Sure, I do believe blogging with offshoot directories or mini-sites attached as income sources work – I do this on a lot of my own sites. But again, how you approach the market, how you measure up to (or differ from) your competition’s reach and efforts, and how you will attain readership should be pre-determined and assessed.

This is part of working smart. There are only so many hours in a day, and so many products/competitors one market might sustain.

Again, there is no one size fits all, right for every market answer…you ask for a specific recommendation and I simply can’t give one without knowing and/or assessing your target market. To attempt to do so would do you a great disservice in this new Web 2.0 world.

Laura Childs

I don’t think there’s one right answer for your question. I think every business should be assessed first – looking at saturation, competition, and target market – and a strategy determined from that point.

I do believe in blogging – and would say that it is right for most markets as long as it is right for the business owner. I also believe that a standalone mini-site is not enough anymore, to make an online business viable.

So, no right or wrong answer, no one size fits all. Times have changed…and are still on the move.

Laura

Couldn’t say for certain on a salesletter mini-site.

Minisites have become increasingly difficult to get traffic to due to the nature of internet surfers today.

There’s just so little to interest them, make them want to discuss, etc. re: a sales letter or mini site.

This is really social proof on steriods.

Have a look at the top traffic websites in the last year. Google used to be right up top. Things have changed.

I’m saying it’s time to get out of the box with your business and meet your market ‘cuz they aren’t about to just wander onto a sales letter site anymore.

If you need to drive traffic to a minisite you’ll need people (your army of affiliates) or content elsewhere (that intrigues and interests people enough to get them to keep their fingers still long enough to read a sales letter).

The web is interactive and that’s the way people are choosing to spend their online time now. It’s not the day of google/keyword/pitch/buy any more. They don’t want to be sold. They don’t want to be read to. They want a conversation and they want to be part of the sales process.

RSS Feeds are still a part, but it’s a small part…

There is a side of Web 2.0 that boosts rank in the search engines but truly, that is secondary.

It’s a whole new way of thinking and building sites and selling.

Laura

Are you saying that web 2.0 can bring lots of targetted traffic to my online saleletter…

If I can offer quality info?

Does Web 2.0 increase the PR of your site for cetain keywords?

The New Stampede Secret is supporting research that the search engines aren’t where the traffic is anymore, and how to get in the flow of your target market using Web 2.0 (social media).

PR, SEO, etc. is secondary in this version of Stampede Secret.

I don’t know who else might have the information you’re looking for, but I’ll keep my eyes out for you…

Laura

However, I want to use RSS feeds together with a content rewriter and a search engine cloaker to boost the pagerank of my cloaked pages.

I can use my rewritten content with keywords for my RSS feeds.

Basically I would have the search engine cloaker on a different domain name & IP address redirecting traffic to my online salesletter.

Do you understand what I am aiming to do?

I would ruin my salesletter if I try to optimize it with keywords for the search engine.

There are too many keywords that I need to use to attract traffic to my salesletter.

Basically I am trying to use RSS feeds along with Search Engine Cloaker as an alternative to pay per click advertising or as a supplement to PPC.

I love reading your info as you have a way of simplifying things.

The Stampede Secret sat on the site for 2 years. It was never a membership website. It was a pdf with some extra resources for marketers who didn’t have the basics down (keyword research, competition research, etc.) behind password protection on the site.

I stopped selling The Stampede Secret (which was only ever about RSS Feeds) 7 months ago. The membership area was up until 5 months ago. Even if you had been my last customer you still would have had access to all the extra resources (should you have required them) two months after purchase.

Please remember, the old product was a pdf that dealt primarily with RSS Feeds.

The internet has changed dramatically. The knowledge you had ‘then’ will not serve you as well in the coming years. Actually it probably doesn’t even serve you well now. People are using the web differently. They are finding sites and services and products they like differently. As such a new plan for website traffic must be defined.

The New Stampede Secret only takes a cursury glance at RSS Feeds, and a small check of blogs. The thrust of the report and tip sheets are about social media and strategy.

If you wanted the old Stampede Secret that you paid for, honestly, you might have saved it to your hard drive last year. The reminder to do so has been on the download page as far back as 2004.

The new Stampede Secret is not an upsell. This is an entirely new product, for advanced marketing and strategists, blogging consultants and niche market business owners.

Doug I do remember consulting with you quite a while back. If I remember your business, available time, and long term objectives correctly, this product is likely not for you.

Have a great day.

Laura

My partner and I bought the original Stampede Secret and paid the full price for it. But now it’s taken down and replaced with an upsell?

What if we still want to get into the original Stampede Secret that we paid for?

Surely you’re not suggesting that we have no other choice but to pay for this new version, and that we can no longer access the old one that we paid for?

Doug Robinson