I finally got my new ebook up on the blog with an opt in form and it is now available at several JV giveaway events. Between the ebook and my computer having a total melt down, I haven't made a blog post in almost a month.
Shame on me, but some times your life just gets in the way of what you are trying to accomplish. All you can do is go with the flow and do what you can. I am not one to make excuses so I won't.
Things are almost back to normal. I have most of my software re-installed and have my email accounts set up in Outlook again. My computer has finally auto-downloaded all the updates that it had accumulated over the last 2 years and is up to snuff once again.
Now that my ebook is done, I have 2 major projects that I am working on.
The first is to finalize the details of the JV Giveaway that I am hosting, along with fellow Fortune 500'ers Gary Simpson, Garry Parkes, and Carl Barton. We will be announcing a launch date shortly and it looks like we may have some special deals for our fellow students.
Make sure you are subscribed to my RSS feed so you don't miss out on that. I have some really cool stuff planned besides these 2 projects.
The second major project is to finish something that I was working on before I got involved in the Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I was putting together a membership site based around my viral list building system that I call Traffic Hits Multiplier.
I was using it to build my list before Alex Jeffreys made me a believer in JV giveaways. The web site is still under construction but you can join for free (there is no paid membership, yet). Check out the "Quick Start" and you will discover some killer free programs that you can use to promote your JV Giveaways.
The system is designed for newbie marketers and for people on a very low budget. It shows you how to use traffic exchanges, safe lists, and other free viral programs to drive traffic and build your list at the same time at little or no cost.
I will keep you updated on both. The Giveaway is my number one priority right now. Plus I have already started getting a lot of responses about my ebook. It seems like it is going to be a hit.
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First of all, I 'd like to apologise for not posting in over a week. I spent a lot of time promoting the Affiliate X Factor and it was the easiest 50 bucks I ever made online. The product hasn't launched yet and hopefully a few of those 50 people I referred will purchase the product and I'll get a nice little check from clickbank too.
I also launched my new blog "Best Way To Lose Weight – Watch Me Lose 100 Pounds". Yes, I am a fat ass but not for long! I have already lost 16 pounds and am on track to meet my goal of 100 lbs. by the end of the year. I am keeping of log of how I am accomplishing this, so if you are trying to lose weight, you need to check it out.
OK, first an update on the Grafixplus promotion. I made a post on Feb 20th and the Grafixplus home page was had moved up 20 positions in the Google search results to 230th. That was in 1 weeks time. I checked it a few minutes ago and it is now ranked 108th place for our target keyword phrase "web page graphics". That's 122 positions in 3 weeks. Not bad considering I have been slacking on my end. The results so far have been brought about by builidng a Hub page and a Squidoo lens.
Now that I have my weight loss bolg finished (a blog is never really finished) and Andrew Fox is no longer paying for leads, I will turn my full attention back to the Grafixplus promotion. I still haven't finished my article and submitted it to a ton of directories. Speaking of articles…have you created a good one for your product or niche yet? Get on it, because next post we are going to hit the article directories hard and I am going to tell you about the best kept secret in the Web 2.0 realm.
Actually, I'll clue you in now. Go sign up for an account at Gather.com. You can look around and set up your profile. Check out some of the articles and you will see that this is not a place for spammers and blatent promotions. This is why you need at least one "really good, original" article for your promotion. Get one ready and next post I will show you how to use Gather.com to your advantage.
I know I keep bringing up the JV giveaway thing but I can't help it. I just started using them this year and have had phenomenal results building my list. I have added more subscribers in a month and a half then I did all of last year. Not to shabby, eh? I have been busy creating a Hub page and Squidoo lens targeting the keyword phrase "jv giveaways". I wanted you to see how quickly this system works for keywords that aren't hyper competitive.
The web page graphics promotion is coming along. Grafixplus has moved up to the 230th spot, which is 20 postions better than a week ago. As long as we keep moving up we are in business. The problem is that most people that are involved in web design and graphics also know there SEO. We are copmpeting against a lot of sites that have been optimized for the search engines. It will take longer to make the top 20. The Hub page and Squidoo lens have also been moving up in the ranks as well.
Here is the difference. I made my Hub page for JV giveaways a few days ago. It is already listed on the third page of Google results. I just published my Squidoo lens yesterday so we will give it a couple days but I am sure it will be up in the top 20 results within a week. That is because the sites listed under JV giveaways are not "authority" sites that have been around for a long time. When you search for "web page graphics" you get a lot of websites that are 5 years old or more and have page ranks of 5 and 6. Those kind of sites pull a lot of weight. It will take longer to pull ahead of them.
Do you use Firefox web browser? If so, you can download a plug in called "SEOQuake". When you enable this, you will see all kinds of information in your google results pages. It will tell you how old the site is, what the page rank is, how many back links it has, how many listings in Yahoo, and Msn, the Alexa ranking and more. This tool is very useful in determining your competition.
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Hi all, I have been really busy this week and didn't get much done this past weekend. I did manage to update the Hub page a little. Hub pages gives every Hub a score that is based on content, how many visitors you get, and other mysterious variables that no one knows. When you first make a Hub, your score is 50 and 100 is the highest. Right now my Hub is at 74 which is pretty good. The Squidoo lens is ranked 930 in the Business category and is ranked 15,333 out of all lenes, which is also pretty good. Remember that these pages are not even 2 weeks old.
I checked Google today and Grafixplus has appeared in the results under "web page graphics". The website was not in the results for this keyword before I started the promotion. It is in the 250th spot which is page 26 in the results. Not very good but it's a start. I will continue to keep you updated and as I turn up the heat on the promoting, we will watch it move up in the rankings. My Hub page is in the 330th spot and my Squidoo lens is in the 386th spot.
This past weekend, I used my favorite Web 2.0 tool, Web 2.0 Submitter, to submit my Hub page to several of the big Web 2.0 sites. About 2 days later is when Grafix plus appeared in the Google results under "web page graphics". You will soon see just how effective this strategy can be, even for a competitive keyword phrase.
