One of easiest and often under-rated promotional resources are forums. Many forum a ripe with new user and folks who are looking for ways to make money or find more information concerning their needs.

Niche forums are great for those who are looking to fix their looks, play better golf or develop better relationships with their spouses or kids.

If you are this type of niche and can answer these questions what better way than to join the forums and answer their questions.

Of course there is a right way and a wrong way. Joining a niche forum and answer b.s. answers will only get you kicked out.
You’ve got to know your niche inside an out.

Make sure to add you bio as soon as possible. Some forums require that you post 10 maybe 20 good posts before your website link can be added on the signature section.

Folks in the Internet Marketing forums are much more knowledgeable. This means you’ve really got to come up with excellent answers. Asking a question on a marketing forum is a good way to get other to see your signature link. You will get traffic and possibly some free advice concerning your promotional efforts.

BTW here are some excellent Internet Marketing Forums to join.
Internet Marketing Forums

Paul

Building a list of double opt-in subscribers can bring in extra income.  Why? Because your subscribers already know you and are more than willing hand over your hard earned money.

A bigger list is better and this is so true in the Internet Marketing world.  It doesn’t take a whole lot of brains to realize more subscribers more money.  Joint Ventures work very well but without a big list your JV marketing efforts will be very limited.

If you’re into MLM or some type of work at home opportunity leads are what you need.  Most Internet Marketing Guru’s can work a lead better than a stripper looking for more of your hard earned money.  You too can do the same with a big list.

How do Internet Marketing Professionals build a super fast opt-in list?  Here are some very good ways to do just that.

Writing niche articles and submitting them to the top article directories.  This is a real no-brainer if you ain’t doing this you might as well put holes in your pockets because you’re letting money out faster than a bullet going thru pork fat!

Put an optin subscribe form on your website or blog.  Do it today, right now, do not pass go and collect 200 dollars after you’ve done it.  This is so easy and so simple and I am really shocked at the amount of websites and blogs I visit that don’t have any.

You must always give something in return before they type their email address on that submit form.

Join forums and social networking websites.  This works very well and is another no-brainer. If you’ve got some marketing savvy under your belt it is easy to get signups using these services.  People want to know how you did it and if you can answer their questions you’ve got another lead or subscriber.

There are numerous ways to generate a big subscriber list but the ones I’ve mentioned here work better than others I’ve seen advertised.

Paul

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Use your keywords in the title.
Be sure to change your permalinks to the following: /%postname%/ This will make your blog SEO friendly. Your title will now look like this.

http://www.yourblogname/posts/bestblogeverlist/

How to get more blog Visitors

Be sure to add headings attribute in your posts. Just don’t over do it. If you don’t know what this means here is an example:
<h2>Your Heading title</h2>
or
<h3>Another heading</h3>
Be sure to switch to the HTML portion inside your admin panel to add your headings.  It is important to use these sparingly.

Write normally and be yourself. Blog about your interest and your passions. Blogging about something you are unfamiliar about is like trying to run 20 miles for the first time ever…you will never finish!

Good Posts for Blog Traffic

Posting good informative posts or articles into your blog will help with SEO.

If your post is good submit it to the social bookmarking services.
Be sure to visit other like minded blogs and comment on their blog.

Make sure to leave your blog url in the website area of the comment section. It is important to actually read the post and comment your own thoughts. Don’t leave some b.s. comment such as “good post”!

Submit your blog posts to press release. Press releases work very well for those who have good newsworthy blog.

Write articles for more blog traffic
Write an article about your niche and submit it to the top article directories. Be sure to add your blog link in the Bio section of any article directory.

These blog traffic tips are very easy to implement. If you’ve got questions just ask me right here:
Ask Paul

Or enter your comments below…I respond to all comments or questions.

What is organic search engine optimization? It is simply traffic that comes from search engines without any cost whatsoever.   This can be done by optimizing your blog or site with keywords that your visitors are using to search for whatever they need.

If your site or blog has what they need then…whamo you’ve probably got a sale, subscriber or someone who will ask for further information. Organic traffic will always out perform any type of paid traffic.

The conversions and the visitors are much more likely to purchase  something from an organic listing than a paid one.

1. Most casual surfers will see the first page and will click on the top 10 or so sites listed.  Most surfers have no idea that the side bar is for paid advertising.
2. Your website or blog listing will always be there.  Unless your doing something illegal or managed to get your site banned for whatever reason.   The more often they see it there the more they consider your site legitimate.

We all started with organic traffic.  Do you remember when you first submitted your website or blog to google, yahoo or DMOZ?  Your pages or posts are still there and will be there until…the end of time?

Of course having a permanent listing does not guarantee lots of traffic or even any visitors.  This is why most Internet Marketing professionals started to do more organic search engine optimization for all their sites.

Now we can get better results from doing our homework such as keyword research and site optimization. 

So we now move up the ladder.  The results are better but once again like a wild animal looking for food we start looking for better results.

Enter article writing this method is more organic than any other traffic source out there.   You write an article and submit them to the top article directories and viola! You’ve got a backlink and depending on how good and useful your articles are you get traffic.

No credit card to give out nor any money transferred out of your big fat bank account.  The only thing you invested is time and some brain power to shoot out an article.

If you submitted your article to the top professional article directories it will be there today, tomorrow or until the directory ceases to exists.  I started writing articles about my gardening site 5 years ago.  Many of these articles are still giving me traffic to the site.

Compare this to any PPC,  Pay for traffic service or even the latest “Facebook is better than google for paid advertising ebooks” that are over populating my and your email folder!

Once you stop paying for this traffic it stops, it’s over no one will see it again.  Organic Search Engine Optimization is like printing your own free money.

There are many other ways to do organic traffic such as press releases, podcasts, and marketing videos.

Most should know by now that in order to put this type of marketing to good use is to always develop and provide good content.

Paul Guzman

I love article marketing and this is one reason why I have my websites rank well in Google, MSN and Yahoo. Josh’s ebook is the most popular product on the subject of Article Marketing on the market, and for good reason, it simply WORKS! In “AMD” Josh explains exactly how to craft a traffic pulling article, from the title to the “signature” and he puts to rest many of the common misconceptions associated with article marketing like “duplicate content.” If you haven’t already, I highly recommend you click the link below and grab a copy of this industry leading article marketing ebook today.

Be yourself and profit.

How to be yourself online?  This is one question that I mull over in my head over and over again. How do these professional bloggers do it?  Where do they get their inspiration, energy and most of all the time to post almost daily about their “How I got rich Blogging” articles or posts.

Professional Internet Marketing bloggers make it seem really easy.  They can whip out a good post faster than a bullet coming out of a gun barrel.  I scratch my head in amazement.  I read their posts all the time and many are just ordinary folks working from home and profiting big time just by doing what they love to do.

I know what might be going through that puzzling brain of yours…”How can I do that”?  I too have some big issues twirling around inside my head as to what makes a good blogger and a bad one.

Is it education?  Naw…many sound like they had a hard time completing High School.  Maybe just downright smartness.  Another big no.  They aren’t  smarter than most other online marketer’s.

Could it be luck? Oh yea they definitely have luck.  But they brought it  on themselves by being themselves.   Being yourself online is the real key to online success whether it is a website, blog or any opportunity you are pursuing.

I now know it will take time for my own blog to bring in the same kind of success other professionals bloggers have.   I follow bloggers such as Darren Rowse, Rich Schefren and other new and upcoming bloggers.

The one constant theme besides the great content is their ability to blog without copying others.  I only hope someday I can do the same.

Copying and posting re-hashed versions of the same article, posts or even PLR using article spinners only waters down the whole online marketing world.

Paul Guzman

Researching your keywords for website traffic or getting top search engine rankings is very important.

This can catapult you from mediocre search engines results to getting ranked in the first page for  most of your keywords.

So where does someone go to find free keyword research tools? Here are my top two tools to use for this purpose.

How to do Keyword Research Free

The numero one free keyword search tool is  google’s external keyword tool.  Google’s external keyword tool team has been working overtime figuring out what people are really looking for.

It is no surprise that it is now better than lots of other overly priced keyword tools.  You do not need an adwords account to use it, matter of fact this is what most of the top Internet Marketers use for their own marketing purposes including myself.

I have hundreds of niche web pages that rank high just by using this tool alone.  You can even download your keywords and save them later for further research.

Another free tool is Keyword Country.   After trying a lot of keyword research tools in the market, I came across Keyword Country… and it works better than a fish swimming in water.

Their free version works better than other paid research tools.  Using Keyword Country and google’s external tool together can get you more traffic than a busy L.A. interstate freeway.

Keyword Country connects to major search engines for keyword research (including Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK) and also connects to the industry by performing a deep analysis of competitor websites. It also finds all the niche keywords your industry happens to be concentrating on.

Typing your keyword at Keyword Country will fetch you a huge list of keywords, these are sorted out and will give a list of words that will yield profitable keywords.  Wow…niche keywords that will make you money.

These are my top two keyword research tools.  There are many other but the ones mentioned here work extremely well and your traffic and google rank will spiral upwards if you use them accordingly.

It is important to have good grammar and spelling skills but what is really high on the list is good original content or at least content that you are familiar with.

Those in the professional fields such as Physicians, Lawyers, Engineers and Professors will have excellent writing skills unless they cheated there way through college.

It is very easy for these type of upper class professionals to write about their career.   A wordpress blog would be an ideal way for them to express their thoughts to other like minded individuals.

Writing good content for middle class folks might come a little harder but the ideal is still basically the same.   You write and post your own thoughts about what you know.

Starting a blog and writing good content does require good research and knowing what it takes to do it correctly is time consuming.  But the first step is really easy.

1. Find your niche.
2. Purchase a domain name.
3. Get good Web hosting.
4. Start posting your thoughts on your word press blog.

These are the steps needed to start your own blog. Monetizing, SEO and adding other links will eventually come.

Use your own voice and always write good content that will help or make your visitors want to continue reading your posts.

These steps are pretty simple and does not require much money or time but it does take your own desire and discipline to become successful at it.

Paul Guzman

So what does this have to do with an evergreen online business? Plenty,  thousands of online businesses come and go search engines continuously change methods and money making programs come and go faster than a bullet going through pork fat.

Internet Marketing guru’s are always looking for the next big “money making model”.  Once they find it they work it better than a pole dancer at the nearest college bar.

So how does someone really start and maintain a good professional online evergreen business?  You research, and find what Internet surfers really want.  Once you have that in your brain you start to develop a blog, website or online opportunity that will quench this need.

Most online marketers are looking for the fast buck and never realize that their own knowledge might do the trick.  Maybe they were an offline broker, car salesman, insurance agent or a refrigerator repairman.  Folks are always looking and asking for advice on  how to fix, repair or find cheaper auto or repairing service.

Yes, developing a website or blog about fixing your own fridge may not garner your thousands of bucks in 2-3 months but if you do the right research it can bring you a substantial income.

This type of marketing is and can become a very lucrative “Evergreen Online Business”.

Paul Guzman

Start an Online Website

Building Self Confidence

How does someone build self confidence? Where does it come from?  How can we get it and keep it?  These are the questions most internet marketers folks with have.

Self confidence does not come easily matter of fact sometimes it is downright almost impossible considering the amount of b.s. you go throughout your life.  Abusive parents and siblings, even friends who think they are doing you a favor by constantly pointing out your faults.  Friends and family members are will always tell you “You can’t do it” or “It’s way too complicated” and of course the most infamous quote that seems to always creep into your mind “what if nobody likes it”?

There are many reasons why people can’t acquire self confidence and one of the biggest reasons is “fear”.  It could be fear of giving a speech, starting a website or blog, a big presentation, self doubt or just plain online failure.

Failure is one of the biggest concerns among Internet Marketers.  But without failure you will never acquire the confidence to become successful.  So what are ways to develop self confidence?

Here are my guidelines to building self confidence in the Internet Marketing World.

• With each failure you will get closer to success.  What’s great about online marketing it that no one can really see you.  This makes the embarrassment level almost non-existent.  If you’ve can’t seem to find success start over. Start a new website or blog the old failure site or blog will just fade away.  But remember to apply what you learned from the previous venture.
• Find someone who has been through it.  These folks were at some point in their life self-doubting.  Ask them how they did it.  You can find thousands of forums, blogs and websites that have a large reader base where you can ask your questions.
• Do not be afraid to ask questions.  The more knowledgeable about your subject matter the more confident you become.
• Always be yourself. Express your own thoughts write with passion and do not become overly concerned about what other folks say.
• You need to stand out from the crowd.  It takes a little more work and research to make people notice you.  Standing in the background or never developing your own voice is not conducive to building your own self-confidence.

Paul Guzman:

How to start a website

You might be saying what the hell is this guy talking about?  The only thing you should do is ask folks if they need help.  If you don’t have the answer your chances of getting a sale are minimal.

You should never, ever tell them this is what you need or purchase this and you will get exactly what you want.  The last thing you want is to become a hard-ass high pressure salesman.

What does work is to know your products inside and out.   The majority of customers want the answer to their problem.  How can I look better?  Which products are right for me?  Will this really work?  If you know your product you can answer these questions and bam you’ve got the sale.  It does not matter if it is a tangible, digital, e-book or service it basically works the same.

So now…how does this translate into making sales online?  Easy you write useful unique content about your products.  It could be about an affiliate product but it is important that you yourself have bought and used it.   Otherwise you will not be able to tell others why it worked.

One of the challenges that people have when starting a new online business is getting traffic to their website.   Without traffic you will not be able to make sales online.

How to make online sales tips below.

1. Write great useful unique content on your website. The best way to write is to be your self.  Search engine robots will crawl all websites on a frequent basis.  I would say about 2-3 times per week.  This is the pattern I get on my own websites.  These search engine crawlers are looking for sites with fresh and new content. It is therefore important for you to have fresh and high quality content which will get your website quickly indexed by search engines.
2. It is important that you have you relevant keywords and phrases that relate to your topic on your web pages.   Write naturally about your products or service.  Use your keywords in the title tag and sparingly throughout the page.  This will increase your website ranking.  You will therefore get many visitors coming to your site via the search engines. When people visit your website, the high quality content you have will make people spend more time on your site and ultimately buy some of the products or services you offer on your site.
3. The only search engines you need to submit to are Google, Yahoo and MSN (now Bing). Submitting your URL to the search engines is an important step towards getting more visitors because it means your website will be visible from search engines. Having your website URL on search engines means that when people look for information relating to your topic on these search engines, they will find your website.
4. You need lots of good back links and one of the best ways is to ask or email other websites owners in your niche that at least a page rank of 1 or higher.  Exchanging links with popular and related websites is an effective way to drive traffic to your website, and improve the raking of your site. You will get some traffic coming to your website through other websites that you have linked to.

Remember to do your best to not sell anything online.  But by writing and developing useful content that your website visitor wants you will soon realize that people will visit and stay a whole lot longer.  The chances are also great that they will tell others about your great content.  Making sales online is really easy if you follow these steps and you will soon see an increase in traffic to your website which will mean a lot of sales and online profits for your internet business!