MindValley Labs Internet Marketing Blog

Great Tips for Increasing Online Conversion Rates - Educate and Guide Your Customers
How Many Online Stores Kill their Conversion Rates by Adopting Outdated Catalog-style Websites?
Forget about displaying your entire inventory to your customer. Think of your store as a "guide" and not a "catalog". Educate and guide your visitors to make the right choices and [...]

I am a big fan of Duct Tape Marketing, one of the leading Internet Marketing blogs for small businesses. However, I am very disappointed to see that they are encouraging their readers to abuse Truemors, a new site that just launched just for the sake of some free traffic.
Yes, getting free traffic is nice [...]

How do you drive free traffic to your website?
How would Internet Marketing Experts invest $100 to get free traffic?
Today I came across a fantastic blog post where 7 Internet Marketing experts share how to market a website on just $100.
Here are the two key insights on how to get free traffic that I took away from [...]

If you are new to Search Engine Optimization, then you will want to check out this excellent study of the Top Search Engine Ranking Factors put together by SEOmoz.
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
NOTE: Their article is also a great link baiting strategy.  I bet hundreds of bloggers will point and link to this because it is such a great [...]

TopRank discovered a new study listing some of the top Search Engine Ranking Factors.
Here they are:
Keywords in the title tag
Targeted keywords in the body tag
Keywords in H2-H6 headline tags seem to have an influence on the rankings while keywords in H1 headline tags don’t seem to have an effect.
Using keywords in bold or strong [...]

Learn Pay Per Click Marketing
What is the Single Best Pay Per Click Marketing Course Money Can Buy?
You know, for the most part our blog here at MindValley Labs is very non-commercial.  That is because we have a huge passion for sharing our pay per click marketing experiences with our readers. 
We simply love what we [...]

Today I stumbled upon a great poll on Top Rank Blog of the best SEM forums online. 
There are three clear winners and they are:
1) WebProWorld2) High Rankings3) Webmaster World
While forums may no longer seem to be THE PLACE to go, they can still offer excellent content, tips, and tricks.  Especially since a lot of the [...]

Do you want to go to a Pay Per Click Seminar?
Is it really worth paying a lot of money to attend a Pay Per Click Seminar?
Today I received an email from a client asking me if I could recommend an excellent Pay Per Click Seminar to him and I sadly I could not. 
While there [...]

Why Almost Everyone is NOT Profiting From PPC
... and How to Boost Your PPC Profit
Did you know that almost every small business owner gets burned with PPC the first time they give it a try?
Achieving insane PPC Profits is everyone's goal but unless you avoid the biggest mistakes that newbies make and follow these proven [...]

Today I came across a very powerful picture that explains a very powerful and important SEO principle. 
The picture says it all:

How important is this?  Extremly important!  It is very hard to  win for very competitive keywords and trying to win for one keyword is almost impossible, especially if that keyword phrase is competitive.  However, once you [...]