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

You're a blogger and most likely, you are constantly hearing about pinging or blog and ping. The thing is, you don't know what it is and what it can do for your blog. Well, that's fine because a lot of bloggers don't quite understand pinging. In this article, I will explain what pinging is, how it helps your blog, and what the best pinging services are.

What is pinging?

When a blog is pinged, it essentially tells a web blog tracking system that the blog has been updated. Thus, pinging is the process of telling tracking services that a site has been updated.

So how does pinging work? Well, a ping service scans blogs for updates on a regular basis. Whenever there is a new update for a particular blog, it is reported back to the pinging service’s site. You can almost think of ping services being just like search engine spiders - both scan sites looking for information, and both report that information back to their specific site. The difference is, a ping service only reports back new blog posts.

Why is pinging useful for your blog?

Pinging, in effect, tells people that there is a new blog posting available. Those who are loyal followers of your blog will see the ping and want to visit your blog. Those who haven’t read your blog before will also see the ping and perhaps think “Hey, there’s a new blog I haven’t been to before, I think I’ll check it out”.

Pinging helps to increase your traffic because it tells people when your blog is updated. Those who visit sites with pinging services will see this information in the form of a ticker on the left or right side, or top of the page. The ticker is usually in XML format and typically includes the title and URL of your blog, as well as the date and time of the update.

OK, so now you know what pinging is. But which websites offer pinging…?

The answer is, there are several pinging services available which you can use to have your blog pinged. We’ll go over some of them right now.

Pingomatic.com

This one is usually the standard ping service which is listed in your blog interface. It pings several ping services at once like e.g. Blogstreet, IceRocket, Moreover and Weblogalot.

Weblogs.com

Weblogs.com is probably the most well-known pinging service. Weblogs.com monitors sites for updates and then pings whenever there is an update to report. Virtually every blog software is available to use Weblogs.

Yahoo’s Blo.gs

Another popular pinging service. This one is offered by Yahoo and has a built-in integration with movable type and other tools. One cool thing about this service is that it offers the ability to give out updates via Instant Messenging services like AOL and ICQ. It is a direct pinging service, so those who sign up for subscriptions to your blog will be sent an email anytime your blog is updated.

Blogrolling.com

Blogrolling allows its bloggers to manage their blogrolls (updates) through a web-based interface. Recently
updated blogs are also highlighted on Blogrolling’s web site. Data is automatically retrieved from other sites like blogger.com and weblogs.com every 5 minutes. Often times your blog is already being pinged by Blogrolling, so you might not have to sign up for it. Search on the site first for your URL before signing it up.

Technorati

Available at http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping, Technorati is another service that pings blogs. It gets its data from a variety of places and is definitely a site you should go to for blog pinging. If you're adding Technorati tags to your posts, it will also give you multiple backlinks which can have a very high pagerank and thus will improve your site ranking in the search engines.

These are just 5 of the many different blog pinging services available. A quick search on Yahoo or Google will reveal many other possible blog pinging services to use for your blog. It is best to ping/sign up for as many as you possibly can to ensure that your blog is well-pinged.

A well-pinged blog will definitely help your blog attract more visitors because not only will you get direct visitors from these services but also valuable backlinks. And since these sites have a high authority with the search engines (meaning, most of them have high Google Pagerank), you can get easy and automatic backlinks from authority sites.

This is especially true when your links can be found on popular so called "TAG" pages. A tag is similar to a keyword. So ping as many many of these services as possible and watch your blog traffic increase.

P.S. You can enter a list of websites to ping e.g. within your Wordpress interface. You can find it listed under "options/writing"!

Tags: adsense, search engines, tags, technorati, traffic, websites

Everyone with a website wants to be listed on Google. After all, it is the most popular search engine in the world, used by millions of people every day. It's the doorway between you and thousands and thousands of visitors who will flock to your website once they spot you, and isn’t that the main purpose of putting up a website?

Although getting listed isn’t the only thing required for you to get visitors, you also want to achieve a good rating, a high ranking (preferably in the top 10 results for your chosen keyword) which will put you in the spotlight and which will give you the opportunity to get noticed. But perhaps your site is brand new on the block and maybe you think it’s too small to be picked up by Google. Relax - that isn’t even an issue, just sit back and look at all the options you have.

First of all, let us clear out a fundamental point: There are, as you probably know, two ways of doing things, namely the right way and the wrong way. Now, although the wrong way is clearly wrong, it is of some importance that you know it thoroughly so as to avoid it completely.

Following is, to put it mildly, the avoidable way of trying to get listed on Google:

Google provides its users with a way to put their URLs in queue for crawling at http://www.google.com/addurl.html. Now the utter failure of this method probably has a little to do with the mechanics of the process. You see, once you have typed your website’s address into the space available there, it is simply put in a queue (behind oodles and oodles of other pages) for the GoogleBot (a software program designed to follow links on websites) to, well, crawl.

Anything can happen after this. For one, your site might not get crawled at all, or suppose it does get crawled (which in itself is about a million in one possibility) it might take weeks and it probably won't even be indexed by Google (!). So ultimately there’s no telling where that URL of yours will end up going. But I am guessing wherever it goes, it won’t go anywhere near the first few pages of search results… So in other words, this way is a complete waste of time! No one has really ever benefited from it and if you ask me, no one ever will.

And now the more likely way to get listed by Google and the other major search engines.

If you want to climb up to that coveted spot on the Google search engine then simply "piggyback" on the popularity of another site. Once you add your URL to some other (popular) site, it might get a chance to be spotted by the GoogleBot and followed upon.

That chance of getting the links followed will be your golden ticket into Google. And the better the site that your link is on (e.g. high Pagerank and/or lots of high quality content), the quicker it will be followed. Nowadays, to get indexed quickly and ranked well, it's all about having backlinks from other sites…

Backlinks from Web 2.0 Sites

So, here’s what you can do, you can either put up your URL in a queue together with something like a million different sites or you can use a little sense and put it up on a few popular sites which will provide you with the sort of traffic even a couple of a dozen others won’t. Pick a few popular sites like Digg.com, Reddit.com or Propeller.com (solid Web 2.0 sites) to plant your flag into, and soon you’ll sink your teeth right in to Google itself…

I know what you are thinking: You are probably wondering just how you will manage to get these larger sites to list you on their sites and in the course grudging me for putting you on the same chase yet again. But don’t worry - I promise it’s not as hard as it sounds. Just write some newsworthy article and submit it to these sites.

Or use a different type of Web 2.0 sites altogether: The social bookmarking sites. You can easily list your URL together with a description on sites like Del.icio.us or Blinklist, Furl, Del.irio.us and dozens more. Just create an account with these sites and you're ready to submit your URL. Most of these sites have a high Google Pagerank and are crawled on a daily basis. This will get you into the search engines quickly. And not just into Google but into all the other popular search engines, too.

Backlinks from popular Forums

A different way to get backlinks is to join a few discussion sites and forums and get involved in discussions about topics related to your website theme. When making a post, you can put up your hyperlink along with your signature line which is a completely legitimate way of getting traffic to your site. That is to say as long as you are contributing something useful to those discussions.

Warning: Don’t try and get prompt results by pulling smart tricks like typing in your hyperlink and adding a spammy GO HERE! caption. That won’t help you earn anything apart from a good whack from the moderators of the sites. Think of a good headline for your site and use that as the description for your signature line along with your URL.

Invest some time in this and really participate in the discussions. Once you're doing that, you will earn the liberty of sharing your URL with others. Try to use your main keywords for your link text as it will improve your search engine positions for these keywords (e.g. like this: Car Repair Guide - do not click it - it's just an example!)

If you have a certain feel for writing and you are proficient with words then you have an advantage over others like yourself. Believe it or not, you can put this talent in line to work on your behalf.

Backlinks from Article Submissions

Write a few well researched, well planned out articles about topics which might appeal to your target market (do some keyword research first to see which keyword phrases have the least competition in the search engines). As in the previous method, there are no shortcuts here and nothing, absolutely nothing, besides quality content will do you any good. Try and act smart, don't simply copy & paste text from elsewhere or simply try to get away with a badly done job and you will be at the receiving end of a royal brush-off from readers and editors.

Writing an article is really not as hard as it sounds. Since it’s about your main interest, a little research wouldn’t really cost you much time or labor. Record your results, go ahead and experiment with a few situations, come up with hypothetical situations to explain particular problems and provide your analysis or solutions for them. Once you have done a good job (and believe me when I say you will know when you have done a good job), proudly provide your own name and hyperlink of your site at the end of the article.

Then submit your article to the big 3 in article marketing:

EzineArticles.com

GoArticles.com

ArticleDashboard.com

By having a backlink from one of these sites, not only will you get indexed quickly, it will also help you to get ranked better. You can submit the article to more sites, but not always is more better. If you're doing too many submissions too quickly, your site could land in the "Google Sandbox". This means that you won't get listed for at least 6-8 months and then Google will re-evalulate your site and see if it's one of the "good" sites or rather a spam site.

Conclusion:

If you want your site to get listed in the search engines quickly, you need to get backlinks from popular websites. These links can be from Web 2.0 sites (incl. blogs), forums or article directories.

What about reciprocal linking? Well, the times for making use of that kind of 2-way linking strategies are almost over. The backlinks still count to some extent but reciprocal linking is seen as a "scheme" by Google which is used to manipulate the pagerank of the participating websites.

Therefore, if you want to get backlinks from directly related sites, it should be done as a 3-way linking. Meaning, site A links to site B. And site B in turn links to site C which is also owned by A. This way, the search engines can't see this direct relation between the participants. And better than doing this on a separate page would be if the link would come from within the content of an article.

The higher the number of sites you are added to, the better your chance of getting your website link known. But be careful: You need to spread out your submissions over time. Doing too much too quickly can get your site banned aka getting hundreds of backlinks over night are signs of a spam site (especially if these links are all using the same link text for the URL).

As your popularity increases, so will your chances of getting high search engine positions in Google. Good Luck!

Tags: adsense, digg.com, major search engines, search engines, social bookmarking, social bookmarking sites, traffic, web 2.0, websites

Let's say we've just signed up as an affiliate for a popular product. Now what?

How you approach this is going to depend on where you are coming from.

1) You might have an existing website and you've just discovered affiliate marketing and would like to implement this on your website. You already have your market and traffic. Maybe… Unless you're just starting out. Then you need to find traffic…

2) You may have a site or several different websites and you want to start fresh and build a new website just for affiliate marketing…

3) You want to do affiliate marketing, but you don't want to build a site… YES, that can be done!

4) You're just starting out and you want to do affiliate marketing and build a website or landing pages to promote the programs… OR you want to build 10 or more websites.

Those are just 4 scenarios… One thing you have to be careful with online is that many people will try to sell you on ONE way of doing things. They will convince you to drop everything and go in their direction.

STOP, you don't need to do what the herd is doing!

Everyone is unique and has a different set up and background… you can build from where you are. It's not what you got or want that will make you a success, it's taking massive action! So take what you have and go from there… you don't have to start over; you don't necessarily change directions… just add another dimension.

Unless of course you realize that you are in a hopeless situation… then just follow your gut. If you think the time and money would be better spent in another direction, then end it…

Again, this is all dependent on YOUR situation. This is not a one size fits all internet. And therefore every "guru" can only give you a plan on what has worked for HIM. It's bad advice to do exactly the same if that's not a market you like or are knowledgeable in!

THE BEST PLACE to be in is where your passion is… working in markets that you are passionate about will give your campaigns and efforts more energy… and you will most likely find it easier and have better results!
OF COURSE learn and emulate what the successful people are doing, but don't get consumed with the "you gotta do this" hype… once you've decided what to do, focus.

The traffic that you get to your pages with affiliate programs need to be as targeted as possible to your content and your content should match your affiliate programs or vice versa.

So you should NOT have people looking for televisions coming to your computer store…

How successful you are really depends on the market you are in and how you are doing compared to your competition. If you have a competitive market like mortgages or school loans (OR Internet marketing for that matter!!), then you need to buckle down because it will be a battle and you are probably going to have to spend a lot of money to make money…

ON THE OTHER HAND… the best thing to do is to start from scratch and research markets to find niches that you can tap into. A niche is simply a market that is maybe unique or on the outer fringe… You can often break down a large market into smaller markets fairly easily.

These niche markets will probably get less traffic, but you will also have less competition.

This is where keyword research comes in. An excellent tool to research with and one I highly recommend is NicheBot…

When we're talking about niches, normally the best niches are those that have little competition in Search Engines or in Pay Per Click Advertising… People search using keywords and keyword phrases. Find the right keywords that people are searching for and you will find a lot of traffic hitting your website… For search engines, that is FREE traffic!

So you use the tool above to find those niches. You plug in a keyword and it will bring up all kinds of results for people that have searched for that word or words in the last month AND it will also give you results for related or similar words and phrases AND it will show you how much competition there is!… cool stuff; check it out…

One last thing before I go… YOU can do well without a website. Many people are still doing this… there were recent changes to a policy at Google that put a damper on things a bit, but it's still alive and well… it's called Pay Per Click Advertising (PPC) and allows you to drive people to a landing page or sometimes (in niches where you don't want to build a list) to a merchant straight away.

Well, I gotta go… I am currently working on several products for the German market. Yes, I finally got started doing things in german - most importantly building a list. It's something I've been preaching for a long time…

People everywhere around the world are looking for a way to generate an income from home - so if your first language is not english, why not create an info product in your native language?

Stay tuned for some more great info to come! And remember… "Action is key!"

If you want to know more about getting focused, taking the right actions and simply getting the key concepts of Internet marketing right, then get a copy of my Revenue Blueprint. It will help you to take the RIGHT actions so you'll not waste months of your time…!!

Tags: adsense, affiliate, affiliate marketing, affiliate program, affiliate programs, free traffic, internet marketing, search engines, traffic, websites

You already know that I like to check out new products when they hit the market. Especially, if they contain some groundbreaking strategies like the ones included in a new manual called "Google Payload"…

IN A HURRY? CLICK HERE: http://www.quickanswers.info/GooglePayload

The developer, Alex Goad, has been testing some strategies which can basically be called Traffic Brokering or Arbitrage. This means, you'll buy traffic cheaply and then sell it to other PPC networks where in most cases you can get more than 10-30 times more money for these visitors!

You can compare it with trading Forex where you are making use of the differences between the monetary values of foreign currencies. Sometimes, there are huge differences between them and then it's as easy as buying it cheaply in one country and selling it with huge profits in another.

Here's what Alex says about the System and what it's NOT about:

1) Not Sales dependent affiliate marketing

This is NOT affiliate marketing on Pay Per Click where you lose your shirt today only to get Google Slapped tomorrow. Not even close. It's actually not Affiliate Marketing at all. Best part is, if you've tried your hand at it before, you now have a huge edge in the Google Payload system AND you'll be astounded at how easy it is.

2) No Rocket Science SEO

That's right. When we think Search Engines, we think search engines optimization. Complicated, short lived and time consuming. Google Payload doesn't depend on this for one instant. In fact, you can turn it on or off in a matter of minutes. It's all up to you…

==> http://www.quickanswers.info/GooglePayload

3) No Writing

If you like writing hundreds of articles and submitting them to directories, day after day, running like a hamster in a wheel just to stay in the same place, this is not for you. There is almost no writing at all. In fact if you can spell at the 6th grade level and you only type with 1 finger, you're doing just fine…

4) No Selling. Period.

Selling is hard business. You need sales letters,products, fulfillment and the dreaded customer service. Google Payload is completely free of ANY selling at ALL. In fact, you'll be acting as a "secret middleman", and a very well paid one at that. This is automated income at its best.

5) Thousands of Virgin Niches

There's still huge potential for getting cheap traffic.

I got a review copy of his ebook and I can honestly say that the strategies explained in his ebook are definitely doable. Best of all, he's giving some real life examples of actual landing pages which are making a lot of money for him. In fact, 8 of these profitable pages are included in the package.

But to be honest, it's not all about Google like the name suggests. It is ONE of the options but not the main part of his strategy. In fact, he's suggesting a lot of other, secondary PPC search engines which you can use to start your traffic brokering business.

It's fair to say that this is one of the freshest and most uniquely profitable, Step-by-Step business systems to hit the internet for months if not years. If you've not found "your way" of making money, yet, this manual could be a good start .

And he's not charging an arm and a leg for it. Google Payload with the core manual, quick start guide and 8
Deluxe Payload templates will be available for only $77.

That's a special launch discount for those that act fast. (It will go up to $97 quickly) So don't wait.

Get your own copy here: ==> http://www.quickanswers.info/GooglePayload
What knowledge do you need to make these strategies work?
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* You need to know how to create web pages (don't worry,
you can use a free software tool for this…)

* You need to know how to upload the pages from your PC
to a web server using FTP

* You need to know how to perform keyword research

BONUSES:
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In case that you are not a very experienced Internet marketer and you need help with any of the above, I have prepared a bonus for you:

You will get to see how the things mentioned above are put into practice. This will be my bonus for purchasing from the link above.

If you want access to the videos, simply paste your Clickbank receipt on my helpdesk by opening a ticket:

==> http://www.ethicalinternetmarketer.com/helpdesk

and I will send you the download links to the videos.
To Your Success,

Detlev Reimer

(this message has been sent to my email list, too)

Tags: adsense, affiliate, affiliate marketing, clickbank, ebook, search engines, seo, traffic