ask questions round 7

Has Google changed the way they are indexing sites? My traffic has dropped from 3k to 100 visitors per day on one of my other sites and I can’t figure out why.

Wanna come to Australia for a beer?

I am always stuck with this one, which is the best ppc network according to you?

And if one more, who is your favorite blogger?

what keyword research tools do you use?

Do you still do ringtones through PPC?

Since I run a real estate site, do you recommend using subdomains to target micro-niches off of my main site or use their own domains?

In your opinion, what is the most important thing for a new blogger to do to make their blog successful?

When the do you think is the best time to start affiliate Marketing, Any Tips ?

How can I make my personal blog gain more traffic?

20 years from now, (In your own opinion) what will happen to the blogging industry? Will it still exist? or extinct?

How many employees do you have, have you had to do any firing of staff and if so, did you do it or did you get someone else to do it for you?

What percentage of your day is spent doing what? For example, how much time do you allocate to health and fitness, how much to eating, how much to playing with family, how much cleaning the house, how much to thinking of new ideas, how much to working on current ideas.

I ask because I feel I’m not putting in enough concentration to certain parts of my life and I’d like to know how someone who is as successful as you does it.

Thanks Jeremy.

What kind of market research do you do for your sites and what is the process you go through before starting a new one? Especially for your authority sites like fighters.com.

Keyword research for SEO/PPC?
Throw it at the wall and see what sticks?
Surveys and interviews?

Hi shoe,

Quick question: What inspires you? Me, personally, I have my incredible wife and daughter to thank for helping to inspire me. Is it the same for you?

Thanks for your time. I look forward to hearing from you.

Steve

ShoeMoney, what are your thoughts about how search engines will impact one’s personal brand in the future? If an individual doesn’t have a unique name such as Mike Smith, do they have a chance at being found?

When you started with your “money making online” journey, Which was the first job you outsourced and why?

How many shirts have you received from Free Shirt Friday? Do you wear them? Can you show us how do you store them?

When starting a new blog, what criteria do you consider before choosing a niche?

Outside of MMA fighting, what are your other favorite sports to watch? Favorite Teams?

Is it true that Rick Ashley is never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you, Never gonna make you cry, Never gonna say goodbye, Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you?

Name one thing you did terribly wrong before you got successful on the net?

I remember a while back you started a bans store (I think for shoes) how is that doing?

What are the side-effects of blogging ? How many hours per day you work on net ?

great, finally i got a chance..
What is the major source of your income ? and from which site ? Do you work on PPC for affiliates ? Which is the best affiliate network - seriously !! ?

Thanks

Which pant leg do you put on first in the morning? The left or the right?

Would you ever try your hand on a show like “the apprentice”? How well do you think you would do if you went on it?

Do you think any UFC fighters are taking any sort of illegal performance-enhancing substance? Which fighters/what substances do you think?

Thanks

Why do you think that, more often than not, the quality of content in the massively popular blogs seems to have deteriorated exponentially with their success? Is it that our expectations have been raised, or that their motivations have changed?

I have a long term goal in mind. By the time you’re ready to get rid of it I may have reached my goal…. wanna sell me your used H2?

Who will win? BJ Penn or GSP?

What will it take for you to mentor me?

First of all, How you Doing? Second, based on affiliate marketing…did you consider right jump from network to network looking for the best payout? Should this be the first factor to consider?

Which site that you’ve developed are you most proud of and why?

why my post never seem to get posted?

what percentage of your visitors come from “social marketing” advertising? We are launching a huge campaign at this market as of June and am just wondering what your experience with this growing market has taught you? Thanks.

Hey shoe! i am very new to blogging & have came to know about you & your site just now a days , i wanna know about the history of your almighty Blog, How does it get started , please give me a brief answer if you can?? PLZZZZZZZ….

Best way to increase traffic?

Besides Warren Buffett, if you could build a business centered mastermind group of 4-6 individuals, who would you choose?

How do you think gas prices will affect ecommerce / online sales for clothes?

Will people buy clothes online more because they don’t want to pay for gasoline or do you think they will shop at the local stores to avoid shipping charges?

How do you think gas prices will affect online clothing sales?

Will people buy online more because they don’t want to pay for gasoline or will people buy locaclly more because they don’t want to pay for shipping?

Is affiliate success all depends on PPC marketing ?? Can a blog earn from affiliate ?

Do you like my site? http://www.stakloaded.net

Many affiliates still report huge tracking issues with EPN especially with ACRUs. Many of them have revenues much less than what they had with CJ! I’ve seen some members on DP blame you for their losses. What do you think about all of this? Are you in position to let the right people know about this problem, so that it actually gets fixed?

How many domains do you manage overall(approx. number ok) and do you speculate in domains at all(buy and resell)?

Thanks

What’s your advice for monetizing a site that has quite a lot of traffic and good rep but very little text content getting very poor context matching from google ads.

quite a lot of traffic = approx 1,000,000 pageviews / week, PR5, Alexa:120,000

if you feel this is too generic a question to answer, please do tell what’s missing from being able to at least say where to start. Thanks.

…what kind of car do you drive?

Shoe i have got couple tiny questions for you.
1. Do you think Blogging has a future for making serious money?
2. What would be the best business for Indian’s - Would it be eCommerce, Affiliates or Blogging depending on the future since ringtones, affiliates dont work for indian products/networks.
3. Why does Johnchow.com blog offer other than his food related posts, self promotion & freebies posts which he get!

In your “As Success Grows Opportunities Shrink” post you mentioned that there are an extraordinary amount of opportunities to make 100$ per day and that you can think of 50 off the top of your head. Could you at least share the top 10 for all of us wannabes?

For client sites that need RSS & ability to easily update/publish…

a) Joomla
b) Drupal
or
c) Wordpress (static index or /blog subdir implementation)

-S

You said recently that you have advertised on radio for fighters.com. Do you think this will yield an ROI? Other than editorial, what features will you be adding to the site?

when was your last time in europe?

Did you see the new indiana jones movie? What did you think, if you did?

Are you going to Affiliate Summit in Boston?

Are you building/working on any social media / web 2.0 websites?

What is the number one thing in a pitch that turns you off it? (in terms of the job done by the presenter)

what was your biggest mistake while working on the web?

Nowadays you have employees but you started alone, right?. When did you realise you needed them?

When you started NextPimp.com what did you find was the best way to draw traffic to it? Was it easy to get traffic to the site because of the service you offered? Lastly, do you compensate the forum moderators, and if not, why do they do it?

What would you regard as the essential tools for any blogger ?

Are you a gamer?

Which is better text links or banners, or does it depend on your niche?

Why do you only accept job applications from people who already live in Nebraska? Some people like me, for example, would love the opportunity to work for you and would actually move to Nebraska if they job was available.

Shoe, I have a kid at my school that looks 99% as you when you were a bit fat, where should I send you the pic ?

Best wishes,
Scorpiono

What is ShoeMoneys fave thing to eat ?

why do you think traffic is dropping so fast to shoemoney.com I also noticed johnchow.com dropped fast, I dont think it’s due to summer being here.

I’ve always wondered, as a succesful publisher, do you concern yourself with the advertising success (roi) of your advertisers, or you do just think of yourself and providing a good clickthroug rate?

Which is the best advertising network to outsource the management of my display advertising to? Is Google best at this now through its subsidiary double click? What sort of commission do they take? It seems to me this would be much easier than to source and manage advertisers myself.

When you played MMORPGs, which ones did you play primarily? I attribute much of my interest in the internet to MMORPGs; same for you or no?

have you ever smoked weed ?

When you create a PPC campaign, do you create a landing site for each adgroup?

Is it a given that, if you create 1000 aff sites you will make a living? Or, will the management, hosting, dev, etc costs outweigh the profits?

How do you anticipate Fighters competing with firmly entrenched giants like MMA.tv and sherdog’s afterbirth of a site?

OK, mainly MMA.tv… sherdog is a pile…

Why do you pick questions that you don’t have an answer for when you do q and a sessions?

Is it OK to give the impression that your new website is run by a team of people when in reality it is just yourself sitting in your basement?