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  • Blog Traffic in 30 Days: get traffic fast. Proven, heavy-hitting, big results for little cost marketing geared specifically for blog traffic. Outlines easy-to-implement tactics and a 30-day plan to get visitors to your site fast. The ideas in this book will make your traffic explode.
  • SEO Bible: dry and doesn’t contain many specific marketing tactics, but it’s the most comprehensive overview of SEO available. Great desktop reference.
  • Search Engine Marketing: comprehensive strategy for search engine marketing, but much of the book revolves around paid links. Valuable content on planning and tracking a paid keyword marketing program.
  • The New Rules of Marketing: web site marketing for the 21st century. Think podcasts, viral videos, product placements, and the like.
  • WordTracker keyword tool: hands down, the best keyword research tool on the market; get a free 7-day trial here
  • Google’s AdWords Keyword Tool: free keyword research tool; only use for general research, not specific targeting
  • Keyword Elite: my favorite keyword tool. While I love WordTracker results, they can get very tedious to manage, and that’s a task Keyword Elite handles with aplomb. It also includes free lifetime access to WordTracker’s free keyword tool, which gives you Wordtracker’s great results within Keyword Elite’s powerful interface. See it in action and claim two free e-books on how to leverage it at the provided URL.
  • Six-Figure Plugin Suite: a suite of plug-ins for your WordPress blog that will help you drive traffic through referrals, social media, and RSS feeds. Completely automated-just click and go.
  • Directory Submitter: software to help ease the work involved in submitting your site to numerous web directories.
  • Article Submitter: software to help ease the work involved in submitting your articles to article directories
  • Unique Article Wizard: content spinner, account manager, unique article creator, article publisher and syndicater

Monetization Resources

Auto-Pilot VRE: my favorite off-blog monetization method is to use auto-pilot sites and blogs to supplement my blog income. As a gold member of Hyper VRE, I am allowed to distribute their software for free, so grab your auto-pilot site case study and your free software and try it out!

Six-Figure Plugin Suite: a suite of plug-ins for your WordPress blog that will help you earn money through affiliate programs, eBay, and Amazon, and also manage your AdSense ads. Completely automated-just click and go.

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Blogging Tools and Resources

  • Aweber: e-mail list management service
  • InfoGoRound PLR Service: large selection of above average PLR content and tools
  • PLR Pro: best PLR content available on the web
  • SEO Elite: the leading search engine optimization program available
  • Instant Article Wizard: article research and writing assistant
  • GistWeb: research tool for article writing
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Get Hundreds of Easy Backlinks

Hundreds and easy, yes. High-quality, not so much!

If you are a member of any of my other groups, you know that I’m not a big fan of reciprocal linking and directory submission. However, I make exceptions for auto-pilot sites.

Let’s face it. These are sites that we setup once, and automatically drip content into month after month. I generally like to carry out a 20-point marketing effort and then I let the site drift. In these cases, I use both directory submissions and reciprocal linking.

Today I have two FREE tools you can use for these tasks:

Directory Submitter

Create a project, add in several descriptions, several titles, several anchors, and then run through Directory Submitter’s extensive list of free and paid directories. When you click a directory name, you are taken to a pre-filled submission form. Click, click, you’re done. Move on to the next directory.

My favorite part is to sort the directories by Page Rank, and then submit only to the free directories with highest Page Ranks. Drip your links in at a 10 to 20 a week pace.

Ethic Links

There are several levels to Ethic Links, starting with free. You can also get free platinum access if you purchase any of JP’s products. I use Niche Video Site Builder and Niches in a Box, so I’m able to add unlimited reciprocal link exchanges to my sites and blogs. The best part is that you choose categories of links, so that they are more relevant that typical exchanges, and . . .

The higher the package level you get, the more ONE-WAY links you get. Start with the free service to see how it works.

If you decide you like the service, purchase Niches in a Box or Niche Video Site Builder and get free Platinum access. By the way, I use Niche Video Site Builder on almost EVERY new auto-pilot site I set up. It literally takes 5 to 10 minutes to add a thousand videos and syndicated content to your auto-pilot sites.

If you do choose to use a video site builder, make sure you use JP’s (the one linked below). There are others on the market that use an old version of the API, and these will cease working later this year!

Conclusion

I market all of my auto-pilot blogs in at least three steps. For my most promising ones, I follow a 20-step process. But all sites are marketed with:

  1. Article marketing
  2. Directory submissions & reciprocal links
  3. Forum marketing

So get the software above. It’s free, and it will really help you get the word out about your sites.

Good luck!

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Blueprint Steps #10 & 11: Promote & AdWords

Generating traffic is a book in itself — in fact, I currently have a traffic book in editorial review as I write this — so I won’t even suggest a full traffic plan. Rather, I’ll give you some ideas of what is very effective, and follow up on specific techniques that you might want to look at further.

1) Download Directory Submitter and submit your niche sites to directories. Free for 300+ directories; one-time fee to upgrade and submit to 2000+ directories. The free version works great, the paid version works even better.

2) Rewrite several niche pages as articles and submit to article directories. Download Article Submitter to automate the process. Free for the popular directories; one-time fee to upgrade and submit to all directories. The free version works great. Unique Article Wizard is also a fanatastic option — it costs money, but it allows you to syndciate your content, gaining you lots of backlinks.

3) Post comments on RELEVANT blogs. Or pay someone to post for you.

4) Post comments on RELEVANT forums. Or pay someone to post for you.

5) Answer niche questions on Yahoo answers with content from your site.

6) Add related links to relevant Wikipedia entries, provided your site is an AUTHORITY on your niche. Just don’t spam.

7) If you established a niche site, establish a blog and automate regular posting. If you set your niche site up as a blog, rewrite private label content and automate weekly blog posting.

8) Submit your blog to blog directories and claim it at Technorati.

9) Submit an RSS feed to all RSS directories.

10) See the Hyper VRE member area for a list of resources you can use to promote your new niche sites.

Search Traffic

If you SEO’d your niche sites properly, and used a good keyword tool to select your niches, your content should push you to the top of the SERP’s for your target keywords. If it doesn’t, then you’ve done something wrong, and the most likely culprit is your keyword selection. Back to the drawing board — use a good keyword tool this time!

Google AdWords

You will want to dominate the PPC listings as well as the organic SERP’s, but if your niche was carefully selected, this should remain both inexpensive and profitable. I’d highly recommend that you read the e-book “Google AdWords Made Easy.” If you don’t already have a copy of it, you can join my keyword analysis group and get the e-book as a freebie for joining.

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Blueprint Steps #7 and #8: Link and Cross-Promote

We’re going to look at the best way to link your niche family for search rankings and cross-promotion today.

Once you have your programs selected, we need to establish your network. The short version is that you’ll place your high-ticket affiliate products on your parent niche. The goal is to funnel lower-level niche traffic to this parent niche. This is important. This is why program selection is so important. Your lower-ticket items will be placed in the child niches.

In the below explanation, I’m going to assume you have one parent niche (P) and three child niches (C1, C2, and C3). Here’s how you’ll link your niche sites in this example:

C1 links to C2 and P. C2 links to C3 and P. C3 links to C1 and P. In other words, the children link to one other child each; and they all link to their parent. Make sense?

If you haven’t already done this, be sure to check out these two programs to help select your affiliate programs:

Free Software, Graphics, and Books

By the way, if you want to get your hands on all kinds of software and books to help you build your VRE empire, join the Auto-Pilot Premier member group. I give out hundreds of dollars worth of tools, templates, graphics, and books every month for the insanely low membership fee of $4.95!

What might surprise you is that I make next to no money on this program. Why? Because I spend almost all of those $4.95 membership fees to develop or purchase rights to products that I give to you as a member.

In essence, when you join the premier group, you are joining a buyer’s club. In fact, members get to request the types of content they’d like to see available for download!

I don’t know how I can be more fair than that. Join us today .

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Blueprint Steps #4 and #5: Create Your Sites

Today we’re going to discuss creating your auto-pilot sites, albeit very briefly. The folks at Hyper VRE do a better job than I can at explaining how to work their software, so you’ll want to leverage their resources should you need help getting started. If you haven’t yet viewed the software videos , now would be a good time.

You can also find the user manual on the computer where Hyper VRE is installed. Click Start > All Programs > HyperVRE > HyperVRE User Manual.

With your first niche family, you are now going to create one auto-pilot site for EACH family member. If you have one parent and three children, you should end up with a total of four sites. Take your time and get the site just right.

For each niche in your niche family, find the corresponding keyword list. Sort the list by KEI descending and note all keywords with a high KEI. Do the same for R/S and total searches. Hopefully you have a list of 20-30 (or maybe more) high-quality keyphrases, and a supporting list of 20-80 more keywords. I usually shoot for somewhere between 50 and 100 total keyphrases. Hyper VRE has a lite keyword tool built-in, but I always import my keyword lists, as my imported lists almost always are better targeted than Hyper VRE’s lists.

Choose whichever options you like, but I find that the magic formula consists of a mixture of custom and duplicate content. Obviously, purely custom content will work the best, but we only have one day to put this site together, so that’s not an option. Here’s what my “magic formula” might look like for a 50-page site:

  • For my five top keywords, that is, the best of the best, I create completely custom articles. I use an article wizard to create each of these articles in under 30 minutes. I don’t remember what life was like before this tool, but I can guarantee you that I will never go back!
  • For my remaining high-quality keyphrases, I use private label rights content (or here) that I rewrite and optimize for the specific keyword for that page. These usually take me about 5 to 10 minutes each.
  • I then import content from leading sites and article directories, almost always including several GOOD RSS feeds.
  • For all appropriate niches, I create video pages that consist of You Tube videos. I work hard to attract searchers, and these video pages pay off big time, but indirectly. I find that the video pages themselves generate average ad clicks; but on sites with video pages, the sites overall get more page views and visitors staying longer, which means more clicks on other page ads. I use this tool to create a solid video page in about 10 minutes time!
  • And I always take advantage of Hyper VRE’s keyword pages, even if they’re just gravy. No use leaving any potential search bait on the table!

All-in-all, this creates a site with fresh, unique content that is frequently rotated and valuable for readers.

Then upload your files, open Keyword Elite, and perform an analysis of your custom-built pages (just the ones you created manually). You want to score off the charts, so pay attention to keyword density and latent semantic indexing (LSI). LSI is beyond the scope of this group, but is a fascinating topic. Tweak your pages until Keyword Elite ranks them highly.

These steps will likely require quite a bit of time, but in a nutshell, you should be creating a new site for each family member niche; then you should be creating a new, highly optimized page for each keyword that is closely related to that niche. That’s it — it just sounds like much more when you throw in all of the other details.

I’ll give you a few days to digest this e-mail before I contact you again, but when I do, the fun really begins. After this step, the hard work is done, and it’s time to start the enjoyable aspects.

Good luck creating your sites and please contact me if you have questions. Let’s get some sites cranked out!

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Blueprint Step #3: Create a Niche Family

Today we’re going to discuss creating niche groups. I won’t go into too much detail in this tip; instead, I’ll explain the concept to you, and let you run with it.

You should have decided on several niches to pursue, after what should have been EXTENSIVE keyword analysis with a good tool. :-) Choose one of those niches to move forward with. Choose wisely — this decision will make or break you. The R/S ratio will be vital to getting the organic rankings that you need to make this work, and the KEI and competition will be vital to your PPC campaign. Don’t skimp on this step because it could cost you hundreds down the road. Keyword Elite is your friend.

What we’re going to do is create a niche family. To keep things simple, we’re going to create a parent-child family, but we could easily extend the concept to three or four levels. Your parent niche is going to contain your higher-ticket products, whereas your child niches will be monetized primarily with contextual advertising.

Starting with your selected niche, determine if it can be specialized even more. If it can, then your chosen niche is the parent. Choose three or four children. If it can’t be specialized further, then this is a child. Choose two or three sibling niches, and go up one level to choose a parent. This will be your niche family, so the concept is that for each niche you want to pursue, you should be creating a niche family. We do this so that we can optimize our rankings and cross-promote products on our auto-pilot sites.

As an example, I have a small niche family launching this week revolving around birthday party planning. The birthday party planning web site is the parent, and the child niches include cake decorating, balloons, outdoor play activities for children, summer cooking recipes, and crafts for kids. Each of the children feeds into the party planning web site, setting it up as the “authority” in this niche. The child niches generate contextual advertising revenue, but the parent niche generates sales.

Make sense? Simple and powerful, so shhhhh, don’t tell anyone.

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Forum Marketing: Hated, But Devastatingly Effective!

If I had to name one thing that shocks more people about blogging than any other topic, it’s traffic generation. Namely, that there is no “magic” tool that will send hordes of visitors to your blog for no effort. Rather, it’s a systematic and labor-intensive process to build readership over time.

Sure, I use traffic programs like Traffic Kahuna, Ethic Links, and the like, but they are just tools that help me manage the work that must be done. The bottom line is that no matter how they’re wrapped up, and no matter what fancy names people apply to them, the top traffic generation methods are simple. Today I’d like to go into a little more detail about one of those effective methods: forum participation.

The concept is simple:

1) Find good forums in your niche that use “dofollow” links, meaning the “nofollow” attribute is absent. Good means high traffic, high Page Rank forums that allow signatures.

2) Create a profile, learn the rules of the forum, and create an effective signature.

3) Post frequently on each forum, visiting several times a week, and write good posts. No spam!

Proper execution, though, is lost on 90 percent of those who try forum marketing. Here are some additional tips to help you market your blog effectively through the forums.

1) Fill out your profile completely, and show off your personality. You’re trying to attract readers! Give forum viewers an opportunity to see what they’ll find on your blog each day. That includes a GOOD avatar. Silly, but it makes a big difference.

2) FOCUS. Limit posting to 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, whatever. Time your efforts and constantly remind yourself to stay focused. You’re participating, yes, but participating with a purpose. Be careful that you don’t end up browsing and lurking.

3) Shoot for 10 good posts per forum per week. A good post is filled with good, informational content.

4) Make a list of your top blog posts, their URL’s, and related keywords. Use the list to help you find the right discussions.

5) If you can’t find the right discussion, create them. Ask a question, solicit opinions, and be sure to state your position.

6) Craft a compelling signature. Point to your anchor posts, a special offer, a review page, a freebie. This serves two purposes: increases your direct traffic and builds a deep backlink to your blog.

7) If you don’t have time (or the will) to make these posts, find someone on Elance who will post for you. Post a descriptive project, make sure the poster has good writing skills, give him or her posting guidelines (length, frequency, quality). Be specific!

It’s always best to go with someone who already has knowledge in your niche. I usually request an average of 10 posts per day for 10 days, for a price of $100. I also request no active promotion — just participation and a signature file. When the contract is complete, I retain rights to the posting account so that I can change the signature for any future promotion effort. Instant links!

8) Track your results. You need to track the traffic you get from each forum so you know which efforts to ramp up and which ones to cut off. “You can expect what you inspect.” Measure everything!

This isn’t rocket science, but it requires effort. And this is what turns most people off blog promotion. You need to virtually shake a lot of hands to build good readership, but the effort will pay off in the long run.

To speed this process up, you can use software — not for spamming, but for managing your comment campaign. The software will help you manage your accounts, manage your logins, track the forums that
you’ve posted in, track responses to your posts, and so on. Not such a big deal when you only post to one forum, but when you’re managing 20-30 accounts, it becomes a lifesaver.

How much does this software cost? Why, it’s free for members of this group! Download it here

Good luck with your promotion efforts.

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The Top 10 Reasons Why . . . (You’ll love this!)

Let’s agree on something: We’re marketers. We have to be. No marketing = no traffic. Most of us are on the Internet to make money. Sure, we enjoy what we do, but we enjoy it more when we get paid to do it!

And the more traffic we have, the more money we make. Yes, I’m stating the obvious, and here’s why:

My Holy Grail for natural, ongoing, DEFENSIBLE traffic for all of my sites and blogs is Keyword Elite. Anyone can use it. You can use it and watch your traffic grow. And grow. And grow. Imagine checking your site stats each month and seeing that 45 degree upward angle.

And with that traffic comes . . . profit. So here’s my top 10 reasons for using Keyword Elite:

10. You’ll get your sites and blogs ranked on the first page or two of the major search engines for the keywords YOU choose.

9. You’ll get a LOT more traffic because of your high rankings.

8. That increase in traffic will mean an increase in revenues, whatever your source.

7. An increase in sales means more, and probably a lot more, money in your pocket.

6. It’s easy to use, even if you’re techno-phobic.

5. This is the exact same program that’s causing the ridiculous amounts of traffic you see in the movies on the web site.

4. If you get as much traffic as the guy in the movie is getting, and you sell a $1 product to just 1% of the people who come to your site, you’ll make $46,800 per year.

3. If you sell a $10 product to that same 1% of people, you’ll make $468,000 per year.

2. You’ll never lack for money again, because now you’ll know how to pull it off of the Internet by the bucketful at will.

And the Number One reason to get Keyword Elite is:

1. When you’re automatically generating that kind of traffic . . .

. . .and making that kind of money . . .

. . .you can do whatever you want . . .

. . .including telling your boss that you make more money than him and you do it in your P.J.’s!

Okay, so I’m a linear thinker. But these tools make a big difference, and I love the fact that there are no monthly fees — just a single, one-time payment. I subscribe to SIX (yes, six) traffic services, and they all carry a monthly fee. Keyword Elite is the ONE tool I would never be without. Keywords are THAT important.

Get it and see for yourself the difference it makes.

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Work the Keyword Plan

Are you sick and tired of being kicked around the Internet by your competition and the big SEO firms? Are you fed up with typing your keywords into Google, only to see a hundred of your competitors
ranked higher than you?

And have you resigned yourself to never knowing how to optimize your site to get it onto the very FIRST page of the search engine rankings?

Well . . . do something about it!

Yes, even if you don’t know the first thing about keywords and SEO, it no longer matters, because you have access to the perfect program for getting your site to the top of the rankings, and it’s called Keyword Elite.

And it’s so simple, my nephew could do it. I’d say my son, but he’s only three, so actually, HE can’t do it!

Several keyword group members grabbed their copy when I first wrote about Keyword Elite — good for you! You’re fed up with lousy traffic and low profits, and you’re going to do something about it. That’s an excellent step in the right direction. Experiment with the projects — you’ll be amazed at what you can uncover. Exactly what are your biggest competitors’ hottest keywords and ads? How are their pages optimized?

By getting your site onto the first page of the search engine rankings, you can quickly and easily explode your traffic and make a ton of money by doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling your sales . . .with little or no extra work. It’s all a numbers game after all.

I did get a few questions that I’d like to address, so here they are:

Q. “I am the least technical person in the world. I already feel like I’m in over my head. Can I do this?”

A. Yes! First, forget everything you’ve ever heard about SEO that made you afraid of it. Second, know that you will not have to do anything technical to use Keyword Elite. Third, know that hundreds of other people, also afraid of anything technical, have successfully used Keyword Elite to get their sites ranked on the first page of the search engine rankings for their key search terms.

Bottom line: even if you have a complete techno-phobia, you CAN DO THIS.

Still not sure? There is an eight week money back guarantee. So you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Q. “Do you have proof that this works?”

A. Of course. Click this link and watch the first three movies. You’ll see sites go from obscurity to front page rankings. You’ll also see the tremendous boost in traffic they get. Then look at the profit results and imagine that they’re piling up in your account!

Q. “I’m still skeptical that Keyword Elite can get my site ranking high on the search engines, and I’m skeptical that it will impact my bottom line greatly.”

A. Just watch the videos and prepare to be blown away! Even if you have NO interest in getting your site ranked high in the search engines, go watch the movie just for entertainment. I promise, it will rock your world.

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Keywords: Are you being DECEIVED?

I received an interesting question from a reader the other day. Or rather, two questions.

“Does search engine optimization really work to drive traffic? And if so, how do I, someone who’s not a techie person by any means, do it?”

So, how would YOU answer this guy?

This is what I wrote back to him:

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Dear XXXXXXX,

Have you ever gone to Google (or any search engine) and typed in a keyphrase to find something your were researching? Then did you go to any of the pages that came up on that first or second page of
results? Statistically, I can answer that for you — yes — so you already see that a properly optimized site listed on the first or second page of the search results WILL bring you traffic.

And you don’t think those sites at the top of the listings got there by chance or accident, do you? SEO and keyword analysis DO WORK. In fact, in the long run, they begin to matter more and more.

But a lot of marketers get so confused by how to do it, that they don’t even try. Which is a shame. Imagine what an influx of thousands of new visitors to your site every week or even every day could do for your bottom line!

So how does someone, even the most non-techie in the world optimize a site to get it to the front of the results pages? Now, before you start thinking you can’t do this . . .

. . .that’s it’s for techno geeks only . . .

. . .that you need to be super computer smart or even know what you’re doing . . .

. . .relax!

Like any tool, you must learn how to use it, but Keyword Elite is so user-friendly, even an 11-year old kid can use it. And their video support is second to none. At last count, they had 93 videos showing how to perform any and every Keyword Elite task step-by-step. Dirt simple!

Check out the examples and check out the endless opportunities.

If you promote anything online, this is for you. If you run a blog or build auto-pilot or VRE sites, this software is a must have. It is one of the simple and commonly overlooked things that separates the successes from the failures.

Forget EVERYTHING you’ve ever heard about keywords and search engine optimization that scared you away . . . picture YOUR site in the number one position . . . and then GRAB this software.

P.S. Just because you THINK something is true, that doesn’t MAKE it true. Just because you THINK you can’t do Search Engine Optimization yourself, and get your site into the number one spot on Google, that doesn’t mean you can’t.

It just means you’ve been deceived into thinking you can’t. Because I’m here to tell you that YOU can. And when you do, you’ll see your traffic, rankings, and income rise exponentially. As in really big!

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