Niche Internet Marketing

Today I want to share a method with you to help boost your sites in Google.com.  Most people will not have heard of this, but if you have, read on to find out how effective it can be for you …

Let me start by outlining the basics of SEO.

1)  You need an optimized website:

- Your main keywords should be in your TITLE tag
- Your main keywords should be in your SUBJECT tag
- Your main keywords should be in your KEYWORDS tag
- Your main keywords should be in your H1 tag
- Your main keywords should be used throughout your copy
- Create a Google Sitemap and submit to your Google webmaster account (google.com/webmasters/tools)
- Add Google Analytics to your website

2)  You need to get social

- Submit your site to DIgg
- Submit your site to Delicious
- Twitter your site
- Link to your site on facebook
- Create some videos for your site, upload to YouTube and link back to your site

3)  Spread the word

- Write a press release and submit it to Webwire.com and other Press Release websites
- Write some keyword rich articles and submit them to ezinearticles and other article sites
- Make some useful posts on related forums with a link in your signature
- Create some Joint Ventures / Affiliates and get them to spread the word (that is sell) for you!
- Send an email to your list / your JV partner’s lists

Now step 4 is the key to putting your SEO into overdrive and boosting your results exponentially.

To do this step, you will need to create a small bit of software.  A toolbar is an ideal piece of software to make this work.  I use the free toolbar creation website http://www.itoolbar.net.  It only takes about 5 minutes to create a toolbar you can use.

When you create your toolbar, add a list of useful sites related to your topic, including your own website listed at the top.  Then generate your toolbar and save it to your hard disk.

The next step will be to upload your toolbar to as many software directories as you can online.  This can be quite a time-consuming process.  There is software that will semi-automate this for you like PromoSoft found at http://www.develab.net.  I haven’t tried this option, but if you are tight on funds, then once you have the software and set it up, you will save a lot of money on re-submissions and targeting other niches.

Your other option is to use a software submission service like Software Submit found here http://www.softwaresubmit.net/services.htm.  These types of services will do the hard work for you.  Most of them are priced at about $80 to $300 per piece of software you submit.

Whatever option you choose, you will upload the toolbar you created earlier, and it will be anchored with your keyword phrase you want to rank for in Google.

This method really works.  I have been submitting software for all my niches that have highly competitive keywords.

If you sell software, you can create time limited trials and submit your actual software with a link back so customers can buy the full version.

This method will work to rank you in Google, even if you have been previously sandboxed.  If you have all your other SEO strategies worked out, but were still finding top #10 rankings in Google elusive, give this method a try - you’ll be surprised by the results!

To your success!

Leigh Burke.

Hi there,

I want to provide you with some direction in relation to your Online Business. Specifically, in this post you will learn:

- How not to get bogged down in the your daily tasks
- How to maintain a laser like focus
- How to leverage the internet for optimum results
- How to create and maintain a strategy that you can refer back to again and again

We all know how easy it is to get distracted on the Internet.

You log onto Youtube to get some video marketing ideas, and before you know it, 2 hours has passed watching silly, amusing videos.

You need to break down your daily tasks, log off the internet (if you don’t need it for that task), then focus on the goal at hand.

To achieve the above, you need a STRATEGY, and a PLAN.

I use MindMapper to create my overall vision and strategy for my online businesses. I lay out all the elements of each web entity visually, including my development, production and marketing approaches.

Here is what a typical marketing plan for one of my websites looks like after export from my MindMapper software:

1. Articles
① ezinearticles.com
② Article submitter
③ Gurucreation.com
2. Blog Network (Loophole)
① 0dollarplan.com
② Internet Macros for link submission to my blogs
③ Money Sites
3. Posts to own blogs
① LeighBurke.com
② NicheInternetMarketing.com
③ Amazon.com/leighburke
4. RSS
① Feedage.com
② Submit feeds from Wordpress Mydomain.com/feed
5. Twitter
① http://twitter.com/mypage
6. Youtube
① http://www.youtube.com/user/mypage
② Create demonstration videos in Camtasia
7. Facebook
① Social Bookmarking
② Build friends
8. Backlinks
① From my blogs
② http://www.gurucreation.com/
③ Software submission
 Chris Rempel has done 500
 Upload.com
 Toolbar
 promosoft
9. Software Links
① http://www.gurucreation.com/
② Distribute free software
10. Email List
① magazine-template.com/responder
② Build with free offers
③ Email series
④ e-course
⑤ nicheinternetmarketing.com/responder
⑥ See solo ads
⑦ Email demonstration videos to list
11. Warrior Forum
① WSOs
② Joint Ventures
③ Build List with Free WSOs
④ Useful Posts in General Area
12. Pinging
① Pingoat.com
② pingomatic.com
13. Publishing
① Articles
② Books
③ Blog Posts
④ Twitter
⑤ List
14. Joint Ventures
① Build List of possible list owners
② Build relationship
③ Approach gurus
15. Teleseminars
① Guest for other people
② Run my own
③ http://www.allconferencecalls.com.au/conference-call/voice-ppc/
④ Page to limited time special after conference call
16. Seminars
① Speak at seminars
② Run own seminars / training
③ Specials for product sales at seminars etc.
17. Publicity
① Radio
② TV
③ Newspapers
④ Websites
18. Clickbank
① Sell my own products
② Recommend other products to list
19. Commission Junction
① For physical products
② For Software
20. Solo Ads
① DirectoryOfEzines.com
② Sell solo ads in my own newsletter
③ Put ads in other ezines to poach subscribers
④ Offer free niche videos

After I have my strategy and plans created, I print them out and either hang them up in my office, or add them to that particular project folder so I can refer back to them often (every day!)

If I am not doing one of the activities from my plan, then I am not on target.

You see, there is a difference between research and execution. Once you have committed to creating and marketing a product or service online, you need to create your plan and execute it.

Once you have that product up and running, then you can go back to your research phase which might include googling, browsing youtube and other websites for ideas and inspiration for your next product.

I probably shouldn’t need to point this out, but you need to keep a diary, and a daily tasks list. My daily task list should include SPECIFIC items from my plan (above). So it might look like this:

MONDAY - 2 hours joint ventures, 1 hour pinging, 30 mins blog network, 30 mins RSS

TUESDAY - 2 hours post to blogs, 4 hours publishing, 1 hour warrior forum

WEDNESDAY - 2 hours joint ventures, 1 hour pinging, 30 mins blog network, 30 mins RSS

THURSDAY - 4 hours backlings, 1 hour facebook

FRIDAY - 1 hour solo ads, 2 hours email list

SATURDAY - Time with family

SUNDAY - Time with family

My DIARY would include any specific meetings or teleseminars I need to attend at a certain time. These can be included on the task list, but I cannot change the time I perform them, so they need ot be in the diary.

As each task is completed, cross it off your daily task list. Yours might be a lot more detailed than my example above. Outlook has a great task list manager, and there are other bits of software you can use to help you manage this. Or you could just use the old fashioned notebook and pen!

Now in MindMapper, I have a separate METHODOLGY map. One of my strategies is to outsource as much as I can to gain leverage. To do this, I recruit labour from www.Getafreelancer.com on a per project basis, as well as for ongoing projects.

You can outsource anything from product development (creating software, ebooks, videos etc.), to marketing or the tasks mentioned in my marketing plan above. If this is your strategy (and it should be!), then you would put an outsourcing task of say 30 minutes on each day to manage these resources, create new project listings etc.

The tasks you outsource could then be removed from YOUR task list, and added to a separate OUTSOURCED task list. This list would detail the task as well as who it is assigned to, due date etc.

That’s it for this edition. I hope this has helped clarify how you can stay on target and avoid getting bogged down in repetitive tasks and getting distracted by non-income producing distractions.

To your success!

Leigh.

Hi there,

Happy new year! I hope you had a great festive season and a happy and healthy new year.

Since I released Niche Internet Marketing last year, I have refined some of my methods to produce even greater consistency in my rankings for keywords and conversions for sales.

Today I want to focus on expanding the ideas I explored in my Niche Blog Mininet chapter. As you may or may not know, in the ‘Niche Blog Mininet chapter’ of Niche Internet Marketing I recommend you set up a network of tightly themed blogs to provide high quality backlinks to your sales pages for the products you are selling.

Over the last few months, I have been testing some additional tweaks that will make your blog network much more effective and targeted whilst allowing your sites and links to get indexed and registered in the fastest possible time.

Firstly I want to address the issue of using multiple C class IP addresses. If you have set up a network of blogs the traditional way (i.e. all on one hosting account), you now run the risk of the search engine algorithms identifying you as somebody trying to manipulate search engine rankings. Whilst this is not a 100% certainty, you do run the risk as the search engines have the ability to identify that all your blogs are on one server by checking the IP address.

To address this problem, I recommend you set up a multiple class C hosting account with somebody like http://www.webhostforseo.com. For about $50 per month you will get 10 different class C IP addresses which you can setup your blogs on. I recommend you set up a maximum of 3 blogs per IP address. This wil give you a blog network of up to 30 blogs which will be more than sufficient for increasing your backlinks to your sales pages. Additionally, you can setup sales pages on these IP addresses too.

Secondly, let’s address the issue of providing content for your blog network. You’ll agree that updating thirty blogs all with a different theme would be more than a full-time job. I am not recommending you update any of your blogs manually at all. Fortunately there is a Wordpress plugin that will populate all your blogs for you automatically, it’s called Caffeinated Content.

Caffeinated Content is a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to automatically make posts to your blog based on the keywords you specify. You can set date ranges for the posts to occur (in the past or in the future). If you set future dates, Caffeinated Content will dripfeed the content to your blog over a period of time. The actual content that will populate your blogs can be set to either articles, Yahoo Answers or YouTube videos.

It is very important that each of your blogs has a tight theme, and the content you supply to each particular blog adheres tightly to that theme. For instance, if I have a blog about ‘bird watching’, then that should be the title of my blog. Additionally, when I run Caffeinated Content from my wp-admin page, I would use the keyphrase ‘bird watching’ so that all the content added to my blog fit the theme. When you run caffeinated Content, set the items to be posted to 50. Then leave it at that. Don’t keep running it every week, as you’ll just put unnecessary load on your server.

Now you may be wondering about being penalised for having duplicate content on your blogs. Let me reassure you, that at this point in time you needn’t worry. The reason being is that we are not trying to rank our blog pages high in the search engines, rather we are using our blogs as a tool to provide backlinks to our sales pages. Our sales pages WILL have unique content and will therefore be ranked higher in the search engines due to the backlinks we are providing from our blogs.

Another area I have been testing over the last few months is the randomisation of the links displayed on each particular blog. There is a really good plugin for Wordpress that you should get called Better Blogroll. Better Blogroll allows you to configure the number of links that are randomly displayed in your Blogroll. Now here is the sheer simplicity and beauty of this method. Each time the search engines visit your blogs and a different list of 4 links is displayed, the search engines will count them as ANOTHER backlink, even if it is the same link being randomised again. Additionally, once the links move off the list from crawl to crawl of the search engine spider, they will not be removed from your total number of backlinks. Therefore the number will always be rising. When you install the Better Blogroll plugin, set it to display 4 links. Make sure you add it in the Widgets section of wp-admin. Also, edit your theme and add your sidebar code to the bottom of the single.php file. That way your links will be displayed on the bottom of every single post page!

Once you have set up your list of links on one blog, you can access them from http://www.YourBlog.com/wp-links-opml.php. You can then goto your other blogs and import the links directly without having to retype them all. In your links list, you should have links to all your other blogs, as well as links to your sales sites. Remember to make your anchor text the same as your keywords and keyphrases you are targeting.

I hope this has helped clarify some of the intricacies of setting up your Blog Mininet. A lot of these strategies are discussed in depth in a new ebook called The Ultimate Search engine Loophole.

Hi folks,

The Niche Internet Marketing Video series now has an affiliate program on Clickbank.  Details about how you can promote this vide series and earn $72.75 for every sale you make can be found here:

http://nicheinternetmarketingvideos.com/affiliates/

 I look forward to having you on my team of affiliates!

Leigh.

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A niche is any tightly focused segment of a market, having specific appeal.  For example rather than selling containers or even buckets, or even red buckets, you might specialise in selling SMALL red buckets.  That would be your niche.  And if anybody wanted a small red bucket, they would know to come to you, because you are the expert and have the best stock for that particular niche.

Internet Marketing covers all the new marketing methods that have evolved online as the internet has expanded through all areas of our life.  These include SEO (search engine optimisation), link building, article writing, email marketing, Adwords, YouTube marketing, Facebook marketing, list building and many other methods that are both black hat (illegal), grey hat (of dubious origin), and white hat (perfectly legal).

A niche internet marketer has entrepreneurial qualities.  They can spot a trend, and use their skills to quickly create a product and site to take advantage of the demand and monetise the opportunity.  They may have tens of sites or hundreds of sites. Each site may be earning them only a modest income, but the sum of all the multiple streams of income add up to produce a significant cashflow running on auto-pilot for the most part.

The internet has changed the way consumers consume.  In his book “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson explains how the internet has created a unique culture of endless choice, and unlimited demand.  This has created a “Long Tail”, whereby it is no longer economically viable for the big conglomerates to chase the mega-hits (Top 10 music, best selling books, this seasons must-have product), as the bulk of sales has shifted to items that may only sell one unit a month.  It is the sum of all these sales that for the first time in history has surpassed the high volume items and created a whole new market for niche products.

Niche Internet Marketing aims to give you the skills required to recognise, research and take advantage of opportunities as they arise.  You are about to learn how to quickly and effortlessly create websites for your niche markets and monetise them before setting and moving onto your next opportunity.  Over time, you will build up a network of niche product and service offerings that will bring you multiple streams of income providing extra income and / or freeing up your time.

With your extra income, you may buy the car you always wanted, or the house of your dreams.  You might take an extra vacation every year.  You may wish to escape the 9-5 all together and like Tim Ferriss the author of “The 4-Hour Work Week” join the new rich and take mini-retirements.  Niche Internet Marketing can help you achieve those dreams.

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