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Archive for July, 2008

How to Get Published on Authority Sites – The 7 Steps You Should Read

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Read more about SEO, Traffic Tactics

A few days ago I talked about our new SEO web-app, Traffic Marks, which hones in and pinpoints relevant authority sites so you know exactly where to focus your link building efforts. It is the quickest, easiest way to find the best authority sites to get links from.
Thing is, once you've mercilessly found the relevant [...]

Authority Website After Authority Website – Find Them Mercilessly with Traffic Marks, Go After Them and Dominate Google NOW!

Friday, July 25th, 2008 Read more about Recommended Tools, SEO

Ask any real SEO junkie about time-tested effective methods for getting to Google's 1st page quickly and chances are pretty good that they'll mention getting incoming links from authority sites in your field (which is determined by the keyword you want to rank well for).
Previously, doing this was quite a pain, and over here at [...]

Email Marketing Demystified

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Read more about Email Marketing

I’ve combined some of the things I learnt from Matt Furey with my own approach to writing, and the result is a winning combination that I use to write emails that actually make money.
For me, writing an email is a 4-step process – it’s a system that you can use and build [...]

Succumbing to EVIL Shortcut-ish Temptations and Forgetting the “Social” In Social Media

Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Read more about Blog Marketing

Hellooo, it's called Social Media

Social media is turning marketing and public relations upside down. The rules of the game are changing and shifting, and amidst all of this wonderful, innovation-driven chaos, many get into social media without keeping a focus on the "social" in social media.
How many times have you gotten onboard a social media [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Be Interesting by Being Offensive?

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 Read more about Blog Marketing, Branding and Positioning

Last week, I blogged a post about a concept I call "Social Polarity" and how you can infuse it into your blog's marketing.
Create an enemy and don’t be neutral. Remember, what we want is polarity, not neutrality. Neutral is boring, and boring is unattractive. It’s as simple as that. In fact, I remember Frank Kern [...]