Archive for October, 2007

Saga Zone - Social Networking For Over 50 Set

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Everyone knows how much the teeny boppers love MySpace and Facebook, but they aren't exactly the kind of sites that a more genteel and older crowd would enjoy. So, British insurer Saga has decided to make a new social networking website just for that crowd. Saga Zone aims to attract ...

Google Keeps People On Their Toes

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Google is one company that is always evolving. And when they evolve, the rest of the internet feels the pain. This is especially true if you focus yourself too much on what you think "Google wants". The company themselves have always consistently said: "Make your websites for ...

Better Search Engine Rank

Friday, October 26th, 2007

Most people nowadays have heard about how important search engines are, so naturally they're very interested in attaining a better search engine rank. In fact, so many people are working on the same goal, that landing a better search engine rank can be quite a chore. Most people ...

Increasing RSS Reader Numbers

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

One area I've been very weak in is encouraging people to join my blog's RSS feed. I have always been a bit more oriented towards "monetizing all traffic". But I do realize that repeat visitors are great to have. So I've been thinking about this issue in ...

Ancillary Keywords

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

I've written before about keyword selection, and the subject is very important to anyone in internet marketing. But more than just your main keywords, it's important to refine what people are searching for and hitting your website by creating ancillary keyword pages from your log files. The task ...

Leaving Blog Comments Doesn’t Yield Much

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

In terms of traffic generation, leaving comments in other's blogs doesn't seem to do much. For awhile I would do about 20 comments a week. Let's say I did 20 per week for 10 weeks. That's a quick 200 comments. Of that, only an extremely small ...

Fresh Information Should Matter In Google

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

It seems that Google places an emphasis on the age of documents, but I'm not sure that this strategy is always the best. Sure, some great documents are old, but documents are being born every day on the internet, and certainly some of them are better than the ones ...

October Is Dense With Traffic

Friday, October 19th, 2007

October has been a great month for traffic for me. The internet really is seasonal. June and July saw some very lightweight traffic numbers and now October seems to be making up for it. The amount of traffic coming from college kids is obviously quite high. ...

Internet Marketing Requires A Laidback Personality

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

If you plan on going into internet marketing for a living, you probably should have a laidback personality. If you're an aggressive type-A personality the job might not be cut out for you. Because one thing about internet marketing: it's likely to go up and down and ebb ...

Ad Tuning For Adsense Continues To Pay Off

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

You must keep tweaking your Google Ads. You stand so much to gain, and really nothing at all to lose. If the ads don't perform better, revert. The advantages of tweaking are obvious: you can get more money for no extra effort. If you can increase ...