Internet Marketing Tools and Tips by Steve Atwal

Internet Marketing Bootcamps. Reloaded!

steveatwal — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:43:09 +0000

Due to popular demand I’m offering this course again. I expect it to sell out also. So, sign up soon!

Are you tired of watching endless videos and reading all those free eBooks on how to take your business online, or start your Blog, or get massive amounts of traffic, so you can make tons of money?

The truth is, all those eBooks and videos can be useful, but in the end you have to apply what you have learned. Most people don’t. No matter how much they read, they still have a hard time knowing where to start!

If you are in that situation, or you already have a Website and are not seeing the results you want, then these new bootcamps are for you! These bootcamps are hands-on. Leave the eBooks and videos at the door. Limber up your fingers, open your laptops, and get ready to LEARN HANDS-ON!

BOOTCAMP: TAKE YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE! BLOGGING FOR PROFITS.
DATES: March 3, 10, 17, 24, 2010 (4 Wednesdays)
TIMES: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. That’s 8 full hours of hands-on tuition. Plus bonus 2 hours per week group help for those that need it.
LOCATION: 950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 2N7
More Information & Registration at: http://www.InternetMarketingBootcamps.com

Twitter Bootcamp. More Hands On!

steveatwal — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:56:58 +0000

BOOTCAMP: TWITTER YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS!
DATE: February 18, 2010 (Thursday)
TIME: 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
LOCATION: 41st and Oak, Vancouver, BC (exact location will be sent to registered attendees)
DESCRIPTION: You’ve probably heard of Twitter. But, can Twitter really help your business or is it a complete waste of your valuable time? Well, highly respected people (CEO’s, CIO’s, movie stars) are using Twitter, and you should give it a try. You will be shocked at the level of access you have to high profile individuals. Want to know what Twitter is and how to use it properly? Each day 1,000’s of new people join Twitter. There is a lot of opportunity to connect with millions of targeted people online.

More Information & Registration at: http://www.InternetMarketingBootcamps.com

Internet Marketing Bootcamps. Less Theory. More Hands On!

steveatwal — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:23:26 +0000

SOLD OUT! Are you tired of watching endless videos and reading all those free eBooks on how to take your business online, or start your Blog, or get massive amounts of traffic, so you can make tons of money?

The bootcamps include the following:

BOOTCAMP: TAKE YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE! BLOGGING FOR PROFITS.
DATES: January 20, 27 and February 3, 10, 2010. Four Wednesdays.
TIMES: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm. That’s 8 full hours of hands-on tuition.
LOCATION: 41st & Oak, Vancouver, BC
DESCRIPTION: This course will help you get your business online with a hands-on approach, and help you start getting targeted traffic and leads that you need. No boring lectures. No long, theoretical videos to watch. You will learn step-by-step.
More Information & Registration at: http://www.InternetMarketingBootcamps.com

Put Your Targeted Twitter Followers on Autopilot: 40% Off Until Dec 31

steveatwal — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:36:12 +0000

Tweet Whistle is a Tool to grow your Twitter followers in an organic, and automated, way. Here are just some features of Tweet Whistle:

Search for users by Tweet keywords
Search for users by Bio keywords
Search for users who have referenced other people
Search for users by location
Search for users who display a certain attittude
Search for followers of other users
Check the the current or weekly trends
Find out who has mentioned your profile
Automatically send follows
Automatically send unfollows
Automatically send messages
Automatically send tweets
Automatically send RSS Feed tweets
Safelists for users not to unfollow
Random time delay settings
Save and Load profile lists
Works with unlimited number of accounts
Automatic software updates

After deploying Tweet Whistle, an increase of 200 new targeted followers per day or higher is possible. By targeted, we mean other people who share the same interests as we do. This is what we usually want. More targeted followers, means more conversions (click throughs to our links and Websites), and hence more business leads and buyers.

Get 40% Off until December 31, 2009. Use COUPON Code: C23WH81DQB798

Cool note: they have both a Windows and Mac version of the software.

Free Version and Paid Version:
* Free version is limited to maximum 300 follows, 100 unfollows, 10 status updates, and 10 messages. The paid version is $39.95, and removes these limitations.

PsPrint.com – Online Print Shop – Convenient, Reliable, Fast

steveatwal — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:15:39 +0000

Want to kick-start your real-world marketing efforts? Internet Marketing is great, but don’t forget about print marketing! PsPrint is an online printing services company. PsPrint uses only the best web technologies and state-of-the-art production facilities. PsPrint is fast, convenient, and reliable. Their Design It! online design tool lets you create custom business cards and postcards in minutes. Or, simply upload your own design. Or, use the many PsPrint customizable templates. PsPrint quality is top-notch, and prices are very competitive.

The list of services that PsPrint provides is very long, such as:

Design Services, such as: Banners, Brochures, Menus, Newsletters, Business Cards, Calendars, Sticker Printing, etc.
Specialty Printing Services. Make your marketing materials stand out with eye-catching foil stamping and custom die cuts from PsPrint.
Mailing Services. In only 15 minutes, you can create a highly-targeted list that meets your exact demographic specifications.
Design Services. Let PsPrint design it for you. Get a custom identity package including logo, letterhead, and more.
Mailing Services. PsPrint can mail out your postcards, brochures, greeting cards, booklets, newsletters, and more, with a fast, affordable, and convenient service.

Looking to combine online Internet marketing with traditional print marketing? Looking for the best, most convenient, online printing service? Then give PsPrint a try.

PageRank Links

steveatwal — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:49:21 +0000

No one knows the exact values Google uses to get a better PageRank. However, the values in the table below gives a good idea of how many external links, from a Website of certain PageRank, you need to get a particular Google PageRank for your Website. Use this table as a general guideline only, as there are always exceptions, e.g. if you don’t update your Website on a regular basis then your PageRank may suffer.

PR	Links For PR3	Links For PR4	Links For PR5	Links For PR6	Links For PR7	Links For PR8
1	555	3,000	17,000	93,000	508,000	2,800,000
2	101	555	3,000	17,000	93,000	508,000
3	19	101	555	3,000	17,000	93,000
4	4	19	101	555	3,000	17,000
5	1	4	19	101	555	3,000
6	1	1	4	19	101	555
7	1	1	1	4	19	101
8	1	1	1	1	4	19
9	1	1	1	1	1	4
10	1	1	1	1	1	1

Every website owner needs to perform link campaigning on a regular basis, either manually or through search engine optimisation (SEO).

iPhone Apps for Bloggers and Marketers

steveatwal — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:47:37 +0000

It seems that the iPhone has become an integral part of my daily life: checking email, texting, making calls. But, I find it has a lot of other useful purposes, specifically for Bloggers and Internet Marketers. Below is a list of my favorite FREE ones:

TwitterFon: a great free Twitter client for the iPhone. And yes, after only a few months, I now have close to 1000 followers. If you are not using Twitter then you should be.
WordPress: an iPhone app that lets you write posts, upload photos, edit pages, and manage comments on your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Facebook: according to their stats, millions of people are using this iPhone app. It works great, but don’t expect it to do everything that the Website does.
bamAnalytics: this gives you a quick and easy way to view your basic Google Analytics stats for your Websites. If you are not using Google analytics then you should be – it’s free.
Wikipanion: this app is great for research. Bookmarking is easy, along with in-text search and image saving straight to the iPhone library are also some of the useful features.

If you have an iPhone, or an iPod Touch, then you should get all of these apps. They will help you with using social media, posting to your blogs, and keeping track of how your campaigns are doing.

Submit Your Website to These Directories

steveatwal — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:07:13 +0000

This is a good list of low cost (apart from Yahoo) PAID directories where you need to submit your Website or Blog if you want to be found by more people online. If you know of other good directories, post a comment here and I will add them to the list.

Here are some other lists:

http://www.internet-search-engines-faq.com/submit-url-free-directory.shtml
http://www.strongestlinks.com/directories.php

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10 Quick Ways to Get High on Alexa

steveatwal — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:01:32 +0000

First, what is Alexa? What is the Alexa rank? Why should you care? Good questions. Simply put:

Alexa is a Website ranking site owned by Amazon.com
Alexa is one measure of how popular your Website is.
your Website is given a rank, or position, relative to all the other Websites that are visited by people using the Alexa toolbar for Firefox (my favorite) and the Alexa toolbar for Internet Explorer.
every time someone, who has the Alexa toolbar installed, visits your Website your Website gets a Brownie point. In this case, we can call it an Alexa point, I guess. Alexa also tracks how many pages that person viewed on your Website. Alexa then produces your average weekly rank and three month rank, and average pages viewed by visitors to your Website, etc. The rank basically tells you how far away your Website is from the coveted #1 spot now occupied by Yahoo.com or Google.ca (they seem to switch places daily). So, if your rank is 26,000,001 then you are 26 million positions away from the #1 spot. You want to be in the top 100,000. That is where you get the glory, and Alexa actually starts showing more traffic details about your Website at that point. There is even a report of the top 100,000 sites. You might get an offer from someone to buy your Website or advertisers might pay you more for better exposure to their ads on your website. Lots of benefits if you get into the top 100,000.
most Alexa toolbar users are techies, i.e. people who know how to install add-ons to Firefox, Internet Explorer, and want such information as that provided by Alexa. For this reason, many argue that the Alexa rank is biased and not representative of the true popularity of your Website. Nevertheless, it is one such measure and it is used by a lot of people. So, get over it!
some affiliate companies like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews use the Alexa rank to determine your payout.

So, how do you get high on Alexa? To impress everyone, and start making some good affiliate income with partners like ReviewMe, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews you need to increase your Alexa rank. So, how do you do it? Here are some good, and some sneaky (blackhat?) ways to do it.

Install the Alexa toolbar for your Web browser. Set the home page in your browser to be your Website – thus at least you get one Brownie point from yourself every time you visit your site!
Encourage your friends, spouse, ex-wife, doctor, whoever you know to install the Alexa toolbar and set the home page on their Web browser to be your Website. Sneaky, huh?
Write content that might be enticing to techies or webmasters. I know this might be hard if your Website is about “bananas”, but you can always throw in a “special” article about how “bananas” are a Webmaster’s favorite snack food or something – be creative! Techies will be drawn to it and since they are more likely to have the Alexa toolbar installed, you will have more chance or getting more Brownie points for Alexa.
Blog about Alexa. You’ll draw another crowd of people interested in getting their ranking high – who most likely already have the Alexa toolbar installed.
Write comments in techie forums and leave your URL there – most comment systems let you leave your name and URL.
East Asian Websites and forums seem to be frequented by a lot of Alexa users, so post in those forums too.
Create a Alexa tools Web page and write about all the tools and techniques related to Alexa.
Buy some ads on Google using PPC to draw in the crowd to your Website.
Use social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Twitter, and many more to leave posts that include your Website URL.
Post good content!

There are other techniques but these are the best and should be enough to get your Website ranked high if you do all these things consistently…and frequently. Remember, writing good content should be your primary focus, so that alone is worth a ton at drawing people to your Website and getting high on Alexa!

Note that the once popular Alexa redirect such as http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.steveatwal.com no longer works so don’t bother reading about it. People were using it to change their internal Website links to increase their Alexa ranking and some even went as far as creating Wordpress plugins for this. Weird blackhat techniques, but don’t bother – I think Alexa caught on and blocked this.

Adwords Editor, Your Campaign Manager

steveatwal — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:01:12 +0000

You may not be aware of this nice little tool to help manage your Adwords campaign for your Website and products. This free software from Google has some nifty features in version 7.0.0. Straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, is the following release notes for this version and includes such brand spanking new features as:

First page bid estimates: AdWords Editor now uses first page bid estimates for your keywords. Minimum cost-per-click (CPC) bids are no longer used.

Keyword Quality Score: The Keywords tab displays the Quality Score for your keywords.

Keyword Opportunities locale: Tailor your keyword suggestions to a particular language and location by changing your Keyword Opportunities locale.

Campaign targeting in the data view: You can view your targeting settings in the new ‘Language’ and ‘Location’ columns on the Campaigns tab. These columns are hidden by default, but you can select them with the column chooser.

Send feedback to Google: You can help improve AdWords Editor by enabling usage tracking in your AdWords Editor settings (Tools menu > Settings).

Other updates

The ‘Volume’ column on the Keyword expansion tab of the Keyword Opportunities tool now shows absolute numbers (traffic for the last month) instead of scaled values.
The Keyword Opportunities tool isn’t available for draft accounts.

Full details at http://www.google.com/intl/en/adwordseditor/

By the way, if you use Adsense then you can now use YouTube videos too. Take a look at the one below.

Watch the latest videos on YouTube.com