20,000 people have grabbed their chances to move ahead.

This PDF file has barely squeezed itself into the list of “free report of the year” nominations and…mind you, it has more meat than most BUSINESS BOOKS.

20,000 people downloaded it just 2 days ago. It’s so incredible that I’d bet most marketers may not even have 20,000 active subscribers in their lists!

It’s just pure, useful CONTENT.

I recommend the following action steps:

1. Clear your calendar for 90 minute TODAY.

2. Download and devour Rich’s Attention Age Doctrine Part 2.

3. Put at least 3 of his tactics to work TODAY.

From Rich’s own mouth: “The people who put this information to use IMMEDIATELY will profit the most.”

Will you join me? Will you be on of those who PROFITS?

Just like the Doctrine Part 1, this one will only be available for a short time. Then they’ll take it offline.

So get yours NOW.

Want to make some money from Strategic Profits?

I just got in Rich Schefren's affiliate program that he has kept very low key about and it seems to be 2-tier. Not only that, you want to sign up as his affiliate because Richard has finally release his much anticipated Attention Age Doctrine Part 2 today!

All you have to do is refer people to his free reports, like The Attention Age Doctrine and his Internet Business Manifesto, and his affiliate management system handles the rest by following up with your prospects and credits YOU with any purchases of his paid products—and get this—even if they follow someone else's link at a later date.

That's right. Your affiliate link's cookie is hard-coded into your prospects' PCs and it will not be replaced by another!

I can tell you this is all very exciting, what with someone who can create high-ticket, high-in-demand products and services like Rich. There are other products readily available other than the Doctrine.

Become Rich's partner here. Again, the Attention Age Doctrine goes 'live' now so don't delay telling your list about it. Your subscribers will thank you.

Download The First Doctrine.

* A Breakthrough In Traffic Arbitrage *

I'm not sure if you have heard about a marketer by the name of Alex Goad and his "Google Payload" tricks. He deals in what I call "traffic arbitrage", which is basically a matter of buying and selling visitors via PPC. He claims to buy traffic at below 3 cents and resell it for $3 or more.

This is really something of a twist and a breakthrough in terms of traffic generation. 4 months ago, Alex met a quiet Brazilian Millionaire who has mastered the unthinkably easy art of traffic manipulation. In fact, this guy pulls massive profits from just about every traffic source available, many of which you’ve never heard of.

Day in, day out, he averages nearly $10,000 every 24 hours. And the profit margins are astonishing.

But here’s what really matters: Alex Goad has taken his hundreds of pages of notes. Every morsel of information from the Brazilian Insider’s mind; every source, tactic and trick and laid it out in a step-by-step guide called Google Payload.

It is not about affiliate marketing, product selling, copywriting or SEO. It’s fair to say that this is the freshest and most uniquely profitable business system to hit the Internet for months if not years.

And you’d think they’d be charging an arm and a leg for it, but here you’ll be surprised again. Google Payload has just opened its doors and you can grab the core manual, quick start guide and 8 Deluxe Payload templates for only $77.

That’s a special launch discount for those that act fast. Don’t wait. Go acquire your own copy now.

The Impression Of Increase

In so far as your business consists in dealing with other people—whether directly, by telephone, or by letter—the key thought of all your efforts must be to convey to their mind the impression of increase.

Increase is what all men and all women are seeking. It is the urge of the formless intelligence within them to find fuller expression.

The desire for increase is inherent in all nature. It is the fundamental impulse of the universe. All human activities are based on the desire for increase. People are seeking more food, more clothes, better shelter, more luxury, more beauty, more knowledge, more pleasure—more life. Every living thing is under that necessity for continuous advancement. Where increase of life ceases, dissolution and death set in at once.

People instinctively know this, and hence they are forever seeking more. This law of perpetual increase is set forth by Jesus in the parable of the talents. Only those who gain more retain any. "From him who hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath."

The normal desire for increased wealth is not an evil or a reprehensible thing. It is simply the desire for a more abundant life. And, because it is the deepest instinct of their natures, all men and women are attracted to an individual who can give them more of the means of life.


Wallace D. Wattles
From The Science of Getting Rich

* How To Set And Achieve A Goal *

More than ever as you and us continue to strive to make our online businesses better and more profitable, or that you are now fast absorbing as much of the information which you downloaded over the festive season as you can so that you will start one within the next month, the fulfillment of your LIFE has become much more important than anything else, including your business!

Admit it: we don’t live to eat from hand to mouth, or to make money till you realized “Have I missed something?” Therefore, it becomes so important to define your life goals with clarity because it convicts you into an irrevocable momentum and a sure direction towards which your life must head.

If you never had a chance to put down proper personal, business, spiritual goals etc. on paper, here is a very good package with which you can finally set things in order! Arina Nikitina’s “How To Set And Achieve A Goal” pack consists of the main book + worksheets to aid you in defining very clearly what you want out of your LIFE!

This book is obviously written in a process-driven manner, so that at every step of the way you will know when to fill what worksheet. If you think setting a goal is simply stating an objective, then you must read Arina’s 8 specific techniques just for ‘preparing for success’, 7 steps to ’setting a goal’, and 7 methods to ’staying on track’. We are not saying this is easy. It is a very good work because everything is written clear-cut as a 3-stage program and no stones are left unturned as far as possible.

What’s more, “How To Set And Achieve A Goal” has high usability value because you can use it again in 2007, 2008 etc. and at any time of the year.

We look forward that you can get a great headstart over most other people and take firm control over your life…right here, right NOW, because your Destiny is all that matters.

* 6 Rebrandable E-Books *

If you ever wanted an arsenal of top-notch e-books written professionally that you could brand, and put your own affiliate links in and then give away, then check these out.

You can sell them, or give them away, or even use the complete reseller site included in the package.

Anyway you slice or dice it, there are a million different things you can do with these e-books.

Use them to gain optins.

Sell them to make money.

Give them away and earn massive affiliate commissions.

You will be pleased in the titles of the e-books, and the fact that you can rebrand 4 links inside each e-book to make instant affiliate commissions paid directly to your PayPal account and other affiliate income paid monthly and even recurring.

This is a great opportunity for you.

Can Chris McNeeney's enormous success rub on you?

Chris McNeeney finally unleashed the Google Assassin on the Internet Marketing community.

If you didn’t get a chance to see the $1.6 million ClickBank video Chris had up a few days ago then let me recap for you why you need Google Assassin as one of the main tools in your weapons store.

Chris created a cult following by bring every dark secret about Internet marketing to light with his series of e-books and broke all ClickBank records with “The Day Job Killer”.

Since then Chris has been working on his ongoing training and software arsenal to automate and implement the Day Job Killer techniques in a 100% automated way.

If you have heard of, purchased, used or even know of the huge success Day Job Killer

brought to thousands of Internet marketers then you already know why the Google Assassin is a required resource.

If you found yourself loving the concepts and ideas of Day Job Killer but have yet to implement them, then this is especially for you as it makes the process such a no-brainer!

There are only a few people I include in my shortlist of go-to marketers in this industry and Chris X is by far the most unique. What he teaches make you money…

If you get locked out of this one you will regret it because every minute you wait, the window into this underground marketing world closes a little bit more.

Grab your spot now before the price increase.

* SEO as easy as A-B-C *

If you've keep track of my occasional writings about SEO, you would have learned that it isn't rocket science. There are at least 3 key SEO factors you must know at the back of your hand:

1) optimal keyword placement
2) HTML tags insertion
3) backlinking

But I'm afraid some folks may misconstrue SEO as a one-time assignment, as in, once you did the 3 things above, your pages will start to appear in the SE results.

In truth, SEO is a never-ending process, a journey, but surprisingly, SEO strategies haven't really changed that much.

Again the part where webmasters fail is the lack of consistent SEO application.

The next question that comes to webmasters' minds is: Well then, just which SEO strategies are worth applying consistently? I don't have time, and I don't want to do all that I can and then...no results!

Have you heard about Lucid SEO from David Congreave?

This is the perfect SEO guide to pick up (and it's far more than an e-book). It boils down to the essence, helping readers who don't know much about SEO to easily understand what they must do to maintain SEO performance.

If you've been longing for free traffic from the search engines, but you though you had to be a PhD in search to make that happen, you MUST grab Lucid SEO for yourself. Here's why:

* It gives you 14 practical, easy-to-implement tips you can implement within an hour or two of reading the book.

* It tells you the ONE tag on your pages you have to hit like a ton of bricks.

* It reveals "insider" tips and tactics that even some so-called SEO experts miss.

* It even makes the distinction between one-time and regular SEO jobs.

Lucid SEO skips past all the theory and gives you practical advice real people can understand and implement.

SEO isn't mysterious, and you don't have to be a propeller head geek to understand. The Lucid guys are regular people who figured out how to manhandle SEO and crush the search engines within a couple months.

Bottom line: Do you want to be on the first page of Google for kick-butt keywords in your niche within 30-60 days? Then you need this immediately. Go here to see what I mean.

Download the REAL Camtasia software for FREE!

Last month Techsmith was targeting people using versions of similar software such as CamStudio and CamStudio IM Version.

The funny thing is now I’m not sure if the company is haggling over copyright issues, or if it has a more strategic motive to its actions.

I have just received a mail from fellow marketer Ron Capps letting me know that you can “Get Camtasia 3 Free And Get The Upgrade To Version 5 For Half Price!”

Huh?

This is neither hype nor an affiliate marketing campaign. I just want to be sure that eveyone in this community knows about this promotion and has the opportunity to take advantage of this Techsmith promotion.

You can get version 3 of their killer software Camtasia absolutely free. Once you download your free copy of Camtasia 3, you will be given the opportunity to get the latest version 5 at half-price.

Camtasia is one tool that marketers may overlook, however, it is a critical tool in the arsenal of online video creation. You’ll be able to easily create highly converting video sales pages.


I have been telling you for months about the power of adding a video or product demo to a sales page, it could double or triple your sales conversion rates!

Follow these steps to get your free Camtasia Studio 3:

1. Right-click and save your free version of Camtasia Studio 3.

2. Go to this promotion page.

Complete your name, country and e-mail address and Techsmith will send you the software key to unlock the program almost instantly.

3. Just install the program you downloaded from step 1 above and then enter the software key you receive from Techsmith and you’ll have a fully working version of Camtasia Studio 3 on your PC.

4. If you want Techsmith is offering you a fantastic upgrade offer to Camtasia Studio 5 for just $149. That’s a savings of $150 off of the full price of $299.

You don’t have to upgrade to version 5. If you want to stay with your FREE version of Camtasia Studio 3 will still continue to work.

I trust that you’ll enjoy this tip and make great use of it ASAP! I have no idea how long the offer may remain available.

Small Is The New Big: Narrowing Down Your Focus by Toon Chooi

Once you see the potential for making money online, it’s natural for you to wonder what it would be like to corner the market on something everyone needs. Being the biggest fish in the biggest pond would be ideal, right? Wrong! Competition is the spice of business life. You won’t have to wait very long before someone else grabs a hunk of your market, if you have a high profile.

Here’s a big secret to Internet Marketing success: find a narrow and deep niche of buyers and earn their love and respect. This is not just a nice idea; it’s a hard-nosed, practical strategy for long-term growth and stability. Niche domination is the key to creating a stream of revenue that resists economic downturns, recessions and seasonal ups-and-downs. Even if your business is seasonal (i.e. holiday related), you can make sales year round, if you “train” your customers to buy according to your schedule.

You may be asking, “Why love and respect?” First of all, I’m not suggesting you become a hippie or a doormat. You need to have an impact on people’s lives that is bigger than the value of your products alone. If you develop a habit of “overdelivering” to your customers, your value to them becomes much higher. Good customer service, practical advice, sound resource recommendations and the like can “bond” you with your buyers. Allowing your personality to shine through your presentation and follow-up communication gives people a way to connect with you, beyond the commercial connection. Having a sense of humor helps, too.

A narrow and deep niche simply means a specific area of continuing interest and demand that has enough regular buyers to earn you a profit. Fad niches don’t have the staying power to mean much for your permanent income. It’s okay to exploit a fad, if you have the skills to react quickly and implement an action plan immediately. For the long term, seek out the products and services that people buy and upgrade as a matter of course. Get them as beginners and grow with them as they need more and better products and services.

People with interests often buy up all they can find about their interest. Information seekers are like pack rats, gathering up everything they can find on the subject that interests them. Information products offer a way to sell something new to a “saturated” market. If what you offer has a unique perspective, a better format or a new slant on an old subject, you might find that selling this market is not a chore—it’s a breeze!

If you’ve identified a market for physical products that people buy, use up and buy again, you can build a permanent stream of revenue. Again, even in a saturated market, your unique approach that targets the particular needs of your buyers can carve out a share of that market. Take the time to identify or “profile” your buyers. Get to know what they’re like in as many areas of their lives as you can. The more you know about them, the more you can meet them at their needs. Your competition could offer them a better price, but if you offer them a reason to love you, that won’t matter.

There’s an additional value to earning the love and respect of your niche market—evangelical customers. These folks will spread the word about your product or service to anyone who’ll listen. You can’t buy that kind of advertising. If your competition doesn’t have the same approach to earning love and respect, they’ll never be able to catch up to you!

An AdWords Blueprint even novices can follow!

A quick quiz: “Are you SATISFIED with your current AdWords campaign now?” Are you making money from it?

If the answer is NO, then this is going to change the way you create Adwords campaigns…

…in a DRAMATIC manner.

For real? Is it even remotely possible? This 22-year-old kid thinks so.

My friend and niche marketer, Peng Joon, had been quietly making money from multiple hot niches and for the first time ever, he reveals his insider secrets to how he rakes in more than $6,000 per month in revenue…

- From just *ONE* red not niche alone,

- He doesn’t fork out near half as much in Google AdWords expenses compared to his competitors,

- And duplicates the same ’system’ for the rest of the other niche websites he owns!

If you relish the idea of making passive income at a small fraction of the costs that your competitors are paying for, then you should seriously consider an AdWords blueprint which I know is something that ANYONE can understand and do too!

* AdWords In A Box *

Get your squeeze videos to raise your sales bottomline!

I don’t know if you’ve heard of Jay Douglas, but my guess is you’ve seen one of his squeeze videos SOMEWHERE, maybe the talking dollar one for instance?

What he’s done is excellent news for you and me, and there’s a real buzz going on about this.

Essentially, once a month he goes over to ClickBank, chooses a selection of the most popular products and services selling, picks 10 of them and then creates 90-second professional video infomercials for all 10 products.

Why is that such a big deal?

Because only the first 500 people who get over to his website and register will get a shot at getting these videos, and they’re perfect for affiliates looking to promote the hottest Clickbank products.

Jay is considered one of the best, if not THE best at Internet video infomercial production.

He’s been doing it for years and he normally charges $1275 for each video he produces for his clients. That’s not a hyped up figure, that’s exactly what he charges his clients because his videos get results!

Over the past few years he’s produced video infomercials for the biggest names in Internet marketing. And now, he’s literally making the same quality of videos available for you.

But that’s not all…

Jay also provides 10 matching affiliate squeeze pages each month, along with each video. The squeeze page includes a headline, the video and an opt-in form to collect visitor details.

And it gets even better…

Each video is encoded with your Clickbank affiliate link so when the video stops playing it AUTOMATICALLY REDIRECTS the viewer through YOUR affiliate link to the Clickbank merchant’s page. This way you automatically get credit for the sale when a purchase is made.

There’s lots more to tell. But the important thing is for you get yourself over to Jay’s web site right now before all 500 spaces are gone. And they WILL go fast.

As I write this, the 200th slot hasn’t yet been taken but at the rate it’s selling it can’t be long before it’s gone. The reason I point that out is because there’s an INCREDIBLE bonus for the first 200 people that sign up and stay a member for a year.

If you leave it too late and the bonus has gone, I’m really sorry you’ve missed it, but even so this is a fantastic bargain for the quality of videos that Jay will provide.

Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate

Very quickly, I wanted to tell you about the most unique approach I’ve *ever* seen for a “sales letter”...

…Written by someone who actually walks the talk.

Chris Rempel gives away half of his blueprint ON the sales letter—yeah, you can get part of it for FREE just by going there and reading! I bet you haven’t heard that before…

He has a method to make $19k per month from niche marketing.

Everyone has 24 hours, so what makes Chris special for not doing much?

His e-book “Confessions Of A Lazy Super Affiliate” is cheap, packed with truly NEW and SMART information, about uncovering niches, driving traffic to your websites, actually pulling more cash from your sites, and more...

If you want to go and read about his methods right away just click here.

AdWords update on site-targeting.

Google has made some changes to make site-targeting in AdWords a little better. Now branded as “Placement Targeting”, you have the opportunity to bid on the specific web pages that you want to advertise on, compared to bidding on keywords, traditionally speaking. That means your AdWords ads can appear on precise sub-sections such as the football pages of a news site, the showtimes section of a movie site, or even a specific ad unit on a particular website or blog page.

Site-Targeting also used to support CPM (or cost-per-impression) bids, so as with traditional banner advertising, advertisers were charged every time their ad was shown (as opposed to PPC where you’re only charged when someone clicks on the ad). Placement Targeting is reverting back to cost-per-click mechanism.

You can see what Google has to say about these changes by going here.

How To Ensure Your Article Submissions Are Not Rejected by Toon Chooi

Your article marketing strategy will prove to be useless if your article will not be accepted by the publishers who reviews what you have been submitting.

And to ensure the probability that your articles will be accepted, here are some important points to remember before you go into submissions.

1. Check and proof-read your own article. Some authors do not proof-read their articles because they find it takes a lot of time. But if you want your articles to be accepted quickly and easily, it is your duty to make help out the publisher. How do you do this?

The first thing you should do is to check and review you grammar and spelling more than once. You might have missed something when you checked the first time around but you will come upon it the second or third time.

It is also best if you have and know someone that will review it for you. Ask that person to look for anything that does not seem right. This would be from grammar to sentence formation. They are more likely to see mistakes that you have missed.

When writing articles, you get very familiar with the content that you will not anymore aware of mistakes committed.

It is very easy for writers to miss out obvious mistakes. Adding some familiarity into them does not help either. You will just commit more because of this. By having someone read article, this problem will be eliminated.

2. Your articles should have value. If you want free traffic for your site, articles are the best ways to do it. But keep in mind that they are not supposed to be an advertisement. That is why you are using them in the first place. Making your articles appear like one will make publishers delete them so fast you would not know what hit them.

Put yourself in the publishers’ shoes. Their primary concern is to look for some new, fresh and useful content to supply to their readers. For them, good articles are personal commentaries about the latest trend in the industry or reviews about a certain product.

Trying to include a link to your site is obviously advertising. The instant they see that, they dispose of them quickly without bothering to read that you have written a good content. All you efforts thrashed.

Try to go back to the time when you were just new in the article marketing business. You were hungry to get the freshest and the most valuable information. Your articles were all precious to you.

Every writer has the right to a resource box space at the end of each article. This will serve as your advertisement. And this is as far as you can go. Readers who have found your article interesting would surely want to go visit your site to get more information about you and what you are offering.

As small as they seem to be, resource boxes serve much greater purpose if you compare it with others that are promoting visibly and with obvious advertising mediums posted.

When writing your resource box, try to be as brief as you can. They do not have to be near as long as your article. Try to also limit the number of links you put into them. The standard resource box consist of only 4 to 5 lines.

3. Articles should be straight and up to the point. An article is written with one key point in mind and that is to be informational. Do not beat around the bush, be as clear as you possibly can. Keep in mind that your readers are of varying intellectual capacity. Not all can understand idioms or figures of speech.

It is said that an article that is appears to be boring to you may be clear and understandable to your readers. You should have a writing style that is not too difficult to follow. Nothing turns a reader off more than reading an article that seem to go on circles.

Creating a quality article can be easy. Just try to consider your content, your readers and the publishers and you are on your way to a fast and steady start to profits.

The Most Powerful Unfair Advantage For Affiliate Marketers Everywhere!

The past few weeks have seen heavy buzz surrounding the upcoming launch of Brad Callen’s Affiliate Elite. Will it do any better for your marketing? I found out that it does more than just being an AdWords spying program. It also identifies profitable niches, reveals bestselling products and helps you locate and liaise with potential JV partners.

Essentially what Affiliate Elite does is:

1. Find profitable affiliate products to promote: The system makes sorting, organizing and filtering potential affiliate programs an absolute breeze. The program imports the latest ClickBank and PayDotCom affiliate programs daily, allow you to sort by keyword, date added, category, Clickbank ID and more. It also allows you to see trends and easily pinpoint which programs you will want to promote and which ones to avoid like the plague.

I can’t emphasize enough the speed at which AE is able to complete this task so you can make more income in a short amount of time.

2. Reverse Google Search: Enter the domain name of a website and AE will return, within seconds, the keywords, position rankings, ad title, ad body text, and destination landing page URL for each PPC ad on Google AdWords pointing to the website. This works for any website, not just those selling ClickBank or PayDotCom products services.

This gets you an instant and profitable keyword list for you to market the very same product and using the same, or improved, details as your competitors.

The resulting data in the displayed output will also contain organic listings, and of course keywords with SERPs positions etc. This is all very valuable information, which can also be sorted easily into ascending or descending order for research and analysis.

3. Analyze AdWords competition: You simply enter your list of keywords and let AE’s AdWords spy tool run on a scheduled basis, for as many days as you want and track which keywords are being bid on and which ones are not. It will then start to show you an extremely powerful list of words that are being used by the same companies for extended periods of time. These keywords are most certainly money-makers because advertisers do not like to waste money. The second best part is once you have identified which sites are using which words for extended periods of time, you simply go back to the reverse search and find all the words those sites are using and watch those as well. You will accumulate all the data you need to chart performance over a timeline and determine which of the ppc ads and keywords are profitable.

4. Find super affiliates: You can easily find affiliates who are already promoting similar products as to what you have and contact them to promote your product. You can also find all the products that any affiliate (such as a guru who mails you) is promoting and then using the reverse search, you can uncover everything (keywords, sales copy and ad copy) that they are using.

2 main drawbacks are that:

1) It is limited to working only with Clickbank and PayDotCom. Hopefully AE can include more affiliate networks in a future upgrade.

2) The price is likely out of reach for some people, especially when there is a recurring cost of $37 a month. It seems like AE has to query, crawl and update 4 billion web pages on a weekly basis and the cost will have to justify server load and performance.

All in all, Brad Callen is definitely not just another hyped-up product pimp (not like me) and he is bringing to your table a powerhouse application that custs your time and speed up your marketing effectiveness. Save your affiliate marketing performance with Affiliate Elite today!

Your 2 "SEO by blogging" tips are...

My friend, Tan Kian Ann the Blogopreneur, was recently excited over a new blog post getting indexed on Google’s 1st page within 17 minutes.

I still remember when I just got started with regular blogging, blogopreneur.com is my first personal case study as I try to observe what works. In terms of Alexa ranking, blogopreneur.com shot up very fast in its early days.

I am definitely grateful for what he did successfully so that I am able to follow suit. Out of gaining insights about his blog, I have formed 2 of my own tips, very fundamental and simple ones, which you can take away and apply consistently everyday into your own blogging activities. These 2 tips are not so much techniques as they are about the mindset. Tell you soon.

I don’t want to sound like a party pooper, but the blunt truth is if you don’t work in Google Inc.’s search engine division, then you are under its dictatorship. SE results have always been fickle. One day you’re on first page and the next, completely drop out of sight. So upon reading Kian Ann’s achievement, I am beginning to form personal doubts about the TRUE result of the post.

If I should just type in “SPH search” (without the inverted commas), as I see from my screen here, the key phrase is ranked no. 9 today. But if you are a U.S. resident, you may see the phrase ranked at no. 11. Please do a search and comment to me if I’m correct.

Why is there a difference?

I can’t remember how it exactly took place; the cause of this difference lies either with how you configured your time and location settings on your PC, or at that time when Google asked for your configuration online when you first installed the Google toolbar (I think it’s this one).

What happens is as I, a Singaporean, access the search engine by typing google.com, the browser jumps straight to google.com.sg on the presumption that the resulting search will ‘fit’ closer to my ‘local’ taste.

You see, doing a normal search based on your location in different countries can unknowingly throw up completely different set of search results if you’re not aware of what’s going on. AdWords advertisers are a lot more sensitive to their ad performances since AdWords give them geographical control over where they want their ads to be targeted, down to city level.

So let’s say I do a quick search for “SPH search” and the Google SE just throws me a “1st page”. If I want to check how Kian Ann’s post ranks in U.S. context, add &gl=us to that whole string of URL in the address bar:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWE_en___SG228&q=sph+search&gl=us

‘gl’ is the geographical parameter for the Google SE. You can apply all possible 2-letter abbreviations like uk, ca, my, sg, au, etc. I’m not exactly sure if it works with Yahoo! and MSN. Any SEO geeks out there can tell me?

Now, searching “SPH search” WITH inverted commas yields slightly better rankings because there’s a tighter definition for an exact phrase and you also filter out competition coming from web pages with scattered keywords.

I am also prompted by Kian Ann’s post to revisit a previous post I have published. Please have a read. In that post, I mentioned the ranking result for 4 search terms. As I review these 4 terms today:

1) blog announcer pro (drop out of sight)

2) google wealth wizard (5th page)

3) desktopbucks (still 1st page)

4) auction traffic mastery (drop out of sight, scattered keyword results on 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 14th page)

Note: no ‘gl’ mode.

The results for “auction traffic mastery” are quite interesting. I once had a friend who laughed at all the buttons I had in my sidebar thinking I fancy at becoming an “army general”. If you had somehow arrived at my blog by doing a search but coming from a blog directory directly, that’s what happens when some of the SE rankings I can claim are dependent on the PageRank and effectiveness of 3rd-party sites.

In recent weeks if you have caught up with Howard Schwartz’s Google Domination event, that’s exactly what he did essentially: rank for a consistent key phrase in every possible social networking/bookmarking site and take up all 1st 5 pages of the Google SE! Ranking on 1st page ain’t enough; I gonna blanket my presence from no. 1 to no. 50!

What this tells you is blog submission, like article submission, link submission and other forms of submission, is crucial in the long run. Before submission takes place, you must:

1) Blog everyday (or do advanced posting for 1 post a day).

2) Know all the relevant keywords of your industry that are supposed to HELP your business. I can try to rank for “SPH search” if I want to, but I won’t.

These are my 2 key tips for you, and see if you can reach PR5 like IMC Blog too.

That’s the end of my story. Of late, I gleaned 2 interesting SEO facts.

Sometimes when I do a search for some products, I see a search result title like “Is so-and-so a scam? Read this first before you buy.” When I click to read the content, what the hell, it’s a pre-selling review asking you to buy at the end.

Perhaps it’s just my illusion, but I have the impression that Google seems to place some kind of importance on scam warnings, so they rank such pages highly.

Another friend, Uncle Jolly, published a website on parenting about 4 months ago. It ranks no. 2 for “parenting tips singapore” (no inverted commas). If you go to the home page, not a single “singapore” word appears in the main body. Only by going through the “Page -> View Source” option will you find “Singapore” in the meta-tags.

The current situation right now is most webmasters are ingrained with the idea that “meta-tags are no longer influential” on search results, but Jolly’s site shows otherwise.

I thought of something that I want to rank for…”ron paul”. Who wants to compete with me?

Feel free to say whatever you want to complement my “2 cents”. Thanks!

One Trait Of Successful Business Owners

If you are a business owner. What type? Most people will answer that they are a “lawn mowing” or “novelty shop” owner. Only a few very successful people seem to realize that they are in the business of marketing and say “I am in business to market lawn mowing services” or “I am in the business of marketing novelty items”.

Think about the local video store. How many have you seen close down. How much marketing did you see from those who have closed down? I would hazard a guess that you didn’t see much and if you did, it never tried to sell you the experience of watching a new release movie or old classic from the comfort of your own home. Typically store owners get so caught up with the day to day running they forget the need to market their products or services to continue to bring in new customers or clients and just continue to market their store name.

Let me try and provide anther example. You have a novelty shop with a physical storefront location and have named it “Joan’s Store”. That is not your business. In fact, the store itself is usually an extra expense of running a business. If you are like many business owners, you put up a sign out the front with your store name and run an ad in the local paper telling people your store name and location. How will anyone know that your shop (Joan’s Store) sells novelty items? How differently would your business grow if instead of advertising just your store name, you advertise your novelty items and their benefits? Or if your marketing efforts sell the experience (or sizzle) of getting many laughs?

Your real business is the marketing of the novelty items…you just use the store front as a way to sell your novelty items. Instead of a store you could also use mail order, a phone order line, a website, or stores owned by others to sell your products and services. Your real business job is to drive potential customers (or traffic) into your store to buy your novelty products. There are hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your store and its products; and that is the art of marketing.

Marketing can include: advertising, direct mail campaigns, classified ads, TV infomercials, e-mail courses, e-mail mailing lists, banners, sponsorship, direct mail, postcards, events and contests, drawings, JV’s, open houses, press releases, logo branding, etc. Marketing is anything which brands your product or services, brings them to the attention of potential customers and drives them to do business with you.

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How To Set Your Mind To Attract Wealth

1. Show gratitude for any money which enters your life.

In order to attract money into your life, you must show gratitude for the money which is already in your life. Instead of bemoaning how little money you have, bask in gratitude at the many ways in which you are rich already. For example, if you earn over $2,182 per year you have more wealth than 85% of the people on earth. And if you earn more than $25,400 a year you are in the top 10% of wealthy people on this planet. When you focus on what you have rather than what you want, you realize that you ARE already rich. Give thanks often for all the riches in your life.

How to use this principle today:

The next time money enters your life, from any source whatsoever, instead of barely noticing what has happened and mentally beginning to spend it, use a few moments of time to give thanks to the universe for bringing this money into your life. Every time you receive a paycheck, every time someone gives you money for any reason, every time you find money, or get a great deal, or save money in some way, stop and appreciate the fact that money is flowing into your life. Doing this every time money comes to you will attract more and more money into your life.

2. Act as if you are rich.

This is the fundamental truth of all mind power work, that you must act as if what you want is already yours. So act as if you already have the money you wish to have. Ask yourself, if I was already rich, what would I do, how would I act, how would I feel, and then do, act, and feel in those ways.

Of course, this doesn't mean that you quit your job and move to the South Pacific like you would if you suddenly won the lottery, but you start small and with each success you build your way to greater and greater wealth. Eat a little bit better, dress a little bit nicer, go on slightly higher-end vacations, take a cab instead of the bus now and then, take that course you think you can’t afford, or do anything at all that you wish to do but believe you can’t because of a lack of money.

And when you do these things, bask in joy at your inner state of wealth, and know that this state will be reflected in your outer world. You’ll be amazed at how life provides for the things which bring you joy.

How to use this principle today:

The next time you are about to buy something, anything at all, purchase an item that is of slightly higher quality and price than you would usually buy. Even if something only costs a few dollars more than what is usual for you to spend, buy that item and thank the universe for providing for your new expanding lifestyle.

Even though it is a tiny step, you are beginning to teach your mind that you are expanding your limitations, and as you practice this you will begin to purchase more of the things you want in your life and the money will come to you to pay for them.

3. Find a penny, pick it up.

In order to attract wealth into your life, your subconscious mind must be open to the idea of wealth flowing to you. You must be open and receptive to money coming to you from any source whatsoever. This includes the pennies laying on the street. If you pass a penny on the sidewalk, and your usual reaction is simply to ignore it because stooping down to pick up a penny is not worth the effort, you are telling your subconscious mind that you are not willing to put out effort for money. The amount of money makes no difference whatsoever. The subconscious mind doesn't distinguish between one penny and one million dollars. All it knows is how you feel.

Of course this manifests in many other ways as well. Whenever you do not accept a gift graciously, whenever you do not charge someone for work that you have done for them, or charge them way less than you should because you feel guilty, and whenever you sell a product for less than it is worth because you do not want to charge too much, you are generating the same emotions. So begin to be open to money, in whatever form, and begin to accept it's flow into your life, even if it's only a penny on the street.

How to use this principle today:

Simply go for a walk today and look for money. You are sure to find at least a penny somewhere. Pick it up and thank the universe for bringing money into your life. Let your subconscious mind know that you are open and willing to accept money from any source.

As well, apply this principle in your working life. If you have been undercharging for your services, raise your prices. If you are not earning what you feel you should, ask for a raise. And whenever anyone gives you anything, especially money, accept it graciously and give thanks.

4. Be open to money-making opportunities.

One thing that all self-made millionaires agree on is that there are opportunities everywhere, if we are just open to seeing them. You can prove this for yourself by looking at your own life. There are probably many times in your past which you think back to and wonder what might have happened if you had taken an opportunity at just the right time. Whether it’s obvious things like career opportunities you let slip by, investment opportunities you didn’t believe in, or less obvious opportunities like an idea you once had that is now making someone else rich, or an industry you could have joined before it became saturated.

If you are like most people, when you think of your past opportunities, you believe that you once had a chance but that opportunity is now gone. The difference between rich and poor people is that rich people realize that new opportunities are always all around us, all the time. You simply need to keep a look out for the opportunities, keep and open mind, and be prepared to take advantage when the opportunity arrives.

I’m sure you’ve heard the old adage that luck occurs when opportunity meets preparation. Well, it couldn’t be more true. If you expect to find money-making opportunities in your life, and you prepare to take advantage of them when they come, you will be blessed with more incredible luck than you have ever experienced.

How to use this principle today:

Get out a little notebook and write down all the money-making ideas you can think of. It doesn’t matter how stupid or outrageous the idea might seem, write it down anyway.

This does two things. First, you realize that there are plenty of money-making opportunities around you right now, as there always have been and always will be. Secondly, this exercise will stimulate your mind to see money-making opportunities where it might have ignored them in the past, and will help you practice to see opportunities in the future.

If you keep adding ideas to your notebook consistently, one day you will see an incredibly opportunity on your list which is perfect for you. Then go for it!

5. Do something that makes you feel good.

This has got to be the easiest money-making advice I could ever give. Do something that makes you feel good. When you feel good, your energy rises, and when your energy rises, it attracts more of the things into your life which make you feel good.

Could life be any easier? Not really, but we are so caught up in the backwards thinking of everyone around us that we miss the obvious flow of energy. All you really need to attract more of the good things in your life, including more money, is to generate positive energy into the world. The states of happiness and joy literally rearrange the atoms of your world to bring you more happiness and joy. Of course, the reverse is true as well. So avoid fear, anger, depression, and spend your time feeling good about yourself and your life.

If this is difficult for you, just practice. Begin with some small thing which brings you happiness. It could be as simple as watching a sunset, renting your favorite movie of all time, taking someone you love out for dessert, or anything at all.

The secret is to do these things wholeheartedly, with all your attention focused on the happiness vibrating from your soul out into the world. This simple act will bring you rich rewards.

How to use this principle today:

Don’t just read this article and think "that sounds good" and then go back to your life. Pick something to do which will bring you happiness and do it today. It doesn’t matter what it is or how small it seems. In fact, you don’t have to do anything at all. All that is important is feeling the positive emotions of happiness and joy emanating from your soul.

One simple way to generate positive emotion is to feel gratitude for something in your life. Just pick something in your life for which you are very grateful, and vibrate your gratitude towards it.

6. It's Never Too Late If You Start Now

That should get you started. Five extremely simple actions you can take to begin to expand the prosperity you experience in your life. But don’t stop there. Never let fear or doubt enter your mind. There is nothing you need in order to succeed except the power of your own mind.

If you worry that you are not smart enough, not connected enough, not talented enough, not young enough or not old enough, you are simply creating limiting beliefs which will manifest in the outside world. All you really need to know is that the outside world is a reflection of the state of your inner mind. Know that you can make every day from this day forward a little more joyful and a little more abundant and then watch your life begin to change.

It’s an easy and gentle process, much like letting a plant grow. One day you will suddenly realize that all of your good thoughts have grown into the beautiful fruits of a happy and successful life.

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Finding Cheap Skilled Helpers by Andrew Hansen

Carrying on with our discussion about using the skills of other people to grow your business.

Firstly here’s an important part of this process that I forgot to mention last time.

As an individual, you have certain skills and abilities. You also have certain things that you suck at, you will always suck at them and even if you try it will take you a long time to learn them, and there’s nothing wrong with that!

Part of running a good online business as any business is finding the things that you are most skilled at and focusing on those things, then designating the tasks that you aren’t as good at, to people who are better at them! The result is a much higher quality output.

Moving on…

First, here’s the basic outline of the flow of events in case anyone isn’t familiar with it:

- You create an account at one of the main freelance services  RentACoder.com is a good place to start) and you post a request for bids on your project.

- As bids start to come in you select from them a freelancer who best suits the needs of your project.

- You communicate through the freelance site back and forth with the freelancer until the project is completed to your satisfaction after which time the remainder of a payment balance is forwarded to the freelancer signifying the completion of their work.

Here’s some tips on going about finding the best kind of people for a great price, whatever kind of work you’re looking for.

Consider the location. Don’t get me wrong, freelancers from developed countries are great but depending on the kind of work you need done, you’re often likely to get great offers from people in developing countries too.

I’ve had high quality work done by writers from the Philippines and Romania, coders from Russia, Egypt and India and so forth.

Like I mentioned earlier, you can get people from these countries who can do great work and are willing to do it for A LOT less than people from America, Australia or the UK.

Of course you can always use the sites feedback system to see whether the freelancer in question is of good quality and you can also test them with smaller but similar projects prior to hiring them for your main desired job. Doing this does as close as possible guarantee that you’ll get a high quality result.

Next tip, and this is a bit sly but it’s the truth: You want to assess the freelancers circumstances as well as their skill in the desired task.

You’ll come across young freelancers who accept projects in their university holidays and so forth—big no no! They’re always in between tasks, always have interruptions, you’ll rarely get your project done on time. My point being that you should have a look at the coders circumstances if you can, check out their profile, even don’t be afraid to ask them questions about their work on RentACoder etc.

Here’s the bit that sounds a bit harsh: Ideally you want to get people whose circumstances make them desperate to complete their work and get their money. It sounds harsh but for getting work completed on time, people with mortgages, kids to feed, debts to pay etc are the ones most likely to get their work completed on time.

Next tip: You can literally get ANYTHING done by freelancers…

A lot of people get stuck online because they get to a point where they don’t know how to complete a certain task—the thing is you don’t have to waste time deliberating over how to do it—you can have someone do it for you!

Once you get good at describing projects and negotiating for good prices you will be able to get any task done quickly and easily.

My last and best tip for using freelance sites is this—and it’s a bit controversial too…

The best thing you can do particularly when you find people who are good to work with is try to get some information by which you can contact them outside of RentACoder.

RentACoder in particular doesn’t like you getting the freelancers contact information because obviously they’d prefer you to keep buying projects from them from within RentACoder so you pay their fees and commissions. They’ll even sometimes close projects when you ask for instant messaging addresses within the conversation of the project.

What you can do is try to e-mail them personally to ask for their MSN, Yahoo, or Skype ID so you can talk to them.

The reason this is so good is because once you can contact them privately you have the potential to be able to negotiate ongoing work (instead of one off projects every now and then).

I have found a couple of our now full-time employees this way. They started out doing one-off projects, I got chatting with them in instant messengers and organized for them to do ongoing weekly work for a nominal fee—powerful stuff!

Well that should do it for today. I hope my tips have opened your eyes to the power of outsourcing and how you can find quality help in the pursuit to build a successful online business.

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I’m not sure if it’s intentional or not, but buyers are bookmarking the product download page on Digg or Del.icio.us and exposing it for search! In the end, you can either change the HTML file name or move it to another location but another bookmarking act will spoil your efforts.

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