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Rather than swapping links (which should always be your very last strategy), consider some of your alternative options for acquiring incoming links. Probably the best place to start is by submitting your site to web directories. Here’s a list of links to the most important general-topic web directories:Continue reading »

Figuring out where to get your incoming links from is like solving a puzzle. It takes a little creativity coupled with following formulas and patterns. Ask yourself, who else has a site that might benefit from linking to me?

Suppliers you do business with or professional organizations you’re involved in might be willing to list you on their referrals page. Other professional organizations you do business with might also like to list you as a client or maybe showcase your business in their online portfolio. Your customers may have blogs or personal homepages that could link to you, and so forth.

Here are a few more ideas to help you spark that creativity:Continue reading »

If you haven’t logged in to Google Webmaster Tools in the last few months you probably haven’t noticed some amazing features recently added that give you an excellent dashboard glance into your ranking for phrases, their impressions and clicks.

This new update now gives you easy insight into what google ranks you for and what kind of views and traffic those rankings are leading to…Continue reading »

We all new that page loading speed was a factor to Google for years but it was never officially released by them as to what extent. Google has obviously been running extensive tests and has concluded that if page load times decrease by even milliseconds, it substantially increases the load on their servers by increasing the number of concurrent searches being performed and waiting for sites to load.

What does this mean to your site? Well this means you could be suffering poor search rankings as your quality score is affected by your slow loading site.  Continue reading »

If you have the google toolbar installed, then you will see a search bar built in. Connected to this little search bar is a handy tool for Google to suggest what others are looking for as you type your search into it.  If you are thinking like I am, then what a great way to find out what the world is looking to do, build, make or buy. This 5 minute video will demonstrate how to use this tool to find a market… Continue reading »

Running an effective Google PPC campaign is an excellent way to grab some quick targeted traffic overnight and is also a very effective and inexpensive way to split test different versions of your sales copy. The only problem is, if you don’t know the rules, you can quite easily pay more than you need to and if you try and throw all of your keyword phrases into a single ad group, you could quite easily get the “Google Slap”. Follow some of my tips below to avoid this: Continue reading »

Although selling physical products are not as automated as ebooks and digital printable products, they can still become a very profitable option if you ensure your market is well researched and your product costs/distribution channels are setup seamlessly. for example, if you start creating a niche site with good content on the subject in a wordpress site, you can then install certain plugins that show leading products on your site with descriptions images and buy now buttons that then send the order to the original seller and you make the commission on the sale. No shipping required… Continue reading »

So your market is looking for information. Sure they could browse the search results for hours, finding free information that is limited, bias, untrustworthy and boken up by irritating ads everywhere.  Or they could buy your ebook that is packed full of insider tips, well researched stats, image rich step-by-steps and easy to follow common sense instruction.

Sounds easy? Continue reading »

What is the biggest mistake most people make when starting an internet business? Putting the cart before the horse. Finding a product before a market.

With internet business, we have the ability to use tools to effectively discover:

• What information people are looking for
• How many people are looking for that information
• and how many sites are competing for that audience

This essential phase is the absolute foundation to any online business and is vital in every step of creating your product, site copy and marketing efforts.

I have spent more than 6 years with some of the best minds in the business to brain-storm, test and experiment the best way to research a niche market, compile the results then go after the numbers. This approach is in practice today by hundreds of students I have taught, many of which are now making 6 figure incomes from their niche sites.

The niche market discovery and validation phase is broken down into 3 main parts: Continue reading »