It’s been  a while since I did the last post in this blog.

My day job is really taking the most productive times of my days, coupled with the regular weekly business travel that I had…huh…I barely had a time to do the posting of this blog.

Anyways…here I am again setting in front of my PC and doing this post. And to warm up just to get the ball rolling, let me share to you the latest “hot” niche using the google trend and how to make money out of it.

Google Trend by the way is the almighty google’s eye in watching over the latest search look up on a specific time of a day.

Yes…the trend is real time so if you want to profit from this trend, you must be on the look out and should act quickly.

Take this hot trend for example :

October 16, 2009 my personal pick as Hot Trend as of 07:46am is ” Don Rickles “.

Make money from this hot trend by doing the following :

1. Create a blog using the “hot trend” term  “Don Rickles” as the blog name. Example http://donricklesnews.blogspot.com/

2. Write something about “Don Rickles”.  A sort of news story as the content of your blog, or a video which you can easily find at youtube.

3. Monetize it thru the Amazon affiliate program and Google Adsense. Sign up as affiliate of Amazon.com and as Publisher of Google Adsense.      Once you have the affiliate link of Amazon, look up “Don Rickles”. There are plenty of related items to sell, then, place your affiliate links under your article and videos.

Simultaneously, place your Publishers’s Adsense ads at the top and bottom of the blog.

4. Next thing to do is to promote your newly created blog to the social network and bookmarking websites.

Example :

Go to Digg and the other social bookmarking sites and bookmark this blog. You want the headline to be eye catching. So try something like  “Don Rickles Saves Bye Bye Birdie!”

The guy is a legend and he’s number one (1)  in the google trends. Therefore, anybody interested will definitely read it, and may click your Adsense or Amazon affiliate links.

That’s all for now folks…Watch for my next post…bye bye…

Exactly 45 days after this website was re-designed to become a web blog, its alexa traffic rank gradually improved. Last April 11, 2009 its alexa traffic rank hit a record low of 20,496,496 when it used to be one of the top 100 websites in alexa with an average monthly earnings of $5,000-$10,000.

Today May 26, 2009 although its still too far from being one of the alexa top 100 websites, its traffic rank has improved to 9,365,714.  A good sign of alexa traffic rank recovery! ( copy of this website’s alexa traffic rank screen shot is viewable here )

One month after this post, we will check again this website’s alexa traffic rank and see how it will improve and climb back to compete with the top ranking websites in alexa.

Watch for it…

Yaro Starak, is a professional blogger who makesover $5,000 USD per month from his blog, has just launched a brand new blog mentoring program for people who want to earn a full time income from blogging part time.

The program is less than $100 a month to become a member and you get direct access to your own blog mentor, plus all kinds of audios, videos and e-lessons to help you make money from your own blog.

You can read more about this blog mentoring program here:

It’s called Blog Mastermind and I expect there will be a lot of people interested in this program because so many people like the idea of making money from their own blogs.

This blog post is a follow up to the previous blog posted on May 17, 2009 wherein I reported that I ranked No.3 in the First Page of Google Search Engine Out of 85,600,000 Competing Websites.

one week after that blog was posted, I checked the statistics of that same keyword or key phrase “ transfer money abroad post office ” targeted for my money transfer overseas webpage. The result is very interesting.

Result 1

Keyword : “transfer money abroad post office”
Competing websites : 95,700,000
1st Page Rank in Google Search Engine : Number 3
See the snapshot of the Google’s first page where I maintained the rank no. 3 despite of 95,700,000 competing websites

Result 2

Keyword : “transfer money abroad post office”
Competing websites : 96,000,000
1st Page Rank in Google Search Engine : Number 3
See the snapshot of the Google’s first page where I Still ranked No.3 in the First Page of Google Search Engine With Now 96,000,000 Competing Websites

What do you think is the end result of this amazing 1st page rank in google search engine?

Of course, my affiliate sales increased with a growing number of subscribers coming in…

As I was on my way back on the net, I happened to bump an article which strike me and found this very interesting especially for the “would-be” bloggers who are still on their way on becoming an expert and professional blogger. This article was written by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time, and was the one who introduced the Blogging Traffic Techniques and Blog Traffic Guide.

This article is found to have value for us bloggers, so I posted it here to share this with you.

And here it is…

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert blogger and you want to make money blogging.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of pre-eminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process - Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not their’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of?well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from scratch, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

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