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I’ve just gotten back from a fantastic vacation to Vienna with my wife Tatiana. Out of all the European cities we’ve visited Vienna is easily the best! There’s lots to see and do, it’s extremely clean and the people are really friendly and welcoming.

We stayed at this excellent hotel called K+K Maria Theresia. If ever you find yourself in a major European city we highly recommend them as a place to stay.

After just stepping in through the door of our apartment for the first time in nearly a week and firing up my trusty Mac I go to thinking how can I best help you create a big selling website (after being totally shattered from the journey home).

Since starting this blog I’ve been able to help you with things like creating profitable website ideas, techniques on helping you convert more visitors into customers and of course generating web traffic itself. So what I decided to do was give you the links to the top 10 posts that help you create a big selling website… as voted by you.

1. Here’s how you really use the web (and it’s not what you think!)

2. Less Effort, More Keywords and Better SEO

3. 17 “Must Have” Sources Of Website Traffic

4. Why You Need Long Tail Keywords

5. Your shortcut to Internet business success starts right here

6. Your Website Traffic: 7 Crucial Reasons Why You Should Be “Squidooing”

7. How to build massive traffic to your website

8. How To Unleash the Hidden Power of Website Linking

9. Profitable websites ideas made easy

10. Who Else Wants This Free Pay Per Click Website Traffic?

I hope this helps…

(In case you’re wondering how you voted on these blog posts I used this really useful Wordpress plugin called Popularity Contest. What it does is it looks at how many visitors each post gets and gives it a percentage popularity score.) 

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There’s no doubt about it Pay Per Click (PPC) traffic is the quickest way of getting targeted traffic to your website.

However, as with anything in business there’s a cost involved which in the case of PPC you have to pay for every click you receive to your website.

Even if you’re just starting out I’d like you give careful consideration to using PPC traffic generation as a way of building your list and profits fast. The only downside is it can be expensive for you to learn the ropes (which might have been what’s put you off before).

If this is you I’ve got something here that’s going to help you get started with generating PPC traffic at a fraction of the cost (maybe even for free)…

Here’s a list of 6 pay per click search engines that are giving away traffic (or reducing it’s cost significantly) to help you get started….

1. Yahoo Search Marketing
Yahoo search started out back in 1997 as GoTo.com then became Overture in 2005 and was rebranded as Yahoo Search Marketing who now reach over 80% of all Internet users.

When you create an account with them you’ll get a $50 credit coupon.

Yahoo Search Marketing reviewed
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2. MIVA
MIVA is a network of partner sites that power 24 billion searches each year. With MIVA you get a full suite of ROI tools to help you get the most value from your ad campaigns.

What I recommend you do is to use these smaller PPC search engines to test out your PPC ads because the cost per click for the keywords you choose is usually less than the bigger players.

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3. Enhance Interactive
Just like MIVA Enhance Interactive receives around 24 billon searches a year and have their own network of partner sites.

This is another PPC search engine you need to use as a way of testing your ads before you scale things up with the bigger search engines (like Google AdWords and Yahoo Search).

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A short time ago word started spreading about a brand new site called Squidoo, I’m sure you’ve heard of it.

It sounded like an interesting concept, a little like a blog and a little like an “About Me” page, they asked you to sign up and create something called a “lens”.

It was certainly a unique idea, and everyone wondered if it would catch on.

Now more than 2 years later the true benefits of building a lens at Squidoo are clear. It is a great place to create a new site about your hobby, passion or business, but even more it is a great place to promote any existing web site you may have.

Not only can you tell Squidoo visitors about your site, but a lens gives the search engines another reason to place your site higher on the results pages. In fact creating and running a Squidoo lens is an excellent way to build “backlinks” to your blog or web site.

That’s just what the search engine spiders love to see.

Here are the 7 crucial reasons why you should be squidooing:

1. You can use a Squidoo lense to help you build your subscriber list by sending people to your squeeze pages
2. Build an authoratitive resource of links to useful websites which makes your lense a resource people want to use and tell others about
   
3. Create lots of deep links to the pages of your other websites (search engines love this)
4. Dominate long tail keyword phrases in the major search engines
5. Build traffic to your other websites blog and online auctions with your external linking
6. Brand you and your websites as an authority figure within your chosen niche market
   
7. Sell more of your products and build multiple streams of internet income

As unusual as “Squidooing” might sound you had better be sure to take a closer look at this incredible way of generating highly targeted, high quality traffic.

Click here to download your “Squidoo Lense Mastery” PDF mind map.
(I’ve never given away so much in a single mind map before so be sure to take a close look if you’re serious about leveraging traffic from Squidoo)

How did I discover the secrets to Squidoo?

I joined this free apprentice program called Squidoo Secrets.

Lastly…

In case you didn’t know this already Squidoo was created by Seth Godin one of the worlds greatest marketing minds.

Before you downlod this next PDF I must warn you that Seth’s ideas can profoundly change the way you look at what you’re doing online, so pay close attention to everything he says…

Click here if you want more online traffic, more revenue, more followers, more attention, more interest, more donations or more influence.

Other useful links to help you create better Squidoo Lenses…

Create a Squidoo Lense
Squidoo Cool
Have a Squidoo lense built for you
Make Your Own TV Channel
Squid Blog

Here are a few of my own Squidoo Lenses…

You want copywriting that sells!
There’s An Idea!

Stay tuned because I’ll be back in a few days time with a special offer on a way for you to flood your website with traffic.

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I’m sure you’ll agree that without traffic your website is nothing more than pixels on a screen. So over the next few weeks I’ve decided to focus on helping you increase the amount of traffic your website gets, so be sure not to miss a single post!

Today I’m going to start with building links in to your website.

It sounds like the simplest thing in the world. Just find someone with a site that has content similar to your own and strike a deal, “You place a link to me on your web site and I’ll place a link to you on mine.”

There was a time when this could be an effective way to generate traffic to your site as well as improve your search engine ranking. But for the most part, those times are gone.

Unscrupulous web masters figured out how to abuse the system by creating link farms and other schemes with absolutely no benefit for the site visitors, and search engines got smart and put an end to the whole thing.

So can’t we benefit from reciprocal links anymore? Sure we can, but with a few caveats. This post will explore how safe linking practices can still help your site gain traffic, and do better in the search engine results pages.

So as you may have already guessed, search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN are skeptical about two-way links.
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Have you ever wondered how many sources of website traffic there could be?

Today I fired up Mindjet Mindmanager and went about brainstorming the various sources of traffic available today. All together I found 17 of them and within each source there are perhaps dozens more to be found.

Here are 5 just off the top of my head…

1. Search Engines
2. Online Advertising
3. Social Networking
4. Integration Marketing
5. Viral Marketing

Click here for the other 12

You can discover exactly what all 17 “must have” sources of  web site traffic are by clicking here to download the completed PDF mind map I created earlier today.

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No internet business should operate without using long tail keywords to find probable customers.

Long tail keywords are phrases, 3 to 5 words in length, that are typed into the various search engines by searchers looking for specific information.

It’s a well known fact that the single keyword searches bring in many more searches daily, but it’s important to remember that they’re just not as targeted to specific information as are the multi-word “long tail” keyword searches.

Here’s an example of what I mean… single keywords may produce 1,000 to 5,000 searches a day, while the long tail keyword phrases may only produce as few as 5 to 100 searches.

A single keyword phrase might be “marketing” but a long-tail keyword phrase would be “online internet marketing business opportunity”.

Listen to this because here’s where it gets interesting…

It’s these 5-100 searches on long tail keyword phrases that can produce the best possible results because they’re so specific.

From all the research I’ve done over the years in niche marketing it appears that there are some really motivated buyers in these highly selective niche areas. And it’s those long tail keyword phrases that help you find them.

Recently I created a video that shows you an powerful yet seriously overlooked system for generating a huge volume of long-tail keyword phrases. You can watch this keyword research video here.

Many marketers make the mistake of producing information they think the public wants without knowing what they’re really interested in simply because they didn’t do their keyword research. This wastes so much time and just doesn’t produce the desired results.

Here’s all you need to do…

Focus your website towards the more generic search term, but gear your articles, blog posts, Squidoo lenses, and hubs toward the smaller group of searchers who are looking for very specific information that you can provide. It’s these interested buyers that should convert well for you.

When you’ve done your keyword research and found a great long tail keyword phrase to write about be sure to use it in your article title. This way you’ll get incoming links using your search term, and your ranking will move up, producing potentially more free targeted traffic for you.

Here’s how it works…

More long tail keywords = more probable customers

Be sure that when you’re writing your article or blog post you’re aiming for a 3%-6% density or word usage of the phrase you have chosen throughout what you’ve written.

To help you out here’s an excellent online tool that shows you what your website keyword density is. Play around with this until you’ve got the desired keyword density within your article.

As a rule you’re looking for your main long tail keyword phrase in your title, your intro paragraph and once in each paragraph as long as it reads naturally.

Using selected long tail keyword phrases gives you the following benefits…

1. Increases the quality of your traffic from the search engines …because it’s more targeted.
2. increases conversions from the specifically targeted buyers you have attracted …because it’s more targeted.
3. increases brand recognition within your niche market …because you’re targeting is more precise.

I highly recommend learning as much as you can about long tail keywords because they’re the lifeblood of any successful online business.

Here’s a superb article I recently discovered that’ll give you an even better understanding:
Learn SEO Basics: Long Tail Keywords

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Creating a Squidoo lense is a great way of getting started online, all you need is an idea and a subject to talk about. What’s also great about Squidoo is how you can use it to make money simply because Squidoo gives you all the tools you need.

Squidoo is designed for marketers by one of the best marketers in the world… Seth Godin! It’s a powerful online marketing tool you need to pay close attention to.

Here’s how easy it is to use…

With Squidoo you don’t need to know anything about HTML, in fact if you can type, point and click then Squidoo is designed just for you.

I first began investigating the power of Squidoo last year when I was developing and selling niche products. What I soon discovered was how easy it was to get my squidoo lenses were appearing in search engines like Google.

I can’t remember the exact website now but I know of a case where a Squidoo lense gained a #1 position in Google for a very specific long-tail search term and it didn’t even have any content! amazing! All it had was a title which contained the keyword phrase it ranked well for.

If this Squidoo lense website is still there today I have no idea, but I just wanted to mention it because it proved to me at the time the potential Squidoo had as an online marketing tool.

I’ve not created a Squidoo lense website for any of my recent projects, but I’m seriously considering it.

When you get a chance I recommend taking a close look…
http://Squidoo.com

When I was building Squidoo lenses last year I was able to create a content Squidoo lense in about 30 minutes flat …it’s that straight forward and user friendly.

When you’ve got your Squidoo lense set up here’s another tool I think you’ll find very useful…

It’s called Squidaholic and gives you some very interesting statistics about the SEO performance of your Squidoo lense in the search engines…

http://www.squidaholic.com

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Just recently I discovered a very powerful way of generating huge lists of high quality keyword phrases that helps you to get more targeted traffic to your websites and blogs.

Watch the video below and I’ll show you how it works…

If you prefer step-by-step screen shots this is just for you…

Here’s all you do:

Step 1: Go to this page here where you’ll find the Google AdWords keyword tool.

Step 2: Type in your chosen keyword phrase in the box provided and enter the captcha code you’ll also see there.

Step 3: Press the “Get Keyword Ideas” button then Google will deliver to you all the related keyword phrases it can find based on what people are searching for.

Step 4: Scroll down the page and add those keyword phrases you think will work well for you based on the search volume indicators Google gives you in the charts you see on the results page.

The keywords you add will then appear on the right side on the page (these are ready for downloading later on).

Step 5: Now here comes the twist because what we’re going to do is use Google’s Keyword Tool to search the actual results pages to generate even more keyword phrases.

Create a new browser window or tab then go to Google.com and type in the same keyword search phrase you used before, then press the “search” button to get Google’s search results…

Step 6: Next you need to copy the url for the search page to your clipboard of your computer. This is usually done by pressing the “ctrl + “c” keys on your keyboard if you’re using a PC, on a Mac press “cmd” + “c” to copy the url of the search results page.

Step 7: Then we go back to the Google AdWords Tool.

Just select the button on the far left hand side of the page called: “Website content”. This then gives you a box to add a url to. Place your cursor in the url box then paste the Google search results page url by pressing the “ctrl” + “v” keys on your keyboard (or “cmd” + “v” on a Mac).

Once you’ve pasted the search results page url into the box press the “Get keyword ideas” button. This will then send Google off to search the results page you entered for keyword phrases you can then add to your list.

You can do this over and over again for each of the search results pages Google gives you until you’ve got all the keyword phrases you need.

Why not use the search results page url’s from other search engines to broaden and deepen your keyword list even more!

Once you’ve created your list of keywords you can then download them as a text, .csv (for excel) or regular .csv direct to your PC or Mac.

And there you have it, all the keywords you’re ever likely to need to help you optimize your website (and PPC ad campaigns) for lots of fresh targeted traffic.

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