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Opportunity to Profit From Niche Marketing

One of my "almost secret" weapons in developing niche sites is a membership site that opened up to the public a couple years ago. It's called Nicheology, and offers monthly reports on specific, often highly profitable, topics around which members can develop new web sites. In order to make sure that there wasn't a huge amount of competition for individual topics, the founders of Nicheology

Article Announcer review: Is it worth it?

I finally received my copy of Article Announcer today, I eagerly awaited it, and due to a snafu at their fulfillment center, it was shipped about 3 weeks late. I've been waiting to check it out before deciding whether to recommend it to my readers or not.

First things first. During the dead time while I was wondering if it would ever get shipped, Article Announcer's creator, Jason Potash, didn't run away from my angry emails. To his credit, he kept in touch and replied to each and every request for status. I've had this happen before, things can happen, and from experience most of the big guys hide behind their keyboards. Not Jason. Thanks, Jason.

To begin with, I already had the pleasure to listen to the audios that were included with the package, because as an owner of John Reese's Traffic Secrets package, John and Jason had the original 4 hour intensive interview that's included, and it was provided as part of Traffic Secrets. So what I was waiting for were the videos, the workbooks and written materials, and the all important software.

Verdict: I haven't fired up the software yet, I trust it will work, but the main value in the course, short term and long, is the instructional videos and the audios. The instruction will give your master's degree in article writing. Software products are a dime a dozen, you can get a good submission program like Article Announcer written on eLance probably for a few hundred dollars, I'm sure there will be copycat competitors coming out any day now.

The real value that separates Article Announcer from any others that might come out shortly is the fact that this is not only a software product, it is a top notch training program. If you listen to the audios, view the videos, read the transcripts to refresh your memory, and then sit down, you can't help but be miles ahead of 90% of the other internet marketers that are trying to win the search engine wars and suck maximum money out of their web sites.

Yes, the wait was worth it. I certainly wish I had it 3 weeks ago, because I'd be 3 weeks further down the road now. But my opinion is that the Article Announcer package (with or without the software submission software), is well worth the investment. Those who pay attention and take action will see their incomes zoom, not overnight, but 6 months from now their investment will have been paid back many times. You can take that to the bank.

New Google AdWords rules are coming soon

Google recently announced that they are changing the way the popular advertising method works. It brings a whole new challenge to those of us who have learned to live with, and adapt to, the current methods.

Although the changes are subtle, and somewhat confusing, it seems from reading (between the lines to a degree), that gone are the days of minimum CTR's for ads (currently you have to maintain at least a .5% CTR or your ad will be disabled), and gone even are the days of minimum bid prices of .05 (it seems that you can pay as low as a penny in some cases).

I'm sure some of the AdWords experts like Perry Marshall and a few others will come out with new "definitive guides" as modified by the new rules, but for now I'm letting my campaigns run as they always have, and we'll play it by ear once the changes take place.

One place you should check out for the latest news, as well as Q&A's straight from the experts, is the Google AdWords blog itself. It's great reading if you're using AdWords to capture traffic and (hopefully) make money.

Free Search Engine Optimization Book

If you have a web site, you probably heard or noticed that Google updated the toolbar page rank in the last few days. That's great news for many, bad news for some.

Since Google only does this every few months anymore, anyone who created a new site recently has been anxiously awaiting the vote to come in. In actuality, it's only a formality, because Google itself always has the current status of a site in its databases, and it really doesn't matter what the toolbar says, what matters is where your site ranks in relation to all the thousands or millions of sites that mention your best keywords.

In other words, if you're trying to get found for the phrase "rubber duckies", first of all good luck, and second of all, if you're on the top page of results it doesn't matter whether you're a PR 1 or a PR 7. But it's nice to have a good grade, isn't it?

Anyway, if your goal is to improve your page rank, and most importantly your position in the rankings, I've acquired an eBook that should probably be selling for around $97.00 (really, I've bought some that didn't have as good information as this one has). I wish I had this one first, I could have saved all that money, but most importantly I could have greatly improved my web sites many months ago.

If you'd like to download it, for free (yes, no catch, no email address to give, no salesman will call), just right-click on this link and save it to your desktop or somewhere else where you can easily find it, as you'll want to refer to it often, perhaps even print it out for easier reference:
http://www.fantastic-ebooks.com/seomadeeasy.pdf

The author Brad Callen, is one of the true geniuses in the SEO world, and this is no cheap freebie, it's 97 pages of solid information. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, all I ask is that you bookmark this site, because we'll be giving away more stuff like this in the weeks and months ahead, and you don't want to miss it.

Creating Google Sitemaps? Save your money!

Have you heard about Google Sitemaps? If not, here's a quick link:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

The theory behind them, and what Google promises, is that it will help their spider find your web site pages quicker and more efficiently.

That's great news if it works as advertised, gone will be the days when you put up a site and waited for the spiders to find all your pages, a few today, a few more next week, some not for many months.

The first day I found out about this new feature I became very excited. However when I found out the sitemap had to be created by their site map generator, which needed the Python language, which I knew nothing about or how to get on my server or PC, I was frustrated. I assumed that companies would come out with generators of their own, at a price, to make things easier for us non-techies.

I've been waiting, and actually, fortunately, yesterday I found a package that promises to easily create a site map XML file for you to upload to your server. I'm testing right now to see if it works as advertised, and will report back soon. But that's not why I'm writing today.

Today, I received multiple emails about a new product, which shall not be named here, which generates Google site maps for you. It sounded too good to be true (assuming I didn't find a different package yesterday), until I saw the price ($147.00). Although I'm sure that the developer paid a programmer to write the software package for him, I'm sure it does nothing more than what the one I found yesterday does. And that one was FREE.

For today, I'm not naming names, but as soon as I find out if my free solution works, and if it gets more of my pages indexed quickly (I'm testing it on a site that has 111 pages indexed today, out of 200+ that have been on my site for several months without the rest being found by the spider). If those missing 90+ pages show up in the next week or less, I'll be a raving lunatic with excitement, and I'll let you know how with a more indepth review of the process and the software package I'm using.

Until then, I suggest that you don't spend $147.00 on a package to create Google sitemaps.

I'll bet you've already heard!

There's a buzz going around the 'net the last few days, and unless you're on nobody's list, you've heard the name Jay Abraham more than a few times. Last August, the name everybody was touting was John Reese. More recently it was Frank Kern. Now it's Jay.

Should you listen to John, or Frank, or Jay? All of them? None of them?

Well, here's the deal. I bought John's Traffic Secrets course on the day it was available, it was expensive, and it was worth every penny and more. I made back at least 10 times the cost since then, and I haven't (sad to admit), haven't even listened to every CD yet. I didn't buy Frank Kern's course, I felt it was too basic, but I'm sure people did very well with it.

So what about Jay Abraham? Well here's a history of the man, you judge:

You know what a “Who’s Who” book is? It is one of those monster-sized encyclopedias of the most influential prestigious luminaries in different fields of endeavor.

Well, there’s one man who probably ranks at the top of more who’s who in business-building than any other single individual I know. His name is Jay Abraham.

Odds are high you’ve heard of him before because his reputation is almost mythical throughout the online & offline world. He’s engineered more impressive financial breakthroughs for more people in more types of businesses, in more ways, in more countries, and in more industries than almost any other person out there.

If I took the time to list his credentials, to summarize the remarkable articles the press have written about him, to list the hundreds of prominent people he’s personally helped or riches to super-riches success stories he’s single-handedly engineered and orchestrated, it would take literally a thousand pages.

In fact, there are two thousand pages of case studies alone that have been written about this man’s near miraculous feats. He’s so good at what he does, he commands $5,000 an hour---$40,000 a day when he does it. People line up to pay him $25,000 each to participate in his expensive seminars.

I want to introduce you to a brand new service this man is launching today, right now. Expressly for people like you who would benefit monstrously and wildly profit from his help---but wouldn’t ordinarily be able (or willing) to pay his staggering fees.

If you think this is hyperbole, think again. There’s a report I’ve gained access to that I’d first love to share with you. This man wrote it and it’s entitled “Windfall Profits Paradox.” In one 32-page reading, you’ll learn more ways to put a pot full of money in your bank account than you’ve probably learned in your entire business career.

To get your copy of his report, go to:

http://www.fantastic-ebooks.com/windfall-report.pdf

It’s my incentive to you to stimulate you to immediately investigate the impressive and enriching proposition he’s come up with for business owners, start-ups, entrepreneurs and self-employed people like you. It’s exciting. It’s unparalleled, and frankly it’s almost indescribable and indefinable.

I believe it’s the answer you’ve been searching for. And with that, I will leave you purposely intrigued and challenge you to trust me so that you can learn about this all-important opportunity.

I recommend and urge you to move fast before your competition does. The free information provided in the report is worth its weight in gold, whether or not you choose to use or subscribe to any of Jay's services at all.

Why does it take so long to get good rankings at Google anymore?

The following is a very revealing article about one of the many parts of Google's ranking algorith. Long speculated upon, there is certainly a delay in getting a site well ranked in Google, a much longer delay than with the other major search engines like Yahoo and MSN.

If you are at all interested in search engine rankings, I suggest you read the full article below, maybe even more than once. And above all, if you're panicking and wanting to purchase links to get your site at the top of Google's rankings, you might just want to save your money.

SiteProNews: Surviving Google's Aging Delay
By Lawrence Deon (c) 2005

Google has always been the search industry's innovator and that's just what Google's aging delay symbolizes, the evolution of search innovation... yet another significant step forward for Google.

Google's success as a search engine can undeniably be attributed to its ability to consistently return the most relevant search engine results. That's what kept the search giant on top of the pack and leading the multi-billion dollar search industry & that's what's going to keep them there!" ... read more by clicking on the SiteProNews title above ...