I looked at your sites and you are right buying traffic for those sites would be very expensive. But that doesn’t mean it would be prohibitive, it all depends on your conversion ratio. If the advertising brings in more money then it costs then you are ahead.

With that said if you are looking for free traffic you can get it through a blog similar to this one. Blogs can get you to the top of the search engines and you can get traffic that way if you have the right keywords in your domain name. See my post:

http://www.startingsteps.com/internet-marketing/seo/first-page-in-google

Then you need to show your prospective customers that you actually know something about the topic, especially with handicapping, people want to know that the information they are getting is coming from somebody that has actually done it. Even to sign up to your free offer. Just make a couple of posts on you blog about handicapping techniques that DON’T WORK and why they don’t work and offer your free system as a solution to that problem. Then you offer the upsell to your book.

But the first thing you need to do is establish yourself as an expert and a blog is a great way to do this. You can show off your knowledge and gain a following.

Randy The Hermit

My problem is fighting the corruption and outright lies and thievery in this line of business. Getting traffic to my site is difficult and I have more or less bankrupted myself by trying to learn how to market on the Internet. Seems there are shysters in Internet marketing also.

My question is how to get targeted traffic to my web site without hundreds of $ advertising in the Daily Racing Form, the one paper all horse players read. Thanks in advance for any any help you can be.

Jerry Stokes
http://www.a1handicapping.com/
http://www.restlessgold.com/

That is a good question I assume you are talking about your Review Boss site because I looked at it and you are in Google, Yahoo and Ask but you don’t show up at all in MSN not even for a backlink.

The only way this could possibly happen is if you were delisted by MSN.

Now there are a number of reasons that you could have been delisted but I am going to assume you haven’t been running any BlackHat techniques on your site.

You are doing the right things with the sitemap and the robots.txt so that rules out just about everything except the latest rumor I have heard. I call this a rumor because I haven’t tested it and no one I know has tested it but it appears that if you have Google Adsense on your site you won’t turn up in MSN.

If you want to read more there is a link to a post below you will see that you aren’t alone.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/66297-is-microsoft-screening-its-search-results

I want to know how to get my Wordpress blog indexed by MSN…I’m asking very basic question…it’s really amazing that MSN can’t even index a site which gets 1000’s visitors from Google.

I can get my static sites get indexed by MSN…no problem

Regards
Mr. RB
http://reviewboss.com

I will take a look. You should enjoy today’s post it is titled, “Being Randy in the UK”

PMSL …. With always thinking of you as Randy the Hermit - or Randy from Marketing Beginners, I hadn’t given mush thought to your surname !!!!!!!!

You must have had some fun in the UK at the time ….hehe

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Just read through the new posts … There’s some good content there, I hope people soak it up.

On the themes you’ve been writing, I’d love to have you review and add a copy of my ‘7KeyElements’ to your site - possibly as a freebie for subscribers … give me a shout if you have the time to take a look and I’ll send you a download link.

Randy
http://www.7KeyElements.com

This is a good topic for a post because keywords and tags are different entities. Look for a post on this early next week.

In particular on blogs should tags be keywords in the title and the body of the page / post? How many should you use for maximum effect? I’ve heard that too many causes search engine problems (thought of as spamming).

Should tags be words that are highly searched? Any help much appreciated

Don’t tell people I don’t want their money, because then they won’t give it to me

Good to hear from you and thanks of the kind words.