My apologies to everyone who visits here regularly. I’ve been hard at work on an SEO Class for BoneheadSEO.com and am looking for it to be available in early 2009.

Until then, I’ll be sure to post more often and update you on the “goings-on” in the world.

- Kristine

What’s so surprising is that Clayton recently brought in over $2.3 million dollars in the past 30-days for one of his clients using this strategy and the unbelievable thing about this promotion was that it was for a client who is in THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY! Which makes it even more incredible.

If you run a business or intend on doing so, you’ll want to listen in to this 100% free call. Carve out some time and take some notes - you’ll be so glad you did.

You’ll have to register, but once you do, you’ll get instant access.

http://webcast.streamlogics.com/audience/index.asp?eventid=50074403

- Kristine

First, the easy stuff. SlingBrain is in the process of creating an SEO class for those who want to learn how to do SEO on their own sites and do it easily and the website for these upcoming classes is located at BoneHeadSEO.com. So sign up today to get informed the moment they become available. This information is taken from my 8-years in SEO and online marketing and is expected to be available at the end of October 2008.

Next, there is something VERY important I want you to be aware of and if you run ANY kind of business, this information is incredibly important for you to be aware of and to know how to prevent. There’s a new kind of hijacking spam taking place as we speak and it regards a Google Maps listing. Watch the video below for more information.

We’ll talk soon!

As a matter of fact, it’s nearly finished, and I’m looking for some folks who would like to give an honest testimonial that could be featured on the main sales page of the brand new product site.

The testimonial would include your statement, a photo of yourself (if you’d like) and your URL (website address).

So, if you have in fact liked the free information that you’ve received thus far from SlingBrain.com and want to be considered as a potential featured “testimonialist” on the product and be featured on the sales page for this new product, send me an email at slingbrain [at] gmail dot com with the subject line of “Testimonial”.

- Kristine

Sorry for that…but just for sticking with me, here’s a peek at one of the videos I just did. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it…

Go to Traffic Geyser

http://twitter.com/KristineWirth

Here’s a quickie - this one shows you how to be sure you’re links are getting followed back to your site.

Enjoy! And we’ll see you REAL soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6XIl3iZmwg

Kristine

In my book, Plain & Simple SEO - Simple SEO Tactics that Anyone Can Use and Learn Today, I show you how to use a tool that Microsoft provides that will help you determine if one of your site visitors is actually there to spend money or simply do research.

In this post, I’m going to show you a way to find out what people search on after they’ve searched for a keyword and needed to refine that term.

Not only will this help you refine your search terms for your own site, but you’ll get a look into the psyche of a web searcher to find out how they refine their own search terms in order to get a more relevant search result.

The tool is called “Search Funnels” and here’s how it works:

You enter in a search term, in our case, we used the term “candy”.

Once you click “Go”, it will show you what words web searchers used to refine their initial search.

In our case, people used phrases such as candystand, halloween candy, chocolate, m, and candystand.com.

It also gives you percentages to work with as well. For instance, if you hover over each individual box, this tool will tell you that out of 2,853 searches on “candy”, 3.15% of them, or 90 of those 2,853 searches then searched on “candystand” after first searching on “candy”.

As is usually the case with Microsoft, in order to view the hover correctly so that you can get more details, you must be using Internet Explorer. I’ve tried using Firefox and cannot get the hover to work correctly.

Furthermore, you can refine the keywords to help drill down into more details. For example, if we take the phrase “halloween candy” from above and then enter it into the tool, it will then tell us that of those who searched for that phrase also went on to search for:

* candy
* halloween
* halloween costumes
* halloween trivia
* candy.com

This is a great tool to help determine what your site visitors may be searching for and could very well help you determine where a site visitor may have gone upon visiting your site for a certain keyword.

Image via Wikipedia

You might wonder how this relates to SEO.

Well, like most online marketers, I write a lot of articles. I often think a heck of a lot faster than I type and quite often the first draft of an article, blog post, or book I write reads horribly.

Since I don’t have the patience to re-read everything, I found a solution that helps me do just that. It’s a program called TextAloud and it has been my saving grace when it comes to writing. Instead of jotting down a quick draft and then posting it to an article directory or blog, I first run it through the TextAloud program to listen to how it sounds.

Oftentimes, I’ll find that I’ve missed a word or two or that it just doesn’t flow like I expected it to. TextAloud allows me to find my mistakes, fix them, and then post a great blog post or article.

I highly suggest it to those of you who have little patience to sit and read text; especially when it’s on a screen.

The video below shows you how it works. (If you can’t see the video, it is still processing at YouTube. It literally was JUST uploaded.)

Here’s where to get the program.