Archive for December, 2009

Blog Ping Service From RSS 3.0


rss-blog-pingRSS 3.0 is a sister site to webmaster business plan and we have been sharing all sorts of useful information about rss (really simple syndication) over there for about a year now. There are a lot of ways to boost your website traffic just by understanding how to use your RSS Feed correctly. This is why I love RSS and I love to share about it with other webmasters.

About a week ago, we added a script which allows webmasters to perform a blog ping to many popular RSS aggregation services, including Google!

Well, just like any new web service there were a few bugs to work out and a few services were running so slow that it was slowing the blog ping script down. We have since removed the rss services that were causing errors and timing out. So the blog ping service from RSS 3.0 seems to be fully functional and now is ready to serve you!

If you are looking for a new way to boost the traffic coming to a blog or a website, get your rss feed ready and head on over to RSS 3.0 to ping all the top RSS sites for absolutely free!

FREE BLOG PINGER

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Guaranteed Traffic – Keyword Carpet Bombing!


guaranteed-free-traffic-keyword-carpet-bombingDo you wish there was a way to get guaranteed traffic to your blog?  Are you picking out winning keywords and still not able to get traffic to your site?  Do you check all the right places to find competition on your keyword phrases, but still cannot get ranked for them?

Well trust me, you are not alone.  This is one of the most frustrating problems for webmasters and Internet marketers alike.  If you are putting in the work and simply not getting the results, trust me I know exactly how you feel and I have definitely been through this.  However, I do have some helpful hints to get your past this “bump in the road” and back on track with your internet marketing efforts.

I was recently asked a question on a forum that I frequent “I have done my keyword research and have submitted my info to squidoo and ezinearticles, but I am not getting ranked, I feel like I am missing something?”

Well, the conversation on the forum was about different methods of keyword research that different people use.  There are many different methods that people use and some are obviously more effective than others. The problem it turned out was not finding the right keyword to use, but how to market the site and get link exposure with the keyword term that this member was trying to focus on.

If you do not understand what keyword research is, join our mailing list here and you will get a link to some videos that will help out with this.  For those of you who are already doing some keyword research and then trying to focus your link building efforts to get ranked for those keywords, I will give you the same reply I posted in the forum.  If you do not know what keyword research is and do not fully understand link building and anchor text yet, please do not proceed with the steps below!
The methodology I will explain is very quick and dirty seo, but when it comes down to it I have used these exact steps to successfully launch many a profitable site and I know these will work for you too.  All you have to do is apply the steps and keep mixing up your keyword phrase in relevant long tail keyword phrases and You Will Get Results!

Write one new article, get your keyword or a variation of it in the title, body, keyword tags and make a link with the same or variant of your keywords in the post, to the post. Do Not make the keyword spammed throughout, make it natural and make this one of the best posts you ever wrote, this is the gold nugget that you are going to trade for traffic!

Publish this, take your rss feed over to http://feedburner.com, burn it, then get over to http://pingoat.com

Now that you are at http://pingoat.com submit both your website feed and the feedburner feed, with a slight variation in the title, but still Keep Your Keywords In There Too.

Next it is time to do some social bookmarking, get over to:

http://digg.com
http://stumbleupon.com
http://reddit.com
http://mixx.com

and bookmark you new post, do this at different times of the day, not all at once.

Now, write you up a small 300-500 word article and post it on all article directories( http://ezinearticles.com http://goarticles.com http://articledashboard.com ), authority sites( http://squidoo.com http://hubpages.com http://facebook.com http://knol.google.com )and as many blogs that you can(heres the blog submitter I use, it’s free)then time to get your article on some authority blogs, say hello to http://blogger.com http://blog.com http://fortuneboard.com and http://posterous.com

Everywhere you submit you article you need to make sure that you can get at least one link with a variation of your keyword in the article or do not waste your time there.

You may also want to spend some time on popular social sites telling people about the new post, Google loves to see some traffic to a page that it is going to rank. I suggest you use http://ping.fm to multiply your efforts here.

I know this sounds like you are going to be carpet bombing the web with info and Yes that is the idea. If you want to be noticed by Google, give them something to look at!

This can be done all in one day, but I suggest you spread it out over a few days or even a weeks time, because after all you don’t want to scare Google with to many new links all at once.  Now once you have completed these simple steps, just wash, rinse and repeat; you will be guaranteed results.

That is if you have chosen a worthy keyword!

more-blog-trafficWell I can tell you if you do the things I spoke of above, you will get traffic! There is no question about it, you will be able to see some immediate traffic from direct click through visitors. However, more importantly, if you use good anchor text and keep mixing up the long tail terms, you will be able to sustain some rather healthy traffic from the search engines as well.

You can look at any of the big name products, video series or guru reports; they all will focus in on one of the sections of info above and build a whole product around it, but you know what, you don’t need to spend $300 dollars to take some logical steps toward your success online. When it comes down to it, there are only 2 things that online marketing comes down to, Distribution and Target Market. Everything else is simply smoke and mirrors.

Now, I will say that much like exercising, some people really do need to make a huge investment in a product to remind them that they need to exercise, however I hope you can find you motivation elsewhere :-)

I hope that this quick little synapses helps some internet marketer or webmaster take there website traffic and online business to the next level.  As always feel free to contact me if you have any questions about this or any article of mine and I would be glad to assist in any way that I can.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

10 Free Banner Creators – Online and Easy To Use


There are many uses for banner ads.  Many times webmasters will use these as part of a Google Adwords campaign, banner rotation program or simply to advertise there site on any other site in the world.  Banners have been around for many years and have been a standard in online advertising since there inception.  I very rarely use banner ads myself, but there is always that rare occasion where I need one and I need it yesterday, if you know what I mean.

Some people may prefer to use MS Paint, Photo Shop or any other graphics application to create their own banner images, but if you are looking to create a quick banner and don’t want to have to learn how to use a graphics editor, there are some online services that will help you do just that.

Below, is  a list of a few of the most popular banner creation websites.  All in the list are free banner creators and can create you a banner with your choosing of text and background images in just a few clicks.  Some of these offer flash banners, some are simple jpeg images and a few offer animated gif images.  So take a look through and find one that will work for you and your website promotional needs.

10 Free Banner Creators

1. http://bannerbreak.com/
2. http://www.banner-generator.net/en/bannergen.php?genaction=2&pid=1&x=94&y=8
3. http://www.bannersketch.com/
4. http://www.puresilvabannermaker.com/
5. http://www.bannercreator.us/create-banner.php
6. http://www.bannercreator.nu/banner-maker.html
7. http://mybannermaker.com/
8. http://cooltext.com/
9. http://www.flashvortex.com
10. http://www.abcbanners.com/cgi-bin/b2/b2.pl?action=Browse&CatID=1

Free Banner Examples

Here are a few banners I have made from the sites listed above, just to show you that you can get an attractive looking banner for absolutely free!   If you would like to show some love for Webmaster Business Plan, feel free to use any of the banners below on your own sites, blogs or social network profiles.

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There are some great resources listed above, I hope you are able to find a great looking banner creator and get your free banners today.  As always if you are having problems and would like some assistance, simple contact us and we would be glad to help.

To Success,

Nick Simpson

WBP Podcast – Google & Speed Rewards For Webmasters


If you have not been following the SEO news these days, you may not be aware of the upcoming and current changes that Google is going through.  Now, there are some things that are scary for webmasters and some things that may help webmasters and Internet marketers out.

One change that has been implemented already, is Google’s new “Real Time Search” and this can be helpful or it can hurt depending on how you market your website and online business.  Another change coming very soon, is how Google will be rewarding websites with higher rankings in search results if they are fast loading websites.  So listen to my most recent rant about all the changes coming from Google by clicking the play button at the bottom of this very post!

 
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Social Bookmarking Made Easy


social-bookmarking-made-easyIf you are new to internet marketing and do not know what social bookmarking is no problem, we will cover that here to. If you are already using social bookmarking sites to get more traffic and higher exposure to your websites, then you are going to love what we have to share with you here today. I know that many people spend a lot of time doing the social bookmarking dance. Going to digg, stumble, reddit and then mixx and so on. Well, this can be effective as far as boosting a websites rankings in SERP and getting some much needed traffic, but is not so time effective.

Let us show you a better way to do this without chasing your tail all day long. However first, we want to make sure we are all on the same page, so let’s get started.

What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is nothing more than putting a link to your favorite websites on a site that is built to share your favorites. Much like you can add a bookmark or favorite to your web browser, you can add a similar listing on these “social bookmarking” sites. This is a great way to share your favorite websites and web destinations with your friends and family and is also a very “White Hat” way for webmasters and internet marketers to get a little google juice and some direct traffic to their websites.

What Makes Social Bookmarking So Powerful?

There are a couple reasons that using social bookmarking as an method of online marketing works.  The first is the fact that your link will be put in front of hundreds of thousands of people on each site you submit it to.  Just the other day I got 800 unique visits from a single submission to stumbleupon.com  I don’t claim to get these results every time I submit a link, but I can guarantee that you will never get free results like this without using them.

Another big reason that internet marketers and webmasters cannot live without using these services is that the top search engines look to these social bookmarking sites as Authority Sites and they check them for what’s new and what’s popular.  In most cases this translates into a boost in your web site’s ranking on the search engines.

So yes, you NEED to be using these sites if you are serious about online business, internet marketing and getting mad crazy traffic to your sites.

How Do I Add My Site To Social Bookmarking Sites?

This really varies from site to site. Most all of the popular social bookmarking sites will require you to create an account to post your website bookmarks, but none of these sites charge for membership so don’t worry, this is free.  Once you have created an account and logged in, most sites have a similar setup to add a link, you choose a title, description and category for your web link.  In some cases you can also choose a set of keywords and an image to associate with your bookmark as well.

Most of the more popular social bookmarking sites will allow you to get a plugin for either Firefox for Internet Explorer to make it quicker and easier to add your bookmarks to their site.  These can be nice, but at the same time if you want to get your bookmark spread to many sites, it is not an effective way to do this by any means. If you add one or 2 of these bookmarking toolbars to your browser, that is more than most people want or would really use in the first place.  Don’t worry, there is a better way and we are getting ready to get to that.

Effective Tools For Social Bookmarking

There are a couple of tools out there that can make your social bookmarking efforts more effective and much easier to keep up with.  Some are free to use and some of the best ones are not, we will discuss both and let make an educated decision as to which one is right for you and your online business.  Most people can see the benefit right away from the free tools and personally I decided to start using the payed tools pretty quick because I saw so much value and control that was not offered by the free ones.

Free Social Bookmarking Tools:

  1. Social Marker – This website offers a cool and free tool to allow you to send your bookmarks out to many sites all at once.  This site can make a days worth of worth of work achievable in a few minutes!
  2. OnlyWire – This is another secret guru type tool most folks don’t tell you about until you have already bought a paid product from them.  Now this is by far the best free one, but it has a huge downfall.  The fact that they force you to put a link back to there site on the site you wan to bookmark really takes away from their appeal, to me at least.
  3. Social Marking – another site that attempts to make social bookmarking easier, I am not convinced.  It has a very archaic setup and really does not seem to automate much, besides there sales funnel.  Maybe a good resource for some but after using there free system, I think there plan is to get you to buy there service, so probably not the best out there, but it is free?

Top Paid Social Bookmarking Tools

  1. Bookmarking Demon – No, this is not a free tool, but it really is worth its weight in gold.  Am I an affiliate, Yes! And the only reason I am is because this tool is so powerful that I cannot stress how much value it brings to the plate of any internet marketer or webmaster.  If you are looking for a product that will automate, schedule and blast you social bookmarks to all the right places in just a few clicks you will blow you money on this one and come back and thank me for suggesting it. It Really Is This Good Folks!

I hope the information I have shared with you today proves to be a driving force in your online marketing efforts and gives you results like you have never seen before.  I understand that there is a learning curve to everything and I will add some follow up posts to explain the ins and outs of social bookmarking to make sure you get the most out of  your efforts.  As always if you any questions about what I have outlined above feel free to contact me at any time and I would love to help answer any questions you may have.

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To Success,

Nick Simpson