Entries from July 2008 ↓

You probably don’t know it but this is just one of several blogs that I write for on a regular basis. Isn’t one blog enough for anyone? Well, yes, it is for some, but you should never underestimate the power of blogs.

For example Yaro Starak started blogging in 2004, taught himself how to attract traffic by using the power of blogs, and now earns between $10,000 and $35,000 every month from blogging.

I started reading Yaro’s posts in 2006 when I was interested in building traffic to my sites. But then I found that blogs could also be money earners in their own right. So I invested in Yaro’s coaching - a mentoring system that really opened my eyes to the true power of blogs.

Yaro doesn’t run these coaching programs very often, but he’s opened his doors one more time today. If you are interested in earning from blogs or just, as I first did, want to know more about attracting traffic to your sites using the power of blogs, then you should seriously consider joining Yaro’s coaching system and learning from a master.

Not for nothing is this coaching program called ‘Blog Mastermind’. You can find all the details here…

The Blog Mastermind Coaching Program

Sorry if that title sounds dramatic. It isn’t about me, thank goodness, it’s about a popular lecturer at Carnegie-Mellon University called Randy Pausch.

When he had two months to live he gave his last lecture to his students. This lecture proved so popular, so inspiring, that he was asked to give a reprise of the lecture on Oprah.

If you were told you had two months to live what would you say? What would you do?

Here’s what Randy Pausch did. It takes just 11 minutes to watch. It might just change the way you look at life…

http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=ithct48cqw

Randy Pausch died yesterday.

R.I.P.

Traffic - it’s a simple problem. I’ll let you into a secret. When I first started selling online I thought that all I had to do was put up a website and I would get visitors. And from visitors would come sales.

So I crafted my website lovingly. I incorporated all the SEO tips and tricks that the books told me too. I subscribed my site to all the major search engines. And I sat back and waited.

Every day I logged into my website stats to see how many visitors I’d had. After a month I was overjoyed to see 8 visitors on one day. Hurrah, this is just the beginning, I thought. Until I checked and found they were just from a search engine robot.

Vainly I looked in Google, Yahoo and MSN for sight of my site in the search engine pages. It was like being on a desert island scanning the horizon for the sight of a rescue ship.

I couldn’t understand where I had gone wrong. Then someone mentioned backlinks. This was so long ago that Web 2.0 hadn’t been thought of and I hadn’t got the faintest idea where to get backlinks. In fact I quickly realised I hadn’t got the faintest idea where the visitors to my web page were going to come from.

It was John Reese who spelled it out for me. In order to get visitors I had to find the mainstreams of traffic and stand in its path. Remember the old sandwich board men? They patrolled up and down busy city streets because that’s where the traffic was.

The trouble was that I didn’t know where the traffic was. So I made a momentous decision. I decided to invest in John’s Traffic Secrets. And soon I found myself not in the path of just one traffic highway, but multiple traffic streams.

It’s simple. Stand in the path of the traffic and you’ll get visitors. Offer them what they want and you’ll get sales. Here’s the three videos that explain what you’ll get if you invest in John’s massively updated Traffic Secrets 2…

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/jpaston/v3.html

Now I ‘ve seen other marketers who are offering bonuses to Traffic Secrets 2. Invariably those bonuses are about getting you traffic. Erm, am I missing something here? If you invest in Traffic Secrets 2 you won’t need bonuses on how to get traffic - because Traffic Secrets contains everything you need to know anyway!

So I’ve decided to be far more helpful. If you do invest in Traffic Secrets 2 I’m going to help you get started turning the traffic you’ll soon be receiving into sales. I’ll help you set up a squeeze page, I’ll provide the graphics and template for it, heck I’ll even give you a hot product for you to give away to attract subscribers.

Then I’ll help you set up an autoresponder sequence of emails that will turn subscribers into buyers. If you don’t have a product to sell or a niche to sell in we’ll work those out together.

I’m not going to put a stupid price on this ‘bonus’. Hey, you know how much one to one tuition normally costs. I’m willing to invest my time because I want you to succeed. I don’t want you to have to go through the same waiting period that I did when I first started.

When Traffic Secrets 2 goes live I’ll send out complete details of my offer in an email. (If you haven’t already done so you’ll need to subscribe to this blog to get these details). Then, if you’ve decided to invest in Traffic Secrets 2, you’ll be off to a flying start in your online marketing career!

A few years ago I invested in, what was then, a revolutionary course by John Reese called ‘Traffic Secrets’. It cost, then, the seemingly high expense price of $997 but you know what? I have never regretted forking out a single penny of that $997 because what I discovered by following the original Traffic Secrets has paid me back thousands of times over.

By far the biggest problem that I’m most asked to solve is ‘how can I build my list’. I can tell you - building an email list is simple, you put up a squeeze page and offer a great book to your erstwhile subscribers. The problem is, actually, much greater than that because…

It all hinges around traffic. Unless you can drive interested internet surfers to your squeeze page it isn’t going to do a thing. In fact you can put up the best, most persuasive, web page in the history of the internet, populate it with drop-dead gorgeous products that no-one can resist, and you won’t get one subscriber or sale without traffic.

So, if traffic is the answer, how do you get it? Tomorrow you’re going to find the answer. Because tomorrow sees the launch of Traffic Secrets 2.

But before you turn away I’m absolutely delighted to tell you that Traffic Secrets 2 isn’t going to cost you $997. In fact it’s not even going to cost you half that. Because, although its author, John Reese, has updated and expanded the ultimate course on generating traffic, he’s also brought it within reach of anyone who’s serious about their online career.

You can get an idea of what Traffic Secrets 2 has in store for you by previewing John’s videos here…

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/jpaston

Even if you’re not interested in buying Traffic Secrets I do suggest you view these videos because it will give you the background to how traffic generation methods have changed recently and what you have to do to maximize your website or blog’s potential.

There’s one more video which I’ll post shortly before the release of Traffic Secrets 2 tomorrow.

OK guys and gals, here’s what you’ll find behind the closed doors of Google Nemesis.

Let me say right at the start that Google Nemesis is designed for the relative newcomer to Affiliate Marketing. The concept of Google Nemesis is to take you, step-by-step, through an essentially simple process of creating a review website.

Now don’t fret. You don’t need to know anything about HTML or domain names or uploading sites to a webhost. That’s all taken care of
by the software at Google Nemesis.

Actually the page generator is called Google Slasher, probably because it was dreamt up by an associate of Chris X before it was marketed under the DJK banner.

Here’s a quick review page I knocked up using text from my blogs. Google Nemesis will help you find products like these that will fit into any niche you want to promote (I’ve stuck with the make money niche here, but you’ll do better finding a less competitive niche) as it helps you delve into the Clickbank Marketplace direct from the review generator.

First let’s look at the blank template. There are two templates, blue for three product reviews and red for two product reviews.

Every text entry is editable on the page. You can also change the style of each text field using a WISIWYG editor panel. 
You can see my final review page live at

http://www.cbguides.com/howto/SuperAffiliateStar.html

That’s the domain used for all Google Nemesis review sites with the subdomain generated by the category you choose for your review page.

Once your page is live you’re then given tactics for creating an Adwords campaign that will bring traffic to the URL. Again this is a step-by-step process and I can’t give too much away here except that I can tell you it involves ’shadowing’ the keywords of existing, successful campaigns.

Then, when you start receiving traffic you can track your affiliate link hits and sales from the in-built stats collator. Of course, once you are adept at using Google Adwords, you’ll be using Google Analytics to refine your ad campaigns, but the inbuilt stats will also let you see results from all your marketing efforts including article marketing.

If you’re stuck for niche ideas or just want a quick way to get started with Adwords then, when you sign up to Google Nemesis, you’ll be given the chance to opt for the Blueprints. These delve deeper into keyword selection and analysis of results and will help you become more profitable faster.

And that’s it, in a nutshell. As I said this really is designed for the new, wannabe, affiliate marketer. If you’re aim is to build up your own sites on your own domains then you’d do better with Profit Praxis which goes a whole lot further than Nemesis.

The downside of Google Nemesis is that you don’t have control over the visual layout of your sites, nor can you (currently) add images or headers. Also you’re stuck with the ‘cbguides.com’ URL which isn’t as ideally SE friendly as it could be.

But that’s not the point of ‘Nemesis’ which is really based around generating fast profits from Google Adwords campaigns. Your monthly membership includes the review generator, the hosting, the testing and tracking plus the ongoing training if you select the Blueprints option. If that sounds attractive then you should make your monthly membership fee back in spades.

Click here to find out more about Google Nemesis…

Today’s big launch (there’s a launch of one IM product or another just about every day, but you don’t always get to hear about it) is for Google Nemesis, the latest and greatest from fellow UK marketer Chris X of Day Job Killer fame.

This isn’t going to be a message persuading you to buy Google Nemesis. I’d rather give you some hints on what it promises to be first. Because I really think you should be looking beyond the hype whipped up by Chirs’s JV partners in order to see whether Google Nemesis is of any use to you at all.

As is common with big launches these days, the author often provides much of the info that’s going to be available in the ebook or ecourse as a ‘preview’ video or document to the launch.

Chris actually gave out more than a few clues to the background of Google Nemesis in the short reports he released. You can read a couple of them here…

Review Page Blueprint

Track and Test Blueprint

This isn’t the be-all and end-all of Google Nemesis, but it does show that ‘Nemesis’ is going to be more practical than Chirs’s previous works.

I jumped on the Day Job Killer bandwagon when it was first launched because I thought it was truly innovative in the way it taught how to use Google Adwords successfully. But Google, and Adwords, don’t stay still for long and, as Chris points out, the competition for keywords is now fiercer than ever before.

If Google Nemesis can solve the keyword competition conundrum then I’ll be the first to hail ‘Nemesis’ as the new Day Job Killer. I’ll wait for the launch and see!

(Want to know more, now? Click here to see the preview of Google Nemesis).