Forum: Copywriting 
27th June 2013, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,000  Re: Advanced Copywriting...Lesson 1..."Proof"
Memetics
you say My response to your rationalization of this is that if you trust your reader first, they are more likely to trust you.
However it happens isn't relevant - copywriting is...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
27th June 2013, 09:16 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 594 Re: I need a website to apply adsense
Why don't you just set up a free wordpress blog and tip some re-blogged articles into it - that'll save you all the trouble of getting adsense on mine (which I don't want!).
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th June 2013, 02:45 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 533 Re: How to learn the ins and outs of PPC?
I happen to like Perry Marshall's ideas. Howie Jacobson's "Google adwords for dummies" is also an easy book to get your head around. Howie takes quite a different angle on advertising from Perry -...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th June 2013, 02:41 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 360 Re: Question About SEO For A Local/Online Store
Take the keywords you can't make a page for and work out which of the pages they'd best be suited to.
Then incorporate them as the second (fifth??) keyword. If you've got too many keywords in a...
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Forum: Copywriting
26th June 2013, 02:35 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,000 Re: Advanced Copywriting...Lesson 1..."Proof"
Interesting thread. My take is that proof and facts aren't enough. For one thing they need to be believable - hence the customer reviews.
The other way is to get some trust. One way to get them...
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Forum: Social Media
16th February 2013, 01:38 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 462 Re: Car fans forum
What sort of info are you looking for? Usually if you put the make + mark of your car and add forum you'll come up with pretty well one per country. They talk about everything to do with their...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th February 2013, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 385 Re: Rank Keyword + Keyword Density
The most important thing is to ensure that your page is focused on one keyword (or subject). The easiest way to lose rankings is by writing about too many things all at once. If something needs...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
16th February 2013, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 693 Re: H1, H2 and H3 tags problems for my websites
Hi.
On the Wordpress "Post" interface - that is to say where you are writing your new post - there is a "visual" editor and a "text" editor. When you are using the visual editor and you want to...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 335 Re: QUESTION- how can I find which keywords?
What keywords are you looking for - because there is no algorithm that will help you find out what your customers are asking.
What you can do is go to the Google keyword tool and right-click and...
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Forum: Copywriting
15th February 2013, 05:06 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,630 Re: Would YOU do this if someone didn't pay...?
Reply to Charismatic Mannequin
This was for a building firm - $1000s at a time. What's more these time-wasters really hit our profits - which I found out later. My point was that I didn't...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 735 Re: total newbie question about ppc
Yuuzokun
Perry Marshall (http://perrymarshall.com) and Howie Jacobson (http://askhowie.com) both have good, thorough and authoritative books on PPC (neither costs more than $50 or so). Both of...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 620 Re: Adsense Fools Gold
Wait, guys! Humanity hasn't changed that much, the technology has.
People aren't any wiser just because it happens quicker. What's more they're all taught at school that winning is everything (=...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th February 2013, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 2,136 |
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Forum: Copywriting
15th February 2013, 12:33 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,630 Re: Would YOU do this if someone didn't pay...?
Well. They say "half a year's worth of work" - no interim payments? Why not?
Anyway, aside from the funnier side of things, let's see what we can do for the future. Because these guys are the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 564 Re: has anyone tested backlinkee.com
Never, ever buy links. Google have stated this for long enough. They destroyed Social Monkee through that, and there's no reason to imagine backlinkee is any different.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 07:56 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 552 Re: How to Remove Page from Google?
Simple: take said page, rename it and pop it in a protected admin folder. It's a bit of work, it is pretty well immediate and you don't have to wait on Google to de-index anything.
So what about...
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Forum: Copywriting
15th February 2013, 02:44 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 750 Re: U rite gud?
It weeds out the kind of people they didn't want too! Whatever do they put in the water in Surrey?
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
15th February 2013, 02:40 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 1,153 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 11:44 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,109 |
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Forum: Copywriting
14th February 2013, 11:34 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 942 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 08:45 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 630 Re: Infographics?
As Yukon says, it's about traffic.
If your infographics are interesting to your traffic then they will want to know more. The days of blindly linking to everything including your mother's...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 452 Re: Google indexing my attachment pages
Manish is right. There is another way and that is to use a folder that is also disallowed using the robots.txt file (which I presume you know about?).
then your image url would be...
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Forum: Copywriting
14th February 2013, 08:21 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 718 Re: How can this commercial script be improved
Okay, so you have copied the script almost verbatim - only excised the emotional content of the issue. The guy in the video has - or might have - cancer.
People doing SEO have bank balances.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 03:52 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 368 Re: is 2 better than 1?
Diversity also matters.
Oh, and Google do state that you shouldn't be buying links. Not that this worries anybody, just as their warnings about poor backlinking methods didn't worry anybody....
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 03:50 AM
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Replies: 79
Views: 3,002 Re: I am WORN OUT and tired of SEO
It strikes me that you are experiencing what many offline businesses are experiencing: margins are getting tighter. People have to do more and usually earn less as thanks.
A question: are your...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th February 2013, 03:39 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 807 Re: How to regain my website rank?
Let's put this on its head. Google have always stated that their aim is quality answers to their searchers questions. In my opinion backlinking is seen by Google not by the quality of the site you...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,337 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 03:56 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 372 Re: What should I look for in PPC?
What keywords are you looking at? Are they answering prospect's questions ... as most of the high competition ones are?
Or are you getting clever and asking the questions that your prospects are...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 03:51 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 986 |
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 03:23 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 750 Re: U rite gud?
Now that is the sort of ad that gets noticed by those who should notice it.
I have a suspicion I know who wrote that ad. She's British and she's really clever. She's also on the inside at...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,337 Re: the elusive USP....
Red Shifted
Well done. Only will you be asking the questions your target traffic are asking? Because this may be why you can't find much evidence of the competition's websites. They're all doing...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 01:23 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,134 |
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 992 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 459 Re: SEO Help!!!!!
Eskape.
One bit of advice on SEO that hasn't anything to do with SEO at all.
Answer the questions your traffic is asking. Then make one canny move: find out what those questions are. Ask them...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 01:02 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,337 Re: the elusive USP....
Deeznuts
Yup. Mind you, it's always worth starting at the bottom and working your way up. Usually I work out three USPs in case someone knocks it off. Then you blast them from a completely...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 10:58 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 492 Re: Link exchange practice
As long as those links are bringing you seriously good traffic, they are worth having.
If anything is a "bad practice" then be warned not to rely on it for your income. It's the icing on the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 523 Re: Re-using Good Backlinks
I think you've discovered the downside of backlinking. If someone wants a backlink changed, you are going to have to ask the webmaster to do it, aren't you? Surely this is going to take a lot more...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 10:49 AM
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Replies: 29
Views: 7,645 Re: Penguin Killing Social Monkee?
Social Monkee users were almost unanimously hit with an "unnatural links" letter/warning. Some of my mates were put out of business by it. I did warn them not to use it so much, but no. They knew...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 10:36 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 528 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th February 2013, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 2
Views: 603 Re: Social Monkee - Any Point?
Total, utter and absolute waste of your time and your effort.
If your backlinks aren't bringing you real traffic that means real conversions they don't mean much. Whatever Google's use of...
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 10:19 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,337 |
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Forum: Copywriting
13th February 2013, 09:01 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,337 Re: the elusive USP....
The biggest problem for anybody dealing in USPs is that everybody wants to be the same. Just look around you on the street - all the cars are (almost) indistinguishable. The people wear "different"...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 03:38 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 581 Re: Is PPC Still Viable?
If you want to do PPC you have to get clever. Most people attack it head on, the specific keywords and all the rest. For affiliate marketing - it's pretty well unaffordable.
However if you start...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 03:31 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 328 Re: Search Results
I think a moments patience is needed as the others have mentioned. The other thing is that Google does have this "personalized search" or whatever they call it. Have you tried looking at Google from...
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Forum: Copywriting
12th February 2013, 02:28 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,081 Re: The death of positioning
Alex,
no problems. I like a good verbal scrap! So thanks for wading in.
Firstly, I am puzzled. To me Branding and Positioning are antithetical. That is to say - Branding in the hands of big...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 01:54 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 526 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 01:50 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,795 Re: Adsense IBAN number
Usually an IBAN number is given in the format NL 1234 5678 9101 or something like that. This makes it easy to read - only the banks don't seem to have cottoned onto the fact that this is the case and...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 587 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 01:42 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 985 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 398 Re: Anchor text question
Can we forget the "anchor links" biz. Yes, I know it's all good SEO - but what do you want from a link?
Google link juice - or customer's cash?
The end result of your links is traffic. Get...
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Forum: Copywriting
12th February 2013, 01:28 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,134 |
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Forum: Copywriting
12th February 2013, 01:06 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,506 Re: Advertising that wins awards
Pusateri,
Telling people what they need doesn't do the profession much good, does it? After all, they could go hiring any charlatan calling themselves a copywriter! Imagine! Quel horeur!
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Forum: Copywriting
12th February 2013, 12:59 PM
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Replies: 41
Views: 1,506 Re: Advertising that wins awards
Marvin
Interesting use of language.
Yesterday, you want it, then today you gabble something about not wanting it in the first place. Have I tied you in enough knots for one week, or do...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 07:39 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 422 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
12th February 2013, 07:33 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 505 Re: My SEO - I got ranked at 1st Page
May I ask what search engine you are using?
Secondly, and way more important - are you getting traffic and making sales? There are times when Google #4 is good enough to make a living in a tightly...
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