Two more prizes today from our customer appreciation giveaway!

1.  Sony High-Definition Video Camera goes to Jill_Bond

2.  Panasonic Lumix Semi-Pro Camera goes to ThomasMueller

Remember, you just have to be following me on Twitter to have a shot at winning!

Two more prizes today from our customer appreciation giveaway!

1.  Final Cut Express 4 goes to Don_Heath

2.  PlayStation 3 goes to Eggman1

Remember, you just have to be following me on Twitter to have a shot at winning!

Ok..we’re giving away two prizes today from our customer appreciation giveaway!

1.  iPod Touch goes to Rex Turner

2.  $500 in cash goes to Ezili

In case anyone is interested…the way I do this, is I download all twitter followers into excel, then I use a random number generator to pick two numbers.  Whoever’s in that row number, is the winner!

Remember, you just have to be following me on Twitter to have a shot at winning!

My father is 65 years old.  He’s retired, he’s very smart, he’s a mechanical engineer by education…he left Corporate America at 50 after being a very successful executive.  He’s an analytical guy…certainly not very “salesy”…in addition, he has VERY little technical experience with computers, web sites, etc.

So…naturally, after listenting to me talk his ear off about Internet marketing for years…he wanted to give it a go.  I kind of tried to talk him out of it.  He really doesn’t strike me as the “marketing type”, he has zero marketing experience, he has no technical experience, and he seemed a bit skeptical of the whole thing really…so I wasn’t sure he’d really take it seriously.  I didn’t want to see him fail, and I didn’t want to be the Internet marketing teacher that couldn’t even coach his own Dad! (more…)

I’m surprised I don’t see more people talking about this.  It’s a great new tool to help research your market.  People type in actual questions into search engines all the time.  If you could see all of these for a particular niche…you could do 2 important things.

• Come up with nice long tail keyword phrases
• Understand what your market is looking for…and try to give it to them (conversions!!!)

Well now, thanks to Wordtracker Labs…you can do just that.

Simply put in a very broad term for your market or niche…and it will return the questions that people are typing into the search engines…VERY nice.

Wordtracker Labs - Questions Tool

Here’s the Link

Those of us who use Adwords to drive traffic to our sites spend a LOT of money (going up all the time I might add) for the privelege.  Of course, we hope to get a good conversion rate and eek out a profit.  But…there is more that we can do with this data that we’ve paid for.  It amazes me how many people don’t take the time to do this.

The general idea, is to find high volume keywords, that convert, and have low organic search engine ranking competition.  Here’s how I go about it.

1. I make a list of my high ctr, high converting, high traffic keywords by looking in adwords editor and slicing/dicing/sorting keywords and stats.  You could also just use the adwords web interface.
2. I go into the logs of the my site (google analytics, awestats, webalizer etc. ) and I get the top 100 or so kw phrases that drove traffic to the site.  This will get you the ones that you “don’t know about”.  The ones that were probably triggered by broad match kw’s.  For example…you may be bidding on “acne treatments”, and find that you’re getting lots of traffic from “acne natural treatments” (of course, this would also be good to put as a new kw phrase into adwords too!).  I add these to the list.
3. I fire up market samurai, and I filter down until I get to the top 3-5 kw phrases with high volume and low organic search competition.
4. I use these keywords as SEO targets!

Give it a try, and make sure you’re getting every penny’s worth of the big bucks you’re paying Google.

On Monday next week we’re going to be starting our “2008 Customer Appreciation Contest” where we’ll be giving away an amazing $4000 in prizes over a 4 day peroid exclusively to our ‘Twitter’ followers.

The competition runs from the 15th to the 18th December and all you need to do to enter is ‘follow’ us on Twitter…and that’s it!

We will then select random people each day to win the following…( 2 prizes will be given away each day)

1. An Apple Mac Book
2. A Flip Video Camera
3. A Panasonic Lumix Semi-Pro Camera
4. A Sony High-Definition Video Camera
5. A Play Station 3
6. Final Cut Express Video Software
7. $500 in cash
8. An Ipod Touch

Just before you sign up, however, the other thing we need to mention is that we are going to be running a similar prize give-away each month for the entire duration of 2009 (starting in January)… so be sure to stay connected with us!

So to sign up for next week’s prize give away, head on over and follow us on ‘Twitter’…

If you’re already a member of Twitter just hit the follow button.. and if not, select the “Join Today” link
at the top of the page.

Click HERE to head on over to Twitter!

Link building to improve your organic search engine rankings is one of the easiest, and yet, least understood strategies that we all use.

I often come across people who think there’s some magic bullet or secret answer to this…that only gifted gurus and SEO experts know.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The dirty little secret, is that it’s mostly just common sense.

This blog post with 69 link tactics (and yup..there are really 69!) puts all of that in one neat package.  If you’re struggling with trying to figure out where to start or what it’s all about.  Just head on over and check out this post on WIEP.net

Sometimes one of the best ways to “scale” a profitable campaign is to advertise on Adwords but target specific counries.  The problem is always having a quick and easy way to see the organic and paid listings…just as someone in that country would see them so that you can gather intelligence about the competition there etc.

Enter this awesome little plugin for Firefox.  It allows you to do just that!  Interesting and useful.

When I first started out in Internet Marketing, I had one MAJOR problem that nearly caused me to throw in the towel on at least 50 occasions… and I’m willing to bet this is a issue for most of you as well.

Landing pages.

Luckily I stumbled across Jeremy Palmer years ago…and learned a ton from him about affiliate marketing in general, PPC, and landing pages.  He literally helped me get my start.

I did a quick video on his product, and a sweet special offer he’s giving to our customers only.

You can check it out here: VIDEO