Quick update and a new feature

June 17th, 2008 | by Scott

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Just wanted to mention that I’m busy working on an update to The Leap Guide to Mini-Sites this week. A lot of things have changed in how search engines are viewing mini-sites and weighing backlinks over the past year since I first released the eBook.

Along the way I’ve made some tweaks and adjustments in how I manage and market my mini-sites, and I’ve tried to mention these things in the monthly newsletter mailings but recently it doesn’t seem like that’s been enough to keep everybody up to date.

Feeling that at this point a good bit of the information in the eBook was outdated, but that the model of building mini-sites is still a very profitable one I didn’t want to just abandon the eBook by any means. So, I’m rewriting it from scratch, based on the very techniques I’m using today for building and marketing profitable mini-sites.

I had hoped to finish the rewrite over the weekend and have it ready for a Monday release, however with Father’s Day that just didn’t happen.

I will try to have it ready within the next few days though, so look forward to an announcement here shortly.

This is going to be big! (homage to a fellow Irishman who passed recently, Mr. Tim Russert)

It gets hard sometimes trying to keep straight who I’m talking with and what I’m answering in the email contacts I receive from readers here, so after talking with my “partners in crime” to make sure they would be onboard for some additional duties, I’ve added a forum to the Leap where we’ll all be sharing more information and resources, absolutely free as always, and better able to answer questions and hold conversations that others will be able to follow and benefit from too.

You may have already noticed the link for it at the top of this page, it’s just http://www.obannonsleap.com/forum/ and you will have to register with the forum in order to see all of the boards and participate in the conversations.

I’m not trying to be a jerk by making the boards invisible to non-registered users, however we will be sharing ideas, methods and tools on the forum that we certainly don’t want openly published. That’s how good things become abused quickly and we don’t want to help abuse anything around here.

Too often people grab golden nuggets like these from blogs or forums and turn them into $97 e-course PDF’s. I’m not going to charge fees for access or worry too much about people stealing what we share, but I’m also not going to make it overly easy for anyone either. If you want what we’re giving away free you’ll have to register and let us know you’re stopping in.

And just in-case you’re wondering, yes there will be stuff that good freely shared on the forums that you could turn it into a high-priced digital product and make a killing with it.

We’re hoping you won’t do that, but rather will use what we’re giving you to make big cash in niches that have nothing to do with making money online because there’s lots of gold in them hills to be mined yet… but if you’re hell-bent on making yourself the next Frank Kern or Yaro Starak without actually ever making real money for yourself online in other niches there’s nothing I can say to change your mind and I’m not going to put up giant obstacles to block you.

I’ll just say what I’ve said many times before, for every well known “Guru” there are a hundred people with names you’ll probably never hear that are making a killing online because they aren’t part of the “make money online circle-jerk” where everybody is just trying to sell to each other instead of carving out new niches in bigger markets.

And that’s all I’ve got to say about that… (homage to Forrest Gump)

Anyway, check out the forum. Register and feel free to post questions or suggestions for things you’d like to see us cover there.

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