Finally, somebody tells the truth…

Posted in Main on October 5th, 2006

Somebody has finally come out of the woodwork and told the truth about affiliate marketing!

It comes in the form of an ebook I prejudged as just another pile of &*#% - Initially I deleted every email mentioning it (if more than two marketers mention the same product on the same day I go into “ignore” mode).

But then I got an email from my mentor mentioning the very ebook…

That got my attention, and so I asked him what he honestly thought of the ebook.

Let’s just say I now own it, have read it in one sitting and am now going through it again and making notes, but I won’t tell you the title until the end.

You’ll love it… Many of the methods are a slap in the face of conventional affiliate marketing :-)

For example, one of the strategies is called “The Workhorse Method” and to quote one paragraph:

“…this next method I am about to tell you involves some work, and it will bore the hell out of you when you do it - but if you follow my steps you will be making between 40-200 dollars per day in affiliate commissions when you follow through, typically within 30 days of reading this sentence.”

No fancy psychological “hooks” there (other than the income :-) just the blunt truth - and the strategy outlined doesn’t require any financial outlay, just your time and energy.

The strategy works because Tim Gorman uses a very similar one to promote his Adsense sites and he earns a five figure monthly income because of it!

That’s twice I’ve read of this strategy being effective, so it’s not coincidence or luck…

The Workhorse Method is one of six strategies explained in detail (including a real life example of an advertising campaign). It’s all there for you with some of the most complete written instructions I’ve seen to date.

Be warned, these are unorthodox techniques and one of them is downright sneaky, but they are also quite simple…

And the name of the product?

Affiliate Project X

It’s one of the very few ebooks I’m glad I bought (I can’t believe my first impression was so wrong!)

Do yourself a favor and check it out…

http://www.affiliateprojectx.com

All the best,
Colin

P.S. After reading the ebook, you’ll know what I have left out of this… (hint - it makes hiding your affiliate links unnecessary)

How to kick your internet earnings into overdrive (no matter what you do online)…

Posted in List Building on September 19th, 2006

A couple of months back Google kindly rocked the boat to the point where my Adwords campaigns collapsed (until I could figure out what to do next) and my Adsense income took a dive. The two are closely related but they didn’t signal the end of the world as some marketers imply… You see I had another source of income that kept me going!

I had a list, and yes you’ve heard it before - “the money’s in the list”.

In fact to be perfectly honest, I never really got anywhere online until I started building my first “proper” list. That one single list is the reason I work for myself (for over two years now) with no early mornings, no commute, no boss and I only work when I want to :-)

List building is a lot easier than you think, but there are right and wrong ways of going about it. For example, don’t knock those free JV giveaway events, get involved in them because they’ll build a list real quick, from that list you can cultivate a smaller money list.

Building a list is easy, keeping your subscribers active is the hard part. There is one all important point to remember - every time you write an email, imagine you are writing it to somebody you really care about, somebody you really want to help. Your subscribers will notice your concern and that you care for them.

Another vitally important point is don’t promote something you don’t personally own or belong to. It’s your honest recomendations which will make you money.

For example, the most important membership I belong to (apart from hosting and autoresponder accounts) is Jimmy Brown’s List and Traffic. It only costs $10 per month but like me you will make many times that from the tips and tricks you learn. I’ve been a member of List and Traffic since it first opened and its still worth every cent.

You wan’t to know why I’m still a member?

It’s because of his amazing content - Here’s an example of the kind of content Jimmy produces…

At the beginning of this year Jimmy made a little inspirational video, it’s something to watch every time you’re feeling down, or think your business is going nowhere. Take a few minutes and >> Click Here < < to watch his video...

Jimmy doesn't produce video newsletters any more and I don't blame him ($10 is too little for that kind of content), he now produces audio newsletters with a pdf transcript, and they are awesome!

If you want to read more about how to build profitable lists, click over to Jimmy's site at ListandTraffic.com

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How to stop Google slapping you silly…

Posted in Adsense, Blogroll, Niche Websites on August 17th, 2006

Just recently Google seems to have gone completely hostile…

Webmaster are crying foul because their sites have disappeared from the search rankings and many people using Adwords to promote any kind of product found themselves without an income, when all their campaigns got hit with massive keyword costs.

Two groups of marketers in particular who got themselves slapped silly are:
- Affiliate marketers, and
- Those doing Adsense/Adwords arbitrage

So just what is going on?

Nothing earth shattering actually, just Google looking after their future interests. They have decided to declare war on what they recon are crappy websites.

Why?

Because if anybody who uses the Google Search Engine clicks on a link and is taken to a crappy website, it’s not the website owner who gets a bad name - Google does…because they published the link in the first place.

Let’s put it this way - just recently Google has been displaying a lot of results which point to pages that contain nothing but links to other pages, and that is really frustrating! Did I blame the webmasters who built the pages? Nah… I got stroppy with Google for showing me the pages in the first place!

It is just this kind of experience that Google wants to stop, and as I explained in my last article they have spent a lot of money on digitizing library books to give themselves a solid foundation on which to experiment with different algorithms.

The future with Google is to build good websites which contain useful information. This also seems to apply to any website advertised using Google Adwords.

In essence, a single page website will attract upwards of $20 keyword click costs (this includes sites that use an optin squeeze page up front)…a multipage website will attract lower costs, and a website with pages directly related to the Adwords Advertisement will attract the lowest costs. Bear in mind with Adwords there are a lot of other factors to contend with, but I’m not going to discuss them here.

Just a quick thought…I wonder if Google’s decision to get tough on Adwords customers was not in part due to the advice given to anybody whose websites had been banned, to get traffic through adwords - I’m sure it was a factor.

So if you can’t use single arbitrage pages or squeeze pages, where do you go from here?

  1. Build individual pages for each of your keywords (and throw in a few related keywords and synonyms to keep the Google Search network happy) and then write an Adwords ad to advertise that page.

    You will most likely have a number of keywords resulting in a number of ads and webpages. Link them all together with a menu at the bottom of each page so it’s the last thing any visitor will see - this will keep the Adwords bot happy as it will think each page is part of a larger website, any “Google Human” will also be satisfied that the page is part of a related website.

    Jim Edwards and Perry Marshall got together and created a great video showing you how to do this which you can watch here http://www.igottatellyou.com/Google-Sucker-Punch.html

  2. When it comes to Adsense/Adwords arbitrage, you need to create a site as explained above but be careful how many Adsense ads you display - If the website obviously looks like it only exists to earn Adsense revenue, it’ll get the can and maybe your account too…

    There is no exact way of doing this, you’ll have to do a fair bit of testing to see how many and where to place your ads, but a general rule of thumb is:

    If you want to earn from Adsense, put your Adsense ads above the fold (i.e.in the first screen) and your affiliate links (if you have any) below the fold.

    If you want to sell affiliate products, put your affiliate link above the fold and keep your Adsense ads below the fold (i.e. at the bottom of the second half of the page).

  3. Some of the most effective affiliate sites do some sort of product comparison and link to the top three products. Your task is to create a whole series of these pages (each focusing on a particular keyword phrase) and make the site look sensible. By this I mean don’t replicate a page numerous times and just change the keywords… Google will spot the duplication and penalize you.
  4. When it comes to getting subscribers, not being able to use a squeeze page has really got people the back foot, but there is an alternative which doesn’t involve an optin form on each page. You could use a “Reverse Squeeze Page” which allows your visitors to view the first two pages, but when they leave the second page (or whatever page you decide) they are presented with a squeeze page. Click here if you want more information…

At the end of the day, the Google slap might have been a good thing. It has forced us to take a good look at how we build different type of webpages, and by building them all to interest our web visitors, we stand an excellent chance of using Google Adwords to cost effectively promote them while they climb the search rankings.

On a personal note, I’ve never concentrated only on affiliate marketing websites, but I am going to, and I will start out by using Adsense to offset the Adwords costs (after all, I’m good at creating profitable Adsense sites), and as the campaigns becomes more profitable I’ll slowly phase out the Adsense ads (why settle for 5c per click when you can get $15 or more).

There are exciting times ahead :-)

All the best,
Colin

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“Adsense Sites Are Dead” … Oh What Rubbish!

Posted in Adsense, Blogroll, Keywords, Niche Websites, Website - Dynamic Content on August 15th, 2006

Have you got one of those emails currently doing the rounds which say “Adsense Websites Are Dead!”

You can think what you want, but my reaction is “Oh What Rubbish!”

What this crowd of expert wannabe’s is trying to say is that the days of automated keyword generated sites is going to come to an end.

The search engines are treading that slow path to artificial intelligence and one day they’ll be able to recognize a good site from a bad one.

But that day is still a long way off, and the search engines still rely on a multi-layered strategy (which includes humans) to keep their search index free of junk sites.

Google is currently blazing the trail and their primary strategy is to digitize as many library reference books as they can, not to save these texts for posterity or to make information readily available to everybody.

No, their goal is quite simple - they want a huge database of information that we all accept as “good information” to use as a control for testing all their future search algorithms.

By analyzing all this data they can determine what kinds of words appear ‘naturally’ (and how they are used) on a typical page from thousands of different topics.

As new technology creates faster and more capable computers, so Google can create ever more complex website ranking algorithms.

My personal belief is that the closer you build a website to the structure and layout of a good reference book, the better your chances of being well ranked in Google.

What does this mean?

  1. There’s a phrase doing the rounds called ‘VEO’ which stands for Visitor Enhanced Optimization. The theory of VEO is that you should build websites with your visitor in mind, not the search engines.

    I say take it a step further…

    We have become conditioned to accept the layout and structure of library reference books as “official” or “the truth”, so match the structure of your website to that of any reference book, for example a site on houseplants would include:
    - intro
    - typical growth cycle
    - light
    - temperature
    - humidity
    - watering
    - feeding
    - potting (repotting)
    - pruning
    - training
    - propagation
    - disease
    - houseplant growing database

    Include all this and you can’t help but get bookmarks and links from other sites - it just happens, you couldn’t stop it if you tried… The secret is to get them slowly at first and then more rapidly as your site gets more and more traffic.

  2. Stop optimizing pages for only one keyword phrase - Google has started to compare webpage layout to a typical page in a library book. They like to see keyword phrases and related synonyms used “naturally”.

    For example:

    House plants, indoor garden, indoor plants, pot plants, potted plants, indoor gardeners, plants suitable for growing indoors, palms, orchids, bromeliads and cactus could all be included on a page that introduces the topic of house plants.

    I don’t think on page SEO is ever going to die altogether, it just means you need to include more terms to make a keyword optimized page appear “normal”.

So where does this leave all of us who buy ready made “Adsense” sites?

Firstly you need to make some changes to the layout of your pages - websites with near identical layouts will be filtered. Not deleted or banned, just filtered…

Your changes don’t have to be drastic (bear in mind that just rewriting articles is not enough):

  • Change the visual layout (I like to use the same visual layout on all sites in a themed portal).

    Human reviewers are more likely to can your website based on having a near identical look to another wbsites than for having near identical articles…

  • Use different titles for each article - this changes the text on the main menu on every page.
  • Change the paragraph and sentence structure of the PLR articles.

    The first paragraph is the one that will most likely trigger a human reviewer’s memory of another similar article.

  • Change the Keyword density.
  • Include related keywords and synonyms.
  • Include new unique content.

You’ll read a lot about “Authority Sites” over the next few weeks, there’s no great mystery to this, any website can grow into an authority site.

My interpretation of an authority site is one which gets linked to because of its quality content (which could be unique or copious or preferably a mixture of both).

If you want an example, I will cite my favorite one - about.com - Which is a mega portal that is broken up into themed portals, all on their own sub-domains. Each sub-domain is broken down into sub-folders which contain webpages on different relevant and related topics (this is a great way of getting all your main keywords into the URL’s of your webpages).

My interpretation of a portal is a site which links to various sites on different topics. In my case, all the sites linked to are my own…

When creating portals, I used to think you could bung all your websites under one roof (the portal), but now I think you have to create themed portals.

For example, you could create a “Gardening” portal which could cover stuff like:

  • lawns (sub-domain)
    • lawn mowers (sub-folder)
    • lawn watering systems (sub-folder)
  • houseplants (sub-domain)
  • herb gardens (sub-domain)
  • landscaping (sub-domain)
    • landscape decoration (sub-folder)
    • landscape lighting (sub-folder)

Building your portal like this will give it depth and get you on your way to building an authority site.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking search engine optimization is dead!

Things like offsite SEO are still very much alive, and activities such as getting back links is still important, especially for direct traffic.

You have to look at link building with two points in mind:

  1. When your site is new you will get most of your traffic from links you place on other websites, be they article links or strategic reciprocal links.

    Reciprocal linking has gone full circle back to where the search engines virtually ignore them and so link pages are becoming more valuable as resources pointing to other good websites.

    So much so that I wouldn’t be surprised if the more advanced search engines like Google took note of who you link to (even through a reciprocal link) and reward you on the amount of traffic you send to that website assuming the website was of a similar or related theme.

    Why do I say this - because Google is after improved user satisfaction - any website which Google sends visitors to which maintains or improves their reputation in the mind of the visitor, is going to get a pat on the back from
    Google.

    In other words, stop linking on the basis of PR or other SEO factors and start linking to websites which are of comparable or better quality than your website.

    Don’t link only to high traffic websites (it’s unnatural), link to good websites (just make sure you have high traffic sites in the mix).

    Another point worth considering is to make sure you use different link text (including your domain name on its own).

    Just use your common sense with this - you’re in it to make money, probably through Adsense so find the balance between good earnings and good linking…

  2. As your site grows in popularity so more people will start bookmarking and linking to your site. This increase in diverse one way links will start your steady climb in the search engine rankings (not just your main page but all of the pages in your website).

The beauty of websites which climb the rankings in this manner is they are virtually impervious to search engine algorithm changes. Which means less radical swings in earnings :-)
 

Wow - I’ve not said this much in weeks, so I’d better end here before I get really carried away…

All the best,
Colin

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10 Ways to Write More Effective Ads

Posted in Niche Websites on August 10th, 2006

Learn how to stop your ads landing in the trash by pushing your reader’s emotional hot buttons and making your advertising as effective as possible.

Whether you are writing a Google Adwords ad or writing a sales page to sell your latest niche product, the purpose of your advertising copy is to sell. Period. Online or in print, selling is accomplished by persuasion using the written word. Some people find this easy, while for most, writing effective copy an uphill battle…

Here’s another top quality product for less than ten bucks which you can read study and learn from, and then make money from it by…

  • Giving it away as a bonus to enhance your current product.
  • Giving it away as a loss leader for building a list.
  • Reselling it as is.
  • Editing it to suit your own purposes and reselling it.
  • Splitting it up into articles for an email series.
  • Splitting it up into articles to use as website content.
  • Reselling the private label rights.

Unlocking the Niche Code eBook

Introducing “10 Ways To Write More Effective Ads” - 10 easy to follow sales copy strategies are revealed which are time-tested and known to be effective. You may be surprised but sometimes a little tweak here or there is all that is needed to increase response rates dramatically. You’ll quickly learn how to put what’s wrong right and how to make what’s working already into overdrive…

This is a fast reading, fluff free and profit boosting guide that will help you turn that trickle of sales into a flood. You get the product and also these full private label rights to it:

[No] Includes Sales Page
[Yes] Can be given away.
[Yes] Can be packaged.
[Yes] Can be offered as a bonus.
[Yes] Can Be Edited Completely and Your Name Put on it.
[Yes] Can be used as web content
[Yes] Can be broken down into articles
[Yes] Can be added to paid membership sites
[Yes] Can be offered through auction sites.
[Yes] Can sell Resale Rights
[Yes] Can sell Master Resale Rights
[Yes] Can sell Private Label Rights

Same price as last week, only $7.50…

No, I’m not crazy, I’m still being “otherwise” and bucking the current trend of internet marketers to offer arbitrary information products for two and three figure prices. You get access to a product you can really use and for less than ten bucks (and I still don’t want your email address).


This is only available through PayPal for the moment, but if you want I will set up a 2CheckOut option - just leave a comment or contact me directly.

All the best,
Colin

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How to Research the Moneymaking Capabilities of a Niche

Posted in Adsense, Niche Websites on August 1st, 2006

A Step-by-step Approach to Finding the Best Niches in which to Market a Product or Service - including affiliate products (or Adsense sites) - all for less than ten bucks.

Firstly, a snap quiz… What would you rather do:

1) Spend hours creating a product and sales site or an Adsense Website and then finding out nobody’s interested?

or

2) Spend a little time before hand and then create a popular product or a website which people are interested in?

It’s a no brainer isn’t it?

Truth be told, there are loads of products out there that will show you how to do this, but when trying to find a useful product to help you, what would you rather do?

1) Spend over twenty bucks for an ebook you can only read and study.

or

2) Spend less than ten bucks for a top quality product which you can read study and learn from, and then make money from it by…

  • Giving it away as a bonus to enhance your current product.
  • Giving it away as a loss leader for building a list.
  • Reselling it as is.
  • Editing it to suit your own purposes and reselling it.
  • Splitting it up into articles for an email series.
  • Splitting it up into articles to use as website content.
  • Reselling the private label rights.

It’s another “no brainer” isn’t it, of course you want a product you can really use, and here’s your chance get one…

Unlocking the Niche Code eBook

 
 

Introducing “Unlocking the Niche Code” - a step-by-step guide which not only shows you how to find out what people are interested in, but more importantly whether you’ll be making, or wasting money (and time) by pursuing that particular niche market…

You get the product and also these full private label rights to it:

 

[No] Includes Sales Page
[Yes] Can be given away.
[Yes] Can be packaged.
[Yes] Can be offered as a bonus.
[Yes] Can Be Edited Completely and Your Name Put on it.
[Yes] Can be used as web content
[Yes] Can be broken down into articles
[Yes] Can be added to paid membership sites
[Yes] Can be offered through auction sites.
[Yes] Can sell Resale Rights
[Yes] Can sell Master Resale Rights
[Yes] Can sell Private Label Rights

Does a price of only $7.50 sound good to you?

No, I’m not crazy, I’m just being “otherwise” and bucking the current trend of internet marketers to offer arbitrary information products for two and three figure prices, and I don’t care who gets mad about what I’m doing. You can have access to a product you can really use and for less than ten bucks (and no, I don’t even want your email address).


 

This is only available through PayPal for the moment, but if you want I will set up a 2CheckOut option - just leave a comment or contact me directly.

All the best,
Colin

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How much of the hype about tag and ping is pure fluff?

Posted in Adsense, Blogroll on June 22nd, 2006

“Tag and ping” is being heralded as the next great “magic pill” for website traffic, but much of the hype surrounding it is pure fluff. (For example - despite claims made by a new product manufacturers, very few “Authority Sites” actually pass PageRank.)

While social bookmarking, tagging and pinging may be over-hyped, they are VERY EFFECTIVE at driving traffic to a blog or website and in one way, shape or form are going to be with us for a while…

Leonard Payne has just released a series of videos which cuts through all the hype and shows you exactly how social bookmarking, tagging and pinging works, nice thing about these videos is he goes right down to the nitty gritty and shows you everything you need to do to get up and running.

He even shows you where to get various free themes and plugins for WordPress to make the social bookmarking, tagging and pinging process easier.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is just a “blogging thing” - social bookmarking applies to any website and Leonard shows you what you need to do to get traffic to vitually any website (and blog).

That said, if you are an experienced blogger and know all about tagging and pinging you’ll find these videos won’t teach you anything new.

Folks this is the stuff experienced bloggers and virtual real estate builders have been using for a while now, understandably they didn’t want to “let the cat out the bag” because there’s always some thick head who’ll abuse the system, but it’s out now so get stuck in and use the system while it’s still very effective.

Click here to get your Tag and Ping Magic Videos…

(A personal note on social bookmarking - I think this or a derivative of social bookmarking will eventually be as powerful as (and might even replace) the search engines as we know them. Social bookmarking is people driven which gives it the edge over computer software driven search ranking systems.)

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Just how the heck are you supposed to promote a website?

Posted in Adsense, Blogroll, Keywords, Website - Dynamic Content on June 15th, 2006

John Reece has earned well over a million bucks teaching people how to get traffic to their websites, so you gotta understand there are plenty of different ways… Here are my top seven:

1) There is an old time tested one called search engine optimization which still works but it’s not as easy as it once was. Basically you have to hunt down keywords related to your website that people search for regularly (on the search engines), but for which not many people have built webpages. You then build and optimize a webpage for each keyword (the more original the content the easier your SEO efforts will be).

This technique has been taught for years so the competition on keywords is getting fierce, but that doesn’t mean you won’t find any - it just means you have to look harder…

The better your optimization, the more chance you have of appearing at or near the top of the rankings for your chosen keywords. Once you start getting lots of websites to link to yours, your website will start climbing the search engine rankings (for even the most competitive keywords).

2) A less effective method is one I call “lazy linking” which is simply the submission if your link details to as many directories as you can. Directories are not equal (some are more equal than others) - if you can get your site into directories like DMOZ you’ll end up with hundreds if not thousands of sites linking back to you purely because many automated link scripts include DMOZ link details. BUT - it takes ages to get your application approved (anything up to 18 months or more) so don’t hold your breath…

In my view links from directories don’t count for much with the search engines, and you’ll probably get more traffic from people seeing your links in a directory and clicking on them than from any improved search engine ranking as a result of all the extra back links.

3) Another pretty effective method is “smart linking” - yes it involves reciprocal linking, but your target is traffic, not SEO… This means you have to hunt down websites (or a specific page on a website) on a similar theme to yours on which to place a link back to a selected page on your website. For example you might find a website about dog collars which would be ideal for placing a link back to your website about dog leads.

Regardless of what people say, reciprocal links are not dead and they still have an effect on how the search engines rank your website, they might not count for much but they still count. My hunch is the search engines count links between similarly themed webpages as fairly relevant - this is NOT an absolute… it’s only an observation based on some of my websites where I’ve experimented with different types of reciprocal linking.

There does seem to be a hierarchy in terms of link placement:

  • A single link to your website on a page of related text is the most important
  • A link on a page with other links, all pointing to similarly themed websites is less important (the theme of the link page must be similarly themed).
  • A link on a page with other links pointing to websites of different themes is the least important. If you link back to that page you could actually be penalized!

4) Writing and submitting articles can be a pretty effective way of driving visitors to your site, but badly re-written PLR article won’t help you at all! In fact I view the submission of re-written PLR articles to any directory about as effective as shooting yourself in the foot before trying to run away from a mean ol’ Cape buffalo… It is said that more hunters have been killed by the African Cape buffalo than by any other animal. Wounded buffalo are known to back track, then stalk and attack the hunter - just like your re-written PLR articles will do to you…

Two things are killing the effectiveness of writing and submitting articles:

  1. The sheer number of new directories (every man and his dog now has an article directory)
  2. The sheer number of near similar, crappy re-written PLR articles being submitted to all these directories.

If you want to get the most out of submitting articles, make sure you write (or get written) top quality articles that webmasters of the top websites in your niche would be proud to publish. Getting your article published on a keyword generated “spam” site is not going to do you any favors!

There are two places you want your articles published:

  1. In a popular newsletter - this will give you a one time rush of traffic.
  2. On the top websites in your niche - these will be high traffic sites and will funnel some of their traffic to your website through your article.

5) Using Google Adwords to drive traffic to a website can be pretty effective, the trick is to find loads of keywords and set up your campaigns so that you only pay a few cents per click. Getting your advertisement onto page one of the search results is not the way to do this. Getting your ad so it appears at the top of the page two search results is more effective.

The cost of your clicks depends on many factors, but chief among them is the relevancy of your keywords, advertisement and landing page - keep them all relevant and your cost per click goes down.

One of the best places to learn about using Adwords is Wealthy Affiliate - Kyle and Carson offer one of the best tutorial and one on one training systems I’ve seen so far.

6) Next is a method that most people will take one look at and then run away screaming… It’s the big ogre called “List building”, but first I want to ask you a question - “What’s the point of spending all the time and effort to get people to your website and then letting them disappear into the horizon after only one visit?”

You can actually get them back to your website and often more than once…

To do so you need to get them to opt in to a list you have set up. Unfortunately most optin systems are either too subtle or too “in your face”. I favor a system which allows your visitor to view one or two articles, but clicking on any other link then triggers an optin form known as a “reverse squeeze page”. To continue reading your visitor must opt in, and you can offer a freebie report as an incentive to do so.

Click here for a program you can use to create your own “reverse squeeze pages”

7) Lastly I want to cover a fairly recent (it’s been kept quiet for some time) and effective traffic generation method known as Tag and Ping, which is effective right now but will probably become less so as people find ways of automating it (spamming the heck out of it, just like they have everything else).

Essentially this involves starting a blog to drive traffic to your website. You write short teaser posts which link to article pages on your website. In each post you insert tags before pinging directories such as Technorati which serve to get your blog more visibility and therefore more visitors.

You might want to consider making your blog a niche website, after all blogging platforms are basically content management systems and they have the added advantage of allowing your visitors in interact and add their own content - just what the search engines love.

Lisa Ann Ginger has just written an excellent guide called Tagging Secrets - which not only explains the tag and ping system in an easy to understand manner, but also goes on to explain another effective promotion method called social bookmarking which could soon become a very big thorn in the search engine’s sides.

Use these seven methods and you’ll be well on your way to generating considerable traffic to your websites, but I have one last tip – take one website at a time, set it up and then promote it. Don’t take a bunch of websites and try promoting them all at the same time. Just like you, many webmasters have more than one niche website and if they see a number of emails from you asking for a link to a number of their websites they’ll probably just delete your emails thinking you’re spamming them…

Once a website is earning a satisfactory amount of money, start on the next one…

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Sneaky but effective way of getting more website traffic

Posted in Adsense, Blogroll on June 8th, 2006

Getting more website traffic is every webmasters constant challenge, so it seems such a waste to get a visitor and then loose them forever…

There is one way of “recycling” website traffic (i.e. getting visitors to come back time after time) and that is to use an optin form on your website to get people to sign up for a series of emails which have links back to your website.

These optin forms are traditionally placed on each page of a website, but they get ignored for the most part, so marketers came up with what is known as the name squeeze page. This is an optin form containing some good sales copy which is positioned as the first webpage your visitor’s see.

These are very effective, but there are always a number of visitors who get annoyed at having an optin form thrust in their face when they first come to your site. Not any more…

Now you can “cajole” them into joining your list by allowing them to view two or three pages and only then presenting them with an optin form which either:

  • Offers a freebie of some sort in exchange for their email address, or
  • -Only allows them to continue viewing your website if they subscribe to your list (this works really well if you also offer some sort of freebie).

If you’re a good programmer all you have to do is create a script which allows your website visitor to view a set number of pages and then show an optin form. You should incorporate cookie handling so that previous visitors don’t get to view the form once they have subscribed.

I don’t know about you, but I’m no programmer and this kind of coding is way beyond me, but no matter – I found a way to create these “reverse squeeze pages” with just a few mouse clicks. Click here now and you’ll be creating your own in the next few minutes…

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Free website/Blog traffic generation (Tag and Ping) guide

Posted in Blogroll on June 4th, 2006

I know you are always looking for new ways to generate traffic to your websites/blogs and I just uncovered a short report which outlines a traffic generation system which is about to become very popular.

It will undoubtedly become automated in time and so loose its effectiveness, but if you start using it now you stand to generate a lot of traffic to your websites, but more specifically to your blogs.

Just recently you might have heard a lot of “Hoo Haa” from various marketers about a system called “Tag and Ping”… It’s nothing new and has been used by bloggers for some time, and I figured you’d like know know what it’s all about.

To download a short report which explains what the “Tag and Ping” process is, and what is involved, click the following link…

=>http://www.Private-Rights-Profits.com/TagPingReport.pdf

To save the report, right click the link and then click “Save as” and save it to your desktop or where ever…

If you want real beginer Tag and Ping information, you’ll find this tag and ping tutorial useful.

For Tag and Ping information that has razor sharp teeth and bites (just promise me you’ll use this responsibly)… Click here now

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