Introduction

Hi and welcome to the Toob Ring of Fire training.


IMPORTANT NOTICE: If your browser gives you a security warning about content on these pages, go ahead and allow the content to display.

The only content in question is YouTube videos. I used HTML instead of PDF so I could embed the videos directly in this HTML page for your convenience.


I chose to use HTML instead of PDF for this project for a few reasons. First, I can embed videos directly into the pages so you can view them along with more information in text format.

Plus, HTML was created to use links and we'll be working with a lot of links and PDF is primitive when it comes to links.

Another benefit of HTML over PDF is we can use a FireFox plugin to open multiple links at the same time, which is a real time saver. I go into more detail about this on the Preparation and Set Up page.

The tips, training and resources included here will make you into a real Youtube video POWERHOUSE. You can use this knowledge for your own video marketing projects as well as your clients' projects.

What is a Ring of Fire?

A "Ring of Fire" is a collection of social and Web 2.0 sites built to promote and rank our Youtube videos. These third party sites we'll use is because they have lots of search engine "authority" and are easy to automate.

While the training here is generally focused on Youtube video marketing, many of the methods, strategies and resources apply to modern SEO as well. And because of the authority of these sites, many of the Ring of Fire sites can, and do, rank themselves.

Note that it's very unlikely you will get rich from a single Youtube channel and a single Ring of Fire network.

Forget about chasing every Internet Marketing dream being sold. Keep building Ring of Fame networks and you will see success.

In many ways, IM and SEO success means boredom. At first, things that are new are exciting. But it's through repetition that you build success. It's when you are so comfortable with the process that it's no longer "exciting" is when you'll truly be successful.

Building Ring of Fire networks takes effort. The good news is, the more networks you build, the faster, easier and better it will become.

Don't worry about being perfect. Instead, be decisive and productive. To many wannabe marketers worry about getting everything perfect. Make a decision! If you aren't sure, do it another way next time and test things.

To modify a quote from General George Patton:

"A good Ring of Fire network made today is better than
a perfect Ring of Fire network made next week."



Video Marketing Automation

We'll be automating much of the process using a free site called IFTTT.com, as well as using RSS to expand our Ring of Fire to sites that aren't directly compatible with IFTTT.

IFTTT is a free, but very powerful site. "IFTTT" means "If this, then that".

For example:

If you upload a new video to your Youtube channel, then post a link to the video on Twitter.
-or-
If you upload a new video to your Youtube channel, then add it to a Tumblr blog.


IFTTT has tons and tons of useful "recipes". A recipe is simply an action, as in the two examples above.

You can either create your own recipes or use recipes others have already created. Almost all the IFTTT recipes we need for our Ring of Fire projects will already have been created for us.


Before you can use IFTTT recipes, you must do two things:
  1. Create accounts at, and do some basic set up at the social and Web 2.0 sites that work with IFTTT Youtube recipes.

  2. "Connect" your accounts with IFTTT so IFTTT can automatically post to these sites when it finds a new video on your channel.

I included as many free resources as possible. Although optional, I also highly recommend two inexpensive marketing tools to compliment and enhance your Ring of Fire networks:
FCS Networker - Automatic network and link builder
MassPlanner - Powerful social media marketing tool
Yes, both links are affiliate links. But they are inexpensive and I pay for and use both tools myself. They will greatly expand the abilities of your Ring of Fire networks as well as your SEO and social marketing. You can read more about these powerful tools here.


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©Kurt Melvin 2016 and beyond.


Navigation

Intro

Preparation and Set Up
Semi automation
Organization
spreadsheet

Create Accounts
Social Stacking

Create IFTTT Recipes
 Recipes
 Strategies
 More Recipes

Collect and Ping RSS

Advanced Strategies
Link Resources
Automation Tools

Parasite and Web 2.0

Video SEO Thunder
 Youtube On Page
 Optimization

Marketing Plan and Resources

Secret Bonus
Tuelz
Content Multiplying