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BWMagic's List Building Newsletter
(Special RSS Edition) August 7 - 2005



Warm welcome to all new subscribers!


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Contents
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o Feeding the Spider - SEO Tactics That May Help You

o Top Five Lead Capture Tools & How They Work

o My Top Paying Affiliate Programs

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o Feeding the Spider - SEO Tactics That May Help You


"Learn from my stupidity!"

Now that's not a phrase you hear very often but it
holds a lot of truth. Sometimes, stupid mistakes or
wrong moves made by someone else can be very
helpful to us! If you can learn from other people's
mistakes, you are well on your way to avoiding them in
your own future marketing plans.

In that light, I thought would keep you updated on my
Promotional Campaign of the DATEwise desktop eCalendar.
Lessons I learn here - could also be avoided or applied
to your own marketing. I am not a SEO expert, just know
what works and what doesn't. Important information that
may save you a few headaches as you promote your web site
or business.

To recap, my goal was to put my DATEwise links on the
first page SERPs of all three search engines Google,
Yahoo and MSN for the keyword phrases - 'free desktop
calendar' and the more targeted and more competitive
'promotional calendar'.

I thought it would take about a week or so to do this - but
I was wrong. Dead wrong.

So far here are the results:

#1 in MSN for "Free Desktop Calendar" & #20 for
"Desktop Calendar"

In Yahoo, I am not hitting on the first three pages for
any of my 'Keywords'. Which is strange because I have
designed my site to hit in all three engines and a lot
of my key phrases do exactly that. Check 'opt in list
building' - if you don't believe me.

#1 in Google for "Desktop eCalendar" but this really
doesn't count because it's a little searched keyword
phrase.

How do I know this?

You can check how many times any keyword was searched last
month by checking with the 'pay-per-click' site
- overture.com here:Overture


Why would I believe I could a keyword or phrase into
all three engines within a week --- because I have done
it many times in the past. Just this week I did it for
the keyword 'notebook for students' with my site.
I placed the link on Monday and by Thursday it was
hitting in Google. Jusst check this link:
notebook for students


The big lesson here is - getting a keyword that's directly
related to your site's already high ranked keywords is a
simple job. That is, you are already high ranked for very
similar keywords (notebooks, laptop guide, top rated notebooks)
then getting your keyword indexed and ranked high is a
relatively easy job.

Try doing the same with a keyword phrase that's not
similar to your already high ranked keywords on your
site and you will have more difficulty. Although
'promotional calendar' does fit in with the theme
of my bizware site - it's not directly related
to any 'keyword themes' that I have been focusing
on with my site i.e. notebook computers, rss, opt in
list building, spyware...

Try to paint you a picture, search engines sent out
'spiders' that go into your site and index all the links,
keywords, content, etc. and send all this information
back to the mother nest where it's further analyzed,
filtered and ranked according to all the other
information coming in from other sites.

If these search engines find your content valid,
with enough links and content covering certain
'keyword themes' they will rank your
site high for these topics.

Google has a PR value system which it uses to rank
your site and keywords, if you have a lot of high PR
web sites linking to your site - your rankings in
Google will be high. It someone important casts a vote
for your site - then your ranking goes up. Links to
your sites coming from PR6 or PR7 ranked sites are
worth their weight in gold. Especially, if those sites
are related in theme to your site. Directly related
to your keywords.

Now, back to the discussion at hand, DATEwise, if you
try to get a high ranking for a keyword or keyword
phrase that's only indirectly related to your
site - you may run into problems.

It's as if Google has programmed their spider to
'spit out' links or keywords that don't fit in with
the general theme of your site. For a search engine,
perhaps this is a good idea because they like to spin
their web very tightly, all keywords and sites closely
related to each other are neatly packaged into those
SERPs or search engine results pages.

It's like sorting jelly beans when you were a little
kid - having all those red ones in one big pile was
comforting and make life a lot simpler! It doesn't
complicate things!

Search engines have to cough up 'relevant content or answers'
to enquiries - all neatly piled in one big group
of answers.

At least that's my reading of what's happening with
DATEwise. Of course, there's a simple way around this
problem, but it takes more time to solve. You have
to build those related sites and links (off site) to
your targeted 'keyword' theme.

This is a lot easier than you might think,
'article writing' is one quick solution. Place
your keywords into articles and pass these around
the Net - you will quickly build incoming links
to your 'keyword theme' from related sites. Other
webmasters are also playing the 'SEO' game, they want
valuable content related to their site's theme and
they want to link to your site because you cover
the same subject. If they do so, they too are
related to the same theme by the search engines.

The real boost in your 'keyword rankings' will
come if you can get a site like 'addme.com' or
'sitepronews.com' to mail your articles out to
thousands of subscribers along with your keyword
links. This will gently kick the 'spiders into
a feeding frenzy'!

Another new way to create off site links is with
a blog. I have started a simple blog in blogger.com
(owned by Google) on promotional calendars - my main
keyword phrase. In this case, I am trying to present
the case to businesses or companies that use the
traditional promotional calendar to consider the
newer and potentially more effective desktop calendar.

I am not trying to spam using this blog or blogs,
but providing very narrow valuable information on
a particular subject area. It's the main reason
the search engines love blogs - very focused information
for their clients or searchers.

Of course, it also gives me another URl to place on
those SERPs for my particular 'keyword phrase' but
that's a different discussion for another time.

Will keep you posted on my DATEwise campaign,
like I said, my results/problems/triumphs could be
of some help to you.



o Top Five Lead Capture Tools & How They Work

Here's this week feature article on my Top Five Lead
Capture Tools that I use with my site. An explanation
of how each one works is also presented.
Click Here:Lead Capture Tools



o My Top Paying Affiliate Programs
(Information that might be of some help to you!)


Whether you're heavily into affiliate marketing
like me or just want some small affiliate income
to cover your hosting expenses - I thought I would
tell you about some of my Top Affiliate Programs.

Please don't get the wrong impression, I am NOT
some affiliate marketer raking in 10's of thousands
of dollars each month.

But I have sold 10's of thousands of dollars
from my sites, keep in mind, if you sell a $5,000
notebook or custom pc - you only get to keep around
a $100. And selling is probably the wrong word
- I just supply information along with a few affiliate
links. If someone clicks on my affiliate link and goes
to that merchant and purchases a product - I get
a small percentage of that sale. But in truth, I am
not selling from my site, only pre-selling ( warming
up or planting seeds in a potential customer's mind )
- this is best done by compiling and presenting valuable
information about a product or service and saving
the potential buyer some time and hassle in the
process.

It can be a great system if you get it just right
but it does take some work to set up. If you're
looking for some quick fix or software programs that
will churn out re-hash content that will fool the
'spiders' for a little while - please look somewhere
else for your information - this blog is not about that.

On the other hand, if you're interested in providing
valuable information, along with helpful guides or
tips - the 'spiders' will reward you. The Internet
has too much stuff - it's splattered all over the
place. Search engines help in compiling this
information but anyone that goes out and researches,
gathers first-hand, evaluates, and presents all this
information in neat friendly readable package will
get good targeted traffic. Build a web site around
this material, and present only quality links to
other sites doing the same and you're really
to pick some affiliate programs that closely match
your content.

People are smart, you must pick quality affiliate programs
to go along with your quality content. People also like
something that's familiar, the Internet is still an
untrusting place in the eyes of many, and going with
a familiar program like Amazon.com can deliver big rewards.

But there are many quality affiliate programs, these
are some that send me a check each month or so. ;-)


Here are my Top Paying Affiliate Programs
(some of these links are affiliate links!)


ClickBank

LinkShare.com

Amazon.com

Cpaempire

Commission Junction

Affiliate Showcase

Google Adsense





Have a great week!



Regards,
Titus
Promotional Calendar




When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long.
Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then
look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past
cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

-Hugh White

P.S. If you find this Newsletter helpful or mildly amusing
- why not tell your friends and online contacts about it.
Just point them to this blog. Or if you know someone who's
curious about Notebook Computers and will be considering
purchasing one in the near future - just point them to this link:

Notebook For Students