5 Bucks a Day

I picked up an interesting product today, and rebranded it with the name of Quick Site Indexer.

What the tool does is submits your site to several dozen directories and search engines, promising to get your site noticed and indexed quickly.

So before recommending it to anyone, I wanted to run an experiment.  Here’s what I did:

1.  Around noon today, I purchased the domain name.  I loaded the squeeze page to the domain, and uploaded the software.

2.  Then I ran the application (it runs on your desktop, in a Windows environment).  It took about 3 to 5 minutes to do the submissions.  I only needed to type in the site name and a keyword.

3.  I forgot about it until after dinner tonight.  I logged onto my computer at home around 9 p.m., and checked to see if the site had been indexed.  Sure enough it had!  I don’t know how long it took, but it was definitely less than 9 hours, which is pretty darn good.

As a thank you to my readers, feel free to download the tool yourself, no charge.  If it helps you, and you want to thank me, buy one of my inexpensive products like Action Enforcer, but certainly there’s no obligation.

You can get the website indexer here:
http://www.quicksiteindexer.com

Feel free to comment on your own experiment with Quick Site Indexer.  Even if your site is already indexed in some of the search engines, QSI will help you get new backlinks.

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Last week I ran a webinar with my friend, Ron Davies, where he spent about 90 minutes explaining the difference between Twitter followers and Twitter listeners.

Yes,he has close to 50,000 followers right now, and he showed me how I could get that many within a couple months if I wanted to, but the point is, why would I want to?

What I really want is people to follow me that view me as someone to listen to, not just as someone in a pile.

So Ron explained the difference, how to get people to listen to you, how to find JV partners using Twitter, and lots of other cool things, but especially he showed us how to look professional on Twitter, so that if somebody of influence decided they might want to do business with you, they would make a fovorable decision.

You can pick up the recording and transcript of the webinar here: ==> Twitter Muscle Webinar

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I just picked up a truly wonderful set of videos yesterday that I can share with you.  The name of them is “High Page Rank”.

There are over 3 hours of videos spread over 12 separate modules, along with a 30+ page report, and Powerpoint slides included.

They include discussions of page rank in general, and ways to both attain high page rank, but more importantly how to get more traffic to your web sites.  Individual videos discuss article marketing, digg, stumbleupon, squidoo, and more.  They’re very well done.

Although each one could probably be sold separately for $7 to $17, you can get them all in a bundle at a very cheap rate if you rush over to my dime sale site, where the price started at $2.95 (ridiculous, I know), Even if the price maxes out at the full $17 that I set it for, it’s a bargain.

Don’t take this lightly because of the price, you’ll get a good education inside of 3 hours, and did I mention that you can resell them, or if you have a membership site, you can add them there (like I did at Earn1KaDay.com).

I mentioned in a prior post that I was going to start offering lots of bargains, and affiliate marketing opportunities, via the dime sale model.  I released Power Effects last week, it was a gigantic hit.  If you missed it, check it out:
http://www.1kad.com/PowerEffects

Anyway, back to the high rank video series, you can check it out here (there’s a full video posted on the page, it will give you an idea as to the quality):
http://www.1kad.com/high-page-rank-videos.php

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I’ve been quiet on here the last couple weeks.

What excuse can I use? Short winter days? Super Bowl fever? Too much else going on?

Whatever reason it was, I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with wikidot, which I’ve mentioned before, and now I pretty much am happy with what I’ve learned in the last month. In fact, so happy that I took the time (on Super Sunday, no less) to put together a few videos and a report on how to get top search engine rankings with wikis.

What better way to continue this conversation than to point you to my wiki so that you can learn more about what I’ve been doing while I haven’t been blogging? If you want to know more about how I’ve been getting great search engine rankings on some competitive keyword phrases, you need to visit my Wikidot Tutorial page.

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I just finished reading a very interesting new eBook yesterday. It was actually written by a gentlemen from the UK named Latif that had purchased my “5 Bucks a Day” eBook in 2006, and he said it did give him some inspiration, so I’m happy about that.

The name of the book is Google Snatch. It’s a very comprehensive discussion of how to obtain free clicks to your web sites. Rather than pay several dollars per AdWords click in very competitive markets, Latif has figured out how to get visitors for free, going head to head with large corporations for high value keyword phrases.

Some of the book is about basic site structure, some is about writing unique content, some is pure theory and motivation, but the best part is a blueprint as to how you can put together your sites to give your visitors what they’re searching for, and of course at the same time keeping Google, MSN, and Yahoo happy, since what they want is for their searchers to find what they’re looking for.

Google Snatch was just recently released, but even so it’s at the top of the Clickbank Marketplace in rankings. I think that has a lot to do with the latest “slap”, webmasters are trying to find ways to make their sites conform to the increasingly challenging quality guidelines.

So, Latif, perhaps coincidentally, has released his report at the perfect time. I highly recommend it. It’s a solid 125 pages, with over 100 being pure meat and potatoes, the back 20 is a comprehensive list of article and site directories to help you get your sites listed in the various search engines and article directories. This is a very complete guide, and I like the step by step approach Latif follows.

Get it here: ==> Google Snatch

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I wrote in 5 Bucks a Day about my first successful campaign that I was using to test out the strategy. I give details about exactly what I did back then (mid November 2005 through late December 2006) to clear $38,000 profit in around 6 weeks.

Neat as that was, I did better than that last holiday season.

And in both years I could have done much, much better if I had been a bit brighter about it. This year, hopefully I’ll take my own hint, but being a perpetual procrastinator makes it tough.

You see, the last 2 years, I’ve identified niches that were tailor made for profits, niches that I would have a hard time losing with, and bought traffic from Google AdWords.

If I would have identified those niches about 6 to 8 weeks earlier, then I could have done things to get to the top of the search engines for important keywords, and gotten free traffic in addition to the traffic I paid for. By doing so, I could have probably at least tripled my profits.

It would have been extra work, but doesn’t it seem like it would be worth it? Even to pay a SEO expert to do the work for me (it would have to be someone I really trust, though, because in that kind of do or die atmosphere, if the “expert” would fail, or worse yet, if he would steal my niche ideas by blabbing to friends, it would have been a disaster).

Anyway, now is about the time (maybe even a week or two past the time) when you need to identify those holiday niches, put up your pages, and find ways to get traffic coming to them. If you can get free traffic early you can determine how much each visitor to your site is worth, and thereby determine how much you can afford to pay to buy more visitors. Or you can just take the free traffic.

Personally, I keep saying, and I’ll say it once more, I’m not greedy. If I can get $10 bills for free, that’s cool. But if I can buy them for $6 each, I have no problem doing that as well.

Don’t procrastinate any longer, get your holiday sites ready NOW.

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I just saw a post on the official Google blog talking about their new Hot Trends search page.

Here’s yet another research tool to tell you what people are looking for right here, right now.  Or yesterday or the day before if you care to go back in time.

Admittedly, most of the results won’t be anything most people will create a web site for, or even be able to monetize if they did, but occasionally I suspect you’ll find something that will be interesting that you can promote or design a page for.

You never know what’s going to get hot overnight.  I might have told the story here before, if I did I apologize, but I think I just might have told it more privately.  In any event, I had a page go crazy a couple years ago, I know it was May 15th because it was on my son’s birthday, I think it was 2 years ago, whenever the latest Star Wars movie was about to come out.

Out of nowhere I had 10’s of thousands of hits on a single page on one of my sites.  All those people were looking for Star Wars t-shirts, and my page was ranked #1 on Yahoo at the time.  Normally I would get a few hits a day, on that day it exploded.

That’s why I advise people to build VRE (virtual real estate), the more pages you get out there, the more opportunities you have for serendipitous events to occur.

The Star Wars hit wasn’t the only time I’ve been fortunate, and it won’t be the last.

Anyway, check out the Hot Trends page, and start thinking about how current trends will enable you to predict future ones, and profit from them.

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