As a follow up to my earlier review of Traffic Grab, I made a video inside the member’s area to show you around. You’ll see how extensive the product is, and my thoughts about the value for money it offers. Take a look…
To watch the four free Traffic Grab videos, click here. (no optin required)
What do you prefer, text reviews or video reviews from inside the member’s area? Let me know, below… I’ll leave comment open for a few days…
Way back in history, I got a Ph.D. from the University of Dundee. The scientific research I did looked at the expression of GSTpi in breast cancer cell lines to try to understand why there were differences in the activity of the gene in drug resistant and drug sensitive cell lines. You can read more about it, here, including the whole thesis if you’d like.
Perhaps with that scientific background in the back of my mind, I created a website tailored to a UK audience about the scientific gifts that are available. I think it’s much better to give a science-based gift and expand the imagination of children than to give a “bleep bloop” toy which falls apart in minutes.
So, if you’ve been wondering why that link was in the sidebar of this blog, thinking it had nothing to do with Internet marketing… now you know. 
Traffic Grab is a massive digital product explaining how to generate visitors to websites as a means to increase the profits for those websites.
Traffic Grab
The product information is delivered as videos (streaming and downloadable), MP3 audio files, PDF transcripts and slides. Basically, whatever media helps you learn best is available, apart from having James fly to your house and coach you!
A few months ago, I launched my Fast Traffic Blueprint ebook. In it I described taking a brand new blog from domain registration to over 100,000 free visits in 12 months… so I know a thing or two about generating traffic… and I know how to quickly and easily tell the difference between QUALITY information about traffic generation and RUBBISH released by people trying to make a fast buck.
I’ve been lucky enough to be allowed to review Traffic Grab, the traffic-generation course by James Schramko, and I have to say, this is a hugely impressive product. It’s like the “big daddy” to my Blueprint, yet is easily affordable for everyone.
James Schramko
While James and I covered similar topics, we come at them from different angles. My ebook followed the timeline of WHAT I did at my blog and was laser-focused on the step-by-step blueprint of getting targetted free traffic, fast.
James takes a much more long-term approach to traffic generation. He takes a “top down” view looking at the big picture, and then zooms in to each traffic-generating technique individually. A great example is his “spaghetti bowl” diagram, showing how he inter-links websites…
Spaghetti-Bowl
When you look at it from the “top down”, it looks crazy, but then James takes you through each part and the overall system starts to make sense. By the end of the course, you’ll be slapping your forehead and saying, “AHH, so THAT’s how it works”!
As I said, Traffic Grab is a monster course which easily rivals the best courses but at a fraction of the price. Here’s a breakdown of the modules inside Traffic Grab…
Free Modules:
Main Course Modules:
Well, it would be a bit of a cliche to say, “anyone wanting more traffic should get Traffic Grab”, but that’s really the bottom line. I guess, if you’re a super-ninja traffic master who knows everything there is to know about getting visitors to your sites, you won’t need this product. Frankly, everyone from newbies to experts will learn something new from Traffic Grab!
James has put the first three modules of Traffic Grab, and the introduction, online for you to view for free… no opt-in required. So there’s no risk in checking it out and seeing if you like James’ style of presentation before you decide to learn from the rest of the course.
Let me know what you think of Traffic Grab and James’ professional style, below. I really like it. It’s great to see honest, quality advice from an expert instead of nonsense from a shady “guru”. What do you think?
Google has started to support the “author” markup tag so that when you create a link, you can tell Google that you’re the author of the content you’re linking from.
We now support markup that enables websites to publicly link within their site from content to author pages. For example, if an author at The New York Times has written dozens of articles, using this markup, the webmaster can connect these articles with a New York Times author page. An author page describes and identifies the author, and can include things like the author’s bio, photo, articles and other links.
But, as many people have pointed out in forum threads and blog comments, the current implementation only works within a website. So you can link from one page on your site to another page on your site saying you’re the author of the content by using a rel=”author” tag. Well, big deal. You can already do that by the mere existence of the link itself saying something like, “click here for my author page”, or “click here for my other articles”.
Google, figure out a way for content creators to claim ownership and “authorship” so that scrapers can’t outrank them in the SERPS, please. How about using rel=”unique” and your timestamp on discovery of the document? I’m sure that would catch on pretty fast… and I know you index my pages almost before I’ve finished writing them! WordPress, Blogger and other CMS’s could add the tag by default, but for duplicate content the timestamp would be the deciding factor for who gets authorship credit.
OK, so business times are tough, but do we really need this double-punch to UK affiliates?
Firstly, the EU has brought in draconian rules about privacy where it’s no longer good enough to have a privacy policy saying that “our website uses cookies to blah blah blah”. Now, according to the government and the UK’s Information Commissioner, you HAVE to get consent. But even their implementation is a shambles. Just look at this…
Information Commissioner's Office
So, they’ve ALREADY SET a cookie, which you don’t get any choice about because it’s “essential“, but you can clear your cookies… but the website won’t work properly… What?
How the heck is that going to work for e-commerce sites? Are they just going to deem all their cookies as “essential”? What about affiliates… are they immune because the cookies are set, technically, from the Affiliate Network’s servers? What about sites using Analytics… are they technically set from Google’s servers? How the heck are affiliates supposed to know the difference? Read more here.
… and just when you thought that’s the “Monday madness” story out of the way, there’s this amusing tale from a UK merchant (Megabus) at AffiliateWindow who has listed a bunch of phrases and said that any affiliates ranking in the top ten of Google’s natural search results for those phrases will be in breach of the affiliate terms and conditions. This is a partial list of the phrases. I have checked it personally… and no, it’s not an April Fool as far as I’m aware…
Travel from £1
Travel from a pound
South West Trains
SWTrains
Metro link Manchester
East Midlands Trains
Virgin Rail
Virgin Trains
Seriously. Did the world just go stark-raving mad and no-one told me?!
It seems that they’ve backed away from the original list of “words you can’t appear in the top ten search results for” [trademark /sarcasm], because according to this affiliate forum thread, the original list included…
VIP
1st
First
Arriva
Eurolines
Oxford Tube
Greyhound
Raileasy
Seriously. Don’t rank for “VIP”, or you’re out of the affiliate program! LOL
Way to go MEGABUST!
Blogging-Underground
I’ve just completed a video review of Blogging Underground by Mike Liebner. In the video I make a few points that I want to expand on…
When you use Blogging Underground you get to create links inside blog posts and have them appear on individual blogs across the Internet, some of which are general, and some are topic-specific. It’s important to know that the BU system is very powerful. The in-content links you build are some of the most powerful links your site can get, especially if you choose rich anchor text.
You should use BU to build a few links at a time, slowly, because having many in-content rich-anchor text links appearing all over the Internet pointing at your website, especially if it’s new (see my blog post on Google Bowling), is asking for a Google “over-optimisation” penalty. So, my recommendation is to use BU links in moderation, along with other link-building systems (press releases, article submissions, RSS directory submissions, link directory submissions, blog commenting, social bookmarking etc) so that your site has a natural link profile.
Having given you that “heads up”, I highly recommend getting access to BU because it’s one of the few ways you can get the most desirable links (in content, rich anchor text) which can seriously help your ranking as part of a good link profile. Watch my video review here, and take Mike up on the special offer.
What did you think of the video review and offer? I’ll leave comments open for a few days…
Google Bowling
[Update: I've managed to get a FREE copy of Dr Andy's excellent guide to creating affiliate websites that Google loves. Just click here to download it. No squeeze page, just open the zip file and enjoy the 155-page PDF!]
I’ve been building new affiliate websites to diversify away from the Internet Marketing niche for the last few years.
In the past, getting Google to index and rank a new site wasn’t difficult. In fact, my last two IM products were to do with using datafeed content (going back several years!) and, more recently, using the power of a “future niche” to plant your website at the top of Google and stay there.
But, I’ve noticed that Google is using its penalty filters more strictly now than it used to. It seems that if you build a few “suspicious” links, with optimised anchor text, you’ll get slapped with a penalty filter before you can blink.
What interesting is that this activity breaks one of the fundamental rules of Google… a website owner is NOT responsible for links pointing to their website. The reason for this Golden Rule is simple… if it didn’t exist, the world of Black Hat SEO would spend their time and energy building BAD links to competitors to push them out of the search engine results pages (known as Google Bowling).
OK, so how can Google justify breaking its own Golden Rule? Well, it seems that the penalty is only applied to brand new sites… those whose age is measured in months rather than years. And here’s the super-smart bit… Google’s algorithm mostly prevents new sites ranking for competitive phrases… so there won’t be much “Google Bowling” going on because, by definition, trying to knock a competitor out of the rankings only makes sense if they have a valuable number one ranking.
It’s genius. You let webmasters build new websites and if they do anything suspicious in the first year (my guess for how long probation lasts), they’re on the “naughty step”. You give a free pass to any website older than a year to prevent Google bowling. You apply penalties algorithmically to avoid any manual overheads.
My guess is that you can avoid the 12-month probation by getting a link or two from older sites who have some authority and can “vouch” for your new website. If you can’t get those links, be prepared for a long wait before you can do any “real” link building.
What do you think? Am I right, or wrong? I’ll leave comments open for a few days. Also, please share this blog post if you like it… thanks!
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As I’ve been writing about over at Real Guys Real Money, my friend Eric Holmlund has a brand new PLR product available for the next seven days at an absolute steal of a price. I’ve been taking a look at the PLR course and it’s very good. I did a mailout promoting the product yesterday but it seems there were gremlins in the Real Guys Real Money ordering process.
I heard from a subscriber that,
“I tried to buy this product three times via your link..through clickbank via paypal and keep getting this message. There is a problem with this website’s security certificate”
Eric told me that,
“There was a problem with the order button for the first HOUR of the launch. Sorry about that! If you promoted from the start, it would be a good reason to mail again and let them know about the error, and it’s fixed now.”
Doh.
So, if you tried to order the product and got an error, my apologies. Please read about the product, my review and bonus at my Real Guys Real Money review site and hopefully the order process is now smooth and simple.
One of the best, REAL shortcuts you can take to making money online is to use Private Label Rights products… ones that you can just take and sell as your own. My friend Eric has just released a really great PLR offer, which I strongly suggest you take a look at called “Real Guys Real Money“.
I massively respect Eric and the products he offers.
I’ve been downloading his latest product today, and I’ll have a full review for you soon, along with my bonus product. I would’ve done the review already, but the product is HUGE!
I’ve reviewed two of the 17 movies and they totalled almost 2 hours of list-building tips!
This is a no-brainer offer from ethical Internet marketers! Man, I wish there were more offers like that!
You’ll get…
*a brand new, quality product about making money online
*rights to edit and rename the product
*a sales page and a squeeze page for the product
*rights to resell the product
*rights to resell the RIGHTS
*a SECOND brand new product, with the same rights as above!
*a THIRD brand new product with PLR rights (my bonus)
My bonus is exclusive to my contacts. It’ll be a product about affiliate marketing, complete with graphics and a sales letter. More details coming soon! When you buy Eric’s product, make sure you see affiliate = scamfree to claim my bonus when it’s ready.
Kickstart PLR
This blog post contains a full blueprint to make money online with little effort. Print it out and take action!
If you’re looking for an easy way to make some extra cash, I’ve found a way of getting almost everything done for you!
Here’s how it works…
PROBLEM: The more profitable a niche is, the more people fight over it and the harder it is to make money!
SOLUTION: By finding SMALL, profitable niches, you can avoid 99% of the competition. With just a few small niche sites you can make a decent income without having to fight.
PROBLEM: How do you find the niches and get content for them?
SOLUTION: Let someone ELSE do the niche research and give you top quality Private Label Rights articles for multiple niches!
(PLR articles are ones you OWN… you can put your name (or a pen-name) on them and you don’t have to link back to an author)
PROBLEM: Many PLR sites are over-exposed and the articles suffer from duplicate content problems.
SOLUTION: I’ve reviewed a small, almost unknown service called Kickstart PLR which offers top-quality PLR articles, niche research and product suggestions!
Recent niches include… “Weight Loss”, “Green Energy”, “Back Pain” and many more.
In addition to 30 articles per month (ten each for three different niches), you also get spreadsheets of the Keyword Research and Product Suggestions for each niche.
So almost everything’s done for you! There’s even useful software and training in the member’s area… and Martin offers top-notch support if you need it.
DISCOUNT: I’ve managed to secure a discount code to save you 15% off the lifetime of your membership. Just type in “scamfree” to save a few dollars! (don’t type the quotes)
SUMMARY:
Tackle small niches for less competition.
Don’t try to do niche research and content writing for many niches at once… you’ll go mad!
Use the “hidden” Kickstart PLR article service to get the niche research, content writing and product suggestions done for you!
Rinse and repeat in many small niches. The affiliate commissions from each niche quickly add up!
BONUS Tips For Reading This Far:
1: Do minor edits to the Kickstart PLR articles to make them unique for your websites.
2: Target a sub-niche. For example, instead of “green energy”, go for “solar water heaters” and promote relevant affiliate offers on each page of your site. By sub-niching you’ll have less competition.
3: If you can, get a keyword-rich domain name for each niche website you put online. Google loves keyword-rich domains such as “solar water heaters dot com” and you could get free traffic without any links. I’ve done it many times.