Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Quite ironic that the title of this post has nothing to do with it’s content which is SEO, search engine optimization, but I thought I would start out with a little bit of lame humor. Living on an island I have come to realize that if a couple people are sick in one office every office on the island will eventually get it. Half of my office has been out sick at one point or another for the past 2 weeks along with my girlfriends (which is where I think I got it.) Today I foolishly decided I needed to be at work for at least half the day but came home after I realized I would continue to perpetuate the sickness around the office with my caughing if I stayed. On the way home I got to thinking, “If it’s always hot outside, such as the case in Hawaii, do you catch a cold, or can we start calling it a hot.” I guess if the symptoms are the same you might as well call it a cold, but people here call their porch a lanai, so why can’t I call it a hot? I mean I don’t feel cold. Ponder that for a second.

On to what I really wanted to talk about. One of the blogs I just began reading is about designing niche websites for automatic income, called automatic income sites or AIS. Although I haven’t fully jumped into developing these, the idea behind it seems fascinating. Put up a site, leave it alone, and watch it make money for you. Brilliant. The blog is called Niche Designer Blog and is part of HelloKelli.com. HelloKelli is where the main information and links to each niche site are but the blog I find interesting because the person (I assume Kelli although have not found an about page), has begun posting about the niche site development process as well as earnings and advertisement trials (not just the default AdSense).

Her (or His) most recent post is about SEO tools. The post has a link to a site called Search Engine Optimization Tools. Why I haven’t found this site through my Google searches is beyond me but I’m glad I’ve found it now. There are all types of tools located there including a really useful tool called the backlink builder. It allows you to enter a keyword and then it returns sites that offer link exchanges or add url here pages. It’s great for building incoming links which is half the battle in developing a high traffic site.

There are countless other tools that are pretty fun to play around with as well. You can check out the rankings and indexed pages of all your competitors or favorite pages, you can see how much a link should cost on your page per month, or see the density of keywords on your pages. You can use that last tool to check on a competing site and see how many times a keyword is used on their site, especially if it’s google search results ranking is higher than yours. For niche sites, this could mean dollars a day! There are quite a few other tools all neatly organized into one simple site. Sure you can go to Google and type in all the links:www.blahbla.com or site:www.blahblah.com but it’s so much easier when someone does it for you. Why re-invent the wheel?

Hope it helps you out.

Aloha,
Erik
Trying to get better