Yahoo’s Site Explorer Going Away … Soon
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Local Online Marketing, Marketing, Niche Marketing, Online Marketing, Ranking, seo
Back in July of 2011, Yahoo! announced that they’re going to be shutting down their popular Site Explorer tool used in the past by many website owners to help determine the link popularity of their competitors.
This is largely due to transitioning to the Microsoft search platform.
Once the transition is complete for all markets (it currently is complete for the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil and Mexico), they’ll shut down the Site Explorer Tool.
The Site Explorer API has fed many websites data for years so it will be interesting to see how it pans out for many of them. That said however, there are multiple “independent” sites out there (independent meaning not search-engine related), that will get this same kind of information for you and Majestic SEO is one of those companies.
Majestic SEO has their own “Majestic Site Explorer” something that they’ve worked on for years and now that Site Explorer is heading into the technology graveyard, you can bet that many people will be transitioning themselves to the Majestic tool.
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A Few FAQ’s About Kristine…for friends, family and well, anyone else :-)
Filed under: Facebook, Google, Internet Marketing, Local Online Marketing, Niche Marketing, Online Marketing, twitter
So often I get asked the question “What exactly do you do?” and most often this question comes from friends and family members. If you work online yourself, and you’re reading this, I’m sure that you get these same kinds of questions, and they’re not often easy to answer are they?
Unless your business runs solely online, you probably get some odd looks from time to time when you say “I’m an affiliate marketer” or “I run niche websites.” Most often, these answers are met with a blank and confusing stare. And there’s nothing wrong with that, not at all! If someone came up to me and said “I’m a Comb Capper” I’d probably give them a pretty blank stare myself.
(A Comb Capper is someone who hacks off the top of honeycombs in order to get to the honey inside of a hive. And yes, I had to look that up!)
But what I’ve found is for those folks who don’t work on the Internet, it can be a little difficult to understand exactly what we do and how we can turn a job out of it.
So for those of you with tons of curiosity, here’s the 30-foot view of my “job” online. Although I don’t really think of it as a “job” since I truly love doing what I do.
My primary job is that of owning and operating WirthMarketing.com which helps local businesses get found by current and potential customers online. You can either hire me to do the work, consult with you, or come to speak to your business about it.
As a matter of fact, local businesses are gaining SO MUCH steam online, and there is such a mass amount of confusion surrounding local online marketing, I’ve also decided to…
…create an online video course specifically for local businesses. This video course takes local business owners step-by-step through the entire process of getting their business online. From adding their businesses to Google and Bing, to getting listed in the Yellow Pages online, to creating a website and optimizing it so that the search engines can find it and show it to who really matters…their current and potential customers. (wow! that’s a run-on sentence isn’t it?)
On top of that, I’m writing a book on this exact same topic. This will either be available at your local bookstore (provided someone finds it important enough to publish) and if not, I’ll still add it to Amazon for download.
Since I’ve worked online for so long (initially part-time from 1996-2000) and full-time since the year 2000), and worked for companies such as Working Mother Magazine (mainly doing their back-end PHP programming and database work), I’ve created dozens if not hundreds of websites all focusing on specific niches.
Some of these sites worked well, and others not so well, but, such is the life of working online. I make money from these websites by recommending products that people may be interested in; if someone is interested in a product I talk about, and they subsequently buy it, then I make a commission. This online, is referred to as “affiliate marketing”, offline it’s referred to as a “salesman” (or woman). 
Sometimes people don’t even have to buy a product, all they need to do is click on a link from an ad on one of my pages, and I make money. Not as much, mind you, but it’s still another source of income.
During these years online I became extremely interested in how search engines like Google ranked websites.
Just building a website is not enough. Not by any stretch of the imagination.
And, me, being as analytical as I am, became very curious as to what search engines like Google and Bing found to be “important” when determining how to rank websites. Again, I found a lot of confusion online from website owners about this topic and so I created BoneheadSEO.com which is currently in hiatus (because I’m busy creating the local online marketing course), but will soon be revived with much up to date information. You can read some of my past blog posts here.
My other website at KristineWirth.com (which is where you’re reading this at), currently gets tens of thousands of views per month. And is a blog that focuses on online marketing in general, as well as affiliate marketing.
My “Main” website which is the hub to all of the aforementioned sites (aside from my niche websites), is KristineWirth.net (and this is brand-spanking new). I needed a “mothership” if you will that let people have a one-stop access to all of my sites. This way, whomever stops by can pick and choose what they want to read about, whether that be local marketing, online marketing in general, affiliate marketing, or search engine optimization.
Now, you’ll often see me post on Facebook and my Facebook Page information that may seem a little strange to you. This is because in both of these places there are many people in the same kind of industry that I am. About 80% of the time, the updates that I make in these locations is information that I believe is helpful to them and their online businesses.
Sometimes too, you’ll see me make updates that contain weird little characters such as “@” and “#”. The @ symbol is a symbol used on Twitter in order to refer to someone else. So if your name on Twitter was “JohnDoe” I would reference you in my Twitter update by using your name on Twitter (@JohnDoe). The hash symbol, or “pound” sign (#) is what’s called a hash mark on Twitter and this is used whenever you want to reference something in particular.
For example, recently, I used the hash tag of #bss11 which references an online blogging event that will have speakers who are considered very powerful and popular people in my industry.
Those who are attending or speaking at this event also use this hash tag whenever they’re referencing the same event. That way, anyone who is interested in the event can look up the hash tag on Twitter and see all of the updates about it.
In an effort to streamline my updates so that I’m not having to visit each individual source and make updates for hours on end, I use two separate programs; Amplify and Hootsuite. Sometimes it just depends on my mood which one I use. These programs allow me to update all over the Internet by making one single post which is why you sometimes see the @ symbol and the # symbol in my updates at Facebook especially. These are specific references to Twitter.
In a nutshell, I live and work online.
Someone once said to me “Wow, you’re on Facebook a lot.” Which is true. I’m on Twitter a lot too. The best explanation for this is that the Internet IS my office. Much like others leave for work in the morning and head off to their office building, I head to my own home office, fire up my computer and my laptop and get to work.
So I hope that helps to answer any questions anyone has about me and why you always seem to see me online. If you do, it means that I’m “in my office working”.
Micro Niche Finder
I am personally a huge believer in micro niche’s and was very impressed to see this new software come along called Micro Niche Finder that allows you to find those small, untapped niches that aren’t as saturated online.
A micro niche, is nothing more than a smaller section of a niche market.
For example: Dogs (large competitive market) -> Dog Training (niche market; still competitive) -> Dog potty training (micro niche market).
- If you’re tired of fighting tooth and nail just to earn a couple of bucks online.
- If you’re tired of paying outrageous PPC costs.
- If you’re tired of not seeing your website anywhere near the top search results.
- If you’re tired of wasting time online manually trying to find just the *right* market.
Then micro niche marketing might just be what you’re looking for.
Why does this matter? Well…
- A smaller market (also known as a niche market) lets you tap into those tiny sections of space online that relatively few people are competing for.
- This means you have a much greater chance of not only ranking well online for that niche, but also generating an income from that niche*.
Here’s where the problem lies right now with most online marketers and this is a pattern that gets repeated day after day…
- They see that there’s a market online that they’d like to get into. They’ve heard that person A has made a killing in that market so they’d like to grab a piece of that pie too.
- They create a website, start marketing it, and after weeks (maybe even months) of hard work, they’re website is nowhere near the top 10 in the search results.
- So they’ll look to PPC marketing.
- They’ll write some ads, and start to get some traffic to their website in the hopes of generating some income.
- But they soon find out that this market they heard was so great is costing them a fortune in advertising costs.
- And eventually they give up and move on to another pasture.
You, as a newcomer, will need to fight tooth and nail likely for months if not years to get your name known within a competitive market.
That’s why niche markets; specifically micro niches are so appealing.
And that’s why this product, Micro Niche Finder is so helpful.
It will help you locate those tiny little niches that few people have tapped into allowing you to do things such as:
- Earn commissions by promoting niche products.
- Make residual monthly ad revenue.
- Create products of your own within the niche to sell.
- Above all, SAVE TIME by letting this software find those niche markets for you so that you can actually get to work instead of wasting time researching.
The Micro Niche Finder website has a variety of videos that you can watch if you’d like to see how the software works.
(Note that the links below will take you to the opt-in page to view the videos)
Video #1:
Create Simple Little One Page Articles to Promote Affiliate Products that Pay you Regular Commissions.
Video #2:
Exploit Yahoo Answers for Easy Affiliate Commissions
Video #3:
Create Niche Market Private Label Rights Packages and Sell these for a Quick Profit
Video #4:
Create Squidoo Lenses and claim your share of the profits generated by the traffic.
Video #5:
How to Find and Exploit Hot New Trends for Quick Profits
And if that wasn’t enough…
He’s also offering four bonuses with the software as well.
There’s also an additional piece of software that he sells which works very well with the Micro Niche Finder software. It is a separate product at a separate price (which is ridiculously low by the way), but it gives you over 27,000 PLR (Private Label Rights) articles that…as the product owner states…
“They’re yours to do with as you want.”
Click here to view the PLR software at it’s low cost.
* Obviously the amount of money you make depends on a wide variety of factors. This depends upon the amount of work you put into your business, your ability, experience, education, market trends, the search engines, and many more personal and external factors. No guarantee is made or otherwise implied that you will earn any amount of money from a micro niche market.
** The links within this blog post are sponsored.
