Archive for November, 2008

EBiz 5: Starting from Scratch SEO

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Last night I checked my Ebiz 5 for its two main keywords.  The keywords for my product are two word phrases that describe my product: xxxxxxx xxxx and xxxxxx xxxxs.  These are the same keywords as Ebiz 1.  I made a few posts on this keyword over the course of last ...

My Condo #1 HOA Fee Goes Up Again

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I guess I have to bitch about this every year. Every year at budget time our trusty board at my condo #1 always has to raise HOA fees. Seems like they fall short of money every single year. I realized that I forgot to bitch about this last year because my last post ...

Free Linking Building

Monday, November 10th, 2008

One thing that I'm finding very useful and cheap is to create your own "other" sites. For example:I sell Widgets online so I have widgetstore.com. In addition I have: widgetreview.com bestwidgets.com widgetblog.com allaboutwidgets.com Who better to write about widgets than someone who sells them?  Articles are easy to write since you have the knowledge and can ...

Ordered my first articles

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Today I hired someone to write me a bunch of blog posts.  Don't worry, they aren't for this blog.  They are for my ecommerce sites.  I need to get content up in a hurry so I thought I'd try it out. I placed one order for $30 which gives me 15 ...

Outsourcing SEO

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

While it's been fun getting my first ecommerce site up to the first page on Google I just don't feel like doing the same manually for my other ebizes.  It took nearly 10 months to achieve this in why I feel is a low contested industry.  While I believe that ...

The new car dance

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

With all this talk about the bad economy and how everyone is hurting, I tried to buy a new car last week.  Buying a new car is not as fun as it used to be.  I mentally set aside 2-3 hours and prepared myself for the song and dance of ...

Ebiz1 – One year later

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Dollars Last year I wrote, "My goal of this site is to get one sale a day with an average checkout total of $180.  If I can achieve this goal the site would net about $15,000 to $18,000 per year. " It has been just a bit over a year since my first store ...