Archive for May 1st, 2006
There’s an old saying that goes, “God takes care of babies and idiots.”
Truly this statement applies to me, because when it comes to my search engine optimization skills, I’m on the idiot side of scale. But that’s okay because idiots are loved, and can easily survive in the search engine game too.
Let me explain.
Although NONE of my 6 web sites rank in Google’s top 10 (or top 20 and 30 for that matter), and I only advertise 2 of my sites using AdWords, Google still helps me make a lot of money.
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May 1st, 2006
When Google introduced their new Adsense revenue sharing program, people began to wonder if things would change. Certain questions have been burning in people’s mind like: what’s going to happen to Associate Programs, how do they compare against Google’s Adsense and will Adsense cause Associate Programs to be obsolete?
Well, that really depends on a number of things, which I will go over. In this article I am only going to cover a few advantages and disadvantages of using Google’s Adsense vs Associate Programs and which Associate Programs will prevail.
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May 1st, 2006
Do you want to open the floodgate of orders at your website?
Here are ten magical awesome website sales tactics to help you:
1. Use reward programs to keep people revisiting your web site and buying your products. You could reward gifts or discounts for revisiting or buying.
2. Publish e-zines for other web sites to increase your traffic. You could do it at no charge and in return just ask for a sponsor ad in each issue.
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May 1st, 2006
For the sake of your long term survival and your short term profitability online, you’ve got to think of your business as more than just one or more products or services. Getting customers is the hard part, so the best strategy is almost always to gain their business long term.
Ask yourself or find out from your subscribers what wants and needs they have in common. It’s commonly known that the online environment is especially suited to this because it costs you nothing to keep in touch with them. When done correctly, these contacts can be very profitable to you for a long time.
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May 1st, 2006
Over the past year or so, more and more webmasters have been creating their own blogs (web-logs). If you don’t already know, a blog is sort of an online diary which is updated at regular intervals by the author(s), and can be viewed by the public.
Blogs can have a wide variety of topics, including personal thoughts, news, sports, politics, technology, or virtually anything else you can think of. And like any other website, a blog can be used to make money.
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May 1st, 2006
Bill Huang sits down at his computer. As he connects to the Internet, he glances out at the sun poking its nose above the Hong Kong skyline. It will be another busy day, and he has to order those slippers for his wife before rushing off to a meeting.
He types in his search terms and Google faithfully reports: “Results 1 - 100 of about 1,760,000. Search took 0.34 seconds.”
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May 1st, 2006
If you haven’t visited the Google Labs lately, they have released a beta of Google Groups 2 that you may want to check out. This is Google’s answer to Yahoo Groups, and they’ve added some new features to make their service more useful.
For those who don’t know, such groups allow anyone to easily and quickly start their own announcement lists and discussion forums. There is no need to install scripts or anything else on a web site, and no technical knowledge beyond email and posting to a discussion board is needed. If you want, you can use Google Groups to post to and read Usenet postings as well.
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May 1st, 2006
Like many folks, I have been using KEI for some time now to determine what keywords I should target with my web site. And this has led me to becoming concerned with the results KEI provides and the keywords it suggests. I need to say here that my concern is very subjective as many folks are happily using KEI and don’t seem to have a problem with it.
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May 1st, 2006