https://www.strayblogger.com Learn how to start an online business and to create online profit-producing assets with niche sites, blogging, and other internet marketing methods. episodic StrayBlogger hosted by Nate Rivers Nate Rivers Learn how to start an online business and to create online profit-producing assets with niche sites, blogging, and other internet marketing methods. en-us Copyright 2018 StrayBlogger podcast@blubrry.com (Blubrry Podcasting) Nate Rivers podcast@blubrry.com https://www.strayblogger.com https://assets.blubrry.com/coverart/orig/16900.jpg Passive Profits Podcast: Strayblogger.com Blubrry Podcasting: https://www.blubrry.com/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:36:49 -0400 clean http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:54:03 -0400 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/5BdUhVR-Jtk/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2277277/ppp-025-how-make-back-your-ad-spend-quickly/ Nate Rivers Podcast Tue, 05 Aug 2014 09:54:03 -0400 In this episode, I’ll give you 3 specific strategies to make back your ad spend (or money spent on SEO, etc) as quickly as possible. If you find this episode useful, please to go iTunes and search “Strayblogger”, and leave a review for the Passive Profits Podcast. Thanks! 0:07:20 no Nate Rivers In this episode, I’ll give you 3 specific strategies to make back your ad spend (or money spent on SEO, etc) as quickly as possible. If you find this episode useful, please to go iTunes and search “Strayblogger”, In this episode, I’ll give you 3 specific strategies to make back your ad spend (or money spent on SEO, etc) as quickly as possible. If you find this episode useful, please to go iTunes and search “Strayblogger”, and leave a review for the Passive Profits Podcast. Thanks! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/YYcGJY-Hrr4/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2240625/ppp-024-stick-with-the-things-that-work/ Nate Rivers Podcast Tue, 08 Jul 2014 10:12:25 -0400 In today’s episode, we go through the type of things you should be working on that can pay you for years to come. This a good one, so listen to the whole thing. Some of the things mentioned: Cover Action Pro Email Marketing StraybloggerTraining Let me know what you think in the comments. What have […] 0:16:45 no Nate Rivers In today’s episode, we go through the type of things you should be working on that can pay you for years to come. This a good one, so listen to the whole thing. Some of the things mentioned: Cover Action Pro Email Marketing StraybloggerTraining Let m... In today’s episode, we go through the type of things you should be working on that can pay you for years to come. This a good one, so listen to the whole thing. Some of the things mentioned: Cover Action Pro Email Marketing StraybloggerTraining Let me know what you think in the comments. What have […] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/Z4axIKgXWyc/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2131043/ppp-023-5-effective-headline-templates-for-blog-posts-videos-and-other-content/ Nate Rivers Podcast Wed, 23 Apr 2014 08:57:37 -0400 In today’s episode I’ve got 5 headline templates for you to use in your blog posts, videos, and other content. These are simple templates but they’re all very effective. Hey, what’s up? Nate Rivers here. This is the Passive Profits Podcast, and this is Episode 23. In this episode, I’ve got five headline templates for […] 0:07:37 no Nate Rivers In today’s episode I’ve got 5 headline templates for you to use in your blog posts, videos, and other content. These are simple templates but they’re all very effective. Hey, what’s up? Nate Rivers here. This is the Passive Profits Podcast, In today’s episode I’ve got 5 headline templates for you to use in your blog posts, videos, and other content. These are simple templates but they’re all very effective. Hey, what’s up? Nate Rivers here. This is the Passive Profits Podcast, and this is Episode 23. In this episode, I’ve got five headline templates for […] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/q2tNDM0aVLg/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2101887/ppp-022-leadpages-vs-optimizepress-strengths-and-weaknesses/ Nate Rivers Podcast Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:51:41 -0400 This is a reader question I’ve been asked over 10 times in the last month in one form or another: Which is better? LeadPages or OptimizePress? In this episode I tell you exactly what I like and don’t like about both of them, and which one I’d pick if I could only choose one.   […] 0:18:45 no Nate Rivers This is a reader question I’ve been asked over 10 times in the last month in one form or another: Which is better? LeadPages or OptimizePress? In this episode I tell you exactly what I like and don’t like about both of them, This is a reader question I’ve been asked over 10 times in the last month in one form or another: Which is better? LeadPages or OptimizePress? In this episode I tell you exactly what I like and don’t like about both of them, and which one I’d pick if I could only choose one.   […] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/bAB2q52sr8I/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2088416/ppp-021-do-ryan-deiss-style-powerpoint-sales-videos-work/ Nate Rivers Podcast Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:11:37 -0400 Click here to subscribe in iTunes…. Or go to iTunes and search ‘strayblogger’. Please leave a review. I was fixing up some of my old sites this week and I had to change some setting on one of my first sales videos. I made this video years ago, but without knowing I basically followed Ryan […] 0:12:42 no Nate Rivers Click here to subscribe in iTunes…. Or go to iTunes and search ‘strayblogger’. Please leave a review. I was fixing up some of my old sites this week and I had to change some setting on one of my first sales videos. I made this video years ago, Click here to subscribe in iTunes…. Or go to iTunes and search ‘strayblogger’. Please leave a review. I was fixing up some of my old sites this week and I had to change some setting on one of my first sales videos. I made this video years ago, but without knowing I basically followed Ryan […] http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/KHQ7OyyH6t4/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/2082398/ppp-020-dont-make-this-kindle-publishing-mistake/ Nate Rivers Podcast Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:46:23 -0400 Click here to subscribe with iTunes…  Last week I was doing a certain type of promo for one of my Kindle books and it was going awesome… until I got an email from Amazon. Listen or watch for what happened…   Things mentioned in this episode: Kindle Workshop course inside of StraybloggerTraining… Email marketing… 0:10:25 no Nate Rivers Click here to subscribe with iTunes…  Last week I was doing a certain type of promo for one of my Kindle books and it was going awesome… until I got an email from Amazon. Listen or watch for what happened…   Things mentioned in this episode: Ki... Click here to subscribe with iTunes…  Last week I was doing a certain type of promo for one of my Kindle books and it was going awesome… until I got an email from Amazon. Listen or watch for what happened…   Things mentioned in this episode: Kindle Workshop course inside of StraybloggerTraining… Email marketing… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/kMcq_JUL3XY/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/1764560/how-to-find-long-tail-keywords-to-for-more-long-tail-traffic/ Nate Rivers Podcast Wed, 22 May 2013 21:21:21 -0400 How to Quickly Find Long Tail Keywords for More Free Traffic Why long tail keywords? So, if you consistently publish new content, but you don't really do any keyword research, you're missing out on a lot of free traffic that you could get from just doing some simple long tail keyword research. You might know exactly what your audience wants in the way of content, but it's really important to actually do some research and see what exact types of phrases your customers and prospects are typing into the search engines. If you will just spend an extra 5 or 10 minutes per piece of content that you publish doing some long tail keyword research like I'm going to show you in this post, over the next few weeks you will see a big increase in the amount of search engine traffic that you're getting to your blog or website. Long Tail Keyword Research Process When you are doing your long tail keyword research, I recommend that you find at least three relevant keyword phrases for every piece of content that you create. Overtime this will dramatically increase the amount of free traffic you get from the search engines versus not doing any keyword research at all. Step One: Fire Up Long Tail Pro Longtail Pro is my keyword research tool of choice since it lets you into her multiple seed keywords at one time. The platinum add-on gives you the average keyword competitiveness function, which is the only thing I look at now when deciding whether to optimize for a keyword phrase or not. This saves me the time from having to try to analyze the competitiveness based on 20 different factors and it's very predictable and reliable. It will also save you a lot more time versus the other main keyword tools that are out there, because of the fact that the search itself and the returning of the keywords happens much more quickly than the other tools, and when combined with the fact that you can do all your seed keywords in one search it saves you a lot of time sitting there staring at your screen. Step Two: Setup Your Campaign Inside of longtail Pro, you simply entering your campaign name. This isn't necessarily your main seed keyword although I can be, but the best thing is to just use a keyword or phrase or name don't you remember, because once you have a lot of campaigns and set it won't tell pro you want to be able to tell them apart. Step Three: Apply Filters When you're looking for longtail keywords, the only filter that really matters is the minimum number of words. I always set this filter to at least four words. This will give you keyword phrases that are much easier to rank for. The more words in a phrase, in general it's going to be easier to rank and get traffic for. If you're creating content for a topic that is pretty competitive, and there's a lot of content and websites and products out there already for it, there's going to be a lot more relevant keywords available to you. So in cases like that I would suggest you set the minimum number of keywords to five or six or maybe even more. Step Four: Enter Your Seed Keywords Again, Long Tail Pro let you start with multiple seed keywords. So you should start out with more than one, just type in every keyword phrase related to your topic that you can think of. That way, you'll get a lot more relevant keyword phrases to choose from. Step Five: Click "Generate Keywords" This step is pretty self-explanatory: you simply click on the big yellow button at the bottom of Long Tail Pro that says 'generate keywords'. This should only take 60 seconds or so to return hundreds and hundreds of highly relevant keyword phrases. Step Six: Cherry Pick the Good Ones As you can see in the example below, this is a great keyword phrase for several reasons. First, it is a keyword phrase that has six words in the phrase. This will make it much easier to rank and get traffic for. It also has a very strong search volume of close to 1000 monthly exact searches. 0:08:31 no Nate Rivers How to Quickly Find Long Tail Keywords for More Free Traffic Why long tail keywords? So, if you consistently publish new content, but you don't really do any keyword research, you're missing out on a lot of free traffic that you could get from just doi... How to Quickly Find Long Tail Keywords for More Free Traffic Why long tail keywords? So, if you consistently publish new content, but you don't really do any keyword research, you're missing out on a lot of free traffic that you could get from just doing some simple long tail keyword research. You might know exactly what your audience wants in the way of content, but it's really important to actually do some research and see what exact types of phrases your customers and prospects are typing into the search engines. If you will just spend an extra 5 or 10 minutes per piece of content that you publish doing some long tail keyword research like I'm going to show you in this post, over the next few weeks you will see a big increase in the amount of search engine traffic that you're getting to your blog or website. Long Tail Keyword Research Process When you are doing your long tail keyword research, I recommend that you find at least three relevant keyword phrases for every piece of content that you create. Overtime this will dramatically increase the amount of free traffic you get from the search engines versus not doing any keyword research at all. Step One: Fire Up Long Tail Pro Longtail Pro is my keyword research tool of choice since it lets you into her multiple seed keywords at one time. The platinum add-on gives you the average keyword competitiveness function, which is the only thing I look at now when deciding whether to optimize for a keyword phrase or not. This saves me the time from having to try to analyze the competitiveness based on 20 different factors and it's very predictable and reliable. It will also save you a lot more time versus the other main keyword tools that are out there, because of the fact that the search itself and the returning of the keywords happens much more quickly than the other tools, and when combined with the fact that you can do all your seed keywords in one search it saves you a lot of time sitting there staring at your screen. Step Two: Setup Your Campaign Inside of longtail Pro, you simply entering your campaign name. This isn't necessarily your main seed keyword although I can be, but the best thing is to just use a keyword or phrase or name don't you remember, because once you have a lot of campaigns and set it won't tell pro you want to be able to tell them apart. Step Three: Apply Filters When you're looking for longtail keywords, the only filter that really matters is the minimum number of words. I always set this filter to at least four words. This will give you keyword phrases that are much easier to rank for. The more words in a phrase, in general it's going to be easier to rank and get traffic for. If you're creating content for a topic that is pretty competitive, and there's a lot of content and websites and products out there already for it, there's going to be a lot more relevant keywords available to you. So in cases like that I would suggest you set the minimum number of keywords to five or six or maybe even more. Step Four: Enter Your Seed Keywords Again, Long Tail Pro let you start with multiple seed keywords. So you should start out with more than one, just type in every keyword phrase related to your topic that you can think of. That way, you'll get a lot more relevant keyword phrases to choose from. Step Five: Click "Generate Keywords" This step is pretty self-explanatory: you simply click on the big yellow button at the bottom of Long Tail Pro that says 'generate keywords'. This should only take 60 seconds or so to return hundreds and hundreds of highly relevant keyword phrases. Step Six: Cherry Pick the Good Ones As you can see in the example below, this is a great keyword phrase for several reasons. First, it is a keyword phrase that has six words in the phrase. This will make it much easier to rank and get traffic for. It also has a very strong search volume of close to 1000 monthly exact searches. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/awkA6lhXdIA/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/1660092/how-to-write-short-ebooks-that-sell/ Nate Rivers Podcast Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:45:15 -0500 I've kind of come full circle on the idea of ebooks. Back in the day, my first "info product" of any kind was an ebook. I tried several formats for that information and it ended up being a video course, and for awhile video courses were all I create... 0:20:20 no Nate Rivers I've kind of come full circle on the idea of ebooks. Back in the day, my first "info product" of any kind was an ebook. I tried several formats for that information and it ended up being a video course, and for awhile video courses were all I create... I've kind of come full circle on the idea of ebooks. Back in the day, my first "info product" of any kind was an ebook. I tried several formats for that information and it ended up being a video course, and for awhile video courses were all I create... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/3nBJyLEoh5U/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/1652254/5-keys-to-a-high-converting-opt-in-page/ Nate Rivers Podcast Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:51:38 -0500 Email marketing is something I'm constantly telling my readers and customers that they should start doing, and if you're not building a list and using email marketing... you should start. Email marketing works... It's effective, it gets results, and it will generate sales... especially if you do it right. Getting subscribers and building lists all start with your opt-in page. Squeeze Pages vs Opt-in Pages You've probably heard the term "squeeze page" thrown around a lot, and maybe you're wondering what the difference is between a squeeze page and an opt-in page. At the core- they're the same thing. They are a page that is dedicated to getting someone to give you their email address. But, there are some differences to point out. A squeeze page is really just a type of opt-in page. A squeeze page typically has no navigation links, a few bullet points explaining the benefits of opting into the list, and then the actual opt-in form. Again, this is one way to do it. These types of opt-in pages convert really well, especially when you have effective and compelling copy. I still use squeeze pages on a lot of my sites, but I've discovered a few elements that most "squeeze pages" are missing... 1. Let Your Opt-in Page Pre-Screen Prospects The first goal you probably have when you start your list building efforts is to simply get as many opt-ins as you can. But, as you get some experience mailing your subscribers, you'll quickly find out that having as many subscribers as possible isn't the best way to go. The way autoresponder services work is that you pay more the more subscribers you have, so that's the biggest downside to having a huge list that isn't responsive. One of the best ways I've found to get the best prospects on your list is to basically have an article as your opt-in copy(this is an idea from this free list building bootcamp). You can see this in action on my 500 Club page- you can tell it's not a standard squeeze page. The idea with this is that you write something long enough that it can contain your key points, and ideally you'll have subscribers that are much more receptive to your message. In fact, according to Eben Pagan, you actually want your marketing copy to filter out everyone except your ideal prospects. That makes sense when it's put that way, but most people start out wanting to build as big of a list as possible. 2. Remove Distractions The reason why squeeze pages don't have navigation or the regular sidebars is because if those things are there, you simply lose people to them. Whether you're using a standard squeeze page with just a few bullet points, or a opt-in page with more content as described above, you should remove these things. A good Wordpress theme made for marketing will make this really easy, such as Profits Theme that let's you drag and drop the elements you want on a page. Distractions can also come in the form of ineffective copy, in other words sentences or paragraphs that you don't need... length in itself isn't a benefit. Every  sentence on your opt-in page should be there for a reason. 3. Ask for the Email Address, Nothing More I'm sure you get emails that address you by your first name, which is really cute. But the hards facts from tons of different experiments have shown that the more info you ask for, the less opt-ins you'll get. You'll do best to simply ask for the email address. 4. Your Freebie The freebie... I've tried everything there is. PDF's, free video courses, mindmaps, "cheat sheets", ebooks, ecourses, etc. What works best? My favorite by far, and this will get you the best results if you do it right, is a series of emails that deliver what your prospects want to learn or get advice on. This works the best when you can weave some sort of a story line throughout your autoresponder sequence, so that your subscribers eagerly await each email. The problem that I've found with a free report is that people will opt-in just to look at it, 0:22:20 no Nate Rivers Email marketing is something I'm constantly telling my readers and customers that they should start doing, and if you're not building a list and using email marketing... you should start. Email marketing works... It's effective, it gets results, Email marketing is something I'm constantly telling my readers and customers that they should start doing, and if you're not building a list and using email marketing... you should start. Email marketing works... It's effective, it gets results, and it will generate sales... especially if you do it right. Getting subscribers and building lists all start with your opt-in page. Squeeze Pages vs Opt-in Pages You've probably heard the term "squeeze page" thrown around a lot, and maybe you're wondering what the difference is between a squeeze page and an opt-in page. At the core- they're the same thing. They are a page that is dedicated to getting someone to give you their email address. But, there are some differences to point out. A squeeze page is really just a type of opt-in page. A squeeze page typically has no navigation links, a few bullet points explaining the benefits of opting into the list, and then the actual opt-in form. Again, this is one way to do it. These types of opt-in pages convert really well, especially when you have effective and compelling copy. I still use squeeze pages on a lot of my sites, but I've discovered a few elements that most "squeeze pages" are missing... 1. Let Your Opt-in Page Pre-Screen Prospects The first goal you probably have when you start your list building efforts is to simply get as many opt-ins as you can. But, as you get some experience mailing your subscribers, you'll quickly find out that having as many subscribers as possible isn't the best way to go. The way autoresponder services work is that you pay more the more subscribers you have, so that's the biggest downside to having a huge list that isn't responsive. One of the best ways I've found to get the best prospects on your list is to basically have an article as your opt-in copy(this is an idea from this free list building bootcamp). You can see this in action on my 500 Club page- you can tell it's not a standard squeeze page. The idea with this is that you write something long enough that it can contain your key points, and ideally you'll have subscribers that are much more receptive to your message. In fact, according to Eben Pagan, you actually want your marketing copy to filter out everyone except your ideal prospects. That makes sense when it's put that way, but most people start out wanting to build as big of a list as possible. 2. Remove Distractions The reason why squeeze pages don't have navigation or the regular sidebars is because if those things are there, you simply lose people to them. Whether you're using a standard squeeze page with just a few bullet points, or a opt-in page with more content as described above, you should remove these things. A good Wordpress theme made for marketing will make this really easy, such as Profits Theme that let's you drag and drop the elements you want on a page. Distractions can also come in the form of ineffective copy, in other words sentences or paragraphs that you don't need... length in itself isn't a benefit. Every  sentence on your opt-in page should be there for a reason. 3. Ask for the Email Address, Nothing More I'm sure you get emails that address you by your first name, which is really cute. But the hards facts from tons of different experiments have shown that the more info you ask for, the less opt-ins you'll get. You'll do best to simply ask for the email address. 4. Your Freebie The freebie... I've tried everything there is. PDF's, free video courses, mindmaps, "cheat sheets", ebooks, ecourses, etc. What works best? My favorite by far, and this will get you the best results if you do it right, is a series of emails that deliver what your prospects want to learn or get advice on. This works the best when you can weave some sort of a story line throughout your autoresponder sequence, so that your subscribers eagerly await each email. The problem that I've found with a free report is that people will opt-in just to look at it, http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/strayblogger/zYxQ/~3/OgT0Cs0hvek/ http://www.blubrry.com/strayblogger/1447889/ppp-016how-to-start-a-profitable-authority-site-in-any-niche-and-succeed/ Nate Rivers Podcast Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:30:08 -0400 In this episode I go over some of the skills required to start a successful authority site and then some of the best actions you can take to grow your site. Skills & Mindset Required: Abundance mindset Perseverance Stubbornness Positive belief system/Get rid of limiting beliefs Copywriting: You should understand it- you don’t have to […] 0:43:06 no Nate Rivers In this episode I go over some of the skills required to start a successful authority site and then some of the best actions you can take to grow your site. Skills & Mindset Required: Abundance mindset Perseverance Stubbornness Positive belief system/G... In this episode I go over some of the skills required to start a successful authority site and then some of the best actions you can take to grow your site. Skills & Mindset Required: Abundance mindset Perseverance Stubbornness Positive belief system/Get rid of limiting beliefs Copywriting: You should understand it- you don’t have to […]