Powered by AlphaContent 4.0.15 © 2005-2010 - All rights reserved
-
SEO - The Recession-Proof Investment
With the current tough times in the market, keeping your business “out of the red” takes smart, informed financial decisions. For example, many items these days are marked down in an effort to move them quicker during the recession, which makes now a great time to stock up your inventory at a cheap price. Another example would to find areas where you can decrease your overhead—perhaps by taking advantage of low real estate prices. But where you’ll find the real bang for your buck is... -
Bigger, Louder, & More Obnoxious Ad Units
Phorm/Google Behavioral Ad Targeting - Based on Your Browsing Data » Some larger online publishers are facing declining display ads with a bold strategy: bigger, louder, and more obnoxious ad units. AdWeek reports: The fixed panel, a 336-by-860-pixel banner that is wider than the standard skyscraper and follows users as they scroll down the page. The XXL box, a 468-by-648-pixel unit that can expand with video. The pushdown, a 970-by-418-pixel placement that... -
Interview of Andrew Goodman, the World"s #1 Google AdWords Expert
LinkBait Launch Cycle The Integration of Media & Public Relations » For a number of years I have been meaning to interview Andrew Goodman (and thank him for how his original ebook helped me out back in the stone ages (circa 2003, when I was first getting online). He recently finished the second edition to his popular Winning Results with Google AdWords book, so I figured now would be a good time to interview... -
Dear Friend
Content vs SEO: Business Profit Margins Self Promotion vs Confidence & Self Esteem » Don't you hate sales letters than begin with ""? :) Sleazy sales letters peddling get rich quick scams will be familiar to anyone who has spent any time on the internet. Seemingly written by some self-aggrandizing, ex-timeshare salesman, they attempt to press every conceivable button in order to make a quick sale. The downside is that they can make your product or... -
The Point of Increasing Returns
Review of Amazon Kindle 2 Soft-Bundling: The Value of Perceived Authenticity & Transparency » when I got on the web one of the first mistakes I made was trying to go after the cheap traffic on the second and third tier networks. I arbitraged one of them and was pulling a 300% ROI selling them back their own traffic - but the wankers never paid me a cent. It can be appealing to think of how to do things cheaper...and sure in the short term it might make... -
Why SEO Will Never Die
Okay, first off I have to give props to Jeff Call one of my coworkers whom I asked to create a simple depiction of SEO not dying and he came back to me with this jewel in no time: Incredible! I wish I had that kind of talent. Now onto the post: There is constantly talk about SEO dying. In years past, there have been many people who have predicted that SEO would be dead by now. Many others think SEO is dying out as I write this post. I really hope these people didn’t quit their SEO jobs... -
Google Toolbar 6 Rolls Out QSB and New Tab Page Feature
Google has rolled out two new features of its Google Toolbar for the IE browser. These include the Quick Search Box and New Tab Page. The Quick Search Box extend the toolbar’s search functionality by putting a quick access search box on your Windows taskbar. After installing Google Toolbar on your IE, the Google logo would appear on the taskbar. Clicking on it will launch a new quick search box. This QSB has auto-suggest functionality and also allows you to launch an practice...
