Now if you’ve ever wanted to see what people were saying about you online as well as see who is linking to you all you have to do is subscribe to Google Alerts. You can subscribe at http://www.google.com/alerts . Basically, what you can do is whatever niche you are in you can type in the word that you’re monitoring online to see what is new. In my case I may use the word “internet marketing”. And if you are established in the industry of online marketing all you have to do is place your name in the box to allow Google Alerts to update you whenever your name is mentioned online. This is what I do.

In order to find out who is talking about me on their websites and blogs I have set up Google Alerts to alert me whenever my name is posted. I simply type in my name in the “search terms” box and then enter my email address. After I do this, Google Alerts will notify me through email anytime my name is mentioned online.

I mean, I could see everything that’s happening and that gets picked by the search engines when it comes in. So this alert comes in and I see it. I can see whenever somebody is blog posting about me. Actually, after we did the event in Singapore, everybody was blogging about it. It was so amazing. I saw so many mentions of my name on Singaporean blogs! But it’s not only flattery that boosts your ego when you see how many people are blogging about you, but it can also boost your traffic. How you ask? Well, what I do is I go to these blogs where someone has posted something about me and I go to comment on a post. The funny thing is is that a lot of times people are surprised because they never expected me to post to their blog.

There are two reasons I do this… Basically, one reason is to acknowledge that I noticed it and to let them know that, hey, I see everything that you’re doing. But I also do this in order to get a link on their blog to point it back to my page. This is an excellent traffic booster!

And so I was doing that, I started noticing that this really works very well in getting traffic coming from other people’s blogs to my pages, particularly my squeeze pages.

So, if you want to get more traffic but also want to be ahead of the game and know everything that’s going on in your niche, use Google Alerts to keep you up-to-date and to help you grow your business.

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Producing your own blog videos is a great way to gain interest for what it is you are offering – whether it be a service or a product. Blog videos are contagious! They can be watched by one person and that person passes it on to several other people they think may be interested. It can also be posted on one site and viewed by thousands that landed on your particular website. Talk about viral marketing!

So, how do I achieve my success with my video blogs? It’s pretty simple. It just takes proper planning and solid implementation.

The latest blogger buzz is blogging from YouTube. Basically if you’re a video blogger, you can upload your videos directly to Blogger.com blog platform. You can easily post your YouTube videos to your blog because Blogger makes it fairly easy for the non-techie.

Anyways, all you need to do to set up your YouTube account to post videos to your blog using the share button. Usually you’ll enter your blog information once, and then once you click “share” from any YouTube video page, it will be available to the masses.

Let me explain even exactly how I do this. First of all, you can use Blogspot (Blogger.com), which is a free hosting service. You simply go inside your Blogger settings where it says “Publishing.” However, I choose to publish via FTP. You can actually do the same by creating a custom domain so that you can point your own registered domain to your blog. That’s exactly what I do.

So, it’ll ask you, what is the FTP server? So let me give you an example. You can’t do this because you’re not going to know my username and password, but my example is this…

My FTP server is ftp.MattBacak.com, so you want to do ftp.yourdomain.com. And then it says, “What is your blog URL?” Well, since my blog URL is actually my actual URL, I just typed in my URL, so it was http://www.mydomain.com. And the next thing it says “FTP pass.” Well, FTP pass is actually – is a forward slash, that’s all I put there. It says “Blog index file.” The file name is index.html. The reason is because if the file already exists on your server it’ll be overwritten. So I am having my main page, that page is specially designed for my blog so I want it to always be the index page. Now it says, “Feed file name” and then they’ll put the file name there. After that it says, “FTP information” – that’s where I put my username and my password and then I pushed that and that’s all I did. Now my video blog is up and running and I can continue to submit more videos as I create them.

Set up your blog account at blogger or publish via FTP. Whichever you choose, as long as you make your videos and publish them, your videos will become a viral machine and you’ll start to see further growth in your online business.

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Matt Bacak
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What are article directories? Article directories are websites where people can submit their articles into an article database. Search engines love article directories because new content is posted at these websites every day. Anybody can take articles from these article directories and put them on their websites. They have to make sure to include the bio with the article.

Tip: You should submit your articles to these article directories on a consistent basis.

There are thousands of article directory websites, but they are not all of the same quality. You would benefit more from submitting your articles to some directories over others. You want to submit to an article directory that has a high Google page rank.

Here are 9 excellent article directories you should submit your articles to:

1: http://www.ezinearticles.com

2: http://www.articledashboard.com

3: http://www.articlefever.com

4: http://www.buzzle.com

5: http://www.article99.com

6: http://www.articlefeeder.com

7: http://www.goarticles.com

8: http://www.ideamarketers.com

9: http://www.searchwarp.com

There is another way to get your articles submitted to thousands of these article directories with the click of a button. You can go to http://www.isnare.com and go to the “distribution” feature. Also try http://www.submityourarticle.com . They will automatically submit articles for you for a fee. This fee is worth it.

All the article directories will get you traffic, but the higher Google page rank directories normally get you the most traffic.

You can also use a great software program called Article Announcer. It is at http://www.articleannouncer.com .

Tip: You can also set up Google alerts. It is a software tool that is built inside Google. It will send you an alert for topics and words that you specify. For example, you can type in the headline of your article into Google Alerts. Any time your headline is found in Google then it will alert you that your article is picked up by a certain website. It will show you who posted your article and when they posted it.

Google Alerts are free to do. You can keep track of which websites and Blogs are picking up your articles. You want to do this to make sure that these people include your bio. You can contact the people that posted your article and offer to send them articles directly.

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If you want to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website then you need to have fresh content. You can create a stream of fresh content by writing articles. The key is to submit articles with your domain name and bio line to different article directories.

The problem is that too many people find websites where they can buy private label articles. The problem with these articles is that hundreds of other people will be using the same articles. This means there will be duplicate content all over the Internet. Plus, the person who submits these articles to the Internet first is the winner. Everybody else will lose because they are submitting duplicate content.

You should submit articles constantly. Search engines are all about new, fresh, and original content. You can send visitors to your website through your article submissions. When you write original articles and submit these articles to directories then Google will take notice. New content for search engines is like food. Google is always searching for new content to index in their search engine.

The key is to write articles chock full of exceptional information. You should want the article readers to love your article so much that they put in on their website and/or Blog. You will earn traffic from these posts because your bio will be included in the article. The rule is that if people use your article then they have to include your bio as well.

If people don’t put your bio with the article or claim the content as their own then you can go after them. You can have their website taken down if they do this to you.

There are two ways to get articles.
1: You can take time to write articles yourself, but this often takes too much time.
2: The smarter way is to outsource this task to freelancers. You can find several places that have freelancers who will write articles for you. You can pay $5-12 per article. The articles should be 300-700 words each.

Get started on writing your articles today.

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Matt Bacak

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Searching for another idea that can kick start your Internet business profits?

Million Dollar Idea: “Blogging”
What is the one major problem of Blogs for most people? Many people don’t post enough content on their Blog to make it worthwhile. Imagine a concept where your Blog content writes itself for you so you don’t have to worry about it. How can you accomplish this? You can use software to automatically write your content.

There is one type of content that people will never get mad at you for posting on your Blog. What is this type of content? Press Releases. This type of Blog content is great because it contains several keywords. You can use software that lets you type in the keywords you want on your Blog. The software will then search the press release websites for the appropriate press releases that have these keywords.

The software should allow you to decide how many words and paragraphs you want posted on your Blog. It will allow you to also post the entire article if you want to.

Why should you create an unlimited number Blogs? Blogs are very powerful. Search engines favor fresh content. The search engine will find your Blogs and raise your ranking. Plus, you can run Google AdSense programs on your Blogs. This will enable you to earn money from each Blog.

You can also write your own articles. If you don’t like to write, you can record your content. Have this content transcribed and formatted. You can outsource this article creation to freelancers.

Tip: Your Blog articles don’t have to be long. They can be around 200 words if you want. The key is to provide valuable content that your readers and customers would benefit from.

Tip: You can create an audio version of the Blog post. Provide a link in your Blog article that says “Click here to listen to this post”. This will impress readers because it shows that you have gone the extra mile to provide them with valuable content in a different format.

Tip: You can use audio generator software where you create podcasts. Your podcast will be automatically indexed in iTunes. The podcasts can be automatically generated into text content on your Blog that contains a link to your podcast.

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Matt Bacak

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