See the Video at Bobalu's

Jeff from Bobalu’s leads the life I dream of!  He just spent the past couple of weeks selling cigars down at Daytona Bike Week.

Babes, Bikes and Bobalu’s! (Jeff’s site is going to be the highest traffic site of all my clients!)

Fortunately, Jeff is doing a great job using sales automation software to convert those wet t-shirt contest video leads into clients.

You have to check out the videos Jeff took down at Bike Week (WARNING: wait until the kids go to bed!).

Btw… while you’re there make sure to get on Jeff’s newsletter. You’re going to want to see the updates!

You can stop worrying about Search Engine Optimization.  There is an easy way to get more traffic to your site so that SEO comes naturally.

Start a Blog.

Not just any blog.  You have to set it up right so that it is fully optimized for google and the other search engines.  You also have to have a posting strategy that works.  When you do these 2 things you will get results. (hang on til the end and I’ll show you how)

Want proof?

I’ll compare my site, the one you are on right now with the  web site grader of a random site I found of a local business, Marygrove Awnings of Austin, TX.

We’ll use a great, FREE tool called Web Site Grader, put out by Hub Spot.

Now, take a look at Marygrove’s web site grade results.  This site scores only a 63 (out of 100).  Scroll down and you will see that the site has been up for over 11 years, yet only has 45 pages indexed by google.

The search engines do not like sites like these because they are not frequently updated.  Their content gets stale.

On the other hand, this site, SteveRosenbaum.com is optimized much better for the search engines to drive traffic to it.  It scores a 93!  Even though this particular site has only been up for less than 6 months, Google has indexed over 139 pages on it!

Do you want to set up your site to get more traffic, while saving yourself a lot of money, time and aggravation? Ask me about my turnkey blog installation and training program.  In less than 2 days, you can completely upgrade your site to be fully optimized with a custom, full-featured blog installed on your own private domain.

Send me an email, and tell me more about your needs.

Congratulations to Sylvia Seabolt and Gale Dunn on their new blog Lake Ray Hubbard Living.  The ladies asked me how to start a blog for their real estate business.  So I provided them with a complete turnkey solution.   It took less than 24 hours to deliver a fully functioning wordpress blog package.   In addition, the site is fully linked to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

The ladies have been doing a great job posting!  The best part… the site’s been up about 1 week and  Google has already indexed more than 20 pages!

If you’re not blogging, you need to start.  I can help you set up your blog, customized to your tastes.  In addition, I provide personal training, plus, give you access to over 1000 world-class internet marketing training videos that show you how to drive tons of traffic to your site.

Contact me via email at Steve@SteveRosenbaum.com and let me know how I can help you.

This week I’ve helped many people from Virtual Real Estate BarCamp (#VREBC) that took advantage of my offer for a free blog critique. I’ve seen some great looking blogs, but many of the people that asked for my help did not have a strong blogging strategy and technique that would help them get good search engine results and strong backlinks.

That’s why I made this video called Blog Posting Secrets.

Watch over my shoulder, as I show you step by step how I wrote today’s blog post “Free Webinar – CRM Software: Your Constant Contact Cash Machine” . (Sorry, I was a little tongue tied today… so I sound a bit funny. But the content of this video more than makes up for it!)

Let’s take this post to the next level… Leave your comments about how you write your blog posts.

This Spring, Jay Thompson’s PhoenixRealEstateGuy took home Inman’s Most Innovative Blog Award.  It turns out that Inman is not Thompson’s only fan… so is Google!

The web is amuck with “SEO Experts” touting ways to manipulate the system to improve your search engine rankings.  Thompson proves theres no trickery needed.  The best way to consistently come out on top for important search terms is to provide good, timely, relevant content and become the trusted authority in your field.

Here’s an incredible example of how powerful and quickly good blogging can get you top search engine results.

On July 28, 2009, Horizon Realty in Chicago caused a buzz in the social media world when they announced that they were suing one of their tenants for making a negative tweet to her 22 followers.

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This caused an immediate backlash.  Thousands of people blogged, tweeted and retweeted lethal attacks on Horizon ranging from the humorous to the rediculous.

Amazingly, the search term “Horizon Realty” skyrocketed from next to nothing to Number 66 on the Google Hot Trends… That’s right 66 on all of Google!

PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com did what it does best.  It reported on important relevant news that effected it’s industry, as it happened.

And Google LOVED IT!

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So much so, that Google rewarded PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com with the number 3 blog post return and high ranking on it’s regular search.

Think about that.

In the course of a few hours an event happened that causes a search term to become one of the hottest on the web, and Jay Thompson, because of the trust and authority he had built up, was able to capture those eyeballs and bring them to his site.

How valuable is that?

News events happen all the time.  You need to earn Google’s trust over time by being a consistent and reputable reporter.  When you do, Google will reward you for your efforts.

Congrats to you Jay, and thank you for being a leader in the social media movement.

Social Media widgets and viral buttons are everywhere.  But I’ve never seen 2 more powerful buttons than these.  Here are step-by-step instructions how to create these beauties on your blog posts:

There are many reasons these are so great:

• They’re BIG!

• They link to the BIG BOYS! (twitter and facebook)

• Most importantly, they do all the work for your reader.

Take a look what happens when you select the buttons.  They open a new page and prefill your status on Twitter or Facebook with a link to the post.  All your reader has to do is press “Enter” and you will get virally posted to your all your readers friends.

These are easy to use.  Simply Copy and paste this code into your blog post.

<a href=”http://twitter.com/home?status=Magic+Viral+Buttons+For+Your+Blog+Posts.%22+Watch+This+Video.%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly/2scdXW+” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://steverosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/twitter_share.png” border=”0″ alt=”Twitter” width=”230″ height=”47″ /></a><a href=”http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://steverosenbaum.com/magic-viral-social-media-buttons-for-your-blog-posts” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://steverosenbaum.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/facebook_share.png” border=”0″ alt=”Facebook” width=”255″ height=”47″ /></a>

CAUTION: You will need to edit the twitter message and the facebook url, or your buttons will post right back to me!  Yes, I would love that, and thank you kindly, but the idea is to make this work for you.  The twitter code gets a little cumbersome substituting “+” between words and a couple other codes like %22 for ” “, %3A for “:” and %2F for “/” in the link.  Don’t worry, after a couple of times, you’ll get the hang of it.  Just open up a notepad file and make the changes.

Make it easy for all your online friends to find your social media sites.  This video tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process of creating custom redirect pages.  It’s easy to do and takes no more than 10 minutes to do all your sites. A definite “Do” for your social media marketing.  After watching the video, scroll down for the code and step by step instructions on how to create your redirects

Here is the code for your “index.php” page:

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://facebook.com/steverosenbaum’ ) ;
?>

Repeat these steps to create redirects for all of your social media sites.  When your done, list them all on your blog and twitter profile.

1. Make a list of all your social media accounts
2. Copy php code into notepad
3. Save as index.php
4. Use FTP Software to Access your Server
5. Create directory
6. Upload index.php to server
7. Repeat for all sites

Create these redirects and watch your traffic explode! If you like the content of this video, please make sure to let me know in the comment section and tell all your friends on twitter, facebook, etc.