The Genealogist

Genealogists Can Earn Online

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!

Paul’s Weekly Ponderings

The exciting news this week is about The 1911 UK Census. You may (or there again may not!) remember that I set up a site for a Petition to get the 1911 UK Census released early some months ago.

Well………… I am not claiming that it is entirely down to the signatures we got but I heard the news that the information from the 1911 Census will now be available from January 2007 rather than the original date of January 2012. The aim is to have a fully searchable copy on the Internet by January 2009!

I must admit it’s given me a bit of a buzz! This for me is absolutely what we are about in terms of Marketing on The Internet - really adding value to the niches in which we operate.

If you are one of my subscribers then you will be aware that the last two weeks have been something of a challenge! This all resulted from a major outage by one of our hosting companies which lasted for some time and saw lots of data lost by them. It impacted about 50% of my business with some of our most significant sites going offline and the domain names being inaccessible to amend the DNS for!

So as you can imagine the last few weeks have seen quite a few long days getting things back up and running and I am pleased to say that of this morning almost every major site is now back on line and fully functional. It has also seen the creation of a number of new sites and the redeployment of other sites.

The good news for Genealogists is that our sites at The Amateur Genealogist, Free Genealogy Search Engine, Catholic Genealogy and Genealogy Articles are all now back online!

What have I learnt from the last few weeks? Well in summary here’s my top pieces of advice. Always make sure that you have your hosting spread around a number of major hosts so that you can always shift things around in the event of a problem; ensure that you back up your sites and any databases on a regular basis; ensure that your hosts also back up data on a regular basis. If you are serious about hosting then you need to look at getting a Reseller Account and one of the best that I hav come across is Hostgator who I have found to be excellent.

Finally in terms of my recommendations and this is a big one! Never ever, under any circumstances buy your domain names from your hosts! That way lies complete disaster if your host goes down and you then cannot access your account. If you cannot access your account with your host then you cannot amend the DNS an point your sites to an alternative host.

Now before all that happened I had been well on with my planning for 2007 and thought that I knew what we were going to do! However, the coincidence of the problems with one of our hosts and also reading an excellent report from Niche Mania’s BigMike called “Google Hiccup” set me thinking! If you haven’t taken a look at Niche Mania then you really want to - it’s one of the very few memberhips that I ever recommend for anyone interested in making money online.

The areas we will focus on in terms of our primary niches will remain as originally planned. However, our approach to those niches and the value we will be adding is going to be much mroe focussed.

One of the things that we are currently very focussed on is evolving the highly successful GenMates community and you can read more about that at GenMates Changes - this is a set of changes which is in response to the fedback from our members. I think this is going to be really exciting!

The other two major developments which have suffered a bit of a set back are my Internet Marketing Coaching Site and my Self Improvement Coaching Site - however with a few more days work on these they will be ready to go early in the new year! You can sign up for the heavy discount on the Internet Marketing one by going to Internet Business Creators!

Have a good week and if you are one of my subscribers watch out for a very useful Christmas Gift!

Covering The Costs Of Your Family Tree Website

It is a little over 12 months ago that I started to work with the Google Adsense Programme. In that period I have managed to go from zero to earning a regular four figure monthly income which supplements the other monies that we earn. It has enabled us to enjoy an improved lifestyle and to participate in things that we perhaps wouldn’t have been able to 12 months ago.

When we first started looking at the Google Adsense Programme we were looking at a way of generating sufficient each month to cover the web hosting costs associated with our genealogy websites. Since then with the help of Niche Mania we have spread our wings much further and now earn a regular monthly income.

Over the past few weeks I have received emails and enquiries from members of our various sites asking how they can do what we set out to do just 12 months ago. In other words how can they earn money from their website(s) to at least cover the cost of web hosting.

I have therefore put together a Free Guide which you can access at Your Adsense Success.