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Internet Marketing: Come join me in the dojo
Posted by: | CommentsHey… have you ever wondered if your sites , blogs, etc. will get any visitors? Do you just put up your sites haphazardly and “hope” you’ll get enough visits to maintain interest or even make money? I just wrote a two part post on traffic so its been a big concern of mine and I would guess it should be a concern with you! You can’t sell anything online if you can get visitors your site, correct?
Have you ever heard about Search Engine Optimization or SEO? Yeah, I know it sounds like a flying sauer and I had some problems with all the Internet Marketing acronoymns myself and honestly I still do! SEO is something you need to know about before you start to construct a site “hoping” to make money online. Why is this so important to do? Well… SEO can mean the difference in having a site that can potentially make lots of cash versus having a site which could “fizzle” out in less than a month. Do I have your attention now?
The practice of SEO is researching keywords that people may type into search engines to find your site. For example, if I go to google and type in rubber bands, thousands of sites will come up, hence rubber band is a keyword you might use if you were selling that product. But… I can tell you that the keyword rubber band might have thousands of competitors in that niche making it unattractive from a monetary standpoint. At this time, most people would pack up call it a day and move on, right? What if you had a tool to drill down deeper so you can find a micro niche to sell your rubber bands using a related keyword? Well, such a tool does exist and its called Market Samurai. I recently used this tool to do research for keywords for my first articles to post on article submission sites. It really took the guesswork out of everything for me. I was able to drill down to several micro niches that have a respectable amount of traffic, so I know my site will get visited. It takes some time to learn how to use MS, but to speed things along you get tutorials which will help you. In addition, I used YouTube and found others who are using this tool and got more tips. Heres the best thing! Market Samurai gives you a free trial for up to 30 days ( I think) and during that time they offer a discount on the full purchase price before the trial ends. They don’t have an affiliate program so I am not getting paid for this, but I just thought it was one tool you need to have in your arsenal. Check out the link below and click on to start your trial. I can tell you it is worth it and will pay for itself a thousand times!
Darren McDuffie
Internet Marketer
“Who says Jocks aren’t smart?”
Get your Welcome Video up fast!!!!
Posted by: | CommentsI hope your New Year is off to a great start!!!! I told you I would be back to give you some more information for recording a welcome video. Before I get into that, I wanted to talk about a comment I received and expand on it a bit. How brave do you have to be to do a video? Not very brave… trust me on that one! I find that many people are reluctant to record videos because they are afraid. Afraid of what? Afraid they might mess up, afraid they might stumble over their words, and just plain afraid of being in front of the camera. Get over it! You have to come out of your comfort zone to accomplish anything! Here’s the kicker… we are our own worst critics. Your video is probably not as bad as you think it is. Remember: People want to connect and see the person behind the words. Now that’s out of the way… on to better things.
Let’s get ready to record your video. First you’ll need to record it with something… I prefer to use my Flip Video Camcorder. Once your video is recorded, you’ll need to upload it to a host. I like to use Tube Mogul because it uploads it to many different hosts at one time. Keep in mind you’ll need to have a youtube or metacafe account before you can use TubeMogul, but it is a great way to upload your video to 1 or more hosts at a time. Once your video is uploaded get your embed code and you are ready to roll, well almost ready. You’ll need to visit your blog’s back page and and install the flash video plugin. Once this is installed, you are ready to go. All you need to do now is take a text box from your widget page and drag it to where you want to install the video then paste your video embed code into the text box, and your video is almost ready to show the world. All you need to do is one little thing . On your text box where you installed the embed code you’ll need to adjust the height and width of your video, by changing the the numbers which correspond to them. Keep in mind the embed code has four places where the height and width of your video need to be changed. Once you change these, hit save and close on your text box and go to your blog and you should be broadcasting to the world. So what are you waiting on??? Hop to it!!!!
Darren McDuffie
Internet Marketer
” Who says Jocks aren’t Smart”?
