Many people have been speculating as to what the updates involve and what they are being trigger by. The most common reasoning says it is all about backlinks…. Either links  from bad neighborhoods or having an unrealistic (too optimized) diversification of anchor links pointing to your site. Like most people, I started testing to determine the inner workings of these updates. I became quickly frustrated however, because my results were showing that it was not only backlinks that effect ranking after the panda and penguin updates. I could quite figure it out…. Until I watched this video. Then it all made much more sense. It is a little over 20 minutes but I highly recommend you watch!

That’s right! It is about on-page optimization! That actually makes complete sense. Google has always said that your sites should be built with your readers in mind. If you are creating content that is unique and your visitors like, then Google will reward you. This could also explain why so many people are going with the backlink hypothesis. The on-page factors of the sites where you are getting backlinks from have been devalued because of there on-page factors, either by panda or penguin.

In any case, don’t take this as the gospel on the Google updates. This is just a piece of the puzzle and happens to go along with my testing. I highly recommend that you do your own testing if you haven’t already!

To Taming the Google Zoo,

Shawn Brown

Corresponding video: internet marketing

By: Shawn Brown

Many people turn to affiliate marketing because it is a very simple way to start earning cash on the internet without needing to develop your own product. One thing you need to take into account that goes for affiliate links in addition to any other sort of website is that if you would like to achieve success you need to drive traffic to these web sites. I am sure you’re already aware that there are lots of different methods that men and women can end up generating traffic, but tons of individuals who are new to the Internet don’t know how to accomplish this. Creating the traffic you need isn’t that difficult when you understand what you are doing and we will explain some traffic driving methods in the following paragraphs.

Something you should be aware of that’s an incredibly powerful way to start creating traffic is to select a product and develop a web site around this product. Although some individuals actually utilize the free hosting services which are available on the net today, you will see that you will be a lot more profitable by having your own hosting and domain name. You’re also going to discover that if you have your own website for the product you are going to have the ability to get it indexed and ranked in the major search engines a lot easier than you’ll have the ability to rank your affiliate link.

One method that is been very powerful for affiliate marketers is writing reviews about whatever product you’re advertising, and you are going to also find this is actually a wonderful way to add content to your website. Needless to say in order to write an honest review and let customers realize that you are aware of just how the product works, it is important to actually buy the product so you can write an honest review. You are going to discover that this is something which will in fact produce more product sales because your potential customers will see you have actually purchased this item and use it yourself.

Starting a blog regarding the product will also be a brilliant way for anyone to start producing far more product sales for that product. A blog will allow your potential prospects the chance to interact with you and ask questions concerning the product, and when you interact with them there is a much better possibility they will wind up purchasing the product. You are in addition going to discover that every time you develop a new page for your blog about the product it will end up being indexed in the search engines, that will also lead to more product sales for you.

Producing traffic will be the key to your success, and you will find that apart from the recommendations above there are lots of other ways you you are able to drive traffic such as article advertising and other advertising techniques. Of course, when you think about it, it’s going to be your decision to actually put the suggestions into practice so you can begin creating the traffic you need to become successful.

by Shawn Brown

If you are reading this, you must already know about Secret Traffic Machine or its creator Matt Bacak.

Matt Bacak has been marketing online for over 10 years. Matt also holds the record for the highest gravity for any product on Clickbank with “Mass Money Maker”. In short, Matt makes great products that people want to buy!

This time Matt Bacak has created a product that comes from over 8 years of testing.

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Secret Traffic Machine works with both PC and Macs and is designed to get your sites high positions in the search engines.

Hold on, your probably wanting to know how can this program get you high search engine rankings? So, how does Secret Traffic Machine actually get high search engine rankings?

Included inside are special page templetes to get your sites ranking high in the search engine results. Also included is a buyer targeting formula to accuratly gauge the level of competition for keywords.

The biggest part of this system is Matt’s buyer targeting technology!

I can’t give away the big secrets about this software but Secret Traffic Machine can help everyone from novices to experts get higher search engine rankings. If you are interested in getting higher search engine positions and more sales, this is definitely worth checking out.

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Often I am classified as one of the best seos in the world.

Whatever.

I can teach anyone everything I know about SEO in less than 1 minute.
That’s it. All my secret tricks.

1. Put your keyword in the title tag of your html post.
2. Include the keyword in your url structure.
3. Get back links.

The last one requires skill. There are obvious ways to get back links. Buying them is effective if you have common sense.

From my experience the best way to get free, great looking backlinks,  is to start a shitstorm.

Years ago I wrote about why you need to embrace negative press but I left out one key thing.

Google never forgets.

You see people have a short memory. Especially online.

Everything has like a 30 day max lifespan. TRUST ME.

But again google never forgets. All the links you scooped up in the controversy are yours forever.

Just remember that if your butt hurt right now cause someone called you out and everyone is talking about how bad your product is linking to your site.

30 days from now nobody will care but google.

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Let me break it to you: it’s not all about what Google has done and will do to update its algorithm.

It’s about what you SHOULD BE doing.

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I’ve heard from a handful of people that they’re trying to decide whether to go to Affiliate Summit West 2012 (January 8-10 in Las Vegas) or Affiliate Summit Central (May 15-16, 2012 in Austin, TX), and I just wanted to clear a few things up.

Affiliate Summit Central 2012, taking place at the Hilton Austin in downtown Austin, will be a different kind of Affiliate Summit.

Rather than several thousand attendees, as we will have at Affiliate Summit West 2012, it will be capped at a few hundred.

Also, the typical Affiliate Summit runs three days, and Affiliate Summit Central 2012 will be a day and a half long. It will be followed in Austin, TX by the ShareASale Think Tank event.

While we usually have a few keynote speakers and dozens of breakout sessions across four tracks, we will have two tracks of educational sessions and one keynote in Austin.

Finally, our east and west conferences typically have hundreds of sponsors in the exhibit hall and Meet Market, but we will only have a Meet Market with a couple dozen tables at Affiliate Summit Central 2012.

Registrations are nearly sold out for Affiliate Summit West 2012, but you can still get a pass at affiliatesummit.com.

Stay tuned for details on registrations, sponsorships, and speaker proposals for Affiliate Summit West 2012.

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Affiliate Marketing by the Numbers presentation from Affiliate Summit West 2010, which took place January 17-19, 2010 in Las Vegas, NV.

Speaker:

• Peter Shankman, Founder, HARO

“It’s the economy, stupid!” has given way to “It’s the social economy, stupid!” We’ll examine a handful of successful companies, what they did to turn customers into Raving Fans, and how you can, too.

More details on Affiliate Summit at http://www.affiliatesummit.com/

Note: the company(ies) and position(s) listed above were current as of the time of the conference. Some of this information may have changed since then.

Video: Self-Promotion Will Save The World

If you liked this video, be sure to register for the next Affiliate Summit. The session videos aren’t made public until a year or more after each conference.

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When you start blogging it seems that there is never enough time—especially if you aren’t blogging full time, and you’re doing it from home. You get phone calls that need to be picked up; the service guy for the dishwasher shows up; you must read that important mail. It is not uncommon for an entire day to go by only to find out you didn’t complete any of the tasks you set for yourself.

The magic flask…

What if I told you there was a magic flask you can drink from which will freeze time for you? Every surrounding noise will stop: no calls, no incoming urgent mails, no dishes to wash or laundry to do. It will be just you and the computer. Everyone else will be frozen in time, allowing you to do your work. If you need something from someone, you just call their name and they will wake up for the exact amount of time you need them for an answer. I will grant you one flask a week.

Imagine: a whole day just for you and your work each wee. How would you use it? Would you outline your next blog series? Finally finish that long post that’s waiting in the queue? Brainstorm a subject for your next month of posts? How would you make this time useful?

Finding the extra day

Of course there is no such thing as a magic flask, but getting a day a week for your important work is actually not that hard.

All you have to do is spot the time of day when you are most prolific and productive. For some it is the afternoon, for some it is early morning. For me, it is the period after lunch.

Now decide that you are going to dedicate this time to blogging—think of it as a one-hour meeting with yourself. Actually, don’t just decide it, put it into your calendar. With a reminder. For every day of the week.

This will gain you six hours of uninterrupted work. During that time, don’t answer phones (disconnect or turn them off, if you need to), don’t surf the web (use blocking software if your willpower isn’t strong enough), and dedicate yourself to the blog.

Since this is your best time of day and since you will be uninterrupted, your potential for using this hour for something productive is high.

But it takes commitment. It means that you must use the time for work. And it means that you cannot set this appointment aside. You must stick with it every day. After a while, you’re likely to find that you need to expand that meeting. Go ahead and do that. And after a longer while, you may find that you don’t need this meeting at all.

Now, this is up to you. I’m offering the flask only for the next ten minutes. Use those ten minutes to schedule your daily appointment.

Udi Tirosh runs DIYPhotography, a place for photography lovers, and makes awesome photography products.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

How to Create Another Day a Week Just for Blogging

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In his 2009 book A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink explained that the new world of business is a great place to be a right-brain thinker. Right-brain thinkers are the creators and the empathizers. If you’re a blogger, you are probably a right-brained thinker … and you probably deal with blogger’s block on occasion.

What is blogger’s block? It’s what happens to all bloggers as they try to crank out new, original posts day after day: they eventually run out of ideas. Ever struggle with that?

However, have you ever thought about using your very own creative quirks to generate blog post ideas? Following is a list of qualities that right-brain thinkers have and tips on how you can use these qualities to break those moments of blogger’s block and kick out some great blog posts.

Right-brain thinkers are impulsive

Some of the really great bloggers are those who are quick and impulsive when it comes to blogging. Think of Robert Scoble’s comment that if you aren’t at least apologizing once a month, then you are probably not doing anything interesting. He did it in a big way with Twitter. It’s good to catch hell on your blog every once in a while.

To overcome blogger’s block, just throw caution to the wind and see what happens. I know I probably ruffled some feathers when I wrote Why You Should Get Drunk – The ROI of Partying or You don’t have to be smart to be an entrepreneur.

But I stand by what I wrote and I think I provided a lot of people with some good ideas. All the comments I got and tweets suggest I did something right.

Right-brain thinkers question authority and rules

Another great idea for blog posts involves just challenging current rules or asking why certain rules exist.

For example, SEOs are always wondering and challenging why Google is doing certain things. Aaron Wall wrote a great post called Google Aggressively Enters Make Money Online Niche where he made a list of all the listings in the SERPs for a certain term and pointed out how Google products dominated the results. He’s challenging authority, and so should you.

Right-brain thinkers are unlikely to read instruction manual before trying

Ever just get tired of the same old thing? Ever feel like you don’t want to do things the traditional way? If so, that’s great!

Sometimes breaking blogger’s block involves just ignoring the best practices and creating something that breaks the mold. That’s exactly what Smashing Magazine did with The Death of the Boring Blog Post.

Listen, I give you permission to break all the rules. Just forget about the rules and just write! Keep in mind not all of your ideas may work. Be patient and don’t give up, because failure is a great way to improve your blogging skills.

Right-brain thinkers process multiple ideas simultaneously

Good right-brain thinkers can hold more than one idea in their head, even if the ideas are totally different and contradict one another. So, one of the best ways to get creative and break blogger’s block is to bring together two very different ideas.

Austin Kleon takes the idea of creativity and criminality to come up with a very original blog post called Steal Like an Artist. He combines images, drawings, and photos with commentary that leads you down his list of ten things he wishes he’d known about creativity when he started out.

Right-brain thinkers write things down or illustrate

Sometimes it just helps to get your ideas down on the screen. That’s usually what I do once I’ve gathered enough information about the topic I want to write about. And don’t forget: just write as quickly and carelessly as you can! Tell that editor in your head to “shut up,” and just write.

Another way to break writer’s block is to draw. Hugh MacLeod is the superstar in this area, but there are other great drawer/bloggers out there. Just take Organizational Chart of Major Corporations at Bonker’s World or Fake Grimlock’s Minimum Viable Personality drawing. These are two great examples of distilling an idea to its essence.

Right-brain thinkers are visual, focusing on images and patterns

When you’re looking for blog topics to write about, it helps to look for patterns in information. Perhaps you have an idea for a topic and you start to look at articles. Keep reading until some kind of pattern emerges. You might key into something that a handful of people keep saying. That could be your topic you explore.

Or you might spend some time looking at dozens of photos on Instagram, Flickr or deviantART. Any one of those places could trigger an idea for a post.

Right-brain thinkers intuitive, led by feelings

When blogging, do you tend to hide your feelings? In other words, do you try to remain objective and distant? If so, stop it! Bring out your feelings when you write. If something makes you angry, write about it. If something makes you laugh hysterically, write about it.  Besides, ranting is How to Get People to Remember Your Posts.

Right-brain thinkers see the whole first, then the details

If you tend to see how a particular blog post is going to look, like you know the headline and you probably how you are going to open it and close it, but you’re not sure what is going to go in the middle, that’s fine.

If you see the whole post first, it might help you to write an outline. A lot of the time I’ll have the headline and then I’ll work on all the subheadings. Then I’ll go through and start filling out the different sections.

What are the advantages of an outline? Here are three:

• You won’t get lost: With an outline, you’ll have a road map for your blog post to help you stay on track.
• You evaluate your idea early: With an outline, you can also see if you may have trouble putting your post together. An outline is like an early, simple version of your post.
• You write with a sense of flow: Outlines help me get into my writing so I pick up momentum.

Sometimes I’ll run into a dead end as I’m writing a post. Instead of getting frustrated and banging my head, I’ll just start working on a different, easier section of the post.

Right-brain thinkers use free association

Using free association to come up with blog posts can be fun. All you do is just sit down and start thinking about something. Follow where each idea leads. Don’t stop writing until you are out of ideas or just tired.

Also, make sure you save all your ideas. Don’t throw anyway away because you’ll have a lot of ideas for future blogs posts in that one rambling, rough-draft session. Plus, look for the interesting insights or patterns you see in your writing. As Scott Myers says in Dumb Little Writing Tricks That Work:

“What happens? In my experience, oftentimes I’ll hit on a nugget. Perhaps something related to the scene, perhaps not, maybe something later in the story, or an idea for something else entirely. Generally when that happens, I end my free association session. Other times, nothing seems to emerge, so I just stop.”

By the way, free association is a great way to break writer’s block.

Right-brain thinkers have no sense of time

When I say “no sense of time” I don’t mean you don’t know what time it is. What I mean is you enjoy what you do so much that you lose track of time. But you probably have to fight off the tendency to be distracted by phones, Facebook, and co-workers. Distractions can cause writer’s block.

Some bloggers I know will work on a 33-minute schedule. They’ll write focused for 33 minutes, get up, drink some coffee, check all their social media sites for about five minutes and then get back to work. It kills writer’s block and tends to be a very productive way to write.

Creative breaks for blogger’s block

Blogger’s block affects us all, whether we tend to be right- or left-brain thinkers. Hopefully the qualities of creative thinkers I described above will give you that spark you need to inspire you next time you are struggling to come up with a new blog post idea.

What things do you do to inspire you to write and break blogger’s block?

Neil Patel is the co-founder of KISSmetrics and blogs at Quick Sprout.

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

The Right-brain Thinker’s Guide to Beating Blogger’s Block

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