Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 Review Part 1

If you have an online business and have not yet heard of StomperNet, where have you been! Stompernet.net is a high-end members-only site that provides some of the most well respected and high-quality training in Search Engine Optimization. Along with their fee-based products and services they offer some pretty amazing free tools for optimizing your SEO campaigns.

When I heard that they were getting ready to release a new version of the product that really started the entire StomperNet “empire” Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 (STSE2) along with their new monthly journal, The Net Effect Monthly Action Guide I was excited.

But I’ll be very honest with you that I was not planning to promote this new product. Because the Stompernet membership site is priced at $800/month and therefore way out of the reach of most small business owners I just assumed that STSE2 would be another very high-end product.

Well you know what they say about assume! While I don’t yet know the actual price of these products, there have been some pretty heavy hints that they will NOT be out of the reach of small business owners. And that’s good news!

Because on Friday, I received an unexpected review copy and have been digging into the contect ever since.

Now I have not finished the STSE2 DVD-based training program. There are 7 modules with 4 – 7 video lessons in each module. I’m about half-way through and hope to finish it in the next day or two. When I do, I’ll get you a review of that program.

If you want to see the specific contents, tou can go check out the Stomping the Search Engines Site.

And, while you’re waiting for the review of STSE2, I have finished the Net Effect Monthly Action Guide. So let me take a moment to tell you a bit about this journal.

Now I’ve read a lot of search engine magazines and journals. Some are decent. Most, honestly, are not that great. This one is extremely good!

What attracted me to the Net Effect journal is that it seems to be perfectly targeted at my level of Internet Marketing expertise. They seem to have made an editorial decision to target intermediate and above Internet Marketers. And that’s perfect for me.

Now, if you’re just starting out in the Internet Marketing arena, you can certainly learn a lot from this journal. However, in order to fully leverage the material in the Net Effect, there will be some basic knowledge, skills and tools that you will need to learn about from other resources.

I read through this journal in one sitting, not because it’s light on content, but because the content is so great!

I took away some excellent information on leveraging Twitter to drive qualified traffic to your website from excellent articles by Paul Colligan and Dave Taylor. There’s also a fabulous article by David Bullock on the key components you should be testing on your website.

There are excellent articles on email deliverability, article marketing, Keyword Research and more.

But the article that was the most helpful for me and that I want to share a bit of with you, was by Sherman Hu. He shows you, step by step, how to easily publish and distribute multimedia content on blogs for increased interest, readership, inbound links, strong positioning and conversions.

It’s a sweet system and uses two tools that I’m familiar with and two that I had not heard of before. I’ll give you a brief overview of the system here. But if leveraging rich media on your website or blog is a priority for you, consider checking out the Net Effect just to get Sherman’s step-by-step guide.

Basically, he walks you through the process of integrating wordpress, the podpress plugin, castingwords (a cool completely automated transcription service) and blip.tv.

Once the system is setup, you have an almost completely automated system for publishing video, audio and text to your blog and websites. This is great news for your readers and for you!

So what’s the bottom line on The Net Effect Monthly Action Guide? This journal is easily worth $100/month or more. And while I still don’t know the actual monthly price, I’ve heard rumors that it’s going to cost far less than that!

Just learning about Casting Words, and their $0.75/minute budget transcribing service will save me far more than $100 in the next few months!

I’ll let you know when The Net Effect is available - should be later this week. And I would definitely encourage you to seriously think about checking it out.

And watch for my review of Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 in the next day or two.