The only two certainties are death and taxes

A wise man said that but he wasn’t into IM clearly.

-People will buy masks, costumes,spray string and fog machines in October

-People will buy,dolls,doll houses,skateboards,rocking horses,bicycles and cuddly toys in December

-People will go online in November to buy turkey fryers,plates,cookers,microwaves

-People will get go online on December 27th  looking for advice on how to get divorced and how to kill their mother in law without getting found out.

These are just the certainties of IM

What Are You Doing To Get Your Share Of The $$

I know that thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas seem to be months away but that is good news as it means you have time to buy the domains, promote them and get some rankings before anyone else thinks on it.

Use The Domain Concierge - Tell her you want to get a domain related to the holiday of your choice, this is a good way of getting outside the normal zone

Halloween WordPress Themes -There are a great selection of themes available for Halloween and I think if you get on her list she may do some for other holidays.

You could buy the domain and install the wordpress themes, get the site indexed and then sell it on Flippa come 1st September. That seems to be the date when everyone suddenly realizes that Summer is gone and it will soon be Christmas. Your sites will already be indexed and you may even have made a buck or two but they will be prime for selling.

Buy two domains, build sites, keep one for yourself sell the other one. You could already be in profit before Halloween comes round.

If you put amazon products on the site then don’t forget to use http://easyspinintro.com/wpg.html to add keyword rich relevant content on the pages.

We know when Halloween is going to be, we know when christmas is going to be so there is no excuse for not being ready.

I know of one company that actually spend all year preparing for Christmas, that is all his site deals with, he earns a years income in one month. While I am not saying you should do that I do think everyone should have some holiday centric sites in their portfolio.

I am a boring old stick in the mud, yes I know it may come as a shock but it is true. I find something that works and stick to it.

This is why I really only use 2 themes in my IM world.. This video is about one of those themes Semio Reloaded

Click on the image, video opens in new screen

I show you how I set the theme up for a basic site, there is much more you can do with it of course but this video covers the setting up of a basic site and should be enough to get you started.

If I am doing a all out adsense site then I will either use semio and strip the header out (i do show that in the video) or else I use one of these adsense themes

I have done some more videos and will link to them here as they get uploaded.

Setting Up WordPress

I ahve been recommending that they use sem-reloaded but it appears that in the latest update to wordpress the header widgets stopped working so people havent been able to add links to their pages in the header.

I decided to do a video showing a workaround for everyone who is interested.  Now this workaround will work with ANY THEME that has a header widget enabled area. You could also do the same in a footer widget.

In the video I mention some code, which is shown below, just copy and paste it into a notepad document and keep it on your desktop.

Click Here To View The Video

Please watch the video a couple of times and then if something still isnt clear feel free to ask me.

Please also feel free to browse the links on the left or right and buy anything you like!

<a href=”http://www.YourDomainName.com/page-name“>Keyword One</a> | <a href=”http://www.YourDomainName.com/page-name2“>Keyword Two</a> | <a href=”http://www.YourDomainName.com/page-name3“>Keyword Three</a> | <a href=”http://www.YourDomainName.com/page-name4“>Keyword Four</a>

Hope this all helps!