A Google-Free Lifestyle!

By: John Elder posted in Affiliate Marketing


Hello good people!

Well it’s a beautifully rainy and dreary day here in downtown Chicago, which is my absolute favorite kind of day. I always get so much done when it rains. I’m not really sure why. It’s also great for thinking…and I’ve been doing a lot of that lately since the Google Penguin update!

Last week I went on a bit of a rant and talked about how I’m done with the thin adsense game and will now be focusing on a totally new business strategy that doesn’t rely on the insane Google roller coaster for traffic.

I’ve been thinking about that over the weekend, and I’m starting to narrow down exactly what I’ll be doing.

I’ve basically decided on one of two strategies….either:

  1. One Large Shopping Site
  2. A Bunch Of Smaller Targeted Shopping Sites

These won’t be your average shopping sites, they’ll be unique. I’ll be using different strategies that I used for my thin empire here. Things like spun text, affiliate products from amazon.com and others like commission junction and shopzilla, cpa offers etc.

I’m also going to build in some unique price comparison functionality, and somehow tie in a mobile app into the site.

It’s going to be a blast!

I’ll be working through this right here on MarketingFool.com from the ground up…explaining exactly what I’m doing and how I’m doing it from start to finish so that you can follow along and build something similar. I’ll also be sharing earnings data as I go along, just like in the past.

One of the major things I’ll be focusing on, besides teaching you how to build a site just like it, will be how to build traffic without Google. You’re not going to want to miss it.

I’m still finalizing some of the ideas for the site in my head, so it’s going to be a slow process. But I plan on keeping you posted every day.

And I’m thinking about creating screencast videos of the site building process as I go along so that you can see EXACTLY how I’m building the site. But I haven’t decided on that yet. It depends on the level of interest.

I’m pretty excited about this new strategy and I hope you are too! Let’s make some money!!

Keep on building!

-John
The Marketing Fool!

John Elder is an Entrepreneur, Web Developer, and Writer with over 27 years experience creating & running some of the most interesting websites on the Internet. Contact him here.



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6 Responses to “A Google-Free Lifestyle!”

  1. Jeff

    01. May, 2012

    Awwsome John! Can’t wait to read more! I have about 20 small niche sites that I am ready to monetize and since I’ve been banned from Adsense basically before i got started…..I’m anxious to hear more from you!

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    • The Marketing Fool

      01. May, 2012

      Hey Jeff,

      Yep, banning you before you got started…that sounds exactly like Google. They sure are something, aren’t they? In years to come we’re all going to look back and wonder why we put up with their nonsense for so long!

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  2. Raul

    01. May, 2012

    John, I am really really looking forward to your insights!

    I will keep an eye on your blog daily!

    Thanks a lot for the awesome information you share with us

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  3. Matt

    01. May, 2012

    This is gonna be sweet! I look forward to watching you give Google and their Penguin a b*tch slap.

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