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Social Networking is all the rage these days. Every Internet Business Guru Wannabe is proclaiming his or her secret method to making Twitter or Facebook or MySpace put dollars in your pocket. Well Bubba let me throw in my opinion. If you're using these social networks to promote you or your business in a marketing effort then you need to follow a set of rules.
What is a "Long Tail Keyword Phrase"? This is the definition in my "SEO Brain Dump" which is only available as the bonus to my SEO Secrets Revealed course: ... Long Tail: Refers to a less searched, more specific keyword phrase. For example, "Internet Business" is a broad keyword phrase. Because it's broad, meaning it covers a lot of sites and a lot of sites try to rank well for it, it's hard to get your site to rank well for that term.
I spend a lot of time working on SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for myself and for clients. One of the most common questions I get asked is: "just how much do links actually count?" Several months ago, I was helping a client with a blog. I totally restructured and redesigned their blog. Their blog had been around a while, but only had 2 posts. I added 2 or 3 more posts. The blog had been in the root of the site, but I changed all that and ended up with the blog under a "blog" subdirectory and a few static pages in the root of the site.
How hard is it to understand - you can't make your business grow by turning people off? Let me give you a couple of examples. I'm going to a conference this weekend. Flying out on Thursday morning. I'm going to hear and meet John Maxwell and Clebe McClary. So I bought a few new shirts and got my suit and some other things out of the closet and took them to the dry cleaners on Tuesday morning. We didn't get there until around 11:30am or so, so I didn't expect to get them back the same day.
I'm going to layout for you a different way of finding a product/market/etc. and setting up shop online. I sell one product that I physically handle (meaning box and ship). The others are either electronic (as in downloadable) or shipped by a distributor (DVDs or CDs) and I never touch the order. What is the one product that I physically handle? Blue Glass Bottles (.com) Yep... you read that correctly, Blue Glass Bottles. How did I get the idea? It comes from a book titled Zero Limits by Joe Vitale and Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len (Hawaiian Ho'oponopono master). In the book, Dr.
Being a victim is a hard. No one likes to admit they were a victim. Criminals, rapists, child molesters, conmen and the like understand this very well and they count on the fact that a most (or at least a lot) of their victims will not tell others what happened to them. Knowing this, they're free to strike again and again. There are plenty of fake experts, bogus gurus, bum products, and just plain "takers" in the Internet Business, home business, and internet marketing areas these days. They all count on the same quirks in our human nature to get away ripping people off.
Never mind the experts, never mind what they taught you in school, and never mind your competitors, put a stake in the ground and define the purpose of your web site. Then make it deliver that functionality. Don't get lost in layers of pretty design or unnecessary technology. What is a good web ...
Failure holds you back. If you are not where you want to be in life, then it holds you back. Everything pulls you back to where you are when you're trying to get ahead, when you're trying to improve yourself. Your situation, your friends, your family, your debt, everything... maybe not on purpose, but those things hold you back. Success isn't that way, it does not hold you up, it does not keep you at the top. If success was sticky you wouldn't have scandals and sad situations like Tiger Woods, John Edwards, lindsay lohan... the list is pretty long so I'll stop.
If you're not where you want to be financially or in some other aspect of your life, what can you do to fix it? Unfortunately, the majority of people simply complain, or silently wish their situation was different. On the other hand, successful people take action and the action they take is ...
I read something over the weekend in a twitter post that lead me to an article that talked about the "dreaded Google Slap". If you’re new to SEO, Search Engine Optimization, you may be asking: "What in the Sam Hill is a Google Slap?" Well I'm glad you asked. I don't like the term because it implies that Google randomly punishes you for no reason. Google is in business and they do quite well - they want to provide the best search results they can.
"I want to be wealthy". "I want to be rich". "I want to be famous". "I want to be a movie star". "I want to be president". "I want to be CEO of this company". "I want to own this company". "I want to go out with Judy". "I want to date Tom". "I want to graduate from college". "I wish I had some ...
What do most web site owners or webmasters want? Other than a fat checking account, they want links! Yes, they want LINKS. Lots of inbound links... The more links the better! Sometimes it's easy to overlook the obvious and only think about the complex and complicated methods of linking strategies. I'm going to tell you about one often overlooked page you can put on your site to get a few extra links. A page that is easy to create and can help build those valuable inbound links. What is it? A page with instructions or suggestions on how to link to your site. Sound too simple to work?
Do you want to change something in your life that you're having trouble changing? The thing you want to change is something that's not so easy. It can be anything, but for whatever reason, you can't seem to make progress. It could be: - Get a new relationship,n- Loose some weight,n- Gain some ...