I have just came across a handy little SEO Tester.

Enter your website URL and keyword/s in the boxes below and click on the submit button:

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Enjoy!

I notice that several of my fellow students on John Thornhill’s MasterClass have an Opt-In Box at the end of each of their Blog Posts and wondered how they done this.

After searching through the MasterClass Forum I discovered an old post by one of my classmates Barry Wells.  He gave a link to a post on his Blog in which he has posted a video explaining How to Add an Opt-In Form To Every Post and also offers a free video on how to triple the traffic to your Blog.

My name is Ian Douglas and I have just read an interesting article by Keith of Whitehaven.

After reading it I decided to check my own Google Ranking and was shocked to find that although I own several domains with variations of my name my highest ranking website only appears on page 5 if I search Google UK for the term Ian Douglas.

Unfortunately my name is a much more common name than I thought and if I do a Google search there are quite a few famous people (including several authors) who share my name. I notice Wikipedia ranks quite highly for Ian Douglas so, as it is an “authority site” I am including a link to it in this post.

I have just completed the first draft of my freebie List Building eBook “I Want A Bigger List!“.

Every Guru seems to place a lot of emphasis on building a large responsive Mailing List.

How many times have you heard people say “The Money Is In The List”?

The problem is that although they say you must grow your list, and suggest Giveaways as an idea way to achieve this, very few actually bother to explain step-by-step the actual process you need to go through to participate in a Giveaway as a Contributor.

Mandy Allen is organizing a MasterClass Blog Carnival and I have submitted two posts on the theme of “passion” my first post is “Be Passionnate About Your Product” and my second is “The Tears Of An Angel”. This will be the first time I have taken part in a Blog Carnival so it is quite exciting! The Carnival will be launched around 1 May and I will publish details about it here on this blog so stay tuned!

Well, I have made it to Week 11 of John Thornhill’s Masterclass and things are getting exciting!  You may recall that last week we made the final decision on our niche.  This week it’s time to “put our money where our mouth is” and purchase a domain for our product and to order our website/eBook graphics.

You may remember from previous posts that I have chosen the “Blog Security” niche for my product.  My first task this week was therefore to choose a name for my product.  John gave us a couple of guidelines; one of which is to ensure the product title is available as a “.com” domain.  It sounds so simple…

This week is an important and pivotal week as in it we have to finalize our niche.  I have already made a post about this week but have been distracted from the coaching for a few days so have gone through the week again to refresh my brain. I have mentioned in a previous post that I feel fairly strongly that I would like to write about Blog Security so as to help others avoid the mistakes I made.  The big problem however is that, sadly, I think that most people, like myself, don’t give the subject any thought until it happens to them and they try to log into their pride and joy one day only to find their beloved Blog has disappeared and instead they come face to face with a webpage displaying the flag of a 3rd World country with “cracked by Th3W12ar6 in 3.7 seconds” in big red letters below it.

I have recently come across an amazing Internet Marketing website run by Craig Dawber and Randy Smith which is definitely worth a visit.  Take a look at what they are offering at www.InternetMarketingApprentice.co/welcome Amazingly they even offer a free 12 week coaching course!

If you join their very affordable membership site they give you everything you could ever need to make make more income and you can learn heaps of useful marketing techniques.

They also give you access to a private forum of people helping people which is in itself worth the miniscule membership, let alone all the great products that you get every single month!

Our homework this week was to make our final decision on the niche we are going to base on product on.  As you will see from my previous post I have chosen Blog Security.

Imagine the scene:

Mary is well known in her small English village for her cooking. Her chocolate cup cakes in particular are well admired on social occasions. One day her son calls round and, after tea, gets out his laptop and starts downloading emails.

“Are you online Mum?” asked John.

“Yes; I often chat with my sister via email.” She says proudly.

“Do you have a website?” John asks.

“Errr, no.” Says Mary.

“I can help you set up a Blog if you like so you can tell the whole world about your cup cakes.” He says.