On my blog I wrote about trying to migrate a Gateway notebook from Vista back to XP. It was a major headache, and I really just wanted to give my tech guy props for getting it done when the answer took days to piece together.

I posted the drives and all of a sudden BOOM. I am the third result for the search term gateway laptop remove vista install xp and the post has more than 60 comments.

I didn’t set out to get all of that, but it goes to show you that if you focus on writing interesting posts that help and inform people, the “long tail” effect will pay dividends over time.

When I started my site I have no clue what blogging even was. But after doing some research I found it to be a good way to try and draw traffic to it. The blogging community sems to be a strong one. All though I dont plan on just hitting bloggers to try and draw new artists to my site it was a good place to start. And maybe make some extra cash in the process. Once I get some money my site will be moved from web.com which I found not to be a good host cause they do not support wordpress. Wordpress is something I think I really need if I want to stand out with my site. Looking at all the pros out here my site kinda sucks but you go to start somewhere right? And with my topic of marketing yourself I am hoping people read it and add alot more of them selves to there blogs and make the reading a bit better for us, and have a bit of fun with it. I to am hoping that I can make enough off my site where i can stay at home and do it. Traffic seems to be an issue for a new site, but with that said I a hosting a major contest next month that I am hoping will change that for me. Just so you know one of the prises will be a brand new server. I really hope it takes off cause after it is done I just may have the new job I was looking for.

It stems deeper than that. There are tons of sites that give advice about how to make money online where in reality, the owner or author doesn’t. How is that possible? How can you be an expert about making money online, yet not be able to do it yourself? That has always puzzled me. What puzzles me even more are SEO blogs that claim to know anything and everything about Google. I am not calling anyone out or anything like that… blogs give people the freedom to do what they want. However, the difference between my blog and many others is the fact that this is “real for me”. If I don’t make money, I lose my house, my car, my wife, my kids… everything. This is my job. This is what I do full time. What you see here on GCDC is not how I make money. On this blog my goal is to reach a certain level of popularity by communicating and illustrating what I do to be successful blogging on other sites. My goal is to teach you what you need to know and to do in order to do what I do. Make money.

@ Mark,

Domain names are about the most solid low risk investment you can buy. Depending on who you register the names with, at most you are looking at $10 dollars per name per day. With little to no effort, I could easily take blog-deals.com and sell it for $100 dollars, if not more. As Is! Not hosted, not live and not developed. Or, I could plug it into my server (The Matrix) install WordPress on it, design some killer graphics on it, or pay someone to do it for me and spend about three months investing maybe a total of 40 to 50 hours total time into blogging and writing on it and flip it for about $1000 to $2000 dollars. Domain names are hot. In the mid 90’s .Coms were hot… here is round two. If you have a list of names, do not sit on registering them. It is just a matter of time until some freak of nature, such as myself, happens to register them right under you. Domain names are a dime a dozen… you are looking at spending $15 dollars ($10 dollars for the domain name and at most $5 dollars a month for hosting)towards something that could make you $150,000 dollars? What is the worst thing that could happen? It doesn’t work? Your ideas suck? Bla Bla Bla… you can turn right around and at a minimum, sell your domain for the same amount you bought it and if all else fails and you can’t even get your small investment back… then call your loss and never buy domain names again.

Now, having all that said. I am not a domain name shark. Typically, I don’t buy domain names to re-sell. Overall I don’t flip domains. I have in the past, offered up some of my ideas coupled with a domain name, ask Christine Senter on that. But, I am not the type of guy who buys domain names and points them to a park page. Either my domain names are live or they are kept offline for later use.

Take a chance and buy the domains on the list. You can email me privately if you want and I will review the list and offer some advice. As you know, I wouldn’t steal the names because you could turn right around and write a blog post about how Garry Conn stole your domain names.

@ Chris, what other names did you end up registering? You are a very smart guy.

@ Christine, Yes… that was very hard to do. I wanted to snag everyone! lol!!!

Do you have any fingernails left or did you chew them down to nothing while posting those domain names? LOL

It doesn’t suprise me that you took blog-deals. I would have been totally shocked if you didn’t . LOL

Great article, hon. Keep it up.

Stumbled!