Getting some cool results. Here is some before and afters to show just how great some of them come up. Click to enlarge these images to see the difference.

Star Trek Original … Original

Star Trek – Vector

Want to see more? Here are a few others vectors in SVG format on my business blog.

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Of course he went out and purchased the domain name, but after talking to him further he was quite interested in my advice for additional domain names.

While many would argue that keyword domain names are not as potent since Google rolled out it’s “Exact match Domain” update. They are still much better at getting results than domains with out keywords.

What do your visitors type to find you?

Say you don’t yet have a website and only a vague guess at best on what people would search to find you. Luckily Google has a keyword tool that you can use to find data for your location. For my client we found that three search terms had around 3,600 local (Australian) searches per month. These three had obviously been bundled together by Google, deemed so similar that that they share the same data. These three search terms were:

1. shower for camping
2. camping shower
3. shower camping

However, using another awesome Google tool, Google trends, we can break this data down even more. In fact it showed that “shower for camping” had actually a very low volume of searches in the last 12 months. Camping shower had the most, but not by much.

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My client was shocked just how many people actually search for “shower camping”. The reason this is so, is due to the way the search engine has evolved over the last few years.

Predictive searches have changed the way people search. No longer do people search for structured key phrases such as shower for camping they are typing before thinking!

The searcher knows they want a shower and types that in, but doesn’t see any instant results that have to do with camping, so they add that word and then are greeted with Google’s top 10 results for “shower camping”. It is worth noting that these 10 results vary slightly to the 10 results for “camping shower”.

What does this mean to you?

It means you can better place your website in the search engines by structuring your content and links to your website. For example, you could write up and article using those keywords in a sentence like “The words hot shower, camping and Australia are rarely used in the same sentence. However, with the innovative Oppi portable shower you can now go camping and have the luxury of a hot shower on the go“.

My client went ahead and purchased www.showercamping.com which I think will have a much more instant effect in the search engines over his brand name domain.

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How does this work? Well, say I post an image on my blog:

By adding it to a board on Pinterest I am getting a great back link. These links don’t pass on any pagerank but if you get a great image up and it gets shared around that can really boost your chances of getting exposure for your website.

So what are some other pinterest like sites to maximise exposure?

These are many niched sites out there. One of my favourites is Gentlemint (Pinterest for blokes).

I also setup my own Pinterest clone from a script I purchased online called Bleep It. It is a PHP MySQL run site which is fairly similar to Pinterest but has a couple of bugs and customisations that I still need to sort out.

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Mission one, will be to get my tax done. I have most of last financial year on a spreadsheet, but need to update it asap and get it to my accountant. It was a good year business wise, plus I have been paying tax quarterly, so shouldn’t get any nasty surprises this year.

Mission two is to get that sports memorabilia site with joint partner and serial ideas man Brent Loughrey. Not much to do on that one, just some tidy up work to the CSS and we can start to aggressively market this through social media.

Mission three is my joint venture with top content writer Fahim Aalam. We are going to set up a content marketplace which will be a community of freelance content writers. Good content is in high demand at the moment with massive changes made to Google’s search algorithm.

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I have added a few of these in portfolio format to get a bit of a domain name portfolio out there. All of these fantastic domain names could be for sale if the price was right, but for now I have monetized most of them.

I used to use Google Adwords, but have lost all faith in Google’s PPC affiliate program. As I have quite a lot of domains I used Adwords heavily to monetize my sites in the early days. However, their support is borderline pathetic as I got my account got banned for reasons unknown and I am also unsure of which website was the issue.

I think the problem was with a couple sites that used the Pligg content management system after Google added the penguin update. Overnight a few of my sites that were previously well received with Google became “bad neighborhoods”, due to my lack of moderating the sites.

Completely understandable, I have tried to fix the issue but Google seems to waging a war against bookmarking sites at the moment so I don’t think I will get a decent response back from them.

Anyway, I digress. The first Google Adsense alternative I started using was Chitika, which is very similar textual ads to Google with some styling options.

The other option I am trying out is Adbrite, which is closer to Google Adsense but has a few limitations with the adzones which has slowed my progress in rolling it out on most of my websites.

Another option which I have been using for years, but only started to better utilise this weekend is the Amazon Associate Program. I am really liking the “My Favorites Widget”! It is highly customisable and you can choose the exact Amazon products you would like to add and to any size you would like. Such as …

Hey! How did that inflatable doll get in there? Anywho, Amazon is a great affiliate program if you want to sell products without actually having any.

The other thing I am getting back into is targeted affiliate programs from top networks such as ClixGalore and DGM. These can be great if you like a bit more control over what is displayed on your website.

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But this week I have the flu and while I didn’t get a hell of a lot done yesterday due to sleeping and catching up on the latest episode of Boardwalk Empire I have made massive steps today.

One project that has jumped to the top of the queue is to monetize my Australian domain names.

A little birdie told me that it is possible AuDA, the Australian Domain Authority is looking to introduce new rules that could see people lose Australian domain names if they do not relate to their business or are not monetized.

This has seen me work double-time to get a script that can setup domain names with keyword content and using sites such as Adwords, Chitika, Adbrite and Amazon to make revenue.

One example of this is Shop Australian. While it only gets around 110,000 local searches per month according to the Google keyword tool at the time of writing, it is a cool domain name that could have an awesome future e-commerce site on it.

Now I don’t want to lose any of my Australian domains and will take steps to ensure they are monetized to protect them.

But this gave me another idea!!! Other people will surely be in the same boat if this whole thing goes ahead, so I will look to setup a free and premium service on a dedicated server purely for Australians to monetize their domains.

The free plan will be for up to 5 domain names and the premium plan will be for unlimited domains for AUS $19.95 per year.

I will be looking into other commission based sites over the week and hope to have version one a little more polished. Watch this space!

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For years I have been doing all aspects of SEO. From writing the content and sourcing the best strategic place on the internet to get the best results.

But over the last financial year, business has really picked up to the point that I struggle to meet deadlines and put together articles that are not to my usual high standards.

But over the last few months I have been using Fiverr to source some great content writers from all around the globe.

It has really allowed me to focus on more important aspects of my business and still maintain my control over when I submit the articles.

If you haven’t used Fiverr, I highly recommend you check it out. I have managed to get some amazing things done with the help of my new Fiverr friends. Here are a few examples of what I have achieved:

• Keyword articles for submitting to blogs, article sites and websites
• Content for heaps of sites I just haven’t had time to write myself
• Custom videos for branching SEO to a number of high ranked video sites. e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler.
• Custom logos for websites. From people with much more advanced Photoshop skills than I.
• Social Buzz. People who will like your content and give honest feedback to generate discussion.

Check out Fiverr and increase your productivity!

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Just finished a custom script that generates pages of content for a clients products for every suburb in Australia which is getting some fantastic results. Google has listed around 31,900 pages already and has got some awesome page one long tail keyword results.

But back to some of my own projects. I have been working on a website monitor. Nothing new, but this project is more geared for people with mobile devices as there doesn’t seem to be many options in this department.

Another project is more of a quick cash grab than any technological advancement.

A friend has access to plenty of signed & framed sporting memorabilia so we are setting up a couple of websites for auctioning these items.

These two projects head the top of my list as they are the easiest and most rewarding for little effort. But I also plan to setup my own DNS service and mobile search engine as long term projects.

Well, now that I have publicly voiced these ideas, I hope it will give me a bit more drive to follow through and not bench the ideas for others.

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