My Traffic subs, leads kinda blog - stats from mybloglog about this one

Looking at my stats for this blog - see details on my other blog - which is about gets leads, traffic and doing all that snazzy listing building stuff:

http://leads2u.blogspot.com/2008/07/looking-at-mybloglog-stats-on-my.html

12 Seconds Video blog

12 second videos that post to twitter - It'll need some practice!



lemonpies on 12seconds.tv

http://12seconds.tv/channel/lemonpies

In memory of Weston Grand Pier

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/cs/forums/1795/ShowForum.aspxWeston Pier was built in 1904 (5 years before the Titanic)

read more | digg story

Grand Pier in WSM burning! - footage from mobile phone

Video (from a mobile phone) the Grand Pier in Weston-super-Mare burning this morning.Zara's note: This was really sad to see this morning - they just spend over a million quid doing the place up too.

read more | digg story

Seth MacFarlane and Google to make animated web series

Google will help Seth Macfarlane launch his new web show.This could also possibly start a new medium of very profitable and popular animated web shows.

read more | digg story

Simple Ways To Increase Blog Visitors

Simple Ways To Increase Blog Visitors

Each visitor to your blog or website is a potential customer, and any changes you make to the overall site design, usability, or quality of content on your blog can create or damage the customer-client relationship. You want to avoid turning visitors away because of a poorly-constructed site or presentation, and set your sights on finding ways to boost traffic.

Making yourself more discoverable is one part of "Search Engine Optimization" (SEO) techniques, and can help you reach the top rankings of search engines so potential visitors can find you after a simple search.

Increasing visitors requires both a technical approach and some direct marketing. You'll want to start by making sure you are hosting the blog or website on your own domain; this makes it much easier for search engines to find, and also makes your URL much more credible. You can then use the URL name itself to promote it, adding a 'www' tag to your postings, e-mail signatures, and other information that you share on the web.

The next step is to write good titles. Even people who are already subscribing to your blog may not actually click on the information you have written unless they are compelled to do so. Make sure your titles are on topic and describe the content you are posting. Using keywords in your titles makes it much easier for search engines to discover them as well, and you can use tools such as Overture and WordTracker to generate some keywords that work well with your site.

Another effective way to start generating visitors is to participate in discussion groups, forums, and even other blogs. Taking initiative with your own social networking can help you gain a steady audience very quickly; try participating in online communities related to your industry, or run some keyword searches yourself and find out what your prospects are talking about within your niche.

It's likely that you'll stumble across a few different discussion forums and groups, many of which that can get you instant traffic by clicking on your signature each time you participate.

You'll always want to tag your content as often as possible, since many people run searches based on tags and keywords, larger sites including Digg, Technorati, and StumbleUpon use tags to sort all content published on the web, and you can reach a larger audience simply by breaking apart your content and submitting it to the appropriate categories.

Another simple and effective way to increase traffic is to simply write quality content; the more quality you provide for your readers, the higher the chances that your audience will link to you and share the information you are presenting to others. This is word-of-mouth marketing at its best, and you can create some very unique articles over time. Visitor traffic increases dramatically when your posts are submitted to larger directory sites and social bookmarking networks; think of ways that you can start developing some very unique articles, content, and posts.

Remember that original and media-rich content is in high demand!

________________________

About Ian del Carmen:

Ian del Carmen is the president and CEO of Fireball Planet Corporation.

Check out his blog at http://IanDelCarmen.com. Or visit Fireball Planet at http://FireballPlanet.com


Disclaimer:
The authors and publishers of this information and the accompanying materials have used their best efforts in preparing this article. The author and publisher make no representation or warranties with respect to the accuracy, applicability, fitness, or completeness of the contents of this article. The information contained on this page is strictly for educational purposes. Therefore, if you wish to apply ideas contained in this article, you are taking full responsibility for your actions.

Some Top News Headlines

Aggregated news from various sources - marketing, web hosting, Internet news and my stuff too.

Get this widget!

Visit the Widget Gallery

The_Weston_Super_Mare_Connection chat group

Xat.com chatroom set up by a local for people in Weston-super-mare and surrounding areas of North Somerset (or tourists - except Dom Joly or John Cleese who diss the place!) to chat and make connections locally in an informal way.

read more | digg story

IFPI Takes ISP to Court to Impose Music Piracy Filter

The ‘Big Four’ record labels - EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner have started legal proceedings to force an ISP to end piracy on its network. The action, brought against Irish ISP, Eircom, is the first of it’s kind.Note: this ruling is an insult to every child/person that is sexually abused and / or watched by PAYING pedos on-line - as if record companies can force ISP to spy on peoples downloads - WHY oh fuck WHY, can't they be arsed to let the police spy/ track and capture perverts ?! - that in theory are even easier to track as they often PAY to watch kids being raped - tracking "bad people" doing "bad things" via ISP should b put in priorty of need - who need your help more - some musician getting royalties or some kid being fucked by a nonce - this dumb ass set of catching the bad people sucks BIG TIME. - they are the wrong people...

read more | digg story

Typo of the year? Newspaper misspells its name on front page

Vermont’s Valley News could be a favorite for 2008’s Typo of the Year, thanks to it misspelling its own name on the front page on July 21.Cool - they've been using the Internet too long - we is all lolcats now u no!

read more | digg story

On TV SHOW ..Guy LICKS CD and can tell ARTIST and SONG with

Idiot guy with min-DVDs as lenses, licks the CD and can tell the Artist and the song of the album.. Zara's note - I wonder if you could play a record player with a tongue stud ? ... :O

read more | digg story

or

were you looking for the rolling stones live licks cd ?

Traffic Deaths Drop with Rising Gas Prices

A decline in traffic deaths due to rising gas prices was predicted in March and again earlier this month. This article reports on actual statistics showing the predictions have played out. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as

read more | digg story

MySpace joins OpenID coalition to share log-ins

MySpace took another step in cooperating with other Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web. The OpenID coalition now includes Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, Google Inc.'s Blogger, Yahoo Inc. and blogging services Vox, WordPress, LiveJournal.

read more | digg story

35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media in Action

This list is by no means exhaustive, and it represents a wide variety of businesses, industries and social media tools. Some are likely to generate more discussions with the company while others might result better connections between customers.

read more | digg story

Robots Inspired By Animals

Zara's note: I will have to watch this *remember me too Zara!*

read more | digg story

What happened over at TwitterVision today?

Yesterday 150 Followers, Today 17,528! (another digger)Zara' note: Twitter counter okay - I got 97 followers - I will expect afew more tomorrow then ? !

read more | digg story

Sub4Sub - Subway Girls Wear Bikinis

http://www.keaton-online.comMusic from Keaton.You want to get your supply of food in...incase those Russian zombies come to life and steal your souls :Osub4sub anyone ?

read more | digg story

Report Buyer - Market Research For Business

ReportBuyer

Report Buyer is a leading online-shop for business information, carrying a comprehensive range of market research. The website reportbuyer.com has nearly 50,000 reports covering the following industries:

automotive, banking, business services, computing, drink, electronics, finance, energy, food, healthcare, leisure, management, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals, retail, telecoms, transport, travel and utilities.

The continuously updated and fully searchable catalogue, backed-up by friendly multi-lingual customer service staff, means information professionals across the world trust Report Buyer to provide the right products in a timely manner. Report Buyer is fast becoming the intelligent way to buy market research.

Click here for further Information

Ofcom says no privacy rights for member of public filmed dru

Business : Ofcom says no privacy rights for member of public filmed drunkby Brian McLelland (Business Lawyer)Ofcom has dismissed a complaint by a member of the public, Mr Gareth Nixon, for unwarranted infringement of privacy in relation to an ITV documentary about binge-drinking in the UK.

read more | digg story

Thank you for verifying

Thank you for verifying your email subscription.
You have now been added to the mailing list and will receive the next email broadcast.

Thanks for joining up :-)




Here are the links to the Free eBooks - 100's to choose from!




Niche Products Package




Resell Rights Package

If you wish to unsubscribe, simply use the "Unsubscribe" link included in the next email broadcast.

Thank you for subscribing

Thank you for subscribing.
An email has been sent to you that contains a verification link. Please click this "verify" link to complete your subscription.

Another dose of common sense from Marlon

===============================================================
  Be able to do the basics yourself -- even if you outsource
===============================================================

Some people would say outsource everything.

And I believe I created the FIRST product that showed in detail
how to outsource on Elance. It was called Digital Product Creation
System. And I was doing this stuff WAY back before anyone even
knew what outsourcing meant.

And having a lot of experience, I will tell you that I still believe
you should be able to do the basics yourself.

Do you outsource?  Yes.  But if you can't do the basics yourself,
you'll be subject to having smoke blown up the nether regions of
your body by people who want to create a mystique around what they
do.

Let me give you an example:

A long time ago when Lisa worked for me and we were figuring out
graphic design, there was this particular way of doing a curved
sidebar that we really wanted to do.

We just could NOT figure out how to do it.

So we hired 3 people off of elance to do it for us.

None of the 3 did it right. One did it fairly well. But we never
used the design.

Today, I know HOW to do that effect in Photoshop. It takes 5
seconds.  You use the warp tool.  Grab.  Pull.  5 seconds.

But I spent $250 or more on the freelancers and didn't get
something that was decent.

People will try to pull the wool over your eyes. They'll try to
mystify processes, so they can be lazy, work slowly and
charge you a fortune for something simple.

Like one time someone told me they had to "put in the infrastructure."
I was like, "WHAT infrastructure?  Dude, there ain't no infrastructure."

I'm all for outsourcing.

But I still believe you need to know the basics.

For example, podcasting. A podcast is an mp3 file delivered via RSS.
Once you have Podpress installed on your blog, it's automatic.
Piece of cake.

The word "pod" comes from the idea that people can listen to the
audio on their IPOD.  The word "cast" gives the idea of broadcasting
your audio TO people's IPOD's.

That is where RSS comes into play.

Or how about header graphics.

Listen hither:  You CAN do basic graphics far easier than you think.
The initial fear of all the doodads on Photoshop or Photoshop
Elements is 100X worse than the reality.

It's FUN once you learn a very few simple basics that trip everyone
up.

I thought Design Dashboard was an awesome product. But I'm still
disappointed that some people "didn't get it" or still weren't able
to execute.

Mostly because we have a 20-minute overview video as a bonus that
somehow people missed.  So I'm gonna revisit this issue.

If you KNEW how simple and easy it was to do basic graphics, you'd
LAUGH in the face of people who tell you "Oh, you need to outsource
ALL your graphics."

Some?  Alright. But all?  Please.  I don't buy that.

You open Photoshop.  You set your canvass size to 650 pixels wide
x 150 pixels deep.  You create a little gradient.  Add some text.
Add a stroke.  Drop in a photo.

Done!

It can be THAT simple.

Now, will you still hire out your graphics to Design Guru Ryan,
Graphics Genie, GraphicsMaverics or any of the other highly talented
designers?

Sure.  Why not?  Their prices are reasonable.

It CAN be a trap to do everything yourself beyond a certain point.
Most people in the beginning have to learn to do things themselves
because they have more time than money.

But listen up. If you can't:

* Put up a podcast
* Install a blog
* Add a plugin
* Create a basic web graphic
* Insert a table in your html editor
* Upload a video to Youtube
* Shoot a Camtasia video (or CamStudio)
* Shoot some live video with decent lighting
* Add an autoresponder
* Add autoresponder opt-in form code to a web page

If you can't do ANY of that stuff, then you're going to need a full-
time employee/webmaster -- NOT a freelancer.

And even then, you're gonna be frustrated. 

I've been selling ebooks online by the thousands before most modern
day gurus even knew what an ebook was.

You are a creator.

You are a communicator.

Today is YOUR day because today you can create and communicate.

Let me know if this resonates with you. Let me know if you think I'm
full of it. Let me know if you see yourself as a creator. Let me
know what your hang-ups are in creating and communicating value.

Let me know how I can help you become more of who and what you are.
Or let me know if this is all too theoretical for you and all you
wanna know is how to find some plr and sell it.

Or whatever.

http://www.marlonsnews.com


I'm here to serve you.  The best I can.  With the skills and
knowledge I have.  I can't and won't promise to make you a
millionaire.

But I can promise to show you how to create value and communicate it
to people in the market for that value. And that's a noble, honest
living serving your fellow man.

Marketing is something we can be proud of.

We are all born creators. And born marketers.

This is our Born Identity.

Marlon

-----------------------------------------------------------
Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Info Product Dashboard."
If you want to create your own info products, go to:
http://www.productdashboard.com

Our Privacy Policy

Notice: this privacy policy was purchased and is copyrighted.

Your Privacy

We are extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our site are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us. We are constantly vigilant for credit card or other fraud. We report all charge backs to a credit reference agency. If you have any reason to seek the return of money paid, please contact us rather than your credit card issuer. Information may be unlawfully available to hackers and snoopers. We take no responsibility for this. The risk is no different from a similar risk in a bricks and mortar establishment.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at our websites. If this policy should change in the future (most unlikely), then we shall provide notification in advance, and the opportunity for all users to indicate whether or not they would prefer that we do not provide the information to third parties as proposed. We do not market directly to children. We do have pages & products that children might be interested in when parents are viewing are children's page with links to sites that are said by the respective site owners to be safe for children under 10 years old. The external links & their content are subject to their own terms & conditions & although we make every effort to make sure all sites are family safe, we are not responable for external links content. Children will inevitably visit other parts of the site and will be subject to whatever on site marketing they find, wherever they visit. Here is a list of the information we collect, and why it is necessary to collect it: Basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details.

This information is used:

to provide you with the services which you request; to maintain our accounts; for billing; to enable us to answer your enquiries; for verifying your identity for security purposes; for marketing our services and products; to help make our web site as useful to you as possible; information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.

Your domain name and e-mail address (where needed)

are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. This information is used: in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our site;to send you news about the services to which you have signed up; to tell you about other of our services.

Financial information, including credit card details (where needed)

This information is used to obtain payment for goods and services you have ordered from us. This information is never actually received by us. The page where this information is given by you is controlled by our contract merchant service provider. Such information is automatically encrypted, and later decrypted for use. It never touches our system.

Your personal profile

Is available to be seen by members throughout the world. No contact details whatever are given out with it. This information is not used for marketing purposes of any sort. Information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service. Some of this information is classified as sensitive information by the UK Data Protection Act 1998. We make the assumption that in giving this information to us, you consent to our holding it for the duration of your membership / for one year or until you ask otherwise.

Information volunteered by you

for a particular purpose, for example a personal profile, survey, job application form, or contest. This information will be used exclusively for the purpose for which you have provided it. Information is disclosed to third parties only where the third party concerned qualifies in whatever way the web site page requires. We will make absolutely clear on the face of the page, any intention to publicise the name of a winner.

Affiliate information (where needed)

This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours as you have applied to join our affiliate scheme. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. This information is used : to maintain our accounts and affiliate records; for billing; to enable us to answer your enquiries; for verifying your identity for security purposes; to send you news about the services to which you have signed up; to tell you about other of our services.

Business information

This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours, such as in relation to your application to partner with us or advertise with us. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you and any partner to reciprocate this policy.

Disclosure to Government

and their agencies. We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order.

Information request

At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us at the address below. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information. This confidentiality policy has been compiled so as to comply with current UK, US and EU legislation, so far as we are aware. If you have any question regarding the confidentiality policy, please contact us at:

webmaster@weston-chatter.com

Just a little update - Zara remember to read me!

Hello Internet people, I don't normally have much to say but I'm updating and changing a few bits and bobs - ready for winter maybe ?

Anyway - I'll be directing anyone from my myspace and linkprimer blogs (I think linkprimer has gone ?) - anyway the myspace one will have a page filled with feedburner summaries of this blog, my niche blog (about my town)and the two new blogs I've set up - one is about getting potential work from home people - into the 'funnel' as they call it - i.e directing them to niches of Interest

- the other site is for marketers that are looking for people to sell their niches to - the idea being if I am affiliated to both sides of the deal - I might end up with a commission at some point.

This blog here is like the 'mother ship' blog - i know it's ment to be about webmaster tools - but to me it is - I'm talking about digg, about gadgets and articles I find interesting - and you get to here the results of my other blogs too.

I'll be time for news cast 15 so - so I'll have to remember to remember services I've looked at that are cool - the last few weeks - like :

Winksite, Zoodoka ? (look it up in a mo)that rf images thingy and find that free photo bank link. - some images are too small for 123rf (they have to be bigger than my old cameras max of 1600x1200 - but I rekon I could still sell them in my etsy shop - either as prints (need a printr and some 'plastic' frames (to save on glass braking in travel)and or people could buy them in a zip file.

other stuff I need to do is get my rapid profits site updated, and ask Derek Gehl /his crew if they still have all my passwords and registery keys - I think I have the mail loop one but it would be good to get the ebook maker up and running although open office is fine - actually need to loginto the affiliate program for IMC and get the bebiz link code - as that looks like a cool training program for the niche finder blog - I'm still into niche stuff - as it has o much potential with the social networking scene.

Anyway enough for now - ah that bug bear

how to get feedflares into posts the instructions they give are impossible - if anyone on their forums can explain it better to me - I will write up my own version - as it makes no sense whatsoever to me might as well be in another language!!!

Zara's Main Chat Room

Viacom Goose, Google Gander

The Viacom Google saga gets pretty sticky in terms of ironic and embarrassing potentialities. It's yet unknown how effective the anonymized data being transferred will be at protecting YouTube identities. Further, what looks like a coup for Viacom could be a nice strategic move on Google's part. byJason lee miller

read more | digg story

Are Teens heralding the death of e-mail?

Teens areshunning e-mail in favor of other platforms such as texting, instant messaging and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Microblogging sites such as Twitter and programs such as Skype, which allow users to make phone calls using the Internet, are also popular. Zara's note: like I said somewhere else e-mail is the snail mail of the internet - but I still use it, and it's the first thing I log into on-line :)

read more | digg story

Free Social network on a mobile / cell phone claim yours

Webmasters and social networkers - come visit my example of a niche website / social network designed for a mobile phone / cell phone device - that is also viewable on line. Forum, chat, blog, rss feeds etc. plus advertising option - and up to 5 niche sites with links to each - easily managed on-line or by phone. Very nice set up to integrate.

read more | digg story

Bionic Bra to Harness the Energy of Bouncing Breasts

Looking for a better way to charge her iPod on the go, Adrienne So had an idea – could she invent a bionic bra to harness the energy of her bouncing breasts?Girl power!

read more | digg story

.TEL Domains Will Soon Be Available

The .tel domains enables the user to store, update and publish contact information, web links and keywords directly on the Internet under a unique domain name. Simple, fast and accessible from any device, .tel provides a new internet standard for businesses and individuals to take full control over how and where people reach them.

read more | digg story

Doing the Laptop Drive of Shame

If you bring your work computer home with any regularity, chances are good that you've done the Laptop Drive of Shame. (Oh, c'mon, admit it.) It's happening more than ever … and costing more than ever, too.

read more | digg story

New social network connectsLondoners and New-Yorkers

Developed by British Airways, the new social networking site fosters ties between Londoners and New-Yorkers on the basis of a “twinning” theme. Users “twin” things in both cities and recommendations of where to go and what to do come from “if you like this, you will like that” formula... The official launch is planned forthis summer.

read more | digg story

Latest New From Marlon Sanders

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Two $100,000 A Month Models Compared -- PLUS The Shocking
Truth About Banner Ads, Your Email, Privacy, And Yes, We
Even Have Traffic Secrets...

By Marlon Sanders

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The other day I was reading a forum. Several guys had gotten
100 visitors and not made a sale and wondered what was wrong.

In this article, I'm going to try to answer that question.

I just talked to another friend of mine on the phone
last week.

He's been making $100,000 a month online since I met
him back at the Boulder seminars years ago.

Back then his model was to run banner ads, sell a $39.95
ebook with a super duper offer.

Then in the ebook he sold 'em his big ticket. He spent
$25,000 a month on banner ads and made $100,000.

Almost identical numbers to my friend who is doing the same
thing with Google pay-per-click in another market. Except
he gives away the ebook free instead of selling it.

My first friend had back ends of $377 and $577. And then
later went to $577 and $997, or something like that.

My second friend has a recurring billing $37 a month
back end. But converts 10% of the people who request the
free ebook.

What's CRAZY is my second friend is NOW doing the free
BOOK thing by direct mail. So instead of a free ebook,
it's a free PRINTED book.

You'll laugh at this.

I asked him WHERE he was getting his books printed at and
he said Kinkos! The reason you'll laugh at that is he
consumes over 30,000 a year. And could easily get 'em
cheaper elsewhere.

Here are the models:

Model one: $39.95 ebook. $377 and $577 upsells. Later
a $997 upsell.

Model two: Free ebook. $37 a month back end.

Model three: Free BOOK. $4,000 back end.

Oh, I forgot to tell you. The free book sells a $4,000
product. Basically, it's written on the old Jeff Paul
if you're familiar with that.

Anyway, that's not the point.

The point is these models all do some things in common:

Step one: Get people in the funnel

You can sell a low-priced something or the other. Or
give it away free.

Step two: Sell 'em something MUCH more profitable.
$377, $577, $37 a month, $4,000.

I think of Matt Bacak and Russ Bruson doing the
$5500 big tickets with phone sales. I think of
Vincent James doing the $59.95 a month recurring billing
for his bottles o' pills.

In the early days, my model was Amazing Formula on
the front end then the Big Course for $500 on the back
end.

Later that changed to Cash Like Clockwork.

But there's one MORE missing element here.

And that is the MAIN key: A repetitive way to generate
leads.

The vogue nowadays is product launches. And that's all
well and good if you have lots of friends who are willing
to stick together and promote each other. And, coincidentally,
win each other's fancy affiliate prizes.

(Did you EVER notice a friend in the JV circle seems to always
win the huge affiliate pize? I WISH my friends were so kind
to me!)

Personally, I'd RATHER have the consistent traffic without
the chaos of a big launch.

Whether you have a FREE ebook, FREE book or low-priced offer,
you MUST have something that converts.

Copy is king and queen.

And truly, if you can't write great-converting copy, you're
at a handicap.

Then you gotta have a big ticket back end or recurring billing.
Now, you can convert people with sales letters, direct mail,
teleseminars, video, or email.

They all work.

They're all just ways of delivering your sales message via
different channels.

Here are the things I've seen work on the front end:

1. Banner advertising

If you're in a market with lots of inventory, this is a great
option. Get 'em to a page, bribe 'em with something free to
join your list.

Begin marketing.

2. Pay-per-click

This works too IF you have a back end that sucks money out
within 30 days. But you have BETTER have an offer and emails
that convert 5% to 10% of subscribers to buyers.

Google keeps tightening the rules and the cost of clicks seems
to be going up. But there's no doubt the volume is there. It's
fast. And it's highly trackable and testable.

3. Affiliate program

In probably any arena OTHER than Internet marketing this is
still gold. Internet marketing has degraded into the product
launch of the week. And you're LUCKY if your affiliates promote
your new product for longer than 2 weeks.

You have a degree of vulnerability in that you're dependent
on the efforts of others. So it isn't perfect. But with
ppc, banners and direct mail, you pay IN ADVANCE.

With SEO, you pay with your time creating content.

With affiliate programs, you pay in money AFTER the sale.
That is why it's still a great marketing method.

4. Direct mail

The age of folks is 45 to 50+. So if you're trying to target
people in their 20's or early 30's, you may have a challenge.

5. Seo stuff

Article marketing and other methods can work. I mean, if you
produce an article a day, turn it into video and podcasts using
Traffic Guyser, submit it to the video and podcast directories,
submit it to the article directories, post it on your blog and
so forth, and KEEP doing that day after day -- sooner or later
you'll get traffic.

I mean, if you just HAMMER Google with content day after day,
relentlessley, it's bound to get you somewhere. The only thing
is, the content has to be themed and related and so forth.

This is basically what Tinu does in the Evergreen Traffic
System except she's a lot more focused with it and targets
Google with laser tactics.

Still, it's a CONTENT-BASED approach. With Tinu's system you
create high quality content and syndicate it using RSS.

Either you create content or buy it. The problem or issue I
see with buying it is if it's low quality content, Google can
TELL people don't spend much time on the page or bookmark it.

I'd personally rather buy clicks, banners or send out direct
mail. Writing every day is NOT attractive to me.

There's a MAJOR sacrifice of time UNLESS you can afford to
hire or magically find writers who can actually produce high
quality content people WILL read.

Seo is a CONTENT model. The only approach I know of that works
long term is CONTENT. That is what Google values. And they CAN
differentiate the quality of content by time-on-page, bookmarking,
links and so forth.

Long term, you CANNOT trick Google. Having said that, I do know
people who outsource articles inexpensively and do get results.
I wonder, though, long term if those pages will stick.

I pretty much doubt it. Did you know Google sets a cookie when
you log into Gmail?

So they can SEE every email you open.

They KNOW every link you click.

They KNOW the web sites you go to. How long you spend there. How
much you scroll (or they could track this easily).

They know who links in and out.

They know who clicks what.

Heck, they even have a PICTURE of your HOUSE on Google Maps and
your street view. They have a picture there of the CAR you drive
if it's in your driveway. Seriously, in the U.S. they probably
have literal video footage of your home, your car and the street
you live on.

I'm NOT making this up. I looked up a friend's home in a fairly
remote suburb of a pretty small town. And they had STREET LEVEL
video of the whole neighborhood. And you could see the CAR in
the driveway. Everything.

And with their new Google phone, they'll know WHO you call, how long
you talk and where you call.

So just TELL me you can find a way to fool them about the quality
of your content long term.

By the way, in the U.S. the government from what I can tell can get
that DATA anytime they want. So every email you read, email you
SEND, web site you go to. They know WHAT you click when you GO
to those web sites because of Google ANALYTICS.

If you use Gmail, it's ALL tracked.

And you wonder why Microsoft was desperate to buy YAHOO?

You know, in the U.S. I THOUGHT we had a constitution that prevented
search without a warrant.

Yeah right.

Frankly, if this scares you a little, it should. You need to know,
if you're on the Net and you're not surfing with a proxy like
hidemyip.com, and you're using Gmail and doing all your searches
in Google...ummmmm....you should just know it's all TRACKED and
probably recorded.

I don't know WHO owns Skype. And I don't know if any of that data
is SOLD. Since it's FREE, I'm guessing it is. How much data is sold
and to whom? I wonder. Are your Skypes private?

Mmmmmmmmm. I doubt it. But I could be wrong. I'm sure that if the
government or someone in a lawsuit wants them, they can get 'em.

I'm no privacy expert. And I'm sure some of the things I've said here
aren't exactly accurate. But anyone with half a brain can put two
and two together and see the pattern.

As far as privacy, don't use Gmail. Use Safari as your web browser
or maybe Firefox. Don't get a Google phone when it comes out. And
know that when you search on Google, there is very little protection
of your privacy.

Just know that there is no privacy unless you surf with a proxy
turned on. You may not care. But I think you should at least KNOW.

1. There is no privacy
2. It's all tracked
3. The Government has access
4. Even your emails are archived and are NOT private.

(Don't know about UK and Australia or other countries.)

In terms of BANNER ADVERTISING it is good for marketers. It means
they can and DO track people's movements ACROSS web sites and can
serve banners based on a theme of their surfing habits. That is what
the whole Double Click uproar was about ..

They also know WHAT people click in their email on Gmail and Yahoo.
The targeting is VERY precise. I mean, they know EVERTHING.

Everything. Every click. Every move. Emails. House location,
value (from Google Maps). Even your forum postings can be tracked.
(Google Analytics).

In terms of PRIVACY, Google is not your friend.

As a marketer, if you can't target precisely with THAT....

There ARE services that let you target banners with this precision.
However, NO ONE has really researched them and written up an ebook
that's affordable on the topic.

No one has written who these services are, the degree to which they
track, how much you can REALLY buy the banners for via negotiation
vs. off-the-rack b.s. prices.

It's a bonanza for marketers NO ONE has written about exploited.

If you know:

-- What sites people go to
-- How long they are there
-- What they click on
-- How often they go there
-- How often they click
-- What types of emails they send and to whom
-- The location of their home (and by implication home value)

If you know all that, are you telling me banners aren't being
served with the greatest precision known to man?

Why hasn't this been told or written up?

I KNOW you can buy these banners. But who sells them? What
is the minimum buy? What is the price AFTER negotiation? You
know, the true street price? What are the minimum buys?
Who are the main players? What data are they tracking?

What is the average CTR?

So you wanna talk about TRAFFIC and TRAFFIC SECRETS? There
you go. THERE is something to talk about.

SUMMARY:

1. You buy traffic

Banners, Google, other methods.

2. You trade time for it by creating content for Google

Google rewards high quality content with good rankings.
But quality content takes YOUR time or talented hired writers.

3. Direct mail

You could call this direct response and include full-page ads,
TV and radio.

Once you're reaching .50 a hit on Google, there's not a lot
of difference between THAT and spending .50 to send a proven
buyer a piece of mail.

The cost of entry is high though. Testing 10 lists at 2,000
names each is a 20,000 mailing costing over $10,000.

I began this article talking about a forum thread I read where
several guys had gotten 100 visitors and not made a sale and
wondered what was wrong.

Do you see now?

1. You gotta have a way to deliver a LOT of visitors predictably.
Banner ads. PPC. Affiliates. Direct mail.

Something you pretty much CONTROL.

2. You gotta have a conversion PROCESS.

Get people on your list and follow up with emails.

3. You gotta have a big ticket back end.

Every single thing I said in ActionGrid.com still applies. And
the system for creating big ticket info products STILL WORKS
and still applies.

These guys:

1. Didn't have a repetitive way to bring in visitors that they
could rely on.

2. They didn't get people on a list.

3. They didn't have a big ticket.

I will add that they were trying to do an SEO method based ONLY
on getting inbound links with low quality content.

You know, link exchanges and such. Which I'm sure probably work
IF you have high quality content. Google just isn't stupid or
dumb.

Marlon

-----------------------------------------------------------
Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Info Product Dashboard."
If you want to create your own info products, go to:
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=FqBHn&m=KyjJDDGJ1Dr&b=GvObZaeJUmQh9HAa7XVZvg

Healthylemons News Show #14 11 July 08

ebuddy,digg,networkworld,phorm,viacom

read more | digg story

Adware company refines opt-out, notification technology

By Jeremy Kirk , IDG News Service , 07/08/2008ISPs, which face slim profit margins providing broadband service, could benefit from the systems by gaining a new stream of ad revenue. Zara's note: awwww, poor babies :/

read more | digg story

Botnets winning spam wars, says report - Network World

By John E. Dunn , TechWorld , 07/09/2008The world's antispam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed.

read more | digg story

Main Screen of ebuddy

Main Screen
Originally uploaded by eBuddy Press & Media

ebuddy - web based free multi - network IM client MSN, Yahoo, Myspace,Aim,Google and Myspace - just needs skype and a video chat or streaming function (like aim has) then it'll be perfect - I'll have to try broadcasting a a blogtv using aim and see if it multicasts across networks via aim widget and ebuddy - that would be cool as you'd have a live broadcast across anywhere that had a the aim widget or IM.

How to protect yourself from a new kind of online scam

Personal privacy on the internet is fast becoming a serious issue. Access to online dating and social networking data sources is becoming more widely available. Therefore, controlling the accuracy and integrity of your personal web presence will definitely become more and more difficult.

read more | digg story

Top 10 Disappearing Natural Wonders

From mountaintops to sea-floors, the world’s spectacular natural wonders are disappearing. Top threats include global climate change, deforestation, invasive species, and population growth. These following ten represent some of the most ecologically sensitive areas.

read more | digg story

Marketing advice, Marketing tips from Fraser Hay

Another course from Fraser Hay

Spear-head Phishing Scam Busts CEOs Wide Open

This notorious scam managed to persuade CEOs world-wide to reveal their personal details.

read more | digg story

Take care of your brain

A 65 minute phone call on a mobile phone might hard boil your brains - read this article to find out how !

read more | digg story

Move over Phorm Viacom Wants to SPY on the past Globally

Image details: MTV Networks Upfront - Arrivals served by picapp.com

Viacom in 'happier' days
Some of the viacom crew that wants youtube users surfing habits, I guess this Judge in California is part o the new world order (the one with all the lizard people) I best check over at gumtree.com forums first though for confirmation.

The court room look verses anyone who saw sponge bob square pants on telly...I mean youtube....does it really matter where you see it first ?

Image details: House Committee Discusses Stereotypes With Music Industry served by picapp.com

Iranian Parliament May Develop Death Penalty for Bloggers

The Iranian parliament is set to debate a draft bill that would add a number of crimes to the list of those that can result in execution, among them "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy." The bill is intended to "toughen punishment for harming mental security in society'

read more | digg story

Autoresponder Software Ultimate List Builder Sign up forms