The Simple Guide To Internet Marketing Basics will be released later this week. With over 11,000 words, it’s full of great information that will help you easily discover the secrets of making money on the Internet.

It’s written in the same style as the Simple Guide to SEO, so you’ll be able to understand every word.

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The real opportunity with “fresh” content concerns adding new content (new pages) on a regular basis. Adding new pages  provides a number of benefits:  Each new web page added to the website creates a new entry point and a new destination for links from other websites.  Creating topically specific pages with text, images, video or other media provide a better user experience and  gives other websites interesting content to link to.  Of course a quantity of quality links from other relevant websites increases direct traffic and can positively influence search engine visibility, sending even more qualified visitors.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/07/seo-telephone-game-fresh-content/

The 10 for 10 Challenge

This does two things. First, it builds inbound links to your site, boosting your SEO and ultimately getting more traffic from search engines. Second, there’s an immediate effect of having the site owner, other readers, and commenters become aware of you, which might lead them to check out your site, using the link in the comment.

This works for both other blogs and for forums. It also works on Facebook and Twitter, but I’m not convinced that it works as effectively there. Maybe you can prove me wrong on that point. There are a lot of people who read this site that have Etsy shops. Their forums are a great place to post.

I want to help you out, my precious readers. I want you to have a direct benefit from reading this blog. So, here’s what I’m going to do.

The Challenge

I’m announcing the “10 for 10 Challenge”.

Post at least 10 comments on other people’s sites for 10 days in a row. That’s a total of at least 100 comments.

Document the number of visitors to your site on the day you start and at the end of the 10th day. That’s 10 full days of visitors.

The Prize

Whoever has the greatest increase in those 10 days will get a promotional article on my site, including an interview with you, a review of your site and your products, and a link in the sidebar on walton.com, (which is great for your SEO.)

The Rules

You need to have Google Analytics installed on your site, or another statistics program that can be verified.

The 10th and final day must be on or before July 12, which is 2 weeks from the day this article is published. That will give you a couple days to get the statistics program installed if you don’t have it already and you can do a little research for where you want to leave comments. If you want to start now and pick the best 10 days to get your maximum number, you can do that too.

Send me a screenshot of the statistics program, show the number of visits for each of 10 days in a row. The site with the greatest increase in the number of visits between the first day and the tenth day will win.

That’s not a percentage, it’s the number. It’s not the number of page views, it’s the number of visits. It’s not just the 10th day either. It’s the first day compared to any other day within 10 days. If you have a bump on the 7th day, then it declines, take the number on the 7th day. We’re looking for the greatest increase.

The actual comments that you leave are not verified. The only thing we’re counting to win is the increase in the number of visits.

Email me with your results. Show me a screenshot. The winner will be determined based solely on my judgement and my decision is final.

The Strategy

The way to make this work is to know your market. Research where they hang out. Search Google for your keyword and the term “forums” to find forums related to your product. Use your keyword and try searching for “best keyword blogs”. You can search for just your keyword, note the top 10 results, and see which are blogs or places that accept comments.

Once you have a good list of places to leave comments, hit them all, every day. See what people are talking about first. Don’t just jumps in with “Please visit my site”. No one cares about that. You need to be helpful. Answer questions. Be an authority. Give solid information. Ask great questions. Be that interesting person at the party that everyone wants to talk to.

The Benefits

If you are not using a stats application now, you should be, and this challenge might push you into doing that. Going through the process of looking for sites to leave comments, then actually leaving them, will get you into a great habit that will SEO your site for the long run.

If you leave 10 comments a day for 10 days, you WILL have more traffic, regardless of this challenge. You may not win this, but you will have more traffic. Everyone who attempts this challenge will have more traffic.

At the end of the day, isn’t that what it’s all about?

The trick is to balance the number of searches for a keyword each month with the number of other pages on the Internet that contain those keywords, your competition. This is straight up SEO training, right out of the Simple Guide to SEO, only explained in a video.

I got carried away with video effects this time. I hope you enjoy the extra touches as much as I enjoyed doing them.

This is a new file format and size. Let me know if it’s any better for you.

Watch the video on YouTube instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9hguIH-jMc

What did you think of the video? Did it help or confuse? Did you have more questions when you were done? Tell me anything that you didn’t understand or ask any questions you have in the comments below.

Thanks for taking the time to watch this. I appreciate it.

Here’s the link I reference in the video:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

I’ve used an SEO tool for a couple years now, that I haven’t told you about. It’s called Market Samurai.

It costs money. I figured you weren’t interested.

The methods that I’ve taught are free and they work fine, but they take a lot of time to do the research. This tool saves the time and gives you more, better information.

They just opened up an affiliate program, so I’ll make a little money if you ever decide to buy it. You can download a free trial and play with it before you buy it. I think they do that because if you see how it works and use it a bit, you’ll want to buy it. It’s that good. If you only want to do research on a couple keywords, download it, use it for free and never touch it again.

I’m pretty cynical about this kind of stuff, and I will not promote anything that I don’t personally believe in, but this tool is really useful and does very cool things in a couple minutes, things that would take you hours to do manually.

The primary things that it does are:

• Keyword Research is amazing. Worth the price alone.
• Track the rank of your site over time.
• SEO competition finds out what you are up against.
• Domain name research.
• Monetization – ways to make money.
• Finding content for your site.
• And more, plus more in the future.

There’s a discount!

The cost is $149, BUT, if you download the free trial first, they will sell it to you for $97, if you buy it within the first week. That’s the sweet deal because you save almost a third off the price. Do not just go buy it without downloading the free trial.

If you’re serious about finding the right keywords and doing research on your market, this tool is really good and it keeps getting better. Every time I open it up, it seems like there’s an upgrade. They keep adding features to it. There’s stuff in there that I haven’t even used yet.

Here’s where you get your FREE copy: http://marketsamurai.com

Here’s the high pressure email they want me to send you:

Hi {!firstname_fix}

After hearing about a bunch of first-time internet marketing “newbies” using this TOP SECRET Market Samurai software to easily capture front-page rankings, traffic and sales in their first few weeks online, I had to check it out.

I was so impressed by the software that I even worked out a deal to give you INSTANT ACCESS to download it at NO COST to see for yourself just how powerful it is.

http://marketsamurai.com

If you want the secret to quick, profitable, high traffic Google rankings – the secret is finding the “right” keywords…

And this tool will help you achieve just that:

http://marketsamurai.com

Thanks,

Conrad Walton

P.S. – There are over 147552 other results-driven internet marketers using it already just in its first few months online.

Don’t get left behind – get free access to this software, and try out its advanced features here:

http://marketsamurai.com

I tell a story of how I got beat and what beat me. You can use this tip on your web site to beat your competition.

The trick is using:

<h2>”heading tags”</h2>

You don’t know what a heading tag is? Watch the video and find out!

You can watch it here on YouTube.

If you have an account with ezinearticles.com, and you are using WordPress, then you should be using this plug in to create more content. Good stuff here!

With the introduction of our new EzineArticles WordPress Plugin, experienced WordPress users will be able to submit their WordPress posts and blog entries right to EzineArticles.com!

Read the entire article at:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2010/03/articles-directly-from-wordpress.html

The Problem
Let me be honest with you. When I wrote my book, The Care and Feeding of Search Engines, A Simple Guide To SEO, I was hoping that people would read it, apply it to their web sites and become fabulously wealthy. They would be so happy with what I had to say, and they would love my advice so much, that they would pay a lot of money for my next books.

That didn’t happen.

I got a ton of feedback from people that said this is the most amazing book ever, that this is the first time that they understood SEO, that now they are in control of their SEO.

A few told me that they got the book and maybe read most of it, and they intend to get around to applying it real soon now.

Only a couple people actually ever applied the advice to their sites. The ones that did were successful.

NO ONE has told me that they tried anything in the book and it didn’t work.

The advice in the book is true, but not many people have applied it.

I've got the map. You drive.

The Fear
There’s a fear, deep inside the back of your mind, that causes you to hesitate before you do something that might fail. That fear is the obstacle to being successful. It’s the fear of failure.

In spite of that fear, you need to do what you need to do. Do it even if that voice in the back of your mind is telling you that you will fail and that you will be humiliated. Do it even if it hurts. Do it even if that voice is telling you that you are not good enough. Make a rational choice and don’t listen to the voice.

The Key To Success
The key to success is failure.

If you don’t try, you’ll never fail. The more times you try stuff, the more times you’ll fail. The more times you try stuff, the better chance that you’ll succeed. The key to success is failure.

The real message here is that you need to get off your butt and go out there and make it happen.

I don’t want to give advice or write books for people who are too afraid to do something about it. I want to be with a group of people who want to do what it takes to win, do what it takes to make things happen and achieve the goal.

Is that you?

I can give you the map, but you have to drive the car.

It’s time for a road trip.

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Facebook Fan Page!

I listened to a seminar recently about the advantages of having a Facebook fan page for your business. It’s a place to interact with people and allow them to interact with each other. You can build your own little community around your business.

It allows you to update every one who “likes” you. You can send messages to everyone, which you cannot do as with a personal profile. Because it’s based on your business, people who join it have essentially raised their hand and said “I’m interested in your business. Tell me more.”, so you don’t have to feel funny about trying to sell stuff to your friends.

It should be a party, not an Amway meeting. People should feel free to hang out and talk to each other. You should have chips out and some music playing to make it more comfortable for everyone. Be a good host.

That’s what I am trying to do.

Please check out out my Fan Page for “walton.com” at www.facebook.com/waltoncom. I have a bunch of my personal friends there now, but if more SEO, small business, and Etsy people show up, that will make things more interesting for all of us.

If you’re not sure about Facebook fan pages, or how they could help your business, you can play with this one and see what they do.

I hope that by seeing there are other people just like you, dealing with the same questions and issues, that we can work together to help make us all more successful. If you feel like you’re out in the cold, all alone, come on in and meet some interesting people.

I’d love for you to stop by and see what’s happening. Leave a comment. Meet a new friend. Hang out.

Please click here or on the icon, then click the “like” button when you get there.

I’ll see you there! Thanks for stopping by.

Have you ever told someone how you feel about their blog post?

Have you ever left a comment on a web site?

If you have never written a comment on a web site, on a blog post, then you are missing the easiest way to get inbound links to your Etsy site and increasing your SEO.

The biggest factor in SEO is “inbound links”. The more, the merrier. You want as many links pointing at your site as you can get.

Almost every time you leave a comment on another web site, it will give you the opportunity to link back to your site. This works for your Etsy site. This works for your own web site.

I know you like to lurk, to read and not get involved. Most people do. It’s easier. It’s safer. No one will disagree with you if you don’t say anything. No one will make fun.

Remember being 13 and going to a school dance? It was scary. I stood against the wall and wished I had the nerve to ask someone to dance. When I finally did risk humiliation, I found out that it was kind of fun. It didn’t hurt at all. I actually liked it.

As you grow up, you find out that having friendships, talking to strangers, just any communication, it’s all pretty good. There are the occasional awkward moments, but you get through them. There’s much more benefit to talking than to staying silent.

In the Internet, the same is true. If you leave comments for people on their sites, they might check out your site and leave you a comment. They might start a conversation on their site.

Every comment you make links back to your site.

Now, if you talk too much, you can get a little overbearing, so don’t get carried away and make your self a pest. Be natural, like you would in real life. You know how to talk to people in real life, so do that same thing on web sites.

Also, not every web site offers the link. If you talk to someone, but they don’t want to talk back, then find someone else to talk to. Comment on the sites that allow you to input a link to your site.

Imagine improving your SEO, just by talking. How easy is that?