I suspect that when Google came up with Google Alerts they knew they had a cool tool that people could use to keep track of subjects they were following and wanted the latest news on those subjects coming to them in their email inbox.

People have used Google Alerts for following things like Nascar, the musician Pink, Soccer, their favorite WWE wrestler, you name it.

But, many people have found other clever uses for it as well, as it is a very powerful tool whe it comes to staying on top of who is saying what about whom and where it was said.

Recently, one of my members shared they way they use Google Alerts with me for this very purpose, and I found it worked so well that I would now like to pass it on to you.

Google Alerts searches the Google archives for any given search term, and if it finds it, sends an email to you with the link to where it found the search term, and a summary of the text where it was found. This is very handy for someone that is either particularly vain, or someone that has a vested interest in what is said about them, or even about their product.

Doing this kind of search manually would be agonizing, as you would always get the same results, and they would not be based on the most current occurences of your keywords.

So, if you go to Google Alerts and

1. type your name  or your product name or even your Twitter username (which looks like @rondavies);
2. for “Type” select “Comprehensive”;
3. for “How Often” select “once a day”; and
4. enter your email address where asked.

You will receive any new occurences of that search term (your full name or product name) as they come into the Google archive system.

This means that if someone says something nice about you on blog XYZ.com, (or heaven forbid, not so nice), and Google spiders thier normal update for that blog and finds your name, you will be notified by email within the day.

Then you can either thank them, or spank them I suppose, depending on the nature of the comment or post where your name or product name were found #;>)

Another very cool, very easy to use tool from my little toolbox.

Have a great day!

Google Adsense Bounce Rate & Pagerank

So many web marketers use web page traffic exchange system and start page exchanges as part of their website promotion strategy.

In many cases this is a very bad idea, particularly when it comes to Google Adsense sites and Pagerank.

Need proof? Have a look at how favorably Google views the traffic sent to one of my sites by Trafficswarm.com.

I think you will be surprised – I was!

I highly recommend for best viewing that you click the “Full Screen” button in the player below.

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Hi there!

Let’s work together to make 2009 your gang-buster year!

The best way to start the year off is with a fresh new outlook on business on the web, and a new plan that is workable.

I would love to work with you on your plan, and I invite you to sit down with me in person for a “round table” in Orlando, Florida next month. This is a real opportunity for you and I to meet, discuss your business expectations and aspirations, and work together to develop a viable and workable plan to make 2009 the year that you make your mark in Internet marketing, and get you on the road to success.

I’ll be speaking at the Earn1KaDay Internet Marketing Summit in Orlando, Florida, and have booked some extra time for meeting with you and a few others before and after the conference, which, by the way, will be without a doubt the best deal in Internet marketing conferences for 2009. The goodies I am giving away to the 85 or so (limited spaces available) attendees is worth several times the very reasonable price of attendance.

I do recommend you take some time and consider this chance to get some face time with us. There will be Willie Crawford, Craig Beckta, and a whole host of other interesting and accomplished web marketers there as well. Again, an excellent chance to “soar with the eagles” as it were.

The best way to become something you want to become, is to immerse yourself in that environment. If you wish to build a business on the web, come out and pick the brains of some of the most recognized personalities in the business, plus site down and make a real plan for 2009.

I do hope to hear from you, and to see you there. It is going to be a blast!

PS: bring your golf clubs if you can. I will be looking to exchange marketing tips and ideas with someone that can help me improve my golf swing.  :>)

To reserve your spot for the conference, please go to http://tinyurl.com/earn1kadaysummit

Once you do that, hit the ‘Contact” page link. Send me a short message letting me know you are going, and 2 or 3 dates and times when you would be available to have a sit down.

Don’t worry, I will bring documents and tools to help us make your plan. Would be good to have a couple of ideas jotted down for us to discuss for a starting point. Anything at all, what interests you, what your experience level is, etc.

very best regards, and hope to see you there!

Your business partner for 2009 !

I have been asked about this a few times, so I am going to try and clear the air as best I can.

For some time, a number of clever web 2 marketers have been sneaking “External Links” in over at Wikipedia in categories related to their keywords.

Ok. I can sense a few blank faces so I will explain…

Google ranks your site based largely on the authority and quality of the sites that link to you. This means that if WordPress.com links to you, and Google does consider WordPress.com to be an authority site, that value is passed on to your site when Google ranks you, and when they determine your Google Pagerank.

Since Wikipedia is clearly seen by Google as an authority site on literally thousands of subjects, getting a link from wiki to your site would be a good thing, no? Let’s explore this a little more deeply…

Many of the Wikipedia category pages and result pages are ranked by Google as PR 5 or even 6 in some cases. A free PR 5 or PR 6 link to your site certainly wouldn’t hurt would it?

But wait…before you knock yourself out chasing links from Wikipedia you should keep one thing in mind…

Wikipedia uses strictly “nofollow” links.

Now, this does not mean that a link from wiki to your site is not a good thing, it just means that Google does not credit your site with any of the “good stuff” that would normally have been carried to your site if Wikipedia was NOT “nofollow”, that’s all.

IMHO, a link from them must have more value than no link at all, mustn’t it?

If this kind of pursuit interests you, have a look at the video below where I linked a Wikipedia PR6 page to my affiliate program directory site called “WhichAffiliate.com”

Cheers,

Ron

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Of course that’s not the toughest question, but it is certainly food for thought, isn’t it?

The early mornings as a full-time affiliate marketer are quite a bit different from how they used to be that’s for sure, but there are significant anomalies elsewhere in my day as well.

It used to be that by around 8 a.m. I had already been working for an hour or so fixing, fueling, and starting Sea King helicopters on the flight line in Shearwater Nova Scotia, which is a military installation just the opposite side of the harbor from Halifax.

Now I find myself considering only one thing once the kids are off to school, and my wife Amber is off to college:

“to golf or not to golf”

It is a complex thought process which involves at very least determining if my clubs are in the car, or if they were even unpacked from the last Internet conference trip. Then, I have to call brother Rick (also an Internet marketer :>) and see if he is available for a round. We usually do the driving range first for a bucket or two refining our slices and hooks into the nets, and then assault 9 or 18 perfectly innocent greens from there.

If the weather is not fair, and you golfers in the readership know the weather has to be REALLY not fair to not play, I take my wireless laptop and do a little reading at the local Tim Horton’s coffee shop which coincidentally serves 2 purposes;

1. I get to catch up on what is new in the IM world. Doing this for just 30 minutes each day puts you in the top 5% of web marketers for knowledge (Brian Tracy)
2. I get to greet all the guys I once worked with, many of whom told me I was nuts to even dream of working online. Needless to say, I get a great degree of rather selfish satisfaction fro this. Sad, I know..

This takes me to around mid-morning, which is another story- one about developing real estate with those affiliate marketing dollars- in another post, sorry #;>)

Ron

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