What Is Bring The Fresh?
As an internet marketer or someone just looking for ways to make money online, I am sure you have heard of “Bring the Fresh” and you might be wondering what it is? In a nutshell bring the fresh (BTF) is a membership site that is fully loaded with useful information and resources that actually teach you how to make money online. They teach an incredible system for building profitable websites, getting them ranked highly in Google and other search engines, and having them generate free passive income for you. Basically it’s a step-by-step blueprint for building a successful online business without needing a lot of money to do so.
I already wrote a Bring the Fresh Review so I won’t do that again here. You can use the above link to go read my review if you want to know my thoughts about it. What I will do in this post is give you a little more detail about what the BTF membership actually includes and teaches.
There’s no doubt that Bring the Fresh has caused a lot of buzz in the internet marketing world and has been recommended and promoted by many of the top marketers in this industry. The owners (Kelly Felix and Mike Long) have created an awesome series of videos that teach market research, product creation, copywriting, SEO, affiliate marketing, PPC, video marketing, and TONS more. They really thought of everything and included it all.
Here’s a quick rundown of just some of the stuff you will find inside BTF…
* They show you exactly how to quickly create a website in a competitive market that the search engines will love. Yes, it is simple, and it really does work, even if you have no idea how to build a website.
* How to get numerous high authority websites to link to you. No spam or crappy links. We are talking about real authority links in a natural way.
* How to find profitable keywords fast. You will learn exactly how to go after “buying” keywords where the people searching will be ready to spend money now.
* A behind the scenes look at their incredibly successful websites and online businesses. You get to watch as they create them from start to finish, and how they made them profitable, time and time again. There is nothing left out, including a sneak peek inside campaigns that brought in millions of dollars in profits. Also, an up close look at some of the biggest product launches in the history of internet marketing!
* Access to a private members only forum. Kelly and Mike even personally answer questions there all the time. The information in the forum alone is more than worth the cost of bringthefresh.
* Their personal cell phone numbers and other ways to contact them. Seriously they give every member their cell phone numbers, skype address, email address, twitter, and facebook. You will never have any trouble getting a hold of them.
* …And MUCH more!
Here are the things that are NOT inside BTF…
* A useless get rich quick scheme. While it is true that some of their members have earned small fortunes in a short amount of time, most people are happy with an extra $100 a day or so; on autopilot. That’s a much more realistic goal and something that can easily be done from the teachings in Bring the Fresh. They don’t give you false hyped up promises of becoming a millionaire overnight.
* How to build fake blogs or other crap like that. You’ve seen the blogs that look like online newspapers or news websites. You know the ones that sell worthless products and continue to bill the customer over and over without their consent. Kelly and Mike don’t recommend misleading people and they don’t do it themselves.
* How to trick search engines into liking your site or giving you undeserved high rankings. Tricks and schemes might work for a little while but they don’t last. If you are trying to make a quick buck through spamming or other black hat stuff, this is not the product for you.
* A customer service team located in a third world country that doesn’t even understand your questions or problems. The owners do their own customer service and personally answer every email.
* Tons of upsells. They don’t make you buy a bunch of expensive stuff in order to make their system work.
* …Or any other crap you might be expecting from an internet marketing product. This is the real deal.
Everyone from newbie’s to full out gurus can benefit from the information and resources that Bring the Fresh has to offer!
Obviously this isn’t some miracle product that will have you making money overnight without doing any work. There’s NO such thing! However, if you are willing to follow their advice and put in the necessary work to build a real online business, then “Bring the Fresh” truly is the system you have always dreamed of finding.
Again, I encourage you to follow the link above in the beginning of this post to find my review of bring the fresh. It will help give you some more information about what I actually found inside. Or you can go straight to BTF by following this link: BRING THE FRESH
Best Link Building Practices
Ok so to continue my trend of writing about debates I have with people on the Keyword Academy forums I thought today I would write about best link building practices. There are important things to keep in mind while building links, but like most aspects of MMO ‘winning’ it is accomplished 99% through doing and 1% through thinking. So as my first point the most important thing about link building is just go out and do it instead of worrying about how to do it. A “no follow” link is better than no link at all. A link that is anchored with “click here” is worth more than no link at all. Are they the best, no, but they aren’t completely worthless either.
Ok so the ultimate thing we want to do is to try as best we can to make our links look natural to Google. That is essentially the goal of everything we do when building links. So the real question is what can I do to make my links look natural?
- Vary your anchor text – Natural links occur and get anchored in a ton of different ways. Don’t just anchor your one target keyword for every link you get, anchor things that are close to it, misspellings, your URL, your site name, and even the odd “click here”
- Deep linking – People who get natural links don’t just get links to their homepage, in fact a lot of the time people send their friends links to interesting articles or write about cool things they see on a site. Deep linking to your individual pages is important and a lot of the time is can be profitable too because you can use your deep pages to target more keywords.
- Quality vs. Quantity – What’s the answer to this old question? Well the answer is both. If all you get are crappy links well then your site is going to take forever to rank, but you don’t need to worry about getting every link from a PR9 site. A link from a forum isn’t going to give you as much value as a link from the NY times, but 1000 might and might be easier to get.
- Blogroll vs. In Content – There is always a lot of debate around blogroll and how valuable they are. A lot of people (some of whom make a lot more money than I do) say in content links are the only way to go, but I can tell you I’ve had more than my fair share of luck with blogrolls. Mix it up and get both.
- Speed – When you start a new site you don’t want to blast the links out too fast. Instead start out slowly and build up momentum like an avalanche . Eventually you’ll be able to send your site as many links as you want, but the growth needs be be slow and natural.
- Related Niche – Sites from a related niche are better than links from an unrelated site. Google looks not only what links are pointing to your site, but what links (internal and external) are pointing to your links.
- Links from the Same Site – The more sites you build links from the better. Don’t think that two links from the same site isn’t providing you any value, but two links from two different sites are better than two links from the same site. This is not only good for authority, but it’s diversity. If one of those sites go away at least you still have one link when you could potentially not have any links left.
Anyway that’s just a basic overview of the best linking practices. I’m sure we could think up experiment after experiment to test out each best practice, but hey, it’s not worth the time when you could be spending it just building links. Now stop reading and go get yourself some links.
Link Farms
So I figured it was just about time for me to sit down and finally write another post and just when I started to think about this I happened across a debate at the Keyword Academy forums about link farms and offered my two ‘godly’ cents.
First off I’ll start with the disclaimer:
I do not personally use, nor do I advocate the use of, link farms or any other link building method that seeks to manipulate Google’s system.
And I suppose with that disclaimer I should add another:
I do know there are many people who use link farms that make a lot of money and are very successful doing it. But what works today may get you banned tomorrow. So, proceed at your own risk!
With that out of the way let’s start with defining exactly what a link farm is:
- Traditionally: A network of self owned sites from which one links to another self owned site. Basically you buy a bunch of domains, post content on them, and use them to send anchored links to your money site in order to climb the SERPs.
- Self hosting domains
- http://wordpress.com
- http://www.blogger.com
- Modern: A network of sites which you have paid access to from which you can post links to your sites. Basically you pay some money to someone for access to their large network of sites, you write articles (some spun, some 100% unique), and in those articles you can link to your own sites.
- Build My Rank
- LinxBoss
- Postrunner at The Keyword Academy
- Broad: Any site that allows people to post content in exchange for anchored ‘do-follow’ links back to their own sites. Basically you give us something we give you something, so no matter how you slice it that does fall in a broad definition of link farming.
- http://ezinearticles.com
- http://hubpages.com
- http://wordwolf.com
So anyway now that all that preliminary junk is out of the way, the first assertion that I was arguing against was that Google could algorithmically sniff out link farms easily and either a) devalue their links or b) deindex the farms completely. I suppose this is not an unreasonable assumption, Google works with an algorithm as the base of their search and they do that pretty well. The problem for Google arises because allowing a few link farm websites ‘costs’ (in creditability, algorithmic accuracy, annoyance of people) them far less then the alternative of wiping out all link farms and causing some collateral damage as well. I agree that Google has an interest in getting rid of bad links, and getting rid of programs like BMR is one of Matt Cutts’ goals as spam king. I don’t think Google will ever be able to wipe out these types of farms completely, but if they can get rid of even some of the sites these programs use then there is some devaluation of the linking power over time so people who use these techniques need to know that over time rankings will slip if they don’t keep building links and therefore their income isn’t truly passive.
The other argument that ensued was the debate over whether or not the postrunner system constituted a ‘link farm’ of sorts. Let’s not kid ourselves about the difference people, PRN is designed to manipulate googles system therefore it’s always at risk too, which is why high standards are maintained and people need to be sure to keep the junk off their sites or some of them may be devalued or deindexed as well.
Anyway the point is that if you use link farms I wouldn’t suggest relying on them solely and you should always be trying to grow your natural link profile. It’s the only safe way. And remember the best way, and the only completely risk free way, to get any backlink is to get them naturally by providing high quality original content on your site!
–Justin (and Trent)
The Keyword Academy Review
So a lot of people out there are wondering how to make money online, and it can be tough, especially for beginners. There is a place that is beginner friendly and can really get you on the right track for success in your efforts to work from home successfully. That place is The Keyword Academy (TKA) and you can try it free for the first month. Okay, so I guess I’ve given away my opinion that it’s a good place, but why? I’ll tell you…
First off they offer a very positive attitude with real usable advice that does work. A lot of people out there promise to show you how to make you a million dollars in no time with no effort, and that is a load of crap for sure. Courtney Tuttle and Mark Butler don’t make these kind of promises, but what they do is give you a clear road map for how to make real online passive income with a bit of hard work and dedication. This road map takes the form of the core videos that take you through the basics of making money online, from setting up a site, to how to choose a keyword, how to get your site ranked for keywords, and finally how to monetize your site. Have more questions after you watch the webinars? Well that’s not an issue because there are hundreds of experts on their friendly forum who are happy to answer any questions you might have. It’s a great additional resource.
For people more advanced in the make money online world there are some great benefits of The Keyword Academy for them too. Included with your subscription is the guest posting system called Post Runner (which allows you to automatically post articles on other peoples sites to build backlinks, rankings, and traffic) and also a very useful keyword selection tool called Niche Refinery that scans for low competition keywords that will help you make money with niche sites.
On top of that you also now get “streamline” – A task management tool to help support your business processes. This is another cool (and useful) part of being a TKA member.
They are also constantly growing their knowledge base and producing webinars for their advanced members. A recent video series was about how to bump your sites from getting some traffic to gaining “massive traffic”. They continue to teach to both levels of students with regular updates.
In my opinion, the best part about the keyword academy is the PostRunner guest posting system. That alone is worth the membership cost without even taking into consideration everything else that comes with the TKA membership. It is an awesome way to get backlinks, traffic, increase search engine rankings, and ultimately make more money!
So, I guess what I am trying to say is that my review of the keyword academy is very positive. If I had to recommend just one resource for making money online there’s no doubt that TKA is it!
In summary, there really is something for everyone inside the keyword academy. As an experienced online business owner I personally find the guest posting system and the keyword selection tool to be more than worth the membership costs. And if you are a new or struggling internet marketer you will definitely find the information they teach to be a goldmine. It truly is a killer system! The private forum is also a great place to ask questions and share ideas. Heck, if you sign up I’ll see you there.
Join The Keyword Academy today! You will be VERY happy you did. I’d bet on it.
The Best Backlinks for Making Money Online
There’s no doubt that getting backlinks (also known as inbound links or inlinks) will greatly help improve your search engine rankings. That fact was proven long ago and continues to be true today. There’s also no doubt that having top rankings on the major search engines will give you targeted traffic and increase your earnings. Actually one of the best ways to make money online is to build websites around various keywords and get them ranked highly on search engines by filling them with tons of high quality content and getting lots of backlinks.
There are a lot of ways to get backlinks. Some of these ways include:
- Quality Content (so people naturally link to you – BEST kind)
- Article Marketing
- Guest Blogging
- Web Directories
- Blog Directories
- Forum Signatures
- Blog Commenting
- Link Exchanges
- Social Bookmarking Sites
- Link Bait Posts
- RSS Directories
- Press Releases
- Backlink Services
- Web 2.0 Properties
- Social Networking Sites
…And several more. The point is that you will never run out of places to get backlinks and you should never stop working for them. They are extremely important to your success at making money online.
Getting almost any backlink to your website is better than nothing but certain inbound links are a lot better than others. If you can get these particular links they will help you exponentially more than any other type. So, you should spend a larger portion of your time going after these backlinks.
So, without further ado, here are the criteria for finding the best type of backlinks for making money online…
1) From a Related Site – Generally the rule is that the best inbound links are from websites that are related to yours. That means they are in the same or similar niche and the content is related to what you have on your website. For example: A link from an internet home business related site to your make money online site would be great.
2) Keyword Anchored – You definitely want keyword anchored links whenever possible because the anchor text tells the search engines what to rank you for in their results. For that reason the anchor text should include the main keywords you want your website to rank highly for on Google and other SE’s.
For example: If your website is about making money online then you might anchor your links with keywords such as; make money online, earn money on the internet, money making, how to make money, ways to make money online, and other similar phrases. Be sure to vary the anchor text because it’s not good to have them all the same. You should also have plenty of links that are not keyword anchored but that will happen naturally so you don’t really need to worry about it right now.
3) From an Authority Site – A link from a highly ranked site in your niche is very beneficial to you. These are typically called authority site links and they will help your rankings quite a bit.
4) High PR Site – PR is short for “Page Rank” and that is one way that Google measures the importance of a web page. When you have a backlink from a website with high PR it will carry a lot more weight than one from a site with low or no PR. This will give you more “link juice” and help improve your rankings even more.
5) Do Follow – It should go without saying that part of the criteria for the best backlink is that it is a “dofollow” link. If the “nofollow” tag is applied to your link then you are getting very little benefit from it as far as search engine rankings are concerned. You need do follow backlinks to help you make money online with SEO.
6) One Way – A one way backlink is when a site is linking to your website for whatever reason without you giving them a link back. These are very high quality and are typically considered to be the best type of inlinks you can get because they are natural.
That’s basically all there is to finding the best backlinks for making money online. If you get a backlink that includes all six of the criteria listed above then it is about as perfect of a link as you will ever get. The more you can get like this the better, and it won’t be long before you see top search engine rankings and start earning more money from your website!
