Online Legitimate Work From Home Jobs | Best Work at Home Business Opportunities http://www.wealthontap.com/blog This site is jam packed with online legitimate work from home jobs and the best work at home business opportunities available Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 en 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 16 - Creating An Ezine Article http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-16-creating-an-ezine-article/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-16-creating-an-ezine-article/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:30:21 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=566 Continuing the process of submitting content, today the site is www.ezinearticles.com. Ezine Articles is an article directory which is well known as being the best directory on the net. Articles on Ezine Articles rank extremely well in Google and because of this back links to your site are highly valuable for your own sites rankings.

Article marketing is one of the most widely used techniques to drive direct traffic and build links. There are literally thousands of article directories on the internet so there is a lot of potential to obtain a heap of back links. You can submit your articles manually or you can use article submission services hwich automatically submit your articles for you.

The top 3 article distribution services are
1. Unique Article Wizard
2. Article Marketer
3. iSnare

If you are anything like me you are probably starting to find all of this content creation time consuming and tedious. Luckily there are many affordable “ghost writers” who will write articles for you on virtually any topic. You can find writers on www.guru.com and www.elance.com

Another tool which creates articles for you is called Instant Article Wizard which you can find out more about here www.instantarticlewizardpro.com

Upload An Article to Ezinearticles

Update On Wordpressdirect

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-16-creating-an-ezine-article/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 15 - Setting Up A Weebly Site http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-15-setting-up-a-weebly-site/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-15-setting-up-a-weebly-site/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:30:13 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=564 If you are wondering what happened to day 14 it seems to have been pulled from the thirty day challenge. I believe day 14 was about setting up a Tumblr blog but unfortunately we seem to have had a deja vu from last year where Tumblr deleted everyone’s blogs. Because sites like Tumblr and the many other hosted blogging and site building systems are subject to spam they can have very strict guidelines. In the case of Tumblr they do not want people to be using their service as a marketing tool therefore it’s best to ignore their service and move on, there are so many alternatives that it isn’t a big deal.

Day 15 is about setting up a Weebly site. You will start to see over the next few days that it’s all about putting up as much content as possible all over the internet pointing to your own site. By putting content on well established “authority” sites and linking to your own site you are building a lot of trust with the search engines therefore improving your rankings.

Setting Up A Weebly Site

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-15-setting-up-a-weebly-site/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 13 - Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-13-using-google-analytics-to-check-your-blog-stats/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-13-using-google-analytics-to-check-your-blog-stats/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:31:28 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=562 Day 13 is another relatively short day but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be doing anything. Every chance you get you should be researching your market and creating unique content on your blogs, Squidoo lenses, HubPages or wherever and then bookmarking your content.

Ed just does a quick overview of Google Analytics and how you can monitor your traffic. Google Analytics can tell you a wealth of information and is an extremely powerful tool. The best way to learn how to use it is just to spend time pushing all the buttons and seeing what they all do. Some of the important things you will want to look at is the search traffic data and what keywords people are typing in to the search engines to find your site.

Think about this, if you are getting traffic for a particular keyword and you are ranking say 26 imagine what would happen if you managed to rank in the top 10 considering only 2% of people click on the second page of results.

A good idea is to check the sites ranking above you for those keywords using the SEO tool for Firefox and determine if you think you can outrank them. Look for sites no older than 3 years with few back links as they will be easy to out rank.

If you aren’t receiving traffic and your site is indexed then you may need to re-evaluate your keyword and target something with less competition. The worst thing you can do is keep promoting a keyword which isn’t performing. Don’t be afraid to go back to the drawing board and start your market research again.

If your site isn’t indexed then you need to get more back links, it’s as simple as that. Building a Squidoo lens and social bookmarking it should get your site indexed in 24 - 48 hours max.

Using Google Analytics To Check Your Blog Stats

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-13-using-google-analytics-to-check-your-blog-stats/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 12 - Setting Up A Hub Page http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-12-setting-up-a-hub-page/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-12-setting-up-a-hub-page/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:30:49 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=560 Today is basically the same as yesterday however this time you will be creating HubPages www.hubpages.com rather than Squidoo lenses. They both work in a similar fashion however you have to keep links to a minimum on HubPages as they have more stricter policies to stop spamming. Do not use the same content as you used on your Squidoo lens, make sure you rewrite it so that they are unique. This will ensure that both your Squidoo lenses and HubPages will rank well in the search engines.

Don’t forget to social bookmark all your content!

How To Create A Hubpages Site

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-12-setting-up-a-hub-page/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 11 - How To Create A Squidoo Lens http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-11-how-to-create-a-squidoo-lens/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-11-how-to-create-a-squidoo-lens/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:18:16 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=557 Squidoo www.squidoo.com is a great place to create content and build links to your own sites, you should also get a fair amount of direct traffic. You should really try and create as many lenses and/or groups as you can making sure they are of good quality. You can also add your blogs RSS feed to your lens which is a great way to make sure your new posts get indexed nice and quickly.

They key is to make sure you optimize your lens your your chosen keywords in the lens title, lens URL and scattered throughout the lens. The more info you can add to your lens(es) the more traffic pulling potential it has and the more likely other Squidoo lensmasters are to link to it.

Also make sure you use the maximum number of tags which I believe is about 40, as each tag you use creates a back link to your lens from the Squidoo tags pages.

GuruBob also shows today how to find content on your niche using Market Samurai. The find content option of Market Samurai has a pretty cool feature which creates an RSS feed of content pulled from a large variety of sources which you can add to your Squidoo Lens.

Today’s Videos

How To Create A Squidoo Lens

Find More Content Using Market Samurai

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-11-how-to-create-a-squidoo-lens/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 10 - 30DC RSS Submission http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-10-30dc-rss-submission/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-10-30dc-rss-submission/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:49:08 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=555 Today is a day off…sort of. The only thing required today is to submit your blogs RSS feed using the TDC RSS Submission service www.thirtydaychallenge.com/members/tools/rsssubmit.php

The tool is simple to use you simply enter the URL of your blog, your feed URL and your main keyword. You can also add secondary keywords in the tags field and a short description which should also include your keywords.

Another tool I use for RSS Submission is called RSS Submit, you can find out more about it here www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html

Submit Your RSS Feed To RSS Directories

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-10-30dc-rss-submission/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 9 - Backlinks And Indexing http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-9-backlinks-and-indexing/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-9-backlinks-and-indexing/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:07:33 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=553 Back links are the key to getting top search engine rankings and today Ed goes over additional methods to obtaining back links. By participating in groups and forums and commenting on blogs and social media sites related to your niche market you can not only build links to your site but you can also build trust with potential clients or joint venture partners.

The first place to go is Google Groups www.google.com/groups where you can locate groups specific to your niche market.

To find forums related to your niche simply type your main keyword into Google with forum appended. For example if your niche is ‘golf’ you would type ‘golf forum’ in to Google.

The key here is to add value to whatever discussion you are participating in, if you spam these sites you will have your accounts banned and will be wasting your time.

A tool which I recently posted about called Comment Kahuna http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/seo/comment-kahuna-update-released/ finds blogs and Squidoo lenses related to the keyword you enter which can comment on.

The other thing taught today is how to find out if your site is indexed which is simply a matter of typing ’site:yourdomain.com’ into Google.

If your site is indexed it will come up in the results, if not you will get a message saying “Your search - site:yourdomain.com - did not match any documents.”

It can take some time for your site to be indexed however by building your back links the time will be reduced.

Today’s Videos

How To Get More Backlinks

How To Find Out If Your Site Is Indexed

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-9-backlinks-and-indexing/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 8 - Social Bookmarking http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-8-social-bookmarking/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-8-social-bookmarking/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:40:54 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=550 As predicted today is where we move into the promotional stage and not surprisingly the first method used is social bookmarking. Social bookmarking has become extremely popular in the last few years as a way for people to “vote” for useful or valuable content rather than relying on search engines to work it out via their algorithms. Every time a visitor to your site submits a page to a social bookmarking site it is the equivalent to them stating that the content is of interest and in most cases valuable. The more people who vote for the piece of content the higher the perceived value.

Some believe that social media is going to become more popular than traditional search engines because of the fact it is voted for by humans therefore more reliable. Although search engines, Google in particular, are constantly making huge improvements to their search results they are a long way off being able to observe what a human can. Perhaps Google will start to factor in human submitted content to tools like Google Reader in it’s search results, if it is not already.

The advantage search engines have over social bookmarking sites is that they can process far more information whereas social bookmarking sites are limited by the amount of people submitting content. The majority of people who use social bookmarking sites are generally tech savvy people who all fit a similar demographic therefore you may find a lot of great content on the iPhone but very little on fishing tips. However as more and more people use social bookmarking this will become less of a factor.

Anyhow the search engines are definitely paying a close eye to social bookmarking sites and put a lot of trust in content which is listed there due to the reasons I just mentioned. This is why it is so effective at getting new content indexed. You will notice that social bookmarking sites rank extremely well and your bookmarked content will often outrank your own site especially if it is a new domain.

Social bookmarking is only one method you will be using to promote your site so don’t be concerned if you are not ranking on the first page of Google right away, the first objective is to get your site indexed then you can focus on increasing your rankings.

Something which is extremely important to know and was not mentioned by Ed in today’s training is that if you only bookmark pages on your own site then your account’s will be banned. Social bookmarking sites are highly susceptible to spammers so have very strict guidelines in place, in order to avoid having your account removed you need to use it as it was designed not as a self promotional tool.

A method I use is to bookmark new content which turns up from Google Alerts and throw in a few bookmarks to my own sites here and there but the key is to keep it to a minimum.

Today’s Videos

Bookmarking Your Blog With Socialmarker

Just the one video today which explains how to use Social Marker www.socialmarker.com which semi automates your bookmarking.

Summary of Day 8

Nothing surprising about today’s training, social bookmarking continues to be an effective tool for getting indexed just make sure you use it the right way!

See you on day 9!

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-8-social-bookmarking/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 7 - Tracking And Analytics http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-7-tracking-and-analytics/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-7-tracking-and-analytics/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:05:58 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=542 Day 7 is all about setting up tracking so that you can monitor what promotional strategies are producing results and what aren’t. We can also find out what keywords people are searching for in the search engines to find your site which is very useful information. Yet again Google come to the rescue and provide another free tool which is as good as most paid tools called Google Analytics

You will also learn a method for tracking affiliate links using another service provided by The 30 Day Challenge team. You can access it by going into your 30 Day Challenge dashboard and scrolling down you will see a link on the left hand sidebar titled ‘TDC Stats Tracker’ or clicking here www.thirtydaychallenge.com/tracking/viewtrackers.php

All you need to do is click the new URL button and paste in whatever affiliate link you wish to track. You will then be provided with a URL which looks like this http://locatereviews.com/2052517237 which will redirect to your affiliate link location. You will then be able to track how many times the link has been clicked on.

I use Google Analytics to track my affiliate links which provides more data and also allows you to use URL’s which match your site such as yoursite.com/more-info/affilliate-product.php rather than locatereviews.com/2052517237

To do this you need to create a text document on your computer and use the following code

Replace the link http://www.domain.com/affiliate-link with your affiliate link and replace UA-000000-0 with your Google Analytics ID.

Save the document as affiliate-product-name.php

You then need to create a directory(folder) on your site called ‘go’, ‘more-info’, ‘review’ or basically whatever you like and upload the file into that directory. You should now be able to load the file in your browser and it will redirect to your affiliate link.

Today’s Videos

How to Setup Google Analytics

A video showing how to set up a Google Analytics account and configuring it on your Wordpress blog.

How to Track Affiliate Links

How to use the The 30 Day Tracking link tracking system.

Add Tracked Links On Your Blog

How to add your links generated by The 30 Day Challenge link tracking system to your Wordpress blog.

Summary of Day 7

Tracking is an essential part of any online business and provides you with extremely valuable information to help your business succeed.

Google Analytics is a great tool which I use on a daily basis to keep track of how my sites are performing and as it’s free it’s perfect for people starting out on the internet.

For those getting itchy feet we should now be moving on to the promotional stage where you will start to learn how to generate traffic to your Wordpress blog and hopefully make some sales.

See you on day 8!

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-7-tracking-and-analytics/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 6 - Publishing A Blog http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-6-publishing-a-blog/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-6-publishing-a-blog/#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:48:32 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=536 Blogs are a great way for new people to internet marketing to get a site up and running and easily add content without having to know HTML. Search engines love blogs as they come well configured right out of the box. Wordpress is one of the best blogging platforms available and as it is free is an obvious choice for The 30 Day Challenge. In fact you are looking at a Wordpress blog right now as I use it on this site in conjunction with Joomla which is a free open source content management system.

You have two options in regards to using your own hosting account which allows you to have your own domain name such as yourdomainname.com or using the hosting provided by The 30 Day Challenge which would look something like yourkeyword.topicster.com

Registering a Domain

If you are serious about starting an online business it is highly recommended to purchase your own domain. It only costs around $10 a year to register a domain so it isn’t going to break the bank and over time that domain will increase in value providing you continue to promote it. You also have full control over what content you add to your site and don’t have to be concerned with having your account deleted and losing all of your content if it is hosted elsewhere.

It is recommended that you add your main keyword to your domain. For example if the niche you are targeting is ‘titanium golf clubs’ then your domain name should be something like titaniumgolfclubs.com. If the domain you are after is taken do not add numbers i.e. titaniumgolfclubs123.com or dashes titanium-golf-clubs.com because that looks spammy to the search engines. Try something like titaniumgolfclubreviews.com or toptitaniumgolfclubs.com. Lastly don’t try and stuff too many keywords into your domain because that also appears spammy.

www.namecheap.com is the service I use to register my domains.

Hosting Your Site

Once you have your own domain you will also need to find somewhere to host your site. Hosting varies greatly in price depending on how much information you wish to store and how much bandwidth your site is going to use. Fortunately to run a blog you do not need a lot of space or bandwidth therefore a basic plan is perfectly OK. You can also upgrade your account at any time if you need to.

The hosting service which Ed recommends is www.hostgator.com which I also have used and highly recommend. The $7.95 a month plan is the recommended plan as it allows you to host as many domains as you wish however like I just mentioned you can go for the $4.95 plan if you only wish to have one site and upgrade at any time to add additional sites.

Installing and Configuring Wordpress

Now that you have your domain and host set up you will want to install Wordpress. You can install Wordpress yourself by using Fantastico which you will find in cPanel or you can use the service which Ed recommends called Wordpress Direct. The advantage of using Wordpress Direct is that it installs several plug-ins and makes optimizations to Wordpress which would otherwise have to be done manually. It also comes with 1,500 themes which you can choose from which again saves you from having to find and install it yourself.

The free subscription of Wordpress Direct allows you to install up to 3 blogs and the paid service allows you to install up to 15. Most 30 Day Challengers wouldn’t require more than 3 blogs as you only need one per niche market therefore the free service is perfectly fine.

Today’s Videos

Awesome Software And Domains

A video showing you how to register your own domain name.

How To Setup Your Own Hosting

Dan goes through the process of setting up your hosting account at Hostgator.

Install A Blog With Wordpressdirect

Ed shows how to set up a Wordpress Blog using Wordpress Direct.

Add Content And Publish Blog

GuruBob shows how to add content to your Wordpress site installed with Wordpress Direct.

Summary of Day 6

Wordpress is a great blogging platform and has been pretty much the industry standard system for affiliate marketers due to how well they perform in the search engines and the ease of use. If you are serious about starting an online business then I highly recommend getting your own domain and hosting account.

See you on day 7!

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-6-publishing-a-blog/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 5 - Getting Some Content http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-5-getting-some-content/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-5-getting-some-content/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:34:08 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=533 To promote your affiliate product(s) you will need to create content about your niche(s). This allows us to write blog posts and submit articles which will then be indexed by the search engines and hopefully result in some traffic. Today introduces a new feature of Market Samurai which will locate content related to your keywords to help you create your own content. Also if you subscribed to Google News feeds and/or Google Alerts then you should already have some info which you can create some content on.

Ed introduces a new tool from, yes you guessed it, Google, which allows you to easily make notes straight from your browser. The tool is called Google Notebook and you can get a plug-in for your browser here http://www.google.com/notebook/download

The goal for the day is to start writing some articles about 300 to 500 words long for each of your keywords. The more content you write the better but as a guide try and create at least ten articles.

Today’s Video’s

Find Article Content Using Market Samurai

GuruBob shows you how to use Market Samurai to find and analyze content on your keywords which you can then use to create your own content.

How To Write an Article

Ed shows you how to convert the content you have gathered so far using Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google Alerts and Market Samurai into your own content.

Summary of Day 5

As an experienced internet marketer I can tell you that becoming efficient at creating unique content is extremely useful as the more content you have the more traffic you can generate providing you are targeting the right keywords.

If English is not your first language or you really struggle to write content for whatever reason you can hire a ghostwriter to create the content for you.

See you on Day 6!

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-5-getting-some-content/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 4 - Finding Stuff To Sell And Test http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-4-finding-stuff-to-sell-and-test/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-4-finding-stuff-to-sell-and-test/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:06:34 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=529 Before going full throttle on your chosen markets the next step is to test the market to ensure the market is actually spending money. You don’t want to go through the whole process of the 30 day challenge just to find that your market aren’t going to buy your products.

Ed’s method to test a market is to locate an affiliate product(s) related to your niche. There are dozens of affiliate networks where you can find products to sell as well as going directly to companies.

  • The first step is to go in to Google and type in your main keyword for your niche followed by affiliate. So for example if I wanted to find affiliate products related to golf I would simply type in “golf affiliate”.
  • Next you can go to affiliate networks to find products and here is a list of affiliate networks which you can join.
    PayDotCom
    ClickBank
    Shareasale
    ModernClick
    LinkShare
    Affiliate Fuel
    Commission Junction
  • You can also become an affiliate at Amazon www.amazon.com. Amazon commissions are quite low but as Ed points out in the video we aren’t interested in how much we can make only that people are actually buying products in your chosen niche market. If people are buying your recommended affiliate products then that the provides the opportunity of creating your own product and making 100% of the sale price rather than 5%-15%.
  • One place I don’t think Ed has mentioned so far is eBay which is another great place to discover niche markets. You can also become an eBay affiliate and promote any product that is on auction. Again commissions are low however their are millions of products in just as many niches being sold on eBay every day. To become an affiliate for eBay you need to join Commission Junction www.cj.com

So your job today is to find some products you can promote to test your market.

Today’s Videos

Finding An Internet Affiliate Program

A quick video on where to find affiliate products

Writing Your First Copy

Dan gives some tips on writing your first small piece of ad copy to promote your affiliate products.

Creating Amazon Affiliate Links

Dan explains how to create your Amazon affiliate link for whichever products you wish to promote to test your market.

Manipulating Images With Picnik

A tool which is going to be released for 30 day challenger’s is going to be released in the next few days (day 6 I believe) which is going to require your affiliate link from the previous video, a short bit of unique ad copy about the product and an image. This video shows you how to use a free online edit imaging tool called Picnik www.picnik.com to get your image of your product ready.

Overview of Day 4

Testing your market with affiliate products is very effective and some internet marketers make a lot of money simply promoting affiliate products and services however a lot of internet marketers would agree that having your own product is far more profitable for obvious reasons.

Dan mentioned a new function which I am assuming is going to be added to the Market Samurai tool, perhaps the ‘Publish Content’ function which will take the info collected above, compile it, and post it to a blog, maybe?

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-4-finding-stuff-to-sell-and-test/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 3 - Competition Analysis http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-3-competition-analysis/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-3-competition-analysis/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:41:02 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=525 Today a new feature has been added to the Market Samurai tool which allows you to do some further analysis of the competition for your keywords. If you read my review of the tool you would have noted that one of the drawbacks were the fact it only gave you the exact match competition in Google which isn’t really enough information.

Today’s Videos

SEO Competition Using Market Samurai

This video explains how you can obtain a lot of crucial information on the top 10 ranking pages for a particular keyword you are interested in targeting using the Market Samurai tool. Data includes off page factors such as domain age, PageRank, Alexa Rank, Page back links, domain back links, .edu and .gov back links, DMOZ and Yahoo Directory and on page factors such as keyword in title, URL, description and heading tags as well as Google cache age.

SEO Competition The Old Way

In this video Ed goes through the original method for analyzing competition using the SEO tool for Firefox.

Overview of Day 3

Analyzing competition may be a bit overwhelming for newbies due to the amount of data which needs to be processed. Don’t let this put you off just concentrate on the main factors such as sites less than 3 years old, fewer than 100 back links to the page, less than PR3, no authority sites such as eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc and you should have any problems ranking on the front page for your chosen keywords.

I think I can smell some Google Knols cooking in the upcoming videos ;)

See ya on day 4!

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-3-competition-analysis/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 2 - Keyword Research http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-2-keyword-research/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-2-keyword-research/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:17:33 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=522 I think Ed would have probably spent more time on discovering ideas for niche markets if it wasn’t for the new tool he is so excited about. So today is all about Market Samurai a new tool for keyword research which is still not released to the general public. 30 Day Challenger’s get access to a 40 day trial of the tool for free and 100 lucky people will win free lifetime access. Sweet!

If you are not registered for the 30 Day Challenge then go here to join in on the fun www.thirtydaychallenge.com

When signing up for the Market Samurai tool you can also fill out a survey to get access to a special bonus. The special bonus is an ebook called The Niche Marketing Black Book. Here is an overview of what is included,

  • Tips on how to find profitable markets
  • How to find traffic levels for a particular market
  • How to calculate total market value
  • 3 case studies showing how to evaluate a market
  • A list of top 40 online markets
  • Analysis of the top 4 markets

Click here to see my complete review of the Market Samurai tool.

Today’s Training Videos

Introduction To Market And Keyword Research

This video is created by Guru Bob who is part of the 30 day challenge team. He explains in detail how to determine a market then break that down into a niche(s) and then a micro niche(s). Generally speaking micro niches are easy to target as their is usually less competition. Bob also talks about how to determine whether or not a keyword has earning potential.

How To Do Keyword Research For The Internet

Dan Raine talks about how to do keyword research manually without the Market Samurai tool. Basically you will see where Market Samurai pulls it’s data from which helps you understand what is happening behind the scenes.

Overview of Day 2

Keyword research is extremely important and will be a huge factor in whether people will succeed or fail in the 30 day challenge. The Market Samurai tool makes it much easier to find good keywords to target and removes a lot of guess work. The key is finding keywords with the least amount of competition you can find which still have a reasonable amount of traffic. Be prepared to sacrifice the higher traffic keywords in order to achieve the top positions in the search engines as if you aren’t on the first page you may as well be on the last.

If you want to keep up to date with my posts on the 30 day challenge feel free to subscribe to our RSS feed. See you on day 3!

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The latest version of Comment Kahuna will find Wordpress blogs related to your market with the CommentLuv plug-in installed. The CommentLuv plug-in is one which you have probably come across where when you leave a comment on someones Wordpress blog it will add a link to your latest blog post at the end of your comment automatically which is really effective at getting direct traffic to your blog.

So what are you waiting for go get it www.commentkahuna.com

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/seo/comment-kahuna-update-released/feed/ 30 Day Challenge 2008: Day 1 - Discover Your Niche Market http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-1-discover-your-niche-market/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-1-discover-your-niche-market/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:57:16 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=512 Nothing particularly groundbreaking taught today just a well used, proven and reliable method for uncovering a virtually unlimited number of niche markets using Amazon www.amazon.com

Today’s Videos

What To Expect In The Thirty Day Challenge

Ed talks about how crucial it is to research your market before promoting or creating a product. In fact the product comes last in what Ed calls “a magnificent symphony of four parts”. Which are market research, keyword research, traffic generation and finding or creating products.

Recommended Setup For Thirty Day Challenge

A quick overview of the tools which will be used in the 30 Day Challenge including the 30 Day challenge toolbar, Flock web browser, Stumble Upon, FreindFeed, Twitter, Twhirl, Google Reader and YouTube.

The Getting of Ideas

How to use Amazon to find ideas and keep up to date with your market by subscribing to Google News RSS feeds using Google Reader and using Google Alerts.

Overview of Day 1

Amazon is a massive “encyclopedia” as Ed calls it of products sold in every market imaginable. A good place to start is in the non-fiction books and the magazines section. You can guarantee if there is a book or a magazine on a subject then there is a niche which you can capitalize on. At this stage you want to find as many niche ideas as you can and Ed recommends finding niches which you have some interest in as they will be easier to work with.

It’s a good idea to try and find small niches as it will be easier for you to compete in rather than trying to go after the big ones such as ‘weight loss’ where there is intense competition.

You can keep up to date with your choosen markets by using Google Alerts www.google.com/alerts by simply enterting in the main keyword for your market and your email address. You can set how often you want to be emailed about any new content and you can also set up a rule in your inbox so that emails are automatically sorted for each niche.

You can also go to Google News www.google.com/news and enter your main keyword then you will get a list of the latest news related to your market which you can then subscribe to the RSS feed of these results so that you can easily keep up to date as new content is added. RSS feeds are an internet marketers best friend as it makes it much easier to manage and process large amounts of content from multiple sites all from one location. That location is Google Reader www.google.com/reader

To subscribe to the feed enter you main keyword into Google News search and either click the little RSS icon in your address window or in the left sidebar you should see a link which the name RSS. Simply right click and copy the link then go over to Google Reader, click add subscription and paste the link and click save.

It’s a good idea to create folders for each niche so that you can keep everything nicely organized.

That’s about it for day 1, feel free to subscribe to our feed to keep up to date with the rest of the challenge.

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/30-day-challenge-2008-day-1-discover-your-niche-market/feed/ It’s 30 Day Challenge Time Again! http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/its-30-day-challenge-time-again/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/its-30-day-challenge-time-again/#comments Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:06:01 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=510 Yep, it’s that time of the year where Ed Dale and Dan Raine go all out with the 30 day challenge 2008 to teach you the latest techniques on starting your own business or promoting your existing business. Starting with how to uncover niche markets, keyword research, traffic generation methods and finding or creating products to sell to your market.

You can go sign up here and get started www.thirtydaychallenge.com

The amount of training material Ed and Dan provide for free is nothing short of amazing and not surprisingly there is a large community of people who participate, just go check out the forum and you will see what I mean.

A lot of focus is put on how to leverage social media sites to generate targeted traffic for your niche a very powerful method which has become extremely popular over the last couple of years.

For those unfamiliar with the thirty day challenge it was started about 4 or 5 years ago by Ed to teach people how to make their first dollar online. The theory being that once you know how to make your first dollar you can then repeat the process to generate more as everything that is taught is totally scalable.

The 30 Day Challenge is a free no strings attached, no obligations at all training which anyone can participate in. I highly recommend you check it out you won’t be disappointed!

Even seasoned internet marketers should follow along as each year Ed and Dan introduce a few groundbreaking marketing techniques and I guarantee you will learn something new to help improve your business in some way.

I will be blogging about each day of the 30 Day Challenge, outlining what has been taught and posting all of the training videos so feel free to subscribe to our feed to keep up to date.

So again here is the link to get started, see you on the inside! www.thirtydaychallenge.com

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/thirty-day-challenge/its-30-day-challenge-time-again/feed/ Wealthontap.com Has Been Reborn! http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/internet-marketing/wealthontapcom-has-been-reborn/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/internet-marketing/wealthontapcom-has-been-reborn/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:38:38 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/?p=506 It’s been a long time since I posted here and have decided to breathe some life back into this site. I have been working on building niche sites with Joomla specifically concentrating on web 2.0 type community and review sites. Even though this site doesn’t receive a huge amount of traffic, only makes a few sales here and there and the domain name isn’t brilliant (it was the first domain I ever purchased and I really had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea that 18 months later I would be working full time as an internet marketer) it is now reasonably well aged and has decent PR so I thought it was worth trying to put it to better use, only time will tell!

In fact soon I am planning on releasing a web site building service similar to PIPS 2.0 which will allow you to customize the site to fit whatever business or businesses you wish to promote.

This is now the third facelift this site has had, originally it was an “out-of-the-box” PIPS site which was my introduction to the world of internet marketing. It still uses the original PIPS newsletter however I will probably create my own in the near future.

The current design is called Populous and will be familiar to those who use Joomla and more specifically are members of the Rockettheme template club. The main site is built using Joomla 1.5.4 and this blog has been upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress 2.6 prior to that I think it was 2.1 so was well due for an upgrade. Upgrade went relatively smoothly however I had the category issue that a lot of others had and considering I seem to have accumulated a lot of categories was a bit of a pain.

Since the theme was designed for Joomla I had to create a version for Wordpress which I did using the Sandbox theme which is great for creating your own Wordpress designs without having to build the theme from scratch. I removed all plug-ins and started again from scratch as they were all out of date. Here is a list of all current plug-ins running on this blog.

Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator
Post-Plugin Library
Recent Posts
ShareThis
Similar Posts
Sociable
Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

I also plan on adding the Random Posts plug-in as well as the Auto Social Poster plug-in and one other which has unfortunately just slipped my mind, oh thats right the Google XML plug-in which can be submitted to the Google Webmaster tool I haven’t done all that much research into the tool yet.

Perhaps in a future post I will list the Joomla plug-ins which I am running also.

I plan to make this site a review type site where I will research as many tools, memberships, ebooks and anything else related to home businesses and internet marketing as possible. I have already started to map out the sections of the site and as you will see I have a lot of work ahead of me!

Each opportunity, product or service will have a comment section where people who have used the opportunity, product or service can leave their own review and give it a rating. The goal is to provide people with an unbiased, honest review to aid them in making their decision.

That’s all for now I will be posting again soon once I have some content up to hopefully encourage people to leave their own reviews, I will have to come up with some incentives for top reviewers.

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/internet-marketing/wealthontapcom-has-been-reborn/feed/ How To Market Your Home Business http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-market-your-home-business/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-market-your-home-business/#comments Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:37:32 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-market-your-home-business/ Everyone knows that marketing a home business is one of the most tricky things about having one. You have to be sure that you are doing it correctly, because no matter what your business is, chances are good that there are a lot of people who have home businesses that are going to be able to compete with yours. Because the internet is open to everyone all over the world, you are going to find that it often comes down to people choosing the business that markets themselves the best.

Make Your Mark

So, how can you make your mark on the world and be sure that you are noticed? First of all, you have to have something that no one else does. Chances are good that other people have your same idea, unless you have come up with something that no one has ever heard of before. So, this means that there has to be something about your business that is unique, whether it is in your web site, the way that you do business, or the product that you are offering. You have to be sure that you can easily say that you have something no one else can offer, and that when you say this, you can actually mean it. If you can do this, you are going to be on the right track.

Market Market Market

Another thing that you have to be sure to do is to market yourself. No matter what you are doing, there is a place somewhere that is going to be able to market you. You have to rely on yourself and do your own research, and figure out where you can best market yourself. If you are just starting out, a good thing to do would be to search online for your product or service, and see what comes up. See what your competition is, and then figure out what they are doing to market themselves. Then, see where you can get your name out there and how you can make yourself known in the world where you want to be.

Another thing that you have to do is to get creative about how you market yourself. This could even be the thing that sets you apart from all the rest. If you can be sure that you really know what you are doing, you might be able to find your way to the top of something, and you might be able to be more of a success than you ever thought it would be possible for you to be. Get out there and market yourself, in the best way possible, and see if you can bring yourself to the forefront.

]]> http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-market-your-home-business/feed/ How To Start A Home Business With Limited Amount of Capital http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-start-a-home-business-with-limited-amount-of-capital/ http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-start-a-home-business-with-limited-amount-of-capital/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:59:04 +0000 Mike Law http://www.wealthontap.com/blog/home-based-business/how-to-start-a-home-business-with-limited-amount-of-capital/ If you are thinking about borrowing a huge amount of money from friends and relatives to start your own home business, you might want to put that thought aside and find other ways of starting your business without burying yourself in a pile of debts. Just because you do not have a lot of money for capital doesn’t mean you cannot engage in a home business. There are many ways of starting your own home business even with just a few dollars.

Offering Services

One of the best ways to do away with the huge start up capital is to start a business that will only require your talents and your time as capital. For instance, if have some special skills and trainings on dealing with children with learning disabilities, you can set up a tutorial service. There are many people all over the country that are offering home tutorial services for kids with learning problems and they are earning good money. On the hand, if you have some bookkeeping skills and you have some experience in this area, you might want to offer your service to the small business around your neighborhood. You will be surprised at how many people really need your services.

Use your present resources

Using your present resources as capital for your business can help you save a lot of money. For instance, if you have a big house with a lawn, you can turn your house into a child minding center or a day care center. There are a lot of parents out there who need a safe place where they can leave their kids while they go to work or do some shopping. A day care center is not really hard to promote in the neighborhood. Once the people in your community learn that you are offering this type of service, they will start coming to your doorstep.

Working Online

There are many online businesses that do not require you to put any capital at all. For instance, if you are a good writer, you can offer your services online. The good thing about working as an online freelance writer is that you can work anywhere you are. As long as you have a computer with internet connection, it doesn’t matter if you are working inside the mall, the coffee shop or by the beach for that matter. On the hand, if you have no writing skills, you can always join one of those online affiliate marketing programs and earn commissions from the sales generated from your site. Most online affiliate marketing programs do not require you to put capital to get started. The good thing about these online affiliate programs is that they give out big commissions. If your site generates a lot of traffic, you will most likely earn a handsome income out of these affiliate marketing programs.

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