Beanstalk is giving away 4 free tickets to Digital World Expo running from September 25th through 27th in beautiful Las Vegas. And these aren’t just expo passes … these are class passes costing $ 877 each. To get your pass is easy, just be one of the first four to Contact Us and just add DWE in the Notes field with a 2 sentence description of what you’re hoping to get out of attending. People will be contacted as approved. This isn’t a contest to judge the best four answers – it’s simply a selection of 4 people who will truly get the most from such a great conference.

For those who enter – hope to see you in Vegas. I’ll be speaking on organic SEO 4 times at the conference. I hope you’ll come up and say hi.

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Need help with your search marketing efforts? The InsideAdwords team has good news for you.

Instead of making you have to read endless help pages, they have decided to hold free webinars for Adwords advertisers. The webinars will be held twice a week, every Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 3pm BST. The whole list of topics for the months of August and September are already plotted in the UK Adwords Webinar calendar.

Topics for this week include an introduction to the Google+ project, and a tutorial on the various Search Reports available to advertisers. Both webinars are expected to last for about 50 minutes.

Other topics slated for the next two months include an introduction to the Google Display Network (GDN), basic optimisation for the GDN, remarketing strategies, contextual keyword targeting, topic targeting in AdWords, mobile campaign best practices, targeting YouTube users, reporting and analysing GDN performance, and an introduction to mobile advertising.

If you’re booked during the webinar hours, you can always just visit the Google Adwords Online Classroom for tips, or join the Adwords Online Classroom group for updates on the video tutorials.

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If you’ve been able to get on-line with all the outages this morning (EAST-1 was down for a bit) then you may have seen a number of links showing up for ‘free invites’ to Google+.

I know we did an article about the rumor that Google+ was going to accept new sign-ons without invitations on July 31st, but this came from the ‘official Facebook group’ which was a rather poor source. To my knowledge, the rumour never panned out and we still have an invite only system in place where Google can track how each person is related to the next. It’s not hard to get into Google+, it’s only difficult to do it anonymously.

Almost all the links are valid, point to a “ngemlink” path, and seem to work, even though the final section appears to be totally random:

Random invite example #1
Random invite example #2
Random invite example #3

This would mean that advertisers, groups, and other technically ‘unwanted’ new users should be hitting the system for the first time without a legitimate connection to the accounts that are letting them join? If that’s the case, where’s the response? The only thing I found related to spamming on Google threads today was this little thank you picture:

Perhaps I am in a quite circle of the web and I haven’t got the exposure to such things, but my Google+ profile has been entirely spam free. Indeed, the worst offender for spamming are associates in the SEO business that like to push out a few posts per day due to the wide range of stuff they tackle. Most of that content is related to topics that I’m interested in both professionally and personally, so it’s not really spam per se, just an excess of content that dwarfs the smaller feeds.

It’s quiet, almost too quiet..

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These days, social media is becoming an important part of many businesses’ internet presence. People post product questions on Facebook, seek recommendations on Twitter, and view promotional videos on YouTube.

When I’m looking for information about a particular business, I’m most likely to click the Facebook bookmark on my browser and search for that business’ Page. When I want to catch instant updates, I’ll follow that business’ Twitter stream. To check out a band or DJ, I’ll visit YouTube. These quick searches are increasingly becoming a common way for people to search for your business, instead of just turning to traditional search engines like Google.

Case in point: you need more than just a website to be effective with internet marketing. Today, using social media to direct traffic to your website and generate new leads should be an indispensable part of your marketing mix.

The countless social media platforms that exist online provide you with endless opportunities to get found. And the more platforms you participate in, the more likely you’ll turn up in search results, especially now that social media is a part of search engine algorithms.

The hard part is prioritizing which platforms you should dedicate your time to, as it seems almost impossible to maintain a presence on all of them while achieving the same success. That’s why we’ve just launched our newest ebook “How to Enhance Your Internet Presence With Social Media.”

This 34-page ebook narrows social media down to four cores:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. LinkedIn
4. YouTube

Not only will you learn about each platform, but you will also find out how to use each of them to enhance your business’ internet presence and optimize it for lead generation. Once you’ve developed a presence on these platforms, the ebook also shares three key strategies for building a loyal following.

So what are you waiting for? Start enhancing your business’ internet presence now. Our free ebook is just what you need to get started, so go ahead and download your copy today!

Free Ebook: How to Enhance Your Internet Presence With Social Media

In order to be effective with internet marketing, you need more than just a website.

Download this ebook to learn to enhance your business’ internet presence using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Connect with HubSpot:

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This is a guest blog post by Jamie Turner, co-author of “How to Make Money with Social Media” and in-demand keynote speaker for events, trade shows, and corporations around the globe.

If you’re like a lot of businesspeople, you’re interested in exploring new ways to use social media to generate leads for your company. That’s great! The problem is, wrapping your mind around all the different tools out there can be quite a challenge.

The good news is, HubSpot just released a free ebook that helps you understand the social media tools available. It’s called “99 Tools to Help You Generate Leads with Social Media,” and it’s jam-packed with tons of great tools and tips to help you start using social media for lead generation.

Here’s a quick rundown of what’s included in the free ebook:

The Social Media ROI Cycle

Most companies go through three stages when adopting social media marketing – the Launch Stage, the Management Stage, and the Optimization Stage. Where are you in this process? This ebook will help you figure it out so you know how best to tackle social media to suit your individual needs.

Tools to Help You Manage Twitter, Facebook, and Other Platforms

Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have to search the internet and evaluate all the tools available for all the best social media management? Good news. We’ve done the work for you and included dozens of them in the ebook.

Social Media Measurement Tools

Interested in finding out what people are saying about your brand online? No problem. How about measuring your social media influence? Again, no problem. We share the top tools for social media measurement right in this ebook.

Tools to Help You Analyze Your Followers

It’s one thing to know that people are talking about your brand, but it’s another to know who they are. The ebook gives you information on several tools that you can use to get demographic and psychographic information about your followers.

Social media can be a complex web of sophisticated tools and techniques. This new ebook demystifies all the different social media tools and sorts them into nice little buckets so you can easily wrap your mind around them.

The next step – putting them to good use – is in your hands. Good luck!

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Free eBook: 99 Tools to Help You Generate Leads with Social Media

More and more businesses are using social media marketing to get leads and turn those leads into sales.

Learn about 99 tools that can help you better manage and monitor your social marketing.

Connect with HubSpot:

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When they released Open Site Explorer, SEOmoz gave SEOs a powerful, free tool upon which many now rely.  But did you know that all SEOmoz members have access to the just-as-free and perhaps powerfuller Linkscape API?  This API uses the same data set as OSE, but you can use it to make large numbers of queries which might be cumbersome with OSE.

Linkscape is a web based API.  Your query looks like a URL, and requesting that URL will return the data you need.  We mention the API from time to time on the Distilled blog.  Will Critchlow wrote a post a while back with a bash script that accessed Linkscape data.  What I want to do here, though, is just take you from zero to fifty-five in a few easy steps.

There are, of course, many query types to choose from.  I’m going to focus on the url-metrics portion of the API because it is relatively straightforward and knowing how to use it to automate requests.  This is the type of query that will allow you to enter a URL and get stats like Domain Authority, Page Authority, mozRank, et cetera.  So to get started…

0. …sign up for an SEOmoz account!

This is step 0 because if you’re reading this blog, there’s a good chance you’ve got an SEOmoz account already.  But sign up if you don’t and you want to play with Linkscape.

1. Get your free Linkscape API credentials!

Once you’ve got an SEOmoz account, it couldn’t be easier to get your API credentials.  Everything you need is right on the Linkscape API home page.  Also note (if you’re being super-thorough and reading every detail on that page) that the API actually uses HTTP Basic Authentication now, so there won’t be any timestamps or hasherry involved.

What you need to get from this process is an Access ID and a Secret Key.  You can’t miss them; they’re prominently featured on the page.

2. Form your first query!

As I mentioned above, queries to Linkscape will look like URLs.  This is what that URL looks like for accessing url-metrics:

http://ID:KEY@lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/distilled.net

Naturally, you will need to replace ID and KEY above with your Access ID and Secret Key.  If you enter this into your browser’s address bar your should see the following JSON string output:

{“fmrp”:0,”fmrr”:5.376863065430114e-15,”pda”:64.59381022404928,”ueid”:2, “ufq”:”distilled.net/”,”uid”:2,”umrp”:0,”umrr”:1.525682808100888e-15, “upa”:1,”upl”:”distilled.net/”,”us”:0,”ut”:””,”uu”:”distilled.net/”}

Ah… Ha!  That’s a lot of letters and numbers.  What’s happening is that each of these pairs has a label and a value.  The labels are short abreviations which tell you what the data is.  These are followed by numbers or strings which have the relevant information.  The label “uu”, for instance (the last label above), marks the standardized URL the ‘moz is using.  The Linkscape API has a full reference for these values.  Some more interesting values above would be “pda” and “upa” which indicate Domain Authority and Page Authority respectively.

3. Set your bit flags flyin’!

Bit fields are a convenient (and somewhat obfuscatory) way of setting bit flags, which is how we tell Linkscape what data we want returned.  Suffice it to say, you can take advantage of them to filter the values returned by Linkscape.  The way it works is that each field (URL, Title, DA, PA, mozRank, et cetera) has a number associated with it.  These numbers can be found on the Linkscape wiki.  By adding these numbers together, Linkscape will know that you want just the fields whose numbers you’ve added.  That might not make a lot of sense, so…

…an example: say I only want to return the Title and URL in my request.  The number associated with Title is 1, the number associated with URL is 4.  Together that’s 5.  My query is:

http://ID:KEY@lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/distilled.net?Cols=5

And lo!  I see the title and URL returned.

Of course, that isn’t a particularly exciting query.  How about this one, instead, which returns only the Domain Authority associate with any URL you enter:

http://ID:KEY@lsapi.seomoz.com/linkscape/url-metrics/distilled.net?Cols=68719476736

In some cases, limiting your requests to returning one value can significantly simplify processing the resulting JSON.

4. Sail into the sunset!

You may feel I’ve left you hanging; you’ve got a JSON string, now what?!  The thing is, you can do so much with it!  I really can’t say what will be most useful for you.  Import it into Google Docs (perhaps with the help of some app script wizardry provided by user Ahab), create a Python script to automate the process and spit out a CSV file (my personal favorite), or draw this information automatically for client reporting.  Only you can say.

Have fun, read the Linkscape wiki, and let us know if you’ve got any ingenous ways of using this data.  Hope you’ve enjoyed the primer!

P.S.  Remember, with great power comes great responsibility.  Use of the Linkscape API is governed by an agreement to provide proper attribution to SEOmoz.  Basically this amounts to calling Domain Authority “Domain Authority” and mozRank “mozRank”.  But be sure to read the details just in case!

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One of the biggest reasons I love working at Distilled is because I get to share information widely and help spark discussion, learning and engagement. Whether it’s blogging, presenting or tweeting. So when Appsumo came knocking I couldn’t resist the opportunity to record a video with them.

Actually I did two. The first one is here: Google Docs Unleashed. You can read the supporting guide to importxml here.

The second one has just gone live, it’s an hour long video interview between myself and the awesome Paul Hontz from The Startup Foundry and is free to download for 24 hours:

Link Building Tips for Startups – get it here

Here’s the first teaser sample from the full hour long video:

And here’s the second sample of me talking about using tools as a link building (posicionamiento web) strategy:

The video is free to access today for 24 hours. Go grab it now!

Resources and Further Reading

If you’re looking for more awesome information on SEO, link building (posicionamiento web) in general or marketing for startups generally I recommend the following:

• The SEOmoz Beginner’s Guide to SEO
• SEO for startups – a blog post by SEOmoz
• Strategic SEO for startups – by Patio11 (AKA Patrick McKensie)

If any startups are reading this and want help figuring out SEO and link building (posicionamiento web) – drop a comment or a tweet. I love helping out startups

Edit: I had the wrong link in the post initially – sorry about that. The link is updated to the correct one which allows you to grab the video for free.

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Hello everybody ! Baba here. Today i am going to share you information on how to find profitable niches using free resources. I am not writing “I am going to teach you” because many of you may already know these ideas, but i am sure there are lots of guys who don’t know about the methods i am going to share.

Watch The video below before proceeding …..

In the video i have mentioned about finding amazing niches using Alibaba.com ! Alibaba is one of the biggest trading websites with lots and lots of categories. Each of the categories have 100s of mice-categories and products. Digging deeper into them you can find low-competitive high-profitable niches/micro-niches. Since many products based of these niches are being traded/sold in alibaba you can be 100% sure that these niches and products are profitable.

What are other ways on finding profitable niches ?

Guys, alibaba is just an example site that i gave you. There are lots of other websites like tradekey.com indiamart.com ebay.com amazon.com. Digg deep into these sites and discover some great niches. If you are looking to make money online then you need to take action. Small information is enough to get started if you take action. If you don’t, then having a full course of 100$ from gurus also won’t help.

Okay, I found the niche, now what ?

I know you will ask this. Finding niche doesn’t mean you are done and money will start rolling. In the video i have also told about finding good keywords related to the niche and build website based on those keywords. Write quality content, give useful tips and articles to users. Do not just focus of keywords or density of keywords and other seo aspects. As long as you write useful article for visitors no need to worry on other things.  Your english may be poor like mine, or you feel bored writing articles (I hate writing articles), in such cases just hire some good writers. They will charge from $ 1 to $ 5 per 100 words depending on the quality of content you want. I generally use $ 2/100 words writers ! You can always contact me for help.

I have a website ready with quality content but there is no money coming ..

Hehehehe, some guy said once If wishes were horses, beggars would ride and i think whoever said that said well. If you could generate money easily online then beggars won’t be in street probably. Making money is not always easy for all. If money comes easily, you will not progress so it is good thing. Work hard, earn, be satisfied. There are lots of so called “spoiled” child of rich parents who are enjoying their life, spending money. In my opinion, they are wasting their life without any enjoyment. Anyways, back to the topic ..

You will need to do seo stuffs then .. OMG, its long process till the money comes guys. Build some backlinks or pay for backlinks to someone. I have already posted few articles on how to optimize your website to get good ranking in search engines and will continue to do so. So keep following my blog if you think it will be helpful.

All you need is traffic. Once people start coming to your niche website you can then you can use adsense ads, affiliate products to make money. Besides from these, selling banner ad space is another method of generating some quick cash.  You can also sell the website on flippa !

All the best and take action ! See you in Next Article.

BTW, I have made a course which includes everything from finding good niches, building quality website/content, doing seo and getting cool ranking in google, generate free traffic and money ! If you wish to purchase simply contact me. It costs $ 100 only for limited time.

Related posts:

1. Top 5 places to get free images !
2. Get free High PR Do-follow Backlinks Every Week !
3. Marketing Your Products the Video Distribution Way

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Live FREE SEO Webinar: Learn How to Really Boost Your SEO Results Using Social Media

Are you still struggling to align your Social Media and SEO campaigns?
Evolving social media marketing & search engine optimization (posicionamiento en buscadores) opportunities make it harder to balance both while boosting your results. Spend an invaluable hour with Nick Stamoulis, CEO of Brick Marketing, as he shares insightful tips on optimizing your Social Media efforts so that they help to boost your SEO rankings and visibility.

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Nick Stamoulis is the President and Founder of Brick Marketing. With over 12 years of experience Nick Stamoulis has worked with hundreds of companies small, large and every size in between. Through his vast and diverse SEO, search engine marketing and internet marketing experience Nick Stamoulis has successfully increased the online visibility and sales of clients in all industries.

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