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Coin collecting has become a great hobby of mine.  I have been collecting coins all of my life, but only recently have I started writing about coin collecting.  The link in the previous sentence is to my new coin collecting blog called Coinblogger.com.

In addition to this general coin collecting site, I have also created several satellite sites to delve in depth on specific coin collectin niches.  The first satellite site is Key Date Lincoln Cents.  This site is all about collecting Lincoln Cents.  The best coins to collect in any series are the key date coins.  That is why I picked the name Key Date Lincoln Cents for my site about collecting lincoln pennies.

Another niche with in the coin collecting family is investing in gold.  Gold investing is one of the key reasons to invest in coin.  The price of gold greatly affects coin values and rare coin values.  My second satellite site is Gold Prices Today.  Gold Prices Today is a site bringing readers the latest gold price news and analysis.  Gold Prices Today will hopefully become a great resource for staying up to date on the gold market and understanding gold prices today.

Another satellite site that I created in the 1943 Steel Penny site.  The 1943 Steel Penny is a famous Lincoln cent and this site is an ebay store for buying these coins and other US coins.  I have been playing with ebay’s EPN program and this 1943 Steel Penny site is designed to sell coins using an ebay script.

As you can tell, I have been working hard to combine my coin collecting love with my online marketing love.  Please leave a comment about these new coin collecting sites.

Do you want to make a little more money?  If so, one of the best ways I have found for doing so is to make money online making niche blogs.

Niche blogging is when you make a blog focused on a very narrow topic.  The goal for this niche blog is to provide great, exhaustive content surrounding this niche.  Since you are focusing on a narrown topic, you will not have to write that many articles.  Simply provide great information about the niche and then move on to your next niche blog.

Today I read a great post from Garry Conn about niche blogging.  In this post Garry describes exactly how you can make money online making niche blogs.  Go read his article at Make Money Online Building a Blog about Gardening.

If you don’t already read Garry’s blog, I highly encourage you to do so.  Garry is a master at building niche blogs and making money online with adsense.

For those of you following the Thirty Day Challenge and my Thirty Day Challenge Action List, I have updated the action list through Day 9.

Day 9 of the Thirty Day Challenge focused around getting backlinks to your website. This is hugely important to the success of your site in getting search engine traffic. Google, Yahoo and MSN use backlinks as a way of determining what content is worthy of listing higher in their search engine results pages. The more backlinks you get the higher you site will be listed.

Ed Dale has provided a lot of good tips to finding places to get links back to your blog. You will learn a lot by watching this Thirty Day Challenge Day 9 video.

As I have been progressing through the Thirty Day Challenge 2008 and updating the Thirty Day Challenge Action List, I came to day 4. In Day 4’s lessons, Dan Raine has shared a great video on how to write articles that sell.

Learning how to write articles that sell is an often overlooked skill by beginning Internet marketers. We spend a lot of time how to find niches, how to find keywords and how to set up websites, but we forget that without good sales copy we will never be able to reach the maximum sales for our niche.

I have found in my Internet marketing journey that the number one thing you must do to succeed in Internet marketing is to create lots of content. The more content you create, the more products you promote, the more sales you will make. You need to have tons of hooks out on the Internet to increase your chances of catching sales.

However, the second most important lessons is learning how to write articles that sell. If you really want to learn how to make money online, you need this skill. Watch the following video to get a glimpse into the sales copy creating process of one of the best Internet marketers.

Twelve months ago Newest on the Net was born in large part out of my experience with Ed Dale’s Thirty Day Challenge.  And for this, I am very thankful for Ed Dale and his team at the Thirty Day Challenge.  Prior to the 2007 Thirty Day Challenge, I had a blog that focused on massively multiplayer online role playing games, MMOExplorer.com.  But, after participating in the Thirty Day Challenge, I fell in love with Internet marketing, social media, and blogging.

When I first heard about the Thirty Day Challenge, I had never really thought about Internet Marketing.  However, as I continued through Ed Dale’s Internet marketing course, I became obsessed.  This obsession led me to create the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2007.  Originally this action list was posted on my MMO Explorer blog.  Since then I moved it to Newest on the Net where it really belongs.  Here is the link to the Thirty Day Challenge Action List 2008.

While I would like to tell you that I earned $1 during August 2007 from the Thirty Day Challenge course, I can’t.  While a tried very hard to earn my first dollar online, I wasn’t able to do it in August of that year.  I was kind of disappointed and decided to turn away from Internet Marketing and focus on learning how to blog.

In the meantime, without me knowing it, my sites that I created during the 2007 Thirty Day Challenge were working for me without me doing anything.  In November or December, I happened to check my Clickbank account and saw that I had made 4 sales totaling over $100.  I couldn’t believe it.  The work that I had done during the Thirty Day Challenge actually made me money.  From this point on, I became obsessed with Internet Marketing again.

Since December 2007, I have made thousands of dollars online.  I owe my start to Ed Dale, Dan Raine and the rest of the 30 Day Challenge team.  I can’t wait to follow this year’s challenge.  Please subscribe to Newest on the Net, so that you know when updates are made to the 2008 Thirty Day Challenge Action List.