Income Generation - Mark Thompson

The Hypocrisy of Internet Marketers – Rant!

April 25, 2012 By Mark 25 Comments

I've not had a rant for a long time, I started to think I was starting to mellow in my old age...wrong! Jonathan Leger made a post on his JL Forums today about the latest google update in it he said that a lot of old sites that shouldn't be on the first page of google were now appearing. and he gave an example: Overall Affect: Old Sites With Less SEO Ranking Better Lots of old sites are being resurrected into the search results, apparently because they have been less optimized. Google has been saying for a while that they would be going after over-optimized sites. That's fine, but it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing Tagged With: marketing, page 1 google, ranking

Micro Niche Sites Vs Authority Sites

April 18, 2012 By Mark 21 Comments

I've recently been hearing about a number of major players in the AdSense and Niche blog business losing their Adsense accounts. The consensus of opinion seems to be that one of the reasons for the AdSense accounts being closed is that google doesn't like people who set out to earn lots of money from AdSense revenue by creating hundreds of niche blogs. For a change I can actually see their point, from experience I know that once you start getting a lot of sites you struggle to keep them updated and fresh. That's not to say that Micro sites don't have a place, after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing Tagged With: authority sites, Google, micro niche sites

7 Ways To Write Great Content

April 13, 2012 By Mark 5 Comments

Having to constantly create fresh content can be difficult. In fact the reason I am writing this post is that I didn't have a clue what to write about today! So I grabbed my faithful old Moleskine notebook and wrote a draft outline in bed this morning. When you are stuck for something to write about consider one of these 7 methods to get some great content. Newsflash**** I just finished writing this and I discovered that another of the members at Wordpress Goldmine have broke the $100 a day barrier. It's posts like Mikes that make everything worthwhile...well done Mike . You … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Make Money Online, Site Promotion Tagged With: how to write a blog post, writing content

Results Of The Recent Survey I Conducted

April 6, 2012 By Mark 4 Comments

Thank you to all of you who took the time to complete the survey I recently posted, special thanks must go to the spammer who thought that by typing in a certain keyword about 100 times he would get some links... get a life loser! If you missed the original survey you can see it at: http://mjthompson.net/1350/monday-tip-give-your-readers-what-they-want/ The results were quite interesting and very enlightening and were actually very useful and have resulted in me planning some changes to the way I do things around here. First off I now have a much better understanding of my average … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online, The Lab Tagged With: content creation, survey results

How To Write a Blog Post

March 16, 2012 By Mark 11 Comments

{EAV:b5ea199a35c60514} (ignore this..just validating something ) Many people probably think that I sit down and just write a blog post in a single stream of consciousness. Well you'd be partly right. Some of the posts here are like that, I have an idea for a post and sit down and write it then post it. 45 minutes job done. However if you want to write a blog post properly then you are going to have to set aside some time. A good original blog post takes time and effort to get right. I am talking 3 or 4 hours here. However the effort is worth it., a good blog post like that will rank … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Income Generation, Internet Marketing, Make Money Online Tagged With: blogging, how to write a blog post, write a blog post

The 3 Pillars Of SEO – Get Your Sites Ranking

March 13, 2012 By Mark 15 Comments

Times change and if you fail to change with them then you'll be left behind. When I first started all that you needed to get a site ranked well was a bit of link building and a few keywords in the header of your site. Those times are long gone as As we found out when we did the SEO Debunked case studies there is a lot more involved in getting your sites ranking high in google. There are 3 main aspects that you need to focus on. On Page SEO - Thats basically creating good quality content and making sure that you have good basic SEO, keywords H1 tags and a sensible keyword density (I … [Read more...]