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Is Your Blog Even Getting Indexed by Google?

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So you’ve got a Blog.

And maybe you’ve even got a sitemap plugin installed.

And maybe you’ve even got that sitemap automatically sending a message to Google every time you write a blog post.

But are your Blog posts even getting indexed?

I currently run two blogs and I’ve been doing some experimenting with how Google indexes them differently.

On my main blog (this one) I blog daily, and have been doing so for almost 6 months now.

During that period of time my sitemap has submitted 188 pages to Google for indexing in the search engine.

On my second blog I have been blogging sporadically about once a week or so.

I had some older content that I moved to that Blog as a starting point, and so far I’ve submitted 47 pages to Google for indexing in the search engine.

Now take a look at this snapshot from these two blogs that I currently run:

 

As you can see, on my main blog where I’m blogging daily, Google has indexed 182 out of the 188 pages I’ve submitted to them which means that they’re indexing about 97% of my content.

On my other Blog, where I’ve been publishing a post about once a week, Google has only indexed 8 out of 47 posts so far, which means that they’re only indexing about 17% of my content there.

That’s a HUGE difference of 80%!

Now I’m not 100% sure why Google is only indexing about 17% of my content there so far, but the important question is – is Google even indexing YOUR site?

I see a lot of bloggers really confused about why they’re not getting any traffic to their sites.

Look, if Google is not indexing all of your pages, then that means that those pages are INVISIBLE to anyone searching on Google.

It doesn’t matter if you write the world’s best blog post about a certain topic, if Google doesn’t index it, then it basically doesn’t exist in the Google universe.

You don’t want that.

You want to make sure ALL of your content is indexed.

You work hard to write those blog posts, so why not make sure they’re all indexed?

Now, a few days ago I wrote a blog post where I shared an easy strategy for making sure your blog posts get index really fast on Google, but if you’re a Blogger I’ve got another question for you…

The tips that I share here on my blog are just a small tiny fraction of the tips and secret ninja strategies I share with my Empower Network team-mates.

The reason I bring this up is because I struggled for years to make any money with my Blog, until I hired and worked with a mentor.

Once I started working with a mentor, everything turned around for me because he was able to see my “blind spots”.

He was able to show me what I was still missing, and what I wasn’t paying attention to, and what things I was wasting my time on.

Do you have a Blogging mentor?

Are you plugged into the training that Empower Network provides for it’s members?

Are you part of a team and do you have a mentor helping you on your blogging journey?

Or are you still trying to do everything on your own, using some kind of “free” blogging platform or some discount hosting service because you’re too cheap to invest $25/month to join Empower Network and invest into your blogging business?

If you’ve been struggling to make it as a blogger, I invite you to join my Empower Network team.

You might be doing 95% of everything correctly, but just getting stuck on 5% that’s blocking you from achieving success.

Having a blogging mentor and being part of a team might just be the missing piece for you.

If you’d like to join my team, click on this link and get signed up today.

See you on the other side.

Paul

One Simple Trick to Becoming a Better Marketer

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There’s a really simple and very effective way to become a better marketer that almost all of us overlook.

Have you ever gone to the store and bought some sort of new product after seeing a commercial for it on TV or on the Internet?

Of course you have.

We’re bombarded with advertising all the time.

We see something on TV one day, and a few days later we find ourselves at the store seeing that same item and we think “Oh, it’s that thing…hmmm…” and we end up buying it.

From the cars we drive, to the vacuum cleaner we use, to the food that we eat… our decisions are influenced by advertising / marketing.

There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just the way we are wired…

… and the marketing industry spends BILLIONS of dollars to research and produce some of the most effective advertising ever created in the history of humanity.

However… not all advertising / marketing works.

There are many products which we don’t buy even when they are advertised to us, and even if we are their target market.

So what is the difference between products that we do purchase after seeing their marketing, versus products that we do not purchase after seeing their marketing?

Well, that is exactly where this one simple trick to becoming a better marketer comes in.

To become a better marketer, start going through the marketing and advertising ads for the products that you purchase!

For example, let’s say that you recently bought a new car.

Go on YouTube and search for ads for that specific make and model of car and try to remember which of those ads you may have seen on TV or at a movie theater or on the Internet.

Once you find some ads, WATCH them carefully.

Think about it… those ads may have played a key role in your decision to buy that car.

I know we all like to pretend like we’re not influenced by advertising / marketing, but the truth is that we all are…

… and you can learn a LOT about marketing simply by consciously making the decision to go back and watch ads for products which we decided to buy.

If you buy a new video game, because you think it’s going to be awesome, go back and try to re-watch some of the ads you saw for that video game and try to see which parts of these ads really resonated with you.

If you buy a new vacuum cleaner, or a new blender, or a new type of food at the supermarket, do some research to see what kind of ads you may have seen for those products.

You may start to notice that the products you buy all tend to use similar marketing tactics, such as for example they might use a lot of humor to sell…

… or maybe the ads are very logic based, offering up a lot of facts and statistics…

… or maybe the ads share a common thread of being rebellious and going against the norm…

Have you ever bought a product that was sold through an infomercial?

Jump on YouTube and search for that infomercial for that product and see which parts resonate with you the most.

Learn from that.

Also, when you buy products based on recommendations from family and friends, after you buy a product ask yourself what exactly did you friends and family tell you about the product to help you make the decision to buy that product?

When you start to study these trends of advertisements, marketing pieces and personal recommendations related to the products you buy, it will help you to better understand what factors influence YOUR buying decisions…

… and then that will also help you to better understand your target market for whatever products or services you are selling, since the majority of us tend to sell products and services to people who are very similar to ourselves. 🙂

Try it out now.

Look around your house or just think about a new product you recently purchased.

Then, jump on YouTube and see if you can dig up any ads for that product that you might have seen.

Watch the ad and ask yourself what you liked best about that ad.

If you bought something recently after watching an online video, or by clicking on an online banner… try to track those down again and see what you like about them.

Leave a comment below and let me know what you’ve discovered after trying this out.

This one simple trick can have a HUGE impact on helping you to better understand what makes YOU and YOUR target audience tick.

😉

The One Dirty Little Secret Which Makes Being an Entrepreneur Worth It

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Entrepreneurship is not easy.

There are many challenges that we have to overcome as entrepreneurs.

And in a lot of ways, it could be easier to just give up on our entrepreneurial dreams and just work a 9-5 job.

Well, I guess I should say JOBS with an “s” because as an employee you’ll probably have about 5 to 25 of them in your lifetime since there’s really no such thing as a “stable job” anymore.

Being an entrepreneur isn’t much different though.

You may have 25 different “failed” businesses under your belt before you succeed.

However, there is one thing that really separates entrepreneurs from employees.

You see, as an entrepreneur you may start a business, and run into all kinds of challenges and make bad decisions and fail.

If you’re in the MLM industry, you may join a half dozen MLMs thinking that this time it will be different, and fail each time.

You may make a lot of wrong decisions, face rejection and failure.

Some days you may want to just give up and quit, especially after making a poor decision and once again being WRONG about something.

However…

… there’s a dirty little secret that successful entrepreneurs have discovered…

… which makes entrepreneurship SO worth it…

… and that dirty little secret is this…

… Even though, as an entrepreneur, you may make a lot of poor decisions and be WRONG a lot…

The truth is…

… that to succeed as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be right 100% of the time…

… in fact you don’t even have to be right 90% of the time, or even 80% of the time, or even 60% or even 51% of the time…

… you don’t even have to be right the MAJORITY of the time…

… meaning you don’t have to be right 50% of the time or more…

… really, as an entrepreneur, you can make a lot of BIG decisions and be totally wrong on most of them…

… but you can still succeed in a really big way if you just make ONE really good decision!!!

This is the little secret.

If you look at successful entrepreneurs, you’ll find that most of them have a past history of failures, wrong decisions, bad moves, and you’ll discover that they weren’t right most of the time…

In a lot of cases they were just right about ONE THING… they made ONE really good decision, and that decision was the catalyst that made them ultra successful.

Then, once they became ultra successful, they had the financial backing and the means to surround themselves with people who are much smarter than they are who could help them to make good decisions more often.

But as a starting point, their success started with just ONE right decision – that’s it!

Writing one blog post which goes viral and gets you a tonne of traffic could skyrocket you to success.

Finding one traffic source for an affiliate campaign you’re running could skyrocket you to success.

Sponsoring one downline member who becomes a superstar could skyrocket you to success.

The trick is to never give up on your entrepreneurial dreams.

Keep going.

Even if your track record is failure, after failure, after failure, after failure.

Just learn what you can from each failure and realize that all you need is one big success and then you’re set!

You can be wrong MOST of the time, and still succeed just by being right ONCE.

This is the little secret that makes being an entrepreneur so worth it.

🙂

Manifesting Body Diet and Fitness Plan – Day 56

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I has been a while since I’ve done an update on my “Manifesting Body Diet and Fitness” plan.

I will most likely do a more formal update next week when I’ll officially be at the 2 month mark, but I wanted to get an interim update posted today as well.

Progress With My Diet

I started off this plan by tracking my daily meals and counting calories using MyFitnessPal.

I was only able to keep that up for a short period of time and then I stopped doing it.

I may go back, but it’s not really a priority right now.

Instead, what I’ve been really focusing more on is getting my strength training workouts implemented, and trying to make better decisions during meal times.

For example, instead of having a can of Coke with meals like pizza, or Greek food, or other similar foods like I usually do, I’ve been trying to substitute some of those for just plain carbonated water.

I haven’t cut out soda pop completely, but I’ve just been trying to build a habit of switching out a different beverage once or twice a day and just drinking more water.

Also, in terms of meals, I’ve been trying to really watch my portions and becoming aware of when I’m full and satisfied with my meal and getting myself to stop eating at that point, instead of stopping when my plate is empty.

I’ve also been making a point of drinking more high quality nutrition shakes, and a few different types of vitamin drinks that I just love.

It really doesn’t feel like I’ve been on a “diet” of any kind, but I have been losing some weight – although slowly – so I’m pretty happy with that.

Progress With My Fitness Plan

For my strength training / fitness plan, I’ve hired the personal training services of a local company called Ivanco Fitness.

Although I’ve only had 3 training sessions so far with my personal trainers Ivan and Sam, I’m really loving the program they put together for me.

I’ve done a grand total of 6 training sessions so far, 3 of which were with Ivan and Sam, and 3 of which I did on my own based on the program they put together for me.

I would have more sessions completed, but I ended up getting sick with a really bad chest flu that was going around and I had a really tough time getting my workouts done while sick.

When I did start to feel a bit better, but was still coughing, I did 2 training sessions with Sam – completing about 70% of the sets that they planned out for me, but at least I got it done.

Now that I’ve been feeling at 100%, I felt great doing those same workouts the last two times on my own.

Another thing that has been kind of interfering with my strength training regime, has been some landscaping work I’ve been doing in my yard.

Last Monday I had a huge tree fall on my property and it broke through two parts of my fence.

I had to cut the tree up into “small” pieces, and get them off the fence and then fix the fence.

That process of chainsawing the tree into smaller pieces and moving them, and fixing the fence took about 8 hours and it was the equivalent of about 3 or 4 full body workouts – LOL.

I had NO IDEA that trees are that heavy.  I’ve cut big branches and small trees down before, but I’ve never dealt with a tree of this size.

The weight of the trunk, even when cut into smaller pieces is just incredible.

We’re talking hundreds of pounds of weight for each piece.

It’s actually kind of interesting, because in the past when I would start a fitness program like P90X or some kind of daily workout or 3x/week workout program, and something like this came up and I had to go outside to work on my yard – which is clearly a full body workout in itself – I would feel guilty for missing my actual workout.

But this time around, I am looking at it totally differently.

I even reached out to Ivan from Ivanco Fitness and asked him how he looks at a situation like this.

I wanted to see what his beliefs are around this issue.  I wanted to know if he has to do something like this, where you’re out doing landscaping work or yard workout which is clearly a workout, do you count that as a “workout” for that day, or do you still try to do a strength training session that same day?

Ivan told me that in a case like this he would definitely count what I did (landscaping work) as a training session for that day.

I know it may sound dumb, but in the past when I was doing other programs if I missed a day of THAT program, because I was too exhausted after doing landscaping work on my property, I would kind of feel a bit guilty.

Now I don’t.

In fact, today I was originally going to do another strength training workout, but instead I ended up doing about 7 hours of work in my front yard building a retaining wall and putting down some gravel.

It was a great workout, especially digging / shoveling dirt and moving gravel, AND I felt really great when it was done because I’ve been wanting to get that retaining wall built for months!

My Results So Far

I haven’t done my measurements recently as far as tracking muscle gains, or body measurements.

I’ll most likely do that next week.

However, I do track my weight almost every day and it’s been decreasing so I’m happy about that.

Here’s my weight loss chart so far for the last 56 days:

As you can see, it’s nothing too drastic, but I have lost 6.4 lbs of fat so far!

The dotted line in the graph above represents the first mini-goal I set for myself when I was at 245 lbs, and that was to get to below 240 lbs.

I’ve now gone below the 240 lbs mark, so it’s time for me to re-set my goal again.

I think this time I might set it to 229.9 lbs.

I’ll have a more extensive update on all my stats and measurements soon.

How to Not Get Overwhelmed In Your Business

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Last week while sitting in my living room and watching the last episode of the Harry Potter series, I heard a really loud “whoosh” sound in my back yard.

It sounded really weird, so I jumped out of my seat to investigate.

When I got outside, I saw that both of my dogs were staring off in the same direction, so I looked in that direction as well.

What I saw was rather bizarre.

A huge tree had fallen on my property and hit my fence on two sides.

This tree was massive!

Luckily nobody was hurt, it wasn’t near the house, and didn’t hit any power lines or anything like that, but it did damage my fence.

Here’s a short video clip I shot the following morning, showing the fallen tree and the damage to the fence.

Now, when this happened, it would have been easy to get frustrated and overwhelmed by the situation.

I had to find a quick solution to this challenge, as one of my dogs likes to escape, so a broken fence means that I couldn’t have my dogs out in the yard unsupervised.

Instead of panicking and getting stressed out, the following morning I just decided to deal with the situation one step at a time.

I had NO IDEA how I was going to fix the fence, how or when I’d get it done, and how long it was going to take.

I had no idea what I was going to do with the dogs if this was something that might take a week to fix.

I didn’t even think about those things.

Instead, I just focused on taking the first step, which was simply to put on my gear for when I go outside to do landscaping work, grab my chainsaw and go out there and see what I could do.

Once I got out there and looked at the tree more closely and how it fell, and assessed the surrounding area for any dangers like possible large broken branches that hadn’t fallen yet, etc. I started looking at what the first step would be.

The way the tree fell, the top part of the tree landed on the outside of my fence line, so I went out there and my ONLY concern was how to go about making the first cut with the chainsaw.

I saw that the first thing I needed to cut was to cut off some of the branches that were sticking out, so that’s what I did.

Once I cut some of the branches, my next step was to find the best place to make my first cut in the actual tree.  So I did that and I made my first cut.

Once I got that done, I looked for the second cut.

Then the next.

Then the next.

Then the next.

Then the next.

And pretty soon I had the whole tree cut up into smaller pieces.

Now, up until this point I had NO IDEA how I’m going to move those pieces, or where I was going to move them to, or how I was going to go about fixing the fence.

I didn’t even think about those things.

I just focused on what was in front of me… the task at hand.

Fast forward about 8 hours later and with the help of my friend Jabeel, my chainsaw and my utility tractor, I had the tree cut up, moved out of the way and the fence fully fixed.

It wasn’t easy, but I didn’t allow the situation to overwhelm me.

Now, what the heck does any of this have to do with starting a business?

Well, EVERYTHING.

You see, one of the challenges that I see people running into when they try to start a new business or even when they launch a blog or an online business, is that they instantly get overwhelmed!

They get so stressed out, frustrated and overwhelmed with all the things they have to do, that they just give up and become completely paralyzed.

The reason why most people get frustrated and overwhelmed is because they try to solve every challenge, every problem, and every detail of the situation in their MIND before even getting started!

You don’t need to do that!

Instead, try simply taking the next step that you can see in front of you, and once you get there, you’ll see further!

For example, sometimes people ask me about how to make money blogging…

… and they’re talking to me about some potential challenge or question they have about some advanced step that they might or might not even have to take 6 months or 12 months down the line with their Blogging business, and at the same time they haven’t even taken the FIRST STEP towards starting their blog.

It’s like they’re trying to figure out EVERYTHING, before taking one step forward.

Building a business in 2015 just doesn’t work that way.

You can’t see 5 or 10 years into the future anymore like you used to be able to in the 1950’s.

5 or 10 year business plans are a joke, even among some of the largest corporations in the world.

Forget about trying to solve every problem before it’s even an issue.

Instead, just take the FIRST STEP towards your business goals.

Once you take that first step, the next step will present itself and then take that one as well.

People ask me “Paul, how the heck do you write hundreds of Blog posts like that?!”

The truth is that I really don’t know.  I have no idea how to write hundreds of blog posts.

I never think of it that way.

I only think about writing ONE blog post.

And even then, I just think about the next sentence that I’m going to write.  Once I write that sentence, I then worry about the next one.

And he next.

See my point?

Writing 100 blog posts or 1,000 blog posts seems WAY to hard and overwhelming.

That’s why I never think of it that way.

I just think about the next step in front of me, and that’s it.

I can figure out the rest when I get there!

THAT is how you build your business without getting overwhelmed.

What’s the next step in YOUR business?  Just take that step.  Don’t worry about what comes after that.

Have you started a Blog yet?

If not, why not?

Still not sure what the whole plan is?  How it all fits together?  How you’re going to do everything?

You don’t need to know all that.

All you need to know is the next step.

Think of the next step in your business and go get that done.

If your next step is to get started with a Blog, I recommend clicking here to get started.