It’s web 2.0 week in the thirty day challenge! Day 10 was about submitting your articles to ezinearticles.com and scribd.com. We also got some pointers on how to optimize articles for your keywords. Promoting your articles on web 2.0 sites like these is a tremendous way for getting traffic to your site. The reason is that these sites are very well thought of by the Google bots and because of that your articles, on said sites, will naturally rank highly …
30DC – Day 9 – Rank Tracking
Rank tracking was the focus of day 9 in the 30 day challenge. The idea here is to keep track of where your domain and posts/articles rank on google for each of your keywords. This is something fun as you can hopefully watch your site rise in popularity and soon to the first page on Google and other search engines. The trainers used a Market Samurai and it’s Rank Tracker module to quickly and easily find the rankings for you. …
30DC – Day 8 – Getting Traffic
I’m already up to day 8! This is kinda fun if I do tell you the truth. I love this internet marketing stuff. Today we dealt with getting traffic to our websites. For me this has been a daily grind, even getting visitors to this blog. It has taken me over a year to get a steady flow of about 45 visitors a day. There are many ways to get people to come visit your site, but it comes down …
30DC – Day 7 – Statistics
Google Analytics is the tool of the day and a very important one at that. On day 7 of the 30 day challenge went over using Google Analytics, creating an ad using Market Samurai and the pretty links plugin. In my mind, the most important thing when trying to develop a website is knowing the stats. Google Analytics is an awesome free tool that will track TONS of statistics, enough to make you dizzy. Let me list just some of …
30DC – Day 6 – WordPress
WordPress was the theme of day 6. This is the second time where they are using a service/software to help you out. First it was Market Samurai which I found very helpful and might consider purchasing it when the 45 day trial is up, but we’ll see. This time the good people at 30 day challenge recommend using WordPress Direct. WordPress Direct is a service that makes it “easy” for beginners to setup a wordpress site and manage all the …
30DC – Day 5 – Content
This is probably one of the most important items when it comes to ranking well in google and other search engines. Content is King as they say. One important point I’d like to mention about content and SEO…the content must be unique. Duplicate content, which means another site has the same exact article, will either hurt your page ranking or it won’t count that content. How much it hurts, nobody knows. So you might be asking…”how do you get this …
Power of Less – the Zoho affect
JerryNJ over at flippinghomes.com forum along with another member (sorry can’t remember who) mentioned using zoho.com to help keep track of your daily “To-do” lists. The tool, within Zoho, that they are using is Zoho Planner. I’ve used it for the last two days and I like the simplicity of it and will probably continue to use it for the next few weeks to test it out. Hopefully I can find an iPhone app for it to make it that …
30DC – Day 4 – Monitization
Day 4 was mainly about making money, but not in the way an investor is looking to do it. They focus on selling affiliate products through amazon, clickbank and a few other sites. This could be a great source of added income in the future for me, but at this point the focus of my efforts is to get leads so I can by some houses! There are some pretty good lessons to be learned from this day but none …
30DC – Day 3 – Google Rankings
If you want to do well with internet marketing your website has to show up on one of the first few pages of Google. Where your site appears is called your Google Rank. It’s not the page you appear on it’s your ranking. The higher the page rank number the better. In the third day of the 30 day challenge we went over how Google figures out which websites appear on the top few pages for a particular search …
30DC – Day 2 – Keyword Research
Day 2 of the thirty day challenge was all about researching your selected keywords and picking out keyw ord categories (which are just sub categories related to your keywords). It’s fine and all to pick out a keyword, but if that keyword is HIGHLY competitive and/or not searched for by enough people then you should move on. The research you do on a keyword should be based on the following criteria… Number of competing websites using a broad match (I’ll …
30DC – Day 1
Last night I started my thirty day challenge! I got through all the preseason modules yesterday afternoon. The preseason consists of introducing you to the tools (google analytics, google reader, twitter, facebook, firefox, youtube, Market Samurai, etc..) in order to get you setup and ready to start the challenge. Most of the tools are free forever while some like market samurai are free for 30+ days. None of the tools are necessary to go through the thirty days, they just …
30 Day Challenge
I came across this website the other day that was called the 30 day challenge. It’s run by a guy named Ed Dale and he set up this internet marketing training. I’m not that far into it, but it looks really interesting so I signed up. What he does is each day for 30 days he takes you through different ways to market your blog/webpage/squeeze page, each day building on the previous day until you have this webpage with tons …
Audio: Double Closing
How are you going to buy and sell a property on the same day? That is a question many new investors will run into. In truth there are a few ways to go about doing it… Double Close Simultaneous Close Assignment (not really buying and selling, more like selling the right to buy) In this Audio Article by Eric Medemar he goes through the process of double closing and many of the reasons why you might want to go that …
Hard, Smart and Consistent
I never realized how much real estate investing related things I do on a daily basis, that is until I came back from vacation. It is very hard to catch back up. I read blogs… FlipthisWholesaler.Net 123flip.com goodfaithinvesting.com 100buckschallange.com bloggertips.com sahmrealestateinvestor.blogspot.com KellyFlippinCali.blogspot.com and more! I also spend a good deal of time on forums reading up on the latest news, getting great tips about investing and marketing as well as asking any questions I have. These forums are a daily/weekly …
Back From Vacation
I just wanted to give a quick hello and say I’ve returned from my shore vacation. It was a lot of fun as usually and as all vacations do, reminds me how much I don’t ever want to go back to my JOB. I’m pretty bummed today but I realize that I’ve got a great deal of work to do in order to become a full time investor that it’s not funny. The rest of this week will be spent …