If there’s one question about success that’s on your mind right now, it should be this -

‘What do the most successful people in the planet have all in common, that allows them to enjoy the success they have today?’ It’s plain common sense, isn’t it?

All the rich and successful people in the world must be doing or possessing something similar that have allowed them to achieve the success they have in life.

Success doesn’t happen by chance. So what’s the secret behind all these people?

The secret is that they all possess the “Patterns Of Excellence”.

=> Patterns Of Excellence

And these Patterns Of Excellence could be THE missing link between you and the success you crave in your life.

Imagine if you already possessed all the critical mindsets, habits, and behavior of the top 1% of people in the world. With that, you could literally jump off a plane with a parachute, land anywhere in the world, and still be a roaring success whereever you are. Because you know the secret to success.

To read more about the Patterns Of Excellence and a true story of how it literally transformed one man from an underachiever into a millionaire at just 26(!), click on the link below:

=> Patterns Of Excellence

Here’s to your success and to a Happy & Prosperous New Year!

Ross “The Pit Boss”

Will you act during the economic downturn, or simply REACT?

Don’t let fear of the recession guide your goal setting plans for 2009. This is a BIG mistake…! Fear is an emotional response, only good for short-term survival. When you’re in “fight or flight” mode, you’re not thinking clearly about the path you’re running… You’re just RUNNING!

So your efforts lack strategy, planning, and insight. I want you to do more than just survive 2009. Internet shopping is predicted to hit $145.1 Billion in the coming year, a significant 14% increase — despite the recession!

Consumers will be spending more time at home, using their computers for everything from bargain hunting and product research to upgrading skills.

Studies show this shift is ALREADY well underway…! I don’t want the Big “R” to stop you from pursuing exciting personal, financial, and business goals in 2009, so I’ve arranged to get you exclusive VIP access to an important video that Internet marketing guru Derek Gehl just put up on his site.

Derek’s been successfully selling on the Internet for over a decade now, and he’s brought in over $100 MILLION in sales… so he’s by far the BEST person to advise you about how to thrive in ANY market.
When you watch his FREE Goal Setting Video, you’ll discover how you can make 2009 your richest year yet:

Recession Busting Video

Wishing you health, wealth, and happiness in 2009!

Ross “The Pit Boss”

P.S. Derek’s also going to be hosting a FREE Webinar in the first week of January to help everyone kick-off their New Year’s goals with a bang.

You can register for it here: Recession Busting Video

Have you been watching the free X-Factor videos from Nitro Marketing? There is a real wealth of info even in these “intro” videos and you can easily apply all the techniques to any website you have. Check it out here with the first one: X-Factor #10

I do have to chuckle over Dearl’s voice-over on the videos. Having done a couple of years of broadcasting in college, I’m allowed to laugh, but he does try hard and at least it’s good info. After you’ve watched them, come back here and leave a comment about what you think about them.

There really are no mysteries on how to achieve a high ranking with the major search engines nowadays, mainly because of the amount of effective search engine optimizations available. What is search engine optimization, or SEO? Before we talk about that, you have to first understand how search engines work and give yourself a bit of know-how.

Search engines provide their users with the most relevant and current information that matches the search term that was used. They are an extremely sophisticated technology which allows users to quickly find the relevant information and websites by searching for a particular word or phrase. The results would be useless to users if the information didn’t relate to the search term, or if the results are not current. People expect the most current and the freshest information when doing a search query.

Updating your website at least once everyday and adding new material/information will help your site get noticed by the search engines. If you are going to sell any product or service online, you have to make sure you optimize your website for the search engines, which will boost traffic and sales. Because over 90% of your business will more than likely come from search engine results, you need your site optimized,  in order for you to have the best results possible.

SEO is the process wherein you or your webmaster utilizes certain techniques that enhance your website’s status. Obviously, the internet has grown vastly over the years and competition for the hottest search engine positions has created a tremendous market. Consequently, having a better understanding of the basic elements of SEO is crucial for any online business to achieve success.

When you use effective SEO techniques, it will improve the page rank of your website. While there are many tips & tricks that can be applied to increase your page rank; the most effective method, in my humble opinion, is to provide consistenly high quality content. This may seem like a simple idea at first, but there are a lot of websites that fail to provide any content that will attract visitors and that those visitors they do get, will find interesting. Sites that provide content that is interesting, well-written and updated on a regular basis, bring in visitors who are much more likely to return. So, set your website apart from the mob of boring, zombie-like sites, and you’ll bring in the traffic.

The next important factor for an effective SEO campaign, is to use keywords and phrases in your content that properly target your market. You must make sure that these keywords/phrases are the ones that your website is actually optimized for. The more keywords that you use in your content, the more likely it is that visitors will find your site when they do searches with those words. If you are consistant with these techniques, then the overall SEO will definitely increase, boosting your sites page rank.

Another method to consider is to develop a linking strategy. Not only does this provide totally free advertising for your site, it also gives the impression that your site is important and has good information because of its affiliated links. Each link pointing back to your site, is another chance for a potential customer to find you. Having more inbound links pointing to your site, means you will get ranked higher in the search engines. One thing to remember here is to gets links from sites that are related to yours. Getting a link from a baby care site to your golf instruction and apparel site will probably not get you any new visitors.

People who use search engines on the internet are looking for one thing: Information. When you provide them with quality and helpful information, the more likely you are to make a sale. Writing articles is one of the most effective ways to build up the quality content of your site. When writing these articles, make sure that you set up an easy way for your visitors to get to each article. You can do this by adding a new page for each article to your site, or by adding a specific category page where related articles can be found quickly. This allows room for more articles to be added as you write them, and it will help keep your main page clutter free. By building up an archive of articles, you bring in your visitors and give them a reason to stay on your page. The longer they stay and the more they read, the better chance you have of making a sale. You also want to make sure to include a link to these categorized articles on the main page of your site so that the search engines will crawl all your online articles.

SEO methods are important in building up your site’s rank and status. Remember, write high-quality, keyword rich content and link your site to and from a related group of other sites. In my next post, I’ll follow up with some more SEO specific strategies that are easy to implement.

First off, you gotta love Twitter! One of the people that I’ve been following is an excellent marketer named Jim Connolly. Earlier today, he sent a Tweet with a link to a new blog post where he asked if he should set up his blog as a do-follow, so that anyone who posts a comment would have the do-follow tag go to their link.

The main concern he has (as we all do) is dealing with spam comments. After reading that post, I decided that I would also set up my blog as a do-follow, as we can all use as much link-love as possible. So off I went in search of a good to great Wordpress plugin. That brought me to this post at Perishable Press. Jeff there has a review of 4 different do-follow/no-follow plugins and after reading his reviews and checking out each one, I settled on Michele’s NoFollow Free plug-in.

This is a dead easy plug-in with some very good options. The one that caught my attention and convinced me this was the one to use, is the ability to set up a “comment word blacklist”. Basically, I can put any word I want into the blacklist, and if anyone uses that word (think mega-spam words like Cialis, or Tramadol) it will immediately set that comment to no-follow, thereby reducing that links juice with the search engines.

It also gives you the option of setting up how many comments a person must make before they have the no-follow turned off and the do-follow turned on. Right now, I have it set at one posted comment for right now. I see this as another way of doing away with the “hit-and-run” commentors.

Using this plug-in along with Akismet, I can definitely see almost no spam being posted here.

If we can all utilize similar plug-ins/code for each of our sites to reduce or eliminate the spam, we could all be the recipients of alot more link juice, and have better rankings for our sites. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think about this and what you’re using on your site.