Video: Website Reviews By Google

This is a great video I found while randomly working on something else online.  It’s a bit long, but worth it.

The video shows several website reviews by Google’s Matt Cutts at a recent conference (May 2009).  Great info for any web marketer, webmaster, SEO, etc.

What’s covered (without ruining the whole thing):

• Some old SEO myths dispelled (and some stuff that still applies)
• The truth about using flash on your website
• Some good, common sense usability tips any webmaster can take advantage of
• And more…

Check it out…learn it…use it. 

Video Tip: Adding an Optin Form After Each Blog Post to Boost Your Number of Subscribers

Here’s a quick video showing at least one way to use a tip I found out about over at the AWeber blog.

I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating…if you’re looking for great tips on email marketing, you should head over to AWeber and sign up for their email list (whether you use their service or not). They give some awesome tips on getting the most out of your email marketing campaigns, like the tip that prompted me to do this video.

IMPORTANT: Be sure to make a backup of any files you edit before following the steps covered in the video. Probably not necessary, but always a good practice.

Anyway, leave a comment below and let me know what you think and if you’d like to see more videos like this.

If You’ve Never Failed, You’ve Never Lived

Not to get all touchy feely and all, but here’s a little inspiration for you. 

I found this posted on another site I visit quite a bit. 

I think this is something that will strike a chord with just about every entrepreneur or budding business owner.  Whenever you get the crazy idea in your head that you’re going to quite, just think what would have happened if one of these people had decided that!  Amazing!

Kenton

P.S. – If you know of any other similar "failed on the way to success" type stories, please take a second to tell us about it by leaving a comment below.

Video Tip of the Week: Creating Web-Based Forms Made Brain-Dead Simple

Here’s a quick video featuring a cool site that allows you to easily create forms for your site.  They have a ton of features you can use in your web forms and the site is totally free.  Be sure to leave your comments below…you might want to watch this one through to the very end.

Video Tip of the Week: Instantly Track How You’re Spending Time on Your Computer

Here’s an awesome free service I found out about a little while ago and just got around to doing this video preview.  Want to be totally FREAKED OUT at how you spend your time while you’re at the comptuer?  Go check this out.  Actually, it’s a really great service and a freebie too.  Hope you like it.

Video Tip of the Week: Brainstorm Hundreds of Great Domain Names in a Couple of Clicks

Here’s a little video tip of the week covering a cool website you can use to brainstorm killer domain names for your next website.  No more fumbling though a thesaurus or spending hours trying to find a good domain name that’s actually available.  Check out this totally free site and find great, available domain names in a couple of clicks.  Check it out…

~Kenton Newby

Video Tip of the Week: Automatically Backing Up Critical Data

This video tip covers one of my favorite services.  It’s super affordable and an absolute necessity if you’re an online business owner, offline business owner or if you just have critical files on your computer that you couldn’t stand to lose. 

At only $2/GB, this thing is a steal.  Check it out and let me know what you think. 

As always, comments are open.

Video Tip of the Week: Automatically Finding Ideas for New Website Content

This video is hopefully the first of MANY "Video Tips of the Week".

In this video, I go over one of my favorite online tools (and a freebie at that).  It not only shows you which sites your traffic is coming from and which terms people used in the search engines to find your site, but it also provides you with suggestions for creating new content to bring even more people your way. 

Basically it suggests terms that people searched for that actually led them to your site.  But typically these suggestions are terms your site isn’t ranking that highly for…yet.  The idea is to create additional content based on those terms (e.g., a new blog post or article using each term and with solid content for your readers). 

If you "bumbled" your way to the 30th or 40th position in Google for some search term without even trying, it stands to reason that you’ll enjoy an even better ranking (and hopefully more traffic) if you have content specifically for that keyword phrase.

Plus this tool does a good job of showing you the "long tail" for your specific site.  It’s pretty cool to see how much traffic comes from so many wide and varied terms.

Anyway, enough chatter.  Check out the video and let me know what you think.

Cosmic Zoom

Well, here’s another cool video I found. 

Kind of appeals to the space guy in me since I always thought that would be the coolest job in the world, so to speak.

Geez I feel tiny…

Are You Giving Your Best?

What an awesome, motivational video!  I saw this at a weekend training event I went to awhile back and finally found it online.

It’s good to look at something like this on those days when life knocks you upside the head. 

Enjoy!