OK guys. For those of you out there watching my blog for a while, I thought what I would try and do is talk about the topics that this blog was tailored for. So you might wonder, why in the world is he talking about working from home envelope stuffing. We’ll I’ll tell you one of the reasons is because of a guy who made a comment on my last post wondering why a guy like me is even talking about making money with adsense. I know he doesn’t know that I never professed to be a guru but that’s beside the point. Anyway, I wanted to get back to what this blog was meant to be for, talking about the word “working”. And then everyone can go what’s this guy talking about anything for…lol.
Now, I know that many of you know that I am a member of the Keyword Academy. I highly recommend it. There is this guy in there who talks about targeting a keyword like working from home by targeting longer tail keywords first, building up authority for those words and then moving up the ladder without getting links. Everybody really loves this idea because let’s face it getting links sucks. It takes work. I might have more fun stuffing envelopes than doing that.
This guy, his name is Fraser, and he has a lot of credibility because he has verified that he makes over $5,000 a month from his sites. So, I thought as an experiment, I’d give it a try.
By the way, if you are looking for a job stuffing envelopes, it’s my guess it’s a scam.
Anyway, let’s say I want to talk about working from home. There are some people that have been talking about it for awhile and they have more authority than I do to talk about it. The big G will have more trust in them because they have talked alot about it. It will give them a ranking even if they do not get any links many times. Me on the other hand, I’ll have to write something really worthwhile and have tons of people link to me if I want to rank for it right out of the gate.
Fraser on the other hand, says, don’t set your sights so high to begin with. Build the authority first with topics with hardly anyone competing on them. Get ranked their first and work your way up. At least that is the way I think he meant it.
So, I’m not crazy. I’m not over here working at my house stuffing envelopes. And you shouldn’t be either. They have machines that do that. If there are a couple of you out there who might be able to give me a link for my title of this article. That would be great. We’ll see where I end up in the rankings. Then, I’ll work on it some more so view this as an experiment you can watch in progress instead of just hearing about it.
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I’ll try to find time to write about this tomorrow. Indeed most ‘work at home’ schemes, like envelope stuffing, are plain and simple, scams, Better to start a web site reviewing and selling envelope stuffing machines, they are simple and cheap these days.
But the market for real work at home jobs is really wide open. Those who don’t try to sell envelope stuffing jobs try to sell get rich quick ebooks about blogging or internet marketing … but many people out there aren’t attuned tothat at all. Let me give two suggestions here.
Can you use a phone? Most of us can. How many places have you been where someone gets paid to sit at a desk and answer the phone, set appointments, call people to remind them, etc.? Every one of those is a possibility.
How many people reading here speak Englsh .. many, correct? In China alone there are 3 billion people anxious to learn and/or practice their English. You don’t have to be a degreed teacher to coach people in conversational English … and both those jobs are portable … you can do them anywhere there is an Internet and a phone line.
So now what is stopping you?
Fraser had a post I read about a month back that described his strategy, in which he ultimately aims to dominate every nook and cranny of his niche by building a freakishly large authority site. I believe at the time of the thread, he said he was up to 2,000 posts on his site. Skinny Ninja, who I’m sure you’ve seen on the boards, is doing the same thing…massive posting as opposed to active back linking strategies.
I know Fraser is also a huge proponent of using link bait sticky pages (write an exceptionally well researched, polished, unique and useful guide in hopes that people will link to it naturally and build up the site strength). I think this is a great idea, especially if you have any social networking clout as a bonus to give it a boost. I suppose ideally, everything on the Internet should be polished and informative…
I’m not knocking Fraser or Skinny – they’re both making a hell of a lot more money than I am, and their methods work, but I think they could be doing it better (or at least more lucratively). I know I’m just a nobody, but I also know two things about them – they don’t outsource, and with the exception of blog carnivals (which I’ve heard can be effective), and they don’t actively backlink. I don’t see why they can’t combine the best of both worlds (back linking AND massive posting campaigns).
I think if it were me, and I was to the point where my authority site had 1000-2000 posts, and like Fraser, I was making over $5K/month, I would outsource at least half my content, and focus on adding backlinks to my site. Even with my own minimal backlinking efforts, I’ve noticed a huge difference on my sites in the past two months. You may run the risk of getting sandboxed if you get too aggressive, but in the long run, I’d have to imagine that 1000 extra links on a 1000 post site would send your revenue flying.
Just my opinion…
Anyway, don’t let that Matt from Brisbane d-bag thread flamer get you down, man. Judging by his comments, he clearly didn’t take an extra two seconds to even read your whole post.
Oh well, I suppose I should thank him…the Internet would be a lot less interesting if it were jackass free.
Hi,
Can anybody point me to fraser’s blog or article because it sounds really interesting.
You can find Fraser by going to the keyword academy. That’s where he posts all his stuff related to what he does. He is very helpful.