Everywhere I've been online lately where internet marketers congregate I've sensed the holiday focus. People are busy working, writing, building, and creating at a pace unlike the rest of the year.
I hope you're one of those people and have thrown yourself into projects that you feel good about, are taking seriously and are excited to push forward.
I don't want to take away from what you're doing but I have a few nuggets of info I wanted to pass along - all geared towards helping you make more this holiday season.
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Coffee Niche and a Bonus from Me for Any Niche
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Mike McKay has just launched a new niche/PLR pack on the coffee niche. Now, before you say "Heck, Erica, I don't do anything in the coffee niche...", I want to tell you why Mike's offers should catch your attention, at least once.Plus, if you buy through my link I'm throwing in a bonus you can't get anywhere else...my Christmas Booster Bonus for non-Google traffic for more Amazon sales.It's about a strategy you can do in just a few minutes a day to build up a resource for targeted traffic directly to Amazon on the heaviest shopping days of the year without needing to build a website - and it doesn't have to be about coffee, either.
I think it goes very well with Mike's pack:
Let's cover what Mike has put together.The niche pack includes keyword research for 3 coffee niches: French/Coffee Presses, Luxury Coffee Makers and Coffee Grinders.
All of you coffee lovers already know this is a niche that is evergreen and us addicts will spend a lot of money on our coffee and machines. (I have three and drink one form of coffee or another 24/7.)
The coffee niche also does very well in November and December. Last year's search volume for each of those months was more than double the average for any other month of the year.
Mike's packs are entirely about saving time and making money. He does all the work, puts everything together for you and then tells you how to take full advantage of all of his work.
This time of year, when you're scrambling to get as much content up as possible, the opportunity to buy some of the work already done for you is a big plus.
He has some add ons you can get with the keyword research, too, including the option to have him build a site for you in the niche (but you have to get the niche keyword pack first).
(I mention this specifically because I know there are a number of you on my list who favor the "build the site for me" plans and are all over this kind of opportunity. Should help you further scale up this season and the price is very reasonable.)
Mike's approach is the "a la carte" of niche research. You pick the pieces that you can't do yourself or don't have time to do and get them from him. He's got PLR, videos, graphics - everything you'd need to put a site together very quickly is available for purchase once you get the keyword pack.Now, here's why I paid attention even though I'm not in the coffee niche. I understand that INFORMATION is critical in our business - especially with all the changes in Google and Squidoo. I have two big sources of information I rely on heavily to fine tune my own strategies. The first is reading online and testing. The second is to find out what other Amazon Associates are doing and incorporate the pieces I like into my testing.
By watching just one of the sample niche videos Mike put together, I came up with a number of ideas for things I could do to further promote my own sites. Same goes for the Twitter and list building material he's put together in one of the upsell packages. It's all stuff you can adapt for your own niche.
This is for anyone who:
- Is interested in the coffee niche
- Wants my Christmas Booster Bonus for more holiday sales without building a website
- Wants to use Mike's products to get ideas they can adapt to their own niche
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Getting Your Posts Indexed More Quickly
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Some of you may know this already but even I forgot you could do this and know I haven't included it in any of my tutorials.One thing we all struggle with is getting our sites and new posts indexed in Google. I'm used to my aged sites where new posts get indexed fast on their own but as I'm building a few new sites I remembered again just how long it can take sometimes to get Google to pay attention. Then I remembered the Fetch as Google feature in Google Webmaster Tools.
If you have your site set up in GWT and you've put up a new post, you can tell Google to fetch the URL and then you'll be shown an option to ask Google to include the URL in their index. On a new site I've been working on, all posts I've submitted through this tool have been indexed within MINUTES. I'm talking posts with affiliate links, by the way. Again, there's no guarantee they'll do it but you have nothing to lose by trying and my results have been fantastic.To do this:- Log into Google Webmaster Tools
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Bring up the GWT dashboard for the site on which you've just published a new post (you can do this right after you publish - I was waiting 10-20 minutes at first but now I don't wait at all)
- Click on Crawl in the left sidebar
- Click on Fetch as Google
- Put the URL for your post in the box marked URL
- Click the red Fetch button
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Wait a minute or so and you should see a message saying the fetch was successful and the URL will now show in a list of fetched URLs. Next to that URL should be a box you can click that says "Submit to index". Click on that box. In about 10 minutes, check to see if your new post is indexed in Google.
To see if the post is indexed, paste the URL into the search box in Google.com and enter. If your URL is indexed, you should see it come up in the list of search results.
If you get a red error message, wait a few minutes and check to see if the URL was indexed anyway. Sometimes I've seen the error message but the request still went through. If it hasn't gone through, you can click the Submit to Index button again or refresh the page and click the Submit to Index button and then check to see if you were indexed about 10 minutes later.
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