There’s peanut butter and jelly. Gin and tonic. Fred and Wilma. Some things were just made for each other. The same goes for PPC (pay-per-click advertising) and SEO (search engine optimization) when competing for search engine traffic. PPC begets paid traffic, where SEO begets “natural” traffic. Not every web site out there will need both, [...]
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When I started this blog three months ago, I posed the question, “Where My Ladies At?!”
Now that I’ve pretty much jumped feet first into this blog world, I’m realizing that there aren’t that many women up in here!
Maybe I was just eager and not knowing about where the female bloggers were at. Now that I’ve [...]
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If you’re looking for another on-the-rise way to help increase your SEO ranks, consider participating in Darin Carter’s Bloglines List. Since Ask.com acquired Bloglines, they’ve been slowly added to internet marketing tools around the web. If you’re not already a Bloglines member, create an account and participate in this train.
Says Darin, “So here is another [...]
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Last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission opened a preliminary antitrust investigation following news of Google’s plan to acquire advertising giant DoubleClick. The New York Times article emphasizes two main points of concern. The first issue raised by privacy groups addresses the concern over the privacy of user data, which although valid, is not [...]
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My mentor is a very savvy SEOer. He has a theory that one day Google will no longer use links as a means to measure site value, that instead the value of any page on the internet will be determined by user-generated data. Now let’s all think about this notion for a bit. Imagine if [...]
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With all the changes that Google has going on these days, it’s been difficult to keep up with my reading. But one article in Search Engine Roundtable grabbed my attention in particular. I thought most of you who are using either AdWords or AdSense might find this an interesting discussion, if you haven’t already heard [...]
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The other day Binky hopped online from my computer at home when I was at work. He left a trail of his history on my computer, and I was surprised to find that he visited a bunch of my favorite blogs! Who’d have thought Binky was so internet savvy?
Well I guess Binky likes fish because [...]
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And lower your cpc… Here’s the most important tip for increasing your Google Adwords Landing Page Quality Score (LPQS): Follow Google’s guidelines. That’s it, and if you think I’m kidding, then just keep on paying $5.00 per keyword. Unfortunately, some broken campaigns just can’t be fixed, but if you’re creating a new campaign with a [...]
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I used to work at an animal hospital and people would abandon pets all the time. They’d abandon them in the parking lot, like how I got Binky, or they’d leave a box of kittens on a shelf somewhere, or even throw kittens out of a moving car (true story!). We’d have to call whatever [...]
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Hey guys! I have a quick question for you. If you were me, and let’s say this blog was worth $150,000, would you sell it? If no, why? If yes, why?
Here’s why I ask. I came across Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog again yesterday, remembering that he had that “How much is your blog worth?” [...]
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