Poooh,…..I finally got your video about social bookmarking finished. It feels like it took forever.

My original plan was to have it released… yesterday…! But I soon had to confess to myself that this was absolutely impossible .

Not just because it took me almost half of the day to shoot the video. That was not the real problem.

The video consists of 3 individual parts which I had to combine into 1 big AVI file (the final file was 584 MB to give you an impression of the size). It took my PC hours and hours and I don't have a particular slow one.

I own an Intel PC with 3.2 Ghz and 2 GB RAM (maybe the 2 GB weren't enough - who knows…). And when I had combined all the 3 parts, I needed to convert the avi into a Flash file in order to make it smaller and to have it display on a web page… Baaaaammm…. it took my PC another 2 hours again.

D**n…!

Of course, I'm not Steven Spielberg or an actor so maybe you find it a bit boring…

The video consists of:

a.) A personal introduction done with my Camcorder which I bought last year when I went to Mauritius to do the personal IM coaching

b.) Explanation what Social Bookmarking is all about and why you need it (with Powerpoint Slides)

c.) Practical examples of how to bookmark and "tag" a web page + a free service which can help you to save time when bookmarking your site

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Let me tell you that I've put in a lot of sweat and time into the creation of this video. If you like the video, I hope, you'll at least leave a nice comment on my blog

It would really be appreciated…

In case you haven't yet understood what all this talk about "social bookmarking" is about then this video is for you (click either on the picture or the link below):

17:47 mins. playing time

==> http://hopurl.com/42238

(The video is still quite large - please be patient)

And yes, I had to read most of the stuff from my powerpoint slides because I'm neither an actor nor good at doing free public speeches so please bear with me…

I'm just a regular guy, not a professional movie producer.

With that said, I hope, you'll find the video useful. And if you want to receive more of them then I want to let you know that the other parts will go right into the members' area of my Niche Content Websites membership area (paid members only, though…).

Because what I am about to show in these different parts are exactly the steps you absolutely need to take to PROMOTE your Adsense sites in order to be successful and have them make money for you.

Whether you are getting these kind of pre-made Adsense sites from me or someone else doesn't matter. If you're not doing the required promotion (==> think ONE-WAY BACKLINKS!) then you won't be getting free traffic from the mentioned resources, nor from the search engines!!

That's just a fact which newbies often tend to ignore…

I'll do another update on my NCW site and the change will be huge (you've just learned that there will be some new educational videos in it but there's still more to come). You've personally voted for this so stay tuned… I've blocked the signup of new members for now since I will be introducing completely new membership levels in April.

Tags: adsense, free traffic, search engines, social bookmarking, tagging, traffic, websites

I balance the two. SEO is more of a long term strategy for me, PPC a short term… among other marketing strategies like JVs (although I have seriously cut back on them).

Sometimes PPC is actually a good way to get traffic until the Search Engine traffic does finally barrel in…

AND you don't always have to wait 3 months. With the proper niche research and some luck, you can draw traffic in days… Once your site is crawled regularly, you can put a page up and be indexed within a day.

I don't think SEO is a waste of time unless you don't plan on being in this game for a long time. I plan on being here in 5-10 years. So I'll be patient.

SEO is a tough game no matter how you look at it. You can be at the top of the SERPs one month and drop out the next… I've seen people who have held number one positions for years and suddenly disappear all together.

It's a dangerous thing having 100% of your efforts in one area and depending on one form of advertising… diversification is a good thing.

SEO and PPC aren't even the only way to market online… some people do neither and make a ton of money.

Really… There is no predicting Search Engine's… they will always mess with your head. Sandbox or no sandbox. The algos always changing… Their index is updated frequently. Google's PR is always in flux…

After the last major update there was a lot of talk if there is even a randomization factor involved now… maybe even certain industries being treated differently… Outbound links becoming a factor also.

What I experienced could have easily been something I did… It's the closest thing to a Sandbox I've had. One day I have 50 keywords ranked high the next day they disappear. 2 months later I see visitors from those keywords back in my logs and sure enough they came back…

SEO has changed a lot since the beginning of last year. It is not as predictable as it once was. A webmaster would be a fool to rely on Google for 100% of their revenue. I've seen it happen… huge revenue generating websites dropping out of the SERPs completely… what a rush that has to be!

LET ME be honest. Like I said. The sandbox could have been something I did or some random shift in the index… who knows… I can't explain it so I call it a sandbox… but I'm always tweaking my sites… and most importantly:

I'm always trying to get new one way links pointing to my sites. Either by means of article submissions, directory submissions, social bookmarking, blog comments, article/content submission to sites like Digg.com and lots of other things… Links are still an important factor in your rankings.

Some new webmasters think if they follow the book they should find themselves at the top of the SERPs… when they don't, they automatically call it a "sandbox" if they can't figure it out…

Reality is… it might be that there are 10,000 websites that were there first with more inbound links and experience. You have to earn your spot…

Bottom line. Sandbox seems to occur, but it will only occur for crowded markets… you need to work much harder than in a niche market with no competition… If there is no competition and your site is relevant, it will certainly rank well… That's why keyword selection is so important. Choose the wrong keywords and you will get ranked nowhere, choose the right keywords and you'll find your site on top of the SERPs a few weeks later…

Until recently, if a new IM eBook came out, and I placed it on my website… you simply had to do a search for the title and there I had been… but I am not focusing on ebooks and courses anymore. I want to help you to get your first websites up and running - that's where I personally find more satisfaction in.

I've been on page one or two for e.g. the phrase "Automated Cash Formula" ever since I placed a review on my site about it (5 months ago…)… It was instant because my site is being crawled daily and in the beginning, there was hardly any competition for that phrase…

PPC? Sound familiar…

SEO? (Search Engine Optimization) not to discourage…

It's not my intention to discourage anyone from practicing SEO - I probably made it sound very difficult. It's not as long as you're staying away from the hyper competitive niches. Choose a niche in which your site could really help other people and where not all the SEOs (Search Engine Optimizers) hang out and you'll rank well quickly because other people will be linking to your great content.

SEO is certainly an incredible way to get free traffic - and lots of it. Any free traffic is good traffic…

I make money with the traffic. Absolutely… it's interesting to see a commission show up for something odd… then look at your logs and see someone had landed on a page you weren't promoting with anything.

… Someone just did a search on Google.

You just have to be smart and spread your risk by using other traffic generation strategies as well… just in case your SEO efforts are NOT paying off.

Tags: adsense, digg.com, ebook, free traffic, search engine optimization, seo, social bookmarking, traffic, websites

First of all, Google Pagerank has nothing to do with Adwords… although indirectly I suppose it does. One of the reasons Adwords is so valuable is because you can go around this important factor that Google has… And it also might be a good thing if the website you are promoting has a high PR, because the visitor might see that website as being more important and more of an authority website… etc.

This is related to Search Engine Optimization and Organic Results…

Google uses PageRank to measure how important a website is. It's based on a few factors, but the main factor is how many inbound links (and the quality of those links) you have pointing to your website.

PR is combined with Google's Algorithm (other factors like the quality of your content and the number of times your keyword appears in the visible text etc.) to determine your position in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs)… if you notice the sites at the top of your search results they usually have more inbound links than the ones below them.

Sometimes, it's close because the quality of links are important also. If you have a PR8 website pointing to you, you are in better shape than if you had a PR3 website pointing to you… in essence, it makes your website more important…

If you install Google's toolbar… or if you visit:

http://www.pagerank.net/pagerank-checker/

…you will see a bar that says "PageRank". That bar ranks a site from 1 to 10…

9 or 10 are very difficult to get. Google.com has a PR10… W3.org has a PR10… DMOZ has a PR9…

Those are websites that have a lot of links pointing to them. W3.org is considered an authority website…

It takes some effort to get to a PR5… generally, I think PR5 and up is really good. A lot of people when they are out looking for people to trade links with, like to focus on websites with a good PageRank…

Check this out… One of the biggest things PR is used for these days is determining the value of a web page and selling ad space based on the PR:

http://www.linkadage.com

There is a lot of controversy as far as the true importance of PR goes. I've noticed most people that are against it are people that can't seem to get it right.

In the beginning, PR was designed to be an indication of the importance and popularity of a website, but in true Webmaster fashion, a lot of community members were looking for different ways to get Inbound Links in order to manipulate Google. And from there the Link industry got a start… link exchanges, renting links, selling text links etc, etc….

I just saw a guy last week that spent over $650 to get PR3 or better links from 50 different websites…

One of the problems with it is that PR alone does not provide you with traffic…

You still need to have a well optimized website, have done your keyword research and considered the other 100+ factors (some known, some unknown) that Google uses to rank a site in the SERPs… PR might be an important factor, but it isn't the only factor and it certainly hasn't the weight anymore which it used to have.

AND ON top of that, getting 100s or 1000s of UNnatural links doesn't give PR a good name AND can get your sites penalized quickly (PR bar will be greyed out or reset to 0!).

Some more info:

http://www.google.com/technology/

Tags: adsense, adwords, search engine optimization, traffic, websites

Hi,

How are you doing? I hope, everything's okay with you. I have come to realize that you don't want to see the same stuff from me which you are seeing in other ezine publishers' newsletters… again and again.

As I said in one of my previous newsletters, I'm simply getting tired of it, too. The same ebooks and courses week after week - just in different words and designs… especially when PLR products are costing next to nothing anymore.

That's why I personally want to go a different route:

Most people whom I've asked what their difficulties were in getting started online told me, they didn't have the skills to get a complete website up and running.

They either didn't know HOW to get started or were even afraid to do anything at all in fear of doing something wrong and fail or putting up designs that are plain ugly.

That would mean to them to give up the dream of being able to make money from the comfort of your own home.

I want to help you if you belong into this category as well or if you simply don't want to invest that much time in creating your websites. Maybe, you have much better skills in promoting websites…

Then I have something for you that can help you to get started quickly. And it's not like the hundreds of websites out there which are offering the same websites to hundreds or even thousands of people.

I know that you want and deserve something special…:)

That's why, for the second time ever, I've created another exclusive package of turnkey websites for you.

Only you, Detlev, and 9 other people will have them. Not hundreds, not thousands - only 9!

These websites are completely set up with Adsense ads integrated, CB Image Ads, RSS Feeds and rotating images.

You can see what's included here:

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(This kind of package sold out in less than 48 hours last time I offered this and this message goes out to nearly 10,000 subscribers…)

From now on, my focus will be on creating websites for you which you can put to immediate use.

That's it for now. If you're interested in these turnkey niche websites, don't hesitate too long or they will be gone forever.

SORRY - SOLD OUT!

To YOUR Success,

Detlev Reimer

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Tags: adsense, ebook, websites

I was at the CeBit 2008 in Hannover (the biggest computer exhibition in the world) last weekend and it was really very interesting - especially because they had an online marketing section as well. And the other reason I went there was that I wanted to bring my PC knowledge (processor speeds, max. HD capacities etc.) a little up to date. I went there with an old friend of mine …. no, not Dirk Wagner this time…

When I visited Hall 4 with the online marketing sections, I spoke with some of the developers of an online CMS (Content Management System) platform which has a lot of great features included like an integrated Forum, Tag Clouds, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) & Newsletter modules etc. etc. which could make great Web 2.0 Websites.

But it turns out that this system is VERY expensive. The basic version costs about EUR 4500 which is about USD 6300!

I think, then I'll rather stay with Wordpress, though. It's free and scalable + I'm familiar with it which is a big bonus because if you'd invest in something like this, there also is a steep learning curve…!

The other thing which caught my interest was an online conferencing system with a camera which could provide the participants with a 360° view of a "round table" for web meetings.

The system could handle up to 250 participants which could take part in a web based conference. The admin would then be able to share his desktop with the participants and show them e.g. Powerpoint Slides or an Excel Table or whatever.

And this one comes with a one time fee in contrast to all the web based services which are charging quite a lot of money for this.

I couldn't see a lot of things at the other marketing related stands anymore since many of them were abandoned ahead of time (I was there at about 16:45 PM and it usually ends at 17:30 PM).

But I took a lot of booklets with me which I am going to read in the next few days. Especially with regards to the German Online Marketing Scene in which I have started in January of this year (I still only have a very small list, though).

I have a tip for you regarding a good niche which I discovered there:

The car navigation systems hall had very much interest. That's nothing new. But there are new car navigation systems which can show buildings and sights in 3D! This will be in high demand and a lot of visitors to these stands were absolutely fascinated by this - myself included.

Last but not least, here's a slideshow with several of the pictures which I had taken at the CeBit 2008!

Tags: adsense, affiliate, web 2.0, websites