Directory Submitter Review

November 26th, 2009 by John 4 comments »

Any strategy to generate traffic for a website will include ways of improving the Google page ranking. Part of that strategy should be Website Directory Submission as a way of getting quality, one way links to your website.

One way links are exactly what search engines are looking for and websites with a high number of quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank the highest.

There is a vast number of free directories that anyone can submit their url to, but the process is very time consuming.

As a way of automating the process several websites directory submission programs have been developed. In my opinion, the best and easiest to use, is a new program created by Brad Callen, called Directory Submitter.

The software currently contains around 1700 website directories, all free.
It’s really easy to use,  all you need to do is:

1. Input your website details (i.e. title, description, URL, etc.) into the
software ..

2. Click on the directory you want to submit to and the software will automatically fill in your website details.

3. Click the submit button and your website is instantly submitted to the directory.

Then, you can move on and select the next directory.

If you were to go through the entire list, by the time you’re finished, you’ll have roughly 1500 one way links pointing to your website. In reality, you can work your way through the most appropriate directories with the highest page ranking. It’s still a time consuming process, but much quicker and easier that reentering the same data over and over.

Note; If you’re going to add multiple links quickly, it’s important to vary your website title (anchor text) every 20-30 links or so, to make things look more natural to the search engines.

You can do this really easily via Directory Submitter at the start of the process when you initially create your project.

According to their sales blurb, the software is constantly being updated and their is also a community of fellow users established (and growing), that work together to improve the software.

To check out Directory Submitter, click on the banner below:

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How I Created My First Product – Send2Kunaki.Com

November 15th, 2009 by John 9 comments »

As a newbie to Internet Marketing, so many of the guru’s advise you on the importance of creating your own product.

My work as a computer programmer dried up with the recession back in October 2008, but I believed in myself and the importance of networking (both online and offline). It was during a networking meeting held by Business Link, that I got talking to a guy about Internet marketing.

We realised that whilst information products were often given away or sold for a few dollars, customers will often spend more on a physical product such as a CD or DVD. So buy replicating the same information in different formats, it is possible for any internet marketer to offer their clients a range of product choice and user an up sell or down sell to find the most suitabley priced product.

Product Creation

As many newbies do, I’d signed up for a number of courses from different people. One of my courses was “Micro Continuity” by Russel Brunson, where it was outlined how easy it can be to create a product. One suggestion was to sit down with someone who is an expert on a particular topic and interview them on video. The idea being that the video can be edited to become a DVD, you can strip the sound off and create an audio version to be sold as a CD or MP3 download and the transcript can be reproduced as a physical book or an eBook.

Kunaki.com

One of the resources that Russel Brunson gave was the name of a company that could manufacture and ship CD’s and DVD’s for $1.70 each, with no minimum order quantity. That company was Kunaki.com

Based in America, Kunaki is a machine rather than a traditional company, that specialises in the manufacture of digital products. It has been tailored to meet the requirements of independent retailers such as internet marketers of musicians wanting to create and distribute their own products.

The Problem with Kunaki ……

Whilst Kunaki is undoubtedly an fantastic service, it relies on their customers inputing the requirements of what product needs to be manufactured and where it needs to be shipped.

So the issues are;

  • An internet marketer needs to check for online sales and manually submit orders to Kunaki.com. (This is both time consuming for the internet marketer and can result in a time delay for the end client who has ordered through an online shopping cart).

The Solution

I’d read that Kunaki allowed customers to submit orders using XML.
As a programmer, I saw an opportunity to create a product that would benefit so many Internet Marketers. By creating a web service, a person could simply create an account that would store their login details and match the product they were selling with a Kunaki product id that needed to be manufactured. Using the point of Payment notification as the trigger to send the customers order requirements and shipping details directly to Kunaki.com

Creating Send2Kunaki.com

Old Send2Kunaki LogoAlthough a programmer, this project was touching on areas I had little experience in, so initially I put the project out to tender on a website called getacoder.com. It’s amazing how many people step forward and offer to work for you. But on this occasion, I met an American developer called Ian McManus at another networking event being held at the University  of Warwick by B2B.

This guy could see what I wanted, but also made so many suggestions of how the web service could develop into a much larger service to help people that wanted to make information products …. hopefully it will become a portal where visitors can get help with video production, video editing or graphics for their product.

Learning to Crawl

It was really important to remain focused on the core product, so Send2Kunaki was developed, tested and is now available for use.

To build awareness of Send2Kunaki and prove the software, for a limited period of time, I am making the web service available without charge in return for testimonials or feedback which can be entered on my BuzzHerd Forum.

If anyone would like to trial the Send2Kunaki web service please register here.

…. and if anyone has any help or advise on how I could take my product to market, please enter a comment below ….. I’m also interested in Joint Venturing with people on this.

John

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Double Click Blue Print
Online Service Business

October 28th, 2009 by John 4 comments »

Well Rob Canyon’s “Double Click Blue Print” programme is coming to a conclusion and all the guys (and gals) on the training course are modifying the template material provided on the course to create their own income generating online service business.

Last nights webinar was all about generating traffic for this new business, but like a numpty I missed most of it and have to wait for Rob to post the recordings. » Read more: Double Click Blue Print
Online Service Business

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Double Click Blue Print Update

October 22nd, 2009 by John 1 comment »

Rob Canyon’s “Double Click Blue Print” training programe is continuing with pace.

The training webinars run twice a week and Rob is meeting his obligation to push all 20 students hard to create an online service business that generates money by the end of the month.

The webinars are very well presented, Rob is articulate, easy to understand and answers any questions that students have at the end of each session. Mp3 downloads along with slides and resource material are always available within 24 hours and through the use of surveys Rob has inserted bonus training to help cover areas that students wanted more help with. » Read more: Double Click Blue Print Update

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Double Click Blue Print: Rob Canyon

October 16th, 2009 by John 1 comment »

Many Alex Jeffreys students will be familiar with the name Rob Canyon as he regularly post useful comments on fellow students blogs. I’d identified Rob as a person to follow as everything he did seemed to generate traffic and more importantly Rob was generating money. So when he made a post offering a webinar where he would explain his techniques, I booked my place on the call. » Read more: Double Click Blue Print: Rob Canyon

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Link Your Products To Kunaki
Free Software Trial

September 22nd, 2009 by John 18 comments »

When Rich Schefren gave his webinar to Alex Jeffreys students, he emphasised how important it is to separate yourself from the business and identify ways in which the business can run without your daily input.

Rich showed a slide called ‘Step by Step Plan to Freedom’ in which your business was split into three sections:
-    Marketing  (Customer Attraction, Conversion and Retention)
-    Fulfilment  (Product Development, Delivery and Improvement)
-    Operations (Finance, Human Resources and Systems)

The idea being to identify the processes within the business.

Through ‘process mapping’, it should help you identify better ways of doing things in order to make best use of your time and resources.

I’ve been working to develop some software that is aimed at helping internet marketers improve areas of their fulfilment processes through automation.

To succeed in Internet marketing, we have learned that marketers benefit from having their own product.

We also know that some customers will pay a premium for the same product in a different format.

What I am developing is a web service that helps automate the manufacture and shipping of physical information products such as CD’s and DVD’s.

The idea is to allow marketers to create additional products from their existing digital products, by creating audio CD’s and DVD’s. Not only does this allow more sales revenue to be generated, but it will open up the opportunity to market your products on Amazon and eBay, (where it isn’t possible to sell digital products).

How can this work?

It is possible to use a digital manufacturing company called Kunaki that builds retail quality CD’s and DVD’s (with a bar code & wrapped in cellophane). Their
Software allows you to design and configure artwork for your case, disc, inserts, cover art and contents.

  • There are No setup charges minimum orders, commitments, or contracts.
  • Orders are drop-shipped to any address.
  • Just-in-time production means risk-free, zero warehousing costs.

So what’s the problem?

Kunaki solves the problem of to manufacture and drop ship any orders you receive, but it relies on the seller manually submitting orders to Kunaki.

What have I developed?

I have developed a web service that associates products sold through Papal, eBay and 1ShoppingCart with the product that you have uploaded to your Kunaki account.

Using my software will automate the process of transmitting orders from your website to Kunaki who will fulfil the order for you.

At the moment I’m running some final tests and developing instructions on how to use the software.

Whilst this software will be a subscription service,
I would like to offer free access to the software in return for testimonials and feedback.

I’m going to limit this access, so if you want to create your own physical products and
have customer orders drop shipped by Kunaki, please add a comment asking for the service.

John

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Finding Long Tail Keywords

September 18th, 2009 by John 5 comments »

keywords tool

It isn’t really viable for newbie Internet marketers to compete for the most popular key words through pay per click campaigns due to the cost, but we can compete by being smarter in our keyword research and utilizing long tail keywords.

By long tail keywords, I mean, either phrases that people are currently searching for, or very detailed searches such as an exact product id.

I’d like to share some advice from Andrew Hansen of Firepow, on his technique for
Google keyword research
. » Read more: Finding Long Tail Keywords

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How To Increase Your YouTube Views

September 16th, 2009 by John 4 comments »

A big thank you to Norene Broyton for pointing me in the direction of Kim Roach’s website
which is a gold mine for articles and tips on generating traffic.

As I’m currently creating marketing videos to promote a limousine company, I was fascinated to read a little used technique that can dramatically increase your YouTube video views.

Video Response

What is a Video Response? » Read more: How To Increase Your YouTube Views

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Can I Get A Website to Page 1 of Google Day#4

September 14th, 2009 by John No comments »

Google Page 20090914 limo hire coventryDay #4

Two videos posted to You Tube using long tail key words ‘limo hire coventry’ and within a few hours both are on the fist page of Google.

Sure you have to select the video option, but the first video has had 50 hits in only 24 hours, so video is an important part of a marketing strategy.

Now I have to keep writing articles, creating backlinks and optimizing the website to get that onto the the first data page.

John
(Sorry about the poor sound quality from my flipcam …. oh,hope the follow up video isn’t too loud).

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Can I Get A Website To Page 1 on Google – Day#3

September 11th, 2009 by John 10 comments »

Today I’ve created a video from still images. I used Windows Movie Maker to link the pictures together, then added effects and a sound track.

The video I created runs on the back of my video diary.

Please let me know what you think of it. Any feedback would be welcome, as I’m planning to create a few more over the next few days.

John

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