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Today I got an email from a list I’m on… from some marketer’s list I forgot I signed up for and haven’t heard from in ages. This mailing linked to what seemed like an informational blog post, but what it was was one of those incredibly long sales pages that markets the latest hot product that will have your bank account filled with money seemingly overnight. Yeah, sure. This is the stuff I hate, these are the marketing tactics that I can’t stand. These marketer’s make tons of money preying on... Read Full Story

While I have many content based sites, making money from Adsense or CPA ads or whatever, I thought it might be prudent to explore why my most successful sites became that way. Exactly what tactics did I deploy in terms of link building or other promotions… let’s find out. Site #1 This was and still is my most successful site to date. It makes money from Adsense and another ad network. This one site has made me 5 figures a year for the last couple years. I guess it isn’t too much of a... Read Full Story

Ninety Nine Ways is having a relaunch contest with over $900 in prizes to be won! There are some great prizes like a logo design package, Wordpress themes and an SEOintelligence subscription. I personally would love the 1st prize with the SEOintelligence sub and I always enjoy putting new Wordpress themes to good use. This site could definitely use a makeover with a new theme… that’s for sure, so that’s why I should win it! Enter here . Read Full Story

Ok, if you’ve been trying to promote your website very long, you’ve no doubt heard of article marketing. It’s still an effective way to bring in targeted visitors AND build links at the same time. Needless to say, this double edge benefit is certainly worth the time you must invest in this tactic. Most people simply write an article, then submit it to a few directories by hand or use a service like ArticleMarketer, iSnare or submission software. This is ok, but you’ll get MUCH more out of... Read Full Story

While I usually tell SEO clients that link building must be done manually, I am always checking out the latest software that can streamline, speed up or complete automate some link building tasks. Here’s my opinions on the ones I’ve used: DIRECTORY SUBMISSIONS Autofill Directory Submission Software SubmitEaze - This is a nice program, it does streamline the directory submission process quite a bit. The problem with it is that some directories in the list have broken captcha’s which... Read Full Story

With the current global economic state, just like in the real estate market, it’s a true buyer’s market. Great deals on websites can be had right now if you have some cash available. I’ve done a bit of buying and selling of websites over the years and here is my opinion on some of the popular places to buy websites online: SitePoint Marketplace - You are most likely to find a legitimate website deal here. The only bad part is that most everybody knows about it, so you aren’t as likely to... Read Full Story

I do a lot of SEO work in addition to my own projects, and link building is a huge part of SEO. I often get clients who can’t afford a big monthly package for link building work, so I try and give them tips for how to do it themselves. Maybe that’s not a wise thing to do as far as making money, but I hate to see people struggling when they get started and helping people in this way makes for some very satisfied and very loyal customers. I always get more business from them once they get going... Read Full Story

I’ve been wondering lately if Google is penalizing websites that are built using XSitePro. Sites built using this software do have a bit of an obvious footprint. Specifically, just about every site has something like this in their code: “ XSP_HEADER_PANEL “, in fact, each panel, sides, footer, has one of these. All Google needs to do is look for this code and boom… assess a little penalty. Why wouldn’t they? The software is promoted as a solution specifically for “Internet Marketers”, and we... Read Full Story

Traffic Travis was a bust… buggy and sometimes didn’t give results for certain engines. I’ve switched to Rank Tracker, which is very accurate. The only thing I don’t like is uploading the reports. The reports have too many unneeded files, images and directories. I have to delete certain files before trying to upload, otherwise my server times out or the upload is corrupted. The reports seriously need to be streamlined. I wish their reports were more like Traffic Travis, very simple and clean... Read Full Story

I do quite a lot of search engine optimization for selected clients on the side. Pretty much every client wants a progress report of their rankings. While sales and/or traffic is a much more effective and important indicator of the success of a search engine optimization campaign, most clients simply don’t want to hear that. They want to see themselves #1 for whatever oddball phrase that they think is important. Nevermind what you tell them. Hence, the important of giving your clients a... Read Full Story