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$365k Blog Traffic Formula Reviewed

coverlargeJust recently I had the opportunity to put my hands on “$365k Blog Traffic Formula”
I will tell you in a minute what this is all about, but first of all…

This is not one of those ebooks which you can find free on the Warrior Forum or on other sites.

If you always wondered what the blogosphere heavy hitters do to attract mountains of cash and generate massive traffic on a daily basis, then look no further.

The best feature in this 70-page printer-friendly PDF book is the actual content – 7 pro bloggers revealed the secret to their success, how they attract free traffic and where do they get it from.

And how this helps you?

Well, if you could just talk to one of these guys for a few minutes then you could learn one or two methods to better monetize your blogs by attracting more quality traffic.

What that means is this – you won’t have to pay these pro bloggers consulting fees, you don’t have to attend their seminars and you don’t even have to live the comfort of your own home.

You can actually download the book immediately and implement these traffic-getting strategies to your own blogs; that’s almost like stealing as the whole package costs only $37, one-time. That’s less than $6 per interview.

I think you will NEVER have the chance to talk with a pro blogger for $6, not even if you only had one question to ask!

What I also like about “$365k Blog Traffic Formula” is the two additional interviews included as complimentary gifts. I think these interviews alone are worth far more than the asking price, and I’m not the only one saying that.

What I don’t like about this product is that it doesn’t include an interview with my other favorite blogger [@CopyBlogger.com], but I guess you can’t please everyone, and hopefully there’ll be an add-on or version two update soon.

It’s in your best interest to put your hands on “$365k Blog Traffic Formula” today if you want to learn from the best in the field: Chris Garrett, Daniel Scocco, Darren Rowse, Jack Humphrey, Jason Katzenback, Matt Garrett, Yaro Starek http://www.maxblogpress.com/go.php?offer=pabarton&pid=32

Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 8:35 am. 2 comments

What do your readers read?

Ever wondered what people actually want to read on your website? Well there is a very simple but wonderful little plugin that many wise internet webmasters use. Its called Psychic Search and comes from the maxblogpress stable of wordpress plugins. Well worth trying

Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago at 3:41 am. Add a comment

Sensational Journalism – Media Hype

seth-godin-blogThis year for my wife and I it’s been fairly traumatic because we have had to handle her breast cancer and our elder two daughter’s weddings – my wife made the dresses while undergoing treatment. We used to watch the evening news at about 10 o’clock at night before going to bed but realized that actually the negative content of the news as reported quite often resulted in us not sleeping well. On Seth Godin’s blog this week he made a very interesting statement about news reporting and content. If we continue to allow the media to dictate our thinking then we end up believing, very often, that the sky is falling in. In reality the sky isn’t falling in. Yes there are bad things happening all over the world but that’s always been the case it’s just that we’ve become much better at global communication and in particular finding bad news. So what is the answer? Find some good news.

We voted with our feet and switched off the television. We actually kept it on and watched numerous episodes of scrubs, highly entertaining and subsequently would actually sleep at night. The world doesn’t stop because we didn’t watch the news and we learnt become much more selective about what we watch and won’t be listened to.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/10/the-problem-with-cable-news.html

Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:24 am. Add a comment

Internet security upate 17 Sep 09

The death of actor Patrick Swayze has led to the detection of related spam that aims to catch out unsuspecting users.

Following the death of the Dirty Dancing and Ghost star, many malicious sites and files have been detected as being active on the web.

McAfee’s Sam Masiello claimed that with ‘another celebrity death’ comes ‘another recycled scareware tactic attempting to lure users to download malware by telling them that their PC is infected with a virus‘.

Masiello said: “Queries for information on the death of the popular actor may lead to news stories that look legitimate when returned in search results. This similar tactic of presenting a window to the user that looks very much like a legitimate Windows popup has been used many times before in various forms.

“Clearly scareware tactics are something that cybercriminals have latched onto as a popular method for malware distribution as it continues to be a recurring and evolving theme. Conficker/Downadup largely popularised scareware with its success (although it wasn’t the first to use it) and now others are riding on that popularity to re-purpose it for their own scams.”

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: “Although the entertainment world mourns his loss, heartless hackers are taking advantage of the hot news story by creating malicious web pages that lead to fake anti-virus alerts.

“The tactic used by the cybercriminals on this occasion is the same as the one we saw after the death of Natasha Richardson and when they exploited interest amongst the public in the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack last week.

“Clearly the cybercriminals are no slackers when it comes to jumping on a trending internet topic, and are more professional than ever before in spreading their fake anti-virus scams. The question is – are you being equally expert in keeping your security up-to-date and your wits about you when you surf the net?”

F-Secure’s Chu Kian further claimed that a malicious link is appearing on Google searches for Swayze’s funeral. Kian said: “Folks may think that they need to click on the ‘video’ to enable video streaming. Actually, it’s an image and clicking on it takes the user to another website that promises another video, and clicking on this video ends up with the victim unintentionally downloading a rogue anti-virus.

“Incidentally, on the first website the bottom video is an actual YouTube video that’s completely unrelated to the funeral and is not linked to malware.”

We recommend AVG’s LinkScanner programme which comes as part of it’s internet security suite and in our experience picks up this sort of thing all the time.

full article

Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 9:33 am. Add a comment

Internet Security is not a luxury

Over the weekend, several people noticed attacks originating from a malicious ad placed at nytimes.com. Viewers were redirected to what we call a fake, or rogue antispy page, where the webpage pretends to scan your computer, and then tries to convince you to install some nifty antivirus program to clean it up-oh-but-you-have-to-register-first-put-your-credit-card-here-mr-victim. Nothing new there… it’s the most common thing we see everyday.

Being heavily involved in Internet Security we’ve been watching this particular style of rogue attack since about March, and just happened to have them under the microscope over the weekend, and here’s the interesting thing… normally, we see 10-15,000 such detections each day, but from about last Thursday thru Sunday, it spiked to 160-170,000 per day. It dropped off today to about 20,000.

The attacks seemed to come from two main types of lures, with the first being advertisments, including the fake one on nytimes, and lots of Flash banner ads, and the second being searches for “newsie” events like Kanye and Taylor, and Patrick Swayze, and Serena Williams.

It’s ever so impressive how quickly they not only react, but also point the news search results at their hijacked lure machines. In other words, not only are they quick to react to something news worthy, but they are somehow able to get their hijacked machines right up to the top of the google and bing searches. These guys are flat-out clever.

In summary, not only was there a huge spike in activity by this particular group (or groups), but they quickly were able to manipulate the search engines.

It goes without saying that LinkScanner is able to detect and block these attacks, but it’s a dangerous Web folks. Linkscanner is an integral part of AVG Internet security.

Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago at 4:11 am. Add a comment

Inspirational Video About Business

This video is unashamedly promoting a networking company but it is a hugely inspiring clip and one well worth watching. If you are interested then whatever you do please don’t contact them direct – contact me I’ll show you how to work with these products but not in the traditional MLM way.

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago at 7:14 am. Add a comment

Hate Powerpoint – Here’s an Alternative

legal-padYou may already realise that I’m a fan of Seth Godin and follow his thoughts and processes quite closely. Today is no exception. I’ve hated Powerpoint and computers for any presentation and much more so for one to one presentations. There is nothing worse than sitting a potential business colleague down and saying watch this and I’ll talk you through it. There is no interaction and very little eye contact – resulting in a potentially wasted opportunity.

Seth has a great simple idea that I’ve seen before but well worth reiterating – Use a Talking Pad – in this case a yellow legal pad and a big marker pen.

He explains it so well that I might  just as well let him show you

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago at 6:27 am. Add a comment

There Is A World Out There

Every once in a while there is a film that comes along and changes perceptions and lives. The film I’d like to talk about today is Freedom Writers by Erin Gruwell and the motion picture by Paramount.

The best films are ones where real stories are played out and this is a real story of triumph over unimaginable odds. Erin Gruwell, played by Hilary Swank, is a newly qualified secondary school teacher who gets a job in Wilson High School, Long Beach, California. She is an idealistic (i can identify with that) young teacher presented with the dregs of the school system who have been written off by the school and the local education board.

One day she intercepts a note from one of the students that pokes fun at a guy with big nose and that leads onto a passionate and often heated debate about how and why the holocaust happened and that in turn leads to the diary of Anne Frank and what started out as a hopeless class turns into a civil rights movement that is still active  today – 10 years later.

For more information visit the Freedom Writers Foundation


Freedom Writers
[DVD]
[2007]


This is a review from Amazon

For those emotionally secure people, such as myself, I found it hard to keep my emotionally secured feelings emotionally secured whilst watching this film. It was edited fantastically, shot brilliantly, acted amazingly and worked together to form a perfect whole.

There is, of course, the fact that it is an all too common issue, one which we see all too much of, to little effect. There is also the fact that the same old shootings and naive do-gooders make their respective appearances, however, the primary synopsis of the teacher trying to make herself understood, to a class trying to make themselves understood goes hand-in-hand for a movie that crescendoes and breaks the emotional barriers of the most secure people.

My friend cries at nothing. My friend sobbed in the cinema.
Watch it. Alone. Absorb. Then buy the book!


Freedom Writers

Posted 8 months, 1 week ago at 6:20 am. 2 comments

Your World or THE World

Seth Godin is a guy (founder of  Squidoo.com) who has the uncanny ability to ask questions that rattle around in my skull, sometimes for days, and this is no different. Who am I marketing to and for. So often I market my products or services to the world as I see it rather than the world as my potential customers see it.

Make some changes to the way you do things and see what the results are? Go and read his post and see what comes to mind. I’ll post my thoughts about what he’s triggered in me with his question this time in a few days once I’ve thought it through.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/05/your-world-vs-the-world.html

Remember my offer let me set up your first squidoo lens and account for free (the account is free anyway)

Posted 8 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:17 am. Add a comment