Well, he’s (Ed Dale aka Ted Legend) put together a “neato” video on what trackbacks are and how you can use them (if you haven’t already) to increase traffic to your web site.
Click Here For The Video
And funnily enough - this post is using a trackback too!
Well, it would be RUDE not to!
All the best,
Tom
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If you send any amount of emails on a regular basis or indeed have a mailing list on an autoresponder, you will no doubt have received automated responses from your list telling you they have put in SPAM control software and you need to manually register with them.
Fair enough I hear you say but I’ve just come across a very sly spammer trick.
I received an email (from a spammer) who wrote the following:
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You may well be aware of the KISS acronym:
Keep It Simple Stupid!
It’s a good one to remember when you are designing your website. It must have a logical flow/funnel to bring your visitors through. Too many choices leads to confusion. So the underlying simplicity of your site and it’s web pages is of paramount importance.
Here are several ways to keep your pages simple, and increase conversions.
1. One “Theme” on the page.
If you can keep your focus having information related to a single theme/topic per page, this will help keep visitors “on track” immensely.
Readers will not flit from one side of the page to another if they have a single option in terms of information displayed, they read in a linear fashion. This means you need to give them fewer (not more) hyperlinking choices.
2. Keep your sentences simple.
There’s no point using big/complex words where a shorter easier description will do. Waffly messages or convoluted ways of explaining things will lose your reader rather than impress them.
3. Minimise the use of pictures
One or two quality images can support your sales message. You should test wheter the addition or omission of graphics will help or hurt your sales conversion. Err on the side of caution by minimizing your use of graphics.
Too many graphics distract your readers.
4. Offers Should Be Simple
Too many puchasing options can lead to confusion and ultimately a reduction in conversion rates with your visitors.
Try to have a single purchasing option and when it comes to images - this is a good time to have one, namely showing which types of credit cards you accept.
5. Simplify Your Forms
Be they sales or subscription, your forms need to be kept simple and short. The longer they become, the worse the response rate. If the information is not needed on the form, rip it off.
So rather than loving your site - KISS it!
All the best,
Tom
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Well Internet Marketing fans, credit where credit is due - Perry Marshall just sent out this little gem to his list.
No strings attached access to the entire 20 hour footage from the 2004 X10 seminar.
Plenty to keep you going on topics like Adsense, SEO and everything a marketer might hope to know. Granted some of it will be “dated” now but there’s plenty to chew on:
All the best,
Tom
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We all would love to have gifted to us high income business opportunities - ideally with little or no risk and indeed little or no money down.
The fact of the matter is somewhat different. The simple truth is as follows:
High Income Business Opportunities usually:
1. Are High Risk
2. Require Investment
3. Require Time/Effort On Your Part
Naturally there are exceptions to every rule but the above will stand you in good stead.
And with all the above said, what high income opportunities are available to you as a business bearing in mind you want to mitigate your risk/limit your exposure.
With over 200,000,000 registered users this is a massive marketplace selling every conceivable item you could imagine. There are estimated to be over 800,000 people making a full time living on EBay alone and using the 80/20 rule - 20% of them are doing it well. If you could be one of those 20% you would be laughing all the way to the bank - literally.
There is a small problem - time and money. You’ll need to “invest” both to become proficient in selling on EBay (trust me on this) or else you’ll end up with your wallet in a financial sling.
The following is a course you might want to consider - it is the “Rolls Royce” of it’s type so you will pay a premium for it:
It will arm you well and save you considerable time/money thus reducing your risk.
There are 2 major issues with this model:
1. Pyramid schemes - These are fraudulent (also called Ponzi) schemes setup with the express purpose of separating you from your hard earned cash. Far too many people have been deterred from legitimate network marketing opportunities as a result. This is why you have to exert due diligence when choosing a specific opportunity - be very careful and do you research before you join up.
2. Focus - Most people who get involved in the Network Marketing industry (I know because I was one of these who made this mistake - so take heed!) subscribe to too many “opportunities” - this means they spread themselves too thinly and as a result make little or no progress in their chosen system. If you are going to join up and get involved, do so by taking “baby steps”:
2a. Make sure you join up with one system and get to know it inside out as well as how to promote it.
2b. Make sure the product behind the “opportunity” is high quality and has a genuine market outside of the network marketers who join in the first place!
2c. Make sure you invest only as much as you can afford to spend (there’s no point spending $100/month+ on subscriptions if you cannot afford it).
2d. Give it a fair chance - honestly try your best for at least 6 months with the systems/tools provided and see if it really delivers. If you have done the above and still see no results, you will have learned a lot to apply on another opportunity and have saved yourself a lot of time and effort moving forward.
Given the above caveats, there is a simple way I can recommend you to get started as it meets all the above criteria:
This is more “preventative” rather than an opportunity. In order for you to reap the rewards of any business you sow. In addition, there are a huge number of ideas contained within this resource which will stand you in good stead whilst you research more high income business opportunities.
If you “educate yourself”, you “insure yourself” from the ignorance of not knowing the risks which inevitably face you.
There is one resource I know which fits the bill and it’s by the business marketing mastermind himself: Jay Abraham.
I have personally invested in one of his very high ticket items (and it was worth every penny) but he has recently released a convenient digital version of his hugely popular Mr X book.
Quite simply brilliant:
Mr X - The Business Marketing Bible
The above resources should give you some food for thought when you next look for a high income opportunity.
Above all else remember this:
How about you - have you spotted any business opportunities you know to be fantastic?
All the best,
Tom
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It doesn’t matter if it’s Adwords or Adsense, articles or social bookmarking, just how much do you really know about Internet Marketing?
Click Here To Find Out How Much You Really Know…
All the best,
Tom
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Well, to slightly more general - Adsense as a viable form of income generation is now dead according to this new site offering a free eBook explaining their curious claims:
Haven’t read it yet but will get back to you when I do.
All the best,
Tom
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First up whatever you’re doing is probably wrong.
Secondly, whatever you’re doing is probably right!
Errr, seems a tad confusing doesn’t it, well the truth is we’re talking about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and this is just as much an art form as a science.
The good news is, there may not be rules but there are guidelines you can follow to help you get the traffic you want.
1. Have Something Useful To Say
Make sure whatever your post is for it passes the following test:
Read the post yourself and if you have lost the will to live or are bored sh*tless, it’s time to change the content or not bother at all!
2. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!)
Avoid acronyms (if you do add them, make sure you explain them straight away) and keep big words to a minimum. If you don’t, you’ll obfuscate the meaning of your message 
. Remember, just because it’s common knowledge to you, it isn’t to everyone else - or put another way “We’re all ignorant - only on different subjects”.
(BTW (By The Way) - To obfuscate means to make things more difficult to read, if you’re a pedant you will no doubt supply a stricter definition - along with one for pedant too!)
3. Break It Up
A blog with one sentence crashing into the next, into the next… is very hard to read and comprehend. Split things up with proper use of bold and headlines. Remember you want to keep your reader attentive.
4. Eye Candy
Get your own theme for your blog - make it stand out from the crowd but at the same time be visually easy on the eye and appealing. One thing you don’t want to do is go mad with HTML having colours everywhere, blinking graphics and fonts that blend into the page. You’d be surprised - it still happens in 2006, and those blogs just don’t get read (except for search engine spiders).
5. Titles And Headlines
Spend a little time thinking of a good title - it’s got to be informative, short, snappy and attention grabbing. Oh and if you can incorporate your keywords into your title - way to go! There’s nothing worse than seeing a headline like: “What I Did Today” (Unless you’re a really interesting person who’s already well known) or “Another Post…” - No one will read ‘em.
That’ll do for now, I’ll come back again to add some more at some point (time being what it is, I’ve got to get onto the next task…)
All the best,
Tom
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A couple of years back, I bought the John Reese monster course Traffic Secrets. Not to everyone’s budget at $999 a pop that’s for sure, although if you’re interested I can arrange $250 cashback (when your guarantee expires) if you purchase through my affiliate link.Even if you’re not interested, the above sales letter by Michel Fortin is just about as good as it gets!. Read it and take notes.
Anyway, I’m rambling, a new course has launched by Sameer Khan and from what I’m hearing it’s a good investment and a fraction of the ticket price above.
It has to be good…
Why does it have to be good?
Well, he’s using a copy of my eBook Adwords Power Tips as a bonus so that shows impeccable taste
Click Here For More Info On Search Engine Traffic Secrets.
Here’s a quick preview of some of the features of the course:
Search Engine Traffic Secrets Revealed consists of over 130 pages of in-depth information on
1) Search Engines
2) Strategizing Your Keywords And Links
3) Submitting To Search Engines
4) Using eBay As A Search Engine Accelerator
5) Achieve Higher Rankings with Press Releases
6) Blogging Your Way for More Traffic
7) Auto-Pilot Blogs & Podcasts i)Auto-Updating Blogs
8) Instant Quality Traffic (Paid)
9) Special Report: Free Traffic
10) Special Report: Performance Traffic
11) Special Bonus: Viral Marketing
12) Special Bonus: Buzz Viral Power
Plenty in there to keep you chewing - only if you do go and get it, please do me a favour and apply each and every bit of it, there’s nothing worse than having tons of bought eBooks on your hard drive gathering dust (I should know…)
All the best,
Tom
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Perhaps you are someone who is Internet aware and want to get more income through affiliation with monetized websites and referring others to them, correct?
Affiliate programs work like so: You earn commissions when you send individuals to sign up, use a service or buy a product with the website you promote.
There are 3 basic types of affiliate programs found in the Web. These are:
1. Per-Click Affiliate Program - The money you receive depends on the number of clicks
generated by your website. The typical payment for such program ranges from US $.01-$.30. This is the lowest among affiliate programs because “clicking” can be generated easily and is susceptible to fraud.
2. Per-Lead Affiliate Program - Payment usually come from “sign-ups” your website generates. When visitors enter their e-mail addresses, phone numbers and other information, you will be compensated. Since generating sign ups are more difficult
than clicks, the range of payment is from US $.10-$5.
3. Per-Sale Affiliate Program - These are the most popular affiliate programs. Also called a “commission” program. You will be paid on the sales generated from your efforts. Commission percentages range from 5-15% for physical products and 25-75% for digital products - depending on your agreement and the type of product sold.
As an affiliate, you need to consider the following:
- Determine your target market before your product. If you know there are ready made customers, finding suitable products is easy.
- The next step is to concentrate on a topic for your website you are strongly interested in. It is better to concentrate on a small area then work around it. After doing this, select affiliate programs closely related to your theme and link them.
- If you are serious in generating more income in lesser time, find out which are hot in the market at the present time. Become adept and well informed in one of these and make sure you link it with affiliate programs suit the theme/topic.
- Try to also consider products which sell well and have a high demand in the Internet. Such products include bargains and coupon sites. Aside from these, information products such as white papers and digital devices give high commissions and good profit margins.
According to an Ernst & Young study computer related gadgets, gears and devices are the most bought items in the market with 40%, followed by books at 20%; travel is 3rd with 16% followed by clothing at 10%; music has a share of 6% and gifts and investment have 4% each.
- Get your own domain name for your website which is unique and memorable. A domain name gives an impression that you are a serious professional.
- Create newsletters you can distribute around the Internet to remind visitors of your website’s presence.
- Make sure you offer good, if not, the best products and services. Quality first or your reputation will suffer.
- Look for affiliate programs paying good commissions, an obvious but oft overlooked issue.
- Track your promotions. These should provide you real time information in determining
which working program you should concentrate on more. Traffic is a valuable commodity, you need to know where you are sending yours and how much it is making you.
- Sign up with companies that offer residual income commissions but be wary of the conditions and stipulations that are stated in affiliate agreements.
- Go easy on promo banners and links and make sure that the affiliate programs you placed share a common theme with the site. Visitors will be turned off when they see a sea of banners and links in the site. Keep your site themed.
- Research companies before signing up with them for affiliate programs. Ask for references and contact them.
Should you be interested in affiliate programs, you can check out sites such as ClickBank (www.clickbank.com), LinkShare
(www.linkshare.com/new) and Commission Junction (www.cj.com). Visit sites such as http://www.refer-it.com/ and
http://www.AssociatePrograms.com/ for directory listings and reviews.
One website you absolutely must visit is AffiliateExponent.com
All the best,
Tom
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We all want free traffic to our websites and ultimately it should of course be free targeted traffic. But here’s the deal, whenever you see headlines like the above, it normally means some kind of fraudulent traffic generation scheme which ultimately asks for money down the line.
Well, I’m not going to ask you for a penny but I will show you a little secret on how I can send free targeted traffic to my own team members using the same system which underpins my website AffiliateExponent.com.
Intrigued?
Well here’s a video telling you all about it:
Click Here To View Free Targeted Traffic Video.
All the best,
Tom
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Been a little busy of late as you will see from my latest site: AffiliateExponent.com
The premise behind this new venture is to:
Not asking for much then!
Well, it uses 2 existing technologies in an innovative way to increase the results of any affiliate program. The technoloties are:
Viral rebranding and Ad Rotation technology to maximize results.
Intrigued?
Find out how superlinks and superlinking can help you.
All the best,
Tom
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To maximize the distribution of any eBook you create and build your list accordingly, you need to submit your eBooks to as many eBook directories (in the same you you would do so with articles) as possible.
Here’s an eBook Directory Submission List to help, if you find any more on your travels, drop a line
| http://www.10001press.com/ http://www.1free-ebooks.com http://www.brandable-ebooks.com/ http://www.BrowzerBooks.Com http://www.buildebooks.com http://www.claytabletpublishing.com/ http://www.ebook2u.com/ http://www.ebookdirectory.com/ http://www.ebookheaven.co.uk/directory.html http://www.ebookheaven.co.uk/forum http://www.ebookjungle.com/ http://www.ebookmall.com http://www.ebookpalace.com/ http://www.ebooks.searchking.com/ http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/ http://www.ebooksubmit.com http://www.e-book-zone.com http://www.free-ebooks.net/ http://www.ideamarketers.com http://www.jogena.com/ http://www.MakingProfit.com http://www.maxebook.com/ http://www.mindlikewater.com/submitebook.html http://www.money2bmade.com/pros.html http://www.surefirewealth.com http://www.virtual-ebooks.com/directory.htm http://www.wisdomebooks.com/ |
Last but not least is the free eBook section at the Warriors Forum.
All the best,
Tom
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I’m sure by now you’ve heard of Tag and Ping - the latest buzz phrase to flash around the Internet Marketing community.
Well, I’ve constructed a viral eBook which may be able to help you with your social bookmarking efforts:
Click Here For Your Copy of The Tag And Ping Accelerator
All the best,
Tom
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Last year, two Internet Marketing luminaries - Frank Kern and Ed Dale ran their first 30 Day Challenge.
Alas, I missed it somehow!
However, I have heard nothing but great reviews of what actually happened. Basically Frank & Ed taught those who signed up how to “fish” (financially speaking) for a lifetime - how to make a successful business online from starting with nothing.
The end game of the 30 days was to take an idea, run with it and make your first $1, just one dollar in sales within the 30 day timeframe.
Not everybody succeeded of course but many, many people did and no-one paid a penny for the learning process.
This is an excellent example of the “Law of Reciprocity” and is truly inspirational.
I’ve just signed up myself and look forward to hearing/seeing more of it.
Here’s the preview podcast - click here
And here’s the actual site: 30 Day Challenge
All the best,
Tom
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If you find any more social bookmarking sites, then please do add a comment to update the list:
Backflip
All the best,
Tom
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Audacity - Free Download from Sourceforge:
“Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds”
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
(Ideal for Podcasting and MP3 creation)
Here is a tutorial resource:
http://www.mp3soundstream.com/Audacity_Tutorial_-_Free_Audio_Editing_Software.html
All the best,
Tom
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What is it?
“Podcast Generator is a free PHP script released under GPL that lets users upload media files via a web form and automatically create rss 2.0 w3c-compliant podcast feeds. It also features a web administration and a dynamic web page displaying new podcasts.”
http://podcastgen.sourceforge.net/
All the best,
Tom
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Just a quick update - as I mentioned yesterday, I have constructed a number of bonuses for those of you wishing to join Turbo Membership. As Success University is in my eyes very complimentary, I am extending the bonuses to anyone who joins Success University with me.
Use These Strategies For Success.
Find Out How You Can Claim Your Huge Bonus Pack Here
All the best,
Tom
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Just a very quick update.
As you may know I am a proud member of John Delavera’s Turbo Membership. If you are looking to earn a living online, (maybe you work from home or want to?) you don’t need to look any further than the Turbo Community.
Internet Marketing doesn’t get any more generous than in that membership (which is HUGE)
But to help twist your arm, I am adding more and more bonuses to the equation - currently over $400 worth and counting:
http://www.trackingandtesting.com/dystatic/TurboMembershipIncentive.php
All the best,
Tom
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