Free Content And Bonus

Free content posted automatically to your blog. If you struggle to keep coming up with content, articles or posts to your wordpres blog there is a new autoposter on the block.

SeoLinkVine is a new auto posting network which gives you the opportunity to have loads of posts sent to your blog on autopilot. You can sign up for free and for the next week or so you will get $1 sent to your paypal account for each blog that you submit. So, it’s free and you get a $1 bonus.

Will it work? I don’t know and I would certainly not use it for my top blogs but I have several blogs that do not really fill me with enthusiasm and so I have added these just to get a whole bunch of posts for free. The blogs are set to send out new posts through Feedburner and they also tweet through Twitterfeed and so it should pull in some visitors through these and the RSS dirctories.

You can set up the posts so that you can have between 1 and 5 sent each day and you can auto approve or do it manually although that does seem to defeat the purpose and you can also automatically reject articles that are not at leeast 30% unique.

You can also get an affiliate link and for everyone that signs up through you you can get an extra dollar so check out Seolinkvine and lets all get a free $.

Comparipress Update

For anyone who is thinking of buying the comparipress wordpress plugin but is unsure whether it will be of any value to them, good news! For a limited time you can get access to the full plugin for one month for only $7

This will give you a good chance to assess the plugin and to see how easy it is to use to bring a degree of automation to your wordpress affiliate sites.

What do you get for your $7?

Your Purchase Includes

• CompariPress PCU Premium Plugin for WordPress
• A Bonus Buttons Graphics Pack
• Comprehensive CompariPress PCU Product Manual
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• Access to the Affiliate Wizard Members Forum

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Comparipress Plug In

For everyone who wants a quick and simple way to include a variety of affiliate products in a comparison table on the wordpress site, the new Comparipress plugin is now available.

Ben Johnsons new wordpress plugin promises to be a best seller. With a one time payment you get to create customisable comparison display units on as many wordpress sites as you want.

I found the units simple to create once you have gone through all the steps to configure the plugin, could this be easier? Yes, I think the registration and licence procedure could be a little better, (edit: Ben has put some clearer instructions on the blog)

The plugin is similar to Popshops without the monthly fee, and can pull in products from Linkshare, Amazon and Commission Junction at the moment although more are in the pipeline apparently. Even with these three you have millions of products to choose from and so I can’t foresee a problem with that.

My advice? Buy it but do read the PDF file that comes with it, I have a tendency to go on instinct and with this product that was an error on my part. Check it out: Comparipress

Finding The Golden Keyword

All of us are searching for the golden keyword, you know the one that has thousands of searches with no competition and a high priced affiliate product at the end.

Is this like searching for the golden fleece? Does it actually exist?

Like many affiliate marketers I was brought up on the dream of the golden keyword.Once upon a time it was easy to find the odd nugget but it is getting a little trickier now.

I see many affiliate marketers falling into the trap of spending so much time looking for the right keyword, the one that has X number of searches, competition under Y, that they don’t actually do anything but search. And they make no money.

For years we have been told to check keywords out by putting them in quotes and searching on Google to find out how much competition there is, this is OK up to a point but it really doesn’t tell you what you need to know.

The “quote” search only tells you how many pages are indexed with that exact phrase on the page, it is NOT an indication of competition. In any niche certain phrases will come up time and time again and they will be on a web page but that does not mean that the page is actually targeted for that phrase.

Example: Listen to any conversation about golf, how many times will terms such as ‘driver’ or ‘wedge’ come up? Yet the conversation may really be about The Masters, or ‘Golf Bags’ Related but unconnected and therefore not competition, the same applies to keywords and web pages.

The most reliable way to find the competition you are battling is to use these terms:

inurl:”keyword”  Will return pages with the exact phrase in their url.

inanchor:”keyword” Will return pages with backlinks containing the exact phrase.

intitle:”keyword” Will return pages with the exact keyword in the page title.

If a web page has these features then it is a fair bet that it has been optimised for that phrase. This does indicate proper competition.

If, after checking the keyword for these factors you find that there is a lot of competing pages does that mean the keyword is no good? Not necessarily, you then need to check how strong these pages are by examining the Page Rank, the age, the number of backlinks etc.

Using a tool like SEO for Firefox this is a fairly simple procedure although a little time consuming. You can find keywords with seemingly thousands of competing web pages but on investigation the top ten results might have no pages with any PR or backlinks, these will be easy to beat.

On the other hand another keyword may have only a handful of competing pages but they are all PR5/6 with thousands of backlinks, you will spend years trying to get above those and possibly never will.

Keyword research is something you love or hate but it is a fact that you will not make money online without it.

Is there a golden keyword? Of course but you may waste months or even years looking for it, lower your sights and take action, find keywords you can target using the method above and then commit.

If you have the budget there is a tool that will do all this for you and more, it’s called MicroNicheFinder, it’s the one I use every day and I couldn’t live without it. See for yourself here

Getting Your Website Indexed

We all know the frustration of doing loads of research, writing tons of content, designing a page and getting a domain and then waiting for Google to come around a decide to index it.

It’s like waiting for your birthday when you are five years old, checking the index, twiddling your thumbs, checking the index, it just seems to take forever. Of course the sensible thing to be doing is, more research and building another site.

There is really no way of telling when or indeed if Google is going to index your beautiful, information packed website but there may be a simple way to perhaps hurry it up a little.

Is My Site Indexed.Com claims to do just that, it’s as easy as inputing your domain name into a box, click check and ISMI will build a page containing backlinks to your site. All you have to do is hold down the CTRL button and click on each of the links and, they claim, the search engine spiders will be rushing to your domain.

Does it work? I honestly do not know, I do know that Google and the other search engines will follow backlinks pretty quickly,  like a nosy neighbour and I guess that if you put out some spider bait with some nice anchor text they are going to find your site a whole lot quicker.

Anyways up, it is a free service if you don’t go buying up the links they inevitably offer you and it will work or not, for the two minutes it takes to fill out the form and click the links it is probably worth giving it a go.

You can try it yourself here, let me know if it has any effect.

Hello SEO Optimise For Website Traffic

How’s your SEO?

If you are trying to make money online you will have heard the term SEO, but do you really know what it is?

SEO or search engine optimisation is the flavour of the month or should I say, past couple of years and it is considered a vital skill to have in your business armoury but you need to know how to use it to your advantage otherwise it can bite back.

You read so many articles saying optimise your page, use your keyword over and over, let the search engines know what your page is about and you will rank higher. This is true to a certain extent but it is not search engines who are your paying customers, you need to write the content on your page so that humans can read it and understand it.

There are a few accepted ground rules when it comes to SEO and they are fairly easy to grasp. If you follow the basic rules but write your articles for your readers then ranking will follow, it may take a little longer but it will also last. Writing content for the search engines will possibly get ranked in the results faster but it will also drop out of the listings like a stone, never to be seen again.

The basic rules for SEO are:

Page Title; That’s the bit at the top of your screen in the blue bar. Obviously if your page is about red dog leads then you would expect the page to be called red dog leads.

Meta Tags: There are two main meta tags, description and keyword. If you construct your own HTML you put these in the header, if you build with wordpress and use All In One SEO which you do, don’t you? you fill in the boxes at the bottom of the edit post page.

The keyword meta tag is pretty useless now except for keyword spy programs and Matt Cutts at Google has said that they ignore it, fill it in or don’t your choice.

The description tag is a different matter, this tag is about 160 characters long and is the snippet that shows in the search results. It is vital that you put a meta description in your page for two reasons.

1) When the snippet is shown any words that the searcher has entered into the box will be bolded, if they search ‘red dog leads’ and your meta description has ‘red dog leads’ in it the words will be bolded, this makes it more likely that a searcher will click on it.

2) The meta description is your little sales page, if you write a compelling description even if your page is down the page a bit it is again more likely to get that click.

Heading Tags: There is one tag that is vital and this is the h1 tag. This tag is your headline and the words within it do get attention from the search engines. If a page has a headline that says’ Red Dog Leads’ the SE’s will use that in their algorithm to decide what your page is relevant to. There are a descending list of tags,
h2, h3 and so on and these should be used to format the page, readers like it because it chops the page into smaller parts and SEs like it because they ‘see’ how the information is arranged.

Image Tags: Search engines cannot read images, you could have a picture of Cheryl Cole on the page but if you use the image tags the search engines will think it’s a picture of red dog leads. It would be pointless for your readers and so keep your images relevant but use your keywords in the tags.

Link Titles: If you have a link on the page give it a title, this is just extra information but it can be used for getting a keyword on your page.

Keyword Density: If you are targeting a keyword or phrase you need to make sure it is on the page in its exact form so, ‘red dog leads’ and ‘dog leads red’ are different keywords, related but different. Ensure your keyword is included about once for every 100 words or 1%, no more than 2%. Any more than this can mark your page as spam and it will get slapped.

All this seems a lot to remember but there are tools that can help you and one I use for just about every page is Traffic Travis, there’s a free or paid version but I only use the free one for double checking my posts. It’s quick and just catches the odd error here and there.

One more point, and it’s related, is off page SEO, this is primarily aimed at the guys that do link building with articles but everyone should be aware of it.

If you submit an article to EzineArticles for instance, you get the chance to put a couple of links to your site in the resource box at the bottom. These links can be very profitable if you use them correctly.

Always use your keywords as the anchor text, do not put something like ‘ Find out about Good SEO Here‘ unless you want to be ranked for ‘Here.’

Finish your article with a couple of sentences that follow on from your article seamlessly and find out about good seo and keyword research and how it can bring you more website traffic.