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.

(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!

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.

What do you need help with?  Let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

Think about what problems or frustrations you’re trying to solve and let me know.  I have Craigslist, MySpace and YouTube covered in their respective categories but let me know what other places you need help marketing on, etc.

TTYS!

This is fantastic. I love most things “push button”.

If you do any kind of affiliate marketing, this affiliate software will make everything SO much simpler and SO much more profitable.

You can literally set up your affiliate eCommerce store in just a few steps and put together an entire store in no time.

You can pack your site full of products and be raking in the commissions. I’ve seen a few of these type of programs out there but this is one of my faves. There’s another one ranking at the top of my list that I’ll blog about soon.

What I love about these systems is that you don’t have to know any programming stuff.

And this one allows you to create unlimited stores and this is already Search Engine Optimized. You can customize it, build a network of stores, use a drip function and a bunch of other things. And another feature I really like is being able to embed products into your post. There is nothing like visuals to warm your visitor and help convert them.

I could go on and on but I try to keep these posts ’somewhat’ short, though admittedly I’m not always great about that LOL.

Check it out and multiply your money – after all that’s what it’s all about right? Right!

Click the link below and you’ll see all of the features – and you can check out screenshots and videos.

Have Your Own Affiliate Store Up and Running TODAY!

*Cheers to more money!*

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 and Flagging Software that will automatically post your ads for you (and more) and you can use flagging software for your own needs.

Another handy tool I’ve blogged about under the Craigslist Marketing section is the Craigslist Auto Account Creator which is also an Email Account creator. You can click the links to read more about these pieces of software but basically this one creates as many Craigslist accounts as you want and also creates the corresponding emails to match the accounts.

— You highlight the account you want to use and click “login” to either login to the Craigslist account or the email account. You can also use this tool to create just email accounts if you want. (hint – you can forward all of the emails accounts (or some) to one or more main email accounts so you don’t have to check them all). I really love this thing and use it faithfully. Having different accounts allows me to post as many times as I want really because I can just use different accounts – or you can use certain accounts for different campaigns.

I use both of those tools to successfully manage many Craigslist campaigns and stay ahead of the wolf pack!

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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—–> Because I’m into affordable marketing options.

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.

Get it here: Article Submitter Make My Submission Life Easier!

If you’re purchasing within the 7 day special price week, use the link at the top to get it for $12.99!  I promise that will disappear.

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.

There are two programs I use.

One is a Craigslist Auto Account Creator that creates hundreds of Craigslist accounts (and the corresponding email addresses).  You can read more about it here at my full review:  Craigslist Auto Account Creator.

The other is a Craigslist Auto Ad Poster that comes with Ad Confirmer software and Craigslist Flagging software.  It will auto post ads for you and confirm them; and you can auto flag ads with the flagging software.  More detailed info in the full review here:  Craigslist Auto Ad Poster and Craigslist Flagging Software.

These tools make 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 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 one is my favorite yet and I’ve tried a few.

It has/allows for:

• unlimited ad campaigns
• allows for creation of hundreds of ad variations in no time
• ad organization
• hidden codes that make your ads appear unique each time
• automatic updates and support

and more.

They also give you the Confirmer Tools and Ad Remover Tools that will:

• flag ads you choose
• confirm all of your ad posts for you

Find out more about it below – you can read more details, etc. on their own page. I’m off to “auto” do some stuff LOL.

Click here to view more details

–> You can also check out the Craigslist Auto Account Creator that creates hundreds of Craigslist accounts and the email addresses to go with them (or just create email accounts) with just a few clicks in minutes.

****NOTE – this fabulous product has been discontinued =(  I’m in the process of testing out two other programs that do the same thing and will report back with recommendations.

You can still use the other products listed under the Craigslist Marketing category.

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If you use Craigslist or just needs lots of email addresses for marketing – read on!

You can now automatically CREATE HUNDREDS OF CRAIGSLIST ACCOUNTS and their corresponding Gmail or Yahoo accounts in seconds! with a few clicks!

You can even JUST create tons of email accounts for marketing needs if you want – with no Craigslist accounts.

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 about 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 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 which automatically creates as many accounts as you want it to. It creates Gmail/Yahoo email accounts to match each CL account and assigns the logins and passwords to both automatically. It’s so awesome. (You can forward the email from each account to a specific account if you like so you don’t have to worry about checking all those!)

Just a few of the programs features are:

• make just email accounts without Craigslist accounts for your marketing needs
• can use proxy servers
• allows you to choose the length and details of account names
• set up email forwarding, filtering and POP3 access in Gmail accounts automatically
• log in to your email or Craigslist accounts automatically
• automatically clears cookies between each account or when browsing – to keep from getting your accounts in trouble or your ads ghosted
• posts ads to Cragslist 10x faster than manually
• import/export function

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.

Dominate Craigslist The Easy Way With Auto Account Creator

–>You can also read my post on the Craigslist Auto Ad Poster I like.