How to Find Your Google Keyword SERPs Ranking

As many of you know, I’ve been doing my best to keep you up to date on the latest going-ons with my niche site challenge with Tyrone Shum. To make things easier for you, I recently created a niche site duel hub that will list all of the posts surrounding this challenge, from all of the competitors’ blogs.

Currently, it’s just me, Tyrone Shum and Mark Mason, but I’m happy to add anyone else’s case studies to the list who may be participating in this challenge too. All I ask is that you do not hide your niche and url in your reports, since the purpose of this challenge is to be as transparent as possible so our audiences can learn as much as they can.

If you’re participating, just contact me with a link to your first report and I’ll add it to the hub.

This post isn’t an official niche site duel update, but I am happy to say that as of 10:30pm PST on August 29th, I am currently ranked #186 in Google for my target keyword.

I definitely still have a long way to go to reach the first page, but for a brand new, one-week old site and 46,000 competing webpages, that’s not bad at all, and I expect to quickly climb much higher.

I’ll go over my exact strategy, in detail, in the next niche site duel update, but today, I wanted to share with you how you can track your website’s rank in the search engines for your target keywords.

It can be tough, especially right when you’re starting a new site, to know where you are on the radar. You don’t want to spend time flipping through each page of Google to find your site.

That’s why I recommend using one of the three methods I show you in the video below:

(Watch 3 Cool Ways to Find Your Google Keyword Search Engine Ranking (SERPs) on YouTube)

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Hopefully, we’ll all get to a point where we’re all sitting in the number 1 position for our target keyword, in which case, these techniques wouldn’t be necessary. But until then, I hope you find these techniques useful.

Thanks for your support!

Cheers!

Are YouTube Videos and Podcasting Worth the Effort?

Are YouTube and Podcasting Worth It?Last year, I made a conscious decision to turn my growing Smart Passive Income blog into the Smart Passive Income brand.

I knew nothing about “branding” at the time, except that I knew that successful brands utilized all different mediums to reach their audience. Stick to one medium, and you’ll limit your reach to only those who use that medium.

That’s why you see major brands on television and on the radio (and everywhere else it seems), or why you see many of the top bloggers syndicate and expand their written content with videos and podcasts too.

I wanted to do the same, and that’s why I have my YouTube Channel, and most recently, my Podcast.

So is it worth all the effort? Click to continue…

Niche Site Duel 003 – How to Setup a Niche Site: Before You Add Content

how to setup a niche siteThere are hundreds of different ways to setup a niche website – you know this, but I’ll outline my process for you below because it’s easy to follow and it doesn’t require much know-how. If you have anything to add, I’m sure the people here who are unfamiliar with this process will appreciate your insight in the comment section.

1. Setting Up The Blog

For my niche site challenge, I’ll be using a WordPress blog with a domain and hosting from Bluehost.com.

In the past, niche sites were almost always static sites, and blogs were just a way to keep your friends informed about the shenanigans from last weekend’s party. They weren’t given much in terms of priority and ranking in Google’s search engine algorithm.

Now, as I’m sure you’ll know, blogs can rank high – really high.

Why? Click to continue…

SPI 004 : 5 Powerful Ways to Create Profitable Passive Income Products

The Smart Passive Income Podcast

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In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I go over 5 powerful ways that you can create profitable passive income products. There’s a ton of info out there about what kinds of products you can make (i.e. eBooks, membership websites, etc.), but there isn’t much about the creative methods that you can easily create them, which is why I’m excited to share these methods with you today.

I guarantee that after you listen to this, you’ll probably have a ton of ideas about what you can do and you should be well on your way to creating some kind of passive income info product.

Enjoy!

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Oops. The Niche I Selected is Bad, and Here’s Why

Oops! Niche Site MistakeBefore anything, I want to say this:

I’m not an expert at niche sites. Tyrone Shum, my challenger for this little competition, is not an expert either. We’re both fairly brand new to the niche site scene, so we’re going to make mistakes. The reason why we’re making this challenge public is to show you what those mistakes are, so you don’t do them yourself.

I just wanted to make that clear here in the beginning stages of our duel.

Now that I’ve said that, I’ve already made a mistake that I’m happy to share with you, because there’s a big lesson that goes along with it. Click to continue…

Niche Site Duel 002 – Finding a Profitable Niche: My Process Revealed

Who needs mixed martial arts or the World Cup when you’ve got a friendly Niche Site Competition to get your adrenaline pumping?

After announcing Monday that fellow blogger and good friend of mine, Tyrone Shum, challenged me to a Niche Site Competition, the response has been amazing. I didn’t expect this many people to get excited about it, and it actually makes me want to do something more than a tiny little product niche site, which I had originally planned. I want bigger results – something comparable to the results I had with my site at GreenExamAcademy.com.

I’ve done it before – and I know I can do it again. Click to continue…

Niche Site Duel: I’ve Been Challenged…and I Accept

My recent minor success with niche sites (as shown in my latest monthly report) caught the attention of fellow blogger, Tyrone Shum. The other day, he sent me this message on my Facebook page:

niche site duel initial contactI’m always up for a little friendly competition, so I accepted Tyrone’s challenge.

Both Tyrone and I are going to document and report our progress on building a profitable niche site from scratch. We’re going to give you front row seats in our little competition, revealing exactly how we select a potentially profitable niche (which we’ll reveal to you), how we build a website around that market, how we send traffic to that site, and finally how we begin to earn an income form it. Click to continue…

8 Tips for Bloggers From an Advertising Book

little blue book of advertisingAs I was cleaning the house today, I found a book that I had purchased a couple of years ago, called The Little Blue Book of Advertising: 52 Small Ideas That Can Make a Big Difference.

I don’t really know why I had purchased it. I was still working my 9 to 5 job, and it’s a book that’s mainly geared toward those in advertising.

I was in architecture.

Sadly, I never had the chance to read it, but when I was flipping through the pages today, I randomly opened up to page 205, which was a chapter entitled: 43. Blogs – Still Lots of Learning to be Done.

Since I have a blog, I was interested and read on. Click to continue…

SPI 003 : Affiliate and Niche Site Strategies Revealed with Glen Allsop

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In this session of The Smart Passive Income Podcast, I’m very excited to chat with Glen Allsop of Viperchill.com as we get into crazy detail about exactly how he makes money online. If there is one session to take notes on, this is the one because Glen reveals a ton of information about his 5 step process for making money with affiliate and niche sites.

You can learn more about Glen by visiting his high ranking blog at Viperchill.com.

Enjoy!

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Why I Subscribe to Over 20 Newsletters

I have some light reading for you today, because I’ve been really busy working on finishing up some housework this past weekend, and I’m not talking about dusting or vacuuming. I mean like – cabinetry, painting and putting up a new fence.

Don’t worry though, because on Wednesday, the 3rd Session of the Smart Passive Income Podcast goes live and it has some of the best “how to make money online” content I’ve heard in a while. Our special guest gets into extreme detail about what they do, so look out for that next.

To start off today’s light reading, I just wanted to confess something: I’m on a lot of email lists…and I love it. Over 20 to be exact.

You might think I’m crazy, but I purposely find the top internet marketers and immediately join their email lists, knowing that I’m going to be bombarded with emails and offers left and right.

Why?

Because each email is a free marketing lesson. Click to continue…

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