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June 27, 2008

FREE XSitePro 2 Webinar

XSitePro2 is cooking with gas now and Paul Smithson from Intellimon (UK) is putting on a bunch of FREE webinars to show you exactly what XSitePro version 2 can do for you.

Register

The dates are: Wednesday 2nd July, Friday 4th July, Sunday 6th July.

You need to register so you don't miss out. The webinars I have seen give a great overview of the new features XSite Pro 2 has to offer. I've been hammering through the new features and it really is powerful software for building professional quality websites fast.

In the webinars they will be covering:

- XSitePro Templates
- Audio and Video
- RSS Feeds
- Graphics
- Time released content
- Mobi site creation

Plus heaps more. The price is right - yes it is FREE and after half an hour or so you will know more about the hottest website creation software to hit town!

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If you have any questions about XSitePro 2 you can skype me or email me. Oh and don't forget you get a great bonus if you do decide to buy XSitePro from here. When was the last time you got support like that?

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June 21, 2008

Underground Online Seminar® 4 DVD Bonus

Yanik Silver has recently released the DVD's from Underground IV. I boarded a jet and flew to Los Angeles from Sydney (where I live) just to attend Yanik Silver's Underground Online Seminar® 4 in Los Angeles this past March.

This is why I attended Underground 4

In 2007 I bought Traffic Secrets by John Reese. I re-watched the entire series in January 2008 and took notes from every DVD and CD and worksheet for three days solid. That's when I realized I need to stay much closer to the good information. Traffic Secrets 1.0 was (and will always remain) a groundbreaking quality information product.

I decided there and then I was going to Underground. The reason for that was because Yanik's event is not a pitch fest. It was only the second seminar I attented and it needed to be quality. Was it cheap? - NO. Was it value? YES!

Why Underground IV is value

Underground IV moved my whole concept of scale. I observed first hand some of the most successful people (many you will never have heard of) in the online community share what is working for them. I made notes and came back to Sydney loaded to the gills with ideas and an action plan. I learnt to think bigger. Much BIGGER.

I liked Underground IV so much I ordered Underground 3 on DVD to watch (and it ROCKED) and booked myself to attend underground 5 in Washington D.C.

The Momentum Continues

Luckily I met some amazing people and got the opportunity to join the Maverick Business Adventure mastermind group. I jumped on another plane to go to Las Vegas. Now I can't tell you much about what was discussed there other than the fact that recently I have been doing the biggest sales days ever. The results are extraordinary and it started from when I discovered information at Underground. In fact, I paid back my entire underground trip in just one days sales profit….

Good = Expensive

I know this is not always true however when Cialdini made this observation in his great book 'Influence' he was on to something. I know the financial commitment of travelling overseas and the time invested at Los Angeles has paid huge dividends for me. The great news is if you are reading this entry close to the post date there is a small chance the DVD set is still available for you to invest in.

The event sold out

That's right, Underground sold out because it is high quality. Look who was speaking:

Eben Pagan showed how 3 simple questions can help you prevent 80-90% of the failures you might otherwise suffer. Since watching him speak and meeting him I have a countdown timer on my desk to tell me when I should NOT be working. I must be saving hours a day with that technique alone.

Dr Joe Mercola confessed the marketing mistakes that have cost him 10-20 MILLION dollars - and tells you how you can avoid them. It was after his speech Aweber put a lightbox script out.. and I added it here on this blog. The results were instant.

Jim Lilig shared specific examples of high converting CPA Network campaigns and what you need to "copy" their success… and an entire PROCESS map worth 10x the seminar
cost! I am using many of these ideas in my upcoming product launches. Jim is a straight shooter!

Jody Colvard showed proof you can make a lot of money with your content in unorthodox ways. (Hint: It's NOT from advertising. You'll learn why and what to do instead. ) I added more media to the mix after seeing how she does it.

Cameron Johnson showed how he got one simple idea and turned it into a $40k per month side business. (After you hear this, you'll stop looking for the next 'big thing'… because you'll know you don't need it to be successful.) Cameron appears on the big give with Opera every week. I used the same idea he mentioned to set up a $5000 a month income stream instantly.

Mike Hill reveals how you can buy the same traffic people are buying on Google®… for a fraction of the cost! I have been using traffic sources you have NEVER heard of and I am paying 2 cents a click instead of $1 - could that help you? Mike Hill is a GENIUS.

Barry Dunlop explained how him and his partner, Dean Hunt, got on front page of DIGG.com within 18 hours generating over 2,189,432 UNIQUE visitors to their websites in the past 12 months alone. This very real method of "Buzz Marketing" works. These guys were edgy. One thing I took from them has caused one of my blogs (not this one) to go beserk in the search engines. It is simple yet highly effective and anyone can do it.

There were only 500 DVD copies available, and I bet at least half of them are already gone. If you want to grab it then I am offering you a special bonus. To qualify for my bonus you must be serious about your online success and have some basic knowledge already. This DVD set will not help a new person. If you are intermediate or advanced - this is for you:

Please clear your cookies and grab the DVD's here

After you've watched the DVD's I will give you my private telephone number and we will commence coaching. The goal is to implement some of the ideas from the DVD's into your business until you have made more profit than you invested however long that takes (as long as you make an effort to implement). There is no way you can lose with this offer. Buy the DVD's and I'll coach you until you make the same or more profit. I was there and I know the material. It is excellent.

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June 18, 2008

XSitePro 2 Bonus

XSitePro2 is officially available to everyone from today. It is really great software because it makes building websites easy. It is crammed full of features that bring together many external components into one software package.

For example, the new templates are professional looking and the dynamic menus allow plenty of design latitude. XSitePro Version 2 has RSS feed integration (javascript), social bookmarking widgets and XML feed generator to get a little more web 2.0. The mobi site generator has great purpose for people who have websites frequented by phone surfers.

The silo option is very effective for SEO purposes as I found out with a site I launched last week. I built a new site to overwrite an old site and it is already ranking extremely well for long tail phrases and is climbing nicely. (Remember to do 301 k re-directs if you do this).

Who needs XSitePro?

It is very handy if you sell affiliate products or your own services or products. The other great application is building websites for other people. If you do that you will like the speed at which you can make websites. This means a better return on investment. Websites built with XSite Pro 2 can be assembled and published directly from the one desktop application. If you flip websites - this is easy too. You can publish to regular HTML format for buyers.


The James Schramko XSP bonus for buying XSitePro 2

I am almost done building a new XSP Cheat Sheet (version 2.0) members area with video tutorials and my PDF XSPCheatSheet. You will get an ongoing membership to the XSP Cheat Sheet video area when it goes live.

Click Here to claim your XSiteProSEO bonus

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June 5, 2008

SEO Site Review Video Including Tips On How To Get Paid To Improve SEO Rankings For Local Business Owners




This video was in answer to a forum question posted on the warrior forum yesterday. Jim wanted to know how to do a camtasia SEO critique when approaching a local business for internet marketing consulting (as per the popular 'offline gold' trend). I offered to do an example SEO video for his own site. The video is free with no opt-in required for viewing. My aim is to help as many people as possible with this part of the 'offline' local business formula.

The cool seo firefox extension mentioned in the video is free and is called SEO Quake. It really helps with a visual display of the main SEO statistics for a site as you visit it.

If you want to get into a professional level of search engine optimizing pages (and generating custom reports) I use and highly recommend this optimizer software.

Please leave your comments about this video - (comments count for SEO with full follow benefits!)

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May 11, 2008

How To Search Engine Optimize A Wordpress Blog

The following video takes you through steps to activate some SEO plugins and set up your wordpress blog for some serious SEO traffic. Discover how to set permalinks, import ping lists, get your RSS feed optimized, add an XML sitemap, add social icons and change themes….

I have also included a direct download link to the full Wordpress file including some FREE wordpress themes and plug-ins. Also included is a ping list for you to import after installation. The video starts at the point after you have installed your wordpress blog using FTP or fantastico.

You do not need to opt-in to download this wordpress SEO bundle:

Click Here To Download Bundle

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April 30, 2008

XSitePro 2 Release Date Announced

Paul Smithson just announced to all XSitePro clients that after thousands of man-hours of development and testing, XSitePro Version 2 is almost ready to be released. Yes!!!

XSite Pro version 2 is absolutely amazing website building software. I can't wait to share with you all the really cool stuff it has inside and you WILL be impressed!

The consensus amongst those who are using it is that it takes web site development to a whole new level of ease-of-use AND power.

Paul has decided not to announce the many new features at this stage:

"as all will be revealed between now and the launch, but I can promise you that some of the new features are going to make you feel like you've inherited Harry Potter's magic powers :-)"

So when is the upgrade date?

Current XSitePro users are scheduled to get priority access from Tuesday 20th May 2008.

NOTE: This is a provisional date, so it could change!

If you don't already have XSitePro - RIGHT NOW would be a great time to get it. The new version is likely to attract a price increase.

Quick link: Get XSitePro , See my XSitePro Bonus

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Wealthy Affiliate Price Rise In 6 Days From Now

Kyle and Carson launched WA 1.0 as a keyword list based membership site years ago and it grew into Wealthy Affiliate 2.0 in October 2006 with the addition of hosting and SiteRubix web builder among other highlights.

Then WA 3.0 was just recently upgraded with a lot of features added to it. They have invested plenty back into the membership site and it has many, many tools and features.

They have decided the Wealthy Affiliate membership is undervalued at $29.99 per month.

The WA motto is “your success is our success”… so, in line with that new resources will be coming for beginner, intermediate and advanced online marketers. This will include new videos, new money-making strategies, new guides, new tools, systems and services…as well as upgrades to the existing systems.

"WA tools increase your ability to research, build and implement profitable campaigns" they say.

All current Wealthy Affiliate members as at 6th May will be grandfathered at the old price of $29.99…

Quick links: Join Wealthy Affiliate , See my Wealthy Affiliate bonus

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April 25, 2008

Have You Made This Affiliate Redirect Mistake?

I just got this email from a product owner who I am an affiliate for.

"Firstly I wanted to thank you for becoming an Affiliate for my products and services. I regret to say that on May 31st 2008 I will be dropping the Affiliate program through XXXXX. I will be setting up new programs through another provider"

This type of email is one I have seen a few times now. I remember Perry Marshall changed his affiliate software provider, and ebay is changing the way they link right now etc… just recently John Reese decided to no-longer sell Traffic Secrets and he cancelled his monthly Reese report. So this is a common occurance. If you promote other peoples products you need to prepare for Change.

Am I worried? No.

Some people will be panicking though. Especially if they have produced content with direct links to the affiliate program. Imagine what happens to any direct links in ebooks that are unable to be changed? Even if you can go and chnage your links on every site it is still a huge hassle. Even the experts got caught out with this when the first viral ebooks went out.

I recommend all affiliates use redirects!

This is critical to "future proof" your affiliate income. In fact, later on you may even decide to make your own product so it is handy to be able to redirect your traffic to your own destination.

Even with redirects some people get this wrong. For example it is unwise to use third party re-directs. DO NOT use URL shrinkers or membership site redirect linker services. What happens when they go out of business or their site is down or you want to discontinue a membership? You lose control.. Always make your own. You should never, ever,  ever just paste the supplied affiliate link directly on your page.

Three preferred methods of redirects that will save your profit

Method 1: Add a page or sub-domain or folder to your domain to re-direct your affiliate traffic. So if you have a domain like www.cheekypuppy.com and you want to link to a puppy training ebook you link to www.cheekypuppy.com/training.html etc….  If the puppy training product changes you simply change your redirect. It is best to keep a generic name rather than a brand name so you can change the brand later. For clickbank products remember to cloak your links. For some products like $7 dollar scripts or sophisticated affiliate carts you cannot cloak links as it strips out the part that tracks your commission.

Method 2. Buy a domain for all your redirects. Put the domain on your hosting service then upload your redirect script to each page. So you now have a "hub" that you can manage all your re-directs from in one place. You can also add tracking scripts to your pages and keep a close eye on your incoming referral source. This works well if you have a lot of affiliate links and a lot of websites. So in this example you point all your site links to one central redirect. So you could link to  www.securelinkdirect.com/ar.html (for autoresponder). You link to that whenever you want to mention autoresponder. Your stats will show which site of yours is sending the most traffic. Handy for building your affiliate empire.

Method 3. When you have core affiliate programs you will be using all the time it is time to get a domain name for each one. I use domain names like: www.ClickHereForHosting.com when I want to link to hosting. I will put it on my own server and create a re-direct so that I can track the web traffic rather than just redirect it at the domain service. Also when you put your redirect on the server you can add meta tags and a page title. You get the benefit of backlinks and if your link has a keyword in it it sometimes ranks for that in the search results. This data will give you valuable clues about where to invest your attention. If you choose generic names you can change suppliers when you want. Also you can safely put these links on your blog posts, ebooks and websites knowing that when you want to change you can.

Final word - Make sure you TEST all affiliate links

When you set up your links you need to check that they are tracking. After you lose a few sales you will remember to do this forever!

Happy linking!

 

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April 11, 2008

Lightbox Name Capture from Aweber

Cool - Aweber have added the lightbox name squeeze to the control panel. This means you can set the opt-in form to hover in and the rest of the page is shaded out. If you are a first time visitor to this blog you will see it in action.

The advantage of a lightbox name capture is focus.

The proof is in the opt-in. When you dramatically boost op-ins using this script you know it works. The great thing about aweber is you can place the script on all your blogs and websites and track each channel by itself. Also it has such an easy client interface you dont need a programmer or difficult steps to make this start straight way.

(I am sure those clever guys at Aweber were as blown away as I was when they heard Joe Mercola discussing the results of his lightbox experiments at Yaniks Underground 4, and here we are a few weeks later and they have implemented it into the best autoresponder service)

Put a lightbox name capture on your website

 

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April 9, 2008

Speed PPC 3 is Out now

The update of speed ppc by Jay Stockwell is released and for a short time is selling for 20% off. The new features are pretty awesome and include a bunch of new technology. The new site design looks hot as well!

Clearly the PPC tool of choice for advanced users Speed PPC is the benchmark. Here are some of the new features:

Yahoo! Search Marketing Support is now faster than was ever before possible. The Advanced Ad Building  feature allows you to simply feed in all your headlines, copy and display URL’s and SpeedPPC will build text ads that represent every variation of these. Ideal for split testing.

Ad Copying - If you have ads that are similar to one another you don't need to re-write them any more, simply copy them from one box to another with the click of a button. Keyword Library -awesome for words you use over and over again. Cleaning Features allow you to ensure that your keywords are clean with new cleaning filters applied to your lists to ensure no nasty surprises.

Improved Project Management so you can now see all your SpeedPPC projects under one campaign view no matter where they are stored on your computer. You can now work on and build multiple campaigns at once.

- One Keyword Per Ad Group. It’s now possible to have one keyword per ad group creating a perfect relevancy chain. Amazing Quality Score results. Improved Interface including excel output.
 

Keyword Counts let you instantly see how many keywords you have in each of your lists, as well as how many permutations will be built from them.

Plus you get SpeedPPC Datafeed Landing Page Software, SpeedPPC Training and Resources incuding Expansion Lists for 186 Countries and 15 Professional Landing Page Templates…

Check out Speed ppc

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