88 responses

• 1 tajammul // May 11, 2008 at 1:19 pm

  this is a new blog that contains the adsof google adsense. please send me the ideas to attract more visitors to my blog.

  Jeff Johnson says: I’m sorry but there’s nothing but adsense ads on that site.

  There isn’t any content from what I can see and I can’t do anything to help you promote it with free traffic without some major black hat work.

  And I dont’ do that type of work, Sorry.

  I’m hosting a call to personally help people next week.

  If you join the call I’d be happy to answer any questions for you.

• 2 Jaquone Jefferson // May 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm

  Hi all and thanks for what you are doing here. I’d like to know when and how much will it be to have you all do this for me. 202-413-4817. Thanks and jesus is blessing us, amen.

  Jeff Johnson says: You are welcome!

  As far as do the work for you… stay tuned.

  My staff is a well oiled machine and we do it for some of my high end coaching clients.

  We will be trying to expand it into my more mainstream coaching club very soon.

• 3 Gary // May 11, 2008 at 6:44 pm

  Looking forward to what promises to be a great tutorial series Jeff.

  One aspect I’d like to get a better grip on right away is finding and contracting virtual assistants.

  I imagine that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) is more appropriate than Elance.com et al for outsourcing a social bookmarking campaign . . . is that a resource you’d recommend?

  How does Jeff Johnson Inc. find virtual assistants?

  Jeff Johnson says: Yes, I use and recommend mturk for outsourcing these tasks.

  And i have several tutorial about virtual staff and project management I’ll try to dig up for this site.

  Stay tuned… demand has been insane this week and I need to catch up.

  YOu’ll find a ton of stuff here already so feel free to poke around until then

• 4 Mitch Baldwin // May 11, 2008 at 9:16 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  All I can say is WOW…talk about moving the free line!

  And thanks to Mike Filsaime for the heads up.

  Jeff Johnson says: Mike’s a great marketer and a great friend.

  Thanks for joining us here!

  Please tell all your friends

• 5 Social Buzz Master // May 11, 2008 at 9:54 pm

  Great stuff Jeff…

  Thanks,

  Greg White

• 6 Bryan Ellis // May 11, 2008 at 9:59 pm

  Yet again, extraordinary content. Thank you very much.

• 7 Alex // May 11, 2008 at 10:06 pm

  Hi Jeff,
  I have a couple of things: How do I get in on the call. This info is awesome! I can only imagine what a live call would be like. Can you look at my blog and tell me what to do for it?

  Thanks

  Jeff Johnson says: I’ll look at sites live on the webinar next week… be sure to keep an eye out for the email.

• 8 Mike // May 11, 2008 at 10:12 pm

  Hi

  Thanks for all the great tips.

  I notice that Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (mturk.com) only allows users from the US. IS there a similar resource that can be used for those residing outside the US, not including eLance

  Thanks

  Jeff Johnson says: Not a specific one but we use India and other countries for such work.I’ll see what I can find out and let everyone know.

• 9 joe // May 11, 2008 at 10:31 pm

  hi jeff. when you say repeat step 7 and above do you mean steps 1 thru 7?
  thanks,
  joe

  Jeff Johnson says: steps 7,8,9 etc.

• 10 Arthur King // May 11, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  Jeff,
  Great information! Thanks for all of the awesome support videos. I’m looking forward to your phone call- keep up the great job!
  Arthur

• 11 Micheal // May 11, 2008 at 10:37 pm

  Cool post Jeff… I can tell you it works cuz I do it. Just time consuming and without income coming in yet, outsourcing is a mother!

  Hi tajammul, are you smoking CRACK? Read this post of Jeff’s and get to work man! I can’t beleive you had the balls to post that blog asking for help. At least fill it with content and show that you did some work besides, just putting ads on it.

  If it were that easy, we’d all be rich out of our minds.

  Jeff Johnson says: I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only one wondering what was up with that blog of his

• 12 Hunter // May 11, 2008 at 10:38 pm

  I just signed up and confirmed and am now reading your email. And I’m wondering if this ONLY works for blogs or if I can use this on a membership site with 247 optimized gas saving tip pages.

  Thanks,
  Hunter
  http://www.savegasnow.org

  Jeff Johnson says: Static sites work great with most of these techniques (some are blog specific). However, everyone in every market should have at least one blog set up to support their money (main site).

  In fact, create a blog and post your tips one by one to it with some new content as well and link back to your static site; just make sure your blog isn’t on the same server as your website, and that you add unique content to the blog as well as your tips. ALso be sure to link out to other authority sites in your market, don’t just link to your own website every post.

• 13 Daniel Murray // May 11, 2008 at 10:43 pm

  Nice Jeff! Thanks for the free blog software. Look forward to seeing what you have planned. And thanks to John Reese (aka the main dude) for the heads up

• 14 Vicky // May 11, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  Very good ideas especially the outsourcing part. That is what I constantly have to bug my clients to do. Send me more of the mundane tasks so you can stay busy doing the important stuff.

• 15 Chris - Ocular Nutrition // May 11, 2008 at 11:34 pm

  Jeff

  Could you give a little more insite to 7.b. “Create supporting micro-sites mini-network”.

  Also how do you quickly add content to a site?(Article directory content or outsourcing article creation based on topics or keyword rich search terms?) Other ideas?

  To Success!
  Jeff Johnson says: micro sites are social profile pages like facebook, squidoo, hub pages, and stand alone static sites you build in minutes.

  We use RSS feeds and strucutred article feeds , but that’s beyond this scope. I’ll see what I can do. but you can always hire someone to do the work.. that speeds things up

• 16 Chris S. // May 11, 2008 at 11:44 pm

  Seems all these work as I have used them before but the mistake is whne we do too much of a good thing and it is seen as spammy stuff to the social sites and SE.

  Jeff Johnson says: Don’t spam and use technology to scale out. If you build each profile page with unique useful content you aren’t spamming in my opinion.

• 17 Anja Shau // May 11, 2008 at 11:48 pm

  I like your tips, Jeff. I started my own a few month back. Had some traffic, but now not much. Have to work on it much more. My site has a blog attached, I thought it was good, but guess I should open a new blog elsewhere and start using it.
  Outsourcing is really not much done, most people are not doing it, but after the first round and when money comes your way you really should start outsource more.
  Jeff your point 7b “Create supporting micro-sites mini-network” do you refer to pages on squidoo, ehow, and so on or is it something else?

  Thanks for the tips, will rinse and reuse it for my own site, hope you don’t mind.

  Anja

  Jeff Johnson says: yes, social profile pages can be your micro sites as well as 4 or 5 page static sites build by hand.

• 18 Mike Hill // May 11, 2008 at 11:58 pm

  Good Lord Jeff,

  Now here’s a post worth printing out..!

  Much like your entire blog I assume (just found your blog).

  Great, great content to say the least. Thanks for this information Jeff.

  Mike Hill

• 19 Michael Searles // May 12, 2008 at 12:03 am

  Wowza!
  Mike Filsaime sent me over from his blog. Thanks Mike and thanks even more to you Jeff!
  I’ve spent six months looking for a simple straight forward plan that will replicate the ‘big boys’ proven steps and efforts.
  In two minutes you delivered.
  Now the question is - did I make it in the first fifty to register for your one-on-one support?
  Michael Searles
  CashFloodHound.com

  Jeff Johnson says: Sorry, but we’ve been averaging over a hundred new sign ups an hour all week. Those first 50 have been long gone.. but great content to come and live calls.

• 20 Josiah // May 12, 2008 at 12:17 am

  Hey Jeff!

  Lovin’ these tips. I mean, this content could be packaged into a $97+ product EASILY!

  I’m going to make a list of everything here and send stuff for my outsourcers to start implementing at once.

  I have a question.

  I just setup a blog thingy here:
  http://quittingmadeeasy.com/blog (using your program)

  Now my main site is http://quittingmadeeasy.com/main.html

  The question is…

  Would you suggest that I just buy another domain name altogether?

  Or just stick with what I have.

  My main goal for the blog would be to drive traffic to quittingmadeeasy not affiliate stuff so what would you suggest?

  Thanks in advance!

  Josiah

  Jeff Johnson says: I’d keep what you have and eventually set up another external blog to support the site as well

• 21 David // May 12, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Isn’t it amazing how common sense tactics are so much better, and more usable, than complicated hard to apply schemes.

  Great blog Jeff.

  Regards
  Dave McCarthy

• 22 Mark Alan Effinger // May 12, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Very nice, Jeff.

  I was waiting for you to drop the ball and migrate into Black hat land… but you stayed true to the course, and kept things clean.

  Your list is very similar to the one we use internally. We ought to chat sometime soon and see if there’s an opportunity there.

  To your continued success-in-integrity,
  Mark Alan Effinger
  http://www.RichContent.tv

  Jeff Johnson says: perhaps some day we shall!

• 23 FRANKIE L PUGH // May 12, 2008 at 1:10 am

  THANK YOU
  Nothing Down Real Estate

• 24 Tamar // May 12, 2008 at 1:16 am

  Hi Jeff,
  Re “just make sure your blog isn’t on the same server as your website”…..I have all my sites hosted at Hostgator. I was planning on adding the blog to a different domain but it is still hosted at the same place.

  Are you saying I need to have another hosting company specially for blogs?

  Thanks for your help,
  Tamar
  Jeff Johnson says: not if they are in different markets and don’t link together.

• 25 Turbulence Training With Rika Susan // May 12, 2008 at 2:09 am

  Thanks, Jeff. You have some great advice here. I have been using many of these tips and they work. It takes time and patience, but don’t give up. You will succeed if you do your bit. If you offer quality content, folks will find your site.

• 26 Seduction Chronicles // May 12, 2008 at 2:43 am

  Nothing really new here for me. Pretty much doing everything you’ve talked about. Good for beginners however and good luck with it.
  
  Jeff Johnson says: I guarantee they’ll be at least one inspiration waiting for everyone eventually.

  THere’s already 3 hours or more of video posted so I’m sure you’ll find somehing… more to come!

• 27 Latha // May 12, 2008 at 2:45 am

  Hello Jeff,

  Thank you very, very very much for all the free information.

  I will be applying to my blogs soon. Right now all my blogs are at blogger.

  I am trying to purchase hosting and domain name soon.
  It is a little difficult in India,..

  Thank you once again for the support.

  Latha

• 28 Dagmar // May 12, 2008 at 2:47 am

  I don’t understand why should I go through the hassles of installing Your Wordpress “blog software” if I can do it easily through my CPanel with just 3 clicks
  and then just customize it with my themes and plugins.
  What is ’so special’ about your WP? I’ve downloaded it and don’t see anything extra, even plugins are nothing too much, and the themes are mostly ugly. (sorry - except of course blue-zinfandel)

  I have many more useful plugins on my WP sites.
  And I am not even mentioning Semiologic WP template…

  Jeff Johnson says: semiologic is $300. ours if free.

  cpanel requires that you find the plug ins, install the plugins, configure them by hand, and find the templates.

  We’ll add more plugins as needed but we wanted to keep it simple for the average user.

  Our’s is designed to install quickly and saves cofiguration time in the long run.

• 29 Johm Mobely // May 12, 2008 at 2:56 am

  Jeff,
  Precisely what do you mean by “supporting network of microsites”. Did I miss some explanation here? Or do you have some examples of these?

  Jeff Johnson says: social profile pages, 4 page static sites, etc. more to come.
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/
  

• 30 Nor // May 12, 2008 at 4:12 am

  Hi Jeff,

  thank you for the infos and guidelines. I am totally new to this so I find it very helpful.

  I have a site http://www.mytoothcaretips.com and blog http://www.toothblog.mytoothcaretips.com but they are not generating much traffic and also zero sales. So I am going to use your software and ‘revamp’ my blog.

  BTW, if it’s possible can you explain more on items 7a, 7b and 7c. I do not understand what you mean and what I need to do.

  thank you

  In time I will but I need to catch up first

• 31 George // May 12, 2008 at 4:42 am

  Great information and insight Jeff. I think at times we get bombarded withwhat we need to do but don’t know where to start..great to see you break downthe steps to get going..hmm something about Jeffs, I was recently ona call with Jeff Walker and he certaintly does deliver as well..he’s also a fan of yours//Finally Can you please explain why you advise having your blog on a different server from your website..

  thanks
  George

  http://www.topmarketingfusionsecrets.com

  Jeff Johnson says: to help build incoming links to your site.

• 32 George // May 12, 2008 at 4:49 am

  Great Stuff Jeff
  Just wondering if you could expand why you advise to have your blog ona different server than your website…Also in your opinon how often would you post to your blog..would like to hear others thoughts..and tips on posting quality topics , especially at around 500 words per post…What i am understanding it will be a valuable habit to get into…

  Thanks again Jeff I will be looking on with interest.

  regards

  George
  http://www.topmarketingfusionsecrets.com

  Jeff Johnson says: To create incoming links to your website. However, having a blog on the same domain as your website it great, too. I use both.

• 33 Terry @building self esteem // May 12, 2008 at 4:58 am

  Hey Jeff. What a learning experience I just had in installing the wordpress software onto my site. Had a ball, lost a lot of hair and cursed a lot but got it working. Loved it!!

  My question is putting in your Point 5 the ads etc and would like to know more on that point. Do you suggest a widget or ad service for this in your software?

  What threw me was when you said “install” and I assumed it may have been part of the seo wp software.

  Thanks anyway, great experience and a lot of fun.

  Jeff Johnson say: You can simply cut and paste the ad code into your theme. We personally use the free adserver http://www.openx.org/ to manage our ads across all servers, from one central location (actuall we have multiple ones installed to manage our ad network).

• 34 honeybee keeping // May 12, 2008 at 5:30 am

  Create supporting micro-sites mini-network

  Jeff, can you put some more light on it…. and whats the correct way to go about making it.

  Anish

  Jeff Johnson says: Please check back for an update; I’ll be adding more soon.
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/index.php/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 35 Debi-Jene // May 12, 2008 at 7:03 am

  Nice… Thank you, much appreciated. Good read before I toddle for some sleep this morning. Glad I checked my email

  Sincerely,

• 36 Rudy // May 12, 2008 at 9:12 am

  Thanks JJ, very helpful information.
  A great source for new comers in this hobby….

• 37 Dave Leffler // May 12, 2008 at 11:43 am

  All bloggers,

  I have the good fortune of being a member of Jeff’s coaching club and have attended one of his workshops. Jeff is the real deal. (rare indeed)

  If you are trying to decide whether to implement his system or buy his products, GO! Jeff gives his clients a greater competitive advantage through his coaching than any other marketer online.

• 38 David Leffler // May 12, 2008 at 11:47 am

  Jeff,

  What’s the dummy button for at the bottom of the page? I almost hate to ask. Did Frank Kern put you up to this?

  Dave

  Anthony says:
  Ha ha, I never even noticed that, its a button created by one of the plugins, I removed it.

• 39 Jipson Musundi // May 12, 2008 at 12:24 pm

  Hey Jeff,
  I already using similar strategy, however, you have already given me extra ideas.
  Thanks, look forward to the videos .

• 40 cellfood man // May 12, 2008 at 1:18 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  cellfood man here. Your master plan works if we work. I don’t really think it matters much about the quality of the videos that are posted. My cellphone and cellfood products seem to have worked to bring a little extra traffic to my health and wellness website. Thanks again for your master plan.
  Good health to you,

  cellfood man
  http://www.top-wellness-products.com

• 41 366 FREE Internet Marketing Tips AND Secrets // May 12, 2008 at 1:27 pm

  Great post!! My only question is the 1-2 hour estimate to do all of this!! For example, 7b, how long would you budget for this? I think it would be useful to put some time estimates against each step because from experience, all this appears to take MUCH longer than you have estimated. Please let me know. Thanks, Allen

  Jeff Johnson says: the first and most important steps will definitely take less than 2 hours. the others are software and outsourcing.

  My guys can install a site and do the basic promotions in well under an hour.

• 42 Claude // May 12, 2008 at 3:41 pm

  Hi Jeff thanks for the great info. How can I create the Micro sites and mini-sites? Are talking about Squidoo or hubpages?

  Jeff Johnson says: using social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, etc. and 4 or 5 page static sites sites.

  As I said in the post.. please keep checking back for updates… I’ll post them as soon as I can:
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 43 Don Mobely // May 12, 2008 at 3:54 pm

  Jeff,
  Can you elaborate by what you meant by “Microsites?

  Jeff Johnson says: using social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, etc. and 4 or 5 page static sites.

  As I said in the post.. please keep checking back for updates… I’ll post them as soon as I can:
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 44 Rahail Salamat // May 12, 2008 at 4:46 pm

  Well, i think people would need someone to do all the bookmarking campaigns, articles and blog posts for them. I use a resource which helps me do this for my site and the traffic is amazing. If someone wants to avail the opportunity to outsource these steps, contact me.

• 45 Rahail Salamat // May 12, 2008 at 4:48 pm

  If someone wants to outsource the bookmarking and stuff to someone, you can do so by visiting http://www.iwebcontent.com and ask these people to do the Marketing for you and write articles.

• 46 Claude // May 12, 2008 at 8:58 pm

  Hi Jeff, Thanks for the info. How do you create Micro-Site and Mini- Support Sites? Can you guide me in the right direction

  Jeff Johnson says: using social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, etc. and 4 or 5 page static sites sites.

  Please keep checking back for updates… I’ll post them as soon as I can:
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 47 Claude // May 12, 2008 at 9:00 pm

  Hey Jeff,
  How is it you create the support micro-site and mini networks?

  Jeff Johnson says: using social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, etc. and 4 or 5 page static sites sites.

  Please keep checking back for updates… I’ll post them as soon as I can:
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 48 Jayant // May 13, 2008 at 12:54 am

  Great Stuff Jeff. I appreciate your hard work.

  Jayant

• 49 Claude // May 13, 2008 at 1:04 am

  Hi Jeff,

  I have a questions how do build the micro-site, and mini-network sites?

  Jeff Johnson says: using social profile pages at squidoo, hubpages, etc. and 4 or 5 page static sites sites.

  As I said in the post.. please keep checking back for updates… I’ll post them when I can:
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/

• 50 Alex // May 13, 2008 at 3:53 am

  Hi

  I have an image website. How do I apply these techniques to an image website where the content is images rather than info/data?

  My site is http://www.africapic.com

  Jeff Johnson says: If your images have alt text, descriptions, etc… even if they don’t… building social profile pages that offer content about your market and your site will help.

• 51 Mark // May 13, 2008 at 8:26 am

  Hi Jeff,
  Just received an email about this site and was delighted with the info you have provided.

  I don’t have a problem setting up sites but always seem to struggle getting traffic so am looking forward to implementing your techniques.

  As far as the micro sites go, do you suggest using the content from the blog to create the squidoo/hubpages or writing new content.

  For example, I have a site http://wedding-planning-pages.info, should I simply take one of the posts such as “cheap wedding dress” and build a squidoo lens with it?

  Thanks once again, I look forward to more great info.

  Mark.

  Anthony says:
  Jeff recently created an excellent video that I believe will answer your question thoroughly, you can view the video about viral video distribution or how to use social profile pages and social bookmarking to dominate the search engines tutorial here: http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/52/viral-video/

• 52 Lesley // May 13, 2008 at 11:28 am

  Hi Jeff

  I just want to say a great big thankyou for what you are doing. I just have one question - when you talk about creating a social bookmarking campaign with different logins on different times and days. Does that mean that you have to join each of the social bookmark sites and then post to them at different times of the day.

  Sorry but I have just completed my first blog today with your help and so I’m not (as you might say) with the in crowd.

  Anyway thank you so much.

  Lesley

  Jeff Johnson says: the simple answer is “keep it looking random” … rotate the times of day and the accounts you post to.

• 53 Ed // May 13, 2008 at 2:51 pm

  Jeff,

  It appears that there is a great deal of assumed background knowledge that is required to implement your advice. Would it be possible to get references to credible sources of this knowledge?

  You mentioned that your guys are able to install a blog,ads, affiliate links, and capture forms in less than 2 hours. Well, they do it for a living. In what I do for a living I can also get fairly complex things done in hours or even minutes, but that is backed up by 18 years of education and 20 years of experience.

  Here’s an example of two hours not so well spent:
  - installation of your SEO blog package - 1 hour. This includes figuring out that “Internal Server Error” from IE has to do with the fact that my hosting service hosts databases and websites on different servers;
  - getting rid of “just another SEO weblog from Jeff Johnson” subtitle - 1 hour. Yes, it is under Settings->General, if you know where to look :). But if you don’t and you randomly poke around the website to figure it out and you also try to go through the theme code to figure out where it comes from it can easily take even longer.

  Some other examples of things that are not obvious to people like myself who are new to blogging:

  - what different areas on the generated blog mean (e.g. i3Theme), what the significance of them is, and how to modify them;
  - whether or not links to Silver Cross Jewelry etc. are required on a blog that has no relevance to jewelry (as a reward the theme designer perhaps?), and how to remove them if they are not;
  - what elements of the theme have to do with SEO and how to modify the ones that don’t, e.g. replace graphics with ones more relevant to the blog content;
  - how to modify the PHP script to add affiliate links, forms, banners, etc.

  The list goes on.

  The point is certainly not to complain - that would have been absurd, especially considering the fact that your offering is free - but to request references to sources of background knowledge necessary to actually make a realistic attempt to implement this.

  A learning curve is alright, even if it takes 2 months instead of 2 hours - no need to oversimplify what it takes. What would really help is having information to study and learn, instead of spending time on attempts to figure things out based purely on random guesswork. This would add tremendous value to your training, particularly for the unexperienced.

  Thanks a lot for your help!

  Jeff Johnson says: Yes, there is the assumption of some basic knowledge or the user’s willingness to learn. I’m definitely offering a huge shortcut with the software and the tutorials but we can’t cover everything and still get my work done.

  I’d say we’ve done a great job so far… and we’ve only just started.

  I’ll keep adding content and hopefully it will be enough at some point.

• 54 Bhakti // May 13, 2008 at 7:26 pm

  Hi Jeff,
  If I use your software, can I use other theme provided out there? ex: I want to use WP Premium (http://cssace.com/free-wp-premium-theme-is-here/) its Free and nice. Can I do that?

  Anthony says:
  Yes, you can use other themes, but do remember themes themselves have SEO features as well, so different themes do effect the overall optimization.

• 55 dallas criminal attorney // May 13, 2008 at 11:56 pm

  Very informative. Thanks for the guidance.

• 56 Tom Morris // May 14, 2008 at 2:13 am

  Jeff,

  There’s a lot to this program. I can’t keep up with it but I keep plodding along. It seems like a great program, but I refuse to stick to one program so I guess I deserve to be behind the 8 ball. I get a bunch of advertisements for programs, yours being only one, and I subscribe to some of them thinking I will go with the program from start to finish, but I always get interrupted. Anyway I will keep plodding along, but it doesn’t look like I ‘ll be able to keep up. Thanks for the opportunity.

• 57 Marc Fisher // May 14, 2008 at 10:14 am

  Hi Jeff,
  I wonder what the best way to set up the wordpress email capture you mention in your masterplan.
  I only have found a commercial solution ($97),
  Is there a free wp plug-in to do the job ?

  Jeff Johnson says: I simply link to an optin form form each page.

  that way I can test the different headlines and see which one gets the most clicks.

• 58 Vashti // May 14, 2008 at 11:59 am

  Thanks for the post, I really appreciate you breaking down the info. I have a
  dead ebay store page I have scrapped and have been looking for ways to market
  it. Will your method outlined work. Independently or combined with the nichestore?

  Example: if my store is about dog beds…

  should I have a blog with content surrounding different dog beds and choosing
  the right one., maintenace etc and point it back to the ebay store?? or is it

  better to incorporate the store with the blog? just so confused. Or just go hard with the content on the blog and reference the ebay store ?please
  help…SOS

  ps. I was soooo happy you put this training in writing. I always replay your
  videos, you talk tooo fast. lol. Either that or I am toooo slow.

  thanks I really appreciate you and your efforts..

  Vashti

  Jeff says: start a blog that links to your store.

• 59 vashti // May 14, 2008 at 6:13 pm

  Jeff,

  I have a dead ebay niche store with no traffic. will your method work as a combination of blog and store or should I create a content blog that points to my store.

  I have nothing on the store page right now. Wanted to have an dea before mocing forward.

  I am trying to start a sample case and scale it from there. thanks for all your info.

  Yes, you can taget ebay stores with my techniques.

• 60 Rick // May 15, 2008 at 2:04 pm

  Jeff,
  When setting up accounts for social bookmarking the email accounts do you have an account for each bookmarking account or do you create an email account for the list of bookmarking accounts then start over with another email account then go through the list again etc?

  Thanks,
  rick

  Jeff Johnson says: We use different emails for each group of accounts we create.

• 61 Tamar // May 16, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  Thanks for your reply Jeff. I had been thinking to put my blog for a particular domain on the same server with a small link down the bottom of my squeeze page to make the site look bigger and more dynamic. Are you’re saying that I should have the blog for this domain on a different server?

  Thanks for your help

  Tamar

• 62 Rosalind // May 19, 2008 at 5:57 am

  Love it! Love it! Love! All of it is such a help to a granny like me with little technical ability.

  Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

• 63 Colin Rose // May 19, 2008 at 8:20 am

  Hi, any advice is always appreciated especially from those with a track record. I’m an oddity having been in advertising and semi-retired at 60, I have the yachts and homes abroad but work in the property business where I do it all wrong: I spend my own money and have no debts. Occassionally there are”hickups” that test one’s nerve. Hence I am looking at starting an e-bus., most likely as an affiliate initially; earn and learn. I’ve spent a month on research but having been a lecturer this is always ongoing due to market forces. Your site has proved most helpful, but as there are problems with video downloads and they tie one to the screen, could you please have pdf. transcripts available so that one can read and digest at more convenient times as everyday business prevents watching due to time constraints and impatience. Recordings and MP3s do not work for me as being an Architect I think visually and in more than one language. Somthing I can pick up and refere to at need is most useful.

  Many thanks keep up the good work.

  Many thanks, Colin Rose (UK & France)

• 64 Curt // May 19, 2008 at 1:03 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  Love your free software and many thanks.

  Any recommendations of other ‘Themes” to use for your software?

  How do you add the RSS feeds….with plugin? or do you use a script?

  How about adding Data Feeds from affiliate sites?

  Your guys are top notch in the training…. what services are you going to offer for folks wanting to really get things going?

  Thanks…keep it hot!

  Curt

• 65 Rose // May 19, 2008 at 3:22 pm

  I love this software - it took the guesswork out of what I needed to do to create my blog. I would love more information on creating microsites for Facebook, MySpace, and etc. Is the content on these sites supposed to be completely differant or can you post the same information (posts) that you are using on your blog?

• 66 Bridge // May 19, 2008 at 8:51 pm

  Hi J eff,
  You are a God- sent. Just when I was at my lowest ( my computer crashed and I had to change my hard drive losing more than a few hundreds of dollars of programs that I hoped to use someday, and other saved stuff) you are giving me for free what I was looking for.
  With what you have given me here there will be no need for me to spend another cent for any thing in the near future.

  Thank you
  God Bless
  Bridge

• 67 366 FREE Internet Marketing Tips AND Secrets // May 20, 2008 at 12:19 am

  Hi,

  I dont want to get into an argument with you about how long things take to do but I do want to make a couple of points. I am a great fan of outsourcing too but I decided to put the stop watch on myself for a recent launch of my new blog for http://www.tellafriendzy.com (brand new tell a friend application). Here’s what I found:

  1. I registered with around 30 social bookmarking sites. This took me 3 hours. I realize that once these are set up, they don’t need to be done again, but if you’re just starting out, then it is a necessary task.

  2. I created a squidoo page and a blogger page, these took me 30 minutes apiece.

  I guess my point is that there a lot of ‘newbies’ on the block and I think experienced marketers, and after 10 years online, I include myself in that group, need to be as clear about these things as we possibly can. You are obviously a very honest person so I think it would benefit a lot of people if you set out time estimates against each individual step. I have just published my ‘blog launch’ formula and I have done exactly that.

  Sorry to be a pain and please keep up the good work.

  All the very best, Allen

• 68 Mike // May 21, 2008 at 4:53 am

  Is the download page “down” already? Can’t download any application. Oh well, I’ve been on rides just like this before, building people’s lists’ based on promises that just never materialize.

  Judging from the number of people who were successful, this may not be the case, however, a simple warning may have stopped this comment.

  Ya’ll have fun now, ya hear?

  Jeff Johnson says: Sorry, but it sounds like an issue with your browser or ISP.

  Not only is the download available, we’ve updraded it several times for free.

  And the newest version is being released tomorrow.

  Please read our FAQ page for help:
  Answers to your Frequently Asked Questions

• 69 Marco // May 21, 2008 at 9:13 pm

  I got trouble with my site.
  I put some content, but my Main content label showed up an error. I inserted a banner too, but the same problem.
  How I can fix this problem?
  Do I need to get help from my wordpress account?
  Do I need to get help from my host co.?

  Thank you,

  Marco

  Jeff Johnson says: Please read our FAQ page for help:
  Answers to your Frequently Asked Questions

• 70 Tony // May 22, 2008 at 6:10 am

  Gota say Jeff, this is something else.

  OK without sounding like a ‘Me to’ groupie, this stuff really works.
  First thing to do is take action and follow Jeffs lead.
  Within one hour of bookmarking my blog entry, google had indexed my digg in position 3. Less than 24 hours later my blog entry was in position 1 and my digg entry at position 3.
  I can’t believe I have leap frogged all my competitors in such a short space of time.
  I am ready to take action, are you?

• 71 Nicole // May 22, 2008 at 11:06 am

  Jeff,

  Your tutorials are really useful and the strategies seem really logical. You mentioned that a good strategy is to outsource as many tedious tasks as possible (ie. bookmarking multiple videos, etc.) Where could I find someone to outsource to who will do a good job?

  Check with your friends and neighbors, that’s what I’ve always done. find someone that already surfs the net and pay them to do your thing along the way.

• 72 emce2 // May 22, 2008 at 6:25 pm

  This is good stuff. Just taking action has not only got me indexed but some TRAFFIC and clicks for adsense.

  I wonder though if there is a easy way to make a wordpress blog look like a static site? If so how could this be done with a blog in the back ground?

  Keep rocking Jeff

• 73 Marco // May 23, 2008 at 9:24 pm

  This is wonferful traffic generation strategy and marketing information. Thank you, thank you, and thank you again!

  I have successfully installed your seo-blog and followed your traffic jumpstart plan but I sort of got stuck on step 5 whith the installation of the affiliates promotional material… a banner does not fit in the side boxes and if I enter my affiliate material as a comment… well it will eventually be pushed out of sight by other comments.

  I have used wordpress before and I placed banners in the footer file and made custom header graphic about the product for the header file. When I opened those files in your seo-blog I could not figure out how to work with it. It seems to get the header and footer cofe from some other server (?).

  What do I have to do to enter my affiliate promotion material in a permanent manner in the header and/or footer?

  Thanks you very much.
  Marco

  Anthony Montalbano says:
  To add any affiliate promotion material to your blog installation you will need to know how to modify headers/footers and add to sidebars. A suggestion, use sidebar widgets to copy and paste code to your promotional material to place it on the sidebar. To add content to your headers and footer you have to copy and paste code in your header.php and footer.php file of the current theme you are using. Adding content to your header and footer is for experienced users only.

• 74 Money Ideas // May 23, 2008 at 10:44 pm

  Hi Jeff

  I have been using videos to promote my site but I simply add a the main url at a corne of the video.
  You say to pick our best posts, create a video for each of them, upload the videos to different video sites and finally submit the videos to social bookmarking sites.

  Now let say that you want to promote this post.
  http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/48/traffic-getting-jumpstart/
  Since the URL is too long, you can’t add a watermark, right? Then how?
  Also what would the video be about?

  Jeff Johnson says: All you need to do is to regster a domain that redirects to the proper site with the long url.

  The video would talk about whatever the post is about… this great free report.. look at how much info he gives away for free… visit domain.com to grab your free copy

  I do it all the time for affiliate promotions that pay well

• 75 K.Charanyanond // May 24, 2008 at 12:37 am

  Thanks Jeff,This is the best advice
  I ‘ve evever have,Hope you continue your gives.

  K. Charanyanond.

• 76 Hunter // May 24, 2008 at 5:35 pm

  Jeff,

  So, I created a new directory and installed the software, changed the theme and did a couple changes BEFORE I made my way back here.

  Re-reading your reply to post #12 (and now seeing how some of the strategy fits together) I realize that I really want my blog on a different server! I have a few other sites but only http://www.standandunite.com fits with this gas saving blog theme.

  Now I notice that I only have one MySQL db available with this account and that is already being used for the Joomla db.

  My question is, can I piggy back on top of this db (use the same one)? Or even better, can I keep the db that I created at http://www.SaveGasNow.org and simply move the directory to the other server?

  I know you’re swamped… I’d really appreciate an answer though.

  Thanks,
  Hunter

  Anthony Montalbano says:
  Yes, you can use the same DB as your joomla installation. When modifying the Wordpress wp-config.php file, you may want to change the table prefix to something unique other than “wp_”. Changing this prefix will also work with multiple installations of the blog package as well.

• 77 Sylvester // May 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  Your software works great, already have 2 blogs up. You asked what tutorials would be useful. I would like to have a tutorial on how to place banners and ads on the blog.

  Keep up the good work!

• 78 karl olschefski // May 26, 2008 at 2:23 pm

  my wife says that stuff like this and people like you are not real and all you do is rip people off. So help me come up with something to prove her wrong, tell me what i need to do.

  ~Karl Olschefski

  Jeff Johnson says: It’s all on this site. Just look around.

• 79 Wealth Through Wellbeing // May 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm

  Hi Jeff,

  Great that you have the commenters listed on the front page of your blog!
  Another traffic generator haha.
  By the way there is a little bug in the tags that make one keyword bigger than the others. I looks strange but is not a real problem.

  Thanks for helping me get a good site up.

  Anthony Montalbano says:
  A tag cloud is a block of keywords where the larger the keyword is, the more posts made are related to that keyword. This isn’t a bug, this is how tag clouds work. This allows you to see what topics (keywords) are more consistent throughout your blog.

• 80 anti // May 27, 2008 at 3:41 pm

  Does SEO software send pings automatically or does it have to be set up?

  Jeff Johnson says: automatically when posting

• 81 Wealth Through Wellbeing // May 27, 2008 at 5:57 pm

  Hi Anthony,

  I agree on that but in my case too many keywords were a little too big, The whole page then got out of shape and was difficult to read. Thus i had to remove some keywords.

  If i have the Tag cloud removed as a widget, would that have any negative results SEO wise?

  Jeff Johnson says: you can always use the “post slug” featuer in WP to shorten the url and removing the tag cloud, depending on the version and theme you are using, may or may not have seo consequences.
  the newer versions of WP are tagged by technoarti using the keyword tags in the post itself.

  The newest version of the free seo blog software has a new plug in that adds keywords as tags automatically sothe engines will find them.

• 82 Diane // May 27, 2008 at 8:03 pm

  Jeff, I cannot get the SEO blog software you were supposed to give me for joining your blog.

  Please send the download link.

  Thanx,
  Diane

  Jeff Johson says: The download link is emailed to you after you confirm your request to join my list.

  It is very important that you are on that list and confirmed; I send out the software upgrade notifications to that list, and exclusve content on how to use it so…

  Please contact my help desk and they will make sure you are taken care of:
  http://www.JeffJohnsonsHelpDesk.com

• 83 Tom Makela // May 30, 2008 at 7:10 am

  Just want to say hi to you Jeff.

  I have been listening and reading about your tactics and suggestions in the past, but as many others I think think that I have the problem of “follow threw” and like to try to take shortcuts.

  Maybe I have too many projects “running at once”, and want them all to succeed.

  Well I am really going to try to skip the shortcuts this time on my latest project and just concentrate on it to see if your suggestions may help me to build up my “news site about poker in Asia”. You will already see me at the top 10 “poker news asia” in google. Guess my domain name helps a lot.

  I have read 90% about these and similar steps from many other sources but never actually made the effort to do them ALL for one project.

  One of the “outside tips” that I have read about is to basically concentrate on and optimizing for “MSN/Yahoo” and your site will sooner or later be picked up by Google and thus getting even more power than just trying to optimize only for google. What is your thoughts about that?

  So thanks for this free info and keep the suggestions coming.

  // TomYam
  Poker-News.Asia

  Jeff Johnson says: I would never just optimize or msn or yahoo and hope google picks me up.

  I’d optimize for the one I think has the type of user base I’m targeting.

  For example, msn is used more by office workers during the day… so if I was targeting them I’d concentrate on MSN for one of my sites related to the topic.

  But the fact is google reaches 80% of all internet users so you can’t ignore the sheer volume of their traffic.

  Build a site for google, and then build on for msn and one for yahoo, or optimize certain aspects of your interior pages for the specific search engines and use just one site.

• 84 7 Tips for Beginners for Building Blog Traffic // Jun 2, 2008 at 3:09 am

  Hi Jeff n all … this subject is my main concern thanks Jeff for leading the way forward here with social networking/bookmarks … I think if you the poster put yourself in front of your desired outcome prospect by acting like the subscriber – searcher – buyer - that your goal is posting to attract, who will be clicking towards your site for the first time … where, how, what, would your prospect see to tempt them to even click …. And the biggest why! Would you/they want to stay? More than it takes to click that mouse!

  Searchers surfers remind me of a hair trigger – (a gun trigger that responds with little pressure) there clicking finger is twitching and usually is leading there eye brain and it’s very twitchy unless you are attracting the same mindset that you intend to serve! …

  SO the best way forward is to be totally honest with your self …. how many times have you clicked away from a good info source not knowing why you did click away … sort of in a misty trance like state if you understand what Jeff has outlined very well here ….

  Welcome to the real world of the internet

  All my best to you and your conversions
  Phillip Skinner

• 85 Ian Bentley // Jun 2, 2008 at 6:54 am

  Jeff
  I registered for the free software, etc. that you offered in your email. However, when I go to the download page I am requested to supply a Username and Password. When I registered I provided my name and email address (which are clearly not the same thing). How does one get around this problem - i.e. how the heck do I geta username and password?!!!
  
  Jeff Johnson says: The email that has the link to download the free seo software also has the username and password in it; that’s the only way I send out… download link and password together.

  Please check your email again.

• 86 Dave Mez // Jun 3, 2008 at 6:02 pm

  How much should I be charging to have someone get backlinks for me by posting on other authority blogs? How long should it take per post, and how many words? Is 150-200 enough or more than enough? Thanks

  Jeff Johnson says:

  that depends on the market.

  I get unsolicited offers willing to pay me $25 for a link in a single post with no extra writing on my part.

  150 words is more than enough.

  that means they must be willing to pay a lot more!

• 87 Noob // Jun 7, 2008 at 10:14 am

  Hi Jeff,
  Thanks for the free SEO Blog software. I’ve installed it successfully.

  Sorry if this may sound silly, I still can’t figure out how this SEO Blog is different from the usual wordpress blog. I mean, if I were to apply all the methods stated above to jumpstart my traffic to my normal wordpress blog, how would the traffic be different or rather better when using the SEO Blog? Which features of this SEO Blog “expedite” traffic?

  I’ve only been in Internet Marketing for about 5 months, so forgive me if this question is not appropriate.

  Awaiting your response. Thanks very much.

  Jeff Johnson says: The free version of my seo blog version is still better than the standard wordpress.

  But if you know what you are doing and have the time you could do the same.

  It also helps save significant time on post-installation configuration of the plug-ins.

  The SEO Blog Software Professional Edition actaully has even more power including exclusive plugins, and we teach you how to use rss feeds and data feeds for content… not to mention the personal traffic-getting training from me.

• 88 Le // Jul 15, 2008 at 1:36 pm

  Thanks for this post, finally I have a step by step guide to drive traffic. Valueable stuffs.

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