I just got this email from Ira in LA which I thought I would answer here My answers are in Red:

Ira did you find the link to the $1 trial of Traffic Geyser?

I was able to find the link. You have to close the page and a popup gray window will appear with an offer. Cancel the popup window. Another popup may appear offering a $1 deal. If not, cancel again and check for the $1 deal.

I looked at your videos and followed them. I don't know what I want to start a blog about yet. I want to find a future proof subject. My question is, where does the $$ come from? Advertising or Adsense or do you make money from  Traffic Geyser?

OK, First things first, don't sit around waiting to think of something to blog about, just get on with it. If you change your mind, just start another, it's no big deal and if  you use Blogger or Wordpress for example it's free.  I'll be sending out a PDF later on today with some ideas for niches  that have a lot of money in them.

You can make your money where you like, the best way is to build a list and then build some trust with your list and make them a few offers of products that you believe in. Personally I do make money from promoting Traffic Geyser as they have a very generous affiliate scheme, but the point about Traffic Geyser is that it is a very quick and easy way to get multiple listings on the first page of Google in a matter of minutes.In the tutorials you will see how to put links in your descriptions that you can then point to your blog (a free one is fine) which will make your blog rank and that is where you can put your offers.

Affiliate programs are a good way to make money, or you could make some money with adsense too, but typically Adsense only makes me about $100/month whereas my affiliate programs make me about $10,000/month.

Also, was the purpose of the video you made and uploaded and got to the top of Google to get people to click to your blog and then what? Get them to sign up for a service like Traffic Geyser??? This is the part I don't understand.

The idea is to use the video to get people to opt into my list and then learn more about how I like to work and what is sucessful for me. During this I build trust with my list and then when I say "this is really good" they believe me. Then they get a product they like and I get some commission.

I appreciate your videos and help page. This is just the one point missing for me to get the whole picture.

I'm hoping you get the picture more now, I had the idea of doing a free course about how to do internet marketing, but to be honest Howie Scwartz does it much better than I could ever dream of. I'll be sending some free stuff by him out to you later on today.

Thanks Rick,

Ira
No Worries, and look out for that free PDF I am sending out later today:)

Rick

I was having a problem with Wordpress behaving badly all of a sudden. The site in question was hosted at eUKhost.com so I had a chat with Kieran, a technical guy there. This problem is not well documented on the internet so I thought I would post the transcript here:

The following is a transcript of your chat session.
General Info
Chat start time     Jun 12, 2009 3:34:06 PM EST
Chat end time     Jun 12, 2009 4:16:25 PM EST
Duration (actual chatting time)     00:42:19
Operator     Kieran
Chat Transcript
info: Please wait for a site operator to respond.
info: You are now chatting with 'Kieran'
Kieran: Hello and Welcome to Live Chat Support.
Kieran: How may I assist you today ?
Rick Lomas: Hi Kieran - I'm having a problem (again) with a wordpress blog I have on portisaaccottages.com - I was chatting to stuart about this the other day - is he about?
Kieran: May I know exact URL link and steps to check this issue ?
Rick Lomas: sure go to www.portisaaccottages.com and login with usr=XXXX pwd=YYYY
Kieran: Ok
Rick Lomas: then try and make a post and publish it
Kieran: Ok
Rick Lomas: you will be redirected to http://localhost/removecookies and the post will be saved as a draft
Kieran: Ok
Kieran: Give me a moment please. I am looking into this.
Rick Lomas: now apparantly this is NOT a wordpress problem but something to do with some "JavaScript injection protection filter" on the Apache installation
Kieran: Checking
Rick Lomas: With Stuart the other day, the same problem was on campervansdirect.co.uk and I think it got sorted, but I'm not sure how
Kieran: Ok, Hold on.
Rick Lomas: you still there mate?
Kieran: Yes
Kieran: Please allow me few minutes more.
Rick Lomas: sorry - please take your time -
Kieran: I have disabled mod_security for your site, But you will have to check your pluggin settings for Wordpress.
Rick Lomas: shall I give it a go? I think that was what stuart did the other day
Kieran: Stuart has just updated me about disable mod_security issue with WP.
Kieran: Wait
Kieran: Still checking.
Kieran: Are you there ?
Rick Lomas: yes
Kieran: Ok, Checking with stuart.
Kieran: Please check now.
Rick Lomas: looking good - so what should i do in the future if I encounter this?
Kieran: Just disable mod_security. Stuart has just corrected with new code.
Kieran: So now you will not face such problem again
Kieran: Is there anything else I may assist you with?
Rick Lomas: No that's all - thank you very very much
Kieran: You are welcome
Kieran: Have nice time ahead
Kieran: Bye
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Rick Lomas: Take Care Kieran, have good weekend

For a year or two now I have been giving away information about how to get number one in Google, but when I searched for that phrase I was horrified to see that I was on the second page of Google! This isn't a particularly good ad for me, but there again I am up against 246,000,000 results so competition is somewhat stiff!

Anyway to combat this I am making this blog post and her some features of this post.

1. I am writing about the phrase I want to rank for, this just happens to include related keyphrases and keywords which are important
2. I have titled the blog post: "How to get number one in Google"
3. I have also tagged the post (see below) with the phrase too
4. I have added and image where the file name is how-to-get-number-one-in-google.jpg and given the alt text as the keyphrase too
5. I have also changed the title of my blog to "How to get number one in Google"
6. I have changed the meta description of my site to this: "How to get number one in Google is the main aim of web 2.0 strategist Rick Lomas. Rick looks into keyword research and ways to get tons of backlinks to your site, to get it ranking and make you money"
7. I have added the phrase to my meta keywords

So how should this improve matters? Well ths is what is known as "on page SEO" and it is the absolute least you should do to get your site ranking. The other part of the strategy is the off site linking strategy, but you'll have to ask me nicely if you want to tell you how to do that! (please comment below)

Anyway today is the 4th June 2009 so lets see how soon I can rank on the first page of Google for "how to get number one in Google".

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