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DAY 7

Today is going to be like an all-day cocktail party, but you can go in your pajamas.

It’s time for shameless self-promotion — the online equivalent of schmoozing at a networking event.

The idea here is to find other people who are interested in your products and services. You want to help them and be friend them, but mostly you want them to help you drive traffic to your Website, your HubPages hub, your Squidoo lens and your other pages.

Start by looking for the top-rated Squidoo entry for your niche. This means clicking on the keywords you cleverly selected, which should show up on the sidebar. You’ll be redirected to a ranked list of relevant entries.

Click on the first one and read it. Comment on the story, then invite them to check out your relevant lens or your profile page.

Each of the other sites has a similar comment system, so repeat this process at HubPages, 43things, etc.

You will be making new friends on these community news sites by throwing around your thoughtful and heartfelt praise. You will also boost traffic to your hubs and ultimately your Web site.

You don’t need to spend too much time on each response, but make sure your comment does not sound like generic comment spam. Really read the entries and respond accordingly.

Also, be careful where you post these comments. Most of the community Web sites have options for sending private messages to users or posting public comments below the article. Make sure you post your comments publicly. Comments are among the most widely read sections of Web 2.0 sites. This means a clever comment with an enticing link can bring even more readers to your site.

Spend about eight hours sending these comments. Then get ready to keep working.
What, you thought you got to kick back and wait for the money to roll in? Not likely. Tomorrow you’ll read the shampoo bottle part of my marketing plan.

For now, get some rest.

Shampoo, rinse, repeat

You think you’re done. You are wrong. Nothing is ever that easy. I gave you a weekly plan, but kind of like your shampoo instructions, I want you to repeat every step — four times.

Yep, this is going to take you one month. Every week for one month, you need to
start over, but with a little twist.

This time, open your Web site’s cpanel, look at awstats and see if Google has brought you any traffic. If so, it will tell you the keywords used to find your site. Are there enough searches every month to make it worth your while to target that keyword? When you search for the keyword on Google, where do you rank on the results list?

What are some other keywords you would like Web surfers to use in finding your site? Using our butter example, do we want “low fat butter alternative” to lead to our Web site? Would you like to target that? Does it get enough searches? What is your competition?

Once you find the answers, repeat the whole weeklong process again with a different keyword. Even if it happens to be a long-tailed keyword.

Just do it. You’re sure to see more hits at the end of each week.

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DAYS 5 & 6

Hope you are well rested. You didn’t stay up all night watching viral videos on your social bookmarking sites, right? Good. We’ve got another full day of work.

The next step could take a while, even though I’ll explain it pretty fast.

You know those articles you collected for the first day. We’re going to use them now while they’re fresh. If you didn’t collect a whole bunch, time to crank some out right now. If you did collect 100, it’s probably worth giving them each a quick read before using them. Reading them aloud is the best way to check for grammatical errors and clunky sentences that just don’t flow as well as you might like. Run spell check, too.

Ready? Good. Let’s start submitting those articles and building up your Web site and other hubs.

The next two days will be nothing but article submissions. Your goal is to submit three each day on your Web site and on each of your other hubs.

So paste three articles on your website.Then add three articles on HubPages.Got your next three articles? Put them on your Squidoo lens.

I think you know where I’m going with this. Put three articles on your Wordpress blog, another three on Blogger and three more on Wetpaint. Don’t forget 43things and Gather. So how about those other Web sites we found this week? You got it.

You’re going back in. The ping directories will take care of themselves (see, you already saved yourself hours of work). But Digg links won’t post themselves. Post some links to some of your articles at the social bookmarking sites. You went to the trouble of deciphering those psychedelic word verification images and creating your accounts.
You might as well use them.

I’ll also add an extra optional step. There are a bunch of article directories out there. I find they are not as effective as the Web 2.0 publishing sites we used on Day ONE or the bookmarking sites, but they will drive some traffic. I won’t go into them in detail here, but look to the last appendix of this article series for a good list of effective directory pages.

Get to posting, and I’ll see you the day after tomorrow. I know we won’t see each other tomorrow, but don’t cheat. You need to do the work. Don’t waste the day watching Britney Spears videos. I won’t always be here to keep an eye on you.

Until next time! See you around ;) ...

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Day 4

This is only going to take an hour at most, but it will be an hour well spent.

This is my unique linking strategy, which you probably won’t see anywhere else.

All the sites you created this week are just loose hubs with nothing to connect them.

They all just point back to your Web site. That’s okay, but it would be even better if they were all linked together so they are all helping each other.

But you want to link these things in a very specific order. I will explain my reasoning at the end.

1. You want a link from HubPages to Squidoo.
2. Link from Squidoo to Wetpaint .
3. Wetpaint needs to link to Wordpress.
4. Link from Wordpress to Blogger .
5. In turn, Blogger should link to 43things.
6. Then place a link on 43things to Gather .
7. This is the last link. Can you guess where I want to link Gather? That’s right,
HubPages.

I know you’re thinking I wasted your precious hour, and this doesn’t seem to make
any sense. Please let me explain. The idea is to only link to one hub at a time. This
way, they make a full circle and help drive traffic to one another. However, they do
not seem to be full of spam and long lists of links. Trust me, this works well.

That’s it. You’re done. Go out for a beer or something. We did a great job today.

See you tomorrow.

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Search Engine Domination

1) Pick a niche that is selling well and that you feel comfortable promoting.

2) Register a domain name related to your niche as well as your own name. For example, “www.yourname.com.”

3) Sign up for a Web Hosting account at Hostgator. I suggest you choose the baby gator plan.

4) Install a WordPress Blog on your own domain.

5) Sign up for an autoresponder account at Aweber or Getresponse.

6) Add an un-blockable pop-up to your WordPress blog.

7) Create a mini e-course or add a free e-book to urge people to opt-in to your mailing list.

8) Create accounts at the top social bookmarking sites.

9) Create a ClickBank account.

10) Create a Commission Junction account.

11) Join the eBay affiliate program.

12) Create a Twitter account.

13) Create a Facebook group related to your niche.

14) Set up a Blog Talk Radio show.

15) Join forums related to your niche or create your own forum.

16) Add your blog to blog directories.

17) Leave comments on other blogs related to your niche.

18) Write articles and post them to Ezine Articles and Go Articles with a link back to your sites.

Your primary goal is to become an expert and a person of influence in your chosen niche.

By following the blueprint above you will be able to expand your reach to a wider audience, which will in turn bring a flood of traffic to your sites.

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DAY 3

It’s time for another busy workday (is the coffee on?), but this should be even more fun. Remember when you first launched your business? You called and e-mailed all your friends, who all thought you were cool and brilliant. Today is going to be kind of like that, except with thousands of strangers who are about to become your new fans.

We’re still not going to need those articles you cranked out on Day ONE. It wouldn’t hurt to keep writing more articles if you think of new ideas, though. You’ll need them to update those Day ONE pages later this week, which in turn updates those RSS feeds that are pinging all over the Internet.

Today is all about social bookmarking, and social bookmarking is fun. Dozens of social bookmarking sites have popped up in the last few years. They all basically provide a forum for people to post links to Web sites, news articles and videos they like. You like your Web site, and all these other pages you created in the past two days, right? So post the links. There’s nothing wrong with bragging about your own content on these bookmarking sites.

You might be looking at the statistics for these sites and decide to just sign up for the three most popular pages. Bad idea. Even if Technorati gets only half as many hits as Digg, there are still thousands of folks who prefer Technorati and would never see your links on Digg. I went to the trouble of listing all the sites in this post, and you should go to the trouble of listing all your pages at all these sites.
Also, you might want to read the celebrity gossip and watch the viral videos other users posted on these sites. Don’t do that. You have work to do. Wait until you “clock out” at the end of the day. You’ll still have plenty of time for Britney Spears and sleeping kittens.

Let’s get started. Again, all these links will be listed in the back of this serial post, along with
statistics for each site. You’ll want to use these links because some of these sites aren’t standard .com pages.

Start with Digg

Digg pretty much invented the idea of linking to sites and voting for them. So get in on the action. Sign up for an account. Give yourself a clever username and a password you’ll remember. You can even create a little icon for yourself, such as a photo of a stick of butter (or maybe a picture related to whatever product or service you actually sell). Now you want to bookmark your sites — not just your Web site, but also your HubPages hub, your Squidoo lens and all the others.

Twitter is another really popular site

You can’t even really look at Twitter without signing up, so there should be fewer distractions on this site — at least until you have an account. This page will also test your concise writing skills. Every posting, or “tweet,” should have less than 140 characters, spaces and punctuation included, or roughly the length of this sentence.
So link all your pages with short tweets.

Next, start linking at Yahoo Buzz

The advantage of linking at this site is obvious. Yahoo is hugely popular, and Yahoo Buzz is one of the most popular components. Millions of people are finding out what’s cool through Yahoo Buzz. If you want them to think your butter is cool, link to all your pages on this site.

Do the same at Technorati

The open-source Technorati Web site ranks popular blogs, so it’s a good place to link your blog sites and not directly compete for attention with viral videos and traditional news stories. Go ahead and post to all your pages here. Your Blogger and Wordpress sites may be more successful, but it won’t hurt to plug the other ones.

Now go to StumbleUpon

This site isn’t nearly as popular as it once was, but it still claims more than one million visitors per month. eBay thought these visitors were worth $75 million when the auction site bought StumbleUpon in 2007.
It has a unique recommendation engine, which points users toward links based on ratings of previous pages. You know the drill. Post your links here.

Now hit up Delicious

Yahoo owns Delicious, too, and the site is easier to find now that it removed a bunch of goofy periods from its old name, del.icio.us. So post all your links here.

It’s Kaboodle time

I know. You’re already thinking “I’m bored. I’ve linked to enough sites.” But each one has an important niche that will drive more hits to your Web site. Kaboodle focuses on shopping. Instead of jabbering about viral videos, Kaboodle users talk up their favorite stores and products. Don’t you want them to talk about your products?

Reddit? Link it

Reddit is like Digg with an attached coffee shop. Users post links to content, then they like to discuss all the links. Go grab a cuppa Reddit.
Mixx up your links

This site is named for the Mixx of social bookmarking, social networking and blogging. Post your links here.

Slide over to Slashdot

Slashdot is much like the others, but more focused on technology. Want geeks to find your site? Use Slashdot.

Link away at Clipmarks

Clipmarks is like a highlighter for the Internet, letting you “clip” just pieces of Web content and post them to the site. If you have a couple of really good lines about butter, post them here. This will drive people to your full pages at least as effectively as those long, clunky links.

Next, try Diigo

Diigo is like social bookmarking with a really big closet. You can store full Web pages in your Diigo account, and you can still read the whole page even if the original content is removed. The unique feature probably means it will grow in popularity, so it will be worthwhile to have your content posted on it.

Make news at Newsvine

As the name suggests, this site is focused on news, so be careful with your links. Don’t expect a product plug to get high ratings on Newsvine. Make sure the descriptions with your links talk about the latest development in your industry. For example, a new type of fat-free vegetable oil has just been invented, so tell everyone how this affects your butter.

Hit up Faves.com

Formerly known as BlueDot, Faves is organized by topic rather than raw popularity or your own social network. For you, that means butter fans can find your content faster. So post your links here, Enter the Dzone — maybe.

OK, so not everyone is going to want to link here. Dzone is narrowly focused on news for software developers. So our butter links would have a hard time getting any traction, but if you are working in the technology sector, link away. The narrow focus of the site can’t help but improve your rankings.

Blinklist your links

Blinklist advertises itself as iTunes for Web pages, but it’s more like a user-friendly favorites list that you share with your friends. Go ahead and link to all your pages here.

Simpy your links

Simpy is an older open-source service that integrates well with other applications and services. Again, it’s worth putting all your links on this site.

And FINALLY, use Blogmarks

Blogmarks created an alternative feed service similar to RSS, but it’s otherwise similar to Delicious and the other sites you have worked on today. Still, it can’t hurt to get your content on as many platforms as possible. Link it all here.
If you’re doing this right, you have spent most of the day posting your links and writing summaries.

Be back tomorrow. Same time, same place :-)

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DAY 2

Hi all !!! :-)

Hope you slept well and put on another pot of coffee. We've got another fun, busy day ahead of us. Today we get to have some real fun. Yeah, I cannot wait. Put away the rest of those articles. We don't need them today.

Today is all about building up links to our web 2.0 gateways.

Let us start by launching the massive pinging cycle. What the heck does that mean,
right? Okay, ping is an established term for sending an information packet across a
network to either test a connection or gauge network speed. Similarly, blogging sites
send pings to servers that generate lists of blog updates and new blog material.

Remember those sites we visited when you read the first post - 7 Days to Crush your Competition - Day 1 ? I hope you remember your passwords.
We're going back, and pinging these pages to generate more traffic (with the goal of
generating more traffic to your own Web site, obviously).
I recommend Pingoat for the job, and I have the link back on the “Web 2.0 sites” appendix page.

There are several other similar services out there, including autopinger.com,
pingomatic.com and pingmyblog.com. All of them are really simple. You can add
the RSS feeds for your blogs, hubs, lenses and other pages to dozens of directories
with one click. Just copy (control-C. You knew that, right?) the address for your
feed, then paste (control-V, of course) it at the ping site. All the directories will be automatically notified every time you update. Cool, huh?

One more definition for dummies: RSS stands for real simple syndication, and
offers a basic, standardized format for compiling new content. Your RSS feed is the
easiest way to list updates on all your sites, and the best page to ping.
OK, enough background. Let's do this thing.

First, go back to HubPages.

On your HubPages hub, you will notice your author account has an RSS feed option
in that little box on the right side of your profile page. Well, you want to ping that feed. Also, every time you click on a keyword on the sidebar, you will see an RSS feed icon next to the keyword at the top of the page. Ping that feed, too. This will generate traffic for other people's posts, too, but that's OK. Traffic on other pages doesn't reduce the traffic to yours.

Remember your Squidoo page? Of course you do. Who can forget that silly name?
Go back there.

Much like HubPages, you'll see easy options for pinging your Squidoo lens content.
Your lens has a sidebar with a whole bunch of stuff, including ads and related
topics. What you care about right now is the RSS feed icon listed with all the social
networking sites under “bookmark and share.” Click on that link, then ping the RSS page.

Hit your Wordpress blog(s).

You know the drill. Look for that little yellow RSS feed logo. Copy and paste the
link into your pinging site of choice.
Likewise all your Web 2.0 Web sites should have a place to ping your feed. If they
don’t, you can always ping your URL.

Now all the search engines see your content waving its little virtual arms and
shouting "HEY I'm over here, look at me and check out what I can do."
You get the idea. After all that pinging, I like to take a break.

That was a quick day of work, right? Just copy and paste a dozen times and you're
good to go. So give that control key a break. Have some fun watching a movie or
something.

Go to sleep and I'll see you tomorrow.

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I will start by giving you some valuable advice you probably have never heard, something the gurus have been telling you not to do. When you start your Web site and you put in your keywords, DO NOT USE COMMAS (unlike this sentence). Some of you think I am crazy right now and want to close this post, but please stay with me. In a competitive niche, you want to pick up as many long-tailed keywords as possible. One way of doing that is to not have commas. With that said, let's begin.
I am assuming you already have a Web site running, so let's go ahead and get some traffic on your site. This is a proven method that works, but don't get mad if you aren't generating thousands of hits on the first day. Expect to wait at least a month to see solid results. With that said, let us begin with our sample niche, butter.
First we are going to need about 100 unique articles to get started — all on butter.
You know, salted, unsalted, organic, additives, what have you. You can work on these stories yourself or outsource them on www.getafreelancer.com or other similar Web sites. You can find freelance writers who will crank out these articles for about $1 per story. I am assuming you already have some content on your Web site. If you don't, post one of the articles on butter and churn interest (pun intended) in your site.

DAY ONE

The first day includes a lot of linking and posting, so check out the “Web 2.0 sites” appendix page for links to all these sites.

First, open a Squidoo account

Unless you're building your Web site from a cave, you know Squidoo is a hugely popular community Web site. Create a new account on the site. Use your company name or Web site in your user name and you'll help folks remember your clever name. Now create a Lens on butter and use your keyword (butter) in the title. Use one of your 100 articles for content. Add a link to your site in the article using an anchor text linked to your target keyword. Then add some modules (they're like blog widgets — you'll understand when you're on Squidoo). It doesn’t really matter which modules you use. Publish it and move on.

Now create a HubPages account

You have created a Web site. You won't have trouble signing up for all these userfriendly online publishing sites. HubPages is another popular one that has the added advantage of revenue opportunities for your articles. It's not much, though, and that's not your concern right now. You need to worry about getting traffic and business on your own site, not collecting pennies from someone else's page. After you've got your memorable user name, use one of your articles and place your link somewhere in the middle of the content. Only one site link. NO MORE. Hit publish and let it run. Then forget about it for now.

Build a Wordpress blog

Wordpress is a very popular blogging site that gets great Google rankings. The site hosts blogs for CNN, Fox News and Time magazine, so you'll be in prestigious company. But first you have to create an account. Once you have a user name, you can create several linked blogs. For now, let's just make one. Use one of the articles as the first post in your new blog. Place another article in the blog and remember to put an anchor text somewhere in each article linking the keyword (butter) with your site. An interesting reading would be the best wordpress plugins.

Now create a Blogger site

Second verse same as the first. Blogger is another blogging biggie, and the site is owned by Google. Use one of the articles as your first blog post. Unlike some of the publishing sites, there is no minimum number of words for a blog post. You can post blog entries that are just quick one-liners about new features or products on your Web site. Once again, also use an anchor text linking your keyword to your site.

Next, build a Wetpaint page

Wetpaint may not be as much of a household name as some of these other sites, but it's a popular service that lets anyone quickly create their own Web site. Anyhow, you know the drill. Article, anchor text, butter, you get the picture. See, you are smarter already.
Gather and 43things are another pair of good sites for posting some of your articles.
Gather bills itself as a grown-up version of Facebook, where users post links to pages that interest them (hint, hint). 43things lists goals, with links to relevant content for each one, so you'll need to tweak your content to suit this format. Don't forget to link your keyword (butter) to your Web site.

Until tomorrow for DAY 2 ! See you around ;)
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You may or may not have heard people claim they can get listed in Google in only 24 hours. It seems that nearly 100% of the people you run across in forums act like in order to get indexed by Google in 24 hours is some miracle feat that can only be accomplished by doing some "top secret" marketing tactic or advanced optimization strategy.
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