In this issue: How to automate sending your articles to info publishers. Reviews of three new training courses for - would be - marketers. Two new sources of high quality SEO advice. Two new versions of the RSS to Blog software. Bringing the human element to the online experience. Plus, find out why some auto generated sites are getting banned and how to prevent it from happening to you. All this and a lot more in this issue of IMS. Enjoy!


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New Tool Posts RSS Content to Your Blog Automatically

Right now I'm posting relevant content to my Blogger account without lifting a finger. Every day, the automated software checks the RSS newsfeeds for my keywords - the ones that match my blog content - and posts the news headlines into my blog.

The AdSense ads are running down the side and automatically change to match each post. Installing the software takes only a few minutes. Here's what this new tool (R2B) can do for you.

- Finds relevant content for your blog posts
- Provides a reliable automated way to post
- Works with either Blogger or Word Press blogs
- You don't need to host the blogs on your server
- Automatically sends pings to Pingomatic.com
- Posts content that you author on a schedule that you choose
- Includes low footprint random posts so it looks human
- Allows automation overide for total manual control
- Coming soon... three versions, pro regular and lite

You don't have to "do" anything other than install the software, which takes a few minutes. After that... it just runs, providing relevant content. And before the purists scream spam, it plainly isn't. It's news from around the world, which matches your keywords, which matches your blog.

The content is 100% relevant, timely and interesting to both man and machine. Then when you have time, overide the auto settings and make manual posts to your blog, with links to your minisites, landing pages, or commerce sites.

These are just a few ways R2B is generating revenue for us...
but what can RSS to Blog do for you? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/r2b

Have you heard? If you order R2B right now, you'll get a free upgrade to R2B Pro version as soon as it's ready!

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NEWS, VIEWS AND CLUES

How To Automate Sending your Articles to Publishers and Directories

A few months back I posted 20 or so articles on my site and encouraged everyone to use them. They were posted hundreds of times around the 'net and the daily subscriptions to this newsletter doubled.

I don't say that to impress you, but to impress "upon you" the power of articles.

Everyone wants content for their websites. Articles are one of the best sources of content. Free content.

The author benefits with increased exposure, and a link back to their site. This encourages the author to continue writing and producing good content. It's a win win situation for everyone.

The only trouble was... until now... submitting your articles to the various online sources was a slow and laborious task. Thank goodness someone finally came up with a way to submit your articles automatically.

But just so you know, it's way more than just software. It's a complete training course on how to write articles, or get them written for you. It gives all the secrets, including what publishers look for, article length, line length, word count, dynamite resource boxes, what to say, how to say it, and how to link back to your own site for maximum results.

On top of the hours of video and audio, the database of ezine directories, newsletter publishers and periodicals is huge. Imagine writing a quick 500 word article and automatically sending it at the push of a button, to literally hundreds of decision makers... all desperately seeking content for their next publication.

If you do any kind of writing, this software will change the way you do business... and having been lucky enough to play with the pre-release version... as an author and writer, I have a feeling I'm going to be living in this software.

Discover the hidden power of articles ==> http://www.cdzn.com/aaa



Advanced SEO advice improves SERPS

Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, no... it's Jerry West and some of the best SEO (search engine optimization) advice on the planet. If you're looking to improve your positioning in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) look no further than Jerry West's private newsletter.

Some of you will remember way back to the days when I ran a private site called the Gold Vault. I used to post my top scoring pages. What keyword densities were working. Tips on improving PageRank. All that good stuff.

Finally there's a resource discussing all the points above. Jerry's got a whole whack of servers, in different product categories. It's like a living laboratory where every single movement by every spider is tracked, logged and compared. The resulting SERPS are analyzed, and Jerry posts the results of findings.

What you'll learn from Jerry will give you an big advantage in SEO. And just so you know, this is not a monthly newsletter, it's every few days, or whenever something important comes along. Like when Google shut off PageRank over the long weekend. While others panicked, Jerry's subscribers breathed a sigh of collective relief and were kept informed every step of the way.

At the time of this writing Jerry was reporting "live" from the Webmaster World Exhibition in New Orleans. Subscribers were treated to running commentary on everything from the Opening Keynote to private conversations with search engine gurus. Nothing was held back.

At 50 dollars a month, his advice is not cheap, but then again, good advice never is. If you would like to get inside Jerry's living lab, you can visit his site and sign up. Just go to his site now and click on the "private newsletter" link.

Want advanced SEO advice? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/jwn

Then you can sit back and relax as you work on your sites, knowing Jerry is out there working for you, keeping an eye on the engines, reading the articles, forum posts and technical papers. He'll let you know when changes are coming and how to weather the storm.



New Blog Promises to Make You a Better Optimizer

Leslie Rohde of Windrose Software, creator of OptiLink and the new Mastering PageRank video course, has started a blog called "Optismarts" to answer "Customer" questions.

What's great about the Optismarts blog is that it's open to the public. You and I get to go inside the mind of one smartest search engine gurus. Leslie told me that the focus would be, "Actionable advice." He wants to make his "customers" better and smarter optimizers.

So why blog? Leslie points out, "While answering customers' technical support questions, we routinely get involved in moderate SEO discussions and analyses of customer sites.

The most effective way to centralize this information is in a free weblog to benefit all of our customers. Whenever we get good SEO related questions, we will paraphrase them and post the answers to the blog."

OptiSmarts Blog ==> http://www.optismarts.com

So maybe you don't have OptiLink yet. (I don't know how you're analyzing your search engine competition without it ;-) Or you've not yet picked up the new video called Mastering PageRank. You might consider getting them now.

OptiLink Competition Analyzer ==> http://www.cdzn.com/opl

Why? Because Leslie now charges $500 an hour for his time. Buying a product, and becoming a "customer" is a sneaky way to get in the back door... and get your questions answered in his blog. But don't tell him I told you that ;-)



Search Engine Workshops Coming to Vegas

If you want your sites to get noticed in the search engines, you'll need to know how to optimize individual pages, entire websites and a have a linking strategy that works.

Here's your chance to begin, polish up, or master your SEO skills and grab a tax deductible vacation at the same time. But do hurry... there's only a few seats left..

SEO Mastery Workshops
July 11-15 in Las Vegas
Conducted by Robin Nobles and John Alexander
http://www.cdzn.com/sew

Ultra-Advanced SEO Symposium
July 16-17 in Las Vegas
Hosted by Robin Nobles & John Alexander
Presenters: Ginette Degner, Michael Marshall & Jerry West
http://www.cdzn.com/ult

Product Reviews

Three New Video Training Courses for Beginners...

1) Internet Success Blueprint - $27

This training course is downloadable instead of being a physical product that gets shipped to your door. At only $27 I think the author Dr. Neil Shearing needs his head examined... but being a Doctor, you'd think he's done that already ;-) He's selling it way too cheap.

The course is focused on how to create and sell products online with only a shoestring budget, something Neil has been doing for years. There's quite a bit of coverage on writing and producing a product, but we're also introduced to the basics of finding hosting, getting a domain name and getting traffic.

Once we get past the basics, we're shown essentials like autoresponders, affiliate programs, building a list of readers and automating an online business.

Then, something missing from most ebooks and courses, there's two videos on how to sell. If you're planning to sell your own product, this crash course will help you become a better salesperson.

Overall, the only real "weakness" in the course is the website creation portion. Neil uses Notepad (eek!) to show some html basics, but then refers us to online tutorials if we want to learn more.

Despite the low price, the value is huge, as most of these videos are quite long and comprehensive, covering most of the basics that new information publishers need to know.

If you're considering writing an ebook, or plan on getting into the information publishing field, then for the cost of a couple of pizza, you can have hours of video saving you a ton of learning time.

Internet Success Blueprint ==> http://www.cdzn.com/isb



2) The EZ Web Business Builder $129.00

This course is nothing like I've ever seen. It uses an animated butler-like person to help guide you instead of a real human. It's downright cute and amusing. It certainly takes the edge off the learning experience, making it a far more pleasurable one.

We're taken on a virtual "view it and do it" tour of all the fundamentals of running an online business. Starting with keyword research, we go through the process of researching the competition, deciding what we want to sell, customizing html templates, getting graphics, and the basics of making search engine friendly pages.

After completion of the first two sections, we're taken through the process of marketing our new site. The little animated butler teaches us all the fun...damentals of email marketing, search engine traffic, content sharing, affiliate programs and joint ventures. All the essentials are covered.

The "view it and do it" is a great concept to jump-start an online business, especially for newcomers to the web. After you watch something performed by the butler, you can immediately click on the link, which leads to online tutorials, and a back end that allows you to master the tasks that you've just seen.

The only real weakness in this course is a lack of html tutorials. The course does include an html editor and templates. But it relies on modifying the templates to get started. That's ok for most people, but personally, I'd rather learn an html editor and have more freedom in my website designs.

But going it "the long way" and learning from scratch is not for everyone. As long as you don't mind starting from templates - which can save a heck of a lot of time - this course is a very slick package. You'll hardly even notice that you're learning.

EZ Web Business Builder is very entertaining, professionally produced and easy to use. If it's a fast track to building a successful online business that you're after, this course is for you.

EZ Web Business Builder ==> http://www.cdzn.com/wbb



3) Mini Site Creator  $397

There's an old adage... you get what you pay for. Never has it been more true than in the case of Mini Site Creator.

This video series is painful to watch... not for me, but I feel "his" pain. Jim Edwards must have invested hundreds of hours into this course. I remember having to learn all this stuff the hard way, by trial and error, making lots of mistakes along the way.

Nowadays, I take the basic mechanics of website design for granted. I think nothing of popping off graphics in Photoshop, or uploading sites with FTP. Making webpages is second nature. It's so easy to blast off a dozen or so per day...

But not so for the beginner, dropped off in a land of info overload and overwhelm... which leads to distraction, which leads to inaction... heads up... all of you!

If you've been buying stuff and hoarding, and not really doing anything with the information you've collected, this course will connect all the dots for you.

This is not just a course on how to create minisites as the title would have us believe. It is the most complete html tutorial that I've ever seen. You're shown how to use the free Mozilla Composer to create your sites, starting from scratch, and it assumes you know absolutely nothing about html or making web pages.

Some courses tell you to - figuratively speaking - go boil a pot of water. This course assumes nothing. Jim tells you what a pot is, where the kitchen is, what water is, how to put the water in the pot, then put it on the stove, how to turn on the stove and when to turn it off. That's the kind of attention to detail we're talking about here.

The focus of the course is creating minisites, specifically landing pages and squeeze pages where you drive your PPC (pay per click) traffic. But it goes way beyond that, and you'll certainly be set free from the land of templates and site builders after watching this course.

Unlike other beginners' courses which gloss over the html part, or kindly refer you to online tutorials, Jim shows every little conceivable step.

And I do mean everything. Starting with downloading and installing Mozilla on your hard drive, you're shown formatting basics like how to make text bold and centered. Then from there, we're slowly lead - in baby steps - all the way to crafting a sales page, with an ecommerce system, complete with order page, thank you page and a series of follow-up autoresponders.

There's a video for everything. And it's very well done.

When you complete this course, you'll be able to make good minisites, or websites of any kind, from scratch, with confidence, and be able to whip through hosting, ftp, domain names, making graphics, autoresponders, Clickbank set up, and just about everything else you can think of.

(Even I learned a few things, like Jim's secret "Ultimate Opt-in Subscription Box" which I plan on implementing on my own sites :-)

The only downside of this course are the production values. Compared to the some of the slick and professionally polished tutorials that are out there, the Mini Site Creator course is real meat 'n potatoes kind of stuff.

Jim often messes up and pauses during the videos when something doesn't go as planned. He often wonders out loud why one thing happened when he expected another.

But you know what? He's human... and that's exactly the sense you get when you're watching this course.

It's just like being in a live classroom where stuff happens and the teacher needs to adapt. Although it's a little quirky at first, you easily get used to it and it's almost like having Jim sitting beside you, guiding you through every step of the html process.

If you're prepared to put in the time to learn, this course will break you free from the use of templates and site builders, into total html freedom. You'd pay ten times more to learn this stuff without help. And I'm glad someone finally and the strength and determination to put together the most complete web training course - for would be marketers - that I've ever reviewed.

To quote Benjamin Franklin, "If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest."

This course - my friends - is a heck of an investment and money well spent. Empty this information into your mind and you're never likely to go hungry again.

Mini Site Creator ==> http://www.cdzn.com/msc



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New Video Improves Your Rankings on Google

PageRank (PR) is a mystery for most people. That's because there's so much bad advice out there. Fact is... it's a simple mathematical formula, no voodoo, no magic, no mystery.

The Mastering PageRank Video Course (by Leslie Rohde creator of OptiLink) will show you exactly what PR is. How to get more. How to conserve what you have. How to concentrate it. And how to create it... out of nothing! Some people have doubled their online income by applying these techniques. Will you be next?

Want to improve your PageRank? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/pr

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Internet Marketing FAQs... You Asked... I Answered

Bringing the Human Element to the Online Experience

Q - Will it help to add photos of people to my landing pages? Where do I get these people images, specifically medical ones. You said that you use Objects or Elements? What are they and where can I get them?

A - Yes, I use Adobe Elements software now instead of Adobe Photoshop for just about all my graphics. No need to keep upgrading such an expensive program when all I do is web work, not prepress.

And yes, adding pictures of people to your landing pages will help them convert better. Even if it's just royalty free stock photography. It's the most missing element in website design, the human element

People need to realize the web is not an ATM (automated teller machine). It doesn't need to be a cold hard experience, and I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't shop at any site that made me feel that way.

You can get stock photography for landing pages on the web, or from just about any computer store. Just search for "royalty free stock photography" and you'll get plenty of choices.

But the thing to remember, is that for the web, we don't need expensive high resolution photography in CMYK TIFF format like they do for commercial offset printing. All we need is very inexpensive low resolution RGB JPEG format for web pages.

For example, your field is medical in nature. Go to clipart.com and search for doctor. Up will come a bunch of cartoon looking people. Use the button on the left to select "photos" as your media to find low cost photos of doctors that you can use on your websites.

Photo Objects are a little different. They have clipping paths around the images so that background artwork or images can show through. This gives the Objects the appearance of "floating" on the backgrounds.

You can get Photo Objects from clipart.com, or if you prefer a boxed set instead of a subscription, you might take a look at the series by Hemera. You can find it at just about any place that sells software, including Amazon.com. Just search for Hemera photo objects.



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New Xsite Pro Provides Total Site Management

It's not just a web site builder and html editor. It allows you to put AdSense ads wherever you want. It automatically adds new pages to the site map as you create them. It increases PR by taking long wordy pages and breaking them into as many pages as you like.

Add to this keyword analysis, a pop up generator, an affiliate wizard, article pages, reciprocal linking page, auto generated navigation, privacy statement generator, powerful built-in scripts, page creation wizard, all this and more... from an easy to use, tabbed interface.

Are you ready for Total Site Management? ==> http://www.cdzn.com/xsp

Don't watch the video ==> http://www.cdzn.com/xpv

(Plus, coming soon... XML sitemaps for faster indexing in Google. If you order XSite Pro today, you'll get the XML Sitemap Maker as a free upgrade, as soon as it's ready.)

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Auto Generated Sites Get Tossed as Engines Clamp Down

Q - I was "sold" on this auto site generator to make AdSense revenue sites. However, after reading the forums, people are scrambling. They have to keep putting up dozens of sites as they get quickly disabled. Frankly, that does not sound too healthy. Is this a recipe for an AdSense ban?

QQ - I am interested in doing AdSense as another income stream. What are your thoughts on (auto-generator program name) and others like it?

QQQ - I'm trying to optimize several auto-generated sites for AdSense revenue. Is your Mininet linking strategy still effective or relevant for this type of site? Can I use an auto-generated site instead of a Central site, like in your Revenge of the Mininet diagrams??

A - Just a little background here. The auto site generators these people are referring to, generate very large, spammy looking, low value sites with no "real" content.

Very often it's just two paragraphs of gibberish stuffed with keywords, followed by Open Directory search results stripped of links and a huge blob of AdSense ads down the side. They are very easy to spot and very annoying to find.

Ok, that said... the mininet strategy is a sound one and it continues to work very well. But it's focus is affiliate revenue, and generating targeted traffic to an optional Central destination site.

I've never pasted AdSense code - and risked losing my MSN and Yahoo positioning - on every page of a mininet. In addition, having AdSense ads on all your sites makes it very easy for someone like me - or Google - to reverse engineer your entire web presence.

I place AdSense ads on my blogs and on the Central site of some mininets only. And personally, I don't believe in making AdSense revenue the "reason" for making a website, although I cannot deny, some have done so, and are doing very well.

Reason being, I've learned from experience, that revenue from AdSense - in a mininet - is tiny in comparison to affiliate goods. I want people to leave via affiliate links where I can earn dollars, not ads where I collect pennies.

Usually the only way to get a lot of AdSense revenue is with large content sites or huge directory style sites. We're talking 100 to 1,000 pages per site.

And usually, no one wants to create such large sites, so they get lazy and turn to auto-generated sites and directories. Which seemed to work... until now.

These auto generated sites generally leave some sort of "footprint" and it's reported that they're being culled - as we speak - by a team that has been recruited and employed by Google, to search out and flag any spammy looking sites. Especially if they have the tell-tale size 13 footprint of auto generated content.

If you want to generate a giant site, your best bet is to use legitimate content, like articles, press releases, RSS newsfeeds and the like. Places like the Content Desk have thousands of articles you can use, along with site building software.

Content Desk ==> http://www.cdzn.com/cd

In addition there are several free article sources like infoground.com, which allow members unlimited use of articles. If you're a writer, they even allow you to submit articles in exchange for your membership fees.

Last of all, if you want to hire writers for 100% original content, you can always use services like rentacoder.com, workaholics4hire.com or elance.com. Just beware that you'll need to go through the article and correct any errors and omissions that you find. You might also want to add your own personal touch.

So good luck with your AdSense revenue projects... but beware, they won't last for long if you use auto-generated template sites. If you're willing to put up a directory "by hand" using assistant software for reciprocal links, that'll give you your best chance of an AdSense revenue site with some longevity.

But if it was me... I'd avoid the latest "revenue generator" or "search engine trick" of the month, and stick to building a sustainable career online. One that will continue to grow and prosper. A business based on sound business practices, as opposed to whatever the latest online fad is, as they'll always come and go.

If you want to build a business online, pick up a copy of Clickin' it Rich and follow the Career Path in the Action Plan. It will show you how to grow an online business, one that's profitable and continues to improve year after year.

Clickin it Rich ==> http://www.cdzn.com/cir

Or, if you prefer watching and learning, any of the video training series I reviewed in this issue will get you there. The EZ Web Business Builder or the Mini Site Creator course. Either one will show you how to become successful.

EZ Web Business Builder ==> http://www.cdzn.com/wbb

Mini Site Creator Course ==> http://www.cdzn.com/msc


Search engine tricks or profitable business model... which path will you choose?


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That's it for this issue my friend. Thank you for reading. We'll chat again soon. Until then, here's wishing you all the best for online success.

Michael Campbell

President & CEO Dynamic Media Corporation
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