How to track video statistics
September 19, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
Once you upload your videos to video sharing sites, you will want to track your video statistics to know which sites are producing for you the best results possible. On this video you will learn how to track your video statistics. Click play to start the video.
Here is a link to all the videos on this video series.
How to embed video on your site or blog
September 16, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
This is the third video in our video series and today we are going to look at how to embed video on your site or blog. I know this might sound so simple but there are a lot of us who still really don’t know how to do exactly that. Sit tight and click play to start the video.
Previously we have seen how to use videos to market your products
How to upload video to multiple sharing sites
September 16, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
To continue with our series this month, today let us look at a simple trick on how you can upload your videos to multiple sharing sites; click play to start the video.
To watch the other series in this presentation, visit the following links:
How to upload videos to video sharing sites.
September 12, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
On this video you are going to learn how to upload videos to video sharing sites and how to tag your video to improve maximum exposure. Discover other sites other than Youtube where you can upload your videos to. Enjoy!
Here is a link to part one of this video series
Don’t Submit Your Url to the Following Search Engines
August 22, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
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.
(My next post will provide you with a useful tip on how to entice ASK bot to visit and index your site)
How to Use Craigslist in 4 Simple Steps to Attract Targeted WebsiteTraffic
August 20, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
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.
- Start by understanding the long tail concept and how it works.
- Search and identify those long tail keywords.
- Write your blog post or page and don’t forget to use SEO to optimize your page for those keywords.
- 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.
10 Killer Points on How to Write a Remarkable Post
July 25, 2008 by Joseph · Leave a Comment
10 Killer Points on How to Write a Remarkable Post
Words!
No tweaking, no scientific theory or complex algometric calculations involved.
Following is my simple straightforward 10 point checklist that I use to help me write a remarkable post. Using the right words to write a remarkable post will among other things help you to achieve the following goals:
- Help you make a sell.
- Attract and keep citizens.
- Become an expert in your niche.
- And blah, blah…this and that!
My 10 Killer points on how to write a remarkable post.
1.) Be yourself.
This post is another injustice to the blogsphere.
How to…10 sure fire tips…Discover…Proven strategy, all of this will ultimately kill you right on your track! Chasing after the wind, so they say. Be careful.
You will never succeed in following what other successful people are doing. If you do come close, you end up being a follower and a copycat.
A remarkable way to write a killer post is to be yourself.
If you have something to write about and most of us do, then write it - the way you belief, not the way other belief it should be written like!
2.) Venture
Get out and venture on what is happening around, within and without your space.
Read other post of your interests. Read other posts that make you wannabe the next big thing. Read posts that make you sleep. Read posts that make you laugh and yes! Those that make you cry…You get the picture.
Don’t forget to research.
Discover great posts, websites, blogs, tools and:
Identify successful, aspiring and sorry writers in your field and learn from them.
3.) Write.
Write a single post a day. Write a couple of posts a day. Write a few more posts a day. Write more again, write until you feel you are almost dropping dead!
When you feel it’s becoming too much, write a couple more posts again.
If you can’t handle, befriend an editorial editor of any local newspaper and publicly or privately interview then about their career, tribulations and eventual rise to the hot seat. That will be enough to get you going for another hundred or so more post.
4.) Get Over It.
Another spelling mistake! One more grammatically not correct sentence!
So you spent two extra more hours trying to tweak and edit your post.
And did you just toss off that post? Not too good, aha!
I will tell you what – Get over it. Perfectionism is dangerous.
It’s a game that “thou shall you not play”
Have you not discovered the secret? Know this today, just like most good, pretty and wonderful ladies like but can’t handle too nice of a gentleman; so is a perfect post.
Being perfect and too good is boring!
They call it the World Wide Web, your perfect grammar on your world will be imperfect to me and my world. You can’t please everybody.
5.) Stupid! It’s about the reader.
There is a wrong connotation between the use of “YOU” and “I”
Your job is simple.
- Be reader centered. The use of “You”
Now this is big, I must tell you it’s like a wide topic with two faces on each side, kind of like a coin. On one side of the coin when all is said and finished, the cornerstone and starting point is here.
On the flip side, the other face of the coin is all about being:
- Self centered. The use of “I”
Most will tell you this is a no-no go zone. I disagree.
Unless of course you are in the business of being another charitable organization, ultimately the goal is to make that sale, for me, by making use of words that sell.
6.) Break it Down.
Use engaging titles and subheadings.
Don’t forget to also use bulletins, bolds, italics, different fonts and…
7.) Don’t be Wikipedia.
Leave it for the politicians, academicians and scientists.
As a consequence of the elongated comprehensive, exhaustive and methodological research the chief biological engineer and astronomical experts conclusively all consent that miniature chemical and biological atoms…Oh please!
Unless you are in the business of competing with Wikipedia and online dictionaries, you are more likely to succeed with a more conversational post that identifies with the tone and conversation style of your visitors.
Most surfers still do prefer simple posts that are conversational in nature, like this one – how to write a remarkable post, simple isn’t it?
8.) Vary your Post Style.
Be brief.
Write short sentences.
Write a short post. Post a picture if you have one.
Write a long post; break it down to distinctive sentences and paragraphs.
Include your own videos or use other people videos.
Always remember to alternate. Long. Short. Boring. Fun. Educative. Bogus. And so forth and so on.
9.) proofread
That is it.
Read over your post. Read one more time before you post. Read after you post. Then read again a few days later. You may catch one more thing or probably you will never get to, ouch! Even the president with all his staff is at times caught on the wrong side, is he? There will always be that one thing, at least to a few readers!
If this is too boring, and you have the resources hire someone to do it for you.
10.) Be positively charged.
No whining! Stop complaining.
What is the matter with you…stop blaming others. Why? Why? Why?
Over the years I have learned to subtract and add to their success secrets and the law of attraction to arrive at my present state of mind, that a whole lot of people like and get attracted to materials and people who through character and words are fun, happy, thankful, mindful, friendly, caring…
Let your post emulate most if not all the positive traits of humanity.
Kinetic state.
I know, did I just go over, 10 was the stopping point, right?
Pardon me! May I please write one more points on how to write a remarkable post?
In college I learned about Kinetic energy – That at this state, particles are always in a state of movement, if I can still recall correctly, from a layman’s description.
So should be your quest to write a killer remarkable post.
This means number 10 on the list is denoted as: 10 + kinetic state = 11 which in turn is equal to; 11 + kinetic state = 12 which in turn is equal to… (This is getting too complex)
In other words:
Keep it real, true and simple.
