Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 at
10:16 AM
A few links this Wednesday morning. Seems that when you launch an eBook the amount of emails you get per day triples! I am slowly getting through the emails, and should have the last responses replied to by the end of the day. Now, onto the links!
This is a really great article by Robert Dempsey, an entrepreneur who really knows how to properly manage time. He explains how his work process is, no matter where he is. He always has his iPhone and pen and paper ready, and when inspiration hits him, he is always ready. This is kind of how I work. If you do not see me with my Moleskine, my iPad is an arms length away. I work whenever I can, when a great blog post hits me, or some keyword ideas for a client, I always work out the thoughts in these two devices wherever I am. Thanks Richard!
No matter what website I am working on during the initial phase of SEO Consulting, I get at least one of the mistakes listed in the post on that website. Before you start seriously working on Internet Marketing, look at the site. Find this glaring mistakes and fix them first.
Off to my inbox now, then will post one of my accepted guest posts sometime today. If you have not yet, please download the Niche Blueprint eBook I launched today. It is an easy read, and a really good primer for getting more income from the Internet. Take a look!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010 at
9:00 PM
Whoops. See what happens when you update a site late in the morning? You put the wrong date in the publish portion of the site. Apologies, but this is a great way to tell everyone to think like a carpenter when working on your website: Measure Twice, Cut Once. Make sure you double and triple check the site publish times to make sure this is done correctly. On to the links!
Everyone, including myself, was extremely hyped to see Google Wave come out. The social networking sites were going nuts with people looking to get beta invites. Unfortunately, with the powerhouses of Twitter and Facebook, it never really hit its mark. They are discontinuing the project, and it is a shame. It had a lot of potential. We will miss you, Google Wave!
Source: Google Blog
Nowadays, Twitter is an essential part of anyones business strategy, or it darn well should be. Twitter has gained more popularity in the recent 12 months because of its ease of use and infinite marketing capabilities. Here is some great examples of how businesses have used the power of Twitter to promote their brand, service, or product. Simply put, if you do not use Twitter as an essential marketing tool, you need to reconsider why.
Source: Small Business Search Marketing Blog
“Do you go to an orthopedist to get your eyes checked? Do you go to your oil guy for major engine work? Do you get your house painted by a fine artist? A beautiful mural created by a simple house painter? Of course not.
Though they work in similar areas or mediums, they need special knowledge or skills to perform the job well. So why do you go to marketing firms or graphic artists to create your websites, to create your web design?”
Source: Search Engine Watch
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at
10:04 AM
Yahoo recently announced that their organic search results will soon be powered by Bing in the early fall. Both companies have already begun testing this new merger on some of their result pages. According to the latest comScore data, Yahoo and Bing have a combined search market share of 31.6% in June 2010.
Combined, both companies websites have received 5.4 billion search queries last month.
Read that again, 5.4 billion search queries.
Now, most everyone knows that Google is the powerhouse when it comes to traffic. With the vast amount of products and services they offer their user base, and the fact that most of it is free and really great to use, it is not too difficult to understand why. For that reason it is understood why most Internet Marketers spend ALL THEIR TIME working on their rankings in Google, and don’t even bother with checking their results on the other two. In a time crunch, I do that myself.
Stop it right now.
Is Yahoo and Bing Worth Optimizing For?
5.4 billion search queries is NOTHING to turn your nose up at. That information combined with the fact that some individuals still use Yahoo for their search results is lost traffic potential for you. Once more, if you spend your time and energy and depend on the current rankings of Yahoo and not Bing, come September, you are in for a rude awakening.
So, my suggestion is this. Make sure you go right now and look at your main keyword rankings in Bing. Take two or three specific pages on your website and start making small incremental changes and see how the results play out on Bing. Take good notes, make sure you follow the rules on only optimizing one keyword per page, optimize images, etc. and pay attention to those changes. Read up on the Webmaster Resources eBook that Microsoft released on Bing specifically. The download can be found here. Remember, these other Search Engines are not useless. Targeted traffic is sales potential.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 at
10:41 AM
Every Wednesday I will be passing along a few links from other Internet Marketing related sites that I find extremely useful. The articles will vary in detail, subject matter, and complexity. Please let me know if anyone has an interesting tip or article to share that will benefit the site and the readers.
Before upgrading to the Thelonius update, here is a few items to get you prepared for the switch. All in all the upgrade is pretty painless. I have upgraded 5 of my sites with little error or bugs. For the amount of features the 3.0 upgrade offers, it is well worth the bit of headache the website may cause on your site. Read more to find out what exactly to expect…
The folks at PPC Blog were kind enough to let us distribute this on our website. This is a perfect high-line understanding of how the Google Search Engine works. Read this for a better understanding of what is done with your website or blog after you hit “Publish”. Click the image to view to full version. It is very infomative for those people just getting into Search Marketing.
A few days late, but this Google Blog post highlights some very exciting changes for Google Apps across the board. Pay REAL IMPORTANT attention to this snippet:
Blogger Template Designer available to all
Back in March we introduced Blogger Template Designer in Blogger in Draft, and last week we made it available to everyone. You can choose from more than 19 stock templates and further customize your design with hundreds of free, professional background images, custom color schemes and pixel-perfect layout manipulation. Customizing your blog and making it “your own” is now much easier.
Now it is easier than ever to make a fancy, unique looking Blogger site. Exciting!
