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UK based Genealogist and Internet Marketer Paul Duxbury has launched Genealogy Experts. The site provides a range of resources to help Genealogists take advantage of the Internet to generate a regular monthly income.
The internet has opened up the world of genealogy in ways which could not have been envisaged even a few short years ago. However, all the information that is available is leaving more and more people confused and asking questions about their findings as the thousands of questions that are posed in forums demonstrates. There is a massive opportunity for professional and passionate amateur genealogists on the internet but many of them say that they don’t know where to start.
There are full-time and part-time Genealogists or Researchers who are struggling to maintain their income as more and more information becomes freely available on the internet.
Many passionate amateur genealogists want to share their passion with others through the internet but are not sure what to do.
Many would like to be able to set up your own Family Tree website but don’t know how to get visitors to their site and to cover the costs of their hosting and other expenses.
Many enjoy writing about genealogy and would like to be able to earn a regular monthly income from it.
Many have their own genealogical website and find that it appears nowhere in the Search Engine rankings and it is costing them more than they are earning from it.
More and more genealogical information is now freely available on the internet. More and more professional and amateur genealogists who want to share their work and passion with others are admitting that they don’t know what to do on the internet! They want to be able to succeed and are looking for guidance and advice on how they can go about it.
Each and every month there are literally hundreds of thousands of people searching for genealogy on the internet? There is a massive opportunity for full-time, part-time and amateur genealogists to generate income on the internet but so far there hasn’t been one place that you can go to get the advice, guidance and useful tools to help you.
That is about to change!
Paul Duxbury is a passionate amateur genealogist and a professional Trainer, Coach and Internet Marketer. He understands the needs of genealogists and their passion for their subject. This has been demonstrated through his ownership of such major genealogy websites as The Amateur Genealogist, GenMates and Catholic Genealogy to name a few.
He also understands Internet Marketing and earns a regular four figure monthly income from websites and marketing on the Internet.
Following discussions within the Genealogy Community he has committed to sharing his expertise and working with full-time, part-time and amateur genealogists to enable them to succeed on the internet.
Through Genealogy Experts, a highly interactive online membership site, Paul will share his knowledge to enable individuals to:
Maximise their income from their websites and genealogical passion
Optimise their websites for the Search Engines
Discover how to earn a regular monthly income from various sources without compromising their passion for genealogy
Discover how to turn their research ability into a profit making skill
Learn how to tap into a massive market for your writing skills
Discover how Blogging can make them stand out from the crowd
Position themselves as an expert in the Genealogy Community
Visit Genealogy Experts Now!
February 17th, 2007
Hope that you are keeping well and that as we move into February your year is going well.
As I look back over these first few weeks of the year I cannot believe how busy we have been. We have already put in place an enormous range of things for the coming weeks and months and we have some great plans!
Included in those plans is a streamlining of my Blogs! Over the next few weeks I will be setting up a completely separate Internet Marketing Blog. I will also be pulling together many of our Niche blogs to ensure that people can access great information as easily as possible. So this will probably be one of the last “General Updates” posted on this particular blog but I will keep you posted as always. Hopefully you shouldn’t see any disruption to our normal service 
So let’s move on to a round up of what we have been up to and what we have planned that I hope will be of interest to you! There are also a number of great offers:
If you are a Newsletter publisher in the “Home Business” environment or have been looking at doing something in that area you will want to take a look at the $7 offer at PLR Newsletter (that’s Private Label Rights to a whole Year of Newsletters!) What’s even better is that as soon as you have signed up you can also sell the rights to your own subscribers or members!
We have launched The Genealogy Search Center recently which is absolutely packed with helpful links for your Family History Research! Of course you will also want to take a look at our Free Genealogy Membership Site at GenMates which continues to go from strength to strength!
If you want to take advantage of the incredible discount I am offering on membership of Internet Marketing Outlined then you have only a short while left. Do take a look if you would like to really plough ahead in 2007 and make it your year to make a difference!
We have been talking with the team at one of the leading Genealogy Magazines and we have a really exciting opportunity coming up on 15th February 2007! If you are an amateur or professional genealogist who wants to start earning from their interest or improve their earnings you can find out more at Genealogy!
Finally in terms of offers! If you like writing reports about subjects you are interested in then you will want to take a look at how you can really benefit from them - have a look at 7 Dollar Reports and see how you can turn your reports Viral and earn money from them!
Now over the next few weeks we will also be launching a number of Article Directories and will be keeping you posted! In the meantime here’s a couple of article that we hope you will find of interest:
Setting Up A Money Making Website
Money can be made online without a Website. However, to significantly increase your earnings it is of the utmost importance that you have your own. Many of you may be thinking that this will be extremely complicated, difficult and time consuming. In the past it certainly was. Nowadays however, there have been so many improvements and innovations in Website technology that it has become much easier to create your own site quickly and simply even if you have no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript whatsoever. Another factor that many people think will be prohibiting is the cost of getting one up and running. Due to competition in the fields of Website creation software, hosting and domains the costs have fallen dramatically. This means that just about anyone with a few dollars in their back pocket can get in on the action. This wasn’t always the case. Only a few years ago it was very expensive to get all that was needed and this stopped many people from starting. Be thankful to be starting now where you can getting some of the most cutting edge technology for next to nothing. Heck, you can even get started out in Blogging for Free!
In order to really realise your potential on the Web you are going to have to have a good Website building software. You want one that will enable you to set-up sales pages quickly, easily put together content sites and add ADSense without any hassle. You will also want to be able to create an attractive looking site that will make your visitors want to stay on your site. It is also vital to have a Web builder that will allow you to make changes very quickly. Some of you may get daunted at the very thought of this, especially if you have no background with computers. However, there are software and services out there that makes this extremely easy even to the complete beginner. One of the most user friendly builders ever created is XSitePro. This software will enable you to get great-looking money making sites up and running with minimal effort. Another good option is to use a complete service like Site Build It! They will handle absolutely everything for you tailored to your exact requirements. However, with this option you will have an annual recurring fee which is something you may wish to avoid. You could also post your project on a freelance site such as Elance where programmers will bid on your project. After accepting a bid the programmer will carry it out to your specifications and will often help you make any updates in the future.
Another thing you will have to do is purchase a domain name and hosting package. These days many companies will throw in a free domain name with your hosting package when you sign up. There are many good hosting companies out there along with equally as many poor ones. The key things to pay attention to are uptime( aim for 99% plus), the ability to add new domains to the package for expansion and good customer service. The only hosting service I now recommend (and you know the challenges I have had!) is Hostgator
Planting a Genealogy Tree in Google’s Search Engine Garden
Whenever you create a family tree, you want to get as much input from other family members as possible. This is one time it’s good to have relatives sticking their nose into your business!
By choosing to build a family tree website, you’ve just boosted your ability to expand your roots even farther. Keeping records by pen and paper isn’t just tedious, but limiting as well.
Now that you’re planting your roots on the ‘net, you want to make sure your family history can be found by others. The more people who find your genealogy, the more hands who can help you discover unknown facts and revelations.
If you chose a family tree website that allows you to create blog entries, then you’ll want to post to that often to help search engine robots find it and index it for their results pages.
That way, whenever a distant relative goes online seeking information for their ancestry, Google or whatever search engine they’re using will return your blog as one of their choices.
Google and other search engines like to categorize websites based on keywords. So if your family name is “Brown,” then you want to create a list of words and phrases you can use within each blog entry that relate to the Brown Family Tree.
Devote each blog entry to a new keyword or phrase. The more you blog, the more often search engine robots will visit your site and post updates to search engine users when your page displays.
If your family tree website doesn’t include a blog feature, then you can create one for free at www.WordPress.com. Blogging is one of the best ways to get picked up by Google and broaden your horizons for genealogy research, but it’s not the only way.
The more family tree blogs and websites you have linking to your primary family tree page, the higher your site will raise in the search engine results. Hopefully, in time, you’ll be in a top 10 position on Google and your relatives and ancestors will be able to click on your link for a fast, easy, and effective virtual reunion.
Don’t waste hours trying to make sure you develop the perfect content for your blog. Write naturally about your quest to find information on your family name and Google will recognize your organic efforts and reward you with a spot in their search engine.
February 4th, 2007
Well the first few days of the year have certainly been busy! The major focus has been on getting the new site for GenMates ready to go! We had a target of being in a position to switch by 10th January 2007 and we achived ahaed of target by being ready to go on 6th January 2007! You can join the flood of other people joining us at GenMates - Your Genealogy Centre.
Talking of Genealogy! I have been in discussion in the last week with a leading figure in the UK Genealogy Community and out of that has been born a sit which is hopefully going to help quite a few people when it launches on 15th February 2007! The internet has opened up the world of genealogy in ways which could not have been envisaged even a few short years ago.
However, all the information that is available is leaving more and more people confused and asking questions about their findings as the thousands of questions that are posed in forums demonstrates. There is a massive opportunity for professional and passionate amateur genealogists on the internet but many of them say that they don’t know where to start. Hopefully Helping The Genealogy Experts will help them!
There seems to be an assumption, in some quarters, that Internet Marketing products can only be sold to Internet Marketers. Over dinner we were talking about websites and one of our guests mentioned that they had a site about their passion for cats which receives thousands of visitors each day. I commented that it must be earning them a nice sum each month. At that point I was met with a blank stare and a “how do you mean?” They were completely unaware of Adsense and Affiliate Marketing and indeed commented “oh that’s only for those work at home types isn’t it?” Over the last few days, I have asked a couple of other people who I know have very successful sites in areas that they are passionate about and have been met with fairly similar responses. None of these are making money from their sites!
I originally created a short report on Adsense at Adsense Success for what I would have thought of as Internet Marketer types. However, my focus with it has changed in the last day or so. “Cat Owner with a website? How would you like to cover the costs of your income and make some additional funds?” - you get the idea I hope? Grab a copy fot he report for yourself if you have a website and are not making the most of it!
We have a number of exciting developments planned in the coming year as I have mentioned in previous posts. The next big one on the horizon is my Group Coaching site for Internet Marketers who want to lift their activity to the next level! That will launch on 1st February 2007.
Finally returning to Genealogy. Our Genealogy Search Center is getting set to launch this week and I will bring you up to date next week.
……very finally if you are looking to buy some great and valuable Domain Names check out Domain Sales - I have three great sites listed there: www.audio-articles.net, www.factafterfact.com and www.thebestonlineproducts.com!
Have a great week!
January 7th, 2007
Let me start by wishing each and everyone of our readers a Very Happy New Year! I hope that 2007 brings you and your loved ones everything you desire and that our world will become a better place in the year ahead.
Those of you who have been keeping up with developments will know that the closing weeks of 2007 presented a fair share of challenges following the crash of one of our main Hosts. However, we have been working hard and all the major sites are now back up and attracting large numbers of visitors again!
One of the things that the collapse of the Hosting enabled us to do, as part of our planning for 2007, was to carry out a complete review of all our online activities. 2006 was a very successful year for us and one in which we explored a whole range of areas and niches.
Plans for 2007
During 2007 we will be focusing on a number of niches in which we believe that we can add real value and will be looking to bring online a number of services that will be useful to you.
We have some great plans for the coming year. We hope that the many hundreds of you who have joined our subscriber lists over the last few weeks and those of you who have been with us for some time will enjoy the ride!
To give you a taste of what we have planned:
Membership Sites
GenMates
The launch of GenMates (The Genealogist’s MySpace) in the middle of 2006 was a phenomenal success with some tremendous publicity across the Genealogy community. We have been talking to our members and have been taking on board their feedback. As a result of that GenMates is evolving! The consensus of opinion has been that whilst they really enjoy the ability to interact with each other and with us they rarely find themselves using the wide range of features available to members. This feedback is broadly in line with what we have been observing over the past few weeks. You can read more about these exciting developments and the evolution of GenMates which will occur on 10th January 2007 by visiting GenMates - Your Genealogy Centre.
Internet Business Creators
One of th most frustrating effects of the Hosting crash was that our plans for the launch of The Niche Marketer’s Coaching/Membership site was delayed. However, I am pleased to be able to advise you that the site will now launch on 1st February 2007.
Those of you who have signed up at Internet Business Creators will already be aware that you will be getting a substantially reduced monthly subscription to a site at which I will share many of the techniques and strategies I use in my Internet Marketing endeavours. In addition the site will provide an opportunity for me to help individuals and for us to explore Group Coaching.
What you will not be aware of is that I intend to impose a strict limit on membership of one hundred people - yes just 100. My intention is to grow a small community of like minded people who can grow and develop together.
Self-Improvement and Coaching Site
As those of you who have been with me a little while will be aware I a passionate about Coaching and Training - indeed it’s something that I spend a lot of my time doing both online and offline.
I have been thinking of launching a site which provides self-improvement advice and Coaching for a little while and in the second half of 2007 we will be launching such a site. I am really excited about the opportunities that will provide and my thinking at the moment is that the site will be limited to no more than 100 people!
More details of that site will become available as the year evolves.
Other Plans
Those of you who are coming here from the various subscriber lists will be aware of the various niches that we are focusing on in the coming year - with one or two more to be added as the year unfolds.
In each of the niches that we will be operating in our guiding principle will be; to provide high quality information in a variety of formats which enable people to make change in their lives in both the small ways and the big ways. We want to ensure that you have access to the latest and most useful information and that is what we will be very focused on.
Other News
Article Directories
Look out for information from us towards the end of the first quarter of 2007 about the launch of a Hobbies Article Directory and also the evolution of Genealogy Articles into an Article Directory! These will be sites at which you will be able to submit your articles for others to read and also use on their own sites.
Choosing Domain Names
Let me share with you some information which seems to be “hot” at the moment!
When I am thinking about a new domain that I want to do something important with I pop over to www.whois.net and have a look in the deleted domains.
Basically I put the main keyword that I am looking at using into the search box and see what comes back. Now sometimes you have to work your way through what appears to be a load of junk names before you find one that sounds like something you might want to use.
When I spot some that I like the sound of I pop over to www.leapfish.com and get a “domain appraisal.” I am not looking for the alleged value of the site (although it’s nice if it comes back with a 3 or 4 figure value) instead what I am looking for is whether the site has existing links within the search engines and also a good archive score.
If I do find some that I want to register I go straight to a domain registrar and get them registered (having done a Google search for any “coupons” for the registrar(s) that I use.) Then once registered, and this seems to be “hot news,” if I don’t have a site to go up straight away I “park” them at Sedo.
I earn a nice little amount each month from those I have parked there - not massive but worthwhile. I must admit I had forgotten to do this with quite a few domains in the last year and have spent a couple of hours over this weekend getting myself sorted with those as well.
Obviously there is much more to the real profiting from the buying and selling of domain names but hopefully that will help one or two people.
So in closing let me again wish you and your loved ones a Happy, Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous New Year for 2007.
January 1st, 2007
Hope that you have had a good week. Thank you to all those who were kind enough to write and commiserate with me over my ear infection! Things are steadily getting better I think!
It’s been a busy week for us and we have had quite a lot going on with updating some major sites and moving some new projects along.
Dog Owners Special!
My Dog! - which has become a major source of information for those who care for and train dogs has had lots of additional content added and the feedback has been extremely positive. For those of you who are Dog Owners I am able to give you access to a Free Dog Training Report which I think you will find invaluable - I know we have certainly been making use of the information.
Genealogists
As many of you will be aware Genealogy is one of my great passions. In the last week we have been undertaking some significant updating of The Amateur Genealogist which is the site which is featured in most of the Genealogy Magazines on a regular basis. Again we have been receiving very positive feedback and we have also been receiving numerous orders for the heavily discounted Genealogy Guide which you can take a look at by clicking on that link! I think we will leave that offer available for a few more days. You might also want to check out my Genealogy Blog where there are some interesting new articles and if you missed my post about The Genealogy Videos site - well there’s the link for you!
Internet Marketing
You know there are some things that I could find quite depressing about the whole Internet Marketing field! I enjoy what we do in terms of providing high quality information to site visitors and customers. However when you visit some of the leading Internet Marketing forums there are some people who seem to have an absolute obsession with making money at any cost. I guess it’s inevitable that where there is the opportunity to make money some people will do just about anything and promote any old pile of rubbish without a single thought for whether it adds value to anything. There are a number of things going around at the moment which seem to embody that approach!
My focus since we first “discovered” that what we were doing was called Internet Marketing has been on providing high quality information that makes a real difference to people or helps them to make a positive change in their life. That will continue to be my approach come what may and it’s the approach that I will be promoting through my Membership Based Internet Coaching site.
Those of you who have signed up for Internet Business Creators will have the opportunity to join up at a heavily discounted rate ($9.97 per month (paid quarterly) rather than $21.97 per month) and I look forward to welcoming you during December 2006!
In the meantime don’t forget to check out my recently launched series of sites at Internet Marketing Essentials which again embody my customer focused approach.
Christmas is Coming!
As if you needed reminding! But if you are interested in some excellent free then you will want to take a look at The Twelve Day of Christmas.
Of course you will also want to take a look at The Father Christmas Blog! If you are looking for Christmas Gifts that you can send by email well do take a look at PK eBooks Your eBook Store for some great options.
November 26th, 2006
Hope you have had a great weekend so far and are looking forward to the week ahead?
Those of you in the Uk will be aware that today (5th November) is Bonfire Night and therefore will understand why as I write this the sky is filled with colour! There is also a lot of noise with the fireworks going off on the Village Green as I write.
Our Genealogy MySpace Alternative GenMates is continuing to grow at a tremendous rate which is great to see. It’s also great to see members taking advantage of the facilities on offer. Our British Genealogy Group is also growing having just passed 500 members which is tremedous!
This week has been another busy one with a number of exciting new developments. This afternoon (UK Time) one of my articles was featured as the lead article on the Gather Home Page. If you are not aware of Gather it’s well worth taking a look at. Gather is what some have termed a MySpace for intelligent Adults and is packed with fascinating articles. If you want to take a look at and connect directly to me then click on Join Paul. When when you get there click on the “Connect” button under my picture and you will be invited to join Gather!
We have also been working on the development of the Internet Marketing Coaching Blog which I will be launching soon. Those of you who have signed up for Internet Business Creators will already be aware of the detail. It looks like it is going to be something really special and those who are subscribed to Internet Business Creators when we launch will get something in the region of a 50% discount on the monthly subscription fee.
We have also been working with some excellent people in the development of a number of Health Websites which you can take a look at by visiting Living Healthily - that is an area which we will be developing over the coming months.
Finally in this brief update this week we have been working on a number of customised Google Search Engines which are a really exciting development. You can take a look at them by clicking on the following links:
Free Genealogy Search Engine
The Internet Marketing Search Engine
duxcoo - The Family, Health, Hobbies and Home Search Engine
November 5th, 2006
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