Just last month, Google announced the completion of their new web indexing system called Caffeine.

“Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.”

Links you should visit soon, read and understand so you don’t make the mistake of thinking your SEO strategy is all that and you find your site is lacking the necessary:

Content + Links + Activity to generate a massive amount of free organic traffic.

• Start-up Nation

• Entrepreneur Magazine

• The Official Google Blog

To make sure your site continues to get Google Love, you will want to have a plan to add new CONTENT to your site, continually add LINKS to your site and generate the appropriate amount of ACTIVITY on your site, so as to grow your site’s ranking with the new Google Caffeine algorithm.

I will post a piece comparing Micro Niche Finder v. Market Samurai v. Cherry Picker and how to use these tools to create fresh, new and relevant content, identify and build quality links and generate the right kind of activity on your site, so the Google Caffeine algorithm indexes and ranks your site the way you want (and need) it to.

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If you had all the traffic you ever wanted for FREE do you think you could make money online? Of course you could – me too!

Well today is a great day for both of us. My buddy Ryan Deiss just released his FREE 2010 Perpetual Traffic Report.

This report changes EVERYTHING when it comes to web traffic and if you don’t read it you will soon fall way behind the pack. Ryan has figured out a way to use Google’s own tools against them to get FREE organic traffic any time he wants. It’s truly amazing. Go get the report right now while it’s still FREE.

In the report Ryan also tells you how to get his Cherry Picker Software for Free no strings, for just reading the report.

Don’t wait go grab the report now !

As an added bonus, Ryan is making available his proprietary Cherry Picker Software for a limited few people who download and read this report. It’s to your distinct advantage to get this free report so you can get short listed to get this awesome software. Cherry Picker will help you identify which niche markets you can compete in.

Up until now, I’ve used Micro Niche Finder and Market Samurai to do this (and they work quite well). But as you well know, you can never have enough marketing and analytic tools to help you succeed.

Video is the hottest media on earth (both online and offline). Video sites are the most visited sites on the net. They are also the most valuable ones: YouTube was sold for over $1.5 billion.

Search Engines have adjusted their algorithms to ensure fresh video-based content that is renewed thousand of times a day is up-to-date and correctly ranked in their results.

Create Instant Video Niche Sites Instantly With Keywords You Select and Monetize Them Using AdSense Or Whatever Advertising Network You Choose!

No Database Required

Just Upload The Traffic-getting Site To Your Domain And Go!

• Script uses an intelligent pagination system to display up to 1000 videos
• All pages are carefully optimized for the Search Engines
• Your visitors can watch each video without leaving the site
• Each video links to keyword-related videos (all links are optimized for search engines)
• The keyword-related videos are, in turn, linked to related keyword videos…thus ensuring a virally-growing web site – all without lifting a finger…and all on autopilot
• The Linking structure is automatically re-generated
• Keyword pages / themes are automatically created on-the-fly and filled with fresh and updated content

• You can configure the number of videos to be displayed on the front page
• You can switch from 1 sorting mode to another (from relevancy to last updated, or to view count, or even to rating)
  You can customize the list of of banned words
• You can choose to only display videos ‘exactly’ related to your main keyword
• You can display comments related to the video and also allow your visitors to add comments
• You can choose not to display related videos if you wish
• Your visitor will be able to share videos displayed on your web site easily, thus creating backlinks for you
• You can fully customize your template or even create your own template

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Read everything you can on Mobile Web and here’s why. Unless your site is optimized for the mobile web, you’re missing out on a major opportunity to grow your business. The are many reasons why you need a .Mobi name. Here are the Top 5 Reasons Why you should register a .Mobi domain name.

This presentation isn’t about the growth of the mobile Web. It’s the Future and It’s Happening Now. I don’t know Giles personally, but this Mobile Marketing presentation he did, is one of the best mobile web positioning papers I’ve come across.

Mobile Tests

• Code Validator (W3)
  
• Mobi Emulator (dotmobi)
  
• iPhone Tester (AtMail)
  
• mobiReady (mobiReady)
  

Mobile Must-Haves

• Click to Call
• Map Directions
• Refer a Friend
• Opt-in Registration Form
• SMS Marketing Campaign

Mobile Marketing Statistics

• 1.8 Billion people send a text message every day
• Text messages outnumber phone calls in the US
• 94% of all text messages are read within 15 Minutes
• 17% of all text messages are forwarded Virally
• 20% of people respond to a text message
• Twice as many people use text messaging as use email
• 1/3 of human kind has mobile Internet access

dotmobi links

• mobiForge
• dotmobi dotmobi
• Google and Mobile

There are four times as many mobile devices as there are PC’s. Having a mobile friendly website is an asset that will help every small business grow their business. We build mobile friendly websites for small business owners.

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Basic 5 Page Site $395.00 Deluxe 10 Page Site $595.00 Custom Specs $995.00

Contact Me for more details.

Mobile Marketing works for virtually any type of business that wants to attract incremental business, or extend the reach of their information flow.  The obvious advantage of Mobile Marketing is its deliver-ability and immediacy.

Recent studies show that 94% of all text messages are read.  SMS messages are delivered immediately to the member’s mobile handset, with a call to action.  With this kind of immediacy, promotions can be short-term, such as the offer of a discount or other purchase incentive if acted on within “X” amount of time — the modern equivalent of the old “blue light special”.

Here are a few examples of how different organizations could use the Market-To-Cell-Phone SMS Mobile Marketing services to enhance Brand awareness and increase walk-in foot traffic:

Restaurants: Offer meal specials, happy hour deals. Tell your clientele about any new menu items, special events (entertainment).

Retailers: Offer promotional discounts, available only to the text message recipients.  Announce new items, in-store events.

Automotive Services: Offer reminders for oil changes, tune-ups, scheduled maintenance, product / service promotions.

Entertainment: Promote feature performers. Publish upcoming acts, events. Offer coupons for early ticket purchase. Offer reduced cover charge.

Gift Shops: Offer cell phone reminders for future “special” days, such as Valentine Day, Sweetest Day, Anniversary, and Birthdays.

Medical Offices: Send appointment reminders.

Golf Courses: Send out tee times available from cancellations. Offer a “golf tip of the day” service.

Delivery Services: Send “package delivered” notification.

Religious Organizations: Broadcast inspirational messages to their congregation.

Government bodies: Announce special events, emergency alerts, new business openings, and changes to local regulations such as water restrictions.

Clearly, many of the above examples are as viable for online businesses as they are for brick and mortar operations. Then again, the proof is in the pudding.

Our preferred SMS marketing vendor Trumpia All-in-One-Marketing provides a 15 day free test trial so you can test the effectiveness of your SMS Marketing ideas.

[Note] To extend your free trial from 15 to 30 days, enter the promo code FerreeMoney

If you are considering the mobile web, one of the first things you should do is visit dotomobi.dotmobi and read what Vance Hedderel, has to say on the subject. I’ve been following Vance for a few months now. Vance is clearly one of the thought leaders on the mobile web. I will list the top 10 mobile web blogs I follow in a future post. For now, its important you get your arms around a key area this is still being debated, when it comes to registering a TLD (top level domain) vs. a sub-domain website URL.

5 Reasons You Need a .Mobi Name

Search engine performance and whitelisting by network transcoders are just two of the top five reasons why you need a .mobi domain.

.mobi is emerging as the de facto standard for mobile Internet site naming

The mobile Web is growing exponentially, recording 700% growth in the past year. With this growth, however, comes the need for standardization to allow the mobile Web to continue to develop. We’ve seen this numerous times in the past where competing technology standards have delayed widespread adoption. In the 1970s it was VCR vs. Betamax and in the 1990s it was Digital Audio Tape vs. MiniDisc vs. CD. In both of these cases, it was the format that got in the lead first, and enjoyed the widest industry support, that eventually triumphed. Today .mobi enjoys this same position as the most prevalent mobile domain in use.

.mobi domains are whitelisted by network level transcoders

Designing great mobile sites takes time and effort to get the most out of the limited screen resolution and navigation mechanisms of mobile phones. Having invested money and time in creating your mobile presence, you don’t want a third-party transcoder modifying your site … but this is exactly what happens when you use a non-standard name for your mobile Web site. As a rule, .mobi sites are automatically whitelisted by all network-level transcoders, so you can be sure your site will render as you intended on all mobile devices.

.mobi domains offer better search engine performance

In North America alone, search engine marketing last year was at $12.2 billion and is forecast to grow to $25 billion by 2011. Those numbers show that search engine performance has become crucial to the success of any business. Because every .mobi domain registered gets its own entry in the Internet Zone File — the files that search engines use to start their crawls — your site will automatically perform better than any other naming convention. Additionally, search engines detect when searches are being made from mobile devices and prioritize their results accordingly. Because .mobi sites are high quality and made for mobile, they are automatically brought to the top of the mobile search results.

.mobi names are designed for mobile use

Despite having close to one million names registered, the .mobi domain still has a lot of great names available. Having a  short domain name is essential for mobile applications where entering long URLs is cumbersome. This is great news for companies who did not get their first preference .com address. With the mobile Web experiencing year-on-year, three-digit growth (and forecast to continue doing so), creating a memorable mobile presence now represents a huge opportunity for future growth.

.mobi is actively promoted and industry supported

The primary goal of .mobi and its founders is the widespread growth and use of the mobile Web. For consumers, it’s essential that mobile content be easily found and navigated; it’s this need for standards that prompted ICANN to make .mobi the only authorized top-level domain for finding mobile content. And by having the founding support of industry heavyweights such as Microsoft, Nokia and Google, dotMobi is able to drive this agenda forward to create a single, globally recognized domain naming convention for the mobile Web.

Test your Web site to see if it’s ready for mobile customers!

There are more mobile phones in the world than televisions and PCs combined. And millions of people are using those mobile phones to connect to the Internet.

To see your site the same way these millions of mobile users do, try the dotMobi phone emulator, which “emulates” a real mobile phone Web browser.

Summary

Almost 98% of the 42 million plus smartphone users in the US visit their favorite websites. If your website isn’t optimized for mobile devices, you’re missing a major opportunity.

[Note] Article Credit goes to Vance Hedderel of dotmobi.dotmobi

If you take the time to find quality web sites and leave an anchor text coded back link, you will find your free organic traffic count will pick up dramatically. If you’ve been to my blog before, then you already know my tool of choice to find quality websites with high volume of traffic is Market Samurai.

Click the Adobe Acrobat image to download this week’s list of “anchor text” friendly websites. Each of these sites  have a strong Alexa rank. If you visit these sites with any frequency and develop a relationship with the webmaster, you will find your site will get a lot more traffic and my guess is, you will find the caliber of these visitors will meet your needs.

You can read my earlier article of view a the YouTube video I did on how and why leaving an “anchor text” coded back link will yield a better result than simply entering in your blog or website URL into the website field when leaving a comment.

If a significant amount of your monthly revenue is derived by doing business with customers from your local area, then it’s critical that you take the necessary measures to make sure you Get Found Locally.

Google Places Listing

The first thing EVERY small business owner should do it create and optimize a FREE Google Places Listing. Local Search Marketing is the new key to the success for Main Street businesses. It’s not a question of IF business owners use this information, but when. The longer they put off getting listed, the harder it will be to rank at the top of Google’s 10 Spot. When I first created my local business listing on Google they called it, Google Local Business Center. This was about 6-7 months ago. Lately, Local Search Marketing has become so popular and so competitive, it’s become a “must-have” marketing tool for every small business owner.

Google Places Marketing Tip #1 Use “Longtails”

Two of my niche markets are Local Search Marketing and Local Search SEO in the Los Angeles metro  area. Using a few learned marketing tricks and techniques, my site gets listed at the top of the Google 10 Spot in both of these niche market.

Local Search Marketing has 98,743 results and Local SEO Search has 2,744 results

Local Search Marketing on Google

Why it Makes Sense to Target Longtail Keywords First

Whether you’re launching a brand new site or building momentum for an existing site, to be competitive in the marketplace you have a lot of network effects working against you. More often than not, your competition has years of conversion data, an older trusted site, tons of content, and thousands of organic inbound links. Trying to beat them for the most potent high-value “single word” keywords is a long shot at best and you will likely fail. Longtail keywords are usually a lot easier to rank for. If you can pick off mid-tier phrases and rank at the top of the search results then you can build a revenue stream from them, which can be reinvested to further buy market share and distribution.

Local Search SEO on Google

According to Recent Studies

• 97% of Consumers use online media to research products and services in their local area. (Kelsey Group)
• 83% of Local Searchers will follow up with a phone call or visit to the listing that stands out best. (ComScore)
• 90% of searchers won’t look past page one of the results page. (Google)

What’s more, Google knows exactly where a customer is searching from and serves up the most relevant results nearby. Businesses need to be on top of that list, because when you are, your free organic traffic will increase exponentially.

Google Places Marketing Tip #2 Use Coupons

Adding a Coupon to your Google Places listing will help improve your “action taken” click count and your bottom-line (profit) as well. When a potential customer sees that your business listing includes a coupon, it tends to up your listing position and CTR.

Google Places Marketing Tip #3 Create Citations

Citations are defined as “mentions” of your business name and address on other web pages, even if there is no link to your website. Think of citations in the same way you do backlinks: they are like getting VOTES for your website. An example of a citation might be an online yellow pages directory where your business is listed, but not linked to. It can also be a local chamber of commerce, or a local business association where your business information can be found, even if they are not linking at all to your website.

Top Tier Citation Sites

• Bing
• Yelp
• Kudzu
• City Search
• Yahoo! Local
• Merchant Circle

Google Places Marketing Tip #4 Trust but Verify

There are a lot moving parts involved in creating a successful Google Places listing. The metric for measuring a successful listing is whether your listing consistently ranks at the top of the Google 10 Spot.

Knowing how to properly design, build and publish an optimized Google Places listing, how to perform the necessary results driving keyword research, how to the nuances of a high ranking 10 Spot listing and having the  right tools to do this front end work, takes time and acquired skills.

SEO Local Search on Bing

Before you entrust a Consultant with this important Internet Marketing task, a quick test you can perform is to simply verify whether or not the Consultant’s own site ranks at the top of the major business listing sites. Google Places commands nearly 80% of the local search activity, so doing this due diligence can be done in a matter of minutes and well worth your time and effort.

• Google Places
• Bing
• Yahoo! Local

Contact Me if you would like to discuss in more detail, how to optimize your Google Places listing so that your business listing will rank at the top of the Google 10 Spot.

As an Internet Marketer, I’m sure you’ll agree building a List of subscribes is one of your most important marketing tasks. The email opt-in form you use on your website is absolutely crucial for building your list.

There are over 9,000 articles on ezinearticles written on the subject and as the saying goes… “The Money is in the List“. Put another way, your List is your #1 Asset, so how you go about building a quality and sizable list requires your best possible effort.

Rule #1

Avoid Pop-ups, Hovers and other animated widgets that can be distracting and pretty annoying to your readers. Don’t get me wrong… animation can be very effective (if) done the right way!

Say your reader is reading your article on Content Writing Made Easy and up pops your email opt-in form. Do you think he will like that interruption?

Or say your reader is checking out your latest blog post on SMS Marketing or How to Build a Mobile Friendly Website and right when he’s ready to copy and past a piece of you content, a cheesy hover-over image spoils his effort. Not good!

One of my favorite blogs is called: Daily Blog Tips by Daniel Scocco. He’s a really good blogger. Daniel advocates NEVER using pop-ups and since his Blog has over 45,000 readers and since I know he knows what he’s talking about, I suggest we follow his advice. Check out his post entitled: 43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

So what’s the Answer?

If you’ve read this far, you’ve been on my site for more than 5 seconds, so you’ve seen how I use the Instant SlideUp tool at the bottom of my site. Instant SlideUp is a highly customizable email opt-in system that will enhance your page’s appearance, increase your sales and help you grow your List.

Instant SlideUp is Simple

Just sign up, configure a few details, embed a few lines of javascript and you’ll see how seamlessly and effectively Instant SlideUp works on your website.

Instant SlideUp Features

• ISU is SaaS tool, so there’s no Software to Install
• Comes with over 30+ Premade Templates and you can…
• Change the Template Images using your Graphics Editor
• Customize your Messages to promote anything you want
• Works on ANY Website | No SQL database install required
• Works with Aweber, Get Response, Mail Chimp and others
• ISU has a simple and Intuitive Administration Dashboard
• ISU also enables you to Split-Test your opt-in Forms

Instant SlideUp Benefits

• Doesn’t give a negative first impression of your website
• Doesn’t annoy, frustrate, or interrupt your web site visitors
• Lets you avoid using obnoxious pop-ups that everybody hates
• Catches your visitor’s eye with movement (converts better)
• Doesn’t block what your visitor is viewing on your site
• Gives your website a professional list building capture form

Instant SlideUp is Word Press “friendly”

I use a WP plug-in called Header-Footer to insert my java script on my Blog. I’m not the most technical savvy guy around, so having this plug-in insert the code without creating any conflicts, comes in handy. With this plug-in, I can add the ISU code to an individual page or my entire Blog. I chose to use Instant SlideUp on every page. After 30 days, I’ll alternate my Instant SlideUp projects, evaluate my Split-Test stats and decide whether its better to insert a SlideUp on every page or if individual pages is better.

Instant SlideUp Advanced Features

SPEED

• Slide Up
• Slide Up then Down
• Fade In
• Fade In then Out

TIME DELAY

• Appear
• Disappear

LAYOUT SETTINGS

• Themed
• Simple

TYPE SETTINGS

• Static
• Vertical Carousel
• Opt-in

AUTO RESPONDERS

• Aweber
• Get Response
• Mail Chimp
• Constant Contact
• iContact

FONTS

• Modifiable on each Field

DISPLAY SETTINGS

• Show again when page is reloaded
• Show again in 1 Day
• Show again in 1 Week
• Show again in 2 Weeks
• Show again in 1 Month

CUSTOM CSS

Instant SlideUp Summary

Building a List is vital to an Internet Marketer’s online success. Instant SlideUp enables you to grab your reader’s attention without interrupting or impairing what he’s reading or viewing on your site. ISU is easy to use, simple to deploy, is highly customizable and comes with powerful analytics and metrics so you can keep track of what works (converts) and what doesn’t.

To download a free copy of Instant SlideUp and test-drive it on your site Click Here

If you need Assistance

Like most Internet Marketers, I use a couple of email marketing services. Namely, Aweber and Mail Chimp. Instant SlipdeUp comes pre-configured to work with Aweber and Get Response. I was having an issue getting my Mail Chimp code to accept my sign-ups, but all I had to do was send Rob Chuah a quick note (via Forum support) and bam, I had my fix. Not only that, but Rob went the extra mile to inspect my form code and make 2 minor changes for me. This is the kind of service I look for in a mutually beneficial Vendor/Partner relationship.

One task that many Internet Marketers shy away from is creating content for their blog and websites.

Creating content can be a difficult process. It requires researching the niche, researching the topic, writing, editing, formatting, publishing, and more – all to create just one article. But good content can be a POWERFUL boost to SEO. Without it, you are missing out on a great potential source of authority. Writing good content is easy with the Publish Content Module

In this video on SEO, Dr. Anthony Fernando will take you through the Publish Content module in detail, showing you how to streamline your content creation process into three easy stages.

1. Research

Ensuring your content is high quality and likely to be read is the first essential step. Anthony will take you through an efficient strategy for topic selection and research.

2. Writing Your Article

Next he will take you through the writing of your article, including using Publish Content’s tools to optimize your content.

3. Publishing Your Article

Now the most important step – getting your article in front of your readers. Here Anthony shows you how to directly upload your new article to your WordPress Blog from Publish Content.



Summary

The Publish Content feature that comes with the Market Samurai tool is one of the many reasons why Market Samurai is preferred by many top notch Affiliate Marketers.