So what is this SEO Training Program about?
Previously known as SEO Book, Aaron has improved the program to more than a book. If you have been searching around, you will see people talking about how the SEO Book have helped them in gaining good rankings. Now, Aaron has extended the program and bring in far more useful resources such as videos, tools and an active community.

Of course, when you join the current SEO training, you will also get the SEO Book =)

How Aaron’s SEO Training has helped me?
I was struggling with my websites about 2 to 3 years ago before I stumbled upon the SEO Book written by Aaron Wall. There were basically no income from my websites at that time due to the way I promote and my lack of knowledge (SEO Skills) to leverage the Search Engine traffic.

After purchasing the SEO Book, it opens my mind and make me realize the elements of successful Internet business! I was actually hoping to get a book on SEO but what Aaron has included in the SEO Book is more than just SEO. Every page is gold and it illustrates to me very clearly on why my Internet Business is not working. I read the book and starts to implement what it preaches and day by day, I see the results coming in.

Enjoying the fruits now
At the time of writing this post, I am having a constant stream of traffic coming from the Search Engines to most of my websites. Take for example, below is the monthly statistics from one of my website in the Web Design niche.

About 20,000 unique visitors are coming to my site every month through my organic search rankings for the site below.

Having this much of traffic has allowed me to sell good advertisement space and promote other web design related services as affiliates.

Beyond a book now
SEO Training is now a very comprehensive training program that empowers people to not only learn SEO techniques through reading but also through videos, tools and forum.

To me, I find that the videos provided by Aaron is already well-worth the $100 investment to the program. I have made back several times the investment just by selling my advertisement space every month.

Another extremely useful resources is the forum. There are a few active forum in the SEO niche and what is better than having Aaron himself answering your question? The forum is perfect for people who have lots of questions to ask and you couldn’t find them in the book and other materials.

Overall, its good but Aaron has missed out one thing
In summary, I will recommend Aaron’s SEO Training program to people who wants to learn how to optimize their websites and capture massive natural traffic from the Search Engines. To me, the program will be perfect if Aaron decides to provide a list of resources for effective link building.

Due to this fact, I am supporting Aaron by providing you with a Link Resource Guide that includes:

1. Over 200 free web directories bearing a PageRank of 9 to 4.
2. The top ten article directories that you should submit to for relevant links.
3. Top ten social bookmarking sites that everyone needs for massive traffic.
4. Top forums that allow your signature to be indexed by the search engines!
5. 200+ blogs that allow their comments to be followed by the search engine bots!

How you can receive the Link Resource Guide?
If you are keen to join the SEO Training program, I will be ready to support you by sending you this guide. Just follow the steps below to receive the guide:
1. Clear your browser cookies. Refer to instructions here to do so.
2. Join the SEO Training Program via this link.
3. Send me an email stating the time and date you make the purchase and I will reply with the Link Resource Guide.

Your Investment
The SEO Training costs $100 per month but you are allowed to cancel anytime. Personally, I believe most people do not need to stay in the program for more than 3 months. Within the first three months, you will be able to pick up the essentials from the book, videos and forum and implement them effectively.

All the best and drop me an email if you want to know more details =)

Rand illustrates three types of positioning in general. Watch the following video and I’m sure it will make you think twice and refine the blog that you are starting.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Positioning Your Blog from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

Lesson I’ve learnt

I have been too busy talking about myself for the past few months and only get to realize this when I was watching Rand’s sharing.. It is time for me to show some concern to my fellow blogging partners and business associates!

I will be talking more on Internet Business monetization techniques and perhaps some coverage on several networking sessions that I have went so that you can also link up with my business associates if you have something valuable to offer to them

More exciting stuff coming up!

This new version not only includes more techniques to maximize your Adsense earnings but also a chapter that I talk about how to overcome challenges that the way Search Engines are going to evolve. If you are a previous customer or have subscribed to my Star List before, you will already received a copy of The Secrets of Adsense 2009 eBook when this post is published

New technique – Surprise Me!

There is this particular new technique that I have shared in The Secrets of Adsense 2009 that I call Surprise Me!. This technique is devised to help Publishers who are facing decreasing Adsense earnings month after month. You will be surprised how easy it is to reverse this behavior chain and add power to your earnings.

This eBook is charged at $9 per copy for immediate download.

Do refer to the official site for more details

I guess having a secure job will somehow take away your motivation to maximize your web site’s potential. This is one of the lessons that I would like to share in this post.

Setting a target becomes more effective when you only have few.. or one.

In the past, I tend to set targets for almost everything I do. When it comes to my Internet Business, there are simply countless of targets that I want to achieve. Like securing a permanent advertising partnership with a big advertiser, create another portal for my next-big-thing idea and generating more income (with specific targets) for every of my sites.

It is no surprise that I did not meet the overwhelming amount of targets that I have created for myself when I was fully committed to my full-time job. It is until the beginning of this month that I started to use target setting only for the top 20% of my activities. I become more focused since there are lesser targets and it is easy for me to concentrate and give more attention to each one.

The maximum we think only exist in our mind

My target list shrinks and one of my target is to increase the revenue of one of my site by 50%. This site, as I have mentioned before, has already reached the maximum potential of income generated in my mind for the past two years.

I go ahead and test out several different ad formats on one of my lesser performing placement and really stunned at the results! The better performing ad format gives me a boost of close to 100% of the Adsense income What I did was that I replace the 468 x 60 pixels of my ads with a 336 x 280 pixels ads which in my opinion, does not blend well to my content as compared to the one before.

I believe the most important element here is testing and trying out. A lot of Internet Entrepreneurs nowadays have full-time jobs themselves and they fail to generate a full-time income from Internet simply because they still have choice. It is until they treat their online business as the sole business, then they will see the difference.

Just a small suggestion that could make your life better

Why not try to set only one target for your Internet Business and try to achieve it by the end of the next 30 days? If you do not have an Internet Business but is interested in having one, why not set a target to learn more about it (development, monetization model, marketing etc) and equipped yourself with the knowledge rather than waiting to meet someone to collaborate?

I like to hear from you if you have benefited by setting less targets

Frankly, it is a challenge for a new blog or site to be ranked for a long tail keyword with a moderate amount of searches. Hence, you need to build and create an awareness of the newly written article so that Search Engines will acknowledge and give your article more relevancy. The following are some ways which you can utilize to improve the ranking for your article:

Building long tail keyword links to the article
Obvious? Yes, it is that simple. Many writers tend to just write blog posts and leave them alone. This will not give your posts good ranking unless your content is highly uncompetitive. Hence, it is necessary for us to go out and build some incoming links.

Take for example, if you have written a ‘How To Earn $100 Using Adsense in 7 days‘ blog post, you will want it to be ranked on search engines whenever people searched for these keywords. An effortless method of creating backlinks is to participate in forums or social sites that allow you to show your latest blog post. Take a look at this page – my forum profile for DigitalPoint Forum to see what I mean. Basically, you do not need to do anything other than publishing your blog post (the forums and social sites will syndicate the posts automatically).

The effect of using forums to build up ranking is not fantastic. The most effective way is to have people talking about your blog post. Facebook is one of the channel you can use for building viral effects for your post.

Another effective way to help to rank your article is to have the article title embedded as links from your author bios (resource box) in article directories. If you submit articles in a regular basis, try to alternate your author resource box with various anchor links (using the exact titles) pointing to different articles that you have written. This method alone will help your article in achieving a good ranking eventually.

What if my traffic does not click on my Ads?

It is quite common that most visitors will not click on your ads. However, you can still optimize your ads placement to reap the most benefit out of your current traffic amount. The following are three parts of official Adsense optimization techniques that you can use to earn more with your current traffic volume.

Part I

Part 2

Part 3