Lee McIntyre & Dean Holland at a workshop in London

Yes you read that correctly …

As I’m sure you know, Dean Holland recently ran a coaching program for a limited number of students to help them build a business and start making money online in 6 weeks…
If you don’t know Dean Holland you can find out more about him at my earlier blog post funnily enough called….. Dean Holland

Soon the coaching will be sold for $497 but today he is offering you the exact same coaching at ZERO cost !

No joke …

Here’s what you do to claim it, I warn you now though this is VERY limited so act fast

Go here and grab the interview he just did with Lee McIntyre (again there is no cost for this )
In case you don’t know Lee McIntyre this is a guy who went from overworked high school teacher to make $7,230.95 In 30 days From Scratch and from there he became a full time marketer in just 56 days.

He now makes over $100,000 a month YES A MONTH and Dean has grilled him just over an hour about his traffic and traffic generation techniques, Dean has packed this into an mp3 and is soon going to be selling it.

Luckily for you, he has got his mad hat on and for a limited time his is giving this content away I’m about to listen to it for a second time (now my wife has gone to bed, much easier to take it all in)

Grab it here now before he regains control of his mind

Then after that you will be presented with a video where Dean himself will explain all and how you can claim his coaching instantly for free..

Simple as that!

This will not be on offer forever so if you want to make a real change like his first students did then you have to jump on this and take advantage of his insane kindness TODAY !

Im not kidding about this, it is the EXACT
coaching his first student paid $197 to get!

Only now it’s yours at ZERO cost !

Soon to be sold at $497 after his first successful course

Claim the interview first here

I thought I would do a quick post about CommentLuv today.

Now I know a lot more people are using the commentluv pluggin but is that it?

Take a look at the video below to see what I mean,if your using commentluv plugin then you should also be using this.

Visit Comluv.com

Featured Blogs in this video

Paul Lear’s Blog

Paul Wilson’s Blog

Don’t forget to leave a comment to let me know what you think.

Take it easy all,

So six days have past and I thought I would give you a quick update on Alexa Rank.

Now in this time I have been away so have done no promoting at all for my site yet still my Alex rank has gone from 665,482 as you can see in my previous post Alexa Rank Challenge to 585,587.

Now that is great but Paul has been working hard and managed to get his Alexa rank down to 470,777. Not good for the challenge but this is good in a way as this is going to make me work even harder at catching him up and getting my site promoted and that is what this is all about,getting your site out there and getting it seen by as many people that have the Alexa Toolbar installed.

Have you got the Alexa toolbar installed yet?

Why not set yourself a challenge. Find some online friends and set yourselves a challenge it will insure that you will not slack in the promotin of your site if nothing else.

All I have been doing so far is commenting on other blogs it’s time to get some articles written and some forum posting done.

Paul this is not over

What’s your Alexa Rank? Check your rank and see how much you can improve it in a week,you will be amazed at what it can do for you.

Be sure to leave a comment and let me know how your getting on.

So what’s your Alexa rank?

On the 19th Sep I was over at Paul Lear’s blog a member of Alex Jeffreys coaching program and reading aboutAlexa rank.

My Alexa rank  at the time was  936,894 according to the Alexa toolbar it is now 735,221 but as you can see from the image below the Alexa site itself shows it as 665,482, I don’t know if it just takes a little time for the toolbar to update but that is all I can think.

Now I have been set a sort of challenge by Paul to catch him up.

Pauls rank at the moment is 613,701 so I’m doing well but as I said he is a member of the Alex Jeffreys coaching program and quite a few of the members have now got the Alex tool bar installed so he does kind of have a helping hand as the members visit each others blogs

I am not at a computer for a week as of tomorrow so we will have to see what happens and see if my rank still stays good.

Why don’t you see what your rank is and set yourself a challenge,find someone who is ahead of you and see if you can catch up get the toolbar installed or for Fire Fox there is an Alex Rank checker plugin that does the same rank.

To improve my rank and get extra visiters at the moment I am doing more blog commenting at the moment but not much else.

Let me know what your rank is and what you are doing to improve it.

By the way Paul, sorry for clogging up your comments mate.

If you’ve been dabbling in internet marketing for a good period of time now, then you know how important article marketing can be for your online campaigns (or at least you should do).  Article marketing can provide you with a lot of back links that could help build your link popularity so that you may secure a good position in the search engine results pages (SERPs).  Additionally, since you will be submitting your articles to article directories, it would critical to know that some of these directories have high page ranks.  Having your link appear in the pages of websites with high PR would only contribute a substantial boost to your own website’s page rank.

It is critical, therefore, to learn about the subtleties involved with article marketing so that you will be able to optimize your usage of this technique.

Now, you have most probably read about article marketing before, in numerous resources at that(Mine is Article Marketing Secrets on the right hand side => it’s free).  This article isn’t about an introduction to article marketing.  This article assumes that you already know the basics.  In the following paragraphs, we will focus on the things that people do not know about the aforementioned strategy, as well as some tips to help you out when it comes to making the most out of this tactic.

Let’s proceed.

•    Though it is tempting to submit two or more articles to the article directories in the World Wide Web, it is strongly recommended that you try to avoid doing the same in rapid succession.  The search engines, and Google in particular, are quite sensitive about abnormal increases in a website’s link popularity.  By submitting many articles at the same time, you could potentially gain 3,000 or so back links for your website.  In theory, this is excellent.  But since this will be accomplished quite fast, the search engines might categorize it as an abnormal increase, and they may momentarily de-index your website pending further study into the matter.  You wouldn’t want this to happen.  So you better play it safe.  Try to submit articles every two weeks or so to avoid this danger.

•    It isn’t wise to submit an article that is already included in your own website.  As a policy against dupe content, search engines would consider the higher ranking website as the originator of the article.  Hence, your website, having a lower rank, might be designated as harboring duplicate content.  This will not bid well for your page rank.

•    Whenever you’re writing articles, remember that quite a lot of article directories would allow you to use hyperlinks.  The trick is in hyperlinking your website to what we call as anchor texts.  These anchor texts should pertain to the keywords you are targeting.  Doing this would give a significant boost to your chances of getting a better position in the SERPs.  For example, if the keyword you’re targeting is “mesothelioma,” make sure that you will hyperlink your website to every mention of the term in your article.

•    Do not submit PLR articles as they are.  Though PLR articles are great options for affordable content, they are not really meant for article marketing purposes.  Duplicate articles submitted to the directories would just be rejected, or worse, can lead to the banning of your account.  Instead, try to use the PLR articles as bases for the articles you will write for these directories.  The information is already in these PLR articles, after all, hence you won’t need to spend time doing some necessary research.  Write one, original article from the ground up, using your PLR articles as the foundation, and submit the same to the directories.

•    Remember, people will be reading your articles.  These are highly targeted folks.  They will read your article because they are looking for information relevant to the subject of your work.  If you could provide this information clearly, succinctly, and efficiently, they’ll regard you as an expert on the matter and they will grow to trust whatever you will put out.  Hence, it is important to submit the best quality article you could come up with, as your online business’ credibility is on the line.

Get my Free Report Article Marketing Secrets Here or click on the image on the right hand side

Got writers block?

If you suffer from writers block and you are trying to keep a blog up and running then you have got problems.

I just came across a post by Ann Marie Dennis Titled “How Do I Overcome Writer’s Block?”

Although it was only a short post it is well worth a read. I especially liked the comment from Rob Canyon, it is worth a view for his comment alone.
To go off topic for a minute You should go visit Robs blog as at the moment if you are quick he is letting you in on how he made $3758 in 21 days online with his double click strategy FREE. This is very limited so visit his blog and watch his video.

Ok back on topic. When I had a bit of a block the other week I posted on Twitter that if I had to force a post then it would be no good.

I got a reply from http://Twitter.com/thereseskelly that was

“thereseskelly@JamesHoward1 Hey James, get away from your computer! Sing, dance, go for a run…get out of your head and in your body and creativity flow”

My reply to this was
“@thereseskelly think the sining and dancing would make a great video for blog instead of a plain old post. They might never come back though”(although I just noticed I misspelt singing)

The reply after that was what cleared my head gave me a chuckle now I didn’t see this until 17 hours later I was still staring at a blank screen wondering what my next topic would be.

thereseskelly@JamesHoward1 Hey James, I think it could certainly be memorable! I DARE ya!!!

This reply took my mind off writing and bingo I was cured and was able to write my last post about Twitter. So if you ever get a bit stuck the best thing to do is take your mind off it for a while,  so if you get stuck, find something that will take your mind off it for a while. Check out YouTube for some funny clips or something else that will give you a laugh. They do say laughter is the best medicine after all.

Generating twitter traffic can be worth it if done, like most things the right way.

I saw a blog post a couple of weeks ago asking the same sort of thing and my reply was along the lines of, from Alex Jeffreys on twitter I found Dean Holland from Dean on Twitter I found Marcus Passey from Marcus on Twitter I found Sean Beardmore and from a comment you made on Seans blog I found your site so yes Twitter traffic is affective although in my case it was kind of a long way round.

Now I‘ll be honest and as I say it was along those lines but not exactly in those words but I ‘m sure that you can see Twitter traffic can be really affective depending on who is following you and who you follow. Hell my followers jumped up the other week after I had sent a reply to a Tweet from Harris Fellman. He sent one back and of course my name was there to see for all his followers.

Also if you follow to people like I did such as Alex Jeffreys, Mike Filsaime, Brad Fallon, Gary Ambrose, Jason James, and other top marketers. Go through the lists of who they follow, chances are that they are worth a follow too. Now here’s the best bit, when or I should say if these top guys and gals follow you back and other people are doing as above and looking into their follow list, your name will be up there for all to see and from that you will end up with a quite a well targeted Twitter following. As long as you stick within you area of interest of course.

Twitter is not about gaining as many followers as you can and then spamming them as much as you can. Far from it my use of Twitter is about finding people who share an interest and possibly build up working relationships with these people. If you get to know the right people, who knows what could happen. Need JV partners, if you have been doing it right you already have a list of possible JV partners sitting there in you follow list.

Build up relationships by keeping up your tweets, get involved, if someone you follow asks a question, send an answer. Get involved and get noticed

I see lately more and more people using sites that send Tweets for you at set times. I am not against this but what I see is the same Tweet day after day after day. Not good.

Do this and I like others I have asked hit the Remove link.

How do you get more traffic to your website?

Well there are two main sources of getting traffic to your website, they are:

Paid and Free.

Paying for traffic can be Pay Per Click Adwords Yahoo, press releases, Ezine advertising, solo ads or renting email list. Now there are courses for this but I’m not going to get into Paid traffic today.

How to Get Free Website Traffic

There are many ways of getting free website traffic and it is easier than you think, as long as you do it the right way.

Forum Posting

Posting useful information in forums can lead to great traffic to your website.
If your not familiar with forum post then all you need to know that in most forums you can add a signature in your profile now quite a few forums will not let you post affiliate links and doing so might get you banned so always check before you post but you can add your own website link.

If you are a regular poster and contribute to the forum not only the established members will take a look at your site but many new users that are looking for help will check out your website. In other words the more you can help others the more website traffic you will be getting and at the same time building backlinks to you website.

Two great forums to visit and not only catch up with some of the big guns but also get help if you need it are
 http://www.warriorforum.com/
 http://www.conqueryourniche.com/

Blog Hopping

Blog Hopping is basically taking time to visit other blogs in your niche and leaving comments, now you may be tempted just to visit as many blogs as you can and just put in a comment like, nice blog I will be back or I really liked your blog.

If you do this it is more than likely they will mark your comment as spam, I know I do it enough.

You have to take time to read the blog post and I would suggest if you don’t have anything useful to say then don’t post a comment.

You should try to take your time and not just post the first thing that comes into your head, by doing this and if you can give a good comment and and some value then not only will the visitors to the site visit YOUR site but you will be creating great links back to your website.

For a great example of this I am able to use myself and Alex Jeffreys.

I posted a comment on Alex Jeffreys blog http://marketingwithyou.com/ and he not only liked the post and sent me a thank you by way of dm on twitter, he did more than that.

 HE PUT ME IN HIS REPORT. NEWBIES NIGHTMARE

Hell it was only my comment but, my comment had my twitter link in it and I managed to get quite a lot of targeted followers. These are not any old folks who have joined a “get 400 followers a day” site these are people who have read or were in the middle of reading an internet marketing guide and clicked my link to follow me. You can’t get much more targeted than that.

He asked me about it on Twitter last Monday in fact. That brings me to another great Traffic and back link generator, Twitter but that’s for another post my friends.

By now you should have your domain name and your hosting set up. If not go back and read Beginners Guide – Back to Basics Part 1

Next step is – Find a Product to Sell

There have been books written about this subject alone. There are so many affiliate programs to work with that even choosing the right site to work with can get confusing so to keep this simple I am going to start with just the one.

CLICKBANK

Getting started with Clickbank is very easy and you will find all sorts of ebook or software products to promote it is down to the ease of use that so many product owners (vedors as Clickbank call them) choose to put their product in the Clickbank marketplace for affiliates to sell. Clickbank also pay on time every time which is the most important thing.

There is no fuss with Clickbank and you do not have to worry about the credit card processing or any such thing you just have to get the right customers to the right sales page and they handle the whole order process. You can find products to promote that can get you up to 75% of the commission for every sale generated.

Simply click the Clickbank.com hit the sign up button enter your details they will send you a confirmation link with a password that you have to enter and that is that.

Head over to the marketplace by hitting the link at the top and find a product to promote.

Choosing a product to promote

Choosing a product to promote is simple, choosing a good product is not so simple.
When choosing a product there is a few things to take note of

$/sale: Simply how much you will earn per sale

 Future $: Amount of future earnings for say a recurring membership or upsell

Total $/sale: total you will earn with upsell included

%/sale: what percent of the sale price you will earn

 %refd: Percentage of sale that have been made by affiliates

 grav: How many affiliates are promoting the product

Now you might think that finding a product to sell that has a low gravity to promote would be a good thing as there will be less competition but, usually low gravity means that it is not a good seller.
Things to look out for

The first thing you need to do before deciding on whether to promote a product is take a good look at the pitch page.

Does the title strike you and make you want to read on?? If not chances are others will feel the same. If you don’t want read what’s on the page after reading the title why would anyone else?

If it’s in the make money market, does it have proof of earning and if so does it look real. There have been more and more cases of sales pages using faked proof of earnings but you can usually tell by the look of the whole page. Quite a lot of sales pages have started using video to prove earnings such as them showing the sales as they login to an affiliate account, these are good signs.

Payment options, now you may think this is simple but some people have been known to not only put a Clickbank sales link but also another form of payment such as PayPal and in doing so taking all the payment from your work but if you hit the clickbank order link and there is also an option for PayPal that is fine. CHECK THIS WITH A HOPLINK WITH YOUR ID IN -> If they have an optin form as most do these days, sign up to it and make sure you stay on the same page after opting in. I have found on more than one occasion that I have been refreshed onto a page with a different referral link,also check the mail you receive and make sure that the links in the emails have your id on the order page.

Just realised I have not told you how to check your links are working yet duh..

To check your links are working and to create links watch the video below.
My first camtasia video so go easy on me. I think I need to clean my comp up it sounded like it was going to blow up running it. I put the video on youtube but quality was not great so I will upload another version later for better viewing.

View camtasia Clickbank Hoplinks Here

Don’t ask me why it keeps zooming in and out I didn’t get that far in the instructions yet.

In the middle of back to basics 2 but had to share this picture.

I think my 1 year old is getting a little bit hooked on her dummies (pacifiers)

Think it is time to get rid of them. Let me know if I should be cruel and take them off her.