WHOOOOOOA FOLKS!
A terrible thing has happened to us at The Net Results – we’ve become ZOMBIES!
You have to save the world from a Zombie Apocalypse. Beat the game and be the world’s greatest hero, but lose the game and we will eat your BRAAAAAIIIIINNNNSSSS.
It’s free to play…good luck!
This past week Google made an announcement that it was changing some of the ways it handled its vast search queries and referral data information. In essence, searchers that are logged into Google.com will have their searches encrypted; Google cites this as one of the ways they are committed to protecting user privacy. However, there are consequences to this shift: it will prevent marketers from receiving referral data from the websites consumers find and peruse via Google search results. Many people are calling into question the reasoning behind this change.
Google insists this will only affect a small fraction of all referral data (seeing as an overwhelming majority of Google users are not logged into Google.com when they conduct searches), but the SEO community is already being very vocal in their objections. The main reason for dissent is that this new change does not affect advertisers. It is a bit hypocritical of Google – to say on one hand these changes are being made to protect consumer privacy yet on the other hand to keep the information free and flowing for paying advertisers. If privacy is the issue, so says the argument, then why is Google passing referrers to advertisers? Is that not a violation of privacy that Google is supposedly against? The general consensus also seems to be that this information should be available to all (as it has been in the past), or the information should not be passed to anyone.
Many people are pointing out this this recent change seems to be a way for Google to monetize its data – in effect, if you want to have the unadulterated data, you need to pay to play. Could this be the seeds of a MAJOR change in Google that will manifest in five, ten, or fifteen years? It’s hard to say, but speculation that Google is shifting people to using paid search is being discussed with increasing frequency.
How does this effect SEO? Well, no one is 100% sure yet. Google might decide that this plan isn’t really working for whatever their scheme is and roll it back; on the other hand they may push it even further so that it affects an even larger amount of referral data. Some people are arguing that if this change really only effects a miniscule portion of all searches, not too much will change for the average SEO marketer; others say it puts extra emphasis on ranking, and other still say it forces SEO marketers to employ more traditional marketing techniques that rely less on search. Time will tell and we’ll keep you in the loop.
If you want to read an excellent article that details all of this from top to bottom in great detail, check out Danny Sullivan’s piece on Search Engine Land.com. If you rely on Google searches and are curious about how referral data changes will impact you, this is a worthwhile read.
Here’s a nifty little article that features 13 Free Halloween-centric fonts. Most of these fonts come from either Acid Fonts.com or Font Space.com (and they are both FREE font websites) so if you’re feeling adventurous you can explore these websites and find your own free fonts.
It’s really simple to download these fonts onto your computer. The websites all have an FAQ page that explains this very easy process, but the gist is this: the fonts are downloadable in a .zip file, so you need to extract the files and copy/paste them into your computer’s fonts folder, and then you’re ready to put your new font to work.
Have fun looking for creepy fonts bt uremember this is not just limited to Halloween…. this is an easy process that can be used to find fonts for any time of the year!
This Wednesday (October 26th ) at 7:00 pm EDT, we are hosting a FREE webinar called “How To Pick Winning Niches, Fast” with Matt Levenhagen. Matt has an uncanny knack and an excellent strategy for picking winning niches and maximizing their profit potential. During this webinar, Matt has agreed to show all of you how he goes about finding and selecting these webinars LIVE.
During this webinar, you will learn:
…and SO much more!
Matt will also be conducting a live Question and Answer session. If you are live on the webinar, you will be able to ask your questions and get immediate responses!
The essential details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday October 26th 2011
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/mlbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista. For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.
This is a completely FREE webinar.
Register here: http://www.snip2.com/re/mlbl
P.S – If you need a time converter to determine what time this webinar starts in your local time, use http://www.snip2.com/re/timezone
Lately many of you have been asking about the webinar replays. Here’s how it works: If you’ve been a customer of The Net Results for a while you have doubtless heard that every single Wednesday we host a free weekly webinar. The topics cover an incredibly wide array of subjects and we feature the experts in their field. If you haven’t yet attended one of these free webinar live, give it a try sometime. You’ll be very pleasantly surprised!
However, we at The Net Results know that this little thing called LIFE can get very hectic and busy. It’s not always possible to attended every weekly webinar live on the call. For a large portion of our international customers, the time zone difference is too great to attend the webinar while it’s happening live. That’s why we record our webinars…even if you miss it, you can listen to it later!
Usually we have the webinar replays up by Friday of the same week. It takes some time to convert files and such, but generally speaking a few days after the webinar we have the replay links live and ready to go.
To listen past webinars, go to the Webinars and Videos page on The Net Results.com . We list the most recent webinar first, and on the Webinar and Videos page you’ll also see the webinars from the past six months displayed too. If you want to dig deeper into the archives, simply click the “View The Webinar Archives” link at the bottom of the page. All of our webinars from March 2010 to the present are listed there.
A note about the webinar replays: These webinar recordings are for teaching and reference purposes. The deals and bonuses stated in the webinars are likely no longer available. So if you see an awesome deal from an April 2010 webinar, sorry, but that ship has sailed. The good news is that you can probably catch a similar – or better – deal in a future webinar, but you have to act while the window of opportunity is open! This is one benefit to being live on the webinar – you get first dibs at great deals, and you can ask questions and get answers right away.
The best way to know about the weekly webinars is by signing up on the mailing list (and no, we don’t sell or spam or do anything annoying with the emails; that’s shady and we wouldn’t want it to happen to us!). On the top left corner of The Net Results Page you’ll see where you can sign up. Of course, if you’re already on our Mailing List (or a Facebook fan, or twitter follower, etc…) you’ll see notices about the upcoming webinar and its subsequent replay too.
Remember: these webinars are ALWAYS free, so you have nothing to lose and quite a bit to gain!
Tonight at 7:00 pm EDT, we are hosting a FREE webinar called “Big Paydays From Simple Little Mobile Sites”. Remember when regular mini sites were the rage? If you got in on them when they first were discovered you’d have made the easiest of fortunes. Unfortunately, a lot of people missed out then.
Jason Fladlien and Wilson Mattos have devised a new way to profit via to build simple little mobile sites and sell them for simple, quick 4 figure pay days. This is the next “gold rush”, so to speak. Do you want to get left behind on this one? No? Well, come to our webinar tonight!
The mobile market is exploding and here’s your chance to cash in. Follow along with Jason Fladlien & Wilson Mattos on this live webinar as they show you exactly how to build simple little mobile sites and sell them for simple and quick pay days.
The essential details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday October 19th 2011
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/pdbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista. For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.
If you have already been on a webinar with either Jason or Wil you know these two fine upstanding gentlemen come with their A – game. They will take your questions, explain each step thoroughly, and give tons of inspiration. You will definitely regret missing this webinar!
Register here: http://www.snip2.com/re/pdbl
P.S – If you need a time converter to determine what time this webinar starts in your local time, use http://www.snip2.com/re/timezone
If you are ever using Micro Niche finder and encounter a problem with captchas, try fixing it in the ways detailed in this article. If this doesn’t work, send us a support ticket and we’ll get you back on track, but generally speaking most captcha problems can be fixed quickly and easily on your own!
If you see an image like the one above, the very first thing to do is to confirm if you have completed the Adwords login registration in Micro Niche Finder. You can do this from your Micro Niche Finder homepage by clicking on the options tab:
You will then click on the small tab in the lower corner labeled Options:
Then click on the tab that says AdWords Login Settings
Fill in the appropriate information if necessary and then hit the “Click to Test the Login” button.
If you do not have an Adwords account (don’t worry, it’s 100% free) you can register for one by following these easy instructions given at the websites below:
http://www.ehow.com/how_5075548_start-google-adwords-account.html
http://www.google.com/intl/en/ads/
After completing registration in Micro Niche Finder, click the “Manage Searches” tab near the top of the page and delete the searches ( or at least just the searches that failed to return results or had the blank captcha error).
It is also a good idea to clear your Internet Explorer’s ‘s cache. You might already know how to do this, but this website explains the process succinctly: http://www.ehow.com/how_8423555_refresh-cache-ie.html
Another thing to check is that your anti-virus/firewall lists Micro Niche Finder as a trusted program/application. Occasionally, some anti-virus software considers the update a completely new program and default blocks it. If you see it on your anti-virus/firewall list as a blocked program, simply unblock it and the problem should be fixed.
Finally, you will want to close and restart Micro Niche Finder and try a new search. The problem most likely is resolved by now – but if it isn’t, please submit a support ticket and we’ll be happy to help!
The new Facebook Timeline (which some of you may already have – if not, don’t worry, it’s coming!) allows not only a profile picture but also a “cover photo”. This massive image (the dimensions are Width: 850px and Height: 315px) really allows you to make your profile unique (but not in the overly obnoxious way that plagued Myspace years ago) and since it is so prominent it’s probably wise choose the image with care.
If you’re a photoshop wiz: great! The sky really is your limit. Ditto if you’re a photographer – you have a lot of creative possibilities here too.
However, if you’re like me and are a.) pressed for time b.) not a photoshop genius and c.) a so-so photographer, getting a free cover photo might be a great option.
One really fantastic website for Facebook cover images is Cover Photo Finder.com These images are super high quality and completely free. There’s a decent selection to choose from, and hopefully this website will expand and add more images as the Facebook Timeline becomes more widespread.
Beautiful, right? And that's only one option!
Free Timeline Covers.net is another website that offers free cover photos. These are more graphic-design orientated and less photography orientated; if that’s more your style or more the look you’re going for, check this resource out for sure:
Just one choice from http://www.freetimelinecovers.net/
Of course, any image can be used (assuming you have the rights to use it and whatnot – don’t run afoul of the law, ya’ll) but you may need to tweak the dimensions; try to start with a fairly large image so that the image integrity remains and doesn’t distort when you adjust and expand it. There are many free photo resources on the internet, but you can’t go wrong with sxc.hu . These images are free and safe. We at the Net Results use this site regularly.
And lastly, if you have a very specific idea for a cover photo in mind but don’t have the time/know-how/patience to make it yourself, consider hiring a freelance person on fiverr.com to do it for you. Fiverr is very cheap – as the name suggests, everything costs $5 – and you can get excellent quality work at this bargain price.
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s cover photos soon – have fun hunting for the “right” cover photo for you!
This Wednesday (October 12th ) at 7:00 pm EDT, we are hosting a FREE webinar called “The Lazy $10,000 Adsense Publisher”. This webinar is ALL about Adsense, so if you are curious about Adsense (or if you just want to make more money via Adsense) THIS IS THE WEBINAR FOR YOU!
Among the many topics that will be discussed and thoroughly explained are:
And SO much more!
If you have Micro Niche Finder, this webinar is going to be extra interesting for you. Fret not if you don’t have Micro Niche Finder though (although we obviously recommend getting it!) …this webinar will still be super useful for you.
The essential details are as follows:
Date: Wednesday October 12th 2011
Time: 7:00 pm EDT
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/shbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista. For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.
As always, this is a completely FREE webinar!
Come check it out.
Register here: http://www.snip2.com/re/shbl
P.S – If you need a time converter to determine what time this webinar starts in your local time, use http://www.snip2.com/re/timezone
Hi everyone! Just wanted to call your attention to our new Support Suite (YAY!) Although our support issues are now handled here, old tickets can still be viewed here.
Much of this new Support Suite is the same, but there are a few differences you should be aware of.
First and foremost, our url has changed to http://www.tnrsupport.com/support/. It still works if you type in the old URL (it automatically redirects to our new URL) but if you want to bookmark the site, use the new link above!
Secondly, there is a new feature called Live Chat. It is lnsert located on the left hand side of the screen:
When you see the above icon, it means that no one on our support team is available to chat with you at the moment. However, if one of our support experts is online, the icon will change to this:
If you see that, feel free to click on it and chat away!
Another difference is the prominence given to our Latest Updates. It is on the main screen and by scrolling down you will see a list of recent updates. If we release a new version, a new update, or if there is some kind of major problem, this is where we will leave a message pertaining to it.
In addition, you can peruse the knowledgebase just like in the past but you can also click on our Troubleshooter tab, located near the top of the screen:
The Troubleshooter wizard guides you through a series of steps in order to diagnose and resolve common problems. Relax – it’s not difficult at all, and by trying this you might be able to quickly and easily resolve tiny glitches…of course, your problem might be a bit beyond the scope of the wizard, and if that’s the case feel free to submit a support ticket.
We are here to always help you should you need it, and our new support suite should make everything more intuitive. If you have any questions or issues, feel free to drop a line or talk with us on our Live Chat!
