Marketing Without Making Excuses
Tips And Strategies For Effective Online Marketing
Getting Free Traffic With WP Syndicator
Aug 13th
Getting traffic to your blog is essential for your business. You already know that, and you know that it can take a lot of time to get more traffic. And without traffic, all of your hard work wil be wasted.
Right now, one of the most effective way to get traffic to your blog is by getting one way backlinks to your site – a lot of backlinks. A good way to do this is to get links from Web 2.0 sites. Sites like: WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Mulitply, Plurk, FriendFeed, Xanga, Identica, You Are, Blellow and Bright Kite. And don’t forget Twitter.
One of the biggest drawbacks to this strategy is the time it takes. You have to go to each site, login, and post the content along with a link back to your site. And you have to do this every time you make a new post to your blog.
While this is effective, it takes a lot of time. You could hire someone to do it for you, but for most of us, that isn’t an option, at least not yet. So if you wanted links to your blog from these Web 2.0 sites, you had to do it yourself.
WP Syndicator has changed all of that. Here’s the short version of what WP Syndicator will do for you:
The first step is to sign up for an account at each of these sites. WP Syndicator will help you to do that. This should take less than an hour.
The next step is to write your blog post. Once you are done, WP Syndicator can submit an excerpt of your blog article to any or all of the Web 2.0 sites that you have signed up for. The default is 500 characters, which is around 100 words. You can set it to any length you want. At the end of the excerpt is a link back to your blog where they can read the rest of your post.
With WP Syndicator, you can automatically post content and get several links back to your site every time you update your blog. This saves a ton of time, and gets you a lot of backlinks and more free traffic.
WP Syndicator was purchased by over 1,000 people during a fund raiser that Andy Fletcher, the creator of WP Syndicator, ran on the Warrior Forum. It is getting great reviews and results, and now it’s your turn to see what WP Syndicator is all about. Click here now…
Easy Backlinks With WP Syndicator
Aug 12th
Setting up a self hosted WordPress Blog is about the quickest and easiest way to get a site up and running. Next comes the generating the traffic you need to get visitors t your blog so they can subscribe to your list or buy what you’re recommending. One of the most effective ways of getting your site to the top of the search engine results pages is by getting a lot of backlinks to your blog.
A creative guy named Andy Fletcher has created a new plug-in that makes it easy to start building backlinks for every post you make called WP Syndicator. What it does is make it push button simple to get the content from your blog to up to 15 Web 2.0 properties including WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, Vox, LiveJournal, Tumblr, Mulitply, Plurk, FriendFeed, Xanga, Identica, Blellow and Bright Kite. It will also send a tweet about your latest blog post at the same time.
What the WP Syndicator plug-in does is syndicate an excerpt from your blog post onto up to 15 Web 2.0 properties all in one easy click. What gets posted to the Web 2.0 sites is an excerpt from your post and you can set the length to whatever you want. By default, it will grab the first 500 characters which will usually average about 100 words. With that excerpt, will be a link back to your blog that will be “Read more…” or you can set it to the keyword anchor text you want. With the micro-blogging sites, such as Twitter, instead of the anchor text, it will have a shortened bit.ly link.
Now, you do have to take a bit of time in the initial set up of your plug-in. You need to create accounts at each of the sites, of course. You can do this right through the WP Syndicator interface as the menu will take you through to all the places that you need to sign up for the various sites. If you get stuck at all, there are some very handy videos that will guide you through the less obvious spots. This will take you from 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how fast you type and how fast you can get through it all.
Once the initial set up is completed, it’s push button simple to syndicate your latest post. And one of the best features is that you can choose which sites to syndicate to with each post. For example, Identical and Blellow only take certain kinds of content so you wouldn’t want to syndicate a post that will be seen as spam to those sites. You can easily turn those two sites off before you have WP Syndicator do its thing.
So what does this mean? More traffic from those who read your material on the Web 2.0 sites and wish to read the rest of your article. They’ll gladly click through to your blog to see what else you have to say. More subscribers, because once they’re there, you will make sure they see your opt-in form, right? And of course, more backlinks that show the search engines how popular your blog is. Higher rankings in the search engines and more free traffic. Click here for more links and traffic with WP Syndicator…
Affiliate Marketing Is Bigger Than Internet Marketing Products
Aug 6th
Internet marketing is a lot of fun for me. I love learning about the different methods there are to earn money, and I especially like affiliate marketing. No products to create, no customer service hassles, no headaches. Just promote the product and get paid when someone buys.
What I found myself doing was that when I was looking for products to promote, I almost always went straight to Internet Marketing related products. These were the products that I was being exposed to day after day as I opened my marketing related emails that I had subscribed to, the ads on blogs I read, and links on the forums I visited. That made sense because virtually all of my email was marketing related, as were the blogs and forums I visited.
Then I started reading posts on blogs and forums about how a lot of the big names in Internet Marketing made most of their money in other markets, and not by selling to the IM crowd.
I went to ClickBank.com, and instead of heading into the IM area, I started to take a look around at the other categories of products that were being offered. Once I took the time to browse through several of the categories, I was amazed. There are thousands of products at ClickBank, and a lot to choose from.
For example, in the Home And Garden Category, there are over 1,000 products. Sorted by popularity, at number 6 was a guide on building a chicken coop, and at number 7 was another product on building a chicken coop. I never thought that chicken coops would be so popular.
Drilling down in Home And Garden, I went to Animal Care And Pets. In this category, there are 376 products available, with the top spot going to a guide to dog training secrets, and in the rest of the top 10 were healthy food for dogs, cat care, and more dog training products.
What I discovered was that while I was focusing on the IM niche, I was missing out on a lot of other opportunities.
Do you realize how easy it is to select a niche such as chicken coops, find a few chicken coop products, and set up a site? Whether you use a blog or a HTML site, it wouldn’t take very long to get a site set up and start driving traffic.
How about products that never go out of style, such as weight loss, exercise, recipes, dog training, cooking, or travel?
The Internet Marketing niche is pretty crowded, and if you’ve been exclusively promoting IM products, and not having much luck, take a look at ClickBank and other affiliate networks. There are a lot of markets out there beyond IM, and it’s worth your time to put up a site or two and see what happens.
Underground marketer reveals how to create niche sites in less than an hour, indexed in minutes, and earning in a few days time. More here…
Best Free Keyword Tool?
Aug 5th
Keywords are the fuel that drives the online world. They are used by anyone who is looking for something online. As a marketer, it’s essential to find the keywords that you can use to get visitors to your sites and offers. We all want the best keyword tools, and we would like to get them for free.
So the question that comes up time and time again is:
What is the best free keyword tool?
Right now, the number one source of keywords is Google. They have a free keyword research tool that you can use, and a lot of successful marketers recommend using it as well. You can access it at: http://www.google.com/sktool
Google’s free keyword tool is useful, and it will give you search count as well as related keyword lists. What you don’t get are the number of competing web sites. This is a real problem if you are looking for keywords with high search volume and low competition. The other disadvantage of using the Google site is that you have to save the keyword lists to your computer.
What will save you a lot of time is to have a keyword tool that will get the keywords from Google, get you the number of competing web sites for each keyword in the list, and let you filter and save the results, all in one operation.
There are a lot of choices when it comes to keyword research tools that you can buy. What we’re looking for is a keyword tool that will do everything we need it to do, and do it for free.
There IS a keyword tool that you can use to do your research called Market Samurai. It gets its data from Google, and it will also get you the number of competing web sites for each keyword.
Market Samurai does a lot more than keyword research. It comes with modules for tracking your site’s rankings, SEO competition, monetization, finding content, publishing content, and promoting your site. To get all of the tools that come with Market Samurai, you have to purchase it.
The keyword research module of Market Samurai is FREE. It never times out, and you can use it for as long as you want.
Once you get Market Samurai, you can generate as many keyword lists as you want. You can filter the keywords, search related keywords, import keyword lists from another source, and save the results.
Using Market Samurai is the best of both worlds. You get the keyword data from Google, and you don’t have to waste time filtering the results in a spreadsheet or manually. Market Samurai will help you to do effective keyword research.
For me, Market Samurai is the best keyword tool you can get. The only way you’ll know if it is everything I say it is, is to install your copy today. Get your free copy of Market Samurai here…
Fast And Furious Niche Site Creation
Jun 26th
One of the most important things you can do as an online marketer is getting niche sites online – fast. Don’t get caught up in planning and tweaking your site ideas for so long that you never get around to getting the site online. Your niche site ideas will never make you any money if you don’t get them online. And remember that you can never be sure what will work BEFORE you upload your site.
In other words, there is no way to know in advance whether or not your site will make profits. You can spend a lot of time getting your search engine optimization just right, selecting keywords, and writing a lot of content, but the only way you’ll know if what you’re doing is working is to get it online!
Another mistake is to focus all of your attention and weeks of your time on one site. Again, you have no way to know if a site is going to generate traffic and sales if you don’t get it online.
The key is to create sites quickly, get them online, get the search engines to visit, and move on to another niche site idea. Once you get several niche sites up and running, go into your cpanel and see how much traffic you’re getting and keep track of any sales you’re generating.
If any of your sites are not performing very well, you can either work on them to get more traffic by adding content and backlinks, or you can drop the site and concentrate on the sites that are doing better.
The quicker you can get your niche sites created and the more sites you can create, the better your opportunity to start making money. And speed is the key.
The preferred way for a lot of marketers to create sites is to use WordPress blogs for your niche sites. The advantages are many:
- There are hundreds of free themes you can use, so it is relatively easy to find a theme that will match your niche.
- There are plugins that you can use to make your site search friendly and to get your site noticed.
- WordPress blogs are indexed VERY quickly by the major search engines, so your site will get noticed almost immediately.
- Installing a blog takes literally about 5 minutes if you have web hosting with cpanel and fantastico.
- Adding pages and posts is fast and easy to do.
- You don’t have to mess around with a lot of HTML code.
There is no reason that you can’t have a niche site up and running in under 2 hours. If you create one site a day, 5 days a week, you’ll have 20 sites in a month and over 20 in a year. This is how you can test a lot of niche markets and not waste a lot of time trying to create the “Perfect” web site. There is no “Perfect” web site, just sites that product results.
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Why Some Affiliates Don't Make Money
Jun 19th
Afflilate marketing is a great way to get started online. You can choose from hundreds of products, so it’s a bit overwhelming trying to decide what to promote. A trap a lot of us fall into is only promoting internet marketing related products.
In a way, that makes sense. If you’re interested in starting an online business, you have to learn a few things. One of the first things you do is subscribe to a lot of internet marketing related lists. Then you end up buying a few courses, investing in software for your business, and joining membership sites.
You get to see first hand how products are promoted and hear about how the product owner is making a lot of money really fast. You want to get in on the action, so you sign up as an affiliate for these products and start promoting.
Here’s where the reality starts to set in. You spend the time and money to start promoting the latest hot internet marketing product, and you can’t seem to make any sales. The product had a lot of interest, but you’re not getting results. This doesn’t happen every time, but it happens often enough. Why?
Internet Marketing is a good market to be in, but there are some things you need to realize. The affiliates that make the most money are the ones who are able to promote the product on launch day. With the product launch sequence that is used, there is a lot of anticipation built up before launch, and if you’re not able to become an affiliate before the launch, you’re going to miss out on the initial surge of buyers.
Another problem is that in the Internet Marketing space, the life span of a product is relatively short. This is because the Internet is always changing, and what works now may not be valid in a few weeks. The other reason is because people seem to want the newest information. They seem to think that if a product was launched a year ago, it is outdated, and they want the new stuff that’s coming out right now.
To succeed with affiliate marketing, you have to carefully select the products you’re going to promote. This doesn’t mean that you should ignore Internet Marketing products. Just remember that most of the people who are spending money online are not marketers. They aren’t interested in product launches or the latest money making course.
The markets that people are spending lots of money in are markets that are well established and that have steady long-term demand. Markets like weight loss, fitness, consumer electronics, and pets for example. You won’t have to worry about chasing trends.
If you’re having a hard time making money with affiliate marketing, it isn’t because affiliate marketing doesn’t work. It could be as simple as the products you select.
See XSitePro In Action
Jun 12th
I’ve been using XSitePro to create my web sites for a couple of years now, The reason is that it’s so easy to use, and it automates a lot of tasks that used to take up a lot of my time. I haven’t mentioned it before because it is hard to describe the power of XSitePro with words. Not anymore…
The team at XSitePro have released a series of videos that will actually SHOW you what the software can do. If you’ve ever considered looking into XSitePro but wanted to actually see examples of what it could do, now is your opportunity.
These videos are free to watch, and you DO NOT have to give up your contact information. So click on the links below to see what XSitePro can do for you.
1. Inserting Video (4:31)
Adding video to your site is a powerful way to monetize your site. But it can be a hassle inserting the code into your web pages and getting the video to appear exactly where you want it.
With XSitePro, you don’t have to mess with any code. See how easy it is to insert a video into any web page.
www.xsitepro.com/insertingvideo
2. Magical Page breaks (3:46)
Having a long web page that your visitors have to scroll through can be frustrating to your visitor. See how you can easily split a long web page into several pages in less than 5 seconds. If you have a public domain ebook or a PLR document, you can easily divide it up into dozens of pages.
And what’s really nice is that XSitePro will automatically add the navigation links for you, at the top and bottom of each of the created pages.
www.xsitepro.com/insertingpagebreaks
3. Quick Pages (3:22)
With Quick Pages, you can easily create a professional web page for your press release, article, privacy statement or any other type of page you need. Watch this short video to see how you can easily create great looking pages in no time at all.
4. Google Adsense Tutorial (5:32)
Inserting Adsense advertising is really easy with XSitePro. No more wasting time trying to get your ad blocks exactly where you want them on your web page, and no more messing with the source code of your web pages.
www.xsitepro.com/adsensetutorial
5. Affiliate Wizard Tutorial (4:16)
Keep track of all of your affiliate details and easily add your affiliate links to your web pages.
www.xsitepro.com/affiliatewizard
6. Amazon Product Advertising Tutorial (5:40)
Amazon is a great addition to your marketing, and with XSitePro it’s really easy to add Amazon ads to your site. All you have to do is select the type of advertisement you require, and XSitePro will guide you seamlessly through the process.
Optimizing SEO For Your Blog Posts
Jun 4th
The use of the Title tag and the Meta-Description tag are easy and powerful ways to get free traffic to your site. It’s easy to do with an HTML web page.
It’s a little different when it comes to a WordPress blog. If you publish a post or page with a basic installation, what you’ll likely end up with is the title of your content and the first few words of your post come up as your search engine listing.
The good news is that you can do essentially the same thing with a WordPress blog by using one of two very popular plugins. And the best part of this is that these powerful plugins are free.
Which one you choose to use is up to you. Both of these plugins will do the job, and they both have tons of happy users.
The first one is All In One SEO and the second one is Platinum SEO. If you’re not using one of these plugins, go get it now and install it. It’s that important!
The power of these plug-ins is that they give you the opportunity to enter any title you want for your post. You can choose to use the actual title of your post, or you can use a keyword optimized title instead. Why would you want to do this? Maybe the title of your post is very long. Or maybe the title of your post doesn’t include your keywords. You can enter a title for your post that is shorter and has your keywords.
You can also write a description for your post. This can be a short summary of your post. The reason to use this feature is because what you enter will likely end up on the search page results. And the job of this description to get people to click on the link and get to your site.
You can get the All In One SEO plugin here.
You can get the Platinum SEO plugin here.
If you don’t want to download the plugin to your hard drive and then upload it to your hosting account, you can install it inside of WordPress. Click on the Plugin link and select the ADD NEW option. Enter the name of the plugin you want, and you can install and activate it inside WordPress.
Underground marketer lays out the method he uses to create profitable sites in less than an hour, get them indexed in minutes, and earning in less than a week. Get more here…
