I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve made a post in here. Wow! I can’t believe how quickly time is flying by.
In the meantime, I have been quite productive, and it feels quite excellent.
My focus has been on article marketing and creating little social networks for promotion. I took info from a number of sources about how to create these networks and pulled together a game plan. Seems like each person left a little bit out that one of the others filled in and I ended up with a pretty cool outline. Now I’ve been implementing it over the past week.
My results are not as dramatic as I had anticipated. It sounded kind of fun to take over the first page of Google in about 3 days, but that has not happened — yet. I have some more steps to take for this first article and then plan to move to a second article after that. Each time I go through the cycle, I know I will become more efficient. So, cool!
I’ve spoken about, and promoted the IM membership Earn1KaDay a couple times before. And lots of people have checked out the link on the side bar: “The Best Internet Marketing Forum on the Planet.” I don’t say that lightly, and that’s why I’m coming back to it again today.
Because of some pretty exciting enhancements within the 1KaD forum, Dennis Becker is going to raise the price of membership at the end of July. It’s $29.99 per month now and going up to at least $39.99 later this month.
Part of the motivation for the increase is that Dennis has taken on some “junior” partners in running the forum. These guys are great. They have created 2 membership programs of their own - “Super Simple Marketing” and “IM Coaching Club.” These programs are loaded with training in internet marketing (of course!) and both are free to members of 1KaD. So cool to that too!
There is so much more that we get as members day to day (ie LOTS of WSOs), but the biggest benefit is a friendly forum where you can actually ask any question at all and you will get a respectful and thorough answer. The environment is really conducive to putting your neck out there a little and asking for what you need. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
If nothing else, check out the updated sales page and sign up for the newsletter. You’ll get a chance to see examples of some of the best posts and get a first hand experience of the flavor of the forum. At least give yourself that. It’ll be time well spent and you’ll get it before the price goes up. Well worth it.
Well, I committed to a “One Page A Day” challenge for the month of February, organized by Eric Giguere of AdSense fame. I have subscribed to his blog and read it regularly. Good stuff.
Back to the challenge. The only rule is to publish 1 page of content online per day. I haven’t gotten off to a very good start, but I will finish strong. I’d like to rebuild some momentum with this blog and this should help.
I rejoined the 3WayLinks.net program. My focus continues to be on building links and links and links, and that is one way. In the process I am revamping websites and adding lots of content. I’ve sort of synthesized a new method for keyword research that gives me an idea of which keywords can actually rank and which have little chance. I love having a clear step by step method that I can follow. I can’t emphasize that enough. I am certainly not feeling as fuzzy about all this marketing stuff as I was many months ago — I’ve learned a ton! — but sometimes, it’s wonderful just to be really clear about what steps to take.
As I’ve mentioned before, other backlink building efforts are focused on article marketing and social marketing sites. I have a blue print from one of the members of the Earn1KaDay forum to follow for the social marketing. Dennis Becker (creater of 1KaD) is doing a tutorial now on using a wiki to get some good ranking on Google and I’m incorporating that too.
There are so many really really fun resources. I am having a very good time with my marketing efforts these days, moving a mile a minute, and getting a lot accomplished.
Another new resource is an online site that uses your images and creates some really professional looking videos in a flash. It’s great! I’m in the process of figuring out a process to add an automatic redirect when the video ends, and I’ll write more about it when I get some good results. I’m pretty sure I have all the tools and now just need to figure out some transitions — if that makes any sense.
That’s enough for now. I have to save something for tomorrow! Thanks for visiting.
A few months ago I was a member of Niches-in-a-Box. The product consists of premade niche websites, including a landing page and about 12 silo sites based on related keywords. The sites look great, are full of info, and are well designed to be unique to each webmaster.
Problem is, it appears no matter how unique the technology allowed the sites to be, the basic template has proved to be too big of a foot print to avoid the notice of Google. At least that’s my take. As I put up my sites and built up backlinks, the sites were indexed fairly quickly. None of them are currently anywhere to be found in Google’s index. So, they were de-indexed. Does that mean blacklisted? I hope not! But what a waste. They’re still bringing in some traffic, but no where near where I’d like to see it.
I happened into the NIAB training center yesterday and learned they have made a series of videos that demonstrate how to move these sites to a new template. Again, with the landing page and 12 silo sites on subdomains, with php and html and 3 columns, this is a complex task. I had thought of doing it myself and had already moved the blogs to separate domains, but hadn’t moved the sites yet. Now I have videos to walk me through the process. I’m pleased and have started the process right away.
Since the sites have been de-indexed, I wonder if I should also use fresh URLs when I move them? I really like the domain names I picked originally, but it won’t help if I get attached to them. What I want is to set up solid sites and use SEO and article marketing to get them established.
The Internet marketing realm feels quiet these days. It’s actually not, so it must be me.
There were some supermega launches this week that I avoided, like PPC Classroom. DealDotCom continues to spread. I jumped on SEO Elite when it became available. It just does so many things, I couldn’t pass it up. They offer some great videos to teach you how to make the most out of the software. I’m excited.
Much of my time lately has gone to maintenance. Like posting to blogs, attending to websites, distributing articles.
One specific accomplishment this week was completing a video on Boy Million. It was my first attempt at a video and it’s very amateur, but it’s done and it’s on YouTube and I had fun putting it together. It’s just a slide show, I’m not the star or anything, but I’m sure that’ll be coming soon.
So for your pleasure, here’s my video:
Thanks for watching!
It is really true that if you have a website or a blog, you can use all the quality backlinks you can get. Consider visiting Boy Million and getting one!
Really a great week so far. So much is in the works.
Seems this was the week of updates and articles. I got a number of articles published through the Content Spooling Network. That’s sort of like a link exchange, except you exchange articles on similar themed sites. There’s no reciprocal linking involved at all. Another benefit is the program is set up so all the articles submitted are unique, no duplicates. Very cool.
I also have been doing a bunch of work on my Squidoo lens and my IM website Yellow Dog Marketing. I continue to learn so much.
A bunch of people have downloaded the FreeBayRSS Wordpress plugin. Here’s the link again in case you missed it: FreeBayRSS. The full version, BayRSS, has a sales page you can check out. The free version does not.
Another reminder is Deal Dot Com. Are you a marketer? You’re going to miss out if you don’t get signed up. The site is just starting up and it will get hot very soon. Sizzling. I expect great deals on software, but you have to check every day because the product changes everyday and they are selling out. As people start getting in the habit of checking the site regularly, sales will be made. Get yourself on the affiliate side of that, making a commission with every sale.
Have a great weekend everyone! Thanks for visiting.
