The recent Article Marketing Video Series I did For Wordpress Goldmine stretched to over 3 hours. However one of the most enjoyable ones for me was when I wrote an article in under 10 minutes. I have decided to repeat the feat here and write another article in under 10 minutes. In fact it is 8 minutes 25 seconds.

The secret to writing these articles is to start with the main body and afterwards write the first and last paragraphs. You’ll see what i mean in the Video below. Another keypoint is to keep your articles at around 300 words. 

Any more than 300 words and most peple start to lose attention and switch off. Don’t believe it? next time you are talking to someone record what you are saying then stop when they start to lose attention then go back and count the words you spoke.

Anyway on with the video…

One of my favorite marketers Chris Remple has recently released a new product about targetting the #1 in MSN. Frankly from the experience I have had of MSN I can’t see the point of this. I checked last months stats for some of my sites that rank #1 in Google, Yahoo and MSN the traffic from those sites are as follows.

Google 711

Yahoo 69

MSN 67

and for those of you interested..EzineArticles 691

All search engines like sites to have a keyword related domain name so if you are building a site about “Solar powered widgets” then by getting a site containing the keyword you will stand a much better chance of ranking at #1 in all the search engines. 

You also need to ask yourself if you target MSN and use various methods to get to #1 will those methods that you use have a negative impact on your Google Ranking? For example 3 years ago I used a service called link vault that posted my links to random sites and in return my sites displayed related links on them.  of the 9 sites i tried this on 7 of them were de-indexed from google. Sure I had #1 in yahoo and msn but the traffic didn’t make up for 50% of the traffic I lost. 

It’s a fact of life for interent marketers that Google brings you a vast majority of your traffic if you rank well in google. As you can see from my stats  above over 10 times as much. Now I don’t know about you but i’d rather spend a few extra hours a week getting higher rankings in google than getting easy rankings in any other search engine.

It’s no secret that I very rarely use this blog to promote anything and if I do I can guarantee it’s worth you considering it.

It’s also no secret that one of the keys to my success over the past year is Micro Niche Finder. It has allowed me to target niches with very little competition and lots of searches. Adsense income alone from sites I’ve biult around niches and keywords I’ve found in the past 6 months was $500 last month and affiliate commission was similar.  Not bad for a $67 product.  However that price is about to change.

Version 4 of micro niche finder was released this week and it’s had major improvements. Gone are the wordtracker stats and they have been replaced with Stats from Google.  The immediate impact from this was that by rerunning some old searches double the number of results were returned .

Other changes Include the Strength of competition indicator being moved and replacing it on the main dashboard is a Commercial intent indicator, basically an indication of the likely hood of someone buying who uses that search phrase.

Within 2 minutes of the upgrade i had found a search term for a Nintendo Wii that had almost 1000 searches a month and only 47 competing pages with a comercial intent indicator of 89% not bad for a first attempt.

Unfortunatly with the improvements the price is due to go up so if you have been thinking of buying Micro Niche Finder now is the time to buy it. James Jones the creator has added more videos that show you just how powerful MNF can be.

http://income-academy.com/recommends/mnf

This Is my 100th blog post here…lets party!!

How much do you think your blogs are worth?  The other day a 22 year old sold his wordpress blog for $15,000,000  yep 15 million. I’ll leave the link at the bottom of the page.

When I looked at it I was shocked that it was worth so much, it’s a PR 5 and I decided to look at the alexa stats for it.

His alexa rank is 41810  you’ll be interested to know that this blog has a ranking of 72565 when you look at the average page view on alexa I get more page views then he does.. So if anyone has a spare $5,000,000 I’ll sell you the income academy , thats got to be bargain of the century!    (I’ll even throw in all my other sites and products as a bonus.)

Any thats the first 100 posts out of the way now lets see if i can make the next 100 better.

Thanks for reading..

want to see what a $15 million dollar blog looks like…

http://www.bankaholic.com/

Following on from the recent post on factors that can hold you back I received several emails asking if I knew of any guides of e-books that might help people to overcome limiting factors. At the same time we have a very interesting thread going in the Income academy forum about motivating yourself to complete tasks.

There are quite a few products for sale that could help but you all know by know how I hate unnecessary spending so i combined the ideas in both my post and the thread and produced a short book called ” I Can – The Power Of Focused Achievement”

Even if I do say so myself thats one hell of a pretentious title, but luckily it’s not reflected in the contents of the book. I’ve based the book on my experience of what has held me back in the past and how I overcame those obstacles.

It’s not one of those e-book that are crammed with affiliate links, in fact there are only 2 links in it and one of them points here and the other to the main site.

You can grab a free copy at Focused Achievement