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Moving Up the Internet Marketing Food Chain

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There comes a time when you’ll hit a brick wall in your Internet Marketing efforts.

One could be because you’ve not taken enough effort, and everything stalls.

I’d like to look at the opposite situation, where you’ve done everything you thought you could and your income has begun to plateau.

If you’re an affiliate marketer, it may mean looking at new products to market, and doing new research.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

If you’ve been constructing a demographic profile of your customers (ie their psychographics), you have an idea Continue reading →

Win a Date with Search Engine Marketing Expert Shoemoney

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Well, not quite a date, but still how does an intimate 1-on-1 consultation with one of the world’s top search engine marketers/optimization experts sound?

I saw this in Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker’s post “Emom Holds Birthday Contest”

Wendy Piersall, owner of eMoms, is celebrating her blog’s one year birthday.

She’s roped in a number of the Elite Retreat faculty to provide prizes and all participants are eligible for a discount coupon for the next event.

The highlight, a phone consultation with Jeremy and Wendy on how to grow your business or blog.

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The check Jeremy’s holding is for an Azoogle Ad.

Among the other prizes:

  • Aaron Wall’s SEO Book (an excellent resource for Search Engine Optimization)
  • A premium membership to Lee Dodd’s Earners Forum

And a number Continue reading →

Does Less Blog Content Lead To Less Blog Traffic?

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Having a policy like requiring blog registration prior to posting comments can reduce your blog to a one-way web publishing medium.

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While not as extreme as banning blog comments altogether, it can severely reduce the number of comments you receive in your posts.

Let’s face it, we already deal with a multitude of usernames and passwords, and blogs are designed to be an easy communication platform to set up, publish to and for readers to access.

By adding additional layers of registration, and requiring users to login each time they’d like to comment, you’re increasing Continue reading →

Are You a UFO Social Traffic Marketer?

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Newbie social traffic marketers just don’t get it…

True, social traffic is about building relationships.

And it’s also true, you can make your presence felt by establishing yourself as an authority on forums, blogs and social community sites by participating in ongoing conversations or starting new ones.

But where many stumble, and subsequently crash and burn is subscribing to the UFO mentality.

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A UFO is flashy, appears for a brief moment, makes a lot of sound and noise, everyone looks up at it. And boom! It disappears!

Likewise, a new social marketer will Continue reading →

Social Traffic Basics: Identifying The Usual Suspects

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When you’re planning a social traffic campaign, I’d put the longevity (long tail) of the campaign as a higher priority compared to just the spike in short term traffic you’ll experience.

One way to effectively orchestrate you campaign is to identify the key groups, one of which you’ll one to influence and one which you’ll get little or no leverage from.

Influencers: will punch way above their weight. As opinion leaders the inclusion of your URL on their blog or web post could potentially send tens of thousands scurrying to your site.

On the other hand, you’ll want to avoid excessively using the Herd crowd. They’ll tend to parrot what the influencers say, and have little leverage themselves.

Again, the quality measure is much more important than just the quantity of people you’re able to reach out to.

Is social traffic/social media optimization just a gimmicky trick as Continue reading →

Optimize and Deal with Blog-Crashing Traffic

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If you’ve experimented with social traffic strategies, you might’ve encountered the Digg Effect (or also known as the Slashdot effect) where a torrent of traffic (upwards of 1,000 unique visitors a second) brings your webhost to a screaming halt.

Matt Coddington over at NetBusinessBlog is masterful at this technique.

Observe his traffic:

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One of his Dugg posts is: Building a Niche Minisite (Part 1)

One of the reason why your webhost might crash is due to the processing required in compiling the PHP code and serving up the page for each visitor.

This could literally kill the server resources during peak periods.

So Ricardo Galli’s WP Cache provides a workaround, by caching your blog posts as static pages, enabling you to serve hundreds of times more pages per second.

In fact, the plugin serves to “reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.”

The plugin is Continue reading →