Category: Affiliate Marketing

101 ways to get more traffic

1.Write and submit articles . It is a classic, but it works. This will be indefinite traffic stuck in the search engines for you. Write quality unique articles, not articles that are rehashed or provide no insight to readers, which is a huge problem these days.
2.Write and submit press releases, think prweb after you do one.
3.Write and ping blog entries. Always make sure to link back to your website with your blog posts. Try making multiple blogs and have them all link back to one main site.
4.Make sure your website is listed in DMOZ: http://dmoz.org/.
5.Advertise your website in the appropriate categories at Craigslist. Try posting your ads in the most populated cities in the world.
6.If a niche related forum that you frequently visit allows signatures, then make sure to add your website url in there.
7.Make sure to view related products on Amazon.com. You can try and take some customers from your competitors here by providing your own url if the product is similar.
8.Review websites in your niche on Alexa to try to take some of their traffic by including a reference back to your site.
9.Review some related products on epinion.

“New algorithm” The Way Google Ranks Your Site

No one knows what the real algorithm is, but by reading many different peoples opinions on it as well as doing my own research, I have come to the following conclusions:
1. If you own a spammy website (or a bad quality website) with loads of junky inbound links, your website might not even be included [...]

The end of Encarta

Growing up, I was privileged to have a set of Funk and Wagnalls encyclopedias thanks to my parents. While the F&W’s weren’t as costly as Brittanica, they still weren’t cheap by any means – my parents had to work hard to provide me with that resource. The volumes also took a up a lot of [...]

Firefox – not so secure

Back in my Moz/Firefox hating days, one of the points I used to argue the most was the “it’s more secure” fanboy cry.Back then, I pointed out that the “secure” aspect was only going to be relevant while the “cool kids” used it; that is, the geek minority that were revelling in anything with a [...]

Google “mini” SiteLinks

Most of us would be familiar with Google site links (SiteLinks), but the mighty G appears to be toying with a new feature – mini site links.In case you aren’t familiar with the feature, here’s how standard SiteLinks look:Site Links are additional links under the domain name offering a direct link to various sections of [...]

What the font???

Have you ever seen a font you just gotta have, but haven’t been able to locate it as you didn’t know the name of it? There’s also been many times over the years when I’ve been sent something by a graphic designer that needed a minor text correction – but a deadline is looming, the [...]

Facebook statistics

Just a year or two ago, I might have been rattling off some MySpace statistics (MyWho?); but as Facebook is the golden-haired child of the moment, lets take a peek at some of their numbers.According to data from Facebook, their user base is currently around 175 million and unlike back in the days when it [...]

Need venture capital? Google Ventures

There’s so many good ideas out there yet so little cash to go around at the moment it seems. Google to the rescue once again.One of the great things about tough times is that it tends to generate a lot of innovation; but to get innovation out into the marketplace usually takes a fair amount [...]

Coupons – not just for old farts

When we think of coupon clippers, we might often think of penny-pinching folks who left their “youth” a while back.. say those over the age of 35, like me. That’s not the case according to a recent survey.A survey report by Platform-A and Information Resources, Inc. states that over 78% of retail shoppers in the [...]

The Frog Is Boiled

It’s the first time I’ve ever seen the “f” word (no, not frog) in an article on AdvertisingAge, but I guess it’s a sign of the times.AdvertisingAge has been around for a long while and is primarily geared to our suit-wearing counterparts who babble marketing corpspeak. That’s not dissing AdAge, it has some really interesting [...]