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Promotion and Marketing TechniquesPromotion and Marketing TechniquesNifty promotion and marketing techniques for the aspiring professional webmaster to increase his revenue and make money online! Articles
Click "Unsubscribe" ... But Quick!
2008-03-12 18:02:00 So your inbox is flooded every morning with the latest guru tips, newsletters, and ebooks on how to make $3,435 every 10 minutes, how to get 8,425 targeted visitors in a day, how to boost your AdSense income by thousands of dollars in just a couple weeks, how to get a gazillion people to subscribe to your rss feed, and you still have yet to achieve these coveted goals? That's because these money More About: Click , Quick , Unsubscribe
5 Reasons Your Blog is Choking
2008-03-11 22:22:00 1. So I know your mouth works fine, but will you listen to what I have to say? So many webmasters are puzzled because they can't attract the same audience someone else can, or they can't get the same links someone else can, or they can't solve the same problem someone else can, and are forever baffled. Well, you already have the best examples to gain experience from, SOMEONE ELSE. Make sure to More About: Blog , Reasons
What Type of Blogger Are You?
2008-03-10 22:41:00 Winning the Web ran a really interesting mini series on their blog recently discussing the various types of bloggers and helping readers identify and associate with the category they fall into. It also explains how to build your blogging "characteristics" to establish yourself in your typeset more aggressively. The Expert Blogger (e.g. Aaron Wall of SEO Book) The Rambling Blogger (e.g. Maddox) More About: Type
Tools of the Trade
2008-03-07 19:10:00 Good God, I've resorted to making a list of tools and utilities that are well employed by any internet marketing specialist or seo practitioner. ValidRank - Provides an analysis of a website's PageRank and checks to see if the data projected is accurate or not. Google Ranking Factors - Good resource for double checking your own website's optimization strategies. SEO Test - Rates the search More About: Tools , Trade
5 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks
2008-03-07 00:18:00 1. You publish posts that are scraped and/or mined another blogger's RSS feed. They call these spam blogs, or splogs. I don't think I'll ever be visiting you again. 2. You expect people to link back to you, but you don't link out. What motivation do people have if you're not going to show them the same courtesy? 3. You talk the talk, but you don't walk the walk. I really hate it when a More About: Blog , Reasons , Sucks
Increase Technorati Authority Ranking
2008-03-05 20:16:00 Have you ever wondered why you keep making posts and gaining backlinks, but your authority rank on Technorati never seems to go up in count? Well, this is because Technorati's spiders have not realized that your backlink count from other blogs has increased. The websites linking to you have not pinged Technorati since before they were updated with your link. In order to make sure your backlinks More About: Authority , Ranking
What is a Quality Backlink?
2008-03-04 23:07:00 Before you run off and start plugging your link halfway across the internet on every semi-related website you come across, take some time and examine the internet real estate where you are going to be placing a gateway to your own website. Whenever I place a backlink, I always make sure to run through a series of criteria, first. 1. Quality Backlinks are RELEVANT Backlinks Make sure the page
WordZe's Google Top Search Trends
2008-03-03 18:03:00 WordZe has provided a public list of the top search keywords and keyphrases queried via Google per hour since January 8th, 2008. The list includes over 130,000 search terms! Combined with the Google AdWords Keyword Research tool, this is a very formidable tool to add to your SEO arsenal for keyword research. WordZe's keyword information included on this list is mined from Google Trends . http:/ More About: Search
Building Backlinks - Blog In Space
2008-02-28 18:11:00 Blog In Space is a unique website that offers to transmit your RSS feed into the depths of space with a powerful satellite. Your RSS feed will be echoing through the kosmos long after your website is gone (or will you become the professional blogger you always aspired to be?) ... providing extraterrestrial life forms with your knowledge and insights. Blog In Space also offers a directory of all More About: Building , Backlinks , Blog
Save Time & Money With AdWords
2008-02-27 22:41:00 Alot of people have bad experiences with Google's AdWords program because they forget two very simple and effective options to tailor their Google AdWords campaign. First, make sure you set your daily spending limit! Don't jinx your traffic by paying for clicks you can't afford, or even getting clicks that are not as valuable to you, because they are less targeted. Which brings me to my second More About: Money , Time , Adwords , Save
5 SEO Techniques Buried With 2007
2008-02-26 18:05:00 In 2007, alot happened in the world of search engine marketing. Several strategies were born and met their fate last year. Some of these strategies were eighty-sixed because they provided unfair leverage within the search engines and made websites appear to be of more worth than they were. 1. Directory Links - Google pretty much stripped away all the value gained from one-way and reciprocal
Quirky Little Blogging Truths
2008-02-25 18:21:00 As I was doing my morning reading, I found two articles that really piqued my interest and made me feel more involved in all my blogging commitments and appreciate the community and various aspects of blogging. 10 Reasons Why a Blog is Better than a Website ... and ... 9 Things that Drive a Blogger Crazy Each article gives some really in depth truths about the nature of blogging. You will More About: Blogging
Passive Benefits from Social Networking
2008-02-22 20:38:00 Social Networking (media, bookmarking, sharing) is not just for the one hit wonder burst of traffic that surges to your website after advancing to a social networking website's "popular" page, there are also many long term benefits. First, whatever you are sharing usually ends up linked directly from your profile on the social website, giving search engines one more link to find your article More About: Social , Social Networking , Benefits , Passive
So, I'm Officially An IT Professional
2008-02-20 22:58:00 No longer self employed and self proclaimed, living from odd job to odd job. I was hired this week by Geek Works Unlimited, a local computer company with a web design subdivision located in sunny Palm Desert, CA. I was placed on the Geek Works web design staff, and I am already updating a local real estate website for a client. There's even a sort of internet marketing and advertising division, More About: Professional
One Surefire Method to Increase RSS Subscriber Count!
2008-02-19 20:07:00 You just have to remember ... "Constant Vigilance!"" Always remember to update your site, try to write a new blurb or article at least twice a week to keep things fresh. Don't you notice that after every post you make, your subscriber count jumps a little, but then it's all downhill after that. Sure you can submit your websites to RSS feed directories or services like FeedStub and RSS Submit .. More About: Count , Subscriber , Surefire , Method
Boards for Better Blogging
2008-02-15 18:55:00 If you're serious about your work, it's a great practice to meet and dialogue with other people in your line of work, and seek criticism on your efforts. One of the best ways to accomplish these goals is by actively participating in a blogging related message board. Here are my five favorite blogging message boards. I had to leave a comment about Bloggeries because I think it's great! More About: Blogging
DoFollow Blog Search Engines
2008-02-12 17:48:00 On your daily hunt to find places to sneak backlinks (or legitimately fish for comments back to your blog) ... don't you get tired of using custom Google search queries to find blogs with decent PR and Alexa ratings related to your blog's niche? Well, look no further! Here are a few Do Follow Blog Search Engines that have been crafted from Google's Custom Search feature. Some DoFollow Search
Best Entrecard Design
2008-02-10 23:08:00 I was checking my e-mail the other day, to find that I had received a new message from another webmaster who utilizes Entrecard. The message contained a link to a post they had made on the Entrecard community forums. http://entrecard.com/forums/3/2321/#p=14 Apparently, my Entrecards appearance is more aesthetically pleasing than those of others, at least to a few Entrecard users. I'd like to More About: Design
The U Drop - I Follow Movement
2008-02-07 01:51:00 Lee Doyle has started a new interesting blog movement akin to the "U Comment - I Follow" moment that revolves around the whole Entrecard card dropping feature. Members of this group make it first priority to drop cards on those who have dropped cards on themselves already. I think it's a really great think, and will be adding the banner shortly! Link: http://leedoyle.com/ More About: Drop
Entrecard Slots & Ad Slots at JoeTech
2008-02-04 22:15:00 If you're interested in free advertising spots and free entrecard credits (up to 2,000) every day, then head over to JoeTech and play the Ad Slots and the Entrecard Credit Slots. Both are a great way to kill some time and build up some resources for your websites. Ad Slots offers four different payouts: small sized text links, medium sized text links, large sized text links, and a 250x250 image
100,000 Entrecard Credit Opportunity
2008-01-29 03:46:00 The folks over at Million Dollar Challenge have opened exciting doors to a brand new Entrecard contest. The grand prize and subsequent prizes total to a net of 100,000 EC! (The grand prize winner will receive 50,000 Entrecard credits.) All you have to do is subscribe to their full RSS feed by e-mail over the next 100 days to enter. You can also blog about the MDC contest for extra entries. They More About: Credit , Opportunity
Happy New Year!
2008-01-20 03:56:00 Now let me update you with some quasi bad news. In a previous post, I mentioned several ways to bolster your Alexa ranking. During a recent update, the redirect function that was available off of Alexa's website was disabled, so this trick is no longer effective. P.S. Sorry for the lack of updates for the past couple weeks, I haven't had a stable internet connection. More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Year
Free Backlink of High Repute
2007-12-23 23:25:00 I don't know if you're familiar with it, but AboutUs is a website where many high profile companies and personas go and establish a standardized about page, stored on a centralized server. (Sometimes it's even interesting to search for a person or business on AboutUs and find interesting facts on them. You'd be surprised!) Many AboutUs pages gain PageRank quickly, and provide a solid backlink to More About: Free , High
Professional Entrecard Design by 125 Design
2007-12-21 22:37:00 Anthony Ongaro over at 125 Design hooked up TYPELiFE with a new fancy-schmancy Entrecard design, for FREE! If you're interested in getting your Entrecard designed, I really would recommend his services ... after requesting a free Entrecard design as per his recent promotion, he gave me two designs to pick from. I'm going to use the design I didn't employ on Entrecard as an avatar on various More About: Professional , Fess
RSS Directories With One Shot Submission
2007-12-19 02:21:00 In relation to my recent post about FeedStub, my recently created automated RSS feed directory submitter, I've started compiling a bigger list of RSS feed directories that only require you to enter a URL by itself and you are able to submit your feed for review or addition, without entering a category, e-mail address, or captcha. I've sorted them into ascending order for you. http:// More About: Shot , Directories , Submission , Missi , Rect
Win 1,000 Entrecard Credits for Christmas
2007-12-15 04:41:00 Over at JoeTech.com, Joe is showing everyone the true meaning of getting into the holiday spirit. He's presenting the opportunity for all of us Entrecard users the chance to win a whopping 1,000ec (Entrecard credits) for Christmas . The only requirements are for you to drop your Entrecard over at Joe's inbox. You're allowed to "enter" as many times as you want, so that's a chance to drop a card More About: Credits
FeedStub - RSS Feed Directory Submitter
2007-12-13 10:21:00 I'm currently developing a semi-automated RSS Feed Directory submitter, similar to the RSS Submit program that I posted about previously. My RSS Feed Directory automation tool is web based, and so will be easily updated for new directories (as well as dead directories) and functions. This also means you don't need to download any updates, it's all done on this end. Best of all it is 100% free More About: Rect
Shareaholic Firefox Plugin
2007-12-13 00:13:00 I don't use it anymore, but I thought I'd make mention of a great Firefox add-on that has done wonders for me in the past. For submission of my own sites, or even submissions I was doing for other people, Shareaholic eased up my workload a TON. Shareaholic lets you quickly submit to del.icio.us, digg, facebook, google bookmarks, ma.gnolia, reddit, stumbleupon, truemors, and twitter with a simple More About: Plugin
Getting Indexed Faster (Set Googlebot to Faster)
2007-12-11 21:42:00 I was browsing through Google's Webmaster Tools, and after submitting and verifying TYPELiFE, I noticed when I expanded the "tools" tab on the left, there was a menu option that said "set crawl rate" ... hmmm, I wonder what this does? A quick skim over the tool page shows me: "Google collects documents on the web using Googlebot, our web crawler. You should leave this control at the Normal More About: Aster
Social Media is like High School
More articles from this author:2007-12-11 03:12:00 Shana Albert of Social Desire made a great humorous analysis of the cultures within the social networking / media economy, Wow, Social Media is a lot like High School !! Right on the money with the "elitist bullies", "popular & not so popular (read: band-o's) crowds. Even the drama, zealous representation of mascots, and "inter-site" relations. More About: High School 1, 2, 3 |
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