Entries from December 2007 ↓

What a strange title for this long due SEO post, let me explain.

During my late night surfing, I came across a Blogging Blog (??) with an article about keywords and more specifically how keyword tools seems to be showing over 1000 hits for the term ‘keywords MP3′. I thought it was interesting anyways so as we do at Xenyo, we’re gonna join their experiment and see how far we get with this post.

A quick check on http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com confirms their data but I have my doubts regarding the actual amount of hits reported. Basically with keyword research, I find its 30% keyword tools and 70% hunch … but hey even at 30% thats around 600 searches a day!!!

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Firstly an update on our affiliate progress.

Behind schedule is all I can say (stay with me though as we have made progress ..).

We have started work on the first of our main affiliate based sites and its a coupons site … not groundbreaking but hey it works and I think we can do it better than most so your not gonna change my mind.

I won’t release the domain yet but I am hoping to get the initial launch out before Xmas to some degree if only for search engine spidering.

We have followed the ebooks way of niche marketing and knocked up a quick affiliate content site about Zunes .. the Microsoft MP3 player.

What we did was to knock up a quick template site into a domain we had areviews.com which will host our niche affiliate content sites once I have time to make more.

I got a writer to write me up a few articles on Zunes for around $80 and uploaded those. There are 2 page that actually have affiliate deals on them at the moment on Zune Downloads and also Cheap Zunes .

Obviously more work can be done to make it convert more, etc but it gave me a good feel of what its all about which was what I was after really.

Anyways, to date the site has made me over USD100 in commissions so not bad going as its starting to get natural traffic in now and thats without much link building.

Other content pages were put up with no direct relation to the conversion pages which needs to be retouched such as Ipod vs Zunes which I think a link to the Cheap Zunes or something would be nice.

Also I need to find a good Zune Video Converter program to market on that page.

All in all, slow progress but progress at least. I blame it on the too many eggs excuse. Its a common trap and nearly as deadly as the ‘I will start after …. ‘ excuse, but more on that in another post.

WidgetBucks has started sending its October 07 earnings to its happy and relieved webmasters. The word is that a lot of webmasters that have held back on trying out WidgetBucks are now confident enough to give it s shot.

Don’t worry if you haven’t received your payment yet though as Mpire has said its going to take a few days before everyone gets their check/paypal.

The USD25 free offer is still open for publishers through here .