Archive for July, 2007
Hot PPC Tool Available Again
Posted by Anik Singal in Affiliate Classroom Events and Products, Affiliate Marketing Tuesday, 10 July 2007 13:47 1 Comment
For those of you who missed getting Google Cash Detective, it’s now available again. You can read my prior post about this killer tool here.
They’ve also made improvements to Google Cash Detective. For one thing, it’s now a hosted application, so if you’re like me and hate installing scripts, there’s no installation hassles or server performance issues to deal with.
Also included is historical data on more than 1 milliion keywords. That means if you choose to crawl one of those keywords, there’s no waiting – you’ll get data immediately.
Google Cash Detective will probably sell out fast, since it will only remain open for one week or the next 500 new users – whichever comes first. I strongly advise you to check it out now, before it’s pulled off the market again!
Do You Wear a Black Hat or a White Hat?
Posted by Kathy Jackson in Affiliate Marketing, Best Business Practices, Website Development Monday, 9 July 2007 18:27 No Comments
A long time ago (my grandpa tells me) every Saturday at the matinee movie attended by every kid in town over six-years-old, the cowboys rode across the screen (Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Randolph Scott, etc). It was easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys.
The good guys wore white hats and the bad guys always wore black hats – and the good guys ALWAYS won! I guess that is where the term ‘black hat SEO’ came from.
Black Hat SEO will get you in big trouble. And if you don’t know what Black Hat SEO consists of, you can be practicing it and not even know it. Here are two Black Hat SEO tactics that you really want to avoid:
1. Invisible or tiny text: Using text that is the same color as the background upon which it is printed makes it invisible. Using a font that is so small that it is unreadable also effectively makes text invisible. Hiding text behind pictures or graphics, likewise, make text invisible… and all of these techniques are considered Black Hat SEO tactics. Google and other search engines will throw you out on your proverbial ear if they catch you and it isn’t worth what little SEO advantage that it might provide.
2. Key word stuffing: Yes, keywords are important, and using keywords as often as possible is definitely a good SEO tactic. It is only a white hat SEO tactic, however, when the key words are used in a way that makes sense to the reader. The spiders are very, very good at spotting sites that are practicing key word stuffing, which is repeating a keyword over and over and over in an unnatural and forced way. We’ve all see sites like those, and we all know how annoying they are!
The point is, there are white hat SEO techniques that are just as effective as most of the black hat SEO techniques. The white hat SEO techniques also have the great advantage of being legit and “legal” according to search engine rules – and they won’t get you banned by the very search engines that you are trying to improve your PageRank with. So wear a white hat… and be one of the good guys!
Going Crazy with Mike Filsaime
Posted by Anik Singal in Affiliate Classroom Events and Products, Affiliate Marketing Friday, 6 July 2007 17:50 No Comments
Tonight at Midnight EST – the minute we hit 7/7/2007 – Mike Filsaime will launch what I consider to be the most original business building course of 2007 called the 7-Figure Code. I have to say it’s refreshing to be able to recommend a product that’s full of NEW information, not the same old stuff we’ve seen over and over.
What makes the 7-Figure Code so special? Mike actually reveals every detail of how he built HIS online empire. And I mean EVERY crazy detail – the real insider stuff that no entrepreneur in his right mind tells anybody – at least not until he writes his memoirs. Mike tells you his exact monthly revenues, which products bring in what % of sales, how he outsources, etc. etc. etc.
Believe me, it can take YEARS of working your way through the system – the hard way – to learn what Mike teaches. In fact, when I saw what he was revealing about his own business, I really thought he went a little loony. Plus Mike’s offering incredibly valuable bonuses during the first 77 minutes after launch – stuff he could release separately for thousands of dollars.
Being the entrepreneurial type myself, this all just blew me away – it’s so far beyond the typical Internet Marketing stuff. I felt so strongly about it that I put together a bonus package that’s totally different from what you’re used to.
Besides offering some of our most popular and high-end products (like our $997 Affiliate Manager Course) – there’s a lot of new, original material created specially by me to COMPLIMENT Mike’s course.
In my bonus package I too reveal a lot of the inner workings of my own 7-figure business tactics – including how I corrected course after making a huge 6-figure mistake last year! In other words, I want to supplement what you learn from Mike – give you MORE of what he’s teaching. That should make Mike’s course 10 times more effective for you.
Now we all know Mike’s affiliates will offer bonus packages with a “value” of a gagillion dollars. Some will be good, some may be the typical resale rights or rewritten PLR you see all the time. So just remember: choose bonuses based on how much they help YOU. Ask yourself:
Will the bonus help you get the most out of the investment you make in Mike’s course?
Will it help you learn the business skills necessary to HANDLE a 7-figure revenue?
I’ve tried to create a bonus package that will do all that – and more – for you. So click here to check it out now… and be sure to get online tonight at Midnight EST to make sure you don’t miss Mike’s own quick start bonuses!
Blogging to the Bank Reviewed
Posted by AC Editorial Team in Affiliate Marketing, Blog Marketing Monday, 2 July 2007 18:38 3 Comments
In the past, you may have you heard of a 22 year old guy, Rob Benwell who wrote the book “Blogging To The Bank.” He came out with this top-seller about blogging last year, but unfortunately, while the overall book was excellent, the “white hat” community had a few problems with it being too “black hat.”
Well now it seems Rob has changed his methods a little in an attempt to please everyone; and also create Blogs that last forever.
Of course, I don’t have any experience with this, but it seems like black-hat strategies allow you to make a quick buck, and then die away, You really have to mass-produce them quickly to keep up – and make money before the search engines shut you down.
It’s stressful, annoying and for the most part, a waste of time.
However, with Rob’s latest (just released today) version of “Blogging To The Bank,” he reveals all the strategies that he uses to create blogs that not only last forever but are optimized to convert into affiliate sales. Rob gives you details on everything you need:
- Where to set-up the blogs
- What plug ins to use (how to install them)
- Exactly where to put your ads
- How to use Private Label content
- How many times to post
- Where to ping
- What Web 2.0 utilties to use and how… and more. . .
It’s about 61 pages long, and even though it’s short, it covers Web 2.0 concepts like how he uses Squidoo to generate massive traffic. This section alone could save you from making some big mistakes.
It’s a very inexpensive product and MORE than worth the read. This is absolutely a sure proof way to start your online business if you have not yet and are struggling to figure out what business model to use.
Gone Phishing!
Posted by Kathy Jackson in Affiliate Marketing, Best Business Practices, E-mail Marketing Monday, 2 July 2007 15:00 1 Comment
I like to FISH for fish….the kind that swim in lakes and rivers and have gills and scales. Fishing (with an ‘F’) is a wholesome, outdoor activity that it would be hard to find fault with. But fishing (with an ‘F’) is not the kind of phishing that I’m talking about here. I’m talking about the unscrupulous act of phishing for information….YOUR information.
Phishing is a term used to describe a particularly obnoxious attempt to trick you into giving up your personal information to a person who is not trustworthy. In the case of phishing, YOU are the fish that somebody wants to catch.
A phishing email will arrive in your inbox and look as though it has been sent from a legitimate business like PayPal or your bank or mortgage company. Unless you are diligent, it is very easy to get caught by a phishing email. There are some tip-offs that will identify a phishing email for what it is.
- You will not be addressed by name. The letter will begin with Dear Friend or Dear Customer or Dear Account Holder. Emails that are REALLY from legitimate businesses will use your name.
- The email will ask you to click on a link that is included in the email where you are supposed to verify your personal information…. your account number, your social security number, your password, your credit card number etc. Legitimate businesses will NEVER ask you to click on a link to verify information. NEVER!
I am not trying to make you paranoid. I just want you to be diligent. The best policy is simply never click on a link in an email that you are the least bit suspicious of. Legitimate companies won’t ask you to supply or verify personal information. THEY already have it. The senders of phishing emails WANT it.
