David Bullock, Brilliant Mastermind

I realize that I have been a little bit neglectful and I apologize. I used to give you a Blog of the Day, at least once a week.

The suggestion I’m going to make to you today will make up for all of the days since I’ve remembered to do so. That suggestion is: if you do nothing else today, if you take no other action related to publicizing your business, getting more leads, or making more sales, go and read David Bullock’s blog. Read as much of it as you can in one sitting.

Why?

Because you will learn more from his site, today, than you would in some $2000 a seat seminars. I kid you not. I’ve been reading it at least six months now, and the honest-to-goodness reason I haven’t talked about him before today is that I get completely absorbed in the material. That’s not something I say lightly.

A quote from a favorite post of mine:

I’ve often talked about keywords as conversations. Conversations have history. There is no way in the world to talk about rocket science unless the person has an understanding of rocket science, and that understanding comes from having history or prior knowledge.

When you are choosing keywords it is important that you take into account the history of the conversation.

Where is the person in the buying cycle?
What have they already studied?
Where had they been before?
What is this situation now in real life, while the looking up this information?

So simple and yet so often skipped in the basic lessons most people give on keyword, including myself – it’s from a two-part series called Understanding Keyword Conversations.

If you haven’t got the time to read it now, go to the site and subscribe via email, or drag this link to your feed reader to subscribe via RSS.

… of the Year, is now online.

You have no idea how close it came to being the last one ever…

Whew!

In this Christmas Issue:

Five Seasons Freebies
Four Traffic Weapons
Three Blogger’s Resources
Two On-Going Contest
and a Funny Chirstmas Video of Me!

Can’t wait to see you there!

I haven’t been around for a while, and I’ll probably post an update on that later. I’ll be flying back to Vegas on May 2nd, and by the 7th, I’ll officially be around full time again. While I have a few minutes, I thought I’d talk a little about business blogging, since I have a press release out about it today.

One of the reasons I talk about blogging so much is that I know a lot of webmasters who are absolutely desperate for traffic to their sites. They often have a budget of less than one hundred and fifty dollars, a few hours a week of free time for marketing, and desire search engine traffic above all else.

If this sounds like you, let me ask you this.

What’s wrong with a method to increase your search engine traffic in the time it takes to write a medium-length email every weekday for 30 – 90 days? Especially if, after 90 days, you can maintain those results with one update a week?

This time three years ago, if someone had told me that I could get hundreds of first page rankings in the search engines that I got to keep, month after month, and I didn’t have to spend $100 – $1000 a month on AdWords or Overture, I would have done backflips.

And apparently, I’d be a millionaire today as well. All from learning the right way to blog to rank for 200 search terms instead of two.

It absolutely confounds me why anyone who could write an email wouldn’t find the time to try this method of generating additional traffic to their site – free, high quality, targeted search engine traffic.

Of course, some people believe that all the answers to how to do this are available for free online. And for sure there are some great resources, like Wayne’s excellent Blog Business World.

But if all the information for how to increase your traffic from search engines with a blog was available online – wouldn’t everyone have great traffic right now?

And yet they don’t. Because it’s not just about how to pick a good keyword, or getting links from submitting to blog directories, or knowing where to ping when you blog.

It’s about building relationships – document relationships, the relationship between you and your reader so your traffic will stick.

I talk about some of that in the podcast I did with PRWeb today. It should be out in a few hours. In the meantime, open up the attached PDF file and look at some of the sample resources and ask yourself – are you really happy with how much traffic you have? If there’s an ethical, step-by-step way to learn to do it better, that other people are getting great results with, what’s your reason for not trying it?

How valuable are sales and leads to your business anyway? Are they worth spending a couple of hundred dollars? A couple of thousand? A few hours a week?

You can download the attachment in PDF format. In an upcoming post I’m going to talk about the first case study I have for Adsense and Blogging using my method, which got my personal coaching student 300 visitors a day in three weeks, who are helping him earn over $500 a month in AdSense.

What if he had ten blogs? What if he sees the plan through to the 90 day mark and has ten times the traffic?

What if he were YOU? We’ll talk about that soon, maybe in a few hours, maybe tomorrow.

Which is my birthday, incidentally….

I read about this in the A Consuming Experience Blog. It’s a GreaseMonkey script that makes it easy to append Technorati tags to your posts if you use Blogger. Install the script, log into Blogger, type up your tags, comma or otherwse separated, publish, done. You can even make it set up your default tags, which I always did by using the default template box under Settings ->Formatting.

This makes it much easier to work with…. If you want to Google it for other user experiences, try Multiple Word Technorati tag creator for Blogger. That’s it’s proper name and it’s now compatible with Firefox 1.5, and Greasemonkey 0.6.4.

In a recent article on SearchEngineDownLow.com, there’s Jason Dowdell points us to a list of Blog search engines.

If you’re a blogger, I have to tell you from first hand experience that it’s a good idea to get into these, whether you have a commerical site or not.

Well, that was fast.

Remember this morning when I said that search engines could buy my love? Well, I’ve been bought again.

Too bad for Yahoo, MSN and Amazon that this came from Google. You can read the article in Internet Week. Here’s what the announcement said today at Blogger.

Did you know that you can turn your blog into a source of revenue with Google’s AdSense program?

Would you like to sign up?

And it takes you to a special AdSense page that has the Blogger insignia on it. It’s not much for explaining how this is any different for existing AdSense users, or where you can insert the code — but I’m assuming that even if you’re using Blog Spot, you can just cut and paste the code in there and go. I imagine for new Blogger AdSense users it’s self explanatory, with instructions and all.

I haven’t noticed anything different about the NavBar that would make AdSense automatically included, but I’ll keep you posted. But again, I’m an existing user so that’s probably what the difference is.

Everytime I think of getting a divorce from Google, another really swaying declaration of love comes through….

Imagine if you could make more from AdSense that you would from product or services sales…. I wonder how the tides would turn….

If you haven’t heard, Yahoo has a blog. That part is pretty much old news. It’s been up since the 18th I think.

What I haven’t really seen anyone talking about is the fact that 1- It’s feed enabled – and B, it’s surprisingly easy to comment on, and you can also leave your link. If you say something useful, it seems like they are willing to incorporate your suggestions. I don’t know… I get more warm and fuzzy feelings from Yahoo’s Blog right now than I do from Google’s. Looks like Yahoo uses moveable type, which, though I love Blogger to death, I have to say Moveable Type uses more of the popular blog functions…

All in all, seems a lot friendlier than Google’s Official Blog, which Yahoo links to as a source. Classy.

Wonder if we’ll see any changes at Google’s Blog as a response.Course, there is the other Google Blog, though it’s not endorsed by Google.

But I ain’t one to gossip. So you didn’t hear that from me.

Hi folks,

For the second time in a week, my site was down again. I never imagined that this host (one of three that I use for my sites) could have more than 12 hours of down time in one week, so I went ahead and left my promotions intact. I’m a little frustrated today, but you’ll all still get your tips, just a little late.

Those of you reading this have my site feed via Feed Burner, or are reading this on the front page of the new site FreeTrafficTip.com..

One of the advantages of using FeedBurner.com‘s services is that if your site goes down and you can republish it part of it elsewhere on a temporary basis, life can go on to an extent. Every subscriber, client and site member that I have will get a notification that I’ve made a new post to my blog..

And how was I able to move all my posts as soon as the new site went up?

Blogger..

I simply republished my blog to blogspot for a couple of hours until the little crisis is over, the moved this part of the site over to my new home.

The original site is back up, but we’re in the process of moving – if this happens again while I’m moving the site, you won’t have to change anything at all on your end, so keep the same bookmarks and feed adresss. In addition to republishing the tips to FreeTrafficTip.com, it will still be up at FreeTrafficDirectory.com until the changes are complete.

After the move, FreeTrafficDirectory will become an archive site of all my articles and the actual directory of free tips and information. Member links will appear at both sites.

I’ll do Money Friday on Monday, then resume the regular schedule, starting with Google Tuesday, the following day.

See you then!