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If you are managing multiple niche blogs, one of the tasks you will need to do is find content ideas that your visitors are likely to value. One of the ways you can do this is by using a great tool by Wordtracker called Keyword Questions.
This free tool allows you to enter keywords and find related questions in the niche that people are looking for. For example, I typed in Acai Berry and it showed some great results:
Many people recognise PPC and SEO as powerful marketing techniques and a lot of marketers will use one or sometimes both methods to drive traffic to their sites.
However, the evolution of search marketing has blurred the lines of PPC and SEO and they are increasingly becoming very similar in practice and execution. People may disagree but I routinely find myself conducting very similar types of work for both types of projects mostly due to quality scoring.
There is not really an Affspy review, it’s more of a post letting you know about Affspy if you have not already been accepted for the beta. To sign up for the free beta, go to www.Affspy.com.
What is Affspy?
Affspy is a new affiliate marketing tool which allows you find affiliate offers across a variety of different affiiliate networks via a searchable database which displays where the offer is available and the payout. Among the list of affiliate networks that it currently searches are AzoogleAds, Copeac, CX Digital Media, Neverblue and XY7 along with a few more. At the moment, it does not support my favourite affiliate network, Hydra, however I’m sure they will be added soon.
Where is the value added?
First of all, Affspy is a free tool. It does not cost anything to join. The main value added benefit of Affspy is allowing you to find affiliate offers suited to your niche quickly. Personally, it has saved myself time as I no longer have to search affiliate networks manually.
How can I use this to my advantage?
There are many ways you can use Affspy to your advantage. If you are already running an offer, it may be worthwhile to type in the offer name to compare the payout with other networks. If you find a network with a higher payout, it may be worthwhile to switch to them or contact your existing network to ask for a payout increase - this could make a huge difference to your bottom line.
Another way to use Affspy is to substitute expiring offers with another one from another network. In the past, I would have had to do a manual search among 8 different networks, however, with Affspy this is no longer needed.
Finding offers for your niche is also made much faster and simpler. The Affspy search box supports the name of specific offers AND categories. So if you had a site on dating, you could type dating and if would find all dating offers that you could use, with a comparison of payouts.
Lately I’ve been reading “Good to Great” by Jim Collins and it’s a great book which I recommend to anyone who is serious about building a long term sustainable business.
One point in the book that I find to be extremely important to building an online business is their chapter on the flywheel which details how the small incremental pushes in the right direction amount to a large momentum. When this is applied to business growth we begin to see why businesses succeed or fail.
In internet marketing, many people give up too quickly. They push the flywheel but it does not gain enough momentum so they give up without sticking at it. This can be caused because they are expecting millions overnight or they change their business idea on the fly.
On the other hand, there are others who will develop a plan based around a solid business that will last for years and they will push the flywheel through site creation and continous marketing until it is a roaring success. But what happens once a business is profitable and what should you do?
Well the answer is outsourcing. When your business starts reaching over $1k, you can begin to outsource tasks and jobs to free up your own time so that you can work on making your business even more successful.
By understanding how a business naturally grows, you can condition yourself for the expectation of working hard until the flywheel gains enough momentum and becomes easier to turn.
As an internet marketer from the UK and predominantly selling products to the US market, it is very important to be able to view how customers see my ads and website in search engines at their location. This still applies if your from the US and sell products UK customers and to make your job easier, you should download the Google Global Firexfox Plugin.
This plugin allows you to view Google serps results and adwords ads as if you were from another country. Why is this so important? Well here’s a few reasons:
1. You can see where you page is ranked in another country. This will allow you to get a clearer picture of the market and help you to identify competitors in different countries.
2. If you’re an adwords user, you can see how many ads show up for your target keywords and what other advertisers are using in their ad text. Not only does this tell you how competitive keyword / niches but it also allows you to get ideas on what you should include in your adwords ad for that particular country.
Getting links is a task that cannot be avoided if you want to obtain high rankings on search engines. There are many ways to get links and I want to show you an easy way to get valuable links for your niche that will sky rocket your rankings across the three major search engines. Read the rest of this entry »
I just wanted to share a quick tip with everyone before I get back to work and that tip is to “develop projects fully before moving on to new projects”.
I know it sounds simple and it sounds like something we’ve heard many times before but it’s amazing that a lot of us have never really implemented. I don’t care if you’re new to internet marketing or experienced, I’m sure you have an undeveloped project somewhere on your hard drive that you once thought would be the next big thing.
Let me share my story with you.
A few days ago I was looking at my portfolio of sites (and no, they are not all MFA’s despite the title of this blog) and I had a site that I thought I could turn into $1000+ per month site (it was making about $200 per month from affiliate product sales) but I just kept putting it off and it ended up being forgotten.
After speaking to a few friends, I was motivated enough to develop the site. 3 days later, the site is making around $100 per day after just a few changes. All I did was review how it was making money and develop the sales funnel.
Obviously there’s much more I could do, but the moral of the story is that you should focus on finishing projects before moving onto another one to avoid spreading yourself too thinly. I have just come to realise how powerful and profitable this concept really is.
Personally, I work on two projects at a time (one is in early stages, the other has been developed and just needs links). With this, I can manage my workload and increase productivity because one of the projects does not require a lot of attention and the other I’m actively focused on.
It also helps cashflow because instead of working on 5 projects which take 30 days each to complete (150 days before I see money), I could have made money in 30 days by just completing one and then we have a snowball effect when the other projects are rolled out.
I hope this post has inspired you to manage your work time better and take a closer look at your projects.
I was reading a few posts on a forum today and noticed a post where someone was asking what is the fastest way to get traffic so I thought I would share my answer here:
PPC is a great way to get traffic but it actually is not the quickest way to get traffic or the least expensive. The quickest way to generate free targetted traffic is using forum posting.
The great thing about forum posting is that it does not take long at all and it can be completed in as little as one hour. All you need to do is a quick search on Google or Yahoo to find forums related to your site and then make up a nice signature for your posts before you start posting. For example, if you have a site about Carpal Tunnel, find some carpal tunnel and health related forums - there’s plenty of them.
If you’re targeting a big forum, most posts will get a few hundred views and making a few posts per day at several forums will definately get some eyeballs to your site. In fact, I’ve been able to get more than 200 uniques per day on day 1 of a brand new site from just forum traffic - and these people buy and click on adsense as long as you have great content.
Tip: Make sure you include relevant anchor text in your forum signature. Apart from getting fast traffic, posting on forums is good for getting your sites indexed and ranked too. After each post, social bookmark them (use OnlyWire or BookMarking Demon) to get them noticed by the search engines faster.
Automating SEO promotions should be a goal for many internet marketers and lately I have been working on my own system to help get my sites indexed and ranked quickly. Naturally, a post on Digerati Marketing intrigued me as they are planning to release a suite of SEO tools in November. Here are the features so far:
Link Backrub - This tool will increase your backlinks massively by scouring the Internet for sites that link to you, that are not indexed in search engines. Any links it finds to your site, which are not indexed by Google, it will get them indexed - almost instantly, thus letting Google see all of your backlinks. This will of course, improve your rankings.
Flashdex - This tool will get ANY page indexed in Google within 1 hour - guaranteed.
Social Storm - This neat little bit of script can get a single page - or multiple pages socially bookmarked on the top 20 social bookmarking and tagging sites over 190 times, automatically, from different IPs at random times over the course of weeks. This can give you massive traffic boosts.
StumbleXchange Automator - StumbleXchange is a great site, but it takes so damn long! This downloadable program will automate the entire process for you! No more hours of stumbling other peoples pages, just click and go to sleep!
Link Buster - My favourite tool - This tool will build you over 100 relevant links per month, to any page requested - and it’s not blackhat!
All of this sounds great and on first look it sounds very similar to the SQUIRT private membership but with a bigger focus on getting search engine rankings.
If you’re anything like me and dislike spending a lot of time writing articles then you should really look at outsourcing your article writing. The great thing about article outsourcing is; not only does it save you time and stress - it also allows your business to grow by working faster than you could alone. Your unique articles could be used to promote or build new sites.
In the past I’ve used Elance and other places with mixed results. I recently came across a site called GetMeContent and took them up on their $99 offer for 9000 words. I figured I’d get them to write 30 articles at 300 words which worked out as about $3.30 per article (on elance you can expect to pay $5 - 20 per article). I chose 300 words because some of them were to be submitted to ezinearticles who have 250 minimum word count.
Before I ordered the content package, I was able to talk to their customer support via a chat module on their site. They answered all of my questions so I used their ordering system and sent $99 via Paypal and waited.
After 24 hours I still hadn’t heard from my editor so I went back to the site to talk with customer support again. They assured me that I’d be hearing from my editor soon. A few hours later, my editor emailed me (he also had a gmail account so we could chat with googletalk too).
I found the best way to tell your editor about your requirements was to make a word document outlining exactly what you wanted. If you want to give your editor a list of keywords to generate content from, then put that in your document, along with required keyword density, word count, description, etc. If anyone needs a sample of what I sent to my editor, just leave comment and i’ll rush a copy to your inbox.
After I sent the document, I spend the next few days working on other things and every time I checked my email it was reassuring to see my editor online (on gmail) and able to answer my questions if needed.
One week later, I receive my 30 articles. I check them out and the quality and research is great, far better than I had expected. Overall, my experience was relatively stress free and definately a good business move, freeing up valuable time and allowing me to focus on other things.
Since then, I have signed up for their $250 per month content writer package. With this package, I aim to banish my article writing to the past. If you haven’t tried GetMeContent.com already, I recommend you give them a shot.
Two packages you can choose from:
$99 Content Creation (9000 words)
and