Event Pre Launch Recruitment….

Dear Visitor,

I’d like to warmly invite you to a massive list building exercise
that is Launching on 06/16/08 and ends on 09/04/08.
 
It’s called “The Massive Summer  Giveaway”.
 
This is how it works: Contribute a  gift in the form of a
digital download product (like ebook, audio, video, membership
site access, etc) to the gifts section.
 
Next, provide a means for your members to signup and collect
their free product. You will need to be able to set up an
autoresponder for this task. (if you do not have an
Autoresponder, I recommend Millenium Autoresponder.
Have a look at it by clicking the banner below.)

 
Make sure your links work correctly and then join the rest of the
team to let as many people as possible know about this great opportunity to get all kind products without spending a dime starting on 06/16/2008 when we launch at
9:00AM EDT
 
This is going to be an awesome event – and I’m glad you can
be a part of it.

You can also make some hefty commissions by promoting this
event too! We are Paying .00 for every upgraded Contributor
and/or Member that signs up under your link and upgrades and
25% on every OTO sales one of your recruits purchases.

All you need to do to get going is signup by following the link
below, and fill out the form you find there with your name and a
valid email address and create a password.  

 
Look for a
confirmation email immediately after signing up so you can
confirm by clicking the link provided in the email.

Thanks for joining ! See you on the inside!
 
Let’s go build a Massive List together!!
 
Renate Schedl

P.S.Don’t forget you can rake in some hefty commissions by
promoting this event too! We are paying for every
upgraded contributor and/or member that signs up under your
link and upgrades and 25% on every OTO sales one of your
recruits purchases. Signup NOW!
http://dysak.com/go/summergiveaway/

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The old saying “Measure Twice Cut Once” is an important one to remember, especially at this phase of your blog creation. Having a blog that is now 95% ready to go live is often a time that a we start to get impatient and want to focus on the promotions to start earning money. This is a HUGE mistake because we suddenly put more items on our plate and get distracted from finishing off important items that seem insignificant but are critical to your blogs initial success.

There is certainly a good balance here as well as there are also those that are never satisfied with what they have and therefore get stuck in analysis paralysis and just sit on thier blog never moving forward with it, never feeling like it is ready. Your blog does not need to have perfect graphics and the exact correct colors, there are what we refer to as “Deal Breakers” which are the items that are critical and then there are the other tasks that are not critical but “Nice to Haves”.

The remaining items to finish before we start to go heavy with the promotions are to…

• Optimize the optin message and “Thank You” page
• Checking for errors (broken links)
• Create and submitting the Google site map (why you want to submit and not just ping)
• Turn on ping

Part 1 –> Optimize the Opt-in message and “Thank You” page

How often do you go to a blog and see a message like “Subscribe to our RSS feed”?

Do you really think that is effective?

We can guarantee that the majority of you agree it is not yet the majority of you do that very thing. This is one of the factors of your site that is so important and yet our impatience or even laziness cause us to just skim over it and go on to other things. In the previous COWpetition post we reference creating a call to action that was placed at the end of your posts to entice the reader to take a desired action on your blog. This exact same thing needs to take place with getting readers to opt in to your list.

You need to put yourself in the shoes of the reader and answer the question “what is in it for me”. People do not subscribe to RSS feeds for the sake a seeing the word subscribe, the do not submit an email just to see what happens. Never assume that offering free advice is something people will appreciate but instead give your readers what they want by providing a solution to a problem. Whether your blog is about health, automobiles, racing or make money.. there is a problem your readers have and that is why they are on your blog at that moment. It is your responsibility to understand what it is and provide a solution to them with a high percieved value.

Once you know the problem, you now have to tell them how to solve the problem by opting in to your list or subscribing to your rss feed. With the Video Game Reviews blog that we built, the problem that we focusd on was video gamers not having all the latest gaming consoles so they could play all the coolest games and so we offered them a simple way to have a chance to win one. There were a few different ideas we had for opt in headlines, we thought of mentioning how they could make thier friends jealous by showing off ther new system, they could finally stop being the butt of the jokes and actually have a system like everyone else or we could just tell them they can win one and let thier own reason surface. We opted for the last one and made it very obvious to see when they went to the blog what the benefit of opting in was.

Once we had the opt in message ready we now need to figure out how to best use the thank you landing page. This a an extremely valuable piece of virtual real estate and so often we see a thank you page that simply says “Thanks for opting in”. This is where you want to be sure that you give your reader direct instructions on what you want them to do next and it might be giving them an upsell to a product or like with the GamerzReviewz blog we used this to instruct them how to get more chances to win which were by performing actions that promoted GamerzReviewz. This is the critical need to the blog, to get the word out, and so it is the main focus.

Part 2 –>Checking for errors (broken links)

Before we create our sitemap we want to make sure that all links are working and there are no broken ones. Having broken links can cause errors and the search engines will not only not be able to properly access areas of your site but you will give readers the impression of an unfinished, unprofessional site. This is very easy to check with the free tool http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Part 3 –> Create and submitting the Google site map

Now that all the pages on your blog are ready to go, and all the links are checked and acurate, you want to make sure that the search engines are able to easily access all of them. The most effective way is to accomplish this is to create a search engine (mainly Google) specific sitemap and with WordPress this is extremely easy to do with the help of the “Google XML Sitemap” plugin. This plugin creates a sitemap that all the major search engines can read and is very easy to use.

Step 1: Go to the Plugins area and activate the “Google XML Sitemap” plugin.

Step 2: Open a blank notepad file and select save as and save the blank file as “sitemap.xml” and then repeat this step and save a new one as “sitemap.xml.gz”

Step 3: Upload these two new files to the same directory as your robots.txt file and change the permissions on them to six.six.six which is read & write access.

Step 4: Go to “Settings” –> “XML-Sitemap” and on the top of that page in the “Status” area, click on the link that says to build sitemap manually.

Step 5: You sitemap should now be ready and now scroll down and make sure the option “Build the sitemap in a background process (You don’t have to wait when you save a post)” is checked and if you have any extra pages on your blog, such as an opt in thank you page, then you are going to want to put the id# of that page in the “Exclude the following posts or pages:”.

To get the ID #, go to “Manage” –> “Posts” and then mouse over the title of the post and you will see “&post=#”, the # is the post ID.

Step 6: Now go to http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and if you do not already have an account with them, create one and then submit your sitemap. This is very important because the information that Google provides after a few days is very powerful and so do NOT just rely on the “ping” feature with this plugin. We promise that in a few days when we show you the data Google provides, you will be thankful you did this.

Part 4 –> Turn on the Ping

Now it is time to turn on the auto pinging feature in your blog but since we are having FeedBurner doing the pinging for us, we only need to ping FeedBurner and let them do the rest. The benefit of this is the back end issues that pinging the services can cause with your blog and by only pining feedburner you eliminate all these issues.

To do this simply go to Settings –> Writing and scroll down to the “Update Services”  area and enter http://ping.feedburner.com and click “Save Changes”.

Congratulations… We Are Ready For PROMOTING!!!!

Hope this post helped… let us now your questions and comments.

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OK, we are at the start of week 3 and so it is time for the 2nd COWcast and time to open up the Q&A

The feedback on the first COWCast was great (if you attended and want to leave some feedback about it, that would be fantastic… you have to be opted in via email to our list to access it) but before we schedule our second one this week, we want to open it up to any questions and or clarifications in regards to the last  weeks posts.

Here are the links to the posts as a refresher for you

• Initial On Page Optimization with a Dash of FeedBurner and Aweber
• Navigation Do Not Forget the Navigation
• Get Your Blog Up
• Keyword Research Start Up the Diamond Digger
  
• Content Creation Madness

Please post your questions and clarifications down below

We have our content ready, the internal linking set up and our robots.txt file set up. There are just a few more things to take care of and then we can start up the initial promotion engine. These are…

• 1. SEO Your Index and Link Bait
• 2. Set up the optin form with FeedBurner and Aweber

Note –> During this time we have actually initiated some of the work in the promotional side of things, but for the sake of keeping things organized in these posts we are laying it out in this order. In the next post we start getting into the promotional side of things.

Part 1 –> SEO Your Index and Link Bait

We are almost ready to go live with our blog but first we need to make sure that it is properly optimized for the search engines. To do this we will use the WordPress plugin called “All In One SEO”.

Step 1: Activate the plugin if not already activated.

Step 2: Go to “Settings” and then “All in One SEO”

Step 3: Enter in a…

• Home Title
• Home Description
• Home Keywords.

These may change after you look at the Affiliate Elite results but you still want something in there for now.

IMPORTANT –> The title of the page is like the headline of a classified ad, this is what Google uses in the main title of the listing and if your title is not formatted properly and compelling then your click through rate is going to be terrible. We have seen many people with great rankings and not great traffic due to this reason. Make a more compelling “ad” then everyone else… you want to get the attention of the person looking at the results in Google.

Google often uses the meta description as the description in the listing as well so explain the title, so if you say you are the best at something then explain why in the description.

For the keywords just put four keyword phrases about your blog, do NOT worry about this too much as Google basically ignores them and they do very little in the other search engines as well.

For the title do not use more the 10 words, for the description keep it under 20 and the keywords just put four or five phrases.

Step 4: Do NOT check the “Use categories for META Keywords” but DO check…

• Use noindex for Categories:
• Use noindex for Archives:
• Use noindex for Tag Archives:

Checking these for exclusion is very useful for avoiding duplicate content.

Also check the “Autogenerate Descriptions” this will autogenerate the description if there’s no excerpt for the post.

Step 5: Go to your Link Bait post and scroll down to the “All in One SEO Pack” form area.

You want to now create a custom…

• Title
• Description
• Keywords

…for this page.

Step 6: Now you want to go to your post text and click on the HTML tab

Step 7: Where ever you have an image in the content look for the alt=”" and you will want to enter text into the alt tag. I recommend you put the main keyword phrase in one of them (ONLY ONE) and then in any other images, simply put what the image is a picture of. This is important from a professional standpoint and is just one of the “MANY” things Google looks at.

Step 8: Last of all go through the post and bold the main keyword phrase once and then Click “SAVE”

Part 2 –> Use FeedBurner and Aweber

We are going to be brutally honest here and tell you exactly how it is. We do not organize contests, spend hours writing content and work our tails off on this blog because we are such nice people. The fact is this is part of a business and our strategy is that by providing excellent value to you and working with you to help you succeed, we will gain your trust so you will opt in to our mailing list which in turn increases our readership and advertising value and hopefully you will also eventually purchase something with us or through us. You NEED to keep this in mind for you business, you have mouths to feed, bills to pay and you need to generate revenue to pay for those things.

Why do we tell you this?

Because we see so many bloggers out there that have no clue and they are going in circles, barely making a penny and they can not figure out why. Not only do they have no idea why they are doing this (we talked about this a while ago) but they also have done absolutely nothing to actually build a business and assets.

Let me ask you this…. What would happen to your current business if Google decided to de-index your blog?

If you have not taken the time to build an asset for your business then the answer you probably have is a pretty colorful one that we will not bother repeating.

So what is an asset? An asset is basically something that you own and has a value and one of the best assets an online business can have (in our opinion) is a subscriber base. With a solid base of subscribers, even if Google totally de-indexed your blog, you would not be lost at sea, you would still have a revenue stream and your business could still grow.

Of course there is more to having a list of subscribers then that but hopefully you are getting the picture here.

With a blog one of the easiest ways to gain subscribers is through the blogs RSS feed. This is very effective for staying in touch with your readers however it has its limitations but using a service like FeedBurner.com is an excellent way to overcome those limitations. They allow you to optimize and advertise and even offer a mail option where subscribers can subscribe via email. The problem with the FeedBurner option by itself however is you do not really own the asset, instead you are left at the mercy of FeedBurner.

The Solution –> The solution to this issue is using the mailing list service Aweber with FeedBurner.

We do not want to NOT offer a RSS subscription option for those that prefer to use a RSS reader and we of course want to be able to publicize our RSS readership size for monetization purposes but at the same time we want to grow an asset that we own and can have total control over. This is where Aweber is very powerful because it works beautifully with FeedBurner to get the best of both worlds! You can also mail your list personalized messages, gifts to increase trust and the occasional offer (which is what this is all about). A word of caution however, if you are mailing a promotion… make darn sure you truly believe it is something your readers would be interested in and is something you believe is worth while for them. Do NOT send them crap or you will lose their trust!

Note –> We know of no other mailing list service that works with FeedBurner like Aweber does for being able to get the full benefits of FeedBurner tracking.

Step 1: Go to http://www.feedburner.com/ and create a free account

Step 2: Submit your RSS feed and then click the “Activate Feed” button.

Step 3: Click the “Next” button and then on the next page check the…

“I want more! Have FeedBurner Stats PRO also track:” (This is now free)

NOTE –> There is an option here to optimize the links fro tracking purposes versus search engine optimizing… personally we like to leave it at default to get the most accurate tracking but the choice is up to you.

Step 4: Click the “Optimize” tab and then click on “SmartFeed” in the side bar and activate this.

Step 5: Click the “Ping Shot” in the side bar and click all the available service and then add 5 more from the drop down box and then click “Activate”

Step 6: This step is only for those who do NOT have an Aweber account. Click on the “Email Subscriptions” in the side bar and click “Activate”. You will then take the supplied html code and enter it into a “Text” widget for your sidebar of your blog. Make sure to have it as close to the top of the sidebar as possible.

Step 7: If you have an Aweber account, you will not want to complete step 6 but instead log into your Aweber account and click on “Create and Manage Lists”

Step 8: Click the green “Create List” button and fill in the following but make sure to click the save button in each section that you fill:

• List Name
• Uncheck “Multiple Unsubscribe”
• Company Name (use name of blog)
• Website URL
• Email Address (this is what your subscribers will see)
• Name
• Check the From/Reply

Step 11: Click the “Messages” tab and “Blog Broadcast” sub menu and then the green “Create Blog Broadcast” button.

Step 12: Enter the following information…

• RSS Feed URL: Put your FeedBurner RSS feed URL in here
• Send Preferences: Send immediately and check Send Automatically
• Click the green “Load Templates” (Just use the basic template)
• In the “Plain Text Message” delete the lines…{!rss_channel_title}
  {!rss_channel_description}
  {!rss_channel_link}

  …and replace them with something like…

  Hey {!firstname_fix},
  Here is the latest update from Website Name Here…

  (Obviously use something in your own voice)

  It should look like this…

  

  Repeat the same step for the HTML message and so it looks like…

  

  Click the green save button.

Step 13: Go to “List Settings”, then the sub menu “Web Form” and click the green “Create Web form” button.

Step 14: Fill in the following information…

• Form Name
• Check “In line”
• Create a “Thank You” page on your blog and put the URL to the Thank You page in the field (DO not use the Aweber default).
• Put that same URL in the “Already Subscribed Page” field. (This is what we do initially but later on we change this but we will talk about that later)
• Click Next and add the “Name” option to the form and then mouse over the Name field in the preview box and click on the blue box with a pencil in it. In the drop down now select “Yes” for required.
• Click Save.

Step 15: Click on the Get HTML link and copy the HTML not the JavaScript.

Step 16: Log into your blog admin area and go to the “Design” and then “Widgets”. Click the “Add” beside the “Text” option to add a text widget and then click “edit” on the new added widget. Enter the HTML for the optin and click “change” and then “Save Changes”

Step 17: Drag the widget to the top of the widgets and again click “Save Changes”

Step 18: Go to your blog index page and view the optin box to make sure it is properly formatted to work with your blog. We will talk about formatting the optin message and thank you page in the next post.

Step 19: Go the Plugins page and activate the plugin “FeedBurner Feedsmith” and then go to “Settings” and then “FeedBurner”

Step 20: In the #2 box, enter your FeedBurner RSS feed URL, leave the #3 empty and then click save. Your RSS feed will now auto redirect to the FeedBurner one.

In the next post we are going to talk about…

• Optimizing your optin message and “Thank You” page
• Creating and submitting your Google site map (why you want to submit and not just ping)
• Checking for errors

Hope you found this a helpful post! Do not forget to register for our HUGE contest if you have not done so already (Click Here to do that now) and as always give us some feedback, questions and comments about this post

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Every article is worth cash!

Zo Nicholas' articles about Trafficbunnies June promo made it straight to Rank 6 on Google under Trafficbunnies. YORGOOpublishing is a precursor site to all the Semiomantics XO sites and XO has proven to be more powerfull the YORGOOpublishing. The power of publishing is reflected by the power to be able to transport our message (article) to the selected target. From this power of publishing you can deduct huge advertisoing potential. Semiomantics Network is a network of sites that build publishing power for all participating webmasters. We are not interested in building publishing power for Semiomantics.net but for the websites which will be empowered by Semiomantics Network participants. If your main site was http://AlejandraNeri.com, then http://alejandraneri.semiomantics.net will act like a driver for the main site. We use such drivers for YORGOOpublishing and that's one opf the reason why YORGOOpublishing has acquired such a publishing power in just 3 months. All participants in Semiomantics Network will end up with the same set-up as YORGOOpublishing by just following the instructions at our seminars. (After increasing our number of participants for June we run again short and there are just 5 tickets left). Conclusion: every article you can place with your target and gain visitors is worth hard cash. You can translate every visitor into GoogleAdword Clicks and calculate the value of the article by knowing what every click would cost on that target (niche key-words or key-phrases.) I wonder if TrafficBunnies sends Zo some flowers for her article and the publication through our site and semantic  Publishing network…:-). Yorgo PS: Checkout YORGOOpublishing's rank 6 on Google:

Greek Coffee Time

7 Days after it's launch Semiomantics.net is already indexed with 9 sites.

A week ago we started building Semiomantics.net, the semantic network of websites, all loaded as subdomains of the main domain http://semiomantics.net . Some of the sites we launched last week-end not only have been indexed, but they are also on top 10 positions in major niches of their target. I know that there are still some sites waiting for Google's spider, sites which contain great original content. The Google spider is a lot more like a lotery than you may think. It's just a matter of being patient and continuing to publish content into the main category of the blog (which in this case should be your name category).  By the way: 2 weeks ago we created a word, semiomantics; by today there are already over 4000 references in Google for semiomantics. Here below the top 10 of which 7 are subdomains created last week-end (on page two and three there are more such as Boruch's site or Ninfa's site: Make it a great semantic blogging day with semiomantics! Yorgo Semantics

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Ninfa Carpernter - Congratulations!

Congratulations to you Ninfa Carpernter for being a cash prize winner on Semiomantics.net. Knowing how hard you have been working on your forthcoming ebook I am sure this will be a welcome little bonus. I look forward to being one of the first readers of your book. Wishing you Success, Zo Nicholas P.S.A BIG personal thank for being a ‘pink roses conspirator’, they are blooming pink already.

If you are in the market for a professional template for your site, but don’t want to spend an outrageous amount of money, a great resource that offers the ability to get an incredibly affordable, customized to your needs template is YesTemplates.com. They offer a variety of templates for customers, and with the cost of the templates starting at a paltry $75 for an entire site, there’s a ton of value available.

The YesTemplates.com page is easy to navigate, right from the top page down. You can choose from a large variety of already designed templates in a bunch of categories. No matter what specific purpose your site may have, there’s likely a template on this site that you can use. From sites for churches and other religious organizations, to construction, dating, and even personal blogs, there are options for your site’s purpose.

Each page also has a preview image that can be brought up demonstrating each page’s capabilities. Each template is priced for your ownership, not just for the rights to use them. Yes, each template at YesTemplates is available for one buyer, and once sold, the buyer retains all rights to that page… with a few restrictions tough. For just $75, that price is ridiculously inexpensive for a complete design.

Upon purchase, you receive a zipped folder containing the site in an image program file, all of the fonts used, and all of building blocks of the site, including the hard coding involved in getting the page to show on various browsers. This way, the site can be manipulated in any way you may need for your own uses, as well as ensuring that your site can be made compatible with future technologies.

It is important to note that the site’s designs are all created in-house, meaning that what you find on YesTemplates is unique and won’t be found anywhere else on the Internet. The site employs experts in all aspects of the creation of websites including logo design, layout and graphic designs, JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS coding experts, experts in dealing with Flash animations, and even high end technologies like PHP, MySQL, and AJAX, ensuring that whatever purpose that you need for your website design can be developed by YesTemplates.

If you have a template of your own already and want it changed, need some alterations to a design that YesTemplates has, or want a new corporate identity or a custom site from scratch, YesTemplates does this work as well. With the ability to custom design to your organization’s specifications, or create what you want from scratch, YesTemplates can ensure that no matter what vision you may have for your business’s web appearance, they can create what you’re looking for. They provide mockups of your site in progress, and can turn around a site in as little as four business days that is ready to be put up on the Web and shown to the world. Plus, they also create designs that are part of the new Web 2.0, at the cutting edge of multimedia and Internet appearance and utilizing the leading technologies in website development.

With the amount of templates available to purchasers from just $75 for full ownership, the myriad (how about that fancy word) of technologies and experts in house available in creating templates not only for general purchase but custom design, and the ability to have your company’s unique vision placed into a design ready for the world as you need it, YesTemplates offers what looks to be one of the best services available to build your organization’s or your own website quickly, easily, and beautifully.

Check them out now at YesTemplates.com

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Trafficbunnies Bonanza

June Trafficbunnies bonanza sounds like a lot of fun!

Lots of $$cash, lots of fun and of course lots of credits for you to grab. June 1st-14th Kick start the month off with a race to the top of the referral ladder!  Prizes will be rewarded on the 15th of June.  A new splashpage is available in the members area, as well as the tell-a-friend system where you can tell all of your friends by automatically logging into your hotmail, yahoo, AOL or Gmail accounts - and sending the prewritten email 1st Prize - $50 Cash + 5,000 Credits 2nd Prize - $20 Cash + 2,000 Credits 3rd Prize - $10 Cash + 1,000 Credits 4th Prize - 1,000 Credits 5th Prize - 1,000 Credits Special Prize - ONE YEAR TB's Upgrade! SPECIAL PRIZE - ANYONE CAN WIN I will be awarding the member who has referred the LOWEST unique number of members to TrafficBunnies! June 15th-21st Dust off your creativity skills… (or lack there of…) Throw together a webpage that promotes Trafficbunnies, you and your site - and then go in the draw to win in either of these categories! And theres even more…. Go check it all out at Trafficbunnies here. Zo Nicholas P.S.  A pretty cool referral contest with a bit of a twist.

A Very Special Loyalty Bonus

I was squeezing my brain what kind of special bonus I could give to my customers as a big Thank You for their purchases through my links.

So it came like a hint from heaven when I got to know about a special hosting reseller offer by Hosting4Wealth.

I never thought about starting a hosting business. But I liked the idea to offer free hosting to my valued customers.

To learn more about it and how to claim for it please click HERE.

Thank Your for being a loyal customer of mine.

Renate Schedl

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