Social Marketing, cPanel Upgrade or Whatever - Slow Down and Read

Social Marketing, cPanel Upgrade or Whatever - Slow Down and Read

I am as guilty as anyone of this, but will rant
for a while anyway, as this is a problem that
many have.

We get so busy that we forget to take the time
to be sure we know the best (or even sometimes
just the basic) ways to do the things that we take
for granted as basic tasks.

I got thrown for a loop today by something as
simple as the new cPanel upgrade. Not really a
big deal, but when you are a SemiLiterate
Marketing Thug with emphasis on the SemiLiterate
for technical stuff, it seems like a really big deal...

I was so focused on some changes to be made to
one of my Thank You Pages, that it took me quite
a few minutes to stop, take a breath and just look
around. Once I did, I found that I could still use
the old File Manager by selecting Legacy File
Manager.

Once I took the time to look around I found that
I like the upgrade. I like the wysiwyg HTML
editor. Lots to appreciate, and I got the changes
to my page made far quicker because I took the
time to just breathe... Read... and Implement.

Seems basic huh?!

But I'll bet you do it too.

I have folders full of information that can make
my work easier, more effective, and even more
pleasant.

Case in point:

I do a lot of Social Bookmarking, as well as other
forms of Social Marketing almost continuously as
an integral part of blogging, articlemarketing and
a host of other online endeavors.

As a result of my experience with the cPanel upgrade
I took the time to start reading this report:

Social Linking BlackBook

Grab it. No cost, but read it right away, as you will
no doubt save yourself time, as well as get more out
of your efforts by implementing what you learn.

Overall what I want you to take away from this post
is to slow down a bit and make sure that you utilize
the resources at your disposal.

You will get more done, with more ease, and get far
more results from almost whatever you do...

Floyd Bogart

Launching Your Own Product - A Necessary IM Step

Launching Your Own Product - A Necessary IM Step

At some point this is a step that you can and should
take. Even if you see yourself as primarily someone
that is engaged in affiliate marketing, having your
own products will make it possible for you to engage
in internet marketing and social marketing in manners
that just aren't possible any other way.

This is nothing to be scared about. Just another step
in the direction that we all are taking. In all likelihood
your first product will by one that comes from PLR
packages. Here is one of mine:

Blog Spider Pro

This is a great piece of software that is quite easy to
install and use that will do exactly what it says it will:

Create self-generating websites.

It has a great pricepoint at $17.00 and I am promoting
it through PayDotCom.

You can promote Blog Spider Pro by signing up HERE,
and make 50% of the sales price (less fees).

Why am I doing this?

Well, beyond the obvious profit that I can make from
selling the product I will also be able to interact with
other Affiliate Marketers at PayDotCom in a way that
I cannot do without having my own product.

I can also market other products on my ThankYou
page, which will get more traffic as my affiliates
make sales for me too.

Do you think I will be able to promote my future
products to affiliates that are already making fungolas
selling this product? I do too!

My next projects will be reworkings of things I already
have in place, but I will also be launching some new
and totally original products in the near future in ways
that you can do as easily as I.

I'll be sharing the methods here as these progress.

Floyd Bogart

Social Marketing and SEO Results

Social Marketing and SEO Results

I was reading Timothy Brocklehurst's Blog yesterday,
and the discussion of his SEO results motivated me to
go and have a fresh look at my own traffic stats. What
I found was quite a pleasant surprise.

This blog had gotten to the top of Google for some fairly
competitive keywords. One of these is online income blog.

This is probably the least competitive of the keywords
that I was getting Google and Yahoo! traffic from, but
the only one unaffected by what happened next...

Just a few hours later, Blogger locked down my blog as a
possible Spam Blog. Huh?! Boy was I confused.

This had happened to one of my other blogs a little
while ago, and took quite a while to get unlocked.
Fortunately it took just a couple of hours this time.
Mostly because I found a post in the Blogger Forum
that allowed for a much faster review.

Unfortunately the results on several of the keywords
that I had ranked high on before...

just... plain... disappeared.

So there it is. The two edged sword. We enjoy a bit of
an edge using Google's own Blogger and get favorable
treatment by their spiders, but with an interruption of
our status, that advantage disappears mighty fast.

This got me to thinking about what it was that got me
ranked for these keywords in the first place.

The flat honest fact of the matter is that I had been doing
the basics of SEO work all along, but what had really
pushed my results over the edge had nothing to do with
meta tags, keyword density or pagerank.

What had finally pushed me up there in the rankings was:

Social Marketing!

How do I know this?

Elimination.

I got no results like this when my PageRank was
higher, and no Google traffic at all when I used
various submission services, or the SEO service(s)
duJour.

The plain fact of the matter is that traffic begets
traffic begets traffic... And so on.

The more hits I get from my Social Marketing activities,
the more I get from Google, Yahoo!, MSN and the rest
of the SE crowd.

That is also the good news. It means that I'll rebound
quickly from my own Google slap. All I need to do is
keep at what I am already doing.

Social Bookmarking.

MicroBlogging.

Squidoo

Posting to forums and blogs.

What got me where we all want to be was Social
Marketing or Web 2.0 if you prefer, and that is
how it should be.

What works, and will continue to work for the
forseeable future is to be involved in your market.
So you'll see me out ther swinging in my own
"Semi-Literate Marketing Thug" way.

It ain't slick, and often it ain't pretty, but it will be me...

Interacting in the niches I choose to market to,
and making mistakes along with a few fungolas
along the way...

Floyd Bogart