From the monthly archives:

September 2009

Using Allintitle Google Syntax For Keyword Research

What is the best way to determine keyword competition?
There are many tools for doing keyword research and most will pull the competition from a basic competition search.
That would be doing the search in google with “inverted commas” (phrase match). It narrows to results down to those sites using the string of keywords in the order [...]

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Tweet at Your Own Risk?

Twitter Marketing

Twitter doesn’t have any medically recognized side effects and it comes without a warning from the Surgeon General. That doesn’t mean that it’s completely free of dangers, however.
Here are few potential Twitter pitfalls about which you should be keenly aware.
First, remember that just about everyone in the world can read your Tweets. The people who [...]

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Jerry West, Leslie Rohde and Dan Thies at StomperNet

Website SEO

This is a video of Jerry West with Leslie Rohde and Dan Thies. They spoke at a recent StomperNet event. They have all left the faculty of Stomper and are focusing on their own businesses.
These guys may be the best at SEO and understanding the search engines from the outside. Obviously, Matt Cutts and the army of PHD’ers aren’t spilling [...]

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Get Targeted Web Traffic in 3 Easy Steps

Website SEO

Have you been thinking about paying someone to optimize your website in a quest to drive sales or opt-ins? Before you do, consider a few things you can do yourself to get that laser targeted web traffic.
First, why would you want and what is “targeted” web traffic? Simply put, if you are selling “yellow widgets [...]

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Affiliate Internet Marketing for the Lazy Marketer

Internet Marketing

First, what is “Affiliate Internet Marketing”? We could go with Wikipedia’s definition as seen here…
Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. It is an application of crowdsourcing. Affiliate marketing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
And, [...]

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3 Ways You Can Improve Your Tweeting

Twitter Marketing

1. Use Twitter in combination with other networking sites
This is absolutely critical. That is why it is listed first. You should never put all your eggs in the same basket. What if something happens to Twitter? What if it’s down for maintenance? What if there are just too many tweeps on at once and you [...]

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How to Use Video for Marketing Online

Internet Marketing

While some marketers are happy to put their videos on YouTube and leave it at that, you can generate more traffic by pursuing other video repository sites.

There are literally hundreds of these sites available (although approximately 20 probably account for 90% of the overall activity. You can set up accounts with all appropriate distribution channels [...]

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