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Duplicate Content, What is it… And Does It Matter?

In order to debunk this, it is best just to go to the source. Google describes duplicate content as:

“…substantive blocks of content within or across domains that either completely match other content or are appreciably similar.”

The rest of this article is located here. It goes on to say that duplicate content isn’t necessarily something that is instantly penalized for just existing. There are many instances when duplicate content is OK.

Mobile phone versions of sites, articles belonging to multiple categories, and printer friendly versions of pages are all recognized as multiple versions of the same content, not duplicate content. Even content that is syndicated is still considered to be the same even though it is spread across multiple domains.

Why It Has A Bad Rep
Duplicate content has a bad rep for one main reason. “People Have No Idea What They Are Talking About!” Yup, that pretty much sums it up. There are a bunch of other reasons too, but that one really does cover it.

Firstly, in that same article mentioned above, there is an area where they say duplicate content is a big no-no. It is mostly when a piece of content is spread across multiple domains in order to fool search results. Google doesn’t like this because users don’t like this and they want to please their users, and in turn, please their advertisers.

So, when someone is feeding the same thing on most of your search results, you kinda failed at the whole “delivering the best search results” thing. So, they make it a point to penalize anyone who is deliberately trying to fool search results. And Google is smart, they know when you’re trying to do it. So don’t.

Secondly, there are forum topics abound on duplicate content and how to handle it. This topic on the Warrior Forum garnered over 28,000 views and over 655 replies from so-called “experts” on what to do about where to place an article first for best results. This spins from then entire duplicate content misconception.

Next, there is a whole arsenal of tools out there said to rid you of the “Duplicate Content Penalty”. There are checkers, spinners, and many other tools available to help rid you of this cursed disease. Some are free, most are paid. So it only makes sense to hype up the whole duplicate content thing in an effort to make sure you are good and scared enough to buy/use their products. To put it bluntly, there is profit to be made from fear and ignorance.

One of the best examples out there is Copy Scape. They first go under the premise of “Anti-Plagiarism” which was a good stance to take. No one wants their content stolen. Then they started to diverge into a more, “find out if your content you had written for you was just rehashed or reused.” Not bad, but a step toward the wrong direction. Now, right in their title, they have “Copyscape Plagiarism Checker – Duplicate Content Detection Software.” They have a pro feature that charges you a nickel for each search you do.

Am I saying Copyscape is some terrible company? No, they do provide a good service. But they now leverage the misconception of duplicate content for the sake of more profit.

How To Solve Duplicate Content Problems
If you want all your i’s dotted and all your t’s crossed, there are a number of things you can do to help Google out. First, you can stop peddling your crappy PLR all over the net. Now that I have that off my chest, we can talk about other solutions.

Canonical URLs
These are basically a way of telling Google and other search engines that the content found on this page via this link is the ACTUAL place to find the content. This helps solve any problems with your CMS’s giving google the same content multiple times via different URLs.

NoIndex
Another way to help out the SE’s is to tell them, not to index certain parts of your site. A good way of doing this is using the NoIndex meta tag for parts of your site that contain duplicate content across a different URL. This robots identifier lets the search engines know not to index this part of your site, and therefore, not include duplicate content.

Use 301 Redirects
If you are restructuring your site, use appropriate 301 redirects, (permanent redirect code). This tells Google that your content is on another url instead of just indexing it twice as duplicate content.

Syndicate Appropriately
Perhaps one of the final nails in this proverbial coffin of this duplicate content issue is the fact that Syndication even exists. If all duplicate content is considered bad, why would utilizing things such as RSS be considered GOOD by Google? There is a catch. When you syndicate, make sure that your RSS feed gives credit to the original content with an appropriate link. Most RSS feeds do this automatically with the title being a link to the original article. It is good just to double check, because you never know.

Other methods are also good practices, such as avoiding placeholder pages, also called stubs, TLD’s, avoiding unnecessary repetition, etc. They can be found at the Google link below.

All in all, you need to focus on providing GREAT content for the search engines, not just making sure your average piece of garbage article is the only one out there of it’s kind.

Can A List Building System Be TOTALLY Automated?

I know we’re all a bit sick and tired of promises of “automated software” that will make us rich before dinner.

And I’m always the first to be skeptical of these kinds of outrageous claims.

But today I may have to actually eat my words.

Because I just picked up a listbuildilng system that really is incredibly fast…,

And the traffic actually does keeps flow in on auto-pilot.

It’s a pretty new tactic on the scene that I’ve heard of.

But I never really knew how to implement it.

Then I found this:

<a href=”http://neverfaillistbuilding.com/freestuff/video-2/”>Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System</a>

At that link 7 figure marketer Bill McRea is GIVING AWAY.

This listbuilding system totally free…

It’s his way of getting some buzz going for his upcoming product launch (apparently he’s go another system up his sleeve that’s even better than this)

In any case..

I went and got this myself and it’s totally legit.

There’s nothing scammy about it all.
It’s just a way to instantly create a win-win offer that potential JV partners can’t refuse.

Bill hand you EVERYTHING you need to make it work. And I mean EVERYTHING.

So if you know the power of having a mailing list..

Do yourself a favor and go get this.

Do it now: <a href=”http://neverfaillistbuilding.com/freestuff/video-2/”>Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System</a>

I mean…you can’t beat the price, right?

P.S. There is one catch to this…you’ll have to help spread the word. But that’s easy for me because I’ve seen this strategy in action and know that it works.
You should get <a href=”http://neverfaillistbuilding.com/freestuff/video-2/”>Free Plug N Play Listbuilding System</a> now!

The Greatest Keyword Tool of All Time

Google is set to release an updated version of its Keyword Tool which will combine features of the Keyword Tool (primarily for AdWords users) with features of the Search-based Keyword Tool (which is based on actual Google search queries) to create one of the most comprehensive and valuable keyword research tool on the Web today. It might just be the greatest keyword tool of all time.

The new Keyword Tool offers flexible search options, enabling users to search by any combination of keyword, website/URL, and category and receive a single set of results.

Users will also be able to filter result by word or keyword match type, and even view statistics for mobile search and use data filter based on local search, as well as search and ad share. It might just be the greatest keyword tool of all time.

Google also added some new features based on user feedback including the ability to remove duplicate keywords (which appear with an “Already in Ad Group” message) and the ability to add negative keywords automatically to your account from your keyword idea list.

The depth and value the upcoming tool provides kind of makes me wonder about the viability of commercial keyword research services. If Google dominates the search and ad space, what do the others know that Google doesn’t? Do you even need to consider using alternative providers? Is Google’s upcoming keyword tool the greatest keyword tool of all time? Share your comments below

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The Most Powerful Headline In The World

How to use the Power of the World’s Easiest and Most Effective Headline Format to Turbo Charge Your Business

Did you notice the title for this article?

Of course, it’s a headline.

That’s right and it uses a shop-worn classic format which still continues to amaze me with its power.

Just 2 simple words…

“How To”

Stick with me on this, I know it sounds too easy.

The simple, lowly “How to” headline is still tops in my book for simplicity and effectiveness. You really cannot go wrong with it. The ‘how to’ headline is so versatile. You can follow it with several benefits, a question, an offer, almost anything – and it works great!

In fact, using the ‘how to’ formula is one of the best places to start when writing headlines because it forces you to think of what your product/service actually does for the person.

Here are a couple of winning examples to get your juices flowing:

* How to Collect from Social Security at Any Age

* How To Get FIVE Money-Making Web Sites In 29 Minutes Or
Less…Without Spending A Fortune!

* How to avoid the biggest mistake you can make in building or buying a home

* How to cruise the world for $19 a day

* How to get Enthusiastic Applause – Even a Standing Ovation – Every Time You Speak (Ted Nicholas)

* How To Win Friends And Influence People

* How to make your car invisible to radar and laser!

* How to make your computer as easy to use as your telephone

* How to fix cars

Check out the last winning headline on our list – “how to fix cars”. I mean it really can’t get any simpler than that, but it works and it works big time!

Now here are a few “how to” headlines you can plug-in and use right away when brainstorming:

=============== “How to” Formulas ===============

How to get ____________
How to have __________
How to keep__________
How to start __________
How to begin _________
How to become ___________
How to improve your _________
How to develop _____________
How to get the most out of _____________
How to avoid ________________
How to end ________________
How to get rid of _____________
How to conquer _____________
How to enjoy _______________

Even just adding the word “how” in front of a headline gives it an additional appeal.

Compare these 2 examples:

A strange accident saved me from baldness

How a strange accident saved me from baldness

Which one is more compelling?

I think you’ll agree #2 does the trick.

And that one is a winning headline used over and over.

Okay, but maybe the tried and true “how to” is too boring for you.

No problem! Spice it up by adding a little something before the ‘how to’

* Here’s HOW TO…

* Discover HOW TO…

* If you think a 12% annual return on your money is good, here’s HOW TO set your sights on 100% or more

* All new course reveals HOW TO use Pop-Ups to double your opt-in rate, explode your sales, and squeeze up to 300% more revenue out of each visitor to your Web site! (Jonathan Mizel)

* I’ll show you HOW TO hit golf shots as straight as you can point, or this video golfing lesson is free… and I’ll pay you $25 for wasting your time! (Jeff Paul)

* Ohio man discovers the secret of HOW TO escape the American Rat Race

Or if you still want to change it up a little – just use “How you” or “How I” like these winning examples:

* HOW I earn my living in 4 hours a day

* HOW YOU Can Make Well Over $300,000.00 Per Year As A Real Estate Agent Working Less Than 40 Hours A Week…. Have A Top Income AND A Life….. And NEVER Have To Make A Call You Dread Or Waste Your Time With Unrealistic Sellers Or Insincere Buyers, Ever Again (Craig Proctor)

I think you’ll agree for getting the most bang for your buck – “how to” headlines are the way to go.

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How to Use Video as an Effective Internet Marketing Tool

Jerry Bader says that just about everybody is a believer in Web video.

He also goes on to say it’s time to figure out just how to use it effectively as a marketing communication tool.

Oh sure, there are a few diehard holdouts filling their sites with thousands of words of densely congealed text in a vain attempt to attract ‘Mr. GoodSearch;’ and let’s all encourage them to continue, especially our competitors, because as they stick to yesterday’s marketing tactics, we can capture market share by communicating, using techniques that actually lead to more audience engagement, more memory retention, and more sales leads.

Even if you’re still a bit unsure of the benefits Web video brings to your marketing efforts, think of the commitment Google has invested in YouTube and then you’ll know where the biggest search opportunities exist. So let’s all agree, video is where it’s at, but hold on just a second, let’s call it compelling content presentation, or more precisely, properly conceived, professionally produced, attention-to-post video that delivers a meaningful memorable message in a manner that is less advertising and more content, less pitch and more experience.

Can you do this yourself? Doubtful, but maybe, so before you run out and blow the petty cash on the latest HD video camera, proper lighting equipment, editing and motion graphic software, how to DVDs like ‘You Can Be The Next Ridley Scott’, a computer and hard drive powerful enough to handle HD file sizes and software processing, custom photography, signature music and sound effects; and before you ask your accounts payable person or spouse to shoot you in your office with a backdrop of photos featuring last year’s office picnic and the broken office chair you’ve been meaning to replace; ask yourself, is this really how to go about marketing my company? I mean maybe your appearance is camera friendly, maybe you have the right voice that fits your message, maybe you understand body language, maybe you have acting experience, maybe you know how to write a script and maybe… well you get the idea? And we haven’t even talked about content and concept. There is a place for amateurism, it’s just not in business.

The Ad Content Challenge

The real challenge in website design is not backend technical issues, search engine optimization, or feature proliferation but rather how to turn advertising into content, and content into an experience. We know no one likes to be sold, especially if it’s a hard sell pitch demanding instant decisions and immediate action. People are more likely to run from such a sales attack as quickly as possible, particularly on the Web where escaping is just a mouse clíck away.

Let’s assume for a moment that you want a professional Web presentation and not a homemade ego-satisfying customer-repellent video. Let’s also assume that you’ve hired a team that has the necessary skills to deliver the ‘right stuff.’ The next step is to provide that team with the assets they need to do the job.

Gather Your Assets

The first thing you’ll need to do is get all your resources together. Here’s a checklist of things you’ll need to supply or have created in order to get started:

1. Logos That Work

A properly designed logo is a must. I can’t tell you how many times we’ve had to design or at least redesign logos for clients who have been in business for years. A video campaign is all about communicating a corporate personality and that identity needs a visual tag to affirm that brand image.

Most business people realize they need a logo but they generally only think of it in one dimension, graphically. With a properly designed logo in hand, an audio logo tag can be associated with it so that your brand message is penetrating both visually and audibly. Remember your goal is to turn advertising into content and to do that you must create a memorable experience, and the whole point of using video is to communicate your message using sight, sound, and subliminal psychological persuasion.

2. Mission Statements – It’s About The Why

Mission statements are generally useless exercises in self-congratulatory bunkum. If your mission statement says your company aims to have the best products, at the lowest prices, featuring world-class customer service, then you know your mission statement is useless. When people hear those kinds of platitudes they yawn and move on. When was the last time you heard a mission statement that promises inferior crap, at inflated prices, with little or no customer service support?

Instead of a meaningless mission statement, create a ‘Why Statement’ that answers the question, why should anybody want to do business with you? I’ve already given you our version – “we turn advertising into content, and content into an experience” it’s what we do, what we are committed to, and if it’s not what you want, then you need another production team. You have to give your clients a reason why they should care about your company, why they should do business with you. It is a commitment not to be feared, but embraced. It is the message you want to deliver, the one thing your audience will remember about you that will distinguish you from your competition, and ultimately it will be the reason they do business with you or not.

3. Six Things You Need To Know

The Why Statement provides your brand point-of-view and personality. It focuses audience attention on the key benefits you deliver. So the next thing you need to provide is the six most important things you want to say about what you do.

Why six?

You need to show some discipline in your messaging in order to be effective. Limiting the number of things you say emphasizes what’s important so that it doesn’t get lost in a haze of marketing jibber-jabber, and it avoids creating information overload.

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Internet Marketing, Internet Training, Make Money Online | mick | July 30, 2010 12:58 pm | Comments (0)

How to Get Top Search Engine Optimization and Placement Results with Google Caffeine

Here is an outstanding article by By Wendy Suto with regrads to increasing your Search Engine Placement using Google’s Caffeine

Since its debut in 1996, Google’s search engine has experienced countless updates and revisions. But none of those revisions have fundamentally changed the architecture of the Google search algorithm as much as Google’s latest update, codenamed Caffeine.

While recent reports put Google’s market share at around 65 percent, a massive update to its search engine technology makes sense at this point. Microsoft’s new Bing search engine showed some resiliency in late 2009, while Web 2.0 services like Facebook and Twitter have done a lot to change the way people search for content on the Internet.
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For Google to remain the most popular search service, it will have to counter Bing’s claims of technical superiority. It would also have to more effectively incorporate “real-time search,” the term used for finding information and content – like tweets from Twitter and breaking news stories – that have just been posted.

That means a radically different Google search engine. And it also means that those who care about Website search engine optimization and placement may have a lot of new rules to learn if they want to earn high Website rankings on Google. Because Caffeine is a significant departure from previous versions of Google’s search engines, Website owners and marketers could see dramatically different results for their search engine optimization and placement efforts.

But the good news is that Google has offered Webmasters and online marketers a taste of Caffeine’s unique algorithms.

Search engine optimization and placement specialists have been able to test their Websites against an early version of Caffeine. And while it’s a nice gesture by Google to provide the chance for Webmasters and marketers to do some preliminary research, it would be wrong to draw any hard and fast conclusions at this point. It’s more than likely that Google will continue to tweak and refine Caffeine and its search engine optimization and placement for months after its official release.

Okay… so check this out…
Here are some search engine optimization and placement tips and tricks that we can learn from Caffeine.

Google has hinted that several new things will have a major impact on search engine optimization and placement. Here are the most important changes.

1. Website speed: Google will now place more importance on how quickly a Website loads. That means Websites that load fast will be given prominence in search engine optimization and placement over Websites that are slow and clunky.

2. Broken links: Links that go nowhere aren’t just annoying, they’ll soon count as a strike against a Website’s search engine optimization and placement efforts. It’s already an accepted rule that any good website shouldn’t have broken links. Now it’s even more important for Website owners make sure that every link goes somewhere relevant.

3. Penalties for linking to bad neighborhoods: Currently, linking to spammers and obtaining incoming links from known spammers is not a good way to achieve the best search engine optimization and placement results. Look for Caffeine to place even more importance on staying away from link farms and other malicious online practices.

4. Overall website quality: Some canny Website owners have gotten good search engine optimization and placement results by ranking high in a single factor that Google assesses, while ignoring other aspects. Under Caffeine, the overall quality will be under closer inspection. Having just one or two key search engine optimization and placement ranking factors won’t be enough.

Here are some steps you can take to make sure that you’re Website is primed to get good results under Caffeine if you want to achieve great search engine optimization and placement results:

1. Eliminate all spam elements from your Website: Any part of your Website that could conceivably be considered spám will likely have a negative effect on your search engine optimization and placement efforts. Spam elements include Website text that’s the same color as the background, Website cloaking, and automated linking.

2. Reevaluate your Website design and structure: Make sure your Website looks great and is user-friendly. Users should be able to easily navigate through the Website and search engines should be able to understand and categorize a Web page just by reading its title and meta tags.

3. Get links from social bookmark and other social media sites: Links from social bookmark sites like Digg and Delicious are already important to gaining good search engine optimization and placement. The importance of links from these types of sites is likely to incréase under Caffeine.

4. Check your Website links: Make sure that you aren’t linking to any Websites that could potentially be labeled as spammers. Having a selection of quality links is far better than gathering as many links as possible.

By following the above tips and tricks, your Website should have no problem adjusting to Google’s new search engine. And you’ll have a crucial advantage when it comes to getting great search engine optimization and placement results.

Everything You Need to Know About YouTube’s Promoted Videos

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This is a great post about Everything You Need to Know About YouTube’s Promoted Videos by my buddy Merle from MerlesWorld.com.

We’ve looked into using this platform ourselves and will be doing a follow up to this post to let you in on any secrets we run across.

That said, here is the post and what I feel is enough information to get you up and running with your own Youtube ads.

Way back in 2006, Google purchased YouTube.com for an alleged reported figure of 1.65 billíon dollars. And, like with everything Google does, they’ve added their own special “Google Touches” over the last several years, turning it into one of the most popular video destination websites online today.

Need proof? According to Comscore.com’s December 2009 “Videos Viewed Report”, YouTube was ranked as the top U.S. video site serving up 13.2 billion of the total 33.2 billion videos that were viewed online in the U.S. for that month alone. That’s a lot of people watching mega videos. For more stats see tinyurl.com/y8jbnqh.

Furthermore, according to Google, YouTube has twenty hours of new video uploaded every minute and 420 million unique visitors per month. Watching online videos and sharing them with others has become an Internet obsession. People really love watching videos. Remember the old song “Video Killed the Radio Star”? In today’s marketplace, it should be called “Video Killed the Television Set”.

What if I told you there’s a way to harness that huge audience in your onlíne marketing campaign? Now you can with YouTube’s new advertising program called “Promoted Videos”. YouTube and its other site, Google Adwords, have partnered together in this latest ad serving project. When promoting your videos on YouTube, they’ll also be shown across Google’s Content Network, aka sites running Google Adsense on them.

The purpose of “Promoted Videos” is to help your videos stand out from the millions of others on the site. At the time of this writing, they’re available in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

The first step is to sign up at ads.youtube.com, or if you’re already a user of Google Adwords you can access “Promoted Videos” from your control panel. You must have a YouTube and an Adwords account which will be linked together as the video ads are served up by Adwords. To find them in Adwords, log into your account, select the “Ads Tab”, then the “Display Ad Builder”, and finally select “Video” from the category menu and you’ll see “promoted videos”. Once your accounts are linked, you can manage your Promoted Videos campaign from the Adwords Console, or YouTube directly.

So where do Promoted Videos appear? By default, they run on YouTube’s site and those sites that run Google Adsense ads. On YouTube, the video ads are shown below and to the right of search results pages and on some of YouTube’s Watch pages in the “related video section”, if related to the content of the page. Watch pages are like the home page of a video that displays all of its public information. Advertisers can option in or out of the “Content Network”, which gives some control over where the video ads may be shown. The videos are clearly marked as “promoted videos”, but it seems Youtube has moved back and forth between labeling them “promoted or sponsored videos”.

Like other forms of pay-per-click advertising, it’s an auction like setting where advertisers bid on selected keywords, set a maximum cost per clíck, and a daily budget to spend. The Promoted Videos program uses the “Adwords Discounter” to help keep costs down. No matter your maximum cost per click, advertisers only pay one cent more than the other video ads shown on the same page. When selecting keywords make sure to choose the ones you would want to appear when a search is done on a particular subject. YouTube’s Insight is helpful when choosing keywords. For more on this, see searchenginewatch.com/3640113.

The videos created can include a clickable link to any site you choose. On sites running Adsense ads that haven’t elected to block YouTube’s Promoted Videos from within their competitive ad filter, the videos appear as a thumbnail with three lines of text. Adsense content partners must also be running ad formats in one of these sizes for video ads to appear. They are: 300X230, 336X280, 728X90, 250X250, 200X200. They must also be opted in to show text and image ads on their sites.

The Promoted Videos are different from Adsense video ads. Promoted Videos will always take the viewer to YouTube’s site to be played, whereas Adsense video ads are played right on the website it’s being viewed on.

When creating videos make sure they’re fun and entertaining; something people will really enjoy to watch and will want to pass on to their friends and family. The sharing of popular videos on social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, will help it to go viral. Generally speaking, funny always translates well. The less it looks like a commercial, the better the odds of people liking and sharing it.

If you’ve been wanting to try your hand at video marketing and reach millions of potential customers, Google’s Promoted Videos may be for you. For further information see:

Promoted Videos Help Center

Promoted Videos Optimization Guide

YouTube Ad Keyword Tool

Show & Tell with YouTube – Showcases the best examples of marketing on YouTube

Hope this helps in getting you started in promoting your own infomercials and video advertising.

Internet Marketing, Internet Training, Make Money Online, Mind Set, Online Expert, Social Networking, home based business opportunities, home business, wealth creation, work at home opportunities | mick | July 2, 2010 1:44 pm | Comments (1)

5 Steps to a Social Media Avalanche of Customers

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This is a great article by By Doug Firebaugh about how to build a massive following using Social Media. Doug starts out with “Build it and they will come”… Not!

Which to me rings so true… Although in the early days of building a website and selling something, it actually was Build it and they will come” for most of us that had a head start on the rest of the webpreneurs online.

These days you can build a blog or video site and you can still be lacking connections.

Connection is the nuclear core of social media. But you must make an effort in order for that to happen.

Whether you have a social media home busíness, traditional brick and mortar business, or an online business, you must get into the social trenches and connect and converse. It is that simple and that plain.

These days It’s all about connecting and creating an engaging conversation with people that draws them towards you.

But why are people in social media not doing that?

Maybe they do not know this powerful 5 step “Avalanche Process” for getting new customers and keeping them in social media.

The first thing you must do is connect with the social media culture. It is what marketing is about in social media. Some people think that they can be anti-social in social media and think they can broadcast their message and people will still come.

That simply is not going to happen. Not in social media. You do not build ‘it’ but instead, build relationships that can become doorways and then eventually become customers.

Here is the “Avalanche Path” you can follow:

1) Connect –> 2) Conversation –> 3) Value –> 4) Doorway –> 5) Customer

Let’s take a quick look at each step:

1) Connect

Connection with people is where success in social media starts. Connect with people on Twitter, on Facebook, on LinkedIn, on Youtube, on Orkut, or every other niche site out in the social sphere that matters. You must connect.

Here’s a little tip:

Connect to those who are looking for you. They will find you if you are visible, and accessible to
connect to.

2) Conversation

This step is where the conversation with people starts. You talk about the prospect and where they want to go. You talk about what they want to talk about. You study their profile, pictures and videos on their social sites because you can learn a lot just by paying attention.

Then make sure that you stay in touch and listen when they are communicating with you. If you do that, they will want to stay connected to you.

3) Value

This step is where you bring in the magnet to pull them towards your message. Show them value they can obtain with your message in their life. Show them how your message can help expand, broaden, enlarge and improve their life. You do it through tips and how to’s in videos and blog posts and podcasts, as well as tweets and twips. Show them how you can make their life easier and show them how to do something they want to learn. You show them how to be or do something. If you can expand the size of their dreams, you can get them as a customer.

The more value people perceive you have for them the more likely they will walk through the “Doorway.”

4) Doorway

This is the doorway to conversion where you convert them to a customer. You must convert prospects into customers if you are going to have any kind of business. That is simple to do.

Give them an offér where “No” is impossible to say. That is the secret. Give first and then make the proposition so compelling they cannot say “No.” We do it all the time. We just ran a social media special on our training products and it blew the roof off our shipping department. It has created a flood of new customers and new orders for us. All we did was give them an offer that was difficult to turn down.

The secret of success we experienced can be found in the word “Give.”

Give away something they must have, and something that will improve their life, and they will get it.

5) Customer

This final step is where they purchase your message, products, or webinar or event. This is the beginning of your relationship though – not the end.

Here you must start building the relationship between you and the customer even more.

Give more than they expected and throw something in for free they were not expecting. Give them a free download or ebook and let them see a Private video collection as a special.

Encourage more. Make sure that you send a note of encouragement and stay in touch with them.

Thank them more. Make sure they know you are thankful for their business and connection. We send out free downloads all the time to say thanks that some people paid $$$ for in the past. Thank them in everything you do and they will come back for more.

Get your customers addicted to your Value, Message and Emotions. They will become more than a customer. They will become a loud speaker for you and tell everybody you know you are the best at what you do.

That is what you want to happen in your home business or traditional business in social media marketing.

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Can a bad sales offer actually boost your sales?

This is a great post from David Moskowitz over at Membership Academy. He had this amazing post of a really wild example of a membership site that was able to get people to take a higher priced offer by giving them an equivalently priced, but lower quality offer.

What he didn’t include in his test:

in the real world there’s another option – buy nothing! It’s not clear how abandonment will affect the results.
with real money, would more people choose the cheaper option?

Want to give this a test?

Create a similar priced, but weaker offer to get potential buyers to choose the better perceived but higher priced offer.

How to Rank Higher in Google’s New Search Engines

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Recent changes to Google make it seem like Google is no longer just one search engine but a combination of 6 or 7 different search engines all rolled into one. Your SEO efforts should now be geared to ranking high in these search engines as well as in traditional organic search.

A little while back, I shared with you an article by Titus Hoskins entitled “The Five Pillars of Google Search” and had I known how important those pillars would become, I would have paid more attention to them. What I didn’t factor into the equation was Google’s whole re-structuring of its SERPs interface or landing page. It really is a whole new Google with not just one search engine but a combination of 6 or 7 search engines all competing for your attention.

In this article, Titus Hoskins goes on to say that the new left side column with its new functions and displays, opens up new opportunities for webmasters to get their listings within Google on that all-important first page. There are also many new ways to view the results such as view everything, or you can view with more or less shopping links. Plus, you can also view Google results for books, maps, blogs, updates, and discussions – all new ways to get your site or links into Google. Throw in the Wonder Wheel and things are indeed looking very different within the new Google SERPs.

As a full-time online search engine marketer, Titus Hoskins says he should have expected something like this but the recent changes within Google has been totally unprecedented. We have seen major updates before, some of them very disruptive like the Florida update, but with Google Caffeine, MayDay Update, new layout and the recent shakeup of its Algorithm, Google has fundamentally changed how its organic search are ranked and used.

Before I start sounding too cryptic, these recent changes seem to be a “coming together” of all the different types of searches in Google, which have been around for some time. Now it seems with the new interface architecture… each type of search is given more importance or rather more of an equal billing or footing within Google. There are now multiple ways to get your links viewed and hopefully clicked within the most important search engine on the planet.

First, Titus always tries to start any piece on Google or the search engines with a disclaimer. Mainly, in the course of running 9 or 10 websites, he keeps a daily monitoring of the keywords which produce revenue, some of these keyword phrases have been monitored by him for 6 or 7 years, but they are only a small sampling of keywords and sometimes drawing or making conclusions with such a small sample can be misleading or downright wrong. So take any of the following information on Google with this point in mind, just one webmaster observing what’s happening with Google and putting in his two cents worth.

Now, the reason I say “Google’s New Search Engines” is the feeling which has gradually crept into my daily marketing – it feels like you’re no longer dealing with one organic search engine but 6 or 7 different search engines. Let me explain, for years Google has been presenting results for not just static webpages but also for images, videos, news, blogs and shopping/products – but recent changes have shaken up things significantly.

With the recent changes, Google seems to be placing more importance on these new ways to search. Videos have taken a big step forward and can now pop up on the first page and stay there. Producing a video is now one of the fastest ways to get on the first page of Google, even for very competitive keywords. While many online marketers are taking advantage of this fact, it is relatively new and you can have a much better chance of ranking for a video instead of an ordinary web page in Google. It can happen almost instantly.

Personally, I like using the YouTube platform because it is also owned by Google and they no doubt can easily tap into all the background stats on a video such as comments, viewer ratings… and so on. In other words, Google has always favored ways to make their SERPs more democratic and user generated/rated videos are the perfect match.

So too are blog posts and entries, these can be easily monitored and (comment spam aside) are more democratic since it’s harder to fake Diggs or Re-tweets. All of these social bookmarking systems and sites provide the search engines, especially Google, with some very helpful user-generated rankings and ratings. Blogs now also have two subcategories – Twitter/Facebook Updates and Forum Discussions, which are now being displayed separately.

Google seems to be placing more importance on popular Posts, Diggs, Tweets… in their SERPs. Again, I find using a simple Google owned program like Blogger to be an effective way of ranking high in Google. For example, my posts in Blogger are indexed in Google within minutes, this recently seems to have been sped up and we are moving more towards instant search results.

Another instant way to get your content onto the first page of Google is to use a News Release. Google has always listed News Items on the first page but this now seems to play a more important role, especially when you consider all the new features in the left side column. Surfers will probably stay on that first page longer and you have a better chance of getting your news item read.

Within the last couple of years, I have started doing Press Releases, mainly through PRweb but there are lots of free programs you can use. I also like posting my articles to American Chronicle since Google News picks up and displays a lot of these items. Again, like videos, getting your News item listed is almost instant and within seconds you can have traffic flowing to your site.

Images and image search has always been an important feature of Google Search. One that online marketers and webmasters have taken advantage of by creating images to match the main products or keywords of their sites. Now image search, itself, is much more varied and has many more options to re-define your image search, for example you could target a certain color or line drawings. Regardless, images can be an easy way to get traffic from Google.

Within the shopping results is the place to be featured if you have a product to sell. This is the old product listing (Froogle), which Google has renamed to Shopping or Product Search. For those into onlíne marketing, this is probably the most important listing as you’re sure to attract specific buyers who are in the right mind-set to purchase. To learn more about submitting your products to Google Product Search go here.

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