One of the things I’m very proud of is the design we’ve been using. I’d be willing to say I’ve got the best looking silicone wristband website in the business. Our call to action is in your face yet so tasteful that it doesn’t bother you.

The site is optimized for the search engines yet looking at the site you’d never guess. It appears to be designed with only the user in mind.

I don’t know of any other site online that has 5 call to actions above the fold yet blends in so nicely with the design that they don’t stand out. I believe a call to action should be nothing more than an easy to find link when the site visitor is ready to make a purchase. We’ve just started playing with both the site and the affiliate marketing yet with the little time we’ve been able to put into the site it’s making us an extra $5,000.00 or more per month.

I’m proud of my little affiliate marketing business and hope to be able to put a little more time and effort into it this coming year.

It appears that everyone has moved into the blogging arena and the forums are left with a lot of the “why has my site lost it's ranking” post. And the number of blogs make it impossible to even begin to find all the different views on the subjects at hand.

I decided to find the best marketing blogs online and pull their RSS feeds back to my forum to make it easier for me to keep up with the latest changes. As members, we are able to find and respond to the post that we feel are worth someone else's time.  

Like this morning funbiz pointed out a post that I knew nothing about http://www.geeksonsteroids.com/forum/viewtopic.13717.html

If you have a blog about social media sites, search engines, or marketing and feel that the community could benefit from what you have to say, send me your <a xhref="http://www.geeksonsteroids.com/forum">forum user name</a> and blog RSS feed and I'll set the forum up to pull the post from your blog and put a short description along with a link to your blog on the forum.

Thanks for your time.

Janeth

But now there is a new product to help the blogger sell products online. It’s called a booBox and you can read more about it here.

It appears to be nothing more then a small icon you can click on that causes a small window to open up on your blog. It does not take the visitor off your blog but allows them to purchase the product in the small window without ever leaving your blog.

The blogger gets a commission and the visitor gets his/her product. Sounds like everyone wins to me and to make it work you only have to add a little html code to your blog. I’m sure a little code changing and you can change the look of the icon or change the icon all together.

It moves the blogging software to 2.1 level and fixes 550 bugs. I didn’t even know there were that many bugs but have to say I love the new admin. area. Read all about it from Chris’s blog.

1. Most blogs are set up so each and every comment you make has to be approved before showing up on the blog. This means that your spam comment is never going to show up on the blog in the first place.

2. Most blogs have no follow tags set up in the comment section. This means that even if your comment gets into the blog it is not going to do you any good.

I have tried a couple times to test my theory using different blogs but ended up loosing interest in the blogs with in a couple days and never making more then about 5 post per day.

I think I’m going to try it again using my GeeksOnSteroids blog and the forums to find information to post about and see what happens.

Perez Hilton has become quite famous due to his blog. He made in excess of $100,000.00 last year blogging, as well as building quite a name for himself. My understanding is that he started out totally broke and I’ve even herd rumors that he was homeless. Either way I was intrigued by his story and decided to spend some time studying his blog.

Perez Hilton will make as many as 24 post or more per day. You can start reading one page and by the time you get to the bottom of that page you can hit refresh and start over. Most of his post are short and include a picture. To give you an idea of the amount of traffic he gets, his website served over 3.97 million unique visitors in a 24 hour period.

The short post and pictures keep you reading. If you write a long article most people want read all the way to the end, but short little post are easy to read and if there interesting, people will read more of your post and even continue on to page 2. The number of post are equally important, the blog is pinging other websites while at the same time getting picked up on the search engines for all the different keywords in each post. Enough posting per day and it is just a matter of time before someone takes notice.

I’ve started playing with this a little in the last week. Step one was finding a topic that I felt I could make 20 post a day or more about. I feel like I can do this on my Bible blog and think that I can find enough information and I’m interested enough in the topic that with some effort on my part I can make the 20 post per day mark. I posted a little but found the same problem I’ve always had with blogs and that is that my last post shows up first. But I found a way around this, by creating a page and then putting links at the bottom of the page to each of my post, I’m able to write and put things in the order I want them to show in.

But because I’m writing about the Bible there was the problem of writing short post and being able to show Bible proof for each of my post. The post become long and are no longer short little post. I’ve now figured out a way to work around this, I place a little link that when clicked on opens a new window with the Bible proof.

The next problem is in finding pictures for each of my post. Its time consuming and all most impossible to find the pictures online. I’ve decided to hire an artist whose only job will be drawing pictures for my post, I’m interviewing people for that job as I write this post.

The last step is the design. I’ve got my guys playing with the design now. I want something that is different from all the other Bible sites that are online. If you land on my site I don’t want you to have to wonder if you’ve been there before.

As I workout both of the above problems I’m going to go ahead and move forward with the project. I’m going to attempt to make 20 short post everyday on the blog and see if just making these post, is enough to get the site to getting thousands of visitors per a day. In case anyone is wondering the blog was not getting any visitors when I started. I have started getting some links to the blog but I’m trying to get a couple 1,000 visitors per day so I’ll need some links to get the search engines interested in what is going on.

I’m also going to do the same with JanethD.com but will have Magda one of the girls here in the office making the 20 post per day on that blog along with myself. There has been a small change in plans, we are going to use Magdda.com instead of Janethd.com.

They said a lot of other stupid stuff like they were suing because they don’t like him but I don’t think Perez gas got 7.5 million and he has a pretty good case His attorney, Bryan Freedman, said Hilton has a legal right to make satirical or humorous use of newsworthy photographs.

If the copyright lawsuit succeeds, “the effect would be to eliminate the ability to comment on and transform photographs under the fair-use exception to the Copyright Act,”

I think X17 should put their money and time to better use by figuring out ways to secure their business.

But that’s not why I spent the day looking at http://perezhilton.com/ my interest in the blog is to see what made it so popular. Now the lawsuit has helped him out in that popularity area but here are some other things I’ve found that he does.

1.Updates his blog two dozen or more times a day.
2.Uses a lot of photos
3.Breaking news
4.Short and two the point
5.Rude

He’s made a six figure income this year and his office is a corner booth in a coffee shop. Might be worth looking into ways to use what he does in our own businesses.

Here’s my thinking.

If the blog ranks well then I’m able to make a list of keywords and write articles about each of my keywords and rank those keywords in the top ten. But I guess step one is seeing how long it takes to rank my blog post in the top ten for custom website design.