Internet Marketing Trip

In extense, I could have just said: just do it, and repeat. Doing things that you know work over and over again can only give you better results. Of course whatever you do, you don’t want to become spammy or anything that could get you into trouble.

But if you apply the simplest stuff consistently, you will make money. So let’s talk about one aspect of internet marketing that most marketers struggle for, getting traffic.

If you don’t pay for it, you wil have to go the SEO route. Without talking of on-page SEO, you’re left with almost one thing, and that’s building backlinks to your money site so it ranks better and better.

The long introduction:

Nothing new under the sun, and thats the purpose of this post. I think I have not seen anything new in terms of techniques to get ranked. Everyone seems to have a new “groundbreaking discovery and technique that let you dominate Google in 24 hours flat for all your keywords at the push of a button“.

Well, there’s none. Of course the process can be automated with the right softwares or services or anything, but what is done is not new.

What I know works: getting quality backlinks, which means relevant sources, relevant content from authority websites help you get ranked.

That’s why linkwheels got so much success. Now I don’t remember if I posted already about it but here’s the thing: the whole internet is a giant linkwheel. Some people are saying that linkwheels don’t work so well now compared to few months ago.

Well of course, the first linkwheel models suggested the same content, posted on several web 2.0 properties. You can spin the content, the meanings was still the same. I’ve never thought it was really providing value to the visitors to link to another piece of content that was saying the same thing, just rephased.

So then new linkwheel models said you should have related content, each web 2.0 property should target another keyword or the a variation. These web 2.0 sites are still interlinked between each other and also to your site.

Then I’ve seen that you should make a linkwheel, interlinked, but instead of linking to your site, each web 2.0 site links to a central web 2.0 site. This one at the top then links to your site. I think it’s what’s been called a link pyramid, and the most recommended way of creating a linkwheel. You should of course create several link pyramids like this one to have more backlinks to your own site.

Now tell me, if you think about it, what is new? Mmmm… right , nothing. Some guys have sold us eBooks and video training or any kind of course, just to tell us that:

• If you build web 2.0 properties to link to another web 2.0 property, this last one will become stronger.
• Because this web 2.0 property is stronger, the link you place there to your own website is also stronger. Great for SEO and rankings.

Huh… aren’t these just the basics of SEO?

Similar methods involved submitting your article to eZineArticles. Since EZA is an authority site, you should backlink your article so it stays and ranks higher in search engines. And again you get a solid backlink from a strong article page.

This shouldn’t be something to be amazed about. Any page you send backlinks to should rank higher. The better the quality of your backlinks, the better the rankings. It’s been like that since I started internet marketing over 3 years ago, and it was before (how could I learn it if it weren’t).

Now okay, I have to admit, I wasted my time, and money too on such super powerful techniques. The thing is you don’t really look for something new when you’ve been in this business for a little while, but more for a resource you didn’t know.

One of the example is the way to acquire links, like the ones sold in backlink packets. There are thousands of high PR sites that you can leave a profile link on to your money site. I’ve not done that sort of things that much. It does work, still it’s basic, getting backlinks to your page from strong sites.

With time, you find all these processes long and boring, so the money you make has to be reinvested, either in software for automation or/and outsourcing. My real work is finding profitable niches ane keywords, offers that convert well. Then the process is almost always the same.

Here’s what I do: I go to web 2.0 sites to add content and a backlink to my site. Then I drive backlinks to these web 2.0 sites. Impressive right!

No interlinking between each web 2.0 sites, though you could backlink them randomly, by creating another piece of content elsewhere.

Here’s a graphic for better understanding on the right (Click to enlarge). This is a little backlink plan. You can save it to your computer too.

I haven’t added the article directories, but I would write articles to link to my money site as well as web 2.0 sites. I also didn’t included that I would submit the rss feed of the money site, social bookmark it too. You can also ping every new piece of content.

The But for clarity I stopped here, in terms of “linkwheel”, which for me is clearly not one.

That’s the big part of the “work”. You should also vary your backlinks sources and anchor text. So you can for example throw some profile backlinks and info sites links (like whois sites) to have different sources. You can submit a press release about your new site too.

That’s all basic backlink stuff and well enough to get traffic to a niche website. Once you have a clear system in mind you can easily replicate it quickly for many more websites.

I also try to make a website that converts. As an affiliate that means I want most of my visitor to reach the offer page. So my best offer, most recommended product, is at a prominent place, above the fold, on every page.

That’s the conduit method, that I’ve been using from… a very long time. Sure I have my own twist… I change the WordPress theme I use once in a while

But really there’s nothing hard to understand. What is stopping me is procrastination, getting distracted. But once I have the right mindset I can have a full site done in a day or two, this include the promotion too (though I will spread the social bookmarking phase during the week). And once I outsource the content it gets really easy.

You should create systems, instructions and plans of actions for the people you want to ousource the work to. Then just focus on what you like.

That’s about it. Creating a nice website that promote others products. Backlinking with web 2.0 sites, backlinking those web 2.0 sites nd articles too. Submitting the RSS feeds. Blog comments. Ping.

If you target buying keywords, it’s even better.

Say your money site is around a product name, or niche name and internal pages are about products.

Then your web 2.0 properties will each target a buying keyword around a product name, and links to the product page on your site.

I think this post is already long and should come to an end. Basically, don’t go out after something new, except if it’s on something you really are interested in AND that you plan to REALLY implement in your marketing (video marketing for example).

Do the basics, repeat the basics. In terms of SEO, that’s building a well optimized site with proper tags, keywords and relevant terms, content, theme. That’s on-page SEO. As for the off-page SEO, that’s basically building backlinks from a variety of sources, quality backlinks on relevant content ages from authority sites.

Have a great week end.

Hi guys and gals, just wanted to add something about The Blueprint Project Black Edition for those considering getting it. If building physical products stores (and when I say build, you actually just click a button) is something you think is not for you then you can skip this post.

So what I wanted to add is about the tools you get, you certainly aw that in their prelaunch they were giving away Keyword Blueprint and Link Blueprint. Well though these are awesome resources that Tim and Steve gave away for free, there are more to get access inside The Blueprint Project Black Edition.

One that I have access too is Discover Niches. This is just so powerful, and fast. Because all the datas are saved. So what you just do is type a keyword and it gives you all the keyword with search volume and competition, instantly. You can even type no keywords but set the search volume and competition figures to your likes and it spits out all keywords to go after.

Another resource is of course the dopshippers and wholesalers database. This is Dropship Blueprint that you will get access to, access to this resource alone is $197. You get access to millions (over 3 millions) of products to build sites for. Think about all the niches that have almost no competition.

If you go to The Blueprint Project Black Edition sales page you can see an example keyword (“buy train horns online” with just 9 results on Google, still the case). I just saw that some of these products were sold for $400. So your profit can be really huge if you get the wholesale price. Remember since it’s dropshipping, you don’t pay anything upfront! You just process the orders to the suppliers, who will take care of handling and shipping.

That’s right, you get paid first!

The most important thing

Then one last thing I’d like you to think about is the advantage that you get being an internet marketer. If you’ve been in this game for a while you certainly know enough, more than many people who would like to have a website to sell their products. Let me explain.

A local business would want an online store so they can sell more, nationally or internationally. Still, they have to install the ecommerce scrip and the online marketing to do to get ranked in Search Engines and get free traffic, or pay for traffic.

Either they take the learning curve of internet marketing and you certainly know how hard it can be to know where to start and where to go from there, or they would pay someone to do the job for them.

Their knowledge is on the product they sell, not on the internet marketing part, and not on the technical side of things either (hosting, instaling the ecommerce script…).

You are different. You don’t have to know anything about the product. You just decide on a niche, click a button to have the store installed, add a few products with few more clicks. Basically you can quickly have your online store up and running very quickly since you know you don’t have to pay someone to do it, everything is done automatically.

And then your marketer job starts, and this is going to be fun. Now with those tiny niches and over 3 millions products to promote you have sites with very low competition, and you now can build few backlinks to get some traffic and easily get ranked. The local business owner who wanted his/her store online is still learning SEO or PPC or having an “internet marketing expert” doing it for him/her.

That is the most important thing you should know: the ease you will make money with this business model. And it is replicable. Just instead of building 10 or 50 affiliate sites, you can just build 10 online stores that you OWN. You directly make the profit, and lots of it.

And here’s one more tip… Vary your niches, go for lower, mid and higher price products. You should still know that it takes the same amount of effort to promote a low price product as a higher one, so your cut is higher too.

Okay, that was my little additional infos and tips for those interested in the dropshipping model.

Now get The Blueprint Project Black Edition before it’s down.

Hi everyone, hope everything is smooth for you. Today is the day The Blueprint Project Black Edition goes live and you certainly got a bunch of emails about it. Anyway, I know the strategy and it does make money, lots of it and yes, you can definitely earn thousands per day, and this is with just few websites.

So if you don’t know what it is you can check it out now, here’s my link.

If you want a quick recap…

This is the ultimate version of their Niche Blueprint course: building physical products stores. You don’t need to carry any stock, you get a suppliers database which will handle the storage, shipping and handling. That’s dropshipping.

Steve and Tim and their team have perfected the system so anyone can get a store in any niche, process payments and orders, even if you’re not based in the US. And the store platform is a push-button solution. Also everything is given to you for traffic and sales.

This works. Really. Once you have a profitable website either keep it, or sell it for sooper profits.

If this is something you would be interested in, be sure that it is an awesome value. You get EVERYTHING you need, and a great customer support.

Get The Blueprint Project Black Edition.

Okay everyone, this is  it, what I told you yesterday. Some free resources to help your business this year. I got many emails (just like you) promising great things for this new year and offering free stuff. Well you know how it goes with pre-launch content. I chose to introduce you to some free keyword research and link building tools.

Thiese are some of the most valuable tools you can own because THESE WILL MAKE YOU MONEY. If you use them, of course. And yes they are free.

What are these tools?

These are Keyword Blueprint 2 and Link Blueprint, by Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton.Get them here (they are giving them away for the pre launch of their new program).

If you don’t know who these guys are, they are the creators of Commission Blueprint, Niche Blueprint, SEM Blueprint, IMEye.

These are all great stuff. I can honestly say they produce great products and their support is just excellent.

I bought Niche Blueprint in the past and it was $297. Then they upgraded this course to 2.0 and I had to pay $97 for this, and I did because the new tools included are fantastic. Some of these tools included Keyword Blueprint and Link Blueprint.

Keyword Blueprint is kind of Micro Niche Finder. It retrieves Google keyword tool data and tell you if a keywords is easy or difficult to rank for, or competitive for PPC.

Link Blueprint is actually a network of people to exchange links. But without reciprocal links for better benefits. You give links to other people from your sites, you earn credits. With these credits you can then ask for links to your sites. There are rules to follow to keep this effective: no crap links from link pages, no blog comments, no porn/gambling sites. But at least links from a 350 words article or post and few other easy guidelines.

What’s cool is that if you only have PR0 or 1 sites, it’s ok, you can still ask for PR3 links if you want, providing you earned enough credits.

Now don’t worry if this look confusing, there is a tutorial video for each of these tools.

Now as I said these are part of the prelaunch material of their new program called The Blueprint Project – Black Edition.

What is The Blueprint Project Black Edition?

They define it as their best product ever made. And I tend to believe it. This is actually the ultimate edition of Niche Blueprint. This course teaches you, step by step how to build e-commerce sites. That’s right, sell physical products.

But you don’t touch the goods. You will get in touch with suppliers who take care of the storage and shipping. You basically just process orders. It’s the dropshipping model, indeed.

They give you everything! The platform you get is the best, they have improved it since they started doing this business, and it’s been quite some time now. Also, it’s a push-button solution, really, no technical knowledge required.

All the tools and how to get merchant accounts, payment gateways… you will know it all and you will have no difficulty to be up and running, even if you’re not based in the US: I’M NOT IN THE US EITHER, and I bought this program months ago, it’s even better now.

So don’t worry you will never be alone, they even have a team that helps you with all products/suppliers issues.

To sum up, The Blueprint Project – Black Edition is a course that shows you how to build physical products stores, get them ranked for free traffic and make a real income. And remember you get all the tools, and a customer support that is truly one of the best you’ll ever see.

They also teach you how to flip your website for some of the biggest money to be made online. This is really how you get huge amounts of cash.

Okay that’s it. It may look like I want you to buy The Blueprint Project for a commission, but I’m just enthusiastic about it and because of the free tools they’re giving away. You can decide to watch the video they have prepared for more details.

So visit The Blueprint Project to download Keyword Blueprint, the keyword research tool, and get access to Link Blueprint, the link building resources for your SEO efforts.

Yeah, I know. I’m late but anyway: Happy New Year to all.

I hope 2011 will be a great year for you and your family and get you tons of happiness, money, and keep you in th best health possible.

Okay I may have done better but that’s really wrapping up what I wanted to say. So what are you going to do this year. How are you going to start 2011?

I have an idea, I complete my last year challenges and am quite happy. Sure all expectations were not met but at least every action required were done and I have complete the challenges.

So my idea is quite simple: set new challenges, new goals, aim higher.

I have been receiving emails about some cool stuff. Don’t worry I’m just going to tell you about something free that should really help your business if you’re just starting (and it is FREE )

In the meantime have a great day, week and year 2011!

This will be a very brief post about niche research and how to find super profitable niches. If you want to promote products, services, offers that will get you huge cash you will want to a least look at this. This is an affiliate marketing course.

I got this recommended by two marketers I really respect and that made a difference in my business, Josh Spaulding and Chris Rempel. I’m talking about Elite Niche Research by Andrew Hansen and John Stanton.

To make more money as an affiliate with niche markets, this course tells you something different from anything that you’ve heard before. Chris Rempel said he found niches that was paying $500 per lead, some $2000 per sale admitting he thought he knew it all about niche research.

I guess I and you too have still something to learn. It’s $77 for the course and $114 if you take the course with 25 first niches, there is an upsell at $37 too.

So please check this while the price is low, it’s going to raise soon.

Check out Elite Niche Research.

Woohoo, well it’s not like I became a millionaire but anyway, my internet connexion is back up and everything’s running great. I called the customer support Saturday and considering they don’t work on Sunday, having everything fixed on Monday is quite fast, though it still sucks to not having services up during a week end!

Well it was not the fault of the provider, a bad wiring inside. Which means I have to pay for the repair. Ouch, 122.49 euros. Damn Christmas in advance, what a gift.

What’s next? Well back to normal work and enjoying submission of articles from home and some article writing projects. What are you doing right now? Yeah it’s not twitter here but if you want to say what you’re currently doing (except reading this post), the comment section is there.

Have you noticed all 3 previous paragraphs start with a “W”? Subliminal messages I tell you…

Tom

Hey everyone, my internet connexion is down since yesterday, it is supposed to be back up before December 1st. I have to call the customer support from my cell phone of course, hotline is not free, waiting time is. That sucks, I’m currently writing from my girlfriend’s mother’s house.

Since this is a Triple play offer (internet, TV, phone), all the services are down. Yeah that sucks. so what can you do when it occurs?

I could not, submit articles to directories, and make research on topics so I can write more articles.

So I wrote articles on topics I knew about. I also planned a lot of stuff to run when my connexion is up again. For example I have written instructions for outsourcing stuff. Hopefully, since I had outsourced few articles before this happened, writers have been able to do the job.

I remembered an article I saw on WorkAwesome, I already mentioned this website. Some nice content there. Anyway the article to read in this case is… How To Stay Productive When The Internet Is Down.

Now of course this has affected my 30 day challenge. I talked about it 3 days ago. I want to update 3 blogs a day. Two are very easy to do, already indexed, and one is started from scratch. I’ve not been able to publish yesterday. Not really a big deal but still something I would have prefered to avoid.

Okay so one of m best tip, also on the blog post I mentioned is : PLANNING.Preparing stuff that you can do immediately after your connexion is back up.

Okay have fun and stay FOCUS!

Tom

Hey everyone,  so after I complete my 30 day blogging challenge, I decided to set a new one which was about the same, adding one blog post per day, but this time to a monetized niche website, unlike this one which is just more information oriented I spent the last two days, planning, researching and compiling some datas to work from, and here’s my plan…

I’m not going to update 1 blog per day, but 3. And I think it’s going to be easy. Again that’s a SMART goal in 30 days I will have 3 blogs with each 30 more posts published on them.

2 blogs are already indexed, 1 will be started from scratch. Here’s the plan for each.

1. One of the blog already indexed is in the top 3 results in Google for its 3 main keywords. It’s been there for months and maybe 2 years, competition is still low. I’m going to add related offers, in the same niche. Since it’s Christmas there are tons of great deals, free gifts and promos coming, that’s true for so many physical products sites. I’m just going to add one deal a day, very fast, and many buyer keywords!
2. The other indexed blog is in the fitness niche. I have already reviews written for both physical products and info products. I’m going to add posts with videos from YouTube. Simply adding workout videos and commenting/trascripting them so I don’t just copy and paste the code, I also want to add text so my keywords are also in the post. I’ll link the posts to the reviews or equipment needed for example with my affiliate links.
3. The third blog has no content, and never been developped. I registered the domain loooong ago but never did anything with it. It’s also in the fitness niche, fat loss more precisely. I have compiled keywords I want to write about, or actually… what I and a writer will write too. I’m going to outsource about 15 articles first, and maybe more for article marketing since I’ll have some backlinking job to do.

So really, the content creation is just going to be for that third blog and just one per day. If you think about it, when you’re focused on 3 blog/articles per day, especially when you planned ahead, this can be really easy and fast.

What’s your challenge?

What’s your plan?

Christmas is in 30 days, so even with one blog properly monetized you can make some nice bucks.

Have you chosen a physical product? Go on Amazon, select a toy for kids, a bestselling electronics, kitchen appliances, most wished for, most gifted… Write around buyer keywords and backlink there.

Okay I’m ready to work now,

Stay FOCUS!

Tom

Wow, I made it, my 30 day blogging challenge is over. I added one blog post per day to this blog, I enjoyed it. Did you? I know I’m not talking to a lot of people, between 4 to 8 persons actually. That’s what my Analytics report shows me.

So does adding more content to your blog daily brings you more traffic, well yes, but it is certainly not that much. I’m sure I provided quality content, shared a lot of free stuff, tips and all. Maybe 3 affiliate promotions over a month, how many did you get in your email from your favorite guru?

So here’s proof I reached the 174 published posts mark, actually 181, this one you’re reading being a draft and doesn’t really count:

Well the results are here:

Before starting the challenge, I got 62 unique visits, 87 page views for the 30 previous days.

At the end of this challenge…

I have 94 unique visits and 135 page views. So impressive, a very high peak of 8 visitors on November 9th… Really nothing to be proud about, anyway I never have seen this blog as being my main money maker, just sharing some informations about internet marketing.

I didn’t have any comment, other than spam.

That’s still over 50% more unique visits, 55% more page views. So if these improvement were to be the same on a more visited blog then it would be very interesting.

But even on a low traffic blog like this one, traffic can be monetized, I just don’t have ads flashing everywhere or affiliate links in all posts. It’s not optimized for monetization.

If it was, then even 94 targeted unique visits can lead to some money. Though I can not be SUPER happy with the fact that blogging each day here, someitmes posting more than once a day only got me just 1 more visitor a day, I succeed on my initial challenge.

• Did I add one blog post each day? YES
• Did it bring more traffic? YES

If you haven’t seen my previous post about Chris Rempel’s 72 hours offer (affiliate video reviews), he had a website generating $400 a month from 7 visits a day on average, so again, even with low traffic you can make money providing you have high converting elements on your web pages.

So what’s next?

Well for you I don’t know, I asked at the beginning of the challenge that you should challenge yourself too, for the same goal or something different and then we could share our experience. But anyway, you, one of my 4-8 visitors didn’t tell me anything about that.

But I’ll be happy to hear your thoughts and experience from previous and future challenge you set to yourself.

For me, another challenge is waiting for me, it’s going to be almost the same. Adding one more blog post per day to a blog, except this time it will be optimized for conversions and I’ll see my results. No, sorry, I’m not sharing my niches and the products I’m promoting, there are tons out there and I actually promote any kind of product and services. Just take acion on something you know people buy. Simple right?

I’ll try to update this blog at the same time, maybe less often but at least twice a week to tell you about what I’m doing and my results, I hope this may still get me some more traffic this time, and above all help others. It’s becoming another point I want to develop, giving to others. The more you give, the more you get as they say.

Plus, Christmas is in 33 days, so another 30 day challenge is just right for me. I have some work to do now, since I need to figure if I do this on an existing blog or a brand new one, from scratch, which will require backlinking in addition to content creation.

For next year, I’ll be doing more case studies like these. I find it’s a very good way to keep motivation, especially when you make it a challenge. It becomes a goal, and if you set SMART goals you should be able to achieve them all. If you take action.

Impossible is nothing (adidas), Just do it (Nike). So everyone is happy.

Tom