How To Turn Every Post Into A Sticky Web For Readers
Your homepage is usually the highest ranking page on your blog, but take a look at it, what do you see? Generally, all you see is a list of blog posts accompanied by a few snippets of text. Most bloggers think that just raising the rank of the homepage pulls all the inner pages up, as well. However, that’s not really how it works. In fact, if …
Are Bloggers Losing Money by Not Selling Sponsored Posts?
When you get right down to it, every post on your blog is a sponsored post. You’re either making money with affiliate links or you’re earning ad revenue. In the end, somebody is paying your to blog otherwise you wouldn’t be doing it. That said, the next question is…
Your Blog is Your Portfolio
Maybe you have the best job you could ever imagine. Your boss is wonderful, you make good money, and you really love what you’re doing. But what if something better came along? I know it’s hard to imagine right now but – What If? Of course, you can’…
What’s Your Long-Term Blogging Strategy?
Contrary to what all those ebooks tell you, nobody sets up a successful, money-making blog in one weekend. In fact, if you’re like me and a lot of bloggers I know, you’ll set up a few blogs before you finally start hitting your stride. It takes months to develop a strong, loyal following and it sometimes takes a couple of years to start earning a predictable, full-time income. You can, however, help the process along if you have a long-term blogging strategy. They key to building a successful blog that produces long-term income…
The 9 Most Important Copywriting Articles on Shock Marketer
Copywriting is the act of writing words that sell. I’ve found just by changing a paragraph, it can result in 2 to 4 times the sales. Some have found the difference can be 19.5 times more sales. How can you write these “magical” sentences? See some of my favorite copywriting articles: Overview: 93 Year Old Ad Gives You the Exact Formula to Write Amazing Copy – Using teasers, benefits, credibility, and “the push.” Follow this 1 Rule to Guarantee the Profitability of Any Campaign – All of your advertisements should keep this &#…
Best Ways Of Using SEO To Get Website Traffic
Search engine optimisation is the popular technique to enhance the website rank and visibility. Follow the on page and off page optimisation tactics to increase the traffic to the website. Some of the popular ways to improve traffic to the site are: Directories: In SEO directory submission plays an important role. It improves visibility and backlinks to the website. These directories will reflect your website in the popular search engines like Google, yahoo which boosts your ranking. Before submitting these manuals make sure that all the content …
Traffic Geyser is the Video Submission King
www.theseomethod.com Traffic Geyser delivers the best in video marketing and video submissions and will literally explode your traffic. Think how much free traffic you can now get from Google displaying 2 videos in the search results. Traffic Geyser pumps your video out to over 30 video marketing sites, plug in your content and let Traffic
Why Do You Write?
Why do you write? Sounds like an odd question, doesn’t it? A couple of months ago, I’ve written an article here telling my readers why do I blog. I’ve asked them to share their reasons too and got great response and different reasons from bloggers on that. Today I thought to make it more interesting by asking you why do you write? Identifying the reason on why do you write…
The Importance of Customer Service For Online Retailers
Great customer service leads to loyal customers which is a key element of customer retention. From my previous post on customer retention, you’ll know how extremely important this is to growing and building your business as profitably as you can. It’s easy to forget your online customers because you can’t physically ‘see’ them or interact …
$70,000 in one week arbitraging traffic with Redirect.com
Some of you have been following my fb group, facebook postings, and twitter posts regarding the screen shots of my arbitraging traffic with this platform called www.Redirect.com started by the guys over at Media Breakaway aka Cpa Empire aka Affiliate.com. Now I been working with Scott Richter and the team over at www.Redirect.com on arbing traffic with them and
Trip Report: Leeds, Scotland, and Bangkok
It’s been a month since leaving the US, and it is crazy how fast the month has gone by. It has been fast, with lots of stories to tell and experiences to learn from. I could write all day about each one, but instead, I will give a summary of my last month.
So I’m Thinking About Attending ASW 2013…
I don’t attend conferences for a number of reasons, the top two being cost and the fact that I hate the actual "travelling" part (it’s a bit of a pain traveling from an island in Canada to the US). In fact, I’ve only ever been to one conference before, and that was BlogWorld way back in 2008, 4 years ago. It happened to be in Vegas, and I had…
Using Sponsored Stories to Generate Blog Traffic
Facebook Ads are dead. That’s something I’ve been hearing from a few months now and while it may be getting harder and harder to get your affiliate campaigns approved, I have been seeing awesome results from Facebook Ad campaigns I have been running lately. You just need to be a little more creative and use the new features within Facebook Ads to your advantage. One example of a Facebook feature within Facebook Ads that I have discussed before is Sponsored Stories. Sponsored Stories are special advertisements on Facebook you can use to promote your fan page or posts…
Affiliate Summit East 2013 In Philadelphia – Save the Date.
The votes came in and after four years in NYC, the people chose Philadelphia for Affiliate Summit East 2013 on August 18-20, 2013. This will be the 24th Affiliate Summit and it is expected to be the largest Affiliate Summit East to date (again!). Affiliate Summit East 2013 in Philadelphia On a personal note, although NYC is my hometown and I love it there, I’m thrilled that we’re going to Philly. The venue is fantastic and the area is rich with culture, history and great food! I’m truly excited about the…
Designers Love Using iPhones in Web Design, But They’re Wrong
As a designer, one thing I’ve noticed as a web-design trend lately is to feature Apple products in the design, primarily iPhones. While I understand that they are beautiful devices I don’t think they are as beneficial to a design as many may believe. While I do believe that showing shots of your application or site being used is fantastic because being demonstrable is a great tactic for conversions, it’s that I don’t think an iPhone should be used in all cases. For example, the site cookwiz.me …
Week In Review: College Football & Haters
This week in review covers quick paydays, exclusive pre-game football parties with Shoemoney, affiliate marketing investment and much more! “Ultimate College Football & Internet Marketing Experience“ – If you’re a college football fan and an Internet marketer, you’ll want to check this out. Doesn’t dinner with Shoemoney, an exclusive pre-game party, a football game, a tour of ShoeMoney Media Group’s offices and more sound great? “Should You Take the Money and Run?“ – Acquisitions are all over the news lately. Would you keep your …
Craigslist Becomes a Scammy Nightmare for NJ Flood Residents in Need
There are billions of dollars of money being flooded into New Jersey right with all of the insurance companies and FEMA making the rounds. Throw in auto insurances and every other way to make money with construction, contracting and scamming, you are sure to make a killing, be killed or play by the rules. Right now there is basically NO WHERE to find a place to live or rent 30-40 miles from the shore. Throw in pet ownership and you are really screwed. You can contact your local realtor, which we already have several looking for us, but they are all …
Destination and Display URL Not Matching?
Okay…geeky blog post coming…you’ve been warned… The BlackHatters were interested earlier this week when we were searching for the term ‘cocktails’ in Google (don’t ask!) If you Google ‘cocktails’ you get the following SERP delivered… We were particularly interested in the Smirnoff ad… The
PPC Account Review – What Not To Do In Your PPC Account
In this post I will go through a live account review – what not to do in your PPC account that I’m working on. I’m working on a screensaver account today. I’m doing this for a friend and I’m not going to give away what their company name is. When I do FREE work on an account, most of the time I will blog about…
Facebook proposes data-sharing with Instagram, end to site governance voting
Facebook today proposed changes to its Data Use Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities that will allow the company to share information with affiliates like Instagram and put an end to site governance voting, among other more minor changes. New language about “affiliates” has been added to the Data Use Policy to cover Facebook’s relationship with Instagram, which it acquired this year. The proposed policy …