Well it’s been 48 hours and my blog still isn’t indexed by Google. I’m not sure why but it’s an interesting experiment.

 I’ll check every day and see how long it takes. This is the only blog I haven’t had indexed within a day or two at least, so it’s typical that this is the one I use as a live experiment of how good my blogging techniques are!

I think it’s gremlins because I said I don’t believe SEO is worth the effort and targeted traffic is much more effective. So with that in mind I’ll start publicising my blog in other ways to get some traffic here.

Other news….

I have 5 hosting providers, with my IM and niche sites spread across them in no particular order. Yesterday one of my hosting providers had a major wobble and it’s possible some of my sites went down for pretty much the whole day (although I was out and can’t be sure – sales were fine so maybe not).

But it made me think about getting everything together on one host – a dedicated server – to minimise problems. Then it hit me that this would be a silly thing to do. If one of my hosting providers bites the dust for a while, at least I have 4/5 of my sites providing an income for me.

And whereas it might go down much less often, if a server with all my sites did go offline for a day, it would completely halt my income until it was back online.

So I think I’ll continue to split the risk among several servers for now and judge the situation as I go. I’ve never had a site go down for more than 24 hours (touch wood!).

Anyway, despite what the press and insurance companies wouldhave us believe, there is an element of risk in life that nobody can be blamed for – call it fate, bad luck or whatever, and I think that’s what makes life exciting!

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That’s a tall order right?

I agree, but I think it’s do-able. I know it’s do-able within 24 hours because my business partner, Sara Brown got her blog indexed within that time http://www.tarrang.com/sarabrown

 It’s all to do with altering the settings of your blog, but if I can do it, in under 10 minutes, I’m pretty sure most of you lot can too. Full instructions are available from this free tutorial http://www.anthony-shepherd.com/wpg

You’ll have to give me your name and email address to get it, but it’s worth it and you just might enjoy my newsletters too.

I’ve just changed the settings on this blog and UK time it’s 10.36am on Friday 2nd November.

Let’s see how long it takes for my blog to get Google-grabbed.

Spend weeks on complicated, expensive and boring SEO?

Don’t think so.

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How long have you been riding then?

Months?

Years?

There are two ways I think you can hop off the IM roundabout. One is to make money. The other is to get extremely bitter and disillusioned, put the whole thing down as a scam and go do something else with your time.

I’m in the first category. With just a laptop and a few ideas I make a nice amount of money each year – certainly enough that I’ll never work for anyone else as long as I live. Some of it comes from selling ebooks in niche markets – sport, health, finance etc and some of it comes from showing other people who want to learn how to do the same, well….how to do it.

I’m a half decent writer, a slightly better copywriter but best of all I have some terrific marketing ideas. Put this lot together and it’s not too difficult to make money online. I’ve made tens of thousand of dollars from a $3 ebook that came with resell rights (Resell rights are nowhere near dead as you’ll find out if you keep reading this blog), and quite a bit selling a smallish ebook that told people about some free software and how to use it.

Someone said most people stop thinking for themselves the moment they’re born. I think the same is true of people the moment they enter Internet Marketing. You could argue that the tried and tested methods that everyone kneels to worship in IM are there because they’ve stood the test of time.

Well so have sexually transmitted diseases but all they’re good for is making your private parts swell up, scab over or drop off.

 SEO – Search engine optimisation is an example of a ‘tried and tested’ method that is next to useless. The effort needed to get SEO to work takes up wayyyy more of your resources than it’ll ever bring in.

I’ll just pause while the sheep baa a little….

I’ll prove this to you in this blog.

Viral marketing on the other hand, is the most effective method of getting the word around about a new product that you’ll ever come across. Get it right and you’ll be banking the cheques for the rest of you life.

This is something else I’ll prove to you.

 There’s more – a lot more, but if I write it all down now there’ll be a three month gap to my next post.

I’ll leave you with this. Some of you who’ve read this will already be getting a bit ‘miffed’ about my SEO comment, because it’s gently rocking the foundations of what you’ve been told (or sold) by experienced marketers. All I ask is this – this blog is free (same goes for my newsletter – sign up on the right) so what have you got to lose?

Treat yourself to a little pure thought. Ask yourself what YOU think for a change. Forget the forums, the arguments and the experts and think about listening to me, just for a while – some English guy you’ve never heard of but whose smallish list constantly outsells almost every marketer he’s ever JV’d with.

Oh yes – and I’ll prove that too.

I thought about being a little less abrasive in my writing because it could come across as a ‘selling technique’.

 It isn’t – it’s just that I’m very passionate about Internet Marketing

Hope you’ll stick with me

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This is my first post on my new shiny blog. I’m a bit unhappy because as soon as I got it up and working the bloody thing told me my version of WordPress was out of date and to install a new one. Maybe later.

It’s traditonal to say ‘welcome to my new blog’ but I think it’s a wee bit corny to say the least and let’s be frank – unless I’ve anything interesting to say in the next few lines you’ll be off never to return…….which is why you should read the next post carefully…especially if you’ve never made a penny online.

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