Editors Keys makes some really cool and innovative products. They recently contacted me to do a review of the Portable Vocal Booth Home Version. What a treat, this product is so cool, I was very excited to give it a try.
First of all it is very sturdy and easy to setup. I had it put together and on my mic stand in less than five minutes. Basically what it does is surrounds your mic with soundproof foam. This is a great way to create clean vocals without reverb as well as keeping out computer noise, barking dogs, crying babies and screaming wives.
The specially moulded foam has been shaped and processed in a way which not only helps to create dry vocals, but to also prevent exterior noise such as traffic noise or air conditioning entering into your mic.
I did a few tests with and without the vocal booth, and yes it was quite a bit clearer with the portable vocal booth than without. I record in a concrete basement, so there are tons of sound reflections as well as noises that bleed onto vocals, the portable vocal booth did reduce the outside noise quite a bit. I was extremely happy with the way my vocals sounded with the portable vocal booth. My next test is to try it out with my 12 string acoustic, I'm sure it will work wonders there as well.
The Editors Keys Portable Vocal Booth Home Edition goes for $144 and comes with 110% money back guarantee. Go to Editors Keys to get more information.
I would recommend the Editors Keys Portable Vocal Booth Home Edition to anyone who's looking to improve their vocal sounds without creating a real booth. This is an excellent and inexpensive solution to all of your home recording vocal issues.
One Month Of Building an Authority Site in 60 minutes A Day
I think it’s been a few weeks now that I started following Nate River’s WSO 60 minutes to $100 a day. I was about 2 weeks behind on starting this project due to the fact that I was waiting for my logo to be created from a Fiverr gig. I really wanted to brand my authority site so I wanted a catchy little logo. My niche is real broad and I love it because it helps me write articles easily this way.
I installed Google Analytics on my site about 2 weeks ago (when I actually started building the site) and I would say I am only averaging about 3 visitors a day right now. Which isn’t all that fantastic but it is all organic search traffic. Some visitors are finding it from the exact keywords I chose and some are arriving by a variation of the keyword.
It’s pretty amazed I am getting any traffic at all because so far none of my keywords are ranking on page one. I am curious to see if this will change in a few months.
So far no Amazon sales. I have had several click-thrus though. This isn’t too discouraging yet, considering I only have 10 articles up and of those 10, only 2 pages have affiliate links on them.
For now this is still something I can see myself putting effort into everyday. Affiliate marketing really burned me out and it is really nice to feel productive even for just an hour each day. It sure is better than doing nothing for my business at all.
Sorry this post is nothing uber exciting but I did promise I would update, so there you have it!
I installed Google Analytics on my site about 2 weeks ago (when I actually started building the site) and I would say I am only averaging about 3 visitors a day right now. Which isn’t all that fantastic but it is all organic search traffic. Some visitors are finding it from the exact keywords I chose and some are arriving by a variation of the keyword.
It’s pretty amazed I am getting any traffic at all because so far none of my keywords are ranking on page one. I am curious to see if this will change in a few months.
So far no Amazon sales. I have had several click-thrus though. This isn’t too discouraging yet, considering I only have 10 articles up and of those 10, only 2 pages have affiliate links on them.
For now this is still something I can see myself putting effort into everyday. Affiliate marketing really burned me out and it is really nice to feel productive even for just an hour each day. It sure is better than doing nothing for my business at all.
Sorry this post is nothing uber exciting but I did promise I would update, so there you have it!
Trying Fiverr Gigs Consistently To Boost My Sites
Man, with the lack of updates, you would think I didn’t care about my sites or earnings. Oh I do care about both of those things but with my earnings dropping to nearly 1/3 of what I was earning, money to invest in back linking aide was simply out of the question.
I recently read a thread on the Warrior Forum in which a guy was going to build a new site and rank it by just using Fiverr gigs. he built the site back in December and then once a week he would purchase 2 different Fiverr back link gigs that had two different back link methods (one was article submissions and the other was profile links). Well, his site is now sitting at #3 and last month it had earned $30 a month. Not too bad but he would certainly need to upscale that in order to make it a decent earning. I believe his site is just micro niche sites too.
In fact he used nothing but Fiverr gigs from start until finish. He used a gig to have someone set up the domain and install wordpress for him and then he used another gig to purchase 2 articles on his niche with an 800 word count. Here’s the link to the WF thread if you are interested.
Now, I had only discovered Fiverr in December. My main money making site had slipped from #3 to #5 right after the October Panda update so I had purchased 2 gigs to see if I could boost my site. One gig was a pyramid linking technique with a 3 tier system that was suppose to protect my site from a penalty but that was not the case. I got penalized within 24 hours of purchasing that gig; my site went from #5 to #23. Then days later i couldn’t even locate its position. It has been sandboxed for 4 months.
So, last week I purchased two gigs, one that offers to write an article on your niche and then submit the article to 20 different directories with some linking to the articles and then the other gig is another pyramid linking technique but it offers a 2 pyramid type technique as a safety measure to help prevent being sandboxed.
I am not sure which gig is the better one because I purchased them nearly the same time and my site is finally seeing some movement. It is now sitting at #35!
My plan is to purchase 2 gigs per a week until it gets its ranking back. Slow linking seems to be the best thing still!
Anyone else have some success with Fiverr?
I recently read a thread on the Warrior Forum in which a guy was going to build a new site and rank it by just using Fiverr gigs. he built the site back in December and then once a week he would purchase 2 different Fiverr back link gigs that had two different back link methods (one was article submissions and the other was profile links). Well, his site is now sitting at #3 and last month it had earned $30 a month. Not too bad but he would certainly need to upscale that in order to make it a decent earning. I believe his site is just micro niche sites too.
In fact he used nothing but Fiverr gigs from start until finish. He used a gig to have someone set up the domain and install wordpress for him and then he used another gig to purchase 2 articles on his niche with an 800 word count. Here’s the link to the WF thread if you are interested.
Now, I had only discovered Fiverr in December. My main money making site had slipped from #3 to #5 right after the October Panda update so I had purchased 2 gigs to see if I could boost my site. One gig was a pyramid linking technique with a 3 tier system that was suppose to protect my site from a penalty but that was not the case. I got penalized within 24 hours of purchasing that gig; my site went from #5 to #23. Then days later i couldn’t even locate its position. It has been sandboxed for 4 months.
So, last week I purchased two gigs, one that offers to write an article on your niche and then submit the article to 20 different directories with some linking to the articles and then the other gig is another pyramid linking technique but it offers a 2 pyramid type technique as a safety measure to help prevent being sandboxed.
I am not sure which gig is the better one because I purchased them nearly the same time and my site is finally seeing some movement. It is now sitting at #35!
My plan is to purchase 2 gigs per a week until it gets its ranking back. Slow linking seems to be the best thing still!
Anyone else have some success with Fiverr?
Three Month Follow-Up Of My experience with SE Slingshot
I’m jumping up and down over here. Finally something good happening with my sites for now. As most of you know, I had some sites slip in rankings after the October Panda algorithim change and mainly the one hurting me was the site that was bringing in about $500 in sales through the Google Affiliate Network – but more on that further down in this post.
The good news is that SE Slingshot has proven to be a great outlet for getting top rankings at a natural and consistent pace all while giving you backlinks with sticking power. I first used SE Slingshot back in the beginning of October 2011. Here I am just 3 months later and seeing the SERP results of my website being taken from #29 to #3 for it’s main keyword. And as you can tell by my Google Analytics screenshot below, the graph doesn’t lie. I went from 0 visitors a day to averaging about 15-20 a day now.
I’ll be honest with you. I have not been so patient after this last Panda change. I went out and purchased a few FIVERR jobs that would send me thousands of backlinks to my sites (excluding this one that Jacob was working on). One offer was for a pyramid like backlinking method so it was suppose to help prevent getting google slapped. WRONG! My site that was doing $500 a month through GA Network went from suffering at #8 to being completely sandboxed. Seriously, I couldn’t even find it on page 20 yesterday. Don’t be cheap guys. Cheap means spammy! You really do get what you pay for. I am going to be using SE Slingshot for my site that is sandboxed to see if it can be helped. I am desperate to get my income back from that site.
Special thanks to Jacob; owner of SE Slingshot, for allowing me to test drive his service. I highly recommend his service and I will update you all once I get my 2nd site going with his service.
The good news is that SE Slingshot has proven to be a great outlet for getting top rankings at a natural and consistent pace all while giving you backlinks with sticking power. I first used SE Slingshot back in the beginning of October 2011. Here I am just 3 months later and seeing the SERP results of my website being taken from #29 to #3 for it’s main keyword. And as you can tell by my Google Analytics screenshot below, the graph doesn’t lie. I went from 0 visitors a day to averaging about 15-20 a day now.
I’ll be honest with you. I have not been so patient after this last Panda change. I went out and purchased a few FIVERR jobs that would send me thousands of backlinks to my sites (excluding this one that Jacob was working on). One offer was for a pyramid like backlinking method so it was suppose to help prevent getting google slapped. WRONG! My site that was doing $500 a month through GA Network went from suffering at #8 to being completely sandboxed. Seriously, I couldn’t even find it on page 20 yesterday. Don’t be cheap guys. Cheap means spammy! You really do get what you pay for. I am going to be using SE Slingshot for my site that is sandboxed to see if it can be helped. I am desperate to get my income back from that site.
Special thanks to Jacob; owner of SE Slingshot, for allowing me to test drive his service. I highly recommend his service and I will update you all once I get my 2nd site going with his service.
Some Good News From Good Ol’ Fashion Backlink Building
Well, since all my main money maker sites slipped off of page 1 in the SERPs and are currently earning 1/4th to 1/3rd what they were, I really started to research on what was the best method to go with to help recover those sites and get my income back. I read a few threads on the warrior forum and I found it very frustrating to hear some morons actually suggest to forget those old sites that you have spent many, many hours working on, adding tons of content, article marketing on, backlink building on and just walk away from them to build a new site. There was no way I was gonna abandon my babies. So what was the logical approach??? Building back links of course!
I am slowly recovering one site I have been working on for about 3 weeks now. As of the Panda Oct. 14th update this site in particular slipped from it’s normal #2 spot to #12!! So for the next 2 weeks I blog commented with legit comments through CommentLuv enabled sites and bought the CommentLuv+ premium plug-in and installed that on my site too. This helped because my site then went from #12 to #8 but even after a few more days of blog commenting, I noticed my site was still stuck at #8.
So what was I to do next?? I decided to give Build My Rank a try. So last week I posted 5 blog posts with BMR and now it’s one week later and my site has in fact moved up to #5!!
I definitely want to diverse my backlinking and I am doing just that so now my next step is I am going to write an article and submit to a few article directories. I will outsource someone to back link those articles for me.
I am just glad to see movement and that not all is lost. It’s gonna take me several weeks to recover my sites but they are not a waste!
I am slowly recovering one site I have been working on for about 3 weeks now. As of the Panda Oct. 14th update this site in particular slipped from it’s normal #2 spot to #12!! So for the next 2 weeks I blog commented with legit comments through CommentLuv enabled sites and bought the CommentLuv+ premium plug-in and installed that on my site too. This helped because my site then went from #12 to #8 but even after a few more days of blog commenting, I noticed my site was still stuck at #8.
So what was I to do next?? I decided to give Build My Rank a try. So last week I posted 5 blog posts with BMR and now it’s one week later and my site has in fact moved up to #5!!
I definitely want to diverse my backlinking and I am doing just that so now my next step is I am going to write an article and submit to a few article directories. I will outsource someone to back link those articles for me.
I am just glad to see movement and that not all is lost. It’s gonna take me several weeks to recover my sites but they are not a waste!
What I Would Like to See in Kindle Fire 2
There have been plenty of Kindle Fire 2 rumors, but personally there are a few things that I would LOVE to see.
The Default Android
Seriously, the Amazon Kindle’s restrictions that force you to go through their own app store are annoying as hell, and there purely for their own profit.
Amazon needs to drop this and favor a less ‘modified’ android.
While I do understand why Amazon wants to snare you in to buying eBooks from their store, plenty of companies have proven how sectioning yourself off in the age of the global world is a sure fire way to destroy your business in the long run.
Swype
Swype is amazing. Cant get more simple than that. I would use the Amazon Kindle Fire more if I didn’t have to use the slow as hell peck and tap keyboard.
Swype would be the perfect addition to this eReader.
More Responsive
A pretty big issue I have with the Kindle Fire is it’s slow touch screen response time. It means that if use the Fire for anything more than eBook reading, I find myself suffering from a lot of ‘mistakes’ thanks to a screen which doesn’t always recognize my touch.
If Amazon decide to upgrade their tablet, the Kindle FIre will need a much more responsive screen.
Higher Resolution
This s far from the biggest of problems on the Kindle Fire, but sometimes things do look a little pixelated. Even a slight improvement on the screen resolution would be much appreciated.
So will I buy the Kindle Fire 2 if it solves all these problems?
Probably not, I rarely use my tablet, and when I do it is either to read books or watch movies. All of what I said above though would build a much better user experience for Kindle Fire users!
The Default Android
Seriously, the Amazon Kindle’s restrictions that force you to go through their own app store are annoying as hell, and there purely for their own profit.
Amazon needs to drop this and favor a less ‘modified’ android.
While I do understand why Amazon wants to snare you in to buying eBooks from their store, plenty of companies have proven how sectioning yourself off in the age of the global world is a sure fire way to destroy your business in the long run.
Swype
Swype is amazing. Cant get more simple than that. I would use the Amazon Kindle Fire more if I didn’t have to use the slow as hell peck and tap keyboard.
Swype would be the perfect addition to this eReader.
More Responsive
A pretty big issue I have with the Kindle Fire is it’s slow touch screen response time. It means that if use the Fire for anything more than eBook reading, I find myself suffering from a lot of ‘mistakes’ thanks to a screen which doesn’t always recognize my touch.
If Amazon decide to upgrade their tablet, the Kindle FIre will need a much more responsive screen.
Higher Resolution
This s far from the biggest of problems on the Kindle Fire, but sometimes things do look a little pixelated. Even a slight improvement on the screen resolution would be much appreciated.
So will I buy the Kindle Fire 2 if it solves all these problems?
Probably not, I rarely use my tablet, and when I do it is either to read books or watch movies. All of what I said above though would build a much better user experience for Kindle Fire users!
Samsung Galaxy S2 to get Android 4?
In a rather surprising but exciting announcement Samsung revealed that they are releasing Android 4.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S2. While it might take a while for this to roll out to all cell carriers, this is great news for owners of the device that barely missed out on the ice cream sandwich OS. One question on many peoples minds however is should they update to the latest android OS on their Galaxy S2, especially after the large number of complaints on the Galaxy Nexus.
The key point here is that while Android 2.0 Gingerbread is now a little dated, it is also very stable, efficient and rarely crashes. The good news is that early reports do include a high level of stability. This is mostly down to the fact that ice cream sandwich has now had a few months to be fine tuned, but it was a highly efficient OS to begin with.
While Android 4.0 is now more stable, many Samsung Galaxy S2 owners might not be looking to make the switch straight away. The new OS doesn’t really bring that many new features to the table, which leaves more casual users wondering whether the update will be worth the potential issues. For the most part the new android OS improves the look and usability of the phone rather than the features (although little additions like ‘face unlock’ are pretty sweet).
Personally, the new features (while minor) are well worth the update in my opinion.
The key point here is that while Android 2.0 Gingerbread is now a little dated, it is also very stable, efficient and rarely crashes. The good news is that early reports do include a high level of stability. This is mostly down to the fact that ice cream sandwich has now had a few months to be fine tuned, but it was a highly efficient OS to begin with.
While Android 4.0 is now more stable, many Samsung Galaxy S2 owners might not be looking to make the switch straight away. The new OS doesn’t really bring that many new features to the table, which leaves more casual users wondering whether the update will be worth the potential issues. For the most part the new android OS improves the look and usability of the phone rather than the features (although little additions like ‘face unlock’ are pretty sweet).
Personally, the new features (while minor) are well worth the update in my opinion.
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