Dr. Shaklee once said, “Your future life will be exactly what you decide to make it.”

I am excited for this new year of 2010, mostly because we really don’t have limits placed on us.  We can have what we choose.

If what you want includes your own business, some extra income every month, or earning money to save for future goals – whatever it is that you want – we can help you achieve it.

Have a listen to our CEO Roger Barnett talk about how Shaklee can help you live The American Dream.

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American Dream

2010

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The web site hosting cost of GVO services is $1 for the first month, and the company is re-launching their new services today.  GVO is a 12 year old company that previously operated under the Kiosk name.  I have personally used the service for over a year and am very excited to now utilize all components.  GVO is much more than a web hosting service.  For web site owners who want to actively market their business online, there are additional tools that are needed to successfully accomplish that.  Let’s review them.

In addition to web site hosting, unlimited domain hosting, there is the need to get traffic to the website.  That is called internet marketing and there are an abundance of tips, tools, strategies, systems, plans, etc. available for use in these endeavors.  Many work well, though all require time or money and creativity is very helpful.

If you want to communicate with your visitors in the future, you must collect their email address so that you can bring them back to the site.  Without doing this the odds are that once they leave, they might not be able to find your website a second or subsequent time.  When you place a box on your website and ask the visitor to enter their name and email address, you will need an automated message that is delivered to that email address.  This is facilitated through what is called an autoresponder service.  You write a letter or series of letters and load it in the autoresponder, and when people subscribe to your list that letter will go out to them immediately.  From that point, you have the ability to email them again and again, sending a valuable message or possibly inviting them back to your website to view something new there.

GVO offers an unlimited autoresponder service similar to Aweber or iContact.

People have experienced a surge in online Video the past couple of years and they like it.  Many would rather get information from a video than reading it.  Successful internet marketers create videos to advertise their product or service, focusing on solving problems or providing solutions.

GVO offers a Video lead capture system and unlimited Video hosting.

With the rising costs of just about everything in our present economy, it makes sense to save money on travel and meeting room costs, and host a meeting online in a web conference room.  These virtual meetings are very efficient because they save time, with access being very quick and easy wherever there is internet access and without travel time.

GVO offers your own Web Conference Room similar to webex.

Last, but not least, is the Downtime Witness software that GVO offers its members.  You can now monitor your website for any possible downtime, and monitor your competition’s website as well.

GVO offers you the Downtime Witness software to run, and the reseller rights to it so that you can help other people get access to it as well.

10-20-09 marks the re-launch of the 12 year old company GVO.  Along with all of the services mentioned above, there will be an education website named GVO Academy where there are live trainers in the room to answer anything from basic information to use these tools, to more advance internet marketing help.  Joel and Mark and all the folks at GVO are real people who put service and quality web hosting and internet marketing products at the top of their priorities.  Their hands-on approach, integrity, and accessibility are very refreshing attributes in the online marketing world.

To purchase all of these services separately, it would cost almost $300.00 per month and they would all have a different back office and be accessible from 4 or 5 different sites.  For the same quality services, GVO offes all of these in one place for a web site hosting cost of $44.95 per month after the $1 trial.

The foundation of every online business starts with great hosting, incredible marketing tools and systems! Without these components in place, your business can fall apart overnight.  First and foremost is the hosting itself.  You want your website to be consistently live on the internet, and the management of your hosting account to be user friendly feature rich.  The difference between the best web site host, and much of the competition, can be the difference  between your website being live 99.9% of the the time or down a percentage of time.  If your website is down, your  visitors can not access it.  One of the services GVO offers is a program that measures downtime.

Another difference when you secure the best web site host is that you get supporting services for your online marketing business.  A separate autoresponder account with services like aweber or get response (and others) is another cost that you will incur as well as another back office to manage.  There’s a lot of positive to be said about having your internet marketing tools in one place for easy managing.

Next on an internet marketer’s list is a web conference room.  If you are serious about building a substantial business online, you will need a meeting place.  Meetings are planned offline to discuss business, present a product, service, or business plan.  The same can be done online in a virtual conference room.  The technology is great and the rooms are accessed right from a live website, with no software to download.  A 10-person web conference room is included with a GVO titanium hosting plan, another testament to GVO securing the best web site host title.

Video is now a huge marketing success on the internet.  Google purchased youtube and now gives top search engine rankings to video content.  It is very easy to shoot a video and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes.  A GVO web hosting account includes a video distribution website as well.

A beginner internet marketer will find the next GVO feature very useful, and seasoned marketers are always learning so they are most happy with it as well.  GVO has launched an education web site named GVO Academy.  There is live training and recorded training that will help anyone who wants to build a successful business on the internet by giving instruction, support, systems, plans, and even motivation.

Only the best web site host can offer all of these high quality services and in one location.  GVO is a twelve year old business with a new name.  The integrity of the company has been established.  The growth of the business that previously operated under the kiosk.ws name has been nothing short of impressive, with web site owners that range from people who are brand new to the world of online marketing, to some of the biggest gurus on the internet.  GVO provides the same exceptional service to all of them.

One thing that impressed me over a year ago when I first secured this best web site host was the live help that was available in the company conference room throughout the day.  If I was stuck on something, I didn’t have to fill out a support ticket and wait a day or a few days for a response.  I could pop in to the conference room and ask my question to a knowledgeable person who could help me right away.

GVO also has available dedicated servers and upgraded plans for marketers with those needs.  One of the best featurs of GVO, the same as with kiosk.ws, is the $1 trial plan they offer.  You have the opportunity to evaluate all of the services discussed here for only $1.  I started with that same offer and have not looked back.  If I was to add up the cost of having to purchase separately an autoresponder, video distribution service, web conference room, and hosting, I would be paying well over $200 per month.  I pay only $44.95 for all of these services from the best web site host.

One last feature can be huge for anyone who desires another income stream to add to their financial portfolio.  I did not join GVO for this feature but quickly saw the benefits in terms of earning extra money, and the satisfaction of telling other people about a web host that can save them money and give them so many business services all in one place.  GVO offers a compensation plan for referring their service.  Their business model is a network marketing one because they like their clients to pass the word to new potential clients, and would rather pay them to do so than to spend money advertising.

I have always been a fan of the network marketing business model because that is what my primary business is based on, and because it is essentially a social marketing concept where people benefit from the knowledge and experience of others.  The same as telling a friend about a new restaurant, good movie, or great deal  at the shopping mall, we can refer the best web site host so that others can use all of the services in GVO to successfully build their businesses online.

GVO has produced 3 videos – as part of their re-launch – that teach valuable internet marketing lessons.  This is not a new company, just a new name.  GVO is the same great 12 year old product and service that was called Kiosk.

No matter what business you are in, if you are marketing a product or a service online, you will get value from these videos. I invite you to watch – and learn!  This company is so much more than website hosting.. as you will see.

Here is the link for Video 1. It’s focus is developing your brand.. getting your name out there.. through repetition.. so people naturally see you as a leader. This is important stuff. Enjoy!

GVO Launch Video 1

Video 2. The topic here is how to create a unique selling proposition.. make yourself stand out from the crowd in your opportunity.. how to become unique in your marketplace.

GVO Launch Video 2

Video 3. In Video 3 we learn how to collect leads using the power of the internet.

GVO Launch Video 3

Good news:  GVO is keeping the free trial that they had as Kiosk hosting.. so you can try all of their services at no cost.  I have used Kiosk web hosting – now GVO – to host all of my domains for over a year now and could not be happier.  This is a twelve year old company that has already established themselves, proven their integrity, and attracts brand new marketers all the way to famous (guru) internet marketers.

To learn more about GVO Web Hosting and how to get your no-cost trial, go here: GVO.

You may be familiar with Kiosk hosting.  It is the web site hosting that I have used for over a year now and very satisfied.  I was referred to Kiosk by a very successful online and offline (corporate) marketer.

Kiosk is re-launching as GVO – or Global Virtual Opportunities.  This is not your everyday web hosting company.  There are more pieces to the internet marketing world included with a GVO account.

Of course you have your web hosting.  With the Titanium package (that I have and recommend), you can host unlimited domains all in one place, with unlimited sub-domains, email accounts, and autoresponders.  You will have 15000 megs of web space, 200000 megs of bandwith, unlimited MySQL databases, and Web Host Manager.  Cpanel and Fantastico are also included.

That’s just the hosting.  There is so much more to the Titanium package.  Video marketing is huge right now and with GVO, we have Easy Video Producer that allows you to place professionally designed videos onto your web site with one click of a mouse.

There is no need to have a separate autoresponder account because there is one included, and it is similar to Aweber and other popular services.  GVO’s bulk email marketing software service is called eResponder Pro.

Have you joined the ranks of business owners using web conferencing for meetings?  It not only saves money traveling and/or renting space, it is convenient and people can log into the conference room quickly and easily from the office, home, or wherever they take their laptop!  A GVO Conference Room is included with your Titanium package.

Sounding good?  What if I told you that you can try it all for only $1.  Kiosk offered the $1 trial and they are keeping that offer with new GVO!  It is worth taking the time to evaluate because you may be already paying separately for all of these services, or wanting to start services like these for your business.  With GVO they are all in once place, inside one account, and for one low monthly cost.

If all of this is not enough, there is more.  GVO has a website monitoring service called Downtime Witness that you can use for free, and you can even re-sell it and keep full profits.  This service lets you know of potential web site downtime and also what other competitors are up to.  It’s like a virtual insurance policy for your websites.

Last, GVO will help you run your business.  They have LIVE business training, LIVE support (this company prides themselves on excellent customer service), and will even offer you ways to earn additional streams of income.  All businesses should have multiple income sources.

Kiosk is a 12 year old company.  They already have an excellent, proven track record providing web hosting on the internet.  GVO takes this company to the next level and invites you to join them and their services for your business needs.

To learn more and get your $1 trial, visit GVO WEB SITE HOSTING.

Many web site owners struggle with keyword research. They may not realize the difference the right keywords to website can be. Would you be surprised to hear that your keywords can be responsible for you getting significant traffic to your website every day, or not getting much at all? The fact is that finding, and using, the right keywords to website can be remarkable.

When you think about the fact that marketing online revolves around people searching for information and knowledge and things to purchase, the words they search become very important. These are what online marketers call keywords. There exists what we refer to as money keywords for every market.

Money keywords, or profitable keywords, are special because they are targeted, they get a lot of searches every month, and the competition has not saturated the words. Money keywords are key words and phrases that you, the website owner, can rank for at the top of the search engines. That means the top results on the first page of Google and other search engines.

Here are 3 tips to help you find the profitable keywords for your website, along with some strategies that show the significance of keywords to website.

1) You now understand that doing business online requires a visitor finding your website and purchasing your product or service. Unless personally invited to your website, they find it by clicking on an ad of some form, or searching for information in Google or other search engines and seeing your website displayed at or near the top of the first page (this is traditionally where people will click).

So how do you claim the top spots in the search engines? You need to optimize your website so that the search engines like it and reward it by listing it high in their search results. So the first step is to secure the right keywords to target.

Your keyword research should involve finding the money, or profitable, keywords to target since these are the words that people already search and that you can rank for in the search engines. The keywords will be used on your website and in all marketing that you do off-site.

2) It is beneficial to get into the mindset of the potential buyers of your product or service. What kinds of words do they use that relate to your business? What are the problems they are having? What are the answers they are looking for? What are common words or phrases that are associated with your market?

When you start to gather ideas, you can feed them into keywords to website research tools that will return even more suggestions to you. It is possible to quickly build a long list of potential key words or phrases. If you are doing PPC marketing, you might need long lists of keywords.

However, if you are optimizing your website so that it will be found in the free side of the search engines, the organic or natural side, you don’t need as many keywords to website. The key here is to target money keywords, or profitable keywords.

3) Once you have a large group of keywords, next you want to qualify them for the results they can produce for you in the search engines. It is important to determine that the specific keywords to website are getting a lot of searches every month. This is the first requirement of a money keyword.

Next, you must determine how competitive those keywords will be. For example, a keyword may get a ton of searches every month but there are already close to a million websites that are targeting those keywords. In this case, it would be very hard to beat out all of those websites to claim a top spot on a Google search result.

You see the importance for your keywords to website have a lower competition level. If fewer websites are using the keywords, and they are getting lots of searches, you will have a much better, and quicker, chance of ranking high for the terms.

If you combine the mindset of the potential buyer with thorough keyword research that digs down into the keywords to website search, and is able to secure the money keywords for the market, you can set up your website to receive a constant flow of traffic every day. If you are not confident in determining the money keywords for your website, this part of your marketing work can easily be outsourced.

To learn more about how your website can rank high in the search engines, and have a constant flow of targeted traffic to your website, visit our keywords to website page.

Do you prefer the free side or the paid side of web site advertising marketing? Your paid choices are buying search engine ads such as on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and a list of others, or purchasing banner ads on websites that relate to your market. Alternatives include solo ads to ezine lists, paid submissions to press release sites and business directories, and of course buying leads. I prefer the free side of web site advertising marketing. It may not involve money, or at least much less of it, but it does involve some work.

The free side of marketing online, through search engine traffic, consists of optimizing my website for the search engines to reward it with a high search engine ranking, and supporting that with search engine optimization (SEO) strategies. A website can get a large amount of traffic from the search engines because that is where people go to look for information about a product or service. When the website is in the top three or four spots on the first page of Google and other search engines, it can enjoy great traffic.

All of this searching and ranking centers around keywords. Key words are phrases are what people type into Google and other search engines when they are looking for information. The search engines find websites to return search results for people. The way they find the websites is through the keywords the website uses on their pages. The work involved on this free side of internet advertising, also called natural or organic, is all centered around optimizing the website for both the search engines and the visitors they will send. The goal is to make the website the authority in its market and then search engines will bestow their respect, and people will be happy with the information they find there.

We can not say too much about the importance of thorough keyword research in web site advertising marketing. Finding the best words that people are searching for when they want information about your website’s product or service is key to getting the traffic you are after. Once the keywords are established, and it is advised to continue to look for good keywords, the information in the code behind the website will need structured properly. Search engines look for certain criteria when they come to visit a website. They want to see that the title matches up with the content of the website, and they like to see keywords in the title and even in the website url. They look for a meta description that is relevant to the content of the website and includes keywords. They look for h1/h2 tags which support the overall content of the website.

The content for the web site advertising marketing should be valuable. It can consist of educational, enlightening, or entertaining information. It is best to add fresh content regularly since it is appealing to both the reader and the search engines. There are many strategies that can be utilized for maintaining the content on a website, including all of its pages. A site map is valuable to the navigation of a website, and it should not be challenging for a visitor or the search engine to move around the website. Linking is another aspect the search engines regard in a very important way. External links with keywords as anchors back to the website are very valuable. Also, the source of those incoming links and their popularity on the internet are evaluated by the search engines.

So we know that optimizing a website is based on the search engine queries that the website wants to rank for so that it can get a share of the traffic that is searching for those keywords. It may sound simple enough, but when you consider the competition that might exist for the same keywords, the process can become quite a challenge. It is important to lay out an SEO plan and to stay consistent with implementing the plan. Ongoing work such as creating new keyword-rich content, and continuous link building, is essential for getting to the first page of Google and other search engines, and staying there. There are tools that help us find the number of searches per month for a given key word or phrase. We can test this with statistics to back up our research.

If your online marketing includes the free side of web site advertising marketing, you now have an idea of what you will need to target in order to get the traffic that you want to go to your website. You can combine key words and phrases that you carefully research until you get the numbers of searches that you desire. You can work to get those top spots in the search engines so that you secure the majority of the traffic you know is generated with your keywords. You can build your website to an authority site that people get to know, like, and trust. This is the way that you turn traffic into new business and repeat business. It is how you find success on the free side of internet marketing.

To learn more about optimizing your website for traffic from the free side of search engines, visit our web site advertising marketing page.

In Friday’s issue of Investors Business Daily there were two articles about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and its benefits compared with buying search ads (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN, and a host of other sites that sell ads). Search engine web marketing has a paid side and a free side. A large budget may be needed to do run ads in the paid area.

IBD stated that with search engines becoming a bigger source of web traffic – how many times do people ‘Google’ something every day – companies are more interested in getting that traffic.
Many of the larger (Fortune 500 size) companies are doing both. Recently, these bigger companies have increased their SEO efforts after seeing the benefits their website gets back. Small and medium size companies can compete in the same markets as large companies if they do their SEO work correctly, and target the right search terms (keywords).

The free side of search is the organic, or natural, search results that are returned when people type their search words into Google and other search engines, and it really is valuable traffic. Many people will only look at those results – not at the paid ads that appear down the right side of the page and a couple at the top on the left. Under the ads at the top on the left side are the organic search results. In order to rank well in the natural results, your search engine web marketing needs to be optimized for the search engines so that they reward it with a high ranking.

The art of SEO involves finding the right keywords to target for search engine web marketing efforts, and then designing the site so that search engines will not only find it but reward it with a top ranking. In addition, there are SEO strategies and good old fashioned ‘work’ to do on the website that will help its perceived value to the search engine rises. IBD stated that the competition is very intense and not many companies will share their SEO strategies because of that. One way that I have learned to be able to rise above the competition is in the keyword research area.

If website owners are not able to get to the top few spots on the first page of a search engine for their keywords, they are most probably targeting the same keywords as too many other websites in their search engine web marketing endeavors. In some markets, the majority of websites are using the same keywords. They can’t all end up in the top spots. Every market has what we call money keywords, or profitable keywords. These are words or phrases that get significant searches every month, but don’t have as many websites already targeting them. With some SEO work, website owners can rank quickly for these money keywords and start to see lots more traffic come to their website.

The IBD article talked about the long term benefits of SEO. If a company stops their ads today, the ad goes down and no additional traffic can go to the website from that point on. This type of search engine web marketing is gone until the company decides to start paying for the ad again.

In contrast, SEO work that includes good content on the website, and on other websites that link back to the original website, is information that will be up on the search engines for a long time to come. The benefits from this type of search engine web marketing work you do for your website today will continue to pay off for years down the road. With SEO, there is more up-front work and cost in getting the work done, but with long term benefits. And it all centers around keyword, terms, or phrases.

Investors Business Daily states that, “If a company depends on Web traffic for sales, you can bet it’s using search-engine optimization, or SEO, to boost its search ranking.” Some brands do not sell from their websites, but for those of us that do want to do more business from our websites, the time is now to put an SEO plan together and work that plan consistently. It is worth the time and effort for your search engine web marketing, even if you must outsource the basic keyword research if you don’t know how to do it thoroughly or are not getting any traffic to your website with your existing keywords, to secure the right keywords that can take your SEO efforts to a whole new level by helping to put your website far ahead of your competition.

Are you happy with the business your website is doing?

Did you know that 95% of online marketers are not making any money in their business? That seems like way too many when we have the knowledge, the tools, and the web site marketing services to do much better.

Have you found the right Keywords for your website?

Internet marketing is very different from offline marketing and centers around people searching for a product or service they want to know more about or buy. The words people search when they type in what they are looking for are what we call keywords. Finding keywords that will convert to business makes all the difference if you want a successful web site business that earns income.

What happens when you don’t target the right keywords on your web site?

Establishing the right keywords for a business web site is the difference between getting lots of traffic to the business, or almost no traffic. You’re looking for what is called ‘money’ keywords that get enough search engine traffic but aren’t too competitive to try and rank for because if you can’t rank high in the search engines nobody is going to find you. Every market has money keywords.

What holds a business web site owner back from earning significant money on the site?

One of the problems is that the majority of website owners do not do keyword research. If they are targeting keywords that will never bring traffic to their website, how are they going to do any business?

And if they do any keyword research at all, most don’t do it thoroughly enough to find the money keywords. There are tools and services to find the profitable keywords for every web site in any market – you shouldn’t take shortcuts when it comes to keyword research.

What do you do with the keywords that you determine are the money keywords for your website?

Once you establish your keywords, there are many web site marketing service strategies that you can use to optimize the unique money keywords you target on your web site – all with the goal to bring more targeted visitors that can be converted into business. They include blogging, email marketing, search engine optimization, social marketing, social media, article writing, press releases, classified ads, linking systems, and more.

Do you want your web site to be the one that people find the most when they want your product or service?

Unless you personally invite someone to your website, a prospect has to find you. Going back to a previous statement, internet marketing centers around people searching for a product or service they want to know more about, and then finding the business web site where they buy. Using keywords that your website can rank at the top of the search engine results is how more people find you.

Will your web site traffic increase when you target the right keywords and do your internet marketing around those keywords?

Here are some examples. One keyword may get thousands of searches per month (or more) but there are millions of web sites already targeting that keyword. This means that it will be very hard, if not impossible, for you to get to the first couple of spots on the first page of a search engine.

Or, a keyword may be very easy to rank for in the first couple results of a search, but nobody is searching those words. You get the same result in both examples: nobody is going to find your web site.

How can you find the money keywords for your web site so that you can have the opportunity to present your products or services to more people?

There are money keywords for every market. To learn how you can find the money keywords for your website, visit: web site marketing service for money keywords.


Keywords websites and search engine web marketing go hand in hand if your goal is to increase business on your site. Internet marketing is centered around keywords and finding the targeted ones to display on the website. The way that people search for a business, product or service, is to go to a search engine like Google and type in some words, better know to internet marketers as keywords. What we try to do is to determine what words people search to find what we have to offer. This is not an easy task.

There are a couple of things to look at during the search for keywords websites. First, many people are simply searching for information. It is great to post valuable content on our websites so that we are seen as reputable and an authority in our industry. Still, many folks are not looking to buy right away. When they do get closer to buying, they continue to search in the search engines, but they change their words because they have found information that helps them narrow their search terms.

That brings us to ‘buying keywords’ or ‘money keywords’ – the terms that people are searching when they have their credit card in hand and are ready to buy. There are money keywords in every industry. How do we find them? How do we know that the terms are profitable keywords? There are tools and services that help us determine this by providing us with search engine web marketing statistics on individual keywords and phrases.

I am frustrated by the number of people who get excited about making it to the first page of a search engine like Google for their keywords websites, but the keywords are not being searched by anyone. It doesn’t matter if your website ranks high in the search engines if nobody is searching for the keyword you are targeting. It’s not going to get you visitors, or buyers.

Next is choosing a keyword or phrase that is so general that the search engine web marketing competition for the keywords or phrase is astronomical. If thousands or millions of other website are already searching a generalized industry keyword, it is going to be very hard to beat them all out to get on the first page of search engine results.

Some website owners choose keywords because they think the words sound good, or fit with their business, or they want to target all of their search engine web marketing, including social media, around the words. I prefer to determine that the keywords websites get a lot of traffic and are not so competitive that I can’t get to the 1st page of Google within a very short time.

Let’s look at some examples.

If you are in the real estate business, the main keyword on your website might be real estate, or some other general keyword. The problem here is that even though there are many searches per month for ‘real estate’, there are millions of other websites that already target those same words. How are you going to compete with all of them? How will you get to the top of the search results so that people find YOUR WEBSITE?

If you are in the real estate business and you target the keyword phrase ‘preparing to buy a home’, first, there are hardly any searches per month so it won’t bring much traffic, and second there are thousands of websites already targeting this phrase. Two things here: the phrase is not good if there are few searches per month, and the number of websites targeting a phrase that isn’t good to begin with is an example of poor keyword choice.

There are also long tail keywords that web site owners will target because they think it will be easier to rank for the phrase. This doesn’t always work because the actual searches per month may be very low, so that even if you can rank for them, it doesn’t bring much traffic to the website. Also, it is more challenging to use long tail keywords because you have to do a lot of work to market for the specific long tail phrase.

Keywords websites and finding the terms that will convert to business is part of the research web site owners need to do in order to find the money words that will help grow their business. Search engine web marketing is a science that requires specific work and diligent research. It is very hard and time consuming to accomplish without internet marketing tools and services that can deliver results based on performance.

To learn more about how to find profitable keywords for your website, including a Key Word Report at no cost to you, visit: web site marketing service for money keywords.

There are money keywords for every market. To learn how you can find the money keywords for your website, visit our KEYWORDS Web Sites page.

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