Justin:

No neither of those sites are mine. I keep coming across half done sites like this, as if whoever is working on them has either given up or can't be bothered to do everything needed to make them pay.

Looking at the source of the pages, in this case it looks like it's someone called Paul.

But what a waste. A little more work and the site will start paying.

-Frank

Hi Ken,

Yes, add-on domains are fine. In fact Craig says that all the sites he set up last year were on the same server, and despite the rumour in forums etc. about putting domains on different IP addresses, it makes absolutely no difference.

So if you get yourself a bunch of .info domains from GoDaddy for 99c each, and then put them all on your same hosting account, that should keep the price really low.

When they start paying you can move the .info sites to your favourite registrar – I prefer NameCheap as I love their admin interface.

-Frank

Justin:

I've had a couple of people say they could see how excited and enthusiastic I was about IPK when I sent out my first email and wrote my first blog post about it. The reason was I could see straight away that this was something that made absolute sense, and more importantly was very clear cut and easy to do.

All you need is minimal web skills, but looking more closely last night I realised that Craig even has that covered with his videos on how to edit HTML and creating graphics with Photoshop and The GIMP.

(I don't agree with how Craig is creating and saving his Photoshop graphics though – he saved the PSD as a PNG and then overwrote his master fully layered version with the flattened "save for web" PNG. Erk!)

Now that I've put it into action, and I can see that it's working, it's just a matter of systemising it and turning it into a sausage machine. Do the research, check it's on Amazon, grab a relevant domain and set the site up.

It's so simple anyone could understand this, even from scratch. And of course if you're used to putting up sites, it's a complete doddle.

All those hours I've spent fiddling and learning how to do stuff online are all paying off now. So it wasn't a complete waste of time.

Amin:

I want to get my wife doing this, so I need to make it as straight forward as possible. She's smart and likes things to be clear and well thought out, and more importantly organised.

So… I need to get the whole thing systemised and made easy to use. I'll share it all once I get there.

And yeah, I know the linking strategy works like crazy, and it's one of the reasons I'm so confident it's perfect to use with IPK. The way I see it, it will give people that use it a totally unfair advantage and Craig is going to have some real issues this year unless he does it too. I can easily see him being knocked off all his number 1 slots. Then he may regret releasing the information about IPK…

As an aside, I think IPK is easily the biggest thing since the 7DS.

Geoff:

Hey, thanks for that. Yep, it is impressive isn't it? And so obvious when you stop to think about it, but sometimes it needs someone to have the patience to play with a method first to get to the point where they can see it working.

(I'm working on a couple of other experiments myself, only time will tell if I get the results I'm expecting. Some code is about to be written to make the experiments easier to run.)

The strategy with the "buy now" link is one that Craig uses himself. If you look at his sites, all the images on the sub-pages point to his main page, and generally they're all the same image. The image on the home page is different to the rest and is an invitation to click and order.

I believe that what Craig has found works is to set lots of links within the sites themselves pointing to the home page, and if you look at the sub-page images, they all have relevant alt tags pointing to the home page which strengthens that page.

The idea is that whatever page a visitor may land on, they are always funneled to the home page, and there they click the link to take them out to Amazon.

If you put too many outgoing links, then you will weaken your own site. The idea is to create many links internally and as a few external links as possible. So one or two to relevant sites, plus your own central "aggregator" site should be all you need.

Finally, remember he says (and this is a BIG point), TEXT for Google, IMAGE for CASH! Meaning that words will make your site rank well – Google is handcuffed to words – but the images will make your visitors buy.

-Frank

Hi Amin,

I've actually been doing some of the same stuff as you.

Using Dreamweaver I turned all the html pages into php so I could easily add some scripts in there when the time was right, and I also turned the 3 embedded menus into separate .php files and then used php includes to get them to show.

That now means I can add a new page, paste the link into the menu(s) and have them automatically display on every page of my site without having to load up each page in turn.

I've also created a couple of generic images for the pages themselves in Photoshop, and the banner is my final point and I'll be done with the standard site layout etc. Just like you, I'll then be in a position to start churning the sites out rather than have to fiddle with them so much.

The only thing I want to do finally is create a spreadsheet with columns for each of the title tags, meta descriptions and keywords for each page so that I can make sure everything gets ticked off as I go. I want to make sure that once I've worked through a site that I never have to touch it again, or at least give it minimal attention.

And yeah, if only I'd got my hands on this in August, it would be so much easier now. But let's look forward to the all year round strategy and of course to next Christmas when we'll have a real strong head start like Craig has now.

Especially on the back links front.

-Frank