I’ve spent quite a while getting to know the IM lingo, I’ve got Micro Niche Finder, I’ve learned how to write decently.

I have a blog, I’ve decided to bypass ezinearticles (where the big deal seems to be backlinks), and Helium (where they own your content for a year, so it’s unusable for multiple placement) and use Hubpages as my platform (Where it’s monetized in adsense for you, there is a nice community, and someone can see all you’ve written in one place, also, there are nice interlinking possibilities).

I still haven’t gotten a handle on … traffic. No sales yet. Traffic not high enough yet. (I’m not even far enough along for aweber yet.)

Do you think this would be the best option for a mid-level newbie?

I want free traffic, no PPC, video marketing is for the future, I haven’t figured out how to work ‘movie maker’ yet, (but know the basic tips once I get it on youtube).
Done a little yahoo answers for forum marketing, I don’t mind writing part-time (I’m slow, but writing is kinda enjoyable, however, I’m no 10 article a day girl), I would put in the work for something that actually works.

So, do you think this would be my best option for traffic?

Thanks,
Tas

I actually haven’t been using the tools specifically for ranking purposes other than the Yahoo answers tool.

I use the Keyword’s Generators a bit differently than they talk about in the video. I use the results for tags on posts that are already indexed. I know Michael teaches uses pages on WordPress blogs, but I suggest you add posts in as well to make it easy to get tags in as well.

There is a plugin I found recently to allow tags on pages which would work as well – so if you want to know that let me know.

But I’ve seen significant traffic from tags when you ADD them all together and they can be added so fast.

So let’s say you have a niche site where one of your pages is about a specific product. I would use the buyers keyword generator to generate more keywords – and then I would add those into your posts/pages as tags.

There’s no hard and fast rule about the number of tags you can add, but my rule of thumb is that the longer the page/post the more tags I add. For the Niche Blitzkrieg type content I would go with around 12.

So that means that if you have more tags than that you need additional content either on the same page or additional pages.

Also, if you are not using the automated Ads Elite I HIGHLY recommend you do so. However, I would recommend you not use the preselected banners. However, I also realize that sometimes products you promote on your sites won’t have premade banners.

My results have shown that the banners at the END of the post work MUCH better than the 4-Square of 125×125.

I don’t know how many sites your running, but if you are running quite a few niche sites, using Automated Ads Elite will not only optimize your Clickthru rates, but also provide you with a lot more sanity.

The only thing I don’t like about it is that it seems that it only provides functionality for one banner on a site at a time. I’m going to write to support about that and see if that’s correct or if I’m missing something.
Having used OpenX to manage banners across sites before – for someone who isn’t technical (as far as setting things up goes), the Automated Ads system is MUCH simpler.

I haven’t tested the Blogger software as frankly I’m a little gunshy about blogger because I’ve heard quite a few stories of people getting their blogs terminated without any good explanation – but it could be that blogger just has an algorithm that checks for certain niches that tend to be more spammy (Squidoo does the same thing with their lenses) and if you are outside of those niches you’re fine.

I’ll test it for some other niches I’ve been researching and launched regular wordpress blogs in recently and let you know how it goes.

The one tool I haven’t used yet that I really should be making more use of is the viral survey generator for a couple reasons:

1) It’s an easy way to walk people through an assisted decision process on pages where you are targeting a non-product specific term.
2) I can see the potential of the linking technique – I haven’t quite wrapped my head around it yet, so I’ll have to post back again after I’ve run a few tests.

Again with the typo generator tool – I think it’s best use to add additional tags. I did learn some interested new information from their video (especially about the spanish keyword) – but I think the process they suggest for buying typo domains is not predictable enough to justify the expense of buying a domain for it.

One tip about using typos in your tags – try using primarily the ones that have ALREADY been registered by people (which the typo tool will show you). The reason is because if someone has already registered the typo there’s a good chance that they’ve already looked into the traffic potential for the domain. There’s another typo tool I use in the $18/month version of DomainTools that I like a bit better because you can pretty much tell if the registrant is a large domain buyer – but the one in AutomatedTraffic at least does show you if the typo domain is already registered which is fine considering how quickly and easily you can add tags.

I think the bottom line is that if you are using the current tools primarily for ranking purposes I’m not sure if they really are the best set of traffic tools for you at this point. To me they are more useful for generating additional traffic in addition to SEO traffic and optimizing that traffic.

That being said, there are going to be A LOT of tools coming over the next 12 months, including the article to video converter which certainly will make it easy to reuse article content in video format to push out to video sites for additional traffic and back links.

Michael shows you how to get organic search engine rankings for the niche sites – on page optimization and link-building through article marketing, directory submissions, rss submissions, etc – however what really sets Niche Blitzkrieg apart from most other courses is the tremendous level of support and full forum access people get for a low one-time fee. It is VERY newbie-friendly. And the sites are easy to build.

Once you’re in Niche Blitzkrieg, you do have the option to join Niche Blitzkrieg Underground which goes into more traffic strategies and also includes a pdf of niches each week with an explanation from Michael about how he would go about profiting from them.

By the way this is my first visit to your Blog and am impressed by it.
I signed up for the Newsletter too. Look forward to receiving it regularly.

Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Changis

I know who he is, but I don’t know much about his information. From discussions I’ve followed in forums of people who have attended his workshops it seems that most people have said his information is expensive but very good.

Apparently there are a lot of expensive upsells after the initial low-cost workshop.

I believe these are the prices:
a 2-day workshop for $3,000
a 5-day workshop for $10,000

I had seen somewhere there was even a $100,000 upsell, but I haven’t verified that.

Thanks so much for your prompt response to a previous question.

I want to ask if you have any knowledge of Bill Bartmann’s buying bad loans system?

Yes, you could start with it as a newbie, however I would strongly suggest you start with Niche Blitzkrieg as it’s MUCH more focused training which means:

1) If you get stuck it’s usually easier to get unstuck quickly through asking for support in the forum – as many people will have likely hit the same problem.

2) You have much less chance of getting distracted. Other than just plain-out bad training, I think this is the biggest problem for a newbie – trying too many things at once.

Automated Traffic definitely gives a lot of bang for the buck, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing for a newbie at this point. I would wait until you have some more basic training under your belt.

There is a 14 day trial for Automated Traffic being offered at if you still want to check it out.