I have been using this plugin, Oldest2Newest, and ran into a problem using it on any wordpress version higher than 2.3. I made a one quick tweak to the code in the plugin and now it is working just like it should. So take it with a grain of salt and if you have problems, leave me a note. I will see if I can get it tuned.
edit: Tested it for Wordpress 2.6. Works great.
Sometimes you get stuck trying to find a keyword to market to. Most of the time the new people to internet marketing just jump right into the whole mix without researching their keywords to find out if it even has traffic coming to it. You want to know things like, traffic, competing websites, and web 2.0 properties. For anyone who lacks a method or just wants to know how I handle it, here is how I take care of keyword research and maybe it can help you.
I take my keyword lets say ‘Golf Swings’. I start with Google.com and input the keyword. Using the first 10 results, I then go to the AdWords Keyword tool and input the website url and grab all of the relevant keywords for the particular niche. I do this for the 10 URLs on Google and usually I come out of AdWords with about 400-500 keywords relevant to the niche and export them as a excel spreadsheet.
To even further the keyword gathering, I then head over to Seodigger.com and use the same 10 URLs to gather even more keywords. Seodigger tends to dump out hundreds if not thousands of keywords for just one URL. Which I can export as a spreadsheet file as well.
After I have all of these keywords I ditch all of the duplicates and save it all in one spreadsheet file.
I will then use this tool called Gtrends SE to run all of the keywords through the Google Gtrends Analysis, and it finds things like web2.0 properties and other important things.(With the advent of the Adwords statistics, I’m sure this tool will be updated to grab exact traffic numbers for each phrase.) This tool also does one important thing, it separates good traffic numbers from bad ones. What it means for you is it will break down what are good niche keywords to market for an what are not good ones based on how much traffic the niche receives and how many competing websites are in the particular niche.
Once all of this is done I can usually come out of it with 5-20 really good keywords to test the market with.
So yeah, there is my current method. Gtrends SE is the golden program in all of it. Costs about 25$. Well worth it in my opinion. Saves me valuable time.
-Ryan
Basically this webmaster tools area is a way for you to register domains you own with Google. This gives you the ability to monitor various aspects of your websites.
Now when i say websites, I’m referring to a domain you purchased and have a site running on a server. This will not work with Web 2.0 blogs( at least to my knowledge), such as Blogger, Wordpress.com, etc.
The great thing about this service is it will tell you specifically when Google has visited your website and how many pages it has indexed. It goes even further to show you what pages it was having trouble accessing.
Now this new feature I mentioned, Duplicate Content, is a HUGE issue in Google. One of the many things Google will penalize your websites for is Duplicate Content. If it sees too much of it you are delisted
from the search results until you can fix the problems.
For the longest time you had to dig through your own websites and determine what was being duplicated and what was not. Now with this new tool on the Google Webmaster Tools page you can see, from an
internal stand point, what is considered duplicate content. It tells you exactly where this duplicate content has shown up in both areas, so you can easily remove/change the content to decrease the penalization score with Google.
(hope your not bored by now)
So, now we have gotten rid of the duplicate content on our websites we can now rank higher in Google and for possibly more phrases. Higher rankings equal a better chance at gaining more prospects for your sites
and more prospects equals more money.
Hope I have explained this well enough. This is definitely not the end all explaination of Google Webmaster Tools. It should suffice for the basics.
-Ryan
This is a quick note, but a very important one. I just got word from Ed Dale, Google has put up actual traffic numbers on their AdWords keyword research tool. This is a very big deal because, now for all of us we can see exactly how much a given niche is getting in traffic. We will now know whether it will be worth it or not to pursue the niche.
Have a look at it here…
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
-Ryan
For the everyday Marketer, there are often five overlooked things you can do right now to become more productive in your day to day work.
Now you have the guidelines. The common theme in all of these methods is to get rid of distractions and just focus on the task at hand. The problem with having email, phone, etc on is you are subconsciously multitasking all the time. What multitasking does is it takes away solid focus on one item.
You may think you are accomplishing massive amounts of work in your sessions. Although if you look back you will find you are actually completing less work overall. One minute writing a blog post, the next you are checking an email about the latest Viagra offer. All those little minutes here and there add up to staggering amounts.
(I will concede to the ADD/ADHD crowd. I have seen it first hand how bad those folks have it. Its extremely tough to concentrate on one thing at a time.)
Regardless of your setup, these simple tips can really help you cut out the distractions and get some seriously focused productive work done.
It has been a tremendous help in my daily work, even if its only for a few hours, its worth the effort. With a little effort I have been able to make it a habit.
If you wanted to be an overachiever you could take it to..a…whole…notha..level, and you could make a habit out of taking care of yourself personally. Basically working out, eating right, exercising your brain and doing some reading.
Have fun, Talk Soon.
-Ryan
Earlier today I received a message from a buddy, Brian, who was having a hard time building lists for his niche. Now to give some background on Brian, he is in a different situation than most people. He has a few products and sales letters already in place. He just has not been building himself a list(big mistake I know). I gave him my general tips for getting a list together. Ones I have used and still use to gather prospects in my niches.
Lets say you have absolutely no product. All you have are some keywords you have done your basic market research on. Right away, go get yourself an Aweber account. They are hands down the easiest to use for e-mail marketing and its cheap. Only 20$ a month and you get to make unlimited lists. They even have tutorials to walk you through creating a list and making your first opt-in form.
Once, you are all setup with your Aweber account, put a link to either a squeeze page or include your opt-in form on your market research blog. This could be on a blogger blog, youtube description, your own domain with the squeeze page html on it, etc. Let your imagination run wild.
(If you don’t know what a squeeze page is have a look at DoubleYourDating.com .Its also one of the best examples of a squeeze page for you to model yours off of.)
Another tip I recently heard from Frank Kern and Matt Trainers latest video(thanks guys) was placing the opt-in form in the upper right corner of your page. As you see here on my site! It increases the chances of a prospect opting-in to your list.
Its even better when you know the market is eager to buy your products or you already have them buying. Its like building a preemptive strike on the market. In the mean time you can market affiliate products to the prospects and build that oh so vital relationship.
Have fun with it!
-Ryan
The crew at Google Trends just released a Killer new feature…Website trends!
The next best thing to sitting over your competitions shoulder and being a super ninja.
The major flaw in the early stages of the system is we’re limited to only viewing stats for sites generally over 1,500 uniques a day. If this gets improved in the long haul, Google Trends will be THE tool of the internet marketing community.
-Ryan
When you work alone all day it, like most of us do when we work online, its tough to come up with fresh ideas. I don’t know about everyone else, but I personally have a tough time finding a group of people to pass ideas by. The people I do know working in the industry, either don’t share the same mindset I do, aren’t motivated, or are much farther behind me in the learning curve.
The one thing I’ve known over the last few years is I lack a Mastermind Group or basically a group of people either at my level or higher I can bounce ideas off of and learn from. In my day to day life I haven’t ever had a problem meeting new people, but the online world has always alluded me.
The benefits of a Mastermind Group can be a huge help in your business in just about every aspect. Keeping your mind fresh, allowing you to think of things in a new frame of mind, and meeting new people thereby broadening your perspective.
So heres some questions for you. How would you go about finding a Mastermind Group? Whats your criteria? What makes a Mastermind Group special for you?
If you want to join up with me and bounce ideas off each other, just shoot me an email ryan@ryanyockey.com.
Later,
Ryan
I am constantly registering domain names for all sorts of projects and crazy ideas that come to me. I recently blogged about using Domize to find yourself a domain name, but I’ve never talked about where you should register your domain names.
I constantly hear just about everyone praising GoDaddy and how easy it is to use and its so cheap at $10 to register a .com and another $3-4 for the privacy service.
OK lets count it up, thats $14. Doesn’t sound like much right? Well when you own 100+ domain names at $14. That starts to seem like a good chunk of change.
Now I started using GoDaddy way back about 6-7 years ago. Right when I got into marketing online. It was the only destination, for a while, for good domain name pricing.
What if I were to tell you there was a cheaper solution? Well there is, Dreamhost.com. I’ll be honest, the hosting isn’t the absolute greatest, but if all youre doing is serving up some information products. Then its not such a bad idea, actually its pretty damn cheap. Back to the domain names, Dreamhost does all of their domains for only $9.95 per year, which includes a FREE privacy service on the domain. I recommend that anyone use them for domain name hosting.
In the last two years with them I haven’t had a single moment where their domain system was down or didn’t work. I currently host all of my domains through them which compared to GoDaddy has saved me a bunch of cash. Check them out and save yourself some money.
I’ve been in and out with the Thirty Day Challenge for a while. Up until recently I didn’t start really focusing on it. Of course right when I start to focus the next Thirty Day Challenge is about to start again. This is training is vitally important in everything you do online. It teaches you how to find markets that buy and how to do it without spending a dime. The goal of the whole Thirty Day Challenge is to make 10$ inside of the 30 days using their techniques.
So heres the deal, start preparing now and sign up at the Thirty Day Challenge site (my referral link here), and get ready to learn how to make some money online. Even if you don’t even do internet marketing, its very useful to learn how to spread your sites over all the social networks and gain more traffic.
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