Archive for December, 2007

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

How to buy links, and not get penalized!

SEM expert Andy Beal provides this list of tips:

Only buy links from sites that are highly relevant to your web site content.
If the site you are buying links from already has more than 5 paid links on the page, walk away.
If the site labels the links as “sponsored” or “paid links” or anything like […]

Comments Off - Posted in Blog, SEO by Rob

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Link Bait - A Great Example

According to Wikipeida:
Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything “interesting enough to catch people’s attention.”[3] Link bait can be an extremely powerful form of marketing as it is viral in nature.
Here’s a […]

Comments Off - Posted in Blog, Promote Your Site by Rob

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

Email Training

According to Entrepeneur magazine “in 2006, 42 percent of [US] employers offered email training”.
I need it. I’ve never been offered it. Does it exist in Australia? It should.
I spend 2-3 hours a day on email. If I could spend half that time on improving my business, it would be much more successful.

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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Homestead: Your Domain Name - Or Is It?

Because 99% of all web hosts and domain registrars are just normal, it’s easy to neglect to read the T&C when making a $10 transaction.
Unfortunately, you can lose out big-time…
As it turned out, neither of these clients owned the domain names that they had purchased through Homestead.com. Unless the client was willing to use […]

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Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Hit Site? Make a niche version…

… and quietly rake in some niche profits.
YouTube is quite a phenomenon, but as yet has not made a profit. Quite likely making $$ are the niche clones like YouPorn.com & Godtube.com
Homework:
1) Create a list of broad niches that have loyal followers (porn, religion, conspiracy, WWF)
2) Watch for when a general website becomes […]

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