Friday, May 22, 2009

Keeping Track Of Your Search Engine Rankings

Want to know where your website ranks in the search engines? Don't want to spend hours entering each keyword into Google, Yahoo and MSN to see if your page appears in the top 10?

No problem -- Traffic Travis - SEO Software can do it all for you.

How to do it:

If you haven't downloaded Traffic Travis... it's free, and you can grab it at http://vur.me/mlminertia/TT

1) Click on "Search Engine Tools"

2) Create a project

Click the "Add project" button

Give your project a name, and enter the address of the website.

Click the "Search engines" tab

Choose which search engines you'd like to monitor.

Set the "Max results per search engine" box to "50" (this means TT will search the first 50 search engine listings for your site, and if it doesn't find it there, it will give up.)

Click the "keywords" tab

Enter the keywords you'd like to check your site against. (Click the "Add keywords" button and then write your list into the white box.) You can either just enter the keywords you've optimized your site for, or you can enter a larger list of keywords just in case you happen to start ranking for things you didn't plan on. The thing to remember is that Traffic Travis can only check the keywords that you've entered, so if you're ranking for something that's not in the list, Traffic Travis won't know about it.

Click "Save"

3) Click "Start update" to fetch your search engine rankings

Traffic Travis will look for your site in the search engines using the keywords you have entered. Beside each keyword in your list you will see the information that Traffic Travis has found:

Search engine = Which search engine Traffic Travis was checking

Current = Your current ranking for this keyword in this search engine (note that "0" means that Traffic Travis could not find your site)

Previous = Your previous ranking for this keyword. Traffic Travis remembers the positions from the last time you checked, so you can see if you're going up or down in the search engines. Note that it will only compare against the last time you checked.

Top = The best result Traffic Travis has ever seen for your site.

A good idea is to print the results out (by clicking the "print positions" button). That way you can keep track of your positions over time.

If there are any questions please feel free to leave a comment.

Remember we're in this together.

Mlminertia...Learn The Right Moves

Cal Hardesty
mlminertia@live.com

Monday, May 11, 2009

Three Steps To Online Affiliate Marketing Success!

Three Steps To Online Affiliate Marketing Success!

Many of you are excited about Affiliate Marketing, and rightly so.

Affiliate Marketing is the one arena in which you can have a blast and generate mass income very quickly, if done the right way.

By your questions in the last two weeks, some of you are looking to get your feet wet and generate a few hundred dollars in extra income.

Some are looking to blow the lid off and generate some major bucks, to use Ricks words.(my kind of thinking).

If that second statement fits you; read on, take action and let's blow the lid off together.

Step 1. Understand Your Product or Service. This is one of, if not, the most important step to assure your success. When you understand your product or service, you will begin to understand why people would buy what you are selling.

Understanding your products and services will help you find the right people to market your product to. (your marketing target group)

While most advise not to be ruled by emotion. I find if I am passionate about a product, or service, or MLM (which offers both). Then it is not hard to find a group of like minded individuals that will be passionate about the product as well.

Step 2. Identify The Right People. You must identify your target market; this will make it easier to grow your business. Identify a group of people who have a need for your product or service.

Example: If you want to market engagement rings you would target the age group in which the largest numbers of weddings take place.

An excellent tool for identifying markets through keywords is Traffic Travis. It is a premiere tool for performing keyword searches etc. They offer a freedownload or you can upgrade if you like. I have found when starting out the free download works great. I have recently upgraded to the pro edition and the extra benefits are well worth the upgrade price. If you decide to use this tool to identify your target market be sure to watch the tutorial videos that accompany each step.

Step 3. Have An Effective System. This is very important to the growth of your business. Having an effective system will determine whether or not you are able to grow your business. Your system should be able to effectively find the right people or attract them to you.

As you probably noticed, these are three of the steps I've written about in a previous post.

Since so many of you are wanting to have a step by step system to follow in setting up your first affiliate marketing product. I will present one system that I have tried and know first hand will work for you.

Before I recommend a product or program I try it out first.

Derrick VanDyke has put together a clear, consise, easy to follow, step by step program. AFFILIATE CASH SECRETS Whether you are new to internet marketing or seasoned internet marketer, you will succeed in building a lucrative, lead producing, money machine in the
Affiliate Marketing arena.

Following his simple step by step approach, I was able to have my first money machine set up in 3 hours. Within 2 hours of placeing my first advertisement, I had generated multiple sales and 23 leads, those numbers have been steadily growing.

I am definitely glad I tried, Affiliate Cash Secrets . It has definitely thrown open the door to many sizeable streams of income for me as I know it will for you.

Remember Your Not In This Alone, We Are Here To Help

Cal Hardesty
mlminertia@live.com

Monday, May 4, 2009

Four Basic Search Engine Marketing Tips

There has been so much written about search engine marketing, the art of getting your site listed on the search engines, it has become a very confusing topic.

Let me share with you four basic search engine marketing tips, that I am sure will help you to cut through the cloud of confusion that surrounds search engine marketing. These four tips will give you a solid foundation for your own search engine marketing plan.

Over the next couple of weeks we will discuss some of the techniques used by different marketers, in setting up their search engine marketing plan; but right now let's discuss the basic search engine marketing tips that will be the solid base for developing your own search engine marketing plan.

1. You can list your site free and the search engines will find you. This is great news! You do not have to pay a search engine specialist to list your site for you, and this step is easy.

2. To make it into the coveted "Top Ten", content reigns supreme. Strive to provide top quality content, in your articles, reports, information. Remember strive to present the #1 site in your particular arena. If you will do this, the better your listing will become.

3. Search engines like new, fresh content, so freshen it up from time to time.

4. Remember the search engines do not like to be tricked. If the search engines think you are tricking them they will penalize you. If you get penalized, it is very difficult to regain your listing.

If you will remember these basic search engine marketing tips. You will be able to develop a solid search engine marketing plan.

Do you remember search engine marketing tips #1? Here are a couple links I would recommend for seeing just how easy it is to get your site listed in the search engines, for free.

You can submit your site to Google here.
You can submit to Yahoo here.

Always remember, any questions leave a comment or email us.

MLMinertia....Learn the Right Moves

Cal Hardesty
mlminertia@live.com