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Google Fight Against Internet Marketers, Link Building And Blog Networks!

Franck — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:30:37 +0000

It’s crazy, so many things happened in the search engine optimization world since the last Google Panda Update.

It’s not a secret that Google is fighting “low quality” backlinks, but I know that many of you are new to Internet business and seo. At this point, you might be wondering how in the world you are going to drive traffic to your affiliate blog, or your own website? This is a legitimate question.

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There are hundreds of seo articles, blog posts and forum threads available, however, if you are a newbie, there is now way you can understand what they are talking about. If you are confused and don’t know what to do, don’t worry because…

This post will end up your confusion.

So here is the scoop.

What is happening with Google?

The answer is simple: Google only want quality sites in their index. But what is Google index you ask?

Google index: Google is an search engine (i.e. a machine), and what this machine does is scouring the web to find websites. The first thing that this machine will do is: adding sites in their index.

Let me give you an example: you create your brand new website (let’s say that your niche is the forex market), and you get a domain name (let’s say: mycoolforexsite.com). Then, you buy your web hosting, and you add your domain under your hosting account. So you are in business! This is great, BUT…you are not in Google index yet. In other words, Google doesn’t know that your site exists, and when someone type: “I want to trade forex” in the Google search bar, your site will never be on Google first page (not even on page 10 or page 100)!

Why?

Because your site is not in Google index yet!

So how to get your site in Google index you ask?

You need to add a link pointing to your site on an other website (this site needs to be in Google index, like squidoo.com). Now, the magic will happen, and when Google visit this site (squidoo.com) and find your link, Google will add your site to its index.

And what will happen from there? Now, when someone type “I want to learn forex” in Google, your site will appear on one of Google’s page! wow, congratulations…however, it will not appear on the first page yet…(more on how to do this later)

Now, the thousand dollar question…

How to get on Google first page?

This is one of my numerous traffic strategies, and I will give you some pointers, and mistakes to avoid if you want to rank on Google first page and most importantly…stay on Google first page for your chosen (profitable) keywords.

But before I tell you how to do this, I’ll tell you what you should absolutely avoid if you want to

1. Don’t buy/get in/subscribe to link building schemes

This is a biggie. Several big blog networks have seen a lot (if not all) of their blog deindexed from Google index.

What does this mean? And what are blog networks?

First, how blog networks work…

A while back, savvy webmasters noticed that the more backlinks (a link pointing back to your site), you can get, the better your rankings. A couple of them took action and said: “Hey! What I buy 100 different domain names, build 100 different blogs on these domains, and allow other webmasters (i.e. me and you, etc) to post links to their websites on my 100 sites? If I sell 1000 subscriptions at $47/mth, I’ll make $47,000.00 per month!!!”

And this is EXACTLY what they did. They bought the domains, build the blogs and sold the subscriptions and made way more than $47K.

The blog network owner was (very, very) happy, the webmasters were happy (because they’d get top rankings for their sites as a result of getting in the blog network), BUT Google wasn’t happy (as always…and I really wonder if they’ll be happy anytime soon?)

Why Google wasn’t happy you ask?

Because Google don’t want webmasters like you to game the system (although THEY teach you how to do that in the first place…). They only want Quality sites in their index, and high quality sites on their first page.

Why Google love high quality websites?

This is the Billion dollar question…Simply because they hate Yahoo, Bing, and every other search engines…They want people to advertise on Google Adwords (they earn a LOT of money with sponsored ads), and if they have “crappy” sites in their organic results, people (you, me and millions of others) will go somewhere else to find what they are searching for (think facebook, twitter, pinterest…bing?).

Got it? Great…

Continue…

The second blunder

Now, the second thing you want to avoid at all cost is getting advice from people who don’t even know how to rank their sites in the search engines.

In fact, when you seek seo or traffic advice, make sure to ask someone who knows what he is talking about. This is really important because this can get your website deindexed, sandboxed, or banned from Google.

Now, what you need to do to get top rankings in Google?

If you type these (profitable) keywords in Google:

Learn affiliate marketing
affiliate marketing course
affiliate marketing experts
affiloblueprint review
Internet Business Coaching (you will find my blog – the one you are reading right now)
and to many to add here….

You will find my site (http://www.mynetmarketingland.com) on the first page of Google organic results, sometimes at the first position.

Until now, I’ve been using “old fashioned” traditional web 1.0 link building techniques. But I am going to use more sophisticated new web 2.0 technique from now on…

Here is what I suggest you (and me too) to do to get top rankings, subscribers and sales:

1. Write good and original content in your niche on a weekly basis.

The more you write, the better. WordPress blogs have an advantage here, since it’s super easy to add content.

2. Focus on high quality content

I’m not saying that you need to write the best content on the web for your niche…I mean provide the best content to your readers and followers.

3. Jump into the web 2.0 boat

I mean that you need to get involved in twitter, Google +, facebook, pinterest, facebook, and a few forums in your niche. All these sites will not only help you with Google rankings, but they will also drive social traffic to your website. Really, really important today, so don’t neglect this part.

4. Get involved in other blogs in your niche

Write blog posts for them (guest posts), and comment on the high traffic blogs in your niche

5. Continue with the “old fashioned” seo techniques

I mean continue to get quality backlinks to your website from guest blogging, press releases, etc… plus the social media technique above.

But…

Make sure to vary your anchor texts…I mean that you don’t want to have the same keywords in all your anchor text. Sometimes, you will just have: Click Here, or the actual URL as your anchor text.

And this one is HUGE…

6. Focus on one big authority site and make people stick (and come back) to your site

You want to make sure that your site has a lot of pages, and most importantly that people stay on your site (more than 2 seconds…).

Here is a super tip for that: make sure you build a list of subscribers, and send your latest posts or articles to your subscribers.

Another tip is to create a membership with a lot of free content (I’m not talking about a full blow membership site, but just one page that you update weekly for your subscribers for example).

In a nutshell…to get better search engine rankings and more traffic, create great content, get a lot of high quality backlinks, and don’t subscribe to any link building schemes. Also, don’t forget to get involved in facebook, Google+, youtube and other high traffic web 2.0 websites.

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Franck Silvestre made more than $100,000.00 online starting from scratch, and today, he teaches beginners how they can start their own Internet business. If you want to start online (while avoiding all the scam artists, etc…)

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Affiliate Marketing On Facebook – Quick Way To Drive More Traffic To Your Website!

Franck — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:19:28 +0000

I must say that I didn’t really jump on the facebook bandwagon yet, although I’m slowly getting there. All I have right now is my personal facebook page.

Today, I was thinking about doing affiliate marketing with facebook, and the first thing I will do is adding a facebook like button to my main affiliate marketing coaching website. If you know me, you know that I’m in the Internet marketing niche and that I promote affiliate products (only good stuff) in the backend.

I will experiment with a facebook like on my homepage (affiliate marketing coaching) and see if my monthly traffic actually increase.

How does the facebook “like” button works?

When someone clicks on the facebook “like” button on your page, it will be automatically added in his wall, and in his friend news feed, with a link back to your site. It’s a super easy way to get more traffic. It’s powerful because it’s more like a recommendation, and his friends may eventually click on the link to find out what more about your site. I know this works because I done this recently. I visited someone’s page, and I followed the links that he liked.

How to add a facebook like button to your website?

This is super easy, and if a tech dummy like me can do it, you can do it too…

1. Go to this page: add a facebook like button

Note: Don’t add the share button because it has been “replaced” with the like button.

2. Configure your button to get the code and add it on your website (it’s step 1). There’s nothing to d0 (I just unchecked the “send” and “show faces” boxes), and click “Get code” when you are done.

3. Follow the instruction in the pop up box

It’s super easy. Once you click “get code”, you will be able to choose between 3 options. I chose the old “html”, and then added the piece of code after my webpage’s tag , and I’ve also added the “like” button code.

I then uploaded my new home page, and I clicked on the like button (yes, I do like my site!). then, I opened my own facebook page, and my site was there. I was pretty surprised that only a few minutes after I refresh the page, I already had 4 likes! Great, people actually like my site.

Now, you can also see how many “likes” you get every day when you add your website at Facebook Insights. Before it works, you will need to add another small piece of code to your website.

Tip: I think that Google will be sad (they don’t really like the fact that facebook took millions of users who should normally be on Google…) I am going to do the same thing with Google Plus. I think Google gives more weight to your website if you add their “Google +” button as well!

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Franck is an ex-body guard. Today, he is the Internet and affiliate marketing coach, and he shows beginner how to start an affiliate marketing business and helps his members at the Affiliate Profit Mentor Monthly Club.

List of 5 Best WordPress Plugins For Your Blog

Peter — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:50:46 +0000

If you are a blogger at least for the last two years, you would know just how much better WordPress has become. In fact you wouldn’t be wrong to call it a very good Content Management System although credit should be given to the WordPress development team for doing such a great job.

For most people WordPress is the most suitable blogging platform to use because it is so easy to install and because of the many powerful plugins that you can find free and available for upload anytime.

Well here’s 5 WordPress plugins that I always used as they help to make all my blogging tasks run like clockwork taking away the real work but keeping the fun. It’s allowed me to grow my affiliate marketing business to what it is today.

1. Your blog readers like getting information fast….

Search Everything – Your new blog reader comes to your blog for a reason and that is to find something that he has just searched for in Google or other search engines. When he lands on your blog how fast he gets to see this information probably depends on how fast you also puts him in front of your products or services that you are promoting on your blog.

This WordPress plugin provides this visitor a search utility which allows him to perform searches on all your previous posts. This plugin written by Dan Cameron, makes it easy for your visitors by giving them more search options and bringing them to the searched pages, attachments, comments, and custom fields.

2. Engaging your readers in your current projects and conversations….

Subscribe to Comments – This plugin works well by allowing your visitors to comment on your blog post, and provide an opportunity to subscribe to e-mail notifications of other people’s subsequent comments. Mark Jaquith, wrote this plugin which also allows your visitors to unsubscribe from any posts or block all notifications, or change e-mail addresses.

3. Saying thank you to your new readers to your blog….

Comment Relish- is a simple WordPress plugin written by Justin Shattuck that automatically sends an e-mail message to any of your new readers who have just commented on your blog for the very first time. Many people would be happy to receive a “thank-you for coming to my blog” message and may even become your repeat visitor to your blog by using the RSS you put on this default email.

4. Giving your readers a way to communicate with you…..

Contact Form: To be a successful blogger or Internet Marketer, the key to this success is that you must make yourself available to your prospective customer or business partner. Be contactable at all times and always reply to anyone who asks you a question. It could be business related or even be some other help they are asking. Putting up a simple contact form visibly on your blog help to achieve this purpose.

5. Don’t underestimate the little things your put on your blog….

Bookmark Me: If you have taken the trouble to write a good, interesting post, wouldn’t you like it to be seen and read by as many people as possible? Then a good way to reach out to more people is to allow your readers to bookmark these pages that they like at social bookmarking sites such as Twitter, Del.icio.us, Technorati, StumbleUpon. Simple yet very powerful method.

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Discover How I Get Unstoppable Free Targeted Traffic To My Blog

Peter — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:27:59 +0000

Generating targeted traffic to your blog is really not that difficult if you take the trouble to learn how to effectively do this. However if you want to see any measure of success, you must be prepared to commit your time and effort to learn and master simple, yet proven techniques of traffic generation.

Here are a few simple techniques that you can immediately start with:

1. Update your blog regularly

Ask yourself if you preferred to visit a blog that has been regularly updated with interesting and useful contents or are you happy to visit one that looks like an abandoned blog. Well of course you would choose the former. Frequent updates on your blog helps to build a relationship with your readers who will come back for more knowing that there will be fresh content being added.

2. Tag your Posts

Tags that you add on your blog posts work quite like any other links and they are quickly found by the search engines. They also help more people find your blog when they perform searches in many of the popular blog search engines that matched any of your tags. In other words if used correctly they can help to bring more traffic to your blog whenever you post new contents.

3. Search Engine Optimization

Many new bloggers can get quite overwhelmed by the work involved in Search Engine Optimization. While we agree some of the work takes a fair amount of time like learning and following a link building strategy that works for their business, there are also a few things that can be easily done. For example, you could learn how to optimize your web pages or blog posts so that the major search engines can find them easily. Write relatively long articles and focus more on writing theme content using LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) keywords. This is an excellent way to get more targeted traffic due to the many long tail keywords Google finds in your content.

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Getting No Traffic To Your WordPress Blog? Try These 3 Surefire Ways

Peter — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:42:15 +0000

If you are facing difficulties getting traffic to your WordPress blog, there is a great possibility that either you are using the wrong traffic generation method or you are not doing enough of using the right techniques. In fact you should focus and practice a few proven techniques used by successful bloggers. Here are the tried and tested ways most people have found success with:

1. Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the oldest and most proven forms of traffic generation. Whether you prefer the old manual way of writing your articles or you rely on much sophisticated tools to get this done, article writing works. So the more you write the more others will know about you and your business and will come visit your website. However it has to be content that is good quality, unique and interesting or you will get poor results.

2. Write Quality Content

There is really no substitute for writing good content. Even with all the advanced tools flooding the Internet, you really cannot depend on them too much. Writing good quality content on your WordPress blog needs much of your thoughts and your personality to achieve the desired result. The more your write the more familiar with your business you will become and writing any article on any topic in your niche becomes very easy for you.

3. Twitter

Many people still do not truly understand the power of what Twitter can do. If they did, they could well leverage on this free platform to use as an effective marketing tool. Do you know that many countries used it to get instant public messages out to a wide audience? Did you also know that President Obama used it in his presidential campaigns? There is also a Twitter search engine that you can use to determine the level of buzz in your business, your product name and you as the product creator. Well start to learn how Twitter can be used as a good, and effective free marketing tool for your business.

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Why Getting To Google’s Page 1 Search Engine Ranking Is Not Good Enough?

Peter — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:45:11 +0000

If you have an online business and own at least a website to conduct your business, you would want to rank many of your website’s keywords in Google’s page one of its SERP or Search Engine Results Page. But is this good enough?

Well quite frankly, it’s not good enough to be just on page 1, unless you are in the top 3 positions in Google. Let’s just look at some important search engine statistics to determine some startling discovery. These statistics show that 90 percent of searchers don’t go beyond the first page, with 42 percent searchers click on position 1, 12.5 percent on position 2 and a mere 8 percent click on position 2. So if you do the math right if your website does not rank on the first 3 positions in Google, you are losing website traffic, yeah more than 60 percent to be exact.

Well if your website is not highly ranked in Google there are many things you can do to boost your rankings, although it does take some time to make this happen.

Title Tag

Putting your keyword in the title tag of your home page is an important factor in helping you rank higher in the search engines. Occasionally I do see many websites who prefer to use their company name in the title tag but hopefully they know what they are doing. As far as I know there are 2 ways why people do this. Either they are more concerned about promoting their brand name or company name so that takes priority over ranking high on their main keywords or they simply made a mistake.

URL

Many SEO experts and other marketers who own hundreds of domains are convinced that having your keyword in the domain helps to boost your ranking for that particular keyword. This is even more evident in people who know how to find a profitable niche . They do so by targeting smaller niches using the exact keyword phrase as their domain name. You can choose to use your brand name or company name in your domain but you have to remember this makes your job at ranking in the top 3 positions much harder.

Age of Domain

Does domain age carry more weight in helping a website to rank higher in Google and other search engines? This has been debated for many years by many marketers who will swear by their interesting theories. Well don’t bet on Google to bare it all here but from my frequent visits to forums there seems to be more people convinced domain age matters. Their strongest arguments: Well- established websites have very old domains, so reverse engineering suggests having an older domain helps to make a well established site and Google loves that. Another argument is that the all familiar Google Sandbox affects new websites more than the older ones. In fact most marketers give it 6 months before you are free of getting the dreaded Sandbox.

Here’s How You Can Easily Recycle Your Existing Content

Peter — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:14:37 +0000

As an Internet Marketer, you should know just how important it is to write good quality content for your website, blog or when you submit to article directories. You have so much to gain when you write quality contents than when you write mediocre or sub-standard articles no matter what excuses you give yourself. Content is still King by the way and is most likely going to be that way too – perpetually that is.

Any article marketing course will tell you writing as many as 5 articles a day to generate backlinks and increase your branding or marketability has always been put to the test by many people. Online Contests have always been about such challenges with the winners actually attesting to gaining unbelievable benefits.

Unfortunately however great the benefits are in doing massive content creation, the reality is that most marketers just don’t do this nor can they maintain such labor-intensive efforts to write so much. The fact remains that to write great content, much research has to be done and that takes too much time. It also boils down to one simple reason -not everyone enjoys writing.

How To Recycle Your Content

A new way to create new content anytime is to recycle your existing content so that you save all the trouble and time in doing any research for your article. You actually get to earn more money too because your time spent can be used in many ways to generate more income for your business.

Many people have the wrong perception that content has to be in text form. In fact these people never realized that both video and audio could serve as good content for your business as well. Such media is gaining popularity among most people as this technology has grown exponentially over recent years.

Here is what you can do for your existing article. Simply turn some of these articles into an audio recording using any free softwares that are available today like Audacity. All that you need to do is simply read out your selected article loudly into a microphone and then record your own voice. When you are through making this recording, then start distributing to your targeted audience as a podcast.

Similarly you too can convert your article into video format just by using Powerpoint and a simple and free video recording software, called Camstudio.

Audios and Videos are now the “in-thing” among people because they are more interesting and interactive as they are associated with fun and being sociable. It is therefore important that you try to align your online business marketing techniques to meet this new demand from your website traffic.

5 Sure-Fire Ways To Bring In More Repeat Visitors

Peter — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:22:43 +0000

You’ve probably heard this over and over again “Content is King” and always will be. Although it was a novelty idea in the past, people now don’t care much about sites that have flashy graphics, images or the nice web designs. Instead they look for what kind of contents you put on your website.

If we are smart we would like most of our website traffic to come from the search engines. This is because people who arrived at your website do so because they searched for a specific information they needed. This could be Internet Business Coaching or any information that they seek for a problem they currently encounter, a need or sometimes an obsession. It is therefore important that your website always provides information that is in demand or loved by visitors who arrived on your site.

Here are a few important tips on how to build your website content so that you get repeat visitors coming back time and time again.

1. Keep your website simple using a layout that is pleasant. Avoiding flashing images will help this so that visitors will not be overly distracted by them when they are trying to read the content you have published on your website.

2. Keep this in mind – most people don’t have the time to read long articles so it is important to write very compelling headlines and use sub-headers to make it easier for them to scan through the gist of your content. Another tip – make the first few paragraphs count because they determine if the visitor will continue to read it – or leave.

3. Update your website frequently. Not only is this good for your users’ experience, Google and other search engines love fresh content websites and will help in getting you higher search engine ranking. Ultimately that helps in getting more traffic and again more repeat visitors coming to your website.

4. If your website targets a specific demographic and promotes a product or service, you may need to check regularly how competitive this product or service has become. It could well influence the rate of returning visitors to your website.

5. Always ask yourself if your website provides any value for your visitors. Can they get the “wow” feeling anytime they come or do you make them feel like it’s just another website.

2 Easy Ways To Convert Your Website Traffic To Revenue

Peter — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:48:24 +0000

While making money online isn’t rocket science, it is not as easy as many people think or make it to be. Although some people who didn’t have the luxury of Internet Business Coaching still found success, they did so after encountering one failure after another in their Internet Marketing journey. One of the most common problems they faced was while they were able to get good traffic, they weren’t able to convert their website traffic to revenue.

Here are 2 easy ways that you could use to start getting all your web traffic to convert well to sales. This could well open up new doors to new opportunities after you have learned how to make big affiliate commissions.

Affiliate Programs

If you run a website that has great information on a specific product, you could join as an affiliate to an affiliate network that sells this product. You then promote this affiliate product and generate leads for this company to earn commission. The two most popular names most marketers turn to are Amazon and Commission Junction and they have some of the best products that appeal to the buying consumers.

Well now that you have good traffic coming to your website, the key is to promote your affiliate products in the best possible ways on your website. Remember that most people like to buy but don’t like to be sold meaning don’t push your sales too hard. The good thing is that both Amazon and Commission Junction allow you to easily customize their ‘link and banner’ to blend it into your website quite naturally. When your visitors visit their websites, they have already made up their mind to purchase the product.

Google Adsense

Most people have found Adsense to be one of their best ways to monetize their website. How profitable you can become depends largely on your niche type, how targeted your traffic is and most importantly where you place these ads on your website.

There is no hard and fast rule and what works well for some websites may not be so for others. It is important therefore to experiment using different placements and ad types. However one of the most effective techniques most people agree that works is to try to blend it into your web page content and making it look like a part of your content.

Are You Driving Away Visitors From Your Website?

Peter — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:24:45 +0000

Are you one of those people who have finally found the right traffic generation technique to maximize your website traffic? But on the same breath does your Google Analytics tell you that you have a high bounce rate and your visitors are leaving your website as quickly as they came? If so, the problem could lie in your landing page or homepage and you do need to fix it urgently.

Here’s how you can find out if you are actually driving away your visitors from your website.

1. Are you guilty of not giving enough information on your homepage as to what your website is all about? Don’t make your visitors who arrived at your website feel like they have come to the wrong site. It may be a good time to make some changes to your homepage so that it presents a clear picture of what they can expect to find before navigating to the inside pages for more details.

2. Try to critique your own homepage objectively as though it belongs to someone else and you may find lots of things you don’t quite like. Are you overwhelmed with too much information or do you get swarmed with links and banners everywhere? Many marketers have learned from Internet Business Coaching that having a good site navigation improves the visitor experience so that people don’t have to struggle to navigate your website.

3. Do you have your ‘about me’ or ‘contact’ pages visibly shown on your homepage? Well that is assuming you have written these pages in the first place. If not you should get that done now as these are simple one page information that most visitors read first. More like sizing you up and finding out what sort of person you are before moving on to other pages.

4. Check if any of your web pages have broken links because no visitors like to click a link that leads to a ‘404 error’ page. You risk not just losing your visitors but search engines having trouble crawling your site. You know both of them have disastrous consequences.