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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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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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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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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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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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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What it is, in a nutshell, is the best of all results captured on a single page, whether the result is a web page, a video, a press release, a news item, etc..  You can read more about it here on the official Google blog.

It should be welcome news to searchers, and not so welcome news to Internet Marketers.   A page that would have been in the top spots in the past will most likely be pushed down the results.  For example, if your page was #4 in normal results, now you will not only be behind the first 3 results, but a couple videos, a couple news feeds, a few images, etc., so that there’s a chance you would be pushed to the 2nd page of search results.

How that will affect search engine optimization is too early to tell, but there’s a good chance that it will cause more competition for paid ads to regain lost position on the first page.  Good for Google.  Good for Google shareholders.  Good for searchers.  Not so good for web developers.

Ten years ago, even 5 years ago, who would have imagined that searching for something would be such a big business, and so complicated?

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Registerfly has been a popular domain registrant, but in the last year or so, service has been less than spectacular, to say the least. It is now being shut down by ICANN as an accredited registrar.

In the past I’ve used Registerfly to register domains, as well as others. Registerfly was cheap and efficient back when things were running smoothly, but things have not been running smoothly lately.

I’ve heard horror stories recently about domains being locked and domain owners unable to renew or transfer them, essentially ruining their business. This is a serious situation.

I urge anyone reading this that has registered domains with Registerfly to act immediately to transfer them to another accredited registrar.

Personally, I use Enom, NameCheap, and GoDaddy, and have had no problems with any of them.

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Though I’ve bought others, I primarily used Pixelfast in the past because of the ease of use to get some quick ideas of niche possibilities. It used the popular Overture Search Term Suggestion Tool, which started acting up. It was rumored to have died, which wasn’t true, but since it was so unstable it really hurt my productivity and ability to find new niches.

Then along came my friend James Jones, who just happened to have something he wanted me to test. Micro Niche Finder.

With MNF, the theory is that you type in a root keyword or short phrase, like how to, and it brings back a couple hundred or so matches. Then you can pick interesting “long tail” phrases, get the monthly search volume, and if still interesting, get the number of exact matches (theoretically the competition). All in one simple to use desktop tool.

Every time I play with MNF I am able to find great phrases with decent search volume and very low competition. For example the other day I found a keyword phrase with 420 monthly searches and just 4 competitors. Another one with 2100 searches and 17 competitors. In just a couple minutes. With very little effort at all.

Regardless of how you’re intending to earn income on the Internet, one of the basic tools you need is something to help you do keyword research. If you’re designing a web site, your pages have to be optimized for what people are searching for.

Likewise if you’re doing Bum Marketing. If you’re putting in all that time and effort to write and submit articles, you need to be sure people are searching for the phrase you’re optimizing your title for, and you need to avoid as much competition as possible.

The same is true with PPC marketing, obviously.

James has prepared a free video demonstrating how simple it is to use Micro Niche Finder. I recommend you watch it, at the very least. It will show you how a real pro approaches keyword research. Yes, everything Micro Niche Finder does can be done with other tools, but as far as I know it can’t be done as quickly or as easily. Time is money to me. Not only will this tool save you time, it will give you more time to find more income streams.

Finding income streams is what the 5 Bucks a Day strategy is all about, and that’s why I’m so excited about Micro Niche Finder.

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I’ve been trying to learn as much as I could about it, and recently I bought an eBook on the subject, by Tiffany Dow, called Social Networking on Squidoo. If you’re in the learning phase, or just past it, you should check out that book.

But that’s not what I want to mainly tell you about. Tiffany recently held a contest to see who could end up with the best ranked lens for the same term. She went head to head with a couple dozen or her readers, and actually 2 of them beat her out.

You can pick up the free report which tells some of the things the various people did to achieve the high rankings. It’s great stuff. Pick up your Squidoo Cheat Sheet now, it’s free, and it’s great.

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