Comments on: What a year this is going to be! – 2008

By: Mike Huang

Mike Huang — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:35:10 +0000

Can’t wait to see what more you have in store for us Phil

-Mike

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:25:57 +0000

Dammit, I would love to join in on this conversation, I’m just so darn swamped at the moment

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:21:19 +0000

Hitting #1 in Google is easy peezy here in South Africa. 90% of my posts here are ranked 1st for 3 – 5 keywords. But the traffic sucks, cause our internet population sucks! Try hitting #1 ranking with a .com, a good keyword and international search, not so easy hey. But if you can do it, you know the traffic will flood in.

By: Wogan May

Wogan May — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:01:03 +0000

Well, that all depends on the market you’re targeting, doesn’t it? Also, you know as well as I do that having a .com means nothing if you don’t do the rest of your SEO work properly. And I get the feeling that you can also make a .co.za domain hit SERP #1 if you market it properly.

Mhmm – paypal sucks. So much so that I’m going to rant about it on my blog, and give all 350 reasons why I say that. And I doubt whether I’ll entrust my money to someone else’s account – or whether I’ll find somebody who will trust me.

People become really funny when money’s involved. I’ve seen it all too often.

Thanks for the lead on Offerforge.

~ Wogan

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:59:40 +0000

Thanks Chris!

@Wogan – The problem with .co.za is that you can’t really reach international traffic that good in the SEO world. You popup in the 30th page when the US guys search in google. But when having a .com it’s a whole new story.

As for Paypal, yes, here in SA it sucks. Just get someone overseas and use their account and then use the money in the account to buy things online to start new ventures. (domains, hosting, scripts etc)

I prefer Trafficsynery but also use http://za.offerforge.com

By: Wogan May

Wogan May — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:40:01 +0000

Wow, busy person. Good luck with all those ventures.

Personally, I’d take .co.za. Because if this graph is correct, it’s becoming rare namespace.

What am I getting up to this year? There’s one site that’s been bugging me for a long time, and I think I might actually build it this year. I’m a writer, so do the math

I also recently found out that PayPal is a piece of , so I’m not going to bother with international affiliate programs. If there’s really as much untapped potential as you say, I’m expecting a few good local advertisement networks to pop up – there’s already TrafficSynergy and Peppor, and maybe one or two others that I don’t know about.

As far as actually earning a living online … who knows? Would be nice, though

~ Wogan

By: Chris M

Chris M — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:29:15 +0000

Awesome stuff bud, so great to be able to hear about things on a business note, but more of a personal touch, all the best with your ventures!