Video About The Four Stages Of Technology Cycle

Video About The Four Stages Of Technology Cycle

It pays forward to know and understand the current technology cycle of a product that you are about to promote. This video will introduce you to four stages of the technology cycle.

This concept works in almost the same way as the long tail concept. Understanding the four stages of technology and relating them to the long tail concept can help you as an affiliate marketer to stop chasing the hype and promoting everything as an affiliate.

This is a great and wonderful way to understand why it’s important to stop listening to all the so called Internet gurus and rather concentrate in establishing your own unique affiliate marketing business that is going to be able to withstand time regardless of the technology in use. A business that is able to easily adopt to change rather than become obsolete.

How to Get Your Pages Indexed by ASK in Five Simple Steps

How to Get Your Pages Indexed by ASK in Five Simple Steps

If you have been looking on your statistics lately, one think you will notice is that among the leading search engines, for most webmasters, ASK will not only be the last but also the one search engine that will have the least number of your pages indexed and included on their database.

On my last post, titled “don’t submit your Url to the following search engines” I did tell you that I was going to give you a simple trick that you can use to pump up the number of your pages on ASK. Well here we are. Below are five simple tips that you can use to have more pages on ASK.

• Prepare your sitemap.

First of all start by understanding how to register your site/URL with Ask so that it will be indexed. In summary, according to ASK help section for webmasters and I quote:

We appreciate your interest in having your site listed on Ask.com and the Ask.com search engine. Your best bet is to follow the open-format Sitemaps protocol, which Ask.com supports.

Once you have prepared a sitemap for your site, add the sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt, or submit the sitemap file directly to us via the ping URL. (For more information on this process, see Does Ask.com support sitemaps?) Please note that sitemap submissions do not guarantee the indexing of URLs.

• Second prepare your robots.txt file.

Going by the phrase - robots.txt, the phrase might sound too technical, but it is really not that hard at all. So how do you create your own robot.txt file? Relax, you can do it:

1. Learn how to create a robot.txt file
2. Check and validate your robot.txt file

• Third, write useful content.

You will want to search in forums and other online places, identify questions and problems that people are experiencing. Then create a useful post or page that addresses how to or “ask a question” as your title for that page/post and then proceed to create and provide a useful feedback that answers or helps out by solving the problem or issue at hand.

• Fourth, Get links.

Just like on number three above, once you create your page, head back to the forums, yahoo answers, blogs or any other online community place and then briefly provide feedback to those questions and problems that are related to the page you just created. If possible link back to your page using your pages title anchor text. You may also want to internally link to your page from another of your post.

• Last; be patient.

Form it the habit of repeating one through four above by occasionally creating more “how to” and “ask a question” posts. Then wait. Be patient. With time you will sure have ASK indexing more of your pages.

Let me also point out that one interesting thing that I have noticed by watching my site statistics and this is not new; How to and ask questions type of posts tend to attract the most traffic and interest when compared to most of the other regular pages.

Therefore this is going to be a win-win situation, you will not only be creating useful pages on your site that your visitors are going to love and find interesting and useful but also with time, you will have your pages indexed by the search engines - even ASK that seems to take a while before they come knocking.

Don’t Submit Your Url to the Following Search Engines

Where you need to Submit Your site’s Url instead.

When you build your site you will want to submit your Url to the three leading search engines. Now I do know that some people and some firms will suggest that you do submit to over 1000 search engines.

Probably this is one of the reasons why you will find firms that will charge you a fee to perform this service for you. Do you need to submit your site Url to all the search engines out there?

The simple fact is that you don’t need to submit your site’s Url to most of these other search engines. Of course you are welcome to do what you deem fit for you, but then thinking about the 80/20 rule, below are three reasons why you really don’t need to submit your site’s Url to more than the top four search engines that I’m about to give to you.

• First reason why not to submit your Url to over 1000 search engines.

Because there are only four leading search engines that really do matter and call the shots as far as search engine world is concerned. Over 99% search volume over the Internet combined is conducted on the following four leading search engines.

• Second reason why not to submit your Url to over 1000 search engines.

Because the math actually does add up and it’s as simple and uncomplicated as you may think. It’s all logical and easy to understand. Find out how the search engines stack up on this post.

• Third reason why not to submit your Url to over 1000 search engines.

The final reason to back up my argument why it will be a waste of your time to submit your Url to so many other search engines is because technically speaking, there aren’t as many of those search engines as you may be mislead to think. Here is a list of the top 10 search engines with their respective market share.

Search engines where you need to submit your site’s Url.

• Submit your sites Url to Google

• Submit your sites Url to Yahoo

• Submit your sites Url to MSN

• Learn more about ASK.

(My next post will provide you with a useful tip on how to entice ASK bot to visit and index your site)

Do Affiliate Marketers Have To This Bad?

Do Affiliate Marketers Have To This Bad?

Affiliate marketing business is ghastly becoming one of the most abused Internet marketing businesses you can possibly think of. I know. I know…can you just believe the kind of stuff we as affiliate marketers sometimes publish out there!

From the visitor’s point of view, it is just unbelievable what we get to see, read and watch in videos posted on some of those affiliates sites. If for a moment you could step out and stand aside as a bystander and then try to fathom, read and watch all that is passing by and coming from affiliate marketers:

• You will be flabbergasted.

I will bet that you will read or watch unbelievable and outrageous claims that will just make you go like…you are right! Believe me, most of the stuff you get to see as a bystander will pretty much sound like what is happening on in the video below. Click play to watch the video before we go on with our discussion.

Extended Car Warranty from Adrian Chen on Vimeo.

You must not make your affiliate marketing efforts sound like on the video above.

So how are you going to be able to not sound like our friend on the video above?

First recognize that it is indeed real and smart people that will get to read your published posts.
Every time before you publish you post, think for a moment, read it loud and ask yourself, how will this post and the message therein sound like when read by someone else?

• Is it beneficial?

• Is it informative?

• Is it going to help someone?

• Does it convey my intended message?

• Will the post make you/me sound stupid?

There is nothing wrong with promoting products to your audience.

We see it all the time, from the time we wake up, when we buy a cup of coffee, when we fill our gas tanks, at our place of work or at educational institutions and just about any activity and social place we gather. Everywhere you turn, selling is always going on.

Individuals, companies and institutions are always in a perpetual process of promoting their services and products and so are affiliate marketers. It’s normal to promote the best affiliate marketing products but we must do it in a remarkable way.

Now, what is wrong though is to abuse the way you go about promoting affiliate marketing products. Money should be a motivation factor but earning money alone should not be the means and end or the chief reason to be an affiliate marketer. Taking this approach, I belief will make one sound stupid just as seen in the video above because you end up promoting any Tom and Harry  and you know what – that is not good.

• Not good for the advancement of your affiliate marketing business.

• Not good to your readers and not good for your own self worth.

As my final though, affiliate marking really should not be turned to be this bad, Even though it seems most affiliate marketers have succeeded in abusing and making this internet profession sound that crazy, that is no reason to follow what everybody else is doing.

What could you possibly do? Stand out of the crowd and make your efforts remarkable, like for instance you should learn on how to write a remarkable post and then make it an habit of creating quality posts.

Have a good day now, will you?

More than 20 Inspiration Quotes on this Video

More than 20 Inspiration Quotes on this Video

The video below will present to you more than 20 inspiration quotes to uplift and motivate you to achieve your goals and desire. Inspiration is one of the key components that will lead you to success. For instance:

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery.

And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.
B. Olatunji

Click play to watch and read more than 20 of such inspiration quotes.

How to Use Craigslist in 4 Simple Steps to Attract Targeted WebsiteTraffic

How to Use Craigslist in 4 Simple Steps to Attract Targeted WebsiteTraffic

Yesterday I started by telling you about my skepticism of using Craigslist to attract targeted traffic to your affiliate marketing business by posing this question: Is posting ads on Craigslist a waste of time? Today I want to pick up from there and I am going to share my simple tactic that I sparingly use to indirectly attract traffic to key specific pages on my blogs and sites.

Of course this tactic can work for you too, but it might counteract if abused or used with the wrong approach. In order for you to understand how well to use this strategy, let us look briefly at two key areas on how Craigslist works.

• First we all know that Craigslist is a huge site, it’s so huge that it gets 0.2% share of all internet traffic, in other words for every 1000 people that surf the Internet, 200 will most likely end up on Craigslist.

• Secondly at the time of this writing, Craigslist has a PR of 8, just ask any website owners and you will be astonished to discover that almost all webmasters would love to have such a high page rank.

These two combination put Craigslist at par with other huge sites like Amazon and Ebay where visitors go with the main purpose of shopping to buy or sell something and network for opportunities. So having said that, now let us look at the interesting twist on how you can use Craigslist to attract targeted traffic to your affiliate business site.

As you very well know, Craigslist is broken down into hundreds of cities around U.S and other International locations around the world. Within those cities, visitors can either look for products and services offered in that specific location or someone with an offer can post their product or services. Most people who post on Craigslist do so with the sole purpose of capturing and redirecting that traffic to their local or online business.

But there is a problem. Posting on Craigslist is free. Because it’s free and the fact that there are millions of people who use Craigslist each and every day it’s has become very competitive and increasingly very hard to stand out by consistently being effective and successful at attracting and driving traffic to your own affiliate sites. Of course some have succeeded, but they can tell you the amount of effort they are putting into it.

• But there is another way - A slightly different approach.

You can use Craigslist to attract traffic from the search engines by making use of the long tail concept.
Here is how.

1. Start by understanding the long tail concept and how it works.
2. Search and identify those long tail keywords.
3. Write your blog post or page and don’t forget to use SEO to optimize your page for those keywords.
4. Log in to your Craigslist account and post to your ad to the relevant locality and section.

Remember your ad main purpose is to target the search engines and so you must optimize your ad for the search engines by making use of html tags that are allowed by Craigslist. For example you can make use of the bold, italics, headings tags.

When posting your ad, remember to include your long tail keyword on the title and anchor text that links to the page that you just created on number 3 above.

Of the key thinks to remember is that Craigslist uses the nofollow tag and therefore no link juice will be passed to your linked page. But here is what I have tested and observed, Google bots love Craigslist and in most cases whenever I use this strategy to target long tail keyword on a product or service that I’m promoting, it works.

First the long tail keywords ad on Craigslist is picked up by Google and start to appear on the search engines results, of course it gets picked and stays among the top results for a day or so up to a week before it’s kicked out.

The interesting part though is that the long tail page or blog post that was linked from the “Craigslist ad” also with no time get’s indexed and starts to rank pretty well too. Of course you can then get more links that pass that juice to bolster and pump it up further on the search results ranking.

My own testing proofs that this strategy only works well when used to target only the long tail keywords. So far it doesn’t seem to work when used to target more competitive or most searched for keywords. But as you very well now, it’s such long tail keywords that eventually start the snowball rolling and consequently result to better traffic levels.

You might also want to read more on how you can use Craigslist to attract more quality backlinks to your site.

How to Use Craigslist to get Quality Backlinks

How to Use Craigslist to get Quality Backlinks Using a Press Release

I have read crazy post of how to use Craigslist that suggest very weird tactics and methodologies that some of us don’t consider being orthodox. Today on the video below you can learn a better effective way that you can use to gain quality quality backlinks to your site by using Craigslist to write a press release.

The more quality backlinks you are able to get pointing to your site, then the more likely hood that your pages will rank higher with the search engines which will then directly results to more targeted traffic to your site.

Now from the video, when you are looking into ways to hire someone to write a quality press release for you there are a few Key things to remember:

• Don’t abuse the system.

• Be persistent

• Word you links carefully.

Is posting ads on Craigslist a waste of time?

Is posting ads on Craigslist a waste of time?

As you may already know Craigslist is a huge free advertising site that attracts over 30 million unique visitors per month, it is also well respected and has a very high page rank. That none of us can dispute.

But as an affiliate marketer, we all have this chronic disease of always looking for ways to attract more traffic to our sites and blogs. I don’t know about you, but I can sure tell you that one of the worst scenarios that can cause endless night sleeps or lead to heart attack to most affiliate marketers is a case scenario where suddenly all your traffic sources stops to send that much needed and sought for traffic.

Most site owners dare not think of a day when all their pages are suddenly de-indexed on all leading search engines. But it can happen. It has happened before. Who knows when you will be the next victim?

Aware of the repercussions, when the above scenario becomes a nightmare, not long ago, I set out to find new ways of attracting traffic so as avoid overlying on one source of traffic. Among the methods I set to try out was Craigslist.

• After a month of religiously posting ads on Craigslist and analyzing that traffic, I had to sit down and ask myself is it really worthy posting ads on Craigslist or is it just a waste of time?

Before I give you my feedback on my next post, here is what others are saying regarding this topic on posting ads on Craigslist. After reading this interview and getting some of my questions answered, I headed to the guys from DoshDosh who had this post about how to use Craigslist and other alternative classifieds to make money online.

Having read the two posts, I still had more questions than answers and therefore my quest to find for sure if it was really worth posting ads on craigslist led me to this guide on how to use Craigslist and another post on how best to use Craigslist.

Please excuse me but I’m not the kind of guy who gets satisfied so easily until I have heard what others are saying on forums about posting ads on craigslist. Finally after going round and round reading great information coupled with very sorry posts, I finally found this funny experiment on Craigslist that was about “how I found some cash, did you lose it”

By this time I was getting tired so for now that was my little journey that I undertook while trying to find out if it was worth posting ads on craigslist. On my next post I will tell you what approach I decided to use as far as posting ads on Craigslist is concerned from an affiliate marketers point of view. Till my next day be safe.

How old is the internet?

• How old is the internet?

• What will happen to the internet in the next 10 years?

• In the next 5000 days what’s going to happen to the internet?

Click play to find answers to some of this question.

It’s amazing what the internet and the web and all the opportunities that have been brought forth. And what is more amazing is that, this is the beginning, the revolution is on and fast moving forward. Learning to position oneself strategically by understanding this revolution will determine the next future success stories.

What is Google Analytics? 10 Features to Master

What is Google Analytics? 10 Features to Master.

As you may already know Google analytics is a free tool provided by Google company that webmasters can use to track and analyze traffic to their blogs or websites. With Google Analytics you can be able to among other things; be able to:

• Know who is and has been visiting your blog/website and on which pages…

• Know how they were able to get to your site, where they came from…

• What activities or what pages they visited, the links they clicked on, and how they left…

And some other extra data that you may wish to track and analyze, especially if you are a business oriented internet entrepreneur.

• Quick background information about Google Analytics:

Urchin Software Corporation was acquired by Google in May 2005. During that time Urchin Software Corporation was a web based company that was providing “Urchin on Demand” service to its clients. That is history now, as we all know after the acquisition by Google, it was soon renamed Google Analytics and since then it has been transformed to become one of the best free online tracking services used by most website owners to track their traffic statistics.

You can read and stay tuned with latest information at the Google Analytics blog

• Setting up your free Google Analytics account.

It’s quick, simple and easy really; you will need to sign up with Google Analytics here and then follow the set up wizard that will lead you thorough the process of setting your own free account.

• How to insert Google Analytics JavaScript:

In order for Google Analytics to work on your site or blog, you will need to install the Google Analytics JavaScript code. Remember also that Google will only collect data from only those pages that you insert that JavaScript on.

For most websites all you need to do is to locate and find the end body tag on the page that you want to analyze and then paste the Google JavaScript code right above that tag. If you site contains the:

utmLinkPost() or urchinTracker(), utmLinker(), utmSetTrans(),

Then you must paste your Google JavaScript code right above this lines. If you have a Wordpress code and would rather not prefer to mess with any codes, you can use Wordpress Google Analytics blog plugin to install the codes for you.

Understanding Google Analytics.

Once you have installed Google Analytics, it will take a few hours before you can be able to log in and view your reports. Bear in mind that it only collects data related to your site or sites only and on specific pages that the Google JavaScript code has been inserted.

You will not be able to view results of other websites that you don’t own or manage, unless of course the site owner grants you the permission. Neither will you have data on pages on your own site that do not have the code inserted. Alright, here is a brief explanation of some of the data you will be able to view.

1.) Geography. Under this report you are going to be able to see the geographical location of where your visitors are coming from. This is a powerful information that can enable you to better target those visitors either locally, regional or internationally.

2.) Visitors. Here you are able to track visitors to your site on an hourly basis, daily, weekly or monthly. You are also able to see the number of repeat and first time visitors. You know how powerful that is.

3.) Incoming Links. With Google Analytics, you will now be able to know which campaign is yielding results by watching the incoming links, a factor that you can use as a determinant on where to concentrate more time or allocate more resources to yield better results.

4.) Pages. This will enable you to measure and know what pages are attracting more traffic and the movement of traffic within those pages. You can use this to improve upon pages with a high bounce rate by duplicating the results from lower bounce rate pages or those pages that are able to make visitors spend more time on them.

5.) Keywords. Know exactly which keywords brought visitors to you page. This is also a good area to discover other keywords to use in either setting up new pages on your site or on running campaigns. You can also track your popular or most searched keywords to see if those keywords resonate with your site visitors.

6.) Entrance Rates. Use this to understand and measure the exact pages that visitors use to arrive on your site, this can be your homepage, your product pages, your review pages, blog pages, content pages or any other type of pages that you have. You can use this to know what kind of pages are working for your particular niche.

7.) Bounce Rate. Bounce rates will help and reveal to you, what particular pages on your site that visitors are leaving most from. Of course if that page is a sign up page or check out page, then a high bounce rate won’t be a bad sign, but if that page happens to be you your long sales letter, then you will definitely want a low bounce rate.

Clearly the bounce rate will vary from one page to another depending on that particular page and its purpose. You can use this report though to improve on your overall site bounce rate by providing alternatives or interactive activities like serving a thank you page with a list of the most popular articles on your site after the a visitor signs up to your email list.

8.) Time. With this feature, Google Analytics measures the exact time that your visitors stayed on your site. You can use the incoming links and the time feature for instance to understand which pages visitors stay most on your site and where they come from and vice versa.

9.) Adwords. Google Analytics works in perfect harmony with Google Analytics and you can be able to synchronize both together. Google Adwords warrants its own post all together, why not read more about the power of Google Adwords here.

10) Goals. Use the goals feature to track and measure specific task accomplishment on your site. For example if your campaign on a particular page was to get your site visitors to sign up for your free eBook, then copy the path – URL into your goal feature in Google Analytics. By so doing you will then be able to measure your conversion levels.

Conclusion.

Of course there are other alternatives to Google Analytics for someone who would like more complicated statistics, but clearly for most of us – I personally don’t see the need for another paid service alternative to Google Analytics as things stand right now. Of course there are those of us who would go ahead and add their own Google Analytics add-on to fine tune their statistics.

If you are an affiliate marketer serious with affiliate marketing business then you really need to sign up for your free account and start analyzing your site traffic activities.

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