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Traffic $100k Blueprint Success Formula: E – I – A – C

May 27, 2011 By 9 Comments

If you’re a member of our private forum or an “Adsense $100k Blueprint” customer, you may have heard that we are getting ready to release “Traffic $100k Blueprint” soon. In fact, we hope to have it available pre-launch for A100k customers next week, with the ‘public’ launch a few days afterwards.

“Traffic $100k Blueprint” will be a game-changing landmark course. In addition to being the most comprehensive and effective course on free traffic and internet marketing that you can buy – for just $47! – it includes over half a dozen step-by-step money-making Blueprints, each one leveraging a different strategy or free traffic source. But the ‘game changing’ aspect are what we call our “external Blueprints”. These are additional step-by-step plans, but are based on the hottest internet marketing products on the market today.

For each “external Blueprint”, we purchase a top-selling internet marketing product, learn it, and implement it. Then we write up a full ‘expose’, telling you exactly what’s inside – their strategies & tactics, ‘loopholes’, ‘secrets’, etc. And then we create our own Blueprint based on the product, one that works – a step-by-step plan to implement the same strategies, tactics, etc.

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Lovin’ My Kindle!

April 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’m a reader; I like sci-fi, historical fiction, non-fiction, and read a lot of trade magazines, tech and business journals,  and the occasional James Patterson or Stephen King novel. I love poking around book stores, the big chains as well as used book stores, and get irritated if I know I’m going to be stuck somewhere and don’t have something to read.

You’d think I’d be an ideal “target customer” for an e-book reader. The reality however is that I’ve been avoiding them, as I didn’t think any of the “e-readers” was really up to snuff.

Recently, we sponsored an ‘Adsense Challenge’, providing the winner with a first place prize of a new Kindle. When placing the order to have it shipped out, I spent a little time reading through the reviews on Amazon. Subsequently, the winner emailed me to say how much they were enjoying it. And so, I ‘bit the bullet’ and ordered one for myself.

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Cool Tool: Copytalk

March 3, 2011 By 7 Comments

Write an article – or ebook – over the phone with Copytalk!

Regardless of the particular business model, making money through Internet marketing involves content. Whether it’s website content, articles for backlinks, blog posts, etc., creating content is a given. Beyond website content, one of the best ways to profit in Internet Marketing is to have your own product – we’ve all heard this before. But this is where a lot of marketers get hung up.

There are plenty of ways to generate this content, from buying & editing PLR material, to hiring a copywriter on Elance. One way is through voice dictation using Dragon Naturally Speaking (which will be the subject of an extensive review soon).

Here’s a new, interesting, and (potentially) free method: dictate it over the phone!

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Cool Tool: Word Spy

February 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment

I’ll admit it, I am a “word geek”. I’m really ‘into’ words: language, grammar and usage, etc. This is not something I would have put on my “cool things to know about me” list; as an Internet marketer, however, this has become a valued trait.

Most of the models for making money online revolve around keyword research. As such, this is an area I spend a lot of time and effort with. There are a number of tools, programs, and websites that I use for various keyword research purposes. Like many of us, I have my “favorites”, the apps that I use most often. But I’m always on the lookout for new and/or better tools.

I recently came across a new website – new to me anyway – and got stuck there for almost an hour (usually a good indicator). The site is Word Spy (http://www.wordspy.com), and lists newly coined phases and words that are in social use.

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Confessions Of An “Adsense Scoffer”

January 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment

adsenseI have a confession. I used to be one of “them”. Maybe you’re one of “them” too. You know, the “Adsense Scoffers”.

I had my Adsense experiences, and my good arguments. You know the ones: “A nickel, maybe ten cents, that’s what I’m seeing per click. Who wants to send their visitors away for a nickel?”

Then I was “enlightened”. I discovered the “x-factor” Micro Niche Site revolution. I built a ton of Micro Earning sites. The logic seemed sound: it’s easy to rank high with an Exact Match Domain name for some obscure product name and get a buck or two per day in Adsense clicks. Now if I just build 300 of them, I’d be seeing some real revenues! The problem with that is a) it’s waaaay too much work, and b) Google is tightening up on the ‘free pass’ for ranking Exact Match Domain names.

Well, I’m happy to tell you I’m reformed now. No, I didn’t give up on Adsense. Instead, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to do it successfully. The result? Google is now paying me 6 figures to ‘host’ their ads.
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Unique Article Wizard: A Powerful Ranking Tool

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you’re after search engine traffic, you need rankings. And if you’re after rankings, you need backlinks. Ideally, you want an ever-increasing number of backlinks, from diverse sources.

While there are plenty of tools for getting backlinks and automating the process, there is one that has occupied a permanent place in my arsenal – in fact, I sometimes refer to it as my “Secret Weapon” – Unique Article Wizard.

Unique Article Wizard, or “UAW” is essentially an article distribution service. With a monthly subscription, you submit articles, and UAW then distributes them to a huge network of article directories, blogs, and other recipients. But what makes UAW so much more powerful than a ‘straight’ distribution service like iSnare is that each article sent out is ‘original’.

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Google’s ‘New’ Keyword Tool

January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment

If you’ve been around a bit, you’ve probably heard – or seen – that Google has ‘revamped’ their keyword tool.

Among other things, it’s wreaked havoc with many of the other tools that use Google’s database as they’ve had to re-code their programs significantly. In addition, the numbers are different…

Wait a minute – how can the numbers be different? Isn’t it still the same keywords, the same number of people searching, etc…?

A snapshot of Google's latest keyword research tool interface.

In fact, they ARE different. Here’s the ‘lowdown’ on Google’s ‘new’ keyword tool:

You may not know this, but Google actually ‘powers’ many search engines besides Google.com. This is called their ‘Search Partner Network’. Sites like AOL use a version of Google’s search engine as their own. Then there are all the other country-specific Google databases.

As a result, Google’s data is based on information from multiple sources. In the past – the ‘old’ keyword tool – the information Google gave us about search volume was based on the search activity of all their search engines. This tended to ‘overstate’ the totals (‘overstate’ is an understatement lol!).

The ‘new’ keyword tool provides search volume data based solely on searches done through Google.com. As a result, the numbers are lower – and more accurate.

All of us – well, many of us anyway – have found keywords that looked great in terms of search volume, only to find that traffic didn’t bear out the data.

Now we can have a little more faith in the numbers. I say ‘a little’ because the numbers still aren’t extremely accurate. In fact, just doing a query will clue you in – there are no ‘real’ numbers like 1545, just ‘thresholds’ i.e. 1200, 2400, 3000, etc. The reality is, none of the keyword tools are entirely accurate. The only way to get a true & accurate measure of search volume is to run an Adwords campaign on the keywords in question, with an unlimited budget, and see how many impressions occur.

What does all this mean for us? Well nothing really changes strategy-wise, but hopefully there will be fewer ‘false gems’, etc. And you should still be cross-checking your results before committing.

I should mention that Micro Niche Finder, Market Samurai, and Traffic Travis, among others, all use that same data set from Google.

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