Is Autoblogging dead? Seems like all over the net we are being told that creating set and forget autoblogs are dead. Reasons range from google banning them to not getting them ranked. Personally I don’t think there is any truth in the rumor at all and I’ll give you a specific example a bit later.
When I say autoblogs are not dead it is very dependent on how you set them up, how you provide the content and how you promote them. In addition what you are actually expecting from them is also very important. For instance if you are [...] Continue Reading…
Internet Marketing: Common Mistakes
With an ever-growing base of Internet users and shoppers, internet marketing has acquired a position of utmost importance in the world of marketing. It is an extremely powerful tool for online marketers but its effectiveness depends upon the kind of approach taken towards it by a marketer. Most newcomers and even the very experienced ones make similar mistakes while approaching online marketing.
Let’s take a look at a few common marketing mistakes and sure ways to avoid them.
Waiting Time: Customers shop online for two important reasons, i.e. speed and convenience. If you are using a slow [...] Continue Reading…
Just received an email (well about 40 actually) from squidoo about a change to their TOS.
I have been expecting this for quite a while as squidoo has been consistently losing authority with google and it was only a matter of time.
Look at it from Seth Godins point of view. His brainchild ruled the world then along came hubpages. For a time they still ruled the roost but then hubpages decided to make spammer sacrifices to apease the angry God google and low and behold, they completely hammered Squidoo in google.
Just try to find high ranking sub pages in squidoo [...] Continue Reading…
Social bookmarking has been around for years going all the way back to the original tag and ping revolution. It is still a powerful way of creating vast amounts of backlinks to your website, blog or salesletter but things have changed a lot over the past year or so. This has been due to mant factors, the biggest of which is that the big bookmarking sites like deliscious have added "nofollow" to their sites.
What this basically means is that as far as google is concerned links coming from these sites will add no authority or "link juice" to your [...] Continue Reading…
There is no doubt that twitter is the hottest property on the net right for anyone involved in Internet or online business. The unfortunate thing is like every other craze of its kind it has spawned a bunch of greedy tikes keen on grabbing what they can while they can by telling you
THE WRONG WAY TO MARKET ON TWITTER!
There are some exceptions to this as there are a couple of decent guides to using twitter for marketing purposes. But in the main they are all a load of misleading tripe! I know i may be sounding a bit angry [...] Continue Reading…
Mailing lists are a fantastic method of attracting customers. So fantastic in fact, that most people are now overloaded with both spam mail and genuine emails. Most consumers are now more aware of emails than they were a few years ago. The subject line of your message is your only shot at capturing the attention of potential customers. You need to convince them that your offer is genuine, is from a trustworthy source, and that your business is valid. If you can do that the chances are good that they will open the email and read on. If you [...] Continue Reading…
