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I see this everywhere and still cannot believe that people do not get it. Content is still king on the web. The most important thing you will ever do for your website is to put in good content. Great content will get you links and your position in the search engine results will be because of the content you put into your website. Hundreds of back links will not get you ranked well with poor content. Great content will get you good keyword positioning with or without back l...
Posted: 2006-12-25
Category: Marketing
Of the top 500 companies in the USA only 40 have a company blog. The reasons for this are not yet clear, however some speculate that marketing agencies do not have enough domain specific knowledge to truly comprehend the value of a company blog from a PR, branding and direct sales perspective. According to Bill Gates a company blog provides opportunities for companies to establish opinion and thought, whilst creating a “human face” to an organization. Speaking with a bl...
Posted: 2006-12-18
Category: Internet Business
I was inspired to write this article by some people who are doing article marketing or whom at least THINK they are doing article marketing. I go to rentacoder.com, getafreelancer.com, and other freelance websites and I get emails for bid requests where people are looking for article writers. Some of the bids would amaze you. Example: "I need high quality articles of 500 words or more each written with SEO in mind. I am willing to pay $1.50 per article." Some go on to s...
Posted: 2006-08-24
Category: Article Marketing
Every new webmaster will eventually run into the term SEO (Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Optimizer) when he or she is working on marketing a website. This term can be generic and decisive all in one study. The term came around at about the same time as the Search Engines started to take hold. Infoseek was one of the first broadly used search engines and the SEO crowd quickly grasped onto designing the sites with SEO as the main intent. The first technique was...
Posted: 2006-08-22
Category: SEO
Everyone seems to be scrambling around trying to get links on websites with a high google page rank. I see lists of people posting on freelance websites, "I need 100 inbound links with PR5 or higher!", "Inbound Links needed from PR3 and above websites", etc. etc. I get emails from webmasters all the time wanting to trade links with me because I have a higher pages rank than they do. I have to use all sorts of filtering methods in the Webmaster Forums I manage to keep the s...
Posted: 2006-08-15
Category: Page Ranking
This article is about blogging and why you should never blog on a free host like blogger.com or wordpress.com I am writing this to alert people out there who are building blogs on free blog hosts like blogger.com and wordpress.com Installing wordpress is free and gives you full control over your blog. There are other platforms like moveable type to choose from as well. Take a look around and find the platform you like or that best fits your blogging style. I've learned an ...
Posted: 2006-07-25
Category: Blogging
With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips. 1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as reference...
Posted: 2006-07-18
Category: Writing
By now everyone has heard of article marketing and so many people out define it in so many different ways there that it has become hard for people new to article marketing to understand. First of all, most of the SEO Gurus caught on to article marketing late in the game, then scrambled to create their own definitions of it at the last minute so it didn’t appear they were ever not aware of the power of article marketing. In general, article marketing is where you write a...
Posted: 2006-07-17
Category: Article Marketing
I have been on the Internet for a long time. At least I have been doing marketing a long time in relation to the Internet as a commercial entity. Around the end of 1995 I speculated in domain names, learning about keywords and phrases and how they help the search engines find the content you are providing at your website. I continued to learn about keywords and as search engine optimization became a necessity I was ready to use what I had learned about keywords and phra...
Posted: 2006-07-11
Category: SEO
Sometimes I don't know which people are the worst. Those that spam or those that say they are going after spammers. I deleted 145 spam posts on one of my blogs today. Fortunately I have moderate comments turned on so they never actually get posted. That makes the spammers bad, but that’s the worst inconvenience spammers have caused me. However those that supposedly are our Spam saviors. Those that say they are fighting spam have caused me more problems than the spammers...
Posted: 2006-07-04
Category: Internet Business
If you have thought about starting your own website or already have one, and have done any research at all, you have read about the importance of keywords. Everything on the web is driven by keywords. It’s the fuel the Internet runs on. One of the ways to get great traffic to your website is through the Google Adwords program. You select the keywords you want to bid on and set up the budget you want to use to get traffic based on those keywords from websites that utilize t...
Posted: 2006-07-01
Category: Internet Business
In this article I will be writing about Website Design, how it affects sales, and how it compares in importance to other aspects of Website Management. Lets list the different aspects of owning or managing a Website. Domain Name: How important is the domain name you choose for your Website? Many people say it is not important at all, yet I have number one listings in Google, Yahoo, and MSN for the key phrases that exactly match my domain name. It matters a lot. You need...
Posted: 2006-07-01
Category: Web Design
Lots of people have heard about article marketing but do not really understand what it is. There are different ways article marketing can be used to help you. Writing an informative article about something that is related to your website content, service, or product, then mass submitting it to article submission or free content websites. Because of the links in your author bio section or footer of the article, every article directory you submit to is linking back to you...
Posted: 2006-06-19
Category: Article Marketing
First let me explain article marketing for those that do not know what it is. Lets say your website is about widgets. You write an article on interesting ways people can use widgets. In the footer of your article there is an author bio section. In the author bio section you place links to your website about widgets. You submit that article to as many article directories as possible. You can use a service www.isnare.com ISnare.com who for two dollars per article will sub...
Posted: 2006-06-19
Category: Internet Business
For those of you who haven't yet started a Blog, you won't understand. You weren't there man! Just trying one Blog will get you hooked. Sure, you say you're just experimenting with blogging. Then soon, you are blogging everyday. You wake up trying to search around to see who has commented on your Blog. Then it gets to be a 3 or 4 blogpost a day habit, and you're still saying, "I can quit anytime I want". Then you decide to try different types of Blog. You have your pers...
Posted: 2006-06-14
Category: Blogging
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