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Search Engine Experts Free Interview Podcast

SEO can attract more traffic to your web site. But how to get started and who to trust?

Harry Brooks, Director of Search Marketing for Network Solutions, is my guest expert interview on this episode of my E-Commerce Success Radio/Podcast show.

Listen to learn how to grow your traffic with clever search engine marketing strategies for your online business.  Between the two of us, we have LOTS of good SEO advice for any small business owner. 

This interview's topics include:

• How to pick keywords that are both accurate and profitable

• How long-tail keywords can help you compete in a crowded industry

• The 3 types of web site links your site needs to score well with the search engines

• Why your site needs links both in and out to other sites

• The 5 categories of links you should pursue to improve your site's SEO

• and more!

This is a very helpful interview for anyone interested in attracting more fre-e traffic by improving search engine rankings. It's fre-e to listen here now  using the player (or click "Profile" to download the MP3 to play back later anytime)!

(Learn more about the best SEO tools and tactics for small business from my new Special Report "F-ree SEO in Plain English", available for immediate download in the Scott Fox Shop.)

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G.K. Chesterton says...

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."

- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

 

A quotation from the 365SuccessQuotes.com collection.
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Change Your Career for the Better

Wouldn't you like to find a more fulfilling, better-paying career?

Jonathan Fields, author of Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love, joined me on this episode of my E-Commerce Success Radio Show.  We talked about his new book that outlines strategies for upgrading your career and bettering your life. 

Listen to this fre-e podcast for helpful career and life advice including:

* Why making money should NOT be your first concern in career development * How to achieve the "flow" state that can help make your job inspiring and fun * How working harder can actually make you happier * Why turning off the TV is your path to success

The new Career Renegade book is a great resource for anyone interested in exploring career alternatives in the Internet age.  Its advice is based on Jonathan Fields' own personal experience and includes dozens of specific examples and web site links to help get you moving in the right direction, too.

Listen to my f.r.ee interview with Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade, here. 

Or pick up the Career Renegade book now from Amazon.com or any book store.

Please share your comments to let me know what you think of this interview? 

New E-Businesses to Visit

I love e-commerce startups. I love your startups even more!

Here are the latest listings we've added to the E-Business Links Directory.  They show some of the many diferent types of opportunities the Web offers entrepreneurs like you today:

* Chamber Music Summer School (Shrewsbury, England):  For classical/baroque, ensembles & soloists for keyboard, strings, wind, brass instruments.  Our residential Summer School is with first class coaches for chamber music ensembles but enabling also individuals to be fitted into a suitable group.

* DrivetheGreenGolf.com: Custom golf clubs and other accessories at a great discounted cost compared to the major brands. Customized clubs can improve your game, and using clone clubs are as good as and sometimes better than name brands because the quality is equal.

* Her-Butterfly-Tattos.com: The site presents the Butterfly Tattoo Designs of the popular watercolor artist Patrick Livingstone. With over seventy watercolors reproduced as limited edition prints over the last twenty years, Patrick brings a fresh eye to the world of tattoo design.

* Jaded Secrets Lingerie Fashions: If you enjoy shopping for luscious high-quality fashion-forward leather and lingerie fashions without the high-cost, you should be shopping at Jaded Secrets. I am a small home-based business striving to provide the utmost competitive pricing and personalized customer care.

* Places2Network.com: Free business networking website for business professionals and professional organizations. The concept is to focus only on the needs of the business networking community and not social networking. Founded in Denver, CO (the most content at moment) we are looking to expand nationally and are seeking event content.

Please visit these and the dozens of other startup web sites in the E-Business Links Directory to support your fellow entrepreneurs.  Reach out and say hello, too!

Would you like your e-commerce web site listed here on ScottFox.com, too?  These f.ree link exchange listings are f-r-ee to qualifying small, entrepreneurial web sites. Visit here to learn more (and see the other startups who have listed themselves with us, too.) 

Free SEO in Plain English Report!

"Free SEO in Plain English" is the new topic for this month's Instant Internet Business Secrets program.  IIBS Subscribers like YOU voted and "search engine optimization" came out as the most-requested topic.

I think that SEO is a great topic choice for this month's Special Report package.  With over 1.5 billion people online today, the search engines should be your site's #1 source of fr-ee traffic because they help all those buyers and sellers to find each other. 

By better positioning your e-business web site in the search engine rankings, your site can attract its share of these millions of potential customers, too.  And the search engine optimization techniques I recommend are all fr-ee!

SEO Overcomplicated by Consultants
Unfortunately, search engine optimization is often overcomplicated by SEO consultants.  It is technical but the basics are really not that difficult to understand. 

So, I wrote this Report so you won't be intimidated by SEO any more!

If you subscribe to the Instant Internet Business Secrets program, you'll see that this month's package reveals:

- The simple, fre-e techniques I have personally used to rank #1 on Google for multiple web sites

- How to find the best keywords to promote your business online

- The key signals and signs that your web site needs to alert the search engines for proper categorization and top rankings

- F-r-ee tools you can use to diagnose and improve your site's SEO problems

- How to find and implement the best link exchanges to improve your site's SEO

Plus, lots of "plain English" explanations (and screenshots) on more technical topics like keyword density, meta tags, anchor text, and other critical topics for SEO success.

This month's "F-ree SEO in Plain English" IIBS subscribers-only package will save you a lot of money AND make you a better online marketer.

More details here...

Update:  The "Free SEO in Plain English" Special Report package is not free but the techniques it teaches for SEO improvement are free.  You must subscribe to the Instant Internet Business Secrets program to access the Report and accompanying materials.  (That IIBS subscription currently costs only $19.95/month. It's a great deal and comes with a 100% money-back guarantee, too.  Grab it now before the price goes up again!)

Design Your Best Year Ever!

2009 promises great things to those who commit to improving their lives.  As part of your planning for this new year, I've got a great new book recommendation that can help you reach your goals:  Design Your Best Year Ever.

Design Your Best Year Ever is a new ebook from my friend, Darren Hardy, the Publisher of SUCCESS magazine.  It's actually more than just a book, Darren calls it an "Achievement Planning System."

I think he's right!  This new ebook (available only online to friends of SUCCESS magazine), spells out the proven formula that Darren has personally developed in his rise from youth to millionaire to the Publisher of the most important self-help magazine in the world, SUCCESS. 

I read the book this week myself.  I found lots of valuable and inspiring information, PLUS a practical system for goal-setting and achievement throughout 2009. 

It's this practical approach that I like - the system gives form to what is often an abstract process that leaves you with only vague steps forward.  The second half of the ebook is actually a workbook that can help you develop your goals, inventory your assets and needs, then record and monitor your progress toward success all year long. 

Darren's 7.5 Steps to achieving big goals can help you harness your mental energy into a pattern of achievement.  It starts with an "attitude of gratitude", moves on through details of commitment strategy, and helps you develop a balanced plan for the coming year. 

(The focus on "balance" is another thing I recommend about this book - it's not just about money or relationships or career, but the pursuit of all of them to create a truly balanced definition of success for yourself.)

This new program is only available online as part of a special promotional deal.  For a limited time, the $49 Design Your Best Year Ever ebook is on-sale for only $19.97.  

Even better, 100% of the profits will be donated to the SUCCESS Foundation to help train teenagers for a lifetime of success themselves.  (I am donating 100% of my referral fees to this good cause, too, fyi.)

Learn more about Design Your Best Year Ever here.  There's even a special short video here from Darren Hardy explaining the book and its potential importance to your success in 2009.

p.s. The Design Your Best Year Ever program is also full of dozens of great and inspiring quotations.  You know how much I love a good motivational quote, so that's an added treat about this book if you like them, too.

The Votes are In! SEO wins!

Search engine optimization is a complicated topic.  Everyone knows that improving search engine rankings can dramatically increase your web site traffic, and therefore your sales.

Would you like to learn more about SEO but in "plain English"? 

Instant Internet Business Secrets subscribers would!  They voted for "Free SEO in Plain English" as the new topic for this month's exclusive Instant Internet Business Secrets subscriber package. 

Stay tuned!  This new Special Report will help you unravel the mysteries of SEO and learn how to increase your web site's traffic with dozens of FRE-EE SEO techniques.

It will be available on Tuesday 1/20! 

Reader Appreciation Award (and prize!)

Feedback from readers like you is really important to me.

As we continue to explore together how to make more money online, your appreciation, questions, and especially your blog comments are critical parts of the success of ScottFox.com. 

I'd like to recognize Eddie Lewis of EddieLewis.com, as the first winner of my "Reader Appreciation Award." 

Eddie, a professional musician and now also an online entrepreneur, has been a regular visitor here on the E-Commerce Success Blog.  Since reading my book, Internet Riches, he has not only visited regularly, he has posted insightful comments and asked good questions, too.

Prize:  I'm awarding to Eddie a fre-e copy of the Instant Internet Business Secrets "Making Money with Affiliate Marketing" Special Report. 

Congratulations and thanks for your great comments, Eddie!

Last Call.

This is the LAST CALL for my Special Report "How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing." 

Affiliate programs were the topic of the 1st month of my new Instant Internet Business Secrets program.  If you want to learn more about how to make money online, this Special Report package about affiliate programs is for you. 

Subscribers receive not only that 100+ page report, but also access to me through a live Q&A teleseminar (which will be held next week) to ask followup questions about affiliate marketing. 

Plus, a downloadable MP3 of my interview with a top affiliate marketing expert, a Quick Start resources list, AND the opportunity to VOTE on the topic for next month!

This is a real deal for only $19.95 but this is LAST CALL.  As of Wednesday night, this great package will no longer be available.  The report alone will go on sale for $65.00 in the Scott Fox Shop (and the teleconference access is worth far more than the price alone).

If you're interested in affiliate marketing, you need to join and download these exclusive materials by Wednesday night!

Please step up now to subscribe to Instant Internet Business Secrets.  Thanks.

Book Reviews?

Would you be interested in seeing more book reviews from me?

This is a question I forgot to ask you in my recent Reader Survey!

Like you, I believe that investing in my on-going education is a key to further success, so I read as much as I can find time for. 

For example, I have recently read Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin's Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, the soon-to-be-published Amazon Top Seller Secrets by Brad and Debra Schepp, and the new Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields. 

Would hearing my thoughts on books like this be interesting or helpful to you?  Perhaps my emphasis on finding and sharing practical, inspiring advice from other authors would be useful for 2009.

Please email or let me know in the Comments?

Ask Scott Fox Teleseminar LIVE: Affiliate Marketing Strategies Q&A

Do you have questions about Affiliate Marketing?  Most people do.  It's a hot area of e-commerce these days because it's a great way to make money online.

With affiliate marketing you can make money online by marketing top name brand products.  Even better, you do this but without having to:
* invest any capital or startup costs,
* hold any inventory,
* do any shipping, or
* handle any customer service! 

If you'd like to learn more, next week I'll be holding a rare "Ask Scott Fox" teleseminar about affiliate marketing. 

This 1 hour conference call session will be focused exclusively on Affiliate Marketing questions from readers like you.  BUT this session is only for subscribers of my Instant Internet Business Secrets coaching program.

Solution?  Join here now (before Monday January 12) to be included in this exclusive live teleconference with me, PLUS get the whole "Making Money with Affiliate Programs" Special Reports package!

This month Instant Internet Business Secrets subscribers get a 100+ page Special Report titled "Making Money with Affiliate Programs", a downloadable MP3 interview with a top affiliate marketing expert, access to this special Q&A session with me, PLUS you get to vote on when we hold the call AND vote on what we'll cover next month, too.  All this for only $19.95!  (This package will go off-sale on Monday to be replaced by next month's topic, so grab it now if you're interested in affiliate marketing.)

(Wow.  I packed a lot of stuff into this offer, so the price is likely to go up again soon...)

Join us at www.InstantInternetBusinessSecrets.com BEFORE MONDAY, JANUARY 12 to get all these subscribers-only benefits and participate in this exclusive Q&A session with me, too.

[If you are already a subscriber to IIBS, log in here to access this month's Making Money with Affiliate Marketing package and vote for next month's topic, too.]