Archive for the ‘SEO’ Category
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 |
Google Annihilation Versus Neurolinker – An Honest Review of Google Annihilation and Neurolinker
By now, you must have received a ton of emails from gurus promoting Google Annihilation.
I heard about Google Annihilation but since there is hardly any information on the salespage that tells me what it is about, I decided to try it out. I soon realized that is actually a backlink building service and I decided to see how it compares with Neurolinker and whether I should add it to my arsenal of tools permanently.
Neurolinker is an automatic backlink building service I have been using and testing for a few months now and it has produced great results.
In fact, I am seeing quite a number of my websites and blogs ranking within top 10 – 20 for very competitive terms after using Neurolinker.
Read about Neurolinker
Let me be specific here. Google Annhilation costs $37 per month and you can generate links for up to 30 websites. After you sign up, it lets you enter your website URL, select the category for your website, enter a description, and enter up to 3 anchor keywords. Then it tells you to enter your HTML header and footer (provides no instructions or tutorials on how to do this) and then when you submit, it gives you a PHP linkpage to put on your website. Eventually your site becomes part of a big N-way or 3-way linking network.
If any of you use Neurolinker, you will know that Google Annihilation pales in comparison and is what I call “Neurolinker Lite”.
So let’s do a detailed comparison:
Google Annihilation:
- $37 for up to 30 websites
- Uses NO relevant website matching algoriths, only manual categories
- ONLY 3 anchor keywords allowed
- NO article marketing
- NO social bookmarking
- NO user options for selecting number versus relevance of links
- NO ability to reject any inbound or outbound links
- NO tutorials or instructions
- NO forum
Neurolinker:
- $27 for up to 100 websites
- Uses complex algorithms for finding most relevant websites, and lets you pick manual categories too
- Virtually unlimited anchor keywords using advanced keyword syntax
- Article marketing component with article spinner
- Free website content for your website from articles
- Collaborative social bookmarking system for permanent links from social BM sites
- Can reject any inbound and some outbound links
- Plenty of tutorials and instructions
- A forum for help and suggestions from other users
So you can tell me right away, Google Annihilation Versus Neurolinker, which is better?
Obviously, when I look at these 2, I am glad that I can now save the $37 for the next month since Neurolinker obviously does a much better job.
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Web Traffic | 14 Comments »
Saturday, September 27th, 2008 |
There are a few things that every affiliate marketer or aspiring affiliate will need to start making his or her first dollar in affiliate marketing.
From my conversations with a lot of my subscribers, it appears that most affiliates feel too overwhelmed by the information overload. They get swarmed by all the experienced internet marketers’ emails throwing them into all directions.
Frankly, there is nothing wrong with the offers and methods taught by the internet marketers. The only problem is for a newbie, that is too much to digest.
Right here, I offer a few simple steps to start making your first dollar in affiliate marketing. If you own a list or membership site that has many newbie affiliates, perhaps you might want them to read this post.
The idea is to stay focused on a single plan and take mass action!
1. Choose Your Product
One affiliate program for a start!
While this sounds basic, the truth is, many get sucked into different affiliate programs and end up distracted!
Start with ClickBank if you are new. All you need to do is register. Approval is instant and you go for to the Marketplace to choose a good product to promote.
People will tell you to go for low competition products, ie products that few affiliates are promoting or not selling in large volumes. That’s not quite true. For me, I find from my experience in niche marketing that the hot sellers sell much better.
The reasons are simple: The hot sellers are proven to sell, ie high conversion rates. Secondly, the market is much larger!
Take a look at the Gravity. This is a single parameter that tells you how many affiliates have made at least 1 sale over the past 30 days. Not the exact number though but a good estimate. Go for at least 30 to 50.
2. Create Your Sales Funnel
By that, this is the conduit of getting visitors to your sales page. Some will advocate direct linking, in other words, sending your visitors immediately to your sales page.
This works at times. But I have only seen successful models if you use targeted paid advertising. For example, buying banners ads, text link ads, etc at Ad Networks. Unless you are an experienced marketer or have deep pockets to test different advertising avenues, this option can be very expensive! Not quite suitable for newbies.
However, it is often much better if you put your prospect through a sales funnel for the purpose of educating and preselling your prospect. Conversions are much higher!
What kind of sales funnels can you create?
a. A content website that talks about the particular market you are in.
b. A blog using free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress is great!
c. A name squeeze page that allows you to capture the name and email address of your visitor. This allows you to follow up with him or her for at least 7 times to condition him to buy from you. Offer great content or a free report as a bait!
d. A forum signature can become your direct sales funnel. Create a catchy forum signature like this “Copy The Secrets A Newbie Used To Get A $3212 PayCheck Every Month!”. The simple way to do it is to use the headline of the product you are selling and modify it.
A case study here. If I am promoting Google Manipulator, I may actually create a signature from its headline.
Headline:
“Underground Marketer Banks $57,100 In Profit From Free Google Search Traffic And How You Too Could Easily And Effortlessly Blow Past Anyone And Everyone In Your Niche And Hit The Jackpot Using The Exact Same Simple As 1-2-3 Methods”
Signature:
“Learn How I Bank $57,100 In Profits From Free Traffic Using A Simple A-B-C Blueprint!”
3. Traffic Driving
The third part is in driving traffic to your sales funnel. This is the most challenging for most internet marketers. If you do have a budget, you can resort to PPC, ideally Google Adwords.
But if you are on a tight budget, free traffic driving techniques can also deliver a punch.
Some of the most effective and simple traffic driving methods here:
a. Article marketing – I swear by its effectiveness. After all, this is the single traffic technique that gets me well over 1000,000 visitors over a year period. Hint: Use EzineArticles.
Read my other blog posts on article marketing tips and techniques to maximize your efforts.
b. Forum marketing – Spend time contributing to at least 10 forums in your target niche. This will get you a good reputation and trust. The selling point is in your forum signature. People do make their first sales there.
c. Classified advertisements – Go to the free classified advertisement websites like Craigslist, EPage, BackPage and USFreeads. These places allow you to post a classified ad. Look for the appropriate places to post your ad.
d. Create a free report and give it away – This method is a more advanced one which I hesitated to share. Nonetheless, if you feel you are experienced to do it, go ahead and create a report with your affiliate links embedded in the report.
Give it to anyone you meet, post it to free ebook directories, or participate in a giveaway.
e. Social bookmarking at top sites like StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us and Digg.
f. List building – this is a lengthy process but you will be able to build a long-term business in the niche you are targeting. All gurus built their successes from their own lists or piggybacking others’ lists.
There are other more advanced techniques, but I shall stop here. By following these methods and duplicating it all over and over again, you will find yourself not only making the first sale, but many sales. You just got yourself a proven business model!
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Forum Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Giveaway Events, Google Adwords, Joint Venture, Online Marketing Learning, Pay Per Click, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 40 Comments »
Monday, August 18th, 2008 |
Wow! It has been more than a month since I last posted. So where was I? In case you are wondering if I went missing forever, I have not. The last month was busy and I was away in Japan for about 2 weeks on holidays. It was quite cooling in Hokkaido and the lavender fields were beautiful! Tokyo’s weather was quite terrible – it was hot! But my wife and I had a great time at DisneySea.
Overall, it was an enjoyable trip and now that I am back, it is time to get back to posting more good stuff for you guys.
I am going to post a quick keyword tip here for all bum marketers and practically all internet marketers. Keyword research as you know by now is a must. Whether you are using it for Pay-Per-Click aka Google Adwords or for SEO and bum marketing, it is the one most critical component.
Google’s external keyword tool is now an improved version, providing approximate monthly search counts for any keyword you search. Here’s the link to the free keyword tool.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Previously, there are no figures and you probably have to second guess what the search volume toolbar means for each individual word.
If you are a bum marketer looking for a quick keyword to target, the search volumes should give you a good idea of the traffic each keyword will attract. Also, if you notice that the advertiser competition is high, ie a full bar, chances are it is profitable for the advertisers.
This should pass the first litmus test. Then, I will go to Google.com to run a search using “keyword” and allintitle: keyword.
If both shows a low result, probably in the range of lower than 5,000 for “keyword” and 1,000 for allintitle: keyword, then I will target this for bum marketing with articles at EzineArticles, Squidoo and HubPages.
But there is more to Google’s keyword tool. Notice that there is a small section on the left hand that says “Results are tailored to”. Try to fiddle with the drop-down menu, it will give you a good grasp of how much traffic each keyword is attracting from different countries in the world.
This should be useful for PPC marketers who are targeting geographically. Even for bum marketers, you can try to plan your content to contain keywords for those specific countries. For example, if you notice that a keyword looks promising with decent search volumes in Canada, perhaps you can mention about “Canada” in your article content and title to draw some relevance to it. So, for illustration’s purpose, say the keyword is “make money online”, you can try creating content based on the keyword “make money online in Canada”.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Web Traffic, keyword research | 14 Comments »
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 |
Google Manipulator is the latest report to be launched on the 26 June 2008. Written by Pawel Reszka, an unknown 6-figure underground marketer, this 80 page report teaches you the exact methods he has used to “manipulate” the Google search engine for profits. I was invited to review this report. As usual, I am going to share what this “Google Manipulator” report is all about.
Content Of Google Manipulator:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What This Is About
Chapter 3. Market Research
Chapter 4. The Master Plan
Chapter 5. Content Creation
Chapter 6. Executing The Plan
Chapter 7. Getting The Word Out
Chapter 8. Your Own Site VS Direct Linking
Chapter 9. Black Hat
Chapter 10. Building Huge Sites Fast
Chapter 11. Closing Words
Chapter 12. Recommended Resources
Chapter 13. Affiliate Program
I am not easily won over by sales letters and loud headlines. After all, all internet marketing products have fantastic headlines and sub-headlines. And you get numb after a while.
When you get to see the sales letter subsequently. you will read about how this underground marketer named Pawel Reszka managed to pull in over $50,000 profits in one month relying only on free google search traffic.
No Google Adwords, PPC or huge lists at all. And he earned his $50,000 profits all using free search traffic from Google. How did he do that? These are all revealed in his Google Manipulator report. But here is a hint, he uses niche sites together with the power of Web 2.0 authority sites.
The aim of this report is to show you how to conquer the Google search engine results with No.1 ranking or at least within the Top 10 search results. Anyone can do it without even owning or building a single website.
I reviewed the report, read through the entire 80 pages and found a shocking truth! This guy is really sharing what works, without hiding anything!
I hate to say it but most gurus do not share their killer techniques with us. They either write about methods that used to work but are obsolete now or methods that they personally have not used before. Theories at best!
But in Google Manipulator, the steps to dominate the Google search results are clearly spelt out. I can say that because I have personally used the methods and I know they work like crazy! When he says that you can get Google’s approval for your websites and rank top or even No.1 for your targeted keywords within days, he is not lying. And we are not talking about complicated SEO but using Web 2.0 authority sites.
Pawel tells you the 2 best ways to make use of his techniques to conquer Google’s search engine results to your advantage. No, he is not talking about long tail keywords in case you are wondering.
His killer backlinking strategies are powerful and effective. The Google Manipulator report shares 2 such methods to get quality one-way links. The black hat techniques are actually mini strategies to increase your affiliate commissions.
Priced at $67, this Google Manipulator report is worth the buy. It is a complete income system. I like his style of writing which is clear and concise. And Pawel Reszka takes great pains to use screenshots to illustrate each step. Newbies will love this because they are easy to understand and anyone can execute to outrun even the gurus with huge lists, even without your own website!
I would be surprised if you do not make any money with this report.
Grab his report and I shall throw in a set of attractive bonuses. See my Google Manipulator bonuses.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Free Money Making Methods, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic, keyword research | 14 Comments »
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 |
It has been about 2 weeks since I last posted. Well, I am back after getting all busy with creating and semi-automating my network of blogs. Yes, I do own tons of blogs and with my new projects coming up soon, I got to set certain systems in place to take care of the content management as well as link and traffic building of my blog empire.
Ok, back to this post. Here are some cool and free keyword competition analyzers you can use to conduct a search for “low competition keyword phrases”. Now, “low competition keyword phrases” are much sought after for a few reasons.
Firstly, if you are an article marketer or bum marketer, using such keywords will get you ranking in top placements in the search engines really fast.
Secondly, if you are using PPC, targeting a specific long tail, low competition keyword phrase for your keyword, landing page content, ad title and ad content will bring down the cost of your ads really fast. But be mindful to target low competition keyword phrases with some decent amount of searches. Otherwise, you will be wasting time building a landing page and optimizing it around the keyword.
Which are these free keyword competition analyzers?
1. WordTracker’s Cool Google Trends Feature
You may be familiar with WordTracker but did you know that you can combine the power of the free keyword competition checker with Google trends?
Say I want to check out the keyword competitiveness of “working from home”. I will go to
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/gtrends
Take a look at this screenshot.
Next, I will click on the little icon on the right column that says “Niche summary for working from home”.
It will bring me to this screen that shows the Google competition and the actual number of visitors from the No.1 website in Google.
Powerful, right? Within a few minutes, one can easily find some long tail low competition keywords to target. Now to the second free keyword competition analyzing tool.
2. SEO For FireFox Plugin
Yes, this is an add-on for your SEO browser.
Download it from
http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/seo-for-firefox.html
Install it and run the tool. See the screenshot below when I try to check if the keyword “working from home” is worth targeting.
It pretty much tells you a great deal about the sites that are ranking well for the keyword “working from home”. If you see most of them with a high PR and tons of backlinks, this is a good sign that you should avoid it!
But if the sites that are ranking well for the keyword phrase are all low PR pages with small number of backlinks, the keyword phrase could just be the low competition keyword phrase you are looking for!
Posted in Article Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, keyword research | 7 Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 |
I have compiled a huge list of social bookmarking sites, about 200 sites in total that you can bookmark at. There are some niche ones. I have decided to be nice to you by sharing it here. Majority do have a PR, while the newer ones do not have any PR at all, but that is just a small handful.
In my previous post, I have explained the beauty of social bookmarking in getting free high PR links to your websites. It is also one of the best and FREE way of ranking the deep pages of your websites.
If you search around online, there are not really too many effective ways to get quality high PR links for internal webpages.
Social bookmarking your blog posts, individual web pages and so on only takes a minute. If you are like me who is too lazy to do it manually, hire someone to do so. It can be a school going kid who just wants to earn some pocket allowance.
Or head over to Scriptlance, GetaFreeLancer or money making forums like SitePoint, DP Forums, Wicked Fire etc to hire. It probably will cost you about $0.10 to $0.20 per post. Multiply that by 200 posts at all the social bookmarking websites will only cost you about $20 to $40.
That kind of money will probably just buy you a good link from a PR 3 or 4 site at best. But remember to alternate your titles and descriptions so that they are not spammy looking.
1. http://www.furl.net – PR 8
2. http://www.backflip.com – PR 7
3. http://www.blinklist.com – PR 5
4. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR 5
5. http://jots.com – PR 6
6. http://www.linkroll.com – PR 6
7. http://www.looklater.com – PR 5
8. http://ma.gnolia.com – PR 5
9. http://www.maple.nu – PR 4
10. http://www.markaboo.com – PR 3
11. http://www.rawsugar.com/search – PR 6
12. http://www.shadows.com – PR 7
13. http://simpy.com – PR 4
14. http://www.spurl.net – PR 6
15. http://wink.com – PR 6
16. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR 7
17. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR 7
18. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR 4
19. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR 5
20. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR 6
21. http://del.icio.us – PR8
22. http://www.fark.com – PR8
23. http://www.furl.net – PR8
24. http://www.kuro5hin.org – PR8
25. http://www.technorati.com – PR8
26. http://www.bloghop.com – PR7
27. http://www.blogpulse.com – PR7
28. http://www.connectedy.com – PR7
29. http://www.digg.com – PR7
30. http://www.google.com/notebook – PR7
31. http://www.icerocket.com – PR7
32. http://kinja.com – PR7
33. http://www.librarything.com – PR7
34. http://www.newsvine.com – PR7
35. http://www.nextaris.com – PR7
36. http://www.shadows.com – PR7
37. http://www.stumbleupon.com – PR7
38. http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com – PR7
39. http://www.backflip.com/login.ihtml – PR6
40. http://www.beanrocket.com – PR6
41. http://www.blinklist.com – PR6
42. http://www.blogmarks.net – PR6
43. http://buddymarks.com – PR6
44. http://www.citeulike.org – PR6
45. http://www.cluebacca.com – PR6
46. http://www.diigo.com – PR6
47. http://www.feedmarker.com – PR6
48. http://frassle.net – PR6
49. http://www.gibeo.net – PR6
50. http://www.hanzoweb.com – PR6
51. http://dev.upian.com/hotlinks – PR6
52. http://www.jots.com – PR6
53. http://www.kaboodle.com – PR6
54. http://linkfilter.net – PR6
55. http://www.linkroll.com – PR6
56. http://listmixer.com – PR6
57. http://maple.nu – PR6
58. http://www.mecanbe.com/temp/default.aspx – PR6
59. http://myprogs.net – PR6
60. http://www.mystickies.com – PR6
61. http://www.netvouz.com – PR6
62. http://www.nowpublic.com – PR6
63. http://www.rollyo.com – PR6
64. http://scuttle.org – PR6
65. http://www.simpy.com – PR6
66. http://www.spurl.net – PR6
67. http://suckingfish.com/welcome.do – PR6
68. http://supr.c.ilio.us – PR6
69. http://www.tailrank.com – PR6
70. http://www.wists.com – PR6
71. http://www.wurldbook.com/info – PR6
72. http://www.yoono.com – PR6
73. http://www.clipfire.com – PR6
74. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR5
75. http://adoppt.com – PR5
76. http://www.ambedo.com – PR5
77. http://www.blogmemes.net – PR5
78. http://www.bookmark-manager.com – PR5
79. http://www.bookmarktracker.com – PR5
80. http://www.browsr.com – PR5
81. https://www.chipmark.com – PR5
82. http://www.connectedy.com – PR5
83. http://www.dinnerbuzz.com – PR5
84. http://www.fantacular.com – PR5
85. http://www.feedalley.com – PR5
86. http://www.filangy.com/index.jsp – PR5
87. http://www.gather.com – PR5
88. http://gnafi.com – PR5
89. http://www.gravee.com – PR5
90. http://www.igooi.com – PR5
91. http://www.jeteye.com – PR5
92. http://www.kmfavorites.com – PR5
93. http://www.lifelogger.com – PR5
94. http://www.linkagogo.com/go/Home – PR5
95. http://www.lookupthis.com/online/signin.asp – PR5
96. http://www.lookmarks.com – PR5
97. http://meneame.net – PR5
98. http://www.millionsofgames.com – PR5
99. http://motor.crispynews.com – PR5
100. http://www.mybookmarkmanager.com – PR5
101. http://www.myhq.com – PR5
102. http://www.mylinkvault.com – PR5
103. http://www.mypip.com/home – PR5
104. http://www.myvmarks.com – PR5
105. http://www.openbm.de – PR5
106. http://tags.library.upenn.edu – PR5
107. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR5
108. http://www.phigita.net – PR5
109. http://www.pligg.com – PR5
110. http://www.portachi.com – PR5
111. http://www.rrove.com/home – PR5
112. http://segnalo.alice.it – PR5
113. http://www.shoutwire.com – PR5
114. http://www.sitejot.com – PR5
115. http://www.squidoo.com – PR5
116. http://www.stylehive.com – PR5
117. http://www.tabmarks.com – PR5
118. http://unalog.com – PR5
119. http://yummy.printfu.org – PR5
120. http://www.youtube.com – PR5
121. http://www.zurpy.com – PR5
122. http://aworldofhelp.com/home/index2.htm – PR4
123. http://www.allmyfavorites.net – PR4
124. http://articletag.com/index.php – PR4
125. http://www.blinkbits.com – PR4
126. http://www.bmaccess.net – PR4
127. http://www.bookkit.com – PR4
128. http://www.butterflyproject.nl – PR4
129. http://www.clipclip.org – PR4
130. http://www.clipmarks.com – PR4
131. http://www.esnips.com/signin/index.jsp – PR4
132. http://www.favmark.com – PR4
133. http://3form.com – PR4
134. http://www.Givealink.org – PR4
135. http://www.guicookies.com – PR4
136. http://indiagram.com/index.php – PR4
137. http://www.linkarena.com – PR4
138. http://www.linkologia.pl – PR4
139. http://www.oyax.com – PR4
140. http://www.peoplefeeds.com – PR4
141. http://www.rawsugar.com/index.faces – PR4
142. http://www.stanmx.com/sabrosus – PR4
143. http://www.stylefeeder.com – PR4
144. http://www.taghop.com – PR4
145. http://www.ticklr.net – PR4
146. http://www.urlex.info – PR4
147. http://my.xilinus.com – PR4
148. http://www.de.lirio.us – PR3
149. http://www.eigology.com/dogear – PR3
150. http://dohat.com/dohathome3.html – PR3
151. http://www.favoor.com – PR3
152. http://feedmelinks.com/portalc – PR3
153. http://www.flipskipper.com – PR3
154. http://www.i89.us – PR3
155. http://www.lilisto.com – PR3
156. https://ma.gnolia.com – PR3
157. http://www.meme-stream.com – PR3
158. http://www.onlywire.com – PR3
159. http://tagsy.com – PR3
160. http://6-clicks.com – PR2
161. http://www.bloglot.com – PR2
162. http://www.crispynews.com/global – PR2
163. http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com – PR2
164. http://www.indiamarks.com – PR2
165. http://www.listible.com – PR2
166. http://www.sitetagger.com – PR2
167. http://www.smarking.com – PR2
168. http://www.30daytags.com/fresh – PR1
169. http://www.getboo.com – PR1
170. http://www.syncone.net – PR1
171. http://www.blabb.com/user/blabb.php – PR0
172. http://bookmarks.blauerbote.com – PR0
173. http://bluedot.us/friends/dots – PR0
174. http://www.collectfavorites.com – PR0
175. http://www.complore.com – PR0
176. http://www.eggkeg.com – PR0
177. http://www.fatredfish.com – PR0
178. http://www.forumsofindia.com – PR0
179. http://www.fungow.com – PR0
180. http://mybookmark.gokodo.com – PR0
181. http://www.goobtoob.com – PR0
182. http://linkatopia.com – PR0
183. http://www.linklog.nl – PR0
184. http://www.markaboo.com – PR0
185. http://www.minddeposit.com – PR0
186. http://www.pixelmo.com – PR0
187. http://popurls.com – PR0
188. http://recommendit.dehsoftware.com – PR0
189. http://www.reddit.com – PR0
190. http://www.rojo.com – PR0
191. http://say.something-everything.com – PR0
192. http://www.searchles.com – PR0
193. http://www.shoppersbase.com – PR0
194. http://socialbookmarking.org – PR0
195. http://www.taganiche.com – PR0
196. http://www.tagtooga.com/db.tag – PR0
197. http://thumblicio.us – PR0
198. http://www.tutorialism.com – PR0
199. http://www.ticklr.net – PR0
200. http://www.wirefan.com – PR0
Do you know of any other social bookmarking websites? Feel free to list them here.
Posted in General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 |
Social bookmarking first started innocently as a tool quite similar to our browser’s “Save favourite” feature.
The original intention of social bookmarking our favourite webpages was to make these pages available wherever we go. In the past, when we see a website we like or frequently visit, we will save it. But we can only access that using the same computer.
With social bookmarking, you can bookmark any favourite website and still be able to locate it anywhere as long as you have an internet access.
So what has this got to do with internet marketing or making money online?
Let me share a bit more with you.
1. Get Top 10 Ranking in Google for Long-tail Keywords
A simple experiment I did revealed that social bookmarking can boost your search engine rankings! Subsequently, I have used the same method to obtain high rankings for many other keywords. Social bookmarking sites typically have high PRs and placing your links there will give your websites a boost.
Basically, what I did was to social bookmark a blog I own http://articlesubmissionservice.wise-tips.com using the keyword “article submission service review”.
After a few weeks, it is now ranked No.1 in Google for the search term “article submission service review” out of close to 7 million search results.
2. Fast Indexing
Submitting your sites to Web 2.0 authority sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Propeller can get your webpages indexed quickly. People often complain of slow indexing especially for internal pages.
This is the surest and quickest way to get instant indexing. It takes as fast as a few hours.
3. Selling Without a Website
I personally have seen how people have social bookmarked direct affiliate links. Though I have not done it, but by virtue of seeing it happen so many times, they must be doing something correctly. Since you determine what tag to use, it is easier for you to rank well in the search results of each social bookmarking site than seeing zero hope in ranking in the search engines for an affiliate link, for example a Clickbank hop link.
The whole idea is that Social Bookmarking sites are seeing more traffic from targeted searchers. While my feel is that such traffic are not of the highest quality and many are simply window shoppers or information browsers, it can still add up especially if you manage to get people to vote for your bookmarks.
Digg has a voting system and those sites that manage to get a good number of votes within 24 to 48 hours stand a good chance to stay on top of the category. This can mean 1000s of free visitors.
At the same time, I have also seen MSN ranking hop links in their search engine. Could this be the doing of social bookmarking? Quite likely.
A suggestion here though I have not tried it is to take a newly launched product’s hop link and social bookmark it to 100s of sites. Observe for a while and see if it ranks. Who knows someone who is searching for it will find your link in Del.icio.us?
The exact steps to do social bookmarking properly:
1. Decide a page you want to rank for. It can be the home page of your site or internal page.
2. Create an appropriate title. Research on the keyword you are trying to rank the page for. Make sure that the keyword is also the target keyword of your content. Do not even attempt to try to rank a webpage on the topic of list building for the keyword “making money with surveys”. It just won’t work.
3. Research on the tags. One clue is to look at the tag cloud at each social bookmarking site to get an idea of the most popular tags. If it is relevant to your webpage, use it. Tagging your bookmark with popular tags will get you some good traffic.
4. Social bookmark at as many social bookmarking sites as possible.
I personally have found 2 free automatic social bookmarking tools that are very useful. Each can post your bookmark to over 15 social bookmarking sites, so in total, you get your social bookmarks listed on over 30 top high PR bookmarking websites.
They are Onlywire.com and GetBookmark.com. GetBookmark.com is somewhat new but works fine. You can just drag and drop it into your browser and go to each of your webpage and bookmark conveniently.
5. Be Creative
Create attractive titles and descriptions, but do not forget to use the target keywords.
Alternate your titles and descriptions for different social bookmarking sites to avoid looking spammy to the search engines.
Go ahead and social bookmark your websites for more traffic, sales and subscribers.
Posted in Buzz Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 7 Comments »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 |
By now, you would have heard of Ewen Chia or for that matter his latest Working from Home Secret Report. He is my fellow countryman, friend and someone whom I do respect a lot. Why?
Partly because I have known how hard he worked his way to today’s status as the Secret Weapon of Super Affiliates. But largely because he often over deliver on his products. Do not expect B.S from this guy.
This is the man behind successful products like AutoPilot Profits and Secret Affiliate Weapon. These reports continue to sell well on ClickBank. But I am still curious to know how this new system works and whether he can live up to my expectations.
But what exactly is Ewen Chia’s Working from Home System about? 15th April is the first day of the pre-launch to announce the arrival of this new income system.
Well, I downloaded his free report titled “HOW TO GET RICH FROM HOME IN JUST 5 SIMPLE STEPS!” or you can watch his video here:
Watch the video at Ewen Chia’s Working from Home website now!
After watching the video and reading through the 5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet, I must say that it is still refreshing as ever. You can download the report for free without opting in to any list. So go ahead and do so.
In his 5 steps report, he covers the essential 5 steps to start making real money online fast.
1. Finding a Rabid Marketing With Huge Growing Demand
This is good old wisdom but most affiliates miss this out completely. Ewen Chia advocates in his free report that any online marketer should find a market that has ready buyers and a continuous need to consume.
The golfing and the “work from home” niches fit in the bill nicely. Rather than to sell to a market that will only buy from you once, for example, how to get rid of cockroaches, why not sell golf balls, golf equipment, golf memberships in the golf market or sell “traffic building”, “Google Adwords”, “make money online” reports and memberships to the “working from home” market?
Of course, this step involves doing some keyword research.
2. Finding an Excellent Product as a Solution to People’s Problems
In the free report, he points out the need to focus on 1 product rather than 100 of products. Just 1 excellent product is good enough. Quite frankly, I do not fully agree with him. The reason is simple – never put all your eggs in one basket no matter how good the product is.
But he does point out in this report at Workingfromhome.com that it is important for the affiliate program to pay the affiliates well. At least 50% commissions are reasonable for a digital product. This point, I fully agree.
Another gold nugget of advice which I always tell my subscribers is this, make sure the affiliate program comes with a complete set of affiliate tools such as emails, banner ads, PPC keywords, classified ads etc. I am so glad Ewen did that in his report from Working from Home.
3. Complete Sales Funnel
Kudos to him on this point about complete sales funnel. This is something that I often find missing in most make money online books I buy. A complete sales funnel does not only sell the prospect on the upfront, but it has an up-sell and a backend.
Simply put, earning a $25 per sale from a $50 product should never be your end in mind.
A complete sales funnel will allow you the affiliate earn on the upfront, up-sell and backend. Sad to say, many affiliate marketing programs perform poorly in this.
On the contrary, any product that does provide the complete sales funnel to its affiliates is likely to be a winner for a long time to come.
4. Focus on Money Making Activities
This is a practical thinking tip and I like that because I am a firm believer in this. In the report on “5 simple steps to get rich from home on the internet”, he talks about focusing on money making activities, ie those things that will get you more sales.
Well he does not explicitly mention about what are the money making activities, I can translate that to activities like website promotion ie article marketing, PPC, comment posting, forum marketing, etc and website/blog creation activities or even getting JV partners.
His Mini-Day tips is simple but trust me, many people do not really implement that. It took me some time to convince my online marketing student to do that.
5. Be Proactive
Wow! This is such a SIMPLE step but the trouble is, many folks are just too bogged down by distractions.
Remember, knowledge has no value until it is acted upon.
So, even taking a little action on what you have learnt will put you in a better income position. Massive action will really let you quit your day job, work from home and get rich from home on the internet.
This free report is a good read. Do watch the video and download it to read up the details.
By the way, Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report will be launched on the 21st April. You will read about it here!
This 50-page no-fluff report will probably be the key to make real money online fast, quit the rat race and replacing your income with the internet in 30 days or lesser.
Within the Working from Home Secret Report, you will discover 3 proven and easy ways to earn cash within 30 days.
Within the report, expect to:
See proof of how Ewen Chia went from $0 to 5 figure with a Brand New Website In 30 Days
Learn the 4 simple stages of all successful online businesses
Discover how to pick a profitable market to sell your products within minutes with free tools only. Also, you will be able to find rapid markets with ready cash to spend.
Learn how to leverage one top website to start your business without any website of your own and start earning in a week.
Master the art of spying on the hot sellers and “stealing” the profits for yourself.
See Ewen show you how he made his first million bucks and how you can copy him and let somebody do all the grunt work for you!
Discover how to create simple ONE-page websites that outsell the super gurus. You will also receive some examples so that you can copy for your own success.
Learn 4 easy methods to get hot buyers ready to buy whatever you are selling to them. And 3 of these methods are totally free of charge.
Learn the exact step by step method of creating and selling your own product within 7 days.
Discover the technique of pricing your product. Yes, you will learn the psychological reason for why certain price points will automatically click within the buyers.
Know the fastest and simplest way to accept credit cards online without paying a single cent until someone buys a product from you. No sales, no need to pay!
What is the price of Ewen Chia’s Working from Home Secret Report?
$9.97!
I will let out a little secret here:
On top of the report, the Work from Home Secret Report all comes with bonuses like:
Bonus 1:
The “Instant Income System” which is an income system with a complete sales funnel that lets you earn up to $156.77.
Bonus 2:
“How To ‘Steal’ Other People’s Work And Get Rich”(Retail Value: $67). Within this report, you will:
Find out how the Web 2.0 phenomenon can help you ramp up your earnings quickly.
Discover 4 killer “pre-sell” page secrets that will beat out the competition
Learn How to Find Excellent Affiliate Programs to Promote
Sounds like a lot to me. Before he takes down the report and video from the Working from Home website, go check it out.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Forum Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | 54 Comments »
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 |
iContent Robot is the latest content writing software to appear on the market. If you have gone to take a look at the sales page of iContentRobot.com, you will see some interesting videos.
I have been using all kinds of article writing, rewriting and spinning software. Instant Article Wizard 2.0 (and Version 1.0), Content Assistant, JetSpinner, Unique Article Wizard, Content Spooler and what have you. Every one of these is good but none comes close enough to the speed, ease of use and uniqueness of content created using iContent Robot.
For one moment, I would consider Instant Article Wizard 2.0 as King of Article Writing Software. But it seems that it has met a strong contender in iContent Robot.
What does the article creation robot do for you?
It generates unique versions of a topic based on a keyword. For example, you can key in “Make Money Online”, and click on the “Regenerate Content” button for a new version to appear. All well within 3 seconds.
As an illustration, I am going to show you 3 unique versions of an article on “Acne Skin Care” I just created. Do not let your jaw drop. In case you begin to suspect I did some master touch-up, my reply is NO. These are taken straight from the software.
Remember, click, regenerate, copy and paste. That’s all I did. Don’t blink your eyes.
3 Sample Unique Articles Created by iContent Robot
Version No.1
If you are one of the people who suffer with acne (Zits) then you are well aware of the distress and problems it causes; but there are now many treatments available which can help the condition so it is more bearable. A great deal of money is being spent researching the condition; now, some of these skin conditions are gradually being conquered. We can classify acne skin care products into 3 broad categories: Internet or Drugstore: Treatment that helps prevents condition Over-the-counter, Prescription only: Requires visit to doctor
The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Many people use products similar to this every day as part of their skin care regime irrespective of whether or not they have the condition.
Other acne skin care products like skin cleansers are more specific about their job, they ensure the facial pores (and other areas) remain free of oil. Excess oil needs to be stopped from clogging the pores as this oil make it easier for bacteria to grow, exacerbating the condition.
Exfoliation skin peels have proved quite effective as a skin care treatment and at controlling the problem. There are now more and more of these types of products available over the counter. Dead skin cells and other atmospheric pollutants are removed cleaning the pores which reduce the chance of any bacterial growth.
There are specialized acne skin care products available over-the-counter, they do not require the need of a prescription. Products that contain the chemical benzoyl peroxide and the naturally occurring salicylic acid are used in vanishing creams. They work by removing the excess oil from the skin and halt the growth of acne.
Although benzoyl peroxide works well, it is possible you may have a reaction, it is suggested that any benzoyl peroxide skin care product should not contain the active ingredient at more than 5.5 percent. You might have to try a few different creams or lotions before you find the acne skin care product that is effective for you’re skin. If nothing you try seems to work, you should contact a dermatologist.
There are benefits of seeing your doctor or dermatologist; they can prescribe you with a prescription for treatments not available over the counter, for example a course of antibiotics. In some case your doctor may suggest the pustules are drained of harmful contents under local anesthetic, this is a minor procedure which if carried out by yourself could result in skin damage.
Your doctor could prescribe a hormone-based treatment to treat your skin problem. Hormonal changes are known to cause acne and such skin care treatments are sometimes known to be effective. Constant research has paid off, and whilst they cannot cure the condition, it is becoming easier to treat.
Version No.2
The psychological harm acne or Zits causes it’s many sufferers should not be underestimated; fortunately treatments are improving all the time. It is not surprising then that a great deal of money has been spent on skin care treatment development; as a result there are a variety of new products available to help prevent and treat skin conditions. We can classify acne skin care products into 3 broad categories: Preventative: Creams, lotions etc. to help cleanse and tone the skin. Over-the-counter and Prescription only: Requires visit to doctor
The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Whilst many sufferers use these products there are even more people who just want to keep their skin clean and conditioned.
More specialized cleaners are designed in the same way as acne skin care products; they clean out the pores to help stop sebum or oil which clogs up the pores. These products prevent the oil from getting trapped in pores and can hamper the growth of bacteria, this can lead to the bad skin condition.
This type of skin care treatment also includes those which exfoliate such as skin peels. These can be bought over the counter or on the internet. They work by reducing oil plus other contaminants from the skin and in the pores; this can reduce harmful bacteria and stop their chance of growth.
There are specialized acne skin care products available over-the-counter, they do not require the need of a prescription. Skin care products have been formulated to extract the excess oil that bacteria need to promote the development of acne. These products have benzoyl peroxide or salicylic acid as ingredients which the bacterium reacts badly too.
It is preferable when you first start using this type of product to keep the concentration of it low, around 5.5 percent is best. You can always try a cleaner or cream containing alpha hydroxy acid if this doesn’t work. You might have to try a few different creams or lotions before you find the acne skin care product that is effective for you’re skin. If nothing you try seems to work, you should contact a dermatologist.
Only doctors or skin care specialists can prescribe some medications, including the use of antibiotics and certain ointments. Under certain circumstances, having the infected material removed from the pores under a local anesthetic may be suggested by your dermatologist. This is something you should never attempt yourself.
Your doctor may even suggest a course of hormone therapy as a skin care treatment. Hormone changes are sometimes responsible for acne and can be very effective when used under prescription. With all the treatments available, tackling acne is not that difficult as there are many new products available to help.
Version No.3
If you are one of the people who suffer with acne (Zits) then you are well aware of the distress and problems it causes; Fortunately, skin care treatments are plentiful. Research into the causes, and possible treatments, for the condition is ongoing; as a consequence, many of these new treatments are very affective. Despite the number of acne skin care products currently available on the market, they are broadly categorized into three distinctly separate groups: Internet or Drugstore: Treatment that helps prevents condition; Those available at a drugstore or over-the-counter and Prescription: Issued for specialized medication from a doctor etc.
The preventative products are formulated to treat the skin in an effort to prevent acne from arising like skin cleansers and makeup removers. Whilst many sufferers use these products there are even more people who just want to keep their skin clean and conditioned.
Some of these products are designed to act like an acne skin care product and act against the causes of this complaint. They work by limiting the production of sebum/oil and prevent clogging of skin pores. These products prevent the oil from getting trapped in pores and can hamper the growth of bacteria, this can lead to the bad skin condition.
General skin care treatments also include special exfoliation products like skin peels. This type of peel helps reduce the chance of oil clogging up the pores as well as removing other skin impurities; this can reduce the bacterium growth on your skin.
There is a huge market for these types of acne skin care products as they don’t require a consultation with a dermatologist. These include products like vanishing creams which extract the excess oil from the skin. Most of these are based on benzoyl peroxide and salicylic acid, both of which are the enemies of bacteria (and hence acne).
You should start with a product that has lower concentration of benzoyl peroxide (e.g. 5%) and see how your skin responds. Alpha-hydroxy-acid based moisturizers are also popular as a skin care regime. Because we all have different types of skin, more than one type of acne skin care product may need to be tried. This is quite normal, however, if it is proving to be a problem then consult with your doctor, or skin care specialist.
On-prescription treatments are prescribed by a dermatologist and can include ointments that can be applied on the affected area or oral antibiotics or just any topical ointment. In some case your doctor may suggest the pustules are drained of harmful contents under local anaesthetics, this is a minor procedure which if carried out by yourself could result in skin damage.
An alternative that has been shown to work well is hormone therapy. Studies have shown that hormones can cause acne and skin care treatments that are hormone based have proved to be effective in many cases. With all the treatments available, tackling acne is not that difficult as there are many new products available to help.
Are you impressed? I am! Normally, it would cost me about $5 per article if I outsource my writing. It can cost even more depending on the quality and length of article. A simple rewrite from the original would have easily cost about $3.
With iContent Robot, you can create unlimited versions without costing you a single dime!
Some Advantages of iContentRobot.com Over Other Article Creation Software & Content Sources like PLR or Ghostwriters:
1. Super Fast – It takes only 3 seconds to create a completely unique version.
2. Unlimited Versions – You can create unlimited articles and they all look different and unique. No one else will have the same content as what you created with iContent Robot.
3. No Preparation Required – Most article spinning software requires some form of preparation such as creating several seed articles.
4. Latent Semantic Index Friendly – Content created is LSI friendly. If you understand about Google’s new rules about LSI content relevance, then you will see that the content is created following Google’s rules.
5. SEO Optimized – Each unique article is created with SEO in mind for ranking in the search engines.
6. Non-Spammy – A lot of poor quality article creation software produce spammy articles that are an eye-sore to human beings. This is quite unlike the quality content created by iContent Robot.
7. Economical – I wanted to call the tool cheap but that sounds very devaluing for a cool tool like this. For $67, it is not even enough for me to buy more than 13 hand-written articles by a cheap writer. It is also much cheaper than most PLR membership sites I use or come across (most offer a fixed number of articles each month shared by hundreds of people…hardly unique at all).
What I Do Not Like About iContent Robot:
While the unique versions are highly readable, what I do not like is the topics listed for this first month. iContent Robot’s creater Mo Latif pointed out that users are allowed to choose what topic they want their service to write about for the next month.
This part is not clear. I wonder how the arrangement will be like.
Members vote for what topic they want?
Or they will create articles based on the topics requested by individual member?
Or they have a point system where everyone can make a fixed number of requests on choice of topic each month?
This is important to me personally because I do not own websites on all these topics. Those who own and build lots of Adsense websites are the first ones to gain from this software. You can create tons of content to attract traffic from the search engines and with 50 topics to choose from, that is a lot of websites you can build for Adsense income!
The possibilities of using iContent Robot is great. You can use the content to post it on your websites/blogs or submit the articles to article directories or any site that accepts your content for traffic.
Or, you can create a full report on the topic and sell it. You can even consider reselling the articles.
Of course, using the service iContent Robot itself does cost you some money. For a start, the doors are just open not long ago for the first 500 exclusive members at $67. After that, the price will increase. At the time of this writing, over 400 memberships have been sold.
Make a sale or two with the articles created and it would have paid fully for the fee.
Take a look at iContentRobot and see how it works.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Web Traffic | 7 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008 |
It has been more than a week since I last posted my Buzz marketing article. I hope you like my previous post on the “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”. My girlfriend sure had a good laugh after reading it. Read on to know what exactly is Buzz Marketing.
If you had not read it, you can read it here.
10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008
There are 2 main reasons why I wrote that article.
Firstly, to share with readers like you about the common problems many affiliate marketers are caught up in. Some are innocent mistakes, others are totally blind to them and keep repeating these mistakes. The result is a waste of precious time, the loss of sales and subscribers.
Secondly, I created the article as a simple experiment on the concept of Buzz Marketing. You see, Buzz Marketing is another form of article marketing, powered by the buzz of Web 2.0 media.
Recently, I got to read about Buzz Marketing by an under-the-radar marketer called Dean Hunt.
What do Bum Marketers normally do with their articles?
A lot of the bum marketers simply do some proper keyword research for long tail keywords, slap a piece of article together and then submit it to EzineArticles or Squidoo. That’s it! They leave it to chance for the article to rank well in Google, Yahoo and MSN.
The trouble is, they are shortchanging the bum marketing method. How about combining the power of bum marketing method with a twist of Web 2.0 BUZZ? This is truly powerful BUZZ Marketing!
How to Combine Buzz Marketing with the BUM Marketing Method?
1. Create an article using the bum marketing method but write the title in a really eye-catching manner.
Notice that for my “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”, I could have written in the same old same old method of “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Successful Affiliate Marketer in 2008”.
There are tons of similar articles you can find. Titles like “Top Ways to Sell More”, “How to Be A Super Guru” and so on are pretty common. So how do you get people interested at all if you plan to write in the same manner?
Some tips to create a good and catchy title for your Buzz Marketing article:
a. Go for a negative angle. Notice that people love to read bad news. That is why bad news always sells so well. Read the newspapers and magazines to understand.
b. Use simple to understand keywords in your title. Try not to be bombastic. Go for simple to understand English. This will ensure your readers can understand and will read your article.
c. Use lists in your title. It has been proven that numbers and figures attract the readers’ attention much better. Instead of “Tips to Be the Most Attractive Guy in School”, go for “10 Killer Tips to Be the Most Loved Guy in School”. See what the small change can do.
2. Submit your article to Digg.com and StumbleUpon.com. Digg and StumbleUpon are 2 of the most popular Web 2.0 Social Bookmarking Sites. There are millions of readers and even journalists hang out there for fresh news and gossips.
3. Use an attractive graphic when you post to Digg and StumbleUpon. Pictures speak a thousand words. It is true. With a nice graphic, people will pay more attention to your article.
You may think, well, you only got 3 Diggs for your article. So what’s the big deal?
Did I fail in my BUZZ Marketing experiment? The answer is NO! On the contrary, after I wrote the article “10 Step Guide to Become the Most Broke Affiliate Marketer in 2008”, my web stats are showing that I am getting at least 100 – 150 more visitors daily. And I am receiving well over 200 links from StumbleUpon!
So go ahead, use Buzz Marketing and combine it with the Bum Marketing method. Experience the combined power and traffic avalanche from the search engines and the Web 2.0 social bookmarking sites. And if you like this, do Digg my posts. 
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