Nice traffic getting tips. I hear conflicting stories about long tail keywords not attracting enough to your “money” site to make good money. Have long tail keywords gone out of style? Just wondering because I know how fast IM techniques change.

LSI is Latent Semantic Indexing. Here’s a good article about it:

http://www.seobook.com/archives/000657.shtml

This is a very watered down explanation, but basically, it’s a way of identifying phrases and words that are similar to one another. Google uses LSI to find keyword phrases on your pages that are related to the primary keyword phrase to determine how much your page is related to the topic being searched for.

I know that’s a bit unclear, but here’s what you really need to know…

Why use LSI in your articles? It increases the chances of you ranking well for your primary keyword phrase and numerous LSI keyword phrases.

How do you use LSI in your articles? Go to the Google Keyword Tool, search for your primary keyword phrase, and the top 5 results are the LSI keywords. Google considers them to be the most related keywords to the one you searched for. You just need to use them once in your article, where appropriate.

I hope that helps clear it up a bit!

Matt

Simpler is better, almost always. Don’t feel like you’re the only one with that problem – I used to fall victim to overcomplicated systems, tools and processes all the time. If you’re able to do the “fundamentals” really, really well and consistently, there is no way you can fail.

Think about it – instead of trying to game the social websites, create squidoo lenses, get automated backlinks and so on like so many people do, how much traffic do you think you’d get if you did nothing but write a boatload of articles targeting low competition keywords?

If you had 1,000 articles out there, and each one averaged just one click a day to your website from each article (some will fizzle out and do nothing, others will bring you 20+ clicks a day), you’d get 1,000 hits per day. That amount of traffic to ANY website is going to make it really difficult to fail.

Getting just 10% of them onto an e-mail list means 100 opt-ins per day…getting 1% to buy a $50 product means $500 per day.

There’s a lot you can do if you just take massive amounts of action and force luck to be on your side. Plus, you can sell the website getting a ton of traffic and that has a high page rank…remember, it’s an asset.

Matt

You did explain what SOC is but LSI keywords?

Thanks.

That’s a good point. High quality and useful content is critical to your success, for sure. If you throw up junk on EzineArticles (or on your website), people won’t respect what you have to say. You want to start building that long-term relationship with your customer from the very first point of contact.

Now, with that said – what if your website is an Adsense website? What if you’re not selling a product and you don’t plan on developing a relationship? Well, here’s a little trick I learned from one of our colleagues…

EzineArticles is an excellent source for backlinks to your website. You can write articles on literally ANY topic under the sun, and have your author bio box point back to any website you want. You won’t get much direct traffic, but the backlink itself is worth a lot in the long-run for your website.

The advantage to doing that is that you can pump out articles much, much faster. It’s far faster and easier for most people to write 400 words about your new iPhone app than it is to write about lawn mower repair.

I actually use broad match to determine the search count, but Micro Niche Finder does have the option to show you broad matches vs. exact matches, I’m pretty sure. (I’m on a Mac right now, so I can’t open it to verify for you.)

Matt

I have tried all the social sites and squidoo without any results having spent hours,days and weeks researching subjects for article submissions to get traffic which never materialised.

Having over 30 websites that don\\\’t pay their way is depressing but
your system makes so much more sense to focus on the topic and the LSI keywords and submit to Ezinearticles and the website/blog too.

It\\\’s so simple it\\\’s Brilliant! Why did\\\’nt I think of it?
PS: I also appreciate your open and honest comments re. Aweber etc as usually the shortcomings are not mentioned in IM marketing products?

Does MNF take that into account?

Cheers,
Dave.

John and I use BlueHost for hosting many of our websites. They haven’t been perfect, but they’ve been fairly reliable and the customer support is usually very helpful. You can host as many domains as you want, have unlimited bandwidth, unlimited storage space and more. Beware though, “unlimited” doesn’t REALLY mean “unlimited” (for ANY hosting provider, not just Bluehost)….if your website is pulling down thousands of visitors per minute, you’re going to need to scale up into dedicated hosting, which BlueHost does not offer.

For our e-mail provider/autoresponder, we use Aweber. However, Aweber unfortunately changed their pricing structure recently and have become much more expensive for new users who aren’t grandfathered into the old pricing.

There’s a little “loophole” though…you can actually sign up for Aweber services under the old pricing by going to Profollow.com. That’s Jeff Walker’s white label version of Aweber, which uses all of Aweber’s backend systems and infrastructure (so it has the same delivery rates)…so it’s basically Aweber at a cheaper price. It’s $20 per month for up to 10,000 subscribers, I believe, whereas Aweber is now $20 per month for up to 500 subscribers.

I know – big difference, right?

The only benefit the more expensive Aweber provides is some additional tracking, but I’ve heard from several reliable sources that it’s not worth the extra cost. So, in short…if you want all of the benefits of Aweber reliability and deliverability rates at a fraction of the cost, use Profollow.

I hope that helps you make a decision!

Matt