Hello All,

Welcome to Week 6 of John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Training Masterclass Coaching Program.

Wow! This is my third post in 2 days! For the last week I have not been able to get a lot of work done. My little one has decided not to have many afternoon naps and I have had a bad ear infection. I lost my hearing completely on my right side. It is amazing the things you take for granted. I have had to learn to focus on people’s mouths when they talk and actually look at someone when they talk to me. It has been an interesting experience.

The last 2 days I have managed to squeeze a bit of study time so here I am catching up on some post writing and honouring my commitment to write about John’s internet training program.

So lets get on with it and begin with this Week 6′s tasks…….

Internet Marketing Masterclass Week 6: Advanced Blogging Tactics

This week we were sent our welcome letter for the week, our checklist and we only had 2 videos to download and watch to learn what tasks we needed to do for the week. One of the videos was a 2 hour webinar that John hosted on our questions and answers regarding the course. This video took a long time to transcribe!

Video 1: The Webinar

This week John hosted a training webinar for us that we could all attend if possible and be able to have a question and answers session regarding our course. (Due to my little one being up I was not able to attend )

This webinar was actually the first official webinar I had downloaded or had access to. It was interesting, it felt like I was in a classroom environment but at my computer.

I think webinars are like the classrooms of the future, for example if you have children that need to be home schooled because of living in a remote area, or you may be unable to attend a college class but can attend online. People can join in on webinars with a microphone and headset and ask questions and get responses in real time. A webinar can be really interactive if you want it to be. This form of online classroom will be an amazing future training tool!

During the webinar John introduces us to all of our other fellow students via a web page where all of our names and blog links are listed that he has received so far. It was really cool seeing how many other students were studying the course. It made everything more real and I realised I wasn’t alone learning all of this stuff!

It is recommended that we start visiting each others blogs for a few reasons; we can get ideas for our own blogs by seeing hat others have done as we are encouraged to make our own blogs unique. The other reason is to start commenting on each others blog posts, to communicate and introduce ourselves to each other via our blogs, as well as apparently the search engines really like websites that are constantly updated.

If the search engines see a lot of website activity they will drive more natural traffic to our blogs, our websites rankings will slowly improve and become more visible on the big wide world of the web! Another reason for commenting on blogs is to help make them content rich.

John encourages us to work together and to help each other out. If we see links or images etc that are not working that we should let each other know.

The next thing we are introduced to in the webinar is a special blog widget called “Widlink” that Dave Nicholson made for our class. The widget has everyone’s blogs coded into it so once we install the widget on our blogs our fellow students blogs will appear! (My Widlink widget is under the “Masterclass Buddies” heading in my far right sidebar )

The ‘Widlink’ widget helps everyone promote each others blogs by linking to each others blogs through the widget. (Yes I know that sounds confusing, but I didn’t know how to explain that one! )

The next part of our webinar went into questions and answers where we were able to ask John or Dave or Daniel a question about the course. There were quite a few really good questions such as:

• Understanding how the RSS feed works and how people can subscribe to our blogs via our RSS feeds.
• Understanding copyright issues for our blogs using images, content and videos.
• How to add a home page link so as people move around our website and visit other pages and posts they can find their way back to the front page.
• How to add links underneath our header graphic
• Understanding the very basics of generating traffic
• And understanding keywords and niche choices for our websites

There were many other questions asked and John answered every single one of them until there was no more. The webinar went for nearly 2 hours!

The best thing that occurred was at the end of the webinar we were told that Dave Nicholson was going to give us free lifetime access to his new product called “Total Web Traffic”. This product normally sells for $97, however Dave decided to give it to John’s students for FREE. (I actually haven’t done the course yet, but I have accessed my membership and there is a huge amount of information! I will write about Total Web Traffic another time after I have actually completed the course! )

Video 2: Install The Widlink Widget On Our Blogs

In this video Dave Nicholson shows us how to install the widlink widget he created onto our websites.

We are shown:

1. How to download and save the zipped widlink widget file
2. How to extract/open the file and make sure we have received the correct files
3. How to connect to our blogs webspace with File Zilla
4. How to find the ‘plugins’ folder we need to upload the widget to
5. How to upload the widget to the ‘plugins’ folder
6. How to access our ‘Plugins’ tab from within our blogs dashboard
7. How to activate the plugin
8. How to display the widget in the sidebar we want from the ‘Widgets’ tab
9. How to edit the display settings of the widget
10. And how to save our settings and check that everything was successful

The intention of the widget is to show the other fellow students on our blogs and be able to link to each other so that we can communicate and comment which will also help drive traffic and improve our natural website rankings with the search engines.

Week 6 Checklist:

Our checklist tasks for week 6 were:

1. Download and watch the webinar if we missed attending it
2. Install the widlink widget to our blog
3. Claim our free $97 value membership to Dave Nicholson’s Total Web Traffic
4. Keep posting to our blogs at least once a week, preferably twice a week
5. Visit the coaching blog webpage to view all the other students names and blogs
6. Try to visit and comment on some of our fellow student blogs at least 5 times per week (ie 5 different blogs!)
7. Review every students blog
8. Try to edit changes to our blogs to make our websites more individual and unique to our personalities and the look we want to achieve

OK so that is week 6 wrapped up. This week we got to meet our other fellow students and became a little learning community. Phase 1 of our Masterclass on blog creation is now complete. Next we move on to Phase 2: Product Creation.

So until next time……..

Enjoy Your Learning!

P.S If you want to read more posts on my master class training, you will find them all listed on my masterclass training page. Click on the following link to get to that page: My Masterclass Training

P.P.S John Thornhill’s Internet Marketing Masterclass Coaching may be closed at the moment. He has just started the new 2010 program and he only ever takes a limited amount of students at a time so as to dedicate himself to our learning, basically it is a first in first served situation.

Update 10/4/2010: John has just released a one month $4.95 trial to Masterclass meaning you can sign up for $4.95 and trial the training. As far as I know he is limiting these places. If you see a sold out sign, then do sign up to be notified when there are new places available again.

This training program was the best decision I ever made. I would not be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for John. I can not recommend this program enough!

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