I recently got chewed out by an Affiliate who applied to one of my programs. His entire pitch (which actually isn’t his but a very old con artist one) is to buy merchants trademark names with the word coupon, or review, or a misspelling and then build the site around the domain name or trademark. […]
Are Affiliates who buy urls with your name in it bad? Read More »
Flash has probably one of the very worst names among SEOs (People who do SEO for a living). The thing is that SEOs have been yelling at their Clients and in house SEOs freak out when design teams present flash sites. Newbie SEOs also have a panic attack when they hear the word flash site
Is Flash Actually Bad for SEO, The Truth. Read More »
The thing is that when most people jump into Affiliate Marketing, with absolutely no Online Marketing experience or any Online Advertising experience, is that the internet means instant money, fame and success. The reality is that if the internet meant everyone could make easy money and fast, everyone would be doing it. The person whose
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I was walking home from the grocery store and when I saw a newspaper box for the newspaper I used to work for and it got me thinking about newspapers and how they just can’t figure it out when it comes to Online Marketing and SEO. When I was working for this Washington, D.C. newspaper
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Datafeeds are key to success now a days when it comes to Online Marketing. You cannot be in Google Base without them, Affiliates use them, Comparison Engines become easier and even Amazon makes life simple when you can list your products via a simple datafeed. The thing though is that many Merchants don’t realize how
A common question people have when they first start to go into Online Marketing and especially into Affiliate Marketing is usually about the jargon, especially with what a Niche Site is and what an actual Vertical Niche is. The thing is that many Newbies consider a Niche Site a Coupon Site or a Fitness Site.
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One thing I love right now is that I have a Client in Canada. Today when I was doing checks for keywords and searches on Google Canada I came across something kind of cool and new. A few years ago I saw a post on a major forum taking us into Google Labs for a
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So here’s the deal. One thing I have noticed at almost every hearing from Colorado to the Government Streamlined Tax Hearing that I have attended or heard about has involved some small, local brick and mortar bookstore complaining about how unfair it is that these online retailers get to sell in their States and hurt
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The truth is that you will probably never catch every trademark bidder and even if you do, there is not much you can actually do about them. Even tools that search the web every hour could be missing your ads because of geotargeting and even if they scan from every city in the world, they
Brandverity and how can you catch trademark bidders. Read More »
So one thing I noticed when playing with Adwords in their new interface about a month or so ago was that you can set your preferred placements between the 1 and 10 spots in Google Adwords. For those of you that remember companies like Go TO which became Overture which is now Yahoo Search Marketing,
Google Ad Position Preferences. Can you pick the spot your ad appears in again? Read More »
