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How To ‘Leech’ On Swarms Of Google Search Engine Traffic!

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http://fabiantan.com/2009/09/how-to-leech-on-swarms-of-google-search-engine-traffic/

I’ve got some GREAT content for you today! You may or may not have heard of this Google traffic system. Either way, if you’re not using it yet, you’re missing out on tons of highly-targeted traffic. Here is how to get started:

Step 1 - Do a search on Google for some of the main keywords in your market.

Step 2 - Make a list of all the top 20 sites for each keyword.

Step 3 - Look for blogs or websites that sell advertising space such as banner ads or Adsense ads.

Step 4 – Buy an Adwords Placement Targeting ad spot on the blog/website to get your ad amongst the Adsense ads. Placement Targeting, unlike normal search Adwords, allows you to place ads on specific sites. Bid high to have your ad occupy the whole Adsense block, get the high CTR (click through rate), then lower your bid after one or two weeks. You can also buy a banner ad on the site if they sell it or you can ask them if they would sell a banner ad spot to you.

Example: I did a Google search on ‘home business’ and found a site called http://www.homebusinessmag.com that sells banner ad spots.

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To set up Adwords Placement Targeting, go to Settings in your Adwords account, scroll down the page and you’ll see this option to choose how to advertise your offer:

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Choose Content Network and choose “Relevant pages only on the placements I manage”. This allows you to target SPECIFIC sites to advertise on!

Learn more about Placement Targeting at Google’s official site or look deeper into it at:

https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107914

More ways to get traffic by leeching off sites on Google:

- Consider being a guest author to get your own articles on the blog/website and get traffic. This is a GREAT way to leech traffic and gain credibility in your niche!

- Subscribe to the RSS feed using Google Reader and Bloglines if it is a blog and post a comment whenever a new post is made.

- ‘List swap’ with the list of the owner (eg if you have a list of 1000 subscribers, ask the website owner if they would like to do a cross-promotion – you send their offer to 1000 subscribers and they send YOUR offer to 1000 subscribers)

- Exchange banner ad spots on each other’s home page, Thank You page or Download page.

- Link exchange to build backlinks to increase your Google Page Rank for higher search engine positioning.

- Article commenting. If it is a high-trafficked article on an article directory, put in a short comment to get your website link in there.

- Interview the website owner as part of your audio or video product and then invite your new joint venture partner to promote your product when it’s finished.

Step 5 - Expand this system into long-tail keywords (keywords consisting of three/four words or more) and other search engines like Yahoo and MSN.

Step 6 - Study the backlink structure of the top sites and create a blog/website for each keyword to enter and break into the top 20. Do a search on Yahoo or Google like this – link:urlhere.com to see what sites are linking to it and contributing to the high search engine positioning of the site.

I’d love to hear your thoughts! Don’t forget to leave your comments/feedback in the comments section…

-Fabian

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Get Mail Alerts For Multiple Gmail Accounts With Spiffy

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Spiffy is a small utility that will check up to two Gmail accounts and notify you of any incoming mail. Same concept as the Firefox extension I wrote about awhile back though the extension does much more. The application has a very basic interface and runs in the system tray and shows a pop up when new email arrives.

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Adding Google Analytics to vBulletin (Updated)

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Remember two weeks ago I wrote an article on Adding Google Analytics to vBulletin? Well here is an update for users such as myself of vBSEO.

Just use the vBSEO feature but do not use both. It offers better control over Analytics features, such as funnels (for goals, and outbound tracking) plus user segmentation (users/guests/etc seperation in “user defined” visitor reports).

Plus, there’s no template revert required on upgrades.

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Adding Google Analytics to vBulletin

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Here I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics to your vBulletin forum.

This is for Joomla 1.5x

  • Login to your Administration Control Panel 
  • AdminCP > Styles & Templates > Style Manager > Click on <<>> to expand the templates. 
  • Select and double click on the footer template.
  • ** IMPORTANT** If you were given a choice when you signed up for a Google Analytics account to choose between the new tracking code (ga.js) or the old tracking code (urchin.js) choose the new tracking code.
  • Scroll all the way to the bottom of the code and add the tracking code by itself on the last line of the template. 
  • Press “Save”
  • I suggest you now go to Google Analytics and check next to your site’s URL. Hopefully you will see “Gathering Data” and you’ll know you were successful. If you see “Tracking Not Installed” try it again.

Good luck. That’s all folks!

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Adding Google Analytics to Joomla

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Here I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics to your Joomla website.

This is for Joomla 1.5x

  • Login to your Joomla Admin
  • At the top select “Extensions” > “Template Manager”
  • Select your (default) template and click “Edit”
  • Click “Edit HTML”
  • ** IMPORTANT** If you were given a choice when you signed up for a Google Analytics account to choose between the new tracking code (ga.js) or the old tracking code (urchin.js) choose the new tracking code.
  • Scroll all the way to the bottom of the code and just before the </body> tag paste your Google Analytics code.
  • Press “Save”
  • I suggest you now go to Google Analytics and check next to your site’s URL. Hopefully you will see “Gathering Data” and you’ll know you were successful. If you see “Tracking Not Installed” try it again.

Good luck. That’s all folks!

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Adding Google Analytics to WordPress

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Here I’ll show you how to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog.

  • Login to your WordPress Admin
  • Under “Appearance” (on the left side) select “Editor”
  • If you have a custom template you will be using index.php otherwise you will be using footer.php.
  • ** IMPORTANT** If you were given a choice when you signed up for a Google Analytics account to choose between the new tracking code (ga.js) or the old tracking code (urchin.js) choose the new tracking code.
  • Immediately before the </body> tag paste your Google Analytics code. 
  • Click “Update File”
  • I suggest you now go to Google Analytics and check next to your blog’s URL. Hopefully you will see “Gathering Data” and you’ll know you were successful. If you see “Tracking Not Installed” try it again.

Good luck. That’s all folks!

 

 

 

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Google Webmaster Tools: Redesigned

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Web site owners now seem to rely heavily on Google with regards to their site. Google Webmaster Tools addresses many of their needs as they provide support for those looking to diagnose errors, improve a site’s visibility and declare preferences on how to handle web site listings.

Google has totally redesigned it’s Webmaster Tools interface. Here is an excellent site for more information on the new look.

I’ve found Google Webmaster tools to be an excellent tool.

 

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Goggles for Google

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Ever hear of beer goggles? Google has a new Gmail feature called Mail Goggles. This feature prevents you from sending out an email until after you’ve solved math problems. If math is your thing then I’m afraid you are just going to have to trust yourself and make the ultimate decision on sending or not sending that email.

You’ll have to enable it in your Gmail account. To do so simply go to your account settings and click on the ‘Labs’ tab. Then scroll down until you find ‘Mail Goggles’ and select ‘Enable’. Now, you can ‘Save Changes’ and go to your ‘General ‘ tab where you can customize Mail Goggles.

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Use Gmail manager for multiple gmail accounts

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If you have more than one gmail account, and inevitably most people do, there is an add-on from Firefox to help with the hassle of signing in and out of each account. The Gmail Manager allows you to manage all of your accounts within your browser.

After installation and configuration of your accounts in the Gmail Manager Preferences you’ll have total control over all your Gmail accounts. The manager is totally customizable.

Besides it’s main function of allowing you to manage multiple Gmail accounts, you will be able to receive new mail notifications, display your account details, view unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, create labels with new mail, check space used, and new mail snippets.

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Gmail introduces remote log-off

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Have you ever checked your gmail account from work or a public library and wondered if you logged off? Of course you have! And if you have left your session open all your emails and passwords are vulnerable to theft.

Gmail is changing all that and continues to be the best web based email out there.

At the bottom of a Gmail inbox is a small notice of other active sessions. The new feature, being rolled out to users in waves, also offers some information on the time and location of recent Gmail activities.

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