Here are some on-page SEO strategies that you should implement on your website…

Domain – With enough work you could technically get any domain ranked highly for any keyword, but you can make it much easier on yourself by choosing the right domain from the start. Getting an exact match domain (EMD) can often be incredibly helpful in ranking your site at the top of search engines. Often times EMD’s will make it to the top 10, or even #1, based on that alone.

The problem is that in most niches all the best exact match domains will already be taken, so it’s not always possible to get one. However, you should at least get one with your main keywords in it. Just add an extra letter or word at the end, or whatever fits well. Having your keywords in the domain can be very helpful for search engine rankings.

Meta Tags – Your title tag and description tag are extremely important SEO factors. Your title tag should contain your main keywords without many extra filler words, but also don’t stuff it so full that it looks ridiculous. Keep the title to around 65 characters and that includes spaces. That’s about what Google shows in the search results so you want to keep it around there.

The description tag should also contain some of your main keywords but all tell a little more about what visitors can expect from your site. This should be kept to around 150 characters (including spaces) so it has to be a quick summary. Again don’t stuff it full of keywords or it could do more harm than good. Just put them in there as naturally as possible so it still reads well and looks good.

Great Content – Your site is worthless without content and in order for it to be a site that gets natural backlinks, high rankings, and so much more, the content must be very high quality. You will often hear internet marketer’s use the line, “Content is king” and there’s a reason for that saying. This is even more true now because there was a recent update at Google that has made really good original content even more important than ever.

Also, inside your content needs to be your keywords. You should include them wherever they fit in a natural way with around 3% density or so. That means for every 100 words on your page about three of them are keywords that you are trying to rank for. Don’t try to stuff them anywhere and everywhere just for the sake of getting them in there. That tactic used to work but it stopped working years ago. Doing that can actually hurt more than it helps.

Site Map – Having a sitemap is a great way to link all the pages of your site together easily and efficiently. Doing that is important for the search engines so they can find all of your content and rank it accordingly. And it also helps human visitors navigate your site much more easily if needed.

That’s pretty much it. Of course, there are many other things than can be included or tweaked for a maximum SEO score. But if you do the things listed above correctly on your site, you will already be far ahead of most sites. Then, you can start concentrating much more on the off-page strategies.

Today is 10/10/10, and we won’t have another day as exciting as this until 11/11/11, so here’s Ten Top Ten Lists you might enjoy or learn from.

1. The 10 Social Media Metrics Your Company Should Monitor— A pretty straightforward article. Whether you agree you can (or should) calculate ROI for social media, I think few of us will disagree that keeping track of blog interactions is a good thing.

2. Top 10 Expectations of Social Media in 2010— This one is fun because it’s almost the end of the years, so you can see if they were right.

3. Top 10 SEO Myths of All Time— #8 is my favorite since I deal with this one all the time.

Client: I got a call last week from a company that guaranteed my first page ranking.

Me: For pay per click?

Client: No I’m pretty sure it wasn’t pay per click.

Riiigggghhhhtttt.

4. Top 10 Google SEO Ranking Factors— Of course, this assumes that Google hasn’t changed anything in the past ten months— or the past ten minutes. But it’s still a pretty good list.

5. 10 Ways to Reduce Friction in Your Purchase Process— There’s nothing more frustrating than losing a client at the shopping cart. Basics on reducing those chances.

6. Top 10 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog Using Linked In— LinkedIn is an untapped gold mine for many. It’s worthwhile to learn a bit more about it and use that knowledge to your advantage.

7. Top 10 Ways to Tweak Your WordPress Theme— These are easy for just about anyone to do.

8. Top 10 Social Bookmarking Plugins for WordPress— Which is your favorite? I like Get Social.

9. Top 10 Funniest Fail Blogs— Every Top 10 list needs a little levity.

10. The 10 Best Top-Ten Lists And, of course, what’s a best top 10 list without a Top 10 List of Top 10 Lists

This is what we’ve discovered so far. No offense to Local Business Money Machine, which has been a complete blessing this past year and really helped us get off the ground and headed in the right direction, but this is a MUCH better program. Of course, it’s about three times as expensive, so that’s something you’ll need to take into consideration. But, especially if you’re a “newbie”, this program breaks everything down into very manageable chunks. And the videos are incredibly professional (what else would you expect from the guys at Traffic Geyser) and even entertaining.

In fact, this program is broken down so well, that I am going to try my hand at some of the technical parts of it. I’m going to create a landing page myself and see whether someone who’s technically capable but completely unpracticed can do this. I won’t get it done in time to tell you the results before the program closes, but the fact that I’m willing to even TRY is a testimony to this program. Keep in mind that when I graduated from high school, I asked that my parents give me a typewriter instead of a computer, and I usually tell people that “I eat breakfast and talk to people, and George does all the work.” Perhaps I’ll no longer be able to say that

What else have we discovered? We would have paid as much for the level of Traffic Geyser membership included as we paid for the entire Main Street Marketing program. So, even if you’re thinking about trying out Traffic Geyser, go this route instead. You’ll get not only the great video marketing training that Traffic Geyser includes but marketing materials for your new business; over 40 hours of video training by everyone from Mainstreet Marketing success stories (they really do tell you EXACTLY what they did to be successful, even role playing some of the client approach strategies they use) to Bill Glazer; planners; free report templates; fill in the blanks autoresponders… I really could go on and on.

Is this program for everyone? I would still say “no”. There are plenty of people who won’t implement the steps and won’t follow the program. If this is you (you know who you are), don’t buy this program. If you don’t like interacting with people, and you’re not willing to take on a partner who can handle the client interactions, this probably isn’t the program for you. I think, however, that it is appropriate for people with varying skill levels when it comes to internet marketing. You do need some degree of comfort with technology, in general. But if you’ve ever blogged at all or are comfortable with Facebook, then you should do fine.

Like Local Business Money machine, you’ll need some time to set aside for this. The Traffic Geyser trainings are pretty quick and easy. There are eight lessons in the Express Lane training. The longest lesson I’ve seen so far is about 15 minutes. Then there are assignments that go along with those, which I think will take a minimum of 30 minutes to a couple of hours. So, you’ll need around 15-20 hours, probably to get through those trainings. And then, of course, you’ll need to go through the Main Street Marketing steps. Plus, making the pages and acquiring your clients. In other words, don’t think you’re going to buy this and five minutes later start depositing checks in your bank account. But, really, if any of you HAVE discovered a system that works that way, you should contact George about writing for this blog because clearly you’ve found a way to make money grown on trees and a quick way to harvest it.

I do think that you should be able to get through enough training and start implementing the program and figure out whether it works within your 30 day trial. That is, of course, if you don’t wait until day 25 to get started. And that’s my recommendation to you. If you’re interested, buy the program. Work the program for the next 30 days (no excuses— just get busy). If you realize it’s not for you, there’s no way you’re going to do it, you haven’t even opened the files— for crying out loud, return the program! It’s risk free if you’ll just take that step if you aren’t using it.

So, in summary, are we abandoning Local Business Money Machine and switching to Main Street Marketing? No. We’ll do a hybrid of the two for our business model because we’re already making money with Local Business Money Machine. There is a lot of overlap in these two programs, as they both target Local Search marketing opportunities. However, there are some areas that are mentioned in less detail in Local Business Money Machine that we haven’t really pursued as much as we could have (including doing more direct marketing and, of course, video marketing). These are the areas where we’ll be using Main Street Marketing Machines. Do I think you can use Main Street Marketing Machines without Local Business Money Machine? Absolutely!! It’s a completely different model and will stand on it’s own with no problem.

So, take some time to think about it. Write down the pros and cons, where you want to be a year from now and whether your current path is going to get you there. Then, if you think this is a good match for you, buy it! I think you’ll be glad you did.

P.S. Oh, and if you have any questions about the program that you’d like answered before tomorrow, let us know. We’ll be checking comments for the next couple of days pretty regularly so that we can answer anything that will help you make a decision.

PPS. To get our Main Street Marketing Machines Bonus, please remember to use our affiliate link by clicking here. Then send an email to info @ mantywebdesigns .com with a copy of your receipt. Once we have verified that you purchased through our link we will contact you to set up a one hour phone consultation with us to answer any of your questions after you have used the program for at least 30 days. Also, we will follow that call up with an email to check on your progress.

Please, let us know if you have any questions about our Main Street Marketing Machines review.

For those who haven’t used the website grader, here’s what you do…

1. Go to http://www.websitegrader.com


2. Fill out the form


3. Press Generate Report


4. Wait a few minutes

The site then creates a cool free Search Engine Optimization report for you and gives your website a grade. When I ran Can I Make Big Money Online through the website grader I got the following result:

... a website grade of 99.2/100 for www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com…
The website www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com ranks 12,076 of the 1,523,160 websites that have been ranked so far.

That means this website is very well optimized for the Search Engines.

How can this tool help you make money online?
If you get a low result you can find out why you have such a low result, and you can make changes to better optimize your site. This will help you get more traffic and, ultimately, help you make more money online.

If you would like personal help with Optimizing your site for the Search Engines then you can setup a phone consultation with me. My normal phone consulting rate is $250/hr (as seen on my Internet marketing consulting services page), but from now until October 31st, I will give Can I Make Big Money Online readers a special break on this price and I will do phone consulting with you for only $99/hr! That’s more than half off my normal price. All you need to do is send an email to info @ mantwebdesigns.com with the subject line “Make Money Online Phone Consultation”. Then we will schedule a time to talk. I am looking forward to helping you out.

PS. I am signing up for Stompernet today. While the information in the program is mostly information I know, the tools looks unbelievably useful.

So, after a series of events unfolded (which could be the focus of a later post), my wife and I decided to take the plunge and start our own business. So, I am very pleased to introduce MantyWeb Designs (www.mantywebdesigns.com), a full service web promotion and web design company. We will be specializing in helping local businesses with underperforming websites turn their websites into a valuable part of their marketing plan. I’ll be focusing on helping people increase traffic and improving conversion rates. My wife will be concentrating on sales.

While we are based in Houston, we’re available to help people all over the U.S. So, if you’re in need of assistance, contact me. You can leave all well wishes in the comment section.

Before I tell you about my bonus, let me tell you about Eben’s Home Study Course. In case you are not familiar with Eben Pagan, here’s a little background. Eben started online in 2001. He knew nothing about websites when he started, had to learn everything himself from the ground up. Less than ten years later, he dominates several niche markets, particularly in the areas of dating and relationships. This isn’t a guy with advanced degrees in Psychology, so how does he convince people that he is the go to guy to learn about human behavior and dating? In this Home Study Course, Eben reveals his secrets to becoming the guru in your niche just like he has in his.

In March of last year, Eben launched the Guru Mastermind program. A year long training and coaching program, this program was excellent. It filled up quickly, and then the doors closed. Now, Eben has repackaged the Guru Mastermind program as a Home Study Program. You get all the structured learning of the original program at a fraction of the original cost (as much as $12,000, depending on the options that were chosen).

Only you can decide whether the Guru Home Study Course is a good fit for you and for your business. But if you decide to buy through my link, I’m going to do my part to help your success through…

My Bonus

I get a ton of traffic from the search engines. It is highly likely that you found this blog by searching for something related to making money online. If this is your first visit to my blog, then you were probably searching for the best Eben Pagan GURU Home Study Course Bonus that you could find. Am I right?

To help you get awesome traffic from the Search Engines I am giving away the following bonus to those who buy the course from my link:

1. I will provide you with detailed link reports of web sites that you should get links from.
2. I will give you a list of keywords that you should be targeting on your site for the best traffic results.
3. I will review your website home page to give you tips on improving its on-page optimization.
4. You will get THREE Follow-up emails where I will personally answer your SEO questions.

Normally, I would charge over $500 for these services. However, I am giving them away as a free bonus to anyone who pays for (and doesn’t return) Eben Pagan’s Guru Home Study Course through my affiliate link and then sends me an email as specified below.

Here is all you have to do to get my Guru Home Study Course Bonus:

1. Click here to order.
Important Notes: Be sure that the above link is the last link you click before ordering. Otherwise your order won’t count, and I won’t be able to give you the bonus. If you ask for a refund from the course, you will not get my bonus.

2. Forward your receipt to me at info @ mantyweb .com
Use the subject line: “Eben Pagan GURU Home Study Course Bonus”

That’s all there is to it. Once your refund period expires, I will contact you about the bonus.

StomperNet has some of the most well recognized SEO experts on their faculty like Jerry West, Dan Thies, and Leslie Rohde. I just finished watching some of their free videos and it’s really good stuff. They’re sending out all kinds of unannounced video bonuses as part of this course, too.

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I have enough experience to say it, because I pushed lots of personal sites to Google page 1. And I am also the owner of the community where thousands of people are building backlinks every day – and this gives me huge data that helps to see who gets page 1 and who fails.

That is why, let’s start with a statement…

The right keyword for the link building is a keyword with:
(a) stable search demand
(b) low link building competition

And around 70% fail to choose keywords for their link building correctly

. They simply rush to build as much as possible, choosing very competitive keywords like “make money” or “loans” or “weight loss” WITHOUT understanding that sites on Google page 1 for these keywords have dozens and hundreds of thousands of backlinks.

So, in this publication I am going to give a free guide – how to find reasonable keywords for link building. The keywords for which you can get page 1 realistically and within quite a short period of time.

There are lots of keyword research tools on the market, but you do not need 99.9% of them.
Start from a simple question. Who can be the best provider of the search demand information? Search engines!

Unfortunately Yahoo stopped giving away its search info to open public. Who is left? Google!
I do not want to say anything bad about other tools. But you need to understand that: EITHER these tools take their info from Google OR they have a much smaller database of searches (and this is bad).

I will give just one example. There is a very famous keyword research tool WordTracker, very famous. Do you know where they take their search info from? Go to About page of their site where they officially say “All search terms are collected from the major metacrawlers – Dogpile and Metacrawler.”

Can Dogpile + Metacrawler compete with Google when it comes down to the search volumes? No. Who has a bigger data of search demand? Google, beyond any doubt. You need to have access to as many keywords as possible to make a proper choice.

That is why – I am personally using free Google keyword research tool that is here https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

When choosing the keywords with the help of Google keyword tool, make sure to choose “Show Search Volume Trends” in the dropdown menu (shown on the screenshot below), this will show you if the keyword that you are going to choose has stable search demand or not.

As the results from link building are not quick (because SEO is not quick), it is much wiser to focus your link building attention on the keywords that have stable search demand, and “Show Search Volume Trends” will help you to see that.

So, when it comes down to the keyword selection your goal is to choose the keywords with highest stable search demand.

BUT…

Each of these keywords is considered to be realistic only when it has moderate link building competition, and this is where we come to another question.

It is simple, because Google gives us the tool to see how many web pages are building backlinks for the same keyword or keywphrase that you plan to target.

All you need is type into Google the following phrase:

inanchor:”your keyword here”

This is a sample of inanchor check for the phrase “keyword research tool”…

As you can see – 469,000 web pages have backlinks with “keyword research tool” in the anchor text of the backlinks. These are your DIRECT link building competitors for this phrase, and you need to beat all of them – then you will get to the top in Google search results for this phrase.

So, with the help of inanchor you can check the link building competition for any keyword or keywords.

Your ideal keyword for link building is the keyword with ZERO inanchor and maximum search demand .
But zero link building competition is very rare, especially for the keywords with serious traffic.

My personal experience is that any keyword with inanchor less than 1,000 pages is “doable”. So, everything that is under inanchor 1,000 and that is ok in terms of the traffic is a reasonable keyword for link building.

That does not mean that keywords with inanchor over 1,000 are a taboo?

No!

I had experiences of getting page 1 for the keywords with inanchor competition over 10,000,000. And not only me, the members of my link building community as well. But to get page 1 for that keywords you need to build a good portion of quality backlinks every day. This becomes part of a daily routine that you are doing to push your business to page 1 for very tough keywords.

Not everyone has enough guts to be building backlinks daily, for 3-4-5 months, and only then see the results of this work. The traffic for that keywords is worth the job, but the job is not easy and don’t kid yourself that is can be easy. This is SEO, this is not a lottery.

That is why, reasonable keywords with inanchor less than 1,000 is a perfect fix for the people who hurry up to see their sites on page 1 and start getting targeted traffic.

And if you want the traffic from tough keywords – well, welcome to the club of the link building zealots

Since announcing the Search Wiki many bloggers have speculated that Google will use it to alter Search Engine rankings. The theory is that sites that get more votes will rank higher then those that don’t get many votes. It makes a lot of sense, but I have a different view about what Google will do with the voting results…

I think Google will use the voting to LOWER rankings of websites that get voted on too much. And here’s why…

Google doesn’t want webmasters to manipulate it’s Search Engine! The Google Search Wiki provides a great opportunity for Google to catch webmasters manipulating it’s results. Most webmasters have a Google account either for Adsense or Adwords or both. Google can easily monitor those people most likely to abuse the Search Wiki (webmasters with Adsense and/or Adwords accounts) to see what sites they are voting up and down. Since Google has made it known on many occasions that they don’t want webmasters to abuse their system, my guess is that Google is monitoring Adsense and Adwords users voting and lowering the rank of the sites they vote on.

Do I have any evidence of this?

Not really, it’s just a hunch. However, when the Search Wiki first came out I voted for a few sites and the only change I saw was a slightly lower ranking for those sites that I voted up. It seemed temporary though because the rankings returned very quickly.

Another thing that makes me suspicious is that when Google Knol first came out, I tried it, and the next day the site I promoted on a Google Knol dropped from being in the top 10 for a REALLY good keyword to being on page 10. This could have been a coincidence, but I doubt it.

This is just my personal speculation on the Search Wiki, but based on my experience I suggest that you don’t try to game the Google Search Wiki. If you are going to try to rank high in Google stick to getting quality links with relevant anchor text to your website. That’s still the best way to do it.

The best way to consistently make money online is to get to the top of the search engine results (mainly Google) for the top keywords related to your website. And the best way to get to the top of the search engine results is by having a lot of keyword anchored backlinks pointing to your website.

This has always been the case but most people have forgotten this simple fact because they are too busy trying to get traffic from social networking sites. The problem is that the traffic you get from social sites is either completely worthless or very close to it. How much money have you actually made from traffic as a result of social site? I bet it’s very little! Now compare that to the people who own the sites in your niche at the top of the search engine results who are making a ton of money every day.

Let me ask you this question…

Would you rather work your butt off every day trying to get a bunch of traffic from social sites and make a little bit of money from it, or work your butt off for a few months to get high search engine rankings then sit back while you make a lot of money every day?

I will assume you picked the latter unless you enjoy working 24 hours a day!

Let’s say your website (or blog) is about making money online. You will want to be ranked on the first page of Google for several keyword phrases related to your niche. For this example some of the main ones would be:

- Make Money Online
– How to Make Money Online
– Ways to Make Money Online
– Making Money Online
– Make Money Online Free

You can use the free Google keyword tool to find as many as you want.

Now, that isn’t exactly the best example because it’s very difficult to get to the top of the search engine results for make money online related keywords. However, it’s not so hard in smaller and less competitive niches. I just chose MMO because it’s an easy one to use as an example.

How do you get those rankings?

You get them by having a lot of keyword anchored backlinks!

A keyword anchored backlink is a link pointing to your website with your main money making keywords as the text of the link. A good one would be from a high quality, high ranking, high page rank website related to your site, but almost any keyword anchored backlink is better than none.

You can get these links a lot of different ways… link exchanges, guest blogging, forum signatures, directories, article marketing, do follow blog comments, some social bookmarking sites, testimonials, contests, and several other ways.

I won’t go in-depth about any of these link building methods because there is plenty of information out there about them already and this post will be way too long if I explain them all.

Honestly making money online is not very complicated. All you have to do is rank at top of Google for as many keywords as you can, add ways to make money to your site, and watch the money roll in. It takes hard work to get there but it’s definitely not complicated.

So, make this the year you really break out and start making the kind of money you always dreamed of. Get started on gaining backlinks right now so you can dominate the search engines!

When I first started building sites, I thought it was what I needed to do. A lot of hours and much frustration later, I accomplished next to nothing. Not only that, but I learned there were better ways to get back links, and realized just how much time I had wasted. For those of you that aren’t yet as convinced about this as I am, I present to you the 10 things I hate about link trading.

1.) I spent lots of time for little gain. Yes, they put my link on their related link pages, and I put their link on mine. Of course, that was when they bothered to respond, or actually knew how to alter the HTML of their own sites to do that. Some just didn’t care if they ever posted my link, and after a lot of wasted correspondence to them, I wound up taking theirs down. This is not my idea of time well spent.

2.) Link trading services aren’t much better. Yes, you can put your link in a marketplace and have people look you up, but the end results are still the same. Plus, the service sends you email asking you to upgrade to the paid service, which will cost you money to do more of the nearly nothing link trading accomplishes.

3.) I didn’t get jack for traffic. Oh, there were a few exceptions, but for the most part, no traffic. Seriously, when was the last time you went to a web site and thought “Oh, the first thing I’m going to hit is the related links page?” Neither does anyone else.

4.) Related links pages don’t have the same page ranks as the home page. I don’t know any exceptions to this rule. Don’t even take the time to believe that your link is going on the home page. Unless you can make a blogroll, that’s probably not going to happen.

5.) You don’t know if you’re going to be cheated or not. Yes, your link page could be nice, well organized, and short enough so that it’s not mistaken for a link farm by a search engine. Do you know your trading partner will have the same? Do you know they’ll even have a clue?

6.) Two-way link trades are discounted in the search engines. Nowadays, search engines aren’t giving as much weight to them as they once did. They even have services that do three-way link trades now to get around that. Still, how long do you think it’ll take some engineer at Google to crack three-way link trading and get their happy little spiders to discount them too? It’s going to happen sooner or later.

7.) One way links are better, and you know the sad thing about them? They’re easier to get. You just trade some content for them with a little tried-and-true tactic called article marketing. You do less work for more gain, because once you’ve taken the time to create a good article and post it to some free article sites, it’ll spread on its own over time.

8.) There’s way too much effort being put into this now-worthless tactic. There are two-way link trading automation scripts. There are two-way link trading services. There are scripts to insure that if someone trades a link with you, they don’t cheat you. And they’re all a waste, because two-way link trading is miserable.

9.) There are ways to make your links go viral that take less time and effort. You can put them into YouTube videos. You can write viral reports around them. You can create cool content, put it on your web page, and have it bookmarked into a site like Digg. If you do a good job, any of it could go viral. If that happens, tons of people will see your link, and you won’t have to spend any time wondering why no web masters ever answer your emails. Ever do that with a two-way link trade? Not a chance.

10.) You might get so frustrated by the futility and low payoff of two-way link trading that you’ll write a rant about the 10 things you hate about it. You’ll really know you’re in trouble then.

As far as I’m concerned, two-way link trading is a waste of your time. There are better ways you can do more and get you better links for less time and trouble. Those tactics are all I ever use anymore, and I get more traffic now than I ever did tormenting myself with link trades.