How to Make Money and Promote Stuff Online:
Essential Firefox Addon for PPC Marketers
Posted on 21. Aug, 2008 by Brian Wong.
If you are a Pay Per Click marketer, an important step in planning your campaign is to analyze the existing PPC ads for your keywords. You also need to decide which countries you want your ad to appear on. Herein lies a problem, when you do a simple Google search using your intended keywords, you [...]
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Success Stories… It Starts In the Mind!
Posted on 14. Aug, 2008 by Brian Wong.
I’ve had an excellent start to the week so far in my online business. Why? Not because of great sales this month (it was a good month too by the way) but I feel just so good this week that I’ve managed to help others succeed online on a personal level too! Well if you [...]
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Nice Little Adwords Wrapper Tool
Posted on 21. Jul, 2008 by Brian Wong.
If you are an Adwords advertiser you will like this free tool. Generating a good keyword list is the first step to a successful campaign. However, you can easily double and even triple those great keywords by creating “exact match” and “phrase match” quotes around your words. Now if you have a 100 keywords, that [...]
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CrazyEgg! Next Generation Analytics
Posted on 16. Jul, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Crazy Egg is amazing! Especially for marketers since its free version is awesome for analyzing single page sales letters or opt in forms? What is it? Well its a simple analytics tool that gives you 4 different types of graphical analytics tools to analyze your site. There’s “Overlay” which gives you color coded icons on [...]
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Free Google Keyword Tool Now Provides Search Volume Data
Posted on 09. Jul, 2008 by Brian Wong.
This is just in! Google has always provided a pretty neat little keyword tool to help users with their Adwords campaigns. Previously, when you type in a keyword, the tool would suggest a list of related keywords and their search volume trend…until now. I logged in yesterday and realized that they now also provide Search [...]
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FireFox Plugin for Displaying Page Rank
Posted on 28. Jun, 2008 by Brian Wong.
This is and essential SEO tool for FireFox that can help you evaluate the popularity of any web page you visit. It will display the PageRank (higher the number the better), Alexa Rank and Compete Rank (the lower the number the better). If you right click over each of these items, you can view the [...]
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My Internet ATM Machine [Video]
Posted on 16. Jun, 2008 by Brian Wong.
We see a lot of websites and ads talking about making money online all the time these days. So much so that we get desensitized to the message. Which to me is very sad to me because there is just so much power in being able to generate income from home. And its really not [...]
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Selling “Ideas” On The Internet
Posted on 14. Jun, 2008 by Brian Wong.
In the year ended 2007, Barnes and Noble, Borders and Amazon had collectively sold $13.59 billion worth of books and other information products such as music and DVDs. And this is in North America alone. That’s a lot of dollars. But what exactly happens when someone buys a book or a CD? Are they buying [...]
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My Home Office [PIC]
Posted on 27. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.
*UPDATED: Hi guys, the post below is now outdated. To see my latest home office visit this new post: http://brianwong.com/blog/my-home-office/ For fun on this post, I thought I’d take you on a tour of my home office as it currently stands. As some of you might know, I will be moving to my permanent home/ [...]
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Make Money Online Myth or Fact? – A Quick Case Study
Posted on 26. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.
On this post I want to share one of my personal experiences with Resell Rights products. While there is no doubt that you can make a lot of money online, the question I want to address is – “can someone starting from scratch with no list and no experience do it too?”. And…is it as [...]
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“Brian Wong” Back on #1 in Google’s Index Database
Posted on 18. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Here's a link to the post: http://brianwong.com/blog/i-got-google-slammed-for-not-paying-attention-to-seo/ I listed the mistakes I made that got me de-listed and I also outlined a 5-Point plan to get my site back into Google's good graces. ... (I used "brian wong in the footer of each page as an anchor text) I admit that I have an advantage because the domain name itself contains the keywords "Brian Wong" In bound links makes a big difference too. ... Submitting a site-map to Google helps too I use meta tags on each page and ensure my permalinks contain keywords too Ok, that's it for this week cos I just got back from a holiday in Phuket and am a little burnt from playing with my son in the pool for 2 hours everyday!!!
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I Got Google Slammed for Not Paying Attention to SEO!
Posted on 03. May, 2008 by Brian Wong.
The reason for this introduction is that I just realized that my Google page rank and search engine ranking for this blog dropped significantly after I changed over from a RapidWeaver blog to a self-hosted Wordpress blog . ... I spent the last month reading all about SEO for my marketing sites and when I re-looked at my new Wordpress blog, I realized that I was just very careless in not optimizing my site. ... Here are some resources that I used to optimize my site this week: This link checks if your redirect script is SEO friendly: Free Redirect Checker This is a very useful SEO optimization and analysis tool (check out their tutorial videos): Brad Callen's SEO Elite
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3 Golden Rules For Successful Information Marketing
Posted on 28. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.
Golden Rule No.1: Begin with Market Research to Select a Niche Market The essence of keyword research is this: determine that there is at least 20,000 and above searches each month on Google for your niche market; ideally, the number of search results such be less than the number of searches. ... The essence of this step is as follows: ensure that the VALUE in what you are offering is at least 10 times the price you ask for ensure that your information product SOLVES problems. ... The essential components of these tools I use are: Standard Google Analytics tracking to determine - No of unique visitors, Source of your traffic, content pages my visitors favor and bounce rates as well as overall traffic trends over time.
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Funnel Visualization with Google Analytics
Posted on 22. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong.
One of my favorite tools for tracking the conversions of my squeeze pages and sales pages is Google Analytics. ... It allows you to visually see how many people enter your landing page for example, and you can know where they come from. ... To learn more about setting up Goal Settings in your Google Analytics, use this link: Setting Up Goals in Google Analytics










