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Social Network Traffic’s Staying Power

April 16th, 2007 · No Comments

People have been debating whether traffic from social networking sites have any staying power for quite sometime. Here is an interesting observation.
VentureBeat.com’s ventureboard has a for-sale posting for WhoIsonMypage.com, which is “a social network add-on service that allows users to track page visits and share content across all of the major social networks including […]

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Tags: Website Traffic

Website Competitive Intelligence: Part 1

April 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Whether you are launching a brand new website or adding new sections to your old website, you will need to do some competitive analysis before jumping in with two feet. The good news is that it is pretty easy to perform some simple competitive intelligence study these days with all the tools available on the […]

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Tags: Market Research

Run Your Own Email Marketing Service for Free

April 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments

When it comes to email marketing on the web, you have many choices. Two of the most popular hosted services for internet marketers include aweber.com and getresponse.com. They both offer good service at an affordable price (at around $20 per month). But if you are just starting out and prefer to run your own email […]

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Tags: Email Marketing

The Worst Search Engine Spam I Have Ever Seen

April 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Apparently some ringtone affiliates managed to spam all three major search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN and the situation is really bad. (The following cloaked page ranked no. 4 in Google. )

I accidentally noticed this when I was reading Jeremy’s (a.k.a Shoemoney) post about his ringtone experiments. For example, if you do a search for “verizon […]

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Tags: Search

My Review of Mitchell Harper’s Blog

March 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If you are serious about blogging and you haven’t visited Mitchell Harper’s blog Increase Your Website Traffic, you are missing out on some very informative blogging tips.
His latest post How To Speed Blog When You’re Too Busy To Blog Normally offers 5 simple techniques you can use to not only avoid gaps in blog […]

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Tags: Website Traffic

Why Adsense Arbitrage Is Dead

March 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Making money through AdSense arbitrage, in its simple form, is dead.
If you just read about AdSense arbitrage somewhere, and were wondering if you should jump on the bandwagon, the short answer is no, you should not waste your time and energy on AdSense arbitrage. I am going to tell you why in just a […]

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Tags: Adsense

5 Must Have Tools for Keyword Research

March 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

These are the tools I use on a daily basis to do my keyword research. They are all a little different from each other but each provide great utility. Best of all, they are free!

Google AdWords Keyword tool - use this tool to find out synonyms of your keywords and average estimated Cost per Click […]

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Tags: Adsense · Search · Keywords

The Danger of Adsense Business Model

March 16th, 2007 · No Comments

PortalFeeder’s blog reported a story where a guy essentially lost all 60k per month Google Adsense over night due to garbage content. Details are here North Carolina Man TAMES The ‘900 Pound Gorilla’… - Portal Feeder Marketing & SEO Blog
The spirit of the story is that: for one, you can’t take the easy shortcut, which […]

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Tags: Adsense · Revenue

Viral Marketing and $7 Dollar Secrets

March 1st, 2007 · No Comments

I have been thinking lately how viral marketing can be applied to blogging and making money online in general. I also have been watching how Jonathan Leger masterfully used viral marketing in building his “$7 Dollar Secrets empire”. Here is some of my observations.
Viral marketing, by most experts’ definition is a form of marketing […]

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Tags: Affiliate Marketing

How To Learn From Affiliate Pros

February 17th, 2007 · No Comments

The best way to learn from an affiliate marketer pro is to watch from a campaign’s beginning. This often starts with getting on the affiliate marketer’s email list first, which the very easy to do. Who wouldn’t want to have your email address?
There are two excellent examples of how great affiliate marketers produce, market and […]

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Tags: Money · Affiliate Marketing