I’ve decided that I should right a little bit about analytics. We are often inundated with people talking about traffic, but what do we really want to know? Where is the traffic coming from What are the visitors doing What keywords are driving people to my site Are the visitors moving through the site where [...]
A vast majority of marketers focus most of their time on Google. Why? Because they hold 75% of the US search market. So it makes a lot of sense to keep your eye on it. But what about the other 25%? Let’s do a little math. If you figure there are 100 people competing to [...]
Here are a few motivational quotes for everyone. They help to put thing in perspective, and keep you grounded. I’ll have more articles tomorrow or the next day, maybe even a downloadable report. “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” – Einstein “It is possible to [...]
There is a right way, and a wrong way to purchase traffic. You can use a service that guarantees you traffic (wrong way) or you can use a pay-per-click service (right way). Whatever you do, don’t fall for those websites that promise to deliver you thousands of hits in a twenty four hour period. Let’s [...]
Today, we are going to look at something that is still relatively new in the Internet Marketing arena: Social Bookmarking. Social Bookmarking is essentially using a social bookmarking service to bookmark your webpages or blog posts, so that other users of the bookmarking site can visit. When you bookmark a site, you tag it with [...]
In this, day three of the five part traffic generation course, we are going to discuss how joint venture giveaways will help you generate traffic to your site. In fact, they do more than generate traffic. Joint venture giveaways will also help you build a large opt-in list, in a very short period of time, [...]
You’ve probably heard about Article Marketing and Forum Marketing. In fact, you may even be sick of hearing about it. But are you doing it? The reason that you hear so much about these two marketing techniques is that they work! Yes, article marketing and forum marketing builds traffic slowly. There are faster ways to [...]
Very interesting little article about the search engine distribution of ad revenue by search engines. Google is around 74% search with an additional 2%+ in content: New figures out on search advertising spend from Efficient Frontier show Google continues to dominate the market, stats that will no doubt complicate the company’s goal to gain approval [...]
Think of this: If you were expecting company at your home, there are certain things you might do in advance. You would make sure your home was clean, that there was fresh soap and clean hand towels in the bathroom, and you might prepare some snacks, or even an entire meal. Preparing your website follows [...]
The Internet has fast become an efficient and trusted way for companies to market and sell their product. One of the reasons for this has been the rise of “Affiliated Marketing” – which is when a website directs traffic to itself through adverts on other (usually related) websites. Affiliated marketing either pays the affiliate through [...]
