Simple SEO for Beginners that Gets Results

We all want our site to be number 1 in Google for various search terms and with all the competition out there it can be incredibly tough. Throw in all the Google updates to their algorithm and it gets even more difficult to rank a website. A top ranking for a highly searched keyword can bring serious amounts of traffic to your website which could lead to advertising revenue our product sales. Let's look at some of the ways we can rank in Google.

Indexing your Website in an Hour!
First off we need to get our site index by the big G. To do so we can go to this site, Bulkping.com, it's a free site that has several online tools. Click on the top link "Fast Index Free Backlinks". Fill out the form with your information and click on submit. This will send your website to many statistic, analytic, and search engine websites creating various backlinks. Typically your site can be indexed in under 2 hours!

Backlinking
Now we need to get backlinks for our site. To get a top ranking in Google we need to give the feeling that our site just launched and went viral. To do this you will need to submit a free press release, you can find several of these sites if you look up free press releases in Google. Write our outsource a good press release and get it submitted.

Start doing social bookmarking to various websites. You can outsource this for cheap on Fiverr for 5 bucks. There are several gigs that offer thousands of social bookmarks. Next you will need to submit to article directories. Write our pay someone to write 5 to 10 articles that you can submit to the top article directories. Not only will this give you free traffic but it will give you high page rank backlinks to your website.
Forum profiles are not as powerful as they once were. It is healthy to mix in a handful of high page rank profiles but don't go over board with them. Google could penalize you for it and slap your site down the search rankings. Forum posts with a link to your site or in your signature are still excellent for backlinking.

Vary Your Anchor Text
It is very important to vary the anchor text that you use. In the past you could spam hundred of backlinks with the same anchor text and rank for that keyword. Google sees this as very suspicious now and it will likely get your site penalized. Try to vary your anchor text to target multiple keywords and even a few that say "click here" so it looks natural to the big G.

Index your Backlinks Fast
To get your links indexed fast go back to Bulkping and click on the top link "RSS Feed Generator", copy your list of links here to have them made into a RSS feed. Then you can go to their other free tool RSS submit online and submit it several directories. After that go to the free ping tool and ping the RSS feed. This method will index your site as fast as two days!

Profit?
Sometimes you can see jumps in the rankings fairly fast but most of the time it takes 30 days to really start seeing results. After 30 days you should see a significant jump in the search engine rankings. If you are still not #1 just rinse and repeat. The more work you put in the higher you will rise in the rankings.

Article Marketing – 3 Simple Steps to Find Targeted Profitable Traffic in Minutes

If you are struggling to find targeted traffic for your blog or website, then this article will help you do the proper research and testing to rake in tons of targeted traffic to your site.  Let’s be honest here, the only way to see success online is getting people to read your blog or website.  How else can you gain readership, followers, and their trust?  By building a following you will be able to make money off your website either by selling products or through advertising.  First we need to determine what to write, then the keywords we need to target, and a headline that pops out.

Article Research

We need to determine what to write about and which keywords to target.  What niche is your website in?  For example it could be dating, gardening, blogging, cars, etc?  Now think of a topic in that niche that can help people.  Making a bulleted list with a how to guide is great for getting attention and traffic to your site.  For example, “5 Tips for Buying a New Car for Thousands Less than Sticker”.  That is a great headline that stands out but also tells the reader that they are going to get the information they need quickly.

Keyword Research

Keyword research is also important.  We can use the free Google keyword tool to look up relevant keywords that have low competition but have decent traffic.  The search volume can be lower than 1000 because we want articles to rank naturally in Google.  Think about this, if you find 5 keywords that have between 200 and 500 searches a month each, then you can write 5 articles targeting these keywords.  Since the competition is so low your articles will rank naturally in Google if you post them to high page rank websites like EzineArticles, Goarticles, or Your-Answers.com.  You must make sure that the keyword fits in your headline.  Then you will be able to get on the first page and start seeing traffic flow to your articles.

Headlines That Grab Attention

Determining a great headline is the hardest part of article marketing.  You need to think of a headline that is interesting and will get a user’s attention.  For example, which of these headlines sound better?  “How to meet women online” or “3 Simple Tips to Meet Hot Women Online”, the second one is clearly the better of the two titles.  If you had the choice to click on one of the two you would surely click on the second.

Now we need to perform split testing.  Split testing is where we test an article with different headlines to determine which ones get monster traffic.  It is best to use an auto approve directory like Goarticles for testing.  Publish your article then wait a couple days and see how many views you get.  If you don’t get many views then delete the article and try again.  Keep doing this till you start getting a bunch of traffic coming to one of your articles.  Once you figure it out then you will be able to rinse and repeat for monster traffic.

What if I told you other authors have already done the work for you?  Well good news, many authors have figured out headlines that grab killer traffic.  How do we find these articles?  We can use a search code in Google to view articles on EzineArticles that have high amounts of views then compare article headlines.  

Here is the code,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011" "Word Count: 500..1000"

This will search all articles in the dating niche and show all the articles published in 2011 that have been viewed over 2000 times.  Begin analyzing the articles and you will begin to figure out how to write similar attention grabbing headlines.  Don’t just copy someone else’s headline; write your own using what you have learned from other authors.

This is a proven method that will bring in traffic.  If you truly want your blog to grow then start writing articles that will bring you monster traffic to your site.  Get the sales and conversions you have been dreaming of.

Your Answers Article Directory Launched

Looking for a high quality article directory to submit your articles to?  Your-Answers.com just launched this week and it completely free to use!  The problem with the majority of article directories out there is they will take any submission regardless of duplicate content or poorly written articles.  Google looks poorly at these sites by giving them low Page Rank and even weaker link juice.  Most these articles hardly even rank for the keyword they are targeting, even with back linking to the articles! Any articles found to be duplicated content, plagiarism, or copyrighted will be removed. Keeping high standards ensures high traffic to articles and better rankings in Google search rankings.

Your-Answers.com only accepts high quality articles to it's directory.  To submit an article it must have perfect spelling, excellent spelling, and at least be 400+ words.  What benefits do you get from Your-Answers?  More exposure as an author, syndication through RSS, and high quality back links to your sites.  Each article is allowed up to two links per article!  RSS is a very powerful tool and allows sites all over the web to reach your content giving you even further exposure.

Your Answers is dedicated to only accepting quality content that answers it's readers questions by expert authors that provide valuable information from various fields.  All articles submitted are reviewed and go through an approval process within 24 hours.  Over 180 categories have been created for various subjects and you can contact support to suggest new categories to be added.

Generating sales!  Submitting quality articles can help boost leads to your website and help generate more sales.  Just try not to make your articles sound too commercial and more informational so it doesn't sound like a sales letter.

A steady stream of traffic to your website for years to come!  Submitting articles to Your Answers will give you a steady stream of users to your website for years.

Increase your credibility and trust with your readers.  By writing high quality content you can build trusting relationships with your readers.  Trust can generate a lot of traffic to your websites and it will only grow from there.  Make your readers crave more content and they will want more from your own website.

Your-Answers.com is the next big high quality expert article directory!  Build high quality links, more traffic, and credibility now.  The more traffic you generate the better you will succeed! Are you going to boost your web exposure?

The Warrior Forum's Guru WSO Garbage

I'm not here to talk trash on the Warrior Forum, there is some excellent info out there and it's great place to start for beginners but there is the hilarious self proclaimed gurus over there that spout complete shit. Like any site there are some bad apples and the Warrior Forum is no exception. I tend to lurk nowadays over there but occasionally I will comment for those looking for help.

Gurus Lacking Wisdom
Here's my beef with some of the guru's over there, they claim to make thousands of dollars on numerous systems and every week they magically come up with a new system to sell as a special offer. You really think they are making bank every week on these systems? Anyone can fake an earnings screenshot and it happens all the time. If you head over to Warrior Plus's WSO Tracker you can look up some of these gurus and see their new special offers. Go ahead, click on one of their names and check out how many money making systems they come out with every week. It's hilarious the crap they come up with and it's typically the same regurgitated material that everyone has already heard or it's information that is readily available for free else where.

WSO's are the ONLY way these guys make money
It's true, they don't know how to make money outside of the warrior forum.  They have figured out how to get affiliates for their WSOs and they send paid traffic to their posts to make it look like their product is producing some buzz to get even more people to resell their rehashed product.  Some of these guys speak at IM conferences and what do they talk about 3/4 of the time?  Selling WSOs on the Warrior Forum!

These gurus make bank every month too, I'm talking between 10 to 30 grand a month for some of these guys.  Good for them, they found out that desperate buyers in the make money niche will buy up this stuff waiting for the push button answer to get rich quick.  I mean hey, I was one of them.  I bought a handful of WSOs a few years back before I knew anything about internet marketing. Did I learn anything from them?  Hell no, it was all garbage.  That's when I learned my lesson and realized everything I needed to learn about IM was already out there for free.

Quality WSOs
Again, I am pointing out some bad apples that reside on that forum.  There are some great WSOs out there, like Jan Roos's Amazon system or Erskine Meyers Adsense niche guide.  Look them up, they actually show you step by step on how to build successful online businesses.  I wouldn't be so critical of these guys if they were selling their customers quality content that is helpful, but they're not.  I'm more likely to trust a marketer who has been around for a while and only posts two to three WSO's a year because I believe he really is making money off these methods.  Compared to the guy who is trying to push a WSO out every week.

Usually well known marketers will give sterling reviews to these products and typically they just want to help the other guy out.  They will never post anything bad on the WSO thread so you may want to try messaging them directly for an honest review.  They may be more willing to tell you the truth.  Do your research and don't waste your money if you are really interested in a special offer.

Updated Ezine Article Spying

After the Google Panda update Ezine Articles made several changes not only to their submission rules but also to their page layouts.  If you read my previous post, Ezine Article Spying, you may have noticed that the code parameters you enter into Google no longer work.  This is directly due to how Ezine Articles labels each article now and it not longer uses the same wording at the bottom of each page.

What has changed?  Well lets look at the old code,
Dating site:ezinearticles.com "This article has been viewed 2000..199999" "Article Submitted On: * *, 2012"

Now compare that to the new code that does give results within Google,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011"

As you can see Ezine Articles has removed "This article has been" and "Article" from each phrase at the bottom of every article.  We can now even search for a specific word count threshold by using this code,

Dating site:ezinearticles.com "viewed 2000..199999" "Submitted On: * *, 2011" "Word Count: 500..1000"

When you enter this code it will only bring up articles that have at least 500 to 1000 words.  This is great for finding higher quality content.

So how can we really use this code to help us?

1. Hot Trends - We can begin doing searches for keywords of broad categories and easily see what recent articles are getting a lot of views.
2. Micro Niche Research - If you are into building micro niche blog sites then this type of research is invaluable.  Look at the article titles, are they ranking well for their keywords?  Could you easily rank for these keywords in Google SERPs?
3. Content is King - Let's be honest, if you're not outsourcing your article writing then you have to be writing it yourself.  We can't all be experts at everything so Ezine Articles can be great for inspiration and finding good content to write in your own words and add your own information too.

Why do all the hard work when others are already doing it for you?  Heck, if you find hot articles you can even setup some Google alerts for the main keywords and see what other people are posting on the web.  You might find some great places to get backlinks too!

Make Money With Clickbank

So you wanna start making money with ClickBank? ClickBank.com is probably the easiest and most used product network on the web. You can sign up and have an account as quickly as today. There are thousands of products that you can resell in just about any niche you can think of.

Clickbank makes it easy to get an affiliate link for a product you would like to sell and they handle all the payments between you and the seller. So no worries about a seller shafting you on your fair share of commission. They send checks or direct deposits out twice a month. I've never had a late payment from ClickBank, they have always delivered!

Avoid Costly Mistakes

One of the big mistakes that beginners make is they try to sell a product with way to much competition. Sure these products may convert well and are very popular, but you are fighting with too many other affiliates for sales. If you are late to the show then you may end up fighting an uphill battle for traffic. I like to look at products that no one is selling, why? There is no competition and the product creator may have done poor job trying to recruit affiliates for their product. We can look at how many people are selling a product by looking at it's gravity. If the gravity is below 3o, then not that many people are selling the product. If it is at zero, then nobody is selling the product.

Testing

If the sales page looks good and I think that it will convert, I will invest a bit of time to see if I can get sales through that product. What you need to do is create a webpage or free blog talking about the article, this will act as your sales funnel to the product's sales page. Here you want to write a 400 to 500 word article discussing the product and how it can solve what ever problem it may be targeting. Put inline links in the article pointing to the product's page then have a call of action at the end of the article that also points back to the product.

Traffic

Now you will need to get traffic to your blog/website to see if you can get this product to convert. I typically have pre-written articles for various niches, if you don't you will need to invest some time writing some articles to submit to article directories.

Places to submit your articles to,

ezinearticles

goarticles

squidoo lense

hubpages

There are many article directories out there, so send to various ones and see if you get any traffic from them. After we have some articles submitted we can wait a few days and look at our clickbank analytics to determine how much traffic, or hops, we are sending to the product. If you send 100 people to the page and none of them convert, I recommend moving on to another product. If you get just a couple of sales then I recommend scaling up the traffic. Mass submit your articles to as many directories as possible to really boost the people you are sending.

The Lion's Den

If you find a product no one is promoting and it does convert well, typically I have found that you can OWN the product's keywords. The exact name of the product and hot keywords that would include review, reviews, scam, best, and etc. These are buyer keywords, they may even be people who have looked at the product in the past but now they are in a buyer mode. This is how you leap frog all the other affiliates.

It is definitively harder to make money with ClickBank with so much competition but we can help simplify it by testing products that no one is pushing. By making money with ClickBank we can create another income stream that is essentially passive income once you have made it profitable. You can set it and forget it while you move on to your next product.

The Warrior Forum Delima

I love the warrior forum, if you haven't been there make sure to check it out, warriorforum.com. But like any forum out there, they all have their own problems. The mods do a great job trying to keep it a clean and professional forum, although at times they do take things a bit too far.

For example, a user was trying to make a helpful post about about how he makes $200 per day with adsense and he wanted to have people ask him questions on his success. By doing so he wanted to share his methods so others would be successful just like him. You would think, hey this is a great post and someone is really trying to contribute to the community. Well here's the kicker, the post was deleted three times before this last one not being deleted by mods, where he had to beg for them not to delete it. If you want to see the post here it is, $200 a day from adsense, it's a great post in my opinion.

The other side of the coin is the bad products in the WSO, Warrior Special Offer, section of the forum. Don't get me wrong, there are some GREAT products and services here but there are also some very bad products. Rehashed content and e-books filled with fluff to make it look like your getting some big e-book that's 100+ pages long. Then on top of all that, these bad products get sterling reviews from well known marketers saying how great the product is. I think they would give dog crap a good review if asked. Even though they are selling information is either known already by everyone except people new to the IM world. Hey, that's fine but market it as a hand guide for newbies, don't try to lead people in thinking this is some secret method that few people know about. It's just a big lie. It really surprises me that these marketers are willing to throw their reputation out the door for the sake of a buck.

I've launched two products there, one that sold for a $1 that was a combination of my story plus some blogging advice and another that had a couple great videos on some little known techniques and I included some bonuses. I felt I offered something of real value at a low price to the forum. I will always stick to those values of offering quality. I would have to ask myself, "Would I buy this and be satisfied?" If yes, then you know you have created a quality product.

If you plan on launching a WSO here are some tips. Think of products that either solve a common problem that is going around on the forum or offer something with proof. Here are some ideas you could create products with that will offer real value.

1. PLR - (Private Label Rights) In my opinion this is the hottest product you could create. Fellow marketers love new content. You could take a lot of your personal articles and package them up for sale, 30 to 50 articles for a specific niche.
2. Web Graphic Packages - these are hot sellers because anyone who builds their own websites and sales pages need graphics.
3. Case Study - Test out a method for 30 days or longer and show your results. It can be a new technique you've discovered or even something common. Showing that common methods still and can provide serious results, can be very motivating to share.
4. Wordpress - Any type of tips or plugins for wordpress are very hot sellers. Any thing to help simplify a process for a blog or website. Selling pre-built templates for niches are big sellers as well.
5. Traffic Generation - This is a very hot topic to create a product on. If you have found method to generate traffic that no one really knows about, this can be a huge seller.
6. Offline Business - Methods on building your own SEO/Marketing company, lead generation, and other business models. These type of products sell very well.

If you do create a product just remember, provide real quality and value. Make a product people are gonna love. This will keep them hungry for more content from you plus give a real boost to your reputation. Hey, this guy knows a lot about IM and how to make money. You don't want to look like a used car salesman.