Recent content by hopkism

I just read your "Name and Shame" and was pleased to see the guru names mentioned. Sometimes I wish I had the heartlessness these guys have to sell hopes and dreams leading to nowhere.

Recent posts seem to suggest that the true authors and experts on a topic are actually getting rewarded for their efforts, rather than internet marketers just gaming the system. It gives me a lot of confidence in getting started.

How many hours a day do you work, days a week, and what topics do you focus on? Obviously we can waste our whole day scrolling through BHW looking for secret tips and tricks. Do you spend an hour a day writing, an hour a day blog commenting, an hour a day researching, etc. I'm working mine out...

Thanks! It's a crowded market for sure and I really didn't investigate that when I started the blog in 2011. Nevertheless, most of the ground work is behind me. Now it really is all about promoting. By, branch out do you mean, a particular niche within investing, getting more specific?

I used to get quite excited with these things but knowing how well BHW does in SERPS and how many people are searching for this each day, I think they'll all get spammed right away.

I'm going to decrease the time I spend on my project and only focus on the one project for IM.

I just added a huge sports betting affiliate link banner on my financial/investing blog. I used to advertise banners for brokers and investment advisers but I'm finding no one wants to pay for that anymore. Besides, my greatest number of visitors are 20+ males interested in penny stocks and...

Here's my new revised plan: Instead of starting a bunch of sites, I'm just going to keep working harder in promoting my main blog, which focuses on the investment niche. It has been online for four years now but is finally starting to get some serious traction in the SERPS and is beginning to...

I will admit that I joined BHW about a month ago because I have a lot to learn in making money online. Even though my first few threads were not total noob material, they were IMO depressing, and a lack of secrets exposed or anyone telling me I was going to be okay didn't help. That's okay...

Great thread! Thanks for sharing those inspirational earnings. I only get about 5% conversion from clicks. The advertisers I use payout about $50 per lead and I only get a couple a month. That said, I have never tried a landing page. I've always just stuck the text link or banner in the side...

This is different for each circumstance. Depending on what you are promoting, how you promote, whether you provide a quality answer to someone's problem, user demographics, and just the general niche you will see variance in this. My experience has been that clean and helpful websites...

That was part of my fear. When I first started years ago in internet marketing it was powerful getting destroyed by Google Panda and Penguin. It really hurt to have put so much into something and to have it all gone. That is probably part of my thinking. Having said that, some of my "projects" I...

I was looking for a forum dedicated to ebook production and marketing but couldn't find it nor could I find a recent thread talking about ebook writing. Does anyone here actually write their own? Have you ever wrote an ebook on a topic that you are genuinely experienced at? For example, if you...

That's what I figured. I'm just starting to see some positive results from some blog articles that I wrote more than 2 years ago, which is suggesting the stuff I write really needs to be evergreen, rather than news worthy.

I was hoping to put together a handful of projects with the purpose of diversification; not being reliant on any one form of traffic or income in order to succeed. Unfortunately, due to a work injury I have a lot of time on my hands and thought that might help in spreading out my time. From...