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by toumhi 14y ago
It's a good idea and I'm sure there would be a few candidates :-) Also, not exactly the same, but the folks at www.tropicalmba.com hire interns to work with/for them in Bali: http://www.tropicalmba.com/paid-internships/
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by toumhi 14y ago
Your post really hit home with me (plus, I'm French too). I can relate to what you're saying because I spent most of last year in Southeast Asia developing websites/web apps an I found it to be quite isolating at times. Not having people ar
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by toumhi 14y ago
It's a followup to an article I wrote a month ago about the state of my first passive income website. Several people asked me whether I would share more details about what my SEO strategy was, so here they are :-) You can check out the disc
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My SEO Strategy for Small Passive Income Websites(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 15y ago
If I could count the number of hours I spent in my life half awake in my bed - it would fill many holidays <sigh> I've tried a number of times to rise early, but I've never managed to do it consistently. When considering to get up,
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey danso, OP here. The evaluation is a bit light for some of the websites I've covered. If this one sold for $200.000, it means there are other kind of directories that can be very profitable, either as your only website or as part of a po
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by toumhi 15y ago
That's an idea :-) I for one would really like this. I think in general there's not enough information on monetization.
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Websites That Did Really Well on Flippa (and What We Can Learn From It)(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 15y ago
How did you go about finding these designers? I've had some success finding correct designers on odesk, but it can be quite hard and time-consuming to find a good fit (and it really depends on your budget, in your case you can afford to hir
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by toumhi 15y ago
I'm actually realizing that now. I'm also finding hard to motivate myself to make something for people that are very different from me (I have a file sharing solution catered to small businesses in France). I imagine it's easier when you c
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by toumhi 15y ago
yes, I have to pay taxes :-) Right now I don't pay many taxes, it's about 20% (it's a new special status in France for sole entrepreneurs who are just starting out). So remove 20% of the gross income, and that's it. Still worth it if you as
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by toumhi 15y ago
Your book listings seem to be missing big time on SEO potential, no? I think you should have individual pages for each textbook, with proper on-page optimization (title, H1, small paragraph of text...). That's probably a lot of work, but ca
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by toumhi 15y ago
I did a lousy job of tracking my time for this project. I worked on this website from February to June, but nowhere near full-time of course (it's still quite small). I did spend lots of time on SEO which would have been better spent outsou
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by toumhi 15y ago
That's the one operating at the moment :-) http://www.giftcertificatefactory.com
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey Patrick, thanks for the comment. I've already got a backend for a designer to create new certificates, but not for creating new articles. I had postponed doing additional work on this website because at the time it was doing very little
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey Maarten! True, I had bigger ambitions for this - in retrospect, I think I should have talked to spa owners, golf course owners etc. to see if they would buy it (what everybody says about customer development) I think it's a bit hard for
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by toumhi 15y ago
No, it does add some long tail traffic, but most of the traffic comes from people typing 'gift certificate template' (goes to the homepage) or specific templates, like 'spa gift certificate template' (from where I'm sitting, the first 3 res
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by toumhi 15y ago
thanks - I taught myself SEO by doing it for this website: - keyword research to know what people are looking for - creating content that answers specifically to these keyword searches - link building as in article marketing (ezinearticles,
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by toumhi 15y ago
what do you want to know? For example in February it was: - 16.391 visits - 14.579 unique visitors - 67.485 pageviews - 3.99 pages/visit - 3:00 average visit duration - 33% bounce rate
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hey man, thanks! I'm the first surprised here! As I said in the blog posts, RPMs are way higher since I started tweaking the ads. RPMs were 9.75EUR last month ($13). The best performing ads are the one in the template gallery (horizontal ba
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by toumhi 15y ago
I think I've read every single of patrick's posts :-) What I've done is to have a blog at www.giftcertificatefactory.com/blog - Each blog post was made after keyword research and attracts quite some long tail traffic. However, I must say it
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My First Passive Income Project, One Year Later(sparklewise.com)
229 points by toumhi 15y ago|51 comments
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Politics Are Broken: Re-imagining Politics and the Redistribution of Power(sparklewise.com)
2 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
what works for some doesn't work for others. I quit my job without stream of work lined up and am not thinking of going back to a regular job. IMO, It depends on whether you have enough savings or not (6+ months seems a minimum, I had more
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by toumhi 15y ago
Very good article. Using AJAX with Django always feels a bit unnatural, as there's no standard way to do it and everyone has its own way of dealing with it, so it's interesting to see how others do it (in particular utility functions). I th
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Starting a business for the right reasons(sparklewise.com)
2 points by toumhi 15y ago|0 comments
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by toumhi 15y ago
Hi Patrick :-) So you want to tackle the spam issue. The problem with your system as far I see it is: 1) it can be easily gamed (as other people have pointed out) 2) there's not enough incentive to use it So what? You have emails and a seco
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by toumhi 15y ago
Interesting. I'm myself a software developer with a strong interest in SEO, so I know what you're talking about :-) I thought hard about breaking into the SEO tools world but I've discarded it so far for being too competitive. To answer you
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What’s Harder? SEO in English VS SEO in Other Languages(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 15y ago
yep, it's back up again, will install it. Thanks.

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