As a keyword research geek, my panic started to grow as a realized the the Google wonder wheel tool was gone. Oh no this can’t be happening, I must be mistaken. No the Google wonder wheel tool is really gone!

The the Google wonder wheel tool was a great free keyword research tool.

Before I start writing anything like most internet marketers, I do keyword research with several tools. One of the first tools I use is the the Google wonder wheel tool. It was graphic tool that aided you on narrowing a keyword or broadening a key word to a long tail keyword. With the Google wonder wheel tool, visually you were able to see where your keywords would take you. What is better that an online thesaurus with a wheel & spoke graphic?

Right now I am trying to figure the best way for me to do effective keyword research without the Google wonder wheel tool. For the time being I will have to rely on the Google keyword tool & the related searches at the bottom of the search page. It won’t be the same without the the wheel & spoke design of the Google wonder wheel tool.

Stay tuned I will certainly keep you posted if there is a new and improved Google Wonder Wheel Tool.

By Kate Hill
Online Techniques
Vice President of Operations

Today I’m proud to announce that the Online Techniques Blogging Workshop is finally here and available to YOU!

After over 5 months of work, this 14 video series … The Online Techniques Blogging Workshop … has been completed and mounted in a convenient online website … and it’s ready to help you with your blog building endeavors! In the Blogging Workshop you’ll learn everything you really need to know about search engine optimized blogs, and SEO for blogs!

If you’re in business online … then you probably know the answer to this already: You DO need the OT Blogging Workshop!

Blogging is a necessary part of any online business today. If you’re not blogging, then you aren’t getting the targeted, repeat traffic you need, and you aren’t building relationships with your customers and prospects! Without a blog, they really have no “home base” to go to where they can get to “know, like and trust” you!

Why should they become your “repeat buyers” or business partners if they have no way to get to know you personally?

The short answer is … they won’t.

That’s what blogging is all about … and that’s why you need to do it if you want to build an online business long-term … and that’s why you need the OT Blogging Workshop! These blogging workshop videos are the perfect way to learn and perfect all aspects of blogging.

The single most important problem you probably have with your current blog … or that you will have as you begin to learn to blog … is traffic. Getting quality, targeted, responsive, and interested traffic to your site is key. That’s why the Blogging Workshop is focused on helping people build search engine optimized blogs!

How you build and configure your blog is vital to how easy or difficult it’s going to be for you to attract traffic! The OT Blogging Workshop is ALL About Traffic!

So … once we realize that we DO need to be blogging … and we do need to be attracting traffic … and we don’t want to have to struggle day in and day out to do it … that brings us to a very serious question:

How good is your blogging equipment?

Are you involved in sports? Do you use equipment in your favorite sport like clubs in golf, raquets in tennis, or skis and snowboards? If you do, you’ll know just how important having good equipment can be. It can make the difference between being successful, skilled, and having fun … and having a difficult time, not enjoying yourself, and falling short of your capabilities.

Well … blogs are like that as well! If you’re blogging on a typical blog, things are more difficult for you than they need to be! The OT Blogging Workshop is designed to make things easy for you. The fact is, most people are not using search engine optimized blogs, have almost no knowledge of correct blog building techniques, and are shooting themselves in the foot as far as their online business! That can all end for you with the OT Blogging Workshop!

The Online Techniques Blogging Workshop is actually a “tune up” for your blogging equipment! You don’t need to be left behind in the world of blogging … you can compete with the “Big Boyz” … but you need to have a blog that’s designed to ATTRACT TRAFFIC and not just sit there! The Blogging Workshop can help you build a blog … or configure an existing blog … to do just that! After all, your blog should be your partner … not your adversay! The OT Blogging Workshop will make your ornery blog friendly again!

Here’s another question: Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to write a blog post, get it live on your site, and know that in spite of competition on your keyword of over 11,000,000 other websites … it would be on the front page of a Google search within 24 to 36 hours?

Of course you’d like to be able to do that! Who wouldn’t?

Well … in the Online Techniques Blogging Workshop … that’s exactly what we teach you! The Blogging Workshop will show you everything you need to know to “Tune Up” your blog … your equipment … so that you can do just that … anytime you like! It’s really not all that difficult once you know how and once you have the properly configured equipment !

Good Question!

Here’s a simple answer:

Before you read any further … open a new tab … go to Google … and search “blogging workshop” (with no quotations around it … let’s not make this easy).

Did you do it? If you did … what did you find?

As of this moment, the Online Techniques blogging Workshop Sale Page is sitting in the #8 spot on the first page … out of 11,300,000 other website results.

(By the time you read this … you may find this blog post about the Blogging Workshop there as well! The same techniques are being used as I write this! Can you tell?)

So … why? Have we done a lot of promotion of the page? No … we haven’t yet at all. The site has been bookmarked, but we haven’t done any video distribution, article marketing, or any of the other techniques we use to drive traffic to a website. So … why is it there?

The reason is simple: The Online Techniques Blogging Workshop Sale Page is a WordPress blog that’s been highly optimized for search engines … using the exact techniques taught in the Blogging Workshop itself! The Blogging Workshop itself is the proof that yes, we do know what we’re talking about … and we can teach it all to you in the Online Techniques Blogging Workshop!

That’s it in a nut shell. The Online Techniques Blogging Workshop is the place to go for the experienced blogger who wants to learn to use a blog more effectively.

It’s also the place to go for the blogging newbie to learn how to build a really traffic-grabbing blog from the ground up!

I want to invite you to take a look at the new Online Techniques Blogging Workshop Video Series! 14 videos designed to equip you with the very best blogging knowledge … from seo for blogs to blog building itself. You’ll learn it all … and your business will thank you for it!

Have a GREAT Day … and enjoy the Online Techniques Blogging Workshop!

The eZineArticles plugin for WordPress has been one of the things we’ve recommended and used here at Online Techniques with great success. This blog post is necessary, however, because as of right now we are no longer recommending using the eZineArticles plugin. In fact, we are recommending you de-activate and then delete the eZine Articles plugin from your WordPress blog.

Here’s the story …

eZineArticles is the most powerful and most visited article directory on the Internet. For years it’s been a traffic giant, and a great tool to use in your traffic generation programs. They have always been a bit picky, though, and would never publish your articles if they found them on another article directory first. In fact, for a long time, they didn’t even like seeing your articles posted on your own site!

This has been the reason for our recommendation that all articles be submitted to eZineArticles FIRST … and then to other directories and your own site AFTER acceptance there.

That changed a while ago, and eZineArticles announced that they would accept articles that were already mounted on your own blog or website … not another article directory … but a site that could be verified as your own was all right. Right after this, they introduced the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress, which really made things easy.

The eZineArticles plugin for WordPress sat next to your editing window in WordPress, and could be used to submit your blog post directly to eZineArticles as an article! It was the height of convenience, worked very well, and we here at Online Techniques jumped on it right away, incorporating it into our blog building services and strategies.

As always, with such things, the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress immediately raised some red flags. Some wondered if people using it could be running afoul of Google’s rules regarding duplicate content. There was a bit of a controversy at first, but the powers that be at eZineArticles did look seriously into the issue, and most people agreed that it wasn’t too much of a concern at that point.

So … after a bit of a slow start … the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress became a well accepted and powerful tool for the article marketing blogger.

As you may or may not know, just at the end of this last February, Google re-wrote all their algorithms again.

As usual when they do this there are some obvious good points to what they’ve done, and some that appear completely boneheaded. At this point, I’m convinced that anyone who tells you they understand why Google does what it does … and that they understand what Google is doing at any given moment … is simply lying to you, or maybe themselves.

At any rate, in February Google changed how it works, and suddenly everything submitted through the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress was “dinged” as “duplicate content”. The result: eZineArticles website lost about 50% of its traffic! That’s right … about ½! They’re building back up again and will be fine, but this happened with no warning to anyone and has been devastating to many.

So … not to belabor the point, but the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress is no more. EzineArticles has stopped supporting it and you won’t find it in the WordPress plugin library any more. If you use it, it will look as if your article was submitted … but it hasn’t been.

What you need to do now, is to de-activate and then delete the plugin from your WordPress back office. Don’t simply de-activate … too many people are running blogs with a lot of dead weight in the form of unused plugins slowing them down. De-activate it … and then delete it.

The eZineArticles plugin for WordPress was a great idea while it lasted, but due to Google’s now almost complete control of the Internet, it’s gone. My recommendation to all you article marketers out there is simple: return to the old ways of doing things. Blog posts are blog posts … and articles are articles.

That’s the way it should be anyway … even though the eZineArticles plugin for WordPress was fun for a while.

Well, I hope everyone enjoyed last week’s free Internet marketing training session in the Learning Room when we discussed SEO Presser and how to use it, this week we’re on to keyword research. The reaction from the group was overwhelmingly positive and this entire project has become really fun for all of us here at Online Techniques.

This post is just a quick reminder about this coming Thursday … and an invitation to join us, if you haven’t already. The Learning Wing is the training section of Online Tecniques. Every Thursday evening from 9PM EASTERN / 6PM Pacific, I personally host a free Internet marketing training session in our online conference room. We cover subjects that will help you create income from home working online … mostly concerning blogging.

Now, it’s been my experience that most people completely understand keywords. They really don’t know what one is, how it should be used, or really how to go about keyword research in the first place. Actually, most people I know are using keywords that are actually harmful to their business and they chose them just out of the air … without ever doing any actual keyword research at all.

This is a good way to cripple your business, and certainly the misuse or non-understanding of keyword research will significantly stunt the growth of your business in the long run. This is something we plan to remedy in our keyword research session this Thursday evening in The Learning Wing Room.

That’s right … all the tools you need to do simple yet effective keyword research … the kind that can save your butt from the pitfalls we just described … are available to you free online. This Thursday evening, I’m going to show you just what they are, and I’ll show you a few quick, simple … but effective … methods of using them. After Thursday night, you will understand:

>>> What A Keyword Really Is

>>> How A Keyword Should Really Be Used

>>> What Keyword Research Really Is

>>> How To Go About Some Simple But Effective Keyword Research

>>> Where To Find All The Free Tools Needed To Do Effective Keyword Research

>>> Why Some Keywords Will Do You More Harm Than Good

>>> How To Target Your Keyword Research So You Can Dominate Your Niche

So … if you haven’t yet registered to receive the password to access the free Internet marketing training sessions in The Learning Room … do that right away. Join us this Thursday at 9PM Eastern / 6PM Pacific for our keyword research session. By the time the evening’s over, you’ll never think about keywords or keyword research in exactly the same way again. AND … you’ll never make the same disastrous mistakes again, either.

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By Steve Gaghagen
Online Techniques
CEO, Founder

steve@onlinetechniques.net

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THURSDAY EVENING 9PM Eastern / 6PM Central: Keyword Research In The Learning Wing

First off, though, I need to apologize. Usually today I’d be putting up the video of last night’s free Internet marketing training session so it would be available in The Learning Wing. Today, though, I’m putting up this blog post explaining why there’s no video. Sorry … but Internet gremlins attacked somewhere in the transcoding of the video file … corrupted it … and made hash out of it. So … to make a long story short … the reason it’s not up for your reference is that it doesn’t exist.

(I know … that’s a feeble excuse. I tried to use it myself in a college philosophy course on Existentialism. I told the professor I couldn’t complete the assignment because I didn’t exist.

He didn’t buy it either.)

At any rate … here’s what I’m going to do about it:

Sometime in the next few days, I’ll make a desktop video of the entire lesson on the SEO Presser. I’ll show you everything we shared in the live class the other evening … what SEO Presser is, how valuable it can be to you as a blogger … I’ll even show you some accidental results of a Google search that will crack you up. It won’t have the audience participation … you guys … but it will have all the information I taught in the live class about SEO Presser, so you can have it here for reference. Look for that to appear in the next few days … as soon as I get an hour to do it for you.

SEO Presser is a plugin for WordPress that helps you Search Engine Optimize your blog pages and posts like never before. This is simply the most powerful tool I’ve seen, if search engine marketing is something you’re concerned about at all as you move forward tring to create income from home. If you want to get found on Google by people who are ready, willing, and able to buy what you have … you really do need SEO Presser to help you out. No other WordPress plugin is anywhere near as powerful as this. I have personally put a blog post on the front page og Google search … into the coveted 2, 3, or 4 position … within 24 hours using SEO Presser and a little judicious content distribution.

So … not to belabour the point … you need SEO Presser and you need it today. If you haven’t got yours, you can find it in the sidebar of theis web page. It’s not expensive, but it’s not free. Just check it out now. If there’s one piece of advice you ever take from me in your blogging life … this should be it, I promise you.

Once you have that, make sure you’re on the mailing list here. I’ll send out notice in the next few days to let you know when the SEO Presser lesson is available in The Learning Wing. Between the SEO Presser plugin and the free internet marketing training session on how to use it effectively … believe me you’ll be thanking me when you see the results.

To get your copy of SEO Presser, you can click the banner in the sidebar of this website, or simply Click Here To Order SEO Presser Now

So … now that’s out of the way … we can clue you in on next week’s session at The Learning Wing.

Next week we’ll be talking Keyword Research. Seriously, if you don’t know what you’re doing when you select your keywords, tring to create income from home on the web will be next to impossible. The how’s and why’s of keyword reasearch are basic to the construction of a good, solid, Internet marketing business. Personally, I took WAY to long to learn all about it … don’t you make the same mistake. Most people are using keywords for their websites and posts that actually hurt them, rather than helping.

So … next Thursday night at 9PM Eastern / 6PM Pacific, join us in The Learning Wing for our next Free Internet marketing training session. We’ll hope to see you there.

That’ s it for now.

Remember these 3 things:

1) Get your SEO Presser plugin TODAY!

2) Sign In To The Learning Wing Mailing List to get full Access and be Updated.

3) Watch for the Next Recorded Session On Using SEO Presser In The Recorded Training Section.

4) Remember To Join Us Again Next Thursday Evening In The LEarning Wing!

Have A GREAT Day!

By Steve Gaghagen
Online Techniques
CEO, Founder

steve@onlinetechniques.net

Instantly Boost Your Online Traffic and Success By Signing Up For Our FREE Internet Marketing Training Course … The Learning Wing

SEO Presser

Here at Online Techniques one of our goals is to be the best resource for free Internet marketing training. There are thousands upon thousands of sources for internet marketing training material all over the internet. We bring it to you in one place.

Our specialty is teaching targeted traffic generation and achieving high rankings on the search engines. Targeted traffic means people who are ready to join or purchase once they arrive at your website. It’s better to have 10-15 really interested visitors per day than 100 visitors who don’t really care. At Online Techniques, we provide Internet marketing training that will help you attract people like that to your site.

Believe it or not Steve makes learning “the boring stuff” fun and interesting.

He has a teaching style that makes the most complex materials simple and easy to understand. I have learned so much from him and value the lessons he has taught me. When I was given the opportunity to work with him at Online Techniques I jumped at the chance.

Since the Internet is ever evolving, we offer FREE Internet marketing training every Thursday night at 9 PM/EST / 6PM/PST. We have just uploaded our first training class from last Thursday night to the Learning Wing Page on our website.

The topic of last weeks Internet marketing training class was the Seven WordPress Plugins You Must Have … And How To Use Them. During the class Steve explained how to install most of the basic plugins you really need in a WordPress Blog. In addition, he explained what they do and how they affect your search engine ranking. After installing those seven plugins your website should be optimized to about 60-75%.

Oh … here’s a bonus … there is a file that contains .zip files of all the plugins Steve taught us about last week, and it’s available if you want it. It’s located on the Learning Wing page in case you missed the class, and you can just go there and download it now!

To gain access to the Learning Wing at Online Techniques, simply fill out the form located to the right on this page … The Learning Wing Registration form at the top … and you will be instantly sent a password.

In this week’s Internet marketing training, Steve will be teaching about, The SUPERSTAR Plugin: SEO Presser and How To Use It To Dominate Your Niche! He will install and configure SEO Presser in a practice blog, and then he’ll cover the nuances of how it works, and how you can use it to rank on the first page of Google for your keyword! Even if you have never heard of SEO Presser before, sign up for the class! By the time class is over you will know exactly what it is and why you really do need it.

By Kate Hill
Online Techniques
Vice President of Operations

kate@onlinetechniques.net

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