My ROI 1 Year After Buying an Established Website On April 30th, 2012 I bought Bicycle-Touring-Guide.com for $1,200. Now that it’s a little past April 30th, 2013, I thought a one year update was in order. In case you missed it, here are other stories in this series: An Overview on Buying Websites How I Found The Website & Negotiated the Deal (featured on The post My ROI 1 ...
SEOSherpas.com - Friday, May 17, 2013 - 14:7
April 2013 Traffic Level Reports: What Happened at SEOSherpas Every month I recap what has happened at SEOSherpas, from website traffic to domain sales to all posts in-between. I do this because I want to have full transparency with my readers who are learning how to make a living online, as well as for my clients, so they know exactly who they are hiring The post April 2013 Traffic Level Repor...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, May 6, 2013 - 14:46
All Bad Things Must Come to an End I hated the design of my homepage. Despised it. I probably lost a lot of business because of it. It was just a blog. Not a business. I’m not the type to sit on my ass and complain though. Instead, I went ahead and designed one of the most kick ass homepages ever created. I The post All Bad Things Must Come to an End appeared fi...
SEOSherpas.com - Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 15:19
Google Affiliate Network Closing Down — Oh, Great. In case you haven’t heard the news, Google’s Affiliate Network (GAN), is closing down. All I can say about that is: Oh, Great. If you run even one website and use GAN, you have your work cut out for you. In short, it sucks. Managing affiliate links is one of the biggest drags about running The post Google Affiliate Networ...
SEOSherpas.com - Thursday, April 18, 2013 - 10:1
March 2013 Traffic Level Reports: What Happened at SEOSherpas First, my apologies: This traffic level report is more than 2 weeks overdue. But… I have a great reason why: I’m now a Father. Yup. That’s right. Zachary Rosenbloom was born on March 30th, 2013. Exactly on his due date. Pretty cool. More on that later… Back to the report: Every month I recap what The post Marc...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, April 15, 2013 - 14:27
SEO For Cash-Strapped Startups: 5 Easy Steps for Less Than 250 Dollars While not every company needs an SEO consultant or an in-house SEO team, every company DOES need to at least set the building blocks of SEO. That’s why I’m writing this SEO for Cash-Strapped Startups. I understand that not everyone can afford an SEO consultant. Even though my SEO prices are as competitive as they The post...
SEOSherpas.com - Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 7:34
February 2013 Traffic Level Reports: What Happened at SEOSherpas Every month I recap what has happened at SEOSherpas, from website traffic to domain sales to all posts in-between. I do this because I want to have full transparency with my readers who are learning how to make a living online, as well as for my clients, so they know exactly who they are hiring The post February 2013 Traffic Level Re...
SEOSherpas.com - Tuesday, March 5, 2013 - 12:17
Psychology of Eating SEO & Internet Marketing Case Study We grow The Institute for the Psychology of Eating’s Organic Search Referrals by 604.54% Client: Institute for the Psychology of Eating Web Site: Challenge: Grow organic site traffic without compromising their unique position in the Nutrition world, improve search engine rankings and increase brand awareness in the big 3 search...
SEOSherpas.com - Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 12:42
How to Sell Domain Names With BuzzStream Over the last 1.5 months, I’ve sold 3 domain names with (nearly) zero effort. How? BuzzStream. Here’s how I use BuzzStream to aggregate sale prospects & manage my domain sales pipeline. I stumbled across BuzzStream close to two months ago while researching a RavenTools replacement. While I eventually settled on SERPS....
SEOSherpas.com - Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 13:30
SportsMemorabilia.com Proves Google Panda Didn’t Work Last night I found out about SportsMemorabilia.com and it’s nearly $20M business. Mike Berkens pointed out the Inc article and, like every other E-preneur, my eyes glazed, daydreaming about my web properties and wondering if they will ever gross 1M in their lifetime (probably), let alone 20M in a year. In the Inc article, Mr. T...
SEOSherpas.com - Tuesday, February 5, 2013 - 11:16
January 2013 Traffic Level Reports: What Happened at SEOSherpas Every month I recap what has happened at SEOSherpas, from website traffic to domain sales to all posts in-between. I do this because I want to have full transparency with my readers who are learning how to make a living online, as well as for my clients, so they know exactly who they are hiring The post January 2013 Traffic Level Rep...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, February 4, 2013 - 11:39
My Facebook Contest Results About 2 months ago I launched a contest on Facebook to promote my site, OutdoorEquipment.com. In that previous post I wrote a detailed tutorial walking you through how to choose the right application, how to launch your contest using WooBox, and my overall thoughts on the process. The contest ran for a full month and The post My Face...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, January 28, 2013 - 13:46
Using SERPS for Keyword Ranking Reports & An Update on My Niche Site Here is something completely unprecedented in Internet Marketing: I’m going to give you exclusive access to my keyword ranking reports for my niche website, TheSnowboardingExperts. Yup. That’s right. I’m going to put my money where my mouth is and show you exactly what my rankings are on the niche site I developed. ...
SEOSherpas.com - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - 11:13
Crowdsourcing Logos & Graphic Design With 99Designs: Review of Their Platform I’m launching a new website in the next month and to get me going, I’ve decided to crowdsource another logo. This time, I chose to use a different platform other than 48HoursLogo (you can see my 48HoursLogo review here). In this case, I chose to go with 99Designs Why? A few reasons: I want to provide you The post Crowdsou...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, January 14, 2013 - 12:35
Finding the Best Keywords to Target Using Market Samurai (Video Tutorial) Keyword research is vital to SEO success. Watch this video tutorial & learn how to find the best keywords to target using Market Samurai for keyword research. I’ve built over 50 niche websites. Some are personal projects, others I built when working my old job. And while SEO has changed dramatically over the years, there Th...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, January 7, 2013 - 15:1
December 2012 Traffic Level Reports: What Happened at SEOSherpas Every month I recap what has happened at SEOSherpas, from website traffic to domain sales to all posts in-between. I do this because I want to have full transparency with my readers who are learning how to make a living online, as well as for my clients, so they know exactly who they are hiring The post December 2012 Traffic Level Re...
SEOSherpas.com - Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 11:35
Web Analytics Tool, GetClicky, Acquires Clicky.com — & Why I Use Them This morning, Getclicky, the popular website analytics alternative to Google Analytics, announced the transition to Clicky.com. This is a huge upgrade in a domain name for them and I’m really happy to see this tool growing in popularity. I personally use both Google Analytics and GetClicky–derr, Clicky–on my sites. ...
SEOSherpas.com - Wednesday, December 19, 2012 - 11:45
Why You Should Start An Internet Business on a 10 Dollar Domain Name You don’t need a 4 figure domain name to build an internet business. In fact, I strongly believe you should start your internet business on a 10 dollar domain name. And really, the amazing part about internet businesses is that you don’t need to spend 4 figures on anything to build one. Your budget: $324.35 The post Why Y...
SEOSherpas.com - Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 14:19
Is Google Universal + Video Ranking Broken? Or Does Google Hate Me? If you’ve followed this blog at all over the last few months, you’ll know I’m building OutdoorEquipment.com into the Internet’s only website with real outdoor testimonials from people who have owned and used the gear for months. It’s a unique vision that hasn’t been implemented before and judging b...
SEOSherpas.com - Monday, December 10, 2012 - 12:7
How to Run a Facebook Contest to Increase Likes (And Email Lists) I recently ran a Facebook contest to increase my page likes & my email list. Here’s exactly how I did it, the results it had, how I marketed it, the apps I used & more! Be forewarned: This is an epic post. If you’re interested in social media marketing, I’d recommend bookmarking it and coming The post How to...
SEOSherpas.com - Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 15:8
