Once you have wordpress installed and set up, the first change you will want to make is to your permalinks. Go to the settings menu and click on permalinks. Use a custom permalink structure with only the post name. This will give you a link structure for your posts and pages that is just your domain with the post or page name after it. No dates or post numbers, the post or page name should contain the main keywords you are trying to get that page to rank for so this is all you want in the URL.

The next change you will need to make is to install the All In One SEO Plugin. This free wordpress plugin will make sure the search engines pick up exactly what you want on every page. You simply fill in the boxes on your editor when you are creating a new post or page and the plugin will override the default wordpress setup with the custom info you entered, ensuring you are always showing the search engines exactly what you want to show them.

Then, you will want to install recent posts and recent comments plugins. This will put your most recent posts and your most recent visitors comments in your sidebar. This is good for on page SEO because it increases the amount of dynamic content you have on your home page giving search engines more stuff to snack on, but it also improves your linking structure because your home page is now linking to more pages within your site and other relevant sites.

Here’s the big one, miss this and you may never get your blog indexed in the search engines! In settings/privacy in your admin panel make sure the option to make your blog visible to everyone is checked. Without this checked, the search engines cannot index your site. Wordpress started making the “block search engines” box checked by default in later versions so you need to make sure that this setting is correct.

There are many more ways you can optimize Wordpress on page SEO for search engine marketing but these few steps are a great start to getting your blog indexed high in the search engines.

Thanks for reading!! Leave me a comment below and let me know your favorite on page SEO technique.

You must have your main keywords you intend that page to rank for in the title tag. The title tag is what controls the text at the top of the browser and the browser tab for the webpage you are viewing. Just go to any webpage and look at the browser tab and the top frame of the browser and you will see the text I am talking about. You must have your main keywords at least once in that area. Don’t just list your keywords though, make up a nice human readable description for the webpage where the keywords appear in the first few words of it.

The next thing you must do is have your chosen keywords in the H1 tags. This is usually your page heading, title, or attention getting statement. The text that appears in the H1 tags is usually at the top and it is usually a larger font than the rest of the page. H1 tags can also be for your subheadings, however, they are usually put into H2 tags which should contain a keyword or keywords related to your main keywords.

The next is to have your main keywords listed several times in your page content. You want to have your main keywords listed in the first sentence or two of your page as well as throughout the rest of the page. This is because some search engines will pick up the first paragraph of the page instead of what is in the meta tags. The object is to give the search engines as much yummy stuff to munch on as possible, but don’t overdo it. If your keyword density is too high it will look like “keyword stuffing” and search engines don’t like that because it looks unnatural. Just make sure your main keywords are listed a few times and some related keywords are listed a few times throughout the page. How many times your keywords should be listed depends on the amount of text on your page. We will get further into keyword density in another post.

This is certainly not everything you should to properly SEO your page but if you just do these 3 things you should have a good portion of your competition beat, depending on your niche and the SEO knowledge of your competition.

If you don’t look at the real competition for your keywords you will most certainly be choosing the wrong ones to try to rank for! Most keyword tools don’t give you this information. Real competition is the number of top ranking websites that are properly optimized for that keyword or phrase. Out of the top 20 sites if only a few are properly optimized you have a great chance of ranking well even if the competition stats from your keyword research says otherwise. If all of the top 20 sites are properly optimized you will have a harder time ranking even if your research says there is little competition.

So, if your keyword research is missing a major piece of the puzzle, how do you know what key phrases to try to rank for? Well, once you have selected some key phrases to optimize for, check to see how well optimized the top 20 ranking sites are in Google. Do a Google search for your keyword and look at the first 20 sites listed. Check them out one at a time and look for things such as: Is the keyword in their title tags? Is it in their URL? Do they have articles optimized for that keyword? Is their content fresh and do they have a lot of it? Do they have high quality content? Do they have a lot of high quality backlinks? Is it a blog or a static website?

All of these things can affect your ability to rank high for your terms in Google. Here is an example of this:

If you search for something like Redline Bicycles you will see that there are 21,900,000 sites ranked for that term, sounds like that may be hard to rank well for right? Well the truth is that in the top 20 results there are around 9 sites that aren’t properly optimized for that term! That means that you have a pretty good chance of getting into the top 20 if you properly optimize your site for that search term. Do you think you can make some money if you rank in the top 20 out of 21,900,000? You’re darn right you can!

Here’s another example on the other side of the coin. Say you are trying to rank for a search term like groomsman gifts. There are only 894,000 sites ranking for that keyword. Sounds like it may be easier to rank for that one right? Wrong! The top 20 sites, and many more I imagine, are optimized out the wazoo for that search term. That means you are gonna have a struggle to rank well for that term. It doesn’t mean it’s impossible but it does mean you will have to optimize your site better than the competition to rank in the top 20 for that keyword.

These are perfect examples of why doing normal keyword research without checking the real competition can lead you down a long and frustrating path. Most keyword tools are great for getting a general idea of keyword stats but they are not going to tell you how easy a key phrase is to rank for using all of the data needed to make an informed decision.

The only way you are going to get all of the info is to do the hard work yourself and check out every one of the top 20 ranking sites for each of your keyword terms, or use a keyword tool that actually gives you this information. There is only one keyword tool that I have found that gives you all of this information in an automated way. When you use this tool you can trust that the info you are given is looking at the entire picture including the actual real competition for your keywords. Go here to check it out..

Thanks for reading, Bye Now!

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Wordpress is in mine, and many others, opinions the best blogging platform around, and whether you know it or not, it can be used for other types of sites besides blogs.

Did you know that content memberships are some of the best selling products online right now? Huge fortunes are being made from membership sites!

Why? For several reasons.

1. They put all the content in one convenient place, the visitors know exactly where to go to get what they want, whenever they need it. They don’t have to search all over the internet for the stuff they want.

2. The content is typically “dripped out” over time so the visitors don’t get overwhelmed with trying to use the content.

3. Getting 1 product or video or whatever per day or week is a lot easier to assimilate than getting a whole course at once and then trying to put to use everything at the same time.

4. The overall price is usually much cheaper than buying all of the components separately.

These 4 reasons lead to the fact that content memberships tend to be fast sellers and great money makers.

So what’s this about using Wordpress for membership sites? Wordpress is becoming more and more versatile with every update. It is not just for blogging anymore!

Wordpress can now be used for all kinds of applications, squeeze pages, sales pages, affiliate sites, static looking sites, and yes, membership sites.

Now you can create a members only site, protect the private members area, drip feed content for weeks or months at a time, and even sell your prospects all using Wordpress.

How is this done? It’s very easy actually. You just install Wordpress using the famous 5 minute install process. Add a few choice plugins, add a very simple but versatile theme, make a few small tweaks such as the permalinks and you’re done!

Your new membership site is all ready to accept members, just add content. You can even make your sales letter to sell the thing with Wordpress. How easy is this sounding to you?

It really is easy enough for anyone to do once you learn how wordpress works.

So, why should you use Wordpress to create your membership site?

Because the search engines love it! Wordpress has been created to be extremely SEO friendly, this means that it has been put together so that it automatically attracts the search engines to your site.

It also encourages people to help you promote your site with various features such as social media links, RSS feeds, permalinks, and a friendly, easy to navigate format.

Plugins such as recent posts and comments, advanced SEO, advanced social media linking, ad containers, and subscribe to comments plugins make your wordpress site even more attractive to search engines and visitors.

So, do you think you can get a ton more members using the Wordpress platform for your membership sites?

I do. Sometimes I get sales before I have even promoted the site at all just because of the attractiveness of Wordpress as a site platform.

with the huge amount of plugins, themes, and information available for Wordpress, it really does become a complete no brainer to use it for all kinds of sites.

I used to spend weeks building sites from scratch and then weeks more updating and changing links but now I can deploy pretty much any type of site I like within minutes using Wordpress.

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I have heard from several of my subscribers that they are having trouble writing great headlines for sales pages, emails, etc. Do you cringe when you have to come up with a great headline?

Here’s a great technique that not everyone is using that will give you instant ideas for great newsy headlines that will come up in searches and grab your readers attention.

Go to digg.com and click on the rss icon, it’s the little orange square at the top right of the page.

Then, make sure the pull down menu says Live Bookmarks and click subscribe now.

On the box that pops up, in the “create in” field, make sure it says Bookmarks Toolbar. Then click Add.

Next, go to your “view” pulldown menu at the top of your browser and go to “toolbars” and make sure your bookmarks toolbar is checked.

That’s it, you should now have a link on your browsers bookmark toolbar that says “digg.com: Stories/Po…”

Click on that link and you will get a pulldown list of all of the top headlines for the day at digg.com.

Just take the headlines that are there and twist them to suit your purpose. For instance, The digg.com headline “7 Ways To Relieve Stress Instantly” could become “7 Ways To Instantly Attract 500 Blog Visitors”.

I hope this helps you write better headlines easier, take care!

If you like this technique leave me a comment below.

I’ll admit it, I have been an infomercial junkie for many years. I
don’t normally buy the products they are selling but I always learn
something about marketing when I watch them. So, why should you be
watching infomercials?

You can learn a lot from infomercials. Those products weren’t placed
there by accident. The fact is that there is a starving crowd for
each of those products just waiting to whip out their credit cards
and buy. Whether it be a make money product, or something that
helps you do laundry faster, there are people that desperately want
what that product can do for them.

The next time you see an infomercial on, take a few minutes and
watch it. Think about the crowd they are marketing to, and the
motivations behind buying that product. Think about what would make
you want to rush to the phone and buy. Think about what makes these
people “tick”.

Listen carefully to what they are saying and how they are saying it.
See if you can pick up on some of the “buying triggers” they are
throwing at you. These kind of insights can be very valuable in your
marketing efforts. Those commercials typically use a very successful
formula for selling their products.

They offer an awesome product, at a low price, with
tons of built in value, such as bonus items, 2 for one deals, etc.
and an immediate no questions asked guarantee. They over deliver on
their offer so you will feel like an absolute idiot not to buy their
product, right? Then they go ahead and tell you all the different
ways their product will make your life better.

This is proven marketing and if you listen closely I’ll bet you can
pick something up that will help you in your business. If you only
get one thing that helps you make one sale, it was worth your 30
minutes, right?

A HUGE TIP. A lot of those products have affiliate programs that you
can join and make sales fast. Much of the initial marketing has been
done for you because a ton of people have seen those infomercials.
They are already pre-sold. All you have to do is put the offer in front
of as many eyeballs online as you can through blogs, article marketing,
Squidoo, etc.

A good friend of mine made his first few sales with the Video
Professor products. You know the “how to” computer cd’s that you
just pay shipping for?

Anyway just wanted to share with you a little “aha moment” I had
this morning. I hope it gave you a little inspiration, or at least
some amusement lol. Take care.

Have a productive day!

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