We’ve learnt so many traffic generating tips over the last 6 weeks and maybe the Internet marketing niche is a hard nut to crack.

I want to prove that what we are learning works, so I am helping a local business promote their limousine business.

I’ve been set a task to get the web site for American Limousine Company onto page 1 of Google for the key words ‘Limo’, ‘Hire’ and ‘Coventry’.

My plan is to;

• Optimize their website by adding in readable text that includes the keywords
• Write articles about the limousine business
• Find forums and add comments
• Create YouTube videos to promote the business
• Write a press release
• Create a Squidoo lens

I’m also going to document my progress with a video diary and regular postings on this blog, so hopefully it’s a win win situation that I can share with everyone.

Good idea?

John

My friends and fellow Alex Jeffreys students are currently playing a game where if you are Tagged, you have to reveal 25 things about yourself that other people might like to know.

The idea was though up by Garry Simpson who is know for his motivational postings and I was tagged by Vance Sova.

It’s a bit nerve racking, but here goes:

 

 1) I was born and still live in Coventry, England, although for the last 10 years I’ve been long distance commuting for work. I spent 6 months living in Karlskrona, Sweden and more than four years working in Edinburg & Glasgow in Scotland, so I’ve racked up some air miles.

2) In 1997 I hit one of my life goals when I watched my football team Coventry City beat Tottenham Hotspurs in the FA cup final. (Things haven’t gone so well for the club since then).

3) I married to my wife Karen, who’s currently helping to care for abused children.

4) I’ve got two children, a boy called Jordan and a girl called Olena. They’re both back to school on Monday starting their GCSE subjects. Both my kids have learning difficulties, but try so hard at everything they try. They’re lovely kids and I’m very proud of them.

5) I love Thai food and am learning how to cook a number of recipes.

6) When I lived in Karlskrona Sweden, I use to take a two hour lunch break and help out in a Thai restaurant, where I was taught how to cook (and how to play a Thai card game called Pok Deng).

7) One of the weirdest things I’ve done to try and make money is to buy a bar in Hua Hin, Thailand. Whilst the bar didn’t work out, I learned so many things about business and Thai culture. As they say, you need to fail many times before you succeed.

I love motorcycles and over a number of years have owned a variety of bikes from a Triumph Bonneville to a Honda CBR100F in Benetton racing colours.

9) Over a four year spell, I restored a Triumph 3TA motorcycle and once I’d finished it I didn’t like it.

(Whish I’d kept it now though).

10) Over the last couple of years I’ve been building a golf portal which incorporates a hole by hole gallery of images which lets viewers see multiple views of every hole on the course.

Check out: http://thailand.holebyholeguide.com select a golf course and then view the Images.

11) When I left school in 1978 I undertook an apprenticeship with Jaguar Cars.

12) I’ve worked for 3 car companies; Jaguar, Triumph and Peugeot.

13) The three car assembly pants that I worked for in Coventry have all been knocked down;
Jaguar’s Radford plant is now a housing estate and the Browns Lane site will be an Industrial business park.
Triumph’s Canley plant is now a Sainsbury’s supermarket and business park.
Peugeot’s Ryton plant has just been flattened and is in the process of being sold.

14) One of my favourite bands is the Specials (also from Coventry) who are in the middle of a 30 year comeback tour.
It’s interesting that their hit from the 1980’s ‘Ghost Town’ is so relevant to Coventry now as when it was written.

15) For years I’ve been wanting to play the guitar. My daughter Olena is taking lessons at school, so I’m learning with her and hopefully motivating her to practice. Not sure if we’ll be an act on ‘Britain’s got Talent’ LOL

16) Other things I wish I could do and want to learn; a magic card trick and a foreign language. (I’m learning Thai to keep in contact with my Thai friends in both Sweden and Thailand).

17) I love travelling to sample the different foods and cultures in different countries.

18) I’m quite partial to a glass of red wine, especially Spanish Rioca.

19) My most bizarre experience on flight happened a few years back when flying to Bulgaria on Balkan Airways. Some liquid started dripping from the overhead cabin onto the passenger sitting next to me. When she brought this to the attention of the air hostess, she took a piece of chewing gum out of her mouth and used it to stop the drip. Brilliant!

20) My favourite comedy acts are; Robin Williams, Woody Allen, Bill Baily and Frankie Boyle.

21) I love the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy festival. When I lived in Edinburgh I went for three years running. Many of the acts are pretty lame, but there are others that are fantastic.
I went to see a show called ‘Roxanne Rolls & Rocket Johnny’s Firey Death stunt show’ which was a series of chainsaw juggling, unicycle riding acts performing their act amid a scene of exploding fireworks. It definitely stuck in my mind.

22) I’m interested in the use of video email as a marketing tool for business and have a reseller licence to promote Talk Fusion Video Email services.

23) I love learning about the different ways that Social Media can virally pass information around the world.

24) I’m really pleased that I took action and signed up for the Alex Jeffreys coaching class.

25) I’m optimistic that by having a plan and following that plan through, I will continue to meet fascinating people and succeed with Internet marketing.

Phew!

Now, I’ve just got to Tag five fellow Alex Jeffreys students to find out their storeys.

Thanks for reading, let me know if you want to know more about anything.

John

Things aren’t going as well as I’d hoped with the list building, but I’m a newbie that’s not going to give up and today I want to let you know what I’m doing to get things back on track;-

Alex Jeffreys says if you have a problem, you need to ask yourself a series of questions to find a solution.

My current problem is that nobody has signed up for the eBook on my “Profit Pulling Platform”.

So I asked myself why?

These are my reasons / excuses that I need to resolve;

• Visitors to my blog are primarily Alex Jeffreys students that are blog hopping; as such they have an identical product.

• My PPP is ranking on the third page of Google, so nobody is finding it.

I needed to find a product that visitors might want.

Well everyone wants to generate traffic and one of the ways to generate traffic if by creating a back link from a Squidoo lens.

Pot Pie Girl is a work at home mom that has become an authority figure in affiliate marketing ‘Clickbank’ products through the creation of Squidoo lenses.

She has written a fantastic Free 55 page step by step guide called ‘Squidoo 101′ which teaches newbies how to create a Squidoo Lens.

Contents include:

• Creating a Squidoo account

• Avoiding the ‘Magic Builder’ (an easy way to control how you build your lens)

• Adding content

• Adding links

• Publishing your lens

• Adding Pay Pal

I’m working my way through the guide now and will report back on how I get on both with the guide and the effectiveness of Squidoo for my Internet Marketing.

Now onto my other problem: How to improve your Google page ranking.

I decided to check out the what other students were doing on Google to see if I could pick up any tips.

When I searched on ‘List building with Alex’ I found a former AJ student and on their blog was an article explaining who won Alex’s Google Ranking competition.

The winner was Jim Gallagher from Ireland and on his blog, Jim outlined the importance of Google Page Ranking and by using a Page Rank Checker before posting on other sites how he was able to get a page ranking within 1 month.

Below is an extract from Jim Gallagher’s post, after winning the Alex Jeffreys traffic challenge with 41,152 visitors in 18 days (which led to 778 sign ups).

When posting your websites to a blog or website, try to find sites with a Google page rank.
Sites with a good Google page rank get crawled by the Google spider more often.
The higher the rank the more they get spidered, and the quicker they get indexed on Google.
So if your site URL is on one of these sites you will be indexed on Google quicker.
It will also help you to get a Google page rank of your own fairly quick.
This blog was set up on 5 December 2008 it was a new site with a new domain name.
By 3 January 2009 it had a Google page rank of 2. This now means I get spidered by Google many times a day, so new content will be indexed fairly quickly by Google.
You can check out websites Google page ranking on numerous Web resource sites.
There are many of these, below is a link to one, just enter the URL name and it will give you the rank for that site.

PR Checker is a Free tool to check Google Page rankings at any web site.

Needless to say, when I checked my blog, the page rank was zero.

Well, lets see what happens if I follow Jim’s advice.

If anyone has any suggestions for improving Google Page Ranking, please feel free to add them into the comment box.

Thanks
John