The Blog Lives!
It’s back to blogging and I’m going the ShoeMoney route and not caring about punctuation and spelling!
If Firefox can’t fix it for me, then I’m out of luck!
What to blog about?
- I can blog about internet marketing, though I find it may do more harm then good.
- I can talk about eBay, but really I think we get enough of that in the eBay Suspension Forums
- I can talk about my life, that may interest some people.
- I can talk about money, investing… etc
Why don’t I just talk about anything I want?
I may just do that.
It’s settled, aspkin.com is back in the mix with my daily blogs and I’m going to try and post every day or every other day. I will talk about whatever I want, I’ll mix in internet marketing, eBay, my life, my projects, etc… whatever I can think of to keep things going.
Sounds like fun again.
eBay Stealth 3.0 Release!
EBay Stealth 3.0 is finally here and I’m happy to say it has been totally rewritten and reorganized for today’s eBay suspensions and PayPal limited accounts! In it I’ll show you the latest tips and techniques to be one step ahead of eBay and PayPal in your online business. Don’t ever let another suspension or limitation get your down, get eBay Stealth and learn step-by-step how to safely create new eBay and PayPal accounts the right way!
A lot of things have changed over the years and if you want to be on the top of your game you’re going to need eBay Stealth 3.0. Learn more at AuctionStealth.com
What You’ll Learn With EBay Stealth:
- Quick Overview! – I’ll give you a quick overview of the process of creating and protecting your stealth eBay and PayPal accounts.
- 7 Steps to Creating Your First eBay Stealth Account! – I’ll walk you through the process of creating your first stealth eBay and PayPal account from beginning to end. Everything from from cookies, IP address, name, address, phone numbers, bank accounts, etc! And how to safely put everything together and start selling from day one!
- You Have a Live Account… Now What? - Learn how to sell safely and protect your account from instant suspensions!
- Four Steps to selling with a Merchant Account! – Want to sell with a merchant account? I’ll show you how to do it.
- Tips on Staying Under the Radar & Getting Fewer Violations – Tired of getting suspended after one or two auctions? I’ll show you how to stop that from happening!
- Setting up an eBay Account in another Country – Want to sell in another country where SSN isn’t an issue? I’ll show you how to do it.
- Feedback FAQ - Learn how to quickly increase your feedback!
- Suspensions / Violations / Limitations + Getting Reinstated – Why does it happen? And how can you fix it?
- Limited PayPal Account: Oh Noes! – I’ll show you how to get past common issues with PayPal limitations including the dreaded SSN requirement!
- “Why I Got Linked / Suspended” – The reasons why most people have been suspended and how you can learn from their mistakes!
- Suppliers and Wholesalers & How to Find Them – Need supplies? Here is my recommended list.
- Pros and Cons of Becoming an eBay PowerSeller – It’ll happen, and you’ll know what to do after reading this!
- Final Step-by-Step Review – A quick rundown on creating your account and protecting it!
And MUCH more in a 49-page eBook! If you have been on the fence about getting eBay Stealth, now is the time to get the latest and best selling eBay Suspensions guide for three years in a row! We offer a 60-day 100% refund if you are not satisfied and as always upgrades are always free!
If you have eBay Stealth already and would like to upgrade, you can download the latest version here.
What you need to do is copy over your current version of eBay Stealth, and you should be able to open the eBook without any issues. If you need me to reset your activation key, send me an email at support@auctionstealth.com with your activation key.
If you don’t have an activation key already, you can get one free with TrialPay!
Learn more about eBay Stealth at AuctionStealth.com
eBay Stealth 3.0 – Coming Along
Howdy! Yes, I’m a Texan. 
I just wanted to write a quick post on the progress of eBay Stealth 3.0.
Yes, it’s in the works and coming along nicely. The biggest hurdle with it was deciding what I wanted to do with it and how I wanted to structure it. Now that I have that out of the way I can get to the meat of the eBook.
So far 90% of the content I’ve touched has been totally rewritten, reorganized and ready to wow you guys… hopefully!
It still has awhile to go, but I fell its progressing pretty well.
I also wanted to mention upgrading to 3.0 is completely free if you already have a copy of eBay Stealth 2.1 and that I will be notifying everyone on how to update to it once it’s out.
That’s it for now, if you don’t have eBay Stealth already be sure to grab a copy while it’s still at $37! Buying a copy of eBay Stealth also grants you Subscriber Only Access to the eBay Suspension Forum which includes private forums, better support, chatbox, little to no ads and other features.
Get eBay Stealth today and be ready for the upgrade to 3.0!
AutoBlogBook Snippet – Market & Keyword Research
Since I haven’t posted in awhile I decided to post a snippet of my new eBook AutoBlogBook.
Now in this post I won’t talk about creating autoblogging so much, but instead the process of researching a niche to dive into. I added this to the beginning of AutoBlogBook because without the initial research for any website, you’re going to have a hard time breaking into a niche. Now this can be helpful to anyone about to start a new online business.
Without further ado, here are a couple pages from my new eBook on Autoblogging.
Market & Keyword Research:
First off before we dive into creating your first autoblog, we need to figure out what you want your autoblogs to promote. Now I’m not going to hold your hand in searching for the perfect niche for you. For me any niche that has plenty of affiliate offers to promote, and has decent adsense earnings is good enough. Really there isn’t a niche that is too saturated if you do proper keyword research first.
Before we do keyword research I recommend you check the health of the niche you want to promote by using Google Trends. What you should do is head over to Google Trends and type in your main niche keywords to see if the search trends are going up or down. If the search trends are up or holding steady, that means we have a solid niche to promote. If the trends are going down then you might want to select another niche to focus on.
Let me add I do my research first before creating autoblogs. I find niche ideas mostly from looking at different affiliate networks for example: Clickbank, CJ, Neverblueads, Peperjam Network, AzoogleAds etc. If there is a good offer out there, I’ll do my research and if it can be easily cracked I’ll setup a dozen or so autoblogs to test the waters. Once I see that it’s profitable I’ll continue building autoblogs for different high traffic, low competition keywords.
Once you find a niche you want to focus on, you must to do the research to find high traffic, low competition keywords. And I stress you MUST do keyword research because if don’t and you start building autoblogs blind your traffic results WILL suffer.
Think of it this way, you don’t want to build your autoblogs targeting highly saturated keywords that you’ll never get traffic for when there are plenty of low competition keywords with just as much traffic, but are much easier to rank for.
Okay, enough talk.
Let’s do some keyword research.
Keyword Research:
Generally I tend to focus on keywords that have more than 1000 searches per month, and have less than 50,000 search results in Google doing an exact keyword search.
An easy way to find solid keywords for your niche is to go to Google’s Keyword Tool, and do a search for your main niche keyword.
The keyword tool will generate new keyword ideas.
Once your search is complete, you’ll see a list of related terms.
I like to add the column ‘Show Search Volume Trends’ when doing my searches.
Also make sure to switch from Broad match type to Exact Match Type.
You’ll want keywords with at least 1000 searches per month under Exact Match.
Once you select a few keywords, go to Google and do a search on the competition. What you need to do is an exact keyword search and look for total search results. An exact keyword search in Google is your keyword in quotes, for example “keyword”.
Basically you want keywords that have less then 50k search results. The fewer search results there are, the easier it will be to rank on the first page of Google for that term.
So are you getting the idea now? You want keywords with high traffic and low competition!
Now this can be a tedious task, but you know what? It’s free and works.
If you want a faster and easier way of finding high traffic, low competition keywords then I highly recommend using Micro Niche Finder. It’s the best keyword research tool I’ve used. It does exactly what we need it to do but it goes a step further in analyzing the competition to determine their keyword strength. Actually it does that and a lot more, check it out here.
It’ll save you a lot of time in your keyword research.
To learn about creating Autoblogs from A to Z be sure to check out AutoBlogBook. It was written by me about a month ago and so far I’ve had nothing but positive feedback about it.
Be sure to check out AutoBlogBook.com!
Good luck!
Autoblog Book!
How goes it?
Yes, I haven’t blogged in awhile. No excuses, I know.
I haven’t been entirely lazy though; I just finished writing a new eBook called Autoblog Book!
I have been Autoblogging for several years now. It’s how I make about 50% of my income these days. I decided a couple months back that if I wanted to keep up with the times and create bigger and better Autoblogs I needed to write a guide on the subject. I find when I write about something, I learn new things I never would have learned otherwise.
I wrote another eBook about 3 months earlier called Webmaster Blueprint.
Before writing Webmaster Blueprint, I felt I knew it all about creating an online businesses. Sadly I was wrong, and in the process I learned new ways in keyword research, advertising, SEO, etc I never knew before. Its fun learning new things.
I plan on breaking Webmaster Blueprint into two parts, one on starting an online business and the second part on promoting it! Right now it’s just one large eBook packed with starting and promoting an online business, which is great, but an update is needed.
Anyway, Autoblog Book is a great book. I’m a huge critic of myself, and usually don’t like anything I do. Well with Autoblog Book, I’m actually very excited about it and so are my critics.
Here Are A Few Reviews I Got Back So Far!
I am an autoblogger. I’ve purchased WP Mass Installer, Caffeinated Content and Caffeinated World.
I’ve have over a thousand autoblogs. I’ve seen and used many ebooks, systems, software and theories.
This is by far the best book on Auto Blogging I’ve read. This manual details out exactly what you will need, how to use it and why. I consider myself and Intermediate/Advanced autoblogger. There are a few tips and tricks that I didn’t know. I will be using it to rework and upgrade my blogs definitely.
He also explains things not to do in the auto blogging world.
If you’re serious about making money online. For $37 its the only guide you will need on autoblogging.
- Rating: 9/10 MelfromBoD
This is a 38-paged autoblogging report. I won’t really call it a book, rather a report. Regardless, the wealth of information is priceless. The entire report is a no-fluff approach to auto-blogging. It covers EVERY aspect of autoblogging. From keyword research to the final promotion. Nothing has been left out. And the initial tactics discussed could easily be applied to your other non-autoblog sites.
There’s a horde of links to plugin sites, themes, optimum settings, etc for your wordpress. Everything has been discussed in detail, yet it does not get boring or prolonged.
In short, a great guide for everyone. If you’re in the autoblogging market, get it.
- lifetalk
There is no stone left unturned here and for the price, it is a steal. I have read $97 products with not even a fraction of the information provided here. THIS is what I would have expected of a $97 main ebook product. The tips and information are great! He tells you how to keyword research (not just tell you to do it, but how), where to host, how many blogs to host on an ip, what types of domains work best, what plugins to use, where to find themes, and so much more in such a small package. I’m surprised at how much information he was able to stuff in there!I am an info freak and have read a lot of information online as is, and this is what the autoblogging wiki should look like. Literally. This guy had to put a lot of time into doing this so I think $37 is a real steal.
- 10/10 without a doubt. Jen Peoples
I just got Autoblog Book on Clickbank, so you affiliate marketers out there, you have something new to promote!
I’m still working on a logo, eBook cover and other graphics but it’s coming along.
My next update I think will be on eBay Stealth.
A few things have changed in the eBay world and you guys have been requesting an update, so that’s the next project.
Don’t get mad if I blog once a week until eBay Stealth 3.0 is out.
Check out Autoblog Book, and you affiliates get to work.
Thanks guys!
Dinner and a Movie, Minus the Dinner but Breakfast Instead, and No Movie
This is a guest post by Vicvelcro, a member of the eBay Suspension & PayPal Limited Forums, Enjoy.
It was Sunday morning, New Years Day, 1995. I just survived a big party at my house on Saturday night, and was living on about three hours of sleep, but doing pretty well anyway. There were 9 people who stayed the night and helped clean up the next morning. I cooked breakfast for everyone, and we were all relaxing and chatting. One of the people that stayed was Jerry. The rest of the people were long time friends, the cream of my crop.
Jerry was a guy I met 3 months previously. He was extremely good looking, lived a playboy’s lifestyle, a little arrogant, suave, sometimes very sweet, and had a background that was entirely mysterious. We had spent a lot of time talking, getting to know each other and just basically hanging out over the last three months. I barely knew him.
After cleaning up, we all prepared to go to see the advance preview of “Pulp Fiction.” Jerry mentioned he was hoping I would go along. And smoke a joint with him before the movie. He had mentioned before that he had it, which piqued my interest. Jerry was an excessive social drinker, not a user. The funny thing is, I don’t really smoke pot much. I had smoked pot since I was 19, but in the past 5 years, I probably only smoked it 7 or 8 times. For some reason I felt this kind of self induced peer pressure to do it. Plus, it sounded like a funny way to see that particular movie, so I went along.
We agreed to meet everyone else at the theater, via separate limousine. Jerry and I were left at my house alone. After he made up my mind, I rushed to get ready as he waited in our limo. We then rushed over to his apartment, where he got ready.
As he was putting his face on, he handed me the joint saying, “It’s really top-shelf and very wicked. Go easy, maybe half a drag to start.”
The first puff was smooth. Like a baby’s breath. So I took 2 or 3 more good healthy tokes off the joint, and put it out.
Jerry again mentioned this was very potent stuff and he didn’t want to smoke it till we got to the theater, because he didn’t like to ride in that condition.
The pot hit me right away. I instantly felt high, something that never happened before. Usually it took 5 or 10 minutes for it to begin creeping in. I told Jerry how high I was.
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Jake and Amir: Sneaky
Jake and Amir: Sneaky
Probably the funnest Jake and Amir skit there is. Enjoy!
Content: Type of Content, Usage and Results!
This post is for the autobloggers out there…
Content: Type of Content, Usage and Results!
100% Original Content (You either write it yourself or someone else writes it for you. This content original with no duplicates found online, it’s keyword researched, ranks easily with a couple backlinks, and will bring you traffic depending on how saturated your niche is. This is the best type of content to have, but takes the most work to get.)
Hand Rewritten Content (This content is from an article you rewrite or you have someone else rewrite. It’s keyword researched, and unique to Google. This is similar to original content, but tad bits here and there maybe duplicate to Google, which is okay, nothing wrong with that. Hand rewritten content is usually just as good as original content as long as you have a few backlinks pointing to it.)
Plugin Rewritten Content (Plugins or software rewrites this content, depending on the software you use, it is most likely poorly rewritten, but passes Google’s duplicate content filter.. some what… Your users won’t like the content, but if you serve them up something else, like a nice video, or targeted ads with your content they’ll be okay with it. The better your tweak your rewrite plugin the better your content will be and the more traffic you’ll receive.)
Duplicate Content Unwritten (Either feed based or PLR articles, you’ll have to compete with other websites to rank for the same content. You won’t be penalized, Google doesn’t penalize for duplicate content they’ll just force your website to compete with other websites using the same content. Whoever has the most backlinks and better SEO wins and will be displayed in Google search results, the website(s) that do not have enough SEO juice will show up in supplemental results and will not receive very much or any traffic for the related content.)
Content without proper SEO is hard to rank for regardless of the type of content it is, especially if you do not do any niche or keyword research beforehand. Duplicate content can rank well depending on how your SEO is; you will not get penalized for the most part, unless your blog is clearly a spam blog. You want to create useful autoblogs full of useful information not only for your visitors but to keep your website from being labeled as a spam blog.
Pros and Cons of duplicate Content…
Pros…
- Google doesn’t give penalties to websites that have duplicate content; they just won’t rank the content as unique and will force the content to compete with other duplicate content for position.
- Easy to get duplicate content…
Cons…
- It’s harder to rank in search engines with your duplicate content without solid backlinking.
- If your website adds no value, and is later reviewed by Google, it can be deindexed as a spam blog, but this rarely happens unless you are clearly spamming Google.
Pros and Cons of Unique Content…
Pros…
- Google loves unique content. Depending on the content, you can rank easier for researched keywords.
Cons…
- It takes effort or money to acquire unique content.
- It takes more effort in building autoblogs with unique content.
Pros and Cons of Rewritten Content…
Pros…
- Can be automated with rewrite plugins. Or you can do it yourself, or pay someone to do it for you.
- Plugins can be tweaked for better results.
- If rewritten properly, said content is just as good as original content.
Cons…
- Rewrite plugins sometimes leave unreadable content, which isn’t good for visitors or your Google results.
- If reviewed your blog could be considered a spam blog and deindexed if content is poorly rewritten.
For those interested, this is a snippet from my new autoblogging eBook I’m working on. Hopefully it should be out in a couple weeks. I’ll post more details when I can.
Cheers!
Minesweeper: The Movie
Mine Sweeper: the Movie!
9 Tips to Writing Effective Google Adwords Ads
9 Tips to Writing Effective Google Adwords Ads
The better you follow these ad writing tips, the more successful your ad campaigns will be.
1. Keywords, Keywords, Keywords
It’s very important for your click through rate that you include your main keywords in your headline, description text and display URL if you can. Google will highlight searched keywords in your ad, which will help draw attention to it. The more clicks you receive, the higher your click through rate and the lower your cost per click.
2. Sell the Benefits
Include one or more major benefits in your ad. For example, fast shipping, lowest price, instant delivery if you’re selling digital items, etc.
3. Include Attention Grabbing Words
Start your headline with attention grabbing words. For example, Fast:, New:, Sale:, Free:, etc. Keep within Google’s editorial guidelines.
Here is a list of power words I recommend using, Power Words List.
4. Link to Your Products Page
If an ad is for a specific product or service, create a landing page for that ad. Include relevant and useful information to convert the customer. Generally, a well designed landing page will almost always convert more visitors than if you simply sent visitors to your home page.
In other words, link directly to your products page. For our example with Green Widgets, we would link to http://www.ourwebsite.com/greenwidgets.html for maximum conversions.
5. Remove Common Words in Your Ad
Common words, such as “a, an, in, on, it, of,” etc. Remove every word that does not absolutely need to be in the ad. Make every word count.
6. Deter Freebie Hunters
Deter freebie hunters by including the price of the product or service at the end of the ad. This will improve your overall conversion ratio and lower your average customer acquisition cost.
This may reduce your click through ratio, but that’s OK. After all, you’re not trying to target everybody, only potential customers. In most cases, freebie hunters will never become paying customers.
7. Include a Call to Action
A clear call to action is especially important if your goal is to maximize your return on investment. Offering the user some guidance on what to do once they reach your site — such as ‘Buy Flowers for Mom!’ — may improve your campaign’s performance. The call to action should reflect the action that you consider a conversion, whether it’s a sign-up, a request for more information, or an actual sale.
8. Do not Copy the Competition, Stand Out!
I hear it all the time. You decide one day that since you competition is promoting a product a certain way; they must be doing something right, let’s copy them! I think this is the wrong approach. Instead of copying your competition, you can take a few ideas from them, but trust me when I say this, it doesn’t help your click through rate having your ad look exactly like everyone else’s. Stand out and you’ll have better results.
9. Your Display URL is part of your Ad Copy
You can put absolutely anything in your display URL, provided that the domain matches with the domain of the destination URL. No matter what your domain name is, you can include your primary keyword with a trailing slash in your display URL to ‘assure’ the searcher that they will indeed go to the right page. For instance if a searcher is looking for a white iPhone, which ad below would be more compelling?
That’s about it for creating solid Google Adword Ads. I hope this helps in your PPC ventures. If you need futhur help with PPC Advertising, SEO, Email Marketing, Direct Advertising, etc check out Webmaster Blueprint, and new eBook I wrote up on creating and marketing an online business.
Cheers!
