Sexy Women In SEO? You Better Believe it!

So a link came up on my radar today from a blog I hadn’t been to in awhile (sorry Tali). Looked, from the Google Alert, like a review of the Authority Black Book. I’ve been skipping reading all of them lately because people don’t put much effort into them and they read pretty much the same for the most part. (Not that I don’t appreciate every single one. I do!)

I had time to check this review out and I’m glad I did. This review of Authority Black Book, by Tali Shapiro, (recently voted one of the 6 Sexiest Girls in SEO)* was different. You’ve got moxy, editorial objectivity, and writing that is actually good, all in one post!

With Tali giving the Black Book 5 Stars and recommending it as “very necessary,” this one made me feel a bit like I did last year when it got a nod from Mashable.com.

It’s because Tali does an excellent job on her blog. She’s got authority and respect among her peers. She’s not just a blogger either. Check out her book “Tali’s Uncensored Guide to the Long Copy Sales Letter.”

If her blogging is any indication of the quality of her guide, you’ve got a winner on your hands.

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*If any industry on the web needs more “sexy” it is definitely the SEO industry!

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Tags: authority black book, Marketing Tool Reviews, sexy seo girls, tali shapiro

Free Blog Site: Thoughts.com

Thoughts.com is a free blog site that can help in your link building and community building efforts. Here is what they offer:

“Create a Free Blog or personal online journal at http://www.thoughts.com/. Upload photos, videos, podcasts, chat in the forums and bookmark the latest news. Thoughts.com allows you to decide for each blog post if you want it to be public, private, or only viewable by your friends and family. Free unlimited bandwidth.”

Why Do “Remote Blogging?”

Every free blog site has a community to tap into that you might not be reaching otherwise. A good tactic is to keep a few “remote” blogs like this and supply good information on your topics that is original or semi-original to attract members of each site’s community.

Maintaining remote blogs also aids in search engine love and link building. I recommend to all my clients that they should spend time putting together good resource posts for these sites that have value in and of themselves so that the pre-branding begins before visitors even land on your main site.

This is also a good practice to maintain good standing in blog communities like Thoughts.com. Too many people regurgitate old, duplicate content on these sites and it has a detrimental effect on your branding and basically only serves to waste bandwidth and generate exactly zero traffic back to your main site.

Tags: bending the web, free blogs, Marketing Tool Reviews, social power linking

Squidoo Traffic Power Review: Get a lot of traffic with this tactic!

How incredibly rare it is these days to stumble upon a targeted traffic-driving tactic (that actually works) packaged up and sold for a miniscule fraction of its value!

What Does Squidoo Traffic Power Cover?

It’s all about using one powerful Web 2.0 tool called Squidoo (founded by purple cow Seth Godin, no less!) to get in front of more people in your market through increased exposure, higher search engine rankings, and techniques author Rena Klingenberg has honed using trial and error and endless testing.

If the Authority Black Book is the massive overview of the possibilities and actions you can take to get more Web 2.0 traffic, Squidoo Traffic Power is a pinpoint accurate, thorough road map on how to dominate with one and only one very important Web 2.0 tactic.

About Rena

I couldn’t be more proud of the work. Rena is an Authority Site Center member who is putting her learning to work building authority sites and has now even gone as far as teaching authority site marketing tactics in her new book.

Total Exposure Web 2.0 Marketing Tactic

The amount of exposure and traffic one can generate with the tactics in Squidoo Traffic Power make owning a copy compulsory. Why would anyone throw away an opportunity to get in front of people they aren’t reaching now or increasing their search engine rankings and direct traffic?
I use it, I’ve seen the results first hand, and you can put your hands on it for pennies on the dollar.

An SEO firm would charge minimum $5,000.00 for this as a service in developing the lenses at Squidoo, the content and links, and everything else Rena shows you how to do in her book for 20 bucks.

I’m not stretching that at all. If you want to hire our firm to do it for you, we’d be glad to for no less than $5,000.00.

So, yes I am excited about this book. 5 stars all around. Rena did a super job and she is going to be responsible for millions and millions of visitors coming to hundreds or thousands of sites in 2007.

There are people on the web who would have put this detailed report out for no less than $97. People you know. People you’ve bought from before.

This report can help you generate untold thousands of extra monthly visitors and it costs $20.

Grab Your Copy of Squidoo Traffic Power Here.

Tags: Marketing Tool Reviews, squidoo, squidoo traffic power, targeted traffic, web 2.0 marketing

Blogger Makes $1000.00 A Day

Here is an example of what a good content management system can do for you along with old fashioned hard work and dedication to excellent content.

Steve Pavlina shows exactly how he went from a $9 domain purchase in 2004 to making over $1000.00 a day from his blog.

The report is long, detailed, and terrifically valuable to all readers who want a look at a site that is performing well.

Note how graphics and flashy presentation are not the key here.  Content is everything - so make sure to keep your design out of the way of your content!

Tags: authority sites, Blog Marketing, case study, Marketing Tool Reviews, monetization, steve pavlina

Authority Site Review: Online Security Authority

Site: OnlineSecurityAuthority.com

Owner: Bill Wardell

Publishing System: Content Desk, Wordpress

Site Age: May 18, 2006
Alexa: 260,455 (As of this posting)

Page Rank: 4 (As of this posting)

Links (Google): 32

What Is This Site About?

“We see ourselves as the best option on the Internet for Online Security information, resources, and tips. We include reviews, news and tech products, focusing on current security news, events, publications, and newsletters.”

Why Is This Site An Authority?

There are many online security sites that have different focuses and expertise surrounding the “stay safe online” theme.

Bill’s site is authoritative in the scope of original content produced on various topics from keeping your kids safe online, blocking Myspace, and protecting yourself from identity theft.

In short, this site covers the gamut of protecting yourself and your family from the predatory viruses, hackers, thieves, scammers, spyware, and all sorts of inappropirate material for children.

The other reason for this site’s authority: lots of good, thoughtful original content. It is not simply an aggregator of information from around the web, although some very good outside sources are pulled in to optimize visitor experience and complete the information offered.

The Future For OnlineSecurityAuthority.com

When OSA site has more age, links, and search engine listings it is going to be an extremely high traffic site in its niche.

Through continuous creative, topical, thoughtful content development on issues that affect people most when talking about online security, this site is going to skyrocket in importance and effectiveness.

The site is already #1 in all three major engines for “online security authority” and enjoys many listings on main and longtail keywords in the niche.

Much of the site’s success starts with publishing on a tight, search engine optimized publishing system. Click here for more details on how you can get on such a powerful system.

Tags: authority site building, bill wardell, content desk, Marketing Tool Reviews, online security, wordpress

Bikini Model Authority Site Review

Review of HawaiianTropicBikiniModels.com

Tobey Brown has taken the Content Desk Authority Site System to a new place.

Most people think an [tag]authority site[/tag] needs to be a serious site with serious content. That’s certainly one way to do it.

But Tobey, a recent graduate of our Elite Coaching Program, figured if our publishing system works to bring lots of traffic for other topics, why not bikini models?

The site has only been up for a couple of weeks and is already doing well with traffic. He made his first two affiliate sales today, which is much more than people who build their own sites on old technology can say in their first two weeks!

The content for the site is a mix of text, photos, and videos which plays very well with the young [tag]Web 2.0[/tag] crowd who are not big readers, especially in this niche, if you know what I mean. :^)

Future plans for the site include bikini model profiles and tips for getting modeling gigs (so he can also attract women to the site for other monetization strategies).

This could well be the first bikini model site based on a platform like ours, but it certainly will be one of the highest traffic sites like it in the world once Tobey gets more links and more content syndicated around the web.

Hopefully it will serve as an example of how to break out of the box of thinking an authority site can only be built for a certain kind of industry.

Tobey knows that’s not true now!

Tobey’s other site is SurfKooks.com.

Tags: authority site, authority site example, authority site review, Marketing Tool Reviews, vre, web 2.0

Pligg Review: We are getting closer to a solution!

One of our members heard of my quest to find a Digg-like script that I could run for specialty niches and responded with a review he found here.

Seems we are getting closer, but Pligg is still buggy and everything from Scuttle and the few others out there so far are extremely nerdy installs and pretty buggy.

At some point someone is going to wise up and write a combo Digg/Technorati script and sell it to thousands of people wanting to replace old link directories in favor of real content tag and story directories built for their niche.

Wish I was a programmer with the time to put into this.  It is a $100,000 software sale waiting to happen.  (Hint hint code jockeys!)

Tags: marketing product reviews, Marketing Tool Reviews, pligg, social bookmarking, tagging

30 Day Tags Review

Tagging and social bookmarking sites appear the same on the surface with few apparent variations.

Dig a little deeper and you will find differences aplenty.

Take 30DayTags.com for instance.

Here you can simply submit your site and fill out details and tags to run your site under.

No membership needed (they all seem to want you to join up before you even see if being a part of that community is worthwhile!)

Not 30 Day Tags - simply visit, submit, and let the market decide if you are worthy to stay on top.

For those of us who strive to write relevant, useful content, this is no deterrent.

For spammers, it can be quite frustrating having people vote on viagra ads they submit because there is no positive gain whatsoever in the social bookmarking world for spammers.

Which is funny that such a simple solution to spam could come about by letting the “people” decide rather than robots.

Not a single robot has ever been written that spammers cannot defeat.

The only thing that CAN defeat them is human presence.

And innovative sites like 30 Day Tags put the humans back in charge of the web!

Tags: Blog Marketing, bookmarking, Content Syndication, internet marketing, marketing product reviews, Marketing Tool Reviews, promotion, service, social bookmarking, tag, tagging

Controversy breeds discussion and traffic!

Have you ever met a critic that had produced anything, good or bad, in the industry he/she critiques?

Yeah - me neither.

I was just reading a Time Mag critique on the Davinci Code.  Nothing political or religious - just a movie critique (how refreshing THAT was at least!)

Anyway - the guy just rips the movie from story line and book-to-movie adaptation problems.  Mainly that the book was too dry and light on what we as movie lovers like to see in a movie.

In all I agreed with some of what the critic said, but for the most part my attitude was “What’s THIS guy know about it?  Why did I just read his whole article if I didn’t care for his opinion on the subject?”

Then is dawned on me.  When we write reviews and critiques, people read them whether they like your opinion or not.

In fact, as I thought about my reading habits on this subject I realized I don’t agree with most critics about much of anything.

I wouldn’t know that if I didn’t read all their stuff.  Which made me think that reviews on websites are important for far deeper reasons than comparison shopping can explain.

People read things they don’t agree with politically, philosophically, morally, ethically, religiously and so on.

They (we) read them to keep up on what the “opposition” is writing about the things we enjoy, love, hate, or are indifferent about.

We are snoopy, as a species.

This is something to consider when you are creating content.  We tend to always want to appeal to everyone and be everyone’s friend that comes across our stuff.

This is fine if you want to write pure drivel that takes a stand on nothing to avoid pissing someone off.

Which brings up that old saying, “if you’re not pissing someone off, you’re not in business.”

Your “fans” will only become fans if they can identify with them and support THEIR feelings on a subject.  This will alienate some people but draw people who agree with you closer to you-  making them more likely to identify with you and trust your judgment on product or service recommendations.

I learned long ago to take sides if I wanted to get anywhere in business.

Have an opinion!
Be forthright with it!
Don’t hide behind politically correct statements designed not to offend ANYONE or you won’t ATTRACT anyone to you.

Opinion and frankness are very important in writing content for many niches.  Water down your message to protect the sensibilities of people who aren’t likely to buy from you ANYWAY, and you will lose the interest of the people who WERE likely to be your customers as well.

That’s my opinion anyway.

Tags: authors, content, Content Syndication, creating content, Marketing Tool Reviews, syndication, writing, writing for the web

Get a grip on your Clickbank business

I am often asked by product creators who sell through Clickbank what the best software is for managing their Clickbank accounts.

Well, I haven’t tried them all so I cannot say definitively which one is best, but I can tell you what I use and love.

I use CB Account Manager. 

What I love about it is that I can track all my Clickbank sales for all my products in one easy to use interface without logging into each of my accounts individually at Clickbank’s site.

That’s fine and all, but many other programs offer the same thing in some fashion.

The other part of the equation for me (as an affiliate marketer) is keeping tabs on the new products at Clickbank that I can promote before anyone else hears about them.

CB Account Manager does both of these important tasks really well.

Is it the best?  Probably, since it is a Mark Hendricks creation.  My feeling is that it is the only CB account organizer and time saver I will ever need because it gets the data fast, and gets both pieces of info I need most out of Clickbank:  My Sales and New Clickbank Products.

Check CB Account Manager out for yourself. 

Tags: clickbank, jacks reviews, marketing product reviews, Marketing Tool Reviews, scripts, Software

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