Okay, so remember a month ago when I started my second Q&A post and for each question that was asked, I would give a backlink? Well, after some additional weeks of procrastinating, I’m finally answering those questions and of course, giving you guys the well deserved backlinks!
Trent asked, “Reseller Hosting: Have you ever gotten into this, and if so, who do you use? I am looking into it and think HostGator is likely my choice, but I wanted to see what my peers used”
I think having a reseller hosting is a good idea, if you’re serious about it. I mean, you don’t pay much to begin with, like $7/month or something so it’s definitely worth it. Plus, it’s not like you need unlimited bandwidth or whatever.
I’m currently with Lunarpages and I’m pretty satisfied with it. And honestly, I can’t believe how quick their customer service gets back to me.
Busby SEO Test Dewaji asks, “I confuse, which one do I have to choose, do I have to target niche with high price or with a low price for my affiliate blog.
Sometimes I found niche with a high price have less competitor, and low price niche have high competition but we could sell something more often if I choose low price niche.
I hope you understand with my point.”
If you’re talking about affiliate marketing, I think it doesn’t really matter. I think you go with whatever works, not the payout amount. But honestly, I would target the one with less competition, of course. Though, you basically just want to go with the one that actually converts, in general.
How to Blog asks, “Seeing how you are going on 700 subscribers, I’m curious what your most successful strategy was, in getting new subscribers? What one strategy reaped the most rewards?”
Well, I think two of my strategies that I have tried to implement, somewhat, are converting my search engine traffic to RSS Feed Subscribers as well as my password protected posts. I think between the both of them, I probably gained somewhere on the lines of 400 subscribers.
I wrote an entire post about how I convert my search engine traffic to RSS Feed subscribers. And for the password protected post, it works almost similar to giving away eBooks to my subscribers but instead, they just need to continue to comeback to my site to read it rather than a one-time download and never come back.
Bruce asks, “I’ll ask one. Since you went through your little site selling exercise. Perhaps a good question would be to take a brief overview of what process you would take with building a blog just to sell.”
Well, it all depends but essentially you want to build a site that is unique (low competition), makes money and gets traffic. Of course, it never works out exactly like that so I try to aim for steady revenue or I try to do my keyword research and come up with a unique site.
For instance, our ListLunatic.com site barely made any money but we sold the site for a pretty decent chunk of change simply because there were no other sites like it.
But did you want a step-by-step process on how to build a blog to sell? Well, I have various posts that will help you with that. The main one would be “How I Built my Niche Websites” but that’s more towards just regular websites rather than blogs.
Blogs take a little more time to sell because you need articles, you need to build links, etc. But I heard if you build enough links, you can sell your blog for $9,500.
Sherry asks, “Here’s my question do you know how where to contact if the email account of hotmail have been hacked? I still looking for the answer.”
Honestly, I have no idea. Sorry.
Dele asks, “I see that you do PPC. So apart from Adword, what other PPC advertising do you use?
How often do you change your landing page (if you do)?”
Currently, I only use Adwords when I can. I was considering trying out Yahoo but I’m waiting for a higher price coupon to test out first. Also, I’ve been getting coupons to test out Facebook ads but I haven’t gotten a chance to do it yet.
As for the landing page, I haven’t changed any of mine, yet. I usually try to direct link it depending on the situation though.
The Blogoholic asks, “What is the most important factor to consider before buying a website?”
Well, I never bought a website before.
But there are various buyers looking for different things to when it comes to buying it. Most of them want some kind of revenue already because people have trouble monetizing. Though, some people buy it for traffic (particularly organic traffic), pagerank, the uniqueness and backlinks.
Also asked, “What do you think is more important? Writing for search engines or creating a community of loyal readers. Many say that the first accompanies the second, but I don’t think this is always true.”
It depends on what you’re aiming to do for the future. Personally, if I had a choice, I would aim for search engines because that’s where you make the money. And I’m assuming that’s what you’re talking about, right? Plus, if you work it right, you can convert all of them to subscribers as well… though, I can’t guarantee they’re “loyal readers” either.
GPS asks, “How many live websites to you maintain?
How many domain names do you own?”
Live websites? Um, maybe like 7 or 8? I think? As for domain names that I own, I just looked over all of them recently and I think I own between 20-30 total.
Thanks to everyone for asking a question! If I missed your question, just ask again as a comment here and I’ll add it to this list.




I personally think the method of gaining “e-mail subscribers through eBooks or password protected posts (as you have mentioned) is somewhat wrong.
Basically, if you have never received that person as a subscriber initially, what makes you think they would want to subscribe. I’m not basing this on your blog, but the blogosphere as a whole (blogs that use this strategy).
At times it makes me wonder would the subscriber be constantly engaging in your articles or is it just a +1 in a e-mail database.
That’s Awesome Jay thanks. I’ve read the other post and it’s really helpful. I’ll have to conduct a study and see the results of doing a password protected post. I really appreciate these QA posts.
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thank you for being honest with the answer. I still cannot access the account
. By the way my first contest has start http://iluvcontest.blogspot.com/2008/12/win-68000ec-at-iluvcontest-first.html
I’ve bought a few websites before. What I would say is that you need to make sure you look over the site in a lot of detail. Study the backlinks and see where they are coming from. Make sure you sniff out any paid links.
Also, make sure you are dealing with someone trustworthy so you don’t lose a lot of money!
John
Hey Jay,
I have a question (obviously I don’t need a link back as I missed the boat on that one !) .
‘When attempting to promote a forum or community websites, are there any methods that you know/have found to be particularly effective in gaining quality visitors ?’
I wrote a post on how offering ‘Post 2 Host’ might be used to achieve this, and thought i would expand it into a full guide, covering a number of different methods.
Cheers
Hugo
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Thanks Jason for answering my question
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Nice post Jason. Some common questions and nice answers
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These are some great questions and answers. Nice to see a blogger actually answering the questions of his readers. Must bloggers fail to do this.
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Great round of q and A…. Here’s my question to you:”why don’t you get a better theme for your blog? Im not saying the theme is ugly, but there are a lot of greater-looking themes for great blogs.
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Some good advice there, one answer even led me to a post about how to convert search engine traffic to RSS subscribers.
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I have another question, maybe save up for later. Its about is it too many comments from the same blog will be penalized by google?
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Hey Jay.
Been busy lately so not checked your blog as regularly as I would have liked!
I’m finding it difficult to even keep one domain maintained. How do you do? Good time management has always been something I’ve found hard. Has anyone got any tips or pointers!?
Stan
I’ve missed this QA session. What a pity…
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yeah, i can learn from the A & Q.
you have good method of sharing.