Well I suppose it is really, If you have known me for any time at all you will know that I am not in any kind of Guru circles, I work online so I can spend time with my wife and daughter not so I can get a Ferrari or Yacht.

I don’t listen to very many people, but Ed is one of them. So when I got this infuriating message from him I thought I would share it, I dont know what he is up to but I do know that it will be something worth looking at.

I have copied the email below but the crux of  it is that you need to belong to his site The Other 98 Percent – Don’t panic , it is free. Go to downloads and download the last item.

There are some other interesting downloads there as well, so do take some time to look through and take a peek at the forum as well.

I know this is all a bit vague, Ed is a demon programmer, traffic getter and money maker, he is not some master marketer who is going to weave some massive launch which gives you nothing.

When he sends something I stop and read and join, you should do the same

http://other98percent.com/

The email is copied below, I am also working with another one of his tools RSS Rebound - I want to do some videos on how I am using it before I go and say too much.

Seriously sign up, he doesnt spam anyone, he produces items that do what they say they will and I think those 2 things alone make him stand out.

Paul

Hey all,

I’ll be releasing probably one of the most powerful tools I’ve EVER
made soon.

It’s pretty dang cool……. and the best part is that you can get
traffic fast, and make solid income even if you don’t.

The details don’t really matter right now.  Chances are it’s something you
will be interested in and I’m certainly not going to have affiliates
for this, or advertise outside my network of friends or my subscribers.

To get the early chance to do this (and credits on me) you have to either
act right now or be a part of Niche Site Special 2. NSS 2 guys/gals should
hang tight.  I’ll be automating things for you and giving you lots of
credits.

Here is what YOU should go do right now if .

Go log into other98percent.com.

Click on “my downloads”.

Select the very last download for instructions.

http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=8HNdh&m=1bijZRtulTuurr&b=YceTgmVElghrGg6o0_TlJg

Warning:  The page goes down on Sunday.  Won’t be extended.

Ed

The truth is that in many ways it is just that easy, but in some ways it is a lot harder than that. One of the problems that I see on my travels through the Internet (I do a fair number of 1 on 1 coaching sessions with people) is that people tend to have all their sites around similar niches.

So if you know about or have an interest in repairing cars for example your sites may well be car centric, maybe some power tool sites but nothing much different. This can give you problems as all your sites would tend to be aimed at the same demographics.

You need to get some niche diversity in your portfolio, this is easier said than done since we tend to build sites around what we know.. So why not let someone else spark your brain

Niche A Day by Scott Standke is a nice way to get a daily dose of niche inspiration. Rather than getting a gazillion niches all at once (which i find to just be so much info I can’t handle it) you get one a day.

If you aren’t building a site today that’s cool, save the emails and then get them out when you are building. What I do is have a folder just for the emails, I also have a folder on my desktop where I save any info I come across that may relate to any of the niches I have seen in the emails.

http://nicheaday.com/ is a great way to start looking at niches that are profitable and outside your normal sphere of research. You always hear people saying to think outside the box, it is a lot easier when someone else does some of it for you..lol

In fact it is important not to flit from place to place, the best idea is to find something that works and stick with it.

The problem with this is that it means you never find anywhere new, the sites you are using may be slipping in their effectiveness and you may need to do more work to get the same effect. This has happened all too often, the Internet really never does stand still.

So what can you do?

I was very excited when I found this site, I won’t pretend I discovered it all alone, Ed from RSS Rebound mentioned it on one of his blog posts and I went to look. You really should look at the RSS Rebound tool and also start following eds blog as he is a very smart cookie.

I was going to say smarter than me, but that isn’t saying much most days lately!

Anyway as I say in the video above my logic works around how if Google are indexing posts on sites super quickly they must be sending the spiders there a lot and if they are doing that they must consider it to be an important site.

Ok so my logic may be fuzzy but I am trying to prove there is method in my madness!

So if you are only going to bookmark your page to 10 sites manually you may as well do the 10 that get the most love from the Big G!

As always feel free to tell me why my logic is way off in the comments below.

Then we came up with this idea and I thought it was too good to pass up but also not big enough to charge for, so what should we do? Well we give it to you for free of course!

Watch the 2 minute video and then scroll down and download the plugin.

Right click on the link below and save as.

yahoo-backlinks-v1.1

Then you can install it on as many sites as you wish. I have one folder on my desktop which has all the plugins I use in it and another one with all the themes.

Please do leave comments below, hope you like it.

I have just had an email from them about an update and I think this is quite an interesting one. I understand not everyone wanted to dip straight in and pay out a couple of hundred bucks for the lifetime membership. They are now offering memberships for $29 a month (currently).

The price goes up the more who join, but even if you arent sure about paying a fee I would say you should join at the silver level which is free.

Here is a copy of their email and my thoughts are below that..

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For Gold Members

From now on, if you set up more than 20 websites with article directory, your Postonly Limit will be exempted. This means if you maintain at least 20 Standard Domains (domains with article directory) in your account, you can add your other domains as either a Standard Domain or Postonly Domain, with no restriction.

For those of you who are thinking of using the system to provide link building services for your clients, this change will be a great news to you!

For details, login to your account and click the ? icon next to the Postonly Domain stats.

For Silver Members

From now on, you are entitled to Postonly Domain too! This means you too can set up domains for posting articles only, without the need to add an article directory to it.

To add a Postonly Domain, you’ll have to add 1 Standard Domain to the system first, i.e. set up an article directory in that domain. When the domain is approved, you will get one Postonly credit.

Every domain you set up with article directory will earn you 1 Postonly Domain credit. You can keep the credit for future use or use it for your next domain.

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I think these changes are pretty smart and are great for all levels of member.

Business idea waiting to be made!

Gold members
Buy a baby account at hostgator

Buy 20 .info domains ($3 each or less)

Join Now for $29 a month (I think the next level is $35 a month)

You add them into the system and then you have unlimited post only domains. That means for $60 one off (or less) $9.95 a month for the hosting, and your membership you can promote as many of your other sites as you want..

Or someone elses sites–

Charge the local florists $50/$100/$150 a month to do some seo magic for them.
Offer to promote other Im’ers sites for them, we all love article networks (UAW is one of my favorites) and anyone who has been around knows they work. Everyone loves a service, most of us are too busy (or too lazy) to do this stuff ourselves.

Offer it as a one off or a monthly arrangement, do a WSO, get some affiliates, rule the world..

You still own those 20 sites, you still get the adsense income (or cpa or affiliate income) and you can always sell them on if you want to.

Silver Members

You can now have sites that are promote only, bargain!

If you want to you can get some new domains and add them to the system then use the postonly credits to promote your money sites.

I really don’t see how we can lose with this system, subject to 2 things

1-You Join

2-You use it

As with many things it is a case of making it a habit, and spending some time getting to know their system will help.

You could of course outsource it all and they have that option built into their system as well.

While I don’t know the guy who is setting this up I think he has done it very well from what I can tell and I expect it will be around for a long while.

Paul Forcey

ezArticle Links

It is a service that isn’t even fully launched yet, the official launch date is the 22nd of Feb, but you can get in early. I think I had 94 people sign up for the free version and a few signed up for the paid version (thanks) over the last few days.

I also had some questions sent to me, enough people were asking the same questions that I decided to do a very quick and very rough video to try and answer the questions.

I hope the video answers some (maybe all) your questions and remember that the JV invite finishes today at midnight (17th Feb) but you will still be able to join. The information in it is from the best of my knowledge, any inconsistencies or stuff that I misspoke is due to me being a dingbat and no other reason.

http://www.thenewbiehelper.com/eza

If you join today or you are already a member be sure to put your aff link in forum signatures, or maybe tweet about it. The more people sign up under you the better and it is a 2 layer thingy so if you get lucky and sign up someone who then signs up a gazillion others you gain.

As with all things though, it will only help if you USE IT!

As always if you have any questions or comments let me know using the comments.

Search engine spiders visit your sites and send back the info they find to headquarters where it is used to compile the index that is used to display pages when any anyone types in a query.

As a general rule it is accepted that having search engine spiders visiting you site a lot is a good thing. The more often they come round the more likely it is that your site will be displayed in the search results.

There has been talk around whether high spider activity will result in a higher PR in the next update, or whether it means a higher placing in the search engines. I can’t promise either but I do know that when I send out a flurry of new articles or links I see increased spider activity and that is a good thing.

If the spiders aren’t coming to your pages then they can’t find the links in the content and they can’t list pages they don’t know about.

Get The Plugin I Mention From Here
Indexing Tool – Coming Soon

What is Google Alerts?

Came the response..When you are talking to people about wordpress, social bookmarking, article marketing or Internet Marketing in general it is easy to assume they know the basics of what you are talking about.

So rather than trying to explain, I did a video which is below.. I use Google alerts for keeping track of my author names and my own name. I also use it for being alerted to any new sites/posts that Google considers to be relevant to the keywords I am targeting.

In the video I also mention using igoogle, that is just a home page you set up. So when I start up firefox in the morning I see a list of all my sites, my helpdesk url, my software and anything else I want to remember. I also have customer sites that I am doing stuff for in a separate list

The last thing I mention is google reader – this is a place you can add the rss feeds from sites you follow. It is a quick way to catch up on your fave sites. I explain why I add my sites to my rss reader in the video..

While I have your attention and before you look at the video, here is a new tool I am releasing - LSI Content Creator – I have been using it myself for a while now and so far everyone who has it really likes it.

As always feel free to leave a comment below

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Let me explain, you produce articles to get links and traffic. What if the article doesn’t get indexed by Google? Then you don’t really get as much value from the article ,the link in it, as you should be. Sure you will still get traffic and I have sites that earn money every month even though they are nowhere near the top 50 for their keywords.

But getting the maximum leverage you can from every article you have out there makes sense doesn’t it?

I had a reasonably in depth conversation with a mate of mine about this idea the other day, which I will try and paraphrase here.

Say you want to get your site 10 extra links isn’t it easier to find 10 articles you have out there which aren’t indexed and get them indexed rather than producing 10 new articles?

Sure if you only have one or two articles out there it’s not a problem but if you have various pen names on ezine articles with 50+ articles in each then it can become a bit more of a pain. Checking the articles for indexing is one of those jobs that you mean to do but you know it will take ages so you never get it done.

It is all about maximizing the value you get from the time you took to write the article or the money you spent for someone else to write it for you.

I felt that this was so important that I was going to get a tool made to go find the non indexed articles and someone beat me to it so rather than reinvent the wheel I thought I would let you know about his tool.

Until I know which ones are indexed there is nothing I can do about it, so step one is finding the unindexed pages!

I do not know the guy who made this tool, I actually spent my own money on this tool and I am using it to improve my business.I do feel it is good enough and important enough that I am promoting it to you. Anyone who knows me knows I don’t recommend things easily.

If you would rather go straight to the page then here is the link. Oh and yes that is an affiliate link! But you can watch a video of it in action here and I throw out a few idea on things to do to fix the problems with your articles.

View the video in a larger size

Buy The Index Checker (yes this is an aff link)

Make A RSS Feed Tool

Crawlrate Plugin

Rssbot

I think I have covered everything in the video but as always please do feel free to post a comment. I hope you find this little tool as useful as I do and use it to help power up those links.

Building more links is great but make sure that they are getting noticed!

A 404 error is what happens when someone comes to a page that isn’t there, maybe you renamed the page, maybe you deleted it, maybe when you were building links to your site you made a spelling mistake and the link goes to a page that isn’t there.

Don’t sit there shaking your head saying it can’t happen to you, I have seen more sites than you would ever believe that have 404 errors being returned. 404′s are bad as it is a waste of traffic, if people don’t find the page they want and are just taken to a blank page (the usual scenario) they can’t buy anything from you!

Luckily enough there are a couple of plugins available that make this all very easy. One will email you everytime there is a 404 problem on your site and the other allows you to do the redirect.

I have done a short video showing you just how easy they are to use and below the video I have put the links to the 2 plugins I use. I am sure there are others that do the same but these are the two I use.

Remember these two plugins are not mine so I can not offer support for them, I do use both of them though.

404 plugin

Redirect plugin

I hope you like the video, please do leave comments below so I can know someone other than my mum reads my stuff, Hi Mum!