I have been getting asked quite a few questions about why every one raves on about Market Samurai so I decided to create a few videos to go through the program in detail.
The review is broken up into three parts so hopefully you can get through alive 
Click here to read the review.
Over my short period in internet marketing I have come to notice that despite all of the information available both freely and through various paid courses, many people still struggle to get their head around both the overall concept in general as well as the finer details that together brings success.
Many people have tasted some sort of success but struggle to move from micro niche sites making only dollars a day to a piece of virtual real estate that you can build a real business around. They get caught up with a process without seeing the bigger picture.
I am currently assisting a Warrior who is passionate about his niche but is struggling to get solid results. We thought that it would be beneficial to other new internet marketer’s if we shared what we were discussing and learning to hopefully help them get a foot in the door as well.
As a marketer, I make a great engineer. I love numbers and stats but you have to forgive my poor writing and communication skills. If something doesn’t make sense then just hit me up and I’ll try and reword it into English!
Well, it has happened again. I have had my progressed halted and set back a couple of months in the matter of moments. Last Monday my host decided to terminate my hosting account for violations of the AUP. No other details than that.
It has taken this long to get the correct backup restore and the databases converted over. My rankings have taken a dive to oblivion but hopefully it is a short visit. I will be making a handful of pretty thin sites at the end of the week to hopefully get my income backup with some exact domain name match websites. Will be interesting to see how they go.
I recommend everyone who relies on a website to have another host that runs a mirror of your site to prevent this from happening to you!
Here is another keyword that I am ranked number 1 for. As you can see, I absolutely blitzed them with backlinks to the page with this one. A lot of these are just the raw link though (no anchor text). They are from forum profile links. There is roughly 20 links using the actual keyword as anchor text on this one. I think because the keyword is part of the domain the raw hyperlink has helped with relevance too.
A point I would like to bring to your attention on this one is how easy it is to overtake You Tube videos even though they have a high PR. This high PR is usually due to internal linking. It is great to get above other keywords with little offsite SEO but once they competition heats up they fade away.
Here is a trial version of Market Samurai for those who aren’t using it yet. It is an awesome piece of software and as you can see fromt he screen shots it does wonders in your competition analysis.
I thought it might be helpful for people who are unfamiliar with analysing competion to post some real work examples of where I have ranked for a range of keywords. Use these screenshots to find an understanding of what is and isn’t beatable. I will post more over time.
In the example below (where I rank #1) you will notice that I have beaten sites with a lot more links to the domain than my own, and that a lack of a Yahoo and DMOZ backlink hasn’t hurt my potential. Domain age also hasn’t caused an isssue.
The backlinks to the page aren’t anything over the top but the anchor text is the exact phrase 60% of the time.
Another tip to look out for is that when you see a page with a large number of backlinks but a relatively low PR – more than likely the backlinks to that page are of poor quality and the site is easy to beat.
If you haven’t used Market Samurai before than I recommend that you try out the trial version. It is enough to get you started and to get a feel of what it offers. Even once the trial has expired you can use the keyword research features for free.
It has been quite a while since I have made a post on this site but I think it is about time I start making regular use of it. Some of the most interesting blogs on the web are from those chasing a goal. This allows for readers to really feel part of a journey and learn a lot on the way.
It has been about 9 months since I started my Internet Marketing and web design journey and everyday I get more and more motivated to make this work and beging working for myself. The amount I have learnt is phenomonal and if I wasn’t juggling a full time job I am sure I could have been making a comfortable amount of money by now.
Here is the layout my sites I use for Adsense. These are returning me a CTR of approximately 7%.
Google Adsense Template & Layout
If you have ever spent any time at browsing internet marketing forums you have more than likely come across some members dabbling with Google Adsense but failing to make any significant money. They curse at how bad Adsense is and that Google is evil and the whole market is dead. If you look at little deeper in those same forums you will also come across a handful of people who are making a small fortune from this same dead network. The threads are usually the ones with an army of followers latching onto every single word of the author trying to leech out every last drop of information from his or her brain.
What are these handful of people doing that the followers aren’t? Quite simply they are doing something! Too often than not, people new to the internet marketing industry spend too much time trying to find the next big thing rather than putting something into action. By the next week these same people are hassling the next person to post their money making scheme leaving their Adsense venture to gather dust.
Google Adsense is not a fast way to make money but it is a vary scaleable and controllable method that once mastered can produce a relatively stable income. It relies heavily on organic traffic so learning about Search Engine Optimisation is a must. Once you know your traffic numbers and have tweaked your website design to obtain a Click Through Rate (CTR) of greater than 5% you will be able to predict your daily income. From here you either build more sites or you add more content to your site until you have reached your goal.
If you want to make a real go of generating Google Adsense Revenue then you have to start out by prioritizing your time with a proper work schedule.
Over the next few weeks I will post my approach and plan of attack I use to build and promote my websites monetized with Adsense.
In several of my blogs I have created for search engine optimization and marketing experimentation I have monetized them using the popular Google Adsense. One of Adsense’s limitations is that it is limited to only 3 ad units per page. These units need to be strategically positioned for maximum exposure and highest click through rate. The position I choose is to have a letterbox unit positioned directly under the title of individual posts. This means that a reader will have to view the ad before moving onto the content. I also see a lot of questions on how to actually get the ads onto the site.
There are many plugins available to display Google Adsense on a WordPress blog but the one I choose to use is Simple Adsense Insertion (SAI). To use this plugin you simply insert your Adsense campaign code into one of the SAI campaigns and then use the provided tags (< !- - wp_ad_camp_1 - -> or “echo show_ad_camp_1();”) to position them throughout your site.
To display an ad unit under the title of each post you will need to edit your themes template:
While working on an AMX project involving a lot of HTTP requests I came across some methods that required Basic Authentication. In regards to HTTP, Basic Authentication allows for a web client, such as a browser, to provider user credentials to the server when making a request. A colon ‘:’ is appended to the user name and concatenated with the password before having Base64 encoding applied and sent off in the HTTP header to the server. The server then receives and decodes the message to retrieve the original user name and password.
Most browsers natively support Base64 encoding and a lot of programming languages either support or have libraries already built to add the support to make Base64 encoding a simple hurdle to jump while programming on a PC. Unfortunately, AMX NetLinx has no such libraries or modules so the encoding needs to be added to each project.
This article will give you the functions required to add Base64 encoding to your next HTTP project. Also stay tuned for Part 2 which will give you the functions required to decode a Base64 string.
