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Hello All,
Today is going to be a quick post. I just want to take a minute and wish you a very Merry Christmas! I hope you are having a wonderful time with family and friends. Enjoy this great time together.
God Bless,
-Craig
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Christmas is just right around the corner so I thought I would give all my dedicated readers a little something for Christmas. I thought you might like to have a Christmas list I made of some really ‘cool’ free Internet marketing tools you can use. Some of them you may already know about, but I think they are definitely worth repeating.
Here is the Christmas List! These are free tools I couldn’t be without:
http://www.google.com/analytics Google Analytics: A free service by Google that tracks your traffic sources. Complete with all sorts of reports, graphs, and stats, awesome!
pingomatic.com PingOMatic: This cool site lets you “ping” other major blog directories so people can easy find your new post entries.
http://www.google.com/alerts Google Alerts: This is another free service by Google where you can find great new ideas you can use for your content sites. Enter some keywords you are interested in, and have new alerts delivered to your email regarding new articles and information just posted to the Web.
http://www.feedburner.com FeedBurner: If you publish a Blog, FeedBurner can help you do a better job. FeedBurner can publicize your content easily for people to see. Optimize distribution so your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories. Analyze your traffic, and Moneytize by participating in the FeedBurner Ad Network.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html Google Sitemaps: Yet another awesome free tool by Google called Google Sitemaps. This awesome tool provides a free and easy way to make your site more Google friendly and improve your site’s visibility.
http://www.seobench.com/pr-overlay PR Overlay: Here is a cool little tool where you can find the Google Page Rank for multiple pages of a site all at once. Enter the URL for any site you want. A new page will open with the URL you entered. Then look for the little Page Rank boxes within the site. Pretty neat!
Lastly on my Christmas list is a site that offers a bundle of great free stuff…
http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools Digital Point Free Webmaster Tools: This site is loaded with a bunch of free tools you can use from keywords to page ranking to backlinks.
I hope you enjoy these free tools. I use many of them often with my successful Internet businesses, and they are very beneficial tools that contribute to my success.
I can’t believe Christmas is just a week away. I hope you have been very good little girls and boys. Santa knows who’s been good or bad so you better watch out!
This is a great time of year no matter what faith you are. There is a celebration in the air for all to enjoy with friends and family. I grew up in the Lutheran faith, but in my early 20’s I started attending a Christian Church. My wife, my little son, and myself still attend and follow the Christian faith for the past 20 years. So, from all of us, we wish you God’s blessings and hope you enjoy this time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus. Whatever your background may be we hope you have a great Holiday Season, and a prosperous New Year!
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-Craig S. Andrews
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I’ll never forget the first day of class in my Sophmore year in High School. I was running late. I don’t know how I was blessed with this characteristc but, I liked to goof off between classes back then. I came running into my second period class, which was one of those classes you just take to fill up your credits. The class was called “American Folklore”, and was taught by our High School Tennis Coach. He was, what you call, a little on the eccentric side. Anyways, as soon as I entered the room he had written in HUGE words a saying that I would come to never forget, even until this day. After I sat down, and received a few chuckles from some of the class, our teacher made this profound opening statement. He said, “If there is only one thing you learn from this course, and nothing else, I want you to at least remember what I have written on the board.” To my astonishment, I have never ever heard a teacher come across like that in all my schooling. He was so serious and so convicting that it stuck with me for the rest of my life. The words on the board read “Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm, by Ralph Waldo Emerson.” It stuck with me so much I still remember the author too!
How true it is. No matter what you do in life you need to get motivated and enthusiastic about it. You need to take charge of your situation. We are all given 24 hours a day, so take responsibility today!
If your having trouble getting started with an internet opportunity of your own, my Online Infopreneur Course will help you get started. It is a small token to pay, and I kept it that way to give people an easy opportunity to learn and get started. You can visit the site at: http://www.onlineinfopreneurcreation.com
If you have an existing online business, and are lacking the energy or feeling frustrated, you need to stop right now and take some action.
There are 3 things I commonly see which amount to apporoximately 95% of the failures in this world:
1. Unable to focus on one project at a time until it is finished.
2. Refusing and unwilling to take responsibilty for their actions.
3. Not following the path of someone who can lead by example, and has been where you want to be. Having a mentor.
A motivator is someone who can orchestrate a plan and pursues it with all their passion. They are relentless in their quest. If they fail, they devise another plan, and never give up trying.
Are you a motivator? Do you have a mentor?
As I once learned, If there is nothing else you learn from reading my blogs, Remember…”Nothing Great Was Ever Achieved Without Enthusiasm!”
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- Craig S. Andrews
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Five Simple Steps For Online Success - Step Five
Article Submissions - #1 Traffic Generating Strategy
For those of you who follow my blog and the “real internet marketing” strategies I practice, you have definitely been preached on Article Marketing or Article Submissions and the benefits it produces. However, in order to have article submissions work successfully, and for it to keep on working over time, you need to write articles that are useful, passionate, and honest. It is also of great importance that your articles stay listed in the three major search engines producing those invaluable inbound links embedded to your site.
How can we master article submissions?
Freely distributing articles across the internet can be a quick way to generate inbound links, but when those links are from the same content articles, the effectiveness of those articles diminishes greatly due to the duplicate content filters of search engines. In order to retain those embedded links for years to come, your articles need to be unique. I know it is tough to do when you are submitting to thousands of publishers like I do. Do you really want to write thousands of different articles so that each are unique in content? Absolutely not! You’d have to be out of your mind, son.
This is why I use and promote Article Pro Software. It automatically submits a slightly different version of your article in an intelligent manner avoiding the duplicate content filter.
Before I go any further let me talk about the duplicate content filter. Many have argued that the duplicate content filter is just a myth. Unfortunately, it is real. Through a proven test, it causes article submissions of similar content to be about 1/19th as effective than before the duplicate content filters were introduced. In other words, you need 18.75 times as many articles published to attain the same ranking as before. In fact, when I first started using article submission, I would send out three unique articles using Article Pro Software. Then I would send another unique article through one of the major article submission sites. My site started to take off. I went from 1,300,000+ in Alexa page ranking down to about 350,000. My Google page rank went from page out there in right field up to page five. Things were going along great when I got this great idea that if I submitted more articles to large directories I would really start to get things rockin! I really didn’t want to write any other unique article versions for various reasons, so I started submitting the same article version out as one sent before. Oh to my surprise!! My site fell off of the Google map. What used to be page five was now back out in right field. The duplicate content was detected by Google and sent my spinning out of control.
Actually, you really don’t need the articles to be as unique as I have you thinking. If you take an original article version and rewrite it twice, keeping the same paragraph structure, you will have three unique article versions that will turn into many different article versions using Article Pro Software for your submissions. If you have a 5 paragraph article, article pro software will randomly choose which version of each paragraph to use, and you will now have what looks like 125 different article versions being submitted. If you have 6 paragraphs, you will have 216 variations to your article. Even if you have a few duplicates get through, the duplicate content filter can only catch about 17 out of every 18 duplicate articles.
You don’t even have to crank out “Roots” once a week. You don’t even have to be a great writer. Write about what you know, with passion, with quality, and a good call to action. You will have then pre-qualified your visitors coming from your articles themselves. This type of traffic is much more valuable than free traffic coming from search engines. Touche’. Since your articles will be unique and since they actually add value to the internet universe, your inbound links embedded by those unique articles will count and last for a very long time. No other methods bestow that kind of power in producing rock solid inbound links in a relatively short period of time. Inbound links count for approximately 40% +/- 3% of the three major search engine algorithm’s. Through inbound links generated via unique article submissions, you are receiving traffic from thousands of places, not just three.
Unlike some of the other article submission software that swap words for synonyms, also known as “content spinners”. Some of the prettier ones add meaningless paragraphs to the beginning, middle, and end of the article. They don’t really match the article. They basically have been crafted to say nothing of importance at all. All of this leads to articles that don’t quite read just right. Article Pro Software works on a paragraph structure as mentioned in a previous paragraph. Article Pro also automatically takes a sneek peek at many of the internal list of article directories and submits articles that are relevant to the ezines and directories. This feature by itself make your submissions highly more favorable being accepted rather than taking the shotgun approach that most other article submission software packages use.
In summary, running a successful and profitable Internet business is really that simple. It’s just a matter of having your own information Website or product, getting listed in the three major search engines, runs some PPC ads, starts building a customer list, and start submitting real articles to real publishers. I hope you enjoyed this mini series and put some of these strategies to use. I know they work because I use them, and have success with them. This is “Real Internet Marketing” in today’s world.
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-Craig S. Andrews
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