time on disappointing, meaningless, content-less sites.
Smart niche site developers are quietly building quality, feature and content-rich sites to capitalize on this terrible “year of the spam site.” We all know content is king, but it is finally starting to pay off for the people who develop content-rich sites in a big way these days.
Hopefully the decline of “gimmick” sites will continue for the good of the entire internet community. If the developers of these sites are richly rewarded, then more power to them. They deserve it!
While there is an answer to almost every question a person could ever have somewhere on the net, for most surfers those answers are buried far too deeply on obscure sites to find.
With content sites being developed in thousands of niches with the goal of being found and utilized, surfers and researchers are going to be able to quickly and conveniently find the information they seek on pleasant, rich sites in the near future.
And the people who develop these e-real estate assets are supported by the income these sites generate and any partial or complete sales of the networks of sites that they build.
Sounds like what the internet was supposed to be in the first place!
Jack Humphrey is the managing partner for
ContentDesk.com. More information World Internet Real Estate Development (W.I.R.E.D.) can be found HERE
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Submit Your Articles: Guidelines for getting the most out of article syndication
October 10, 2005
Learn what the experts haven’t told you yet about internet marketing through article syndication.
The prevailing, generic internet marketing advice in vogue right now is that you need to syndicate your content. In other words, submit your articles to content directories and syndication hubs in order to win new traffic and links to your website.
The problem is that most new online business owners looking for solid step-by-step advice on how this is practically accomplished are turning up little more than the advice above.
People in the know have been there and done that. In fact, although article syndication is all the rage these days, expert internet marketers have been doing this for years. The system of getting the most out of syndication is a bit more advanced than simply paying someone to syndicate your content for you, to say the least.
Something to consider is that article dispersal hubs (article directories) come in all shapes and sizes. And some are far more advanced than most.
Consider the fact, that you might not have been aware of until now, that just getting your articles posted on a bunch of directories doesn’t necessarily mean you are getting your articles read in great numbers by your target market.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. Think about the old link farms. It was awhile before anyone realized that no one in their target market was actually seeing their links! Certainly no one from their target market. Yet it was all the rage in its short-lived days as a top-notch marketing tactic!
The same can be said of most of the article directories on the web today. The two main visitors of such directories are website owners looking for content for their sites and newsletters and authors looking for places to get published.
If neither of these groups are your target market, you are in big trouble if your articles only get syndicated to directories and no further.
The real point of syndication is consumption of your information by your target audience. Followed by a click on your link in the byline of your articles. A side benefit is any resulting search engine boost you might get for your site, but it is far less than most experts are telling you.
You see, when you submit your articles to the average directory they simply sit there and go no further. The average directories get little or no traffic and they do not in turn promote themselves properly through RSS feeds to bring your articles any real exposure.
The directories that give you the most bang for your buck are the directories that further syndicate your content through RSS and newsletters for each topic for which they accept articles.
What you want to look for are directories that are promoting your content actively and promoting themselves professionally. Look for directories with pagerank and high traffic stats and you can easily forget about any others.
In fact, just one submission to one high traffic, RSS feed-enabled directory can net you more traffic and backlinks than most of the rest of the content directories out there, since most of the others are small sites with article scripts put up by amateur marketers.
So when choosing places to spend time hand-submitting your content for the widest distribution possible, make sure you check to make sure submission is even worth that valuable effort. Check each directory’s pagerank and traffic stats before you waste time submitting your content to a black hole.
If you are going to use a service, carefully go through their stated list of submission sites before paying them a dime. Like the useless “search engine submission” companies that say they will submit your site to 7 zillion search engines (when there are really only a handful of real search engines on the web) many syndication companies pad their submission list with sites where no one will ever see your article or click your link.
Also, any syndication or PR specialist worth their fee should syndicate your article content through their own RSS feeds and have a popular site themselves. If not, don’t think they are going to do any better for you if their own site lacks significant traffic and pagerank.
You only have so much time each day to spend getting the most out of your efforts. Simply submitting articles to a huge list of directories expecting large amounts of links and traffic to come your way in the coming weeks is a loser’s bet.
Most people are doing this now, but you should have enough information here to avoid making that mistake yourself. Hit the big directories and don’t waste your time with the small fry. You can save yourself more time to write more content and syndicate it as well by skipping the ineffective article directories that are nothing more than content ghost towns.
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Internet Marketing is Not Rocket Science!
September 19, 2005
Internet marketing can seem mystifying not only for beginners, but for moderately skilled internet marketers. With all the courses, forums, blogs, reports, seminars and teleconferences available to help people learn how to get traffic to their sites, it is one of the most overwhelmingly dense subjects on the internet.
Unfortunately, and this is perfectly true, most of the advice or “expert” tips are outdated or completely false. Since anyone can publish on the internet, you have a mixed bag of good information followed with much more bad information.
The mysticism of internet marketing is created largely by this glut of some good and mostly bad information. It makes the whole topic SEEM like rocket science when, in fact, much of what was true about internet marketing years ago is true today.
Most people think that since search engine marketing changes every five minutes, that ALL internet marketing tactics must have changed as much in the same amount of time. Not true.
The basics, like trading links, article syndication, testimonials, forum signatures, joint ventures, affiliate programs - most work as well today as they did years ago. That is, if you know how to value the work above for what it will truly do for your website traffic.
Funny thing is, no one places much value on the above tactics anymore because there is always some “new” tactic around the corner that claims the death of everything that came before it. And most people blindly follow that advice as if it were true.
Most of the time, this is to the detriment of their internet marketing efforts. The basics are what work all the time and what have always worked on the internet.
You can always experiment with new things, as long as you have not forgotten to do the basics. The basics proven to drive traffic, page rank, link popularity, and branding to your business.
Conservative, relevant reciprocal linking
Article syndication
Participation in your field and among your market (forums)
Blogging
Offline advertising
Non-reciprocal linking tactics
Press releases
…and many other proven methods.
Everything else is just a big experiment until proven to work over time. “Over time” being the operative words. Lots of flash in the pan crack pot schemes work for awhile. But most never stand the test of time.
Links from a widely syndicated article will never fade away, yet I see people chasing down fly-by-night linking pyramid schemes as if they truly believe something like that is a smart thing to base their internet business on!
Tens of thousands have walked away from their dreams, gone back to their depressing, predictable, slave-labor jobs never knowing how close they were to actually succeeding.
Good people have left this business proclaiming it an utter lie that any average person can make it with an internet business and an internet marketing plan.
I guess there is truth in that statement. Average people do in fact quit this business before they ever get started because average people fall for tricks and schemes that above average people avoid on their way to success.
If you have read this far, you are probably in the above average category. Why? Because average people would have take one look at the list of things I mentioned that are the bread and butter of internet marketing and saw nothing but hard work. And they’d be right!
Above average people don’t shy away from work though. I don’t know a single soul (and my rolodex has some of the biggest names in internet marketing in it) who got where they are today without a lot of hard work.
You can succeed in internet marketing if you are not afraid to work, and not constantly tempted by those who say you can succeed without it!
Focus on the basics of internet marketing and stay with them as you try new strategies. We all experiment. But successful internet marketers never leave their bread and butter tactics behind unless they cease to be effective.
To learn bread and butter internet marketing tactics along with cutting-edge new internet marketing tactics, check out Jack Humphrey’s all new Power Linking 2005.
http://www.power-linking-profits.com
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Team Up For More Than $7 Billion in SE Marketing
July 16, 2005
Approximately $7 billion* in annual spending is expected for the search engine (SE) marketing industry by 2007. And members at Content Desk…are excited to be a team of go-getters and share in the bounty. They invite you, too. Learn more …
New Orleans, LA – Approximately $7 billion* in annual spending is expected for the search engine (SE) marketing industry by 2007. And members at Content Desk, an Internet content syndication center and a source of high-quality, targeted content for webmasters, are excited to be a team of go-getters and share in the bounty.
“Monetizing our websites doesn’t just mean finding the best paying advertising and affiliate programs to put on our sites,” said Jack Humphrey, managing partner in the exclusive Content Desk Charter Members publishing group. “But making the most of the visitors we get, to keep them coming back and clicking on ads and buying from us again and again.”
And Humphrey does mean a LOT of visitors and clicks. Research shows that marketers will be targeting 15% of their budget to search engine marketing. In fact, marketers anticipate spending $3.3 billion on paid search listings and $238.5 million on site optimization services, according to MarketingSherpa’s Marketing Metrics Guide (2004). ** So that’s a lot of bounty to share.
“The only way to do that is to have updated, valuable information that Internet visitors are trying to find,” explained Humphrey. “BE that resource for them and you will reap rewards far beyond what you may have already experienced with plain directory sites.”
Content Desk has a variety of tools to help members create and use all types of content. The exclusive online community focuses on four things; community, learning, technology and profits.
“We cover a slew of tactics we are using for members, including all the successful and not so successful tests we have done to pull in more traffic and more profits for our content publishing networks,” said Humphrey. “We are in the right place at the right time.”
Charter member David Granoff shared his experience with Content
Desk.
INTERVIEW: DAVID GRANOFF
Q: How did you learn about Content Desk & what made you decide to sign up?
I heard about Content Desk through one of my Internet marketing newsletters, and after 2 years of building sites “the hard way” and another 2 years of working with a partner building “resource sites” that I wasn’t particularly proud of; I decided there must be a better way to build high-quality sites. I’ve been very happy with the site building system, the very supportive ContentDest partners, and the great community of like-minded members.
Q: Please share how you’ve successfully used the tools in Content Desk / Content Site Builder so far.
I’ve built a number of sites in the past few months, in various niches, experimenting with various formats - it’s very important to try different things and see what actually works. Sometimes the most “elegant” approach is not the most profitable, and the rules are always changing. Here are a few representative sites, in which I’ve used professionally-developed templates, home-made templates, and blogs like WordPress:
http://www.cholesterol-1.com
http://www.arthritis-411.com
http://www.low-carb-diet-411.com
http://www.acne-1.com
http://www.banking-1.com
Q: What future plans can you share with us?
I look forward to syndicating my original articles with Content Propulsion Lab (a new part of the Content Desk publishing network that will be open to the public soon) to develop a good network of quality links from related web sites, using the online CSB tool to keep my sites fresh and to blog on auto-pilot with the auto-blog feature.
One of the great things about Content Desk is the great community we have. I hope that I’ve been as helpful to all of you as you have been to me. I also look forward to partnering with more members on joint projects. If you enjoy writing about something and are looking for a partner to put up a web site featuring your material and integrate some revenue sources with it, be sure to let me know … And thanks for recognizing my own little contributions to the community.
ABOUT CONTENT DESK
The Content Desk membership community communicates via their private forum, virtual conferences, teleconferences, email, support desk, workshops and new Mentor / Sponsorship Program for members to team up. Some of their tools are downloads and videos, while others are online applications and knowledge shared through learning. Learning is offered in the form of videos, articles, help texts, tutorials, member sharing and seminars/workshops.
Content Desk membership fees go right back into development of new software and tools so that members are always on the cutting-edge and far ahead of all the “point-and-click” site builders out there.
Cyber-brains behind the Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;” Jack Humphrey, Mark Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi. These three renowned visionaries found themselves smack dab in the middle of the emerging, fledgling web publishing industry.
MARDI GRAS
To help others learn more and earn more, Content Desk is hosting a 3-day seminar / workshop in New Orleans from Sept. 9-11, 2005, with a full year of support follow up afterwards. The focus is, “How To Triple Your Income With Irresistible New Content Publishing, Traffic Building and Sales Conversion Techniques - The Three Proven Keys To Internet Success.”
“Son of a gun, we’re gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”
For more information, visit Mardi Gras
http://presssuccess.com/MardiGras . To learn more about Content Desk and check on the availability of limited openings at Content Site Builder, visit http://presssuccess.com/csb . Join hundreds of publishers and writers in creating and syndicating your content at Content Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.com/cpl .Visit http://www.contentdesk.com for help.
* According to investment bank U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray; “Jupiter Research Launches Search Service,” by Brian Morrissey; May 27, 2003; ClickZ News.
** “Search Engine Marketing Industry Snapshot,” BizResearchä 2005.
Author: Diana Barnum, president of http://movingaheadcommunications.com and CEO of
http://ohiohelp.net . For help with marketing, public relations and writing, email her through her sites or call: (614) 529-9459.
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Content Desk Virtual Publishing Empire - Cashing In On What More Than One Billion Surfers Want Most
July 6, 2005
New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) July 26, 2005 -– Today, more than one billion* people surf the Internet. And that number is growing. So is the amount of revenue being generated online.
For example, online advertising expenditures are targeted to reach an estimated $11.6 billion by 2010, according to a forecast from Forrester Research**, Inc., with ads specifically reaching others via blogs and through RSS. And online spending from average Internet users is predicted to generate revenues in 2006 of $1.8 billion and $1.7 billion just in the categories of online games and digital music alone, according to a report by Jupiter Media Metrix.
What draws people online to make these purchases? In a word, content.
“People want the sites that they visit to be information resources, no matter what the subject,” said Jack Humphrey, managing partner in the exclusive Content Desk Charter Members publishing group. “Articles, reports, facts, tips, newsletters, forums, blogs, audio, video, interviews, product reviews, creative writing, public domain information, RSS and much more.”
Content Desk has a variety of tools to help member create and use all types of content. The exclusive online community focuses on four things; community, learning, technology and profits.
Report & Case Study: Sid Hale, jvAlert
“Creating good, relevant content has always been the biggest problem in creating a web site that can attract and retain visitors,” said Sid Hale, co-creator of jvAlert and charter member of Content Desk. “With Content Desk’s Content Site Builder, I was able to quickly find article content for a new site I had launched only a month earlier, and automate adding that content to my site within just a few days. That included the learning curve…”
Hale signed up immediately after reading a report written by Humphrey entitled, “Building a Content Publishing Empire.” Being a content publisher and knowing how much work can be involved in building content for a site, he felt the decision to join Content Desk was a “no-brainer.”
For a copy of the report and Hale’s case study, both at no cost, contact http://www.contentdesk.com .
CONTENT DESK: Building A Content Publishing Empire
The Content Desk membership community communicates via their private forum, conferences, teleconferences, email and support desk. Some of their tools are downloads, while others are online applications and knowledge shared through learning. Learning is offered in the form of videos, articles, help texts, tutorials, member sharing and seminars/workshops.
Content Desk membership fees go right back into development of new software and tools so that members are always on the cutting-edge and far ahead of all the “point-and-click” site builders out there.
HISTORY IN THE MAKING
Cyber-brains behind the Content Desk scene are the “Power Trio;” Jack Humphrey, Mark Braunstein, and Peter Lenkefi. These three renowned visionaries found themselves smack dab in the middle of the emerging, fledgling web publishing industry.
“Giving (website visitors) what they want is the first step in building relationships rather than one-time visitors,” said Humphrey. “We feel it is crazy to work hard on traffic that will never come back to our sites. Especially if the only change we need to make to those sites is adding good material that visitors enjoy! First time visits are expensive. Repeat visits are free.”
MARDI GRAS
To help others learn more and earn more, Content Desk is hosting a 3-day seminar / workshop in New Orleans from Sept. 9-11, 2005, with a full year of support follow up afterwards. The focus is, “How To Triple Your Income With Irresistible New Content Publishing, Traffic Building and Sales Conversion Techniques - The Three Proven Keys To Internet Success.”
“Son of a gun, we’re gonna have big fun, on the bayou…”
For more information, visit Mardi Gras http://presssuccess.com/MardiGras . To learn more about Content Desk and check on the availability of limited openings at Content Site Builder, visit http://presssuccess.com/csb . Join hundreds of publishers and writers in creating and syndicating your content at Content Propulsion Lab http://presssuccess.com/cpl . Visit http://www.contentdesk.com for help.
* From “The Internet Transforms Modern Life,” by Steve Almasy, CNN, June 29, 2005.
** The Forrester Research report includes data from an online survey of 99 leading marketers and four forecasts: US Search Marketing Spending, US Online Advertising And Marketing Spending, US Email Marketing Spending and US Online Classifieds Advertising.
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Jack presenting at Carl Galletti’s Super Conference Vegas ‘05
June 25, 2005
The only time you’ll see me in a suit!
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Peter Lenkefi, Mark Braunstein, and Jack Humphrey at Carl Galletti’s Superconference in Vegas ‘05!
June 25, 2005
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Partners for: ContentDesk.com and ContentPropulsionLab.com
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Power Linking 2005 Redefines Website Promotion & Traffic Generation
June 7, 2005
(PRWEB) June 7, 2005 — Web site owners are realizing Jack Humphrey’s Power Linking isn’t just another typical traffic generating program or another seo software application. Unlike most courses that are written in three days, Power linking is the culmination of three years of the best practices, honest, proven, tested strategies, & hard core results for thousands of customers worldwide. It is pushing the limits of web site owners allotted bandwidth each and every month.
Jack Humphrey’s Power Linking 2005 proves that most experts are completely wrong about linking. This course teaches how you can get your web site traffic in a matter of weeks. Hundreds of happy website owners have been emailing in every day with their success stories; here is what one fellow website owner has to say,
“Take Action! He has given given me the secret of all secrets for anybody marketing online or offline. I put into action one simple technique that Jack shared with me in one of his amazing articles that proved successful in the first 24 hours that I used it!”
These results are all possible because Power Linking 2005 is affordably priced under $100; well under real value. Unlike most traffic generating courses out on the market that run in the hundred’s of dollars. Web site owners are saving thousands by avoiding other costly promoting tools that have a much shorter shelf life and less affect.
The Power Linking 2005 course is nothing short of brilliant. When receiving the course you given written & video instructions that takes you by the hand & shows you step by step, the blueprints to achieving success with all the targeted web traffic any online business owner would ever want.
Linking is the only constant in web site promotion. It was the first form of web site promotion & it will always & forever will be the core of any successful web site promotion campaign.
The new cutting edge version of Power Linking; released June 1st, is available to everyone at www.digitalbookz.net/power-linking/index.htm .
Power Linking 2005 is a product created by Jack Humphrey & is available for all online busineses & web site owners.
www.digitalbookz.net is run by a online marketing firm & resource center out of Chicago.
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Jack and the Mouse
March 23, 2005
This IS, in fact, a Mickey Mouse operation!
Yanik’s Orlando Birthday Bash
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