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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st April 2024, 05:53 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 313
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Perpetual Traffic Strategy?

Why are you looking for traffic, that is, traffic for traffic's sake?

Traffic is meaningless if it is not targeted. What you want is visitors that want to be on your site, that are interested in...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th March 2024, 05:43 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 136
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Best way to blog for Local Home Services?

Both CAN be done, however, the meta description has very little impact on SEO and, in fact, is hardly ever used by Google as the description in search results. Instead, they pick words off of your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd March 2024, 05:47 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 301
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: MVK Minimum Viable Knowledge for making money online or off.

If you are simply talking about website to website - what distinguishes yours against the competition - the answer is obvious ... yours is easier to navigate or provides vastly better information...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd March 2024, 05:21 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 283
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How to get the most SEO value of online communities?

As savidge4 iterated, you're really not going to get any SEO value from social networks - just like forums are worthless for SEO.

That does not mean that either are entirely worthless. They are...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 19th March 2024, 07:28 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 793
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What's your best solution for starting an ecomm shop?

The only problem with this advice is that there are MANY industries where this does not apply at all because the entire industry dropships and NOBODY stocks inventory. This is extremely common in...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th March 2024, 06:46 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 433
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What is the best place to sell own business?

Use an experienced website broker if you want to get the maximum out of the sale of your website. A good broker has the contacts and distribution to get your site out there but more importantly, they...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 6th March 2024, 06:07 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 109
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Marketing a premium liquor start-up (Advice)

Admittedly, I have no experience at all in marketing alcohol products. That said, there was an important lesson I learned in a college advertising class that I think is pertinent ...

A (now)...
Forum: Beginners Area 29th February 2024, 09:01 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 75
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: This is my first time dealing with a chargeback so please bare with me!

Shopify will not help you. Chargebacks are a part of the cost of doing business and, unless the credit card company sides with you, you'll have to live with it.

Hopefully, you didn't actually...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th February 2024, 04:26 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 344
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: new to the marketing game questions about traffic analysis for SEO

Interesting take!

I was thinking the same thing but in kind of an opposite way. For sure, the results are not what people are looking for if they have made it all the way to page 8 and are still...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th February 2024, 05:23 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 328
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is it normal to have a high cost per sale?

Again, every niche is different, but you can definitely expect a higher cost per sale as you begin a campaign because you are throwing every market segment up against the wall to see which one(s)...
Forum: Beginners Area 22nd February 2024, 06:19 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 328
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is it normal to have a high cost per sale?

There is simply not enough information here to give any advice. It may very well be a loser for Facebook campaigns but there is no way to know until we know how well you have diversified and...
Forum: Beginners Area 21st February 2024, 04:36 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 328
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is it normal to have a high cost per sale?

Sometimes, you'll lose quite a bit at the beginning because you cannot make snap decisions about what is working and what is not. You just don't have enough clicks (at least 1,000 per segment) to...
Forum: Beginners Area 18th February 2024, 01:06 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 328
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is it normal to have a high cost per sale?

Hopefully, you have many segmented groups that you are targeting. Eliminate the ones that aren't profitable and keep the segments that are.

Also, it is ridiculous to assume that $7 is what your...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th February 2024, 05:41 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 253
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Question about Nofollow links

Profile links are about the same as comment links. Again, you can place them yourself and despite what some people on here think or believe they have observed, they aren't really going to help you...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th February 2024, 04:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 253
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Question about Nofollow links

If the actual link that you are looking at does not have the nofollow attribute on it, then it is a followed link. When in doubt, you can also use a Chrome plugin to see if a specific link is...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th January 2024, 06:47 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 236
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Web Design - Code copying and modifying to suite requirements

I think before I wasted a bunch of time trying to re-engineer the wheel, I'd take a look to see what platform the site was built on. Chances are quite good that it is a fairly standard platform,...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 12th January 2024, 05:26 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 411
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Why it is hard to seo for shopify

The O.P. asked a question, got responses and never was heard from again, so I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for elaboration. It's been a month already.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 4th January 2024, 06:01 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 411
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Why it is hard to seo for shopify

Most ecommerce platforms are fairly similar in terms of optimizing for SEO, so Shopify has nothing to do with why you are not ranking well.

The reason you are not ranking is because you have...
Forum: Beginners Area 28th December 2023, 03:05 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 162
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Facing Problem After Indexing

That would probably be a good tactic except that he has only optimized one page (the home page).

Still, I guess he could optimize that one page even more and see what happens. Then, he could...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th December 2023, 07:48 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 436
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What if Ai automated everything for SEO?

Sorry, but this is all pretty silly. A.I. is going to regurgitate stuff it has seen elsewhere with no regard to the accuracy or credibility of its sources.

A.I. WILL NOT be able to put "itself" in...
Forum: Beginners Area 15th December 2023, 05:41 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 1,978
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: If you had to start an online business from scratch today, what niche would you choose and why?

Not sure, but I do know some people who have been very successful in the embroidery/printing industries, selling uniforms for school teams. Unlike many other industries that rely on the average...
Forum: Beginners Area 13th December 2023, 09:06 PM
Replies: 56
Views: 1,978
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: If you had to start an online business from scratch today, what niche would you choose and why?

Something government entities purchase (schools, for example). They seem to be the only entity totally unaffected by the economy, good or bad.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 7th December 2023, 09:15 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 793
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What's your best solution for starting an ecomm shop?

You can sign up for Shift4Shop, an actual hosted real shopping cart and pay zero each month - not even for hosting. The only catch is you have to use their payment processor (and PayPal, if you...
Forum: Beginners Area 1st December 2023, 06:34 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 343
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Should I include customer testimonials to product page?

Wow! I don't agree completely. Testimonials are a benefit whether or not they have all five of the things outlined here because they are unsolicited and provide an actual user's perspective instead...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th November 2023, 06:22 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 2,209
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Unconventional marketing?

Although some may not see it as unconventional, most eCommerce sites never consider listing their products on Craigslist. For some businesses, Craigslist can be a goldmine. Others, not so much. Like...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th November 2023, 06:31 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 525
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What free keyword research search engines are there which don't have search or time limits,?

There are no legitimate free keyword tools that I know of that don't limit the number of results, other than Google. Google, however, only gives you ranges instead of actual numbers and the ranges...
Forum: Beginners Area 2nd November 2023, 07:37 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,968
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: can you truly make money online

See? Now that would make sense. However, in this case, the member said, 'I always buy your WSOs - they are the BEST! You guys really know what you are doing."

Again, I ask, if they are so amazing...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th October 2023, 06:12 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,968
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: can you truly make money online

Equally fascinating is that if the person who commented about how great their products are was actually real (and not a fake "person" who in all likelihood is a made-up entity of the person selling...
Forum: Beginners Area 21st October 2023, 11:56 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 343
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Should I include customer testimonials to product page?

Search engine robots aren't scanning pages, saying to themselves, "hey, this is user generated content and we should treat it differently". In fact, if they were to distinguish between what a site...
Forum: Beginners Area 18th October 2023, 06:37 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 377
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How to stop someone from ruining my link-building and SEO efforts?

This is called "negative SEO" or "spam backlinks" and is a process that used to work until Google changed its algorithm a couple of years ago to make the process ineffective. Google says these links...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 10th October 2023, 03:18 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 669
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: When do you most often shop online?

When I need something and when I have spare time, which could be whenever or practically never, but certainly not at any specific time or day of the week.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 9th October 2023, 05:52 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 260
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Many additions to cart, few purchases

That's an incredibly bold and generic statement to make without any basis of fact.

What if what you are selling costs $5,000 or more? Do you really think that 30-40% of people who add that amount...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th October 2023, 05:37 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 414
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Sudden Traffic Drop in Medical Billing Services Website

Sorry to tell you, but Google updates their algorithm far more than once a month. MAJOR updates may seem like they are monthly but minor updates occur daily.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th October 2023, 05:35 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 856
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: It's time to rely more on visual content

The scary thing to me is that more and more, it seems younger people only want to know the "what" or "how" and not the "why". "What" and "how" only solve one problem and often are not remembered once...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th October 2023, 07:42 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 856
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: It's time to rely more on visual content

That's all well and good if you are selling lower priced goods that young people like. If not, it is wise to remember that older people have far more money than the younger generation so you need to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th September 2023, 08:56 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 210
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Bounce Rates

Sorry, but I have to ask, if something has had no engagement, how can it possibly be something that someone "bounces" from?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd September 2023, 06:40 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 414
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Sudden Traffic Drop in Medical Billing Services Website

Google launched a core algorithm update about a month ago which may be affecting your rankings and traffic. Take a look at this Search Engine Journal article for more information and suggestions -...
Forum: Beginners Area 12th September 2023, 02:14 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,422
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What should be the link building strategy for a new site?

When people decide to link to a page of your website, they don't first check to see how many other websites are doing that. What they actually do is visit the page to see if the information is useful...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th September 2023, 05:50 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 399
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How long does it take to finish setting up on-page SEO?

I have to agree with DWolfe here, although it really depends on what you mean by "finish setting up a page for SEO".

Are the pages already written and need to be tweaked for SEO or are they blank...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th September 2023, 03:26 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,766
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Best method to create backlinks from Competitor website.

Well, then your client doesn't want his website to raise one iota in the search engines - at least from link building.

The links he wants you to get stopped working for SEO more than a decade ago....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th August 2023, 08:06 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,766
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Best method to create backlinks from Competitor website.

Figure out why they are linking to the other site. That is best done by seeing what they are linking to.

If they are linking to the home page, they obviously have some sort of relationship with...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th August 2023, 03:13 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 350
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Keyword Research - Specifics

I assumed the O.P. was asking about keyword research in respect to organic search and not advertising, which is why I gave the detailed answer that I did. If they don't care about organic rankings...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th August 2023, 02:42 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 350
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Keyword Research - Specifics

I'd be trying to target at least 100 searches per day, the more the better, of course (300-400/day is a better target). An average month has 30 days, so that means you need to target phrases that...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st August 2023, 07:38 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 157
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Hire someone to do keyword research

Actually, you never asked a question at all.

Starting out your journey on this forum by insulting someone who has posted nearly 25,000 times and been thanked by others on this forum more than...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st August 2023, 07:34 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 246
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Domain Names - Necessary?

I'm not sure if one is necessarily better than the other unless the main domain name already ranks well.

I can't help but think of companies like Hayneedle.com and Wayfair.com, both of which...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th August 2023, 08:02 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 182
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: 3rd Party Tools Report Spammy Backlinks, but visiting them I can't find where the link is placed

Eliminating spammy links is never going to improve your rankings unless you got a message directly from Google (and even then, recovering after a Google warning is incredibly difficult).

These...
Forum: Beginners Area 15th August 2023, 07:56 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 685
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Step By Step Guide

Well, nobody is allowed to promote their own product on this forum, so asking for the step by step guide we or others have created would get not only our post banned, but put us in jeopardy of...
Forum: Beginners Area 14th August 2023, 05:03 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 685
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Step By Step Guide

There are dozens of really good courses out there that work, utilizing a variety of eCommerce methods. What none of them tell you is that sometimes, you simply pick the wrong product and niche - even...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th August 2023, 04:43 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 838
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is 40% commission too risky for a young brand to stark off an affiliate program

"Risky"? Based on what? Do you have a clue how much markup the OP has on the product. For all you know, the markup is 200%.

Now, it probably isn't at all wise, considering that the competition is...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 11th August 2023, 04:43 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 163
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: What is a good, using one template vs. several templates for an e-commerce site page title?

Not sure what you mean by "template". If you are talking about keyword optimization, they should all be different.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2023, 07:56 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 838
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is 40% commission too risky for a young brand to stark off an affiliate program

Yay, more random gibberish from the "princess". So helpful (not), as usual.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th August 2023, 03:32 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 838
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Is 40% commission too risky for a young brand to stark off an affiliate program

Kay is giving you excellent advice. Think of it ... if you are looking for an affiliate program for clothing (especially plus size) and one company is paying 25% and the rest are paying 10-20%, which...
Forum: Beginners Area 1st August 2023, 04:11 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 106
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Strategies for Increasing Website Visitor to Paying Customer Conversion Rates

I would start by analyzing the phrases people are typing in that bring them to your website and what pages they are landing on.

Once you know that, analyze those pages to see if they are really...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th July 2023, 08:32 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 428
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Timeshare lead generation business - Any tips or suggestions ?

You seem to have a lot of missing pieces ...

OK, so the easy part is getting someone to sell you their timeshare - chances are, more than half the people who bought them regret doing so. You are...
Forum: Artificial Intelligence 24th July 2023, 06:50 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 1,468
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Bard VS ChatGPT

Unfortunately, I place little credence in any university "study" until it is revealed who actually paid for that study. In most cases, these types of things are skewed to present a predetermined...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th July 2023, 06:47 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 428
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Timeshare lead generation business - Any tips or suggestions ?

Not really sure what you are trying to do here. Certainly, closing a timeshare sale online is extremely unlikely. It would seem to me that the only way to create a business from leads is to have an...
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