Archive for the ‘SEM’ Category

Looking for bloggers and SEOs to interview

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Right now, there are two ongoing interview series on the Blog Republic. This is a way for 1) people to learn more about the field and 2) allow the blogger or SEO to gain some exposure. The SootleDir 6 Question SEO Interview Series is brand new, with only a few ...

Key to long term link building success

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Most people you run into online will agree that a ton of incoming links is important for any website. They'll suggest ideas on you can acquire links, but I think it's important to take a look at the long term picture. Successful websites always gain links, even over ...

Viral traffic is the Holy Grain of online marketing

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Viral traffic is just great because it's the gift that keeps on giving. I never experimented at all with viral marketing until May of this year, and now I'm already convinced it's one of the best possible ways to go. If you can up with something funny, useful, ...

6 best ways to promote your website in 2006

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

Okay gang, let's do a list. We all know how exciting that can be. I'd like to enumerate the main methods of internet marketing that I've actually found to work in 2006. These methods are "tried and true" and have been able to survive even the most ...

Internet marketing expert

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

I feel that's an interesting term. What exactly is an internet marketing expert? It's someone who is willing to proclaim themselves experts in a field that changes every day. For a person to make such a claim, they need to be working actively in the field, and ...

Click-fraud on rise - can it be the end of profits online?

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

The more I read about click-fraud lately, the more I begin to think of it as the "Achille's heal" of the contextual ads game. If you don't stop it, people lose faith in the system and it goes the way of the Hula Hoop. Google has been getting ...

Crafting a landing page

Friday, July 21st, 2006

If you build a big website, or even a large network, you'll have people landing all over you pages. You need to think about where they land, because if you're not careful, they may become disjointed. More importantly, you need to try and warm them up and lead ...

Gambling stocks down as BETOnSPORTS probed by FBI

Tuesday, July 18th, 2006

Now is not the best time to be in the online gambling business. The FBI is going after certain companies that offer online gambling. The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday that BETonSPORTS was among 11 individuals and four corporations facing various charges of racketeering, conspiracy and ...

The single best thing about web development currently

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

These are very good times to develop websites. You have a multitude of options to monetize just about any website. There's extra capital laying around, in case you need to ramp up in a hurry. And most importantly, using widely available open source programs, you can build ...

Search engine traffic is a gift that must be converted

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Really any traffic to your website has to be converted into something. If you want to be effective, you have to have repeat visitors. If you have no repeat visitors, then every day you're on the internet is your first day! You end up living in a ...