podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm
www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Directory.html
blogtalkradio.com/
apple.com/itunes/podcasts/
allpodcasts.com
feedooyoo.com
plazoo.com
podcastblaster.com
podcastlikethat.com
speecha.com
digitalpodcast.com
getpodcast.com
podcast.com
podcastexchange.org
podcastpickle.com
thepodlounge.com
everypodcast.com
odeo.com
podcastalley.com
podcasting-station.com
rss-network.com
iPodder.org
PodcastDirectory.com
ipodderx.com

In alphabetical order…

Here is a ping list you can copy into your ping list in Wordpress:

Under: Settings>>Writing Tab >> In the ‘Update Services’ Box

• Choose keywords that you can rank for – you want High traffic and low competition but don’t be scared of competition. With the right tools you can actually take on a high competition keyword if you have done your competitive research and know you can optimize your site better than just 1 or 2 on the front page.
• Understand your competition and research what you have to do to be ranked above them – how many links, quality of links, keyword usage in Title, PR of the site they are on etc.
• Use your main keyword in your Title, Keyword Tags, Description and several times on your page (or site)
• Use LSI keywords sprinkled through out your page / site
• BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS, BACKLINKS – Did I mention backlinks? You want a VARIETY of quality backlinks with different anchor text linking to your site.

If you are serious about using SEO optimization as a strategy in your business then you need to know how to optimize your site. One of the leading courses in SEO is:

StomperNet – Not only does Stompernet provide invaluable information and education by 21 of the world’s leading SEO experts, including Brad Fallen, but included are some of the leading SEO tools… Market Samurai, Traffic Geyser and much more.

SEO Tools

Keyword Research

These are keyword research tools which have specialized SEO analysis capabilities.

Market Samurai

Keyword Elite

Competitive Research

This is where you research the SEO strategy of the 1st page results for your keyword to see whether you can compete with them. You look at what they have done to get them onto the first page ie. their Page rank, backlinks and what PR those backlinks are, age, keyword density, how and where they have used the main keyword etc.

Toolbars

• SEO for Firefox
• SEO Quake
• Search Status

You will need Firefox for most of these and you can find it here… Firefox browser

To find Competitor Links & information:

Market Samurai – Has an amazing tool called SEO Competition which gives you amazing analysis into your competition. NOTE: StomperNet has Market Samurai included as part of their price plus all of the amazing education and additional must have SEO tools. Check out the Market Samurai training videos to see how this works… Click Here

Traffic Travis – Not only can you do detailed competitor analysis, you can also track the results of your own SEO actions. There are 2 versions – Free and Paid.

Yahoo search: Type this into the search box: “link:url.com” << you don’t need quotations. the url.com is the url you want to find the backlinks for. Do this for each of the 1st page results for Google. This will give you all of the backlinks for each site.

GoRank Keyword Density Analyzer – Free tool. This is handy for competition analysis or to find your own keyword density.

Optimizing Your Blog/Website

Traffic Getting SEO Plugin – This is a fantastic Wordpress plug in which completely optimizes your blog. No need to worry about Permalinks and the best settings for each plugin as it is all done for you. There are 2 versions… free and paid. Get the free first by clicking here and once you see the power of the plugin you can upgrade to reveal it’s full magic.

Sitemap Doc – It is really important you put a Google friendly sitemap on your site as it helps Google (and other SE’s) find and spider all of your pages. This is a really easy tool to use to create a sitemap.

Google xml Sitemap Generator for Wordpress – This is a Wordpress plugin that creates sitemaps.

More will be added as new tools are discovered… subscribe so you don’t miss anything!

Top 3 - Get Traffic

The key to any internet marketing success is traffic. Without traffic you can’t make sales, you can’t get opt ins, no one reads your time consuming written content, click on your affiliate links… get it? You need to get traffic!

BUT, it is the one thing most internet marketers struggle with.

The key mindset to get traffic to your website is to find out where all the people are hanging out on the web… and go TO THEM and bring them to your site. Don’t expect them to come to you… they don’t know you exist until you introduce yourself.

Before I get into the ways and the tools, because this is such an important aspect of internet marketing I wanted to recommend some amazing courses that will almost guarantee traffic (though we know I can’t do that). These are 2 courses I have and cannot recommend highly enough.

Instant Payday Formula – This is not a popular product at all but it is absolutely JAM PACKED FULL of gems. I hope it stays unpopular so I can keep it all to myself! No ‘magic promising software’ that doesn’t work, just real, proven techniques for traffic and backlinking, market research, squeeze pages and email marketing. Lots of techniques, tools and tricks you’ve probably never heard of before. If you are looking to invest in education then this is one of the best investments you’ll make… try this before you get sucked into the latest launch or ‘magic’ software.

StomperNet – This is outstanding for everything, including traffic generation. It is more than worth the investment and the tools that come with it are worth the price alone.

Traffic Siphon – This is fantastic. I just bought it and think it’s great, there is a few grey’ish hat techniques and some spins on normal traffic strategies. Now it did sell out but it will re-open again. I recommend you put your name down to be notified when it opens up so you have the choice to make the decision.

Some Free Videos

**One has been removed as the strategy no longer works… there are some free videos coming around the 20th March so check back.

More coming – Subscribe to RSS feed to be notified when we add new information!

Traffic Getting Strategies:

Each strategy has it’s own section to cover it in detail. Remember you want to find out where people are hanging out and go over and get them…

SEO   *Coming Soon

Paid Traffic – PPC & PPV  *Coming Soon

Article Marketing

Social Bookmarking *Coming Soon

Twitter  *Coming Soon

Video Marketing

Email Marketing  *Coming Soon

RSS submissions

Press Release Submission  *Coming Soon

Podcasting submission  *Coming Soon

Document Sharing submission  *Coming Soon

Powerpoint / Slide submissions  *Coming Soon

Software submissions  *Coming Soon

Forum and Blog commenting  *Coming Soon

Guest Author submissions  *Coming Soon

Pinging *Coming Soon

More Traffic Getting Strategies

Classified Ads

Craigslist

USFreeAds

ClassifiedAds

AdLandPro

ClassifiedsForFree

Ad Swaps

You will need a list of value for this strategy as you will be mailing your list on someone else’s product, and they will do the same for you.

For more information Instant Payday has a valuable section on this

IMAdSwaps

Warrior Forum

AdSwapFinder

ListSwapper

Advertise on Other Peoples Blogs/Sites

Adbrite

Adster

AdEngage

AdJungle

BlogAds

Traffic Exchanges

Easy Hits For You

Traffic Swarm

Real Traffic Exchange

Hit2Hit

Royal Surf

Dragon Surf

Let’s start with the basics… what is an RSS feed? RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. In terms of your blog, your rss feed is a feed of your blog posts. When someone subscribes to your feed they will be notified when you add a new blog post by the rss aggregator they use. An aggregator accesses the RSS feeds of websites a person subscribes to and organizes the results. That is a very basic description.

There are 3 main ways you can use RSS feeds:

1. You must put rss buttons (rss chicklets) on your blog so readers can easily subscribe to your feed… that way they’ll come back!
2. You should submit your rss feed to rss directories, much like you do with articles, videos etc.
3. You can subscribe to rss feeds to automatically add content to your website

How to get your rss feed

This is very easy. If you use Wordpress, then it creates a feed for you automatically:
http://www.yourdomain.___/feed/
Basically just add /feed/ to the end of your domain.

If for any reason you need to create it yourself, an extremely popular rss creator is Feedburner.com.

• You just sign up for a Google account or sign in with your Adwords account.
• Enter your feed address and hit ‘Next’
• Enter the details about your feed name
• Once feed is burnt take note of the feed address
• Now choose what platform you are going to put your rss button/chicklet on and follow the instructions

If you want to make an rss feed from several pages use:

RSS Mix

Adding rss Buttons/Chicklets to your Blog

Even though you have an rss button on your site it is still a good idea to add the rss aggregator buttons that are commonly used so your feed goes into the mix of the aggregator the reader always use ie. Google, My Yahoo, My MSN etc.
TIP: Always use Subscribe, Google, My Yahoo, My AOL and then others you are familiar with. Between 5 and 8 is a good amount.

TIP: Many Themes now have an RSS chicklet on the theme so there is no need to add the button to your blog. Just see if you can see the rss logo, “Subscribe” “Subscribe: Comments Posts”… or something like that.

Get the chicklets from:

Feedburner

TotallyFreeBlogTools

Top Rank Blog

Once you have the code either paste it into your sidebar.php code from Appearance/Editor/Sidebar.php OR
Add the code as a Text option under Widgets: Appearance/Widgets – Drag text box into the sidebar and paste the code into the text box, then save.

Submit your rss feeds to directories

This is self explanatory. Just take your rss feed (either yourdomain.___/feed OR your feedburner feed) and submit to the following directories.
TIP: As soon as you add about 5 initial posts to your site (try to do in the first day or 2) then add your site to feedage.com… it helps get you indexed really quickly!

RSS Directories

Feedagg.com
BlogPulse.com
AZFeeds.com
Feedage.com
Yahoo Publisher rss
Plazoo.com
Feedbite.com
rssFeeds.com
FeedRaider.com
FeedSubmitter.com
FeedSee.com
rssMountain.com
GoldenFeed.com
Feedbase.net
rssMicro.com
rssMotron.com

FeedFury.com – Even if you register you have to do a quiz & give up some details!

Use rss feeds as Content

This is a way to get additional content onto your blogs but IT SHOULD NEVER BE ALONE. It can be up to 25% of your total content and to make it more accepted by Google you can add a paragraph to the start of the feed to add some uniqueness to it.

To do this you find the rss feeds you want and then add them to your blog by using a plug in called Feed Wordpress.

IMPORTANT: must stress that if this is your main blog that you want build on and keep for years to come then do not use this technique. If you are doing all you can to keep on the good side of Google… DON’T use this technique. It is for additional, supporting blogs that you need help building the content for but aren’t really important to rank well with Google.

• There are massive amounts of traffic available for video
• Video is extremely viral
• Many people are more likely to watch a video than read a blog.
  TIP: People can listen and keep surfing so even though you don’t have their full attention they haven’t left you. Keep throwing in some huge benefits throughout your video to bring their attention back to you especially at the end when you want them to perform the intended action. Summarize and load the back end with HUGE benefits/solutions & your amazing OFFER.
• Video can be easily resubmitted with a different title, tags and description and there is no duplicate content penalty. Google only knows what it is by what you call it and tag it so use different titles, filenames and keywords.
  TIP: I have heard that here are ways to track duplicate video so you can change around the duration of your video (add a longer graphic at end etc., change the format (.avi .mov), different music, different filename). This is totally up to you and I don’t know how true or important it is at this stage but if you like to err on the side of caution then you can easily do these things.

But how do I make a video?

There are several ways you can make a video and they are all quite easy and relatively inexpensive… especially for the benefits you get out of them. You can use any of these or a combination of any of them.

• Slides with you talking over it or just music
• Screen capture with or without audio
• Vision shot on a video camera – Make sure your can upload your vision to your computer.
• Pictures, Images, Photos

Here are some tips for making a successful video:

• Be natural and try and inflect energy and personality, try not to talk with a monotone voice. This will make watching your video easier… if you’re boring, they will hit that little ‘x’ in the top right hand corner!
• Don’t babble… be clear and concise
• Grab their attention and state a huge benefit at the start and slowly drip feed the solutions over the video until they can’t wait for the end and they are so amped up they will do anything you ask them to.
• Use the video as a Sales letter and treat it the same way… Headline, Emotional story, Benefits, Scarcity, Reveal Product, Instruction”
• ESSENTIAL: Make sure you leave a CLEAR INSTRUCTION at the end of what you want them to do. So many people do these great videos and lose the conversion because they don’t make it clear what they want the action to be. Use both Vision AND Audio ie. “Click on the link below for www.mydomain.com now and sign up for xxxxx before (add urgency or scarcity statement)”
• Send them to a seperate page where they can only do the 1 thing you want them to do… fill in the optin form, purchase your product, click on your affiliate link etc. Don’t send them to a blog with 3 affiliate links and your little optin box half way down the page… 1 page with 1 option!
• Try not to make it a sales pitch… yes I know it is but treat it like it’s a story.

Video Software:

Slideshow/Pictures:

You can create slideshows and then put them to music or talk over them with screen capture technology.

TIP: If you make a slideshow you should also submit the slides to Slideshow sites (see Slideshow Directories at end)

• Google Docs – If you haven’t been introduced to Google Docs then check it out, oh and it’s free! It is an online basic Office with a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and form. It is great for outsourcing work or working with a virtual team as you can share it and allocate tasks etc. Sorry sidetracked… use the presentation function… it is very easy and will most likely be fine for what you are doing.
• OpenOffice – Same concept as Google Docs.
• Powerpoint (There is a 60 day free trial as part of the 2007 Office Professional Package)
• Keynote – Part of iWorks for Macs.
• Animoto – I love animoto! The quality looks great and it is really effective. You can be as creative as you want.

Video – (slideshow with voice, screen capture etc.)

• Camtasia – Camtasia Studio is by far the best product for screen capture but it is expensive at about $299. It may be something you invest in in the future. In the meantime they offer a full version 30 day free trial… pump out as many quality videos as you can and you may be able to pay for it when the trial’s up!
• CamStudio – CamStudio is an opensource version of Camtasia. It doesn’t have some of the advanced features like timeline editing, adding callouts, multiple voice tracks, re-dubbing, creating menu-based videos, etc but it does screen capture well so if all you need is screen capture then use CamStudio. If you find you have to edit something then you could use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie and see if that does the job.
• JingProject – This is similar to the above and is free (and made by Tech Smith – the same guys who produce Camtasia). It is great for recording conversations with screen capture. The restriction is that the videos must be under 5 minutes.
• Final Cut Express – This is a basic version of Professional Editing software by Apple. I am only putting it in here because I have been asked about it as people have heard “gurus” reference it. The learning curve may be big but if you are technically minded and want to include high end video into your marketing business in the future then you could keep it in mind.
  There is a way to install it on Windows though I believe it can be problematic but I am no expert and you should research it before purchasing. The express version is around $200, whist the full studio version is $999.
• Article Video Robot – This turns articles into videos. It has a Free Trial but the trial does not allow you to export or submit the video you do. It is good though to see the quality and how the software works to see if it suits you.

Video Components

Pictures

With all of these just check the rights on each image.

iStockPhoto

sxc.hu – free

Wiki Commons Images – Perform a search using an image keyword

Clipart

Photos.com

Jupiter Images

Animations

Animation Factory

Digital Juice

Clipart

Music/Backing Tracks

Royalty Free Music

Music Bakery

Backgrounds/Templates For Powerpoint

Template Wise – Free

Brainy Betty – Mix of free and paid

Presentation magazine – Free templates and some great tutorials if you need some powerpoint lessons

Animation Factory

Video Directories:

Automated Video Submissions

Traffic Geyser – A leader and a fantastic service. It it recommended by so many IM leaders/gurus, and for a reason.

Tube Mogul – Free

Best Video Courses / Products / Information

Coming Soon!

Keyword research includes finding a list keywords in your niche or related to your product, finding traffic and competition data on keywords along with other data, finding competitor keyword data, finding LSI keywords and much more. Here are some tools that will help you with that.

Free Keyword Tools

Google – External Keyword Tool

Google – Skool

Free Wordtracker Tool

Keyword Spy – This is limited but is definitely useful if you are not ready to invest. Just use the search at the top.

SEOBook Keyword Tool – Just sign up for a free account

Traffic Travis Free – This is a fantastic free tool

Nichbot Classic – this is a really cool tool. You can get top 50 results from Google with search volumes also from Yahoo & MSN, Top 50 Wordtracker and Keyword Discovery, Wordtracker Thesaurus and a whole lot of other stuff.

Market Samurai Free Trial – Full version – 7 Day trial. I LOVE the full version and it is more than a keyword tool. It has amazing training, is amazing whether you are SEO or PPC, has SEO Competition, find and publish content, a monetization module, find high quality backlinks… Get It!!!

Keyword Corral

GoRank – Helps find related keywords, a bit like a thesaurus

Paid Keyword Research Tools

Market Samurai – Has a 7 day FREE trial of the Full version. It has targeted features for Adwords or SEO and the amount of analysis available is invaluable. On top of the keywords research tool and analysis, it also has a SEO Competition function to further analyse whether you can compete for the top 10 by Spying on the top rankings DETAILED backlinks. Add to that the Adwords tool, Monetization section, Content section plus cutting edge ‘Dojo’ training videos.

Wordtracker – Has a 7 day FREE trial. Wordtracker is one of the top keyword research tools that the majority of successful marketers use. It can give you thousands of targeted keywords that Google’s free tool will never give you and also scores the keyword with “KEI”… the higher the KEI the easier the keyword is to rank for.  Take the FREE trial and see it in action.

Keyword Elite 2.0

Keyword Discovery

SEMRush – Advanced Keywords and Competitors Research Tool

Traffic Travis

Ultimate Keyword Research Training

For SEO

StomperNet – This is the ultimate internet marketing training and you get so many top tools included, including Market Samurai and has full training on keywords using Market Samurai.

Market Samurai Training – They have some fantastic training on their software but even if you don’t have their software some of the information is helpful (and you can always get the free version). It’s under the ‘Dojo’ section on their site… Click Here for the FREE videos.

Keyword Elite – Brad Callen is amazing and whilst i do not use Keyword Elite 2.0 I have done research and discovered the training that comes with the product is premium.

For PPC

I am yet to find a current top Ultimate PPC keyword training course or module within a course… that is currently available. I will update when I find one.

Must Reads/Watch:

More Coming Soon!

Best PLR Suppliers

NOTE: I would LOVE feedback if you have purchased any of these products… or have a suggestion for other PLR products you recommend.

NOTE: Some of these are limited places so they may not be available. They do open up occasionally so if you are interested make sure you register so you are notified when they open up as there will be limited places.

• Niche Content Packages - They Offer either one off purchases, limited edition articles and different levels of membership based on the credit system over a huge range of topics. They also provide ebook covers and headers both complete and a photoshop version you can re-brand and a photshop action script to convert it to a newsletter cover.
  TIP: These are great value and I have bought packs and copyscaped the articles to find not a lot published so for $20 I created an entire site of 10 pages of content and only had to spin 5! They usually release 250 packs so if you are using it as articles or web content go for packs with higher remaining numbers. You can also use them as an ebook for opt in downloads & another tip: if it is product related put some banners, product links and affiliate links in the PDF.
• All Private Label Content – They have a few options. You can order one off bundles or memberships. They have 5 memberships: Finance, Mom, Marketing, Health and Green. Then they have various niche article packs, press release packs, Recipe Bundles, Research Bundles and a few other options. The quality is high.
• PLR Pro – Once you read the Sales letter you will see this is a fantastic offer… but they are launching in segments so make sure you put your name down to be notified when it’s open. There is A LOT in the offer so read the sales letter as there is not enough space here.
• Nicheology – High Quality PLR with a solid proven training system. The training makes this one a high recommended product for those wanting to add PLR as a stand alone arm of their business.
• Niche Revolution – This is a bit different. They provide you with 10 adsense sites with PLR packs for each niche, 2 niche eBooks with a sales and thank you page and an adsense site for that niche as well. This all sounds great but consider if it really fits into your business model. If setting up heaps of Adsense sites & selling PLR products is part of your strategy then this may be for you… if you are looking for a certain topic PLR for blogs and article submission then it is not. They have limited membership spots so it may not be available.
• Niche Empires – This is a mass PLR supplier. You buy hundreds of articles, ebooks, software products and video series for a really low price. Some of it is a bit junkie, mainly the older stuff but it can be a good start if you are prepared to rewrite a lot, make some products to capture emails and interested in setting up websites in lots of niches.
• PLR Article Pros – Limited Edition, very cheap but have not bought so cannot confirm quality.
• Spin Ready PLR – This is currently closed for new members! This is a Jason Potash product. It is a membership where you get a number of ‘coded’ or pre-spun articles every month plus a credit system to ‘purchase’ from their PLR in your chosen niche. It is a great service and even better you get 3 of Jason’s Article software products… Article Announcer, Content Composer (a great product) and CC Site Builder whilst you are a member. One thing to consider is that ALL of the members get the same pre-spun articles SO if everyone uses all of the spun articles then nothing is unique unless you have done some more to it yourself… hope that makes sense! It is still a great service though, especially considering the software you get with it.
• IMBuzz - This is quality Software PLR. They release a rebrandable software product monthly that consumers would be interested in… twitter, article submitter etc. Each product comes with a rebrander.
• There are heaps more just Google “PLR” or “Limited Edition PLR” and see what you can find.
• FREE PLR:
  • PLR Wholesaler
  • PLR Article Directory - You have to perform one CPA offer to release the articles… cool idea for anyone interested in CPA!

• Normal directories
  These are just your standard directories and unless you have heaps of additional time they are not that important
• SEO friendly directories
  These are your key to directory success as Google loves them. The reason for this is that they manually review sites and are quite particular about what sites they let in. If they accept your site you have a high quality back link that Google loves.
  TIP: A strategy to ensure you are accepted (not guaranteed though) is to have at least 20 unique and valuable posts on your blog that have been gradually added over 10+ days (you can back date posts before you publish to “fake” this… the more the better) and DO NOT monetize your blog yet. Your blog home page needs to be clean and professional looking. Submit to the SEO friendly directories and then after 30 days you can monetize your blog as most will have looked at your blog by then. Keep adding posts every day or two to show that it is a “loved” and current blog updated regularly.

Directories:

I have added links to sites who update their lists regularly so you can keep completely up to date… these are the lists that I go off.

SEO Friendly Directories – **Just focus on this at first!!!

• Info.Vilesilencer.com

Normal Free Submissions:

• Best-Web-Directories.com

Normal Paid Submissions:

• Info.Vilesilencer.com
• General Web Directories Rated by Inbound Link Quality

• Best-Web-Directories.com

Niche Directories

• Info.Vilesilencer.com

Like any submissions this can be a time consuming process! You have 2 options to combat this:

• You can purchase a directory submitter for the Normal Directories… up to you but I don’t believe it is worth it
• You can pay a company a certain amount for manual SEO friendly directory submissions… much better option in my opinion. You can get 100 SEO friendly directory submissions for around $15. This doesn’t guarantee acceptance just manual submissions by people who do it all the time. When you think how long it would take you to do it yourself… $15 is pretty good.
  info.vilsilencer.com have a manual service or you can Google “manual directory submissions” and find one. Make sure they state “manual submission” and “SEO friendly directories”.

Some important notes:

• Keep your site clean and professional for the 30 days after you have done the SEO directories.
• Google likes to see progressive, slow links so the more advisable option is to use a “rolling submission” where they are submitted randomly over 90 days. If you choose this method then it is easier you to do the work yourself… just do 10-15 every week for 12 weeks off the info.vilesilencer.com Top 100 list or you can buy a “rolling submissions” package but it is a bit more expensive.
• Directory submissions aren’t as effective as they used to be so include it as part of your overall strategy but your time can be better spent. Spending $15 on 100 directories or max of 45mins a week is more than adequate.