A few questions asked here almost daily (and their answers)

While I try not to post here much (productivity and whatnot), I read a ton of information here. One thing that I have noticed is that there are a lot of questions (6-12) that are asked lmost daily. In fact, there have been days where the same question was not only asked twice, but was the top two posts in the forum. Anyway, I'm just hoping to answer those questions so that people can be pointed here without everyone repeating the same things. Hope it helps!

1. Which is better .com/.net/org?
This comes up almost every day. For ranking purposes, it just doesn't matter. However, most viewers trust a .com most... and for some reason believe that only non profits can own .org . Because of this, if you aren't a non profit a .org CAN confuse some viewers, but your bottom line won't be affected because most of your traffic is sent to your page through anchor text.

2. Is EZA, article marketing, squidoo, video marketing, press release marketing, blog commenting, ad infintum DEAD?!
No. The only things dead are myspace, possibly craigslist in the next two years, review copies, and the idea that you have to work to earn money; not just make money.

The reason that people think this is because they buy an outdate course on article marketing or whatever. When those media were first used for marketing, they generated great results. However, now everyone knows about them. YOU CAN STILL MAKE MONEY WITH THEM! It just takes work, that's all. Think of it like this. Do people still make money with radio advertising? But how could they; there's TV now! Same with article marketing vs. video marketing now. Both with bring you traffic. NOTE: Squidoo is making it more and more difficult for affiliate links, but for your to your own site they're still fine.

3. Will you give me free coaching and I'll give you xx% of what I make?
The odds are too high that you won't do the work, that is why most people will say no. It just doesn't make sense.

4. Article Length
This discussion comes up all the time. Here's how it works: 300 words will work for a backlink or affiliate sales, 400-500 converts much better for listbuilding (in my experience; I've tested both) and 750+ will get your article republished in ezines and bring in MUCH more residual traffic. This all comes with one caveat: quality. 1000 words of fluff aren't worth as much as 300 that concisely deliver what the reader wants. So quality first!

5. Random question about article resubmitting
Though it doesn't matter, I always post the article on my website first. Then, I resubmit manually to EZA, Goarticle, Articles Dashboard, and iSnare. Lastly, a friendly blast from articlebot ($25, not affiliated). Those are the only 4 that I feel are worth manually submitting to.

6. Random keyword research question
Here's the current problem with keyword research: every course says "search the keyword in quotes, you want less than xx,xxx results' . Now, under 10,000 this usually works, just because the odds of good competition in that few pages is low. The problem with this method is that you don't know anything ABOUT your competition. 10,000 pages that know SEO, or 10,000 pages that love yarn?

I have found this to be much more reliable: search allintitle:"keyword" This tells you how many pages know enough to put the keyword in their title (one of the first onpage things you can do for SEO). You want less than 1000 results in this method.

Last thing on keyword research, I promise (it's just so important!). It doesn't matter if there are 54 trillion competing pages or 12; only the top 10 matter. If it gets a lot of search, read through the top ten and make sure they aren't mega sites. Also, if you still like the google in quotes method, make sure that you go to advanced search and check 'show 100 results' Then scroll to the very bottom and click on the last page of results. There will usually be much fewer than it told you.

7. How can I make $x,ooo in 30 days because my xxxx is sick and I haven't been able to xxxxx :-(

This is not the only way, it's just the way I use. Pick a niche and google it to make sure someone is buying PPC ads (this tells you that the nich is profitable). Next, download Domain Samurai (it's free) and create a project for that niche. To do keyword research the way I do, enter in a base keyword, choose at least 5 visitors a day and a minimum phrase length of 3 (the longer the keyword the better it will convert), then click generate keywords. Once it's done, click 'Analyze Keywords' On this next screen, you want to change match type to either 'phrase' or 'exact' (I like exact because I'm conservative), then set SEOTC to a max of 1000 and click analyze keywords again. The list that is left are all keywords that meet my criteria, so just go through them and delete ones you can use. Done!

After you have 30-100 keywords, write one article for each keyword. If you're crunched for time, write them 300-400 words each, if you aren't write for 750+ words each.

Once you've done at least 30, write an extremely targeted 1500-3000 word report on exactly what your keywords are on; this will be what you give away on your squeeze page. Done with that?

Buy a domain name and hosting. Don't tell me you don't have money. You can get a domain name for $1.99 at godaddy, and hosting for $8 a month at hostgator. If you can't find an extra $10, stop reading and start looking for outsourcing jobs thatyou can do for people.

After you have a domain and hosting, sign up will Mailchimp (they're free for the first 500 subscribers) and create a sign up form, then find a squeeze page template to put in on and customize to your site. There are hundreds of free squeeze page templates, just shop around.

Now go into your hosting and click on Fantastico deluxe, then install wordpress. Log into wordpress as it tells you to and click 'add new' under the "posts" on the left bar. Copy paste your articles just as you would for the directories, but instead of 'publish immediately' click 'edit' . Schedule all of the articles at one a day for at least a month. This might take a little while, don't get frustrated. Done? Good! You've done more than 99.9% of people who will read this information.

Lastly, write 10 emails (that are all quality information) and schedule them in MailChimp to go out every 3 days. Send your first promotional email at 500 subscribers, then every 2 weeks after that.

Now all that you have to do is resubmit the article that gets posted on your site. See above for how I resubmit articles.

Now reinvest!!!! Buy articlebot, a better autoresponder if you want (I don't like MC, they're just money friendly for newbies), a War Room membership, and then start outsourcing everything. Enjoy!

That's not all of the oft repeated question, but hopefull I answered most. Hope it helps!

-Sean