Archive for January, 2008

Mixx And Commongate

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

I have been checking these two social networking websites out a bit. They are both well-designed tools for submitting news. They both appear to be based around blog content (which is a good idea to me). So far neither of the websites seem to have huge installed userbases, but ...

Being Consistent Helps Blog Growth

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

I have no idea exactly why it occurs, but there's a phenomena that I've noticed. If you can blog consistently, you are already halfway home when it comes to getting search engine traffic. Sure, a lot of your posts won't bring instant visitors, but the steadiness of posting ...

Determining Popularity Of Search Terms

Monday, January 21st, 2008

There's one very frustrating problem with researching search terms. All of the keyword tools show an estimate of how many searches a term gets, but the numbers are by no means accurate. If you need to determine the popularity of a search term, you are basically on your ...

News Is Instant

Friday, January 18th, 2008

That's the weirdest thing about the internet these days. Internet news has replaced a lot of the main stream channels that used to exist. This is forcing people from all kinds of organizations to re-learn how they think about releasing "news" to the public. The instant nature ...

The Same Old Same Can’t Keep Working, Can It?

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

People seem to do basically the same marketing tasks online, year in and year out. This leads you to wonder, are they doing it because it works, or because they don't have any other ideas? It's hard to believe that some of the old techniques still achieve success, ...

Everybody’s Going Viral

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

2008 is the year where everyone and their uncle at least takes a shot at going viral. Widgets are everywhere, and so are all sorts of viral schemes that are aiming to grab hold of the internet. But even as social networks and Youtube and other Web 2.0 ...

Traffic Restoring From Holiday Lows

Monday, January 7th, 2008

It's nice to see traffic hitting on all cylinders again as people return from their holidays. It has been a slow time for the last few weeks, with many internet segments low in traffic. But it appears things are getting back to normal, and the year 2008 is ...

Some Internet Marketers Never Evolve

Friday, January 4th, 2008

Here we are starting another new year and some things haven't changed. There are still people out there promoting their websites by spamming other's websites. This has been going on for as long as I've been around, and I imagine it will continue long after I'm gone. ...

The New Year Is A Good Time For Web Maintenance

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Now is the time to check all of your websites again. Why not? Chances are you have to change the copyright notice to 2008 anyway. So you might as well dig deeper and look for any mistakes you may have in your website. Plus, now is ...

Blogging In The New Year

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

2008 is upon us and the year begins as soon as the blogging starts. In the last few years I've used blogging to build a cornerstone to my online business, and this year will be no different. Although the internet is evolving, it doesn't completely change from year ...