This is where I find Private Label products to be very helpful.  Whilst you shouldn’t necessarily use a Private Label product ‘as it comes’, they are certainly a great place to start… I find that they prompt me along and give me material to work with and create something.

The issue that I have with a lot of Private Label products, is that they are poorly written and / or poorly researched.  They don’t help with removing my ‘writers block’, just end up frustrating me further!  Even more frustrating is that, particularly in the Internet Marketing Niche, ‘everyone’ seems to have the products and just use them in their raw format. I’ve also found finding quality niche Private Label Products to be difficult.

So when I was approach by Dee Ferdinand about their new site, Niche Empire, I was very interested to look at it.  Actually, my initial reaction was - ‘not another one’, but as Dee had approached me personally I took the time to ask some questions.  Dee provided some great information about what they are doing with Niche Empire and even gave me access to the members area so I could see for myself the type and quality of the products that they are creating.

I was fairly impressed… The products shown were well written and put together, the formatting  is well done (something that frustrates me no end!) and the graphics amazing.

The offer for Niche Empire is pretty good too… It is a monthly membership - and for the price you get:

-    2 * 20 page ebooks that are written in a hot HOW-TO niche
-    2 * graphical minisites with a salesletter
-    2 * video squeeze pages
-    2 * sets of autoresponder messages
-    2 * sets of keyword research for each product
-    Non-trasferrable PLR rights to the products
-    Training area
-    Additional PLR material
-    A business blueprint for the Niche Empire products

That will give you two products each month with a good base.  Getting the autoresponder messages is a great bonus - it really means that you can implement a full lead capture and follow up system effectively…. something that I find quite tedious.

I also like that the PLR are non transferable.  This means that you won’t be competing within a niche to sell the Private Label Rights to the product…  a real bonus is my mind.

At the time of writing, Niche Empire is offering a 7 day trial membership for $1.  You pay $1 and gain access to the months content… so you can check out the quality for yourself, at no real cost and decide if this is really for you.

I don’t like recommending anything I haven’t ’seen’ for myself, or comes highly recommended from someone that I trust implicitly…  If you do decide to check it out, please let me know what you think too by commenting here — share your views with my readers, it’s the only way to help others make informed decisions.

Admittedly, it has taken a bit of time for me to evaluate the software - but I have and I’m going to share my observations and thoughts here.

As an avid Wordpress Blogger - I was fairly intrigued about anything that will help traffic to my site.  However, I was wary - I’m really only interested in getting targeted traffic to my blog, not just ‘any old traffic’.  After all, I would rather 100,000 visits and 1 sale than 1 million visits and nothing.

I installed this plug-in on one niche blogs that is doing fairly well and ran through the process.  I really was less than impressed….

The plugin - Traffic Getting SEO reviews your blog settings and gives you a rating for the level of SEO you achieved.  In the version I tested, it did not give any reasons for the level - it prompted me to allow the SEO changes to be made though….

Word of Warning: Back Your Wordpress Installation up before running this process.

Not that the plug-in stopped my blog working - I just have no idea all the changes that are made.

One change that is made by the plug-in is the permalink structure.  The permalink structure is modified to:

/%post-id%/%postname%/ - putting the numerical post id into the permalink (url) of the blog post.

This immediately rang alarm bells for - for two reasons:

1. It had modified my urls for ALL of my blog posts.  As my site is existing, a number (all) of my posts are indexed by Google.  Changing the permalink structure means that the links in the search engine results WILL NOT work…

There are plug-ins available that help you migrate your permalink structure - care needs to be taken.

2. This is not a recommended permalink structure, by many blogging and SEO gurus.

Let’s look at this… one of the key tips for SEO is to ensure that your keywords are included in the url for your stie / post.  Therefore, including the postname as part of the link is wise.  The inclusion of the post-id seems to extraneous and just adds to the length of the permalink.

Checking the SERPS myself - looking for the term - which permalink structure is best to use with Wordpress? - I found several interesting posts.

AUBlog:  from 2007 in a post titled Choosing the Best URL Permalink Structure for your Wordpress Blog states:

5/29/08 update: After having used the above formatting (id added to end or beginning, I would not recommend it. Use just the post id OR post name, don’t combine them).

I’ve seen a lot of bloggers recommend using the “/category/postname” structure
/%category%/%postname%/

but from experience, one potential issue to think about is if you ever want to reorganize or edit your categories, you’ll need to redirect your existing posts to the new category structure. I recommend avoiding this situation - redirecting tons of posts can be a pain.

Therefore this is the permalink structure I recommend 9 times out of 10

/%postname%/

A small thing to note: you can use a trailing slash at the end or you can leave it off. Personally I think it looks nicer with it off, however, it does give a very tiny boost to your webserver’s performance and is technically the right way to specify URL’s.

At Wordcamp 2007, Matt Cutts shares that youshouldn’t include the post date in your URL.

The SEO Blogger also recommends only using /%postname%/ as the permalink

Sure, these pieces of advice are dated and we know that the search engine algorithms change from time to time - but if the impact of your Permalink was a factor, there would be more recent information available….

This factor alone caused me some concerns about the effectiveness of the plug-in.

The second ‘function’ of the plug-in is to find ‘SEO’ plugins to improve your blog.  The report lists the fact that I wasn’t running specific plugins - Sociable, MaxPressBlog Pinger, Auto Tags, Backup and Captcha.

O.K - this was somewhat helpful, but I was running a Ping Updater and a Social bookmarking tool - I think that the Share This bookmarking plug-in coupled with an embedded ‘Bookmark With Onlywire‘ link is just as effective and a better use of space on my pages.

Overall, I didn’t consider the ‘Traffic Getting SEO Plugin’ to be all that helpful.  You still have to manually configure the plug-ins it recommends you use and the modification of the permalink structure on a live blog is a major concern.

Optimizing your blog for SEO is important - and there are any number of great plug-ins available to help you out.  I’ve listed my fave Wordpress PlugIns here

If you really want to ‘pull traffic to your site’ - certainly optimize for SEO but also remember that you need to have content that is of interest to your Target market.

The question is, what services exist that give you what you need.  That is, access to new, current products that are what people are looking for?

There are a number of membership services that give you access to the latest Private Label Rights (PLR), Master Resale Rights (MRR) or Resale Rights (RR) products… some cost a lot per month, some only have specific focusses and some just aren’t worth the time.

For a while, I subscribed to a service that gave me access to 2 PLR products a month - Ebooks.  These were in the Internet Marketing niche however, I found that they were poorly written and I didn’t really consider the service ‘value for money’.  So I cancelled that service….

For a while, I have been a member of Magnetic Vault - hosted by Darren Blake a fellow Australian - and I always check the Magnetic Vault out first when I’m looking for something and I am always surprised what I find there.

Magnetic Vault is just great - Darren makes sure that there are a range of products available to his members in many, many niches.  the Magnetic Vault offers a range of MRR, RR and PLR products that will be a benefit to your offerings.

Some examples of the latest downloads available from the Magnetic Vault include:

• Successful Career Change Tactics Revealed - PLR
• Easy Ezine Profits - PLR
• Easy Cash Blueprint - PLR
• Simple Affiliate Secrets - PLR
• Quick Profit Secrets - PLR
• Turning The Herd Into Cash - PLR
• Dog Health Exposed - PLR
  Perfect Handbook For Imperfect Dog Owners

As you can see there are a number of Internet Marketing products here, but also Niche products…. Other niche products include:

• How To Get Rid of A Toothache Naturally - PLR
• Weight Loss Oracle - MRR
• Home Decorating - RR/Personal Use PLR
• Law Of Attraction - RR/Personal Use PLR
• Beginner’s Guide To Horse Training - MRR
• Kids Birthday Parties - MRR
• Dog Breeding - MRR
• Wood Working 101 - PLR

Heaps of stuff in just about any niche…..

At the time of writing, Magnetice Vault cost $10USD per month - what a bonus!  For $10 USD a month, you can download any number of products with graphics and sales pages (mostly, some don’t) …. that is a real bargin.

If your looking for a product to offer your list, want something to resell or looking for good quality base content… consider The Magnetic Vault – I love it…

The Stompernet team have done it again. They are offering a 7 part course that will help you crack the code to Top Search Engine Rankings For Good. There is nothing to buy - just sign up for the course and take what they are sharing….

These guys know what they are talking about - it is worthwhile getting the course to help increase your understanding.

In this course, delivered via email over 7 days, Andy Jenkins and his team will share their views on what they consider to be the 7 Deadly Mistakes In SEO.

I think these guys know their stuff…. I subscribed to the Net Effect and DVD of the Month late last year and really look forward to each edition arriving.  By reading and studying what they share, I’ve learned a bundle.

So, do yourself a favor and sign up for this 7 part course - there is no charge… nothing to buy - and start learning and avoiding the 7 deadly SEO mistakes.

For the next 7 days, myself & James Brown, PLUS a selected group of TOP marketers are pooling together some of our best resources - and you can gain instant access to them at no cost.

The Golden Week Giveaway is a very select event, only taking 50 JV Partners.  As I said, I was very honored to be included as a partner.

I’ve had a look at the gifts on offer too - and I can’t wait to get some of them… they look really good.

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I was recently contacted by Dave Guindan and asked to promote his new Exit Splash product - which, on the surface looked like just another exit pop-up.  However, after evaluating Exit Splash and testing it on a site - I now know it is so much more.

Exit Splash uses exit technology to detects when your visitor is leaving your  site and encourages them to take a look at an offer…. the offer may be the opportunity to subscribe to your newsletter, a downsell or even an upsell….

The way Dave has put this product together is really quite cool.  Dave provides two seperate functions in Exit Splash

Exit Technology

Exit Splash ‘warns’ your visitor they are going to get an offer - by popping up a warning dialogue box, playing an audio and displaying an image on the page behind.

Exit Splash will literally talk to your visitor and give them directions on what to do next to take find out what the offer is.

The audio instruction is reinforced by an image that is displayed on the page behind the dialogue box.  This image gives visual instructions on what to do next….

For an example of this visit My Exit Splash - once the page loads, refresh the screen and watch the results!

Dave’s script is so smart, that it won’t load if you are changing pages on the site…. One of the main downfalls of many other exit scripts is that you need to put code into your onsite links to ensure the exit popup doesn’t ‘pop-up’ while navigating the site.  With Exit Splash - simply install the script, create the embed code and you’re running.

Viral Twitter Box

I’ve been writing about Twitter for a while - and I love it.  Twitter giveaways are becoming a real thing too — ask for your offer to be ‘re-tweeted’ and offer a gift.

With the Exit Splash Viral Twitter Box, all you need to do is generate the embed code, put the Viral Twitter Box right into your page and watch your offer go viral.  Here’s an example of a Twitter Box - and yes, it does work:

Very, very easy to use

What about installing and configuring the scripts??? Even easier.  There are only two scripts - and all you need to do is FTP (or upload them through CPanel) them to your server.

To get the embed code, point your browser to the configuration tool that Dave provides, answer a few simple questions and then cut and paste the generated code into your webpage.

Exit Splash is released on April 21… and I’m offering over $400 in bonuses when you purchase Exit Splash.  The launch price for Exit Splash will be under $50 — and it’s well worth the price.

Full details of my Exit Splash Bonuses worth over $400 and a demonstration of the product can be found at My Exit Splash