Internet Marketing Secrets Newsletter Issue #99 Thursday September 21 2006 In this issue: For the first time ever, you can tap the leading mind in SEO. Discover the secrets to increased productivity. How to avoid distraction and keep focused. How user generated content can benefit your site. Plus... A granny that dominates Google. Fast content, links and traffic. And I discover a huge niche, with room enough for everyone. All this and a lot more in this issue of IMS. - - - - - - Sponsor - - - - - - The Leading Mind in SEO What have you read about SEO? Has it been tested and measured? Can it be proven? Has it been demonstrated by an engineer with 30 years of programming experience? Is it someone who understands computer logic and builds their own search engine tools? Chances are, you've been fed enough BS that your brain could grow flowers. Only the facts can be measured. The rest is just speculation, theories, opinions, conjecture... even hysteria. Only one man I know reads all the W3 technical papers and has the background to understand the math, and know what they're talking about. Only one man I know subscribes to every single SEO newsletter and can confirm or debunk the myths from the truth. There's only one man I know who's trained the best SEOs on the planet. I'm talking about Leslie Rohde. Creator of OptiLink, OptiSpider, Mastering PageRank and a host of other goodies, including his latest project... OptiSmarts. Are you ready for the greatest mind in SEO? If you are... Get OptiSmarts ==> http://www.cdzn.com/os WebLink ==> Click - - - - - - /Sponsor - - - - - - Round USA Roadtrip Continues This edition is a little more rushed than usual. I spent so much time visiting friends that I lost track of time. Yes, I'm still on vacation until November. I'm many hundreds of miles - over 1K? - from my home in Vancouver. Right now I'm in North Carolina, heading West to Nevada starting tomorrow. If you emailed me and didn't get an answer back, I encourage you to try again. Or if it's not urgent, please wait until I get back home. Some of the hotels have nasty firewalls that block email, bounce it, or toss it into a black hole. Also... I'd like to thank you for the wonderful invitations to visit your towns. I've enjoyed meeting so many of you. You've shown me so much gratitude that I'm truly humbled and overwhelmed by your hospitality. Even though I'd like to stay on the road forever, eventually home beckons and it's hard not to heed the call. No matter where your home is... it's the most beautiful place in the world. ;-) Ok... enough of the warm fuzzies... let's get on with the show shall we? This issue is pretty rough and tumble... so send the kids to bed. Hide the sensitivity meter and put on your asbestos goggles... this one's gonna scorch hotter than Las Vegas sunshine. Read it... if you dare. ;-) - - - - - INTERNET MARKETING NEWS Fast Content, Links and Traffic Right now... at this very moment... there are a handful of memberships available in the Article Underground. How few? Yeesh... a mere 18 spots. With a maximum of 1050 paying members... that's a 98.3% retention rate. No other private site can boast those stats. Not even close! That's why smart people rarely leave relationships like the Article Underground. Every month you get 18 ghost writers cranking out 400 fresh articles. There's 22 blogs to promote your pages, which means instant incoming links to your sites. And there's tons of step-by-step video showing you exactly how to do it. You don't have to do any market research or reciprocal linking. It's so easy to be successful. Just modify the articles to your liking, paste in your affiliate codes, upload them to your web properties, and advertise them on the network. Want Fast Content and Traffic? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/aux There are exactly 18 spots remaining at the time of this writing. So if you want to get in, don't delay, and do it now. There's nothing I can do to keep it open longer... and once they're gone... - - - - - Grandma Dominates Google, Bests eBay You'll probably hear a lot about Brad Fallon in the coming weeks and months. He's the guy that Leslie Rohde trained, and thanks to SEO, did over a million in sales his first year. Brad's wedding favor site grew from a part-time hobby in a garage, to a huge business, importing shiploads of containers direct from China. Now, with his partner, conversion specialist Andy Jenkins, they're soon to launch a mentoring system designed to help the average person achieve the same success. Watch the SEO Videos ==> http://www.cdzn.com/gn After giving us three videos, they've released a brand new PDF, loaded with case studies and videos about the people they've helped. They show how average people came to dominate their niche markets on the search engines. And hey... if a 63 year old granny can do it, what's your excuse? If you're interested in getting Brad and Andy's SEO training, download the report and jump to page 21 and sign up to be notified. Then sit back, relax and enjoy the rest of the PDF, the case studies, and all the new videos. See Grandma Dominate Google PDF ==> http://www.cdzn.com/stp - - - - - User Generated Content Made Easy Back in the summer of '99, the closing story in my first ebook - Nothing but 'Net - foretold the future of the internet. The way to make a site a destination, an authority beyond all others... was to get "user generated content." We tried it with a fishing site, where people would enter info about the lake, time of year, weather conditions, the bait they used and other details. It cost over five thousand dollars to develop the script and it still needed work. We eventually sold it to a recruiting company for their jobs database to recoup our investment. Fast forward a couple of years later and Amazon started adding "customer reviews" to their site. Sites like MySpace and YouTube became sensations. Wikipedia took it to the max, by making a user generated encyclopedia. Only problem is, these scripts are expensive to develop, and hard to maintain. Fast forward to today, and finally... with Robert Blackstone's "Instant Site Comments" there's a solution for the rest of us. Now anyone can add user generated content to their web pages. These are not the same as comments for your blog. It's a way for visitors to leave their comments, add content to your static web pages, and make them more dynamic. It's an excellent feedback mechanism for anything that you write. Or, if you use articles on your site, your readers can comment on them as well. Come to think of it, you can use this tool to let your readers practically build your entire site. ;-) So long as you have traffic coming to your site, Instant Site Comments is an excellent way to get fresh content and get your users involved in building a community that truly belongs to them. Then once you have a community, you have a sticky site, one where visitors return to time and again. Robert doesn't promise to make you a tycoon. But I can tell you from experience, the more time people spend on a site, the more they trust it, and the people behind it. The more they trust a site, the more likely they are to purchase from it and feel confident about those purchases. And if you need a case study, just ask Amazon. After years of losing money, they're finally profitable. Thanks largely to their user generated content. Ready for User Generated Content? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/isc - - Adv - - The Future of Search Engine Optimization Colin McDougall can get ANY website of his choice to blast past the other top ranking websites and achieve top 10 position within a short time. And it's a completely legit system as opposed to trying to trick the search engines. In VEO you don't play against the search engine algorithm, you ignore it completely. You don't focus on keyword densities, you aim for a happy visitor. You don't hard sell products like an affiliate, you brand a site and sell products through articles. It's revolutionary. And it works. Want the VEO Strategies? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/veo WebLink ==> Click - - /Adv - - New WordPress Widget Automates Comment Posting Now there's a new way to get themed links to your site. The spider searches for blogs on the same topic as your site. You post comments on the blogs. You benefit with one way incoming links. The searching and comment posting happen semi-automatically. Just add your keywords to the software and push the search button. From the blogs that get found, delete the ones you don't like. The remaining blogs are loaded into browsers with some of the comment fields already filled out. Read the related post, then enter your comment and press submit. It's multithreaded to improve speed. It supports Proxies to, "stay under the radar." It searches multiple keywords simultaneously. And best of all, it's brought to you by Satya Hattangadi, the genius behind Niche Portal Builder. Automate WordPress Comments ==> http://www.cdzn.com/wpc - - - - - Another Niche with Room for Everyone I just put my finishing touches on a security-themed Mininet, using the Butterfly model from Revenge of the Mininet. Turns out that personal security is a 60 billion dollar per year industry. And it touches over 95% of the U.S. population. It all started when I was searching for cable locks for laptop computers. I wanted to secure my laptop computer to the desk. Later that evening on the Discovery Channel - a great source for leads - they stated that personal security is now a 60 billion per year industry, in the US alone. Wow... that really caught my attention. Once I started digging into personal security items like pepper spray, I started uncovering all sorts of branches. There's timers for lights. Locks and deadbolts. Doors and gates. Smoke and CO2 detectors. Sprinkler systems. Emergency and safehaven supplies. There's security companies and body guards. Self defense training. Security systems for the home and office. Remote control surveillance cameras. Motion sensors. Car alarms. TSA approved luggage locks. Then there's things like home insurance, travel insurance, life insurance. The list seemed endless. Turns out there's affiliate programs for most of these things and there's a huge market. The next thing I did was a search the articles folder on my hard drive. I've been stockpiling articles for the past few months thanks to my Article Underground and Keyword Avalanche memberships. Sure enough I had well over 100 articles to use on the sites for instant content. And don't forget the USA government sites as a source of content, as much of it is in the public domain. According to their site, "Unless a copyright is indicated, information on the Department of State Web Site is in the public domain and may be copied and distributed without permission. Citation of the U.S. State Department as source of the information is appreciated." As I've said many times in the past, keep your eyes and ears open. Any time you hear a really big number and it involves the majority of the population, there's a ton of revenue to be made. So next time you see a full page ad on the back cover of a magazine, realize that it cost over five grand to put it there. Not only that, realize that thousands of searches will be made, in researching, comparing, and finally purchasing the item. Are your affiliate sites positioned to take advantage of those searches? Mine are... why don't you join me? Fads may come and ad revenue may go, but affiliate programs and the revenue they generate are here to stay. - - Adv - - Create Unlimited Sites with Only ONE Domain Name If you set up subdomains manually, they're just folders under your main domain name. The Subdomain Wizard is different. It uses your reseller hosting to set up a new hosting account for each subdomain. One thing's for sure, if you're a school or business that's setting up a lot of websites, this tool will minimize one of the biggest expenses... the cost of domain names. So get the best name you can find, and then let everyone have their own website using the SubDomain Wizard. Get SubDomain Wizard ==> http://www.cdzn.com/sdw WebLink ==> Click - - /Adv - - INTERNET MARKETING & SEARCH ENGINE FAQS Gee... Cost Per Action... Again Question: I feel like I'm spinning my wheels and can't get any traction. I've read so many opinions from so many marketers and I keep buying stuff that I don't use. But the truth is, that I'm afraid that I'm going to make a mistake. Now I just heard that AdSense is dead and that's what I was planning to do. What should I do now, should I try cost per action? I'm worried about what the next thing will be. I'm feeling totally overwhelmed with too many emails. Can you help me? Answer: Gee... lets see now... SEO is dead... so are article sites, so is RSS, so are article directories and press releases, PPC, hub sites, Mininets... yep, all toast. Now AdSense has been declared dead and "cost per action" is all the rage. Dude! Save yourself from getting on yet another list. Cost per action is nothing more than a fancy way of saying, "affiliate program." Every six months or so, some industry expert or newbie starts touting cost per action as the wave of the future. Guess what? If you've been following the advice in Clickin it Rich and Revenge of the Mininet, you ARE doing cost per action. As an affiliate, you don't get paid until the action or transaction has taken place. You can buy all the clicks you want. You can capture SEO traffic. You can persuade the visitor all you want... but you don't get a commission if they don't buy anything. That is a true cost per action. Another example of cost per action, is simply getting your visitors to fill out a form. It's called CPL or cost per lead. It's a model used by insurance companies, real estate agencies and others, where they pay you per action. And that action is getting leads for them. Yea... you can tell I'm a little miffed. Every week someone touts something else as dead and their "new" way as the only way. But you know what? It's the same old stuff going round and round. Just like fashion... if you didn't see it first time round, it all looks new. The "commercial" internet has been around since '94, when html debuted along with the Mosaic browser, at the Seybold publishing show in San Francisco. I was there, standing in that long line, to get my piece of the "future of publishing." Few people have been around since the beginning of the internet. Even fewer since the birth of BBS services and 300 baud modems. And just a tiny handful of us when Adobe, Aldus and Apple burst onto the desktop publishing scene, revolutionizing the print industry forever in 1986... But what's the point? Why am I telling you all this? I just want you to consider your information sources. Do you really need to be distracted by the next "big" thing, especially when it's just a rehashed old thing? Pick your mentors and gurus, and stick with them. If something is truly important, you'll hear it from them. Unsubscribe and get off all those lists. They're only causing you to lose time and focus on your work. Get away from all those who just bombard you with offers. Consider the relationship you have with the authors... do they answer their email? Can you contact them? Do they hide behind support tickets, web forms, assistants, and personal secretaries? Do they have any formal training in marketing and advertising? Do they have solid track records and good reputations? Do they provide you with strategies, tactics and news that affects your business? Or could it be that they are just opportunists posing as marketers, trying to build lists, so they can sell you everything and anything that comes along? Are you nothing more than a name on a list? Are you a cash cow? Or a piece of meat? It's not something to consider lightly. You're given a finite amount of time on this planet by your creator. You are trading your time to read what they write. You are giving them your limited heartbeats and precious breaths of life... And as you get older my friend, you'll come to respect time... You can't get any more of it at any price. So please choose whom you let into your life, by phone, by email, or in person with a great deal of care and attention. Choose your relationships wisely and wiser yet you'll become. - - Adv - - Find Domain Names for Niche Article Sites All the good domain names are gone... right? Wrong. It's just that finding good names is a long, dull, tedious process. This new software automatically searches for domain names, while you do something else. After keyword research and finding a niche, the next most important thing is the domain name itself. Don't guess or settle for second best. Get the most popular domain name that you can find. Domain Suggest Tool ==> http://www.cdzn.com/dst WebLink ==> Click - - /Adv - - The Secret to Productivity Question: How on earth do you do it? How do you manage to write your newsletter and pump out sites the way you do? You must work at least 60 hours a week! What's the secret to your productivity? Answer: If I do have a secret, it's the power of focus. I don't let myself get easily distracted by things like email. Usually I do it last... at the end of the working day. I save my creative energy for writing the newsletter and content for my sites. (One exception is customer service. If you have your own products, then you must look after your customers first. This includes answering their questions about your products, refund requests, download issues, and any other problems they may encounter.) Now that my products are off the market, if frees me up to get productive from the moment I wake up in the morning. Working from home with affiliate programs, there's no commute, or getting dressed in work clothes, no bag lunch or headgames with coworkers... but you already knew all that from reading Clickin' it Rich. ;-) Then around noon, I walk in the park for an hour, rain or shine. I get caught up on podcasts like Twit, CNet News and Buzz Out Loud. I get new ideas for products and how to position them for existing markets. Once I get home, I jot down all my new ideas and let them be. I'll put them on the back burner of my mind and let them stew... because it's time for the grunt work. The grunt work doesn't involve a lot of thinking. After the writing is done - which includes original work and modifying articles - it's time to assemble the sites. I source the artwork. Compress the photos. Create any graphics, banners and mastheads in Photoshop Elements... without even thinking about it. (Yes, it's easy for me, because it's part of my core competencies. I have over 20 years of advertising experience, so designing advertising collateral in Photoshop and doing page layout are as mundane as driving a car.) I then assemble the site using whatever site builder strikes my fancy. Depending on the size and nature of the site, I might use XSite Pro, smArticle, SeaMonkey, or Dr. Andy's SEO Website Builder. XSite Pro ==> http://www.cdzn.com/xsp smArticle Composer ==> http://www.cdzn.com/ace SEO Website Builder ==> http://www.cdzn.com/wsb After the grunt work it's late afternoon. I finally start on the email. Friends and family. The JV requests. Checking out new product announcements. And all the questions. I strive to answer every question I get. The better ones become FAQ content for my blog and this newsletter. I look at it like a deposit in the bank of Karma. The more good I do, the more I'll get back in return. But all that said, even with discipline, the power of focus and intense concentration, there's something underlying all this. It's the real secret to productivity. Lean a little closer and I'll whisper it in your ear... It's your ability to communicate with the device used for production... which in this case is a computer. Believe it or not, The MOST productive thing anyone can do, is learn how to type FAST and learn the keyboard shortcuts for their favorite applications. Ok, I know that seems obvious, but if you've ever watched anyone hunt and peck, they're still working on the first paragraph while I've finished two 500 word articles. You must be able to type as fast as you can think. People who know how to type, don't think about how to spell words. Their minds work in patterns. Shear repetition lets the neurons fire in the brain and entire sentences spill out in sets of patterns at the fingertips. And before you whine that it's too hard, get software to assist you and do the lessons. Practice 30 minutes per day and at the end of two weeks, you'll suddenly find yourself typing without even thinking about where the keys are. The other big booster is learning the keyboard shortcuts for your favorite apps. Do you grab the mouse and spend minutes looking at the drop down menus or do you just instinctively hit "Control Shift F" to forward an email, or "Control B" to make text bold? Some people hold the mouse most of the day and travel a lot of real estate on the screen. Pros make a note of the keyboard shortcut, even posting a sticky note on the monitor and rarely have to leave the keyboard. So yes you must have focus, drive, determination and concentration, but nothing is going to help you be more productive than making the computer a motor skill. It's no different that learning how to ride a bike or play the guitar. Once you've mastered the basics, and they're hard wired, you'll be amazed at how productive you can be. - - - - - CONCLUSION Get signed up for Leslie Rohde's OptiSmarts blog. His pen-based video training for SEO is totally unique and has been used to teach the leading experts. A handful of members have left the Article Underground and their spots are yours for the taking... but there's only 18 available. Now you can add user generated content to your sites, thanks to Robert Blackstone's easy-to-use script. Brad and Andy are soon to release their SEO training. You can download the PDF with videos and case studies in the mean time. The "personal security" niche is huge. It makes great Mininets. And there's room for everyone. Unsubscribe from all those lists that just bombard you with offers. Pick your teachers and stick with them. If something's truly important, you'll hear it from them. Focus, determination and concentration are all important. But nothing is going to make you more productive, than hard-wiring typing and keyboard shortcuts into your brain as a motor skill. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ That's it for this issue my friend. Thank you for reading. We'll chat again soon. Until then, here's wishing you all the best for online success. Michael Campbell CEO Dynamic Media Corporation Author of Nothing but 'Net, Clickin' it Rich, Revenge of the Mininet and the Internet Marketing Secrets newsletter. P.S. Please forward this newsletter to your friends. = = = = = = = = = = Legal stuff... Copyright 2006 Dynamic Media Corporation. All rights reserved world wide. All trademarks and servicemarks are property of their respective owners. The information contained in this newsletter is the opinion of the author based on his personal observations and years of experience. 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