Search Domination Challenge - A competition and a challenge!

You may have noticed my posts have slowed down a bit over the last month or so.

This is because I have been spending a lot of time writing a book on Search Engine Optimisation and Web 2.0 services. The book is to be called Search Domination Challenge.

In fact most of my posts in July were made as part of my research for this book. I took on Auction Profits Unleashed as a product to promote and tested a lot of Web 2.0 methods for getting results in the search engines. I also did some testing on Auto Auction Income and on Standing Start Profits.

Does this all start to make sense now? The results themselves as posted here also became part of the data.

In the book, I go into detail on the methods I used to gain these first page search engine results and more. In order to be all-inclusive, I also go into the practice of On-page SEO, but a lot of the meat is on leveraging the right Web 2.0 services to lend authority to your search optimised pages.

But Search Domination Challenge is intended to be more than just a book. I like the principles behind Open Source and the user experience of Web 2.0, so I never set out to create a "static" book. It will be published in digital format and invites questions, comments, and suggestions which will be integrated into various revisions over time. I want the owners of the book to be a community and my ambition for it is to become the Web 2.0 users' bible for search engine optimisation.

I have invested months of long hours and late nights in this book to give the reader the best value possible. It is definitely not "another ebook". I'll leave the sales copy to the professionals, but I wanted to introduce the book in a way that demonstates the ethos behind it. Hence the "competition and a challenge" of the post title!

Go to http://searchdominationchallenge.com/ to see an unusual approach to introducing a book to market. Enter the competition there.

The winners, and there will be a good few, will get the book free. You will get it before the book launch and will be able to use the techniques in the book to promote it during prelaunch as a full Joint Venture partner. I don't believe an internet marketing opportunity like this has ever been thrown open to all comers. Prelaunch is normally the exclusive domain of the established "gurus".

The competition also gives all entrants the opportunity to stretch their SEO talents and get search engine placements established in advance of launch. I'm hoping you can earn good affiliate income on sales of the book by having this advance notice.

So what are you waiting for? Click Search Domination Challenge anywhere in this post and grab your chance now!

Social Bookmarking Experiments

Take a look at the posts for Auction Profits Unleashed - these are part of a social bookmarking experiment by the products author, Lee McIntyre. In an email 5 days ago he said: "The doors will swing open on Monday 16th July at 1pm EST. This is a HUGE opportunity for those that move fast... There are almost no results in Google for Auction Profits Unleashed or Lee McIntyre despite the fact that the term must be getting nailed right about now. And I've locked out the 'big boys' giving YOU the chance to grab a big slice of the pie for once." The results are starting to come in and they are mind blowing! ... A Squidoo Lens I created under the name IanP is ranked at #3 in Google for the term "auction profits unleashed" and a Digg for the same lens is ranked at #5! Secret Growth Publishing is an articles blog of mine and ranks at #8. My sales site for Auction Profits Unleashed http://www.auction-profits-unleashed.com/ is at No. 1 in Yahoo!, AltaVista and Lycos, No.2 in Dogpile (after a sponsored result for "profit"). This is not bad at all after only 5 days mixing in... Another social bookmarking experiment is under way at "Make Money With Kassper". Kassper is holding a contest in which he is giving out a lot of linky love for anyone who writes a short post or a review of his site. All you have to do in the post is link ONCE to his blog which is all about Blogging Tips on how to Make Money Online and link ONCE to any of his posts. This is my favorite: Get In The Google Top 10 - Post Title Optimization. In return you will get more than 50 backlinks to your blog. We live in interesting times....

WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!

Had a nice bit of regular work to do today - MailScanner Logwatch reported:

 

    WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
    WARNING: Local version: 0.90.2 Recommended version: 0.90.3
    DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

 

Now I don't believe the information provided at the ClamAV support FAQ is very clear for users with a mailscanner setup, so I thought I might give a quick tutorial here.

 

First of all go to http://clamav.net and download the latest stable ClamAV distribution. While the development releases are available via svn, unfortunately, you have to go to sourceforge.net to get the production quality releases. Download the tar-ball from Sourceforge (clamav-0.90.3.tar.gz in this case). If your server is not local you will have to upload this tar-ball via ftp a directory on your server.

 

1. The first job is to back up your configuration files - I stick the copies in the backup folder for convenience,

cp /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf /backup/clamd.conf

cp /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf /backup/freshclam.conf

 

2. In the directory in which you placed the tar-ball, you need to expand the distribution,

tar -xzf clamav-xxx.tar.gz (the xxx is replaced by the version of the distribution 0.90.3 here giving tar -xzf clamav-0.90.3.tar.gz)

 

3. Go into the expanded directory and run the install,

cd clamav-xxx (this version cd clamav-0.90.3)

./configure --disable-zlib-vcheck (parameters are not always needed - include them just in case)

make

make install

 

4. Copy your configuration files back,

cp /backup/clamd.conf /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf

cp /backup/freshclam.conf /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf

 

5. (If you are using the perl clamav module (that would be unusual with a mailscanner install), update it now

/scripts/perlinstaller --force Mail::ClamAV) Otherwise, run freshclam to get up to date definitions,

freshclam

 

6. Restart MailScanner,

service MailScanner restart

 

You logwatch will report the outdated warning one more time as it appears to give the version details from the last time it was run (at the top, it states "Date Range Processed: yesterday"), but after that you will only see the main.cvd and daily.inc status messages.

 

You might want to bookmark this post as version 0.91.0 is coming soon!! 

 

Have a virus free day!!

 

And Now Away..

That's the last of the sites for this session and I have just checked the server logs again, so I am going to take a few hours break from the "machine".

The servers will page me if they run above my set parameters. This happened at 04:55 last night - a client account was using 95% of his disk space allowance. I increased it and phoned him this morning to upgrade his account. Better than him having downtime problems...

 

BFN

 

And Then There Was None...

The last of 5, Conversion Power Secrets has now gone live!!

 

This is another book from the desk of Simon Hodgkinson (see The Success Decision post below). I didn't think I would like this one, but I was fascinated by the process he details here.

 

He actually goes through how to write sales copy - breaking it down into logical components. He begins with the pitch "Most People are Dumb!", then explains that does not include you or I...

Some of the techniques remind me of when I studied psychology as part of management. In particular Merton's theories on "In Groups" and "Out Groups", on which I did a paper. The desire to feel included, one of the group, is a great motivator. How powerful is that?

 

Simon gives the low-down on some of the "dirty tricks" played in copywriting, benefits by association, using white space, flow disruption, and more...

Why not take a look at his copy? My guess is he probably wrote the sales page himself. You might find it interesting to break the page down to see if you can discover any techniques he uses. Just click the link below...

 

www.conversionpowersecrets.info

 

 

 

 

I'm Back

Right, that's Anthony, my 4yr old son, off to school. Well, playschool anyway - he doesn't start in "big boys school" until September. That's one of the advantages to working from home - you can adjust your schedule around your family. That's one of the dis-advantages of working from home too, - you can adjust your schedule around your family.

 

Sometimes it can be hard to motivate yourself to getting the work done. I tend to make "to do" lists, then I create targets for a working session and allow myself a "reward" if I meet my targets. I have built sixteen sites in the last ten days - but my "to do" list has grown as well. I just checked the logs on my servers while I was contemplating my next session - that's a job I do many times during my working day as I want to know about any potential problems long before it might escalate to a level that a client would notice. This seems to work as my clients are generally a happy bunch of webmasters.

 

Time to get on with it - One more site to go!!

 

I Hate These Titles

I wonder if you've ever noticed how cheesy the titles of some of these information products are?

Millions Through Mind Control is an example of what I mean.

 

I was not much impressed when I heard about this product. I found the title a bit off-putting. Did you ever get a copy of one of those books that listed "the trigger words to make your products sell like crazy" (forgive me if there actually is a book with that title)? That's what I thought this one was - another list of "power words".

 

And I wonder if you'll enjoy noticing, as I did, that there actually is a list of Power Words given in the book? I suppose there must be something to them after all. This book includes the list in the scientific context of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It explains the basis of our personalised view of the world and how the subconscious mind is not always reading things the way our conscious mind is. I like the concept of getting your prospects to do what they want to do - you just have to plant the idea in their minds that they want to do what you want them to!

 

I enjoyed this book and I will certainly use the techniques when I next have sales copy to write. It gets a 5 out of 5 for value.

 

www.millionsthroughmindcontrol.info is now live!!

 

 

Make Money with Blogs!!

www.web-2-cash.info - Yeah, I know, the domain name doesn't quite say it.. Web 2.0 Cash!

 

Apparently, there is money to be made leveraging Web 2.0.

 

"Yes, the web 2.0 revolution has arrived. You can ignore it at your own peril...

You can keep your plain HTML site. But soon you'll find yourself unable to compete with any other site in your niche.

Or you can harness this same revolution - the one which threatens to destroy your business - And use it to catapult yourself ahead of your competitors..."

 

But I guess you knew that already as you are reading this on a blog! Now that I have the site up, I can give myself some time to sit down and read this book properly - Maybe I'll post a few tips from the book here!

 

www.web-2-cash.info

 

The Success Decision

Another site up! www.thesuccessdecision.info is live.

 

Every person on earth has the capability to get rich. Everyone. Young, old, tall, short, skinny, fat, book smart, street smart, not smart - everyone can do it. But you have to find the right path - and follow through.

This is a book by Simon Hodgkinson, one of the organisers of the MarketingMainEvent3, so I know he coined his share of one and a half million in sales in one week!! I came across another Internet Marketer recently (who I wont mention here), who was selling pretty much the same information as is in this book for almost a thousand dollars. I also listened to an audio excerpt from a famous copywriter who was saying very similar things only this week. Maybe I'll post a link for that audio here at some stage...

 

Anyway, it's a great book and cheap at several times the asking price. At the bottom of the sales page he gives away one concept in the book, but I don't think he will lose sales over it....

www.thesuccessdecision.info

 

InfoFinderPro.info has gone live!

There's a great big online world of free, quality content out there, and quite frankly, you're probably missing out on a lot of it. But that's going to change, starting today! InfoFinderPro.info has gone live!

 

This is a neat little piece of software that basically aggregates and filters search results from many different sources on the net. Or, in English, it finds information (duh!).

It's pretty cool - I searched my own name and found my neice and nephews' Bigulo and BeBo spaces. I narrowed it down and found out my nephew had academic achievements I had not heard about - and 3 All-State Medals with it!!

 

If you have ever just Googled your own name, or use search engines for research, this sofware is for you..

http://www.infofinderpro.info