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With the Tweeder Method you can target a specific group of people and market to them on Twitter with laser accuracy. There’s no need to try to get thousands of followers nor will you have to send sales links out in endless updates.

The Tweeder Method is a very non-intrusive yet effective method of marketing via Twitter.

Now with version 2.0 it’s even more hands-off. The new module handles all of your tweeting for you on full autopilot. The combined system will continually pull in interested buyers and present your sales message without being the least bit “spammy” to your potential customers.

Click Here to see the Tweeder Method 2.0

Good keyword phrases allow us to compete in the heavy-hitter niches without having to go head-to-head with the heavyweights. The big niches have a wide selection of affiliate programs, content, and even graphics that we can use to build our websites. When we narrow the niche through the use of keywords, we’re still part of the big pie, we’re just working on a smaller slice.

So how do you find gret keywords? Here are three ways:

“Free” Method

Do a search on Google for “keyword research” and study the results. It will take some time. It’s worth it.

Make notes. Paper is fine. A simple copy/paste to OneNote is my favorite method of taking notes, but Wordpad works, too.

Practice what you’ve learned. This is a case when reading isn’t enough. Run through several niches looking for keywords. Again, make notes. If you find several related keywords that all look good in a niche where you might be able to make money, you’ve identified a good project.

(Note the word “free” is in quotes. There’s no such thing as free - you’re trading time instead of money.)

Almost Free Method

Register for the Thirty Day Challenge.  As part of this free course you’ll get a free 45-day trial of Market Samurai along with all the instruction you’ll need to get up to speed with it.

Market Samurai is one of my top 2 choices of paid keyword research tools, so this option is a no-brainer in my book.

This year the Noble Samurai team has added quite a few new features, so MS is really more than a simple keyword tool.

Paid Method

Sign up for Micro Niche Finder.

MNF is my preferred keyword research tool, and as you learn about keyword research on the web, you’ll see that I’m not alone in this. One successful campaign/page/product will more than pay for MNF, so in my book it’s a must-have tool.

The paid tools like MNF and MS do basically the same things as the manual searches. Their results might be a little more accurate, but even if that weren’t the case, they do the searches in a fraction of the time (MNF tends to be quite a bit faster than MS). This is important when doing keyword research because the more phrases you’re able to search through, the more likely you are to find the real gems.

OK, so we know how, but why?

With proper keyword research and identification you’ll be able to more quickly pull in targeted traffic.

If you use this information when you register your domain, when you build your content, when you write your articles, and when you build your backlinks, you’ll rank more quickly for the keywords that have good traffic and less competition. This means you’ll see results sooner with less effort.

Often poor (or no) keyword research is the key difference between those who succeed in IM and those who struggle without any successes.

The problem with Yahoo Pipes is that there is a learning curve.  Thankfully, any pipe that has been created can be used by anyone else, and Yahoo has thoughtfully included a search function.

Below is a list of the top 8 Pipes we’ve found (so far):

• Aggregated News Alerts - Enter a search term and this pipe will blend searches from Bloglines, Findory, Google Blog Search, Google News, IceRocket, MSFT Live News, Technorati, and Yahoo! News.
• Daily Feeds Mashup - A large smashup of such sites as: Lifehacker, Duggmirror (forecast), Digg, Slashdot, Kottke, Boing Boing, Reddit, Engadget, Del.icio.us, Stumble Buzz and more sorted by date. It also appends the originating site’s name to the title and corrects for duplicates.
• Hot Deals Search - Finds deals from all major deal sites in US… Fetches deals simultaneously by running parallel threads… Sorts deals based on publication date of the deal (latest first).
• Top Tech Gadgets - Fetches only the hottest gadget news from around the web.
• Video Game Video-Reviews - From IGN, Gamespot, Gamepro, GameTrailers, 1UP, G4’s X-Play and The Escapist’s Zero Punctuation.
• Super Digg Feed v2.0 - This pipes makes your boring old Digg rss feed into a SUPER Digg rss feed. It adds category information, submitter information (with a link to the users page), Digg count, number of comments (with link to the comment page), and a link to the direct page, bypassing Digg. It also comes with a relevant Flickr picture (click to go to the flickr page).
• eBay Partner Price Search - This Pipe was designed eBay’s new affiliate partner program for the US. It will allow you to add your search terms and enter your Campaign Id Number, Custom Id , Minimum amount and Maximum amounts.
• Full Text RSS Builder - This pipe fetches the specified RSS feed, reads the web pages indicated in the links of the RSS feed items, extracts the contents from the web pages between the specified tags, and write back the extracted contents into the description of the RSS feed items. Use this pipe to build your own full-text RSS.

Of course, not only can the RSS output from these pipes be used via an RSS reader, they could also be used as content - either in an RSS widget or even using something like FeedWordPress to provide content for an autoblog.

Let me know if you use any cool pipes, and I’ll take a look at them, too.

Unfortunately, when you try to register a domain name, you find that the .com, .net, .info, .us, .biz domains are already claimed.

So you head to Squidoo, HubPages, Blogger and Wordpress, only to find that those domain names are claimed, too.

Since it’s very important to have your keyword phrase in your domain name, sometimes you have to get creative.  Occasionally dashes between the words are all you need to try.  Sometimes, however, you need a little more.

The list of prefixes and suffixes below can be combined with a keyword phrase to greatly expand the choices of available domains.  For example, if your keyword phrase is “underwater baskets,” you might choose something like, “underwaterbasketssource.com.”

If your favorite domain combination is also taken, you can always add hyphens to the combination: underwater-baskets-source.com.

Here’s the list:

Prefix:

123
1st
a1-
all
best
buy
classic
cool
cyber
daily
direct
e
easy
ever
ez
fast
first
free
fresh
front
geo
get
giga
good
goto
grab
great
hit
hot
i
inter
mega
meta
metro
multi
my
neo
omni
pro
quick
retro
rush
saveon
simple
simply
sleek
smart
solo
super
techno
tera
the
think
top
ubi
ultra
urban
vip
you

Suffix:

2u
4u
123
247
360
411
a2z
access
advisor
alley
atoz
authority
base
bay
beat
blog
board
book
box
buzz
byte
cache
cafe
camp
cast
cave
center
central
channel
city
club
coach
coast
connection
county
country
cove
data
deals
depot
direct
discounts
dome
domination
dotcom (best with one-word niches)
experts
fever
flow
focus
fun
future
garden
guide
guru
heaven
home
house
hq
hub
info
informer
insider
insight
journal
lab
life
link
load
loophole
market
mart
nation
net
network
news
nexus
now
online
park
place
planet
point
portal
post
pro
promo
pulse
ratings
report
reporter
resources
revealed
review
reviewed
reviews
road
scout
secrets
share
sight
signs
site
source
specials
spot
station
steals
story
street
system
talk
tech
times
today
tools
town
tracker
trends
valley
village
ville
vine
voice
warehouse
watch
web
wire
wizard
world
zone

Finally, if you’d rather use an automated online tool to suggest your domain name combinations, try one of the following sites:

http://www.nametumbler.com/

http://expert-marketer.com/cgi-bin/domains.cgi

If you have a favorite domain name prefix or suffix that I’ve left off of this list, please let me know!

I thought it might be of use to some of my readers so I’ve packaged a few different versions of the theme.  In addition to the header shown to the left, there’s a header for the following themes:  pets, couples, medical/health, and a blank header to be used with your own image.

Enjoy!

“Thoughtful” Wordpress theme - thoughtful.zip

If you’re not familiar with the concept, each site has a backlink to your main site, but each also contains a link to the next spoke on the wheel. Some linkwheel designs also include patterns of crosslinks across the wheel, but the most basic (pictured to the left) is also the least likely to be penalized as a linking scheme - especially with larger wheels.

The inter-linking passes a bit of link juice from each spoke back to the hub. Since each spoke is interlinked, a bit of link juice is also passed to each spoke, which increases the overall effectiveness of the whole wheel.

Today SeNuke added a “Web 2.0 Profile” module to their product. Really it’s just a means of building linkwheels using profile pages on social sites. Here’s how it works:

• You enter 3 lines of information, then press “start.” The software creates accounts at all of the sites you’ve selected (including automatic captcha solving).
• Next, press one button to automatically handle the verification emails for all of the new accounts.
• Next, enter the URL you want to be the hub of your new linkwheel, press “go,” and it builds the wheel, inter-linking each spoke.
• Finally, press one more button to ping each of the new spokes so that the search engines find them.

As released this module contains 490 sites:

1 PR 8 domain
9 PR 7 domains
48 PR 6 domains
87 PR 5 domains
70 PR 4 domains
114 PR 3 domains
88 PR 2 domains
73 PR 1 domains

(Please note that the PR of the main site does not directly carry over to your profile pages, but some of the authority is passed down.)

The best part about this specific technique is that since the pages are built on profile pages, unless abused by a user, the pages aren’t spammy or obtrusive. Really, the whole software package is like that. When used in a thoughtful manner, SeNuke just makes it easy to do the backlinking you should already be doing for your sites.

This new addition to the SeNuke software shows just how committed Areeb is to making SeNuke the best piece of link-building software on the market. He could have easily make this module a stand-alone product and sold it to his existing customer base. Instead, each time he adds a new module, he’s building value to an already powerful software suite.

If you can’t tell, I’m impressed.

Click here to try out SeNuke for free.

(Areeb does a much better job of updating the software than he does with updating the sales page. The newest features aren’t mentioned, but when you sign up for the free trial you’ll have full access to all of the program’s latest features.)

Even for the average Twitter user, these hot trends often point out the coolest subjects.

There are lots of tools that can help you stay on top of the latest trends on Twitter without needing to be glued to Twitter all day. Here are some of my favorites:

1. Twitter Search - It’s simple. On the other hand it displays the top 10 topics real-time in a basic display. Additionally, if you click on the tiny link for “Advanced Search,” you can do some pretty cool things.
2. Tweetmeme - This site shows which URL’s (web pages) are being tweeted the most. If you’re interested in staying on top of the hottest stories or news, this site might be for you.
3. Twitterfall - This strangely hypnotic site shows the real-time tweets that contain the selected trending phrase or your search phrase.
4. Trendyobot - Follow this bot within Twitter and he’ll send you the latest trends as the start happening.
5. #hashtags - This site tracks trending hashtags. Hashtags are a way of being involved in a wider conversation than with “regular” tweets.
6. Twitt(url)y - This is another site that tracks the most tweeted URL’s. They present the information in a different format than Tweetmeme, so use whichever one you like best.
7. Monitter - This site also tracks either the hottest trends or your specific search terms, but it also has a widget you can place on your website.
8. Twist - Pretty cool Twitter trend site that displays a graph of the trend.
9. Retweet Radar - This site shows the topics that are retweeted (RT) the most on Twitter. The topics are displayed in a cloud format. They also show the people and URL’s that are retweeted the most.
10. Tweetizen - Shows Twitter trending topics and allows you to only show trends in areas that interest you.
11. TweetGrid - While this site doesn’t give you the trending topics, I’ve included it as #11 because it’s a useful search tool.

If you know of a cool Twitter trending tool or site that I haven’t listed, place a link to it in a comment so that I can check it out, too.

Let me tell you a little story about a man named Mel.

Mel was a scuba diver in the 50’s and 60’s back when the sport was very young. In fact, he opened the first dive shop in the world in California and had some huge success. Over the course of several recreational dive trips to the Caribbean, Mel became intrigued with the idea of finding treasure in the many shipwrecks in the area.

In 1962, Mel joined forces with another treasure hunter to search for a group of ships that wrecked off of the coast of Florida way back in 1715. Since his partner was funding the operation, Mel agreed to work, along with a small team of divers, for a year without pay for 50% of whatever they found.  Every morning before making their dives, Mel would tell the crew, “Today’s the day!” Unfortunately, things didn’t quite go as planned. Days turned into months and they didn’t find anything.

On the 360th day of the year, Mel once again said, “Today’s the day!”

That day they were trying out a new contraption that used the ship’s propellers to push clear ocean water from the surface down to the bottom where the divers where working. The idea was that the clear water would push away the murky water from caused by their digging. As an unintended side effect, the blast of water dug a hole in the ocean floor that revealed 1,033 gold coins! Today was in fact the day! Mel later said of the event, “Once you have seen the ocean bottom paved with gold, you’ll never forget it!”

After almost a year of searching, Mel and his team found the 1715 fleet which they continued to salvage over the next ten years. But that’s not the end of Mel’s story.

In 1969, winter storms off of the east coast of Florida prompted Mel and his team to shift their efforts to searching for a new wreck in the waters off of the Florida Keys. This ship was the holy grail of treasure ships: the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Atocha sank off of the coast of Florida in 1622 with a cargo of 40 tons of gold and silver. This was a prize worthy of a real treasure hunt!

So Mel and his team began their search, and again, Mel would begin each day by saying, “Today’s the day!”

And they searched…
For eleven years…
Then, in 1980, Mel found another staggering treasure in the Keys. Although it wasn’t the Atocha, he found one of her sister ships — the Santa Margarita — that was sunk in the same storm. This find netted Mel and the team more than $40 million in gold and treasures. Although this was a find of historic proportions, Mel wasn’t satisfied. He’d been searching for the Atocha for years and felt like it was just outside of his grasp. So they continued searching.

Five years later, July 20, 1985 started like any one of the previous  5,400: “Today’s the day!”
Indeed it was.
That day Mel and his team found what his son called “the Mother Lode.” After fifteen years of searching, Mel Fisher found a shipwreck containing stacks of silver bars, chests of silver coins, gold, jewels, and thousands of other unique artifacts. One of the divers described it as a reef twenty-five to thirty feet long and five to six feet wide, made up of silver bars. They had finally found the resting place of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. This find was the richest treasure find since the opening of King Tut’s tomb. They continue to dig up emeralds and other artifacts from the wreck to this day. The total value is over $450 million and continues to grow.

After fifteen years of searching and frustration, Mel Fisher finally found the success he knew was there all along. What made Mel different from all of the others who searched before him?

He never gave up.
So when you find yourself getting frustrated, remember the story of Mel Fisher. Maybe the next article you write won’t be a home run. Maybe your Squidoo lens won’t make any sales. Perhaps that PPC ad is just a waste of money after all.

Or, perhaps today’s the day…

He describes how to use a simple bookmark/favorite to ping new or updated sites.  It could also be used to ping a blog after you make a comment for a backlink so that it will be crawled more quickly.

Take a look at the post here and let me know what you think.

It was an amazing trip.

Obviously there’s too much to fit in a blog post. Hopefully a few photos and a bit of detail will at least give you an idea of what we were doing.

First, we landed in Kathmandu and took a couple of days to get adjusted to the time zone. It's a sprawling, noisy, dusty, crowded city. If anyone is interested in going trekking in Nepal or even just going for a visit, plan no more than one day in Kathmandu on each end unless you have specific need to be there. We saw lots of sights, but the city wasn't really the reason for our trip.

There were constant reminders that we weren't in the U.S. - almost everything was different.

Next we took a 7-hour bus ride into Pokhara. Much of the route looked pretty dangerous, but we consoled ourselves that these drivers make this trip all the time. Unfortunately, around halfway up the route, a truck that was approaching us from the other direction had a blowout and tragically went over the edge as we watched. It didn't just look dangerous - it was deadly.

Once we started on the trails, we did a great deal of brutal, vertical hiking.

We shared the gospel with lots of people who were all very welcoming and interested.

We met lots of locals on the trails.

We handed out bibles and tracts.

We ate lots of dal bhat - two times a day and as much as we could eat at each meal. This dal bhat also included potato curry (we ate lots of this) and bamboo curry (bamboo shoots were in season). The vegetables change with the season and availability.

We faced our fears (to be fair, the 250m wooden suspension bridge was my fear).

We saw some interesting sights...

...including lots of amazing vistas.

And of course we made some new friends.

On the way home from the airport my dad asked if I’d go back. My answer was, “not today.”

I’m sure I’ll go back someday. The people are amazing. They thirst for God’s word, and once converted they show a strength and depth of faith that’s really rare in the West.

The country and its people have tremendous need, and anything even one of us can do to help, no matter how small, could have a big impact in their future.

In Kathmandu we visited an orphanage, church and bible school (all run by Shyam and Paula Khatri, a missionary couple). Based on their needs, I’m going to start a drive for used Christian books as well as the funds needed to ship them to the school. The pastor plans on starting two new schools - one in the east and one in the west - so they’ll have a home for all of the books I can gather and ship.

If you have any questions at all about Nepal, Kathmandu, the mission, or anything else, just leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer.