The bottom line is I am glad that 2009 is over. As far as I am concerned it was a bad year for business all over. I think we face a lot of competition in the online advertising industry and although there are more advertisers doing business on the web it seems they are spending less per ad spot. The average cost per click on my sites has dropped and I am making less money on all of my websites.

I think I first noticed the overall increase in competition back in 2006 when I got out of e-commerce and drop shipping because there were literally a zillion copy cat websites selling the same crap. I had scraper sites that were stealing my content that were ranking better than me in a top niche that used to be mine and mine alone and I’m seeing a lot of the same stuff again this year. Achieving a top ranking for two keyword phrases like “moving company” used to be much easier and today it’s even hard to get a good rank for the more targeted key phrase”fort lauderdale moving company” which is also probably easier to convert to a lead I can sell.

There is always money to be made online and I am sure people in the credit, foreclosure and careers niches are doing well with spikes in traffic but I missed out on that one. I have done very well over the years with the housing, relocation and home services markets which are taking a beating nationwide and the drop in traffic reflects the drop in my earnings on sites that have been consistent money makers for 6 or 7 years now. I remember being top ranked for the term modular homes in 2004 and 2005 and bringing in some heavy traffic. Today the same ranking is nice to have but nowhere nearly as profitable as it has been for me.

The relocation industry has always been a strong point in my portfolio but the decline in home sales has dried up all the leads I was able to generate and the earnings there are almost nonexistent now. I dropped some new projects I had planned in the moving and relocation industry because I don’t see much hope for changes in that market for at least two years.

Whats new? I think local seo is the way to go for 2010. I think I’ll rethink my ideas on not having clients and I’ll take on some local search marketing work with small business owners in Ocala Florida where we are living for the next two or more years. It has been three plus years since I last had clients and I don’t even know what I’ll be able to find for work locally but I know that spending on organic search optimization and pay per click campaign management is steadily moving up as website owners look for verifiable gains from their advertising budgets.

I have lots of experience in ppc bid management and online advertising management and I think I would be a very valuable asset as an Ocala search engine marketing consultant for any number of Florida business owners. I’m making some changes to this site to reflect the various search marketing services I offer and I am looking forward to hearing more from other Ocala Florida webmasters or small business managers who are looking to get more from online advertising. So any Ocala business owners who want to hire a reliable and professional internet marketing consultant can contact Affordable Web Pro with ideas you have for marketing your business.

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I’m tired of having some domains that have been parked for over 2 years now as I was never able to get them all developed and now I want to go back and build out the rest of my domain portfolio. I need to hire a web savvy person locally to train to manage some of this work load for me because with over 500 domains and 350+ sites to manage I’m overwhelmed already.

I have been partial to building blogs lately and I guess I’ll probably keep doing the same thing with lots of new blogs for my keyword targeted domains. I’ll need some content writers to spin up some new articles for these blogs because I can’t write much more than I am already. I think I’m burned out and I have found many of my articles are starting to sound the same.

Anyone want to write a few thousand articles for me?

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I’m traveling abroad for the summer and my next few posts will come to you fro Jamaica. I’m here on an extended vacation and I’m looking into opening up a business here as well. I would like to open an Office for my Florida Coropration here in Negril Jamaica and register the company with the Jamaican Governement. I’m already working on securing the necessary documents and I’m hoping to have things sorted within the next two weeks.

I think Jamaica will be good for my business and the ability to hire English speaking professionals at a fraction of the rate I would pay back home is awesome. I’ve already met with some Jamaica webdevelopers and we’re exploring ideas and looking at how I can integrate some of these guys and their talents into my business. This is outsourcing at it’s finest and I’ll be tracing the steos for the blog. Look for more details and tips in web development from Jamaica soon come.

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Working from home on my PC is great and I have my home computer set to handle my online business just fine. I have increased the RAM and tweaked some settings to optimize performance of my computer so that it runs smoothly for days on end. It’s in a constant state of use and I have it set to run various programs throughout the day and night automatically. I use Windows Task Scheduler to open select programs at timed intervals to perform certain job functions necessary to my job and business.

For a long time one computer was plenty to run my business but as things have grown I have been required to run more than one computer to perform the myriad of tasks and services I need to manage my network of sites. I now have three computers networked together in my home office and I have them each set with different programs that run reports and perform tasks such as website submission, and traffic statistics and analysis. Accessing my computers from the home network is as easy as using built in software in Windows XP to control each program and function.

I now have two server hosting our websites, one is a unix based server and the other is a newer Windows server. The Windows machine is pretty nice and has a pair of Xeon processors and lots of RAM. The new server is great for running Windows applications that are processor or data intensive such as reading log files. Using the new Windows server with a Remote Access application for controlling my PC from anywhere works great for my business and really helps me streamline my work schedule by optimizing my work flow and having the software do the work for me. RemotePC.com offers a consumer and business version of their remote pc access software that will cover most any users needs and provide secure access to your remote computer installation.

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Review ME, a program offered by Text Link Ads, is the latest entry into the paid blogging market and seems poised to take over the fledgling paid bloggers market. Their service offer bloggers like myself paid opportunities to review and promote services from advertisers in an easy to use web interface. I have worked with Text Link Ads for quite some time now and come to find them a real pleasure to wrok with. They pay a far rate on time each time every month and respond quickly to any emails or questions I’ve had.

Paid blogging is a controversial subject in online marketing and the discussion revolves around whether bloggers that have been paid to post should divulge their relationship with advertisers. Review Me takes care of that by forcing paid bloggers to disclose the fact they were paid to make a post. That would be ethical blogging as far as I’m concerned and I have no problem in letting you know I made $15 for this post. It took me about 15 minutes to write which amounts to $60 per hour which is a fair rate for my spare time.

I’m kinda new to these paid bloggers services but I think its a great idea. We know bloggers have been paid to write things for a long time now and Review Me clears the air with their disclosure policies. I don’t mind people selling things to me but when they try to sneak the sales pitch by you it becomes the most annoying. Product reviews and endorsements are a fact of life and an open honest policy like that Review Me offers makes the most sense to me. The fact they will not allow advertisers to require a positive review simply enforces an open policy of honest reviews and paid placements.

Review Me has set the bar as far as ethical paid blogging is concerned and receives my highest endorsement for providing a morally superior program from an trustworthy player with a established history of paying me well and on time.

Alfred Moya the Affordable Web Pro

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