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		<title>Search Engine Keyword Tools to Improve Web Site Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to use search engine keyword tools to improve web site traffic is a tutorial to help you get more visitors to your web site using keywords and keyword software to determine the best keywords for your blog posts and articles.  How will you feel when you have the best keyword research tool available to help you write great headlines and keyword rich articles? <p><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/822/search-engine-keyword-tools-to-improve-web-site-traffic/">Search Engine Keyword Tools to Improve Web Site Traffic</a> is a post from: <a href="http://clayfranklin.com">Clay Franklin Strategic Thoughts</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/word-tracker-free-keyword-tool1.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-830" title="word-tracker-free-keyword-tool" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/word-tracker-free-keyword-tool1-300x207.jpg" alt="word-tracker-free-keyword-tool" width="300" height="207" /></a>How to use search engine keyword tools to improve web site traffic is a tutorial to help you get more visitors to your web site using keywords and keyword software to determine the best keywords for your blog posts and articles. I was going to originally call the article &#8220;Do Keyword Research in 3 Easy Steps&#8221;.  After you read the article you will see why I changed it to &#8220;Search Engine Keyword Tools to Improve Web Site Traffic&#8221;<br />
Start your keyword research at the <a title="free key word software tool" rel="nofollow" href="http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com" target="_blank">free wordtracker keyword tool</a>.  This will give you an idea of the daily search volume for your niche keyword.  Once you find a good keyword phrase that you like, copy and paste that keyword phrase into the search box and search again to see what other phrases people search for.  Once you find good keyword phrases, go to <a title="Market Samurai Keyword research tool" rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai</a> to get the detailed information about the keyword phrase you are researching.  Market Samurai will provide all the additional information you need to validate your keyword as the correct one to use.  Market Samurai provides related keywords to consider and the trends for those keywords as well as the a magnitude of information to help you decide if you have chosen the correct keyword.  One thing that is really important for your keyword is the CPI index because it determines the commercial viability for the keyword.  Some keywords like “free” do not have a good CPI because generally we are looking for keywords that result in people paying money when they find what they are looking for. Market Samurai pulls information from Google, Microsoft and other search engines and databases to provide all the data in one concise place and saves you time.  Some of the information Market Samurai provides is available if you go to many places on the internet and do the research on each site, yet it takes a lot of time and energy.  If you do not have Market Samurai yet, you can check at the <a title="Google keyword search tool" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/sktool" target="_blank">Google free keyword tool</a> to see the trends for your keyword and to get synonyms for the keywords you are considering.  Market Samurai will provide a lot more information for you.  If you do not have Market Samurai Keyword, SEO,  Google Ad creator software, Google free keyword tool will help you with your keyword research.<br />
Good keywords will bring traffic to your site or article and if you write a compelling content article or post, the people that find the article will be interested in learning more about you or what you have to offer them.<br />
It is not necessary to get super high volume keywords with a lot of competition.  Even if the keyword you choose has 21 searches a day, when you multiply it out by 365 days in a year it is approximately 7,665 searches a year.<br />
Combining keywords is also a great strategy.  In the article “<a href="http://clayfranklin.com/700/free-anti-virus-program/" target="_blank">Free Anti Virus Program</a>”<br />
talking about “Microsoft Security essentials”.  The keyword “antivirus” gets 889 searches a day, “Free anti virus program” gets 145 searches a day.  This article is not about getting money, instead it is just providing valuable information to my readers so using the word free was not a concern.<br />
For this article, Market Samurai provided the detailed keyword information, “keyword tool” has 14,795 searches,  good up trend in volume of searches, a SEO value of $15,286.19 (The total value of traffic that a web-site that ranked #1 for a keyword in Google) “keyword search tool” has 891 searches, a bit of a drop off of the trending, cost per click of $4.38 and about 3 clicks a day for the number one spot if doing PPC and a SEO value of $1,639.08.<br />
“Search keywords” gets 2,433 searches a day, 1,021 possible clicks from SEO if a number one ranked site, good solid flat trend, a SEO value of $3,004.27 and you may find that it was used it as the article title.  Now let’s look to add another keyword phrase to the title.  The only thing is that keyword gets more searches that keywords.<br />
“Keyword research” gets 5,425 searches, not trending very well,  yet has a SEO value of $5,992.46.<br />
“Keyword tools” has a high click through rate of 2.95%, good trend, SEO value of $1,298.35,  1,627 searches a day, SEO traffic of 683 a day and a total value of traffic from adwords of $91.20 for the #1 ranked Google Adwords advertiser.   “Internet Keyword” Has 266 searches a day so “Internet Keyword Tools” could be a article title and both keywords are in the title “Internet Keywords” and “Keyword Tools”.<br />
I would like people reading this article to get the free trial of Market Samurai so adding Keyword Software may help draw the correct people to read this article since <a title="Market Samurai Keyword research tool" rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank">Market Samurai</a> is a powerful keyword tool that generates keywords, provides all the details to compare keywords and get the commercial viability of the keywords along with a lot of other cool things like write google keyword rich ads for you.  Here are a couple of ideas for the article title:  “Keyword Software and Keyword Tools to increase your web site traffic”.<br />
“Search Engine Keyword Tools to improve web site traffic”<br />
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-832" style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;" title="market-samurai-keyword-research" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/market-samurai-keyword-research1-300x171.jpg" alt="market-samurai-keyword-research" width="300" height="171" /></a>Search Engine Keyword has 2,433 searches a day, Keyword tools has 1,627 searches a day, “increase web site traffic” has 92 searches a day.  “increase website traffic” only has 53 searches a day so web site is better than website.  web site traffic has 178 searches a day.<br />
“Search engine keyword tools to improve web site traffic” has 4 keyword phrases with a combined search of 2,433 + 1,627 + 92 + 178 = 4,330 total searches combined.<br />
This is highly competitive and sometimes it is better to go for the lower volume search phrases and dominate the results on the long tail keyword rather than go for the high volume keywords with a lot of competition.  This will give you an idea of the way to think about keywords and how you can combine them.  You also see the power of using a tool like Market Samurai to get the real inside information about the keywords instead of just rely on the search volume a</p>
<p>nd free keyword tools.  Market Samurai offers a free trail and if you decide to buy it you only pay once and there is no recurring charges.  It is also low priced compared to the other keyword tools I have evaluated.  I will get a small commission if you buy from the link in this article and that is how I pay the bills.  Hopefully you received valuable information in this article and will <a title="Market Samurai Free Trial" rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank">try Market Samurai by clicking here now</a>.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-826 alignleft" style="margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;" title="MarketSamuraiBanner1" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/MarketSamuraiBanner1-150x150.jpg" alt="Market Samurai Free Download" width="150" height="150" /></a>Inside your article be sure to repeat the keyword right away in the first sentence and then use it again once in the article or add a few other keyword combination&#8217;s that relate to the topic that you have found in your research.  I always go to Market Samurai to finalize my keyword research to find out the value of SEO for the keyword, the cost per click people are paying for the keywords in ads, the trend lines for the keywords and also to get additional keywords that are related to add into the article or blog post.</p>
<p>Some good keywords to start off your article include “How to&#8230;” “7 easy tips to &#8230;” “Best way to &#8230;”</p>
<p>If you found this article useful, go get the free trial of  <a title="Best keyword research tool available" rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" target="_blank">the best keyword research tool available </a>to help you write great headlines and keyword rich articles now while it is on your mind.</p>
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<p><strong>Things to do to move your internet business forward using web site analytics</strong></p>
<p><a title="Clay Franklin Marketing" href="http://clayfranklin.com/consulting" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-800 alignright" title="money" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/money.jpg" alt="money" width="64" height="64" /></a>1)    Look at your web site for usability for your customers.  Is it too busy?  Is there a clear call to action?  Are there too many ads? Will anyone come back or sign up to the <a href="http://clayfranklin.com/feed/" target="_blank">RSS feed</a> because they enjoyed the time there and they found a solution to their problem or question.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action</em>:</span> Remove some ads from your site if you have more than a couple, be sure that your site looks pleasant to the eye and has a clear call to action on each page or blog post.</p>
<p>2)    Look at your Blog theme or website design.   Is it clean and pleasant to look at?  <em>Action:</em> consider getting a nice clean theme for your blog.  Often a premium theme is better than a free theme and has better coding.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action:</em></span> Look at changing your blog theme if it is not easy to look at and pleasing to the eye.  For my site I plan to start using the Thesis blog theme or a Studio Press Theme with clean code and pleasant colors and a nice look.</p>
<p>3)    Check the code of your site.  Google and disabled people like clean code and it is to the benefit of your web site purpose to have clean code. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"> <em>Action:</em></span> go to <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.w3c.org" target="_blank">W3C.org</a> and validate the code on your site for HTML and CSS.  Be sure to correct all errors and do not worry about the warnings as much.  If you are able to clean the code all the way be sure to add the W3C Validated HTML and CSS logos on your site.</p>
<p><a title="go to Google Analytics Website" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-795" style="margin: 10px;" title="Google-Analytics" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Google-Analytics1.jpg" alt="Google-Analytics" width="222" height="39" /></a>4)    You are using Google analytics right?  If not be sure to get a Google analytics account and add the code to each of your sites and then add the tracking code to your conversion pages. For web sites you can add it just before the last body tag or in your footer so it is on each page or if you have a blog, you can use a blog plug in like Google analytics plug in. Google Analytics is the best free analytics tool available.  There is a great resource to learn about Google analytics at<a href="http://analytics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> http://analytics.blogspot.com/</a>.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action:</em></span> Verify that you have Google analytics on all your web pages and conversion pages and use analytics to track your conversions.</p>
<p>5)    Do you understand “Why” customers come to your website?  Write down the target person that you expect to arrive there and what they may expect to get while there.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action:</em></span> Write down the “why customers come to my site”.  Write down the target audience with as many demographics as possible.  Now look at your site through the eyes of your target audience.  Are they getting what they want when they arrive at your website or blog?  Is it easy to navigate and find the solution to the question or problem they are trying to solve when they get there?  If it is great, if not make the necessary changes to have a fun exciting site for your customers that is easy to navigate and without too many distractions as mentioned in number one above.</p>
<p>6)    Have you requested feedback on your site from your visitors or from people you know in your target market?  Often time’s candid feedback can be very useful in determining if your site meets the needs of you target market. <em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Action:</span> </em>Set up an exit survey on your site so that visitors can provide feedback on the results of their visit or go to a forum in your niche and post a request for site feedback.  You may be surprised at the results.  Take action based on the survey or site feedback and then continue to request site feedback about each three months or if doing a exit survey continue to use the exit survey, yet use a script that only asks each participant each three months or so.  This way you do not bug your visitors with a survey with each visit.</p>
<p><a title="Order Peel Away Ads" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.clayfranklin.com/peelawayads" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-797" style="margin: 10px;" title="Order-Peel-Away-Ads" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/cehckout2-300x281.jpg" alt="Order Peel Away Ads" width="300" height="281" /></a>7)    Are you selling something or looking for your visitors to take action on your site?  If you are, try Google web site optimizer to test two different pages to see which one performs better.  Only have one thing be different on each page that you are testing so you will know what the change is that is performing better.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action:</em></span> Set up Google Web site optimizer on your web site and test two different web pages to see which one performs better and then make the better performing site the main site and make another change to test.  Keep testing and making changes and you will see improved performance or conversion with each change.</p>
<p>8)    Be sure you know what the success metrics are for your web site.  Are you looking to capture email subscribers?  RSS readers?  Sell a product?  Increase the trend of repeat visitors?  Be sure to start to measure the success of your web site using analytics.  Use the “So What” measurement.  For your metrics, it they increase in a way you desire, is it making you more money? Are your readers happier?  Be sure that you work to improve things that have a good “So what” factor.  Google analytics can measure conversions for you by adding a code to the thank you page for a new email subscriber or a sale.  Feedburner can measure the new RSS subscribers. <em> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Action:</span></em> Write down your success metrics for your web site and start to track it.  Then take actions and test to see if it improves the results.  Remember that when you have the data, you need to analyze it to turn the data into information.  Use the information to make changes and then rinse and repeat.</p>
<p>9)     If you are not familiar with all that Google analytics offers, I suggest you go there and spend some time reading and watching the tutorials.  Google analytics is very powerful and there is no reason to go buy Click tracks, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/clicktale" target="_blank">Click Tale</a> or other expensive web analytics tools until you have exhausted the resources and information Google analytics provides for free.  Google has a blog at<a rel="nofollow" href="http://analytics.blogspot.com" target="_blank"> analytics.blogspot.com</a> that has good information and inside the Google analytics page; there is an abundance of information and tutorials.<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action:</em></span> go to Google analytics and watch the tutorials and read the articles.  Go to the Google analytics blog and read up on how to better utilize Google Analytics to improve your web site performance.  Sign up for the free version of <a rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/clicktale" target="_blank">Clicktale</a> and get a video of each of your visitors actions while on your site and a heat map of where they move the mouse.</p>
<p>10) Check out additional resources to learn more about web analytics and how it can improve your understanding of why customers are coming to your web site, what they do when they get there and how to improve the site and increase traffic.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>Action: </em></span>spend time reading up on additional web analytics tools and resources including heat maps, split testing, conversion tracking and start to measure the statistics of the analytics you are getting and turn it into information to improve conversions and traffic.  Leave a comment below and let me know what you think about Google analytics and how it has helped your business.<br />
Here are a few good resources:<br />
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<p><strong>10 Things You Can Do With Little Effort to Improve Web Analytics</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/arrow_up_150p-720283.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-774" title="arrow_up_150p-720283" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/arrow_up_150p-720283.gif" alt="arrow_up_150p-720283" width="150" height="140" /></a>1) Be sure to understand the reason for your web site. Is to sell something, capture email addresses or just to provide valuable information to your target audience. If there is no money involved then it is just a hobby. Action: Write down the reason for your web site.</p>
<p>2) Be sure that I am contributing content that is deserving of the world to read. Then measure your successes by looking at how many readers subscribe to your RSS feed or email feed for your site to see how valuable the readers see your site. Action: have a call to action to encourage readers to subscribe to your blog at the end of each article or post. Start to track the numbers of RSS readers each month.</p>
<p>3) Start to get your readers to comment on your blog by asking questions or having a controversial story that gets your reader engaged. Measure the numbers of comments as an indication that your readers are enjoying your site. Action: Have a call to action in your blog post or article that encourages readers to comment. One good way is to ask a question to elicit a response.</p>
<p>4) If you have something to sell on your site, it is important to measure the conversion rate for your visitors. Google’s webmasters tools has the ability to capture the conversion rate for your site for free. Action: Set up Google webmasters tools and start to measure your conversion rate. Extra credit Action: set up a split test to drive improvement in your conversion rate.</p>
<p>5) Start to use a keyword report to see what keywords people are using to find my blog. Compare your articles to the keywords people used to come to your site and determine if you are using an optimized keyword strategy for your site and how you can improve your articles to better meet the needs of your visitors. Action: Review your site analytics from Google analytics or other source each month to track and improve your keyword strategy for your site based on what keywords people searched for to arrive at your site and the bounce rate for those keywords.</p>
<p>6) Be sure to measure your bounce rate by keywords. If you have a high bounce rate for a particular keyword, possibly you want to drop that keyword or enhance the value your reader gets when they arrive at your site looking for the answer to their problem or need when they searched for that keyword. Look at your top 20 entry pages, top exit page and top pages with high bounce rate and then take action to improve the value provided to your reader on these pages or evaluate changing the keyword for the page to better match what visitors are looking for. Action: Track your bounce rate by keywords each month with the goal to reduced the bounce rate on your targeted keywords by providing better value based on the desired results your reader is looking for.</p>
<p>7) Be sure to set a goal for your website for the next 30 days. The goal should not just be “get more visitors” because more<a title="Cathe Franklin" rel="http://cathefranklin.com" href="http://cathefranklin.com" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-776" title="cathe Nike marathon pointing at picture" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/cathe-Nike-marathon-pointing-at-picture-225x300.jpg" alt="cathe Nike marathon pointing at her name on wall - go to CatheFranklin.com" width="225" height="300" /></a>visitors are not a good business goal. Set a goal like get more comments because it shows reader engagement or set a goal of more RSS readers because it shows that your readers want more of what you have to offer. If you have a site that makes money, measure the income generated and set a goal to increase the income. Be sure to measure increased income against the conversion rate so you can work on conversion rather than just getting more visitors. Track things that will tell you why you had a spike in sales. When measuring conversion, you have a better idea of how well your sales funnel is working. Action: Write down the goal for your web site for the next 30 days and have tracking in place to measure the results so you will know what worked and what did not.</p>
<p>8<!-- -->) Be sure to turn your analytics data into information. The web is full of data, yet it is the wise person that can interpret the data and use it to modify the web site and predict future behavior. There are many tools to help know what your readers are doing on your site. What are the hot spots by using a heat map program or use split testing to determine what page converts better. Action: Analyze the data you get from your web site and pick a few key comparisons that you can track over time so you are dealing with information instead of just data.</p>
<p>9) Measure you web site ROI by tracking your goals. Did you get more work, sell more products, or get more speaking requests? Measure your ROI against your costs like time to build the site, cost of advertising, opportunity cost and numbers of visitors. Then make small changes and track the improvements. Action: Set up metrics to know how much time you spend on your site, how much money or time you spend on advertising so at the end of the month you can compare the investment to the desired results.</p>
<p>10) Set up feedburner for your RSS feed so you can track the subscribers, stories they read and other relevant data that you can<a title="Clay Franklin RSS Feed" rel="http://clayfranklin.com/feed/rss" href="http://clayfranklin.com/feed/" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-779" title="th_rsspink" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/th_rsspink.gif" alt="th_rsspink" width="50" height="51" /></a>turn into information that will improve your sites success. Action: Set up Feedburner for your site and look at all the data available to you and find out what articles are being read more often so you will have a better idea of what your visitors are looking for and interested in. Provide more of the information that you find they open and read and less of the information about what never gets opened and read.</p>
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<p>I just installed Windows 7 on my computer and my Trend Micro free trial expired so I am trying Microsoft Security Essentials and so far I like it. It installs fast, does not require any set up and according to the reviews is not a resource hog on your computer.  I especially like that it is free and highly rated. If you do not have a router on your system, I suggest you get a antivirus with a firewall like Trend Micro Internet Security or Zone Alarm.<img src="http://forms.aweber.com/form/displays.htm?id=TAxMLGxMzKwsHA==" border="0" alt="" /></p>
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		<title>Amazon Launches Twitter as Marketing Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amazon just launched Twitter as a marketing tool feature called Share on Twitter.
The Share on Twitter feature is easy to use.  Just be logged into your account,
browse to a interesting product detail page and click on the Share on Twitter button in the Site Stripe.
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<p>Amazon just launched Twitter as a marketing tool feature called Share on Twitter. The Share on Twitter feature is easy to use.  Just be logged into your account, browse to a interesting product detail page and click on the Share on Twitter button in the Site Stripe.</p>
<p> A new Twitter window will open and an Amazon-generated message will be ready to tweet. It will say &#8220;Just saw this on Amazon: with the product details and a bit.ly URL with your affiliate link to the product. This is a great way to share your Amazon favorites with your Twitter followers. I personally like the feature and it will save me a lot of time cutting and pasting the Amazon affiliate URL<br />
into a URL shortener and then writing a interesting tweet that my followers will appreciate. I suggest you only tweet affiliate links after seven or more non promotional tweets, so that you do not look like a spammer. I also suggest you rewrite the Tweet to sound more like you. Pretty soon people will recognize the pre-written tweet format from Amazon. You want to get the click so make the tweet interesting and create curiosity if possible. You can read more about making money on line in my post <a title="How to make money on line fast" href="http://clayfranklin.com/389/how-to-make-money-online-fast-10-easy-successtips-for-success/" target="_blank">How to make money online fast – 10 easy success tips</a></p>
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		<title>Blog Post Search Keywords Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Franklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a good idea to use Search Keywords Optimization in the title of your Blog posts to make it easier for people to find your post when searching online.<p><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/486/blog-post-search-keywords-optimization/">Blog Post Search Keywords Optimization</a> is a post from: <a href="http://clayfranklin.com">Clay Franklin Strategic Thoughts</a></p>
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<p>It&#8217;s a good idea to use <strong>Search Keywords Optimization in the title of your Blog posts </strong>to make it easier for people to find your post when searching online. I like to go to the free <a title="Free KWy Wordtracker" href="http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/" rel="nofollow"  target="_blank">keywordtracker </a>to get ideas for search volume on keywords and to get ideas for blog post titles.</p>
<p>Then I usually go to the <strong>Google wonder wheel </strong>and get additional ideas.  To find the wonder wheel go to Google, search for a topic and then in the top left corner just above the top search result, click on show options.  Under standard view is the wonder wheel and related searches.  These are both good places to see what terms people are searching for.</p>
<p>Next I use <a title="Market Samurai Free Trial"  href="http://www.clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Market Samurai </a>to determine the trends for the keywords, the CPI or commercial intent of the keyword and to get a better idea of the search volumes, the SEO (Search Engine Optimization)  and CPC (Cost per Click) competition for the keywords I am thinking of using.  Market Samurai is a great tool because it does not have a monthly charge and it is always being upgraded with new features each month.  The CPI tells you if the search term is a term that people search for when they want to buy something or if they are just doing research.</p>
<p>Once you have decided on a great blog post title, be sure to include the keywords in your first sentence of the post.<br />
Generally if you talk about a specific topic on your site, you can establish a reputation for having great content on a particular topic and gradually build up the site reputation for your readers and for the search engines.</p>
<p>For this post I used two keywords <strong>&#8220;Search Keywords&#8221; </strong>with a search volume of 366 searches a day and <strong>&#8220;Keywords Optimization&#8221; </strong>with a search volume of 51 searches a day. </p>
<p>For additional study on SEO and Page Rank I suggest you read my guest post I did over at <a title="Clay Franklin Guest Post" rel="”nofollow”" href="http://aslongasyourehere.com/" target="_blank">aslongasyourehere</a> &#8221; &#8220;10 Internet Marketing SEO Tips and Tools&#8221; and my recent blog post on <strong><a title="How to Increase Web Site Page Rank" href="http://clayfranklin.com/201/how-to-increase-web-site-page-rank/" target="_blank">&#8220;How to increase web site page Rank&#8221;</a></strong></p>
<p><a title="Market Samurai Free Trial" href="http://www.clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-531  alignleft" style="border: 0px;" title="marketsam-logo" src="http://www.clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/marketsam-logo.gif" alt="Market Samurai" width="183" height="71" /></a> PS: When you go to <strong><a title="Market Samurai free trial" href="http://www.clayfranklin.com/marketsamurai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Market Samurai free trial</a></strong>you can get a free trial of the software. This is the same software that is used by students of the &#8220;30 day Challenge&#8221; by Ed Dale. I highly recommend Market Samurai and I use it every day that I write articles, blog posts, write ads and even when researching a niche market. It is very powerful and it saves a lot of time. It is like a super aggregator that pulls information from all over the web that you could spend hours of research trying to get  by yourself.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Franklin</dc:creator>
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A really huge thank you to Clay for the opportunity to share some of the tips I’ve learned about this Internet Marketing thing on my way to creating a successful online business. 
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<p><em>A really huge thank you to Clay for the opportunity to share some of the tips I’ve learned about this Internet Marketing thing on my way to creating a successful online business. </em></p>
<p>I came to the online community a bit unexpectedly…at least at “that day and that time!” However, it wasn’t long before I was “settling in” and learning the ropes on how I could turn my education and many years of office support experience into a lucrative online (ad)venture!</p>
<p>I began it all as a Virtual Assistant (VA), and eventually segued into including Internet Marketing and all its trappings.</p>
<p>Doing so, I soon discovered that many of the methods I’d used to market my VA business were easily transferred to the Internet Marketing arena. Things like “article writing/marketing,” “writing blog posts,” “frequenting forums specific to my niche,” and “making comments there as well as on the blogs of others on a regular basis.”</p>
<p>Additionally, I’ve found that learning the “ins and outs” of the social spheres like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as well as several other “get-acquainted” sites too numerous to mention, can, if not controlled, be time-consuming. In fact, if you’re not careful, you can easily fall prey to a day of “social spending” and get nothing else done.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the practice of going from idea to idea in an effort to find the ideal solution to getting customers to your “virtual” door can be draining and might even be downright discouraging!</p>
<p>Most importantly, I’ve learned that in order for your marketing to work you must find a balance of one, or two, and no more than a few, really effective ideas to use to build your business and a trust with your prospective clients.</p>
<p><strong>And then stick with them!</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>How often have you thought, “If only I had more clients…?” Or, “How can I get more clients?” What about…”How can I build my list?” And, “How can my prospects know I can help them?”</p>
<p>Well, what do you do?</p>
<p><strong>For starters, consider Clay’s September 28 blog post, <a href="http://clayfranklin.com/389/how-to-make-money-online-fast-10-easy-successtips-for-success/" target="_blank">“<em>How to make money online fast – 10 easy success tips,”</em></a><em> </em>his points correspond quite well with some of the points I include as follows:<em> </em></strong><br />
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Are you able to capture names of visitors to your web site?</strong><br />
Once you get prospective clients anywhere near “your door,” you want a way to know “who has come calling.”</p>
<p>For instance, think of how you communicate with those around you in “real” time. Like, how do you interact with those at the grocery store? Or with a young guy or gal at school or church, or the office, who’s caught your attention? Sooner or later, your conversation turns to the exchange of names, addresses or telephone numbers.</p>
<p>So do you have a way to capture names of new visitors to your Web site? Do you keep in touch on a regular basis? Do you have an offer they can’t refuse? Can interested parties find you easily if all of a sudden they decide they want your products or services?</p>
<p><strong>Do you keep in touch with prospects on a regular basis?</strong><br />
If you’re always off looking for something new without really “cultivating” what you already have, you’ll never know the true value of your list of visitors or potential clients. And they won’t be able to know your value either!</p>
<p>Keeping you in front of your prospects to generate an interest in you is commonly accomplished by a newsletter, ezine, blog, an email campaign or direct mail, and even a Tweet.</p>
<p><strong>How will they know you can help them?</strong><br />
You have to tell them, and do it again and again. Think…how many times did your mother have to tell you to do something before you finally did it?</p>
<p>To put this into perspective; initially, your message is at your Web site. But unless there’s a draw of some sort (like the report mentioned above), or “special offers,” prospects won’t usually keep coming back to your Web site…thus, you’ve got to figure out a way to lure them back.</p>
<p><strong>Do you have an offer they can’t refuse?</strong><strong><br />
</strong>This can be something as simple as a complimentary report to lure your target market; perhaps you’ll offer a bonus of a free hour of service or an audio of the teleseminar you just held.</p>
<p><strong>Can they find you easily?</strong><br />
What if on the spur of the moment visitors to your site want to contact you to do some work for them? Or to ask you a question. Is your contact information, including your <span style="text-decoration: underline;">full name</span>, prominently displayed and easily and quickly found on your Web site.</p>
<p>I can’t count the times I’ve landed at a Web site interested in a product or service that caught my eye, but for the life of me I could not find an email address or even a telephone number. So I was unable to contact that owner. And the business lost my business and in all probability they will never know it&#8211;nor why!  </p>
<p><strong>Having said that, it’s inevitable that sooner or later your prospects will read your ezine and your “staying in touch” emails and decide that alas, they can’t use your services after all!</strong></p>
<p>Well! Make lemonade!</p>
<p>Especially if you routinely suggest in your “marketing” materials that your prospects consider working with you on a referral basis!</p>
<p>Above all, no matter what marketing methods you choose, the effectiveness will come most easily when your <strong>“PC”</strong> shows; that is, when you are <strong>“persistent and consistent.”</strong></p>
<p>Yours in Internet Marketing,</p>
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<p>P.S. With that said, click on over to <a href="http://www.konceptuality.com/" target="_blank">Konceptuality</a> to get a complimentary copy of <em>“Whut’s Rong with this Sendtuntcs?” </em>our hot, new, teeny, tiny primer, full of grammar, proofreading and editing tips and tricks. You’ll also receive a complimentary subscription to our weekly ezine, <em>“On the Bright Side.”</em></p>
<p><em>Karen McGreevey, Expert Author, and owner of </em><a href="http://www.konceptuality.com/services.htm" target="_blank"><em>Konceptuality</em></a><em>, specializes in ebook production support services that include proofreading, editing and general admin support, for coaches, speakers and small business entrepreneurs. Contact Karen at <a href="mailto:kmcgreevey@konceptuality.com">kmcgreevey@konceptuality.com</a> </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clay Franklin</dc:creator>
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<p><a rel="http://quansitehosting.com" rel="nofollow" href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CoachDeb_Clay_Franklin.JPG" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-438" title="CoachDeb_Clay_Franklin" src="http://www.clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/CoachDeb_Clay_Franklin-300x225.jpg" alt="CoachDeb_Clay_Franklin" width="300" height="225" /></a>Quansite is a Social Media Marketing Platform that is perfect for Blogging, Marketing pages, One Time Offers, Video hosting, Video blasting and Social bookmarking. It is based on a wordpress platform yet has years of development to have all the work done for you automatically.<br />
When you write a post, it is distributes automatically and bookmarked for you the correct way. The Video feature automatically distributes or Blasts your video out to video sharing sites.<br />
Quansite is an awesome automated system that finally puts you in complete control of your online presence. It boosts your traffic, makes list building a snap, and increases sales conversions by over 400% with pushbutton ease. Best of all, within minutes this system instantly creates a New Media Marketing Web site that works *FOR* you even while you sleep.<br />
If you&#8217;re in a rush, you can check it out here: <a href="http://quansitehosting.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Quansitehosting.com</a></p>
<p>How does it work?</p>
<p>All you do is sign up for membership and order your site which is installed for you on your own domain in mere minutes. With just a few simple setup steps by following the set up wizard and the Quansite system is ready to go to work FOR you!  It is the only web site that works for you instead of requiring you to work it.</p>
<p>You just do what you would normally with a blog, Web site, or sales pages. Quansite takes each of your actions and produces a 10-to-1 return by;</p>
<p>- Instantly creating keyword optimized site structure for you<br />
- Immediately creating dozens of channels of qualified traffic from Social Media Sites<br />
- And quickly securing top search engine rankings with the built in bookmarking system and video blaster</p>
<p>It is all done with the simple push of one button, and all done behind the scenes saving you hours of work.</p>
<p>And Quansite doesn&#8217;t stop there.</p>
<p>Getting visitors to your site is only half the battle. Getting them to take action once they are there is what counts. And this is where Quan$ite™ is a real workhorse for you.</p>
<p>In business there is always a balancing act between doing it  your self and having someone else do it for you.  Quansite works for you and saves a lot of time and frustration.  I am a bit frustrated writing this post as wordpress spell checker just jumbled up the post.  I am looking forward to working on my AskClayFranklin.com site because it is a Quansite and it automates many of the tasks including addling links to videos and pictures.</p>
<p>I will be writing a post on my AskClayFranklin.com site and it wil be interesting to see how this post ranks on this 10 year old site to a post on my new site that is only a few months old and only has one post because of the new media social marketing built in that works automatically for you.</p>
<p>Here are some of the benefits of using Quan$ite for you web site and hosting to get higher sales conversions:<a rel="nofollow" rel="http://quansitehosting.com" href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balancing-act.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-440" title="balancing-act" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/balancing-act-200x300.jpg" alt="balancing-act" width="200" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>- A New Media optimized landing page (key for list-building and avoiding the Google slap)<br />
- The option to turn ANY page into One Time Offer page with a single click!<br />
- Auto link cloaker built right in to protect your affiliate or tracking links<br />
- An exclusive &#8220;Audio/Video Action Motivator&#8221; that literally moves your visitor to the page you want at the end of an audio or video finishes playing on your Quansite site. Wow this is totally cool</p>
<p>The fact is &#8211;Quansite™ is an online persuasion machine!</p>
<p>But there&#8217;s even more!</p>
<p>Quan$ite™ is a complete Content Management System for non-techies. People from a 12-year old to a 66-year old grandmother are using to build big lists and make more sales.    Quansite is a marketing system that works for you while you sleep or go tot he beach.</p>
<p>It save you time and money since the built in features take the place of hiring a programmer to build customized marketing and one time offer pages.</p>
<p>- One-click creation of sales, registration, and other *action pages*<br />
- Instant navigation menus and keyword optimized archives<br />
- Change your site layout and swap out your site header with the push of a button<br />
- Insert ads, images, or any other code you want just about anywhere you want on your Quansite™ with absolutely no knowledge of HTML<br />
- And much more</p>
<p>Just go to <a href="http://quansitehosting.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Quansitehosting.com</a> and you&#8217;ll get a better idea of how this feature rich New Marketing System can save you time and improve your sales.</p>
<p>I want to help you be successful and working with team mates is a sure way to improve chances of success.<br />
I am here for you to help you with your Quansite strategy and will be hosting a Quansite training session every month for all the people that take action and sign up on my <a href="http://quansitehosting.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">affiliate link </a>when they decide to try out Quansite for their business. </p>
<p>To our success in business and life,</p>
<p>Clay</p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Make-Money-On-line-income-check1.JPG"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-402" title="Make Money On line income check" src="http://www.clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Make-Money-On-line-income-check1-300x199.jpg" alt="Make Money On line income check" width="300" height="199" /></a>Making money on line is easy for some people and difficult for others</strong>. There are a few key ingredients that separate the winners for the rest.  95% of new Internet Marketers give up and go back to the drudgery of working for someone else.  Be in the top 5% and be proud of your success by following these 10 easy tips.<br />
1) <strong>Work hard</strong>.  There is no secret or magic button.  Sure watch the secret and use the law of attraction because it is important to believe in yourself.  Listen to the expert <a title="Rich Schefren Business Coach review" href="http://clayfranklin.com/122/a-guided-profit-system-for-business-growth-by-rich-schefren/" target="_blank">Rich Schefren </a>and he will say &#8220;The Secret and hard work equals success&#8221;<br />
2) <strong>Do not get distracted</strong>.  Rich will tell you to turn off your phone and close email and social networks and set your kitchen timer for 50 minutes of undistracted work.  Rich also will tell you it takes 2 hours to get in a groove in your work.  This means that if you get distracted every 20 minutes you basically will not get any work done.<br />
3) <strong>Take time to think</strong>.  Many people go day to day without really spending time seriously thinking.  One way to help is to change your environment, go to Starbucks or the park and spend a few hours thinking and writing down your ideas.<br />
4) <strong>Keep a journal</strong>.  Each day write in your journal what worked and how you can improve the results or process you worked on that day.  Just about every top marketing guru keeps a journal like this.<br />
5) <strong>Empty your brain of stuff you need to do to make room for new ideas</strong>.  If you have a broken door knob to your office every time you see it it will use brain cells to remember to fix it.  Take the time to fix all the little annoying things that you see every day or are on your mind.  It really frees up brain cells to think about bigger and better things.<br />
6)<strong> Create a plan and follow it through to monetization</strong>.  So many self employed people have trouble to stay focused on one project at a time.  Multitasking is bad.  It should be called limited attention because when you allow your brain to think of more than one thing at a time, it is not working full strength for you on the one important thing that needs to get done.  &#8220;Have a clear vision of what you are trying to create&#8221; quote from <a title="Cash in a Flash -- Fast Money in Slow times review" href="http://clayfranklin.com/301/cash-in-a-flash-by-robert-g-allen-and-mark-victor-hansen" target="_blank">Cash in a Flash Book</a><br />
7) <strong>Prioritize your activities</strong>.  Always do the thing that will result in making money instead of checking email, sending a tweet or updating Facebook, try finishing that special report needed to acquire prospects.  One good way to do this is to write down 3 things you will accomplish each morning.  If you are not sure what project to do, assign probabilities and weights to the time and revenue and pick the one that best meets your needs of low time or high money.  Read more about <a title="How to make a decision using bayes decision rule" href="http://clayfranklin.com/183/how-to-make-a-decision-with-bayes-decision-rule/" target="_blank">making a decision</a>.<br />
8<!-- -->)<strong> Be grateful</strong>.  Each day write down 10 things you are grateful for because being grateful is very powerful to get your mind thinking the right way.<br />
9) <strong>Take action and revise later</strong>.  Perfection is not as important as timing.  Get it done so it is acceptable and get it done sooner rather than later.  Think 80% solution rather than perfection.<br />
10) <strong>Create a sales funnel</strong>.  Start with finding prospects, capturing email addresses, offering something of value like $50, and then offering ability to learn more with another product or up sell.  People do not like to be sold to.  People do like to buy things.  Only talk benefits and not features and find the emotional need that can be filled with your product.  Promise a big benefit or or delivery from pain or problems.  Provide results in advance, give away your best stuff to help you prospects along the way to the solution.  Then you can offer a product or solution to get the rest of the way to the destination.</p>
<p>PS) <strong>Mastermind with like minded individuals</strong>.  <a href="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mike-Filsaime-dinner-with-Clay-Franklin.JPG"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-409" title="Mike Filsaime dinner with Clay Franklin" src="http://clayfranklin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mike-Filsaime-dinner-with-Clay-Franklin-150x150.jpg" alt="Mike Filsaime dinner with Clay Franklin" width="150" height="150" /></a>Going it alone is always more difficult than working as a team to bounce ideas around and get suggestions about your ideas and plans.  You do not need to hire employees, yet it is important to associate with other successful people.  One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to join a mastermind group or form one yourself.  If you are wondering where you can find a mastermind group quickly and easily, read about <a title="Lynn Terry Elite Mastermind review" href="http://clayfranklin.com/272/lynn-terry-sswt-elite-internet-marketingmastermind" target="_blank">Lynn Terry&#8217;s Elite mastermind group</a>on this blog post.  When you sign up on my <a title="Lynn Terry Elite Mastermind sign up page" href="http://lynnterryelite.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">affiliate link</a>, you will get a special report download link on using social media marketing to help you use the Internet to promote your business in an easy low cost way.  You will also be a customer and helping someone else make it on line and that is something of great value.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! "Cash in a Flash" Make Money in Slow Times is a great book.  Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen have captured the essence of how to modify your thought process to enable you future desires to become reality.<p><a href="http://clayfranklin.com/301/cash-in-a-flash-by-robert-g-allen-and-mark-victor-hansen-book-review/">Cash in a Flash by Robert G Allen and Mark Victor Hansen Book Review</a> is a post from: <a href="http://clayfranklin.com">Clay Franklin Strategic Thoughts</a></p>
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<p>Wow! &#8220;Cash in a Flash&#8221; Make Money in Slow Times is a great book. Robert G. Allen and Mark Victor Hansen have captured the essence of how to modify your thought process to enable you future desires to become reality. I am not a book reader and prefer videos for my learning, yet occasionally I read a book all the way through. Cash in a Flash will be one of those books that I actually read all the way through,</p>
<p>Why is it so great? The main reason is that once you start to read it, you get excited and start to believe in yourself. I am only on page 37 and felt compelled to share the excitement with you by writing this blog post.</p>
<p>I have been to Frank Kern&#8217;s Mass control Seminar and studdied the material in the class and love every bit of the information and learnings. It is a really good home study course to help you connect with your customer and even how to make money. Cash in a flash has some of the same flavor as Mass Control in that it talks about visualization of a future event like Frank&#8217;s most popular DVD ever, &#8220;Core Influence&#8221;. If you get a chance I encourage you to watch it as it is really good.</p>
<p>I just wanted to share with you the excitement I am feeling now reading Cash in a Flash and encourage you to go buy and read the book. Mass Control costs $2,000 and is worth it. Cash in a flash only costs less than $20.00 and I believe it can change my life by changing the way I look at things and what I do with my time. If this sounds interesting to you I suggest you buy the book, read it and then come back here and leave a comment and let me know what you got out of the book. This way with all the comments, others coming and reading the review will get a sense of the true value of taking action and how a simple book can enlighten them to the roadmap to success. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307453308?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=allthebeststuff-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307453308" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Cash in a Flash &#8211; Earn Money in Slow Times </a>is an excellent read and worth the few dollars and time investment to read it.<br />
I am going back to finish the book now, leave a comment and look forward to hearing from you.</p>
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<p>PS: I almost forgot to tell you about Robert and Mark&#8217;s on line resource center that includes audios, videos and other resources to help you on your journey to Cash in a Flash. The online resource center is included just for buying the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307453308?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=allthebeststuff-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0307453308" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">book</a>, very cool indeed.<br />
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