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Those who have been reading this blog may remember that I have been praising wordpress as the perfect platform for niche marketing.

Well, I have finally found someone who agrees.  Introducing Brian J’s SEO Press Formula.

I brought this ebook a week ago and I have to say that it is perfect for those who want to make a killing with wordpress and niche affiliate marketing.

Brian walks through the entire process of finding a niche, picking a domain, setting up wordpress (which includes cleaning it up also) and tweaking wordpress to work in conjunction with all the major search engines.

He also makes learning easy by putting the entire e-book in 26 easy video that step you through each exercise.  That is what really impressed me!!!!

Look at all you get:

Wordpress Video: 1 - Naming Your Site For Maximum Google Traffic
Wordpress Video: 2 - Install Wordpress With Three Simple Clicks
Wordpress Video: 3 - Manually Installation (For Maximum Control)
Wordpress Video: 4 - Cleaning Up Your Wordpress Installation
Wordpress Video: 5 - Core SEO Site Elements & How To Get It Done With Wordpress In Seconds
Wordpress Video: 6 - Wordpress & Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) To Easily Dominate Google
Wordpress Video: 7 - Permalinks - A 30 Second Tweak To Multiply Your Online Traffic
Wordpress Video: 8 - General Settings & What You Need To Know
Wordpress Video: 9 - General Settings, Simplifying Your Work Space
Wordpress Video: 10 - General Settings - Discussion
Wordpress Video: 11 - Privacy - Careful Here
Wordpress Video: 12 - Pages & Posts Basics
Wordpress Video: 13 - Plugins - Basics & What They Do
Wordpress Video: 14 - Links & How To Use Links Effectively
Wordpress Video: 15 - Working With Various Themes
Wordpress Video: 16 - Themes Part Two - Editing Themes
Wordpress Video: 17 - Posting Content - The Right Way
Wordpress Video: 18 - Adsense Integration
Wordpress Video: 19 - Database Backup
Wordpress Video: 20 - Affiliate Links / Cloaking Plugin
Wordpress Video: 21 - Automatic Wordpress Update
Wordpress Video: 22 - Google Sitemaps Do’s & Don’ts
Wordpress Video: 23 - Add A Custom Header
Wordpress Video: 24 - All in One Seo Plugin
Wordpress Video: 25 - Fight Blog Comment Spam
Wordpress Video: 26 - SeoPress Theme *sidebar explained*
Wordpress Video: 27 - Plugin: Auto Social Poster
Wordpress Video: 28 - Plugin: Popshops
Wordpress Video: 29 - Working With Css (stylesheets)

If that was not enough, he also gives away a ton of other free ebook material.

Brian recently did REALLY well with a wordpress site this past Halloween with costume affiliate programs and he shows you exactly how he did it.

I think you will be very impressed with SEO Press Formula, it is very easy to follow and it actually works!!

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Today and for the rest of the week I am going to be working on building more links for some of my established. The process is very time consuming and tedious, but the payoff is tremendous.

So, I proclaim today Link Building Day….

Let me ask you a question.. Are you building link relationships with other websites?

If you not this is a very big mistake.. How else is someone going to find your website? Many people have the thought that if they build it they will come. Well, when dealing with websites and internet marketing that is not true.

With millions of sites being created everyday their is just no way for anyone to find your websites if you not creating link relationships with other website owners.

Also, if you looking to get organic web traffic then it is essential to gain links for your website. Because that is how Google ranks their search results. Google treats each link as a vote. And the more authoritative the website, the higher the link means.

So, how should you spend your time when it come to building links.

1. Spend the most time gaining links with blogrolls or partnering with other website owners 50% of the time. These will be some of the most important links you can gain.

2. Article marketing - many people don’t believe in article marketing. But, this technique really works. You should spend 40% of your time doing this.

3. Submit your website to directories - You should spend 10% of your time doing this. Directories used to be very important in SEO. But recently they have diminished in importance. But they still have their place.

If websites that you create are not gaining ground in the search engine result, this could be a direct connection to your link building strategy. Concentrate on one of your best sites and work on building links for that site for at least a month straight. I guarentee that it will payoff.

But, remember to concentrate on gain authoritative links as well as linking to sites that are related to your particular content.

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Anyone who owns a website knows the importance of internet marketing tools. You may have a terrific idea for a website with an excellent product or service, superb design, content and functionality but if you do not use the right tactics, your site may not attract the all important highly targeted traffic. Getting a lot of traffic into a site has very little to do with the site itself but with how the webmaster or site owner advertises it. With hundreds of competing sites, you must employ the most effective internet marketing tools that will truly deliver results.

There is different internet marketing tools that you can use. All these techniques and methods aim at increasing your website traffic. You must find a way for web surfers to find your site. To do this, you must put yourself in the shoes of your prospective visitors and future clients and see the internet through their eyes. Where do they usually go whenever they are looking up something on the web? The answer is the search engine; in fact, the two most popular websites on the web today are both search engines and portals. Thus, you should focus your internet marketing efforts on the search engine.

People will usually search for something using a search engine and click on the top results that these engines give. Therefore, you must use the right internet marketing tools to get a high search engine ranking. To gain a high ranking in search results, you can use several internet marketing tools. Search engine optimization is a set of methods that are aimed at improving the visibility of your site in search engine results. Since a search engine indexes sites by looking at its keyword density, your site’s content must have favorable keyword density that is search engine friendly. Content is one of the most important internet marketing tools itself. If you have excellent content that is geared towards achieving a high search engine ranking as well as provide information then you can expect a high search engine ranking. However, this is not as easy as it sounds. Countless other sites may be using the same internet marketing tools as you do. Thus, you must continuously find new ways of attracting more traffic. Writing quality content for a website is not always the easiest task.  Between building the sites and managing other project, writing content is sometimes out of sight, out of mind.  But writing content does not have to be such a difficult task.  Content for sites can actually be brought from private level resale sites, better known as PLR sites.  These sites employ professional writers to write quality content that can be brought and re-written to suit an individual’s taste.  Here is a PLR site: infoground.com - They offer multiple articles on any subject that you can think of.Article content is a good start but there is so much competition that a website owner just can not stop with just content.  With the advent of Web 2.0 and social websites it is imperative to also employ social marketing.  This entails also publishing content on the well know social websites like myspace, facebook and twitter.  In addition, creating a friend network and following in these sites can also attract traffic back to primary websites.

Aside from the traditional marketing techniques such as print ads, billboards, brochures, testimonials, flyers etc. you must use other more effective internet marketing tools to gain more traffic. One of the most popular internet marketing tools today is the use of Pay per Click advertising. In this method, you will bid for a particular keyword in a specific search engine. If you have the highest bid then your sites link will be the top result. This internet marketing tool is now being used by thousands of sites. It is also gaining popularity because of its relatively high success rate in attracting high traffic.

What is your take on internet marketing?  Do you have a favorite technique that has earned you exordinary traffic?

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Jump onto one of the major search engines and read some of the marketing articles and you will hear the same thing - You must find a niche for your business. If you are new to Internet Marketing, this is advice you will do well to pay heed to.

Day after day after day thousands more people come online in search of wealth. In the hast for wealth, many jump right into markets that are already completely saturated and blanketed with seasoned veterans. As a result newcomers fast start to wonder why they are not making any money.

Given unlimited time, money and patience, they might succeed. For those that do not have unlimited supplies of these precious resources, aiming for a smaller niche market can be a much smarter way to start a online business.

So just what is a niche?

If you want the long answer, you can buy any one of the thousands of e-books being sold online about niche markets. You can go to a dictionary and see what definition of niche it gives. But the short answer is niche simply means distinct or individual.

Everyone and their mothers wants to start a business focusing on Internet Marketing. This is how the big guns are making all their money, so it must be the way to go.

That is the problem!!! The market is totally saturated with people who have years of experience in this area. A new person trying to swim in shark infested water, competing in such a broad market that they just don’t have a much chance of success.

On About.com, Susan Ward defines Internet Marketing as “the strategies that are used to market a product or service online, marketing strategies that include search engine optimization and search engine submission, copywriting that encourages site visitors to take action, web site design strategies, online promotions, reciprocal linking, and email marketing”. A new person coming online to start a business has little chance of knowing enough about all the above areas to be able to compete in this market.

So how is a new person to have any chance at success?

Thing Smaller - Think Niche!

Just from the above definition you can come up with the following pieces or niches:

Marketing
Search Engine Optimization
Copywriting
Web Site Design
Promotion
Linking
Email Marketing

Even if you are lucky and are extremely experienced already in one of the above niches, you will still have a lot of competition in such broad niches. This may be what you decide to do in the end, but at least be willing to explore niches within the broader areas. You may find a niche you are much better suited to.

When it comes to finding a niche market, the best resource available online is Wordtracker. You can find pieces of this program on different sites and software programs but Wordtracker brings everything together in one place for those trying to find a good niche to go into.

Using Wordtracker is a breeze. If you want to break Internet Marketing down to many more niche markets, just type in Internet Marketing and look at all the ideas that pop up. Each of these can become keywords that you decide you want to focus your niche on. Or you can pop in those keywords and keep defining your niche.

Using Wordtracker, what you will end with is a list of niche keywords that you can focus your Internet business on. Having a smaller niche will give you a much better shot at being successful then trying to build a site around a broad topic like Internet Marketing.

Remember, success in any business always comes back to supplying a product that the public has a demand for and that the market has room for. Find the right niche and you are on the right path.

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If you have not found out yet, some of the best money to be made now is through European affiliate marketing programs.  I say this because Europeans market has not been saturated as of yet with affiliate marketers trying to make a buck.  Their are still plenty of opportunities for visionary affiliate marketers to build large sites that can attract large amounts of traffic.  But enough about that.  Lets talk about my 3 best European affiliate marketing programs.

1.  eBay.co.uk

eBay continues to surprise me with the depth of markets that they are involved in.  Did you know that they have a auction site in almost all continents and you as an affiliate marketer can build sites to incorporate eBay as a money stream.  And with all the tools that eBay provides they make it easy to put up sites that potentially can make significant money the first day of use.  Payment wise eBay has put together a very unique program that has built in bonuses and significant payout for new bidders to the eBay system.  Currently their payout looks like this:

GBP 0.00 - GBP 999.99 30.00%
GBP 1,000.00 - GBP 4,999.99 32.50%
GBP 5,000.00 - GBP 24,999.99 35.00%
GBP 25,000.00 - GBP 49,999.99 40.00%
GBP 50,000.00 - GBP 99,999.99 45.00%
GBP 100,000.00 - GBP 499,999.99 50.00%
GBP 500,000.00+ 60.00%

These are the percentages that will be received for bidders that you send to eBay for winning bids.  Of course this is in pounds so just put this into a translation program and you will see the power of this system.  As for new bidders that you send to eBay here is the break down of those payouts:

0 - 24 GBP 8.00
25 - 249 GBP 9.00
250 - 499 GBP 10.00
500+ GBP 11.00

So, for each new ACRU that you send to eBay between 1 to 24 you could receive approx. 15.85 US dollars.  And that is just on the first tier.  That makes me very excited.  That I could participate in an international market and make good money sitting here in the US.  To sign up just go to www.ebaypartnernetwork.com and follow their online instructions.  I will probably take a couple of days to get a response back so be a little patient.  In that time start researching some keywords or something.

2.  Amazon.co.uk

Amazon has not missed out on the european action either.  They have a fully functional and decked out site that is just as powerful as their US site.  And all the tools that are accessible from the US affiliate program are also accessible to the UK affiliate program also.  Payout with this program varies.  You can with opt to have a percent per product or you can opt to participate on the tier bases were you have to produce volume to make more money.  I personally like the volume systems because you only have to get 10 products sold under your affiliate account to move up to the 2nd tier.  You start out with 4% return for anything that you sell on this program.  Their are no bonuses but amazon has a large array of products so you should be able to incorporate their affiliate program into any website that you could think of.  And if you can get the traffic up you definiatly will make some money.  To signup just go to amazon.co.uk and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on join Join Associates.  Follow the instructions once you get their.

3.  Neverblueads.com

I just started using this affiliate network but they have a lot that you can recommend to european citizens.  And the great thing about most of the programs on neverblueads are that they free programs.  That means that you can recommend a program and just ask people to try a program free.  If people sign up you get paid.  These are called freebee programs and they have a lot of them to choose from.  Neverblueads also has a lot of other affiliate programs that could make any other site that you are thinking of starting.  Payout for these programs vary from program to program.

These are my top 3 European Affiliate Marketing Programs

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