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 »
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Commission Blueprint, a new report scheduled to launch on 27 August 2008, is the first from Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey. Who are these folks and what is this report about? Read this Commission Blueprint review to find out.
Steven Clayton, quite an unknown marketer till now runs a company managing Adwords campaigns for clients in the tune of 6-figures. Prior to founding hims company “Worth Overdoing Marketing and Consulting”, he was a Vice President for a $5 billion Fortune 500 Company.
Tim Godfrey is quite a new face but he isn’t. Just recently, he has successfully launched Profit Praxis, a killer product in the IM arena. Hailed as the rising star in internet marketing by two heavy weights, Chris X and Alex Goad, Tim has been quietly sweeping cool affiliate checks from the recent product launches like Google Nemesis and Four Tier Annihilation, knocking out gurus with huge lists and hitting sales of more than 280 copies sold with a list of only 7000 members.
Obviously, these guys may be unknown but are no newbies to the internet marketing industry.
What Commission Blueprint is about?
A collection of exact techniques to generate $526,422.83 in affiliate commissions within 7 months. And all using Adwords and landing pages. NO List or SEO involved!
Not a single internet marketing product was sold to hit that figure. See the income statement below.
Watch the pre-launch video here!
By now, you would have seen dozens of Google/Clickbank related product launches. In case you quickly associate Commission Blueprint with them, then you are in for a surprise. This report has a Web 2.0 twist to it.
All in, there are 14 videos and 5 PDF that explain in great detail how to execute the killer techniques to make huge profits from Clickbank products.
Learning Google Adwords is something which every internet marketer should consider. After all, increasing your traffic is the main activity every living marketer should do.
Commission Blueprint will have an entire suite of tips to show you how.
I will share in greater detail about this report when I get hold of my very own copy of the Commission Blueprint in a few day’s time.
Wait closely for my detailed Commission Blueprint review and bonuses here.
Updates on 20 Aug 2008:
I have received my first installment of the Commission Blueprint! Here’s an updated Commission Blueprint Review! Needless to say, I immediately opened the whole suite of pdfs and videos. I shall let you take a quick peek at a portion of them. This is not the complete package yet. But I am already excited after reading through the Opt-In Page Secrets PDF!
The PDFs: (there are 2 more PDFs to be added here. But just reading the first is enough to get your attention)
Opt-In Page Secrets
Pre-Sell Page Secrets
Review Page Secrets
The Videos: (The videos are impressive and make it really clear for us to understand how to execute each step. Truly a step-by-step no brainer video series)
Video 1 – Introduction & Welcome
Video 2 – How To Use This Program
Video 3 – Picking Profitable & High Converting Products
Video 4 – In-Depth Keyword Research & Advanced Tools
Video 5 – Domain Name Secrets & Hosting Set Up
Video 6 – Creating Your Story – The Essential Component
Video 7 – Setting Up Your Landing Pages For Maximum Conversion
Video 8 – Setting Up Your Campaign
Video 9 – Managing Your Campaign
Video 10 – Picking A Winner & Milking It
Video 11 – Scaling For Profit (Step From $100’s to $1000’s In Profit)
Video 12 – What Can Go Wrong & How To Fix It Fast
Video 13 – Cash Flow & Business Management
Video 14 – Wrap Up
The Templates: (All ready to be used. All you have to do is make minor tweaks to suit your campaigns. These are all proven to sell templates!)
The Review Page Template
The Pre-Sell Page Template
Opt-In Page Templates
I shall return to give you more run up on what is happening. To be honest, I am quite awed by the amount of goodies offered in the Commission Blueprint package.
Posted in General, Google Adwords, Online Marketing Learning, Pay Per Click, Product Reviews, Web Traffic, keyword research | 8 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 »
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 »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Have you heard of GistWeb? If not, this is the latest free tool developed by Jonathan Leger. Jon has been pumping out many free and paid software that are useful for marketers especially affiliate marketers. This online tool is intended for people who find content research a chore.
Any affiliate marketer alive would know that writing good quality unique content is the lifeline of content publishing. Your blogs and websites need content to improve readership. Your article marketing efforts need unique content to capture the attention of the search engines to achieve good rankings.
But the trouble is, to create unique content, there are only 2 main ways. Either you write it yourself which takes tons of time and a lot of brain juice and creativity or you pay for your content.
Writing everything yourself can be time-consuming. It takes time to conduct research for the information and organize them properly before you can write a good blog post or article.
Another way is to hire someone to write for you. This may help you to get away from writing your own content, but getting somebody to write unique content for you can cost a lot of money. This is especially so if you own a lot of websites and blogs, monetized for Adsense or affiliate programs.
GistWeb.com is able to overcome both sets of problems – cost and time. Firstly, it is a free service anyone can use. Secondly, it takes only a minute for it to work.
What can GistWeb do for you?
It pulls out the gist of search results, organize them nicely into summaries of different lengths. You simply input the keyword you are interested to research on and it will go searching the web for related information. You can use the short, medium or long summary as you wish.
While it takes a little time to organize the content a bit, you will realize that it is a really cool tool to conduct online research for useful information.
Try out GistWeb today to conduct your content research and start churning out unique content as fast as lightning!
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, General, Online Marketing Learning | 4 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 »
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. 
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, Buzz Marketing, General, Online Marketing Learning, SEO, Social Bookmarking, Web Traffic | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
What are the most important or must-have bum marketing tools in your arsenal?
I talked about the bum marketing method in my previous post. Today, I want to spend some time to talk about the essential bum marketing tools that I use quite often.
1. Brainstorming for Niches and Products
In brainstorming for ideas or niches to target for my bum marketing efforts, there is one place you will love to go to.
CB Engine – it is quite simply one of the best tools to find hot products to promote. I like the feature that lets you filter off the search results according to your preference such as minimum commissions and commission payout percentage and so on. Personally, if the commission payout is lower than $20 per sale, I will ditch it.
From here, you can also get to see which are the market movers and what are the most popular topics. With the pro version, you get a full set of cool tools to use as a ClickBank affiliate.
One word of advice here – the “make money online” market is one where the buyers tend to be very well-informed! It may not be that easy to make money out of them.
While it is also such a huge market where tons of products are sold, it is not recommended for the newbie bum marketer. Target the other niche markets using your bum marketing method.
2. Keyword Research Tools
Once you decide on a market to target, it is time to do proper keyword research. A lot of people get this wrong by focusing on keyword research first before looking at the market’s profitability.
Some tools I use frequently include:
a. Google’s very own keyword research tool
This is a free tool to find long tail keywords. But it is not the best since you cannot figure out what is the exact search count.
b. Keyword Elite
If you have money, invest in Keyword Elite. It is one of the most powerful keyword research software I use to find the right keywords to target for the bum marketing method. This is hands-down one of the best bum marketing tools!
c. NicheBot
NicheBot is a super dynamo when it comes to churning out laser-targeted keywords for your bum marketing articles. I use the paid version which gives me detailed run downs on what are the exact keywords people are searching.
This bum marketing tool also suggests which “Jackpot” keywords you can use to dominate any niche market you are in. These are keywords and keyphrase where there is almost zero competition! This is perfect for my bum marketing method.
It is meant for more elaborate keyword research and ideal for PPC campaigns as well.
3. Writing Content for Bum Marketing Articles
I used to write all my articles for bum marketing traffic. But with a network of 50 over blogs, it can be extremely challenging to write all my content.
There are some tools and services that make things really simple for me.
a. Instant Article Wizard
This is my baby for the bum marketing method. The reason why I say that it is a tool made for bum marketers is because in the whole bum marketing strategy, pumping out articles fast is the key to win the game! And that is what Instant Article Wizard does.
Oh, do not simply slap an article together with the search. Well you can and chances are the article is highly readable, but I expect a lot out of my articles.
So I will normally use it to do my content research. Find all the necessary data and information and then write an original article altogether.
b. Hiring GhostWriters
Ghostwriters are so important if you intend to run a successful business. Outsource your writing to good writers. Pay them well enough and you are never in lack of quality unique content.
$5 for an article is quite reasonable. I often use GetaFreeLancer and DP Forums for my content writing needs.
4. Submitting the Bum Marketing Articles
Article directories are my main battlegrounds to charge up profits from the bum marketing method.
I rely heavily on article submission software and article submission services.
Article Post Robot is the ultimate well-invested tool I found. It has earned me many fold the one-time price I paid for it. With one click, my article is distributed to over 400 article directories including EzineArticles. So far, this is the only tool that can post to the correct article category.
Read this review about Article Post Robot to understand what it can do for you.
The next are the article submission services, Unique Article Wizard and JetSubmitter. Both are hands-free services that distribute my articles to well over hundreds of article directories. Read about these two services at this article submission service review site.
I love UAW more simply because it also posts my articles onto their network of blogs. So far, I have seen quite a number of my articles that are posted on blogs ranking Top 10 in Google. I consider this my secret weapon among the bum marketing tools I own.
I hope I did not miss out on any tool that is useful for bum marketing. Feel free to post your comments about your arsenal of bum marketing tools here.
Posted in Article Marketing, Blogging, General, Online Marketing Learning, Product Reviews, SEO, Web Traffic | 7 Comments »
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Bum marketing Method – has it died? For all those who have been marketing for at least a few months should be quite familiar with the bum marketing method or what is commonly called bum marketing. For the entire 2007, it was a hot topic.
Today, while everyone is talking about Web 2.0, I want to share a little bit about what bum marketing really is and whether you still can make any money with it.
Just What Is Bum Marketing?
In one sentence, this form of marketing makes use of high traffic, search engine favored sites like EzineArticles, Squidoo, HubPages etc to channel traffic to the affiliate sales page and make sales.
Traditional SEO is challenging and for newbies, it can be a daunting task. To rank a web page in the search engine can take months and there is no guarantee at all.
With the bum marketing method, even newbies can take an article from nothing to Top 10 in Google. So, do you want to be a bum marketer?
Bum Marketing Explained
There are a few key elements to make this whole bum marketing method profitable for you.
1. A Profitable Niche
2. Long Tail Keywords
3. Website that Gets Google Love
4. Target Website (Optional)
Finding a Profitable Niche
Not all niches are profitable. Forget what some “gurus” say about using your favorite hobbies or interests as your target niche. While you may be a “professor” in your favorite subject, it can prove to be ultra unprofitable when it is not something sellable!
Popular niches like weight loss and dog training may be competitive, but these are also topics with a hot and huge market ready to buy. All you need to do is to narrow down your niches. This is the key to success with the bum marketing method.
Here’s a Quick 2 minute Litmus Test to find Profitable Niches for Bum Marketing:
1. Search ClickBank’s marketplace. Now, ClickBank has 10,000s of products and has a wide network of affiliates marketing the products. The reason why we want to look at this is simple. If the product is selling well and their affiliates are making money, then it is worthwhile for us to copy! It does not take you more than a few seconds to see what is hot!
In each category, find the top 10 most sellable products, these are broad niches you can dig deeper into. Pick one or two niches. For example, “weight loss”.
2. Hop over to Google’s Adwords Keyword Tool and do a quick keyword search on the broad term “weight loss”. There you will find all the related keywords to weight loss. You probably will be able to see some trends here. For instance, many are searching for quick ways to lose weight, weight loss pills, and weight loss diets.
So, from the broad niche of “weight loss”, we have managed to find 3 narrower niches to target!
3. Finally, Google the 3 narrower niches “quick weight loss”, “weight loss pills” and “weight loss diets”. Take a look on the right and see how many Google ads are there.
Chances are the one with the most ads is the most profitable! Otherwise, they will not promote and pay so much for the ads right?
I did cover about Long Tail keywords or Long Tails in my earlier post. If you missed it, you can read it here.
“Using Long Tail Keywords for Article Writing”
Compile a list of 10 to 20 long tail keywords. These are what we will create unique content around.
If you are not great at writing, or find it daunting to write 10 to 20 articles based on the keywords, use Instant Article Wizard. You can easily write one unique article within 10 minutes!
Using EzineArticles and Squidoo for the Bum Marketing Method
Using the articles, go and post it to EzineArticles or Squidoo. EzineArticles does not allow you to link directly to an affiliate sales page but Squidoo does.
If you are using Squidoo, then feel free to slap your content with your affiliate links throughout your content. But for EzineArticles, it works best if you could simply create a 1-page website or a blog from Blogger.com and WordPress.com embedded with your affiliate links.
One trick here, is to link to the Squidoo lens from your EzineArticles article!
If you follow my instructions on how to select the right long tail keywords and article writing techniques, then it will not take long for you to start seeing traffic and sales coming in within 1 or 2 weeks if not days.
The magic is in the ranking of your EzineArticles article and Squidoo lens in the search engines for your target keywords. My friend teaches you the exact steps to writing an article that gets ranked Top 10 in Google! See how he does it.
In my next post, I shall reveal some powerful bum marketing secrets to help you supercharge your traffic and sales!
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
As promised, I mentioned I will share more article writing tips about creating a killer article that pull in traffic, bring in more subscribers and make more sales.
What is the Perfect article?
Personally, an article is “perfect” if it achieves what I wrote it for. Whether it is for more traffic, or to build up my credibility as a subject expert, or for bum marketing, as long as it can hit the target, it is. Over time, I do come to realize that there are a few key ingredients that are essential to write a winning article for article marketing.
In writing for article marketing, you need to pay attention to the following in order to see your articles rank well for the targeted keywords, get publishers to publish your content for more traffic and to pre-sell your readers.
1. A Powerful & Attention-Grabbing Title
You need to create a great looking article. Your article title is the first thing readers see, not your content. It determines if it is interesting enough for your prospect to click on it to read. So pay attention to it!
Use words like “How to”, “Tips”, “What”, “Where”, “Who” etc. Use numbers. Call them to action. Example “10 Tips to Approach the Girl of Your Dreams”.
Always remember to include the target keyword in the title. Miss this and you lose the chance of ranking well.
2. Keyword Density
I mentioned in my earlier post that an ideal keyword density is between 1 to 2%. This is applicable for most article directories. Stay within this and you should be safe from being banned for keyword spamming/abuse.
This appropriate density is also ideal for SEO. Remember to use the target keyword in the introduction, article body and conclusion.
3. Article Body
The ideal format of a well-written article is to have an introduction that summarizes what the reader is getting from the entire article, a body with the various points elaborated, and a conclusion that calls them to click on your resource link for more information.
So in short, an article should have an introduction, point 1 to 4 (or more) and conclusion. Stay within 400 to 600 words.
When writing your content, make it informative. Give them facts, details and anything that you feel will be useful for them.
There are different types of article content or format of writing.
a. List of resources or places
You can either write your article as a list, such as listing the top 10 places to get free links or 10 free tools to do something.
b. Review
You can write a review of a product or service, explaining each feature, pros and cons, and give your honest comments.
c. FAQ format
I seldom see people doing that but this is a good suggestion for you. Think of some relevant and commonly questions people ask about the topic you are writing about. Then offer the answers.
When writing an article, always leave the readers with a good impression and wanting to find out more. Bait them, make them curious enough to look at your author resource box!
4. Author Resource Box
This is the most important part of your article. Why? This is where your “sales pitch” or any form of promotion can take place without getting banned by the article directory. Once again, be creative and make your author resource intriguing and attractive enough for your prospects to click to your website.
Compare these 2:
Dave is an online entrepreneur. Visit his site at XXXX to find out how to market with articles.
Dave makes well over $10,000 monthly from article marketing alone. You can too! See how he converts a piece of plain content into a traffic-sucking and sales converting article at XXXX.
Which One is Better?
Remember to use the target keyword as anchor text for backlinking purposes.
These are the real ingredients that make up an excellent article that can pull in more readers, subscribers and sales for you. Make full use of these powerful article writing tips.
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