Here is some interesting keyword info I got from Jim Morris (NicheBot).

WordTracker = 0.63% of all Internet traffic (coming from Dogpile and Metacrawler) and is valid for the last 100 days.

Keyword Discovery = 1% of all Internet traffic (coming from a toolbar used on browswers in making searches) and is valid for the last year. There are 2 databases: (1) Premium, which is the current one (about a billion search terms), and (2) Historical, which has about 32 billion search terms but the figures are all over the map. The Historical Database is used mostly to suggest long-tail phrases.

Google = +-50% of all Internet traffic (coming only from Google) and is valid for the last year, but Google also omits stuff all the time to keep ahead of gamers.

Just something to think about when doing keyword research. You read right, too. WordTracker and Keyword Discovery together represent less than 2% of Internet searches while Google gets around 50%. This is for traffic.

For number of sites (competition), use the intitle:http://URL command to get pages actually optimized for the keyword, which is the real competition. Simple number of pages will change, but the optimized ones will tend to stick around. And they will compete on purpose.

If you don't understand what this means or implies, look it up. You might learn something (and it is well worth learning). Even if you don't, put it in your writing, anyway. It's both correct and great BS to impress customers with.

This is post 200.

I am supposed to be crossing a divide or something and enter the halls of Valhalla.

Finally, I can't think of anything to say. Just bullshit.

Hell, I can't think of a better place to bullshit than on this thread. So here I am.

200 and rocking.

great read here....

Here's a wonderful BS idea about how to present testimonials. I wish I had thought of it, but I didn't. I stumbled across it here on BHW. I am quoting the post below. The poster is talking about testimonials for get rich quick schemes:

This is a way to make the testimonial techniques (if they can be called that) given earlier in this thread killer persuaders.

This really tickles the negative psychological triggers. (There I go laughing again...)

Vanity, thy name is dumb-ass witness.

Very true.. People alot of people think they are smarter than others. Therefore "if stupid people can do it", "then I can do it much better"

Stumickel...thanks for the great read. One of the funniest, and yet sad but true, threads I've read in any forum in a long time.

"Nothing warms the heart (or has the ability to lighten a wallet) quicker than a nice heaping cup of grade A quality BS!"

--O. Winfrey

Good read m8.

Thanks for the eye opener Stu, I'm a bit guilty of falling in love with my niche but I have very good reasons for it.

funny because it's true---quality post mate

somebody read 'multiple streams of internet income'

nice lengthy post with a lot of good marketing advice included.

Stumickel thanks for your great post.. you are a deep one..

your post greatly influence me more than the guru shit out there..

maybe i try to paraphrase it simpler

U must at least have a tiny weeny bit of self esteem/self respect..
"you got to at least believe what you are selling
ie better quality shit or else

the sales result you get gonna reflect it
cos deep down inside of you are revolted by what u are selling

gogglecash,

Thank you. That comment meant more to me than you can imagine.

You are a rose...

Great Info! Helped a lot. Thanks

Here is another psychological trigger I got from reading Seth Godin.

People don't like to be wrong.

When you tell them a story, try to make it reinforce the message that they have been right all along. This works well with deep values like morals or whether God exists, but it also includes superficial ones like an opinion about so-and-so.

For marketing, one form where this trigger works well is to advertise something negative, deliver a positive message about it, make the audience feel it has been right all along, then hit them with the offer.

For instance, on a superficial level, if your target market believes that Obama is the best thing since sliced bread, advertise a position to them that he has some serious shortcoming. Then tell the tale ending up proving that the shortcoming was only an impression and the truth is that he is even stronger than thought. Any Obama supporter will feel he was right all along, despite being hooked into the tale by the doubting Obama headline. Now that he feels good and knows you are on his side, trust has been established and he is more