I think you’d be as shocked as I was to hear the answers.

My biggest upset is with this:

Question: In respects to social media websites, such as Twitter, how does a business professional, like myself, implement and entertain the concept of obtaining clients for my business?

Answer: I don’t know. I really don’t know because there is no answer to that. In fact, Twitter is still trying to figure that out themselves. I know someone who has a list of 100,000 followers and gets absolutely nothing out of it.

Now… these are social media experts, alright? Experts on social media… shouldn’t they know how to make money from it? If not, why be an expert in it?

The REAL answer to that question is COMMUNICATION!

Yes, there are such factors such as what type of business industry, product, service and so on, but the NUMBER 1 way to getting business out of sites like Twitter is COMMUNICATION.

You have to post updates. You have to initiate conversations. You have to maintain connections. You have to follow up. This can be VERY time consuming. But that’s what it will take to get clients off of these sites.

It works. No doubt about it.

However, there are automated services to initiate conversations. There are automated services that automatically responds and talk to individuals. There are automated services that automatically add and remove followers (and non-followers, respectively).

Finally… just outsource the damn thing! It’s not hard. It will save you time and money.

Most of all, Twitter already figured out how to make money. They have their own PPC program where you can send out ads to folks who mention a specific keyword term… oh, but Twitter still doesn’t know how to make money yet. Sure.

SEO Trends

Yes, they did mention that Google indexes Twitter updates. That’s news from like October, 2009 or something. I can’t remember for sure.

However, why didn’t they mention that Google is also indexing Facebook pages? Wouldn’t that be something important the audience should know?

How ’bout the idea of Google “PR” no longer being called PR?

Question: I remember the good ol’ days… like last month… when I do a search for “web design dallas texas”, I would get a local map results, but now they’re gone. Why is that?

Answer: Just like many of the beta programs Google comes out with, they sometime stay beta for years and never really get released. With this in particular case, Google has determined that certain keywords require maps and some don’t. I.E. someone searching for a dentist would want to know exactly where it is, but one who searches for a design firm might not care for a map.

Actually, the answer to the question was pretty dead on. The reason I bring this up though is that, I think everyone there missed the importance of this answer. The person who answered probably doesn’t even realize it.

To an SEO, this is huge. It should be ringing the fire alarm and gun shots are going off to indicate that this is CRITICAL information. I’ll keep this to myself unless I get enough inquiries about it.

Website Feedback

One person there got some feedback from the panel on how to improve his website. Most of the advice was pretty sound, but still lacking in terms of importance.

1. You need a 301 – check.
   - Yes, a 301 redirect will definitely be helpful for his site since his site loads individually with and without “www”.
2. You need better titles – check.
   - Yes, a more descriptive title (max of 63 characters) will help with ranking better.
3. You need to use alt tags – check.
   - Yes, having alt tags in your images will help generate traffic via the image search engines and get the images indexed.
4. You should use less codes – check.
   - Yes, search engines like Google do consider a codes to content ratio. It’s just part of their quality score and will considered when ranking your site for specific search terms.
5. You should have a site tracker – check.
   - Yes, you should have a way to track your visitors and see what they are doing. However, they should not be scaring the guy as if it’s the end of the world. He DOES still have his weblog, which provides much similar data, but in raw format. As much as I like Google Analytics, it is still only about 75% accurate in picking up data.

These are good stuff, but here’s what’s missing (and no, I won’t cover everything, but these are important):

1. Don’t worry about the meta keywords.
   - Google doesn’t use them! Yet they’re still telling this person to concentrate on that. Here’s proof.
2. Include meta descriptions.
   - Oh, yeah! This is ultra important in your search results. Well, important to the user, that is. Description meta tags are NOT included in Google’s score to determine how well you rank. However, what you describe is important to the user and determine whether they want to look or not.
3. I’m not going to say it.
   - I was trying to help the guy out, but he blew me off when I told him about the description meta tag. He’s missing out on an instant 5-figure income just by implementing this simple concept. It’s sad, but it’s not my problem. Let’s put it this way – ranking better and higher is the LEAST of his concerns.

Well, that’s all for tonight. There’s just too much to talk about. Have a good one and I hope to provide more useful information for you in the future.

As an extra bonus tip for you, since you’re reading, if you’re concerned about keyword density. Don’t. Keyword density absolutely does not matter. What’s important is the flow and ease of reading your content. Concentrate on connecting with your users rather than the search engines. Search engines like to play hard-to-get, so just ignore them.

Sincerely,
Kevin Lam

P.S. I almost forgot. The guys there kept  saying “content is king”. No it’s not and even if it is, backlinks is queen. And we all know the queen controls the king (look at the game Chess!).

Just because you wrote it, it doesn’t mean you’ll instantly and magically have visitors. It REALLY depends on the level of competition, how many people are writing about it, how many people are searching for terms related to it, how well your site is ranked, when your page/post was indexed, how many backlinks it has and so on.

Point is, the content must have relevance to the search queries and the page/post should have good backlinks to ensure getting visitors. Yes, there are times I’d write about something and I’d immediately get traffic. That is not always the case though.

Townview High School

Can you tell I’m ambitious?

Yes, I’m what you call an over-achiever.

You give me something to do, I do more than what you’d expect. It’s not to brag or show off, but it’s just my personality – the way I am.

And if you had asked me if I expected to do anything I am doing now 10 years ago when I was in the 10th grade, I would have told you that you are crazy. I could never have imagined that I’d be invited to speak at high schools, talking to clients and companies who’s net earnings are in the millions. That’s just insane.

But I’m doing it.

I’m doing it every day of my life now. I’m now getting attention from “gurus” who I use to buy products from and I know they will contact me later after the launch of my current client: StupidSimpleSystem.com

I can’t wait to open the flood gates and see if I can get it to convert at over 5%. If we hit our goal of a certain number of visitors and convert at 5%, we can easily hit $1,000,000 in sales. Alright, there’s my crazy update for Monday morning.

Oh, I almost forgot. I was invited to speak at the School of Science and Engineering at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center in Dallas, Texas. Never been there, hehe, but it sounds cool. They’re 2nd in the nation for science education. Pretty awesome stuff.

Alright, time to get some water and get back to work.

Sincerely,
Kevin Lam

Blue-screen, green-screen, chroma-key - it’s all the same thing. To put simply this is the process of filming a scene, object or person in front of a pure coloured screen (typically either blue or green) so that the colour can be removed later to achieve certain special effects.

The majority of major motion pictures use at least some blue-screen work so chances are you may find a use for it in your own production as well. The most common use for blue-screen is to provide a backdrop for your actors when it may not be feasible (financially or practically) to actually film in the desired location. So if you want your actors to be standing on an active volcano you may choose to find some volcano footage and then film your actors in front of a blue-screen. Using the power of technology you can then remove the blue and replace with the volcano footage. Easy. Well may be not. All this bollocks will be covered in later tutorials but for now we want to just build our blue-screen first…

>>READ MORE HERE…

And if you can’t have a whole room to yourself, you could always build a PORTABLE GREEN SCREEN. Here’s MORE on green screens from another resource.

Now let’s move on to some lighting tricks:

Three secrets to getting pro quality video lighting on a shoestring budget.

In most cases, the biggest difference between video perceived as being ‘professional’ and that perceived as being ‘amateur’ is the quality of lighting in the video.

A well lit video - even one shot with a home camcorder - immediately delivers a professional image. While a poorly lit video, no matter how expensive a camcorder was used to shoot it, says ‘amateur’.

>>READ MORE HERE…

If anyone else has more details on creating your own video production from home, please share them here. I’d definitely like to learn more myself. And yes, I’ll be going to YouTube later to learn a few tricks, lol.

Here’s one I like: Lighting Tricks by Digital Juice

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_QWP8xrGf8

As the reports was saying, Bing’s paid click share were because of its strong performance on its Trade and Finance search verticals part that is gaining eleven percent and twenty two percent click shares. As the summer just passed, vacation and travel searches were made by vacationers it is more expected that there will be a lot of searches for very second in the internet world, since net is the fastest way of exploring every part of this world.

The main twist now is: The users actually used Bing for making a search instead of their old and trusty search engine.

This may be shocking news to Bing’s competition and that will be Google. This will start up much bigger flames that will make more adjustments for Bing and Google.

As for Bing’s new found success, they can only make this better and brighter. A good middle start is not that bad and this only shows that Bing has something to say to the world and that it will even show us how good they get.

This is one great start for Yahoo! and Microsoft deal. We can only wait for what’s more to come.

Just so you know though… we’re rooting for Google.

So I don’t know who messed this up, but it’s still funny. I wonder how many other items are like this right now. Anyone find some interesting ones to mention?

The size of a person’s follower list does NOT determine their authority, credibility nor expertise of anything. I’ve seen self-proclaimed experts give suggestions that simply defy the rules or flat out don’t make sense. Why they are still so convincing, I don’t know.

I can understand using this tactic for niche marketing and the such, but to use it for your primary business, it’s really not anything that I have any respect for. I mean, now-a-days it’s like all Twitter is good for is to market to each other rather than stay in touch with friends or family. I think we’ve lost grasp of that and have become a greedy bunch of people who simply want to promote and make money off of others.

I will continue to grow my Twitter account organically and constantly removing people who’s updates are 90%+ promotion. I want to meet and interact with REAL people, not a robot. If I wanted to play with a robot, I’d go buy one.

So here’s the ad that I saw:

Okay, yeah, I also looked because it’s my home town, Grand Prairie, Texas. I was wanting to see how folks in my neighborhood are making money and maybe we could meet up some time.

Anyway, this is the page I came to (daily-job-news.com):

Noticed that I underlined my city, Grand Prairie. I thought to myself, “I bet you this isn’t even real”. I decided to view-source and see the page properties.

Here is what I found:

The web page is claiming that “Mary Steadman” is from Grand Prairie and is making so and so much money. However, how can it be true, when the city name is simply a javascript that displays the city name based on your IP address? So Mary Steadman could be from Chicago, Denver, Sacramento, New York, Okinawa and anywhere else in the world. Either way, that alone tells me that it’s a straight up scam.

It’s not strategy, it’s lying. Stay far, far away from this one folks. You don’t have to take my word for it, just do a search online.

So the next time you see a program/site that claims someone is from a particular city or whatever and is making a lot of money, this is a DEAD give away whether it’s legitimate or a scam. Good luck!

Well, you better make sure you’re doing something for that – SIT UP STRAIGHT! Your posture, whether you’re sitting down or standing up, combined with correct breathing have a definite effect on the human body, and in turn, the human mind. Slouching in your chair for hours at a time will cramp your back and will later cause back injuries. Sitting up straight keeps your back aligned and out of harms way.

I have a roommate who slouches while walking AND standing up. When he DOES straighten his back he practically grows 4-6 inches. It threw me off guard when I one day found out he was 6’1 and not 5’9. And what do you think he complains about the most? Yep, his back hurts. I wonder why.

People have also asked me how I continue to keep my abs so tone and in shape even though I almost never do sit-ups and crunches. It all has to do with keeping it controled with both diet and excercising without excercising? I know, it doesn’t make sense to you now but let me explain.

I excercise without excercising because throughout my entire day I am CONSTANTLY flexing my stomach and keeping my 6-packed formed. I actively, and practically unconsciously now, flex it in which causes the muscle to do some work without adding full resistance such as doing situps and crunches.

No, I don’t tighten it to the point of exhaustion or so tight that it’s hard to breathe. I just flex it enough to feel that I AM flexing it. You can try it at any time of the day. For instance, you’re sitting in your chair right now, right? Go ahead, sit up straight and then slightly tighten your abs. Remember, it’s not suppose to hurt, breathe steadily and smoothly.

Give that a try twice a day for 5-10 minutes and over time you will be comfortable with it and forget that you’re even doing that. Am I a licensed trainer? No, but I know through experience and by being a martial arts instructor. I helped a friend of mine trim down more than 30 lbs in a matter of months without starving him or making him run 10-15 miles a day.

You may also be wondering why I even talk about sitting posture and working out in my blog. It’s because it has to do with your health, your well-being and eventually the outcome of your online business. If your back is hurting will you have a lot of time to sit-down and work on your business? If you’re out of shape and in bad health will you have the time or focus to work on your business? Of course not. That is why you should take care of yourself and understand that part of being successful in business you have to be aware of your personal well-being.