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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th November 2024, 06:37 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 732
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Fake Testimonials

Really, very little is stated in the FTC rule that is enforceable other than things that are clearly blatant.

Like all government entities that attempt all-encompassing rules, courts will hold...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th November 2024, 08:09 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 732
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Fake Testimonials

Not that I endorse fake reviews, but good luck enforcing this, FCC. Awful hard to prove an online entity is fake.

I mean really, how is a business supposed to prove (or know) that a random review...
Forum: Beginners Area 19th November 2024, 07:59 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 183
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: New member. Some questions.

Why on earth would anyone pay/rent your signature when they can just create an account and signature of their own - especially from a new forum member?
Forum: Beginners Area 19th November 2024, 07:56 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 135
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Which advertising platform works best for small businesses?

There is no "best advertising platform" for any and all businesses, regardless of size. What works best for one product niche does not work at all for another. You need to try each one out and see...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 11th November 2024, 07:36 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 729
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Semantic SEO for E-commerce?

With more than 200 sites my brothers and I have built, I find eCommerce pretty easy to write content for. People have questions about products. You need to anticipate what types of questions they...
Forum: Beginners Area 30th October 2024, 06:48 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 282
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: New high school teacher wanting to quit

I kind of think the one point missing in the comments is the most important one ... how do you monetize this supposedly great information? Knowing a subject thoroughly and creating something online...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2024, 05:04 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 271
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Create free tool to attract inbound links

Your actual page where you sell your "tool" shouldn't be your landing page

Write content that then links to your actual buying page - like something about how to get links, how hard it is and how...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th October 2024, 04:59 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 616
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How to get more followers on social media?

Look, people go to social sites to engage with friends are find funny, interesting content. Your entire strategy should be about creating those types of things - not for just anybody, but for people...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th October 2024, 04:47 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 304
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: how to run ads on google? without getting banned

Crazy. I've never had a site banned by Google for ads (and we've built more than 200 - all of which advertised with Google). People must be doing some pretty screwy things or trying to sell very...
Forum: Beginners Area 23rd October 2024, 04:37 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 363
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Why my created link is not updating as a backlinks?

If you "created" backlinks, that implies that you, yourself, were able to place them on someone else's website. If so, they are completely ignored by Google as they have been for several years now.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th September 2024, 07:10 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 407
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: SEO website question

Bookmarks stopped working as a viable link strategy nearly two decades ago. Please find a more up to date and dependable "guru" to follow for SEO strategies.
Forum: Beginners Area 20th August 2024, 02:56 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 424
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Advice from an SEO expert

Once again, search volume and traffic are two entirely different things. A domain that does not have a website cannot possibly have either.
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 30th July 2024, 07:16 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 352
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Price Monitoring platform for dropshippers

No, it's not an issue we ever face. We get products straight from the manufacturer or if they won't dropship, we ask who their biggest distributor is and use them. There's no need to monitor the...
Forum: Beginners Area 30th July 2024, 07:09 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 679
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: General thought.

Love it! Reminds me of a question all too many people have asked me ... "why would people want to buy from my website instead of all the other ones out there?"

THAT, is a question only you can...
Forum: Beginners Area 29th July 2024, 07:02 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 326
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Anyone Tried HARO Link Building Service?

HARO was bought out by Connectively several months ago. It was an easier platform to use when it was HARO but it can still be an invaluable source for extremely high quality links. We peruse...
Forum: Beginners Area 29th July 2024, 06:40 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 679
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: I want to enter the field of dropshipping, what should I learn first?

First off, thanks for the props from DWolfe. Although flipping (buying and selling) websites was how I got into eCommerce and became nationally known, we transitioned into dropshipping from there...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 15th July 2024, 07:04 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,386
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How important are Google Reviews for Local SEO?

Your final question is not the same as the question you pose in the subject line.

Positive reviews are absolute gold. There is nothing like a customer testimonial to convince others to buy your...
Forum: Beginners Area 15th July 2024, 06:38 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 395
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How much effort is being put into stifling noobs?

This thread is ridiculous. Sure, I suppose there are a few losers out there trying to cash in on noobs and gain a quick buck in the short term. It's a bad business model, however.

Anyone who is...
Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping 24th June 2024, 07:31 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 296
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Mobile Phone-Dropshipping

I cannot imagine this would be a great niche. In fact, I can think of few that would be any worse.

First of all, it violates my #1 Rule : Don't try to sell something online that people can buy a...
Forum: Beginners Area 17th June 2024, 06:56 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 395
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How much effort is being put into stifling noobs?

DABK has it right - at least in terms of your one example of what you perceive may b e misinformation.

Choosing a niche you are passionate about is convenient and is absolutely wonderful if what...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th June 2024, 06:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 804
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: SEO and procedure for your website

The main problem with every post here, including the O.P.'s, is that the words "my opinion" or "my point of view" is used in every one of them.

Unless you are a senior programmer for a search...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd June 2024, 07:37 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 990
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Bad Traffic vs Good Traffic

Although I agree that targeting the correct audience is priority #1, there are most certainly some platforms that you will not do well with compared to others.

Facebook ads work in some niches,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd June 2024, 07:21 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 453
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Can I use Product Page mage as the Featured Image on collection page

All ridiculous answers ...

Of course you can use the same image on a category page as you do as the main image on the product page. It is the main image, after all, which is what you would...
Forum: Beginners Area 27th May 2024, 07:08 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 457
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Do I need a business license to sell products online in GA?

Well, you'll certainly need one when you start making sales.

Also, unless you are in a certain handful of states that do not charge sales tax on anything, you may or may not need a sales tax...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2024, 06:57 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 226
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: If you include text links in your content, do you have them open in a new link?

The question was about what you do when building a website, not what you do when you are using one. Although you are smart enough to open tabs in new windows and navigate between them, the vast...
Forum: Beginners Area 17th May 2024, 05:46 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 302
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Back and Black :-)

Man, there are soooooo many things that matter in reference to your question, it's impossible to answer something so generic.

For instance, even though it has never been something that we have...
Forum: Beginners Area 29th April 2024, 07:04 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 508
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How did you turn it all around?

I certainly relate to trying to market online, but because this is the type of business that is usually extremely local, real, old fashioned boots on the ground marketing is what you need. Attend...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th April 2024, 06:48 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,281
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: This is a good starting point.

I suppose this makes sense to lazy people who are absolutely fine with whatever methods they already have in place for generating traffic. Most businesses, however, want as much traffic and as many...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd April 2024, 07:11 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 217
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: How much does the rebranding affect CR ?

Say what? What an overly broad and generalized statement to make!

You are, in essence, advocating that McDonalds, Walmart, Amazon, Google - name any super huge brand that does well - should...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd April 2024, 07:05 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 406
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: Underrated platforms and marketing channels for driving traffic

CraigsList can be fantastic for the right kind of product - especially if you have a good angle for buying it (such as low cost financing).
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 1st April 2024, 05:53 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 952
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: 373
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: 715
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: 12
Views: 658
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: 1,240
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: 729
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: 2
Views: 358
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: 157
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: 566
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: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th February 2024, 05:59 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 284
Posted By dave_hermansen
Re: E-commerce title tag optimisation for product pages

There are no "negatives" that I can see in including AfterPay in your title tags. It will offer a slight degree of ranking help if you are specifically targeting people who are looking to use...
Forum: Beginners Area 24th February 2024, 05:23 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 661
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: 18
Views: 661
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: 18
Views: 661
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: 18
Views: 661
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: 19
Views: 771
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: 19
Views: 771
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: 437
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: 13
Views: 1,241
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: 13
Views: 1,241
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: 209
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: 23
Views: 1,242
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: 62
Views: 4,000
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: 62
Views: 4,000
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: 1,240
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: 548
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: 3,052
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...
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