A few years back in response to link spam and people trying to game link based page ranking by search engines the “noFollow” tag was created. This tag protects a page from passing pagerank with links. Many blogs now are setup to “noFollow” comments.  There are still good reasons for commenting on blogs even if they use “noFollow” tags.You just don’t get the benefit of the backlink.
There are still however some high PR blog pages that still have “doFollow” commenting. So, if you’re looking for some backlinks you don’t have …

Here’s a proven web traffic generation plan.
Before we start, it’s important to note that traffic generation tactics are not something you do once and forget about. Rather, traffic generation tactics should be part of your site’s ongoing marketing plan. The steps I am listing below should be done often. I recommend weekly or semi-weekly.
Here we go:

Research Keywords (Here’s a Tutorial). This may be obvious to many but make sure that your keywords are highly relevant to whatever it is you are promoting. Really, you should be targeting keywords that buyers …

Hey guys,
I know, I said the next post was going to be “How to create a membership site (part 2).” I want to get to that post but I have been really slammed with a lot of copywriting and consulting gigs lately. I have barely had time to catch my breath. But…in an effort to give you something good, I though I would do a short screencast about a couple of tools I use for researching niches and keywords for profitability.

I’ll try and do membership sites part 2 as soon …

I spent the weekend at the Stephen Pierce Infinite Income Workshop. If you’re unfamiliar with Stephen he is a motivational speaker and marketer who raised himself  from poverty and crime to accountability and success.
Today he travels the world advocating online wealth through affiliate marketing, blogging, and selling information products. He has taken the stage with notable people such as Condoleeza Rice, Colin Powel, Brian Tracy and numerous others.
I first saw Stephen at Mike Filsaime’s Seven Figure Code seminar. I can’t remember what he was talking about then but I must …

This is a question I have been hearing a lot lately. How can I get more people to respond to my website? This is a good question and one I’m sure I’ll keep hearing until the internet goes away or I croak.
Much of it depends on the website. Take this site for instance. It’s like pulling teeth to get any of you readers to do anything. Why am I saying that? I’ll tell you.
About three or four posts ago I had a challenge (which is still open here) where I …

Well, I messed around with my membership site some more yesterday and had a frustrating time. More about that in a minute. If you’re just reading this you can find the rest over in part one.
Anyhow, like I said, I decided to use Wordpress to deliver my content. Because I feel a membership site should be simple and without a lot of distractions I chose a very simple Wordpress theme “Alibi“.
Alibi is a two column theme with tabbed navigation. My idea is to have the main categories on the top …

I have talked about the value of membership sites before on this blog. I have also discussed being a part of several successful membership sites. I may have even mentioned that I had a failed membership site that never got off the ground. Yup, I dumped $15k into it but it is still sitting on my server waiting to be finished. I’ve had bad luck with developers.
I also have another tattoo design membership site I built using Amember. This site was a little bit different than what I am putting …

I have been on the buying end of a lot of business to business sales lately. Throughout this process I have been thinking about why I choose one company over another. These insights into my own behavior as a consumer remind me of qualities and traits I need to be conscious of when I am the one trying to make a sale.
Let me give you a little background on the situation. Over the past few months I have been working with a company that is developing a monthly online subscription …

Membership sites can be a great way to earn recurring income each month. Nearly everyone has something they can teach that people are interested in. But, even if you don’t have something you feel comfortable teaching you can always find something you want to learn,  hire someone to teach you and then record the process with audio and video and turn it into content for your site.
We have four magazine subscriptions. Half the time I don’t even look at them. I find myself going online  because the content is more …

By David Ogilvy
Ogilvy & Mather has created over $1,480,000,000 worth of advertising. Here, with all the dogmatism of brevity are 38 of the things we have learned.
1.  The most important decision. We have learned that the effect of your advertising on your sales depends more on this decision than on any other: how should you position your product? Should you position Schweppes as a soft drink – or as a mixer?  Should you position Dove as a product for dry skin or as a product which gets hands …

Most people who pay $500 per month for a membership program have the same questions. Even if you make good money you don’t what to give it away for nothing. So, what would make a membership program worth $500 per month?
I signed up for Armand Morin’s AM2.0 program a couple of months back. I’ll be honest, the only reason I joined was because I thought I would get a free ticket to his “Big Seminar” in Vegas over the 6th,7th, and 8th of November.  I figured I would sign up …

In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These …

It’s always challenging trying to come up with something someone hasn’t written about already. There are dozens of ways to get traffic to your site. I will cover some of the more obvious ways in another post in this series but today I’m going to be covering some less known and in some cases controversial traffic tactics.
First of all, there is no free traffic. You will always pay something whether it is time or money but there are definitely things you can do to leverage both.  Lets look at five …

Sue Griggs, an acquaintance who saved her house from foreclosure through internet marketing recently created her first information product - My Work At Home Solution. Sue sent me the product and asked if I would give it a review. I told her I would be happy to as long as she could take the good with the bad.
Sue’s story is a story of hope for many people in these troubled economic times. Before being forced into a situation of having to do something or lose here house to foreclosure, Sue’s …

Browsing online forums I am continually reminded that there are many people who believe the internet is the be-all-end-all medium for their business.
That may be the case for them. I suspect that kind of thinking is also at least partially responsible for the large numbers of people not making any money online either.
Sometimes you have to suck it up and get away from the computer. Get outside and promote yourself and your products.
This can be uncomfortable. I remember my first attempts at selling and marketing my own products over the …

I am going to be honest, pay per click advertising(PPC) can be downright frustrating. It seems like most times I use PPC I end up getting killed. The reason I am thinking this way at the moment because this was a particularly expensive week for me using PPC to no avail.
The late Gary Halbert, copywriter and direct marketing maven was once quoted as saying something to the effect of “whatever business you think you are in you’re wrong. You are in the business of arithmetic.” And of course, after thinking …

The least memorable products or advertising campaigns or companies are those with  a wishy washy story. Their boundaries are ill defined and because of that they suffer. They try too hard to be all things to all people. They make few enemies and because of that they make few friends.
Get your story straight.  Your business or your product needs a story. Not just any story, a good story. Lets look at five qualities of a good story and relate them back to our businesses.

Interesting (and polarizing) characters. Yeah, that’s right, …

I know there are a lot of you out there not making squat. You try this and that but you can’t seem to squeeze even $1 lousy dollar from your efforts.
Could this be because you aren’t really doing much? Are you always in the forums and looking for some magic formula or some piece of software that is going to make you rich overnight? Sorry friend’s it just doesn’t work like that.
Today, I talked to Darin from Adsense Strategies and Internet Marketing Tips (which is a great site by the …

I am immersed in internet marketing, public relations, advertising, etc…each day from the time I wake up to the time I go to bed. I love this stuff. It’s what makes me tick.
Lately I have been working on a new info product (before you stop reading, I am not trying to sell you anything). I passed a copy off to a client. James is looking to get started making money online as soon as possible and doesn’t know much about technology, marketing, etc… No Problem I thought. This is the …

Who else wants to create information products that solve pressing problems and line your pockets with cash?
If you think information products are limited to ebooks think again. There are dozens of information products that have nothing to do with ebooks that can be created and sold online. Here are some examples:

Audio and Video Courses
Membership sites
High traffic blogs with advertising based revenue streams
Data brokering
Online communities with multiple revenue streams

Info products aren’t going anywhere either. People will always have a thirst for knowledge. Creating information products can be easier than you think, …