Question

Hello to you both, so far so good.

I did learn that even though the videos take 10 min. plus to download, I can make a copy and save, then watch over and over as needed.

I’d like to learn more about making videos or I guess they are slide shows with audio clips in a pdf format. First time I’ve seen this done.

I’m possibly one of those members you referred to in the Home and Garden area. I started mine at the end of Nov. of ’08 and I believe it is setup fairly close to the way you both have instructed us to go about it. Maybe not 100% though.

I don’t know for sure because I haven’t gotten past video 3 just yet.

Here it is: www.homeandgardenguideonline.com I’m hoping that I can use this one as a starting point. I will make any changes to it that will bring it along the lines that you are teaching us in Blogging Beginners.

Hope you might be able to take a quick look if possible.

Here’s another question:

I have 4 other seasoned domains, websites that are years old and fairly established but have never been very profitable.

Should I consider adding or changing them to a blog?

Three are in the marketing and the other one is Audiobooks, www.audiobook-downloads-unlimited.com and could be broken down into many many categories individually.

I don’t multi-task well (yet)and the thought of juggling 10 or more sites is a bit scary and makes me a little uneasy to think about it. Please tell me that it won’t be as huge an undertaking as I may have in my mind and I’ll then be a little less apprehensive.

As far as your comment about linking between member sites, I’m all for that and would like to get into this and understand it more and I see that it is discussed soon in one of the up-coming videos…GOOD!

I already tweeted the other day about one of the members blogs, backyard oasis and I don’t even know the person. After I tweeted I created a blog post at the above home and garden guide site and included a text link in the article I wrote that goes to this persons site.

Here’s the post link: http://homeandgardenguideonline.com/picking-out-the-perfect-garden-furniture

Is this a good thing? What would happen if we all did these kind of things in related niches? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours!

Anyway, I’ve rambled on long enough. I hope my questions are o.k. and you can shed some light.

I hope my blog is close to being put together correctly and can work as a blogging beginner blog. I also hope you can take a look and I’m so glad to be an active part of this membership. Thanks again to you both,

Answer Provided

I looked at your homeandgardeningguideonline.com site the other day when you sent out your tweet about BB link love.

Now here is the review.

First off the site isn’t focused on keywords it is scattered between Home and Garden, Tankless Water Heaters, Solar Power, Renewable Energy.

These should all be either their own blog or on a site that would cover all these topics.

Yes, the solar power and renewable energy could be on the same site but you would have different keywords for each of these. They could all go into a Green Living type blog and they would each be the main category but you would have to work with each category as if it was its own blog.

In other word do the keyword research for each category and use the techniques that we have shown you to optimize for those keywords. You would also want to do this for any sub-categories that you have such as Renewable Energy – Solar Power or Renewable Energy – Wind Power.

To create a site that would cover all these topics will be a lot of work mainly because you need content for all these topics preferably good content and as you will see in the videos I mainly work one keyword at a time with backlinks and article submissions, of course you want to make sure your site is SEO optimized.

But a site name Home and Gardening Guide Online you want to focus on Home and Gardening. You can put a links to your other sites in a blog roll like we show in the videos.

Now on to your other question about changing your other sites to blogs.

I personally don’t like to do direct sales from blogs. It can be done but you are better off taking a two step approach.

Use blogs to get targeted traffic that you can send to your sales sites. You actually do this well with your Home & Gardening site linking to the Guide book. The trick is to get traffic to your Home and Gardening site.

So you might want to change NetBusinessVentures to a blog and DavidSchaible to a blog but you will want to do your keyword research for both of these to see where you can get traffic from.

You do have a lot of books on Net Business at your Audiobook site you could link to or refer to.

The David Schaible should be just about you and what you are doing. If you find a product that you really love (like Blogging Beginners) then you can tell your readers about it. Another thing that I noticed on your audiobook site is that you have adsense ads on it. Again this is a personal thing but if you are selling something that will make you dollars why do you want to offer a click that will take them off your site for pennies? The less a customer has to think about the more likely they are to decide.

If you give them too many options they will go away, possibly thinking they will come back later but you know what they hardly ever come back.

Multitasking is really something you should avoid as much as possible, says the guy with over 100 sites! Try to focus on one section of one site at a time. You can break this down into a couple of things in one day but you should separate them with a break in between. It will let your mind focus more.

An example would be:

Morning:

Keyword research for your new blog targeted at people that might be interested in a product you have for sale.

Lunch

Afternoon:

Write an article on Keyword BlahBlah to help your search engine rankings. Post the article, submit to directories.

Dinner

Post some comments on relevant blogs to build backlinks.

Some of these actions will only take you a few minutes some might take you a couple of hours and they can be for completely different sites or just one site.

The problem with multitasking is when you are working on one thing and at the same time are doing another thing. Stop between them and allow yourself to focus on one at time. Yes, I know it is easier said than done but if you set up a day planner and write down what you are going to do that will help you.

I think I at least touched on everything but you know how to get in touch with us.