Comments on: Content Creation Madness – Day 6 COWpetition http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/ Making Money Online Blogging by Milking the Internet! Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:07:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: skin care creams http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-24036 skin care creams Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:00:49 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-24036 Thanks for the great post and continued great information. Looking forward to the next cowcast and continuing to try my hand at this blogging adventure. Thanks again! Best. Thanks for the great post and continued great information. Looking forward to the next cowcast and continuing to try my hand at this blogging adventure. Thanks again!

Best.

]]> By: Keyword Research - Start Up the Diamond Digger | John Cow dot Com http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18555 Keyword Research - Start Up the Diamond Digger | John Cow dot Com Fri, 30 May 2008 01:59:12 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18555 [...] new contest. You could win almost$3000 in Prizes! In the previous post in this series called “Content Creation Madness” we took our focus off of the keyword research for a little while to focus on getting the [...] [...] new contest. You could win almost$3000 in Prizes! In the previous post in this series called “Content Creation Madness” we took our focus off of the keyword research for a little while to focus on getting the [...]

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18552 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 18:50:33 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18552 Sweet.. thanks a lot Aaron Sweet.. thanks a lot Aaron

]]> By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18551 Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com Thu, 29 May 2008 18:08:33 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18551 This post is featured in today in <a href="http://www.fulltiltblogging.com/blog/2008/05/29/daily-blog-summary-for-may-29/" rel="nofollow"><strong>FullTiltBlogging.com's Daily Blog Summary</strong></a>, a summary of the top 50 Make Money Online blogs. Get caught up in just 5 minutes a day. Great Post. Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.coms last blog post..<a href="http://www.fulltiltblogging.com/blog/2008/05/29/daily-blog-summary-for-may-29/" rel="nofollow">Daily Blog Summary for May 29</a> This post is featured in today in FullTiltBlogging.com’s Daily Blog Summary, a summary of the top 50 Make Money Online blogs. Get caught up in just 5 minutes a day.

Great Post.

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.coms last blog post..Daily Blog Summary for May 29

]]> By:   Daily Blog Summary for May 29 by Full Tilt Blogging.com http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18550   Daily Blog Summary for May 29 by Full Tilt Blogging.com Thu, 29 May 2008 18:04:41 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18550 [...] Wanna Party? John’s Paying $20 Each Time [...] [...] Wanna Party? John’s Paying $20 Each Time [...]

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18549 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 17:39:41 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18549 Excellent advice Aaron Excellent advice Aaron

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18548 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 17:39:21 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18548 next week :) next week :)

]]> By: Shane http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18545 Shane Thu, 29 May 2008 16:31:43 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18545 Hi John I really enjoyed the cowcast, I hope there is another one coming. Hi John

I really enjoyed the cowcast, I hope there is another one coming.

]]> By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18544 Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com Thu, 29 May 2008 15:51:50 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18544 I have done this many times with good results. One thing I added that helped me was to place <em>in the ad on Craiglist</em> how much I was paying for a batch of articles: i.e.: $125 to $175 for 25 articles. This keeps away those who want more per article than I am willing to pay. Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.coms last blog post..<a href="http://www.fulltiltblogging.com/blog/2008/05/29/how-to-get-21564-for-each-subscriber/" rel="nofollow">How to Get $215.64 for Each Subscriber</a> I have done this many times with good results. One thing I added that helped me was to place in the ad on Craiglist how much I was paying for a batch of articles: i.e.: $125 to $175 for 25 articles. This keeps away those who want more per article than I am willing to pay.

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.coms last blog post..How to Get $215.64 for Each Subscriber

]]> By: Vicki Flaugher http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18543 Vicki Flaugher Thu, 29 May 2008 14:59:19 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18543 John, I agree with this suggestion completely about using articles as a starting point and either reviewing them or emulating them. Great idea. I have used pre-made articles from places like ezinearticles, etc. You do have to read a bunch to find great ones. To me, because of the duplicate content, they are most useful to build a JV relationship with the person who wrote the article. I only use articles on my site when the author agreed to promote me on their end too. Original content is always better. I guess, for me, the issue is this--don't let any lame butt excuse that you don't have any budget or you can't write, or you yadayadayada, to get your blog up. Quit the talk and get to work! There are always solutions. The best solution may not be something you can do now but don't let that stop you. Be clever and you'll figure something out. I ask people for help--that takes me a long distance. Lots of people will help you if you will just ask. Ok, I'll get off my soapbox now--LOL! Together, we are stronger. Vicki Flaugher, the original SmartWoman Vicki Flaughers last blog post..<a href="http://smartwomanguides.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/recommended-site-evancarmichaelcom/" rel="nofollow">Recommended Site: EvanCarmichael.com</a> John,

I agree with this suggestion completely about using articles as a starting point and either reviewing them or emulating them. Great idea.

I have used pre-made articles from places like ezinearticles, etc. You do have to read a bunch to find great ones. To me, because of the duplicate content, they are most useful to build a JV relationship with the person who wrote the article. I only use articles on my site when the author agreed to promote me on their end too. Original content is always better.

I guess, for me, the issue is this–don’t let any lame butt excuse that you don’t have any budget or you can’t write, or you yadayadayada, to get your blog up. Quit the talk and get to work! There are always solutions. The best solution may not be something you can do now but don’t let that stop you. Be clever and you’ll figure something out. I ask people for help–that takes me a long distance. Lots of people will help you if you will just ask. Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox now–LOL!

Together, we are stronger.

Vicki Flaugher, the original SmartWoman

Vicki Flaughers last blog post..Recommended Site: EvanCarmichael.com

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18539 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 12:05:55 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18539 answered in comment up above. answered in comment up above.

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18538 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 12:05:31 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18538 $20 is good, the only time i pay more is for press releases and link bait content. $20 is good, the only time i pay more is for press releases and link bait content.

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18537 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 12:04:51 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18537 I am not a fan of goarticles.com at all, they have no moderations and most of the articles in there are garbage. I also recommend for a new blog you stick to unique content to get it launched, remember that you want return visitors and just recycling stuff is not something people usually like and the search engines do not like to index the same article more then once. A good strategy however is like what you said, to use the article as a point of reference and create your own. If you do use other peoples content, we recommend you write commentaries about the article. Add you own thoughts and interpretations about the article and make it unique. I am not a fan of goarticles.com at all, they have no moderations and most of the articles in there are garbage. I also recommend for a new blog you stick to unique content to get it launched, remember that you want return visitors and just recycling stuff is not something people usually like and the search engines do not like to index the same article more then once.

A good strategy however is like what you said, to use the article as a point of reference and create your own.

If you do use other peoples content, we recommend you write commentaries about the article. Add you own thoughts and interpretations about the article and make it unique.

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18536 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 12:01:46 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18536 Well first of all it is not that google does not come back, if you are getting new links to your site we guarantee you google is back every day... what happens though is google does not update its index right away. What you are referring to it not in my opinion somethign to worry about... first of all the content still gets indexed, it is not like the index page is the only page on your site. Also google will reinde you page, as long as new links and new content is happening and the content is mostly unique then they will re index. If you are worried about it though there is a trick that one of my friends does and he blocks the entire site from all the search engines with his robots.txt file until it is ready. Personally my tests have not proven this to be necessary but his results are awesome so we are not going to argue with him. Wordpress comes with this as an option in the privacy settings and you can just turn the blog back on when it is ready. To block with your robots.txt file just have... User-agent: * Disallow: / The asterick is a wildcard that measn all search engines and by having the slash after the disallow means the entire site. Make sure to have the slash because if you just have Disallow: then it means they are allowed everywhere. My tests using this showed that 48 hours after the robots block was removed, google had indexed everything. Well first of all it is not that google does not come back, if you are getting new links to your site we guarantee you google is back every day… what happens though is google does not update its index right away.

What you are referring to it not in my opinion somethign to worry about… first of all the content still gets indexed, it is not like the index page is the only page on your site. Also google will reinde you page, as long as new links and new content is happening and the content is mostly unique then they will re index.

If you are worried about it though there is a trick that one of my friends does and he blocks the entire site from all the search engines with his robots.txt file until it is ready. Personally my tests have not proven this to be necessary but his results are awesome so we are not going to argue with him. Wordpress comes with this as an option in the privacy settings and you can just turn the blog back on when it is ready. To block with your robots.txt file just have…

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

The asterick is a wildcard that measn all search engines and by having the slash after the disallow means the entire site. Make sure to have the slash because if you just have Disallow: then it means they are allowed everywhere.

My tests using this showed that 48 hours after the robots block was removed, google had indexed everything.

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18535 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 11:54:47 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18535 Answered in comment above :) Answered in comment above :)

]]> By: John Cow http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18534 John Cow Thu, 29 May 2008 11:54:09 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18534 For the initial content we pay $20 per article but they had to have screen shots and be over 500 words and then once that initial content was done, the content can be about 400 words with one or two images and it is $10 per. By paying more upfront we got the great writers and then we work out a longer term deal with them. The great thing is the shorter posts usually end up being longer then 400 anyway and they are still very high quality. It is important to NOT have them write for keyword stuffing, but to write for a topic. Have them write whatever they want (with some guidelines) and then you make sure the keyword is in the title and a couple times at least in the body if you want. For those of you that can not afford the initial $20 per article there are a couple options. As Vicki mentioned in a couple comments above, our advice here works :) and she has recruited some free writers.. which is cool. Or you can pay like $6 per article and then you go back and fix them up and add screen shots. It comes down to what you currently can invest more of time or money. For the initial content we pay $20 per article but they had to have screen shots and be over 500 words and then once that initial content was done, the content can be about 400 words with one or two images and it is $10 per.

By paying more upfront we got the great writers and then we work out a longer term deal with them. The great thing is the shorter posts usually end up being longer then 400 anyway and they are still very high quality.

It is important to NOT have them write for keyword stuffing, but to write for a topic. Have them write whatever they want (with some guidelines) and then you make sure the keyword is in the title and a couple times at least in the body if you want.

For those of you that can not afford the initial $20 per article there are a couple options. As Vicki mentioned in a couple comments above, our advice here works :) and she has recruited some free writers.. which is cool. Or you can pay like $6 per article and then you go back and fix them up and add screen shots. It comes down to what you currently can invest more of time or money.

]]> By: DeeGee http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18520 DeeGee Thu, 29 May 2008 08:48:46 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18520 Hi! I'm not sure if I missed it somewhere along the way, but - what would be a fair price for a quality article (400 words)? Thanks! DeeGees last blog post..<a href="http://graphics-illustrations.com/2008/05/28/short-announcement/" rel="nofollow">Short Announcement</a> Hi!

I’m not sure if I missed it somewhere along the way, but – what would be a fair price for a quality article (400 words)?

Thanks!

DeeGees last blog post..Short Announcement

]]> By: Jason http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18516 Jason Thu, 29 May 2008 05:30:04 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18516 What price range would you guess big sites pay for their articles? For example, what would you guess askmen.com pays for each article? $20? $40? $100 I was thinking about offering $20 an article with the possibility of revenue sharing. I'm looking for high quality articles. Would you say $20 is too much? not enough? About right? Appreciate the post, btw! I'll give forums a shot. Jasons last blog post..<a href="http://www.trendspike.com/quick-update-on-trend-spike" rel="nofollow">Quick Update on Trend Spike</a> What price range would you guess big sites pay for their articles? For example, what would you guess askmen.com pays for each article? $20? $40? $100

I was thinking about offering $20 an article with the possibility of revenue sharing. I’m looking for high quality articles. Would you say $20 is too much? not enough? About right?

Appreciate the post, btw! I’ll give forums a shot.

Jasons last blog post..Quick Update on Trend Spike

]]> By: Work At Home Programs http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18512 Work At Home Programs Thu, 29 May 2008 02:51:11 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18512 Thx for sharting this info! I noticed no one has mentioned using free article sites like GoArticles, EZineArticles, ect. for their Niche. This is a great way to get original, fresh content about your topic free and edit it to make it your own. You can also leave the article as is - just remember to mention the authors name at the end of the article or blog post. Work At Home Programss last blog post..<a href="http://wahprograms.blogspot.com/2008/05/e-mail-processor-4-stars.html" rel="nofollow">E-Mail Processor - Earn Up To $750 Per Day Guaranteed</a> Thx for sharting this info! I noticed no one has mentioned using free article sites like GoArticles, EZineArticles, ect. for their Niche. This is a great way to get original, fresh content about your topic free and edit it to make it your own. You can also leave the article as is – just remember to mention the authors name at the end of the article or blog post.

Work At Home Programss last blog post..E-Mail Processor – Earn Up To $750 Per Day Guaranteed

]]> By: TCI http://www.johncow.com/content-creation-madness-day-6-cowpetition/#comment-18511 TCI Thu, 29 May 2008 01:43:16 +0000 http://www.johncow.com/?p=995#comment-18511 Hello all, I'd like some advise about the exact moment to launch this content into the chosen domain. I've noticed that if the words in phrase being searched match the domain or subdomain.domain or domain/folder exactly, google tends to push the site very high up initially. I guess some process there might lead the site to go down if the content is not good enough. That's where my question is. With Google indexing the first time, caching and not coming back until some weeks later, it worries me to 'trash' a good domain name by launching it with content that does not keep its intial good place in the ranking. It appears that there is only one chance to make a good first impression with the seach engine spiders. But waiting to have 'perfect' content can be a never ending discussion - especially if there is a partner involved... TCIs last blog post..<a href="http://www.att.co.cr/2008/05/twitter-huevocartoon.html" rel="nofollow"></a> Hello all,

I’d like some advise about the exact moment to launch this content into the chosen domain. I’ve noticed that if the words in phrase being searched match the domain or subdomain.domain or domain/folder exactly, google tends to push the site very high up initially. I guess some process there might lead the site to go down if the content is not good enough.

That’s where my question is. With Google indexing the first time, caching and not coming back until some weeks later, it worries me to ‘trash’ a good domain name by launching it with content that does not keep its intial good place in the ranking. It appears that there is only one chance to make a good first impression with the seach engine spiders.

But waiting to have ‘perfect’ content can be a never ending discussion – especially if there is a partner involved…

TCIs last blog post..

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