Thirty Day Challenge 2009 Begins

Posted on August 3, 2009
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It’s August. It’s a very special time of the year for internet marketing enthusiasts because this is the month of Thirty Day Challenge . I participated in the Thirty Day Challenge for the first time in 207 and was successful to make that all important affiliate sale within that 30 (actually 31) days timeframe. Boy, was that exciting? I still remember how thrilled I was to make my first ever affiliate income. It was a digital or information product from Clickbank product and I made around $13. You can still find me in the Thirty Day Challenge (aka 30DC or TDC) 2007 Hall of Fame.

Ed Dale, Dan Raine, Guru Bob and now the Noble Samurais form Market Samurai are all set to trill you again. Ed promised that 30DC 2009 will be even bigger. It’s simply amazing how they continue producing absolutely top class internet marketing or affiliate marketing tutorials year after year and making them available absolutely free. No catch and strings attached – 30DC is free – the world knows it already. There’s No Charge for Awesomeness – as Ed would say.

So, if you are a newbie, an intermediate online marketer or a veteran it’s time to get involved and take action. By the way, newbies should definitely participate while others could keep a close watch in order to pick up the golden nuggets.

Personally I wont be participating actively but will definitely closely follow the tutorials everyday. I have already watched the Day 1 and 2 lessons and downloaded the videos for future reference. Looking forward to Day 3.

Best wishes to all the 30DC participants.

Useful 30DC Links :
Thirty Day Challenge Blog
Thirty Day Challenge Forum

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How to check your web site’s position in Google and be sure about it

Posted on July 27, 2009
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Google now displays search results based on on a number of factors. Your geographic location, your browsing history, how you configured your browser to show the Google SERP – everything comes into play. My cousin was touring Asia a year back and he was shocked when he discovered that his blog at #6 on Google SERP. He was sitting at #2 when he left home. He called me to check his position and guess what he is still at #2. So, what is he doing wrong. Nothing, it’s not his fault Google displays country specific search results and that’s why he was presented with a result which is different from what he is familiar with.

Since USA is one of the major markets ( in fact it’s the biggest ) for online entrepreneurs you would like to check frequently how you are doing on Google.com which is actually the US version of Google. To avoid confusion and get correct results you can follow a few simple steps -

Step 1 : Install the CustomizeGoogle Firefox addon. It will assign a serial number to each of the results in Google SERP. Make sure the Add Position Counter is checked. Tools > Addons > CustomizeGoogle > Web > Add Position Counter

Step 2: Make sure that the “Number of Results” is set to 10 (which is default and most probably you don’t have to do anything unless you have changed it to some other number). You can do this by clicking the Preference link just to the right of the Search button on the Google search page. You need to do this because almost all of your visitors have this setting by default.

Step 3: Type your keyword or key phrase in the search field and hit enter or click the Search button.

Step 4: As Google returns with the search results, you go back to the address bar again and add the following at the end of the url and hit enter again

&gl=us     (if you want US results while you access the internet from  anywhere but USA)
&gl=uk     (if you want UK results while you access the internet from  anywhere but UK)
&gl=ca     (you got the idea …. this one is for Canada)
&gl=au     (Australia)
&gl=nz      (New Zealand)

Here is an example ( keyword searched – acne treatment )

http://www.google.com/search?q=acne+treatment&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gl=uk

Did you notice the &gl=uk at the end of the url ? I was trying to find out how a site is doing in UK.

By the way, you must sign out of your Gmail account that you might have open in another tab.

This will fetch perfect results every and is a pretty fast process once set up. There are some other addons which are believed to display geo-targeted results but they either show incorrect results or are not as convenient as this.

However, if you want to recheck the result try this site for free – Search Google Position

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Internet Marketing Intern

Posted on June 27, 2009
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Well, this is only a welcome post. Just anopther welcome post announcingthe birth of yet another blog on internet marketing aka how to makemoney online working from home ? May be, may be not. Well, I have no intention to spend my and your precious time by publishing crappy posts. I really want you to follow this blog, bookmark it and visit frequently. And I promise that I will try to make each and every of your vists worthy.

I am learning. I have already learned a lot. But I still consider myself to be a student of internet or online marketing.

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