Market Domination with Web 2.0

Social media assets are a very important tool to use in search engine optimization.  The problem I see is that many abuse these platforms.  When creating web 2.0 properties to support another website you must make sure that you provide value to the platform you are publishing on, not just create bad content for the sake of dropping a few links.

Some examples of web 2.0 properties that we have created using my favorite web 2.0 platform are:

• Bradenton used cars - A landing page that provides links to used car resources in Bradenton, FL.
• Dealer Micros Sites - Shows how car dealers can use web 2.0 properties for dealer microsites.
• Paul Rushing - A lens about myself that really needs to be updated.

Social assets are the new search tool.  Make sure you deploy them properly and provide value to the platform that you are creating them on.
If you do not provide value to the platform you really are nothing more than a platform spammer.

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Making money twice

One thing that my craigslist service for car dealers does is give me access to tons of Cincinnati used car dealers inventory.  What is really cool about this service is that the listings also produce an rss feed.

So I can take those listings and repurpose then at places like squidoo, here is a lens I made for New Jersey used cars.  This gives the client an extra benefit.  They get an additional level of exposure and I get paid for the traffic the lens generates.  This is a huge win win.

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Beating the Gap

Affiliate marketing and automotive blogging is a way of life for me. I do still work a little bit behind the scenes helping others bot with affiliate marketing and setting up blogs this is in addition to using squidoo for bum marketing. It is mostly a hobby and a past time than anything else.

Besides generating revenue through squidoo and interacting with the community there it does a great job in helping you identify crazy terms people will use to find things online. One thing that surprised me the most is how many people look for New Jersey car lots versus looking for car dealers.

I do believe that it is the type of customer that most dealership do not wish to attract unless they participate in special finance. However if that is their cup of tea it is an easy market to dominate.

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Discovering Very Unlikely Niches Using Squidoo

There is no doubt about it I love squidoo.  In helping a persona recently we discovered a niche that is prime for the exploiting by accident.  We created one lens targeted to buy here pay here and the traffic is incredible for what I thought was a worthless search term.

Not only is the traffic good the income from the affiliate networks is nothing to sneeze at either.  This coupled with the squidoo traffic and the earning power of squidoo this is definitely a tool that any bum marketer should utilize.  Currently I earn a little over $300 a month from squidoo.  Nothing to sneeze at.

Oh well time to figure out some some other niche to exploit.

Exploiting Automotive Keywords

Automotive SEO is a joke compared to other industries. Part of the Squidoo project my friend and I are running is we are looking for medium competition keywords and see how much traffic we can draw from them. A jewel that we found was Buy Here Pay Here Lots in Indiana the daily search volume is moderate and the competition on the longtail is almost non existent.

It will be fun to see how much traffic can be generated on these terms.  On another note the lens that is targeting Tulsa Chevrolet Dealer is probably poorly created based on the keyword research I have done.  We are looking to add a couple more to the mix to see how long it takes to rank really high.  Right now we are still stuck on page five!!

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Planting a Squidoo Bomb

I know that traffic arbitrage is more about buying traffic for one price and selling it for another. That business model is almost dead with the changes in PPC.  I also know that most affiliate marketers do not talk much about the niches they are in.  I am going to break that cycle now.

I work full time as an automotive marketing consultant and have a few clients.  New client acquisition is slow right now because the industry is in a tail spin.  Since I do not have full time to devote to affiliate marketing I am slowly working with someone to build an automotive squidoo empire.

This will do a few things when the automotive market starts to recover.  It will allow me to have established properties that can easily be transferred to or used to market future clients.  Second it will allow us to earn some income from squidoo and affiliate offers in the meantime.

I was turned onto using squidoo for this when I showed someone how easy it is to rank for non competitive keywords like "Special Financing Tulsa".  Now as stated in a previous post we are going after Tulsa Chevrolet terms with squidoo.  Right now we have one lens ranking low and are adding a dozen over the next week.

We are also going after some other terms and will post about them as well.  I have a domain I was saving for a squidoo car marketing squeeze page but now will turn it into a blog.  So keep an eye out for it.

Some people people in the industry will not like what I am doing and will probably try to cause trouble over it, but hey I am a big boy and can stand the heat!!!

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Automotive Marketing - Now is the Time for Affiliates to Get Geared Up

Right now car dealers are closing left and right and they are not spending money like they should online.  Mainly because car dealers do not understand it as well as traditional advertising.  The Internet is DrivingSales at an alarming rate and it is a way for affiliates who wish to captialize on the automotive industries weak internet presence will be way a head of the game when the industry starts to recover.

Just the other day I was speaking with a Hyundai Dealer who does not have a clue about the Internet and they were wondering why their website traffic was flat.  It is because affiliates were kicking their ass for their own name.  it is the dealers that are taking advantage of this soft spot that will win at the end of the day when the market recovers.

On another note the lens my protegie made to generate leads for Tusla Chevrolet Dealers is already showing in the search eninges on page five.  It will not be long before it is on page one.  I will estimate the time that it will take is about 2 weeks.

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Trading out = leverage of assets

I am in the process of creating a new site to market business to business internet marketing services too.  I need some graphics made so I traded some squidoo lenses out for graphic design.  Now she is runing away with the content and will slowly take away Tulsa Bad Credit Car Loan and Tulsa Chevrolet keywords.

Sometimes you just find niches to exploit in interesting ways.

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