Internet Marketing Trip

Hey everyone ! First let me tell you I’m sorry, this content was supposed to be published last week. I wrote it but forgot to copy and paste it here. So now I have this long post for you, and another one coming that I hope you’ll enjoy. Here is the question of the day : Have you bought your business a Christmas gift ? Or… does it deserve one ? Let’s check out some ideas…

Christmas is approaching very quickly tonight and you’re still wondering what Christmas gift you could buy to yourself, or what could someone buy to you. Well on your gifts list, why not add a tool that can improve your results next year ? Sure this doesn’t sound like a personal gift, it’s completely professional, however this could allow you to then buy any other gift you want after that!

This post is just a random thought, but I find the idea interesting and these are some examples :

Automation Software
There are many softwares or web based applications that ca automate internet marketing stuff. I use this Automatic Article Submitter, still $97 I think but it saves me a lot of time. It is fully automated or semi automated (for top sites), but actually the only thing I need to do for semi automated website is click “Submit”. There is a spinning feature, a thesaurus for synonyms, video tutorials, automatic accounts creation and few more cool stuff. It’s not the tool everybody’s talking about but for me it does the job quickly, I love it. I only choose top article directories, about 15 of them, 2 minutes later my article is submitted.

There are many other submission tools for Social Bookmarking, RSS, Videos, Press Releases, Podcast, etc. Automation as well as outsourcing is what gives you free time, time to focus on something else. I onced hired someone to make a 1,000 directory submission. Yes, web directories don’t necessarily give you that much link juice, however link popularity counts. So with all things equal with your competitors, more backlinks make the difference, even if lower quality. That doesn’t preven you to build high quality links.

Oneof the tool I use is Bookmarking Demon for social bookmarking. I only bookmark my stuff once, with only one account, but if you want to create and bookmark your pages with multiple accounts, you can do that too. I have many others I’ll tell you about later.

An automation tool becomes a spamming tool only if YOU use it as a spammy fool (just for the rhyme…). So be smart.

Keyword Research, Niche Research
Again if you can get yourself a tool that does all the work for you and find the most profitable keyword to target then… you’re certainly going to make a bunch of money, and save time. So, from the ones that everyones has been recommending, I’d say Market Samurai and Keyword Elite (you can currently get SEO Elite for free by ordering KE2). These are the two biggest keyword research tools that you certainly have heard about. For PPC or SEO they will be of great help.

Another one that I would like to mention is Micro Niche Finder. Try it and you’ll be amazed at what it does, it’s pure gold. I’m not going to tell you moe about it, but it’s COOL.

And a last option to consider too, I use it, is Traffic Travis, not the most expensive, but it does a pretty good job for only $99. And if you don’t want to buy it you can still download and ty the free version. Use the SEO analysis feature for an unlimited time ! I use it to see how optimized are competitor websites. The full version has of course many other stuff to help you dominate your niche, and you can even try it for $5 (then 2 payments of $47). That’s a great offer.

LSI Software
Have you heard of LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing) ? This is something you should do in your on-site SEO : use related terms, keyword phrases in your content to make it the most relevant, the most themed”. The Ultimate Keyword Theme Extractor tool will analyse the top results of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Aol, Ask and Altavista to tell you what are the words and phrases (up to seven words) that are used on these sites, telling you how many times they are mentioned. So if these sites get top rankings with this “rich content”, why not create your content with these too ? Yes you still need backlinks to have chance to get ranked higher, however setting your content right from the start is critical too.

You can’t only put your keyword here and there, bold and italic anymore.

This software will tell you what to add inside your copy. And for articles you submit this is even better since EzineArticles for example is really appreciate by SEs. One tip : just write your content like you normally would, then just edit it with related LSI terms and keywords, it’s much faster than trying to write an article with a list of keywords. UKTE is a pure gem, I ove it and use it for all of my websites and promotional content that I want to rank high. It comes with video tutorials but it reall is simple to use, and you’ll also get another cool bonus program.

Affiliate website builder : Affiliate Genie !
AH ! You didn’t see it coming right ?! Third post in a row that I mention it, you’re gonna think I truly made this post on purpose but I really didn’t. Fact is this software can help you go faster in your affiliate marketing, I don’t know about you but if you can build sites built quicker than before, then your income should grow faster too? $97, unlimited websites.

Website
Why not buying a website ? If the content is good, nice design, you may now just need to monetize it and drive traffic to i. Or maybe it’s already getting traffic and income ? This is a nice solution that can save you time in several aspects of your business. You can find many sites for $100-$500 that can be highly profitable in the future. With a bit of efforts you can increase traffic and revenue, and may even resell it later for more cash! Check Flippa.com.

Internet Marketing Program
Okay, there are certainly many more things you can buy for your business. If you’re just starting online, maybe a good affiliate marketing package can be useful. Now this really depends on your budget. You can get an eBook that teaches you few techniques of affiliate marketing. Or you can go with the big stuff. Information Marketing Mastery by Brian McElroy is still available, and it’s an incredible offer. $997 when it was launched, but you will really learn to build an information marketing empire, create your own products and getting paid for everything you do. Brian is a real good guy and a great teacher.

You can also check the latest ebook everyone is promoting. I tend to stick to basics to make money and that’s actually the content of my next post. If you know the basics and do a little “more” than others, you will make money. Fundamentals have not changed, new things are part of the game, but I’m going to tell you what I do that make me money. Hope you all (my 14 readers) will rock in 2010 !

Tom