Originally Posted by WAL08

Maybe because the title of the thread is "$3,000 in 45 days + $2,000 in 30 days + $600 in 3 days..."


Okay, The information in this thread is great, don't get me wrong. I just feel it's a little misleading. He has stated that you can flip these sites over and over again for hundreds of dollars and thousands as the title states..but realistically you can't exactly build a blog then a week later sell it for hundreds of dollars..and do that a million times over..based on past history at the selling places listed in this forum these blogs are not selling for more then 100bucks and that's GOOD ($100)

Originally Posted by JNFerree

Where did you Sell / Auction these sites?

• eBay
• Sitepoint
• Other

Thanks,

Originally Posted by jay68

Hi Kneb,

I bought your book the other day and I 'm hooked. Thank you so much and I 'm still amazed at all the information you shared.

PD is still very new to me. I 've been digging for some books at Worldcat and will you please clarify something for me? When I specifically search for a book using a keyword phrase, I 'll add the dates from 1800 - 1922 to the keyword phrase. A number of book titles come up. I click on them but then I see the Publishing dates as in the 1980's or 1990's. I 'm not sure if I 'm doing the right thing here but how do I know for sure that the book is Public Domain before I head over to the library.

Thanks ahead for your time and help!

Originally Posted by WAL08

Maybe because the title of the thread is "$3,000 in 45 days + $2,000 in 30 days + $600 in 3 days..."


Okay, The information in this thread is great, don't get me wrong. I just feel it's a little misleading. He has stated that you can flip these sites over and over again for hundreds of dollars and thousands as the title states..but realistically you can't exactly build a blog then a week later sell it for hundreds of dollars..and do that a million times over..based on past history at the selling places listed in this forum these blogs are not selling for more then 100bucks and that's GOOD ($100)

Originally Posted by linguistics

BTW:
Here's something which I do not think was addressed, and if it was, it would be good to reiterate for the later readers.

Example, Say i have this

Nice blog on a great niche

Blog is doing well for 1 month (great traffic, good feedback, adsense, amazon, clickbank)

I decide to sell the blog and my main advertising edge is that the blog has good income and already has clickbank links, adsense, amazon affiliate links...etc.

When I sell/flip this blog, what happens to my own affiliate links, click bank links, all the whole likes? If my selling point is the money that my links have generated, wouldn't i have to sell my rights to all income and all of my links...but, in doing that, will I not have to give out personal info which relates to my registration of all of my affiliate accounts?

Originally Posted by SteelyDan

When you flip the blog or a standard html site, the new owner simply switches out your code with their code.

Originally Posted by tj

Shameless bribe on: In case that someone has books that needs to be scanned and to converted into Word Files, I offer that service at bookscanning.com--Document Imaging Services by BookScanning.com . Shameless bribe off

OK, now here is also a quick tip to find quick public domain material with Google's help:

Let's say you're searching for public domain material in the Gardening area

Go to Googles Advanced Book Search at:

Google Books Advanced Book Search

Limit the search to : "Full View Only"

Select the Publishing Date between: 1880 and 1922 (It returns the content published in that time frame)

and you will get a result similar to this one

Gardening date:1880-1922 - Google Book Search Gardening date:1880-1922 - Google Book Search

A lot of the results are downloadable as pdf file or as text files.

Please let me know if you have questions and

Good Hunting

Timo

Originally Posted by linguistics

Yes, that would be the choice to make...

I was just wanting to point out that it would be good to tell people that they need their own affiliate links and the whole set up before purchasing the blog...

I know a few asked it, and I had my answer the same as yours but wasn't for sure if it would be the correct way to go about it.

Originally Posted by linguistics

BTW:
Here's something which I do not think was addressed, and if it was, it would be good to reiterate for the later readers.

Example, Say i have this

Nice blog on a great niche

Blog is doing well for 1 month (great traffic, good feedback, adsense, amazon, clickbank)

I decide to sell the blog and my main advertising edge is that the blog has good income and already has clickbank links, adsense, amazon affiliate links...etc.

When I sell/flip this blog, what happens to my own affiliate links, click bank links, all the whole likes? If my selling point is the money that my links have generated, wouldn't i have to sell my rights to all income and all of my links...but, in doing that, will I not have to give out personal info which relates to my registration of all of my affiliate accounts?

Originally Posted by SteelyDan

... But I think in IM we are a little too paranoid about duplicate content sometimes, but it matters what you want to accomplish.
....

Originally Posted by Bishop81

The whole duplicate content thing has been clearly explained several times, but people still worry too much about it. Duplicate Content only matters if it's on the same domain. If you have 2 different sites with the same content on it, then it just doesn't matter. I've been using PLR articles that I know aren't unique on a site and it hasn't negatively affected the site at all. The only thing I do is change the title in order to target more highly searched keywords.

Seriously, don't worry so much about stuff and just do something. Anything. People spend way too much time worrying about "What if's" and "What about's". Just start doing something and if something happens, then change your approach. Chances are, you might even earn a couple dollars in the process.

I've followed trends and tried proxy sites, site flipping, blogs, etc... With each thing I've done, I may not have earned much, but I've LEARNED something. Whether it's about internet marketing, other people, technologies involved, or even myself and my skills, I always learn something. That's the most important thing. If you have concerns, then just try something and see what happens. If you don't have money to risk, then earn it. Find ways to earn it without spending anything. Eventually, you're going to have to try, and you're going to have to fail.

I just recently read an ebook on site flipping and it had some great information in it, along with great examples. I've sold sites for up to $450, so I know that it can be done. I thought this would be a great attempt at something new for me, and possibly a nice monthly income. Well, I outsourced the articles rather cheaply, bought a logo for the site, and then built it and posted it on sitepoint. I actually did this with 2 sites at the same time. I spent about $60 on each site, hoping to sell it for $179. After a week, I dropped the price, and then again after another week. I couldn't even sell them for $75. What was the problem? The niche was good (both in the same one), the articles were decent, the ad copy was decent (I thought), and the design was very nice. Was it the market? Other people were selling similar types of sites and others weren't. Was it the time of year? It was in November, but people were still selling sites for similar prices.

When all is said and done, though, I'm still glad that I took the risk. The sites have brought in a few dollars through adsense, and I know that they will be decent earners once I put a little more effort into them. I learned that I probably need to get better articles up, and do my keyword research when asking for articles instead of just saying "write about whatever you want in this niche". I also found a couple other great plugins that I started using. I'm sure there's other stuff, but my point is this. You'll never learn anything about what you're doing, or about yourself until you try.

Just don't get hung up on little things. Don't worry so much about where you're going to sell a site, or who's going to buy it, or what's going to happen when they do buy it, or even how do I get traffic to my new site? Those questions can all be answered after you do the first step. Take Action.

If you build what you believe to be a quality site and it doesn't sell, then build it bigger and earn more money from it. If you don't know how to get traffic to your site then do some research. This forum is loaded with traffic generation techniques. The biggest thing is to just start doing something.

Originally Posted by Kneb Knebaih

What about making "$2,000 in 3 days with Youtube and PD government information" ?

Originally Posted by The Wanderer

Not necessarily, at least, not in the US. According to the Copyright Act of 1976, copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 50 years, or 75 years for a work of corporate authorship. The Copyright Term Extension of 1998 added another 20 years to both of those terms, so it is now the life of the author plus 70 years,or 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication for corporate authorship. You can find the specifics of these laws by googling 'US copyright law'. The law prior to the 1976 law was passed in 1909 and allowed for 28 year copyrights which could be renewed for another 28 years. That means that some works before 1923 would have still been covered by copyright in 1976, when the law changed.

Originally Posted by ibconsultants

Ok can we get this clarified please????

Ty

Adrainne

Originally Posted by SteelyDan

Bishop is absolutely right.

We get way too scared by what others say and use that as a crutch not to take action.

I do that myself sometimes and lose out. It is much easier to listen to a bunch of people how this can't be done or that can't be done and then don't do it.

Spend a few hours testing an assumption you always heard in IM and see for yourself if it's a fact or myth.

Originally Posted by jbreezy

Cool...so basically with the world cat we just find a good book or books to use...copy the hard copy book into digital format...and then start selling that niche to customers. it sounds pretty straight forward to me.

or am i leaving something out?

I already have a student loan blog set up..and will attempt to duplicate the results one of your students has had. i'll keep everyone post on my results.

-jb

Originally Posted by Musika

Hi Kneb,

....I'm still going to try it :-) I just don't understand the logic behind it....

Originally Posted by Musika

Hi Kneb,

...But later on you suggested to someone that they find a *physical* copy of a PD book and transcribe that book and post it on the internet. . .

Originally Posted by PeterGF

A quick query:

If using public domain material for blog post and articles - is the there a chance that it may be flagged as duplicate content as it's already online?

Any thoughts?

(Sorry if this has already been discussed but this such a large thread I may have missed it!)

Originally Posted by PeterGF

Thanks for the thoughts Timo.

What I am looking at here is the option to use PD material for blogs and articles instead of PLR and the re-writing that is required with it.

....

Has anyone used PD material 'as it stands' and had it ranked as original content?

Thansk.

Peter

Originally Posted by PeterGF

A quick query:

If using public domain material for blog post and articles - is the there a chance that it may be flagged as duplicate content as it's already online?

Any thoughts?

(Sorry if this has already been discussed but this such a large thread I may have missed it!)

Originally Posted by Kneb Knebaih

All the Federal Government works ARE in the Public Domain, by law.

So yes, you can use any content from that site in any way you want...


There you have it: millions of great content, professionally written, already researched... ready-made products for you to use...

Nothing to do with your usual PLR and RR stuff... this is simply another level... the Major League.


If there´s one good thing about Government, is precisely this one.



That´s what the 4th case study was all about

Originally Posted by Scott Burton

One caveat to this, however, is that something reproduced by the Government, not created/published by the government are NOT automatically in the Public Domain. They may be subject to copyright or other protections, and used by the government with permission or under license.

Originally Posted by tj

Hi Scott,

thanks for the post. That kind of information is found usually in the credits the publishing agency posts on their site or in case of pdf's - then in the pdf. Also still needs to be mentioned again that state government stuff can be under the protection of copyright.

Timo