I’m not going to go into too much detail as this is a subject every online marketer will debate on until the day they die, so I’m bound to be wrong in their opinion.

But the difference with what I’m about to say is factual results based on years of trial and error using fads and the basics to get your site ranked higher in the SERPs.

When I look back now I have wasted some time…probably a lot of time on bad techniques when I could have been concentrating on other parts of my business but I think I have learnt some great skills along the way and its all fun really and thats the most important part.

90% of the SEO techniques mentioned here will not benefit you from an SEO keyword ranking point of view.

1.) Twitter Comments: – Twitter has become a spam heaven and most followers are either marketers themselves or robots. Plus the links are ‘No-followed’. “No-followed” links do not pass any value.

2.) Squidoo Lens Creation: – Links on squidoo lenses are ‘No-followed’. Plus Squidoo has become a spam heaven and too many links from squidoo can be troublesome in the long run. Plus Squidoo lenses do not rank high in search engines like they used to 3 years ago.

3.) Hubpages Creation: – Same as Squidoo. Links are nofollowed and hubs do not rank high unless the hub is directly promoted using links.

4.) Article Submission – Submitting same article to 100 or more sites is no longer working. Google is identifying links from duplicate content and devaluing them. So this strategy will not work anymore.

5.) Blog Reviews – Same as article submission. Submitting same review to so many blogs will not work. Instead this has a potential to get a site under penalty or in the sandbox. Plus quality blogs do not generally publish pre-written reviews. Only low quality blogs do this.

6.) Blog Commenting – Most blogs use no-follow for comment links. The few blogs that do offer followed links, apply nofollow after sometime. So these links will not be valuable.

7.) Directory Submission – this works fine as long as the directories are of good quality.

8.) Forum Topic Posting – Most quality forums add a nofollow to their links. Only low quality or un-moderated forums allow ‘followed’ outbound links. These are generally a spam heaven and can act as a bad neighborhood.

9.) News and Press Releases – This works fine, but the same condition of duplicate content holds.

10.) RSS/Feeds Submission- No use from the SEO point of view.

11.) Social Bookmarking – Most bookmarking sites are spam heavens and can act as bad neighborhoods. Plus Google has started devaluing social bookmarking links and links from popular social networks.

12.) Flickr Picture Posting – Flickr links are nofollowed.

13.) URL Submission – this process is outdated and no longer holds significance.

14.) Yahoo Questions & Answers – Links are nofollowed. But this can give some direct traffic.

These are some of the major ways to drive some minor traffic but will not hold any real value for getting a keyword on page 1 of Google.

You want the answer….

It has never changed, its only been Marketed to make others a living selling services you do not need for SEO purposes. Now don’t get me totally wrong, some of the stuff I mentioned above will help with some direct traffic but will hold no value on keyword results.

So don’t spend money on these services for keyword value but rather for extra exposure online. Make it a part of what you do in the long term but don’t expect it to get you to page 1 for “mortgage loans”.

Oh the answer…Find and Create One Way Links”. (yes that is it)

Big Tip:

One quality one way link will hold 100% more value than 1000 easy to find directory links.

Well after following one site which is close to my Niche I just logged in to Adwords to find I’d burnt £80 and I only turned one sale = £20

Lost – £60

Its hard work to get PPC right but when you do master it there is lots of cash to be made. I’m not new to PPC and know how to write ads so I was a bit pissed to find I allowed myself to lose £60 on 3 measly keywords!

To be honest I think I set my daily rate too high which was £40 a day (I only did 2 days) let me explain why I did this.

I’m in a niche which is massive and keywords cost a lot (but then these day most do) long are the days of 0.05 per click!

My site is ranked ok Organically and I’m waiting for the keywords I tested to rank on page 1 soon anyway but I thought lets test them to see if my site converts.

In KeywordSpy I chose my competitors top ROI keywords. KeywordSpy gives you the first time the keyword was seen and the last, so you know that if the advertiser has been using that keyword for that long it must be converting right?

Well in my case Wrong! – I decided on 3 main keywords based on what KeywordSpy was telling me.

244 Clicks
1.44% CTR
Average CPC £0.33

Total Cost £80
1 x Sale £20
Burnt – £60

This is my own product so its almost all profit apart from PayPal fee’s.

If my competitor is spending this much money over so many months, he has to be making money.

My conclusions are that KeywordSpy is either totally incorrect or his site converts better than mine.

I need to do some more testing…I’m thinking my competitors site converts better so I think I need to set a landing page exactly relevant to the keyword.

Simple stuff but I get lazy…

I am tired of Internet Marketing Products but seem almost compelled to want to slag them off because 99% are shit!

One that got my attention was George Browns Google Sniper. To be honest he had it made the day he woke up and thought to himself lets not go to work as a Removal Guy today lets start a website and learn to pull cash down from the net. I mean its got X-Factor written All Over It! (Simon Cowell sign him up!)

Picture the story:

A Young Boy at just 18 who is a Removal Guy earning £300 per week but suddenly he is raking down £15k from the net – shock horror surely not I mean £15k!!

Yeah I know it smells of Shite!! who knows I have never seen his bank account so maybe its all true. One thing I know is the lad learnt something most of us cannot do or would have to pay someone to do (a lot of money).

What is this Secret?

Its what all the best Internet Marketing guys/girls who hit the net learn to do and its something I hate doing and would prefer to play my Guitar instead of doing this as it bores me to TEARS! Its called “Story Telling”, “Emotional Writing”.

It comes with practice but I assure if you spend long enough at it you can do it.

Do you want to make $1000 per month in the next 3 months? If so here is the formula.

Keyword > Site Based Around Keyword > 1 x Emotionally Written Article on how to cure Keyword > a few more Articles based around Keyword(s) > Add Your Affiliate Link to Product that fix’s/solves problem > Social Bookmark / Link Build every 2 weeks > = MONEY

That’s it in a Nutshell really.

Would you like to buy a package ready to go and all you do is the marketing monthly?

Let me know in the comments.

More on Google Sniper

Using this great part of twitter will enable you to tap into your niche and find targeted customers.

Its simple really just type in the product or service you want to market or have an Affiliate Link for and Reply to a Tweet!

Step 1. Go here Twitter Search

Step 2. Type question like “buy dell laptop e400″ or “where to buy a cheap dell laptop”

Step 3. See results that relate most to this question and then answer it putting in your Aff Link as the URL to redirect them.

Step 4. You just made someone happy, you found them a deal or even the product they were looking for and hopefully you just made a sale?

Twitter Search is just another way to tap into LIVE people searching for an answer to their questions.

The website of YouTube has a whooping ten million visitors every month. Now, you can certainly use such a wide traffic to your advantage. You can use YouTube marketing to effectively market your products. It is not difficult to do so.

Let us take a look at a few tips on how to do video marketing on YouTube:

First, YouTube receives a huge traffic every day, from all over the world. Therefore, you need to make the video keeping in mind the vast number of visitors. Design the video in a way that gives information without sounding boring. The video should be fun to look at and should provide information at the same time.

To gain popularity in YouTube, you need to upload as many videos as possible. You cannot load just one or two videos and expect to be noticed. The more videos you upload, higher the chances of being noticed.

It is important that you upload fresh videos regularly.

It is natural that people viewing the videos would be impressed only if the videos are of superior quality. Therefore, you need to have a superb camera that is capable of making high quality videos. Spend some time in planning, before you actually shoot the videos. This will help you in achieving the best results.

Now, you have shot the best video and have uploaded it to YouTube. The most important task is to get maximum traffic to your video. All your efforts would be in vain if your video is not seen by more visitors. Luckily, you can use YouTube Secret Weapon to generate more traffic. YouTube Secret Weapon will tell you precisely the strategies that you need to employ while making the videos in order to get maximum traffic for your videos.

Whatever you are selling, YouTube video marketing is the best way to market your products. Video marketing is the most recent way of advertising your products and it is the way the marketing will be done in future. Therefore, rather than using traditional approach of marketing, make entertaining and informative videos that will be enjoyed by your visitors.

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I’m not bothered about PR as it doesn’t mean anything to any decent webmaster. I’m really after links exchanges from quality sites with decent traffic levels similar to mine.

I get about 150-200 Uniques Per day.

Your link will be site-wide shown on everypage of the blog and I’m probably only doing about 10 max. Anyone who wants one with me just email your link to info(at)netbusinessblog.com and tell me where your link is for me.

I will add yours within a few hours.

Thanks and Get linking!

Well as of today I’m on 4th page!

I’m very happy with this – I think within another few weeks I should be on page 1 for the term “john chow”

Wish me luck!

I chose a good product therfore all I needed to do was send traffic to it. It’s straightforward. You setup a website and then send traffic to it with Adwords.

You scale your income by setting up many of these little Adwords -> Landing page systems and having them work for you all day long. So if one system like that earns you an average profit of $0.50 an hour ($12 per day or $360 per month), then 200 systems like this (in theory) should make you $100 an hour…

The secret to getting a profitable conversion rate with Adwords is quite simple if you do the right things. There are three parts to the way I approach it:

Step 1. I went to ClickBank and looked through these products

Step 2. I chose the best converting product no guesses at what that was “Registry Cleaner”

Step 3. I go to Blogger.com and sign up for an account using the keyword I chose as the name of the blog seen here below:

Registry Cleaner

I take 1 x article from Ezine Articles and use this in my blog (you’re allowed to use these articles as long as you keep the Article Writers bio at the bottom)

Step 4. I take 5-7 keywords from Google and create 5 or say ad groups for these keywords – one for each so its really targeted.

(you can work harder if you want on making your blog look nice but I cannot be bothered with that)

Step 5. With my keywords I write Good (clickable) Ads that are highly targeted to my Hungry Customers.

Step 6. I check my ClickBank earnings

It really is that simple but I know some of you will be thinking yeah right?

I will release a small product showing you how to do this in more detail later this month.

I cannot believe what has just happened…I feel like crying right now!

Well to be honest I’m not 100% sure but that’s what I was told on DigitalPoint? – then I thought I’d better get an ad deal because the hype will be to good to miss..right?

I was just on MSN to John Chow trying to sort out an Advertising Deal and his deals are not cheap by the way. $500 for 125 advert is a lot but the traffic he gets which is mostly targeted to people wanting to make a living online is a fair price I guess…anyway I was going backwards and forwards with him saying do me a yearly deal.

This would have been a cool $6k per year which I think I was willing to pay but oh no John Chow the man offered me a deal…he said if you can rank higher than me for the term John Chow in Google US I will let you have the advertising spot for NOTHING for the whole year!

I thought man that’s easy so lets see – it should take me less than 2 weeks to show up on page one then kick his ass and beat him to the number one spot.

Come back as I show you my progress on this one as it should be fun and drive some nice traffic to my blog!

Haha!

Disclaimer – (the above is a joke but that ranking will be real so come back to see my progress)

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