Welcome to EmilyRobbins.com January 22, 2006
I’m most well known on the ‘net for my blog on How to Blog (which consists of blogging tips, tricks, tools, templates, etc).
I have been happily self-employed for a decade now and earn my living doing a wide variety of ‘internet stuff’ including domain investing, affiliate marketing, SEO (search engine optimization), keyword research, consulting, etc.
I’ve owned over 700 domains since 1999, focusing on generic keyword domains that receive type-in traffic such as InternetServiceProviders.com, HomeBusinessOpportunities.com, ReverseTelephoneDirectory.com, MedicalTranscriptionist.com, and GlobalPositioningSystem.com, as well as many premium adult domains. Parking domains is a fantastic way to generate passive income — I love it! If you are interested in finding out more about my domain portfolio, please email me at domainadmin@ebess.com.
I’m brilliant at finding high PPC keywords for adsense (which also comes in handy for domaining), and am trying to figure out a way of monetizing that skill set by offering a keyword service (Sell keyword lists for a one time fee in exchange for xx,xxx high PPC keywords that will only be sold to x number of people to keep the competition limited? A monthly membership fee where members receive new keyword lists on a weekly or monthly basis? An individual service where I can be contracted to research keywords for a particular niche? Ideas?)
In the future I’ll be offering up some information on affiliate marketing (promoting other people’s products or services for commission online), SEO, working from home, domain investing, and the tools that I use to help me with all of my tasks.
Friends and family are often asking for a list of sites I’m affiliated with so that they can send some commissions my way — I’d be honored if you’d do the same the next time you’ve got an internet purchase to make (and to sweeten the deal, I often post coupons that are exclusive to affiliates =-) ). My list of shopping links can be found at turtlebird.com
If you’re looking for great deals on hotels, airfare, vacation packages and the like, head on over to my Hotel Reservation Network site.
If you need a laugh, check out my blog of funny pictures
I haven’t exactly decided what I will do with this particular blog — keep it purely professional or also include entries of a personal nature… (Lorelle - got any suggestions??)
Keep tuned to find out!
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Emily: WOW!
I’m so excited. How did I miss this? Congrats for the switch and I, among all your fans, look forward to tons of great information on blogging here and more about the wonderful YOU!
Good luck and I’ll be watching and rooting!
Hi Emily, I haven’t read your blog yet at all except for this entry but it looks very interesting. I’m going to assume off the bat that you think Wordpress is the best blogging platform right now since you are moving to it from Typepad (or maybe it’s just an experiment).
One question, right off the bat. I looked for your email address and didn’t see it immediately. I’ve read that a Contact link in the top right hand corner of any site should be standard practice across the web and I agree because it just makes a lot of sense like knowing where to look for a licence plate on a car.
What’s your take on that? I suspect I might become a regular reader and even a fan. We’ll see.
So, I finally discovered the fact. I’ve enjoyed your list of themes, your tips, thoughts and general flare for the blogging world.
Glad to see you on WordPress - I knew it was bound to happen
So, liking your new place.
Tim
Dear Emily,
According to Google Analytics, 4% of visitors to my site come from your site.
That’s very nice, but I can’t for the life of me work out how. Any ideas?
My site is http://www.sns.ias.edu/~jns/wp/
Best,
James
Emily:
Try as i may i could not find a personal email for you. Wanted to discuss some work with wordpress, around a few ideas. could you email me some times when we could speak
i am on PST
donaldbru@gmail.com
Hello Emily. I happend upon your site a few months ago and now am back again. I am looking to host my own blog and would like to create my own template. I will most definitely be looking at your blogs for answers as to how to do so.
I am also a student as a hospitality and tourism marketing major. One of my projects is to research a return on investment for a local hotel using online booking. I noticed that you run an online booking system and was wondering if you would be willing to give me some info for the project. Thank you.
Hi Emily,
I saw a reference from your site on the internet and it caught my attention. I like the way you setup a portal for people to make purchases to support your work. I also truly LOVE your work. I hope to see much more in the near future!
dh
Just a couple of quick notes:
Your spot here says it’s moved to a 404 site - no such place - http://blogging.typepad.com/how_to_blog/2004/08/ping_services_t.html
Google’s blogger does an automatic update to weblogs.com if you’ve got it turned on. That should avoid the need for many pings when you publish. It’s under Settings:Pubishing.
Hi Emily,
Are you going to continue updating your blog? It’s got some really good internet marketing related info and would be a pity if you didn’t.
Emily, I’ve appreciated your blog in the past and you’re the one who convinced me to get my own domain name about a year and a half ago. Now I have a personal AND a business website, both going concerns, can do valid XHTML, CSS, etc., and I was a newbie before. Thanks for convincing me to do that.
Also, I don’t know what personal or financial change is stopping you from posting, but I wish you well.
I checked out your domain name portfolio and saw something that jarred and irked me, completely unintentional on your part, and I was wondering if you did nothing else, will you spend the two minutes it takes to change this?
You sell adult domains and have the following four names as first on your list:
nubian.org
ABSURDNESS.COM
explicit.org
TODDLER.BIZ
I’m sorry, but “nubian.org” and explicit.org followed by TODDLER.BIZ is a bit distasteful. Will you at least rearrange the list and not mix children’s domain names with adult?
Surely they could be separated?
Kind regards,
Christoph
Well, Emily, you don’t have time to update your blog, but you DO have time to delete the very respectful comment I recently made about your juxtaposition of for sale adult-orientated domain names like “nubian.org”, “explicit.org” in a list immediately with child-orientated domain names like TODDLER.BIZ”.
And this from someone who spoke calmly with respect and came to thank you for an article you’d written before. And did so. But you had time to delete that comment.
So now I’ll say you disgust me. When that clearly weird juxtaposition is pointed out to you, you can’t spend a couple minutes putting them in a separate list, you must censor my comment. Why, that saved a minute. Way to go.
Or do you think the sickos that are in the adult porn business might just be more motivated to make a buying decision when their minds pick up on that juxtaposition?
@Christoph:
I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to reply to your comments sooner (and I did NOT delete them - they were held in a moderation queue and I hadn’t had the time to log into my blog for quite some time, partially because I was extraordinarily busy planning my October 20th wedding, then I was on my honeymoon for weeks, and then I suffered a severe head injury which prevented me from being able to work for quite some time, after which I then was SO behind in my work and emails that I did not get to updating the blog until now.
The listing of nubian.org and explicit.org next to toddler.biz was in fact completely unintentional, and you’ll see that I’ve modified my domain list to remove them completely as it has always been my intention to list my adult domains in a separate place from my mainstream ones so as not to offend anyone.
I am glad that my blog on How to Blog has helped you in the past. Again, I am sorry that I was not able to approve your comments or update my blog until now. It does sadden me that you would automatically jump to the conclusion that I had deleted your comment and that I now ‘disgust you’. I don’t think that’s called for, but you are entitled to your feelings. Personally, I find it offensive that you’ve declared anyone who would buy an adult name must be a sicko; while that may be true in some cases, the majority of us simply have made wise financial decisions and investments. Just having those names parked brings in many thousands of dollars per month without me having to do a thing to promote or develop the sites (not that there’s anything wrong with those who do develop their sites — there’s far more money to be made there than in parking).
@To everyone else who has commented:
Thank you for your support! I apologize for not having updated my blogs in quite some time. I do hope to be able to have enough free time in (hopefully) the nearby future to be able to get back to blogging. I am very much looking forward to getting back in the blogging saddle again and reconnecting with the community!!