I just did a search on Bing for how many auto repair shops are in the US. I got the answer:

43

(Isn't the answer to everything supposed to be 42?)

Search link

Setting aside the absurd answer, this ridiculous result popped up because it was the only page which seemed to match my query and provide an answer.

Looking at other pages, including the results on Google, there are paragraphs like this:

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I am becoming more convinced one of the more important, but overlooked SEO factors is bounce rate.

Bounce rate means a person searches for red acme products on Google. Clicks to your website, either does not find what they are looking for or goes yuck, and hits the back button to click another listings in the search results or do another search.

It only makes sense. Bounce is easily measured by Google. The factor reflects the quality of your website and relevancy of...

Over the years I have seen a ton of Amazon affiliate sites, most of which never make much of anything because they never rank in Google. The best traffic for most physical products listed in Amazon is going to be search.

Not email lists (how do you get someone to your signup page?) Not social media. Not PPV. Not PPC due to the expense and Amazon commission rate. Not forums. But search.

Different products may rely on different traffic funnels, but as a "general...

I received an interesting question from one of my Internet Marketing Law Center members about whether the US Can-Spam law applies if they access thousands of website contact forms and send advertising messages through these forms.

Many of us are well aware of this type of spam.

The answer is yes.

By accessing a website, and a contact form on the website, you know your transmission is intended to create an electronic message that is being received by someone....

You may have heard about mugshot websites. These are sites that get arrest and booking photos from police departments then post the information online. For a hefty fee you can pay to get it removed from the site.

These are not celebrity websites per se (such as the OJ Simpson mug shot shown above), but sites showing every day people. The problem with booking photos is simply a claim...