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SEO in other languages is easier?">Do you think SEO in other languages is easier?

Thursday, September 18th, 2008 Read more about SEO

I was just doing a lit­tle bit of SEO work for two of our web sites. 
One is a new Span­ish speak­ing web site that we launched recently and we wanted to get it to the top of Google for the key­word “metodo silva” and we were able to get to the top of the page […]

Google Slap — How to recover from a Google Slap?

Monday, September 8th, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords Tips

Two ques­tions that I fre­quently get from new AdWords cus­tomers are:
1) Why did I get slapped by Google?

2) How do I recover from a Google Slap?
The answers two both ques­tions are actu­ally quite simple:

Why did I get slapped by Google?
Here are the top 4 rea­sons why peo­ple get slapped by Google­Google Slap 1: The […]

What Does Your Order Button Say?

Friday, August 29th, 2008 Read more about Copywriting, Split Testing, Website Optimization

Have you ever won­dered what impact the lan­guage on your order but­ton could have on the con­ver­sion rate of your site?
We did and we were shocked to find out what a huge impact such a tiny change could make to the con­ver­sion rate of our site.
Well, since we believe in con­tin­u­ously test­ing just about every­thing, we went […]

Will Knol Rule The Search Engines? First Analysis Indicates…It Just Might

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Read more about SEO

Google just launched Knol and the whole world is won­der­ing whether every SEO expert and affil­i­ate mar­keter out there is going to start writ­ing Knol’s instead of Wikipedia arti­cles.
Why?* For SEO Juice * For mak­ing money
Well, my first analy­sis indi­cates that this might be indeed hap­pen.  Here 5 Knols that were fea­tured on Knol’s home page […]

Are small businesses dropping out of AdWords?

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords

This is the ques­tion posed by www.seroundtable.com in their lat­est blog post. 
While the sur­vey just launched, I have long been pre­dict­ing that Small Busi­nesses have no future in AdWords.  The future looks does not look very bright for small busi­nesses as I out­lined in my free report The Com­ing AdWords War.
Share your thoughts on the […]

How I Got on The First Page of Google With My Last 4 Blog Posts in a Row

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Read more about SEO

Rand from www.SEOmoz.com, just wrote an excel­lent blog post on opti­miz­ing your blog posts for SEO.  You can read the post here:
Heads­mack­ing Tip #3: Run Your Blog Post Titles Through Key­word Research Before You Hit Pub­lish
I have to agree with Rand that this is very impor­tant and I was just doing exactly what Rand was writing […]

AdWords Conversion Tracking — The Ultimate Guide

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords

Rule #1: Start using AdWords Con­ver­sion Track­ing Today
Rule #2: Know What Con­ver­sions To Track in AdWords
I am shocked that even after so many years, time and time again I see lots of new AdWords cus­tomers that do not use AdWords Con­ver­sion Track­ing.
Why do so many new AdWords users not do what it takes to suc­ceed?
I am […]

AdWords Miracle

Monday, July 21st, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords, Make Money

AdWords Mir­a­cle Was the #3 Most Searched For AdWords Key­word in June
Why is Every­one Search­ing For AdWords Mir­a­cle?
I was just using the AdWords Key­word Sug­ges­tion tool to find out the most pop­u­lar search queries for the month for June 2008 and I was sur­prised to see that appar­ently over 90,000 peo­ple entered the key­word phrase “AdWords […]

FAQ">AdWords Help — New FAQ

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords

Down­load the Most Fre­quently Asked Ques­tions on AdWords — for FREE
About two months ago I promised to answer the most Fre­quently Asked AdWords Ques­tions and I received hun­dreds of ques­tions from our com­mu­nity of over 22,000 users!
How would you like to know the answers to the most fre­quently asked AdWords ques­tions from all of these users […]

New AdWords Book

Friday, July 18th, 2008 Read more about Google AdWords

Announc­ing: Brand New AdWords Book
AdWords Sys­tem Exposed 9
Hi there,
As most of you know, I spend A LOT of time with Google AdWords and over the years, I have con­sulted and helped thou­sands of clients with Google AdWords.
I wrote my first AdWords Book many years ago and have been updat­ing it con­stantly over the past few […]