The SEO Training Alliance just put out this great report.

I had a big problem when I was starting out in SEO (and I’ll bet you’ve had it too…)

We all want to use SEO for our websites and start pulling in the traffic as soon as possible, but…

It’s not the lack of information. There’s loads of SEO information out there… some would say *too much*.

The problem is not knowing the right questions to ask, and WHO we can trust to answer them properly.

That’s why I’m so impressed by the brand new question-and-answer resource produced by Gavin and Jake from the SEO Training Alliance.

They’ve collected together 43 of the must-know SEO questions, based on their experience as top-flight SEO consultants and a survey of their 5,000-strong list (and this isn’t a collection of no-hopers or uber-technical elites… these are niche bloggers like you asking the EXACT questions to make their sites start owning the Google rankings…)

Of course, they’ve not stopped at just the questions… every one is answered with no fluff, just pure rock-solid content. Gavin and Jake are both VERY good at this game, even if they do spend the first bit of their website video dorking about…

(Seriously, take a look – it’s a hoot: affiliate-ware.com/link/seotraining )

It’s a frankly genius idea, and because they’re such good blokes they’ve put the whole list of questions on their website, so you can see exactly what you’re getting. (When I read the list I was thinking ‘yeah, if only I’d known that back in the day…’)

Plus, of course, it’s awesome value. If you took this list of questions to a good SEO consultant for answers, I reckon you’d be charged at least $500 for the time…

If you go hunting on Google yourself, you’ve got a fair few days of boring research to look forward to…

So the $9.95 they’re asking is a steal.

Check it out now:

affiliate-ware.com/link/seotraining

Warm regards,

Rusty Campbell
rustyc@mtisoftware.com

P.S. Fair warning: on the website, they say the price will be going up… I got in touch with Gavin to find out when, and he said it’d probably be in the next few days. So seriously, grab it now while it’s still pocket change:

affiliate-ware.com/link/seotraining

Since I have been using Micro Niche Finder for my keyword research for nearly a year now, I thought I should write a review about my experiences with this product. While keyword research tools are not 100% accurate, Micro Niche Finder is just about as good as they get.

You can look at the keywords in some different ways to get a pretty good picture of  how to focus your writing,  approaches, and market research. I find this invaluable at every level, in part because Micro Niche Finder is so easy to use. I can look at an overview of a search very quickly, get rid of the high competition and low volume searches almost immediately, and go directly to those keyword phrases that are most valuable.

Only after I’ve finished the initial keyword research do I drill down into the “Measure of Backlinks” and “Strength of Competition” areas. Sometimes I don’t even go that far. for instance, if I’m just doing a post, I may just get an overview and move on. It’s so simple to use that I can have basic keyword research on almost everything I put on my blogs and websites.

If tried other programs, and most are OK, but there are 2 things that Micro Niche Finder does better than the other keyword tools. One, you can do a search and have the data in minutes. It ‘s fast and easy. You don’t get bogged down with the tool. Second, it save your searches to a database that is very easily accessed.

You can get your copy of Micro Niche Finder, just click here.

When you run a search, it saves your keyword research to a database automatically and seamlessly. That’s a real plus because you can come back later when you are tweaking a site and quickly fine tune your earlier work.

I’ve used Market Samurai, and it is an excellent choice. In fact, I sometimes use the free version to double check my work. I just find Micro Niche Finder more intuitive. I can get the work done in half the time. That makes a real difference.

You can get your copy of Micro Niche Finder, just click here.

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I hooked up with Fast Track Funding after they called me with a rather enticing idea. They offered me a position as an independent contractor selling merchant accounts for them. While I was very interested in their program, I was concerned that it was a scam to get me to pony up $295.00 for training materials. After David Neff, the fellow who called me, dropped the price to $195.00, I went ahead and, against my better judgement, gave him my credit card information.

The next day I received an email with an invoice that I was supposed to sign and return to them. I filed it and went about my daily business. A day later Jamie Finkel called me and requested that I send back the signed invoice. While this fired some additional alarm bells, I sent them the electronically signed invoice. Since it wasn’t really my signature, I felt I could still fight for a refund, and I still hoped this was on the up and up.

Later that day I tried to call them as Jamie Finkel had told me that I could call her any time for help. I got their voice mail and left a message with my phone number.

The next day, on Friday, I received their training materials. A package that probably cost them $5.00 to have printed up. There was an independent contractor’s agreement for me to sign along with a physical invoice also to sign. the independent contractor’s agreement was unsigned by them. The training materials were mostly fluff. An overview of the merchant account industry with some scripts for use in making sales.

The most notable thing that was missing was what to do with a customer that wanted to get setup. As they still hadn’t returned my call, I placed another call to them. I left a message on their voice mail, and I requested further information.

On Monday I received a call from Caroline with Horizon Marketing who told me that Mr. Thomas their Vice President would call me at 1:00 PM EST on Tuesday. Still no return phone call from Fast Track Funding. Then an interesting thing happened.

I got a call from  eMerchant Direct.I didn’t get the name of the first guy, but he moved me to Bernard Hanes who pitched their offer. They were offering essentially the same deal as Fast Track Funding, only their training materials were only $99.00, $49.00 according to the first fellow I talked to, and the credit card transactions cost 1.2 to 1.9% instead of Fast Track’s 1.59 to 2.7%.

James Thomas called with an invitation to coach me in the business, however, all he wanted was my financial information. Specific enough that it could be used for identity theft purposes. He wouldn’t give me any further marketing infor mation so that the net result of my $195.00 investment is a $2.50 generic info packet. I wasn’t even given a way to contact anyone in Fast Track Funding .

While this is still processing, and even though their credibility is at zero, it’s possible they’re on the up and up though I seriously doubt it.

Bottom line: if you get a call from Fast Track, get on a fast track and run away.

Free iPhone apps are being grabbed up at unbelievable rates.

Just look at the stats from Fisku. In November, the total number of downloads for the highest 200 free iPhone apps in the United States hit a record 5.65 million average per day. That was 15 percent higher than  October and 83 percent higher thanjust  a year ago.

The download rate showed a dip since June when the numbers hit a low of 3.8 million in September. Following the debut of the iPhone 4S and IOS 5 in October, downloads jumped to 4.9 million. Obviously this is dependent on what Apple is doing.

Fiksu said, “As expected, and as we’ve seen before with new device launches, new owners’ enthusiasm is high and their appetite for app discovery and engagement is strong. This bears out in the numbers with daily app downloads hitting a new, all-time record peak reflecting heightened competition for rank in the Apple App Store. Additionally, the rapid adoption of iOS 5–and corresponding app updates–played a key role in this continued escalation in November.”

Since the firm records only the top 200 free iPhone apps, the number of downloads for all free iPhone apps is certainly much higher. Further, the current stats include only November. With a huge number of iOS device sales and activations seen this Christmas by Flurry and other analytics firms, Apple should see an even greater jump in app downloads for the holiday season.

On top of that when you consider the market share the Android is gaining the downloads for free smart phone apps overall have to be astronomical.

The Instant Ranker webinar that is hosted by Martin Phillips is one of the best bits of internet hype I’ve ever seen. Oh, it’s BS but extremely well done.

The quality of information Martin Phillips gives during his webinars is good knowledge about internet marketing. However, he doesn’t really say much. It’s just another webinar that is all hype and no content. He does it very well though, so the lack of content is subtle enough that you don’t really notice it.

In one part he brings on Gary from California and acts as if this is a complete newbie and has no idea what he is doing. Now Gary actually sets up a Clickbank account and they point an Instant Ranker website to the new account. Then the account goes from 0 to $660.00 as we watch.

This is an excellent ploy. It can be accomplished in numerous ways, the easiest being someone in the background buys products using the affiliate links until they get $660.00 in commissions. A few 60% purchases an their credit card to be refunded later.Another way to get this done would be to point the ads on an existing website getting huge traffic to the new Clickbank account.

From my point of view and my experience on the internet, Martin Phillips’ Instant Ranker Webinar may work, but it won’t work in a few minutes. It is not what you think it is, and numbers of this kind can be easily manipulated.

He claims the software has no extra expenses, short term tricks, blackhat software or tactics, and is completely legal and are evergreen methods. From my experience that’s just not true. The various sections of the program are the same things used in dozens of pieces of software available around the internet.

He tells the Story of Instant Ranker where he explains his hollywood background and how he got started with a friend named Adrian. He dedicated himself to affiliate marketing and he developed the  software named Instant Ranker.

To be fair, we have not personally tried Instant Ranker software. The reason is simple. It costs nearly $1000.00 and it flies in the face of everything I’ve learned about internet marketing  in the last 20 years.

Before you purchase this software, take a look at this Warrior forum thread

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/494284-instant-ranker-webinar.html

Please share your comments and feedback regarding this webinar presentation.

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Here is a report on how to leverage your backlinks to increase your search engine presence. The cost of the backlink leverage report is under ten bucks for now. But the price is going up soon for real.

Revealed: the step-by-step system that turns content YOU ALREADY OWN into a traffic-grabbing behemoth…

If you’ve been involved with internet marketing for any time at all, you know how important SEO (search engine optimization) is. It comes in 2 parts. Onsite SEO, and offsite SEO. Onsite SEO is very important, but it only goes so far, then you have to keep prodding your site with offsite SEO, which is all about backlinks.

We all know how important backlinks are. There are entire courses dedicated to each of the various backlinking strategies. Strategies like article marketing. Here’s the problem. These strategies cost huge in terms of money or time.  This report shows you how to get 10 times the value out of each backlink to your site. It even works on backlinks you already have.

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This report was written by Andy Fletcher. I have been working with him for some months now and I can tell you that he is the real deal. His products are absolutely first rate. In fact his backlinking tools have helped me pump up my web traffic from just over 80,000 unique visitors to 170,000 unique visitors in just two short months.

Take a look at www.affiliate-ware.com/link/trafficaccelerator for example.

But I digress. The cost of this report is nickes and dimes, especially when you see what it can do for you. Real backlinking solutions prepared by a true expert on the subject.

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