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How to increase your website traffic Visibli in 5 minutes flat

2012-11-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

Today on my to-do list:

1. Search for the ultimate traffic guide something.

2. Skim through it.

3. feel guilty, that have not been given the proper attention and slowly to peruse through.

4. leave the long-winded comment tells you how incredibly helpful guide was a blogger.

5. click the "save for later" button.

6. feel guilty, that is not always the world to give these ideas a shot.

7. go back to my blog and complain that I have not done much today, have a direct impact on my business.

Tomorrow my to-do list:

1. Save my to-do list yesterday; Rinse and repeat.

OR ...

Take the next 5 minutes * ** in practice a simple traffic generation techniques, which is very fast and a positive effect on traffic generation today.

** * Results were tested by a professional blogger is to produce an epic content and are in no way guarantees results.

How does that sound?

Let's get to work!

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It seems that some people, like my friend James Hussey , are not ready to live lean notes in the fast lane and some hand-holding.

The bar offers a way to keep the commitment to Visibli-readers after sharing external links; both through social media and blog.

And no, it's not at all like the Hello bar.

For example, suppose you want to quote another blogger in your post. You can, of course, to link to the source, that is to say, the other blog.

If any of your readers to click on an external link, you can lose them.

If you use Visibli, you the reader, who clicked on an external link from your blog to see it in the personal toolbar that contains data.

They basically take your site with them. Sort of like StumbleUpon toolbar.

1. watch the video.

2. a link to the free version: http://visibli.com/register/0/0/0.

3. make sure that the bar will show the extension of your blog. Personalize it your blog colors, image, etc-to make it recognizable.

4. go through Visibli bookmarklet (see video) whenever you want to share to anyone's post on social media.

It's as simple as that.

And it is # 4 of the traffic source.

Almost hands-free and happy.

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By: Using Press Releases To Get Traffic And Build Links To Your Website |

2012-11-27T12:18:00.000-08:00

It’s Google’s world and for those of us with websites, we’re just living in it. And while the various Panda updates have proven to be a major thorn in the side of content providers and SEO experts, search engine optimization isn’t going away… and despite Google trying to kill it, SEO article writing will not die.

That doesn’t mean it hasn’t changed dramatically, however. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, those who write content with the intention of ranking well in the SERPs have had to make major changes in how they write.

I’ve put together this article to help you learn what’s working now and what you better avoid is you still want to achieve good search engine rankings for yourself or for your clients.

This guide will help you get long term results from your SEO article writing efforts.

Unfortunately, this isn’t the most exciting of topics in the world and is a bit more technical than most of what you’ve read before. Heck, the first draft didn’t have a single shit, damn, layin’ the smack down, cotton pickin’¸or hornswoggled in it.

Yeah, that means it’s pretty boring. Skip the beer until you finish this one, it took me three cups of coffee to write it. You’ll probably need at least one to read it. But alas, if you do SEO for a living, or play an SEO expert on TV, you should probably read this article… or stay in a Holiday Inn Express – the choice is yours.

Ready to get started? Take a deep breath – here we go.

They say those who ignore the past are destined to repeat it (or something like that – I’m pretty sure I heard that when I was in school). So let’s look at how things used to work.

The Old Formula

Links + SEO Shenanigans + Content = Rankings

… and in that order.

Heck, in the past I was able to get websites to rank in the top 10 on the power of links (and anchor text) alone. I know this because there was no content on the page I was linking to. If you’re an SEO trying to sell your services, showing that to a prospective client sure looks impressive. I could honestly tell them,

“It really doesn’t matter what’s on your website, I can get it to rank well in Google for you… so long as your check clears.”

Of course that goes against what Google wants. Just like a fresh pint of milk, they want the cream to rise to the top, naturally. Google has publicly said they don’t want the top ranking websites to be the ones who can afford to hire the best SEO guys. They want the top ranking websites to actually be the best.

They’ve hired a not so small army of manual reviewers trying to get rid of the riff raff for years now. However, in February of 2011, Google had finally figured out a way to get rid of low quality content algorithmically. If you’re not a tech geek, that means that it’s so easy a computer can do it – no human intervention required.

And they’ve continued to tighten the screws… creating low quality content just to rank in the search engines is now just a waste of time, money, and resources.

Expert Quality Content + Quality Links + Warm Fuzzy Factors = Rankings

Newspapers are still a great place to go for quality writing... who knew?

One tip I’ll give you that works really well when you’re not an expert on the topic is to think like a reporter. Pick up a newspaper and read it. If it was written by a reporter, they probably interviewed someone to write it. They may have done plenty of research to write the article, but there is also the story and personal experiences of one or two people interweaved into the article itself.

I’ll be honest, if you’ve never written like that, it’s a challenge and there’s a certain amount of skill required, but it’s easy to see why that kind of content ranks so well in Google – it has all those warm fuzzy factors we’re looking for.

Yes, there are plenty of classes you can take to learn how to do this – after all, journalists do go to college to learn their craft, but you can get a quick crash course just by googling “how to write like a journalist.” Then it’s just a matter of practicing.

I’d also recommend subscribing to a newspaper. Personally, I think it’s hard to find a newspaper that does it better than the New York Times (even if they are a bunch of liberal bastards… but I digress) , but what newspaper you subscribe to is up to you though I do recommend subscribing to the print edition and reading it somewhere away from your computer screen. Just absorb the writing style and let it soak in.

Here’s a great list you can use – turn it into a checklist. It’s was written by a Google employee and gives some insights into what Google wants to rank highly in their search engine.

When it comes to getting quality links to your website, I have good news and bad news. Studies have shown that people respond better when you give them the good news first so here it is:

You don’t need very many quality links to rank well!

Which is good because getting quality links is tough.

Here’s the thing. Google wants you to create content that is so awesome and so compelling that other website owners, including the authority websites in your niche to link to your content out of the goodness of their hearts.

It happens on occasion when you do a good job but I’ve found one Google approved link building technique that can get you those oh so important quality links… Guest Blogging.

It’s a lot like the old days of article marketing but instead of your article being potentially syndicated across hundreds of websites, your article is only published on one website. And while you have to work with each website owner individually, the highly relevant and contextual links you get from these websites is worth the extra work.

Plus it gets your message in front of that website’s audience… which is probably the people you want reading your message anyway. So even if you get no SEO benefit from the article, you still get the people you really want reading your article anyway which is probably what you were going for in the first place.

Basically, you’re killing two birds with one stone.

Doesn't he make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Remember only evil people like Bin Laden hate puppies.

Okay, so I could have called these “user behavior metrics” and could have thrown in the new buzz word “social signals” but I wanted to make sure you’re still awake and are still slogging on through this with me… plus warm fuzzy factors sounds so nicer. J

Here’s the thing. It used to be that those of us in the SEO world could do a pretty reasonable job of backwards engineering Google’s ranking algorithm using statistical analysis.

Without getting too much into it, we could look at what currently ranks well across thousands of keywords and find certain correlations.

For example, pages that rank on the first page of Google tend to have that keyword in their title tag.

If I want this article to rank well for “SEO Article Writing,” then I should make sure that keyword shows up in the title somewhere.

Make sense?

Of course, it’s not perfect. Statistical analysis never is.

For example, if you were to conduct your own analysis, you’d find a positive confidence interval for domains names that are 9 characters long. Does having a domain name that is exactly 9 characters long have anything to do with ranking well? No – nothing – why would it? However, Wikipedia happens to be precisely 9 letters long and with millions of top ten rankings, they can easily give you a false positive for ranking factors.

You’d find the same for domains that are 6 letters long because Amazon.com is that length and they get just as good of rankings but for products people want to buy.

Fortunately, there were plenty of rankings factors we could reverse engineer that did make sense. So we used them, then abused them, and then abused them some more.

And now we’re at a point where Google uses several factors we can’t use good ole statistical analysis to backwards engineer anymore. It’s a simple matter of Google having so much data we don’t have access to anymore.

Their ranking algorithm is getting closer and closer to having every page behave like articles submitted to a peer reviewed journal. In case you’re not familiar, when you submit an article to one of these journals for publication, it goes out to three peers deemed to be experts on the subject and if they don’t like it, it doesn’t get published (they’ll typically ask you to make revisions).

Basically we now have a computer that is an expert on every subject on the planet and can tell if what your wrote is B.S. or if it’s actually worth reading. Keep that in mind when you create content. Focus on the people that will ultimately read it. It’s what Google wants and Google’s been tweaking their search engine to behave the same way over the years.

Backlinks used to be the holy grail of rankings and was the basis for Google’s Pagerank algorithm. When it was developed, Larry Page assumed (correctly) that you could gauge the importance of a website and a page on that website by the amount of links pointing to it. The more links pointing to a particular page, the more important it must be and thus more deserving of a high ranking in Google.

Makes sense if you think about it, right?

And it worked great… until people figured out that was what was going on. Then all hell broke loose.

Everybody and their brother starting concocting link building schemes that would artificially inflate the importance of their website.

The reason backlinks and nothing but more backlinks worked so well for so long was simple – a better solution didn’t exist.

Yes, backlinks still matter and still matter a lot. But they are only effective as part of a larger overall strategy. Google uses over 200 ranking factors (and no, they’re not sharing specifically what they are) to determine quality.

Here are a couple important ones you should be paying attention to… when combined I like to call them “warm fuzzy factors.”

Basically, this is a measure of how long someone stays on a page and how long someone stays on your website.

If everybody who clicks on your website and immediately clicks the back button on their browser, that’s a giant red flag and Google can track that by measuring the clickthrough rate and “dwell time.”

Bottom line: You want people to visit your website and stay around a while.

Improving the stickiness of your website:

Make sure your articles are easy to read. Yes, people will read long articles as long as they’re interesting, but it’s important to make sure you use short paragraphs and include white space between all paragraphs. If your article looks like it’s going to be hard to read, people will leave.Don’t autoplay music on your website. I still see people doing this and it’s annoying. I have my own music playing and don’t want yours (and statistics prove that most people agree with me). Rather than finding the button to turn off the music, I’ll leave and do business with a competitor.When in doubt, include a video. Putting a video at the top of your article can significantly enhance the stickiness of a web page. No, not everyone will watch it so make sure you include text too, but it provides a different modality for those who don’t want to read much.Use pictures. People like pictures so sprinkle them throughout long articles. It keeps people around by breaking up the text a little bit.Avoid having too many ads “above the fold” on your website. First of all, Google is directly penalizing sites that it considers to have excessive ads but just as important is that too many ads can cause people to immediately leave your website, resulting in a low dwell time.

Social signals may sound like a fancypants term but it’s actually very easy to understand and describe. When someone tweets about your article, likes it on Facebook, or shares it with their circles on Google + by giving it a “plus 1”, these are social signals that real people are reading and sharing what you wrote.

That’s one way a search engine like Google can tell what the people like and want. It also means you want your best stuff to be shared on those sites as well.

Now don’t get carried away with social signals. Remember that people probably aren’t going to share yours salespages with their friends. But your best, most interesting, creative content should be. The first step is to share it on your own networks. If you’re not willing to publicy share what you’ve written with your friends and followers why would anyone else.

Of course it’s always best to let nature takes its course and let things happen organically but if you want to give your best content a little extra oomph, services like Synnd can help. As always, be very careful about using services that aren’t natural. I like them because they can provide that initial spark you need to get something started but once it’s started, let it stand on its own from there – if it crashes and burns, so be it. Try again tomorrow.

Drag one of these into Starbucks to write with... makes you look sophisticated... ladies love it too!

I’m going to give you a crash course on what it takes to write expert quality content that will get those warm fuzzy factors we’re looking for so buckle your seatbelts boys and girls… this could get a little rough.

First of all – I’m going to assume you already have some writing skills. If you failed English in high school then you might want to consider a different line of work.

Sorry.

There are plenty of fantastic resources out there that can teach you how to write. I think Copyblogger has a lot of solid tips for bloggers. I recommend taking a couple days and perusing their vast archives. It’s also a good place to see excellent writing in action. I’m also a big fan of Cracked.com. Many of their articles can legitimately make you laugh out loud. There is so much personality in those articles, if you can conjure up a fraction of it for your own writing, you’ll be in good shape.

There are also books on the topic as well as classes… I’m sure there’s an online class or one being offered at your local community college if you’re serious about improving your writing skills.

What I can help you with is what should be included in your articles.

Put your main keyword in the title or your articleTry to offer something in your article that nobody else offers even if it’s just a personal story or experience. Case studies are great too!Do give credit where credit is do. Link to resources on the topic (basically, it’s like citing your research). Contrary to popular belief it doesn’t hurt your rankings or cause you to leak Pagerank. It actually helps!Be detailed on your articlesWrite for people, not machines.Promote your writing. Share it wherever appropriate whether its on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, or wherever.Proofread all your work. It doesn’t have to be grammatically perfect but you should have spelling errors and silly little things fixed.Ask yourself, “Would I consider this article to be one of the ten best on the topic?” If the answer is no and your goal is for the article to rank in the top 10 of Google, then go back and edit the article until you can honestly answer, “yes.”It’s okay to write a contrarian viewpoint or to agree with conventional wisdom but Google really wants to see some balance. They consider the authority on the subject to be the one that mentions multiple points of view.Never publish anything that is comprised of “spun” content. Same goes for PLR content. Avoid too much duplicate content. Yes, it’s okay to reprint and occasional very well written article from an expert but for the most part you want to stick to unique and original content on your website. Steer clear of blackhat linking practices including xrumer blasts, massive profile links, anything built by SENuke and it’s competitors, and excessive social bookmarking links.

I’ve been saying this for years – keyword density is dead. That hasn’t stopped self appointed SEO experts from extolling its virtues from on high to make them sound smart. Heck, I was just talking to a guy yesterday who was convinced that 4% keyword density was critical to his SEO success. Here’s the truth. At any given time you can figure out what appears to be an optimal keyword density for an article. The problem is it changes. Heck, for a while there were two sweet spots – 3% and 9%. Fortunately, the correlation between a certain keyword density and rankings has dropped which in layman’s terms means don’t worry about it. Your keyword will work itself into your article without you thinking about it much. Make sure it’s in the title and put it in the first paragraph. After that, it’ll probably show up here and there, but you don’t need to worry about it.

Plus, if you keyword density is deemed too high, you’ll get hit with Google’s new “over-optimized” penalty. Google is on the prowl looking for websites whose content was clearly written to rank well in the search engines and they’re casting those pages asunder to troll the depths with other low quality and spammy content even if the information is quite good and useful.

What’s the keyword density of this article? I have no idea. I didn’t check because it really doesn’t matter.

Okay, So How Long Do My Articles Need To Be If I Want Them To Be Considered Expert Quality Content?

I’ve been asked about this many times and while I understand why you’re asking it’s the wrong question.

I’ve have pages that have ranked in the top 5 of Google for years that have less than 400 words on the page – heck I have a client who has less than 50 words on his homepage and still does well, albeit in a small market. On the flip side, I have articles that are 2,000-3,000 words long. Guess what? They rank well too.

There is not one size fits all recommendation.

It all depends on the market. But one easy way to find out is to check Wikipedia. How long is their article on your topic (assuming they have it and it ranks in the top 10 of Google)? If it’s 5,000 words long, your little 350 word blurb stands little chance.

Of course, you also need to deliver what the person is actually searching for. If they want a map – show them a map. If their search indicates they’re looking for a video, you probably want video embedded on the page.

I do understand that when you’re hiring writers you need to give them guidelines. These days I’m thinking most articles should be at least 750 words long with much of it exceeding 1,000 words. Keep in mind if it’s full of fluff and filler, length doesn’t matter.

That’s a lot of writing – what do I say?

Here’s what’d I’d recommend you do. Go take a look at how long obscure little topics on Wikipedia end up. When in doubt, you could cover historical aspects of what you’re writing about or do my personal favorite filler – tell a story.

People love stories! I love stories, you love stories, we all love stories.

Heck, I still remember being in grade school when we’d go to the library and our librarian would read a book to us. I remember being so excited to hear stories like The Wish Giver read and anxiously waited for the hour where she’d read to us every week. And considering I still remember names of obscure books like the one I mentioned above proves that stories really can stick with us.

And you don’t have to be a world class writer to tell a good story… good stories do all the heavy lifting.

I’m sure there are a few people thinking I must be smokin’ something (want some?) or just completely incompetent since I haven’t said anything about latent semantic indexing (LSI) yet. Here’s why. I already covered it.

If you stick to writing expert quality content or hiring those who are experts on the subject, you don’t need to worry about it… that stuff all shows up without having to think about it and that’s the whole point of LSI. Latent semantic indexing was created to identify expert quality content, not the other way around.

Do you think I spent any time reading about which keywords I need to mention in this article to make sure it ranks well for “SEO article writing?” No. I’ve done SEO for a living since 2005, I know this stuff inside out and don’t need to read up on what other people are mentioning in their articles. It may sound arrogant (and it is) but I don’t need to go read about what a bunch of amateurs are writing just so I can be sure to cover the right keywords. You will notice that I have linked to a few noted authorities for further study of certain topics, however.

Besides, Google has a variance algorithm (I can’t think of the name of it and no, not Universal Search but it’s part of it) built into their rankings so they can show several different types of content on the first page… and to make it nearly impossible for one person to control all top 10 spots on Google for anything but the most obscure of key phrases. Basically, it allows for several different pieces of authority level content to have a voice on the first page of Google despite the fact that they may all have contrary viewpoints or recommendations.

If you’ve never heard of LSI, ignore this section as it’s not important to you. If you’re still focusing on LSI content, silo structure, and pagerank sculpting, I’d recommend following your rankings and analytics carefully in the coming months. If it looks like something an expert SEO guy did, you might be exposing your clients to more risk than they’re willing to take and it might be time to back off.

I remember when I first starting outsourcing content creation to freelance writers back in 2006. I learned quickly that you could get a decent article for $10 and a pretty good one for $20 or so. However, if you remember the old formula, the quality of the content wasn’t all that important as far as ranking well in the search engines were concerned.

That meant that more and more services popped up offering articles for $7, $5, and I’ve even seen people offering articles for as little as one dollar. What does $1 get you? Junk, drivel, and nothing quality minded webmaster should ever consider publishing on his or her blog.

If you’re going to hire someone to write for you, focus on people who know the topic you’re asking them to write about or find someone who will act like a reporter and get the real scoop from someone who does.

In the past, my best writers have read books on the topics they weren’t familiar with (I purchased and mailed them to my writers) or they’ve gone out and interviewed people who knew the topic.

Now that level of writing isn’t cheap but these days you get what you pay for and only quality writing is worth paying for. Nobody wants to publish worthless drivel and Google certainly doesn’t want it ranking on the first page of their search engine so even if you manage to trick them into ranking your content for a short while, rest assured you’ll be exposed soon enough.

Yes, I know that everything I’ve described is a lot of work. It will drastically cut down on how much content you can produce and how many websites you can manage.

However, it can really pay off.

In competitive niches, it’s the only way to stay competitive and have a chance.

In less than competitive niches, you can create content that will rank at the top of Google for years. I have articles I’ve written that have been ranking in the top 5 of Google for 5+ years now. It has nothing to do with tricks – those articles are still the best on the topic… yes, they’ve even more comprehensive and helpful than what Wikipedia has to offer.

So there you have it, my guide on SEO article writing. No it’s not dead but it has transformed and for the better.

What are you doing that’s working for you to get your content ranked?

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3445 Words on How to Promote the Ish out of Your Blog Posts

2012-11-27T03:12:00.000-08:00

Waiting for something with baited breath is not my strong suit.

Good thing I don’t have to when it comes down to promoting my blog and any newly published posts.

And with this handy-dandy practical guide with a step-by-step “promotion in motion” plan, neither do you.

Social media is one of the easiest, yet perhaps, one of the most frustrating promotion channels.

It’s easy because it takes but a few minutes for you to share your post with your friends/followers.

It’s frustrating because you can’t control the results.

Will your followers carry your new post to their followers?

Will anyone even notice?

Let me show you how I maximize my social media promotion efforts and turn social media into my #1 referral traffic source.

Here are the necessary ingredients to successful Twitter promotion (in order of importance):

Outstanding content (your top priority – goes without saying);Your overall online authority (if people know who you are, they are more likely to promote your content);Quality of your following (how targeted your followers are);Quantity of your following (the more targeted followers you have, the more shares you’ll get).

If you are having hard time getting others to retweet your content, take a look at the four points above and figure out which one(s) need to be worked on.

My top ways to get more retweets:

With a little bit of upfront leg work, this method of getting RTs can be put on complete autopilot.

It’s all about twisting other bloggers’ arms to get them to automatically feed your blog RSS to their Twitter accounts.

The logic behind it:

We all strive to provide our followers with top-notch content, both our own and others.

The easiest way to do it is to automatically retweet other bloggers’ content by adding their RSS feed to your social media management platform of your choice, i.e.:

HoosuiteMarketMeSuite (that’s what I use)Tweetdecketc.

If you don’t currently use any social media management platform, no worries.

Here’s another option for you: Twitterfeed.com.

It automatically shares your chosen RSS feeds on Twitter, as well as Facebook.

How to get others to add your RSS feed:

1. Ask.

Find Twitter influencers who have a responsive following AND like to share content in your niche.

If you don’t know how, read how I use Topsy.com in How to Create Traffic Magnets: Give Your Readers Bread and Games post.

2. Barter.

You can “exchange” the favors, if you are more comfortable to do it that way.

You add theirs, they add yours.

3. Mention it in your blog posts.

Make it a call to action in your blog posts every once in a while.

Something like this:

If you love Traffic Generation Cafe and think these traffic ideas would be valuable to your followers, you should add our RSS feed to your social media sharing platform of choice!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/TrafficGenerationCafe/

And don’t forget to add “via @AnaTrafficCafe” to your tweets so that I can come by and say thank you.

4. Mention it to your list.

Just follow the example above and ask your email subscribers to automatically share your stuff with their followers.

Triberr is a blogging network designed to increase your Twitter influence through leveraging other bloggers’ Twitter accounts.

Let’s say I have about 1,900 Twitter followers in my @AnaTrafficCafe Twitter account.

With Triberr, I can find like-minded bloggers who also produce excellent content in my niche and form an alliance with them – a “tribe” in Triberr terms.

They share my stuff (if they like it, it’s not automatic) and I share theirs.

You can choose to create your own tribe or request to join others.

The main idea behind it is to find tribes with active members who write quality content and love to share each others’ stuff.

That’s how I am able to grow my reach from 1,900 Twitter followers to over 2M.

How to find tribes in your niche:

Once you create your free Triberr account, find the “Tribes” tab in the left sidebar.

When you click on it, you’ll be taken to the “Browse Tribes” section where you can add different categories related to your niche.

Once you find the tribes you’d love to be a member of, I suggest you introduce yourself to the tribe founder and ask them to add you.

How to actually make Triberr work to promote your posts:

As I mentioned before, sharing on Triberr is not automatic.

Your tribe mates need to choose to share your content with their followers.

Increase your chances of being shared on Triberr by:

creating eye-catching post titles;sharing their stuff (I suggest to log into Triberr once a day and share others’ content; make it a habit; give and you shall receive);if you are a new-comer to the blogosphere, build relationships with your tribe mates; i.e. comment on their content, send them a personal note, etc.

Create your free Triberr account

JustRetweet.com is another Twitter sharing platform, but has a big distinction from Triberr: you don’t need to form a tribe to get retweets.

This could be helpful to many bloggers who might have a hard time getting into an active niche-related tribe on Triberr.

How JustRetweet.com works:

Sign in with your Twitter account.Earn credits by retweeting or liking the retweets from other members.When you have earned enough credits, then you can submit your own retweets into the system and have other members start retweeting YOUR content.You can also earn credits by following other members, referring new members, etc.JustRetweet doesn’t do automatic sharing; everything you share is entirely up to you.The more you give, the more you receive.

Create your free JustRetweet account

ViralContentBuzz.com is a fairly new Twitter/Facebook sharing platform that works off earned credits, very much like JustRetweet does.

However, here’s what sets ViralContentBuzz apart from other similar networks:

Our platform is called “Viral Content Buzz” which implies that we are looking to help push high-quality content that has a good potential to go viral. (FAQ)

All submissions to ViralContentBuzz are manually moderated, which ensures the quality of the submitted posts.

Another interesting thing about ViralContentBuzz is the fact that you won’t see WHO submitted the post from the dashboard.

I think that’s yet another way this site ensures that the QUALITY of submitted content takes the center stage; just the way it should be.

Thus, if you do create quality content, but are not known for it quite yet, ViralContentBuzz might be the perfect platform for you.

Create your free ViralContentBuzz account here

Additional comment from one of the founders, Gerald Weber:

“I would like to add that although right now we only support Twitter and Facebook sharing, we are going to be adding StumbleUpon, Google Plus and Pinterest in the very near future.”

For one reason or another, it’s a bit harder to get people to share your post on Facebook than it is on Twitter.

Here are some suggestions to help you to promote your new post on Facebook.

To tell you the truth, it wasn’t easy to find any evidence supporting my gut feeling that a Share button is better than a Like button.

The main obstacle was the fact that Facebook seemed to be very much like Google – in a constant state of menopause: unpredictable with widely-ranged mood swings.

I did finally find a couple of posts written recently enough to still be applicable and by people whose opinion I respect.

So for further reading on the subject, check out:

It basically comes down to how Facebook determines whether and how many of your Facebook friends/fans will actually see your updates.

Just in case it comes as a surprise to you, the number of your Facebook fans serves as great social proof, but that’s about it.

Now you need to prove to Facebook that your updates are actually worthy to be seen.

In other words, you need to increase your EdgeRank.

What is EdgeRank?

Read What is EdgeRank?

What does it have to do with the Share button?

Here’s everything you need to know:

As a general rule, it’s best to assume Edges that take the most time to accomplish tend to weigh more.
For engagement Edges we generally say Shares > Comments > Likes > Clicks.
For content type Edges we’ve seen Videos > Photos > Status Updates > Links.

Since Shares take more effort, it’s assumed that the more Shares you get, the better EdgeRank your Facebook fan page will have, the more of your fans will actually see your updates.

For fun:

When you see the number of “Shares” in my social sharing bar to the right of this post, the actual number includes shares, likes, and comments on the post on FB.

If you really want to know how users interact with your post (i.e. what kind of reactions each post gets), use this somewhat complicated command:

https://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?method=links.getStats&urls=http%3a%2f%2fwww.trafficgenerationcafe.com%2fempower-network-thumbs-down%2f

Replace the first bolded text with your URL and the second one with your post slug, and paste the entire thing into your browser.

You’ll see something like this (this is how my 82 FB shares on my recent Empower Network bash parsed):

Yep, this is how I have fun…

Alright, enough about the buttons.

I’ve already mentioned that both JustRetweet and ViralContentBuzz can be used to share your content on FB as well as Twitter.

Use them.

If you have CommentLuv Premium installed on your blog, use Facebook to entice your commentators to give you a “Like” in order to get a choice of their latest posts.

I personally choose Facebook Like as the ONLY option for CommentLuv links.

The reason is I find it harder to get more Likes/Shares than Retweets.

Since I believe that Facebook might carry more weight with Google than Twitter does, I do strive to get those Likes up and CommentLuv Premium does an excellent job in helping me with that.

Of course, I also like to go with the flow and change things up a bit.

For instance, when GooglePlus was all the rave (still good for business, by the way), the only social sharing choice I had enabled was Google+ shares.

Learn more about my personal CommentLuv Premium settings here.

To stop admiring other bloggers’ CommentLuv Premium and get your very own copy:

After I am done with blasting my newly published post on Twitter and Facebook, I turn to Google+ and Pinterest to add the cherry to the cake.

Yes, GooglePlus is still very much alive and kicking.

There’s a lot of engagement going on there, and TGC consistently gets a fair amount of traffic from it.

A few pointers on maximizing your G+ promotion:

1. Add a description with a compelling call to action.

Posting your update without a comment is… well, a waste of a good opportunity.

Compare:

And:

Not only did SeachEngineLand include a short comment on their update, but they also mentioned +MajesticSEO AND included a hashtag.

These simple additions gained them more visibility on G+.

2. Know who to share with

This is my personal pet-peeve.

It seems like many bloggers are still clueless as to how to properly share their updates with the circles.

They end up overwhelming their circles with trivial updates and when something that’s actually worth reading comes up (like your newly published post), their circles just ignore it.

Here’s how to properly share your updates:

Public: anything generic, as in “look at this awesome photo!” should be shared as “Public” only.Your circles/Extended circles: more important updates, like your newly published blog posts, should be shared with circles as well.Email your circles: my suggestion – DON’T do it. This is NOT your email list and you shouldn’t treat it as such.

Despite the fact that interest in Pinterest for marketing purposes is cooling off (unless you are in a cute cat or bacon business, of course), I still like to share my posts on Pinterest.

And yes, I still drive a decent enough amount of traffic from it.

I usually pin the same post onto several different boards using the following three methods:

…by pinning it directly from post (i.e. using the “Pin” button to the right).

When you do that, the image will link directly to your post.

As you can see, I also like to add another link to the post in the description.

Reason: when you repin your pin, it won’t link to your post any longer (like you see at the top of the image).

Rather, it will link back to your Pinterest profile, like this:

That way your link will travel with the image no matter how many times it’s repinned.

Promote your Pinterest profile (and your blog)

…by repinning the post onto several other boards.

After I pinned the post directly to 2-3 relevant boards (be careful, you don’t want your Pinterest followers to see the same image pinned to every board you have!), I’ll repin it to a couple of other community boards.

If you have no idea what any of it means, take a look at my post about driving traffic from Pinterest.

This is a great way to brand your Pinterest profile, whereas pinning directly from your blog brands your blog itself.

Create social proof (and promote your blog post)

…by repinning what other people shared from your blog.

Here’s what you do:

1. See who has pinned your post(s) onto their Pinterest boards.

Go to: http://pinterest.com/source/YourWebsite.com/ (don’t forget to replace the bolded part with your domain name).

You’ll see everything that other people pinned from your blog, like this:

Huge THANK YOU to all who promote TGC!

Now let’s say I take Carolyn Mohr‘s pin from my Traffic Generation Cafe Plummets post.

I’ll go ahead and repin it to my Zlistic community board and here’s the result:

This way I still got all my links (I added the one in the description when repinning it – for good luck ), AND got proof that I wasn’t the only person who liked Traffic Generation Café.

Note: It seems like no matter how many times an image gets pinned/repinned, it still links to the original source – your blog post in this case.

That’s good news!

I could’ve mentioned this invaluable tip in any of the sections above – you should use it no matter where/how you are promoting your blog/newly published post.

Generously mention/link to other blogs in all your posts.

That’s the biggest “not-so-secret” secret to successful blog promotion.

When you mention other blogs in your posts, you:

Provide your readers with additional valuable resources;Show them that you are a giver;Build relationships with other bloggers without asking for anything in return;Increase your chances of being mentioned on other blogs.

In other words,

You end up promoting your own blog by promoting others.

Makes sense?

And yes, I’ve got a few tips up my sleeves to help you maximize your “return on promotion”:

Sure you can link to the biggest blogs out there, but don’t expect to be noticed by them.

You are not the only one vying for their attention.

Focus on blogs that provide epic content, yet are still small enough to actually pay attention to comments, emails, and social media mentions.

They are much more likely to return the favor.

Don’t just assume that the other bloggers will somehow find out that you mentioned them in your post; TELL THEM.

There are three ways to do it:

Via social media (include @TheirProfile in your status updates on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, or Pinterest).Via a comment on their blog (leave a meaningful comment on their post and say at the end “by the way, mentioned you here….”).Via email (use their contact form).

I’ve noticed that different bloggers prefer different communication channels.

Some closely monitor their social media, some are religious about responding to comments, some will only pay attention to a personal email.

Some won’t respond no matter what you do.

Don’t take it personally.

This is one of the biggest mistakes I see many bloggers make: they forget to force all outgoing links to open in new tabs/windows, thus loosing their traffic to the blogs they mention.

Allow my daughter Emma to demonstrate:

(What’s the point of having children if we can’t use them to promote our businesses, right?

By the way, this is nothing; you should see how I “utilized” Emma on my internet marketing tools page.)

This one is very simple: when you add a link to your post, make sure to check the “Open link in a new window/tab” box.

Side note: make sure ALL your external links open in new windows, including any ads you might have in your sidebar, links to social media profiles, etc.

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this – thanks to Danny Iny for reminding me in comments:

“One thing I’d add is that if you’re linking to someone, always link to a specific page or post, rather than the homepage – that way there’ll be a pingback to let them know.”

This is VERY important.

When you link to one’s home page, they never get a pingback notifying them about the link.

That’s why you want to make sure to link to a specific post; just like I did in every single mention in this post.

Thanks for the reminder, Danny!

Speedlinking, roundups, mashups – all roads lead to posts that curate the best content on the web.

“Best content” is, of course, in the eyes of the beholder, i.e. the publishing blogger.

The keys to promoting your content via roundups:

Write stellar content (no one will mention it unless it’s worth its salt);Build relationships with the publishing bloggers (don’t just approach them with “how about mentioning my post?”);Only alert them to your best posts (don’t be the boy/girl who cries wolf).

Here’s a short list of blogs I know of that publish regular roundups:

1. Kristi Hines Kikolani.com

Best way to catch Kristi’s attention: every week on Friday, she starts a thread on the Social Media Examiner Blogging Club so members can share their favorite blog post of the week.

2. Anita Campbell SmallBizTrends.com

Best way to make SmallBizTrends roundups: be active at BizSugar.com.

3. Danny Iny FirePoleMarketing.com

4. Francisco Perez IBlogZone.com

5. Ryan Hanley RyanHanley.com

6. Nick Stewart NicksTrafficTricks.com

7. Laura Crest SEOCopywriting.com

If you know of others, let me know in the comments.

A while ago, I published So You Published a New Post, Now What?, where I talked about all the steps I took to promote every new blog post.

With all the changes in the blogosphere and Googlesphere, I feel that a lot of that advice is now obsolete.

Sure you can bookmark your post with various social bookmarking sites like BlogEngage, BizSugar, Blokube.

However, without being an active member of those communities, your promotion effort turns into a useless bookmarking link that won’t bring any traffic and definitely won’t help your SEO.

The only other point that I believe is still very much relevant for promoting your blog posts is this one:

Blog commenting won’t, most likely, result in a huge surge of traffic to your post, but it WILL do the following:

make your face recognizable throughout the blogosphere (make sure you use your real picture for gravatar!);build relationships, not just with the blogger, but with their readers as well;might bring a few visitors, especially when commenting on CommentLuv enabled blogs;will build links to your content (won’t help you rank on the first page for a competitive keyword, but is good for SEO nonetheless.).

I, for one, always check out first-time commentators’ blogs, as well as click on interesting titles in CommentLuv links.

Bottom line: every time you publish a post, make it a habit to comment on 5 blogs (I prefer CommentLuv blogs since you can leave your newly published post link via CL).

This little habit could lead to great things for your blog.

WARNING: You should always, always, always check what a commentator is linking to before approving comments.

This will prevent you from linking out to bad neighborhoods.

My habit of checking out the websites before linking to them served me well the other day: an innocent-looking link and a quality comment lead me to a porn site.

Phewww…

Sure you can email your list (I assume you already have one, right? If not, click here.) to tell them about your new blog posts.

However, why waste the precious trust you’ve built with your subscribers by emailing them about every piece of content you publish?

That’s what RSS feed is for.

I’d reserve your emails for exclusive advice your subscribers can’t find anywhere else.

If you do that consistently, you’ll earn the right to let them know about your pillar content AND bring a good amount of traffic back to your blog.

If you’d like to see how I do my email marketing, feel free to join Traffic Generation Café email subscribers.

This is the bare minimum I do for every blog post I publish.

Looks like too much work?

I beg you pardon – writing this post was too much work; implementing the steps won’t take that long.

Plus, what are your options?

Put several hours into crafting a post and then rely on a blog fairy to get it discovered?

Riiiiight…

Get to work!

Oh wait, before you go: if you found this post valuable and thought your readers/followers might benefit from it as well, share and link away!

Just use the buttons to the right and let the blog post promotion begin.

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How to Generate Leads Online for Any Business

2012-11-26T12:24:00.000-08:00

Well if you’re wondering how to generate leads for any business, I’m about to share with you one of the best kept secrets of the industry.

I have recently joined a millionaire in a business that I had avoided like the plague for nearly a year. (If you’re wondering which one, you can see a blog post I did about it here).

But obviously the guy has got it right because he earned over a million dollars in just ONE business last year (and he has several!). And I know his secret……

So I’ve been slowly picking his brains about how to generate leads online to see what he does on a daily basis (well come on , wouldn’t you? )– and he does a LOT, but there’s a couple of things he does that I paid a great deal of attention to.

But before I go into that, I just want to share a couple of things with you that are fact.

If people are finding YOUR stuff in the search engines – and by “stuff” I mean your videos or your articles that come up when someone searches for something in Google, Bing or Yahoo, – if they then follow the link back to your website, then these are the Hottest leads you can have for your business.

Why?

Because they liked what you wrote or did in a video and therefore they can relate to your content.

These leads are FAR more likely to convert to sales or sign ups in your business if you can attract them.

Ok great!

So if you want to know how to generate leads online like this, you just need to learn on page and off page SEO, find the right keywords that your prospects are searching for, invest a lot of time in creating backlinks to your content and invest some money in syndicating and blasting tools to get your content ranked.

Hmmmm

Not so easy is it. Well it’s not too bad because I have got plenty of articles that are ranking, but it can be a very time consuming process and although it can generate a fair bit of wonderfully targeted traffic to your website, if you want to have some dramatic results in your business you will always want more traffic.

So I watched what else he was doing.

And of course he is doing a lot of paid advertising which is another great way of how to generate leads online.

And here’s the thing about paid advertising.

It’s FAST and can be very effective IF you know what you’re doing.

So if you want to know how to generate leads online through paid sources, you have to learn how to do Solo Ads, PPC, PPV, etc etc. or you can just do co-ops like we do in our team so that even complete newbies can start generating online leads right away.

Which is all good.

But the traffic that you generate from paid sources of advertising doesn’t really know you and so your email marketing follow up has to be VERY good to get the conversions to sales and sign ups.

You want the quality of lead that you get from your own content, but you want the speed and the volume of leads that you get from paid marketing.

So I probed Simon some more and I found out what his secret tool was that was responsible not only for lead generation, but also for generating a million dollars in income for him just last year (yes seriously !!).

But before I tell you what that tool is, I want to just explain why it is so successful.

The psyche around successful online lead generation

Remember we said that your own content generates the highest quality leads? Well what if you could do a paid source of advertising that was around your own quality content or around other quality content in your niche that matched your own brand.

Simply put – what if you put a banner advert around either your content or around similar targeted articles that would pique the readers interest?

Combine paid banner advertising around targeted content that matches your niche.

The techie people who test all this sort of stuff have proved that this is fast becoming a TOP method of advertising because if a banner is right next to related content, then it converts well. Which is great news.

Well okay, to describe it as a tool is actually misleading because it is a massively successful company (and business opportunity) in its own right.

Banners Broker

Think of the top 5 companies on the internet.

Facebook, Google, YouTube, Yahoo and Baidu (who?)

What do they all have in common? – Well, they generate their biggest streams of revenue from advertising. So they take your money and generate huge amounts of profit from you from every campaign that you do.

And this is what Banners Broker does. They post your banners on targeted sites that are in your business niche, but the biggest and coolest thing about this company is the opportunity that comes with it.

If you buy an ad/pub combo membership you can not only choose where your banners go to get targeted traffic back to your advert or offer, but (as the name would suggest) YOU also become the broker for other ads and can therefore make money from it.

And if you’re anything like Simon, my sponsor, then you can make a million dollars in a single year from it.

Now if you immediately think – well I couldn’t do that because I wouldn’t know where to start in selling banner ads, well rest assured you don’t even have to lift a finger. It’s all done for you (It’s soooo easy and sooo low maintenance it’s untrue!).

You simply purchase the ad panels at cost price and they go off and sell them for you making YOU a tidy profit .

It’s the perfect solution for how to generate leads online as well as making a BIG profit, and I love it.

(I also love watching my panels earning ME an income whilst watching the traffic coming in to my pages from the banners I’m placing.)

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90 Days to $15k Per Month Formula

2012-11-26T07:15:00.000-08:00

Do you think it’s possible to get up to $15k per month in just 90 days from now?

That means that by the time all the January credit card bills hit the mat, you could be able to just pay them all off in one go……

How good would that feel?

I found a system that is really working well. You can see in the picture that just these past 14 days I made $1,650 and this is just going to go up and up as I coach my team on exactly what I am doing, and then they start to do it too. But here’s the most exciting part……. I just heard that David Woods (who is a marketing genius by the way) is starting a BRAND New 90 day challenge in which he intends to work with everyone who is live on the call TONIGHT (Thursday 1st November) exactly how to achieve exactly that – the All New 90 Days to $15k a month formula.

But of course this information is going to be “Gold dust” – it is a culmination of the last 6 years of marketing genius where he is going to shave the learning curve for us into just 90 days. So of course he is not just going to coach people who have not made the commitment to learn this.

What do I mean by commitment?

I mean investing in your future. You see most people cannot see past the initial investment. They’re scared and they worry that this will not work for them, maybe its a scam or maybe (more likely) nothing like this has worked for them before.

But they don’t look at the fact that their investment of $25 per month (to join the Empower Network) can actually be redeemed with just one sale.

One sale.

Because it’s 100% commissions with the Empower Network.

But to get the All New 90 days to $15k a month training – you need to invest exactly $1,644 which gives you access to the following:

The Empower Network Fully Optimized BlogThe Empower Network Merchant system so you don’t have to worry about how to collect your 100% commissions – it is all done for you.The Empower Network Inner Circle Training by David Woods and David Sharpe – seriously good training!The Empower Network Costa Rica $500 Advanced Training – This training is packed full of absolute golden nuggets that you can implement straight away.The Empower Network $15k per month formula. This WAS awesome training, but now David wants to bring you the absolute latest training to get you to 90 days and $15k a month.PLUS as a member of my team, you will get access to my private facebook coaching group, our weekly team training webinars and my team training vault which I share with my colleague Ruth and we show you exactly how to get set up and blog to get leads, and where we share with you exactly what is working for us RIGHT NOW that has enabled us to achieve the sorts of results we are getting.PLUS as part of my team you will also get access to the training website of my millionaire sponsor who became one of the top 5 earners in Empower Network in his first 30 DAYS !!! (Seriously !!!)

But if you are thinking that this is a HUGE amount to pay out just before Christmas – think about this.

One sale and you get it ALL back (apart from a $19 merchant fee) and we’re going to show you exactly what to do to achieve this in David Woods’ 90 days to $15k a month.

So all you have to do now is TAKE ACTION. (But you have to do it tonight )

Sign up for the all new 90 days to $15k per month formula, then head into the back office and register for the webinar for 9pm tonight.

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MLM Recruiting | Is Your Sponsor Letting You Down?

2012-11-25T20:01:00.000-08:00

In the last couple of days I have had 3 conversations with 3 separate people who had found me online and all of them had a very similar thing to say about MLM Recruiting online, marketing and general success online which is why I thought I would do a blog post about it.

Hmmm…. What do you think about that?

They were all people who had been online for long enough to know that they had not been having the sort of success they desired and so this time, they were looking for the “perfect” sponsor. And I found myself being “weighed up” by them against a couple of other successful marketers to see what I could offer them in terms of a training site, support, private coaching and anything else they could think of that was going to help them to be successful.

So this is what I told them.

I thanked them for seeking me out -because let’s face it – this is Attraction Marketing in action and I still find it flattering when people contact me because they see and believe I am successful enough to help them too – it’s a compliment. But I think they were then surprised at what I told them.

Firstly I agreed with them that having the right sponsor for the type of marketing that they wanted to do could certainly be a help. A training site for the team members and a sponsor who really did take the role of a coach and mentor seriously would of course be a big help.

NO!

So here is the gist of what I answered to all three of them.

Are you an action taker? Do you want success more than you can consider anything else right now? Is failure 100% NOT an option? Because if you want the big success, then it has to be that way… seriously!

Do you have goals? Do you have achievable timescales for your goals? Do you have a plan for how to get to your target monthly income? Are you learning something new every day? Are you taking action on what you are learning every single day? Are you doing something that will move your business forward every single day?

Because if you’re not, then it’s not going to happen fast for you. And it may not happen at all……

Mediocre action will reap mediocre results. How much do you want success?
Yes I can show you how to do article marketing, blogging, social media marketing, paid and free marketing strategies, yes we will do co-op ads for my team and yes I am always testing out new marketing methods.

But that’s because I am stepping up and taking responsibility for my own actions.

Trust me when I say that your sponsor will NOT be the determining factor in your success. In the past I often thought like this too, always believing other people were achieving success because they had a better sponsor when I should have just been looking back at myself and taking responsibility for my own actions.

And that’s what I do now.

In my honest opinion mindset is 95% of the way to achieving success. If you feel that this is “fluffy stuff” then I felt exactly the same when I was told this a few years ago.

But now I realize it was one of the best pieces of advice I was given because it’s so true.

If you are “too scared” to get ‘all in’ to your business, or you’re worried about it not working – then guess what? You’ll be right – this sort of mentality is a mentality of ‘scarcity‘ and not ‘abundance‘ and could stem from how you were brought up to feel about money!

Have you ever heard the expression:

“If you think you can, or if you think you can’t…….. You’re right!”

It’s so true. Having the right mindset for success is absolutely key.

If you think this may be holding you back, then go and read books like “Think and Grow Rich” by Robert Kiyosaki or “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D Wattle and you may start to realize how important the whole mindset ‘thing’ is.

If you are going to be truly successful, and you truly have the desire – you will find a way whatever team or sponsor you are with.

So what do you think? Do you agree with me, if you do, please share this post as I believe it is very important? I’d love to hear from you – and if you have any other book recommendations to get the mindset right, I’d love to hear about them too in the comments field below.

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How to Tweak Your Way into Profits

2012-11-25T05:31:00.000-08:00

Do you know what the main difference between the sites that make money and the ones that don’t is?

The marketers who make money were able to figure out how to focus on the 20% of things that make up 80% of their income.

It’s that simple.

Most bullets on your to-do list today won’t make a difference to your bottom line.

Only very few will.

So why not discover what those are and focus putting them into practice?

Here are some examples of what you could do today to increase your bottom line tomorrow.

Most websites I visit on a daily basis don’t make any/much money because they are not directing their readers to their money-making pages – that simple.

A couple of weeks ago, I made a small tweak to my sidebar that resulted in an increased traffic to my money page: my internet marketing tools page.

I added the “Little Black book” image that’s sitting at the top of my sidebar right now, linking to my tools page.

The results:

The week before I added the image, I got 18 clicks to the page; mostly through the navigation link located at the top of my header.

Last week, that number was 5 times more – 85 clicks.

That’s not all though.

Last week, I made another tweak to the image that took me about 30 seconds to implement.

I moved it from below the sidebar optin form to above it. Now it’s sitting above the fold.

That little change gained me another 35 clicks.

Simple.

Quick.

Effective.

The screenshots above were taken with Google Analytics, by the way.

A very simple and free way to analyze how your readers interact with your site and what can be improved.

I actually got a few more tweaks in mind after I took a look at my stats.

You can find yours in your GA under “Content” => “In-Page Analytics”.

Or watch the video in this post to see how I use it.

Not all traffic is created equal.

Like Lisa Irby noted in one of her latest posts:

“My static site actually has 25% less organic traffic than it did this time last year. That’s the bad news.
The good news is my income has not dropped proportionately because of diversification.”

Income and traffic don’t always grow/drop proportionally.

Some of your pages might be getting more love from the search engines.

Some of them might be bringing a lot of referral traffic from another blog.

If you find a page that’s getting a surge of traffic, it’s important to make sure your monetization methods on THAT page are geared towards those specific visitors.

I’ve created this page on my blog a long time ago (it was one of the first pages at TGC, as a matter of fact).

That page serves only one purpose: to be a greeting page for most of my Twitter traffic.

I use it as a part of generating Twitter traffic with the help of TweetAdder – an automated software that generates thousands of followers over time.

Learn more about how I use Tweet Adder in my business.

All kinds of people visit the page: offline business owners, niche site affiliates, various online site owners, internet marketers, etc.

I always focused on turning that traffic into long-term readers by providing a way to join my exclusive email list, as well as deep links to other TGC posts that might be of interest to them.

Of course, some of them stayed, but even more left – the nature of our business, right?

It never occurred to me to add another tweak that was of direct interest to that specific traffic, as well as a direct monetization technique, until John Shea pointed it out to me.

As a result, I added another subheading to that post explaining to the visitors how I used Tweet Adder to bring them to my blog and linking back to the software with my affiliate link.

Took me about 30 minutes to do it (my brain was half-dead at the time).

Results:

I created a special tracking link to see how many people actually visited Tweet Adder from that page in my Thirsty Affiliates affiliate link management database.

In the last couple of days since I added the Tweet Adder links, I got 13 direct clicks to the software page.

I also included a link back to my Tweet Adder review in the post and I am sure some of the traffic went through that page to get to Tweet Adder.

Thanks for the tip, John!

Last week, I challenged my email subscribers to come up with their own monetization tweaks that can be implemented quickly (i.e. shouldn’t be a project) and have a direct impact on their bottom line.

Many of you responded to the challenge on Traffic Generation Café Facebook page – THANK YOU.

I’ll mentioned a few of your ideas in this post; both the ones that worked and the ones that are in the works.

If you feel like you missed out on the opportunity to network, brainstorm, and be mentioned at TGC, you are right – you did miss out.

Don’t let it happen again.

Join Ana’s exclusive email list to be in the loop.

Like Traffic Generation Café on Facebook and brand yourself as an expert in your niche.

Speaking of monetizing your site page by page, here’s a comment I got from Lisa Melia:

“1500 views on a post of mine today that had cute pumpkin carving ideas – did I have the brains to include a link to a carving kit even though I saw the stats rising daily??”

We are all guilty of that.

After all, it’s only money we are talking about…

Sounds like so much work…

See which pages bring traffic in Google Analytics…Think of a way to make money off that traffic…Add a few paragraphs with affiliate links or an ad to target that traffic…That’s anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes of work…

I am tired of just thinking of doing it…

SNAP OUT OF IT! Focus on what makes money and you WILL make money.

This brilliant idea of taking affiliate marketing into your own hands comes from Arturo Munoz of StartingYourOwnBusinessOvernight.com.
Here’s what Arturo does:

I reworked the logic flow of my offer fulfillment process for one of my best performing pages.

“Huh,” I hear you say?

Simple. Now keep up with me…

I have an article (http://bit.ly/OnlineJobsFromHome).

It points eventually to an affiliate video.

In earlier days, I’d just create a link and send my visitors directly from my site to my affiliate’s site and hope they’d buy there. Not anymore!

Today what I do is the following:

1. I set up a small form at the bottom of my article and squeeze visitors into it with my copy.

2. The form feeds my list.

Note from Ana: VERY IMPORTANT
If you haven’t started building a list yet, you are missing out on a fundamental benefit of having a loyal customer base.
Start building one today.
Aweber is the best email autoresponder I have even used, and I am not the only one. Many A-list bloggers I know also use it for their businesses.
Aweber offers a $1 trial month for all new customers.
You’ll have access to all features a paid account is entitled to: unlimited lists, email campaigns, automatic follow-ups, broadcasts, and many, many more. If after 30 days you don’t like them, just let them know and Aweber will give you your $1 back. Guaranteed.

3. My list feeds my autoresponder.

4. My autoresponder sends an email to my subscribed visitors with the link to the page where I’ve embedded my affiliate’s video IN MY SITE.

Note from Ana:
I noticed, Arturo, that when someone confirms their email, instead of redirecting them to the video page, you make your visitors jump through yet another hoop of going back to their inbox, opening the next email, and going to the video page through that email.
Your visitors might convert even better if you cut out this extra step.

5. The video pre-sells within the context of MY SITE.

6. Then, if the visitor is by now really HOT because of my article, my email and the affiliate video on my site, then that same video gives him the option to move on to my affiliate site for the final pitch.

7. If anyone doesn’t buy from my affiliate link, I’ve not lost that visitor.

This person is now in my mailing list and I can market to him to produce revenues in the future.

Most of these people convert. They’ve been pre-sold enough by the time that they make it to the affiliate site.

It all flows seamlessly, systematically, and automatically.

More traffic to this one page only means more automatic revenue generation.

So I focus on driving as much traffic to it as I can and tweak it to optimize it for pre-selling to a very particular type of audience – the one most likely to buy my affiliate offer.

Test, test, test…

You already heard my spiel about the importance of building your own email list.

Here are a few tweaks my readers made on their sites to increase the effectiveness of their list building.

Walter Akolo made a simple, yet very effective change:

I took a few minutes to include a popover sign-up page on my site. Worked wonders.

Here are some practical improvements Eric McLaughlin made to his site as a result of testing:

The two things that I tweaked that have made a difference were:
1. Adding more recent post links in the sidebar.
My bounce rate went down and the total time on my site had increased by almost a full minute when I did this.
2. The second thing I did was increase the time for my float in form from immediately to 8 seconds.
This increased my opt-in rate the day I changed the time delay.

Yes, popup forms always cause controversy, but they DO work.

The trick is not to slap your visitors with one the second they step on your site.

Let them read your content first. Get to know you a bit. Build trust.

Then they are much more likely to opt in to your list and continue reading.

My Aweber popup optin is set to pop up after 90 seconds on my blog and only every 7 days.

Here are my Skinny Notes on list building to give you a kick in the rear to start your own list or actually take your time to build a relationship with your list.

1. Consider list building your new SEO strategy.

Your list won’t drop you from the rankings, cut your traffic off cold turkey, or make you cringe at the thought of the next algorithm change.

It won’t ban your Twitter accounts or shut down your Facebook pages.

2. I doubled my list building since the recent redesign.

Placing your optin forms in strategic places is the key.

Don’t annoy your readers, but give them ample chance to subscribe.

Point out the benefits of joining your list.

3. Treat your list well.

It’s not your cash machine.

Use your emails to build up your readers and their businesses.

4. Your list will treat you well right back.

Yesterday I found a great deal on a premium WordPress plugin bundle.

Less than $10 and 5 minutes later, I was playing with my new plugins on my blog.

I liked them.

I sent an email to my subscribers letting them know about the deal.

A couple of hundred dollars later, I am still getting notifications of new sales from JVZoo and “thank you” notes from my subscribers who purchased it.

Win-win.

Start building your list today.

Or don’t. Either way. It’s your business.

As you’ve seen so far, the simplest things can produce the best results.

More ideas from you, my readers:

Got a skill others need? Got approach by readers about consulting or other services?

It’s time to add a “My Services” page.

Like Ryan Mendenhall:

“Nothing right now on my site directly makes me money.
So, I’m going to fix that. I’m going to add a services page.
It IS my desire to build a scalable business, so like you said in your email, I am working on a “completely new income-driving model” that will allow me to grow beyond working for an hourly wage.
But for now, I’ll toss up a services page at http://www.mendenhallcreative.com”

Or Karo Itoje:

“One thing I’ll like to implement real soon though is to set up a service offer for a certain group of people.
Ana, did you know all this talk about getting more and more traffic is not really necessary when you have a few clients who can make the whole business trouble worth it at the end of the month?
I never thought I’ll be coaching, but someone requested recently and I accepted.
We’ve had 2 sessions and 2 or more to go.
The income really came in handy. I charged per hour.
But the best part is that my student is instigating me to offer my service to the public on my site saying he’ll give me a “great testimonial” and I will because it happens I love it!

If you need an inspiration for your new service page, check out mine: http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/consulting/.

Consulting is not my personal favorite – I prefer to hide behind my computer rather than talk to people directly.

But it CAN be a great income generator.

Here’s another simple way to monetize your blog.

Does it work?

It didn’t for me, when I tried it in the earlier stages of TGC.

But it might work for YOUR niche.

Like Alexis from Troublesome Tots says:

Unlikely to move the needle, but readers keep ASKING me to put up a donation button (I think that’s a good sign?), so I’m going to do it & offer both Amazon and Paypal options (60% international readership).
I have low expectations, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised!

The simplest things.

Make the most difference.

20% effort.

80% outcome.

What are you doing TODAY to tweak your site?

Let me know in comments below or join our discussion on Facebook.

Always tweaking,

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Doers, Teachers, or Your Heart: Who’s Advice Should We Take?

2012-11-24T20:23:00.001-08:00

Sometimes it seems like everyone’s got advice for us, on traffic or otherwise.

So how do we decide who to learn from?

Should we learn from those who’ve done it, or those who teach?

Read on and we’ll find out.

NOTE: Normally my post would be precision-brilliant, loaded with hand-made art and images, tweetables, and beautiful typography.
There’s a very good reason why this post is simpler, and more bare-bones than usual, and it’ll be revealed further down.
That said, it’s one of the juiciest, most dramatic things I’ve ever shared.
Enjoy.

Hi. My name’s Jason “J-Ryze” Fonceca of RyzeOnline.com.

And I call myself a “success coach.”

And for the last 6 months, I’ve been coaching clients, uplifting them in powerful ways…

…all while living on the streets, homeless.

Pretty ridiculous, right?

Well, it gets even sillier, but we’ll get to that in a minute.

Because this raises the question…

Have you ever felt that way?

I asked myself that question sometimes, even though I’m born to do what I do.

Most entrepreneurs, most leaders, most people who’re building something have felt like they’re not good enough to advise people.

Or that they don’t know enough to be called an ‘expert’.

Or that they’re a fraud at one point or another.

A common tip I hear in marketing circles is “declare yourself an expert“, and following that “if you’ve read a few books on a certain subject, you’re more knowledgeable than most people, and you can help them.”

Well, I’ve lived and breathed success, wisdom, life skills, and media since I was a child.

We’re talking 30,000+ hours – I’ve read more than ‘a few books’.

But better than that, I’ve helped to unlock huge happiness, success, and potential in many people, and I’ve got radiantly glowing testimonials to prove it.

Because I do what I love.

I’m not ‘declaring myself an expert’.

I’m using natural gifts I’ve had since I was little.

When I was a child I’d use epic levels of insight, wisdom, and understanding to get my parents to see why they should let me set my own bedtime, swear if I wanted, and get a job on my terms, not theirs.

Insight & understanding is my thing.

And I love what I do so much that I’ve kept it up through eviction, sleeping on people’s floors, and damp park grass – and I’ve even coached ‘privileged’ rich kids who’d bumped into my homeless ass on the steps of their condo’s lobby.

Because you can’t argue with people’s natural gifts and passions — and those are the things that make an incredibly strong foundation of any business, project, or blog.

Your natural gifts, passions, and interests are attractive to people. They bring traffic.

Even when life lays you low, they hold power, and I’ll show you an even more extreme example shortly.

For now, we’re a little clearer on why anyone would take my advice… but what about when you’re bombarded with opinions –

It’s confusing sometimes.

The internet is filled with experts.

Family and friends always want you to listen to them (often times just so you’d play small and not push their comfort zones with ballsy moves.)

I remember when I was starting my first business — my friends and family all wanted to tell me what to do.

“You’ve gotta sell online”, “you’ve gotta pound the pavement”, etc. etc. etc.

Some advice I took, some I didn’t, but in the end, you start to realize you’re taking advice on how to break out of the mold and sustain a business from people who’ve never broken out of the mold or sustained a business.

So here’s where you get the Jay-Z line:

“And as for the critics, tell me I don’t get it
Everybody can tell you how to do it, they never did it”
- Jay-Z, Already Home

It often doesn’t help to take advice from someone who’s never “done it.”

And since I’m not physically an obvious example of “billionaire-dom” yet, since I’m homeless even as I write this, maybe people shouldn’t listen to me, right?

‘Cause I’ve never done it? I’m just like the advice-givers who talk the talk, never really helping, right?

Wrong.

I might look like them, but I don’t live life like them.

I’ve done something far better.

I’ve been happy, comfortable, at peace, and basically had fun with my life In Every Horrible Situation You Can Imagine.

This kind of ‘realness’ and serenity is something even billionaires can’t buy.

And it’s rare; not everyone can teach it to you.

And speaking of teaching, that brings us to our original question: How do you decide who to listen to and learn from?

Do you get taught by someone who’s “succeeded” in your eyes? Or in society’s eyes?

Do you get taught by someone who loves to advise you and teach, but who’s never really “been there”?

I have a story for you that I think may help.

Once upon a time, there was a wanna-be entrepreneur named Joe.

And Joe had invested all his time and money trying to learn how to be one.

First he tried learned from Mr. Morris, a teacher at school… who was good at teaching, but had never really ‘made his fortune’, and instead he just taught the curriculum — he’d never done it, and it was clear that what he was teaching had little personal impact — so Joe eventually stopped listening.

Then he tried learning from Perry, a ‘self-made millionaire’, but Joe quickly found that he had no idea how to teach what he’d learned. He kinda sucked at it, in fact. All they could do is say “I did this” and “I did that” and “I made 1,000,000 off a list of 4,000 people, and you can too.”

It was so frustrating.

He was tired of spending years with these people… trying and struggling to learn from the Mr. Morris’s, who were pretty patient at explaining things, but with no ‘realness’ in it.

He was done trying to learn from the Perry’s of the world, who because they’d bumbled their way through life experience and handled the ups and downs, felt they were qualified to teach others — even though *teaching* wasn’t their strength at all.

And then, when all seemed dark… Joe had a chance to meet a third teacher: Donald.

At the time, Donald’s business was on the rocks; things did not look good.

He did NOT appear to be someone who could teach anyone how to run a successful business.

But Donald had created businesses before and showed that no matter what life threw at him, he had what it took.

Donald also had a natural gift for teaching.

Can a singer sing, no matter what the circumstances?Can an engineer invent, no matter how bad life gets?Isn’t it true that people have natural, powerful gifts that can make a huge impact in others’ lives, and that those natural talents require no “proof” or “societal approval”?

That was Donald in a nutshell.

He had the magic.

Whether people recognized the amazing things he could teach and the way he made learning fun and easy immediately or not — all the ingredients were there.

A singer doesn’t have to be a super-star on stage to move you with their voice.

A teacher doesn’t have to have a huge empire to help you ryze.

So even though it looked like a scary gamble for Joe to invest in yet another teacher, especially one who didn’t seem to have the credentials or results Joe was looking for — at least currently — and risk getting burned again…

…Joe hired him.

Do you know why?

Because Joe needed a teacher, period.

Because the way to sort out who to listen to isn’t by “how things look” or by “someone who’s an expert”…

…the way to know is to tune into your feelings.

It’s to look for the singer who never stops singing, the engineer who never stops engineering, and the passionate teacher who can’t help but teach, period.

The way to know who to listen to is to check for the natural passion and the gifted blessings that a person can never turn off, possessed by someone from birth to death.

So for me, I know I’m 100% like Donald.

You see…

I’m writing this post while I’m homeless, and I’ve been running my business like this for almost 6 months (though I’ve done it before).

I almost feel like quitting.

I’ve had just enough clients to keep me on life-support, stringing me along.

It’s not my #1 idea of fun.

But even though life has taken almost everything from me, every day I wake up and help and reach more people.

And just like a musician has his instrument, I have my own tools.

Even without shelter, I still help people through my beautiful Dre Beats laptop – it’s my prized possession and my life’s work.

Or rather… it was.

Remember in the beginning when I said it gets ‘sillier?’

Well it does…

Because suddenly, after 6 months, my laptop was stolen.

It looks like I’m a laptop-less blogger, homeless, success-coach.

And it’s okay.

I’m rebuilding… again.

Now I’m at an internet cafe, with no HTML, an uncomfortable keyboard, no home, no computer, no food, and no sleep…

I’m still helping people to Ryze up.

For me, healing emotional scars, clearing mental clutter, and giving uplifting insights is like breathing.

For me, unlocking people’s potential, in any area of life, in spite of any excuses, is natural.

I never turn it off, and no matter what life has thrown at me, I do what I love, reaching people the best way I know how.

A teacher who’s ‘real’, experienced in life, and who’s fantastic at teaching, is who you want to listen to.

Those kinds of people — throughout all life’s ups-and-downs are worthy of traffic — and they’re the kind of person you want to listen to.

And if you have your own business or blog, this is the kind of real, true, natural talent I recommend you base it on.

Because right now I could really use a boost in exposure, traffic, and clients.

And I’ve had quite a bit already and I deeply appreciate it all.

For example, Ana’s hosting this article and putting me in front you, fine people.

Two bloggers started separate Ryze fund-raisers on my behalf.

Some clients who were hesitating to purchase, pulled the trigger.

People are tweeting, facebook-sharing, google+’ing and spreading the word.

My copywriter turned up the juice overhauling the copy on page after page at RyzeOnline.com aiming to stir people to action.

Now… I’ve poured my heart and soul into everything I do.

I never stop helping and impacting the world the best ways I know how.

I feel pretty beaten down by life and I’m not ashamed or afraid to ask for help — I could really use a hand.

I understand if you don’t really know me (though I have guest posted on TGC before), but if you feel inspired to share my story, connect with me further, donate, or get in on The 30-Day Comeback Fundraiser, it may literally save my life.

Click here to read the more details of my story and get your offer of The 30-Day Comeback (with exclusive Ryze content).

100% of the proceeds will go to me, to get me back on my feet and keep me touching hearts.

I’m Jason “J-Ryze” Fonceca.

I deliver fresh views on taboos, unlock potential, and help you ryze up — and I appreciate your attention.

Thanks so much for reading, I love you all.

Keep ryzing!

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The Empower Network | Why I Said No

2012-10-20T01:05:00.000-07:00

If you are researching the Empower Network you cannot fail to see the stories of success littered all over the internet, but if you look closer you will also see a few less complimentary versions of how people followed the 90 day blog plan and got no results at all.

So what I want to share with you in this empower network review is a bit about the company, the compensation plan and why I made the decision NOT to join when it launched last year.

So firstly a little bit about this rather extraordinary company The Empower Network.

Well it certainly created a few shockwaves in the industry when it launched in the Autumn of 2011.

As a marketer, I am always interested when someone “breaks the mould” a bit and so I took time to investigate it as it didn’t seem like any MLM model but it wasn’t quite a one off affiliate programme either. It was different and new.

It would appear that the “product” was a ready made, optimized (for the search engines) blog that you could just start blogging on straight away.

The blog had highly converting opt-ins and capture pages attached so that anyone visiting your blog and liking your content could opt in and be taken to a sales video and follow up.

It ‘branded’ Dave Woods and David Sharpe as the creators of the system.

But the biggest selling point about the Empower Network system was that as an affiliate of the company you were then able to promote the system and earn 100% commissions.

100% commissions I thought?? NOT possible!! How would the Empower Network make any money?

So I investigated further and found that there is a $19 “back office merchant” fee so that you don’t have to process the financial transactions yourself. This fee also pays for the capture pages, hosting, customer service and all the transactions.

Hmmm – I still couldn’t quite believe it.

The blog would cost $25 a month to get going and then as soon as you wanted to promote it to earn the 100 % commissions you would pay the $19 monthly admin fee.

There are then the upgrades of course……….

To get inside the “Inner Circle” you had to pay an additional $100 a month (on top of the $25 and the $19) to get access to the training.

Well as I was already a member of a top MLM Marketing system that covers just about everything you ever need to know about marketing your business online, I knew then that I was not going to pay out $144 for a blog that I didn’t need and some training that I could probably find in my back office marketing system.

1) I had my own blog already that branded me and not a half naked David Wood!

2) In the early days there did not seem to be any way of changing the picture or tailoring the blog in any way

3) There didn’t appear to be any training for new people

4) Their claim of 100% commissions didn’t sound quite right when you realize that you get to keep the 1st, 3rd and 5th people that you first sponsor and your upline gets to keep the 2nd, 4th and 6th plus every 5th after that.

I didn’t like the sound of it.

So I decided to make my own marketing decision ……. And ignore it.

I then stood and watched in amazement as every single facebook advert on my profile and pages were filled up with people promoting the heck out of it. Masses of people on my friends list then proceeded to “tell” me all about the Empower Network by messaging me at all times of the day about it.

I could see very well then that it was only the BIG marketers who were making the real money and the ones that had bought in at the beginning. The people that hadn’t joined the Empower Network with one of the top marketers just didn’t stand a chance of advertising like the big guys were.

I felt I had made the right decision and waited for all the hype to die down!

Then followed the chaos as the servers were crashing, the payments didn’t go through and I just stood back and got on with my own business.

So why did I change my mind and jump on board with the Empower Network just a month ago?

Okay here’s why.

In my business I have a considerable web presence and one of the first things we are taught if we want to promote an MLM or our own business is that we must bring it online and start to brand ourselves.

But some of the less technical members of my team were really struggling with that and even ‘though it is fully laid out for them exactly how to set up a blog from start to finish in MLSP (my marketing system) – they just didn’t want to do it.

So I found myself building blogs when this is really NOT best use of my time. (I like to leverage the internet to work for me, rather than get paid once for my time – which is a whole other topic for another blog post ! J )

And then a couple of them said that they had heard of the Empower Network and wanted to join.

I realized there and then that I was leaving “money on the table” by not offering this as a service or a tool to some of my team.

So I signed up just to be able to give this to my team as an option. (But hey I’m not daft – I decided to join a millionaire in the UK who went from starting up just 5 months ago, to being one of the top 10 affiliates in the whole of the Empower Network.)

I wanted to see what he was doing.

And then something strange happened.

I listened to Dave Woods and David Sharpe (and WOW these guys talk a LOT) but I already knew Dave Woods as one of the top earners in two companies as well as the marketing system I am using. So I knew he knew his stuff.

Within a week of showing it to a couple of people who had approached me for advice on how to build their MLM (but they had lost the passion for it) they decided to join the Empower Network because they had heard so much about the 100% commissions!

So I upgraded to the $100 package because my costs were already covered.

And the training inside the inner circle of the Empower Network blew me away! This was stuff that just isn’t being taught out there ANYWHERE!

Trust me! – I know!

And more people joined.

Then I realized something else. Dave and Dave are a product of their own business. They are only making their money by building their business by being the top distributors in their own company – so they are ‘on the ground’ doing exactly what I am doing.

I loved that.

So recognizing that my new team members are all at different stages of marketing knowledge – I partnered up with a good friend of mine to build my own Empower Network training website to show you exactly how you can start to get leads and cashflow right out of the gate.

Step-by-step

This really IS duplicatable and this really does give 100% commissions because of course if you plug your team into my training site, my webinars and my millionaire coach’s trainings and webinars, then you will find your team grows and then your commissions come from YOUR passups.

Make sense?

Now I make multiple steams of income on the internet and have been doing so for over a year now. But guess what?

The Empower Network has fast become my favourite.

So if you’re sick of making tiny MLM checks or failing to make any sort of income online from affiliate programs – come and take a peak at what we’re doing.

Here’s what you get if you join Nicky Price’s Empower Network team:

1) Membership to a private Skype and facebook group packed full of people who are achieving exactly what YOU want to (do you know how much it increases your chances of success by simply surrounding yourself with people who are focused and taking action? )

2) Access to my private training vault where my colleague Ruth and I share exactly what strategies are working for us right NOW, plus step by step blogging training to ensure you get your blog on the front page of Google ( – which is exactly where you want it to be by the way)

3) Access to my millionaire sponsor who in just 5 months is one of the top earners inside the Empower Network – he puts all of his tips and strategies on a private website just for me, you and the rest of our team only.

4) Weekly team training webinars where we answer all your questions and help you with anything at all that you might not understand.

I’ve never been more committed as I am right now to helping YOU to achieve what I am in such a short space of time. All you have to do is to come and join this team of inspired entrepreneurs who are going to help you every step of the way.

(Oh and if you have already joined the Empower Network – here’s how you get into an advertising co-op where all you have to do is sit back and let someone else write the ads and find the best sources – Click Here ==> )

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By: Traffic Generation Tips You Can Count On | cctldSales

2012-10-19T10:35:00.000-07:00

I’ve put together this article to help you learn what’s working now and what you better avoid is you still want to achieve good search engine rankings for yourself or for your clients.

This guide will help you get long term results from your SEO article writing efforts.

Ready to get started? Take a deep breath – here we go.

They say those who ignore the past are destined to repeat it (or something like that – I’m pretty sure I heard that when I was in school). So let’s look at how things used to work.

The Old Formula

Links + SEO Shenanigans + Content = Rankings

… and in that order.

“It really doesn’t matter what’s on your website, I can get it to rank well in Google for you… so long as your check clears.”

And they’ve continued to tighten the screws… creating low quality content just to rank in the search engines is now just a waste of time, money, and resources.

Expert Quality Content + Quality Links + Warm Fuzzy Factors = Rankings

Newspapers are still a great place to go for quality writing... who knew?

Here’s a great list you can use – turn it into a checklist. It’s was written by a Google employee and gives some insights into what Google wants to rank highly in their search engine.

When it comes to getting quality links to your website, I have good news and bad news. Studies have shown that people respond better when you give them the good news first so here it is:

You don’t need very many quality links to rank well!

Which is good because getting quality links is tough.

It happens on occasion when you do a good job but I’ve found one Google approved link building technique that can get you those oh so important quality links… Guest Blogging.

Basically, you’re killing two birds with one stone.

Doesn't he make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Remember only evil people like Bin Laden hate puppies.

Here’s the thing. It used to be that those of us in the SEO world could do a pretty reasonable job of backwards engineering Google’s ranking algorithm using statistical analysis.

Without getting too much into it, we could look at what currently ranks well across thousands of keywords and find certain correlations.

For example, pages that rank on the first page of Google tend to have that keyword in their title tag.

If I want this article to rank well for “SEO Article Writing,” then I should make sure that keyword shows up in the title somewhere.

Make sense?

Of course, it’s not perfect. Statistical analysis never is.

You’d find the same for domains that are 6 letters long because Amazon.com is that length and they get just as good of rankings but for products people want to buy.

Fortunately, there were plenty of rankings factors we could reverse engineer that did make sense. So we used them, then abused them, and then abused them some more.

Makes sense if you think about it, right?

And it worked great… until people figured out that was what was going on. Then all hell broke loose.

Everybody and their brother starting concocting link building schemes that would artificially inflate the importance of their website.

The reason backlinks and nothing but more backlinks worked so well for so long was simple – a better solution didn’t exist.

Here are a couple important ones you should be paying attention to… when combined I like to call them “warm fuzzy factors.”

Basically, this is a measure of how long someone stays on a page and how long someone stays on your website.

Bottom line: You want people to visit your website and stay around a while.

Improving the stickiness of your website:

That’s one way a search engine like Google can tell what the people like and want. It also means you want your best stuff to be shared on those sites as well.

Drag one of these into Starbucks to write with... makes you look sophisticated... ladies love it too!

First of all – I’m going to assume you already have some writing skills. If you failed English in high school then you might want to consider a different line of work.

Sorry.

What I can help you with is what should be included in your articles.

What’s the keyword density of this article? I have no idea. I didn’t check because it really doesn’t matter.

Okay, So How Long Do My Articles Need To Be If I Want Them To Be Considered Expert Quality Content?

I’ve been asked about this many times and while I understand why you’re asking it’s the wrong question.

There is not one size fits all recommendation.

That’s a lot of writing – what do I say?

People love stories! I love stories, you love stories, we all love stories.

And you don’t have to be a world class writer to tell a good story… good stories do all the heavy lifting.

In the past, my best writers have read books on the topics they weren’t familiar with (I purchased and mailed them to my writers) or they’ve gone out and interviewed people who knew the topic.

Yes, I know that everything I’ve described is a lot of work. It will drastically cut down on how much content you can produce and how many websites you can manage.

However, it can really pay off.

In competitive niches, it’s the only way to stay competitive and have a chance.

So there you have it, my guide on SEO article writing. No it’s not dead but it has transformed and for the better.

What are you doing that’s working for you to get your content ranked?

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How Empower Network Cut My Income in Half

2012-10-19T04:32:00.000-07:00

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Empower Network... one of the quickest ways to get someone else rich. And buy something that is available everywhere else for free. Really. Get the skinny on the company, their infamous marketing training, and more.

It’s no secret that Traffic Generation Cafe, as awesome and popular as it is, doesn’t make much money.

For some reason, cracking that whole “make money blogging” nut has been a bit too tough for my teeth.

And then I had a brilliant idea.

I think I might’ve found the hammer to crack that nut after all.

Here’s my new business plan:

I’ll sell you a sub-page at TrafficGenerationCafe.com.

I’ll make it very easy for you:

you won’t have to worry about setting up a new blog (since you are buying a blog within a blog);you won’t have to worry about what your blog looks like (I won’t really give you any choices – there will be only one theme available);you won’t have to worry about any plugins (I’ll make it easy for you – you won’t have any);and I’ll let you customize your new blog with your picture and bio (of course, my picture will remain at the top of YOUR blog, and I am even thinking of taking my shirt off for that one).

I’ll even make you a deal: you’ll get all of the above for the rock-bottom price of $25/month.

Who’s in?

OK, fine; I’ll sweetened the deal – you can resell this awesome opportunity to have a subpage on my blog to your family, friends, and even total strangers.

Sounds like a win-win, don’t you think?

“Empower Network is a direct response company, that handles front and back end sales conversions – and teaches people how to narrow their focus down to one skill: Getting Traffic.

“The fact? Getting Traffic is easy to teach if you take out the technical and management complications that drive the rest of the marketing niche . . . we’ve now existed for 140 days, and have more than 20,109 customers who have bought our blogging system.”

Source http://www.empowernetwork.com/blog/should-you-join-empower-network-objections/

have a chance to achieve what you couldn’t before (i.e. have a successful business)

“Say goodbye to the complicated barriers that stand in the way of you and a thriving business …and hello to Automation, Viral Marketing and 100% Commissions.”

“No rules. No hassles. We’ll help you build your business bigger and better so you can do more of things you want, with the people you want to do them with.”

“You can now leverage our ‘point and click‘ marketing system and leverage our ability to market, convert traffic to leads …and convert those leads to sales. This way, you can stay focused on one thing, and one thing only – getting traffic.”

“We’ve solved every problem marketers and online entrepreneurs face.”

“We’ve built our entire marketing system around a ‘plug and play’ process that members can use to generate 100% commissions into their bank account, instantly.”

“…you have a ‘done for you’ marketing system that pays you 100% commissions, directly deposited into your bank account.”

making more money you’ve ever made before:

“From this point on, as a member of Empower Network – you’ll never have to wait for another less than worthy commission check in the mail again, because you can now get paid instant and automatically, directly into your bank account.”

“… just blog daily, tell others …and learn to get more money in your business, faster.“

“Essentially, you can make ‘guru’ money …without being a ‘guru’.“

(all the quotes come from various pages of EmpowerNetwork.com site)

Turns out silver bullets do exist.

Silly me… choosing the “hard” way to build a business.

1. David Wood | Co-Founder and CEO

From his personal bio (reducted):

“…impact the world …transparent …strait forward …message of clarity, honesty and hope …#1 producer in almost every business he built …impact and influence lives all over the world …breakthrough business success.”

Side note: notice ” ‘strait forward’ ” spelling.

Either 1. those boys need to proof-read their copy, or 2. they meant to say what they said, in which case the only definition I could find was in the Urban Dictionary and it’s peculiar.

2. David Sharpe | Co-Founder and President

From his personal bio (reducted):

“…struggle and hardship …homelessness, addiction and personal defeat …he rose from the ashes to change his life, change the way he viewed the world …and change the way the world viewed him …earning more money than ever …traveling the world and living the life of his dreams.”

Two Cinderella stories indeed.

Good for them, right?

Note to self:

If I ever want to create a fanatic following that blindly buys my “simple easy solutions to every problem in life“, I need to make sure to tell my rags to riches story about alcoholic parents, no means to exist, and working for everything I ever needed/wanted.

It’s good for business.

1. Blogging platform – $25/month

“For only $25 per month, you get the full monty – a customizable blog built into the wordpress platform, complete with hosting, sales videos, capture pages – and if you want, you can even capture the leads into your own auto-responders.”

Just to sum up: for $25/month, you get a blog on Empower Network (which really is a WordPress blog that’s free everywhere else), plus:

one theme everyone else has;no additional functionalities to add (like plugins);8 “Core Commitments” videos that will try to upsell you on everything.

You do get a few lead capture templates you can drive traffic to – the same pages used by thousands of other EN members.

2. E-Wallet – $20/month

EN doesn’t accept PayPal, so unless you have your own payment processor (most marketers don’t), this is your only option if you want to be an affiliate.

3. The Inner Circle Mastermind Membership – $100/month

“For only $100 per month, you’re going to get the best ongoing audio training you’ve ever heard in your life. We’re interviewing industry Phenom’s who want nothing more than to help you make more money, have a better life, and build your marketing automation machine…

…on complete auto pilot.“

$100/month is on top of $25/month, of course.

4. The Costa Rica Mastermind Intensive – $500 one time

“…which is a eleven-hour online video course shot in HD video quality – which documents in extensive detail, a live marketing seminar co-founder David Wood hosted for approximately 10 high-level entrepreneurs in mid 2011 which sold for $2,997 when it was offered as a live event to the public, and sold out quickly.”

I wonder what “approximately 10 high-level entrepreneurs” means…

Did someone not have enough fingers to count to 10?

If they are that high-level and they paid you $3K for your training, the least you could do for them is to remember they were there.

5. 15k per Month Formula – $1000 one time

See the training section below for a few notes I made on the kind of training $1,000 will buy you.

6. The “all in” option – $1625 one time

This option is consistently referred to and encourage throughout ALL the training, videos, splash pages, etc.

Empower Network has two objectives:

1. To make you “guru” money.

2. To teach you how to GET TRAFFIC.

Let’s talk about that.

But before we move on, please:

On to the fun stuff:

Making “guru” money without being a guru.

Empower Network compensation plan is very easy.

100% commissions.

Instantly.

Deposited straight to your bank.

Just like this:

John earns commission payment of $25 when Stan purchases a product, and another $25 when Kim purchases a product.

The commission payment, generated by Mary’s purchase, will go to someone else; that will be a person in John’s upline.

Stan will earn a commission of $25 when Tim and David purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

John will earn a commission of $25 when Martin and Lara purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

Tim will earn a commission of $25 when M1 and M3 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

Stan will earn a commission of $25 when M2 and M4 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

Martin will earn a commission of $25 when P1 and P3 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

John will earn a commission of $25 when P2 and P4 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

Lara will earn a commission of $25 when K1 and K3 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

John will earn a commission of $25 when K2 and K4 purchase a product ($25 for each purchase).

Please also note that:

Although Stan was referred to as a “direct sponsor” for Martin, Martin’s powerline sponsor will be John.

The “powerline sponsor” is the one that the members are sending their affiliate commission payments to.

Member M3 - his direct sponsor and powerline sponsor will be one and the same, Tim.

K2 will have a direct sponsor Lara, and powerline sponsor John.

And so on.

Easy, right?

100% commissions.

Minus the fees, of course.

On all sales.

But not your 2nd, 4th, 6th, and every fifth one after that.

Of course, that kind of makes it sound like it’s 50% commission structure in the beginning. Minus the fees, of course.

On the bright side though, when you make it to <1% of “distributors”, you’ll be raking in $30K+ per month.

And work only 20 hours. Per month.

Just like this:

Source: https://www.empowernetwork.com/income.php

Would love to know how they track the hours EN members put into developing their downline…

Important to remember:

Source: https://www.empowernetwork.com/refund.php

“If you cancel your monthly subscription you will lose your team and all benefits and services of Empower Network.

This also includes all future services and upgrades.”

Another thing I noticed while doing research for this post was the fact that Empower Network might have a cookie problem.

Generally, when anyone arrives to a product sales page via your affiliate link, their information is collected and stored as a cookie tagging them as YOUR referral.

Those cookies can last for as long or as short as the affiliate marketing platform allows it.

Now I didn’t see any information on how long Empower Network cookies last, but in a week that it took me to write this post while bouncing through various pages within EN domain, I noticed that the referral ID in my URL changed 3-4 times.

Here’s what I mean:

http://www.empowernetwork.com/empower-network-welcome/?id=davidwood

The last part “davidwood” is the referrer’s ID.

That’s what the system uses to tag me as someone’s referral.

Since that ID changed several times during my research, my question is this:

If I were to sign up for EN right now, who’ll get the credit?

The first person? The last one? Someone in the middle?

This tidbit of information might greatly affect your earning potential and you might not even know it.

Learn more about choosing the best affiliate marketing platform in this post.

Have you shared it with your friends yet?

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Internet Network Marketing Success Tips for a 1,000 Dollar Day

2012-10-18T23:00:00.000-07:00

Last night I was listening to a webinar with an 8 figure earner in the industry (yep that’s $10m plus per year!!) so it was worth listening to and I was very pleased to hear him talk about some of the exact same internet network marketing tips that I was about to write about, but he explained one thing in a way that I really liked.

He explained that in order to be successful in your internet network marketing business you need to look at both your “soft” skills and your “hard” skills and your income will be a direct correlation to how you use your soft and hard skills. What do we mean by that?

Well your soft skills are related to your personality – your attitude, your integrity and prosperity thinking whereas your hard skills are your technical skills or physical tasks or things that you learn in order to do a role.

So where your soft and hard skills converge – this is where your income is at and in order to increase your income you need to work on improving those skills.

1) Believe in yourself (soft skill) – if you have self sabotaging voices or do not feel you deserve to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, then you won’t. Work on your self-belief, work on your feelings about money. This is one of the most underestimated soft skills and I believe it is one of the most important things to get right.

2) Take action every single day in your internet network marketing business – make goals and break them down into small achievable tasks each day – give yourself a task list to achieve for the week and don’t ever go a week without completing them. What is your first income target – break it down to see what you need to do to actually achieve it.

3) Have the ability to “switch off” what is not serving you – If you are trying to build your business around another job then what can you give up to create more time? How important is making your business work to you? So can you give up TV, wasting time on facebook, skype, texting? Stop “clicking” around on the internet and unsubscribe from all those emails you keep getting that are taking you away from your focus.

4) Monitor your results – make sure you are tracking everything so that you can ditch what is not working and focus on what is. Tweak things that are working, to make your results even better.

5) When you make your first dollar online – don’t spend it! Invest it back into your business on a result that has previously worked and then scale it up.

6) Continue with personal development both in soft skills and hard skills. The more you learn, the more value you are giving out and the more you will earn.

7) Always take the time to build relationships – you never know when you may be able to call on these new friendships and business relationships, they could easily lead to joint ventures. It is proven that most people develop and learn better when in a team or mentoring environment.

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Make money with Chop Shop: who, how and how much?

2012-10-18T14:22:00.000-07:00

“I don’t understand why anyone would publish their income reports.

What purpose would that serve? Is there a reason for this madness?”

That was the question one of my Facebook fans asked me in our recent FB discussion about income reports.

As Jeff Rose said in his income report (listed below):

This is why we do the income reports:
Accountability. These will allow us to finally keep track of our total online revenue – something that I’ve been horrible at.Progress. Now that we have it documented, we’ll be be able to chart our progress as our income increases (hopefully!)Truth. To show people that you really can make money onlineTransparency: We want others to see how we do it so that others can do it too.

With that said, not only did I publish my own income report earlier this week, but decided to also collect reports from other bloggers around the web.

Since I organized this post by how much any particular blog made in September, it would be appropriate for me to start with Pat Flynn’s handsome sum of $56,000, but the truth is I am too jealous of him, his online standing, and, most of all, his income.

Seriously, can I please read a single post that doesn’t mention Pat Flynn? Anyone?

So I decided to go against the grain and DON’T mention Pat in this post.

OK, starting now…

Main income stream: Advertising

Jeff and Mandy Rose are a husband and wife blogging team that are making things happen, mostly with Jeff’s financial blog Good Financial Cents (love the name!), as well as with Mandy’s family blog House of Rose.

The $10K include income from all their blogs and come mostly from paid advertising.

Main income stream: undisclosed authority niche site

My income report for September 2012. Did my earnings go up or down? Plus what three valuable lessons did I learn from the past month…

I do love Steve’s no-fluff blog mostly talking about affiliate marketing.

The bulk of his earnings comes from an undisclosed authority niche site.

The second biggest earner is Amazon Kindle books.

You can learn more about how Steve does it in his How to Make Money with Amazon Kindle Books post.

Main income stream: Advertising

The income report for Pinch of Yum from September 2012. Includes tips on how see what is pinned on Pinterest from your website and tips for getting Google Alerts for your food blog.

Lindsay and Bjork’s income is impressive, especially for a non-internet marketing niche blog.

The bulk of their income comes from advertising.

Some of it also comes from affiliate sales for completely non-food related products (like Bluehost and Thesis theme), which is very surprising.

I need to remember to ask them how they sell burgers to vegetarians, so to speak.

Main income stream: Advertising

Kirsty earns most of her income from advertising on her multiple (not sure how many) travel niche websites while wondering the world (sounds like she is somewhere in Africa right now).

Main income stream: Freelance Writing

“September was definitely a month for investing time in projects that I hope will pay off in the future.

Beyond my usual freelance writing work (which typically takes up around 3-4 hours of my working days), I was busy working on my one hour authority site project, my upcoming freelance writing guide, and of course this blog.”

If you’ve got a writer in you like Tom Ewer does, you might want to think about becoming a freelance writer.

Good thing Pay Flynn doesn’t have those ambitions, so your future freelance career looks like clear sailing…

Main income stream: Affiliate Marketing

Why did I say “about $800??

Because Rob publishes his income report once in a quarter, so the post above is his quarterly report.

Rob’s main earners were:

Affiliate sales (most notably Genesis WordPress theme, Bluehost hosting, and Aweber).His own products: Rob has currently two ebooks for sale; great to see that the time he put into writing those ebooks is paying off.

Main income stream: Affiliate Marketing

I’m very serious about building passive income projects and it’s become a bit of an obsession now as I have begun to follow entrepreneurs and marketers who only build passive income projects and stick to that business model. I’m in it for the long haul, and know that it takes more than a month to build a real business.

Jay Piecha is “fresh off the boat” starting from scratch with a fresh perspective and a specific goal – to build a business that generates $1k/week in passive income.

His blog is just about 1 month old.

I like the goals Jay set out to achieve with his passive income explorations and look forward to future reports.

Main income stream: Affiliate Marketing

I’ve been getting to know Lisa fairly well recently: mostly via my Traffic Generation Cafe Facebook fan page (click on the LIKE button in the sidebar to join the fun!) and some emails that went back and forth (see, I told ya – as a TGC email subscriber, you definitely get a direct line to me).

And I really like her, to be quite honest.

Turns out we have a lot in common: we both suffer chronic MIS (multi interest syndrome) and acute SOD (shiny object distraction).

Plus, I definitely enjoy Lisa’s style: it takes guts to blog about making money online when you “haven’t gotten there yet”.

Thumbs up to your $100, Lisa.

Every month I recap the past, present, and future of my personal journey and the voyage of Value of Simple. Here’s a September 2012 “Pulse Check”.

Yes, you read it right – Joel’s monthly income was a whooping ten bucks.

So why did I choose his income report to be included in this post?

It made me feel better that at least someone is making less money than I do with TGC.We all have to start somewhere.

And that’s where most of us are right now in our journey to making full-time income online (whatever it means to each one of us) – SOMEWHERE.

Joel happened to be at his $10 mark, but he’s blogging, his traffic is growing, and if he has the guts to stick with it, he just might make it.

There’s only one flaw I see in that income report of his – he too mentions Pat Flynn…

“Blogs don’t make money – businesses do.”

~ Sonia Simone (Copyblogger)

(thanks to Nicole Rushin for mentioning this great quote in her comment on my recent review of Empower Network.)

If you are serious about growing your business, this is one of the best ways to do it.

Check out the blogs I listed above.

Figure out what makes them special, what makes them work.

Find the gems you can take back to your business.

See what you can do better than they do.

Grow.

And share this post with friends (but don’t share it with @PatFlynn please):

Yaro Starak, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

I will never share your email address with anyone.

If you like this post and think it would be valuable to your followers, share the ish out of it for me, would you?

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My Monthly Income Report: September 2012

2012-10-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

A young college co-ed came running in tears to her father.

“Dad, you gave me some terrible financial advice!”

“I did? What did I tell you?” said the dad.

“You told me to put my money in that big bank, and now that big bank is in trouble.”

“What are you talking about? That’s one of the largest banks in the state,” he said. “there must be some mistake.”

“I don’t think so,” she sniffed.

“They just returned one of my checks with a note saying, ‘Insufficient Funds‘.”

September was a busy month.

The most noteworthy and noticeable fruit of my labor was the brand-new Traffic Generation Café design.

I know many bloggers think that their blog design is secondary to their content.

And I agree.

That’s the way it should be.

However, many visitors will never get to read your great content, if your blog design doesn’t draw them in first.

If you don’t take your design seriously, your potential readers won’t take YOU seriously.

Your design doesn’t have to be expensive, but it does need to be unique.

For instance, Thesis (the theme I use at Traffic Generation Café) is rolling out their newest version – Thesis 2.0.

If I weren’t lucky enough to have Ian Belanger design my blog, I’d definitely upgrade to Thesis 2.0 in a jiffy and take advantage of the cool new interface it has to offer.

It’s one of the easiest ways to make your blog design unique and distinctive, even if you are far from adding web designer skills to your resume.

I highly recommend you check out Thesis 2.0 for yourself.

There were three objectives I was after with my new design:

Make TGC more reader-friendly by including my readers into the design itself.Increase my email subscriptions.Make more money.

When designing your site, you should have one and only one conversion goal in mind.

What might that conversion goal be?

Whatever it is that you want your readers to do first and foremost.

Whatever your primary conversion goal is, you should bring your readers’ attention to it again and again.

Example:

My primary conversion goal at TGC is to establish a closer relationship with my readers via email subscriptions.

That’s exactly what my current blog design is focused on.

There are ample opportunities for my new readers to subscribe to my list without being too annoying (I hope).

And the results speak for themselves.

According to my Aweber stats, my daily average BEFORE re-design was about 20 subscribers per day.

My daily average AFTER re-design soared to almost double that: 40 subscribers per day.

One more example:

Another example of a great list building funnel can be found in my latest (otherwise negative) review of Empower Network.

The other side of the coin:

I hope Linda doesn’t mind me using her blog as an example here, but that’s the price of being my reader.

Take a look at her blog:

What do you think it is about?

What is her primary conversion goal (i.e. what does she want her visitors to actually do?)

I had to actually ask her what it was since I couldn’t quite figure it out.

Turned out Linda is an owner of a chalet in the area and her primary conversion goal is to fill it with guests.

You see that tag in her navigation menu that says “Australian Holiday Chalet“?

That’s the only mention of it from what I can see.

TRAFFIC ? INCOME. CONVERSIONS = INCOME.

How’s your conversion funnel?

Got some work to do?

Add it to your “must do” list today.

And here’s a little help along the way: my traffic conversion 101 tutorial.

Let’s see what my traffic looked like in September compared to August:

Looks like I got a nice 20% cut in traffic.

Quantity has definitely gone down.

However, quality has come up – more page visit, lower bounce rate, etc.

That paired with higher subscription rates is a good sign of a healthy business.

As I analyzed which specific traffic source was the main reason for the overall drop, I couldn’t find one.

Most of my traffic sources (direct, search, and referral) went down about 20%.

I don’t really have an explanation for that.

My best guess is that blog re-design kept me away from writing as much content and engaging on social networks and with other blogs as much as I normally would.

I really appreciate everyone who mentioned me in any shape or form last month.

These five blogs were my top blogging referral traffic sources.

1. Nick’s Traffic Tricks

Post highlight: WordPress SEO Tutorial: Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings – Traffic Generation News Oct. 5, 2012

Thanks for the traffic, Nick!

2. Buzz Blogger

Post highlight: How to Create a Wildly Popular Blog

Thanks for the traffic, Kim!

3. Steve Scott Site

Post highlight: [Free Kindle Book] How to Discover Best-Selling Amazon Kindle Nonfiction Book Ideas

Thanks for the traffic, Steve!

4. Basic Blog Tips

Post highlight: Blogger Interview: Srinivas Rao of Blogcast FM

Thanks for the traffic, Ileane!

5. Kikolani

Post highlight: 50 Great Tools for Bloggers and Freelance Writers

Thanks for the traffic, Kristi!

Let’s get on with the best part.

By the way, as I write this post I have no idea how much I made, so I am in anticipation as much as you are.

Note: these are all paid earnings, meaning I might’ve actually made those sales in the previous month(s), but got paid for them just before publishing this income report.

Here are my income sources for the past month:

Affiliate marketing

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TOTAL: $1108

Difference from August: -$843

Posting gross income doesn’t really do us any good – what if my expenses put me in the red no matter how much money I made in the previous month?

With that in mind, let’s see how much running Traffic Generation Cafe cost me:

Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links to the products I love and use for my own business.

I appreciate your patronage, should you choose to purchase any of them through me.

TOTAL: $129

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NET INCOME: $979

And so the saga for better blogging income continues…

There’s no such thing as free bacon.

Making money blogging is entirely possible, as I was surprised to learn from my own experience.

Just takes time, determination, and a lot of work.

PS Just did a complete overhaul of my Internet Marketing Toolbox page.

Would love to know what you think – especially the images.

PPS If you haven’t started building your list yet, let me tell you – you are missing out big time.

My list is the number one reason I make the money I make with this blog and have such an engaged readership.

Aweber is the best email autoresponder I have even used, and I am not the only one. Many A-list bloggers I know also use it for their businesses.

All the features I just mentioned are just one tiny example of what you can do to improve your email marketing with Aweber.

Aweber offers a $1 trial month for all new customers. You’ll have access to all features a paid account is entitled to: unlimited lists, email campaigns, automatic follow-ups, broadcasts, and many, many more.

If after 30 days you don’t like them, just let them know and Aweber will give you your $1 back. Guaranteed.

Yaro Starak, Entrepreneurs-Journey.com

I will never share your email address with anyone.

If you like this post and think it would be valuable to your followers, share the ish out of it for me, would you?

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How to Blog Like a Pro for Leads and Sales

2012-10-18T00:05:00.000-07:00

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Amway Business Review | Here’s What The Reps Definitely Won’t Be Telling You!

2012-10-17T12:01:00.000-07:00

The Amway business is a name that is considered a CLASSIC name in the Network Marketing industry, and has been a household name for over 50 years, but yet if you search for Amway scam you are likely to see a lot of disgruntled people expressing their concerns, so let’s take a look at why.

If you are researching the Amway business because you are thinking of joining, then you have come to the right place as I share the basics of the company from an independent perspective – make sure you read right to the end as I also share the one thing that the reps definitely won’t be telling you!

Just in case you didn’t know, Amway is one of the longest running network marketing companies around and has always focused on direct selling as a their method to promote their products. The company was founded in 1959 by two gentlemen, Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos.

Amway is based in the state of Michigan, and the focus on products has always been home and healthcare products, in an attempt to position the company as one that can provide families with anything they need.

With a wide variety of products to choose from, it’s no surprise that Amway still managed to reach record sales and growth as of December 2010 despite the reflection of a negative economy. The final numbers at that time represented nearly 10% in growth, and $9.2 billion in revenue. Now those numbers are impressive! Essentially you can rest assured that the Amway business scam reports are not true and this is a very stable company.

Now that you have some background on the Amway business, let’ take a look at the products they offer!

It’s no secret that Amway Business offers one of the most diverse product lines around including:

Household cleanersHealth and beauty productsNutrition productsPersonal care products and more

This vast product line is also complemented by the various divisions created by Amway business including Quixtar and Nutrilite. While Quixtar is a division that offers groceries and everyday items that can be delivered to your door, Nutrilite simply focuses on good nutrition.

Knowing all of this, do you believe that the Amway business has a product line that you can confidently sell?

If you believe that you can sell the Amway products and use the sales process that Amway has put in place, there should be no reason why you cannot earn a good living with Amway.

Make sure you ask your prospective sponsor exactly how you will earn your income from the Amway business compensation plan and how many people you will need to sponsor to earn your first $1,000 for example.

So will you be able to build a solid residual income from building your own Amway business.

Well here’s what the reps won’t be telling you when you go through the presentation, and that is 97% of people in the Network Marketing industry earn less than $100 a month! (Sadly that’s true!)

But before you give up before you start – here’s another astounding fact about the industry that you may not know.

There are more millionaires created in the network marketing industry than in any other industry.

Wow – excited again?

Okay, well what separates out the 3% that really make it big in the industry and how can you build your Amway business so that you become a top earner?

Build Your Amway Business Using a Marketing System ===>

Well have you considered how you will market your Amway business? Now your sponsor may teach you to talk to your friends and family, but what if they are not interested?

The biggest issue that network marketers face is running out of prospects to talk to, not knowing “how” to talk to their prospects effectively when they do get them, and running out of cash to advertise when they run out of prospects.

In order to build your Amway business fast and successfully so that it is duplicatable, you need to be “showing the plan” to about 5-10 people a day!

So in order to do this, you need to have a simple system to plug in to help you generate leads for your business. Otherwise your Amway business will go broke whilst you’re trying to buy leads or advertise for leads – FACT! This is why there is a very high failure rate not only in Amway but in the industry as a whole.

I know this because it happened to me (in another company. )

After struggling to learn all the marketing strategies I needed, I finally understood why all the 7-figure network marketers were actually using a marketing system. Once I joined a marketing system to run alongside my business, I went from struggling to profitable in 5 weeks.

By learning some basic marketing strategies and then using the power of a simple marketing system I’ve been able to generate hundreds of leads and sponsor up to 6 people in 11 days – something I didn’t even manage to do in a whole year when I was just building my business offline.

So if you want to be part of the success stories with your Amway business then take a look at this simple system to see exactly how it can help you.

Build Your Amway Business Fast Using a Simple System – Click Here ===>.

If you are not sure whether Amway is for you or not, then why not learn some simple marketing strategies first, by plugging in to our training, where there are 19 income streams built into the marketing system. It makes perfect sense and I wish someone had told me this when I first got started – it would have saved me about 4 years struggle and disappointment.

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Futuristic Marketing? | Oh No, Not Another Marketing Frenzy!

2012-10-16T23:29:00.000-07:00

- Oh No! I thought as yet another marketing launch loomed into the horizon, taking over our email in-boxes and all the advertising ppc slots of facebook as the affiliates all zoomed into action.

I mean how many emails did you get on the same topic – is it any wonder we get “marketing fatigue” from all this. But hey……. maybe it’s because I am a marketer and so I do see a lot of the product launches, but maybe you don’t see quite as many….

So why have I decided to write on my blog about this one…….? Well if you are a regular visitor to my blog, then you will hopefully see that I do NOT jump on the bandwagon for this sort of thing and certainly don’t go promoting things that I don’t believe it or haven’t tried.

Well Futuristic Marketing it is the brain child of Jonathan Budd and Mark Hoverson and if you don’t know who they are, then you almost certainly need their product if you are in any way a Network or Internet Marketer.

My journey online started with a man called Mike Dillard and a product he co-wrote with Tim Erway called Magnetic Sponsoring.

That book was a complete game-changer for me and hundreds of thousands of other people in the industry too.

The early readers of this revolutionary product took action and created marketing systems based on the knowledge they had learned. Jonathan Budd was one of those action takers and is now an 8 figure earner in the industry.

What I like most about Jonathan Budd is that he keeps everything he does in mind for ‘the people’. Everything he does is jam packed full of value and kept at the most affordable price so that the people who are struggling to find good training can still afford his.

Mark Hoverson on the other hand is renowned for his ‘ad-copy’ and email marketing. He has the most amazing power of words and can have people hungry to buy with their credit card in hand in a matter of minutes. Can you imagine how easy it is to build a business if you know your target market, you know the solution and you can sell it in the most unbelievable way?

Oh yeah – Mark Hoverson seriously knows how to build a business and after falling in love with his direct sales opportunity (an executive Global travel company) – he decided to buy it !!

Is Futuristic Marketing for you?

Well the full product isn’t available until 24th July, but I can tell you one thing – if you didn’t already do the Quiz they sent out, then you should do it real quick because it comes down tonight.

== >Take the Quiz

I took the quiz and my results actually took my breath away for just a moment because they were so scarily accurate I felt like they were sitting me down and talking just to me.

That’s how good they are!

The product goes on sale on 24th July.

It will be affordable.

Is Futuristic Marketing for you? – == >Take a look at this video and see what you think.

If you want to do anything online to build a business (and anyone who doesn’t is going to be seriously left behind!) then you need to be ‘ahead of the game’ – you have to be one step ahead.

Times are changing

Technology is changing

Jonathan Budd explains that marketing is just a science. A science that is based on behaviour, psychology and producing results. If you can learn the ‘Science of Marketing’ then you can pretty much write your own cheques and this is what this training series Futuristic Marketing is all about.

Take the Quiz real quick (it’s really good!) to see your marketing profile and then stay tuned for the video series to see how you can become a master marketer with the Futuristic Marketing series.

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Solo Ads | A Big AHa Moment in My Online Journey!

2012-10-16T16:56:00.000-07:00

Have you had any real “aha” moments when building your business?

If you’re like me, you’ve certainly had a few, and I thought I’d share my latest one with you.

I have been quiet for a few days because I have been away on holiday.
Now because I wanted to keep in touch with my business (yeah I know I’m addicted! lol)
I decided to buy a new Macbook Pro to take with me – I just can’t be dealing with blackberrys
and iPhones – they’re just too small!!

But the place where we went to just happened to be in one of the few areas of the UK where there was a complete internet black spot, so I had no connection at all.

Well after I got over the shock of that, I had a very liberating holiday and was amused to find on my return that my business had still made a few hundred dollars in commissions I had 3 sign ups into my business and over a hundred new leads in the one week that I was away.

So not too shabby.

But having to catch up with all my emails and requests for information has made me realise I need an assistant next time I go away!

So I decided to do something that I have only done very rarely in the past and that is to do some paid advertising in the form of Solo Ads – which if you didn’t know, is probably the best way of advertising right now. Surprisingly e-mail is still the most responsive form of marketing.

Now I have always avoided doing paid advertising in the past for 2 key reasons.

1) Because I have always been proud of the fact that I can generate up to 37 FREE
leads in a day from my blog and articles,

and

2) I have always wanted to show people how to generate F.REE leads online so
that I can help the people who have little or no marketing budget (because that’s how
I used to be!)

BUT

(and here’s my “aha” moment.)

PAID Marketing is not something to be scared off IF you take the time to learn, apply and tweak for better conversions.

You see I realised 2 things

1) Some people come in to a business and need to build QUICKLY – they
have a small marketing budget and are willing to use it.

2) Others who start off doing F.REE marketing, then start to generate an income and recognise they should re-invest it into their business to speed things up

So for a few weeks before I went on holiday I studied all the information I could find in the MLSP back office training library on how to do Solo Ads.

Now MLSP is a complete Marketing Training Library with affiliate income streams to help you earn while you learn so it wasn’t hard to find some training material on Solo Ads.

Click here to take a test drive of MLSP

It cost me $40 for a guaranteed 125 clicks on my solo ads.

Do you think that’s a lot to pay for an advert?

Well here are my results:

I got 37 opt-ins to my landing pageI got 2 x sales which gave me $100 commissionOne person signed up into my business as a free affiliateOne person signed up as a paid affiliate ($25 per month)

And of course the 37 opt ins are now on my list for me to email at any time and the free sign up could very well convert into a paid sign up.

So now do you still think $40 is a lot to pay for solo ads?

Now don’t get me wrong, this was a good list and the next couple of solo ads were not so successful which made me realise it really is about the email list you are using.

But you know what? – when you start to generate 50-60 leads in a day – you really get to like it.

And then your name pops right on up there on the leader boards again for leads, and sign ups.

It’s pretty cool.

So anyway – I learned about solo ads from MLSP and then I was told about a highly recommended course over on the Warrior Forum which literally takes you step by step and walks you through the whole process of how to set up your solo ads. But the thing that attracted me the most was that Justin Glover and Glen Hopkins (both top marketers) listed their top solo ads sites to advertise with.

Which was worth far more than the measly $7 price tag – and NO that’s not a mis-print, it really is $7!!

If you would like to check out this ridiculously low priced course and start getting results like I have then you can do so by clicking here which will take you over to the Warrior Forum offer page.

Click Here ===>

And if you decide to upgrade from the crazy $7 price tag to the full classroom course like I did (which is only $27), then here’s a sample of what you will get:

•   How to find trustworthy vendors
•   The 5 questions you MUST ask the vendor
•   How to turn your subscribers into buyers in 3 minutes or less
•   How to create a simple marketing funnel that converts
•   How to write email ad copy to get a high click through rate
•   How to create a follow up series of emails that pulls in cash over and over

….. and so much more!

The list of recommended solo ad places to advertise is worth much more than the price of the course anyway, so if you are remotely interested in doing some paid advertising then personally I think this is a great way to start.

But you have to be quick because this course is not going to be $7 or $27 for long – very soon it is going to go up to it’s proper price of $97 so grab it now real quick if you’re interested.

Solo Ads Secrets

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10 Tips on How to Get More Traffic To Your Blog

2012-10-16T09:30:00.000-07:00

So in my last blog post I showed you step by step how to do simple keyword research to find out what your target market is really searching for and how you can create a blog post or article around your keyword and post it to your wordpress blog.

If you missed it, you can read it and watch the step by step videos here.

I have also previously written about the science of where and how to get more blog traffic– you can read this here:

So once you have created and posted your article on to your blog – what next?

Well what you need to do now is to drive backlinks to your website from other high quality, high authority sites like YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Better Networker and from other high quality blogs within your niche.

There are literally hundreds of things you can do to create backlinks for free, but here are some of my favourite tools that I use that really do help speeding up the backlinking process if you are pushed for time. But first, here are just a few general blogging tips to get more blog traffic for you:

1) Blog regularly rather than erratically. What I mean is when you first get started blogging, you want to fill your blog with a good few posts before sending tons of traffic. My advice is to blog every day (or at least 5 days) – later on when your blog is more established you could bring this back to 3 times a week, but spread them out over the week. The search engines love regular fresh new content.

2) Organize your posts into categories to make it easier for the search engines to find your content and don’t forget to link to other relevant posts on your blog.

3) Use great headlines – look at other people’s blog posts that make you really want to read them. They are usually specific and maybe have a number in them. Eg. Instead of saying “Tips for Sponsoring and Recuriting” why not make it more compelling “17 Tips to Sponsor 3 Reps a Week” – Do you see what I mean?

4) When you get people to your blog, make sure you keep them there by installing plugins that show more of your content.

5) Attract people to your post with a funny or interesting picture about what you are writing about.

6) Post and publish on weekdays rather than weekends – traffic is usually more during the week.

Facebook Groups and Tribes – Post your article in some relevant Facebook groups and tribes. For general good practice, make sure you take the time to read other people’s blog posts in the group and comment and share good content. This is a great way to get people to reciprocate. Seek out some specific blog commenting groups to help you get started. You can even use the new “promote my post” feature in Facebook to get more people to see your content. Click the link to come and join my Facebook group.

Blog Commenting – Seek out good content on other people’s blogs in your niche and leave detailed and useful comments on their blogs. This WILL get you noticed and if they have CommentLuv installed, you will be able to leave a link back to your blog which is definitely a very powerful strategy for how to get more traffic to your blog.

Forum Commenting – Another very powerful strategy to get more traffic to your blog if you have the time. Go to Forums in your own niche and make useful comments. Set up a signature profile so that your link is left each time you comment.

Social Monkee – A great little tool for backlinks that provides you with a full backlinking list report so that you can re-submit the backlinks to the search engines.

Once you have created some backlinks from sites like Social Monkee – you can go and alert the search engines to the backlinks you have just created by “pinging’ them to sites like Pingomatic, PingMyblog.com, 247 Pinger and Pingfarm.com.

Submit your blog’s RSS Feed to sites like Feedage.com and Octofinder.com

IM Automator – just $2.99 a month and another super little backlinking tool

Social Clerks – Social backlinks are still very important

TribePro – Another massive syndication product where by simply selecting other marketers to syndicate their content, you can have your content syndicated thousands of times through all of their social networks – VERY powerful. Free or paid memberships available

OnlyWire – Instant syndication of your article to all your favourite social networks, works on its own or with TribePro.

ABC3K – Backlinking on steroids! – I love this.

The best spinner – still the best tool for spinning articles to post an alternative version of your blog post onto high quality article directories such as Ezine Articles, or on to powerful blog networks such as GoCube, Bizsugar or training sites such as MLSP, or the Better Networker.

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SEO Strategy to Get More Blog Traffic

2012-10-16T03:57:00.000-07:00

Do you have an SEO strategy for your blog? What I mean by that is, once you have written your blog post do you know how to get people to come and read it?

(What they don’t come automatically, the minute your blog has ‘pinged’ the networks?)

Er ……. No!

I’m afraid to say, you do need to have a bit of an SEO strategy going on to ensure that your content gets found. So I have been asked by a few people just recently to share my “on page” and “off page” SEO strategy to ensure my articles get found by the search engines.

So here is my SEO Strategy to get more blog traffic.

I use the free Google keyword tool for keyword research – If you don’t know how to use this then here’s how.

Once I know what keyword I am using, I can then create my blog post around a topic that I know my target market is looking for.

I then post my article to my blog like this:

Here’s the link to the plugin that I use – SEO Pressor

And that’s it for my “on page” SEO strategy.

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How to Blog Like a Pro for Leads and Sales

2012-10-15T15:06:00.000-07:00

Team Beachbody | Here’s What the Reps Definitely Won’t Be Telling You!

2012-10-15T09:06:00.000-07:00

Team Beachbody is a name that is synonymous with fitness but if you are researching the company to see if you can build a business with them, then you have come to the right place.

Make sure you read right to the end as I share with you the one thing that the Team Beachbody reps definitely won’t be telling you, and what you can do to give yourself the best chance of being a top earner with Team Beachbody.

Okay so what is Team Beachbody all about? Well Team Beachbody goes hand in hand with P90X which is an extreme 90 day fitness program which was developed by a fitness training instructor called Tony Horton. The intense exercise programe combines all the major muscle workouts to include flexibility and strength to get your body into shape at home.

The program was designed to help encourage mentors in the world of fitness, and in the process help those that are passionate about fitness to be able to earn an income from the program as well as the products offered.

The team concept encourages all who join to help each other, become part of the forum and post their ideas and tips, and the program offers workout sheets as well as helpful information on nutrition along with recipes that are healthy.

In addition to what is offered when you join the team, those who would like to join can become a “club” member and get access to the VIP chat room for further conversation and help, and there is also access to videos and more.

Sound like a great program? Let’s talk about the products!

Those who are exploring partnering with Team Beachbody need to be aware of the products being offered, and how they benefit those who join.

The focus with the Beachbody product line is nutrition, cleansing, detox, and fitness. With that being said, Shakeology is a product that is often requested by those that join the program. With the focus on cleansing and detox in order to lose weight, it’s essential that those who use the program start with Shakeology, then continue.

As a coach, you will be able to offer the P90X program DVDs for sale, along with Body Beast, Les Mills’ Pump workout, Shakeology, Insanity workout, Turbo Fire, Brazil Butt Lift, the Beach Body Ultimate Reset, and much more!

Now that you know what is offered, do you believe that you can make a decent living with Team Beachbody?

Now that you know what Team Beachbody is all about, is it right for you? If you have a passion for helping others meet or exceed their fitness goals, why not? With a wide array of products it’s a good opportunity to earn an income, and with a website already created for you, you will be able to share the opportunity almost straight away.

So, on that note – have you considered how you will market your Team Beachbody business? Now your sponsor may teach you to talk to your friends and family, but what if they are not interested? How will you find the people who really could be interested in this?

Click Here for your Team Beachbody Success Plan ===>

You see the biggest issue that Team Beachbody reps face is running out of prospects to talk to, and not knowing how to talk to your own friends and family about the business. Many reps don’t even want to talk to people they know yet because they don’t know if it will work with them first. So what’s the alternative when you have run out of prospects? Advertising? Buying leads? Well of course that all costs money and if you still don’t know how to “close” these people into your business and coach them effectively then this is the start of an expensive hobby rather than an income producing business.

Sadly this is why 97% of Team Beachbody reps will fail to make more than just a few dollars a month at best. But it’s not just confined to Team Beachbody. It is a problem within the whole of the network marketing industry.

In order to build your Team Beachbody business fast and successfully, you need to be “showing the opportunity” to about 5-10 people a day!

In order to do this, you need to have a simple marketing system to plug in to, to help you generate leads for your business. Otherwise your Team Beachbody business will go broke whilst you’re trying look for people for your team.

I know this because it happened to me (in another company. )

When I attended a live Summit in Las Vegas, I met all the top earners from several Network Marketing companies. I noted the one thing they had in common, which was that they all used a marketing system. Finally I understood why (and if you don’t, then have a read of this – click here ===> )and once I implemented a marketing system into my business, I went from struggling to profitable in 5 weeks.

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By: SEO Article Writing for Small Business | Small Business Internet Marketing

2012-10-15T01:28:00.000-07:00

I’ve put together this article to help you learn what’s working now and what you better avoid is you still want to achieve good search engine rankings for yourself or for your clients.

This guide will help you get long term results from your SEO article writing efforts.

Ready to get started? Take a deep breath – here we go.

They say those who ignore the past are destined to repeat it (or something like that – I’m pretty sure I heard that when I was in school). So let’s look at how things used to work.

The Old Formula

Links + SEO Shenanigans + Content = Rankings

… and in that order.

“It really doesn’t matter what’s on your website, I can get it to rank well in Google for you… so long as your check clears.”

And they’ve continued to tighten the screws… creating low quality content just to rank in the search engines is now just a waste of time, money, and resources.

Expert Quality Content + Quality Links + Warm Fuzzy Factors = Rankings

Newspapers are still a great place to go for quality writing... who knew?

Here’s a great list you can use – turn it into a checklist. It’s was written by a Google employee and gives some insights into what Google wants to rank highly in their search engine.

When it comes to getting quality links to your website, I have good news and bad news. Studies have shown that people respond better when you give them the good news first so here it is:

You don’t need very many quality links to rank well!

Which is good because getting quality links is tough.

It happens on occasion when you do a good job but I’ve found one Google approved link building technique that can get you those oh so important quality links… Guest Blogging.

Basically, you’re killing two birds with one stone.

Doesn't he make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Remember only evil people like Bin Laden hate puppies.

Here’s the thing. It used to be that those of us in the SEO world could do a pretty reasonable job of backwards engineering Google’s ranking algorithm using statistical analysis.

Without getting too much into it, we could look at what currently ranks well across thousands of keywords and find certain correlations.

For example, pages that rank on the first page of Google tend to have that keyword in their title tag.

If I want this article to rank well for “SEO Article Writing,” then I should make sure that keyword shows up in the title somewhere.

Make sense?

Of course, it’s not perfect. Statistical analysis never is.

You’d find the same for domains that are 6 letters long because Amazon.com is that length and they get just as good of rankings but for products people want to buy.

Fortunately, there were plenty of rankings factors we could reverse engineer that did make sense. So we used them, then abused them, and then abused them some more.

Makes sense if you think about it, right?

And it worked great… until people figured out that was what was going on. Then all hell broke loose.

Everybody and their brother starting concocting link building schemes that would artificially inflate the importance of their website.

The reason backlinks and nothing but more backlinks worked so well for so long was simple – a better solution didn’t exist.

Here are a couple important ones you should be paying attention to… when combined I like to call them “warm fuzzy factors.”

Basically, this is a measure of how long someone stays on a page and how long someone stays on your website.

Bottom line: You want people to visit your website and stay around a while.

Improving the stickiness of your website:

That’s one way a search engine like Google can tell what the people like and want. It also means you want your best stuff to be shared on those sites as well.

Drag one of these into Starbucks to write with... makes you look sophisticated... ladies love it too!

First of all – I’m going to assume you already have some writing skills. If you failed English in high school then you might want to consider a different line of work.

Sorry.

What I can help you with is what should be included in your articles.

What’s the keyword density of this article? I have no idea. I didn’t check because it really doesn’t matter.

Okay, So How Long Do My Articles Need To Be If I Want Them To Be Considered Expert Quality Content?

I’ve been asked about this many times and while I understand why you’re asking it’s the wrong question.

There is not one size fits all recommendation.

That’s a lot of writing – what do I say?

People love stories! I love stories, you love stories, we all love stories.

And you don’t have to be a world class writer to tell a good story… good stories do all the heavy lifting.

In the past, my best writers have read books on the topics they weren’t familiar with (I purchased and mailed them to my writers) or they’ve gone out and interviewed people who knew the topic.

Yes, I know that everything I’ve described is a lot of work. It will drastically cut down on how much content you can produce and how many websites you can manage.

However, it can really pay off.

In competitive niches, it’s the only way to stay competitive and have a chance.

So there you have it, my guide on SEO article writing. No it’s not dead but it has transformed and for the better.

What are you doing that’s working for you to get your content ranked?

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Ultimate Power Profits Review |The Good Bad and Ugly

2012-10-14T17:29:00.000-07:00

So before I go into exactly how Ultimate Power Profits works, I wonder if you have heard of penny auction sites like Quibids and Bidify? I have personally seen people make money with these sites who have never made money online before which is why I have taken time to look into this new launch. Make sure you read to the end as I share what members of this Company may not reveal to you.
The popularity of Zeekler and Bidfy seems to be because you can sign up, post a daily ad (which you can automate) and then without having to sell or recruit anything, you can actually get a return on your investment.
Zeek in particular has been under review by the FTC for the apparent lack of “customers” as most of the customers appeared to be the reps and of course we all know now what happened to Zeek as their management proved to be nothing more than fraudulent criminals. So does this mean that the penny auction business model is fundamentally flawed and not legal?

Not necessarily.

Well this Ultimate Power Profits review can confirm that it was launched in July 2012 by a man called Scotty Evans and as word spread around the internet marketing world about being able to become a founding member, it became one of the top 5,000 most visited websites in the world!!
Hyped up? Well possibly, but there is no denying that “getting in” at the start of an opportunity like Ultimate Power Profits could have untold benefits – not least being paid up to 26 times a month!

It would appear not! So once again you have the beginning of a success story as you will not have to “sell” your business opportunity to friends and family or learn how to market your opportunity to attract new recruits or sales – this one fact alone will have “failed” Network Marketers jumping with joy.

Well, it really is true and with the business model (not the management!) already proven in Zeekler and Bidify, it is no surprise that IGoBidWin and the Ultimate Power Profits system is already gathering huge momentum.

Okay so some people have asked why the Company appears to be known by so many other names, so let me explain.
GO (Global One) is broken down into 3 different income streams and Ultimate Power Profits is the brain child of Global One.

Income can be earned from:
iGoBidWin – This is the penny auction site
IGoBidWin – Also the affiliate program site
MyTurnOnTopWealth – The daily profit sharing fund
Just to confuse you even more, the program is being advertised as “Paradigm Shift”

No. But of course the benefits are much faster to achieve if you are a paying member. Other than the free membership option, GlobalOne offers 4 membership options and they are: Copper, Silver, Gold and Platinum.

Every 3 days (72 hours) there is a commission payout. These commission payouts will occur on the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, 22nd, 25th, and 28th of each month.

Commissions are sent out to active members every three days, half as cash commissions paid directly to your e-wallet and half as bid tokens which you can use on the IGOBidWin penny auction site. These bid tokens redeemed also increase the profit share commissions that this company pays out every three days via the GO Wealth Building Profit Pool along with 50% of the Company NET profits.
Every active Global One member will receive a share of these company profits depending on their membership or participation level.

Well there isn’t one as such – you don’t have to sponsor and you don’t have to sell, but clearly if you do refer people to this program and sign up new members (or sell some bid tokens) then you will have a much bigger piece of the profit share pool and you will also be able to create passive income from their compensation plan “MyTurnOnTop”

COPPER MEMBERS – $25 Monthly – gives you 25 bid tokens to redeem at IGOBidWin auction and automatic qualification to earn additional income through the “MyTurnOnTop” pool
SILVER MEMBERS – $50 Monthly – gives you Copper membership benefits but 60 bid tokens to redeem and a higher percentage of “myTurnOnTop” commissions. You are also entitled to earn a 25% matching bonus on commissions by anyone that you personally refer to the affiliate program.
GOLD MEMBERS – $75 Monthly – gives you 120 bid tokens and all Silver membership benefits – 75% of “MyTurnOnTop” commissions and a 25% matching bonus on your personally referred affiliates on level one AND on level two.
PLATINUM MEMBERS – $100 Monthly – gives you 180 bid tokens with all gold membership benefits and 100% on all “MyTurnOnTop” commissions plus a 25% matching bonus on commissions by your level one, two and three affiliates!

There are even further (massive) benefits available to those Platinum members who build teams of platinum members and you can become a emerald, ruby or diamond.

So Is this for You?
Well only you can answer that, but one thing is for sure, although I have signed up as a founding member, I will be watching the build up to this very carefully as you can guarantee that with the demise of Zeek – the other penny auction bid sites will be very careful to ensure that they are operating within the law.

if you are going to jump in and try your hand at this, then i would recommend doing it now.

I never joined Zeek or Bidify but looked at it often in amazement. I am a marketer and earn my income from multiple income streams but there is something that you need to know.

Ultimate Power Profits – What other Members won’t tell you!
So Ultimate Power Profits looks like a great opportunity (particularly if you join in the pre-launch and founding membership stage) but like any opportunity if you want to earn a life changing income, then it will take a little more time and effort.

In this instance I would recommend joining an affiliate who is already a marketer who can show you how to market this to get the maximum return for your investment. Someone who understands how this industry works and can show you how to build so that you are never in danger of losing all your money like many Zeek reps did.

Think about who you could help with this opportunity?
Right now the economy is poor and thousands of people are turning to the internet to see if they can supplement their income from home.

But – a word of caution….

As with any new company there are risks that the company will not make it, so my advice is always to proceed with caution and never put a huge investment in for too long. As soon as you see your original investment returned, then remove it and then proceed to take out about 30% income per month. This way you will cover yourself just incase anything goes wrong.

As I said earlier, I generate multiple income streams from my business and am not reliant on any one source and I would wholeheartedly recommend you do the same.

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Welcome to the new and improved (hopefully) traffic generation Cafe!

As the new head of the banner?

So I too ...

I think it is the perfect picture of where the tyre meets the road blogging or other things, in fact:

Relationship-based marketing

Yes, it is tedious and time consuming way to build a business.

But it is also the most rewarding.

Plus it is the only way to survive after the Panda and penguins move Google Twitter account bans and stop throwing ourselves a pity parties.

These faces, you can see there ... These are my readers.

I know the name of every one of them.

They did impress me.

I'm pretty sure that I've done to impress them too.

Hmmm ... that sounded creepy ...

By the way, I would love to be the first to know when I try to download my next awesome and very educational, of course, the video?

SUBSCRIBE TO MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL! (link opens in a new window)

So if the face is there – my warm thanks for your time, your hearts and even wallets (like buying a random product or two through my affiliate links).

Please feel free to give yourself a pat on the back for this tweet:

If it is not, but you want to see it there some time later, please read this post:

You can also start tweeting:

In the last few weeks Ian Belanger has worked hard to put together my brand spanking new blog design, and I worked hard to control him.

Yes, I'm very good at telling others what to do and how to do it. ...

Why do you think that I started a blog?

Ian-you have put your heart and soul of traffic generation Cafe new design and I am so thankful that I found you.

TGC readers-site design is a crucial step to create yourself with authority in your niche.

If you don't take it seriously, potential readers will not take you seriously either.

It doesn't have to be expensive, but it must be unique.

And when you are ready to update your business future, Ian is your man.

He is particularly good at any of the Thesis (which is a theme I am using the TGC) and WordPress.

Blog design speaks of Ian's work more than anything you could ever say to him.

I could not find a better thanks to my readers, but provides the voice of this post.

Yes, I'm not going to stop talking, and I now give the floor to you.

I know that each of you works with unique business unique challenges, opportunities and results.

And I am ready to answer to the traffic generation related questions you may have.

Everything is rock-bottom prices (see the price list, = > ***).

* ** Volume discounts are not available; the offer is valid at participating traffic generation Café locations only.

You can ask me any questions about

.. and I will do my best to answer them.

One request though: let's stay away from generalities.

For example, "How do I create more traffic to my website?" is a loaded question is not a simple answer.

It is, if you get a stupid expression "duh ... go read my blog!"

However, it asks, "can I generate traffic using social bookmarking websites?" is a good way to go.

Also, if I find that your question deserves an answer a separate blog post, I will let you know when this post is published.

You can even ask the rest of the traffic generation experts pitch.

ASK AWAY!

Practicing the stupid looking

What is next?

To find out how to bring your site to life. Get the inside scoop on the skinny free traffic generation. Convert more traffic and more sales.

Yaro Starak, entrepreneurs-Journey.com

Will never share your email address with anyone.

If you like this post, and that it would be valuable to share it with your followers, ish to me would you?

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