The hype of this product has been enormous, leave it to Simon and Jeremy, but I have to tell you, if you have a website, you really, really need this product. If you are looking for real traffic to your website, you need Underground Traffic Blueprints.  The intro videos, and the sample videos have really been a little ‘lacking’, but I figured, for $77.00 (price may have gone up since this post) it’s worth it, just to see what is inside. When I first logged in I found sets of videos.

Underground Traffic Blueprints

In this section there are 4 phases, phase 1 through 4. The phases do not make sense as each seem to be completely different sections on how to generate tons and tons (millions) of visitors to your website, so listen up… Here are the details on how I see the Phases:

1. Phase 1 goes into a unique Google Adwords technique that I’ve heard of recently. It includes complete details on how to go through the entire process, from top-to-bottom, it’s very well documented. I’ve seen some of this covered before, but this one goes into full details. It starts at the ‘newbie’ level and even if you know nothing about how to do some of these things you can learn quickly by watching the videos.  (this includes 6 videos ranging from 4 minute to 22 minutes, the total running time here is: (62 Minutes).
2. Phase 2 covers how to use blogs to generate up to 8 million visitors to your blog, yes MILLION!  It may sound impossible, or ridiculous, but after watching the videos I can tell you it is not, if you dedicate the time to it. There are 2 videos here (47 minutes and 26 minutes)
3. Phase 3 looks at article marketing in great detail. I’m talking about ‘Guerilla Article Marketing’ here, how to write an article fast, get it up on the directories and get traffic to the article. It’s well documented in 4 videos. Some of the techniques I already knew about, but others I have not, just this one phase alone is worth the price of admission… but it gets better (read below). The 4 videos total (73 minutes).
4. Phase 4 is the biggest of all and covers Social Network Traffic building (everything from facebook to press releases, etc). The 3 videos are 54, 12 and 29 minutes totalling: (95 minutes).  This is a huge but there is a bonus that spends over 2 hours covering just Facebook Marketing!  I’m watching that now… but I learned a lot just in this phase with techniques that made perfect sense and actually turned on a light-bulb compared to some of the other ‘Facebook Training’ I have seen in the last 2 weeks or so… I’ve been gearing up for Facebook marketing lately.

Ok, I now see the phases are laid out differently. I don’t understand lumping all of these videos together, but they are all on one page and actually the phases I describe above are really Phase 1 and Phase 2, then there are 2 more phases after this: Phase 3 – Underground SEO Tactics, and Phase 4 – Underground Massive Traffic Blueprint, wow this Phase thing is confusing, but like I said it is really of no use anyway as the videos are grouped together in 3-4 video segments covering a major topic in each, splitting them into phases is really not of much use, and there’s no reason I can see that you have to do Phase 1 first, then Phase 2, etc, etc… in fact you could pick and choose any of these Video Segments at a time and go from there…

Underground Ad Secrets

Ok, that just about covers it – but, as I said I’m diving into the Bonus Videos which are: Underground Ad Secrets. This entire 4 video series covers Facebook Ads and how to do it, from soup to nuts, it’s all in there… I’m still watching these videos, they total 33, 39, 44, and 46 minutes! Do you see what I mean, wow, over 2.5 hours of material here, and it’s great content and techniques with full details.

Well, I think I’ve about covered it… I have to go back now to watching video, and if you haven’t guessed by now – I highly recommend you check this out and give it a listen. If you have a website and you want more traffic, there is no better way to generate it than by watching these videos, as it’s all layed out for you in bite size steps (just watch a series, or group at a time and don’t pay attention to the phases).

These blueprints are on a special price right now, with the bonuses so head over there and grab them at this link: Undgeround Traffic Blueprints – Click Here!

I still pull out the old Web Position software from time to time, but it’s become dated, and unfortunately it will not run well in Windows 7. So, I’m off searching for something better when I hit on WebCEO. I heard for years that Web CEO is a great program, in fact I wasn’t even sure it could be so good after all of the hype surrounding it, but now I have ‘seen the light’ and do believe that it is top notch at doing a few things really, really well, and for the other things – well it’s ok at that too…

When working with SEO software there are some very important points to keep in mind, you really want something that will not leave a footprint for the search engines, getting you banned because of your page content, or because you are using the tool and it is querying the search engines over and over – so you have to be able to really control the speed that you are using the tool – WebCEO does that beautifully. In my opinion it’s way to cautious at first, and will take hours to get back usable data on a large group of keywords, but after my quick adjustments, and enabling caching I can get good ranking data for nearly 200 keywords in around 1 hour. That’s not too bad. And the data is very usable too, letting me easily compare to previous rank checking that I’ve done throughout the silo sections of my site. I have one site that is close to 1,000 pages and it requires siloing. So, the key here is to setup specific silo rank checking features for each main silo (category) of your website and go from there.

Now, WebCEO is kind of a ‘linear’ model, if you follow the help guides…. They want you to go from Keyword Finding, to Ranking/Checking, to Building Content, to Finding Link Partners, to Auditing, etc… but you can jump around if you want to. I started with rank checking and found it very useful, after the tuning I mentioned above.  In fact one of my favorite parts of webceo is the ‘check all ranking pages’ option which easily returns every page that is ranked in the search engines I choose.  What a great job. It lets you see the keywords sorted by engine, or by keyword, and it’s a great way to see what is in the engines. You may find, as I did that some keyphrases are in one search engine while missing from others, and you can quickly go about finding a way to solve that little problem!

The Keyword Finder is fairly proficient too, though it is a bit too highly focused on KEI (keyword effectiveness index) for my liking. Either way it does a good job of grabbing keywords based on your one search term and letting you see where there may be some ‘open spots’ to grab rankings based on low competition. It works almost the same as Market Samurai, though I would place Samurai a little higher up in this regard. I also like Micro Niche Finder for finding new/unique keywords as well as Keyword Snatcher and Webcomp Analyst.

The use of projects is kind of confusing and actually one of my least favorite parts of this software as everything is focused on domain, so it becomes impossible to have 2 projects with the same  domain which can be annoying at times. Either way you can still have separate profiles that you use with the domain so it works out that way instead, it’s just a little harder to keep track of.

I will continue this review in the next week or so as I complete the Link Finder and Auditor part of the software. Stay tuned…

**Update (July 7, 2010)

I’ve been working with WebCEO now for another few weeks. I did find a way to speed up and optimize the rank checking task, I have it down to about 1 hour now for 250 keywords/phrases, so I’m happy with that.  I’ve been happy overall with how the rest of the software has been performing, it does an excellent job, for example compared to Market Samurai it outperforms in rank checking. I had a site that dropped rankings completely and MS would not show any previous rankings for the site, until the rankings come back online, but Web CEO has no problem showing that site, and the dropped rankings just fine, even letting me compare my dropped rankings to previous ranking checks on any date – now that’s spectacular.

One thing I do not like about WebCEO is that the estimate of time left to complete the rank checking is way off.  I found a decent way to speed this up a little, and make it a little more accurate. Do not ever scan through more than 2 pages (20 listings) in the search engines. That will help you speed up the rank checking, but still not as much as the tweaks I made to the Settings->SE Requests tab.

So far so good, watch for my next update where I try to find Affiliate Partners using the WebCEO -> Find Link Partners section.

To check out Web CEO on your own follow this link: http://www.webceo.com

1.) Website Magazine – a completely free magazine that covers all of the bases.  When I first found out about this I thought it was too good to be true.  A free sample came to my mailbox, and now that I’ve read the last 15-20 issues, I have to say, this is one of my top favorites, and best of all, it’s free.   Get your free copy at this address: http://www.websitemagazine.com/scripts/sub/subscribe.aspx
Check it out at this address: http://www.websitemagazine.com

2.) The Net Effect – owned by Stomper Net, this great magazine just started a few months ago. I can tell from the content that this is going to be a great magazine. Everything is covered, SEO in great detail, linking, customer service and support, analytics and analysis, blogging, web audio and video. The magazine averages about 50 pages/month, the articles are detailed and actionable (they focus on you taking action) and it even includes a ‘How to turn this issue into a Goldmine!’ page at the end of each issue with 15-20 things you can follow up on from that issue. Great stuff. Unfortunately right now they are no longer accepting subscriptions, but you owe it to yourself to sign up for the waiting list, here’s the website to do it at: http://stse2.com/. The magazine goes for around $40/month and an additional $20/month for an accompanying DVD.

3.) Dot Com Profits – Russel Brunson’s magazine is a joy to read and also full of valuable content, just not quite as much as The Net Effect, but almost. The number of articles are fewer, but longer, and a DVD/video is included with each issue. I think this one runs $39.97, more info at: http://membershipsite.dotcomsecrets.com/

That wraps up my list for now, stay tuned and I’ll post others that I find useful – or post a comment and let me know of some that you enjoy…

This article was written in 2006, so some of the Web 2.0 items are missing – which I’ll cover in another post, but this is one great article – I suggest you read it and follow all of the steps for maximum exposure of your website, here’s a link to the article:
The Web Marketing Checklist: 32 Ways to Promote Your Website

Happy Promoting!