Niche Marketing – Keyword Research BEAST!

I don’t know why I haven’t written about this software yet, I’ve been using it for quite some time and LOVE would be an understatement.

It makes keyword research a breeze and saves TONS OF TIME! Remember when you had to use a handful of sources to research your keywords and then you still had even more research to do to figure out your competition? This software does all of that with the push of a few buttons, seriously.

You put in a keyword, set your parameters and then it will give you all the info you need about that keyword and give you a list of other relevant keywords that you can check out. It shows all the stats you need: how many broad, exact and phrase searches there are per day; how many hits you can expect if you’re number 1; the value of the keyword; whether it’s more of a buying or informational keyword; how stiff the competition is; PPC data, and even where your competition is getting its links from (great way to compete with them). You can even sort and export the data.

I use it for my niche research and for my clients. My marketing got much easier once I started using it.

When I first came across it, I did the free trial and at the end of it there was no way I could give it up. It was well worth the investment (small investment I might add); best money I’ve spent in marketing to-date.

And the guys behind it…AMAZING! They are constantly updating it, they give it holiday themes (not a huge deal but I enjoy it, just refreshing when I open it up near a holiday and it’s all themed out) and their support cannot be rivaled with.

They’ve also added a domain feature that’s pretty nifty and they have a library of videos to help you along the way.

When I say they could easily charge 10x what they charge, I’m NOT even kidding. Take the free trial and see if you don’t agree. Run a few keywords through and see if you’re not in love for life, I challenge you to say there’s something better out there. It gives you all the data you need on your keywords and all of the info you need to outrank your competition.

Check it out: Keyword Research Beast!

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Top Google Rankings

We all want them right?  Getting to the front page of Google is everyone’s goal.  It’s the most trafficked page so it delivers the most traffic to you.

So, how do you get there?  Especially with all the competition?  There are a number of ways from social media tactics, to tiresome link building and more.  Did I say tiresome?  I MEAN tiresome.

Most of my “work” time is spent building “hub” pages and links and sometimes the link submissions get really mundane.

So, I’m always in the loop of how to get more traffic, how to get good Google rankings and how to simply get found.  My entire existence right now is based on staying updated on the best ways to do this.  I love this stuff.

So I tried a new system for Google rankings.  and it works nicely!  Most current techniques involve social bookmarking (one of my favorites, and very effective) or something totally blackhat, which you have to be careful of, but this one doesn’t – which is one reason it peaked my interest.  I was curious as to what it could be.

It doesn’t take much time at all and you don’t have to keep coming back to it every day, which is great because there’s always so much other stuff that needs attention.

Check it out here and let me know what you think after you try it.  I’d love to hear the results of others.  It’s totally worth the low, one-time, cost and I think you’ll find yourself using it on all of  your sites.

I have some other stuff for you that I’ll do write-ups on soon.

Keywords Tool

(I should have delivered this fab tool and this post to you a long time ago…my apologies.  I’ve been buried under several things I’m working on and I was just using this tool and realized that I haven’t even told you about it!)

Keywords, the “key” “words” people will use to find your site, blog, content, etc.

There are a number of free keyword tools out there and they will suffice for your very basic research but there are also some paid keyword tools out there that will help you really knock the socks off of your competition and dominate a niche if used properly.

Doing in depth keyword research that pulls from a variety of sources, compiles an array of statistics and manages the information for you can be invaluable to your investment in your marketing efforts.

I’ll admit, I’m a cheapO!  If I can do something for free vs. paid, a lot of times I will but I will also admit there is a time and place for everything.  And I’ve found there is definitely a time for doing REAL keyword research…and I’ve found that it can yield serious results.

I have all of the details outlined as to how to perform serious keyword research all by myself, for free but ummm, the time it takes can get a little ridiculous if I want to get down to the nitty gritty, so I finally figured out that it’s not really free after all because I’m investing my time into it.  Time that I could be, and need to be,  investing into something else.  I don’t have endless amounts of time to spend on one thing…unfortunately (if I’d ever just hit that stupid lottery!)

To get to the point, I broke down and tried a paid keyword tool for a $1 trial.  I fell in love.  The simplicity…oh my, it was great!  The results…from the basic to the nitty gritty, in no time.  Everything I needed to know about the keywords in whatever I was working on was right there at my fingertips and it was so easy to manipulate.

What had I been missing out on this whole time that I turned my nose up to paying for something that I thought I could do just as well for free?

And something else I really love is that it’s actually a “service” and not just a “tool”.  It keeps getting better and better; they keep bringing more to the table.

And the customer service is great.  They’re quick to respond and they’re so friendly…something that is a MUST for me.  If your customer service sucks, I’ll toss you to the side quickly.  I despise today’s automation of customer service and I demand a REAL, and friendly, PERSON to handle my questions or concerns.  That’s just me.  I have my standards!

But I like that they are active.  It’s not just “Hey, here’s a tool.  Buy it and we may or may not ever upgrade/deliver higher quality to you; you may or may not get satisfactory customer service; and we may or may not stay involved in what we do on more than one level.”

It’s totally the opposite.  Blah, this is getting longer than I like my reviews to be LOL but I guess that’s because I really like this service a lot and talking about it gets me a little excited!

Okay, so aside from it actually being a “service” (and I’d even go so far to call it a “live service” even though live people aren’t necessarily picking your keywords); having fab customer service, and staying on top of, and in, the game; here are some of the things it does:

• See history and month-by-month keyword activity
• Create a comparison chart that allows you to compare a bunch of keywords and see what’s rising or falling in demand
• Allows you to do what you would normally do in a BUNCH of windows all in one place
• Gathers info from various sources, not just one or two…or even three
• Even find “typo” keywords that can be goldmines
• Find niche products
• Allows you to easily manage your results and prospective keywords
• and more than I can even keep going into!

Take a look for yourself.  Do what I did and sign up for the $1 trial (2 weeks) and see if you don’t get hooked like I did!

Memberships, after the trial, start for as little as under $20 a month.  If you’re into making money online, you can turn this little service into as much money as you want.

Sign up for your $1 trial here. I challenge you to NOT love it!

Social Networking Guide

This is a really great resource guide.  It lists hundreds of Web 2.0  sites in every category and of every niche.  It’s very helpful in finding the sites you want to utilize in your social networking / social marketing journey and it’s also just a great way to find helpful sites.  You’re sure to come up with plenty of ideas while browsing these resources too.  It’s like a ‘phone book’ of Web 2.0 properties.

I really don’t even know where to begin to tell you how much they cover in this guide.  There are over 3,000 sites with a brief explanation of what each site is about.   I consider myself an Internet / Social Media Guru but there are useful sites here I’ve never heard of.

I get most of my backlinks from social sites and as a Social Marketer for hire it’s important I stay up-to-date with developments and sites in my niche.  While I haven’t had time to read the whole directory or make a list of the sites I most want to check out and use, I’m certain it’s going to be very useful to me.  They even have each site entry tagged for easy searching.

It’s got the most popular social networking sites and even new social networking sites (I’m sure more will pop up though!_

While the site offers paid membership programs, the Social Networking Sites Guide is free to download.  It’s totally worth the few minutes.  Go get it.

Craigslist flagging and ghosting (ad not showing up) CL has a flagging forum, yes!

I’ve posted before about Craigslist flagging problems, ghosting (ads not showing up) and programs to help with your Craigslist marketing efforts but something that I didn’t think to mention at the time – and thought might be an interesting tidbit for those of you who don’t know this, is that Craigslist literally has a flagging forum and an army of flaggers – I like to refer to these people as the ‘Big Brother of Craigslist’. They watch all!

These flaggers are in addition to your competition who will flag your ad to keep theirs at the top and try to dominate the business; or just PITA people who are just plain annoying.

The ‘Big Brother’ clan of Craigslist apparently watches ads that are posted and if they feel that any rule has been broken whatsoever they flag it- this includes multiple ads, ads they feel are miscategorized or feel are misleading, ads posted in caps, and a million other reasons – some maybe legit but many petty.

These watch dogs ban together and help each other flag. They will share the ad that they feel needs to be flagged and everyone joins in and flags it. It appears they literally have people that do this all day and all day – as if it’s their life. They take it way too seriously.

So what does this mean for you as a Craigslist marketer? It means that you have an army of people firing the flag button for any reason at all and often even for no good reason. It means that not only do you have a forum of people ready to take your ads down but you also have other marketers (your competition) having your ads removed using flagging software. And you even have some people who just have nothing better to do and find it to be fun.

Unfortunately, with all of these odds stacked against you, the only thing you can really do is fight back.

You can use a Craigslist Auto Ad Poster, Account Creator, Ad Rotator that will automatically post your ads for you (and much more) including ad rotation, auto ad posting, ad scheduling, IP changing, automatic account creation & pretty much every other CL need you have).

I use it to successfully manage many Craigslist campaigns and stay ahead of the wolf pack! They can’t touch me now!

Craigslist will probably never take care of the flagging abuse and problems so all you can do is arm yourself with the proper tools.

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Articles are one key to SEO and driving traffic. One of the things that takes the longest time is actually submitting the articles.

So, like everything else – why not make the process easier? Use an Article Submitter to submit your articles to as many article directories as you like.

There are a lot of Article Submitters out there but I like this one because it’s so simple to use and totally customizable. You just enter all of your personal info once and save it.

Then YOU decide which article sites you want to submit to. There are a bunch of article submission sites set up in this submitter already but again, it’s totally customizable and you can add, edit, or delete article submission sites as you see fit.

Just spend a little time deciding which article sites you want to submit to in the beginning, customize your submitter to submit to these sites and be done with it.

Some article submitters are set up to submit to tons of useless or irrelevant sites. Not this one.

You can add, edit and delete your articles; set it to auto fill or manual fill; and, again, totally customize it to your needs alone.

Not only that, but I’ve gotten a deal for my readers to get it for $19.99. Really can’t beat it. Twenty bucks to totally customize and automate your article submissions. Can’t spend all day submitting just one article can you? Well, maybe you can. But I’m always a fan of automation. I’ve said it a hundred times and I’ll keep saying it – there is just way too much to do to dedicate all of your time to one part of your marketing or promotions.

I have tried a couple of the free article submitters and never found one I really liked. Most of the other’s out there range from $30+ to in the hundreds.

This thing is so simple to use. frees up your time, gets your articles where YOU want them to be and costs what it takes to feed a family of 3 lunch at a fast food restaurant one time.

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Craigslist ad not showing up? It’s called ad ghosting.

If you have posted a Craigslist ad and it’s not showing up, even though the status is ‘published’, your ad has been “ghosted”.

Craigslist does this if its system labels you a spammer.  This makes spammers think their ads have been posted but really they’re not.  Most big-time spammers won’t take the time to actually look to see if their ad is listed.

I’ve seen several explanations for the algorithm used to determine someone is a spammer from the amount of html code used to the number of ad posted.

Now all of your ads are being ghosted.  So how do you get your account out of this status?  It’s not easy.  There are a few things you need to do.

• go to your account and delete as many of your currently published ads as possible, particularly any posted within 48 hours of each other
• clear your browser cache, cookies, etc. – and do this each time or two you post ads from here on out
• wait at least 48 hours before posting again

I found that changing your ip address helps too.  There are several ways to do this, one way is to unplug your modem for a while…the amount of time varies with your provider.  Or you can do a release/renew of your ip address through the command box.

If you have run into this problem, then you’re probably posting a lot of ads or posting fairly frequently.  My suggestion is to purchase Craigslist Marketing/Advertising Software. It’s totally worth the investment to keep your Craigslist ad campaigns running smoothly and to avoid trying to undo ghosted accounts.

This Craigslist Software does EVERYTHING and it makes it so those stupid flagging and ghosting problems don’t affect you anymore. It auto-creates account, auto rotates titles and pictures, lets you create and post nice HTML ads, lets you schedule ad posting, allows you to post across multiple cities and multiple categories, provides reports, helps you with IP changing and pretty much puts everything on ‘can’t touch me’ and auto-pilot status.

It makes it a lot easier to manage your ad campaigns and you can run tons of ads and campaigns easily and with a few clicks.  This also helps immensely to avoid the dreaded Craigslist Ad Ghosting nonsense because you can use many different accounts.

Craigslist Auto Ad Poster – Confirmer & Ad Remover Tool

Craigslist advertising is huge but you need some tricks up your sleeve to make the most of it. Managing Craigslist campaigns can be timely and aggravating unless you have the right tools.

I use Craiglist for all sorts of things and I use auto ad posting software to simplify that part of my marketing life. I use too many marketing methods to be able to spend hours and hours on any one. If you read most of my reviews, you’ve probably already figured out I LOVE “auto” products. There’s no way I could cover everything if I did it all manually.

This Craigslist Software one is my favorite yet and I’ve tried most of them.

It has/allows for:

• unlimited ad campaigns
• scheduled ad posting
• rotation of different things like titles, images & email addresses used
• automatic account creation
• automatic ad posting confirmation
• simultaneous category and city posting
• optional CAPTCHA bypass credits
• and more

It cuts your ad frustration down to practically zero and chops the time you have to spend fooling with this stuff down by at least 5x. There’s just really not a better ad posting/management solution. And you don’t have to worry about flagging and ghosting because you can just keep auto posting to make sure you stay there and stay at the top.

Craigslist Auto Account Creator

If you use Craigslist (or Backpage or Kiji) for marketing – read on!

You can now automatically CREATE HUNDREDS OF CRAIGSLIST ACCOUNTS, email addresses and auto-post ads with a few clicks!

Craigslist is an ever-growing site and an excellent site to advertise and market on. All types of services and products are advertised on Craigslist. Craigslist gets more than 10 million unique visitors per day and is the largest online classified ad site IN THE WORLD.

Sometimes we need a number of accounts for different reasons. You may use different accounts for different things and Craigslist has gotten pretty tough on their spamming rules. Oftentimes ads that aren’t spam are flagged (and FOR NO GOOD REASON) and this can cause a negative affect on your account.

Craigslist does this thing called “ghosting” ads which make it look like your ads are being posted but they’re really NOT! And believe me, it’s a PITA to get your account out of that status.

Along comes a Craigslist Auto Account Creator & Auto Ad Poster which automatically accounts and auto-posts ads for you (even takes care of the ad confirmations), lets you schedule ad posting, rotates email address and a few other things, provide optional CAPTCHA bypassing, provides reports, and gives you literally every other option you could possibly need to manage your CL ad campaigns.

Just a few of the programs features are:

• auto account creation
• auto ad confirmation
• ad scheduling (hourly, daily, weekly)
• rotation of titles, pictures, email addresses
• IP changing
• submit to multiple cities and account simultaneously
• optional CAPTCHA bypass

And those are just a few of the features. I use this program and I love it. It has simplified that part of my marketing life unbelievably. It’s well worth the investment.

If you’re a serious marketer, you must have this in your arsenal and greatly reduce the hassle of your advertising. Craigslist Auto Account Creator & Ad Poster Software