You may have heard the bad news already: Overture's Keyword Tool is no longer supported and has been removed from their website. It is dead. All of the tools which were relying on their data will become obsolete or have to search for a new source of keyword data (one of these tools was Jeff Alderson's very popular Adword Analyzer).

You can read the whole story here:

http://www.dmnews.com/cms/dm-news/search-marketing/39752.html

Their tool was never very reliable (the number of searches always was inflated because of the many tools which were accessing their database for keyword research) but gave a quick overview about the rough popularity of a keyword. Personally, I have not been affected by the disappearance of this tool as many others. Reason: My tool of choice has always been Wordtracker. And exactly these Wordtracker guys have a new replacement for Overture's Keyword Tool:

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

But you won't find all the details in there. These search numbers won't help you that much if you don't know how many search results there are for any given term - this data will be used to calculate the so called KEI (Keyword Effectiveness Index).

In other words, the KEI will tell you how easy it is to get a top spot in the search engines for certain keywords. Of course, the less search results and the more searches per month, the better your chances of reaching that top spot. The best way to get this KEI number is to either get a subscription to Wordtracker or to use NicheBot V.2.

Personally, I've just changed to NicheBot V.2 because it already has the Wordtracker data included and even more than that: It also shows you the results from Keyword Discovery, another very popular keyword tool. The subscription fee is much lower than for Wordtracker or Keyword Discovery itself - at least, if you're not a "power user". In case you're doing keyword research just every few days then NicheBot is just perfect.

Keyword research is the first and most important step in developing virtual real estate websites and if you're focussing on the wrong keywords, you won't be making any money. And this is a very usual mistake many beginners are making. They focus on the keywords which have the highest search counts and thus are not an easy target because all the website owners within that niche will be optimizing their sites for these keywords.

It's much better and easier if you focus on the 3 and 4 word phrases as a lower number of people will create websites for them. You might have a lower search count for those as well but that will not be that important if you focus on dozens of those phrases. These lower numbers will add up quickly.

Tags: adsense, search engines, websites

Dear Subscriber,

I have received great feedback from a lot of my subscribers about the Triple-X Dimesale. Many, many of you picked up the products on offer. If you haven't checked them out so far, you should do so today if you still want a low price.

Because even though the prices have gone up, they are still much lower compared to what you'd regularly have to pay. The "Finding your niche" videos could easily sell for $147 even though I set the maximum price to just $97… And the other products are not even close at 30% of their real value, either.

And without further ado, here are the links to this week's Triple-X Dimesales again:

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Dimesale 1: "Finding your niche" - Massive Video Tutorial with more than 260 MB in videos.
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Dimesale 2: "CB Multi Item Manager" - A great script to start selling multiple products from just 1 Clickbank account. Never pay the $49,95 setup fee again!

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Dimesale 3: "Free Money - How to profit from the Public Domain! - Everything you need to get started profiting from the public domain! Product creation on autopilot!
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To YOUR success,

Detlev
http://www.promobuddy.com/

P.S.: If you are a member of my Niche Content Websites, please note that I have updated the members area with fr*ee instructional on how to get the websites online. Topics: UNzipping the files, Using FTP and uploading the files to a web server, changing the config file so it will have your ID's included.

The pre-launch phase is about to come to an end. Make sure you get in before the price increase or before I will stop accepting free members…

Click below to register as a free member:

http://www.nichecontentwebsites.com/

Tags: adsense, clickbank, websites

Hi there,

Over the last few days, I have invested quite a lot of time to make NCW one of the best Internet marketing memberships available on the web. The member's area has been updated with new promo tools so you can start promoting Niche Content Websites and make up to 50% in recurring commissions.

Today, I have also added some video tutorials which will show you exactly what to do with the free site you're getting from me each month. Moreover, I have added a new lifetime hosting offer to the download pages of the different membership levels.

If you haven't already done so, please sign up for your free NCW membership. I will be adding even more products to the download sections. Please note that the pre-launch phase will end soon. If you're not in by that time, the prices will have gone up and maybe, I'll also close the free signups - I have not decided on that, yet…!

In the near future, I will possibly also be adding video tutorials on how to get traffic to your niche websites. Something that is the most important part of all if you want to make your living from Adsense or Affiliate Marketing.

Tags: adsense, affiliate, affiliate marketing, internet marketing, traffic, websites

First of all, I guess, the expression "datafeed" is not known to everyone and therefore, I will try to give you a short explanation:

Usually, a datafeed is the whole inventory of a merchant store all written into one .txt file. It has URL's, product images, categories, prices and descriptions included and the different sections are separated from each other. The links will have a generic affiliate
expression included like aid=XXXXX. And your job as an affiliate is to replace that XXXXX with your affiliate ID.

Some datafeeds are generated with your affiliate ID already included, though. This is dependent on the merchant or the network you're using.

What datafeed formats are there?

The most common formats are pipe delimited (|), .csv (comma separated values) and tab delimited ( - a big space in between the different areas). In order to make changes to such a file, the best thing would be to open it in MS Excel. Because Excel will be able to use the separators and actually display the content in a neat way, in lines and rows so it will make sense when you're looking at it.

What software do you need?

There are several tools available on the market which can bring your datafeed to life. In combination with a Wordpress blog, you can automate the posting to your website. Of course, you'll need to use a datafeed which has enough products in it in order to have content for a few days or weeks.

One of these tools is called Affiliate Feed Generator by Michelle Timothy and it's the one I'm personally using whenever I am putting that kind of sites online. This software will take the raw text file and convert it into a file which you can use in combination with RSS2Blog (having the "break" tags included already). But that's not all: It will also produce a RSS file for you with an .XML ending.

Meaning, you can upload this XML file to your server, fire up any tool which can post entries from RSS feeds to a blog and you're set. You've just automated a huge part of the content creation and posting process. You still have to add articles and reviews and that kind of content, too, in order not to be seen as a "thin affiliate" (Someone who doesn't bring any additional value to their product promotions e.g. by just copying and pasting the ads the merchant provides. These ads can then be found on hundreds of websites…).

Why should you care about datafeeds?

Well, it's one of the easiest way of posting content to your site on a regular basis. Especially if you're using blogs, the whole process can be automated. If you combine datafeeds with posting regular articles, you will have your income on autopilot.

That's because every product that gets posted there has the potential to make you money as your affiliate link is always included. Moreover, by posting it in between your real content, it acts as additional content (most of the times, the product descriptions are long enough to count as real content) - thus making your content more "unique" in the eyes of the search engines.

Your content will be seen as unique as soon as you have added at least 25% of different content to your HTML page. In other words, as soon as you're adding additional material like pictures, videos and additional text and you're not just posting the same article like everyone else, you will have an advantage in the search engines.

So if you're using a combination of Article Builder to make e.g. your private label articles unique AND you're also adding datafeeds to the mix, you can bet that you will have no problems with your content being seen as duplicate content even if you're using the same articles as everyone else!

Where can you get datafeeds?

You can either get them directly from the merchant you want to affiliate with (you probably have to ask them) or you join an affiliate network like Commission Junction (CJ.com) and Shareasale (Shareasale.com). The difference between these 2 networks is that Commission Junction wants you to pay a fee (around $200) to use their datafeeds while datafeeds on Shareasale are free.

Personally, I love the Shareasale network (as it is very easy to navigate and they are listing all the merchants which are offering datafeeds). So if you want to find merchants with datafeeds, you just go to the section "Find/Join merchants" in your Shareasale admin area. Next, you click on the link "View those with datafeeds". And last but not least, you click on "Join program" to the right of the merchant's listing.

Conclusion:

If you want to promote more than just Clickbank products, using datafeeds is a good alternative. Of course, you'll have to choose merchants which have a high payout on physical goods (a minimum of 5% on high priced goods) so it really is worth your time. Just compare some of the merchants which are in the same categories and you will get a feel for this.

And the additional content perspective should not be neglected, either. In times of everyone screaming "duplicate content", it can be a good idea to differentiate yourself from others by adding something useful to your pages. Even if these are just product descriptions - but you will gain keyword density and probably get ranked for keywords that you never knew would bring you visitors. Just check your web stats and you
will see what I mean…

Tags: adsense, affiliate, clickbank, search engines, tags, websites

After a long weekend hanging over the script settings for the butterfly marketing script, I finally got everything set up . There were problems with Paypal on Friday - that's why I delayed the launch to today.

To your success,

Detlev

P.S.: Affiliates can make up to 50% in recurring commissions depending on their membership level.

Tags: adsense, affiliate, affiliates, butterfly marketing, ebook, traffic, websites