Google recently announced that it is now factoring in site speed to its super important search ranking algorithm. This is not a wholly unexpected announcement since Google is in the business of delivering fast and accurate results to queries; as most of us know from personal experience, nothing puts a damper on a searchers mood than a page that takes seemingly eons to load.
Indeed, we have become so accustomed to fast results that slowness has become exaggerated and frustrating – so much so that tests have proven that people will abandon a slow-loading page in favor of another page that loads quicker. Google realizes that this is a reality and has calculated it into its algorithm, so now site speed is an issue for SEO.
Although site speed is now part of the equation, it’s not the most major aspect of successful SEO. Page relevance, backlinks, and such are still more important but site speed could be the difference between being ranked on the first page of search results or being stuck on the second page of search results.
To learn more about Google’s new approach to site speed read this official Google blog post. They also include various free tools that you can use to analyze the speed of your own website!
We’re doing a webinar tomorrow (Thursday April 15th) that focuses solely on Micro Niche Finder 5.0 and all of its new features!
We will show you how to use the new Micro Niche Finder features to quickly find hot niche markets. Even though Micro Niche Finder 5.0 still stays true to our core principles found in past versions (such as fast results, easy to navigate, and gives accurate data) there are some significant changes in version 5.0 that we want to explain and demonstrate for you. We will also have a Q and A session at the end; there will be an eventual replay but you’ll only be able to ask a question if you sit in LIVE on the webinar!!!
As always, this webinar is FREE. Here are the other important details:
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.
In addition to James, Kevin and Elisa of The Net Results team will be on hand to answer questions too.
This is going to be a very informative webinar, and we hope to see most of you there!
We’re hosting a webinar this upcoming Wednesday (April 14th) with John S. Rhodes!
This webinar is titled “How to Convert Any PLR Article into $32.78”. Much like the title suggests, you will indeed learn how to make $32.78 from EVERY SINGLE Private Label Rights article on your computer! If you have acquired a stash of dormant PLR articles over the years, this webinar will help turn your articles into goldmines! Even if you already have a successful strategy using PLR articles, this webinar may open your eyes to a new and profitable stream of income.
In this FREE webinar, John S. Rhodes explains the power of Private Label Rights (PLR) content. Here’s just a sample of what he covers:
* How to “steal” ideas from world class experts for chump change
* How to generate easy cash from PLR in less than 2 hours (simple!)
* How to eliminate 99% of your competition using this sneaky trick
* How to add $237 of value to a new domain (in under 10 minutes)
And, there’s a lot more…
The essential details are as follows: Date: Wednesday April 14th, 2010 Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT Sign Up Page:http://www.snip2.com/re/jrbg 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.
Watch a PLR package being totally transformed in under an hour. Tim Castleman is going to take a “virgin” PLR package and transform it…while John S. Rhodes covers all the money-getting secrets behind PLR.
You do not want to miss this FREE training on PLR.
Brian Morgan, originally from London but currently living in Wolverhampton, West Midlands (UK) is our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner!
Brian has been a Micro Niche Finder affiliate for years – he’s been promoting Micro Niche Finder practically since version 1 came out and he’s also been an internet marketer for just as long.
With all of these years of experience, Brian has developed a finely tuned sense of what methods work (and what doesn’t work), what advice should be heeded (and what should be ignored), and of the different web 2.0 strategies that can be used to increase internet marketing success.
Brian is refreshingly frank and honest about his experience with internet marketing – especially about the newbie mistakes he made and how he easily became diverted by distractions. To all internet marketing newbies that may be reading this: heed these words!
In addition to checking out Brian’s website, read more about Brian and his suggestions by going to our Facebook Fan Page and clicking on our “Affiliate Spotlight” Box on the left hand column (it’s under our ‘fans’ box)!
You may have noticed an increase in websites that end in .ly . The .ly domain is the top-level domain for the country Libya. For years the company in charge of handling Libyan registrations floundered, but relatively recently Libya’s General Post and Telecommunications Company took control of website registrations. The result is that .ly domains are available to everyone in the world, which is great for people who like unconventional top-level domains (sometimes known as “domain name hacks” or “domain hacks”). Two very popular .ly domain hacks include ad.ly and sound.ly, which both have heavy associations with twitter. This type of domain is definitely not for everyone, but for people with a very clear purpose it could serve their business or personal endeavors well.
The .ly domain has the potential to be particular.ly clever in the English language. Adjectives, adverbs, and names (among others) end with the letters “ly”. Instant.ly various potential domains come to mind: swift.ly, wild.ly, thorough.ly, bil.ly, gnar.ly, fril.ly, sad.ly, amp.ly, persuasive.ly, tal.ly, sal.ly, loving.ly, in.definite.ly, snarki.ly, sur.ly, hol.ly, etc.
Since the .ly is a top-level domain it is on Google’s radar (on par with .com, .net, etc.), but securing the top spots will still take work. However, depending on the word you are attaching “.ly” to your domain could be unbelievab.ly catchy and easi.ly remembered (now that I’m typing .ly I don’t know how to stop!) which could potential.ly increase organic Google searches. It’s also great if your name or business ends in “ly” (see the examples bil.ly and sal.ly above).
The one caveat, and it is a major one, is the price: a .ly domain will cost approximately $150.00. This is significantly more expensive than most domains, but some people may argue that the (potential) rewards far outweigh the annual costs of registering the domain.
If you are curious as to what .ly domains are still available and are possibly interested in purchasing a .ly domain for yourself, you’ll have to go to this Libyan registration page (it’s called “Libyan Spider” – even though it sounds dead.ly, how cool is that name?) in order to register it official.ly!
**Update: Libyan Spider has lowered the price of their .ly domains. Now they are available for $75.00 – still a bit pricey, but half the price it used to be!**
Our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner is Ron Cripps from the Gold Coast of Australia. He is our first international Affiliate Spotlight winner, by the way!
Ron is a new Micro Niche Finder affiliate (he has only been an affiliate for a few months) and yet already Micro Niche Finder has proven to be a valuable asset for internet marketing effectiveness to his company and to his site visitors.
One of Ron’s main business philosophies is to thoroughly research your prospective market before starting any marketing campaigns (Micro Niche Finder is obviously useful for this endeavor!). In addition, Ron is a big proponent of creating authority websites and branching out from there. You can read more about his business strategies and advice by checking out our Affiliate Spotlight section on our Facebook Fan Page (it’s on the left hand side underneath our ‘fans’ box) and you can also peruse his website Affiliate X Files which is full of internet marketing suggestions!
A website company called Wix has developed a simple and (mostly) intuitive way for users to build flash websites and widgets for FREE. This company is a few years old and not yet as well known as it should be, but the potential for this website becoming an important resource for bloggers and internet marketers alike is tremendous.
Some marketers and bloggers have no need or desire to use Flash and that’s perfectly fine. Yet there are many other who wish they could utilize the effects Flash can provide but either don’t know how to go about writing the codes OR don’t want to pay the money to someone else who does know how to write flash codes. Wix allows its users to be their own flash designer for free (although you can always upgrade to more premium accounts, which obviously offers more benefits). You can use Wix to create not only websites, but also MySpace Layouts (admittedly, not many people use MySpace anymore – but for musicians with music on their MySpace page this could be a fantastic way to add pizzazz), widgets, blogs, newsletters, banners, flyers…the list goes on and on.
Wix is initially slightly overwhelming – although it is to a large degree intuitive it does take a bit of playing around with it to fully appreciate all the effects and options at your disposal. There are thousands of free customizable templates for you to use, and once you pick the theme or template you desire you are automatically taken to a wix editor.
This wix editor is impressive and offers a myriad of features you can add to customize your page. For instance, you can add pictures, videos, and music in addition to adding various widgets including RSS, paypal, Google Maps, comments, and contact forms. You can add shapes, give your webpage animations, and introduce visual effects for user behavior. Naturally you can change colors and texts (and there is a wide variety of unique fonts – I happen to like the “pez” font). You can modify or eliminate menus and headliners, and for particular objects on a page you can rotate, resize, and rearrange to your hearts content.
There is so much more you can do using wix – I’ve barely scratched the tip of the iceberg. The best way to learn more about wix and all of its incredible features is to explore it yourself.
Wix is also very important for another reason -Wix websites are fully compatible with search engines! Traditional Flash is not SEO compatible, but because Wix has developed a new way to create content (a hybrid of HTML and Flash – even though the Wix editor relies on Flash, there’s no need to create codes) you’ll be able to use Wix-created websites or widgets for effective promotions and optimizations. For websites this is a HUMONGOUS development, but for widget purposes (such as Facebook widgets) the SEO benefit is not relevant.
I was playing around with the Wix features and decided to post my results into a quickie website (this took maybe ten minutes to make). I’m not great at creating flash codes so if I had to do this the traditional way this would have taken me FOREVER.
Okay, forever is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but the fact that this little website only took ten minutes to make (and that’s including ‘mess around’ time to figure out the features) really shows how easy it is to make a professional-looking website or widget quickly. My “mess-around” website with its minimal effects is only the bare bones of a potential website…and with more time and focus it is absolutely possible to make a stunning and SEO compatible website!
I will explore Wix further (and perhaps you will too) and as I discover more about Wix I will share the findings in future posts.
We’re hosting a new webinar tonight (March 16th) at 7:00 pm ESTwith Jason Fladlien! The theme of this webinar is “How to Create A Membership Site & Be Filling It Up With New Paying Members In Less Than 48 Hours…” and in this webinar you will learn:
How to Create a Month’s Worth of Content in Less Than A Day
The Single Best Way To Fill Up Your Membership With Paying Member
And much more!
In addition, Jason will also be giving away for FREE his “membership area interface” (valued at more than $1,000) to all those LIVE on the webinar! This bonus will not be available for the replay. If you want it, you must attend the webinar tonight!
Here are the details for this FREE webinar:
Date: Tuesday March 16th, 2010 7:00 PM EST Sign Up Page:http://www.snip2.com/re/mwbl 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.
Jason’s webinars have become wildly popular because Jason explains his strategies well. We hope you can attend this webinar! If you don’t live in the EST time zone and unsure about the time that the webinar will start for you, check out our time zone converter to verify the start time!
Congratulations to our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner, Mark Mason of Allen, Texas!
Mark Mason has been a proud Micro Niche Finder affiliate since 2007! He primarily uses Micro Niche Finder to find keywords so that traffic is directed to his websites via organic searches (a very good strategy, may we add). Since Mark has been in the internet marketing world for quite some time, he has kindly imparted very good advice to all internet marketers. To read Mark’s advice and to learn more about this successful internet marketer, go to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the box titled “Affiliate Spotlight”.
In addition to his Micro Niche Finder affiliate website, Mark also has a very good website called Mason World that we highly recommend checking out. It’s witty, it’s insightful, and it’s a great example of how consistent and relevant blogging can increase sales.
If you missed Paul Counts webinar last week you are in luck! We are hosting another webinar with him tonight (March 11th) at 7:00 pm EST. It is NOT a replay of last weeks webinar – this is going to be LIVE. Although the same content will be discussed, there will naturally be variations between tonight’s webinar and last weeks webinar.
Just like the last webinar, Paul is going to actually take a PLR product, rebrand it, set it up for sale, attach an affiliate program to it, and even start driving traffic to the offer page all in less than 1 hour!
After listening to the feedback from last weeks webinar, Paul has decided to spend less time hashing out the basics and focus more time on traffic generation methods during tonight’s webinar.
This webinar was very popular and informative for the people who attended it last week. If you were unable to attend the webinar last week now is the best (and last) time to hear Paul’s great PLR profit-making strategies!
Here are the details for this AWESOME AND FREE webinar:
Date: Thursday March 11th, 2010 7:00 PM EST Sign Up Page:http://www.snip2.com/re/pcbl 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 don’t live in the EST time zone and need help determining what time the webinar will start for you, check out our time zone converter to verify the start time!
