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This One Universal Law Will Help You Make Money Online

January 8, 2015 by Paul Leave a Comment

Many people dream about making money online as Bloggers or Internet Entrepreneurs.

They invest time and money into tools, training courses, and systems for making money online, which is a great place to start, but most people forget about one other thing that they can do to significantly increase their chances of making money online.

This one other thing that many people forget about is the process of engaging the Spiritual Law of “Giving and Receiving”.

I’ll be totally honest…

…when I first heard of this concept of “Give and You Shall Receive”, I thought it was a ‘marketing tactic’ employed by the Church to guilt people into donating 10% of their income to the Church.

I mean LOGICALLY speaking, if you want more of something, how can you GIVE it away when you don’t have it yet?

Meaning for example if I want more money, how do I give away more money, when I haven’t gotten more money yet?

This concept seemed paradoxical to me. 🙂

And to be honest, at first I kind of just dismissed it as hogwash.

But then a few of my mentors introduced me to a totally different way of looking at the concept that changed everything for me.

Give and You Shall Receive WAY MORE

The big mental shift that changed everything for me was the realization that when you GIVE something away, it doesn’t just come back to you in equal proportion.

When you GIVE something away, the Universe will flow it back to you in much greater quantities.

THAT is how the paradox is solved.

Although there’s no real way to measure it exactly (that I’ve found anyway), I usually like to think that whatever I give away will flow back to me at least TEN FOLD.

Sometimes it can be as much as one hundred fold, or one thousand fold, or even one million fold.

But thinking in terms of TEN fold is a safe and conservative way to look at it.

See, when I realized that the Universe will flow whatever you give away back to you by a factor of 10 TIMES, I started looking at this spiritual law totally differently.

And there was one other concept that fits in with this as well, which is that…

You Can Give and Receive Different Things

You don’t have to give away the same thing as you intend to receive.

Meaning, let’s say that you’re completely financially broke right now, without even a penny to your name.

And let’s say that you want to give away some money.

You can’t really “give away” any money if you don’t have it in the first place, right?

But what you CAN do is you can GIVE AWAY something else that you DO have, that is of “USE VALUE” to someone else.

Meaning for example, you could GIVE away value to someone in another form, such as helping someone with something.

The thing that you want to GET (ie. money) doesn’t have to be the same thing that you GIVE AWAY.

An awesome example of this is Blogging.

Whenever I write a Blog post, I’m essentially GIVING AWAY value to people who read my Blog posts.

Whenever I market and promote my Blog posts, I multiply the number of people my Blog posts reach and thus also multiply the amount of value I’m giving away.

So for example, let’s say that THIS Blog post provides the equivalent of $0.10 worth of value to each person who reads it.

Now, let’s say that I get 1,000 people to read this Blog post… well, that means that I’ve essentially given away the equivalent of $100 worth of value to the world by writing this post.

See what I mean?

And if we apply the TEN FOLD rule to this, that means that the Universe will “reward” me with at least $1,000 worth of “value” back in my life for doing this.

Now, does that mean that tomorrow I’m going to wake up and see $1,000 magically appear in front of me?

Well, no, probably not, but I do KNOW that if I in fact give away $100 worth of “Use Value” by writing a Blog post then I *WILL* receive $1,000 worth of value back from the Universe or more!

I’ve tested this in my life many times and it always seems to work out.

Whenever I go out there and just focus on giving away value to people, I find that the Universe showers me with ten times that value right back.

This is one of the biggest reasons I absolutely LOVE Blogging as a method of making money online, because it’s one of the least expensive ways of launching an online business and it gives people an opportunity to give away the one resource they usually have an overabundance of – WISDOM and ADVICE.

Meaning, most people who start an online business don’t have a lot of extra TIME or MONEY, but they DO have a lot of unique experience and wisdom from their lives.

By embracing Blogging as a business model for making money online, they can transform that WISDOM and ADVICE they’ve accumulated up in their minds over the years by SHARING it with others.

And by giving away this value from their life experience and their passions in life they could activate this Universal Law of GIVING and RECEIVING to get what they want – which is to make money online.

I have tested and proven to myself many times that this concept of giving and receiving tenfold in return works.

But, there is one mistake that most people make which will not activate this law in your life.

Avoid This Mistake

The one mistake that people can make here is not understanding the difference between “Actual Use Value” and “What You Think is the Use Value”.

The Universe will flow back to you ten fold or more of what you give away to the world in ACTUAL USE VALUE, not just in value you THINK you’re giving away.

Meaning, for example, if I write a garbage blog post, that I slap together without putting any real effort into it, then that blog post might only provide $0.01 in value to the world, or even less.

Also, if I don’t learn how to properly market my blog and my blog posts, so that they are seen by thousands of people, then the value doesn’t get multiplied a lot.

Meaning, there’s a big difference between a blog post with let’s say $0.50 worth of “use value” that is seen by 1,000 people, versus a crappy blog post with $0.01 of “use value” that is only seen by 5 people.

In the first case $0.50 x 1,000 people = $500 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $5,000 worth of value.

In the second case $0.01 x 5 people = $0.05 worth of actual use value, which means the Universe will flow back to you $0.50 worth of value.

See the difference?

You have to create value in the world that people actually find useful…not just slap stuff together… but also, you have to learn how to MARKET and DISTRIBUTE that value to as many people as possible, because that is the multiplication factor that will change everything.

Often times I’ll see people starting a Blog, and they’ll write 5 AMAZING blog posts that could easily be worth $10 in “Use Value” to people, but then they don’t take the time to learn how to market or distribute those blog posts to people, so their audience is ZERO people.

Well, if your audience is ZERO people, then any value you provide times ZERO is still going to be ZERO.

This is why it’s important to learn both ( 1 ) How to create VALUABLE content that actually provides VALUE to people, and ( 2 ) How to properly MARKET, DISTRIBUTE and MONETIZE your Blog so that you activate and multiply the effects of the Law of Giving and Receiving.

This is why I’m so excited to be a part of Empower Network, because that is exactly what we teach people to do.

We teach people how to create valuable Blog content, we teach people how to actually market their Blogs so that they have an audience, and then finally we teach them how to monetize those Blogs.

How to Easily Make Videos for Your Blog or Website

January 7, 2015 by Paul 7 Comments

One of my hobbies for quite some time now has been playing around with making videos for websites and Blogs.

I’ve played around with many different software packages out there which can cost anywhere from $499 to $5,000 and up.

These types of price-tags are one of the reasons that many people are turned off from the idea of getting into video production for their Blogs or websites.

The other reason is because most of these software packages can take YEARS to master, or at the very least a few months to get at least somewhat proficient at.

You CAN hire someone to make videos for you, but you could end up spending anywhere from $100 – $5,000 in production costs to make ONE video!

But what if you just want to have the ability to make some very simple slide-show videos that allow you to communicate a simple message to your audience?

Well, there’s a new software out that I purchased a few months back which can do just that.

In a matter of a few minutes you can make a simple slideshow video like this one:

It only took me about 10-15 minutes from start to finish to create this video, render it, and upload it to YouTube.

Now I know this video is not super spectacular, but I just wanted to make something really quick to show you how easy it can be to make videos that you can add to your Blog posts or to your website.

The software is incredibly easy to use and only takes a few minutes to learn how to use it.

So if you’ve been looking for an easy way to make videos for your Blog, I’d strongly recommend checking out Video Maker FX.

It’s easy to use, it’s affordable, and you can make an unlimited number of videos without having to pay a per-video production fee like you would if you hired someone else to do it for you.

The software also comes with a 30 day 100% money back guarantee, so you can try it out for 30 days, make a bunch of videos and if you don’t think it’s the best video making software for you then just ask for a refund – no questions asked.

How to Create a Vision Board as a Non-Visual Person

January 6, 2015 by Paul 6 Comments

Ask a visual person how to create a vision / dream board, and they’ll say “Oh it’s easy!”

They’ll run out, get some poster paper, some magazines, a pair of scissors, and a glue stick and go to town on the project.

An hour later they’ll have this crazy looking collage of pictures, all cut out and sliced together, with action words like “Awesome” and “Yaay!” intermixed between the pictures.

Ask a non-visual person, whose primary modality in life is either auditory or kinesthetic to tackle the same project and it’s a totally different story.

An hour later you’ll find them both still sitting there, having flipped through 50 magazines and finding NOTHING that inspires them.

This doesn’t mean auditory or kinesthetic people don’t have dreams, or that they can’t create a “vision” board, but they just have to approach the task from a different perspective.

Auditory and kinesthetic people are different from visual people.

If you’re kinesthetic, you have to approach it from a kinesthetic perspective.

If you’re auditory, you have to approach it from an auditory perspective.

Vision Boards for Auditory People

Since I’m predominantly an auditory person, I’m going to share an idea I had this morning for a “vision” board for me.

One year ago I put up a cork board in my room that’s about 5 feet wide by 4 feet tall.

It’s big enough to fit PLENTY of pictures as a “vision”board.

One year later, it’s still pretty much empty.

A visual person would already have that thing FULL of pictures!

But as an auditory person, pictures don’t really excite me that much, so no wonder I haven’t been really that excited about populating it.

So this morning I had an idea.

Instead of trying to force myself to cut pictures out of magazines, or to scour the Internet for pictures to print out, instead I’m creating a “vision board” with just three simple tools.

A cork board
Index cards
Push pins

Using these tools I can simply write down what things I want, or I can write down little sayings of things that either I will say or someone else will say to me once I manifest the thing that I want to manifest.

Let’s use an example to illustrate what I mean.

Example #1 – A New Car

Let’s say I wanted to manifest a new car.

A visual person would just cut out pictures of the car they want and plaster that all over their vision board.

As an auditory person, here’s what I’m doing instead.

I take a simple 5″x3″ index card and I write something like “Woa! Nice Car! I love how it sounds!” on it. Then, I take that index card and I pin it up on my cork board.

Then I take another index card and I write something like “Holy crap, the stereo in this car is awesome and I love how I can play songs straight from my cell using Bluetooth.”

Or I can write down an exact description of the car I want, such as for example if I wanted a silver 2015 Mercedes SLK I would write down “2015 Silver Mercedes SLK” and maybe put a few more details into the description.

Then I just take that index card and add it to my dream / vision board.

Now, to a visual person, just having a plain old cork-board with a bunch of index cards pinned up would probably look BORING, but to a non-visual person it makes no difference.

Example #2 – Weight Loss

Here’s another example.

Let’s say you wanted to lose some weight and to put that on your vision board.

A visual person would probably cut out pictures of a hot looking body, or maybe put up pics of themselves when they were more fit.

So what would I put up instead, as an auditory person?

Well, I could either simply write down specific goals like “Cool, I hit my goal of 225lbs” or “Cool, I hit my goal of 200lbs” or “Cool, I’ve lost 35lbs already” or whatever I would usually SAY to myself when I reach a weight loss goal.

Or it could be what I HEAR myself saying to myself inside my head.

OR I can write down things that I will hear people saying to me when I reach my goals like “Wow! You look great. Have you lost weight?”

These are all just simple statements I would write down on a simple 5″x3″ index card and pin up on a “Vision” / Dream Board.

Vision Boards for Kinesthetic People

I’m not a predominantly kinesthetic person so I don’t know exactly what would be the ideal things a kinesthetic person would write on their index cards.

However, I do know that kinesthetic people are more or less the exact opposite of a visual person, so they don’t really care what something looks like so much, and so I bet it’s not an exciting thing for them to cut out pictures and put them up on a vision board.

I would think that kinesthetic people would most likely benefit from writing out the description of the feeling they would feel having the thing that they want to have.

So maybe on the index cards they would write something like “I feel so much better in my clothes” if their goal was to lose some weight.

Or they might write down “I love how these heated seats keep my butt warm even with the windows open” if they were trying to manifest a new car.

If you’re a predominantly kinesthetic person, you probably know much better than I do what makes you tick, so write down whatever excites you on those index cards.

Another thing you could do is if for example the new car you want will have leather seats, you could get a small piece of leather from somewhere that’s similar to the leather that car seats are made of and cut that out and pin it to the board so that you can touch it and feel it with your hands.

Or maybe you could get one of those “New Car Scent” thingies and pin it up so that you can smell your new car. 🙂

I’m sure you know better than I do what excites you, so use your imagination.

My point is simply this…

Vision Boards are NOT Just For Visual People

Most people who love using vision boards are, more often than not, visual people.

Visual people usually love to use them, and so, more often than not, they try to teach other people how to make them.

The challenge is that because they are visual people they only know how to appeal to other visual people, and that’s usually why you don’t see many auditory or kinesthetic people making vision boards.

It’s not because vision boards are not useful – they are an extremely powerful tool – it’s just that you have to approach making them from YOUR modality, not someone else’s.

I personally started making mine today just by using simple 5″ x 3″ index cards and by writing down what I will either say to myself or what I’ll hear others say to me when I manifest the goals I’m going after.

Play around with some ideas of what might work for you and your primary modality.

Remember thought that even thought most people are predominantly more biased towards ONE modality, everyone does use all of the modalities, so even if you’re not a visual person it doesn’t hurt to throw some pictures up there if you want, or even if you ARE a visual person, it doesn’t hurt to throw some auditory or kinesthetic statements up there as well.

Is It a Good Idea to Give Away Your Best Content on Your Blog?

January 5, 2015 by Paul 4 Comments

When I first started Blogging, way back in 2006, I wondered if it was a good idea to give away some of my best content for free on my Blog.

I wondered if maybe I should hold back some of my best ideas and content and put them into a book or course or some kind of info product instead of sharing it on my Blog.

Each day when I would sit down to write a Blog post, I would think to myself “Hmmm…is this something I should just give away for free, or should I charge for this information?”

I mean as a student of personal development I’ve easily spent over 6 figures on educating myself through books, audios, courses, seminars and mastermind groups, and then I also invest a lot of time in researching and testing various things I learn to see what actually works and what is crap.

So for example if I spend $1,000 – $5,000 in “education costs” and 3-6 months in “trial and error costs” to learn something new, like a new technique or something that I apply and produce personal results with, that is “intellectual property” that cost me time, energy and money to develop.

So my thinking used to be “Why should I give that away for free to someone on my Blog?”

Right?

But then, I decided to try something out…

…I decided to just start giving away some of my best content, my little “secrets” and strategies to my Blog audience for free.

Of course if what I was referring to was intellectual property that is owned by someone else who sells some kind of course or seminar, I wouldn’t give away THEIR secrets, but I would refer people to the source of the information that they could then decide to buy if they wanted to.

But if it was MY intellectual property that I created from my personal experiences and trial and error I just started sharing it with people, not worrying about someone else knowing my “secrets”.

And here’s what happened…

#1 – I Manifested More “Best Content”

The funny thing with the Universe is that it doesn’t like a vacuum.

So what started to happen was that as I started Blogging and giving away some of my “best content”, a lot more NEW “best content” started flowing into my life.

Every time I would “empty the cup” giving away my “secrets”, I would attract NEW secrets to give away.

I find that when we try to “hoard” information or “secrets” because we think they are way too valuable to give away for free, or because we think later on in life we might put together a course or something, we tend to stagnate.

If instead we just give it all away in a sense, we start to create MORE new “Best Content” to Blog about.

Try it yourself and you’ll see what mean.

#2 – People Will STILL Buy Your Coaching / Training

I have studied many top trainers in the industry who put together $10,000 – $25,000 seminars that people GLADLY pay to attend.

They pack their rooms and “sell out” pretty much every time.

But you know what I’ve heard many of them say?

Many of them say that pretty much EVERYTHING that they teach is already summarized in their books which most people can buy for $10 – $15.

Even if they write 10 different books, that means you can learn everything they teach at the seminars for $100 – $150, not $10,000 – $25,000!

So why do people pay $10,000 – $25,000 to attend their seminars if the INFORMATION is inside their books?

And why do they give away all their information in their books?

Well, it’s because first of all MOST people will NOT ever read a book. They find it too boring and time-intensive.

They would rather pay $10k to sit at a seminar and be essentially “forced” to learn the information in an entertaining way – and not just read about it in a book.

Secondly though, transformation doesn’t just happen when people are presented with new information.

A big part of transformation is HOW the information is delivered and with what energy.

For example, I guarantee that attending a Tony Robbins seminar is going to have a MUCH higher transformational effect on a person than simply reading his book. Even if his book contained ALL the information from the seminar.

It’s the transfer of ENERGY from one person to another that is important as well, not just the information.

So when I started giving away some of my best info on my Blog…essentially free of charge, it actually INCREASED the amount of people who wanted to get coaching / mentoring from me – not the other way around.

The MORE I give away for free, the more people want to PAY me to coach / mentor them!

This is still happening to this day.

So if you’re a coach, mentor or someone who puts together events. Don’t worry about giving away your best content.

Just do it. Give it all away. People will STILL want to pay you for your ENERGY, and your PRESENCE.

Finally, there’s one other reason why giving away essentially EVERYTHING on a Blog will never replace one-on-one or group coaching.

And that is the concept of information overload.

When people pay me to coach them, they don’t want to spend 100 hours reading all my blog posts… they have a very specific challenge that they want to overcome RIGHT NOW, and they are willing to pay me to coach them through it.

The time savings alone is worth the investment for them.

And for those people who are short on cash right now, and who can’t afford one-on-one coaching, they just read my Blog and get access to some awesome content which builds trust with them.

It’s a total win-win situation.

#3 – You’ll Connect with Better People

When you become a Blogger who is not afraid to give away their best content on their Blog or on Google Hangouts you host etc. not only will you start to attract a better, more loyal client base, but you’ll also start to attract better people around you in general.

Your reputation in the marketplace will begin to grow and you will be seen as a “giver” not a “taker”.

When this happens higher quality mentors and teachers will open their doors to you.

People who are giving and who want to help the world are attracted to other people who want to do the same.

If your reputation is that you are this secretive person who has some super amazing information they have discovered, but who is unwilling to share it with anyone, then people will doubt you and the value of your information.

If your reputation is that you are this giving person who just gives away amazing content and information, people will automatically start thinking “Wow, this content is amazing… what an awesome person! If this is what they’re giving away for free, imagine the quality of information they must give away at their paid programs / coaching / products?”

Warning! Do NOT Do This

There is one warning I will offer here of something you DO NOT want to do.

Do NOT give away someone else’s “best content” pretending that it’s your own.

I’ve seen some people take this concept in a totally wrong direction.

What they start doing is that they don’t want to give away any of THEIR best content or information, because they think they’ll save it for a future seminar or product that they’re putting together…

… but since they want to start building “trust” with their audience, they start giving away someone else’s “best content” as their own.

Meaning, they’ll attend a $2,000 seminar, and then they’ll come home and start giving away all of the content that they learned at the seminar, as if it was their own.

Don’t do this.

Another example of this is when people take copyrighted paid content and they “rip it” to a digital format and give it away to people for free.

When you do this, you are hurting the entire industry, including yourself, and soiling your reputation.

Don’t do it.

If there’s some amazing content you learned from someone, and you want to share it with your Blog subscribers, then POINT them in the right direction of where they can get access to this information.

But don’t just give them a stolen, pirated copy of that copyrighted data.

First of all it’s illegal, secondly it’s stupid, and thirdly it’ll ruin your reputation long term.

As a blogger for over 8 years now I’ve GIVEN AWAY so much of my best content for free.

In fact, at one point a few years ago I did a tally and I realized that I’ve written enough Blog content to fill more than 5 full-sized BOOKS.

BUT, even thought I’ve given away so much free content, when I come across a course or training that someone else put together, which they charge for, I don’t just give it away for free as it’s not MINE to give away.

Instead I recommend people go to the creator and purchase it.

Because of this, sometimes I’ve ran across people who have gotten mad at me for not giving them access to someone else’s work for free.

Meaning, they essentially ask me to break the law, and to illegally copy someone else’s best work, and rip it off and send it to them, and then when I say NO to that, they call me an asshole.

That’ll happen, but it doesn’t bother me.

Or they’ll say something like “Oh, well you’re just recommending this course and you’re sending me to your affiliate link because you want to make money when I buy the course.”

Here’s the thing…

I give away a LOT of free stuff on my Blog.

But I’m not going to give away someone else’s work, illegally, for free, without their permission.

I also don’t promote crap.

For every product, course, seminar, system or ANYTHING that I promote, I’ve filtered out and turned away probably 50 other products.

I only promote the BEST of the BEST out there.

And when I do promote a product or service as an affiliate, I believe that I deserve to get paid for my recommendation.

But I also believe that if anyone who reads my Blog doesn’t want me to make an affiliate commission on something that I promote, they are 100% FREE to buy the product through someone else’s affiliate link.

I’m 100% okay with that. If you are going to buy a product I recommend, and you don’t want me to make any affiliate commissions on it, then go find someone else’s link and buy it through their link.

This is also what I recommend you do on YOUR blog.

Give away a LOT of great value on your Blog. Give away your BEST content.

You’ll create NEW content anyways.

If you want to put together products or systems to SELL, that’s perfectly okay too, and don’t worry…people will buy from you because they like you ANYWAYS.

And when you find amazing content that is NOT your own, recommend it to others!

Don’t be shy about it either.

If whatever you’re promoting has an affiliate program – then promote it as an affiliate, so that you can get paid affiliate commissions for your well deserved recommendation.

And never let any WUSSIES make you feel bad for promoting something as an affiliate.

If they don’t want you to make the affiliate commission you deserve, they can go find a link from somewhere else.

🙂

So to summarize. Is it a good idea to give away your best content on your Blog?

YES!

You’ll get more “best content” flowing into your mind.

You’ll build more trust with your audience.

You’ll make better connections in the marketplace.

And people will STILL be happy to PAY you for any paid products or services you create in the future.

And it’s also a good idea to promote the BEST products you come across from other people as an affiliate.

How I’m Getting Top Google Rankings for My Brand New Blog

January 4, 2015 by Paul 9 Comments

You can get top rankings on Google even if you have a brand new blog with a brand new domain.

In this Blog post I’ll explain exactly how I’m doing this.

But before I do that, I want to first show some quick proof so that you know I’m speaking from experience and not from theory.

Proof #1 – My Domain is Only 5 Days Old

Here’s a screenshot of my domain registration with GoDaddy.

As you can see, I registered my domain “FreeYouNow.com” on Dec 30th, and today is Dec 4th so my domain is just 5 days old.

So you do NOT need an “aged” domain to get ranked.

Proof #2 – I’m Ranking #1 on Google for My Keyword

A few days ago I wrote a Blog post where I was targeting the keyword “Double Your Chances Weight Loss” and different variations of it.

I always try to make my titles speak to real human beings and not just focusing on keywords so the actual title of my post was “How to Double Your Chances of Sticking to a Weight Loss Plan”.

As you can see I’m ranking #1 on Google for the keyword “double your chances weight loss”.

Now, I know that this is not a super amazing highly searched keyword, but it is a long-tail keyword that people might search for and I’m trying to show how easy it can be to rank for long-tail keywords with a brand new Blog and a brand new domain.

How I Got My Blog / Domain to Rank So Fast

I think a lot of people completely overcomplicated Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and try to game the system with unnecessary tactics and strategies that will just get you banned on Google.

Personally I prefer to keep things simple and to just give Google what it wants, and it seems to work for me pretty well.

Here’s what you need to do:

#1 – You Need Your Own Domain

Get your own domain because that way you’ll be building your own brand and you’ll also need it for one of the following steps to become a “Webmaster” with Google.

You can get a domain at GoDaddy.com for $10 or less.

#2 – You Need a Solid Blogging Platform

You need a solid blogging platform built around the WordPress blogging system.

Anything that you get for free is going to be crap and isn’t going to give you the features you need.

So don’t waste your time looking for some “free” blogging platform that’s good. You won’t find it.

I’m personally using Empower Network’s Kalatu platform which is awesome. It takes the ultra powerful WordPress platform and simplifies it and adds on a whole bunch of extra powerful tools to make your Blog ultra effective right out of the gate.

Click here to learn more about Kalatu.

#3 – You Need to Sign Up as a Webmaster With Google

Once you’ve got your Blog setup and running and your own domain registered and mapped to point to your Blog, you need to head over to Google Webmaster Tools and register yourself as a webmaster with Google.

Once you create an account with Google Webmaster Tools you’ll need to add your domain/site to the list.

Google has fairly good instructions on how to go about this, but just search for it on YouTube if you don’t know how to do this.

#4 – You Need to Setup a Sitemap With Google Webmaster Tools

Next, you’ll need to setup a Sitemap with Google Webmaster Tools.

A Sitemap is basically a tool which tells Google about all of your new content / blog posts that you write and kind of “nudges” Google to come check them out and index them.

It’s kind of like your website picking up the phone, calling Google and saying “Hey Google, guess what, I now have a new Blog available at my domain…come check it out when you got a minute.”

Sending a sitemap to Google doesn’t guarantee that Google will index every post you submit, but it significantly improves your chances.

Plus, once you have it setup once, the whole process is automated so that you never have to worry about it again.

What you’ll need is you’ll need a Blogging platform that supports Google Sitemaps. Luckily for us, the Kalatu platform comes with a built-in Sitemap plugin running so you don’t have to worry about it.

Here’s a screenshot from my Google Webmaster Tools system. As you can see, as of right now I’ve submitted 8 web pages from my site to Google (automatically), and Google has gone ahead and indexed 5 of them so far. Keep in mind that my Blog and domain are ONLY 5 days old so the fact that they already indexed 5 out of 8 pages is awesome.

#5 – You Need to Get Some EXTERNAL VOTES Pointing To Your Blog Post

This next step is where most people drop the ball.

It’s a very simple thing to do, but most people won’t do it because they don’t believe it could be this simple.

Essentially what you need to do is you need to get at least a COUPLE of EXTERNAL “votes” for your Blog post.

One way to do this is to leave comments on other people’s Blogs which allow you to add in your website URL in the comment box.

This is an example of a comment I left on someone’s Blog.

When you leave USEFUL and RELEVANT comments on people’s Blogs they WILL approve them, and most Blogs allow you to include a link back to your Blog with each comment.

In the example above the word “Paul Piotrowski” is a link back to this Blog.

What you want to do is you want to go out there and leave some useful comments on people’s Blog posts and link back to your Blog post!

You only need a few of these to get on Google’s radar screen.

Another way to get some external “votes” back to your post is to post your Blog post on Facebook like I did here:

By sharing a link to my Blog post on Facebook, this gives me yet another “vote” or link to my specific Blog post from an external domain (in this case Facebook).

The trick here is to get a few links that point back to your individual POST and NOT just your main domain.

Make sure you are just going out and getting a few links here and there from REAL websites and make sure if you use Blog comments that they are real comments left on real blogs.

In other words, don’t try to cheat by going out there and buying some stupid “10,000 links for $5” package on Fiverr or some junk like that thinking that “more is better”.

What you want is NATURAL exposure for your Blog, not some kind of system for “gaming” Google.

#6 – Send Your Blog Post to Your Email List

Now here’s where I think a BIG secret lies that most people in the SEO world don’t really talk about.

What you want to do is you want to have an EMAIL list on a platform like AWeber which allows you to send out an email blast whenever you write a Blog post.

A platform like Kalatu has AWeber integration built right into it so it helps you to build an email list from scratch if you don’t have one, but even if you just have 3 people on your email list you want to start emailing them every time you write a Blog post.

Here’s why you want to do this.

When you send out an email blast to your email list, SOME of the people WILL click through to read your Blog post.

When they click through to read your Blog post, your Blog post will load up in their browser and as it loads it will also trigger the loading of the Google Analytics tracking script (covered later in this post).

This is important because statistically speaking the people who are going to sign up for your email list are going to be those people who like you the most and who trust you the most.

So when you send THOSE people to your Blog FIRST, it will give your Google Analytics stats the best chance of looking good, as opposed to the type of stats you might get from some other traffic source of “cold” traffic.

Let me explain why Google Analytics is important in the next step here…

#7 – The Importance of Google Analytics Integration

You want to make sure that you integrate Google Analytics into your Blog. If you’re using the Kalatu platform, this is super easy as it has Google Analytics Integration built right in.

All you have to do is setup a free Google Analytics account and then paste your Tracking ID into Kalatu and click “Save”.

It’s that simple. Kalatu takes care of the rest.

Now, once you have Google Analytics installed and you send out an email blast to your email list (of any size really), when people visit that Blog post they will trigger the Google Analytics Script every time they load the page.

When the Google Analytics tracking script is triggered, Google starts to track the number of visitors going to your individual blog post page as well as some very important STATS.

Do you see what I mean?

When I published my post, I sent out an email to my email list and a bunch of people came to visit my post.

As you can see, we’re not talking about ASTRONOMICAL numbers either. We’re only talking about 60-70 people visiting that post.

BUT, those 60-70 people visiting my Blog give Google some early indicators (STATS) about the content on that page, such as:

Avg. Time on Page – My stats show Google that people stayed 2 minutes and 41 seconds on my page – on average. In “Internet Time” that is an eternity. This is a GOOD sign for Google, as opposed to if they stayed like 3 seconds.
Bounce Rate – The stats also show Google that my page has an 85.11% bounce rate. This is not bad either. Basically Google just doesn’t want to see a 99% bounce rate.
Pageviews & Unique Pageviews – This tells Google how many times this page has been seen and by how many people. In my case it was seen 68 times by 59 unique people.

Once Google sees and records these types of statistics for this page, it will KNOW that this page is a real page, with real content, which seems to be valuable since people are hanging around and reading the content and not just leaving after 2 seconds.

When Google sees this, it now will give you a chance to rank for whatever keywords it deems appropriate for the post based on your Blog post title and content.

Eliminating RISK for Google

At first, what I’ve written above may seem a bit complicated but keep in mind that MOST of it can be greatly simplified simply by using Kalatu as a Blogging platform since it has a lot of the necessary features you need already built in, without the need to go looking for WordPress plugins, or worrying about modifying codes or scripts or anything of that nature.

Kalatu simplifies a LOT of this.

Secondly, remember that MOST of this is also one-time setup stuff which only needs to be done once in the beginning and then it just works automatically for all your future Blog posts.

Thirdly, understanding this process becomes MUCH simpler if you think of it from the perspective of ELIMINATING RISK for Google instead of trying to PROVE AWESOMENESS.

In other words, in order to rank well in Google, you don’t necessarily have to prove your Blog is AWESOME to them, you just have to ELIMINATE THE RISK that your Blog is SPAM / JUNK.

Does that make sense?

Google WANTS to include your content in their search engine, as long as you can prove to them that it’s not just SPAM / JUNK.

And the way we are doing this is as follows:

Domain Ownership – By spending $10 to buy a domain we’re showing Google that we are willing to invest at least $10 into our site.
Good Platform – By using a platform like Kalatu, build on WordPress, we’re showing Google that we’re running our site on a solid platform.
Claiming Ownership – By becoming a Webmaster of our domain we declare to Google “Hey Google, I own this domain and I vouch for it. This is a good site, it’s not spam or junk.”
Regular Content – By writing content on a regular basis, we show Google that this site contains timely and relevant information.
Natural Links to Content – By sharing link to your Blog post on your Facebook timeline, you’re showing Google “Hey Google, my Blog post is good, I’m proud of it and I’ll gladly share it with my friends.”
Emailing Your List – By emailing your Blog post to your list you’re showing Google “Hey Google, I’m proud enough of my Blog post to send it to my email list.”
Good Starter Stats – When your initial group of friends and email subscribers visit your site, THEY tell Google “Hey, this content is pretty good, I’ll hang out and read it.” with their stats.

Make sense?

I mean just think about how much RISK you’ve eliminated for Google with all of the above. What are the chances that your site/Blog Post is some spam or junk post if you’ve done all of the above?

Chances are that your post is NOT going to be spammy / crappy content right?

From my 8+ years of experience as a Blogger, I have bought many different SEO courses and I’ve listened to many different so called SEO Experts, and so many of them complicate everything so much to the point where you simply can’t keep up with all the daily changes in the so called Google Algorithm.

But in reality what I have found is that if you follow the simple strategies outlined above, which follow ALL of Google’s rules, you can get your content to rank very quickly and very well, even if you’re starting from complete scratch with a brand new Blog on a brand new domain.

I hope you enjoyed this article, and if you’d like to join my team of Bloggers and learn how to make money blogging about your passions, click here to get started.