The most exciting product of February AND March has officially launched! Only Mike Filsaime can modify a simple and typical tell-a-friend script into one that perpetually builds your list exponentially, infinitely and on autopilot based on butterfly marketing principles.

Rich Schefren said it brought him 17 subscribers every second (for the rest of us, it’s the other way round, and still not everyone can achieve this kind of opt-in rate).

Google “tell-a-friend script” and you’ll find free downloads. You know how it looks like (check this), but we INSIST you don’t start to mash it in like what this video (backtrack to the root URL and you can watch it) describes. You are not spending your time fruitfully and the effectiveness is just not there.

But don’t worry, Viral Friend Generator is so affordable EVERYONE will soon call themselves bona-fide viral marketers. Then again, price alone is not worth a major consideration to hold you back. A monstrosity of a list can always pay you back so much more than you could ever expect, time and time again.

Well, if you have been previously ‘swayed’ by free versions of VFG clones, we urge you to at least go through a comparison table of all the features and benefits between VFG and other knock-offs. You’ll definitely know which is BETTER.

Frankly, it would be a real shame if you forgo Viral Friend Generator to save that money. It would be much more important to save time when you could install VFG once for use on thousands of site so you don’t have to mess with technical issues again.

Other great benefits include:

* seamless combination with popular autoresponders like AWeber, ProSender, 1Shoppingcart, GetResponse and Auto Response Plus.

* Detection of fake e-mail addresses

* Central operations and stats tracking from a single admin panel

* Affiliate program module

* Lifetime support, 300% guarantee (you still profit!) and many more!

Get VFG and a special “Virology” report + 300% money-back guarantee! Imagine this: a little adjustment to your opt-in process for all your opt-in sites can quadriple your total income while you still maintain the SAME amount of time and energy on your business.

Surely this is your heart’s desire?

From left: Nelson, Jolly Tan, Tan Kian Ann and Shi Heng Cheong

This mobshot was taken on February 10th, when Kian Ann run his first-ever Practical Blog Marketing workshop. A good start is better than none! I think he was really burned out. After all, it’s not easy to stand and talk the whole day.

The next run of Practical Blog Marketing will probably be 2 full days! The Blogopreneur has got so much more to share, so check details of the workshop and contact Kian Ann to reserve your seat for the next run.

Quite likely you have heard of “Day Job Killer” by now, and it is REALLY hard to ignore when everyone else praises it to the sky like it’s sliced bread 2.0.

But make no mistake this is the same guy whose previous 2 e-books also deals with combining AdWords and Clickbank, and that’s all he does, except that he keeps finding new methods the way Michael Jordan splices through the defence over, under and sideways.

Chris McNeeney reveals some incredible offline methods to generate ClickBank sales and even more ways to profit from AdWords like *nothing*.

…PLUS a niche that makes him over $100,000 a year, and a “Direct Linking” method that makes him a cool $500 a month on autopilot just by promoting affiliate products on AdWords.

* Learn the most devastating AdWords techniques on the planet…the ones the top 1% use against you right now

* The affiliate marketing tricks that the 6-figure guys use…exposed in copyable step-by-step detail

* Copy the blueprint a 7-figure ClickBank dynamo just uncovered…

* Learn why you’ve been living a lie and get revenge on the gurus…

If you’ve been keeping track, you might have heard Chris ‘used’ his customers to test his methodologies to get social proof before he published them in e-books.

Because he strives to design a completely different game where the old rules don’t apply and the majority will be left behind in a world of scathing failure and losses while the few super-affiliates continue to make thousands with ease…

The Opponents

Our encounter with these people almost come to an unpleasant experience…it so happens that we as individuals have different points of view over how to make money online.

The opponents simply say, “Internet marketers DON’T NEED SEO! Just keep on selling with sales page after sales page. Build that list, warm ‘em up, pre-launch, viral-market, presell, educate, send one e-mail and watch for multiple ‘** You got a sale!’ headlines in your inbox!”

Money comes with a ‘THUD!’

The Advocates

The advocates, like Dan Borlan and Holly Cotter whom we introduce below, are the success stories that make sure SEO does not just reap long-term intangible value, but is a part of a sales-conversion process or blueprint that literally translates traffic from “outer space” (random visitors from search engines) into real buyers. That’s real money results within a time frame. They also know that SEO has a larger impact on smaller niches where there’s less competition.

1) Dan Borlan secretly outranks most of his competitors without paying a penny only by using natural listing methods.

Search Engine Success is an amazing resource that helps you outrank YOUR competition and it will be a great eye-opener for you as much as for us. He teaches you how to implement safe SEO strategies to increase your traffic and boost your income substantially, including:

* How to structure your site for success
* What are spiders and how they affect your rankings
* What optimal keyword density works best
* How to quickly find broken links using free tools
* Understanding the difference between a landing page and a gateway page
* Why is cloaking penalized by search engines
* How frames impact your rankings
* The pitfalls of javascript links and when you should use them

And many more gray areas you’d never knew.

2) We thought her copywriting is more interesting (with all that weird sexual innuendos) than the content :) Anyway, Holly Cotter has a FREE audio series on “how you can whip the search engines into submission”. You should get wind of an SEO workshop she is currently conducting, with a $500 discount coupon code to boot. The bad news, it is the one and only workshop she would ever do and it’s already in its 4th week. The GOOD news is, she will convert her workshop materials into a home study course when you become a participant, so in this sense, it’s not too late. You’ll have unlimited access to the digital version of the course so you can go back and review the lessons anytime you need a refresher. E-mail Ms. Cotter for availability of places and other enquiries. You don’t want to miss her “Traffic Dominate Tricks” secrets!

3) There are many books covering SEO for $10 to $37, but none of them are as current or detailed as the SEO Book by Aaron Wall. The SEO Book is an up-to-date 256-page e-book available for your immediate download for only $79. The SEO Book has recently included information about ranking well with social media tools like blogs, web feeds and tagging.

It is written to offer the latest SEO tips and techniques to novice to intermediate level search engine marketers. If you have been working with search marketing since 1995 this probably is not the book for you. Having said that, even if you are a longtime search professional you still would be able to learn about a few tips and see a few new tools you have never seen before. If you are already well skilled at SEO (and realize how profitable it is) then just one or two new good tips or tools should easily cover the cost of the book.

Nonetheless, it is still THE book on SEO that people talk about. Achieve killer rankings in as little as 90 days and save thousands of dollars on SEO professional service with SEO Book!

Jonathan Leger interviewed Aaron Wall to gain an insight into the SEO Master’s big-picture overview on search engines. Aaron reveals how he sees Google, MSN and Yahoo! as they are today, with links to several references and a page-full of free SEO tools in this report.

Are you an opponent or an advocate? You are what you believe. Take your pick :)

Note: As search rankings change dynamically, whatever that’s being said about getting at no. so-and-so spot will be outdated. However, your ranking in relative comparison to a competitor’s tends to be seen as more ‘fixed’.

Following our “Smart Pricing Explained” post, Google de-indexed the error page and we wondered if the updated post might succeed on 1st-page result. Guess what, it ranks one ahead of the original source AGAIN!

This is definitely not luck, and before you start engaging us for SEO workshops, we can only reiterate that having a basic big picture of how Google ranks sites and pages with smart pricing is essential to getting properly started with SEO (refer to the post on smart pricing). It’s not like you have to pay $97 for clandestine info.

We also rank for:

1) blog announcer pro (4th page)
2) google wealth wizard (sigh…dropped to 10th page)
3) desktopbucks (1st page)
4) auction traffic mastery (1st page)

…and for other phrases as seen in this example captured on our MyBlogLog account on February 7th:

Such statistics can also be observed from “web stats” within your web server cpanel.

It doesn’t look like much, but the truth is every other day, at least 1 visitor somewhere is searching for something and we happened to provide it.

This is what the Long Tail of SEO is all about: the Age of Customization whereby people know exactly what they want, and they will go all out inquiring to get it.

Part of the Long Tail phenomenon is a “98% Rule” which Chris Anderson explains in his book to mean that no matter how much inventory is made available online, 98% of the items will sell at least once.

In this case, 98% of all pages from Internet Mastery Center Blog appear at least once in the search results for a key phrase it contains, provided they are already indexed in the search engine database, and some even rank on the first page for key phrases of secondary importance.

Example: “Jay Abraham”, like “coca cola”, is too general a term. The more general a term, the more competitive it is to get ranked for it. The old adage remains true, that when someone types a key phrase that contains at least 3 words, you know that person is zooming onto something instead of window-shopping. The likelihood is there that s/he could be a buyer.

The trick is how to pre-empt what a possible buyer could be thinking. Answer: keyword research.

1. It’s open secret you can check for variations of a key phrase using research tools like AdWord Keyword Tool, WordTracker or NicheBOT Classic. Variations are kept as records because people EXACTLY type them in the search boxes.

2. Then choose a key phrase variation that best reflects the content of your new blog post.

3. Write your post in a way that wraps your key phrase in the first paragraph.

4. Conscientiously apply the practice of SEO writing until it becomes a solid habit. Awareness of your actions is everything.

Is it any accident that there are 3 searches for “jay abraham marketing strategy setting super summit” or “link:www.foreclosurefish.com“? God knows! But that’s precisely business at the speed of thought…

And you need to pre-empt that thought by knowing all the most relevant keywords pertaining to your industry or niche at your fingertips.

That’s the end of today’s lesson! Have you learned something? We hope so. In fact, it is highly possible that there is already a long tail somewhere in your web stats and you may think it’s quite an accidental achievement, except that you now wish you’d optimize your key phrases further with some effort put in.

The next SEO post splits camps and it’s open to the floor for debate…

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You have definitely seen this page. Google is really being more than helpful with its advice on ad placement in blogs and forums.

Back in the last SEO workshop, I consulted Shi Heng Cheong over a problem with our article directory: less than 20% of the pages were ever indexed (there were lots of supplementary results, but consider them ‘bastard’ pages).

I showed him this page, where if you scroll down and look to your bottom right, you see some links to 5 articles. That’s how we reckoned the spiders will dig deep via a “front door” page and index more pages. Anyway, the page is never meant to be a direct-response page and it will be deleted at an appropriate time. Learn what NOT to do from us gooroos!

Whether it was a coincidence or not, Shi mentioned something that relates to how article directories work. To solve the problem as best as we can, we must bring up the article links as a top-fold section AND include a writeout of the first paragraph as a snippet so that spiders can easily ‘look’ at the content for its indexing decisions.

To increase the ‘originality’ degree of the article, rewording the first and last paragraphs is just fine. That reminds me of an urban myth about teachers. During the busy exam season, teachers don’t read from start to end of every student’s essay. They scan through the first few paragraphs and give a mark according to that.

But can’t spiders look at every single link of a page? Aren’t they machines? What Shi said next completely knocked me of my chair and I have yet to find evidence of his explanation. Google is actually modeling spiders as closely to human eyeball movement as possible (surely that has to do with heat maps). Now…not one of us have any idea how googlebot can not only determine your page layout but also how visitors read through it just by ‘looking’ at your HTML code, but at least that gives us an insight into why Google loves blogs.

And the truth is layout and culture are the blog’s 2 best assets.

For one thing, the blog has an elaborate archiving system that takes away non-techies’ fear and hassle of uploading web pages via FTP and linking to them from the “front door”, so they can happily post away as frequently as they wish. The more frequent a blog (or site) is updated, the more often spiders come to look for food. The blogging culture precisely promotes originality because blogging motivates original opinions, thoughts and comments too. Chances are, when there is original content, would not readers scroll all the way down to read what they have missed out before? Would not spiders emulate readers’ behavior by ‘looking’ all the way down? And index new posts along the way? 1 post per page. We know spiders are more than happy to index 3 posts a day instead of penalizing you if you are that hardworking. As a saying goes, “The more pages you get up in the search results, the bigger your online presence.”

It’s true, as reflected by our own tracking of blog pages. We hope blogging may be an activity you would resolve to do more consistently to build up credibility, relationships and SEO too as you go along. We will type something concerning the Long Tail of SEO. This is amazing stuff, and it works. You will know how to get ranked on the first page for every possible key phrase combination. The “how to get noticed on myspace” in the previous post is one example.

Last but not least, the 4th run of the SEO workshop, to be conducted by Shi, commences on March 2nd and 3rd. There will be a lot more covered in the areas of on and off-page optimization, including press release optimization and social media marketing plus continual support and opportunities for idea exchange within the community. Register on this page. Having this SEO skillset will make things easy for you in the future.

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What is smart pricing? To put it simply, it goes like this: by comparison, the AdSense ads that are more relevant and pay better get to be displayed on the site or page that is more ‘established’ than another. The ‘establishment’ of a site/page is measured by:

1) the duration of its existence,
2) the quality of its overall content,
3) its PageRank,
4) the volume of visitors it attracts,

…among other metrics that are both known and unknown to Google sleuths. We mention this because we want to show you a real, practical example of smart pricing at work. This really surprises us.

Google “how to get noticed on myspace” and observe the top 4 results.

The original article is published by Lester Seah at his blog, Evolutionary IMarketing Success. We did not replicate his whole article on our first post, which has since been updated and republished as a new post (thus if you click the search result link, it comes up with “file not found”. The new post is here). All we merely did was copy wholesale his title and mention a link to his article in its rightful place with just one statement.

And what happened? We rank one ahead of Lester. Is justice served?

The no. 2 spot goes to Ezine Articles. It doesn’t matter there’s hardly any key phrase that remotely resembles “how to get noticed on myspace”. That article page alone already enjoys PR 6. Moreover, Ezine Articles is a famous article directory where many editors and publishers get involved. Notice the relevancy of AdSense ads on that page.

No. 1 result is myspace.com. This is “home court” result. That spot belongs to the boss.

Google will flush out that error page of ours and update its indexing of new pages. In the meantime, here’s your discovery. If Lester’s article was published on our blog first and got picked up by spiders before it was published on his, there is a chance the article may never get indexed on Lester’s blog, never mind 4th placing.

But that’s how Google defines quality. Spiders are happy to crawl an illustrious site like Ezine Articles a few times a day instead of one time in a few weeks for obscure sites. This could not have been demonstrated better other than with online news site. Have you had the experience of googling “anna nicole smith died” the moment you heard that news, and what comes in the search results?

Certainly this is something that makes you go “hmmm…”

What the googlebot does is whenever it finds what it feels is a ‘new’ piece of content, it compares with ALL the pages that contain what it feels have very similar words and phrases and are already indexed in the search database. If it finds just ONE exact article in an established site, the latest version it come across will not stand much chance of getting indexed if the site does not pass the metrics as mentioned above. It will be chucked aside.

That is why originality counts.

That is why PLR articles are highly recommended for re-editing.

That is why you must ensure your content is indexed on your site first (give it some time) before you can begin submission at other places. The next best candidates are the average-performing directories. Again, give your article time for indexing, and move on to the better-performing directories. Logically speaking, it is supposed to be this way, but human nature is not meticulous enough to plan such an ‘organic’ move.

We previously asked this question in the Warrior Forum: will too much article submission result in a case of content duplication? We received one answer and it went, “Nah, don’t worry. The directory on the East Coast and the one on the West have 2 vastly different IP addresses, so it doesn’t constitute duplication.” Well, thanks. It is temporary relief to hear that.

Let’s move on to the next post with more SEO tips.

Phew! Matt Callen must have felt vindicated when one of his customer, Arbhishek Agrawal, e-mailed him from nowhere to say he made $9127.75 in AdSense income for this January! So he quickly wrote this e-book, The AdSense Advantage, and just distributed it on Thursday to spread the testimonial on the use of HyperVRE Gold (commercial version).

Of course, we are eager to learn and celebrate of yet another new formula and at the same, want to be careful with all the excitement surrounding the report and give some objective thought as to how popular the method can be accepted by the masses.

On first impression, the method is akin to what John Reese once described as a ‘braindump’ method; that is, “you fling a bucket of mud towards a wall and hope that a few good patches stick to it.” We are referring to pg. 16 of the report where Arbhishek uploaded 300 sites, removed 100 non-performing ones and ended up with 200 good ones.

Another highlight of the report is Arbhishek need not register every single domain for each site. If he did, that would be quite expensive, but it only means 2 things:

1) He had no intention to build opt-in leads.
2) Without opt-ins, there was no intention to build online businesses.

As a result, he only used 2, 3 domains (read the e-book to find out how and why). Google has already successfully clamp down on AdSense sites, thus there is no way the spiders are going deep to index those pages. He couldn’t possibly link to them from the index page either…which brings us to how Arbhishek drew tons of visitors to his sites.

Answer: AdSense arbitrage, but it’s not what you think.

He used PPC, but not AdWords. Guess what? Yahoo! Search Marketing.

Fantastic loophole while it lasts! Why? Google had been trying to maintain the standards of its AdWords/AdSense programs with the implementation of smart pricing, Google slap and landing page score. Whatever activities you do with these programs are closely monitored…

…Whereas Yahoo! Publisher Network, its version of AdSense, is still in its infancy. You can draw PPC traffic from Yahoo! to click ads on your AdSense sites simply because Yahoo! has no sense of landing page score, as yet.

This is a pretty interesting situation. The quality of those clicks may not be good as they seem, but as long as Arbhishek’s AdSense account is not banned, he’s not complaining. He paid for his PPC traffic, and Yahoo! raises both its hands and say, “It’s not my fault.”

It will be a matter of time before Google has no choice but to knock on Yahoo’s door and go in as a courteous guest…and as you know, these 2 companies are rivals.

Before that happens, here is what’s in it for you. We have to reiterate, Arbhishek is NOT building a business, by which we mean there’s no sense of giving value to whoever patronizes you. The AdSense Advantage contains a formula for your benefit and it’s yours only. The process requires you to take MASSIVE action while the good times roll. We have read about other AdSense methods that are, by comparison, beautiful and elaborate. This one is quick and dirty as hell.

If you have previously bought a ton of AdSense templates (we know some of you have bought from us) and feel that you are not optimizing your efforts on them, it’s your no. 1 priority to read The AdSense Advantage and not waste another second. If you have been pursuing AdSense, consider this a must-read to be informed. There is a glaring loophole you can’t miss, and we have just explained it!

Here’s another AdSense arbitrage case study by Matt’s brother, Brad Callen. He compiled his report based on tips given by one of his Keyword Elite customers and threads from his KE forum. Interestingly, AdWords is involved, contrary to what we wrote above. The details of this free report is just as good, or better than any paid arbitrage product you’ll find.

Chris Crompton wrote an incredible report that reveals some overlooked article marketing killers.

These 10 killers need to be put to death.

They are stripping life from nearly all article marketing strategies.

The average marketer could reap 10x more effective article marketing by taking heed to this report.

One more thing…this report is COMPLIMENTARY!

When you download the report, you get the chance to give it away to others, and you will get paid one dollar for doing it, so go get it now!