Mike Perry was writing about keywords and how a phrase is better than a single keyword. Coincidentally, this month’s newsletter from Wordtracker, THE best keyword resource available, goes into detail about “tail end” keyword phrases.

The common mistake is to fight for first page recognition with a single keyword. If you sell wallets and you rely on “wallet”, you are faced with two obstacles on your road to riches. Firstly, the big spending sites will always be ahead of you in the results and secondly, “wallet”, or any single keyword, is normally of use only to people doing a first time search, or undertaking general research. ie you will attract visitors with little or no intention of taking any immediate action.

However, if you try to attract the people about to take a final step in the decision-making process ie appeal to those people who have done their general research and are ready to make a purchase, your keyphrase could be “pink wallet in Switzerland”. This will attract less traffic in total, but what you do get will be higher quality, and you will be yodelling all the way to the bank.

The other tip for applying this keyword strategy is to have lots of pages. Google likes pages, and this also enables you to have two nets laid to attract visitors. You use conventional keywords on most pages, ie “wallet” and use the more specific expanded keyword phrases on the rest.

Chicken and egg

This is The Pisstaker checking out and consoling myself that as a website with PR0, I have no chance of getting links to my site. Apparently the general wisdom is that you should only be interested in linking to sites with PR3 and above! Mike Perry’s 50 visitors a day minimum sounds far more practical and in the spirit of the internet.

I have a little announcement to make about blog of the year voting.

First off, great turnout! Congrats to all of those who are getting votes, and leading their categories. A little change, or stipulation. Since there are only 4 brackets, and not the intended 5, there will be 1 wild-card spot given to the leading vote getting, who did not win their bracket.

So if you have some pretty stiff competition, you still have a great shot to make it into the finals.

Every vote counts! Thanks.

Hello, this is just a quick word about one of my blogs: Blog-Op.

Blog-Op is a contributory blog, which contains a whole range of information on making your blog better. Improving the layout, increasing traffic, optimizing for search engines and even making a little money are all topics covered by this blog.

I don’t pretend to be an expert, which is why I’ll happily accept contributions from anyone with something interesting to share. All submitted posts are fully credited to you, and you will gain at least 2 permanent links back to your blog.

So please come & have a read, and learn something useful - or contribute and earn some links & new readers. Feel free to email me contributions (plain text please) to blogop@gmail.com, or have a look at the How To Contribute page.

Thanks.

No one I know ever likes going to the dentist. Would it make you feel a little more comfortable going to a well known dentist? Of course. How about one that has won awards for quality care? I would feel a little more comfortable with that as well.

Charles Brown dds pc has a perfect dental ‘record’ with no complaints ever in his 10+ years of dentistry. On top of that, Charles Brown DDS is listed as one of the regions top dentists by the Washington Area Consumer Council. Quite a resume for a dentist.

How does one seemingly become so respected among dentists? Ask Charles Brown.

YouTube Karaoke is a collection of YouTube music videos and lyrics. Quite simply, the idea is that you press play, scroll to the lyrics, sing and be merry. Alcohol and audience are optional! Come visit us, see what we’ve got already and make your own suggestions. Here’s an example to get you in the mood:

Scroll and Sing:
I sit and wait
does an angel contemplate my fate
and do they know
the places where we go
when we are grey and old
B’Cos I’ve been told
that salvation lets their wings unfold
so when I’m lying in my bed
thoughts running through my head
and I feel that love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

and through it all she offers me protection
a lot of love and affection
whether I’m right or wrong
and down the waterfall

wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
when I come to call she wont forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

when I’m feeling weak
and my pain walks down a one way street
I look above
and I know ill always be blessed with love
and as the feeling grows
she breathes flesh to my bones
and when love is dead
I’m loving angels instead

and through it all she offers me protection
a lot of love and affection
whether I’m right or wrong
and down the waterfall
wherever it may take me
I know that life wont break me
when I come to call she wont forsake me
I’m loving angels instead

For more YouTube Karaoke visit our site.

I wrote a wordy piece shouting about the wonders of Revver as a source of online income. They pay a 20% share of pay per click advertising revenue to the person hosting the video on the site, plus 50% to the video-maker. In theory it is good, and in the long term, assuming they stick with the program and build up a Youtube-matching library, it has the potential to be a tidy source of checks. I am not holding my breath, though, as I still haven’t reached a dollar (but as I am no Spielberg with my content offerings, maybe I don’t even deserve that much!) For the time-being though, we are sticking with Revver, and here’s why.

Since the last post, I came across a few tips on paid video hosting alternatives. Again, I can’t remember who exactly gave out the pearls of wisdom, (they are linked to this blog somehow) but the upshot of it is, Youtube are the big kahuna and not paying us bloggers a dime, and the paying alternatives are good in theory, but currently short on mass appeal. One option to make money from videos, if I read it correctly, requires you to spend several hours a day of hard graft, copy and pasting for $50 a month! No thanks, my time is better spent building up my blog, not expanding their library.

Which brings me round to the point of this post. We like the “attract lots of traffic and THEN make money” route. It was just a gut feeling, based on “life experience of business, man”, until yesterday when I saw how this tactic is reaping spectacular rewards for John Chow who started monetizing his 250,000 visits a month traffic in October. Maybe Adsense and co have their place in Pisstakers articles, but for the video department, I feel that cents, even tens of dollars don’t matter too much on the road to creating an appealling and useful feature that should attract a ton of extra (monetizable in the long term) visitors to our blog. So we are going to use Revver technology to make a great video section that has content that we think will make Digg look very superficial.

Being techy for a moment, if anyone wants a desktop alternative to Revver, with all the looks and then some, check out Carousel from YourHead. Another slick option for a movie gallery. You have to roll your own links, which is a downside, but it has the great advantage that it can be styled to suit your theme and more importantly lets you show films from anywhere on the internet.

Of course the limitation is you need a Mac and you need Rapidweaver software, and you need some imagination, like Boomchilds, but hey, if you are a winner, that isn’t too much of a stretch:) Happy New Year from The Pisstakers

Here we are heading into 2007 and all of the good things it will bring us - yes, honest!

I’m back to blogging regularly again on Mike’s Money Making Mission. Today’s post is called Riveting Money Making Thoughts

There is also a further article added to my Successful & Profitable Blogging blog. This one is titled The Quest for the Golden Google PageRank.

Something different:
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That’s all for now,

Good blogging,
Mike.

I came across this site from Quit Your Day Job and thought, hey, why not! I am fairly new to the blogging arena, but like many other people, I feel I have something to say, want to share or just needed an outlet. Blogging sounded like the ticket!

My blog is called Worth It All. It is just a little blog with feel good stuff on it as I am always trying to find my own “inner peace”. As I say in my profile, “I am not a religious person, but I find comfort in quotes and the Dalai Lama. Sum it up for me in a sentence that makes me ponder, and I’ll be your friend.” I also enjoy photography, so you will see some of my images on there, mostly floral, and stories that just give you a warm fuzzy feeling. Other times, you might just find something silly or cool that I have found (or found through someone else) on the internet that I think is worthy of sharing for fun. (Lee has found a couple of things I have posted on my blog).

Thanks for letting me join your community. See you around on Blog About Your Blog!