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The Keyword Crash Course
If you are doing any sort of marketing on the Internet, whether it is niche marketing or you simply want more traffic to your site, the Keyword Crash Course will prove very useful to you. Although its focus is on the needs of a niche marketer, it also offers very specific information about how to optimize your site for the search engines and how to top the rankings in Google.
This course is run by Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle. They are full-time Internet marketers and Internet marketing educators. Together, through a series of videos, they take you step by step from the time you conceive of your site, to the time your site is launched and receiving visitors.
They start off with clear instructions on how to do the keyword research required to identify a niche with weak competition. They then go into some detail on how to setup your website and create content for your site. They talk at length about the keywords you have selected for your site and how to weave it into your content and your website to have the best chance of ranking well in Google.
They then tell you how to promote your site, especially addressing the issue of avoiding the Google sandbox. They will also introduce you to tools that will greatly cut down the time needed to get backlinks to your site.
If you are new to Internet marketing, these videos will show you a side of Internet marketing and search engine optimization that you might never have seen. This is the real thing, taught by practitioners of the art themselves. You won’t find any sugar and spice here, just clear concise instructions on how to get it done.
If you are an experienced Internet marketer, you probably will still learn a thing or two. For me, it puts into place the last piece of the puzzle, and reaffirms what I already know. And, of course, to learn of the exact way they do their keyword research, and their promotional techniques, that’s priceless.
The course is offered at $1 for the first month, thereafter it is $29 or $33 per month, depending on whether you opt for the regular or premium membership. You have access to all the videos when you sign up. Ongoingly, there will be additional videos. There is also a forum where you can interact with your fellow students, and Court and Mark will be there as well.
If you have any intention of setting up something on the net, I highly recommend that you click on the link below, spend $1 and watch the videos. You can decide whether to continue with the monthly subscription later. It will be the most worthwhile $1 you have ever spent.
Hubpages
Hubpages is a site where you can publish your article. But it is much more that a simple article directory. It has features of a money making program, an article directory, a social network, a blog and an affiliate program all rolled into one.
First, when you join Hubpages, you can join them through a referral link, in which the referral gets 10% of your Adsense traffic. But you won’t lose out because the 10% comes from Hubpage’s share of the traffic.
When you publish your article, it is called a hub, you can include an Adsense ad, along with Amazon and ebay ads. Hubpages make their profit by taking 40% of your Adsense impressions. In other words, if your hub is viewed 100 times, your Adsense ad will be shown 60 times, with the rest going to Hubpages and a possible referral.
When a member of the Hubpages community reads your hub, they can comment on it. You can get instant feedback and interact with your readers at the same time. And if they like your hub, they can become your fan. This will mean that they will get an email every time you publish a hub.
Earnings from Hubpages will be slow at first. But the Hubpages algorithm is set up so that it favors hubbers who publishes regularly, drives external traffic to their hubs and participates actively in the community. You will be rewarded by having your hubs shown more frequently and more prominently on the site.