We have now used TubeMogul to upload our "Diarrhoea Out of Control™" video to 11 different video hosting sites.  Some of our other videos are also now available on one or two other video hosts apart from YouTube. Today I'm going to go over our search engine rankings, with particular emphasis on the rankings of our videos.  I'll also update you on the fun and games we've been involved in over on the Warrior Forum.

Most exciting of all is the fact that we have at long last generated our first income!  Our PayPal account still reads $0.00, but our Revver account shows "Current Earnings $0.14" Mighty oaks from little acorns grow

If you haven't come across Revver before, it is one of the video hosting sites that TubeMogul can upload your videos to.  Unlike YouTube and most other such sites, Revver attaches advertisements to your videos.  If anyone clicks on one of your ads you get a share of the revenue; a sort of AdSense for video, if you like. Hence our extremely modest, but undoubtedly non-zero, income.

Onwards and upwards to the Warrior Forum.  Two complete topics in which I have made a number of posts are now completely invisible.  One remains, but is now locked, with no further posting possible. Since it seems as though the only way to ensure one's comments hang around for more than a few hours I have started my own topic over there, entitled "Internet Marketing With No Money Down™ ?".  Please feel free to come on over, make a post or two of your own, and join in the fun!

One commentator on the Warrior Forum opined about our "Long tail keywords… what a joke".  I was forced to agree.  It causes me much childish amusement to discover we are currently top of the Google rankings for long tail keyphrases such as Frank Kern Sucks, Mass Control Sucks, and Surfing with Frank Kern. (By and large the same applies to the other search engines too)

If the commentator meant to imply that we are unlikely to become millionaires on the basis of those rankings then I have to agree again.  What of keyphrases that might conceivably convert into income at some point in the foreseeable future?  Well , we are now on the first page of the Google rankings for Affilate Video Brander Review, and our news release to imnewswatch.com is at number 3 AND 4 for just Affilate Video Brander.  On a Google video search we are now number 3 AND 4 for affiliate video brander. Last but most certainly not least we occupy the whole of the first page and a fair chunk of the second for our new brand Diarrhoea Out of Control™!

If you examine that link carefully you will see that each of the videos we uploaded from TubeMogul are ranked seperately.  No duplicate content penalties in Video Heaven! Forget about SEO as you have known it up until now.  From this day forward Video Search Engine Optimization rules! OK?

As part of the launch of our innovative Diarrhoea Out of Control™ Marketing System, and to highlight our SEO skills, I did a "Surfing with Frank Kern" publicity stunt over on the Warrior Forum at the weekend.  It seems to have stirred up a bit of a hornets nest, and currently the entire thread is nowhere to be seen.  Now you may think that toilet humour is beneath a serious internet marketer, but there is a very serious point to this, which hopefully you can discern from some of the other posts on this blog.  Fortunately I had camtasia working when I made the first post.  The resulting, fair quality, video can be seen below: 

The link which caused me such amusement is:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=US&q=diarrhoea+out+of+control

Does it still work for you?  Is it amusing? Is it and/or the video enlightening?

P.S.  This post was first published at 09:05 GMT. It is now 10:45 GMT.  We are already at number 4 in the Google natural search rankings for the keyphrase surfing with Frank Kern and number 7 for Frank Kern Surfing.  Would you like to know how we did that?  Sign up for our newsletter!

P.P.S. As I hinted at over on the Warrior Forum yesterday, in the topic which you can no longer see, I used TubeMogul to upload several copies of the above video to different video sites last night.  Click on my "toilet humour" link again now.  Are you beginning to see any light at the end of the tunnel?

P.P.P.S It is now 15:27 GMT.  I've been trying  to get on the Warrior Forum for ages to say good morning to our fellow surfers from SoCal, but there seem to be some problems.  Earlier it said "Temporary Closed Due To A Security Issue". Now it tells me "Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0126' - Include file not found - /forum/Default.asp, line 40 - The include file 'config.asp' was not found."

It's now just over an hour since I posted the article about Traffic Geyser, and I've set SEO Elite off to do it's thing again.  Where do we stand  on the natural search rankings now?  Well we are moving up for all sorts of keyphrases on a variety of search engines.  Now I know that I have a weird sense of humour, but it for some strange reason it causes me great amusement to discover that we are currently  ranked 17 on AltaVista for "blogger gurus" (without the quotes)  and 21 on AllTheWeb for "adsense gurus" (again without the quotes).  This is hugely entertaining, but is not really very likely to put bread on the table.

I have a feeling that it will be ultimately more relevant that my recent post is now ranked by Google at 16 out of 796 on a search for traffic geyser michael koenigs.  Interestingly this is a few places ahead of Joel Comm's own YouTube review of Traffic Geyser. We are also in position 101 out of 238,000 for just traffic geyser.  To round things off we have also inched up to 104 at Google on a search for Secret Classroom.

On the traffic front Google Analytics reports that we got a few clicks on the natural search results yesterday, a lot of which were undoubtedly just us testing things.  We also got 13 referrals from the Warrior Forum.  A tiny trickle of traffic is a whole lot better than nothing at all!

To the best of my knowledge total sales still stand at $0.

We've now got SEO Elite configured to check what progress we have made in the Google natural search results for a variety of keyphrases.  Yesterday we just wanted to know if we'd been indexed, which happened very quickly.  Today we want to know where we stand for keyphrases that people might actually type into their Google toolbars when trying to find out more about the Secret Classroom course.

Things can change very quickly this early in a campaign, but at the moment on a search for "Joel Comm Secret Classroom" (without the quotes) Google ranks us at number 29 out of  9,930.  A search for "Secret Classroom" (again without the quotes) puts us at 108 out of 798,000.  Total sales (that I am currently aware of) stand at $0!

The first step on the long road to becoming an internet guru is to start a blog.  If you have access to some sort of internet connection then those nice guys at Google will let you have an email address at zero cost.  They'll even sweeten the deal with a website at zero cost too.  That seems like a pretty good place to start so lets head on over to Blogger and begin. (By the way, Blogger is certainly a good place to start, but not necessarily to continue - More on this topic later)

The first thing you'll need is a Google account.  If you haven't got one yet you can sign up here as long as you already have an email address.  If you haven't even got an email address yet you can get both at the same time by signing up here instead. If you're setting this up on a public computer, in an internet cafe or library for example, remember to uncheck the "Remember me on this computer" box.

Having done that go back to Blogger and type in the email address and password that Google now knows about and click the "Sign In" button.   You'll be shown the Blogger sign up page.  Type in the name you wish to appear on all of your blog posts.  It could be your real name, a nickname or a nom de plume.  Check the box to say you've read the terms and conditions and then click the "Continue" button.  (If you're of a nervous disposition, or even merely curious, you may wish to read the Google terms and conditions carefully before doing this)

You'll now find yourself in your shiny new Blogger dashboard.  It will tell you "You are not a member of any blogs", as though you didn't know that already!  Click the big "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW" button.  Type in your blog title (I chose "World Wide Web Gurus") and your blog address (I chose "wwwgurus").  If you have read anything about search engine optimization you may wish to work your core keywords into the blog URL and title at this point.  However, as you will see, we don't intend staying on Blogger forever, so there's really no need to worry about all that just yet.  Simply click the "Continue" button.  If Blogger complains that "Sorry, this blog address is not available" keep trying other addresses until it lets you continue.  Like I said, don't be too concerned if you can't get just the one you want.

Now choose a template you like the look of.  The default Minima is nice and clean and as good a place as any to start.  Click "Continue" for the last time.  Blogger will inform you that "Your blog has been created!"  Joyfully click the "Start Posting" button.

Type in your very first message to the world, not forgetting the title, and click the "Publish Post" button. (I typed in something remarkably similar to the first post on this blog.  Well, actually it was identical.  Cut and paste is an essential skill to learn if you want to be an internet marketer!)  Blogger will report that "Your blog post published successfully!"  Click the big "View Blog" link and you can at long last admire the fruits of your labour.

Congratulate yourself and go and put your feet up. Make yourself a nice hot cup of tea, or something stronger if you prefer.  I had a large glass of the best Somerset cider.

You're probably wondering how we justify the somewhat pretentious title, so I'll try to explain. I first started selling stuff online before the World Wide Web existed. When everyone started getting very excited during the dot com boom of the late nineties I built a one page website and vowed not to waste any more time on the new media until I got my first genuine lead from that site.

The site was listed in a few directories. We got lots of emails from people trying to sell us stuff, but none from anyone considering buying. Then in 2003 the first real lead arrived in my inbox. It wasn't from a potential user, but from an intermediary scouring the web for what their customer was interested in (customised software for routing fleets of trucks). Not ideal by any means, but it did at least count as a real lead so I started taking a interest in internet marketing.

Up to now I've only used pay per click, but a series of events which will be related in future posts have led to this current experiment with natural search. Is it possible in this day and age to produce a decent income from internet marketing without spending half your revenue on acquiring clicks, not to mention a large (albeit virtual) pile of ebooks?