Remember the early days of the internet in 1997 when Amazon.com Started out as a Garage Startup? (Just like Apple).
Well you don’t need to have a time machine and get to 1997 when you could buy a domain for $15 bucks and sell it for thousands of dollars but now you have a similar opportunity.
With an industry that is bigger than the internet.
That’s the mobile world.
You can now create your own App Company and start making a lot of money if you Focus your attention on this great booming industry that it’s still in it’s infancy and you can be a pioneer if you get in NOW.
Everybody will be looking back to 2012 (Today) and say that this was the best year to enter The App Business because the demand is so high in the app market that there are fewer developers than people downloading apps.
So Chad shared his story on the Tim Ferris 4 Hour Work Week Blog and he shows you how to jump in this business without being a technical guy or knowing anything about coding.
In fact it’s better if you don’t know anything about coding because you will be the idea guy and the one who receives the money… that’s the fun part
I like this story that Chad shares in Tim’s blog. And it’s and Emoji App (the one of the :):) smily faces for the keyboard in the iPhone) that made him $500 Dollars a Day!
But all of this following the App Empire Formula that he discovered in the last 3 years.
A personal example of how to successfully emulate competitors is my Emoji app. First, I took a close look at what the market offered and downloaded all the major emoticon apps. I liked what I saw, but noticed that there was a lack of variety and limited functionality.
Screenshots from a competing Emoji app. The app (left) is opened once to provide the user with instructions on how to enable the Emoji keyboard (right).
I wondered how I could improve upon these existing apps, given that the Emoji keyboard had a limited number of emoticons that couldn’t be increased. I was also curious how profitable these apps could be if they were only being used once.
I kept brainstorming until it hit me. I couldn’t add more emoticons to the Emoji keyboard, but I could include unlimited emoticons within my app that people could send as images via text message or email.
I created an app that not only enabled the Emoji keyboard, but also contained an additional 450 emoticons within the app itself, which could be shared via SMS, e-mail, Facebook, and so on. The app was used constantly since users had to return to the app to send an emoticon.
Screenshots of my Emoji app.
The Emoji app was developed in two weeks. It followed the freemium model, meaning free with an in-app purchase option. The app hit the number one spot in the App Store’s productivity category and the number 12 spot in the top free overall category within six days, raking in nearly $500 per day. Bingo.
Whenever you decide to look into emulating an app, ask yourself these six questions:
Why are people purchasing this?
Can I do something to emulate this idea and take it to another level?
What other ideas would this app’s demographic like?
How many other similar apps are in the market? (Visit TopAppCharts.com to find out.)
How successful and consistent have they been?
How does their marketing and pricing model work?
This is a real business and you need to Work.
Sorry to burst your bubble but also success stories worked hard to get were they are now.
The Draw Something and Angry Bird Story are a perfect example of this and i talked about that in the Tiny Little Businesses Story i wrote let me post the story here:
It’s like the Famous Angry Bird and Draw
Something Stroy (iPhone Apps)
Long story short both companies where in the
brink of bankruptcy and then they created these
“Magical” apps
and Angry Brids went on to earn in an “over night
push button riches” $10 million dollars in a year
on the App store.
And Draw Something an iPhone App acquired for
$170 million dollars by Zynga Creators of Farm
Ville and many other hit games. All of this after
3 weeks on the Apple App Store and earning 100K
dollars per day and a 30 million user base.
When we see a successful story like this
everybody thinks it’s easy and anyone can do it.
It can be done very easily on the internet.
But…
Both ROVIO (Angry Birds) and OMGPOP (Draw
Something) have created a lot of other games and
they were NOT having success and they were on the
brink of depleting their funding and going out of
business.
They sticked to it and one app made them the big
bucks but after hard work and long term mindset
and planning.
You Don’t Have To Be a Coding Expert or Write a Single Line of Code…
You just need to hire a good programmer that will make a reality the sketch you provided him that you draw on a piece of paper.
It’s as simple as that.
You don’t need a computer program to create the sketch and pass it to your programmer, you can just draw the App Interface or Screens in a piece of paper once you have done your research of an app you want to make better and give that to your programmer and adjust your vision of the app with what the programmer creates for you.
You can use Power Point or Keynote to make your User Interface or Sketchs of your App Idea using Keynotetopia
But Were do you hire your App Developer?
Let’s get started. The first part of this step is to post your job to a hiring site.
Top Hiring Resources
These websites allow programmers to bid on jobs that you post. As you can imagine, the competition creates a bidding frenzy that gives you a good chance of getting quality work at a low price.
Here are a few of my favorite outsourcing sites:
oDesk— Its work diary feature tracks the hours your programmer is working for you and takes screenshots of the programmer’s desktop at certain time intervals.
Freelancer— This site has the most programmers listed. They claim that twice as many programmers will respond to your ad, and I found this to be mostly true.
Guru and Elance. Both of these sites have huge lists of programmers.
Below is a template of a job posting. I Transcribed the text on the image for your convenience.
Click the image to enlarge.
Job Title: Highly skilled iOS Developer
Description: Need a custom mobile app made (quickly!)
I need someone who is very experience in coding for iOS to create a feature rich, niche looking, mobile app.
Description of App here: (Keep basic until NDA Signed)
This needs to be a job that can be completed quickly.
Requirements:
-Someone who can not only program but can also do the UI Design
-Someone who has at least 300 hours on oDesk
-Someone who has a 5 star rating
-Someone who takes price in their work and makes polished looking products.
-Someone who speaks English well
Here’s what you need to do next:
- Please reply with examples of your previous work including any user uniterface or design examples you have done before. If i like your previous work, i will reply and give you more details.
*** IMPORTANT when you reply start by typing the code words: Honey Badger
This way i know you took the time to read the complete description instead of just replying to all new submission like many people do!
Thanks,
Chad
Objective C, C Programming, Cocoa, iPhone, Corona
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This analysis took 5 hours and he took a sample of
1,500 keywords from 30 very diverse markets. A wide range of markets.
He ran those keywords through Google to get all of the top-level domains ranking on the first page for the keywords.Also he removed all ranking inner page urls from the data set. (in the full article he explains why he did that)
He checked the link profiles of all of those domains to see what percentage of their links had anchor text matching the keywords they were ranking for.
So with that in mind he found some interesting data.
Johnatan says:
So what can you take away from all of this data and these numbers? In short, exact-match domain names are your friend! They can be ranked with a lot fewer links and apparently have a much better chance of not getting penalized for anchor-text over-optimization. This includes the “lesser” domains (.info, .biz, etc.), as well as domain names with the keywords separated by dashes (e.g. work-from-home.biz).
Also, if you’re not using EMDs, it’s important to diversify your anchor text a lot. How much is “a lot” really depends on your market. So do the research. Check out the link profiles of other ranking sites in your market and see what their anchor text looks like.
Exact-Match Domains Have A Lot Less Links
Also he said:
Another important point about the ranking exact-match domains versus all of the other ranking top-level domains: they have a lot fewer links aimed at them. In fact, on average the EMDs only have about 15% as many links as the other ranking sites.
One stand-out example is pharmaceutical-jobs.com, which is ranking on page one for (of course) “pharmaceutical jobs.” It only has about two dozen external domains linking to the entire site. The other top ranking results typically have many hundreds or thousands of domains linking to them. Clearly Google is highly favoring the EMD in this case.
If Google didn’t allow this kind of natural linking to brand sites then some big companies would take a hit and the whole balance of the internet would go to the thank (Google’s index would get a little messy).
So here’s John Explanation:
It makes sense, really.
If Google penalized sites with a high EMA even if their domain name was an exact match for the keywords, they would end up dropping all kinds of brand-name sites out of the rankings.
Think about it: what anchor text do most people use when linking out to a brand-name site (like Ford or Adobe or Amazon, etc.)? Their name, of course!
So Google has to give those sites a pass despite having a high EMA. It just makes sense that Google won’t penalize you for links with anchor text matching the keywords in your domain name. That’s often the site’s brand, and it will naturally have a much higher EMA for those keywords.
Is Google giving a pass to all EMDs with very high EMAs? The data can’t answer that question. But clearly they are giving a pass to a lot of them.
What have been your experiences with your Exact Match Domain Names? Have they been hit by the latest Penguin update or are they doing better?
So many people are Angry at Google with the Latest Penguin and Panda update and so that’s why i am posting this video that will diminish your frustration
Penguin update is now the new most talked about topic on the SEO circles and everybody seem to have lost track of how to optimize their sites to rank in the search engines.
I will show you 5 SEO Smart Ways to optimize your sites to rank #1 with this Penguin Analysis.
Basically the over optimization penalty it’s very real and the things you need to do in this New “SEO” World it’s not to use a money anchor text over and over again.
This is not natural and leads to the creation of spam tactics in the eyes of Google. So now Google forces you to create content and link sites in a natural way and not targeting just a specific “money keyword” you want to rank for.
A great way to create content that will get your Authority Sites ranking are Guest Blogging and Content Curation because you are sharing great content from other blogs and you can leverage the audience of other people to promote your sites. So apply this 5 Smart Ways to Optimize your sites
Method #1: Create Microsites
What are those? Besides being important enough to SEO that we decided to use that as one of the words in our company name, they have been a great way to rank sites in the past, and continue to be even after this update. Microsites are small(ish) topic-focused sites that provide useful content relative to your niche, and make sure to cite your main site as a primary source. Google wants the Internet to be filled with sites that provides users what they are looking for, and give authority to sites that are relevant to what the user is looking for. By creating smaller sites of “higher quality”, you get to expand your presence in your niche, and use that expanded visibility and send relevant and authoritative positive ranking signals towards your main site.
Method #2: High Quality Blog Networks
This might be the most “black hat” solution, but it’s still affective. Recently ALN and BMR have proven that low quality networks which seemed to good to be true, are too good to be true.
It’s no longer enough to have private networks with small amounts of content, anchor text that is poorly placed within the context of the article, no (or very little) accountability in the area of content quality, and other gaping network-wide footprints and general low quality attributes.
A completely internalized niche blog network (which in reality is really a group of microsites) is as effective as it ever was and generally more selective than large public blog networks to ensure proper quality control and avoid footprints. More on that later!
Method #3: Diversify Anchor Text
If you are building links yourself, you have probably reached a decision where you could spend X (whether in time or dollars) with the anchor text of “a term I want to rank for” or “a term that appears naturally but I’m not trying to rank for”. Although you are consciously aware that you need a natural mix of both, each time an SEO’er is faced with that decision they tend to usually pick the first option because, well… it’s no fun to spend time and money building links that will probably not directly help you rank! Stop doing that and make sure that over 50% of your links contain anchor text that isn’t a keyword you are trying to rank for.
What anchor text should you be using? From the data we’ve evaluated, “MySiteDomain.com”, “MySiteDomain”, “http://mysitedomain.com”, “http://www.mysitedomain.com”, “The Title of My Website”, “here”, and “the title of one of my H1′s (that isn’t a keyword I’m trying to rank for)”, were generally used as anchors on sites that were not affected by the most recent Google update and are probably a good starting point to consider using moving forward.
Method #4: Play Google’s Game
Get completely legitimate whitehat links! All of the previous points are ways to emulate a “natural” backlink profile. Meaning, ways to make your site look like it’s whitehat, despite possibly taking some shortcuts. The other (often forgotten) thing you can do, is actually use whitehat strategies!
Write legitimate guest posts on niche sites, find ways to get media coverage (HARO is probably one of the easiest ways to find news stories related to your niche). Last, as we’ve talked about before, viral marketing not only provides lots of visitors, but a ton of legitimate link power.
Method #5: Run Your SEO Sites Like a Real Business
One of the biggest things I noticed when pouring through our massive amounts of data is that sites that portrayed themselves as a “business” fared a lot better than sites which viewed themselves as a way to obtain and leverage traffic from Google in order to monetize.
What does this mean? A lot of things, but one of them is to look at other traffic sources besides Google. Not only will that make you less reliant on Google, and their seemingly fickle SERP shuffles, but those other traffic sources will almost certainly indirectly help your site rank better on Google.
So What is your Experience with Penguin?
Share your experience below and what are you doing to recover your lost rankings?
In this great interview by Yaro Starak you can learn a lot of lessons you can implement to your business today and get inspired by these stories that are truly amazing.
These stories are all about the true entrepreneurial spirit and making it online in your first chance, but with hard work and dedication in a niche that there’s money to be spent, in this case advertisers willing to pay him $10,000 dollars and all of this while being on school.
In this interview Matt takes us back to the very beginning of his online success story, starting with his first website created when he was just 15 years old. Matt found himself on the phone closing $10,000 advertising deals in between classes at school, earning enough to buy himself a new BMW with cash by the time he was just 16.
Matt Mickiewicz tells his story about how he started online with the Sitepoint Forums that grew big enough to have the leading online marketplace for selling and buying websites and it’s now known as Flippa.
Later on seeing a need in the marketplace he created 99Designs. As you can see this new venture it’s in the same niche as Sitepoint (Web Development) and you can leverage your Authority Platform to promote your other ventures (Flippa, 99Designs). You need to focus your efforts on only one niche like Matt did to grow big.
Even other freelancer sites have copied what 99Designs have done with their crowdsourcing design contest to give you logo options to choose from.
Yaro and Matt talk about the importance of having a subscriber list and Matt built a Newsletter that started out with 200 people and now it’s over 1,000,000 people!
YARO: In my community in the internet marketing world having a subscribers list it has been always considered the most important aspect of having an online business and not everyone actually do that if you are not told to do it, but you just added one. It that was conscious or…
Matt: It’s been incredible, incredible valuable and it’s probably one of our most valuable assets and it’s growing tremendously going out in the beginning to 200 people and now it’s over 1,000,000 people…
And in Matt words having a subscribers list it’s awesome!
List Building Tips from a 1 Million Subscriber Owner
YARO:Since we are in the topic if you were speaking to a person starting in this game what would be the #1 or #2 things you suggest they do for list building how do you get so many people in a list?
Matt:…Offer something of value in return, an ebook, discount, report, white paper, what have you…
It’s called the The “Blood Hound” Model. Vishen Lakhiani explained his step-by-step process in creating one of his highly lucrative websites by showing his formula.
Becoming the “conduit” in your market is oftentimes an excellent way to make a big entree without having to kill yourself with content creation.
A smart mix of curation and understanding very well where to go look for your target audience, then becoming the “bridge person” (conduit) between an expert in the field and your audience.
This model is super-sweet and hyper-effective.
Don’t make the mistake thinking this model is too simple to actually work.
(Mindvalley recently decided to open-source their entire business. Visit Mindvalley Insights for more information.)
Then i saw an excelent example of content curation on Steven Resell’s blog about the “Blood Hound” Model
Vishen Lakhiani generated $930,000.00 in 18 months from one blog… from scratch!
Steven took all the information on the video and made a very good list of things to do and replicate Vishen Success. I like this way of creating content because you are naturally sharing valuable stuff and also linking naturally to other sites and that’s what google wants. To give value to your “Tribe”.
Follow these steps and build an authority website!
The Steps To Building Authority Websites
In order to build his Remote Viewing blog, he completed the following steps:
Step 1. Setup your blog
He reocmmends you use WordPress, and make sure you choose a decent looking theme.
Vishen recommends the Canvas theme by WooThemes, which incidentally is the same theme I use on many of my sites.
You can read my review of the Canvas theme here.
Step 2. Produce Content
As you already know, you don’t need to “write” your own content to become the expert or dominate your niche, and Vishen recommends the same thing…
He suggests that instead of “writing your own content”, you REVIEW other people’s content online
In other words, search the internet for articles on the topic, get permission from the article author to use the content on your site – then write an ORIGINAL introduction. (I personally don’t curate in this fashion but it worked awesome for him).
Another thing he would do is to post a video from Youtube with an intro and add a comment request at the bottom of the post.
I know… really simple stuff that doesn’t take much effort.
One thing he mentions in the video is that he created about 100 blog posts in short order to his blog and kept adding more content as time went on, and he outsourced all content creation after month 6 (to eLance).
Step 3. Get Leads
Build a list.
It’s essential to your business online.
To do this, he just used a generic aweber form for his blog…
An interesting tidbit was that he added a “Coming Soon” invitation, i.e. an invite to sign up to his list to get access to an upcoming free course in the beginning stages of his blog (since he didn’t have any of that setup at first).
His signup rate for the “coming soon” invite was 37%!
As for what he emailed his subscribers… well, he just sent them back to some of the hottest blog posts a couple of times per week.
And within a 6 month period of time he had created a list of 5,000 people (just from organic traffic).
Step 4. Monetize
He didn’t monetize his blog for 6 months… and when he finally decided to monetize he decided to become an affiliate of the various products already available in the marketplace.
He then interviewed the top experts in the niche and put calls to action in the interview to buy their product.
In his his very first interview he generated over $10,000 in sales; and by his second interview, he generated over $110,000! (from his small list of 5,000 subscribers).
Why did this work?
Because he had built trust and authority.
People prefer to have someone else tell them what to buy, IF it is a recommendation from a trusted source which Vishen became over a 6 month period of sending out good quality information.
He calls this the “Robert Ebert Effect” (Robert Ebert is a film critic… in case you don’t know who he is).
Not only did he become the trusted source of information for his readers, but he also became the “star maker” of the niche (and the #1 affiliate).
When i saw this video my content creation focus changed and i was sold, and as you have seen i have been creating this kind of content. You can implement this right away because it works!
What do you think about this? Do you have concerns of duplicate content penalty? Comment below!
The creator is Andre Chaperon and i highly respect this marketer because it’s different from everybody else and he likes it that way. He does this on purpose and he rejects the status quo.
Giving value upfront without the need of an Optin Form (Squeeze Page) it’s a great way to show you what Andre it’s all about. I know you will love all of this as much as i did and he shows he actually cares about his customers ( who knew that was the key! ).
Before i tell you about Tiny Little Businesses Check out this AWESOME Content:
To show you proof that Andre it’s an ethical marketer and his stuff actually works i will share with you this story.
I wanted to promote Tiny Little Businesses to my “Tribe” (You) because i know this is the real, REAL DEAL
And asked Andre if i could promote TLB.
I have not seen TLB myself and before i sent the email to Andre i was thinking of Joining to get a Glimpse about TLB and what all those Rave Reviews were all About
And actually TLB affilite program it’s a closed program to look at the quality of partners they get. You need to get “whitelisted” to give them money
So this was Andre’s Response:
And he is rigth and that’s solid proof that Andre looks for the benefit of his “Tribe”.
I don’t want to get into TLB because i am full on my plate with projects i need to FOCUS on. Remember the Story of Frank VS Matt?
But if you want to Create Long Term Tiny Little Businesses Doing Real Affiliate Marketing then you need to check out TLB.
I don’t get a comission because i am not whitelisted but i want you to get the benefit of this course that will teach you how to create a business instead of just buying the latest WSO or other program that is just not getting you on the rigth track to just focus on a Business Model that will give you money for the long run.
TLB will teach you about the mindset and doing things rigth. Like creating customer avatars or “Personas” like in the Frank VS Matt Example.
When you try to reach everybody, you reach nobody
Those Actually are personas or Customer Avatars on the Internet Marketing Niche and you do this to focus your marketing message to only one person and not a whole room filled of very different personalities.
You need to focus to just your ideal customer profile in this case a “Frank” and a “Matt”.
I choose to be a “Matt” and you need to switch gears and become a Strategic Thinker. You will learn all that from Andre Chaperon and Steve Grey the creators of Tiny Little Businesses.
I am now whitelisted as an TLB Affiliate (i earn a commission) and i want to give you a bonus if you buy through my link. Remember that i told you i am busy with some “Secret Affiliate Projects” and that’s why i didn’t have the time to join TLB and check it out for this review?
Well i am going to show you my sites. Since the beginning of this year i have earned €515 Euros from just one site using the method that fits very well with what Andre and Steve are teaching in TLB.
I am in the process of setting up 6 Tiny Little Businesses and one have earned me €515 Euros!
I will share with you all of this once you are on month 3 because i don’t want to distract your from your Core Business Training Andre and Steve are going to teach you.
TLB Last Chance (My Business, The iPhone Apps Story)
The other day i was reading an email that i
received from Andre Chaperon and
the title of the email was “[TLB] Sell to the
crazy ones (the weirdos)” and he was
actually talking about a story of himself and
that he is a “weird” customer buying
all the golf club, putters, golf bags and more.
(I will share his email with you at the end)
But the reason of this email is because this
email made me reflect back to when i started this
business on the internet.
I started on 2005 with $200 dollars my father
loaned me to get a hosting account and a domain.
Then
i had a site with no traffic and one thing let to
the other and i landed on a long sales page and
bought
the $97 dollar course and the rest is history.
Then in 2008 i was doing this online business
thing full time and started building my list or
my “Tribe” of followers.
And Guess What?
it worked!
But i started counting and that’s when it hit me!
2005 to 2012 = 8 years of hard work!
Actually i invest a lot of the money back to the
business and when i started
treating this as a business in (2008) the income
started to show up in return.
And the businesses that give me money are
actually built with the Tiny Little Businesses
principles.
Building a long-term site that provide value to
the market you are in.
Do you want to take the long route or have a
short cut?
Take the “Short Cut” and TLB it’s that.
You learn the Right Business Core foundations
from the start and actually you get the right
mindset you need to make it online. Then you
start implementing the things you need in order
to setup your First Tiny Little Business and
doing it as an Affiliate.
Once you can do this as an Affiliate and Earn
Real Money that can get you out of your job.
Later you can get one Level Up and be a Info
Product Marketer.
But you have the foundation of what you need and
not fall into the “Frank” Mentality that you need
another secret to Finally make it online.
You don’t need all that stuff.
You have a business model and you add pieces that
brings value to your business and don’t jump to
other “Opportunities” when you see one.
Be a “Matt”
Not because it’s just the internet you can be
able to NOT work and just push a button and start
earning $500 dollars a month.
You need to do something and that something is
going to make you $500 per month if you follow
what Andre and Steve will teach you on TLB (I
don’t know your skill level so results not
typical i am not making any income claims )
An internet business It’s just like a brick and
mortar business you need to WORK. This doesn’t
sound sexy and that’s why all the people buy into
hype because it’s easy but in the long run it is
painful to see too many people being a “Frank”
It’s like the Famous Angry Bird and Draw
Something Stroy (iPhone Apps)
Long story short both companies where in the
brink of bankruptcy and then they created these
“Magical” apps
and Angry Brids went on to earn in an “over night
push button riches” $10 million dollars in a year
on the App store.
And Draw Something an iPhone App acquired for
$170 million dollars by Zynga Creators of Farm
Ville and many other hit games. All of this after
3 weeks on the Apple App Store and earning 100K
dollars per day and a 30 million user base.
When we see a successful story like this
everybody thinks it’s easy and anyone can do it.
It can be done very easily on the internet.
But…
Both ROVIO (Angry Birds) and OMGPOP (Draw
Something) have created a lot of other games and
they were NOT having success and they were on the
brink of depleting their funding and going out of
business.
They sticked to it and one app made them the big
bucks but after hard work and long term mindset
and planning.
It’s the same with TLB maybe the first it’s not a
hit, but the next one will be your home run
P.S. I will leave you with the Email Andre Sent me
[TLB] Sell to the crazy ones (the weirdos)
———————————————
I’m emailing you because you added yourself
to our ‘Tiny Little Businesses’ waiting list.
———————————————
Hey, it’s Andre here…
This morning I went to meet a buddy for breakfast
at 10:30am.
I chose that time strategically. Because I had an
ulterior motive.
Muahahaha!
You see, here in Spain the shops open at 10am. So
meeting Mark at 10:30 gave me 25 minutes, more or
less.
Perfect for my little detour to the golf shop.
The night before I went to a review site. And I
read just three review comments.
> Just upgraded from original R11. This
> club is even easier to hit with bigger
> head and more adjustability.
> I am now getting great trajectory and
> carry with another 10 yards distance.
> In a word, brilliant!
That was it. That’s all I needed to read.
Took no more than 5 minutes in total.
So this morning I rolled into the pro shop.
Went directly to the TaylorMade rack, and
picked up the new R11S.
Went to the till, and paid.
399 euros later and one minute early, I was at
the breakfast bar waiting for Mark.
If that’s all that happened, well I guess that
wouldn’t have been all that odd.
But exactly 6 days earlier (last Saturday), I
picked up a brand new golf bag.
147 euros.
And three weeks earlier … a 60 degree Titleist
Vokey SM4 wedge.
120 euros.
And the month before that, a TaylorMade RocketBallz
fairway wood.
Another 150 euros.
Two weeks prior to that, the RocketBallz 4 hybrid.
130 euros.
And although the timeline is now getting a little
fuzzy for me, there was also a new Odyssey White
Ice Two-Ball putter.
Well … because my other Odyssey blade putter
wasn’t performing for me.
Which, of course, was the putter’s fault. Not mine.
Crazy right?
Not even close.
I’ve been going to our local David Leadbetter Golf
Academy to get lessons once a week.
The real crazy part … I’m a 28 handicapper. Which
is the worse handicap for a male.
In other words … I’m basically shit.
But each week I tell myself an internal story.
That in order to improve, and lower my handicap,
I need the best equipment.
So the crazy cycle never ends.
I currently have 13 clubs in my bag. Meaning
there is place for ONE MORE club.
So now I’m on constant lookout to see what
I can get to max out what I’m allowed to use.
Who’s the weirdo in this scenario – me?
You’re damn right!
Yet to swing these expensive clubs about, I
need to play golf, of course.
And here in Spain green fees start at 35 euros
a pop on the low end, right up to 82 euros.
A typical round is around 45-50 euros. For one
freakin’ 18 hole round of golf.
It’s bananas.
But I LOVE IT! … absolutely love it to bits.
And as crazy as I may seem to a golf “outsider”,
I’m far from the craziest.
My buddy Mark Thompson is prob’ly worse. And there
are millions just like us all around the world.
Millions.
Which leads me to the point of this email.
Finding the crazy ones. The weirdos. And the
desperate buyers … is one of the keys to
making a killing online.
‘Tiny Little Businesses’ shows you exactly how
to find crazy people like me and MT.
Then REALLY dig deep into understanding the
emotional hot-buttons of that audience.
It’s a process. And we dissect it for you,
in crazy detail.
We’ve opened up TLB for this week. We close
end of play on Sunday (this Sunday, 22nd).
Time to step up to the plate and get serious
about how you approach your online business.
> Hi Andre and Steve. I used to be “Frank”
> but I realized it wasn’t sustainable.
> I bought ARM 2.0 and NanoList which rock!
> I believe anything you say at this point.
> You could sell me shit on a shingle and I
> would eat it (not really).
> I believe in the truth and I don’t have
> any reason to doubt you. I totally understand
> what you guys are about to teach me.
> I hate all the bullshit gimmick shit I’ve
> bought over the past 2 years. Please don’t
> make me lose faith. Thanks. Ray
Ray is not alone. We survey all our new
members. And there’s a common theme that
we’re seeing.
They are sick to death of the magic bullet BS
and the shinny object syndrome.
> Your Frank v Matt story flat out struck
> a chord with me, and was perfect timing.
> No hype, more reality. I haven’t gone
> through TLB yet, but right now you come
> across to me as genuinely interested in
> my success, not just your own.
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I talk about a very important SEO Tactic i want to talk about more in depth because it is very powerful and it’s one of my main SEO Strategies and
You need to do this too.
You can write only for search engines or for real people.
Write an article that is only keyword optimized but give little to no value to real people.
On the other hand you can write a normal article just talking (writing as you talk in real life) about the topic or the point you want to make and give your experience, research and insights in the topic.
6 – Write Articles Based on Traffic Keywords: On what niche are you in? Are you on the weight loss niche? Then enter your main keyword to the Keyword research tool.
Enter your main keyword and watch what other Long Tail keywords you can target. Look for the ones that have less traffic because they will be easier to rank for. Look for keywords in the range of 5,000 searches per month specially in the competitive weight loss niche. Choose 5 keywords with that amount of searches. Then write an article about that keyword. For example you have found the keyword “Weight loss diets for women”
Then write an article starting with the title: 6 Easy Weight Loss Diet Tips for Women
He talks about a very cool tactic you can implement when you are targeting a Highly Competitive Keyword. You can setup a Resource Page with all your Posts on the Topic of the Target Keyword.
I will post the complete article below so you can read it easily.
The #1 WordPress SEO Tactic Every Blogger Should Implement
by Derek Halpern
No joke. In the sea of information about getting higher search engine rankings, this is the ONE tip you can’t skip.
And when you get in the habit of using it day in, and day out, for each one of your articles, you can start seeing some exponential traffic growth over the long term.
What’s the tip? It’s much easier to implement than you think, and you don’t need to know anything about “technology” to pull it off.
How to Optimize Your WordPress Blog for High Search Engine Rankings
This is going to sound so simple, but seriously, it’s one of the best things you can do for your blog.
When you write content, make each one of your articles target one specific keyword.
Now I’m not telling you to create content for the sake of ranking for specific keywords. That’s a horrible strategy.
What I mean is, after you write blog reader focused content, make sure you have a “dream keyword” that you’d like to rank for on your new article.
For example, the video I shared with you last week on the blog post “How to increase blog conversion rates.”
It was helpful content, tailored directly towards you, the blog reader, but eventually, I’m hoping that article will rank for Blog Conversion Rates.
What If You’re Dealing With Highly Competitive Keywords?
That takes a lot more work, for sure, but that’s where resource pages come into play.
I’ll explain.
Instead of having a dream keyword for one article, you come up with a dream keyword for a group of articles.
And then you group those articles on a resource page.
For example, look at our resource page about WordPress SEO. Yes, we’re putting high quality content out about search engine optimization, but ideally, we’d also like to pick up some rankings for WordPress SEO.
And instead of trying to do it with one single article, we’re doing it with a group of articles because we know search engines like content that’s complete, and exhaustive.
One Word of Warning about This Simple Tip
I’ve got to say this because many people make this huge mistake.
When you start using this strategy, do not begin stuffing your content with keywords that you’d like to rank for.
The goal is to take your regular content, and just keep a keyword in the back of your mind while you’re writing it.
Don’t use the keywords for the sake of using the keywords. Remember, you want to put your reader first… always.
Because, even though the search engines can be gamed, they’re actively trying to combat “cheating.”
And while you may get away with some shady tactics for a short while, it’s not worth risking your blog… your blog that you’ve poured your time and effort into… because you tried to take a shortcut.
There’s only so much you can do to your blog… on your own site… that can help you rank higher in search engines.
Aside from this simple tip, the other thing that you can do is sport rock-solid code that will supercharge your SEO.
For example, small changes like having h2 tags surrounding your headlines on your home page… and h1 tags surrounding your headlines on your single post pages.
Or, as another example, if you’re using a left sidebar, right content layout, you’ll want your content loading “before” your sidebar… even though it looks like it comes “after it.”
Things like this matter when it comes to optimizing your blog for search, and Thesis does all of that for you… right out of the box.
So, if you don’t have Thesis, pick it up today. If you do, take comfort in knowing that we’ve got your back when it comes to optimal SEO settings for your WordPress site.
The other part of this strategy is to get links to your individual pages to get them ranked on the search engines.
This is a very powerful strategy and can’t be taken lightly because it works and you are giving google what it wants.
Good Quality Content for their “Searchers” and they will find the info they are looking for and then coming back to google because every time they go to that “colorful” (evil? ) search engine they found what they are looking for.
Implement this strategy now and tell me your experiences!
You need to create an Authority site for long term profits on the internet. If you decided you want to build a business online then you know that it requires work and a long term strategy to do that. And Online Business is no different from an Offline Business but You can Leverage the Internet and work from anywhere in the world with just an internet connection.
To build an Authority Site i have two blueprints you can follow.
Once you follow those steps then you need to promote your site and you can use this 5 long term link building techniques to get traffic from google and other search engines.
Promotion is the most important part once you have built your website because nobody will see your site and make money by list building, selling your products or doing affiliate marketing.
Let me share you this guest post from John Chow’s blog that talks about the Blog Networks Google Slap and how you can do this link building techinques and never be penalized or be frowned by google.
I will post this article below for you to read it completely.
5 Ethical Long-Term Link Building Techniques
by Guest Blogger
You’d probably have read about the recent happenings around Google and Build My Rank. John even published a post on it here a few days ago.
To be sincere, I was as surprised as you when I came across that post as I can imagine how much loss the owner of the service and its users will have incurred.
As much as I love the concept of it, automated isn’t something to smile upon if you own an online business and really care about it, especially if you depend on the search engines for your results.
The key to SEO success is to be as ethical as possible; every search engine I know of has advocated this, and all the trends have proved to be in favor of those who are ethical.
If you’re still involved in unethical link building practices for your online business, it is time to change. If you don’t know much about link building, this article will help. I’ll be sharing with you 5 ethical long-term link building techniques guaranteed to work. Most of these techniques I’ll be using with my led tubes website, so I think I should share them with you first.
1. Guest Blogging
You’ve read about it, and it’s not new, but it’s effective.
One thing that surprises me about guest blogging is the rate at which big companies are using it, whereas bloggers pay little attention to it.
Guest blogging is the process of writing a guest post for another blog, with the hope of gaining quality backlinks, exposure, or traffic back to your site. It’s been for a few years now, and everything proves to show that it works.
The key to success in guest blogging is for you to focus on authoritative blogs that work. Not necessarily smaller blogs, but not also the blogs that are too big. Focus on the moderate blogs, observe your results and be ready to tweak when necessary.
The key to successful link building via guest blogging is to be as unique and informative as possible in your guest posts. Focus on offering as much value as possible, let people see it and you’ll get the results you desire.
If you don’t know what guest blogging is, check out this article on YoungPrePro.
2. Trackback Links
Very few people talk about this, but it is quite effective. There are two advantages to focusing on generating trackback links. First, it requires you to link to other bloggers in your article, and this is healthy for your blog in the search engines. Search engines like it when people link back to other sites, since it is authoritative sites that usually do this. It means you can be trusted, and that you don’t only care about getting ranked.
The second advantage of linking back to other bloggers in your article is that it helps you score permanent links. Most bloggers display trackbacks on their blog, because it is a way to boost their ego and let everyone know that someone linked to them.
Trackback links won’t be deleted, they would always be given a priority by the bloggers that get them, and they are keyword rich since they contain your post title (this is a privilege ordinary comments won’t enjoy).
Linking back to other bloggers also helps them know you; it fosters a relationship between you and them, and increases your future chances of success. Link to other bloggers, there’s a lot of benefits for you in it!
3. Video Links
Videos can provide you multiple advantages if you use them right. First, the search engines give them priority over text and other mediums of content; in other words, your video will be ranked higher, linked to a lot more and then benefit your site on the long run.
You can also submit your video to several streaming sites without having to worry about having duplicate content problems; in other words, you can use one video to get as much as 20 unique backlinks.
Videos are becoming more popular and effective nowadays, both for links and better user experience so make sure you start doing more of them.
4. eBook Distribution
If you search for education related keywords you will notice a lot of pdf files already indexed in the search engines. The fun thing is that if you try to read any one of those pdf files you will notice that those files actually have their own pagerank, which is often very high in most cases. In other words, if you could have 20 pagerank 4 ebooks linking back to your site with your desired keywords, you can imagine how much impact that will make.
Very few people write ebooks to build links, so this particular tactic is highly underutilized. Here’s your opportunity to capitalize on it.
Focus on writing quality ebooks, embed links back to your site in them, and try to market the heck out of them.
5. Be Interviewed
You’ll be surprised at the number of people willing to interview you just to build their portfolio. You don’t necessarily need to be established in your field; you just have to be interesting and unique.
It doesn’t matter which field you’re in, you can still be interviewed. Contact other bloggers in your niche for interview opportunities, ask relevant media outlets whether they want to interview you, and subscribe to sites like Help a Reporter Out to get updates on who might be interested in interviewing you.
What are Your Tips?
These are the link building techniques I’ll be using with my led tubes site, what are your tips? What is working for you? Has your site ever suffered as a result of unethical links from other sites? Kindly share them below!
John Holt is a professional led tubes expert that gives link building tips.
I think this link building techniques are very powerful and Guest Blogging and Ebook Distribution is the most important of them and i am sure going to implement those on List Building Blogger
Penguin update is now the new most talked about topic on the SEO circles and everybody seem to have lost track of how to optimize their sites to rank in the search engines.
In this great interview by Yaro Starak you can learn a lot of lessons you can implement to your business today and get inspired by these stories that are truly amazing.
