12/12/09 – A crash course in social media network marketing and more
Just a quick heads up since the event is two days away. I am loving what I am learning from Scott Magers who is one of the founders of both PitchIn.com and iDuplicate.com –both of which will be launching in Q1 of 2010. Well…all this slightly cynical girl from Silicon Valley, with a background in traditional marketing, can say is “wow, wow, wow!!!”
Believe me, their credibility is quite high. I’ve personally met half of the people presenting and am looking forward to hearing from the others. These people have proved their success on the web ($600M in online sales in 7 years).
It’s really been an extremely relevant, highly informative and practical undertaking for today’s market. Personally, I am using their info to power blog on 2 sites and plan to add two more for my art work and another for travel and food stuff. My webstats are climbing dramatically on this recently launched site and I haven’t even told anyone about this –just as a test in obscurity and using their success formula. My weekly stats show that I have surpassed my previous month, and it can only get better once I get through my really long checklist of things I need to do to build my subscriber base. I can’t wait! This has been the “shot in the arm” I have been hoping for in my career. I’ll confess, things were getting a bit dull.
If you don’t have a clue about which way to turn in today’s online marketspace, or need to optimize your web presence, or want to start from scratch with today’s hottest know how, this special one day Internet money-making training in Irvine on 12/12/09 will put you in power mode. This is an excellent crash course in social media marketing (using a website with blog+Facebook+Twitter+dozens more social sites+Search Engine Optimization help+how to use affiliate marketers to help you sell your biz: products and services) for today’s business professional. Reinvent yourself!
Please feel free to forward this to people you think might be interested in improving their business presence on the web or learning how to get a website up the right way for todays market.
Feel free to ask me any questions you might have in the comment section.
Hope to see you there!
DMOZ – Open Directory Project (Get your site in their directory to improve your rankings)
Raising your rankings happens a number of ways. Remember using WebsiteGrader for evaluating how far reaching your voice is being heard globally? Well, in your website’s report it ought to mention which search engines you haven’t registered with. If you have checked your site’s report card shortly after hanging your shingle and registering with all these online directories like Yahoo, DMOZ and the like it’s time for you to pour a Guinness and go sit outside on the patio. Better yet, open up your calendar and enter a date 60-days or so in the future to return to these directories to check if your site got listed. This all takes patience, my friend. And the reward of patience, is patience.
Once your site submission has been received a DMOZ editor will review your submission for inclusion in the directory. If it gets accepted into the Open Directory –and that may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, AltaVista, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. –all due to the fact that each of these search engines has their own agenda for checking with DMOZ. Read more
Metadata Blog Description – The long and short of it by WebsiteGrader.com
What I really wanted to say…versus…what I have to say in 150 characters or less. Are you one of those people, like me, who love to talk? It has to be the Irish in me; I could go on forever! Thank goodness for rules and guidelines about how to set up these blogs to optimize them. A quick test at Website Grader will help you do just that. When you get your report which analyzes your website –from meta tags and headers to domain info and Google rankings, you will have a better idea of how well the global market will find you. Read more
Search Engine Optimization for Your Blog
Tired of talking to the empty space out there in Internet land? You have to optimize your blog to get the biggest readership possible…or what’s the point? If you can weed through the hype at www.undergroundtraininglabs.com you can find Jeff Johnson’s free “Traffic Getting SEO Plugin” for WordPress. It comes downloaded in a file that’s zipped up and all you have to do is follow his step-by-step illustrated pictures of how to install the plugin. A blog optimizing meter shows you how strong your blog has been optimized and with each plugin you activate, you can see the strength of your blog’s power to get the attention of the big search engines like Google. Call me silly, but as the percentage meter moved to the right, I got more and more excited about the potential of my blog. Unlike my mom, I won’t be talking to the wall.
