Why I give my content for free.

With all the paid content flowing around and the membership sites, the question “Is free content really THAT good?“ always comes up, to start off I’m actually proud to say that all my content on blueverse is free and will stay free as long as it’s within blueverse. I am not saying all content should be free, every site has its own set of niche visitors and content trends, not all sites can follow the same guidelines.

Alienating your readers, that’s what happens when you offer 2 types of content on the same site, it gives the illusion of you somehow “screwing” your readers, it does in fact give me a feeling of somehow being screwed while reading a blog knowing theres better content on the same site that I can’t read..Suddenly Paid content added to an already free content blog is a really bad idea, okay you made your point that your content is better then most out there thats why you have all those readers and the responses from those readers, so it doesn’t mean you should just get up and turn over all those people who supported you at the start and helped you grow.

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Review Based Affiliate Sales. My Report.

I’m not big on affiliates because i haven’t had much experience in the field but I wanted more stats before i can jump in the game so a few weeks ago i reviewed the how to be a rockstar freelancer e-book, and within a couple days i was in the top10 serps for all keywords regarding “how to be a rockstar freelancer”.

Now its almost a month later, i finally made 1 sale via the review i made here, at some point a week ago i stopped working on my reviews of other products to get some affiliate commission but i think there might still be some way i can make this work.

The only stats i have at the moment are that reviews really encourage people to buy a certain product/service this and the amount of revenue on your end depends on how good the review was of the site and whether you are being truthful or not, besides the revenue its still good to review other products with your aff link because that way you can still have potential sales within your blog just waiting to pop out and surprise you at any moment

Tip of the day: Review a product/service with your aff link anyway, it may just prove profitable in the long run. 

Don’t Depend on Google - Don’t Boycott it Either

I realized something i already knew while reading the teaching sells, Somewhere along the line my business model was completely based on Google, traffic and revenue wise, i depend on Google for traffic via searches and revenue via AdSense not just on this blog but on my other sites as well and every site i plan in the future has Google within my plan and holds over 60% of value of my sites, this is annoying because I don’t really ever depend on something that much that if it goes away or ends I would be in deep trouble.

The reason for this post was to show just why I am not going to depend on Google but as other webmasters take this topic is to “boycott Google” I am not doing that either I don’t depend on Google doesn’t mean i would boycott it, having it as well along with other tactics i will now take up is an addition to my traffic and that’s always a plus.

Working with Google is like working with a bot that works on pure statistics, people on the other hand are 100 times more interactive and much more responsive, Google can only send you traffic and give your page some strength, figuring how to make money online lies within your ability to engage with your readers.

Think about it like this, there are tons more ways to get traffic rather then depending on Google, John-chow was de-indexed by Google then re-indexed and de-ranked on his own main keyword and his serps on most keywords are way down low but he still continues to get traffic, why?
AdWords,Feed-readers, Email Marketing,Natural/Organic links on blogs and alot more ways! His revenue stays stable because his growth is stable as well, the blog is growing on an even faster pace then before without any help from Google.

This post is not all about Google, its about opportunities that you have and might be ignoring in your pursuit of happiness via Google.

Lets look at some opportunities that i came up with by listening to the free audio tape by Teaching Sells

• Selling Content
• Offering Content Based Services (still i won’t offer seo services)
• Design Services
• Engaging in more user based marketing tactics rather then SEO
• A more on-hand approach to my blog readers.
• Sell your passion
• Marketing products to actual people rather then the search engines.
• Focusing more on trends

I’ll be launching something regarding this soon, subscribe to my updates for it!