As an Internet marketer, one of the toughest decisions
you’ll have to make is what products to market and where to
position yourself in the marketplace. Market something that
is not really wanted, or painfully needed, and you’ve
stacked the deck against yourself.

As a 13-year Internet marketing veteran, I have largely
settled into the traffic generation and search engine
optimization fields. Everyone with a website needs both,
and they’re all painfully aware of that fact.

This is a good field for you to enter if you really take the
time to learn how to get a webpage to rank highly for buying
keywords, and how to generate lots of traffic. Neither are
really THAT difficult, as you’ll soon see.

If you plan on selling your services in this niche, you need
to master the basics, and it helps to be able to show potential
clients how good you are. I personally just show clients how
I rank for some of my own website projects. I do that for
two reasons:

1) I want to show them that I don’t really need to work as
an SEO consultant since I could earn a full-time living just
marketing my own products. Not coming from a position of
neediness allows me to charge higher prices.

2) I want to show them that I understand the entire sales
process, and know what it takes to bring in BUYING
customers.

Here are a few examples that I might show a typical
client (all of the examples are the terms without the
quotes):

One of my companies sells automated article, video, press
release and podcast submission services. So I show potential
clients that for the term “automated video submission site” I
rank number 2 out of 1,020,000 on Google, and for the term
“automated video submission software” I rank number 1 out of
192,000 on Google.”

I show them that for the term “#1 google listing” I rank numbers
5 and 6 out of 109,000,000 on Google. For “get a # 1 google
listing” I have the number 3 position on Google.

Since many potential clients know that I’ve worked as a joint
venture broker, I show them that for the term “joint venture
expert” I have at least 5 out of the top 10 positions on Google,
out of 2,870,000 returns.

Since I’ve written a soul food cookbook, I show them that for
the term “soul food recipes” I have the number 2 position
out of 2,510,000 results. For the term “soul food cookbook” I
have the number 2 position out of 58,900,000 returns.

I show potential clients dozens of similar results, providing
them with irrefutable proof that I understand SEO. I also
show them some of my website traffic statistics to prove to
them that I target BUYING” keywords.

By now you have to be wondering how I accomplish this. The
answer is simply by generating lots of relevant content,
and having lots of external links pointing to my sites.

Really simple isn’t it?

The content is typically articles, press releases, podcasts
(audios), and videos. This content is both on my sites and
on other sites. For my cooking related sites, the content
is typically recipes, but with webpages optimized to help
the search engines know what a specific page is about.

Briefly, in optimizing a webpage, I make sure that my
most important keywords are use in my titles, description
metatags, and in strategic places throughout the page.

In my opinion, the reason that my pages rank so highly
though is because others page (on other websites
across the Internet) tell the search engines that my pages
are about specific terms. I accomplish this by getting
tons of hyperlinks from other sites, where the anchor text
contains my long-tail keywords.

I get those links by posting my content on those other
sites. My articles, videos, press releases, and audios are
on high pagerank sites, and there are links in or near this
content pointing back to my sites.

Those links amount to those other sites pointing to my site
and telling the search engines that my site is about those
keywords. Those links from “authority sites” are like
having well-respected people give you an endorsement!

Just as importantly, those hyperlink “recommend” my sites
to visitors on those other sites. They tell those visitors
to go to my site for more similar content, and those
visitors come in droves!

In case you’re wondering how I spread so much content
across so many sites, my answer is automation. Instead
of visiting hundreds of sites and hand posting this
content, I upload it to software (or more specifically
servers on other sites) and automate the distribution
process. Using software, I can do in 10 minutes what it
would literally take me days to do manually.

When I tell you what I do, and how I do it, it sounds
really simple doesn’t it?

It is!

However, there is another key. In many niches, when going
after certain keywords, you need to publish a LOT of
content, and you need a LOT of links pointing to you.
That’s why the software is so critical. Without automation
I wouldn’t be able to accomplish 1/10th as much. I
wouldn’t be able to generate the necessary mass.

I know, now you’re probably thinking that my traffic
generation secrets aren’t so amazing. Actually, they’re
not, but they are very effective. That is, they are very
effective if you acknowledge one other important caveat.
That caveat is simply that you have to use this knowledge.
You have to actually generate the content and then
distribute it around the Internet.

Now that you know my secret, you need to take advantage
of it. Don’t you dare think that it won’t do much good
“because your competitors will also know the secret.”
Here’s another not so secret “secret”… most people even
when they know exactly what to do, and even see proof that
it works, will do absolutely nothing. That’s the beauty
of it all. To pull ahead of your competitors, you only
need to do it!

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Willie Crawford is a 13-year Internet marketing veteran
specializing in search engine optimization and website
traffic generation. He leverages automation to achieve
phenomenal results for his own and his clients’ sites.
His favorite tool is http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

http://www.ideamarketers.com/williecrawford/

That site is the key to TONS of my #1 Google listings
and a source of an INSANE amount of traffic each month.
It’s also where a lot of my referrals come from

Running an online business takes a lot of time and energy.
It can be very rewarding, but also tiring. You do need to
drive traffic to your site right?

So, you need to do keyword research, write articles, post
the articles, write an ezine, develop products, update your
website periodically, and then don’t forget about social media.
You need to tweet, find friends and develop relationships.
WHEW!

The KEY in running a succefful online business is “delegate.”
My friend and colleague Marnie Pehrson, owner and creator of
IdeaMarketers.com, has developed a program to help experts
like you delegate your marketing. Marnie’s program is
called the “Expert 360 Program.” I am a member of this
program. I highly recommend Marnie Perhrson and her team on
IdeaMarketers. What a difference it has made in my life. I
am able to delegate my marketing, and spend time doing the
things I really enjoy in my business.

During the month of September, 2009, Marnie is running a
special promotion on the Expert 360 Program. If you mention
my name, you will get 50% off your first month as an expert!

That IS A Great Deal!

But, you have to sign up before October 1, 2009 to take
advantage of this special deal. Just say Willie sent you,
and enjoy the extra time you will have to put into your
business. Expert 360 Program.

Willie

To many online marketers, getting a #1 listing on
Google for your target keyword phrases is “heaven.” It
does lead to many times more traffic than being even #2
or #3. If you’re not on the first page of Google, you
may as well forget getting any significant traffic in
many niches. At least you should plan on generating
your traffic via other channels since few searchers look
past the first page of search engine results.

Google the terms “joint venture expert” or “land for
$100″ and you’ll see that I rank #1 for both terms and
have for a VERY long time.

Yes, people do search on those terms, regardless of
what you might think, and they both generate substantial
incomes for me, but they are not my most profitable
keywords. They are just keywords that I will use to prove
to you that I have a clue about how to get top Google listings.
You really shouldn’t listen to “experts” who can’t back up
with they teach with proof.

Next, I invite you to try to reverse engineer what I
did. Actually, I’ll share much of my secret process with
you. Not all of what I do is very obvious.

Here are the things that I do:

1) I target specific, long-tail, buying keywords. It’s
easier to rank for 3-5 word phrases, and people entering
those phrases into the search engines are looking for
something very specific. This is the traffic that you
want to attract.

2) I use article marketing extensively to generate massive
backlinks. All things being equal, the one with the most
backlinks from relevant quality sites WINS.

3) I use video marketing, submitting to top video
sharing sites using titles and descriptions optimized
for my keywords.

4) I use pod casting, submitting my audios to numerous
podcast directories, as well as offering them from
numerous websites. People who hear your audio
message, and click through to your site, arrive pre-sold
on your and ready to follow your recommendations.

My pod cast submissions are also keyword optimized!

5) I use my keywords in anchor text on my blogs, and
in article directories where allowed.

6) I generate a LOT of content, and repurpose that
content regularly. I publicize that content on
social networking sites, on other resource sites that
allow me to publicize my content, and even in press
releases.

For example, I post announcements of my updated content
often to IMNewsWatch.com, teleseminarNation.com and
leading industry forums.

7) I use automation. If I had to hand submit all of
my content I would only be able to distribute 1/10th
as much. All things being equal, he who submits the
most quality content wins.

I adhere to the rules and terms of service at the
article, video, podcasts, and press release sharing
sites. It does no good to get great rankings, only to
be banned a few weeks or months later (having all of
your content removed, and your work go to waste). I
use 100% whitehat tactics.

9) I generate quality content. I does no good to throw
garbage at the search engines. You’ll only attract
non-responsive traffic (wasting bandwidth and giving you
useless website traffic conversion statistics), and you’ll
also eventually experience backlash. Write primarily
for humans, but keeping good SEO in mind. The simplest
way to do that is to use your primary keywords in your
titles and descriptions, when creating and uploading
content. Also be sure to use your primary keywords
throughout your content.

10) I create external links to some of my content
posted on sites OTHER THAN my primary sites. Linking
to content that then links to your primary sites
increases the relevance of external links from that
content pointing to your primary sites. That helps
the content on your primary sites rank higher longer.
SEO experts call that “adding link juice!” If you
don’t do this, you’ll often rank high for given
keywords only for a few days, and then quickly drop in
ranking. Adding “link juice” helps the ranking “stick.”

There you have it – how I get and maintain #1 Google
rankings for tons of keywords that my buying customers
search on regularly at Google. Model what I do, and
you’ll get similar results.

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Willie Crawford has been teaching people to build a
legitimate online business since 1996. He is one of the
world’s leading website traffic generation experts. His
favorite tool is an automated article, video, podcast and
press release submission service that you can use too
at: http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com Visit them now.

I only check at Google lately.

Not only do I consistently rank Top 10 for many VERY
competitive phrases, but I even rank #1 for many of
them.

For a few, I OWN as many as 8 out of 10 positions
on the front page of Google.

I shared one of my biggest secrets with David Preston
in this interview. Later, I shared with him how to
make it even more powerful.

David actually packaged that interview, along with
other stuff I shared him into an inexpensive
product that you can get at:
http://WebsiteSearchEngineOptimizationsecrets.com/

When you OWN the front page of Google, no matter
which link a surfer clicks on, you get a good percentage
of the traffic.

It’s that simple.

Simple is good

Check out: http://WebsiteSearchEngineOptimizationsecrets.com/

Willie

I often tell my coaching clients that “My grandmother could
probably rank on the front page of Google for many terms.”

That’s really not difficult, but it’s also usually temporary.

Here’s how I’ve ranked #1, #2, and #3 for my target keywords,
and have stayed there for months!

http://WebsiteSearchEngineOptimizationsecrets.com/

This is a technique that VERY few people are paying attention
to, and I see no reason why it won’t continue working for a
very long time since it’s not abusing the search engines

I rank #1, 2, 3, and 8 for my most important term right, now
and that’s out of 2.8 million returns. Here’s my secret:
http://WebsiteSearchEngineOptimizationsecrets.com/

Willie

This short video shows HOW I do that:
http://tinyurl.com/DominateGoogle

Willie