Looking back on all the things that you thought at certain times in your life and realizing that what you thought back then is not even close to where your thinking is now. It is called life and it is to be learned from to better yourself  and to give you the gift of experience.

Experience comes in all shapes and sizes and it usually accompanies a smaller wallet along with it. Everyone needs to have the opportunity to learn and then possibly use or share what they learned to help themselves and others.

Here are my new goals:

1. No more bashing others regardless of how bad I want to.

2. Spending all my spare time building content and sites instead spending it all reading others "stuff"

Oh! And starting a new blog over here that has more benefits…… Dirks Blog about Internet Marketing Tools

I was going to delete this blog and start over and maybe some day I might but for now this is where it sits.

One time not long ago a man with money met a man with experience. After their unique meeting the man with experience had more money and the man that had the money now had experience.

Being a father also has it's frustrations. Texting and hanging out are the lifeblood of existence and if either is interrupted the sky will surely fall.

I look back a my ancestors and the struggles that they had in their lives. Life is easy today compared to what it was back then. Here is a picture from about 1921. My Great Great Grandfather just purchased his first car.                 (click to enlarge)

Look at the car, look at my family. Things have changed beyond recognition and they are continuing to do so. Life is short and I am going to make the most of it from this time forward. I am going to be happy. I am going to work harder than I ever have. I am going to play harder than I ever have and I am going to always look at the benefit, the good points from everything I experience from this time forward.

Who knows how long we have and does it really matter?  What matters is from now till then so there you have my resolution t change for the better.

Cheers!

Dirk

If it is not enough that this * "fine person" Kimball Roundy has extracted money from many hopeful internet marketers he has to rub salt in the wounds again and again.

In his attempt to be a Guru and shine like Mike Dillard, Frank Kern, Budd and Hoverson, he has obviously failed in my eyes when it comes to wits comparison.

The only reason that these big Guru's JV (joint venture) with this * "fine person" Kimball Roundy is because he has a huge list.

Where did he get this list?

He acquired this list from the efforts of thousands of people promoting a system called The Spider Web System. This system seemed like a worthy cause with promises to make you easy money for free.

Quite the contrary though as many spent everything they had trying to tap an income that would never quite pan out for them.

Here lies the point….

You can buy everything that makes you feel good, but if you do not perform the functions that produce buyers than there is no hope for you to ever make any money. Hence….You make money from selling stuff to other people.

Geeeeze! Is it that difficult to see. The list I built for this * "fine person" that he continues to flog garbage so that will bring him sale after sale until he burns out the huge list that thousands built for him with their hard earned money.

See, nothing is really free, someone pays for it. All MLM (multi level marketing) means is that you pay for their advertising. How come that isn't the definition  on Wikipedia?

Learn how to read between the lines and think for yourself. You can do so much better than buying garbage from these desperate wanna be Guru's.

Cheers!

Dirk Poulsen

P.S. Don't Forget The "DISCLAIMERS" associated when buying stuff you'll never do.

Please  read my Affiliate Disclaimer:  From time to time, I will
promote, endorse, or suggest products and/or services for sale.  My
recommendation is ALWAYS based on my belief that the product and it's author
will provide excellent and valuable information or service based  on a review
of that product, my relationship with that person, and or  previous
positive experience with the person or company who's product I  am
recommending.  In some cases, I will be compensated if you decide to  purchase that
product based on my recommendation.  In some cases, I will receive  the
product for free for review purposes.  Always Always Always do your  OWN
due-diligence before making any purchases.  Never purchase anything  that you
cannot afford. Most people don't do anything with the products they buy,
so most of the time, their typical results are zero.

* "fine person" = charlatan

photo credit: antwerpenR

I am sure you have heard this before and maybe you will hear it again soon. Just how many systems have you plugged into? How many have cured the horrible cash flow problems? When is the next shinny object going to appear?

You need to do this, you need to do that. This will be the answer……..feels like buying a lotto ticket most of the time. Accepting the cold hard reality of having absolutely no success really sucks. Not learning from previous gambles really sucks.

No one told you that the reason you can't duplicate others success is because you are not them, that's why. So how do you become like them? Are they really successful or is it a mirage.

Are you learning? Reading? Absorbing a huge amount of information? Did you ever think that that was the reason that you were not having success at duplication?  Maybe you should spend some time on taking action with this information that you have attained. Then you would be able to see if it actually has some results or if it doesn't.

If you don't get results right away will you quit? That's what makes the difference between duplication and frustration. No results immediately will eliminate most of the competition that you will have in building a successful online business and making an income that is equal to a CEO or better if you push forward.

Here is a link to my first post about Scribe SEO and why you don't need any $27.00 or more per month software to write seo copy.

In this post you will learn about double indented listings, the importance of keywords and something about Backlinks

Then we will see results of Scribe SEO in action and also add to the results of this experiment.

After… I want to hear what you have to say!

Double indented listings get more traffic.  Here is a screen shot of a double indented listing. In this screen shot the double indent is a post page and a tag page.

The goal and outcome of this experiment is to achieve a double indented listing for two post pages using the keyword "scribe seo". These two pages that I am targeting will be my previous post and this post that I am writing now about scribe seo.

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To  achieve this is I will link to my previous post from this post with the anchor text "scribe seo" and then I will link from my previous post back to this post using the same anchor text. And "Wha-La" I  will achieve a double indented listing, fingers crossed, that's why it's an experiment. Really! this result will happen because actual organic SEO is predictable and that is a good thing .

Of course it is very boring and methodical (tedious) and also there will be a few other things involved to help with actual search results positions,……like back links. In other words..(it does not happen overnight in most cases!).

Keywords are the words that describe what your page is about. Without using the correct keywords when you write the search engine may not know what you are writing about.

Not all keywords are created equal, some can hold a monetary value when you rank for them, others won't. If you do not understand how to find profitable, useful, customer getting, keywords in your market then you may never have much success in your market. Here is the best post I have read giving you a definitive explanation of keywords .

Just because some keywords are highly competitive does not mean you can't target longer search phrase keywords in your market and build your site up around those keywords and over time you will develop strength for the more competitive ones.

As part of my experiment……

I signed up for a trial subscription to Scribe SEO because of all the fuss that has been made over whether it is a beneficial tool or not. I did an analysis of my previous post to determine what scribe seo thought about my seo copywriting skills.

Here are those results…..

If you look at my previous post it has my primary keyword in the first sentence but scribe says it is not there. How come it says this?

This is why scribe says this…. here are the keywords that scribe says I am going after…… and what keyword did you type in to find me?

Then scribe seo tells me that I have exceeded the recommended times for the keyword "seo" but I really have not it just can't identify the keyword  "scribe seo" just like lissie's scribe seo review stated.

Then the final yellow flag is that I don't have a hyperlink in the first of my post but that was going to be added when I linked to this post.

So what I gather here is that if Scribe SEO actually performed on it's keyword analysis then I would have a score much more near 100%.

Just because you get a high score with this tool does not mean you will rank for those keywords in this lifetime.

On page optimization is just a sliver of what needs to be done. That is why you need to learn how to find profitable keywords in your market and also learn how to rank for those keywords.

Question?

What good is an optimized page in position (111) on Google search?

Answer:

No Good! No one looks that far into the search results.

How do you get to the front page of search?

• You do your keyword research (no reason to spend time on non profitable keywords (like Scribe SEO for me) or… to high of competition keywords)
• You write your awesome jaw dropping content and publish to  your site. You tell other sites in your market about it and build back links.
• You write more content and submit it to other blogs, directories with more back links coming back to you with the keyword you want to rank for in the context.
• You build as many back links as you can white hat of course. Good content will also get natural linking

If you want to understand backlinks better here is a recommend of mine. It really is a back link classroom. Allyn Hane at Blogger Illustrated will teach you everything you need to know about back links. Because they truly are the deciding factor of what position your page is located in the search results.

I will analyze this post with scribe seo and see how I did.

Not bad, Not Bad, hehe      here are the results…………..

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If  Scribe SEO could determine what a keyword was it might be a nifty tool. I think I will stick to the free SEO Quake Tool, much better info, much more analyzing info as a matter of fact. Are you looking for another Scribe SEO Review?

Cheers

Dirk Poulsen

SEO is simply building authority for keywords to reach the highest ranking in the search results.

Front page results obviously brings traffic and sales if you have done the research and rank for what I call "profitable keywords"

You do not need any fancy software to be successful with SEO copywriting.

To get the most out of this lesson you should take the time to read it all. Also new updated screen shot at bottom 25 Mar 2010

(Be sure and read this Scribe SEO Review when you are finished).

I am also conducting an experiment on ranking for  low competition keywords. The goal of this experiment is to get a front page ranking with this post for this keyword Scribe SEO.

I am not a copywriter. But…. I do understand how to write and rank for keywords that I choose.

At the Scribe SEO website it states that……

Creating search optimized web pages, blog posts, and press releases used to be time consuming at best and mystifying at worst.

Lot's of people want you to think that SEO is hard to understand and it is not that hard but like most things it has a learning curve. The writing of content will still be time consuming for you at best but less if you outsource. The most work involved in doing SEO is the actual keyword research to find out what keywords are really worth writing about if income is your goal.

Sure writing great posts about a topic that gets a large following of interested readers is great. Having a community where everyone can socialize and get a warm feeling is also superb. If your SEO copywriting goal is to make money than you might need to change what you right about. Simply some topics have no monetization methods available.

Sometimes you can have your cake and eat it too!

Here are my tips for writing SEO copy.

• Put your keyword in the title but don't be bland about it                                             (click to enlarge)
• Write long value giving posts/articles about your profitable keyword (500-1000 words)
• Use your "profitable keyword" about 1% saturation in your content (1 time for each 100 words)
• Don't be shy to use a couple cousin keywords in your post (example) Scribe seo review, scribe seo copywriting
• Don't forget to add a few relevant tags to the post.

Just like magic you have become an SEO copywriting expert!

See that was not that bad……. and I have saved you at least 27.00 per month.

Now you need to see what type of response the owner Brian Clark of Scribe SEO has toward his customers when faced with an honest review.

I was very shocked how he responded to a very professional review of his product. The biggest shocker was that he never actually addresses the concerns that were pointed out in the Scribe SEO Review.

So my question is….Is Brian Clark a Professional Businessman?                                                                                                                                                        (click to enlarge)

(dont worry, both links below go to that documented evidence)

My friend Lissie performed an honest Scribe SEO Review after using the product to determine which keywords that the search engines would think she was trying to rank for. You can see that here also Scribe SEO

Do you want to be on the front page? Then realize that on page SEO is only a small factor of what you need to be able to rank in the serps (front page) for the keywords you are going after.

There is allot of work ahead but don't be scared.

Remember these tips before writing if you want to be able to earn a living online….

• Choose profitable keywords
• Analyze the competition with free tools
• Write value giving content with the "profitable keywords"
• Keep things simple and they will be

Within 24 hours after publishing this post here are the search results for my keyword targets. I have position 3 and 4 double indented and did not even try. One is a tag page. Below when I discuss double indented listings it will be between two post pages

scribe seo scam

In this screen shot you can see lissowerbutts.com is position # 6 (my friend who wrote the review on scribe seo)

scribe seo review

Here is my site in position #36 for the same search and no back links have been published to my site at this time.

We will discuss back links in the next post. If you look at the picture below I have two back links in this lesson, each one targeting a different keyword then strengthening the page they are pointing to to rank it for the words that are hyperlinked. Are you starting to understand this seo stuff?

And then for the main target keyword which is Scribe SEO here are the results for the main review and then my site below.

Scribe SEO

You see that seo is very simple to understand.

But don't get confused about the real time investment it will take when you are going to target a large amount of very competitive profitable keywords.

In the next post I will explain how to get a double indented listing between two post pages using the keyword search phrase "Scribe SEO" as an example.

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Seeing the competing pages is just the beginning of your analysis. The most important focus when researching is the strength of your competition. This will determine the amount of work that will have to be performed to outrank them in the search engine results.

Here is an example of the indented listing I mentioned earlier. Be sure and watch what happens on this search page (results 1-10) over the next few weeks for this keyword search.

Update on this experiment:  Ok it is now 25th March 2010 20 days later….here is a new screen shot for the search term I wanted to rank on the front page for. Be sure and see the change from this previous shot (above) to the new one (below).

Remember that just because it's easy does not mean that it isn't allot of work. Implementing(taking action) is the highest standard of achievement because you will learn from your mistakes when you keep at it.

Cheers

Dirk

How Sharp Is The Learning Curve?

As time progressed and dollars went out the window and I saw no return on my advertising I really did not know what was wrong. I had done everything just like they told me. I placed the ads and received the visitors but I was not having any conversions.

I wanted to make money online. I purchased more courses and software that was going to get me where I wanted to be, wealthy, making money online. I had subscribed to so many lists to find out the truth and all I had was email boxes stuffed with crap the A-lister's were flogging to sell me..

So I have to say enough is enough! I started doing some real research instead of following a group of people that always had a new cure for the same old problem of how to make money online for a beginner.

You have to think for yourself you have to test and learn. No such thing as a business in a box that you can buy and have immediate results. The main thing that all these programs have in common is the owners make their money selling you the product instead of earning their money implementing the product.

I have allot to share and I will add that there are thousands of different markets to make money with and you can do it also if you learn the basics. If you are looking to get rich quick then you need to go look somewhere else.

If you are willing to work hard and want to really build a residual income online then you might want to continue reading.

• There is no magic bullet for making money online!

There is a specific knowledge that you will need to be able to accomplish the goal of making money online. So why not learn from someone who makes their real online income from practicing what they preach?

Click the image below to learn everything you will need to know to be able to make a passive income online.

Enjoy….

Cheers!

Dirk

Third Tribe – A Conversation Between Two Worlds

Two worlds (a generalization not focused), one of traditional internet marketers, one of the social media cool crowd.

I have just a couple of questions below!

Internet Marketers …They use aggressive hype and obnoxious tactics to fool people into believing there really is a "get rich quick" magic bullet.

1. Why would they say "I Use Aggressive Hype and Obnoxious Tactics to Fool People" ? (and you know this is really the pan calling the kettle black!)

And then the other,

Social Media Cool Kids…They reject hype and aggressive sales tactics in favor of relationships, community, and value . . . and yet seem to have taken a vow of poverty along the way.

2. Now is this not the same group of wanna-be bloggers that they keep selling their fluff too. (No Wonder Their Followers are Poor)

These are the individuals involved in flogging this membership site. Darren Rowse, Chris Brogan, Brian Clark and Sonia Simone.

Too me it sounds like more fluff and money in the bank for the A-List for 27.00 a month now and then 47.00 per month later if you didn't join now. You really have to learn on your own nowadays and who's advice should you really take?

3. Where are the disclaimers, contact forms that should accompany a website? Did they not do all the homework?( This is an Internet Marketing Must Read)

I did not have time to join the program, but I know someone who did join the third tribe so they can tell you first hand about it, you can see it here at Third Tribe Review

If you take the time and use common sense you can lessen the time of your learning curve and get on your way to making money online. You can actually sell products to people that are looking for them and be involved in a great fun community at the same time.

As far as Third Tribe Marketing you will have to make your own decisions.

You might even eventually see a fourth tribe and even maybe a fifth tribe, who knows?

Cheers!

Dirk

How do you make money online? 

Up First…….Let's get this out of the way.

If you have been online for more than a year and you have purchased any programs that teach you how to make money online and you are not making any money online then please quit buying stuff !

(you need to change the part where you actually do something to make money online)

Those meeting these obvious statements above might have a motivation problem and it may have been holding you back from getting things done but no matter how gloomy things appear to be you really can change. Having motivation problems might not be from being lazy but actually from not being interested in what needs to be done.

The first part of becoming motivated is having a need or a desire to become motivated. I have a hard time getting motivated especially after a long day at work. I do know that if I do some of the things that I need to do now that later I will benefit from those results. It is easy for me to put things off if I am not under pressure and that is one of my biggest downfalls.

So I have to look and see what kind of person I want to be seen as. This gives me that extra push that I need to get a few things done that I would otherwise not do. I am not a lazy person, in fact I am a hard worker. I want to be known as a hard worker and so this is where some of my motivation has come from.

I also like to learn new things. In fact I have a whole list of things that I would like to learn but I only have so much life left and I will have to let a few dreams die….unfortunately! Making a bet or working with someone is also a motivational boost. It is always fun to work with others especially if they pull their part of the load.

Everybody wants to be part of a group it is simply human nature and being accepted by others can give you some serious motivation. Find out what motivates you and use it to your benefit!

I know for a fact that you can know exactly how to make money and never make any.

So..if you are new to this online stuff and before you decide that you want to learn, or that you don't I will show you some things that you should learn and understand to be able to start learning how to make money online.

Making Money Online is a business and it takes time to build businesses and get results. Even worse yet is that not all businesses are successful. Many have been started and never get off the ground.

So how do you make money online?……….You first need to understand the basics of the internet and how it works.

What is the internet?

The internet consists of millions of Websites and Blogs with information about most any thing you could ever think of. If you want to know something or you want to learn something then all you have to do is go to a search engine and type in what you are looking for.

Then the search engine gives you a list of results called the SERPS (search engine results pages) and you hopefully find what you are looking for. In the example below you can see what the serp looks like on Google when we search the keyword term: "make money online".

If you look at this page you will see the top ads in yellow. They are sponsored ads. Also the ads to the right of the search results these are sponsored ads also. If you also look above the sponsored ads you will see that the organic results (the ones below the yellow sponsored ads) are 1 through 10 of 222 million pages.

So what are sponsored ads?

These are ads that advertisers pay Google to display on the front page of the search results. More specifically these advertisers have bid on this specific keyword…"make money online" so their ad would show. They will pay Google a previously decided amount every time someone clicks on their ad. (of course there are contributing factors that will adjust this price higher or lower and I will discuss those later).

In these example pictures if you click on them you can enlarge them. What I want to show you are those sponsored ads why they are there and willing to pay Google for search traffic.

In this example the Average Joe wants to "make money online" and that is why these advertisers are willing to pay (so much) for each click to get a person that is specifically looking to learn how to "make money online". Make money online is actually a broad search term but advertisers are still willing to pay.

The very top sponsored ad if you have looked at the photo is PPL123.com this ad reads:

Earn $5,779+ a Month,Own hours. FT/PT. Leads. Residuals. We Build Your Business With You.

So I copy the link so I don't charge them a click and go to their site. And it is a bummer the site no longer exists. So I will check out the next one…..OpinionPlace.com. This appears to be an online survey company that will pay you to take online surveys. Your looking for a way to make money online and Google is delivering the information you are looking for.

The next ad is: BigTicketToWealth.com and we could go on but I won't.

What are organic results?

These are the listings of websites that the search engine feels are the most relevant for the search term that was searched for….remember…"make money online". These web sites are listed for free. In other words when a search visitor goes to these sites they dont have to pay Google to get the visitor to the page that is listed on the serp.

I hope you are getting the point of all this how to make money stuff….you have to sell or refer something to someone to make money.

Yup, you heard that right, "You Have To Sell Something" BUT…………………… you don't have to be a sales person, speak with anyone, ship any products, unless that is what you want to do.

Now let's look at the top organic result….. moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com
This site is listed for free at the #1 spot out of 222 million other pages. Do you want to know why? I will tell you later but right now lets look at his site. Click to enlarge image, click again to close image.

How is this site making money?

The internet is a huge vein of gold that has not even begun to be tapped yet. What I and many others do to make money online is called (Internet Marketing) or (IM) for short. We create websites and/or advertisements that lead people to products, services or information that they are searching for. Then when they buy the item or perform a function even like (clicking an ad) I get paid a commission. (very easy)

This site makes money through selling advertising space to advertisers and through affiliate marketing by sending search visitors to programs like "BigTicketToWealth.com" that we looked at earlier. This site owner has become an affiliate for all these different products and receives a commission every time someone signs up.

Now remember that this is the MMO (make money online niche) and there are millions of other niches in which to sell other peoples products or refer other peoples services. Like how about Pet Grooming, Potted Flowers, Learn to Play Guitar, Learn to Speak Spanish. There are literally millions of different niches to make money with and why use the MMO niche just to sell junk like how to make money online stuff.

You will need to learn a few things:

How to put up a website! If this seems impossible to you right now but you are convinced that this is what you want to do you will learn it very quickly. It is easy just requires desire to learn. The learning is fun.

You can build free blogs and you can buy your domain names like I have here at dirkpoulsen.com and pay for hosting at a web host. My Url (dirkpoulsen.com) cost me $7.59 per year. Hosting is a different topic. There are millions of hosts, I will add more about them later.

How to write content for that website: Writing is not one of my favorite things to do but I have loosened up quite considerably and can put out allot of content even with the limited time I have to produce it. ( I stay focused on my MMO goal)

How to promote your sites…. and maybe I am getting ahead of myself. If we go back to the sponsored ads and organic results on search these are the 2 ways to promote your sites. Paid and Free, but not really free because it is allot of work to get to the first page of search results if you are in a competitive niche but well worth it in the long run, just ask moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com and also this is a free blogger blog that is ranking #1 and I will discuss Blogger.com here shortly.

Too be continued………….

Building blogs on free platforms:

Purchasing your own domain/s:

Hosting your own domain:



So what do you really want?

You Want Less Expensive Gasoline! Right?

Do you remember when gasoline went to nearly to 5.00 per gallon? Do you think it may be headed there again? Maybe so.

Have you ever heard of a CO-OP? I am sure you have and if you are located in the USA or Canada then you could be saving half on every gallon of Gasoline or Diesel that you purchase.

Oh but what's the catch……It's really simple…..

and you can find out here right now……. Save Half On Gas & Diesel

It's a bright sunny day for Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville, VT. After supposed shenanigans were pulled on them by Monster Energy Drinks a subsidiary of Hansen Beverage Company. On Sept 14th 2009 Rock Art Brewery had been served a cease and desist order from the attorneys at Hansen Beverage Company.

The Attorneys told Matt Nadeau (owner) of Rock Art Brewery that he needs to stop all campaigns, advertising, labeling, production of his product "The Vermonster". They say that the name Monster Energy is trademarked thus they have to pursue and eliminate any possible trademark violation whether soluble or not like Vermonster even if you are from Vermont and brew beer instead of making fruit drinks.

Leaning on his legal advice Matt's advisor told him that he did not violate any of the trademark rules he then went on to state that Hansen Beverage Company would just sue him into bankruptcy.

This is where Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations might not play nice. They get what they want due to the money they have to destroy a small resistance. Whoever runs out of money first will ultimately lose.

Matt with the help of Green River Pictures created a video that he uploaded to youtube which can be seen here at…Monster Energy Drink. After that a stowe reporter picked up his sad story and the news spread fast. Matt created a pdf showing the time frame of how things transpired in just 21 days using the main stream media and social media on the internet.

Here is that link to the pdf…Congratulations America Victory Is Ours.

Looking at the aftermath of results and reading between the lines a little bit I began to wonder if this has been planned from the beginning. After reading through everything it is completely possible that this might have been preplanned.

There is something that stands out to me and below is a photo with those words circled in red that made me wonder.

How does a small business get free national advertising?

Then I took a look at Green River Pictures and this company creates some first class advertising media. So in my mind I put 2 and 2 together and I came up with this conclusion. If you want to be a big player in the business world you have to do big things that bring success to you. Just sitting there brewing a good product is not enough. I could go further in explanation but you might start understanding the point I am trying to make.

Now for the aftermath…….. Hansen Beverage Company, Monster Energy Drink will obviously suffer sales do to this media blitz and I am sure they will recover. Be sure and go to their site Hansen Beverage Company and see their last quarter sales. They list these for possible investors. Then keep an eye out for the next quarter results as you will see a change more than likely.

I still say bravo for Rock Art Brewery getting the attention thousands of other small businesses never will have the opportunity to have. And even though I have heard many times now that Monster Energy Drinks taste like camel piss I still have never tasted them or camel piss so I really have no idea.

Maybe someday I will try one of those energy drinks but for now I never have any intention of trying camel piss.

Make your own decisions but support the people that support you. That's my 2 Cents!

Cheers,

Dirk Poulsen