Derrick Love | Affiliate Marketing All-Star

I have am just getting settled into my new place and finally got online last night. I’ve been offline for almost a week and did not get any work done during that time. Taking a break was great, but the best part is that I had my best week in sales during that downtime. I am going to take breaks more often.

Equte LLC is a great web publishing and internet marketing company that I work with on a regular basis and they are holding a logo design contest. The designer of the winning logo will win $300, which almost makes me want to enter.

The $300 logo design contest is being held on what I see as the most innovative design outsourcing site ever, 99designs.

Check out the $300 logo design contest here.

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I just beat Amit Mehta at the SEO cartoon quiz. I promise this verifies that I a qualified professional SEO expert, seriously.

Now I am going to beat Amit at PPC!

First, I have to admit that I have only been building my website portfolio for about 2 years. Before 2006 I was running only a couple (larger) sites but only in recent year or two have I been pumping out many (smaller) sites. I also start more new sites before I finish one because I get excited about something. This is something I have been getting better at with research and due diligence.

So the other day when someone asked me “How do you manage all of those websites?” my first thought was “I have no idea.” But when I thought about it further for a minute, a few things came clear. Since I was asked the question, I have been thinking a lot about website management. I have been unconsciously using a rough system when creating websites but I realize I need to make this system more concrete.

Here is my basic for week system that I have been using to create and manage multiple websites. I will not get into everything, but I wanted to show you the gist of the system.

Week 1: I will set up 3 sites in about week until I am drained and exhausted or just bored with it. If I am creating multiple sites in the same week, they are usually niche related.

Week 2: When the initial sites are finished and indexed in Google, I then forward information to my SEO team (person) to continue with offsite SEO and link building. She will usually work on two of the sites while I leave one site at the control or will work on offsite SEO myself with a different system. This is key for us in testing which methods work best for gaining organic search engine rankings. But offsite linking is a whole other system I will post about in the future.

Week 3: When I start to see which of the new sites seem to be more promising, I start interlinking my sites together to help build upon the more promising sites. I usually do not link out from the best site to the others unless I really want to help build up a particular site. Either way, I rarely create reciprocal links between sites I own. I also take time to go back and touch up on some of the older sites a little bit making improvements with recently acquired knowledge.

Week 4: This is when I am really starting to feel burnt-out so I like to hit up the forums and blogs to see what people are talking about. This helps get my creative juices back and gives me great ideas for news sites.

I just got an invitation from Google to try out their new TV Ad serving. The email also included a sign up link for training webinar and $2,000 rebate from the Ad Creation Marketplace.

This is very exciting, however unfortunately the webinar and more info links do not work.

This is definitely something I look forward to testing out.

“Dear AdWords Advertiser,

You’re invited to try Google TV Ads, the perfect complement to
your online campaigns. Google TV Ads makes it easy to reach new
customers, drive more traffic and increase your sales volume -
turning TV viewers into your customers. “

I recently won an auction on Sitepoint.com’s marketplace for a couple of small websites. I never attempted to buy or sell a website before. This is simply because I don’t want to sell any of my profitable sites and any of the sites I would actually sell may not be be worth the time and effort.

Honestly, I would like to say the transaction went smoothly and I am happy with my purchase. But unfortunately the seller made errors in his listing for a domain as a .com when in fact the domain he owns is .info. The other problem was that there were a couple corrupt files for that site. The good news is, since I had already paid for the websites, the seller has offered to compensate me with a partial refund or another website from his for sale portfolio.

I am sure everything will work out fine as the seller seems to be an ok guy who at least responds to emails pretty quickly.

Anyways it’s just another step that I have taken. Now I just need to finish of my incomplete sites and auction them off so I can focus more on my core network of sites.

You have heard of “product placement” before, but have a closer look…

Well the first step is the hardest, and we can argue all day what that step is but the first step to me will always be ACTION. I finally launched my first product on ClickBank today. Although I will not tell you what the product or niche is, I will tell you that the product is public domain, which means the product cost me nothing to create. My total cost of this launch was $8 for domain and $10 for a written sales page which I outsourced. Now all I need to do is get a better design and implement an opt-in. Then come clone and scale.

I gotta run so more on this later… subscribe to my RSS or newsletter.

DOMAINS HELD HOSTAGE!

Network Solutions sucks. I have been using networksolutions.com to check on domain names because they allow up to 10 searches at a time and keep a list of search results so i don’t have to keep writing everything down. The other day I went to networksolutions.com to check on some domains and found one I wanted was available. So instead of paying $30 or whatever to registering the domain name with Network Solutions, I went over to 1and1 to register the domain name for $7, there is even a sale on domains names at 1and1 so I would have gotten it cheaper.

After logging into 1and1 I found that the domain name that I was just told was available, was not! I went back and checked networksolutions.com which was still saying the domain name was available. So I went to who.is and checked it out. Network Solutions had registered the domain name right after I searched the domain name using networksolutions.com!

WTF!

I did a Google search to see what the deal was and after reading this post, I found out they hold domains for 5 days after you search, uhm for security reason.

My question is, will searched domain names by Network Solutions that are registered and held for “security reason” show up on newly registered domain search sites? After the 5 days will the domain name show up and recently expired domain search sites? I am sure people are already exploiting this situation somehow and sniping some great domain names after the security hold is lifted.

There is a lot of talk around the forums about this by now and people are not happy about Network Solutions dirty tactics.

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