Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd January 2016, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 167 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd January 2016, 01:37 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 570 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd January 2016, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 685 Re: Alternatives to PBNs for SEO
I'd think the best alternative would be to have a network of people with active blogs who link to each other organically...which is why I created this (which is free): Critical Mass Blogging Teams |...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th January 2016, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 536 Re: Tax Reduction Question?
On this page: Business Engines | iKnowNetwork.info (http://iknownetwork.info/training/business-engines/) take a look at the "$5000 Guarantee" section (click the HTML icon next to it). If you're...
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Forum: Copywriting
7th January 2016, 11:01 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,068 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th January 2016, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 469 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th January 2016, 10:45 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 375 Re: Does SEO still matter ?
If by "SEO" you mean trying to fool the search engines into giving a top 3 listing to a lame page, then yeah, you're better off spending your time and resources elsewhere. But that doesn't mean it's...
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Forum: Offline Marketing
7th January 2016, 10:35 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 1,833 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th December 2015, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 343 Re: Auto-play alternatives
Be sure to use a poster image for the video that suggests that there's something worth watching for. For example, if you have a bullet list in the video that gets displayed one-by-one as you talk...
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Forum: Conversion Rate Optimization
29th December 2015, 09:31 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 2,441 Re: Website Design and Conversion Rate
Your design should direct the visitor toward your call to action. If there's too much competing for attention, conversion rates will drop, even if it makes the site more attractive in an artistic...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th December 2015, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 436 Re: Copyright question
You might get sued. If it goes to court, you might win, and you might lose. Either way, it'll cost you. So tread carefully.
How much, and how you can use it under "fair use" is not a cut and dried...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th December 2015, 10:29 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 319 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
26th December 2015, 10:23 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 298 Re: what are the hat colors in seo???
White hat means giving the search engines what they want: eg. quality content that's easy to scan, linked to from quality, related sites and pages.
Black hat means trying to fool the search...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th December 2015, 10:14 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 293 |
Forum: Programming
21st December 2015, 05:33 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 544 Re: Javascript Help
I'm not a JQuery user, so I can't comment on that. But this is a simple enough thing to do in straight JavaScript with just a few little changes from what you've done.
...<select name="item"...
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Forum: Programming
21st December 2015, 05:22 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 2,763 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st December 2015, 05:15 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 591 Re: about the backlinks??
You definitely want links coming in to multiple different pages, though you'll want more links going to the pages you want ranked highest -- not just an equal number to each page.
Then, watch...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st December 2015, 05:10 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 358 Re: Using Amazon S3 to host videos?
There are times when you'll want to host on YouTube, and times when something like S3 is more appropriate. I use both.
If you don't want YouTube's branding, if you don't want YouTube's playback...
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Forum: Programming
21st December 2015, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 20
Views: 2,583 Re: PHP programming
Sure, PHP has it's blemishes (like argument order inconsistencies mentioned by kdavies). But there's nothing so wrong with it that it's not a perfectly good language for web development.
On the...
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Forum: Programming
18th December 2015, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 514 Re: Transparent submission form help
If you're wanting the field to be COMPLETELY transparent, then use background-color: transparent;
If you want it to be translucent, then, as 2WDHost said, an RGBA background color is the easiest...
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Forum: Email Marketing
18th December 2015, 10:26 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,044 Re: Content of autoresponder, advice needed
I don't think you need to worry about this too much. You've already got them on your email list. As long as the site's you're sending them to are delivering them value, they'll keep opening your...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th December 2015, 06:12 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 406 Re: Membership Site or One-Time Charge?
As long as it doesn't cost you non-trivially more for each additional member (eg. there's no one-on-one interaction required that makes it expensive to scale), the easy answer is "both". Offer the...
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Forum: Email Marketing
17th December 2015, 06:03 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 713 Re: Aweber showning it as a spam
Another solution would be to only put part of the content, not including the Clickbank link, into the email, and put the rest on your website. Then link from the email to your website.
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Forum: Email Marketing
17th December 2015, 05:58 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 569 Re: Emails going to junk
If it's the group emails/BCC that you're having the trouble with, be sure that there's a recipient listed in the "To" field, even if you're just sending it to one of your own email addresses. If I'm...
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Forum: Email Marketing
17th December 2015, 05:54 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 280 |
Forum: Email Marketing
17th December 2015, 05:46 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 820 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th December 2015, 05:39 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 346 |
Forum: Copywriting
17th December 2015, 05:20 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,022 Re: Let me know the best ways to improve grammar
I'll echo the suggestion to outsource it, but with a bit of a twist. If you don't have the budget to pay someone to do it (or perhaps even if you do), see if you can make a deal with a native English...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th October 2011, 09:53 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 548 Re: Spam question...
...or if your browser pre-fetches links so that it can display content fast if you actually click them. That's one of the reasons I don't like that feature in a web browser.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
25th October 2011, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 26
Views: 769 Re: Ethics of Info Marketing...
If the information delivers the value that was promised, then there's no ethical problem. If selling things that were available free were unethical, selling books that are available at the library...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th October 2011, 11:02 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 467 Re: Do you cite references?
I recommending listing/linking to references because:
1) It's ethical
2) It can help you build relationships with the people you link to
3) It serves your reader's needs better
4) It...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th October 2011, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 2,280 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th March 2011, 12:44 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 794 Re: Help (Not a noob thread)
I can think of two possible fixes. One is to redirect from the hop link to the URL without a hoplink. For example, if your page is a PHP page (I'll use the sbachell's screenshot for an...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2011, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 644 Re: Full posts or post excerpts on the Homepage?
I prefer excerpts. Another danger of using full posts is that people may link to your homepage, not realizing they're not linking to a specific post. Then once the post they were linking to scrolls...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2011, 12:25 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 558 Re: Do What You Love?
One of the reasons people burn out when they try to turn their passion into a business is that they don't necessarily have a passion for the business aspect of it. If you can outsource some of that...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2011, 12:20 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,024 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2011, 12:17 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 877 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th March 2011, 12:10 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 671 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
8th March 2011, 12:05 PM
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Replies: 26
Views: 726 Re: Is Page Rank really important?
PageRank was the innovation that launched Google into prominence. But then it had an illegitimate child named Black Hat SEO, and Google had to find new ways to rank pages.
PageRank is still used...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
2nd March 2011, 11:07 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 7,738 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
2nd March 2011, 10:04 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 681 Re: Busting another site
The way I see it, it's like a kid who's been stealing lunch money from the other kids all year. Should you feel bad about telling the principal, since his revenue stream is going to dry up when he...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd February 2011, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 133
Views: 10,450 Re: So, is 'CURATION' the new buzzword then?
Curation is at least as old as 1997 (the registration date for slashdot.org). If you can build a good reputation as a curator, that one example is enough to prove that it can be successful.
But I...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd February 2011, 09:08 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 736 Re: Is Automation Bad?
It depends on a few things:
Is it creating real value? Or just copying value somebody else created? Or creating junk?
Is it consuming somebody else's resources in ways they don't approve of?...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd February 2011, 08:35 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 490 Re: Page Rank?
The PageRank score shown in in toolbars is not the same thing as the PageRank score Google actually uses when scoring your page. "Toolbar PageRank" only gets updated once in a while, and there are...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd February 2011, 09:13 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,129 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st February 2011, 03:48 PM
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Replies: 59
Views: 1,666 Re: What Are Your Thoughts On PLR?
Most of the PLR I've seen is such junk that I'd never dream of using it as-is (I don't believe in littering to make money), and it often takes more work to edit it than to write something from...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st February 2011, 03:45 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 435 Re: Links Passing Page Rank Value?
Sure, the page will pass along some of that value (though not all of it). That's how PageRank works -- a page gets a little bit of PageRank from each page that links to it. You get more PageRank from...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
21st February 2011, 03:37 PM
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Replies: 148
Views: 5,196 Re: Losing Faith in Internet Marketing!!!
If what you're giving up on is the dream of making boat loads of money without doing much work or without producing any value, then perhaps it is time. Sure, some people succeed at that. But then,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2011, 03:04 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 679 |
Forum: Search Engine Optimization
21st February 2011, 02:58 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 587 Re: Multiple entry pages - good or bad?
If you have multiple sites with exactly the same content, I'd imagine at best Google would pick one to list and ignore the others. At worst, you'd run the risk of getting penalized for creating...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th February 2011, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 687 |
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th February 2011, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 549 Re: The .htaccess File
It doesn't matter where you put it, as long as it's not inside a block that prevents it from doing what you want. The easiest way to ensure that is to stick it right at the top or bottom of the file.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
17th February 2011, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 902 Re: Confession: How I Got SLAMMED By Google!
Unless you've got the chops and resources to create an automated system that produces REAL value (eg. Google News -- their system automatically analyzes huge amounts of news and picks the stuff...
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