IM Dosh – Internet Marketing Cash

Archive for March, 2011

Okay! I confess! Nothing, aside from my first real kiss, has gotten me this excited.

I am an incessant researcher. I love to shop. And I buy a ton of Internet Marketing courses, but I rarely say, “Buy this!” If you’ve been on my list for awhile, you know this is absolutely true.

And if someone asked me last week, “What would be the one marketing course you would recommend to make money online right away,” I would have said, “Well, that depends…”

Today I wouldn’t think twice. COMMISSION OVERLOAD IS THE ONE! And, I know what I am talking about.

I am totally blown away… I have never seen anything like this course before. Commission Overload lays out an incredible set of marketing strategies that are clearly spelled out. This is totally new material, totally new techniques. If you’ve been online for 10 years or 10 minutes, you’ll be astounded.

This is not a get rich quick scheme. No point and click software is involved.

EVERYTHING…but EVERYTHING…YOU NEED TO KNOW is covered by two super affiliates who have opened their secret ninja knowledge vaults to reveal their own strategies and are determined to make you a success…

One was even an affiliate manager in one of the largest CPA networks who now uses, and totally teaches you, the EXACT methods used by his seven top affiliates who were making over 100k monthly!

Yes, work is involved. But you don’t need a website. You don’t need keywords. You don’t need an SEO quality score. You don’t need back links. You don’t need anything you’ve been told you need to make real money online.

You just need to put Commission Overload into action. You get 15 hours of quality training, detailed step-by-step video instruction that spells out every aspect you need to know to set up and implement totally original campaigns. Nothing is left out, even the reasoning behind the campaigns is given.

I was lucky enough to pick this up as a WSO (Warrior Special Offer) test launch. But before I could shoot my list an email, it sold out. Over 1,000 copies sold in under 48 hours. If you know anything about the Warrior Forum, where marketers market to marketers, this is spectacular.

If you’re smart enough and lucky enough you’ll pick up this course. It’s the best CPA and beyond marketing course I have ever seen.

So why is Commission Overload so awesome?

First of all….

• It’s NOT your typical push-button software.
• It’s NOT THEORY. It’s time-tested methods that have been used by the creators for the past 8 years to create a seven figure business

It’s ONE OF THE LARGEST INTERNET MARKETING TRAINING COMMUNITIES ON ALL THE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES THAT YOU NEED TO CREATE A SEVEN FIGURE BUSINESS IN INTERNET MARKETING. Including….

• Product Creation
• List Building
• Affiliate Marketing
• CPA Marketing
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It goes Live March 28.

When you are building a niche site and opting for free search engine traffic, your on page SEO (search engine optimization) is critical. It’s not difficult to do, but it is vital that you SEO optimize EACH and EVERY page in your website for that particular page’s keyword or keyword phrase.

Before we go to on page SEO, a quick note about Selecting your Domain Name. Buy a domain name that is, or contains, your main keyword. It will give you a slight edge with the “bots.” For example, if you are selling, or are an affiliate for, let’s say, “Oriental wind chimes.” OrientalWindChimes is your best choice for a domain name.

Keep it simple, two or three words, best three words, tops four. Select only a .com, .net. or .org. The search engines prefer them.

If you can’t get your exact keyword, select a domain name that has an extra word in front or in back of your keyword, e.g., “BestOrientalWindChimes.com” or OrientalWindChimesSite.org. Many marketers advise against using dashes between the words. Others say dashes are no problem if it gets you the exact keyword domain name.

All in One SEO plugin for WordPress. Be sure to upload the All in One SEO plugin and activate it. With every post or page you set up, fill in the Title, Description and Keyword boxes with the exact keyword each page is targeting. You’ll find these “boxes” in the WP dashboard section under each page or post. Fill them in before you hit “Publish.”

Examples: One page on your site may have the title “Oriental Wind Chimes.” Another page might target oriental reed wind chimes, so this page’s title would be “Oriental Reed Wind Chimes.”

I have no idea if the search volume for these terms warrants using them as money keywords. They are arbitrary and just off the top of my head. The point is to use your keyword phrase in the title of your article and place it in the All in One SEO Title Box.

Fill in the Description Box using your keyword as well, e.g., “The Most Musical, Magical Oriental Reed Wind Chimes for all Occasions”

And list a few targeted key words in the Keyword Box, e.g., oriental wind chimes, oriental reed wind chimes, wind chimes, musical wind chimes (don’t overdo your keyword list)

While you are at your dashboard go to your permalinks section and tick the “custom box.” Change your permalink structure to /%postname%/ (just copy and paste it). This will give you a leg up in SEO.

Your post title should be a Headline 1 (H1) and contain your keyword or keyword phrase.

Your keyword should be in your first paragraph and definitely within the first fifty words and it should be in bold text.

Make sure the first image on your page has the exact keyword phrase you are targeting on that page as the “alternative text.”

Use your keyword again in an H3 or H2 heading, preferably above the fold, e.g.,
”The Healing Benefits of Relaxing Oriental Wind Chimes.”

Italicize your Keyword Phrase somewhere on the page.

And be sure your keyword is in the last 50 words on the page.

Sprinkle you keywords throughout your content. Don’t overdo or the bots might think you are “keyword stuffing.” A good rule of thumb is about 5 exact keywords in a 500 word article. You can sprinkle in LSI (latent semantic index) words that the bots will recognize as relating to your keywords.

You want to be sure that the Search Engines know what your page is about. In this case it’s Oriental Wind Chimes. But you don’t want to make it seem like you’ve built the page only for the bots. It’s important to keep your reader first and foremost in your mind when writing your content.

It’s a good idea to include a relevant video on your site whenever possible. It doesn’t matter if embed a YouTube video as long as it works with your content. It will give you added credibility with the bots.

Outbound links from your site to authority or high ranking sites can also build trust with the bots and help you to rank quickly. You can place these at the very bottom of your page (most customers won’t read down that far). You can also use a widget to list related information on the far right hand column (again, not too many of your readers will be distracted from your actual content or even see the list, but the bots will take note.)

Remember: Each and every page must be SEO optimized if you want traffic to that page.

Since your keyword forms the foundation of your niche, a profitable niche is literally built on keyword research.

Everything you do to establish your online presence begins with your keyword. You’ll use your keyword to select your domain name. (It will give you a slight edge in ranking.) You’ll add keyword focused content to your website. And you’ll promote those keyword rich pages, building your back links, working to get top rankings for your pages.

If your initial keyword research is faulty and you’ve chosen a bad keyword, you might find yourself up against a huge wall of competition where it could take forever to get your pages ranked.

Worse yet, after promoting your site to a page one ranking, you find there is no market, no traffic, for your keyword. All of your efforts were a total waste of your time.

So, what makes a niche keyword profitable?

A good keyword is one that people are searching for, one that puts you right in front of your traffic, and one in which your competitors are either light weights or you can see that, in time with back link building, you can overtake your ranking competition.

Obviously, your best bet is to go up against light weights from the beginning. Or find a keyword where there is little or no competition. This way your promotion will be easy and you can rank quickly. On the other hand, if you are up against some heavy competition, but you are passionate about your keyword,  have patience, and are willing to put in some work, odds are that, in time, you will rank.

So how do you begin to find a profitable niche keyword?

You can scour Amazon’s Best Sellers in each of their categories. You can go to the Dummies Books site and look over their listings. Google Trends will tell you what’s hot. Check Google News and the Wonder Wheel for ideas. Do an online search for “10 Top Selling Products.”

Profitable keywords offer a solution to a nagging problem. Keywords sought after by avid hobbyists can put you in front of some serious traffic. Or you could sneak up on a keyword by using trigger words, like “problem,” “solution,” “calculator,” “guide,” “how to,” “lessons”…and see what they turn up.  Finding keywords can be great fun.

Once you have your prospective keyword, you’ll want reliable data to be sure people are indeed searching for your keyword and you also want to check out your competition.

Where can you find reliable data?

The free Google Keyword Tool can give you a good idea if your keyword is being searched for, and a Google Search will lead you to your competition.

In the Keyword Tool, type in your keyword, let’s say it’s golf swing. Click search.

You’ll see what is called a broad match listed in the Global and Local Monthly Searches. Don’t stop there. These numbers can be very misleading since they will be inflated.

To illustrate what I mean, go to the far left hand column. Under Match Types add [Exact] and “Phrase” and click Search again. Now you’ll see three different numbers for golf swing..

Golf swing, broad match, has 450,000 Global Monthly Searches

“Golf swing,” phrase match (seen in quotes), has 368,000.

And exact match [golf swing] (in square brackets) gets 18,100.

Big difference.

When someone searches Google for golf swing and hits Enter, the exact match is golf swing. Phrase match results will contain any phrase that has the words golf (and) swing next to each other (in the exact order) in a phrase, like…a famous athlete’s golf swing can… While broad match will contain golf and swing in any order, as in, now is the perfect season to swing into golf.

So to get the best data possible when researching your prospective keyword, always search for an exact match. Depending on what how targeted your keyword is (a precise make and model number is very targeted) and the cost of what you are promoting (say $200 – $300), an exact match of 500 in Local Monthly Searches just might pay off (although 1000 to 1500 would be better).

Many gurus will tell you to search Google with your prospective keywords in quotes to check out your total competition. Some say under 50,000 total results makes it a good keyword. But let’s think about this…

Are you actually competing with 50,000 results? Or are you really competing only with the sites ranking on Google’s first page.

So logically, your competition has nothing to do the total number of search results. Your competition is the site sitting in the spot you want.

So evaluate your competition by first checking their off page SEO to see if your site is able to rank and therefore worth building.

Find out the amount and quality of back links going to your competition. See how long they have have been on line… Are you up against an authority site? (I mean, you really can’t go up against sites like Wikipedia)…or a huge, heavily backlinked manufacturing site?

There are many free tools to help check your competition’s off line SEO: Rank Checker, FireFox’s SEO Quake (an add on), Traffic Travis can help with both on and off page SEO. For more tools, search Google and YouTube for “free SEO tools” and be sure to check out seomoz.org/tools.

If it’s a go, start building.

Next post: On Page SEO