Ask James a specific question...

Aired: October 01, 2006

Information: James and Charles talk about the Online BootCamp and how to go about choosing a topic for a website and how the BootCamp process works online with the 50 online students. The students email question to James and James records answers to the questions and releases MP3 files with the answer to the questions. James and Charles talk about the importance of selecting a niche. James talks about how to narrow down a niche and focus just on that for creating a page around that niche. James talks about what he would look for to create a specific page and how to build around the page and get inbound links for a page. If you can rank for one particular page you will be able to create the effort to create more pages which will also rank on the Internet. Students are starting to realize that they are publishers. Develop pages not sites – it isn’t about building sites it is about building pages. The students walk through doing the handbook between sessions with James. The handbook is at the core of the whole process. James and Charles talk about keywords and their importance to all searches whether for pages, MP3 or video. The key to building successful sites is to build optimized pages first. You can create ranking for a page for multiple keywords if you get back links to you using the other keywords you would like to rank for. The anchor text of a link will help you build page rank for keywords that are not on the page. James and Charles talk about choosing a template and www.ez-WebBuilder.com. James talks about the importance of choosing a quality template with quality graphics. James and Charles talk about James’ trip to CJU in Santa Barbara at the Fess Parker Double Tree Resort. James feels that it is one of those events which is a must attend for affiliate publishers. James talked to John Artis, V.P. of strategic operations for ValueClick who purchased CJ and BeFree. When it comes to Google AdSense versus Affiliate programs the question comes down to do you want to pay for a percentage of a click on an ad or a commission on a sale? As a result of the competition with Google the conversion rate has been increasing as the affiliate merchants are becoming more competitive and working more to benefit the affiliate publishers. This was James’ fifth CJU conference. James talks about Robert Blackstone a college student who James met a few years ago. He has been prospering in the affiliate industry and met James again this year at CJU. James suggests that people think about putting CJU on their list of goals for the future.