This is a really cool strategy that allows you to spy on as many markets as you want, make quick money, and beat the Google Slap …all while playing by Google’s rules. Check it out…
NOTE: If you’re viewing this in Internet Explorer you’re no doubt seeing a blank space below where the video SHOULD be. I don’t know why IE has decided that it doesn’t like videos in WordPress blogs, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. If you think you can help, please drop a line to supportATdrivingtrafficDOTcom. I will be eternally grateful.
In the meantime, if you are using IE, this is a great excuse to switch to FireFox. It’s about a million times better than IE anyway…
March 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Ryan -
Pure gold, THe fact that Google is so big and the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing this tip should work for quite a while. People need to keep in mind that as long as there is good revent content on the site the Google keyword score will be good, and by using this method a person should always ahead of the Google Slap curve.
March 14th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Great video and very helpful. Google slaps are no fun.
March 14th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Ryan,
This tip is pure gold. Thank you for sharing!
March 14th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Hi Ryan,
useful video mate, thanks.
now get the permalink struture sorted on this blog, for goodness sake!
I’ll bung a video on BlogTactics on what to do for you tomorrow.
Matt Garrett
March 14th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Wow, Matt Garrett…that definitely falls in the “look what the cat dragged in” category. :o)
Good to hear from you, man, hope all is well.
As for permalinks, I confess I’m a complete moron when it comes to this blogging stuff. That’s probably why it took me so long to even start a blog. If anyone is willing to throw me a bone I’d greatly appreciate it.
-Ryan
March 14th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Hey Ryan,
Log into the dashboard view of your blog…go to options>permalinks…click custom…type in %postname% click update permalink structure…that’s all there is to it.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Video works perfectly fine in IE7.0 - maybe not in older versions?
March 14th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Deb,
Thanks for the tip, but it says I need to update my .htaccess file and I don’t know how to do that. I tried creating a file called .htaccess and dropped the code WordPress gave me into it, but it literally caused the entire site to have a 500 error message. Clearly I’m doing something wrong, but I don’t know what. I’ll probably just wait until Monday and have one of the techies in my office handle it.
If this proves anything, it’s that you don’t have to be technically inclined to have a successful online business. :o)
-Ryan
March 15th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Hey Ryan,
The .htaccess file has to be writable.
If it is, wordpress will take care of it automatically.
CHMOD the file with your ftp client to 766.
(Assuming it’s visible through your ftp client)
Then re-update your permalinks.
It should give a message like “update successful”
instead of giving you the code to put in your file.
Change it back to 744 after wordpress updates it.
Hope it helps!
Brad.
ps.
It’s been a while.
Good to hear from you!
Glad you finally joined the blogosphere.
I’ll be listening
March 16th, 2008 at 4:24 am
Why is the video removed?
Is there anywhere else I can see it?
laffe
March 16th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Ryan, great video there and some really good advice. I’ll be checking out your 1000 program.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Cheerleader (great name by the way),
The video appears to be working fine. You may have been using the same version of IE that was giving me and some other people fits, so you might want to try opening this page in a FireFox browser. Firefox solves all. :o)
-Ryan
March 16th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Ryan, Found you today through Ed Dale’s post on twitter, and I’m glad I did! Nice video. I will start using this today. David
March 16th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Very Good video. I’ll be watching this one again. Great ideas.
March 23rd, 2008 at 4:31 am
nice.. smart, really nice
thanks
August 14th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Hi Ryan
Feel free to write to me (you got my email address) for any issues with the blogs
I will be a pleasure to help you.
Arun
September 21st, 2008 at 3:37 am
I used this strategy to see if I could find more relevant keywords for one of my sites. I noticed that a lot of the keywords I use in my advertising were NOT the keywords offered and I have very high quality scores for those words. So I think we can use the words google gives us with it’s Ad Tools but must definitely look beyond them too.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I’m starting to feel like the only way to get anywhere with google is to “sneak” around them these days. I’ve had my adwords account shut down and now I’m setting up new accounts from public internet access spots with credit cards borrowed from friends. There’s gotta be a better way to do business.