Focus the Hell Out of Your Internet Businesses & Watch Yourself Fly

This one is a hard lesson to learn but I’m glad I’m at the point where I can look back at the way I have handled things, analyze what hasn’t been working and finally applying the new changes. And I’m talking about going back to the blackboard with colored chalk in hand, lots of arrows going in every direction

For a year, I have documented everything I have done with my niche sites and even EIP in my free ebook, To The Moon & Back. At this point, however, I could write a whole new edition of the same ebook (or maybe a Part II?)

Why Not Planning Ahead of Time Is a Recipe for Disaster

Actually, for more than a year, I have written posts sporadically. I even wrote a couple of guest posts that did relatively well for a new blogger. While doing all this, I ignored my niche and affiliate sites the first six months.

Bad move but not an intentional one. Many people who start with search engine optimization don’t know how to go about doing so; a lot of time feels like “wasted time” but dig deep enough and you’ll realize you were just paying the dues. In all my so-called failures, I think great things will come forth (I’ve got it all mapped out!)

What’s Been Bothering Me

When I wrote, it was never intentional. I had really broad goals.

When I created niche sites, I had really broad goals.

When I created my auto-responder messages, they had a purpose with broad goals.

So in case this isn’t lost on anyone, here it is:

Broad goals really F’in SUCK!

Due to my lack of specific goals and lack of certain knowledge, I haven’t measured my progress and growth of this blog or my niche sites.

That’s changed now. I’m measuring the results for every action I take for EIP and everything around it.

Anything that I’ve written here has been genuine and all that I’ve experienced. It’s been a blast. I will continue to do so but let me share something with you.

Things Need to Change

While free information can be awesome, it can also be paralyzing for both the author and the reader. It’s been amazing to share all I’ve accomplished on here but it has also been a time drain for me.

Creating niche sites, writing good content for them, an auto-responder series, on-page and off-page optimization… takes a lot of time.

I have been dividing my time between EIP content and my niche sites and a lot of times, it becomes overwhelming.

For you readers, you read my updates and a very few of you probably implement any of the advice. That’s alright: it’s free advice. Sometimes free advice doesn’t hold much value. More like ‘Good to know, will get to it at some point’. More on this another time!

With that said, let’s take a look at what I’ve been able to accomplish.

In February, I started a month long challenge in which I was suppose to improve my rankings for each keyword. Here is how the keyword rankings were faring then:

In particular, there was a .biz domain that was having a damn hard time ranking even after doing some serious backlinking. If you look above, it was only indexed in Google and ranked #177 in broad search. Boo-hoo.

Let’s take a look at how they’re doing now in June:

Each line here represents a new keyword per niche/affiliate site. The one that’s ranking #8 for its main keyphrase? Well, remember how I wrote about that site I couldn’t rank and deemed it as a failure in my free ebook? Oh you don’t? Well, now’s a good time. That site now ranks #8 but for it to generate any decent income, it absolutely needs to rank in top three of Google.

Next up is the keyword ranking at #9. Scroogle actually shows this site ranking around #16 (page two). This is the same .biz domain that I mentioned having trouble ranking. Now it’s sitting pretty at #16. To move it to page one, I am working on a few guest posts and we will see what impact that has on its search engine rankings. What an absolute tease!

I have a great feeling about the income potential from my .biz domain. It’s definitely a niche where people are hungry for information. It receives over 10,000+ global exact matches a month.

Which means that if I can get it to page one for its main keyphrase, holy crap! This site could potentially generate a nice income but before I get too far ahead of myself, I’ll just wait and see.

As for the sites that are on page one, they receive less than 4k searches a month so they really need to end up in top three search results for anything fun to happen with them.

As always, I’ll be working on getting them up there.

Last Few Word Before You Go

In hopes of generating a good discussion, let me ask you this: would you be interested in purchasing a resource from the point of view of someone who has managed to rank sites despite not doing everything perfectly?

Whenever I come across any typical “make money online” resource, sure, I get the steps to ranking sites but it’s always so… generic. Or non-personal. Or shit, everything’s just suppose to work out so easily.

As if! (Damn, I went totally ‘Clueless’ there!)

If I was to ever offer a resource (whether it’s an ebook or membership site is not of great importance as of now), I would shed light on the struggles of finding the “right” niche, how you can rank well in the search engines despite any challenges you come across and include a couple of case studies that would be generating decent incomes for me.

Of course, I’d love to also start a niche site or two and show live examples and any seo hiccups along the way (challenges are so exciting!)

One thing that’s always put me off is how most courses glance over any troubling issues and how to circumnavigate them.

As if the competition online isn’t worse than ever…

Anyway, so let’s talk. What are you gripes with any current niche site/how to make money online courses you have purchased and what would you like to see? No, wait, what would you absolutely love to see?

Of course you can leave me comments or even shoot me an e-mail.