Michael Campbell has released the latest issue of ‘Internet Marketing Secrets’ Newsletter. The featured article is titled “Traffic Generation Part One”. [Internet Marketing Secrets]


Michael Campbell’s latest ‘Internet Marketing Secrets’ article:

Traffic Generation – Part One

According to the annual survey, 60% of you want more traffic. And since this newsletter is all about you and what you want, I’ll be bringing you a series of interviews with top affiliate marketers and traffic generation specialists, over the next couple weeks.

In part one of the series, I interview internet marketing legend Dr. Neil Shearing, super affiliate Colin McDougall and uber webmistress, Ginette Degner.

Find out their favorite methods for generating traffic. What techniques to avoid. I also ask them to reveal “little known” secrets that can spark a stampede of traffic to your website.

Here’s a little teaser from the Colin McDougall interview:

Michael: Is there one traffic secret you could share? Like a method that you use, yet very few people know about it, or they don’t realize how powerful it is?

Colin: Well, actually the website called Slideshare.net. I create – literally – 30 seconds of content. I put some pretty pictures in, and upload the slide show to the site.

Within 15 minutes, I’ve got 10 views already. That’s cool.

Then I check Google and I’m ranked in the top 10 on my keywords. I check my referring log, and of the 10 views, three of them already clicked through to my website… all within 15 minutes!

Michael: That’s amazing. That is absolutely incredible.

Colin: This is happening literally faster than I can get a paid search ad campaign up and running on Google AdWords. Sure the nature of the traffic is a little bit different. But when I’m making sales within hours of publishing content, I get pretty excited.

The Best Meat is in the Tail

I’ve been saying it for years… in 1999 I told you to focus your sites on product makes and model numbers. In 2001 I told you to go either ahead or behind the retail curve. (It’s called the Long Tail now.)

In 2003, I told you how to build mininets out of thematically related sites. I showed you how to link the sites together. I also diagramed the first ever thematic internal linking structure.

“Start with a generic home page, link it to targeted category pages, which link to highly focused make and model number pages.” (Which – depending on who borrowed the idea – are now called virtual real estate, spokes and nodes, themeing, silos or pyramids.)

In 2005 I told you to build landing pages for PPC ads. To target “buying phrases” like “nokia n80 lithium battery” and avoid the generic terms like, “cell phone.”

There was one student who listened to everything I said. Look at this testimonial he sent me back in 2004.

“Mininets and have been responsible for an explosion in my online revenue. It’s really about site building, cross linking, and monetization. Your ebook put me over the edge and synthesized that for me.”

You probably never heard of my student because – like most good students – he stayed under the radar, quietly building a successful web empire. He went from humble beginnings to become a Jedi Master of marketing. And he does very well for himself. His name is Dave Tropeano.

Now Dave is sharing what he has learned. A true character trait of success. Having enough abundance and confidence that he’s willing to share his wisdom in a new affiliate training system called, “Long Tail Cash.”

Recently Dave told me, “The original inspiration for my course and my approach to affiliate marketing comes from Clickin it Rich. It tries to be a successor to your ebooks.”

“It’s a basic plan for people to follow, by marketing vendors, makes and model numbers. I’ve had great success with this and owe a lot of it, to my years of reading your newsletter and listening to your advice.”

That pretty much sums it up. I’ve watched the videos Dave produced, and they are certainly “inspired” by my ebooks Clickin’ it Rich (CIR) and Revenge of the Mininet (REV). If I had rewritten them in 2008… that’s probably what they’d look like.

So if you liked my works, and were looking for the modern equivalent of them, then take it from Dave Tropeano, the student who became a master, that is willing to share all he has learned.

Long Tail Cash is the best affiliate marketing course you can get right now. So if you want to learn affiliate marketing, invest in yourself, invest in this knowledge. Slather it into your brain. For an investment in yourself always pays the highest dividends.

Learn Affiliate Marketing: http://www.cdzn.com/ltc

SEO Tools for Firefox

If you’re using Firefox as your main browser, you can add plug-ins that will help you with your SEO efforts. Most of these tools help analyze competing pages, linking strategies, page history, meta tags, source code, keyword density, whois info and highlight the nofollow links.

Here is a list of 11 tools used or have tested by the people at TopRankBlog.com. They mention two of my old favorites.

Click: http://www.toprankblog.com/2008/01/seo-tools-firefox/

I use a combo of both SEO for Firefox and SearchStatus on my PowerMac. They get along well together, provide all the relevant info I need, and don’t bog down the system at all.

SEO Benefits of “Jiggling the Web”

There were a lot of questions about what I said in the last newsletter about, “The Secret to Top Search Engine Rankings.”

Click: http://internetmarketingsecrets.com/blog/?p=38

Here are the statements that made all the ruckus:

“First I make a post to my blog. Second, I submit a snippet of the post to social news sites like Digg and Propeller.”

“I then bookmark my Digg and Propeller snippet pages on social bookmarking sites like Delicious, Reddit and StumbleUpon. I then ping the bookmark RSS feeds using services like Autopinger and Pingomatic.”

Most questions were along these lines:

“Do you use your real name in your Digg and Propeller profiles, or do you setup a pen name and email?”

“When you say bookmark the snippet, do you actually bookmark the Digg and Propeller page?”

“What is the SEO benefit of all this Web2.0 stuff?”

“Any help clearing this up would be much appreciated.”

Yes I use my real name for promoting my IMS blog postings. I’m careful not to “over do” the web2.0 promotions and just add them into my marketing mix.

I do – however – have alternate accounts that I use for “other” promotional purposes such as affiliate revenue. I have a pen name, use a different browser, clear cookies and my cache after each round of posts. So really… I do both. Bleached white hat for my stuff… a little “beige” for the others. 😉

Yes, you understood what I said… You actually bookmark the individual posts – the snippet pages – from the Digg and Propeller type sites, with a few social bookmarking sites. The SEO benefit comes shortly.

The process – as I call it – is Jiggling the Web.

(And no… you can’t do it the other way round. If the search engines already spidered your blog post on their own, you won’t get any additional SEO benefit by jiggling the web. So it’s important that you do the web2.0 promotion right after you post.)

The Ping calls the spiders to the RSS feeds of your social bookmark pages. (Cant find the RSS feed? Check your profile page that holds all of your bookmarks and ping that RSS feed instead. Sneaky huh?)

The spiders get “excited” about finding links from your bookmarks to the social news sites. They want to find out what all the commotion is about – that you’ve created – and finally arrive at your original blog post.

What happens is the process of ping -> bookmark -> social news -> blog post – acts as leverage, a catalyst that will usually boost the original blog post to the top of the rankings.

If you’ve gone after a mid to long tail search term, and included the search term in the social news post titles, you’ll probably end up owning a top search engine position for that keyword phrase.

I’ll probably make a workbook out the methods I’ve been using. But first, I wanted to be sure that the experiments were repeatable.

I did an article for my blog called, “What is my Destiny” and it took a couple of days for it to show up in the search results. It got parked in the top 5 at Google and Yahoo, and the last time I checked, it was still there. 🙂

And if the page does fall in position, it’s easy enough to do another round of web2.0 promotions, to get it – or another page just like it – back up in the rankings.

Go on… go jiggle the web. It makes SEO fun again… And the benefits? The traffic is clicking as we speak.

Listen closely… Can you hear it?

It’s the sound of mice scrolling down my landing pages. Shhh! I think another one is ready to purchase. 🙂

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That’s it for this issue my friend. Thank you for reading. We’ll chat again soon. Until then, here’s wishing you all the best for online success.

Michael Campbell

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Internet Marketing Secrets Newsletter Contents

– Traffic Generation Experts Part 1

– Why the Best Meat is in the Tail

– SEO Tools for the Firefox Browser

– Benefits of “Jiggling” the Web

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