Easy Product Launches According to Robert Plank

I got an email today from Robert Plank about product launches. He says, “All a product launch is, is a bunch of emails.”!

Robert Plank has a unique twist and just about everything, but one thing I know….he does what he says and it works. Yep, he’s one of the unique IMer’s that actually talks about what he does and how he makes money. Some might think he’s a little harsh or a “take no prisoner type of guy”. Truth is, he knows what works, he tells ya and then doesn’t want to hear any whining about why you’re not making money!

If you’re on any internet marketing lists, then you know all about “Product Launches”, and you’ve more than likely been abused by them. Honestly, I can spot a product launch before it even hits my inbox…..I don’t care what they’re promoting, I won’t open any of their emails.

Plank sent me an email that really simplifies product launches…makes it easy for simpletons like me to wrap my head around. You don’t need to go through some big process if you have a product or service to promote. Robert makes it real easy, in fact he talks about how he simplifies the process of product launches. Instead of telling you about it, I’ll just paste the email here: (hope its ok with Mr Plank)

All a product launch is, is a bunch of e-mails.

It doesn’t have to be any fancier than that.
None of this “on day 17, tell them you just
remembered about a leaked chapter of the e-book
you just wrote…”

Screw that!  That’s too much stuff to remember.
If you’re launching something, just think of five
reasons they would want what you’re offering.

Or five things that would STOP them from buying
and your reason why that objection doesn’t matter.

Then that’s five quick e-mails.  At the end of
each e-mail give them a place they can go and
order.

The problem with “product launch formulas” is
you’re expecting people to open and read every
single e-mail you send them.  They just won’t.

People are subscribed to so many lists.  You
might say one wrong thing in today’s e-mail and it
gets filtered.

Or they just don’t notice your e-mail.  Or they
open up your e-mail in one tab, along with a bunch
of other e-mails in other tabs, and forget about
clicking on your message… oops.

They might even read your e-mails out of order.

So my advice is just send them whatever is
easiest for you to write about.  The order you do
stuff in doesn’t matter.  All that matters is you
send more than one e-mail.

Big hint: one quick e-mail to your list doesn’t
make it a launch!!!

Here’s something interesting.  I had my first 25K
month back in 2007.  You know what I did?  I
e-mailed my list with a different offer every day
for an entire month.

My goal was an average of a thousand bucks each
day.  Some days I offered new products.  Some
days, old products.  Some days, resale rights.

Was I dead tired at the end of that month?  You
betcha.  Did I hit that 25K goal?  Yesirreebob.

Did my income take a huge drop the next month?
You better believe it.  You can’t offer resale
rights every single week and expect that offer not
to get worn out.

Instead of having one offer a day, just have one
offer a month.  Five launch e-mails for each
offer.

If you want to do 1 e-mail a day for 5 days,
great.

But even an e-mail every other day for 10 days is
fine.  Or one e-mail every third day for 15
days… now you’ve spent two weeks launching a
product, great job!

I will allow you to re-mail for the same offer.
In fact, you have to if you want people to read
your stuff.  And next month, you can do it all
over again.  Just blend your content and pitch!

Did you like what I told you today?  Great, let’s
keep that party going if you haven’t joined yet:
Robert Plank Copywriting, Email Marketing and Product Lauches

Have a super duper fantastically terrific day,
Scott!

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Unrestricted PLR to Entire Membership Site

Unrestricted PLR to entire membership site (*Deadline*)

This is limited but as Xsitepro users, this package of PLR
Membership information could be useful to you in many ways.
Memberships are big money makers and this package is really
worth the time to investigate.

Remember the old peanut butter cup commercials? "You got your
peanut butter in my chocolate...", etc...

The perfect combination of ingredients makes for a great
product, right? Well, in our marketplace right now, two of
the biggest trends happen to be PLR products and
Membership sites.

Put these two things together and you get a firestorm
combination.

Right now, Jimmy D. Brown is offering a limited number of
PLR licenses to...

    *** An ENTIRE 3 month membership course! ***

Completely written. Ready to sell.

In the PLR package, you will receive

 - the salesletter
 - 12 content lessons
 - autoresponder emails
 - 5 e-zine articles
 - Free report
 - Download pages
 - 2 solo mailings
 - An ENTIRE fixed term membership course...ready to go!

** And you'll have unrestricted PLR to it all!

Details Click Here

In the membership course, "More New Sales", there are twelve
weekly lessons teaching members how to maximize sales
potential in any market. This course was written by a
seasoned sales veteran, based on years of trial and error.
Each lesson is 5-8 pages in length, with concise, actionable
chunks of information geared toward fast results and long
term success with customers.

Here are just a few things you can do with your UNRESTRICTED
PLR license...

* You can setup your own fixed-term membership site and sell
  it for $19.97 per month! 

* You can convert all of the content into a product to sell
  such as an ebook, physical course, audio product, etc. and
  claim as your own.

* You can sell RESALE RIGHTS licensing to your membership
  site, product or whatever else you create from this content
  for MEGA BUCKS!

* You can use this as an incentive to get people to buy another
  offer of yours or to create a "deluxe package", "upsell" or
  "backend offer".

* You can sell the content on ebay, the Warrior Forum special
  offers section, offline, in another membership site, etc.

* You can convert the content into blog posts, ezine articles,
  viral reports, training tutorials, giveaways and more.

The only thing you CANNOT do is sell PLR licensing to the
materials in this package. 

Check out the details here at
PLR Membership Site

WARNING:  This offer will be permanently removed on Friday,
July 30th @ 10PM CDT and will no longer be available for
purchase.

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Squeeze Page Basics

Squeeze pages are basically one-page websites that offer you something in exchange for filling in your contact details. The page will also contain (at the very bottom) the business privacy standards and possibly other information like contact details. The squeeze page is designed so that the visitor will be compelled to take a very specific action. So, to be effective it should have a catchy headline, a story or some content that immediately catches the interest of the reader, examples of how the product or service is helping others, testimonials, and the bonuses the reader will get it he or she takes the action you desire. There is no navigating on the squeeze page. Your visitor will just follow it through and take action, or will decide to leave the site.

At this point, some squeeze pages will have a pop-up window incorporated to invite you back to the page by promising you a discount, an extra bonus, or some other benefit that the visitor will have a hard time passing up.

There is a lot of information about the best way to create a squeeze page or to have someone do it for you. Many internet marketers leave this work to established designers who understand exactly what kind of pages convert visitors into leads and/or sales. Others prefer to do it themselves. In either case, there are certain elements that are crucial to having a good squeeze page.

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The headline, of course, is the most important factor. It’s been said that you have eight seconds at the most to capture your visitor’s attention. If your headline doesn’t do that, then the rest of the content on the page is pretty much useless. Keep in mind that the headline does not have to be “hypey”, but it does need to be compelling. Also, you don’t want to put the features of the product or service you are offering in the headline. Rather, you want to tell the visitor why he must have whatever it is you are offering, so speak in terms of benefits to him or her. Most squeeze page headlines are in red, and they can then be followed by a smaller sub-heading.

The rest of the squeeze page is about further convincing your visitor that what you are offering is not to be passed up. By the end of the squeeze page, he or she should feel he or she is going to be getting a tremendous deal just by giving you his or her contact information. Customer testimonials are necessary, as well as other examples. You also want to make sure that the visitor knows that there are limited items of whatever you are offering on your squeeze pages, or that the price will be going up soon, or both. If you don’t give them a deadline, they will often just think that they will come back to it later, and then they never do.

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Keyword Snatcher Review …4 Hours Left!

Only 4 hours left to get your hands on Keyword Snatcher!

Today is the last day you can purchase Jonathan Leger’s “Keyword Snatcher”….the new keyword tool that uses the Google, Yahoo, Ask, Bing or Amazon search window to come up with unique new search terms. This Keyword Snatcher Review will give you some unique insight into how you might use this application.

It doesn’t matter if you use Xsitepro, Wordpress, Dreamweaver or some other method of creating a website or blog. The fact is you need to use proper keywords in your content. And although there are many keyword tools out there…. almost all of them use the data from Googles Free Keyword Tool. Keyword Snatcher gets its data from another source …. so you get a whole new angle than the 100’s of thousands of other article writers and content creators. This is the cheapest most expensive tool you’ll ever get your hands on, so don’t wait click here now!

See my Review of Keyword Snatcher for more information along with a video on how it works.

I’ve seen some questions about Keyword Snatcher that centered around the use of these keywords such as:

“How do I determine what is a valuable keyword?”

“Isn’t the rating system used by Keyword Snatcher too arbitrary?”

For those of you who aren’t comfortable with Keyword Snatchers rating system or just would like to get more statistics for these keywords I did a quick video on how to use Niche Taser to get more statistics on your Keyword Snatcher Keywords.

I’ve worked out a deal with Austin Delaney, the author of Niche Taser ….only $7 until Sunday of this week 6/27/2010 …..Make sure you use the discount code SCOTTPARAT

Grab a copy of Niche Taser and you’ll find it’s a handy tool. Use the discount code SCOTTPARAT

Don’t forget Keyword Snatcher is only available to the end of Today….FRIDAY 6/25/2010!

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Keyword Snatcher Reviewed

For my first review I wanted to give you a thorough Review of Jonathan Leger’s Keyword Snatcher. It’s not just another keyword tool because of the type of keywords it produces, yet it’s not a keyword tool that will cost you 100’s of dollars or a monthly fee…..at least not yet. I’m hurrying this review of keyword snatcher because it will only be available for 5 days! I know what you’re thinking….ya, ya …here we go again. Another pathetic scarcity tactic trying to force me to buy. I agree with you….I absolutely hate those types of tactics and marketing tricks.

I can tell you that Leger’s serious about only selling it for 5 days. I’m not exactly sure why or if he will ever make it available again.

I mentioned the reason he’s limiting the number of users is because he doesn’t want this very unusual technique to get abused and possibly ruined with Google, Yahoo and Bing. You can purchase a copy on June 21 through June 25 2010 and then it goes on the shelf. Like I said, I hate that kind of tactic, but I believe Jonathan Leger to be an upright moral person with no intent or desire to rip people off….. he’s a good person with good intentions and all I can do at this point is trust his judgment. I can say this because I’ve either purchased, beta tested or owned quite a large handful of his products and he is one of the most creative software and application designers in the Internet Marketing World.

Keyword Snatcher digs up keywords that most webmasters have no idea even exist. This keyword research tool grabs the data from the keywords that are suggested when you type in a keyword in the search box at either Google, Yahoo or Bing. Typically a drop down of 10 related keywords that have actually been used to search for something will appear before your eyes….these are keyword and keyword phrase suggestions. See the image below:

If you were to type “summer a” you would get a whole new series of keywords related to “summer”

You could go through the entire alphabet and find new keyword ideas…. in fact you can even suggest searches such as “summer trip” and get something like:

Ok….the cool part of all this is that these “suggested keywords and keyword phrases” typically will not show up in the Free Google Keyword Tool! That’s big because they don’t show up but they actually exist and Google doesn’t tell you about them. These keywords won’t bring in 10,000 searches a month but give you a way to super-optimize any niche….yep, just about any niche will reveal these kinds of keywords.

One problem, up until now you needed to do this type of keyword research manually. Type in your keyword, hit the space bar, or add a letter, or even another keyword. Next check out the 10 suggested long tail keyword phrases and copy them down. If you’re thinking that’s going to take forever….you’re right, it takes a long, long time to do this manually.

Leger figured out a method to automate the task. Better yet you can configure the tool to dig deep….real deep. You can end up with a list of keywords that is 1,000 or even 5,000 phrases depending on your niche. Plus Keyword Snatcher has a method of rating the quality of the keyword in all the search engines….you end up with just enough information to make some intelligent keyword choices.

In my Keyword Snatcher Review I do a screen capture video of the process above and reveal how Keyword Snatcher works. I give this tool high marks for what it currently does and for what it will be developed to do because Jonathan Leger is always behind the scenes adding new features and upgrading. But don’t buy it because of what it will do…..get it for what it currently does.

See my Review of Keyword Snatcher:

Keyword Snatcher Review

Don’t forget this will only be available for a couple of days….hope you find it in time

Look at what some of the users of Keyword Snatcher have to say:

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Hi Jonathan,

I’m very impressed with how versatile Keyword Snatcher really is,
with regard to how fast it pulls in over 3,000 keywords on my chosen
niche and how “up to par” these keywords truly are.

I’ve purchased all your software and I have to say this is another
sleek piece of software you’ve manifested indeed!

Please keep up the good work.

Best regards,

Dr. John Chen
ewebzine.com

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Great Keyword Harvester From Jonathan…

This keyword tool is a breeze to use and quickly produces
bucketloads of keywords for you to put into use.

I have used other keyword tools but this one does produce a
comprehensive list of keywords along side of which are the details
of where they rank in the Google, Yahoo and Bing popularity lists.

These are the suggestions that appear when you are typing your
keyword into the the search engines. You can if you wish just opt
for just one of those search engines.

Even if you have other keyword tools this one will be a good
addition.

Nige Evans
bodypillowbenefits.com

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I’m loving this Software Jon…

I’ve been using the new software and am finding lot’s of keywords
in my niches that I just didn’t have before! I’ve got more than I
know what to do with to be honest!

This is a cool tool simple to use and best of all beats Google’s
freebie KW tool hands down for great phrases! Support brilliant as
always.

Lynne Ivatt
lynneivatt.com

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What an Eye Opener!

So many products in the internet marketing niche are heralded as
“game changers” yet they prove to be nothing more substantive than
a flash crowd, gone from the scene before you know it.

With Keyword Snatcher, Jon has TRULY produced an absolutely
remarkable tool. It is not only destined to be a genuine game
changer, I predict that ultimately Jon’s Keyword Snatcher home
run will be a Hall of Fame inductee.

Jim Navary
www.va-sem.com

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Does Jon Leger Ever Sleep?

Every time I think Jon has developed the perfect tool he moves
ahead and trumps himself again. This time he has made a definite
home run. I set up dozens of blogs to run with automatic software.
I have been using two of the most popular paid keyword tools to
search for keywords and at most usually get a list of around 180
or so.

The more keywords I can add the better traffic I can receive. Jon’s
new Keyword Snatcher has the ability to find hundreds and in many
cases thousands of longtail keywords automatically in minutes. But
the tool does so much more.

You will ignore this tool at your peril.

You have to see it to believe it. I understand this will be a
limited release product. Make sure to check it out before it is gone.

Chet Hastings
discountmountainbike.org

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Over 1000 new keyword phrases found!

What an ingenious and valuable tool. I’ve been spending way too
much time looking for keyword phrases to have articles written
about on a niche I’m working on.

Jon offered a beta version of Keyword Snatcher to me, so I figured
I’d give it a try. I was able to find not quite 300 keyword phrases
using the Google tool.

Then I started up Keyword Snatcher, typed in my 2 word root phrase,
clicked one button, and 20 minutes later it had returned 1291
phrases. The beauty of it is that only 400 of them were found on
Google, the rest were from Yahoo and Bing (mostly Yahoo).

This is great, and is now my go-to keyword tool!

Dennis Becker
www.earn1kaday.com

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Google Hides, But Not From The Snatcher…

I can’t believe how many more decent keywords that the Snatcher
found compared to when I had only used the Big Boy’s keyword tool.
Really helped get my creative juices flowing for new custom articles.

Richard Killey
databaselessons.com/blog

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Keyword Snatcher Saves Me Time…

Before Jon came out with Keyword Snatcher I used to manually try
and find these keywords. Obviously that is a hit and miss process
and I missed tons of keywords that way.

Now, with Keyword Snatcher digging down into niches and finding
great keywords has become a one click process. I was amazed on the
first time I sparked it up it returned over 30 keywords that I had
missed for my niche.

Truly a great tool and a real time saver like all Jon’s tools.

Leanne King
www.wpqueen.com

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Out Performed the Competitor…

I ran several keywords through the Keyword Snatcher and a similar
software currently on the market. Keyword Snatcher pulled almost
double the number of keyword phrases as the competitor. These were
not junk keywords but useful phrases I can use to build and expand
my content. It’s fast too.

Thanks for continuing to build valuable tools for us “non-techy”
internet marketers.

Justin Connor
makeavideo.net

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The Confirmed Opt-In Myth

Confirmed opt-in as defined by SpamHaus, who is one of the most respected anti spam organizations in the world:

Known as “COI” in the legitimate bulk email industry, also known as “Confirmed Opt-in”, “Verified Opt-in” or sometimes “Double Opt-in”.

Before I go on, just let me say as an Xsitepro user you surely are practicing good internet marketing habits….aren’t you? It really doesn’t matter what you’re trying to accomplish online, I can’t think of very many circumstances that you shouldn’t be building a list in an effort to keep in touch with and possibly sell something in the future. Since many Xsitepro users are trying to build websites for the own brick and mortar businesses, they aren’t too savy when it comes the the techniques involved in internet marketing. Anyway…..regardless of what you are trying to do, you should have an email capture form on your website…preferably on the front page to start collecting names and email addresses. Email marketing is here to stay and gives you many options to build your business…..using a professional company is of paramount importance and Aweber is the King of Email Marketing!

The next issue for email marketing is delivering all your email and one function of that is the double optin form. This means the website visitor first leaves their name and email address and hit submit. Next they get a message in the email inbox asking them to confirm their desire to receive email from you…..its a bit of a hassle but it makes you safe and someone can’t sue you for spam. There have been many myths about the double opt-in and this article should clear that up for you

With Closed-Loop Opt-in the Recipient has verifiably confirmed permission for the address to be included on the specific mailing list, by confirming (responding to) the list subscription request verification. This is the standard practice for all responsible Internet mailing lists, it ensures users are properly subscribed, from a working address, and with the address owner’s consent.

In the event of “spam” accusation:

The Bulk Email Sender is fully and legally protected because the reply to the Subscription Confirmation Request received back from the recipient proves that the recipient did in fact opt-in and grant verifiable consent for the mailings.

Source:Spamhaus Website

Numerous myths have circulated regarding confirmed opt-in and its effects. There are many misconceptions out there, and we’d like to help clear those up.

Myth 1: My List Size Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Some addresses entered into your form will not confirm — that much is true. The percentage of addresses that don’t confirm depends on many factors, including the quality of your traffic and how effective your thank-you page, confirmation message and incentive for confirming are.

Percentages aside, there are compelling reasons that having fewer addresses on your list is a good thing.

Sometimes Less is Better

I know. You may be asking, “How can a decreased list size be a good thing?” Well, let’s consider:

This means that of your total list size you can cut that by 5-20% because these email addresses are simply dead. Remember these are not temporary undeliverable but permanent dead addresses.

Now, add on the bogus and malicious sign ups that undoubtedly will happen. For example, someone comes to your website and decides to put in bob@aol.com. Well, bob@aol.com was once a real email address and because you were not using confirmed opt-in you are now classified as an unintentional spammer.

ISPs do not differentiate between unintentional spammers or actual spammers. The potential for you to be blocked or even worse, blacklisted, remains the same.

Myth 2: My Mailing List Is Different! I Don’t Need Confirmed Opt-In.

Let’s be clear, confirmed opt-in is for all businesses, plain and simple. Anyone collecting subscribers and in turn sending email needs to confirm that those people intended to sign up to your mailing list and want to receive your email.

In this age of email regulations and massive volumes of spam email, deliverability can be an issue. Why increase your chances of not getting delivered by putting yourself at risk.

Myth 3: No One Else Uses Confirmed Opt-In. Why Should I?

This is simply not accurate. Our own campaigns here at AWeber use confirmed opt-in for all email marketing activities. When someone signs up for a Test Drive of AWeber, they must confirm.

After setting up an account, if they want to receive our customer training email course, they must confirm. The same goes for our affiliates and their email training. Even when someone subscribes to our blog, they must confirm.

Ok, but AWeber must practice what they preach, who else?

Myth 4: Subscribers In My Market Don’t Know How To Confirm.

The simple solution is to tell them. The first page after someone fills in an opt-in form, commonly called a “thank you page” should tell the visitor exactly what to do next. Often this is done most effectively with a picture showing visitors what the confirmation email will look like.

An excellent example is our test drive sign up video on the thank you page showing visitors what to do.

Honestly, if they can’t click a link then you probably should be marketing your business offline. If someone can find your website online I guarantee they can click a link.

Myth 5: My Sales Will Decrease Because Of Confirmed Opt-In.

Have you tested this assumption? The answer is always, “No, but I just assume” or “No, my colleague told me it would hurt sales”.

It’s best not to assume anything, but rather to seek out your own answers by testing and observing your own campaigns. We have found from our own testing that while the raw number of email addresses on our list declined when we switched to confirmed opt-in, sales did not.

This means that the people who did confirm were the ones that truly wanted the information that they had to offer and the ones that didn’t were not left to bloat the mailing list.

Grow Your Business Without Risk

Will your results be exactly the same as AWeber or even anyone else? This can only be determined by proper testing and measuring.

Use confirmed opt-in as an opportunity to make sure that your lists are 100% clean and that you know without a doubt that 100% of the people receiving your mail have specifically requested it themselves.

Spend your time and energy building your business with subscribers who want to hear from you rather than dealing with issues created by people who don’t want to hear from you.

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Creating Link Building Campaigns

Xsitepro sites can be just a effective as wordpress blogs….. some new xsitepro users might not know this! One of the secrets to a successful website, whether it be blog or static site, is the development of backlinks to your site. As Xsitepro users we should watch our fellow bloggers and start using some of their techniques. The article below talks more about how to build backlinks. In fact, click on the first image and you can directly download a FREE pdf that will show you a way to get a ton of backlinks to your site….I highly recommend it!

How to Prepare for Your Link Building Campaign

So you’ve learned about the power of incoming links to boost your website visibility and now you want to start a link building campaign.

First, let’s just point out two different keys in link building. Link popularity is the measure of inbound links to your web site. Link analysis examins which sites are linking to you and the text of the link itself.

While building links may be cumbersome and time-consuming, the good news is that there are really many ways to go about doing it. The most important factor to tackle before you even start is the quality of your site. Make sure that your site looks professional and offers valuable information. It should also be user-friendly and easy to navigate. Make sure that you validate your HTML code and check to make sure that all of your site’s links are working. To do this, you can use one of the many tools that are available online. Why do you need to do this? First of all because any owner of a quality site that wants to link to yours will check to make sure your links are working. They will not want to link to a site that has broken links. Secondly, directories will not accept sites that have broken links or errors. If you’re going to be submitting your site to the directories, which you should be doing, you will need to have your links all up and running.

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Make Money Building Links!
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Here’s a crucial concept that many people leave out in their link building campaign. Budgeting your time. If you haven’t already budgeted out how much time you will spend on your link building activities, then do that now. If you don’t allot time to do this, it will not get done. The process of link building takes time. You start out very slowly and start increasing gradually. Over time, you can build up more links than you ever thought possible. Along these same lines, it helps to set some short-term, long-term and mid-term goals. When you first start out, a realistic goal would just be to get one link. This takes time. Once you’ve done that, set a goal for how many you want to get in a week or month. Next, you can have a good idea of how many you would like to have a year from your link building effort start date. And always remember to be patient–this takes time. You also want to make sure that you track your progress and stay organized so you know who is linking to you and who isn’t. . .and who you’ve already asked to link to you and who you haven’t. Don’t be discouraged by a lot of “no”s in the beginning when you ask a company to link to you. This is just par for the course.

Finally, work on internal link building. The structure of your internal links plays into how well your link building campaign will do overall.

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Creating A Link Building Blog

As an Xsitepro user I’m always interested in looking at different methods of getting links pointed to my website. I’m sure you’re interested in building links also, so it makes sense to look at all methods possible. One method of getting links to your site fast is by setting up a link building blog. All xsitepro users should be setting up a network of blogs and static websites in an effort to develop links from good quality sites. Below is an article that talks about link building….I hope you’ll consider some of the ideas regarding the various methods of using and creating a link building blog!

How to Obtain a Link building Blog?

Do you have a link building blog? If not, this is a good time to start putting together a strategy that will get you consistent incoming links to your blog. Incoming links and internal links are extremely important when it comes to getting your site ranked highly in the search engines so it’s something that you’re going to have to dedicate some time (and possibly money) towards.

Just as the links of a chain connect one point to another, webpage links connect your website or blog to the world. The more links you have ….the more important your blog appears to search engines such as Google. Consequently, many seo experts spend a good amount of time increasing the links to a website in an effort to make it look attractive to Big G ….hoping to bring in a flood of traffic.

There are many ways to get incoming links to your blog. I will mention some of the most important in this article.

Trading blogrolls (lists of links on your blog that lead to other blogs) is one method that people use to get others to link to their site. It’s sort of a “you-scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours” concept. There are mixed fellings on using this for a couple of reasons. some people use the blogroll to link to other sites that they feel are valuable for their visitors. Others mainly use them just to include the link and then to have their link on the other person’s blog. This has the potential to become a political nightmare. You need to keep track of who you are allowing in your blogroll and if their blogs maintain a professional and informative status. If you drop anyone from your blogroll, you can rile some people up. On the other hand, you can gain many links fairly quickly with this strategy. It might be something worth trying out in your earlier blog days and then you can decide later on if it’s working for you.

Participating in forums is a great way to get people to link to you. Just include your url in your signature when you make a comment or ask a question. Similarly, using your url in your email strategy can increase exposure to your site and increased exposure means increased potential for a link building blog.

Submitting articles is a sure-fire tried and true method for getting lots of links to your blog. But this one does take time. If you are an average (or better than average) writer and you have the time to dedicate to writing articles consistently and submitting them consistently, this is a great way to gain status and links. Here you just have to make sure that you don’t submit duplicate content. Many article directories can help you change various phrases within your content so that you can submit many different articles with different keywords instead of just the one original article that you’ve created.

A similar sort of concept involves you writing as a guest on other blogs. Just sign-up as a guest blogger for a professional, authoritative blog and you will see more and more people linking back to your blog.

Publishing videos on YouTube and then linking them back to your blog in your video description is a great way to get more traffic and more incoming links to your blog. Plus, it puts a little fun as go down the road towards obtaining a link building blog! There’s a tremendous opportunity in this field for creating a full time income by submitting videos to video sites. The best part of this business is that it is automated….. Traffic Geyser sets has a Business in a Box type of training that will teach you how to develop a six figure income online by simply submitting videos for backlinks by turning you into your own online business!

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Creating A Link Network… Added Stages of Menopause Blog

Like most internet marketers I use a variety of tools, Wordpress and Xsitepro are just a small part of an online marketers tookit. I wrote the blog post below to outline how anyone can use some of the premade blogs and websites that are available. I was just going to link to the blog post, but I decided to post it in it’s entirety here….after all I wrote it

The main reason I decided to share the information here is because you can take the same concept to Xsitepro. When using Xsitepro you can create small mini-sites with a handfull of articles that will do basically the same as a wordpress blog…..in fact, you can do this with any of the free blog platforms….except you’ll have to build the sites yourself.

That is with the exception of Xsitepro. You’ll find some authors creating weekly minisites on a variety of subjects using Xsitepro. You can even search through the warrior special offers and find premade Xsitepro sites. Follow the guidelines below and don’t forget to submit the sites to rss directories and you’ll be amazed at the traffic, in some ways these sites are more easily managed than wordpress sites. Keep an eye peeled at Niche-Minisites , that’s one of my sites. After the first of the year I plan on creating a memebership where you can pick up a couple of premade Xsitepro Sites for peanuts I should get my act together and get a presign up page!

Come to think of it, a good strategy would be to create your link networks using both wordpress, wordpress.com, blogger and xsitepro sites. The more variety …..the more natural it will look to the search engines.

Enough babbling by me, let me know if you have any questions and make sure you get a chance to read the post below. It’s a sure way to build a slow but steady income online.

I just set up a blog in my health niche blog sites called Stages of Menopause. I’m working on setting up a network of my own blogs concerned with various subniches of the health niche. The idea is to create a network of blogs that has interconnections similar to that of a spiders web….the more blogs the better.

One of the easiest ways to develop a series of blogs is by purchasing a premade or preexisting blog.

You can find blogs for sale on ebay, look for auctions on blogs that fit your niche.

You can find blogs for sale on sites like digitalpoint.com or other marketing related websites and forums. Flipping blogs or flopping blogs has also become popular, just google “website flipping” or “blog flipping” and you’ll find sites and reports on how to start building and flipping your own blogs.

The first thing I do is to look at some of the forums to see what’s available (see below paragraph). After finding the appropriate niche, I look for some long tailed keywords using a tool like Micro Niche Finder or Keyword Research Pro. I develop a list of keywords and then I see which of those are available as a domain. Purchase the domain and then set it up as one of my domains on my reseller hosting, either Ultimate Marketing Center or Site5 Reseller Hosting ……both have been excellent with support second to none.

One of the places I constantly keep my eyes on is the Warrior Forum, in the WSO section you can find special offers for premade websites and blogs. Often times you can pick up a blog that is prepopulated with 10 to 20 PLR articles in a custom wordpress theme for less than $20. Remember, chances are the creator of the blog sold at least 10 of these sites and could be as many as 50 of these same sites on the internet. It really doesn’t matter how many are sold because 90% or more of those purchased won’t do anything with it, secondly those that do upload the site won’t make any changes to the site or articles at all. Here’s a list of things to do before and after purchasing one of these premade blogs.

1. make sure the site comes with plr articles you can edit
2. transferring wordpress blogs can be difficult, make sure the creator has a clear cut set up pdf or video, and make sure you’ll be able to contact them after you purchase in case you run into trouble during the installation…..ask these questions in the open, as in the forum environment….if the seller is short with you….don’t expect much help
3. if you are planning to flipping the site make sure you have the proper rights or license
4. change any and all affiliate links
5. edit any optin forms to your own autoresponder
6. find long tail keywords that correspond with the content of each article or blog post
7. Rewrite the title of each blog post, be sure to include the long tail keyword…this is important!
8. Rewrite each blog post so that it is unique, be sure to include the long tail keyword that was used in the title, in the blog post at least 3 times
9. add an image to each blog post, make sure you use the long tail keyword in the name of the image and in the alt tag
10. publish the post
11. after publishing, go back and submit the blog post to social bookmarking and networking sites
12. pick out 10 more long tail keywords and write or edit 10 more articles for blog posts and submit
13. chances are you will have a very healthy piece of virtual real estate otherwise known as VRE

There’s much more you can do with these sites, but if that were all you did and you did this 5 or 10 times a month you would create a nice little network of blogs that would be valuable for all kinds of different purposes besides a monthly number of clicks from Goggle

You could drip feed articles if you have them.

You could build the blog further by any number of autoposting or autoblogging methods.

Bottom line, at least for me, is that finding a prebuilt blog saves me some time….If you find one in the niche you’re interested in, or want to develop it’s a quick way to get some content up quick. You can always develop it latter.

Of course it will take some time to get traffic to the site, I use Auto Social Poster plugin a well kept secret used by so called gurus for quick spidering, fast indexing and constant traffic, its well worth the price because your blog will get indexed and spidered quickly. I also use Slick Auto Poster and Article Stalker for autoposting full lenght keyword rich articles. Once established, I’ll add Google Adsense, Ebay, Amazon and add an optin form…..I might do only one of these or all of them some of these plugins allow you to use your keywords in the plugin to pull in relevant products or articles when autoblogging.

My goal is simple, get the site to produce $10 a month. I keep it simple. I know if I can get 10 sites to produce $10 a month, I’m making $100 a month. That’s not much money but it’s a very real number. Now all you need to do is expand your efforts, shoot for 100 sites a month making $10. Maybe it takes me a year to do that, but I’ll be making $1000 a month on autopilot. I know from experience some of those sites won’t make $10 a month…..some will make less, some will make a lot more!

Here’s an example of one of the sites I purchased on the warrior special offers forum, a blog on “menopause“. All I did was create a new header and install according to the authors instruction. Take a look at Stages of Menopause

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“5BucksADay” Teaches How to Build a Real Business with Xsitepro

If you purchased and use Xsitepro then you have, at least to some degree, a desire to learn how to make money online. At times I think the phrase “make money online” is almost a curse word, however, once you’ve been online for a while you can’t help but see the blatant opportunities to make money online right in front of your. I won’t go over all the methods of making money online, but let me get you to change your nomenclature….that is, how you call the opportunity in front of you.

Your goal is to make money online. However, the reality of the situation is that you have the opportunity to build your own business online that will make money online. Something that’s never been available before in history. There are so many directions you might decide to go….there are so many different guru types telling you to do this or that, buy my product, join my membership or purchase my $2000 dollar course….there are even hands waving you toward the next greatest seminar when you only have to spend $5000 to get in and then spend another $10,000 to join their master group because you’re just the person they’re looking for…… ya right

I can’t help but be cynical at some of this stuff….grant it, many of these opportunities are legit! But how are you going to know?

I have an idea for you.

I just put up this page called “5 Bucks a Day”. Before you think that’s a joke, listen to me. Dennis Becker of Earn1KaDay internet marketing membership searched, bought products, went to seminars and still was behind the eight ball….that means in red ink to you whipper snappers Dennis worked on a strategy and concept that focused on making $X amount a day. In other words, how can I make $X Dollars a day. He started off low, thus the book, “5bucksADay”. He talks about the mindset and strategies needed to start making $5 dollars a day on a consistant basis. Next, increase your desired dollar amount….let’s say $20 dollars a day, then, how about $100 dollars a day and finally his new membership teaches you how to make $10000 dollars a day and the membership is called Earn1KaDay.

Anyway, Xsitepro fits in perfectly with this concept and you can start with this book, “5BucksADay”, it’s a free download and just might be what you need to get your butt in gear and start focusing on a goal you can accomplish. Success is very possible and trust me, dumber people than you have achieved these goals.

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