Hi, Casey Gentles here and I want to thank you for visiting my blog. 
Do You Ever Feel Like Giving Up On Internet Marketing?
How is it going peeps?
I just read a post on the warrior forum from someone who is considering giving up on IM and so I decided to do a little post to motivate you. I know a lot of people may want to give up on IM because there are not getting the results that they want.
Do you ever feel that way?
For example, your work and burn yourself out and still can’t get those sales. Maybe you get a sale every now and then but the reality is that is not enough to make ends meet. I know exactly what you how you feel. When I just started online it took me a while to figure some stuff out. To be honest with you, I still have a ton more to figure out as well.
Don’t Give Up On Your Dreams
What if Bill Gates had give up on his dreams when if dropped out of school?
What if Michael Jordan gave up because he did not make his high school basket ball team?
Do you see where I am going? If you have a dream, you need to work towards achieving it. Ocourse there will be countless roadblocks and hindrances in your way. But that’s what makes success so much sweeter when you overcome them. Internet marketing can be compared to any other thing in life. It is not a walk over and there will alway be something in your way.
What you need to do is to adapt and move on.
On a more specific note, if you want internet marketing to work for you then you have to focus on one thing at a time ans track everything you do. If you want to learn article marketing then go ahead but master if before you move on to ppc. You may FAIL at first but at least you will no what not to do.
So here are some little pointers I want to share with you:
1. Stay away from the markets that everyone else are running into - you know the make money online, the weight loss etc. btw, how can you go into the make money online niche to teach people how to make money if you can’t do it yourself?
2. Choose one method of marketing and master it before moving on - Article marketing, ppc marketing, video marketing etc etc
3. Go for low competition keywords - do try to rank sites of do ppc on keywords such as ‘golf clubs’. Instead, focus on the longer tailed keywords such as ‘how to improve golf swing’. The longer tailed keywords are much easier to rank for and they also convert much better.
4. Always keep track of what you are doing. It;s about working smarter and not harder. Keeping track of what you do helps to you know what is working from what is not. That way you can stick to what works and drop what doesn’t.
5. Whatever you are doing, make sure you are in it to help people. Once you truly start helping people, the money will come. People want solutions to their problems and they will pay to get it. However, you must prove to them that they can trust you and you are the best person to give them what they are looking for.
I am not going to tell you that internet marketing is easy. I personally know that it is very hard and when you don’t see those sales coming in, it can be very frustrated. However, it is very important that you don’t give up. The moment you give up is the moment you fail.
Don’t give up SUCCESS is just around the corner, you just need to open the door and let it in!
have a great week.
Getting Back On track With My 80K Goal
Hi Folks what’s going on?
It’s been a gazillion years since I last updated my blog and let you guys know what I have been up to. Sadly, more than half the year has gone and I am barely heading towards quarter of my goal. I know that is very bad 
Honestly, things have not being going the way I want them to. I have drifted for my norm to focus mainly on SEO for the long term. Now while that is a good thing to do, it is very slow and If I am suppose to achieve or go anywhere near my goal, I will have to change things up drastically.
So what Are My Plans Moving Forward?
I Am Going The Start With This Blog!
Firstly, I am going to spend some time on this blog. I am going to start promoting it, update it regularly and get it to earn me at least $1000+ monthly. Right now it is a dead beat lol. The traffic is little to none so you know it earns little to nothing. I am not saying I am going to be a pro blogger but I will be doing some new stuff in the near future to help out everyone.
As you can see, this blog has a wealth of information for anyone looking for tips and strategies to make money online. And my goal is to up my game. It makes no sense if someone visit my blog and leave with nothing worthwhile to them.
Focus On My Own Products
Currently I Have 3 products in the clickbank market place outside of the IM niche. However, they have very low gravity because I never took the time out to recruit some affiliates. These are awesome products and just need a little push. SO I am planning on getting some affiliates and adding some great bonuses for everyone as a little ‘bribe’ to promote my products 
Diversify My Income Streams
Currently my main income stream is promoting affiliate products through clickbank. I have a few cpa products that I am promoting every now and then as well. Honestly though, I hate promoting cpa products because they are not stable. I focus mainly on free methods and sometimes it pains to build up a website, get good traffic and a few leads and just when you are ready to scale things up they pull the offer
But….
I am planning to do some other stuff on the side. Like create more of my own products as well as develop some adsense sites in micro niches. These sites will take time to build up but once they are there they will be some good money makers. I am trying to think smart and for the long run as well. The difference with these sites, is that they will be in niches where the competition is very little and so ranking will be very easy. They may not get that much traffic but when you have a ton of them it all adds up. For example, I am looking to have a ton of these sites that makes anywhere from $2 to $5 per day. This may seem very little but imagine having 30 sites making $2-5 per day on autopilot.
On the low end that is $2 x 30 sites x 30 = $1800 per month
On the high end that is $5 x 30 sites x 30 = $4500.
The only problem is that they take some amount of time to build up. However, when I reach to a level I where I am comfortable with their performance I will outsource most of the work while I focus on other stuff.
So what Are My Immediate Plans?
Right now I am going to get back on my game which is mainly article marketing. SO now I am going to split things up into 3 portions. Article marketing 50%, SEO 25% and Adsense micro sites 25%. Now the aim is to work smarter and not harder.
Now is time to get to work so stay tuned for my $80K update and I try to get things back in order.
Thanks for visiting and I wish you all the best.
God Bless
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$80K Update: Plus How To Do Proper On Page SEO
Whatz up, Whatz up Folks?
Seems like I have been hiding under a tunnel
Well I am back and I want you to know that I haven’t given up on my goals and neither should you! I know it’s been a long time since I have post an update and I am truly sorry about that. But trust me, I am either going to make my goal or die trying. No time to give up!
Frankly, one of the main reason I waited so long to post an update is because I am not where I wanted to be. As I mentioned in previous post, seo is the route that I am taking because I am in this for the long haul. However, this route is very slow and we have no control over what the search engines do. So we just have to do what we need to do and and keep on doing it!
You see, I want to have all my sites ranking high in the search engines and getting targted traffic day in day out, while I sleep, while I am watching TV etc etc you get the drift right?
But it takes work and not just work but a hell of a lot of work….
However, I have been seeing some results so far and most of my sales nowadays are as a result of people finding my sites by some long tailed keywords. Some keywords also blow my mind when I see what people are searching for. That’s one reason why you should have some type of analytics installed on your sites. That will help you to find out what terms people are using to find your sites. Then you can also optimize your sites for those keywords as well.
I haven’t made an official post about SEO and so I am going to give you some tips that I have been using so far to get good results..
The Basis Of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Now to make that clear, seo basically means that you are making your sites search engine friendly to achieve higher ranks in their search results for specific keywords. For example is you have a site about “sweating” then you would want your site to rank for sweating related keywords.
There are two forms of search engine optimization.
1. On Page Optimization - (accounts for about 10% of your overall rankings)
2. Off Page Optimization - (accounts for about 90% of your overall rankings)
On Page Optimization
As the term suggests, it refers to all the thing that you do on your sites. That means everything that you have control over. Now I am going to tell you all you need to know about onpage optimization (or what has worded of me ).
Try Your Best To Get A Domain With Your Keywords - Let’s say you have done your research and you found that the weight loss niche is very profitable. You found the keyword “how to get rid of love handles” (just an example but could check it out as well ). You found that with a little work you could rank well for this keyword. What should you do?
I don’t know all the specs that the search engines use to rank sites but from my experience, once your site has it’s main keyword in it’s domain, it makes the job of ranking your site much easier.
Your Page Must Have A Title - The next step is to ensure that your page has a title and your title should contain your main keywords. So using the keyword example above, your title could have been “How To Get Rid Of Love Handles And Get Your Slim Body Back”.
Page Description Is Also A Must - What is your site about? You must also have a page description on your site. From my experience, the search engines will list your site via the description majority of the time. (Not always) However, it pays to have a good description so that when your site is listed and people browse over it, they will want to click through. See image below:
Page Description
Keywords Are Also Important - Adding keywords helps the search engines to determine what your site is about. If you notice sometimes the search engines list the keywords that the site is about directly under the description. Therefore it is that you add at least 3 keywords that you want your site to target. See image below:
Keywords
Now it’s Time To Add Content - You need a headline - this doesn’t have to be a big bold hype headline. You just need a simple headline that utilizes the H1 tags. Then you also need sub headlines that utilizes the H2 Tags.
It is also very important that your written is unique. That’s no biggie - why would you want to create a website with the exact content as another? How would you stand out? See what I mean?
I suggest that your content has a minimum of 400 - 500 words of unique content. Also, the keyword that you are targeting should be dispersed throughout your content. About once every 100 words. Try not to stuff in your keywords in sentences - it the keyword doesn’t fit in a sentence don’t put it in. It will sound like crap and it won’t help your readers thus hurting you in the long run.
Another point to note when adding content is your use of synonyms. If you are going to talk about weight loss, then you should have other words related to weight loss as well. You can utilize the google keyword tool for help in this aspect.
You Website Must Have Several pages Which Targets Different Keywords - by now you must know that the days of having a one page website is over when it comes to seo. If you have a squeeze page then that’s a different topic. However when it comes to ranking your sites you need lots of content. I suggest you have at least 10 articles on your site and each should target a different keyword phrase. SO if your home page is “how to get rid of love handles” then you could have other pages about thigh fat, arm fat etc etc.
Interlinking Your Pages - sometimes you will hear the gurus or seo experts speak about good linking structure within a website. What they mean is that you should link your pages to each other. This helps to provide a backlink or link vote (speak about that later) to your website and helps to rank your site higher in the search engines.
You Must Also Have The Essential Pages - Make sure that you have the pages such as “contact page”, “Privacy Policy” and “About Us” pages on your websites.
Sitemap is very Important - Having a sitemap allows the search engine bots to crawl your site efficiently so that all your pages can get indexed. You can use a free tool online to generate a site map of all the pages on your website. Here is the tool I use >>http://www.xml-sitemaps.com. Another thing I want to mention is that you should make sure that your images are labelled with the alt tags.
That should basically wrap up On Page Search Engine Optimization. This post is getting a bit long so I will save the “off page optimization” for the next post. SO now is time for my $80K Update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
$80K Stats As Of April 30st, 2010
Paypal Earnings - $1034.54
Independent Affiliate Earnings - $67.97
Adsense Earnings - $113.27
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $847.50
Cx Digital Affiliate Network - $210.00
Clickbank Network: $10,518.38
Total Earning so far 2010 = $12,791.66
Target Remaining: $67,208.34
Days Remaining: 245
It’s clear that I am way behind on achieving my goal. However, I am working steady on my plans for the next two months and make the necessary changes to make things happen. Just know that I will do my very best and I am not giving up!
I just want to say I ready do appreciate all the comments and the cheers that you guys have been sending my way. It is really encouraging and it gives me an extra boost to go on.
Thank you everyone and I hope my tips will help you in some way!
As always, I am looking forward to hear from you so you can take a minute or two to drop a comment below
Have a great day and week!
PS. If you like this post please digg it here >> How To Do Proper On Page SEO
$80K Update And Where The Heck Have I Been?
Hey Folks,
What’s Up?
I know it has been a while since I have post here and maybe some of you think I gave up. But I am still here and I will fight to the end I have come too far to quit… I am sorry for the delayed postings but I am still here with you.
So What Have I Been Up To Lately?
Honestly, it’s been a lot of work. I am now focusing more than ever on my niche markets. My aim is to have at least 20 niches websites earning at least $500+ per month in a few months time. A LOT OF WORK!!!
So due to that, I have been devising a strategy for the long term rather than working for the initial sales I normally focus on. Now as a result of that, I have seen a decline in my income in the last few weeks. But I am not worried because I know I have a solid plan and once it is in full effect, I will see the results that I desire.
Another thing is I have been helping out my students from my 24th birthday offer. I am super duper happy to report that several of them have reported making their fist, second and beyond sales. That made me really happy to know that I can make a difference (for the better) in peoples life.
What’s On My Agenda Now?
My prime focus will be list building. Yes we all know how important it is to build a list but most of us (including me) often ignore this part of internet marketing. Sad but true. What I realize is most people are scared to get optins or email subscribers because they don’t know what to do with them.
But folks, it is not that hard!!!!!
Just remember that your optins are real people looking for information from you. All you have to do is give them that information and treat them with respect. Don’t go spamming their inbox every minute with all sorts of promotions
So over the next few weeks, I will be testing some stuff and I will reveal all the results for free. If I find something will help you in your busines then I will help you to grow… we are here to help each other out.
Now I am not going to do a long post today so let me get right into:
$80K Stats As Of March 13 2010.
Paypal Earnings - $852.75
Independent Affiliate Earnings - $67.97
Adsense Earnings - $78.90
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $402.50
Cx Digital Affiliate Network - $182.00
Clickbank Network: $7,901.57
Total Earning so far 2010 = $9,485.69
Target Remaining: $70,514.31
Days Remaining: 293
As you can see from the above stats, my earning has decreased. This is due to the fact that I am spending more time trying to rank my sites rather than focusing on ranking articles. I have found that once my sites ranks for some keywords, it will stay longer and require less work than for articles which are on other people’s sites. It may take a longer time and more work to rank my own sites but the work will pay off in the long run.
So guys, I just want to say thanks for stopping by and if you have any comments please feel free to share them below.
I wish you and your family all the best!
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Quick $80K Update Plus Details About My 24th Birthday
Hi guys,
What’s going on?
It’s been quite a a while since I made an update but I want you to know that I am still going on! I won’t leave you It’s just that I have been really busy. Monday February 15th was my 24th birthday and so the entire week has been pretty busy for me. Not in a bad way though!
So how has it been for you?
I hope you haven’t gave up because that’s when you really fail. You have to stay strong and work towards your goals. It maybe hard now but trust me, when we get to a certain level things will be very different. You know: for example, you work ongoing one full year to get a site ranking for a very competitive term and then once it is there you make back pretty much all your expenses in one week. What I am trying to say is that if you put out the hard work, the results will pay off itself.
So How Was My 24th Birthday?
Pretty Awesome…
And before I go any further, I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who took the time out to send me a little note. Guys you rock and I really appreciate it. I can truly say this was my best birthday to date and i am glad you guys could be a part of it.
So was there any gifts? …………….. Of course
I bought myself a 32″ Panasonic Flat Panel LCD TV:
My Panasonic TV
My Girlfriend Also Bought Me A Samsung DVD Camcorder
My Samsung DVD Cam
Then She Also Took Me Too Dinner
Lobster And steak With Rice And Red Beans
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Me And My Baby
Then I Also Did Something I Have Never Done Before
24th Birthday Special Offer
On my birthday, I opened an offer to 24 persons. That is: I decided to help 24 lucky folks with their online business. I opened the offer for $24.24 (yes everything is about 24 for my 24th birthday lol ). I would love to say the offer went in 24 hours but actually it went in a little more than that.
So far it is going great. The offer sold out and i am pretty busy with helping folks. But I am also sad I what I am observing. So many persons have bought a ton of products from so many Gurus and they still haven’t got anywhere. I can’t understand what these Gurus are packaging and preying on our hard earn cash. I do believe some of them offer quality but they often times for get the basic stuff.
For example, how do you set up a webpage, how do you do ftp, how do you install a blog and a ton of other basic stuff. It kills me to know that people spend so much money on all kind of different products and still they are lost.
So right now, these people are my top priority and I am going to try my very best to help them in every way. Already I have been answering a ton of emails and these folks really appreciate it. What I also find is that some of them have an idea of what to do but they just need someone to report to. I must say it is a great experience for me and I know some great things are going to come from it.
Well I have been going for some time now so let me give you what you have been waiting for:
My $80k Journey Stats Update:
Before I continue, I would just like to say a big thank you to everyone for all there encouragements and well wishes. I want you to know that it means a lot to me and it helps to keep me motivated even when I want to sleep all day lol. Thank you guys, you rock.
Earnings Up Until February 18th.
Paypal Earnings - $839.83
Independent Affiliate Earnings - $67.97
Adsense Earnings - $49.41
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $360
Cx Digital Affiliate Network - $98
Clickbank Network: 5,642.93
Total Earning so far 2010 = $7,058.14
Target Remaining: $72,941.86
Days Remaining: 316
As you can see, I am still way behind but things are still on the rise. In my last post, I was averaging $141 and now I am Averaging $144. So I need to put in a whole lot more elbow grease.
Right now I am going to focus on helping my 24 students get up and running. So I may have a little drop in income but I have a long term plan which I will tell you about in my next post.
So I guess that’s it for now.
As always, I welcome your comments as I love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by and I wish you all the best!
80K Update: Stats To Date And My Plans On Moving Forward
Hey Folks,
Welcome to another post in my journey to $80K in 2010. Today Just want to give you some tips to help you get your head straight when it comes to affiliate marketing and making money to support you and your family. At the end I will give you an update on my stats to date and my plans moving forward.
Now, a lot of persons are jumping head-on into affiliate marketing/Internet marketing, thinking that it will solve all their problems. I can’t blame them though because it’s all the hype and scams that are going around brain washing people telling them that they can come online and make a million bucks in no time.
While making a million dollars is possible online, these claims are the furthest from the truth. Internet marketing is just like any other business: it takes hard work, time, investments, dedication and consistent actions to work. The only difference with IM is that you have a broader audience to reach making more opportunities possible.
What You Really Need To Focus On?
If you still have your day job, I wouldn’t advice you to quit just yet. A lot of persons make the mistake of quitting their day jobs with the hope of spending more time on their online business. Don’t do this unless you are already making more in your online business than your day job. Otherwise you are setting up your self for a disaster. You see while you will have more time being at home, it is not very easy to just stay focus (unless you are super duper dedicated). The fact is, you will be your own boss and there is no one to report to therefore causing you to be more laid back some of the times. This is turn kill your work progress and most time you won’t get to complete you daily task. (I am guilty of this )
Get Out Of The: “Get Rich Quick Mentality”
Ok we know that the internet have created tons on millionaires and ofcourse we would want to be the next. Heck who wouldn’t want to? But the fact is, it is not going to happen overnight! Maybe not even in a year either! Maybe not even 2 years!! Unless of course one of the gurus just decide to give your their business - NOT A Chance lol
I am not trying to scare you either. I am trying to get you to look at this business as a reality and not a fair tale. This is real life folk and IM is a real business. We have to get that in our heads if we want to succeed online. Otherwise we will be fantasizing about millions and when we don’t see the millions come in we will want to quit. I Want You To Stay Strong!
Setting Your Priority Straight: What You Need To Do When Starting Out
A few days ago, I was talking to a friend online and giving her a few tips. I realized that these tips are very valuable and decide to share them with you as well. We need to know what is important and what needs to be done in order to have our business working for us. If you are just starting out or even if you have a business already working, there are some things you need to focus on first. Once you have these in tact them making a profit will be super easy.
Here Goes…….
Make Sure Your Business Cover All Your Expenses!!
Sounds simply Stupid doesn’t it?
But let me go on. At the moment, I don’t want you to focus on making 1 million dollars. Rather I want you to focus on a specific figure. What you really need and then you can go on from there. So the first thing you need to do is calculate your monthly expenses. Here is an example below: (Note: They Are Theoretical values)
Offline Expenses:
1. Electric Bills = $100 /Month
2. Water Bills = $50 /Month
3. Cable Bills = $50 /Month
4. Internet Bills = $50 /Month
5. Grocery Bills = $300 /Month
6. Car Payments = $60 /Month
7. Personal Expenses = $200 /Month
8. Personal Saving = $300 /Month
Total Offline Expenses =$1110
Online Expenses:
1. Hosting = $9 /Month
2. Membership Sites (e.g Wealthy Affiliate University ) = $39 /Month
3. Outsourcing (articles, backlinks etc ) = $300 /Month
4. Other Software Tools etc = $200 /Month
Total Online Expenses = $548 /Month
Total Overall Expenses per Month = $1658
So using the above example, all I would need to make per month is $1658 to survive. Note I have included “personal Expenses” as well as “Personal Savings“. So everything should be covered. For some people it will be more and for some it will be less. You just gotta write down and calculate your expenses.
Achieve Your Monthly Goals Before Trying to Scale Up
How in the world could I think about making $5000 per month if I can’t even make just enough to cover my basic essentials?
Do you get my point?
You need to work on getting your monthly goals first. By now I hope you see where I am getting at. Your profits MUST surpass your expenses if you want to making a decent living online. That take me back to one of my points above: If you are not making more online than your day job then don’t even think about quitting just yet.
Now To The Next Step:
How Can You Achieve Your Monthly Goal?
Ahhh this is the most important step. But guess what? I am going to leave that for the next post. I am sorry, Just want to build up a little suspense like in some of those series movies. Just when I get to the nice part I get “To Be Continued…”
Don’t Worry, I wont keep you waiting too long, I promise
Now For My $80K Update:
I don’t know if any of you may have any doubts in your heads about my earnings that I post. Honestly, it doesn’t matter to me. If I lie I would only be fooling myself. I started this challenge for myself to motivate both me and you (my friends). However, today I am going to give you a screen shot of just one of my account. Just for a little social proof to give you a kick in the butt to start working hard.
Clickbank $80K Update
Earnings Up Until February 05th 2010.
Paypal Earnings - $210.40
Independent Affiliate Earnings - $67.97
Adsense Earnings - $37.58
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $240
Cx Digital Affiliate Network - $98
Clickbank Network: $4,439.45
Total Earning so far 2010 = $5,093.40
Target Remaining: $74,906.6
Days Remaining: 329
In my last post I was averaging $130 per day and now I am up to $141.00. This figure could have been more but I had some refund (I hate having refunds but it’s a part of the business ). SO things are picking up a bit. i am still a far way behind because I should have been averaging at least $220 per day to reach my goal. However, my plans are still in place and I just need to ramp things up.
My Plans On Moving Forward
So far most of my income is coming from affiliate marketing. One product sale and it’s done! However, my plan is to add some recurring sales to my arsenel. You know what i mean? Instead of trying to just get one sale and it stops there, I want to get one sale and then keep getting paid every month.
Another thing I want to do is to increase my adsense earnings. As you can see from above my adsense is close to ZEROO if you ask me lol. So I intend to get at least 4 sites up per month that should make me at least $1-$5 per day passive in a few weeks time. (I’ll let you know how that goes).
Attention:
I have been getting a lot of emails from folks asking me if it is worth it to Join Wealthy Affiliate. So I have started a review here: Wealthy Affiliate Review. However, I am not done yet. I want to give you the full details as I am not here to play guru and get you to join a membership that is not right for you. So when I am done with the review, I will let you know and then you decide if it is right for you.
I guess that’s it for now! I will keep giving you more tips and keep you updated.
As always I welcome your comments: thoughts, critiques or whatever. lets get to know each other some more and make 2010 our best year o date!
To your success!
Second Update On 80K Goal - More Article Marketing Tips
Hey Folks,
What’s going on?
I know it’s been a while since I gave an update on my challenge but I hope you understand that I have a lot of work on my hands. That’s not to say that I am neglecting you, as a matter of fact, I will try to update more often so you can get the info as fast as possible and start implementing what you learn to improve your income.
Ok so let’s get started…..
Fistly What Have I Been Up To So Far?
Honestly, I am way behind in all my tasks :(. The truth is, I made up my task sheet (I actually wrote it with pen and paper) with all the task that I am suppose to complete on a daily basis. Even though I hate to admit it, I don’t know of a day when I even get as much as 40% completed. Sad but true. Well all that is changing slowly so just stick with me ok.
In the last post, I gave you some article marketing tips. Now I am going to give you some more tips on what you should do after you have written your article to get maximum exposure and profits from your articles. This is what I have been up to and i am going to share with you what has worked for me.
How To get The Most out Of Your Articles
After you write your articles, there are a number of things you can do to get maximum exposure from it. A lot of times we as marketers just write our articles, submit them to ezine articles and wonder how we make so little sales. The reality is, the web is bigger than we think, with millions on people online at any given time. This means that it is our responsibility to get our articles/offers in front of our prospects. Here is what I do (suppose to do - I don’t do it all the time lol) with your articles:
Step #1 - If you have a blog/website, post it there first. It’s your content so you should be the first to publish it. Not some articles directories who will make a ton from adsense from it.
Step #2 - Ping the article on your website. I use http://www.pingler.com and it has done well for me. Also, if you don’t want to go to pingler, you can copy all the pinging sites in pingler and paste them under your own list of pinging sites in your blog.
Step #3 - Bookmark your article on every bookmarking web 2.0 sites that you can. If you have a software like bookmarking Demon then this will be very easy for you.
Step #4 - Rewrite the same article 4 Times. Submit one copy to Ezinearticles.com, one to Buzzle.com, one to goarticles.com and one to articlesbase.com. Each of these articles directories (with the exception of buzzle.com) will allow you two links. Point one back to the original article on your website and one back to the root domain which should have your pre-sell.
Step #5 - Use an Article Submitter to spin/rotate the 4 articles and submit them to as much directories as possible. All with links pointing back to the original article on your website.
Step #7 - Bookmark The articles on Buzzle.com, goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and articlesbase.com.
Step #8 - Rewrite the article slightly to create web 2.0 properties linking back to the original article as well as to the articles on the 4 articles directories above. The web 2.0 properties should be: hubpages.com, blogger.com, weebly.com wetpaint.com and squidoo.com.
Step #9 - here you need to get the web 2.0 properties indexed so that there links will count as soon as possible. So you are also going to bookmark each of these web 2.0 properties and ping them. Again you can use bookmarking Demon to do your mass bookmarks.
Step #10 - Go to Yahoo Answers and look for questions in your niche. Answer at least 5 and place a link back to each of your articles. That is on your website as well as on the top 4 articles directories listed.
Step #11 - If your articles (original plus rewrites) is already in word format then join http://www.docstoc.com and upload them. Make sure you fill your title with the keywords that you are targeting.
Step #12 - Covert your articles to powerpoint slides and then joing slideshare.com and upload them there.
Step #13 - Bookmark and ping all your slides and documents.
Step #14 - Record your slide presentations and convert them to video. Upload them to youtube.com and other video sharing sites.
mmmm I bet you never know that it was so much work?
Now For An Update on My $80 K challenge
Before i continue, I would just like to say a big thank you to everyone for all there encouragements and well wishes. I want you to know that it means a lot to me and it helps to keep me motivated even when I want to sleep all day lol. Thank you guys, you rock.
Earnings Up Until January 24th.
Paypal Earnings - $151.11
Independent Affiliate Earnings - $67.97
Adsense Earnings - $26.54
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $160
Cx Digital Affiliate Network - $70
Clickbank Network: $2,848.06
Total Earning so far 2010 = $3,323.68
Target Remaining: $76,676.32
Days Remaining: 341
So far, I am averaging $130+ per day. I haven’t done most of what I was supposed to do and thus I am behind. I am not worried though as my plan is still in place. Most of my articles are now steady climbing up the search engines so I should see an increase in earning soon. Once I get them high up (1-3) position then things will cathc up and hopefully surpass… But let me not get ahead of my self too soon
I gues that’s it for now! I will keep giving you more tips and keep you updated. However, if you want to be where I hang out the most, you can join me and other like minds over at wealthy affiliate university. (my username is yesacpow over there.)
As always I welcome your comments: thoughts, critiques or whatever. lets get to know each other some more and make 2010 our best year o date!
To your success!
First Update On My 80K Goal - Article Marketing Tips
Hey Folks,
Wazzup, How You Doing?
I am doing great so far. Today I just want to give you a brief update and some ideas as well as tips with regards to what I am doing. Also at the end of the post I will give you and update with regards to my earnings so far.
What I advice you to do is to subscribe to my RSS FEED so that you can get instant update about anything going on my blog.If you are already a subscriber of mine then I will try my best to send out an email to let you know that I have added something. However in the event I don’t, subscribing to my RSS FEED will keep you updated.
Enough Chit Chat …….
In my last post, I told you about some of my plans to get to my goal by the end of the year. One of my main technique is Article Marketing. Now I have been testing a lot of stuff (and still testing) to know exactly what I want to achieve. So here is it:
In order to reach $80,000 by December 31st, I would have to be averaging a minimum of $223 per day. Now when I look at the products that I have been promoting or plan to promote, they average out to be about $25 per sale. So the number I will be working with is $25 per sale.
So $223/25 = 8.92 ==> 9 sales per day.
So how do I plan to achieve that with articles?
Looking at it now, it seems as if it will be so easy lol but we all now that theory never works out as is in practice. So things will differ and I will have to change some stuff in accordance.
So for now here is my plan:
For each of the niches I am in, I will try to get at least 5 Articles for a highly searched competitive keywords on the first page of Google while still targeting long tailed keywords with other articles. However, I will focus more on back linking the main articles until they hit the first page of Google.
Yes you read right!
After doing some testing, I realize that if you put in the work you can achieve anything. Think about it, all you need to do is a little more work than your competitor and you can achieve much. (Now just remember that this is not Gospel so don’t take my word for it - I will be testing and keeping you updated along the way so you will know what works for me).
Why Would I want To Target Competitive Keywords?
Because that is where the money is. Over the last few months, I have had some articles hitting the first page of Google for some competitive keywords and the results were amazing. So if you hit the right spot with the right keywords, I will be able to make my goal.(Too bad I allowed those articles to fade away :( and have to start over again.)
Article Marketing Tips:
Having an article on the first page means nothing if you/I cannot convert that traffic into cash.
Understand what I am saying?
That means, you need to spend some time and get the article done properly. I have always heard a lot of people saying they can get and article done in 5- 10 minutes. Good for them! I say, if you have spend more time to get your article done properly then do it. To be honest, I am guilty of telling people to rush out an article but things and times have changed. Please spend the time to write high quality articles that not only grab your readers but also make them take action to do whatever you want.
1. Start Out With Good Titles - Ask yourself these questions: Why Should someone read your article? What makes your article stands out from the next person? Does your article title speaks to a burning desire of your prospects?
All in all, your article titles should aim to provide a solution to whatever problem your prospects have. That means, if someone searched for your keywords and your article comes up on the first page of the search engines let’s say in position #3, they should click yours first because of the pull you have on them.
2. Have A Good Description - Most of the article directories allows you to have a description for your articles. Your description should be captivating as well. I recommend it be a summary of your article - more like an abstract. You see most of the time your articles comes up the search engines often take the description from your articles to show up under the titles. (Not always though). So whenever this happens, it also increases your click through rate.
3. Speak To One Person In Your Article Body - Instead of trying to appealing to everyone, try to focus on one person who may be having the problem you are addressing. Also be creative in your writing, tell stories, refer to movies or whatever you can do to keep your audience on your article. This is very important because if you lose one person that is a potential sale. You aim is to have your readers reading through until they reach your resource box where they can click over to your money pages to finalize the sale.
4. Have A Strong Call To Action In Your Resource Box - This is where you will invite your prospects over to your website/money pages. Be creative, don’t copy or follow someone else because their resource may not necessarily work for you. Just remember if you have your reader all the way down to your resource box then you have done good so far. You just need to continue flowing and help them make a smooth transition over to your site.
As I said earlier, article marketing will be one of my main techniques to get to my goal. As I go along, I will give you some tips as to what works for me and what doesn’t. I will try to be as detailed as possible so that you may get as much benefit as possible to help you achieve your income goal as well.
Earning Update To Date:
The following stats are up until January 14, 2010.
Paypal Earnings - $138.25
Adsense Earnings - $17.56
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $120
Clickbank Network: $1,869.90
Total Earning so far 2010 = $2,145.40
Target Remaining: $77,854.60
Days Remaining: 350
As you can see, I am behind at the moment. However, I am not worried about it because all my plan has not yet gone into action. Stay tuned, more stuff will be coming your way very soon. BTW Don’t For Get To Leave A Comment
Have a great day
Can I Make $80,000 In 2010? Follow Along With Me!
Hey Folks,
Good day!
How are you all doing today?
I hope you all are doing great!.
Now since this is my first post in 2010, let me first say:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
I wish you and your family a prosperous 2010. I also hope all your dreams and aspirations will be fulfilled.
Now let me get down to business….
First I want to say 2009 was a great year for me. Honestly, there were a lot of ups and downs. I wont list them here as I try not to focus on the negatives. But trust me, there were a lot! Some of my close friends can attest to that!
2009 was my first full year of Internet Marketing and I have learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t. I still have a lot to learn but I will take it step by step. So after analyzing 2009, and have now device some strategies to work toward a new goal.
Goal: To Make $80,000 in 2010!!
This may seems like a lot to some folk or like a tiny amount to some. But for now that is my goal. The thing that you must realize is that everyone is different and everyone should set their own goals that they think they can achieve. Note, you must set your goal to give you a challenge, something that you know is possible/withing your reach but that you have to work hard to get to. Understand?
The next thing you need to do is to break down your goal into smaller bits and pieces.. So here is my goal broken down:
1. $80,000 In one year = $80,000 in 12 months:
2. Average per month should be: $80,000/12 = $6,666.67 = $6,667
3. $6,667 in one month = $6,667 in 30 days on average.
4. Average per day = $6,667/30 = $222.23 = $223 per day.
SO in order for me to Make $80,000 in 2010, I will have to consistently make $223 per day. I think that is pretty achievable and I know I can do it. The thing is, how am I going to go about it?
Very important: Make A Plan Of Attack
Have you ever heard the saying: “If you fail to plan then you plan to fail“?
That saying is so true! You see if you don’t have a road map then you will get lost and there is no question about that. So the same goes for any goal you want to achieve. You will also need to break down your task into small chunks so that they can be easily acheived. Otherwise, you will have a bulk of task facing you and you will get distracted, or even give up before you get close to reaching your goal.
So how do i plan to get to may goal of $80,000 in 2010 or $223 per day consistently?
1. Firstly: Sleep less and work more… Haha as I typed that I had to laugh But if you knew me, you would understand. I sleep so often, I think sleep is going out of style. So in order for me to reach my goal, I will have to be more productive..
2. Make a time table: yes you can work all you want but if you are not doing it in a orderly manner you will find that you miss some task or you may end up not getting some ‘important’ stuff done!
3. Offer more help to people: this one may seems a little stange, but the other day, I watch a video with Tony Robins and I learned of the saying: You can get whatever you want if you help as much other persons get what they want. I believed it!
4. Invest my profit - If you want to explode your income, you will need to reinvest some of your profits. (Not All Of it lol) Pay someone to do some of the tiresome work for you will you focus on other stuff! This is going to be a big part of my success for 2010.
5. Focus On What Works And Master It Before Moving One: Ahhh I now a lot of persons have a problem here. I get so many emails everyday from some of my subscribers– about how to stay focus, how to keep motivated etc etc. My answer is, find a technique that you know work, get it to work for yourself, tweak it to work to it’s fullest potential before moving on to a new technique.
Just remember there are no magic to success! Just ask everyone that are already successful and the will tell you. You need to work hard and SMART to get to where you want to reach. It may take a short period of time for some and a very long time for others but you will find it is worth the wait!
A More Detailed Plan Of Attack:
Ok, so I know you are wondering what am I really going to do to make $223 per day. Is It PPC, SEO or whatever? So let’s see what i am really going to do so you can join along:
1. Article Marketing - This is work tremendous for me in 2009 and so it will be on the top of my list for 2010. I am constantly tweaking my article marketing technique to get maximum benefits and I will update you in another post as to what I am currently doing so you can get involved as well.
2. SEO - Yep this is also paying off so I am going to put a lot of effort into this as well. You know nothing is sweeter than having a website on the first page getting a lot of organic traffic for some ’sweet money keywords’.
3. Forum marketing - I haven’t done much of this in the past but I think I am leaving a lot of cash on the table. So I will be giving this some effort and ofcourse I will keep you updated throughout my journey.
4. Video Marketing - I have done very little in this area in the past and it was a success. SO I am going to bump it up some more in 2010. (Focus on what works)
5. Answer Marketing - yes this work great if you know how to do it. You see, people have problems and they are looking for answers. So if someone ask a question and you answer it in the right way and recommend a great product, you will make sales. Not only that, there may be a ton of other persons with the same problem and will buy on your recommendation.
There are some other techniques I want to get into such Social Marketing, Press Release, Banner Ads, PPV and some others. However, I am going to focus on the above first and as time progresses I update you about what i am doing.
Websites/Blogs/ Landing Pages/ Direct Linking - What Am I Doing?
This post is getting rather long, so I will have to leave all these details for another post. I know this is something that most people need help with so I will try my best to shed some light on this area.
Tools I Use/ Will Use To Help Me Reach My Goal:
1. Wealthy Affiliate University- A monthly membership site with other like minds who are willing to give each other a helping hand along the way. Also they provide all the keyword tools, clickbank research tools, a training center, article marketing course, ppc for beginners and and advance marketers and a ton of other stuff. It’s too much to list here so I will make a review in another post. You can join wealthy affiliate through this link >> Click Here!
2. Warrior Forum - (FREE) - Also a community where there are a ton of folks willing to give you a helping hand. If you have no start-up capital and want to learn how to do internet marketing then the warrior forum is your place to start. You can join the warrior forum here >> Click Here!
3. Micro Niche Finder >> Keyword tool that help me to uncover some hot low competition keywords that I can easyly rank for. Highly recommended. You Can Get Micro Niche Finder Here >> Click Here!
Statistics Up To Date:
It just came to me today January 10, 2010 to start blogging about my objective. I realize in the process, I will be able to inspire and help others along the way as well as get motivation and inspiration from others. Now so far in the year I have been doing little and here are my stats below:
Adsense Income: $8.24
Paypal Payments: $68.77
Neverblue Affiliate Network: $120
Clickbank Network: $1,455.12
Total Earning so far 2010 = $1,652.13
Target Remaining: $78,347.87
Days Remaining: 355
That’s it for today! Thank you for your time and I wish you all the best in your endeavors. Please feel to leave a comment below and share your thoughts.
Have a great Day/ Week/ Year
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American Air Jet: Miracle Flight 331 Crashes In Jamaica Dec. 22
Good morning gentle folks,
It is about 6:05 am here in Jamaica now and I have to make to “Breaking News Blog Post”. Its been reported that at approximately 10 pm December 22, 2009 The American Air Jet - Miracle Flight 331 Overrun the Run Way and Crashed into nearby roads. This plane was on it’s way from Miami and was supposed to land in Kingston Jamaica at the Norman Manley International Airport. The Great news at this point is that NO ONE WAS KILLED!
With 3 days before Christmas (Officially), a lot of persons have a lot to give thanks for. With more than 125 passengers and flight officials on board American Air Jet: Miracle Flight 331 there was no fatality reported. The Jamaica emergency response team has done a great job of getting on the scene as quickly as possible. They provided air flight via helicopters and other means of transport to get those with injuries to the hospital as soon as possible.
American Air Jet: Miracle Flight 331
Cause Of The Accident:
It is not sure what is the exact cause of the accident at this time. We don’t know if the pilot got into any difficulties or anything like that. What we do know is that it was very rainy and the runway would have been very wet. We can only speculate that because of the wet run way the plane was unable to stop where it was suppose to and thus over run the run way.
Crash Update: American Airlines Boeing 737 Plane Broke Into 3
I wasn’t at the accident seen but according to local news officials, the plane is reported to be broken into 3 parts. The Jamaica Observer newspaper reported 40 injured passengers but did not give details about their condition. CNN said four of the passengers were in serious condition. “The injured passengers have been taken to the Kingston Public Hospital,” Jamaican information minister Daryl Vaz told the Jamaica Observer. “There are no reports of fatalities.”
