Enjoy…

***Resources (be sure to download this):

Secrets Of The 1st Page pdf

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After this we are all set to promote and start making some sales!

And hey, if you like these videos and you get something out of them, maybe tell a friend!  I’d love to have them hang out with us here!

Resources Used:

www.budurl.com

www.statcounter.com

Pinging Services:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

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Resources Used:

www.skinpress.com

www.wordpressthemebase.com

www.freewpblogthemes.com

Plug-Ins:

All in One SEO
SEO Smart Links
I Love Social Bookmarking
WP to Twitter
WP-Super-Cache
Robots Meta
SEO Slug
Sitemap Generator

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(EXPAND THE VIDEO TO FULL SCREEN, I MADE IT BIGGER THIS TIME SO IT CAN BE SEEN EASIER)

Resources:

Bluehost.com

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And be sure to grab the pdf report below the video – it is my whole keyword process typed up so you can use it as a reference.

Enjoy…

Tools Used:

Cash Sucking Keywords Step By Step Report

OpenOffice.org

Google External Keyword Tool

Micro Niche Finder

Cherry Picker

SEOBook.com Keyword Tool

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Resources Used:

Niche Questions pdf (let me know if not working, I am having some trouble getting it to load)

Google Keyword Tool

Yahoo Answers

Big-Boards

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This is the first video showing you how I initially go about picking the niche and what I look for.

I hope you enjoy and let me know if you have any questions…

Resources:

Niche Exercises

Discovery Keywords

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Anyway, the first video was about keyword research.  I was a bit dissapointed to find that the primary way they said to find good keywords to rank for was to do the quote search and the “intitle” search.

If you get under 50,000 results in quotes and under 10,000 results for intitle, it could be a good keyword is what was said.

And that was it.

So, as I was in the middle of creating my new site, I thought I would ditch my usual method of keyword research (found in this post and emphasizing looking at average page rank of the first 10 results) and give it a whirl.

These are the results I got…but first let me tell you about the new site I was building.

I got to thinking about how I could really add value.  And I mean REALLY add value to peoples lives.

Well, I thought about it for a while and realized how silly it is for me to try and market all the things I market – double chin exercises, guitar courses, anxiety treatments, registry repair software, boil treatments, emetophobia and on and on.

First, I don’t know squat about most of this stuff, so first I have to spend time learning.  And second, they don’t really get me all jazzed up to write about, so they get boring after a while.  And finally, am I REALLY trying to add value or make a buck selling e-books and miracle potions?

So, as amazingly stupid and simple as this sounds, I came up with the idea of doing something in the profession my offline business is in – accounting.  Not the most exciting, but I do it every day, I know it inside and out, and I truly get to help people solve problems.  And most important of all – I KNOW exactly what their problems are (this is crucial).

So I came up with www.learnquickbooksforfree.com.  I won’t go into the details of why this is a problem for business owners, but basically I recorded 14 videos on how to use Quickbooks.  It’s about 7-8 hours of video training, all completely free.  And I encourage people to email me with their questions.

I could not find free training like this anywhere online.  So, it really, truly adds value to people.

And its a simple opt-in list where I can build a relationship with my subscribers.  Check out this email I got from one subscriber about the site and the help I gave her:

Mat,

You are amazing.  I have gone to many sites and forums seeking an answer for this reimbursement issue, and I always seem to get confused and not really get my question answered.  You have explained my options below and I see it so clearly and it seems so simple.

I will be using option 1 which is easiest for me to do.  You have saved me a lot of time and frustration.  The greatest thing about this is that I feel confident and I am now very excited to continue to populate quickbooks with my information and see my final reports.  I wish you could understand what it means to users like us to find someone like you who is so knowledgeable, but more than that, is the fact that you are willing to share this information and devote your time for no cost, in today’s world.   You are truly amazing and different.

Happy 4th and I know that I will have another question soon.

Thanks again!

Is that awesome or what!!  That makes you feel good and is truly adding value to peoples lives.

So, thats my new site, and it is a simple Wordpress template I found free.  I paid $10 for the domain and spent time on the videos.  I plan on getting subscribers, building the relationship, and presenting offers on any one of the 1,000’s of business affiliate products out there (for example, a Stamps.com CPA offer pays $50 if they sign up for a 4 week trial!).

Now back to my keyword research fiasco.

My first keyphrase I chose was “free quickbooks training online” and here are some stats:

1.  Between 1,300-1,600 searches per month
2.  369,000 search results
3.  39,000 quote results
4.  157 intitle results with quotes

Should be a slam dunk, right?

Final data:

5.  Average page rank – 3.6 (yikes!)

So, I did 1 video, submitted to about 15 video sites, like Youtube and Metacafe.  I wrote one article and submitted to about 25 social sites and I have built maybe 40-50 backlinks to the site.

See if you can find me ANYWHERE in the regular search results. Good luck, I can’t be found on at least the 1st 5 pages.  Do it in quotes and I’m number 1, but people don’t search in quotes.

But I have 22 subscribers so far – and they literally have ALL come from Youtube.

I know, I know, one keyword can’t determine whether or not looking just at quotes and intitle is the best or not.  BUT, I’m telling you, you can’t always blindly trust a so called guru, and you have to know what works.

In the case of keyword research, look at average page rank – that will be the best indicator of if you will rank quickly and high or not (remember www.bamboopatioshades.com?  It’s still ranked number 1 and I have done NOTHING to it!).

And there is something to TRULY adding value.  For one, it makes you feel good, and two, you build trust MUCH, MUCH faster.  Think about it in your campaigns – are you really adding value or just trying to make a quick buck?

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But the idea for the site hit me one day, and it combines my offline business with my online skills, so I think it could be a big hit.  And its a little different because my total focus on this site is list building on the front end with sales on the back end.  So, I’ll unveil that, maybe in my next post.

What I want to talk about in this post, though, is something almost everyone overlooks.  And doing this can boost your SE rankings tremendously - internal linking.

What is internal linking?  In its simplest form, it is linking one page to another in your site.

And I am no SEO expert by any means, so I don’t know all the technicalities behind it, but I do know that it helps your rankings.  And the way I think about it is that if I have 10 pages on my site, and each one links out to an affiliate product or some other site, then when the spiders come crawling, they will hit a page, follow the links and be off my site in no time.

But my goal is to have them on my site as long as possible, so they can crawl and discover and index ALL of my content, so it is critical to have some links on your page linking to other pages on your site (like this one!).

So, what is the best way to do this?

Again, I’m no SEO expert, but my general approach is to have at least one link on each page going to another page.  Or, if it is a blog, with every post, I make a link to the previous post, like this post I did about the product reviews and the Affiliate Genie review.

Now, I’m sure there are guru’s out there that tell you to do it a specific way to get the best results, but just link to other posts and other pages on your site, and use varying anchor text, and it should work fine.  Keep it simple and uncomplicated.

That’s it.  Doing this one simple thing can increase your ranking tremendously and get more of your content noticed by Google.

Pretty cool, huh?

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