Posts Tagged ‘Search Engines’

Build Traffic to Your Website through Blogging

Friday, December 4th, 2009

If you’ve ever been deep sea fishing I’m sure you remember how there were far more fishing poles with lines in the water than there were people on the boat.  This helped increase the chances that each person on the trip enjoyed the awesome experience of hooking and reeling in a nice big fish.

You should employ this same strategy when you are looking to build traffic to your website.

The most effective way to do it is to expand your digital footprint by increasing the amount of content that links back to your website from other websites.

You can accomplish this several ways which include:

  • Online news releases
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Forum posts
  • Link exchanges
  • Etc.
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WARNING: Qualify Your "Internet Marketing Specialist"

Friday, November 20th, 2009

For some companies, times are tough.  So when a marketing manager or CMO (chief marketing officer) receives an email from an “Internet marketing specialist” who can get their site to the top of the search engines for a specific phrase, the company might jump at the opportunity.

Marketers beware…these “opportunities” from these “Internet marketing specialists” may not be as good as they sound.

Here’s a real world example that just prompted this blog post.
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Focus On Profitable, Targeted Traffic to Succeed Online

Monday, August 31st, 2009

It drives me nuts when I’m helping a client who trusted a, so called, “professional”  to help them with their optimization or pay-per-click campaign, and all they did was flush their money down the toilet.

I’d like to take a second to make an announcement to all those “professionals” out there who insist on preying on the naivity in the marketplace …

STOP PRETENDING YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING MORONS!!!!

Sorry for the harsh words and tone but I am tired of it.  The more of this garbage that happens in the marketplace, the more the industry I love gets muddied up.
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