In-content related posts – how about that?

You might very well be knowing the importance of showing the related posts at the end of an article.It is great for increasing the page views,keeping the readers longer in the site and also thereby increasing the revenue [suppose if you have CPM ads].Now how about related posts shown within the content?I am not sure if you have seen such a thing anywhere yet.If you do not understand what i mean,look at the below web page on medhelp.org:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Alzheimers-Disease/preventing-Alzheimers/show/1025363

 

Here is a snap of what i am referring to:

 

 

Do you see that when the cursor is placed over the word anti-oxidants,a list is thrown up showing the related keywords?This is definitely a very cool method to increase the page views.I am not saying that the related posts plugin that people have been using till now is inefficient or useless.It is definitely useful but you need to think about this method too.I call it the “in-content related posts”

 

What is your take about it?

Interesting Business models – destroy the tunnel vision right now

Having a tunnel vision sucks big time.Most people do not realize their tunnel vision until they come across articles talking about it.In the case of internet marketing or web mastering,a lot of people get restricted to making money with PPC networks.They forget that there is an ocean of opportunities out there to make money.Well,let me give you an example:

 

Let us take the subject of emotional disorders:

If you are building a site to help people affected by these disorders,you can monetize in a lot of ways.But i am quite sure that most people will try to monetize with adsense or other PPC methods.But have you thought of some other ideas?

For example,the web master of the above site can try to use liveperson.com which has a very interesting business model.To know about how it works,have a look at the below page:

http://www.liveperson.com/experts/professional-counseling/personality-emotional-disorders/

http://www.liveperson.com/lp/affiliates/

Interesting,isn’t it?So many people get affected with emotional disorders and they are all stuck with themselves and their disorders.So you could help those people by referring to the mental health professionals in liveperson instead of using adsense ads.

 

Bottomline:ditch the tunnel vision;grow everyday,think smart,think out of the box !Think about what would help your blog or site readers.Such a thing would sky rocket your earnings for sure.When a readers feels that he is being sold to something,you are going to lose conversions.simple.

P.S.Want to know more about liveperson inc ? Here is an article that might probably be interesting to you:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/135903-liveperson-inc-q1-2009-earnings-call-transcript?page=1

Here is one of the facts found in the above article:

“And in the breakdown of our business between verticals also remained fairly steady with financial services and telecommunications each representing about 25% of our revenue flow. Retail and technology each representing about 15% and then the balance of all other categories combined making up the remaining 20% of our revenue base.”

Start link building - try out the Link Acquisition Assistant from SEOmoz

If you are confused about how to kick start your SEO campaign yourself instead of outsourcing it,i just have one thing to say.JUST START ! Do not think too much.Planning is good.But doing nothing to your marketing campaigns does nothing too.Taking action along with a strategy is a sure-fire way to success regardless of how many failures you come across.

 

So how to start the SEO campaign?

You can start it with one of the below methods:

1.article submission,

2.directory submission,

3.web 2.0 marketing

 

But wait,there is one another tool that seems a little promising.If you already know a ton of link sources,there will be no need of this tool.But if you are new and are totally confused,then this tool can come pretty handy:

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/

 

The inputs that need to be given to this web tool is also simple.It would just take a couple of seconds and the output comes in light speed.Give it a try.

Mash the feed URLs and submit to the RSS directories

Sometimes,you might be in the mood to do a lot of article submissions for your site.That is a good thing compared to just using the comment spamming.But the problem with the article submission is that many articles might not be indexed or will not get indexed as fast as you had desired.At such occasions,doing RSS submission will be a better thing.But how could anybody do RSS submission for 50 or 100 articles distributed over 100 article sites? ?That would be a shit boring thing.In that case,here is a solution:

 

1.pick the article feed URL – do this for all 100 articles,

2.Now submit the individual RSS feed URL to the below tool,mash them and make it into one single URL,

http://www.feedage.com/blender/

3.That is it.I think you know the rest of the process.You just got to open any of the RSS submission tool and submit the feed URL.

 

Credit goes to the feedage owner for giving this useful tool.

There is lot more other than the Search marketing

I had discussed about certain vital points about the web site marketing in the previous blog post.Now let me discuss a little more about web site marketing and also tell you a little bit about local marketing.By local marketing,what i  mean is that you are focused more on people in your local area.For example,if you are selling dresses in UK then there are certain steps that you need to take that can in fact make you attain better SERP position.

 

Attaining better SERP position can be a lot more easy if you ,

 

1.buy the correct country level domain,

2.get hosting in your country – now suppose you are targeting the UK users,you can try hosting in the UK.just google Web Hosting UK and you will be able to go through all quality web hosting providers in the UK.

 

Now the second point mentioned above is always debatable.Everybody is sure about the first point but nobody is sure if getting hosting in the UK will be able to boost the SERP positions or not.But still i do not think that there is no harm in getting hosting from UK if you are aiming the UK people.Remember that there are so many other hosting providers who are very credible.Just do not restrict yourself to hostgator or bluehost.

 

Search marketing:

 

Like i mentioned in the previous blog post,search marketing has always been great.But when all attention goes to just that,you are missing a lot of gold mines.Here are some more that can benefit you:

1.buy leads,

2.media buying,

3.create buzz by publishing in other popular niche blogs – in other words,guest posting.Guest posting will do wonders in a niche wherein there is a  huge audience.Remember that you will be able to get hundreds of RSS subscribers by guest posting in a blog where in there are already lots of subscribers.

Review sites – have higher conversion rates than anything else

When a newbie gets started out in the Internet Marketing field,he think alls about how to get thousands of people per day to his site.But little does he realize that even if 5 people visit his site,he can make a good chunk of money each month.

 

Surprised …?Well,then,it means you are a newbie ..

 

Let me explain this to you how.Suppose say you have an affiliate site.It is promoting the products whose average commission is 40 USD.Now like i said earlier,let the visitors per day be just 10 ! No more dreaming of 1000 or more visitors.It just is not possible for everybody once you are a beast at doing IM or spamming [that is a different story].

Now let us say that out of 10 people,1 of them buys the product linked by your affiliate ID.So that means your earnings are 40 USD per day – that implies,1200 USD per month.Isn’t that cool?

But little does he realize that even if 5 people visit his site,he can make a good chunk of money each month.

But wait..there are two factors:

 

There are two important factors when it comes to getting great conversion rates.Here they are:

1.laser targeted visitors – you might already be familiar with this,

2.type of site – it could be an informational site,review site or an affiliate site.Let me tell you more about the review type of sites because they top the list.

 

Review sites rock – WPReviewEngine plays pivotal role:

 

The best thing about review sites is that they are not only easy to build but they also convert like hell.Getting conversions like 10 or 15 % could have been a dream to you till now.But once you start experimenting with the review type of sites,the Dream will become a reality.

One of the wordpress plugins that makes building review sites is WPReviewEngine – believe me guys.You will be amazed by the themes and the type of sites this little plugin creates for you.

 

See for yourselves:

If you want to know how the sites created by this plugin look,here is the link to it:

WordPress Review Plugin

I am sure you will be amazed.

Converting csv to blog posts – impressive !

Gone are the days when you have to write articles which is kinda boring shit.But then lots of freelancers came along the way.yet you know,you have to pay money to get those articles done.There are some who would want to get articles at the lowest possible price.And for those people,converting the data in CSV to blog posts would be the best idea.

Remember the advantages of such a feature:

 

1.1000+ blog posts without any additional cost [cost involves the money paid for the tool],

2.importing huge number of databases,convert them into CSV and then publish them as wordpress blog posts – now imagine the amount of content you will be able to get through this feature.The site would be massive,and i think you know very well about how google likes sites with massive amount of content.As time goes by and your site becomes old,traffic would literally get bombarded into your site.

3.Avoid all those freelancers – save lots of money !!

4.auto-updating – touch nothing.You will have increasing content and thereby, $$$

 

“But what tool does all this for me” ?

 

Wondering about this?Well,here is the solution:

WordPress CSV Importer

The above wordpress plugin does everything i have talked about above.And surprisingly,its really very cheap.Just go onto that site and you will be impressed.I bet.

The next big thing in IM – would it add more spam?

Twitter has already been attacked by spammers.Now that google and bing are trying to add real-time search,it adds immeasurable value to the real-time search.So does that mean spam is going to increase in the near future?it might happen.So that means Twitter has to do a much better job in weeding out the spam,isn’t it?

 

Real time Search:

 

Whenever something new comes in to the internet marketing or into the web search,everyone starts buzzing about it.But …

BUZZ DOES NOT MEAN IT WOULD WORK EVER OR IT IS THE NEXT BIG THING !!

You saw that in the case of the wolfram alpha search engine and in some other cases.There will be so much buzz when something new starts in the world of web search or even web marketing.but as time goes on and after a few weeks,buzz is lost.So will this be the case with the real-time search too??Would real-time search results be really used by people?

Let us see.I am waiting for the real time search to be released to all.And am sure so are you.

Problem with article directories and Google Indexing

Bum marketing is a great way to increase traffic to your site,let alone the cool conversion it paves way for.web masters can submit at least about 100 articles to the directories and in the process,they can get 100 or even 300 links [3 links per article] from 100 different c-class IPs.But there is a huge problem with the method of bum marketing.People starting out in the internet marketing field face these problems listed below:

 

1.many directories take way long time to approve the articles.This discourages people to pursue bum marketing for their SEO.

2.Lots of directories approve the articles.but the problem is that they do not get indexed by Google.This might due to the factor of duplicate content.

3.Writing the articles – ya,i know how hard it would be to write articles about a topic such as Grills or chairs.ha ha.But still,if you do not want to articles around those keywords,try writing articles in some other niche and link your desired web site in the author resource.There is no harm in doing such a thing.

 

SEOmoz had published a very interesting article about the limit of Google indexing a few weeks back:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/googles-indexation-cap

Rand rightly points out that Google [and so do other search engines] cannot index every web page.This will be so true as the output from webmasters and the number of bloggers increase in the future.There has to be an indexation cap.

 

So this clearly means that Google cannot index all articles in all the article directories.It has to weed out at least the duplicate ones.This is because of the duplicate content contained in them.But still many unique articles also do not get indexed and this causes a lot of frustration.Although bum marketing has a lot of advantages and is a perfect technique for the newbie marketers,there is no doubt that there are other preferred methods over it.

Best ways to Skyrocket your revenue in the Internet

There has been a lot of buzz about the social media for the past 2 or 3 years.But the fact is that social media is not for all niches.Yes.That is true.And social media is not for everybody.So if you failed after trying stumbles,tweets and diggs,remember that it is all because of either your niche or your service.You cannot expect to get a lot of diggs for an Acai berry niche [but yeah, black hat way is possible although it would not stay long].

 

If not social media,then what else works ….

 

If you are worried that social media would not work for you,do not worry.There are lot of other techniques that are sure-fire ways to take your revenue to the stellar levels.Some of them include the internet marketing services and the search engine optimization service.Now there is nothing that cannot work if you do all these yourselves.But hey, wait…are you really familiar with all these techniques?If not,its time to get your feet wet with them.Because reading is different from practicing.If you had not optimized any of your sites before,do it this time and gain knowledge.It is when you do internet marketing that you learn – and that sort of learning is 1000 times better than just watching other IMers’ successes or reading their blog posts.It is high time you understood that you have to become  a IM guru instead of being stagnant as a newbie or a little advanced one.Improve day by day.Time is available.It is you who has to use it.Propel yourselves in to IM.

 

Take Action.

Webmastering is not ‘dream,type and win’ type of thing

Its common to see people getting inspired by super affiliates and their profiles.But how many do you think go all the way down the same road those super affiliates traveled.Not many probably.It is high time webmaster-wannabe understood that it takes a lot more than dreams to succeed in Internet Marketing.Just because you typed an article a week about your niche does not mean you deserve success.

 

Focus,draw a strategy,stick to it,blow away IM Guru’s strategies and do something yourself.You will learn a lot by doing yourselves and FAILING TO MAKE MONEY than dreaming or just reading successful people’s stories or blog posts.Like i always say,make sure to register in a couple of webmaster forums and blogs to keep your knowledge updated about IM.You can try out the UK webmaster forum blog in case you are in search of such a forum.Or if you are completely new to web mastering,start with reading web hosting reviews and getting yourself a domain along with hosting.Start as soon as possible.Do not just dream.Make it a reality.It is all in your hands – just yours !.

 

By the way,i came across an interesting article talking about PCI Compliance .You may read all about it here:

http://www.temi.co.uk/protecting-customer-personal-data/

Since it was something i never came across,i assumed that most probably you did not know about it too.

Starting and succeeding in webmastering – what does it take?

There are three stages when it comes to a webmaster’s success:

 

1.hearing the word web mastering,searching for resources and getting inspired by some IMers’ successes and fat checks,

2.learning everyday about IM,overwhelmed with too much information,becoming envious of others’ successes,

3.realizing that learning everyday about different marketing strategies and search marketing is going to take them nowhere – this is when the webmaster-wannabe plunges himself in to real action.This is when people realize that all those so-called-IM guru’s ebooks will be of no use to them if they do not take action.

Those three steps pretty much cover everything.So for a person to come through all three stages and then ultimately succeed,it takes a lot of patience,persistence and hard work.You cannot expect to sit all day,read RSS feeds,be tweeting and then say f**k off to IM.

You cannot expect to sit all day,read RSS feeds,be tweeting and then say f**k off to IM.

 

More tips:

 

1.It is better to be involved in some popular webmaster forums to be up to date with all the the new IM strategies,news and tools.You will always have something to learn each day.There is no end to that and your passion for IM success.One of the forums you can try is the Webmaster Web Hosting Forum

2.For buying or selling any web property or service you own,you may try out the Webmaster Marketplace.It is so easier to buy already existing businesses.Remember that you are not just getting the profits but also the credibility associated with the old business.It is worth buying from marketplaces rather than starting everything from scratch.

3.Take Action.Period.

Google shuts down the ‘More sponsored links’ section"

Whenever there was a need to see how many advertisers there were for a particular niche,some people used to go to the below URL for looking them up:

http://www.google.com/sponsoredlinks

 

Type the niche in the above page and you would be able to see the list of advertisers.You can also change the geo-location using “gl” parameter in the URL – that would show you the advertiser list for that particular niche and in that particular country.It was quite useful for Internet marketers.

But the sad fact is that it has now been shut down.People will no longer be able to use it for any purpose.I am not sure about the true reasons for the shut down.

 

Here is what Google says about this when i visit that page:

http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?answer=165815&hl=en

Thinking outside the adsense box – mailing to the LIST !

Gone are the days when most webmasters/businessmen were dependent too much on the ad networks.Now anyone can make money or develop an excellent online business with the help of a list.Once you get the list of potential consumers,you can contact them and get them onto your business.But you should also keep in mind that just mailing or calling them is not enough for developing the business and taking it to the next level.Apart from contacting them,you must strive hard to make your offer/product/service the best.If you are the best in your industry,these people in the list will grow your business through the “word of mouth” marketing.You will be amazed by the power of word of mouth marketing.Anyway,that is beyond the scope of this article.Now let me tell you where you can get a list of the potential consumers.

 

Where to get the list that would really convert well?

 

There are lot of web sites offering the details about the leads but remember that a lot of people in there might not convert for you if the list has already been sold to thousands of others.So just buying a list at the cheapest price is not going to do any good to you.You need to resort to the best solution and this is why the following web site is recommended for the telemarketing lists .

http://www.tlclists.com/

 

Apart from getting the telemarketing list ,you can also get the mortgage mailing list.Now this will be very helpful if you are a loan provider.There are lot more lists that can obtained through this web site and the entire collection of lists they offer are listed in detail in the above mentioned URL.

How to expand your online business via backlink building

Do you own an online business? Well, in that case you know that internet marketing is the way to go about advertising it. You need a high profile for your site, you need for lots of people to see it. Ideally, you should be able to use relevant link building, this means that many links must point to your site, this makes it valuable while ranking in search engine results. Now you should know that there are many ways to get links to your site, you could opt for a reciprocal linking – where you link a site, and that site returns the favor by linking you in return. This works out well for everyone. But you should be warned – this method isn’t a good one anywhere, because search engines normally give priority to those who buy backlinks.

Usually, one way links are preferred, you can also try the 3 way linking method. You should be aware that edu backlinks and relevant link building are very beneficial for improving your business. Today, internet marketing is the way to go about expanding your online business, and you need to keep up with the latest methods to overtake all the competition.

Basically, there are millions of websites out there, and each website’s owner is trying their level best to attract customers. You need to ensure that you don’t fall behind. Generate ample traffic with the help of edu backlinks and go ahead and buy backlinks to get quality traffic. This way, you would also get more revenue. What you need to do is figure out what your target audience wants, and try and give it to them. Use search engine optimization to increase the ranking of your website among different search engines. This will make your online business very popular. That way, your business would definitely prosper.

Web marketing isn’t rocket science – It isn’t dead simple to master either

Ever wondered if all that hype and buzz about the web marketing is really worth?Well,online marketing is essential for every business or a web site regardless of how large your business is.Everybody is getting in to the Internet and there have been reports recently that people have started to spend more on buying online.Thus it is high time you started to learn about web marketing or start searching for a web marketing services provider.

 

What constitutes the web marketing?

 

If you were wondering what are the elements of the web marketing,here is a short list showing them all:

1.PPC,

2.link building service,

3.optimizing your web site for increased ROI,

4.Social media optimization.

 

The third service called ROI optimization is also essential.There is no point in just concentrating on the marketing alone when your web site or the sales page sucks.You need to get the most out of your visitor.Hence the user interface plays a very vital role too.There is much more to be discussed about each individual list item shown above but that would take 1000 words.So i am keeping that aside for another day.

cheers.

A lost ball in the high weeds – the SEO and MMO beginners

IM,SEO and MMO beginners will be the most frustrated persons until they find the real method to make money through the internet.The truth is that is not so easy and most people never wait to succeed.What makes so many losers when it comes to the IM success:

 

1.Finding the right resources is not so easy – there is hell lot of information that it becomes too hard to get the big picture from so many bread crumbs.But whoever waits patiently and gets the big picture succeeds and the success keeps rolling like a snow ball,

2.lack of Patience,

3.too much dependence on IM Guru’s sayings,

4.Constant reading of everything related to IM but no action,

5.Bullshit e-books that salivate every IM beginner but does not offer serious advice and suggestions for success but instead throws out some shit revenue screenshots by the ad networks paid to the IM Guru.

 

“What you think you become” – if you are not ready to plan out a strategy and try everything yourselves,get out of IM pls.

Two less used Google search operators

Here are some search operators which people normally forget to use but could be very useful for essential stuff.Here they are:

 

1.Tilde for knowing LSI keywords:

The SERP is or will soon be depending on the LSI too.So if you want to know what google thinks are the right LSI keywords for a particular keyword,you can google like this:

~buy :

Here are the LSI keywords for “buy” :shop,store,price etc ,.

 

2.Define operator for quick access to definitions:

Format of the google operator:

define:”keyword”

A lot more operators can be read here:

http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

Hope that helped a bit.see you soon.

Great News for all Internet Marketers,Publishers

Great to hear that more people have now started to understand the power of the internet to market the products or services.It seems that the online spending has increased in UK and actually the marketing costs through internet has beat that of the television marketing.Here is the entire news article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8280557.stm

 

I am not sure about the other countries though.Let me know if you have got any report about the Online spending in other countries.That would be more interesting too.

Create Uber cool pre-selling pages and landing pages

Want to create uber cool pre-selling pages and landing pages but do not want to spend money for hosting or domain?Well,you are not alone.Most of the newbies,and even seasoned marketers alike,try to use free hosting and test things and then proceed to buy a domain to scale up.So in such a case,using the blogger is not such a good idea because those templates just does not seem to work well as a pre-selling page or a landing page.Most of you might want to use a zero sidebar template and there is no way you are going to get such a blogger template.Of course you can do it if you know at least html and css,but if you do not,there is really nothing to worry about.

Here is an awesome way to build such pages and host them too for free:

http://www.devhub.com/

You can create any column template you desire and the interface is too cool to resist.I just love the web site builder and you can create up to 10 sites.But yes of course i think you know how to build more than 10 if you need really ;)

Let me know about more such cool things through the contact form.I will give credit to you too.

stay cool.