So I’ve built the website and as I’ve got no imagination and it’s a totally new niche to me I’ve bought some PLR stuff to use for ideas. I use PLR when I’m feeling lazy and can’t be bothered or don’t have time to scour forums. I don’t copy and paste but just use it to kick start my brain. Usually I’ll read the whole lot of articles that I’ve purchased and start writing, occasionally referring to it for facts and figures. I should really invest in some sort of Article writing program but I started with a set amount of funds for my online venture and it won’t stretch to $67 monthly for the program Mark and Court recommend.

I’ve basically got the articles I need ready to submit them to the article directories but currently I am building a few Squidoo lenses around them. Squidoo is great and I reckon it’s going to be profitable for me as I’m using methods outlined in PotPieGirl’s One Week Marketing Guide. Another thing I would like to do with the website, even though there should be heaps of traffic for adsense according to my research.  is to monetize with some affiliate programs I am in that totally fit what the website is about. I don’t know if I’m supposed to do that but I created a sub domain separately for an affiliate shop and I should be able to make use of a Joomla installation to recreate the look and feel of my niche blog site.

I recently bought a data feed manager for Joomla and I’ve been busting to use it but haven’t had a reason to. It’s just an idea I had that I never got around to implementing so thought I might try to use it on this site.

I did the actual keyword research 2 days ago via the method they recommend and marked all the good keywords. It took me about 4 hours in between yelling at the kids but it was worth it as I managed to snag some really good phrases.

Yesterday I bought the required domain with the keywords in the url which was cool and today I have installed the WordPress blog software. I originally went with Joomla which I love working with but when you want to do something simple and quick WordPress is the way to go. For SEO it’s easier to set up than Joomla and adding information to your site is much simpler.

Well, that’s it for this post. I’m off to try and create some content. I’m so crap at writing articles that I know nothing about I might have to go and pay for ‘em but I’ll give it a go to start with.

Costs so far: I already have a Hostgator account so costs so far are about 5 hours in time and zero dollars.
Income so far: $0.00 (obviously)

I thought that I was getting pretty good with niche marketing and finding good leads on creating niche websites. I’ve created a few in the last couple of months and one of them is even starting to trickle in the adsense revenue. Not much but it’s a start. Turns out that I got lucky with that particular keyword phrase.

[Edit: Feb 11] As a result of my trial with The Keyword Academy I’m now a fully paid member and plan to stay. Go to the Keyword Academy to check out their stuff. I’m impressed and I think most people will be.

It’s not a get rich quick scheme and requires a lot of work so be prepared. The business model is a monthly subscription service but for a $1.00 [edit: first month is now free] trial you get access to everything in the course  and you can cancel at anytime in the first month with no fear of being charged.

Mark and Court now have a $1000 / month team which I have signed up for. It’s no extra charge and you get extra emails giving you motivation and making you accountable to yourself. Apparently they have 100 or so members making a cool grand every month and want more (members making a grand that is).

When I first tried their course some months ago they taught you how to do the research on keywords manually. This was serious dullsville involving lots of cutting and pasting and Googling to find out page rank. In short it sucked and I hated it. I was all into one keyword, one mini site at the time so built a couple which are now paying for my subscription plus a bit extra. I’m now in the mind set that mini sites suck (too much work and too many domain fees) and I think Google is saying they suck now too.

Mark and Court now have some seriously useful software which cuts all that monotonous crap out. All you have to do now is use the Google adwords tool to find a lot (I’m talking thousands or tens of thousands) of keywords which you download as csv’s and paste into their Niche Refinery software. Job done . Now you just have to wait for it to spit out a list of your valid keywords.

So what will you actually learn at The Keyword Academy. As mentioned above you will learn the importance of keywords and how to pick the ones that are worth going after.  Your first port of call will be the core videos. Things have changed a bit since these went up but they are still excellent at giving you a good overview of what’s going on.

From there you read a series of articles or chapters which details step by step exactly what you should be doing at each stage of the program. If you are stuck you can email them anytime for clarification but unless you are completely new you should be right. If you are nervous about building your first website Mark and Court give you the rundown on how to do it and make it look easy. They also give you some excellent pointers on making your site SEO friendly.

After you have built your first website the articles then guide on the best ways to write articles for your websites and how to go about promoting them so they get to the top spot in Google.  Monetizing your sites is covered as well but it’s recommended that you don’t load your site with ads  until you start getting some traffic. This is good advice considering that some newbies i.e. me find stat checking very distracting and at times soul destroying.

That’s it in a nutshell. When you’ve been around Internet Marketing for a while you soon learn that it’s easy in that it’s not complicated and hard in that it is a shit load of work. There’s no such thing as a push button system that you can set and forget.

For incentive to hang around and keep paying the monthly fee you have access to a forum where you can hang out with like minded individuals. Webinars are also a monthly thing and they are jam packed full of information on things from managing your time, motivation and that all important keyword research. Internet Marketing changes all the time so the Webinars are a good way for Mark and Court to give you the low down on what’s occuring.

If you want something that will definitely work if you do the labor and get it into your head that your going to be slogging away for a long time before seeing any dough then give Mark and Court a chance to show you how to do it right.