Google Keyword Tool
Welcome to the new Google Keyword Tool
Bless their little algorithms Google has come up with a lovely little addition to their already very good Google Keyword Tool. As with all things Google the Beta will now be subjected to ridicule by all those in the competing software markets. Naturally enough it will have some glitches to start but I hope that over time they fix those because as a tool it simplifies a lot of the annoying stuff in the standard Google Keyword Tool.
A Picture says a 1000 Words.
Whilst this may be true a video can do even more. So with that in mind there are two parts to this video tutorial. Part one shows you what the new Google Keyword Tool look like and we take it for a ‘test drive’.
So What is New in the Google Keyword Tool?
In short the tool drops search terms together. This is no doubt aim squarely at those who struggle to get Adwords Campaigns together. Obviously with the success of Google Adwords comes the problem that if you have Trillions of advertisements running how can the little guy ever get his or her advertisements found. By simplifying the Google Keyword Tool so that it in effect groups like searches it will make it simpler for those less familiar with Keyword research able to establish a group of like terms. In theory this should allow a smaller advertiser to get their ad campaign to work.
That said a Google Adwords Campaign can work miracles once it is set up correctly. We regularly run a campaign for a local repair company that netts them over $2000 a month for a spend of less than $150 a month. That is a massive ROI in any advertising medium. So if you are in the right business and you work with a company that knows what they are doing the returns can be exquisite!
That said in some industries Adwords is less successful. Which is why you need to work closely with a company who will run trials so you don’t simply waste thousands of dollars. Trials may cost as little as $5 a day and may only run for 5 days.
Finding Better Keywords.
Obviously the new Google Keyword Tool is designed to help you find better keywords which in turn will bring more targeted traffic to your site which in turn will lead to more sales (notice I said Targeted Traffic). The problem everyone seems to come up against is even with a great keyword tool it often seems like all the good Keywords are taken.
That is sort of true and also not at the same time. In the second video we go through one simple way you can use the Google Keyword Tool to in effect spy on what you competitors are doing. By matching your keywords to exact long tail keyword phrases it is possible to get your pages to rank very quickly even if the competition appears to be very high.
As you can see the video shows just how to find a search term or keyword and how if you learn to use the Google Keyword Tool in a slightly different way most others use it you can find the edge to ranking in areas you may not think possible. Of course all the good research in the world is not much use if you don’t use it wisely or don’t know how to SEO your page properly in the first place.
Tutorial For WordPress
Welcome to our Tutorial for WordPress.
This Tutorial for WordPress is all about teaching any new WordPress user to not only write a page but also how to put it in a form that Google can understand what your information is all about.
Having a successful Website requires two things:
- Good information.
- Someone to read it.
As most people and small businesses do not have $1000’s to spend it is important that you help Google to help people find your website.
So in our first video (see below) we will run through the basics of setting up a page. If you want to know more about exactly how all this works there is a full Tutorial for WordPress on exactly how to set up a page properly on our page called LEARN SEO BASCIS.
Tutorial For WordPress – Video 1:
[]
Now for those of you who are wondering about Keyword Winner here is a great tip: For less than $100 it is the best plugin you can buy if you are serious about saving time and money. I bought it myself and don’t set up a website without adding it to my list of plugins.
For more details click here to find two more videos explaining just how Keyword Winner works.
Alternately follow the link below:
In the second video in this Tutorial for WordPress we go into more detail on what should appear in the body of the article which should be of most interest to you readers / customers but equally needs to continue to keep Google informed. The basics are pretty simple:
- Write some content.
- This can either be product information, something about a topic of interest to your customers or something that you need to remember.
- For example let’s say you need to remember what brands you stock then do a post “Best Brand Widgets”. You might include the sizes, colours, minimum quantity orders, delivery times etc.
- This information not only means you have a permanent record for all of your staff it also becomes a time saving way to answer your customer’s common questions quickly and completely.
As a general rule writing your content in either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Notepad is easier as you have the spell checker to use. Apple Pages seems to work quite nicely also. Just remember do not add anything like ‘bulleted lists / headings / subheadings’ as these can become scrambled when you copy and paste them into WordPress. Once you have finished all that you want to write then watch the second video and watch how we go about making it ‘Google Friendly’.
One final tip before you ‘copy and paste’ your article is to check and make sure you have included your Keyword or Keyword Phrase throughout your article. In this case the keyword phrase is: Tutorial for WordPress. There is no hard and fast rule to how many times this phrase should appear but in an average article like this one our keyword phrase Tutorial for WordPress should appear about 6-8 times per 500-600 words. And don’t think for a minute it can simply be written out like a spelling. Google understands ‘context’ to a degree so that means it will not accept the keyword appearing 10 times in a list.
The other thing you want to try and do is mix round the words and use part of the phrase where possible so on this page our forth paragraph we have written: “So in our first video (see below)….” we could have easily written: “So in our first video tutorial (see below)….” In this second training video I will go through more examples of just how we reinforce our keyword phrase to Google in such a way that most readers would barely notice.
So watch the second video ‘tutorial’ now and as always if you have any questions leave a comment or send us an email. Your question may well be the same one many others need answered.
Tutorial For WordPress – Video 2:
[]
Remember as we said at the start of this Tutorial for WordPress if you want to add a new page the process is the same as what we just did for the post. The only other ‘fatherly’ advice I would give you is to hire someone to double check what you have done for a while until you are sure you have it all correct. Unfortunately most people don’t have the software to do most of the essential research you need to do to properly SEO a WordPress Post or Page. So you can either spend hours doing it the old fashioned way or hire an expert who can act as your coach.
Auto Traffic Buddy
Auto Traffic Buddy helps you make money online!
I don’t know about you but when it comes to blogging and website design I love the whole thing. The thing I HATE is link building and that is where Auto Traffic Buddy comes in.
Making money online is the ultimate aim of most websites, blogs or Facebook eCommerce Fan pages of course, but producing a website with great content that people like to come and visit and hopefully get to take away something they didn’t know is, to me, what the Internet is all about.
What I am not a big fan of is Google and Facebook using things like (ha, ha) ‘link’ and ‘likes’ to scale how important or otherwise a website or Facebook page really is. In the case of Facebook many larger corporations are simply running competitions for things ‘like’ (not really that funny the second time) motor cars to get more ‘Likes’. The simple premise is that the more ‘Likes’ you get the more popular the fan page is when in reality it can easily be manipulated if you have an advertising budget.
For its part Google uses links to establish whther a site is popular. This preference has lead to a multi-billion dollar industry springing up to automate the system and Google trying its best to keep that business from ‘controlling’ the way its search engine ranks sites. The problem with link building is that as anyone who trys will tell you it is tedious ‘stupid’ work that really stops you from doing the creative work Google wants to rank. So a program such as Auto Traffic Buddy is designed to do the stupid repetitive link building automatically.
The principle behind Auto Traffic Buddy is simple:
- Add the software to your website.
- The link building is done for you.
- You get back into writing great content.
Well I did say it was simple!
So why do you need Auto Traffic Buddy or something similar?
Well most people follow the same sort of progression:
- Build a blog.
- Learn some SEO
- Get some SEO rankings
- And then it all stops
- without building links you website either will not progress up the list or will be overtaken by those who are building links
By just building your website properly from the ground up you can get it to rank pretty well particularly if you use clever software to help you find a Niche Market to help you find the right URL. Problem is that getting your SEO right takes you to the top of the tree and that is where the ‘big boys’ play. These guys are serious about the number 1,2 & 3 spots and they will do anything to get to or protect those 3 spots in an organic search because they know that is where 85% of the customer clicks occur. If you get into any one of those spots you can be certain someone else wants what you have.
Now the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc) and social networks (Facebook, Myspace etc) would like you to keep writing interesting content and hope that this information gets picked up, spread around the Internet and is eventually found by their ‘spyders’ which then give you a ‘gold star tick of approval’ for your content and record a backlink for that information to your website. Unfortunately this is not ‘Disneyland’ and not everyone plays by the rules:
- any article in the public domain that is any good will be ’scrapped, copied and spun’ hundreds of thousands of times and if it is your content you will not get one ounce of credit.
- search engines won’t rank articles with spun content so if there are too many spun articles that are just like your you won’t get a backlink even even if you wrote the article it in the first place.
- companies set up workers in third world countries to build links and likes by the thousands.
- automatic linkbuilding software produces tens and even hundreds of thousands of links in a few days.
Why is Auto Traffic Buddy different?
One of the biggest challenges to any automated or human system when it comes to link building is where to place your ‘content’ so that you have a link which points back to your website. Any high Page rank website that allows comments or article submission is targetet by BILLIONS of would be linkbuilders. The search engines can easily see who is not being too particular and so they either ignore the links totally or assign them little or no value. Where Auto Traffic Buddy comes in is that they owners of the system select who is allowed into the network and who is not. In short if you have 10 quality sites that is 10 more that go into the mix rather like a ‘club’ of sorts and the ‘riff raff’ is porhibited i.e. no spammers, no autoback link indexers tryig to build 10 000 back links per day for an individual site.
In short:
- you write an article.
- Auto Traffic Buddy takes a snippet of the storey.
- Syndicates it to dozens or even hundreds of other content rich websites.
- No spinning, no rewriting the article a dozen times just write and post the article.
- Links are also created for all other pages and posts.
- Even the old pages and posts which means your whole site gets a SEO boost not just the ‘home’ pages.
Naturally enough if I didn’t use Auto Traffic Buddy myself I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone else. For anyone wanting to simply concentrate on content writing, like me, then this is the ‘MUST HAVE’ tool for you!
Working Online from Home
Working Online from home is a snap with Affiliate Marketing.
Affiliate marketing is very simple to get into when you are working online from home. All you need to do is:
- Pick a subject your are interested in and know a little about.
- Type that subject into the Google Search Engine followed by the words ‘affiliate program’.
- You will find a list of suppliers who would like you to help them sell their product.
- If you have a Facebook page and some friends then you are ready to start. Continue reading
Google SEO Tool
Did you know that perhaps the best Google SEO tool is Common Sense?
When you read a little you will find hundreds of thousands of people selling one type of Google SEO Tool or another. Whilst some of these tools are very good and very inexpensive many others are just a rehash of the Google Webmaster Tools or the Google AdWords Tool.
If you just want some commonsense advice then the best place to get that advice is from Google themselves. For those of you who do not know Matt Cutts heads up Google’s Search Engine Optimisation Team. If you like he and his team are ‘writing the rules’ Google uses to rank websites and pages. So here from the ‘horses mouth’ are the basics you need to know:
Telephone Search Engines
It is a fact that telephone search engines are cheaper to run than printed books.
I did an artcle on just how much the Yellow Pages Directory has shrunk in the past 12 months. Telephone search engines are trying to compete with the big boys like Google, Yahoo and Bing but these services are ‘free’ to use and if you have your own website or use a directory service often free to list in.
The telephone directory companies say that in part the ‘reducton’ in size is the result of a reduction in wasted space in each new publication. In part it is due to companies pulling out of the traditional ‘Printed’ telephone book. With those aged under 35 claiming to never use a printed phone directory it is not hard to see where the traditional ‘phone’ book is headed.
Orkut vs Facebook
Orkut vs Facebook – can there be a clear winner?
Orkut vs Facebook is really a showdown between Google and Facebook
Orkut, Goggle’s version of Facebook, is now a part of Google+.
But get this:
- It was launched by Google in January 2004.
- Was designed and named after a Turkish software engineer.
- Is huge in both Brazil and India.
- Ranks well behind Facebook and Myspace in the US. Continue reading
Forex trading tutorial
This is not Forex Trading Tutorial!
Rather a friend of mine who knew I did a modest amount of share trading asked me about the latest secret system into a Forex Trading Tutorial Program that just happened to have found its way into his email in tray. If you want a comprehensive Forex Trading Tutorial then follow this link. Like all things in life the best software and training programs generally find their way to the top because a lot of epoel buy them and they then tell their friends. This is one such program.
Now back to the main article. Please remember I am not a Forex Trader and I am not trying to say Forex Traders don’t make great money but here’s some things to consider:
Part one of any Forex Trading Tutorial is that trading in any market is largely about Risk minimisation.
- In very simple terms go and get 50 small pebbles and put them into 2 piles of 25.
- Now toss a coin.
- For every head you toss you collect 2 pebbles from the first pile and place it on the second pile.
- Every tail you toss you have to take one pebble from the second pile and put it on the first pile.
- Tossing a coin is a random event with about a 50:50 outcome. Within about 10 minutes you will have all the pebbles in one pile.
- Any system that is right 50% of the time (that infers it is wrong 50% of the time) can therefore make money providing you manage risk!
- Good computer software can really save you hours of very boring analysis and gives the edge to get the ‘pebble’ in your pile. Continue reading
Facebook History
A short Facebook History lesson?
In 2004 Facebook started now it has 750 000 000 registered users.
Ok so I have probably been a little brief but let’s ‘face’ it 10 years ago there was nothing now there no place on earth Facebook does not reach. To advertisers that is all they need to know.
For business owners the main thing to understand is that over the next 10 years Facebook will become a major marketing tool for all businesses big and small. If you watch TV commercials closely you may notice that many larger companies are already running competitions wherein all you have to do is go to their Facebook page and click the ‘Like’ button to win a significant prize (e.g. a car). Continue reading
| ||||||||
Too many people just allow a nice comment to appear on their site with little or no thought given as to why that comment was posted. Increasingly webmasters are trying to save time using blog auto comment software to build back-links faster and in greater numbers so as to rank on Google.
Google has already let it be known that links should be relevent not just numerous.
So when you find a comment on your website immediately treat it like any email or or a letter in your post box and ask yourself one simple question:
Is this a blog auto comment or one written by a real person who genuinely liked your site? Then go and check who or what actually wrote the comment and decide for yourself if you would be happy to help them with their advertising by allowing a link from your site.
Here are two very simple guidelines you can use to decide: Continue reading →