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How To Find Keywords For New Public Domain Project

March 1st, 2010 · Case Studies

How to find keywords is always the one “stumbling block” for new online marketers.

It’s easy to find a ton of keywords but how will you know if they are good keywords?

What is the difference between a “content” keyword (information) and a “Money” keyword?

Without giving away my secret “Ninja” strategy for finding the “Money Shot” keyword for everyone of my new “micro niche” blogs… I can tell you a few little details.

Just today – I was helping a SSWT member find her “Money Shot” keyword.

She gave me a list of “ideas” for her new niche and then said:

“But…none of these really seems to have the potential that you talk about in the “digging deeper” section. What do you think? Any of these seem like they have good potential numbers?”

So… I dug around a bit and found several great “Content Keywords” and a good (really good!) “Money Shot Keyword”…

This means she now has the focus to go and find Public Domain magazines and books to use for her “Content Pages” and she also has the “Buy Keyword” that she will use to develop her blog niche topic filled with great affiliate product recommendations.

This is all part of a new product Logan and I are developing. We wanted to be able to show you that we “walk the walk – not just all talk”…

Here is what “she” (names are not shared here and I won’t share the niche either) said:

“Debra,

It makes me feel very comfortable to have you looking over my shoulder LOL

I like the (blank) topic and was actually looking at that before I emailed you. I guess the numbers and “buy” keywords really didn’t strike me as being good enough even though I know it is a very popular topic.

When trying to come up with keywords initially, I tried to think of something that was popular then and now, if that makes sense.

Now, I have to admit, even though the (blank) niche sounds great to me, I really don’t know much about it. I mean I love to (blank), but (blank)? Never have yet, but have always wanted to. :)

So the plan is totally agreeable to me….and thanks again.

This is what I shared with her so that she would feel comfortable with her decision:

“Okay… so it’s just like my new (blank) blog. I know I like to (blank) – but other than that – I wouldn’t know a thing
about (blank)… or (blank) – not really.

But I know “just enough” to be able to make the Public Domain “stuff” work for me… and I can find out everything else about products etc. online.

It’s all good…

So go and dig into the “(blank)” research and let me know what you come up with.

Very exciting to have helped you find a “niche” … :0)

debra”

So – what is a “Money Shot” keyword?

It’s the keyword phrase that someone types into the search engine when they are ready to buy!

What is a “Content” or “Information” keyword?

That is the keyword phrase that is typed in when someone is in the research phase… so they would use words like:

  • tip
  • how-to
  • guide
  • when

These are all good keywords to use as “Content Pages” in your new blog… because they will lead the reader to the “Buy” or “Money” keyword pages…

Get it?

If you don’t and you want help – join the small group getting one-on-one help from me today! How To Find Profitable Keywords.

About the Author:

Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Guide To Public Domain Profits" available here. For more info Debra, click here.
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Does Making Money Online Take Time?

February 28th, 2010 · Case Studies

If you have landed on this page – and you are wondering “What Is Debra Talking About”? -

Start at this page to see where the fun begins:

How To Profit From Google Blogspot And Public Domain

Okay… Okay… so you guys want a few more details on the “time” commitment.

Just so you know – one of the things that I’m NOT going to do is give you deadlines! I hate deadlines… and unless you are one of my paying coaching students – you will never have a deadline with this project.

Blogger (service)

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On the other side of the coinunless you “build it – they won’t come”. I don’t want this to be a project that you are “just” doing to add a case study to my final product. Far… Far… from it. That’s just an end result (in the someday-maybe column).

My goal here (the big picture) was to give some of you “all the tools” for this type of project and see if it works for someone other that moi. (and where the shortcomings are).

So… here is what you should do:

  • Read the how to use Public Domain products I send. – You don’t have to “learn” everything in them – just get an overview of what Public Domain is and how it can help “fill a blog” with great content – quickly.
  • Then read the first “lesson”. Every lesson is a step-by-step “what I did today”. Remember these are rough drafts of a future product… so they will Not Be Perfect.
  • Then – when you have finished with the first lesson (you can email me all the way through the project to get help) you would let me know and I’ll send the next lesson.

So in reality – you are “building” a tiny income stream and learning the “nuts and bolts” of using Public Domain content, that will work for years to come. Eventually – you won’t have to touch your new blog – it will just make consistent income.

This project involves all “free” tools. (I may suggest a few “paid” tools that I use – but you don’t HAVE to buy them).  The only expense is time.

Eventually – if your niche works – you can transfer the whole thing to your own hosting and not worry about Goggle having a problem over some silly thing and shutting off your blog. (I’ve never had a problem with Google – but a domain name without the .blogspot.com in it is “ALWAYS” better).

You see…. my whole theory to this Internet Marketing thing… is “Don’t ever – ever – ever – put all your eggs in one basket” – which translates to “Don’t ever depend on one website to make all your income”.

I am not a fan of scraper sites or of having 500 blogs – Yuck.

But… I have about 20 blogs going at one time… some of them work great and some are flops. Dump the flops and expand on the winners…

Okay… back to the time commitment – Don’t ever worry that you will hurt my feelings if you can’t start this project… or that you will have deadlines…

But… if you “will” commit to at least making an effort – I’m willing to hold your hand through the entire process. And…. we both hope that it will be “Start to Profit” (this is a Lynn Terry term – I use it here because I’m a HUGE fan of her philosophy about “How To Make Money Online“)- but I can’t guarantee anything. (that’s my disclaimer and I’m sticking to it).

If you have ever wondered where to start using Public Domain content to make a profit… this is it.  This isn’t the “Only” way to use Public Domain books and magazines for profit of course – but it will get your “feet wet”…

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Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Guide To Public Domain Profits" available here. For more info Debra, click here.

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How To Profit From Google Blogspot And Public Domain

February 28th, 2010 · Case Studies

I’ve started a group project showing exactly how “I” use Google Blogspot blogs and Public Domain content to create little online “oil wells” of passive income.

The project in a nutshell:

A sort of “Start to Profit” project using Google blogspot/blogger as the platform.

The idea is to use Public Domain content to build a small profitable stream of income.

And… I’m not doing this on any “OLD” type niche. Nope – I wanted to do two things to try to make this “real”.

  1. Use Public Domain content to promote “today’s” products as an affiliate
  2. Go into a niche that I know “nothing ” about.

The niche is coffee related. (I do know something about drinking coffee – I drink coffee by the bucketloads everyday)

It’s all going along and the site has been indexed.

Public Domain Oil Well Guide

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I’m writing a huge (gosh it’s over 100 pages already) guide – right now it’s in a daily notebook format. Every day that I work on the project – I document what I’ve done and why and show screen captures – etc.

This starts out as a – how to pick a niche and how to research the right keywords and then goes into the set up of the blog and then how to get it indexed and on and on.

I’m using Public Domain content for most of the blog content.

I show how I’m using Twitter and bookmarking and submitting RSS feeds etc. All in a daily “do this and then do this” guide.

Eventually – it will all be in one big product including video and testimonials etc.

What I thought would be cool – if anyone just has loads of extra time – - (as many as would like to participate – I’m not excluding anyone)…

*** BTW – It’s set up for newbies… but I think any level of marketer would get some real juicy ideas from this.

anyway…

I Asked For “Testing” Participants

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Participants must be a member of Lynn Terry’s Private “Elite Members Only Discussion Group.

I was thinking that it would be great if I could share what I’ve done so far and have some “peeps” give it a try.

I mean actually “do” a project following the steps… not just read the stuff. The book is not in “sell-able” format – so you have to go with my rough cut stuff.

This way – it’s not just me – I would have a bonus with “actual results” case study type stuff.

Not only that – but because you have to “know” how to find and research Public Domain – I would “give” you these products as well…

And… did you all know I also have 10 free ebooks on the subject of Public Domain?

Click here to download all 8 issues of Public Domain Treasure Hunter Magazine and more free goodies…

Okie Dokie – anyone interested? Or am I just gonna hear crickets?

Go sign up for Self Starters Weekly and then you can find the forum post with all the details here:

http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/members/showthread.php?t=3939

I’ll be adding some “public” updates to this blog (Public Domain Treasure Hunter) on a regular (as regular as I ever get) :) basis. You can follow along and read all of my case studies by clicking here –>> Case Studies

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Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Guide To Public Domain Profits" available here. For more info Debra, click here.

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Cross Stitch Art Profitable Niche Blog Ideas

February 27th, 2010 · Public Domain How-To

The other day, I got this question from a friend working in the “cross-stitch” niche…

“Someone had previously suggested that I look for some Public Domain cross stitch paterns and embroidery patterns and find a way to use those on my website. It sounded like a good idea at the time, but I never could wrap my head around how to find cross stitch online and then if I did find cross stitch art patterns and information what to do with them, how to distribute them, etc…”

This niche – or any hobby / craft niche – can never be overdone.

And… if you think about this as a tutorial for your own niche, (replace craft, pattern or cross stitch – with your own “hobby” term) you might find a few new windows of opportunity.

You can create an entire website using these books as content.

I’m just saying…. )

Here are some sources of Public Domain cross stitch and needlework pattern information I found in just 10 min. of searching:

Rug making and designing in cross-stitch (1936)

Embroidery stitches ([1912])

Embroidery on net

Needle painting; or landscape embroidery (1885)

The Ladies’ Work-Book: Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc.

Spool knitting (1909)

While trying out terms in archive.org, I noticed that when results came up there’s a section underneath that shows keywords.

Looking at this gave me more search term ideas than only using the word “knitting” in the search box. Since I don’t know much about this subject, I wasn’t even thinking about these terms:

  • crocheting
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  • lacemaking
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  • embroidery
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  • needlework
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  • quilting

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Beeton’s Book of Needlework

Decorative needlework – Morris, May, 1862-1938

Debra’s Note: May Morris’ father is William Morris (popular wallpaper and fabric designer).

This website has monetized by selling reproductions of William Morris and using public domain information to fill in the gaps.  http://historicstyle.com/

Needlework as art – Alford, Marianna Margaret (Compton) Cust, viscountess, 1817-1888
Keywords: Needlework — History; Embroidery — History; Art, Decorative

Designs for needlework – Liberty & Co
Keywords: Decoration and ornament

Of course Logan had to chime in… (he never likes to be out done).

“Have you ever heard of “tatting”? Apparently, it’s a very popular form of needlework (like I know what I’m talking about here). Anyway, turns out it’s another great keyword for finding Public Domain material…”

Check these out…

Okay… Focus for a minute or two. That is a Ton of links to research, but what would be a really profitable idea to use all this great content?

I know that cross stitch never goes out of style. I have never (ever) walked into a craft store and not found a huge section devoted to this hobby. It’s a hobby that has been around for centuries and will continue to be taught to generations to come.

But… unique cross stitch patterns are hard to come by… and they are expensive.

What if you could provide unique cross stitch kits?

Sell them on eBay or your own website.

Advertise in cross stitch magazines.

Well… you get the picture.

I thought this idea would only be useful for kit manufacturers, but I was wrong.

Art For Cross Stitch Patterns

Victorian and Edwardian images lend themselves quite well to crafts and most particularly to cross stitch.

There are of course an abundance of websites devoted to collecting clip art and public domain images.

While doing a little research I happened upon this beautiful website, http://www.antiqueclipart.com/, and was immediately struck by how simple and beautiful the images are.

Cross Stitch Art Software

Now making a cross stitch pattern isn’t as complicated as you might think. I There are actually several open source and low cost cross stitch pattern maker software products available. For example:

Hobbyware Pattern Maker Cross Stitch Software
Cross Stitch Design Studio

Cross Stitch Designer

Using the images available at AntiqueClipArt.com you can create beautiful cross stitch patterns. Add the thread, needles and other related cross stitch tools and you can make beautiful and all encompassing cross stitch kits.

Let me know if this interests you – and if I have helped in any way. I am full of ideas… as you can tell.

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Debra Conrad is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2007. She is also co-author of "The Guide To Public Domain Profits" available here. For more info Debra, click here.

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Is Napoleon Hill’s Self-Help Classic “Think And Grow Rich” In The Public Domain?

February 25th, 2010 · Hidden Public Domain Treasures

The great "New Thought" pioneer, Napoleon Hill quietly comtemplating the fact that you'll never know for sure if he's wearing pants in this picture...

Recently, my friend Tim and I were having a conversation about Napoleon Hill’s self-help classic “Think & Grow Rich”. Tim graciously agreed to let me share some of our conversation here as it may prove beneficial to you as well especially if you are doing anything in the Self-Improvement / Self-Help / Success Mindset niche. Thanks Tim!

A few days ago, Tim asked me this question:

“I am trying to find an online proof that Napoleoon Hills Think & Grow rich is actually in public domain. Everyone says it is, but I cant actually find a public domain location (such as Gutenberg) that stores it. Do you have any ideas?”

Here’s my response:

Yeah, that can be a  tricky one because there have been several versions of “Think and Grow Rich” published over the last 70+ years but only one version is in the Public Domain in the United States.

The version you are looking for is the original 1937 edition.

Bibliographic information as follows:

Hill, N., Think and Grow Rich; Teaching, for the First Time, the famous Andrew Carnegie Formula for Money-Making, Based upon the Thirteen Proven Steps to Riches, The Ralston Society, (Meriden), 1937.

Published in 1937 in the U.S., this book needed to be renewed for copyright protection 28 years later in 1965 to retain that protection. For whatever reason, the copyright protection for this book was not renewed as evidenced by the total lack of any renewal record in the U.S. Copyright Office’s “Catalog of Copyight Entries”

Naturally, because this book is so famous (and because of it’s Public Domain status), it’s been republished a million times in various formats. Even Mr. Hill himself published a new abridged version of the book in 1960 -you’ll find a renewal record for this at copyright.gov in 1988 (28 years after publication) held by Mr. David H. Hill.

If you check copyright.gov, and search for “Think and Grow Rich”, you’ll find records for roughly 23 entries of books by that title. As you sort through them, you’ll notice that all of these records are records of registration or renewal for different new versions (usually with either new material added or released in a different format like audio).

It’s interesting to me that Mr. Hill did not renew the original edition, even though he was still actively involved with the book when renewal time came around (or at least his family was) as evidenced by the release of a new version in 1960. There was a HUGE oversight involved, I’m sure ~ I doubt Mr. Hill and his publishers would have knowingly allowed the copyright protection to lapse on this valuable work.

But thankfully, oversights such as this happened all the time. That’s why the fourty year span between 1923 and 1963 is such a goldmine of copyright-free Public Domain content.

As far as the book not being on Gutenberg or any of the other big repositories of Public Domain books, that’s not surprising due to the fact that the big guys usually like to play it safe and only upload stuff that was published prior to 1923.

Mr. Hill circa 1937 reading "Think & Grow Rich". Although our sources can neither confirm nor deny, we believe Mr. Hill is almost certainly wearing pants in this picture.

If you plan on republishing this book, you are well within your legal right to do so provided that you only use material from the 1937 Public Domain version.

Because so many other people have also republished this book, I would probably place a note somewhere (on your webpage or on the title page of your book depending on what you are doing) that states something to the effect that your product was created using extracted material from the 1937 edition of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”.

You don’t have to do this, but if you are concerned about it, it may help ease your mind.

As far as obtaining “proof” that “Think and Grow Rich” is in the Public Domain…

Tim, that’s the funny thing about the Public Domain – there is never any hard “proof” that a work is in the Public Domain, only the results of research obtained through paying due diligence. Following the rules established by U.S. & International Copyright laws, plus the absolute and total non-existence of a renewal record in any database is all the “proof” you need.

That’s the goofy part – it’s easy to find concrete proof that a work has been renewed and is thus still protected by copyright. It’s another thing altogether to obtain concrete proof that a work is in the Public Domain. In other words, you’re very unlikely to ever obtain an actual document that verifies Public Domain status.

Even in the event that you hire a copyright research firm or even the U.S. Copyright Office to conduct a copyright status check for you, the most you can expect is a document that states “no renewal found”.

However, there’s power in those three words. If anyone challenges your claim that a work you’ve used is in the Public Domain by claiming that they are the legal copyright holder the burden of proof in my opinion, lies on them. Produce evidence of a copyright renewal I say. It’s easy enough.

It may also be helpful to note that technically, this 1937 edition would not be considered Public Domain in any other country that does not follow the rule of the shorter term. Following the life of author plus 70 years convention adopted by most other countries, and factoring in the fact that Mr. Hill died in 1970 puts this book in the Public Domain in many other countries of the world on January 1st, 2041.

Technically, it is currently Public Domain in the U.S. and any country following the rule of the shorter term (including Australia, France, Spain, Italy, etc).

Another little tip: Don’t just republish “Think and Grow Rich” – actually read it! It’s a fantastic book.

Napoleon Hill (October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970) Unofficial Bibliography:

NOTE: This bibliography is for research purposes only. A title’s inclusion here does NOT necessarily mean that the title is in the Public Domain…

  • Hill’s Golden Rule magazine, publisher and editor (1919-1920)
  • The Law of Success (1928)
  • The Magic Ladder to Success (1930)
  • Think and Grow Rich (1937)
  • How to Sell Your Way through Life (1939)
  • Mental Dynamite (1941)
  • The Master Key to Riches (1945)
  • How to Raise Your Own Salary (1953)
  • Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude (1959)
  • PMA Science of Success Course (1961)
  • Grow Rich With Peace of Mind (1967)
  • Succeed and Grow Rich Through Persuasion (1970)
  • You Can Work Your Own Miracles (1971)

Links To Online Scans of Napoleon Hill’s Verified Public Domain Books…

The Law of Success (In Sixteen Lessons)  (1928)

Think and Grow Rich (1937)

About the Author:

Logan Andrew is an online entrepreneur, information publisher, and author that has been using Public Domain material to create profitable products and businesses since 2001. He is also co-author of "The Guide To Public Domain Profits" available here. For more info Logan, click here.

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