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Do the 40 Days Warrior Challenge Methods Still Work?

by Joseph on April 29, 2012

40daychcover Do the 40 Days Warrior Challenge Methods Still Work?Do the 40 days Warrior Forum challenge methods still work?

This is a question I’m asked fairly often so I’d like to provide the answer here.

Pat Flynn emailed me the other day to see if any of my sites had been dumped after the recent Google algo update. Fortunately, because I’m now using the 40 days methods for all my ranking work, I was able to tell him that yes – my rankings were sticking nicely.

 

Let’s take a look at a couple of websites that I’ve been using the 40 days challenge methods on.

Firstly, my blog.

I’ve never SEO’d my blog before (other than on-page), which may seem odd but I tend to rely on word of mouth more than anything. I’m now also using Twitter to fairly good effect too, I may add.

I thought I would use Backlinks Genie to try to rank a webpage on my blog, and I started doing that about 3 weeks ago.

By all means if you’ve not already seen my video on using Backlinks Genie, its over on this webpage… Backlinks Genie Review.

Check the two screen shots below which I took from the Google AdWord keyword tool’s US rankings.

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Spencer Haws Long Tail Pro Review

by Joseph on April 27, 2012

Long Tail Pro Review Spencer Haws Long Tail Pro ReviewSteve Scott’s recent blog post ties in nicely with the fact that I’ve recently gotten hold of Spencer Haw’s Long Tail Pro keyword phrase research tool (or niche research tool if you prefer), and I’ve been giving the niche site master’s (in reference to Spencer Haws) research tool a whirl to see how it fares.

(You may be wondering about the image on the left – greyhounds are long tailed pro’s. Kinda stupid, I know icon smile Spencer Haws Long Tail Pro Review ) 

 

Steve Scott’s post is titled 7 Questions for Finding a Profitable Niche Market. I know this subject is problematic for quite a number of my own blog’s visitors, so do shoot over to read the post, then come back here to check out my video on Spencer’s Long Tail Pro!

 

Here’s a very brief run-down of how I carried out my first assessment of the tool. I must add that I never watched any videos on how to use the tool, nor did I read any how-to’s either (the tool comes with how-to videos and also a handbook).

The software is very simple to use, even for a novice (and even for a technophobic such as myself!), and that in itself is a big fat thumbs up in its favour!

What’s more, as you will see in the video, I spent a few minutes on some keyword analysis and found a couple of very interesting exact match domains which I suspect even if the domain names were purchased without building out a website, there’s still some tasty profits to be had here.

That’s another potential angle to using this niche research tool!

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Check Your Google Rankings Because Google Have Rolled out Another Update

by Joseph on April 25, 2012

Check Your Google Rankings Because Google Have Rolled out Another Algorithm Update.

Oh no, I hear you mutter (or cry in anguish perhaps!).

Here we go again – another mess up of the rankings perhaps?

Another round of dumping of our webpages?

Have you checked your site’s visitor stats today??

Here’s the facts from the horses mouth about this search engine update which was rolled out yesterday – 24th April 2012:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html

 

I popped on over to Jon Leger’s forum to check out what he’s seeing.

 

For the query: make money online (110,000 global monthly Google searches), there’s this site ranking top 10…

http://makemoneyforbeginners.blogspot.com/

 

Huh? There’s no content on it!!

Actually, here’s my own search results for when I did the “make money online” search in Google…

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Getting Started with Google Plus – Part 3

by Joseph on April 24, 2012

Google Plus2 Getting Started with Google Plus Part 3

Part 1 Getting Started with Google Plus

Part 2 Getting Started with Google Plus

 

Keep in mind that even though there are various technical glitches to using Google Plus effectively for SEO purposes – remember that back in the day before WordPress became popular, it was far easier to rank in Google.

As such, its worth persevering with because being able to harness the power offered by Google Plus as an internet marketer sooner rather than later means you’ll be well ahead of the game.

 

This part of the series of how to get started with Google Plus is a bit higgledy piggledy. What I’m trying to do here is to work through setting up an account and dotting all the i’s and crossing all the t’s. But in true Google fashion, its not quite as straight forward as it could be. What’s more, some parts of “the system” are still not fully functional, so I’m having to work around that as best I can.

 

Google Plus Search Your World

Google Plus Search Your World is simply a way for Google (and for ourselves) to bring lots of different information together so that its possible to access that information from one point on the internet. Unfortunately because its a new concept, its still not available in all countries. In fact, I don’t think its yet available in most countries at the time of writing this. I’ll be providing more info on Google Plus Search Your World as Google builds it out.

 

Google Plus is Not a Sales Vehicle

Remember, Google Plus is not a sales vehicle. Therefore, “keep it clean” – meaning, don’t just use G+ for procuring sales. Use it to convey information to those folks who are following you.

Chances are that more and more folks will follow you if you provide good quality content and you don’t get too pushy on the sales front. Its common sense, really. Google Plus is a social signals tool which means that we want to reduce our reliance on it for making outright sales.

Having said that of course, we want to use it as a funnel to enhance our sales, but in a non-intrusive fashion.

 

Focus on Your Targeted Keyword Phrases

Do try to insert your targeted keyword phrases in your content. Obviously if you are posting up a blog post via Google Plus, then your keywords are going to be in your content, and your main keywords are possibly/probably going to be the title of your article (although that rarely happens in my case since I write my blog posts to attract people’s attention rather than writing for the search engines – that’s your call of course – if you can do both then that’s all the better!).

 

SEO Value of Google Plus

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How to Get the Best From Google Plus – Part 2

by Joseph on April 23, 2012

Google Plus1 How to Get the Best From Google Plus Part 2I’ve kept today’s post short since getting used to a new system can be confusing. Just ask me icon wink How to Get the Best From Google Plus Part 2

Part 1 of the How to Get the Best from Google Plus series is here.

 

Business Account or Personal Account?

With a business Google Plus account you can set up one different page for each product that you wish to sell. So, if you have different niche websites all focused on different products, then you’d obviously set up a different Google Plus page for each product.

However, you can in fact set up different accounts that are for “personal” use and use each different account for each different product (or each different niche) you wish to focus on. This way, you only have to monitor a single G+ account. You set up different circles for each account.

 

Getting Backlinks

So, how do we get a whole huge stack of backlinks to our G+ posts in order to get top flight Google rankings in search?

Here is what we need to do.

Remember, you should be feeding your website’s posts through to your G+ account so that more and more people can see your work.

Down the left hand side of the G+ page in your account, find “Explore” and click on that.

 

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Don’t Ignore Google Plus – There’s a MASS of Hidden Power to be Found!

by Joseph on April 22, 2012

Google Plus Dont Ignore Google Plus Theres a MASS of Hidden Power to be Found!I know that folks kinda groan inwardly when Goog Plus (Google+) is mentioned.

Me too.

The thought of figuring out how to fully accommodate Goog+ is just too much for me to consider when there’s so many other things to contemplate and worry about if you are working within internet marketing in some capacity.

Although I’ve not ignored Goog+, I’ve not gone to town and delved well beneath the bonnet. After all, it just seemed like another copy cat Facebook in many regards.

But heck NO!

I’m wrong!

What I’m going to do here and now is list down a few pointers to get you thinking straight about this entity known to us as Google Plus or Google+ or G+ or call it what you will.

After reading, sit back, give this some thought, let the concepts sink in a bit and get excited! 

I suspect that there is FAR more below the bonnet where Goog Plus is concerned than at first meets the eye. And I suspect that Goog Plus is going to be hugely powerful – much more powerful than Facebook is or ever will be!! 

Let’s get to it…

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