You’d get the experience by actually jumping in there and tackling projects which you know you can handle. Remember, YOU pick the projects on which you want to work, so you don’t need to worry about being chosen for a project that you can’t handle.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ros

Niche selection is one thing each blogger must do on his or her own. I think the questions you should ask yourself are:

1) Does the market have money to spend?
2) Can I see myself still blogging about this subject in 5 years?

Hope that eases the spin somewhat.

Cheers,
Ros

But I don’t feel my main problem is creating the web site, with all the tools that are available. What has my head spinning is niche identification. I have been training Microsoft Office for years and love it. But when I Google Microsoft Excel, I get millions of hits. It is frightening. I also have been into photography for years. I have been a private pilot for years. My wife has been into gardening for years. I have a relative who is an extremely experienced traveler and is the lightest packer and can ferret out the lowest budget trips imaginable.

Can you see my head spin? I know it is such a tough question, but can you help me with niche selection? (I am re-reading the section of your excellent book on this.)

Thank you,

Liam Costello

I am a developer/programmer and wanted to make money online. I’m not really good in coming up with ideas. I’ve tried researching stuff on how to make money online but really don’t know where to start. I’ve also tried doing freelance programming and can deliver but thinking that I still don’t have enough experience to work on freelancing sites. Any help with my problem?

Thank you.

Pierre

My problem, and question,is driving traffic to the site. I know the different ways,, which I still need to do many, but I wanted to use PPC to start the ball rolling.

1. I’m on Yahoo/Microsoft but my ad isn’t getting many impressions and therefore, clicks. How many keywords, on average, do you use when running a PPC ad? Do you use keywords that may not apply to the landing page, but still apply to the general site? I’m promoting the “cooking meat” page. Do I use only keywords pertaining to that, which limits the number, or should general keywords such as “cooking” “recipes” etc?

2. I tried AdWords but my site was rejected, and here is my question. Google says I’m violating their policy because my review pages go to Amazon only. I don’t give the customer a choice of places to buy. There are other reasons that I agree with (such as no original reviews, just copied specs from Amazon, no place for readers to submit comments), but this reason stumps me.

On your review sites, do you give readers a choice on where to go to buy the products? This seems pretty ridiculous if they want you to do this.

They call this page a bridge page: http://www.easyrecipesforbusycooks.com/cooking-meat.html because the product I’ve listed, the “cooking meat book” doesn’t give the customer options to buy the book at different vendors, nor do I give the customer pros and cons of different vendors, etc.

Do you see anything wrong with that page?

FYI, the concept of promoting affiliate products is simple, and review sites seem like a great way to go. Yet, based on my current issues with Google, I don’t see how a review page would pass their guidelines.

Thanks
Tony

Writing your own content is always best. Article spinners create worthless junk for the most part – so I don’t recommend using them.

Cheers,
Ros

The software is called WebMerge but I no longer promote or use it myself. Thanks for letting me know about the statement on the homepage.. I have removed it.

Cheers,
Ros

Is the Article Announcer software also used for creating content – I mean for writing articles?

What are your views on using article writing software for writing articles?

Thanks,

Anis Ansari