Internet Marketing 101 Do it right the first time

You have decided on a niche for your internet marketing venture, now I bet you want to know how to get your marketing done correctly? Effectively using the following methods will help to ensure that the search engines can find your website, that your traffic is targeted and that your conversion rates are satisfactory. This is not the end all be all, but it’s a good place to start. Here are some of the most important things you can do to make sure your site gets traffic and that[...]

Twitter E Coli, cook the blue bird to 160 degrees F

News news AND more news, there is never a shortage of news on the news or news about news. I get most of my news from the Internet at various sources and lately I have been using a neat little tool called Google Trends to see whats hot and spicy on the web at that very moment. Presently it’s Twitter and a big E.coli 0157:H7 caused beef recall of 96,000 pounds, so make sure you cook your meat to a minimum temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

You may be asking what this has to do with this site, well to be quite honest it has absolutely nothing[...]

Don’t have featured articles? you should add them

I’m sure you have all seen the various sliding, scrolling, rotating, blinking or fading featured post concoctions floating around the internet lately. While some people love them, some hate them and others could care less, there is one reason why every site should have them that should trump any reason you could have to not have one. Looking at the big players sites you will see that they all have them and whether they know it or not there is a very good reason why they are there[...]

Stop Twitter Spam, the easy way

I’ve recenlty started using Twitter to promote my business, my sites as well as products and offerings but I also participate in the “community” aspect of it and really enjoy the dialog that comes from actually using the service as it was intended. I don’t use any automated tools to send messages, I do follow everyone that follows me on my @ad0 account but I do it the old fashioned way, I actually go through my list of followers[...]

New contest! Win a free professional guest post for your site

Anyone who knows me will know I love contests, so here is my latest and greatest contest. I will award 3 winners a guest post to use on your site, the winners will be drawn at random and will be notified in a follow up post on this site. The post can be about any topic related to marketing, SEO, affiliate marketing, Internet marketing, site design, hosting, optimization etc (basically anything somewhat related to the topics you read here) Guest posts are a great way to get content on your site, provide your audience with another source of information and you show your participation within a community. By partnering and participating with people who have sites similar to yours, you can open up[...]

If you mask affiliate links, block them with robots.txt

Anyone that uses affiliate programs to make money online should know the benefits of masking your affiliate links. If you are promoting or selling multiple products having links that look like blah.blah.te.dah.com/purchase.php?productid=1&affiliate=bob not only looks terrible but it also exposes your affiliate id to your site readers, opening you up to click theft and it makes the links much more difficult to insert into your content and so on and so forth. Additionally, if you are interested in tracking statistics for your affilaite programs using masking allows you that option as well[...]