Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 
10th August 2015, 03:12 PM
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Replies: 65
Views: 2,318 Re: Is what I'm doing dishonest?
Dishonest? Probably not. It's a grey area I'd guess. More importantly, how much money can you possibly make doing this? I can't imagine it's worth the time, unless you're really, really...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
10th August 2015, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,006 Re: Overcoming Information Overload/Shiney Objects
The fact that you're even asking about this stuff is pretty important to begin with. That being said, the only advice I'll give you....take action. If you're literally just starting, what does that...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th August 2015, 07:31 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 1,091  Re: Backlinks for youtube videos?
Personally, I don't think backlinks help on the video front nearly as much as they do elsewhere. I find that user metrics like the amount of time people spend on your channel and the % of people who...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
10th August 2015, 07:29 AM
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Replies: 22
Views: 883 Re: Guest post backlinks
Backlinks are still important. Without knowing both the niche, as well as the sites you're looking at posting on....it's hard to say exactly how valuable they're going to be.
If it's on an hour...
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Forum: Social Media
17th June 2015, 07:57 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 3,394 Re: How to promote Youtube Channel?
The nice thing about Youtube, it's the 2nd largest search engine around. I find that mostly, the channel markets itself, if you're producing decent stuff.
Uninteresting videos that don't rank on...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
17th June 2015, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 248
Views: 8,602 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th June 2015, 10:01 PM
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,098 Re: Blogging - The Great Marketing Equalizer
I'll give you my best advice about blogging.
Remember Nike's old slogan: Just Do It.
Yes, Just Do It.
We can all give you our recommendations and hints, but what works incredibly well in one...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th June 2015, 08:08 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 595 Re: is it worth to be amazon seller ?
What do you make? If you're competing with thousands of people for the same product....probably not so much worth it.
BUT, if you have a line of your own products and you're willing to put in the...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th June 2015, 09:02 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 490 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
11th June 2015, 12:31 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,629 Re: Tools For Checking Daily Visitors
Why are you scared of Google's tracking code? Seriously, even if you're spamming....they give you plenty of valuable info and quite frankly, that tracking code doesn't give them any (or much at...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th June 2015, 12:26 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 734 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
9th June 2015, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 400 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th June 2015, 01:26 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 625 Re: Content Marketing
One thing I do wish people talked about more in this space....good content does create a ton of good links by itself. Sure, link building does bring in more links.....but for all the conversation...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
9th June 2015, 01:24 PM
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Replies: 74
Views: 1,936 Re: What Would You Do With 5 Dollars?
Buy a coffee on a way to a Meetup group about online marketing, with the intention of making a new friend that you can collaborate with.
Seriously, $5 won't get you anything of value, but you can...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th June 2015, 07:53 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 803 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
6th June 2015, 07:51 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 543 Re: Video is addictive....
They're pretty quick to make too which I appreciate as well.
I doubt your click through rate stays that high over the long (hell, great if it does though) but I do see pretty high click rates...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2015, 10:43 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 586 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th June 2015, 10:41 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 650 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th June 2015, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 43
Views: 1,074 Re: Internet Marketing with Blog Commenting
Generally, yes it works. Comments on high traffic blogs within your niche will drive traffic-it isn't really all that complicated....write something insightful, interesting etc. If you know what...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd June 2015, 03:20 PM
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,595 Re: Must you have a Blog
Oh sure-you don't 100% NEED it. But, SEO is a hell of a lot easier if you actually write a blog. Like a ton easier
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd June 2015, 03:19 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 1,324 Re: Do you need to focus on a niche?
It all depends-a more personal blog brings up a question of: why you? What's interesting about your perspective? What's unique?
I do wish you'd be more specific with your writing plans so people...
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Forum: Social Media
1st June 2015, 06:51 PM
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Replies: 18
Views: 603 Re: Is Twitter any good for finding customers
Hang out in different places on Twitter, if all you're finding are sales pitches.
Seriously, the fun part of the social network, is the social aspect to it. Talk about stuff related to your...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2015, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 694 Re: Product Creation before affiliate marketing?
What are you selling? Is your product IM related? If so, yeah, results count for more than promises.
That being said, most brick/mortar business starts first with an idea then gets onto affiliate...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
1st June 2015, 08:02 AM
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Replies: 1
Views: 314 Re: Can I publish restaurants data
Believe stuff like that depends on where you live, at least legally. That being said, if it's publicly available information like their business details only-stuff that's accessible at the...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
29th May 2015, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 442 |
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Forum: Off Topic Forum
29th May 2015, 01:16 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,309 Re: Matt Cutt leaves google....
I don't think any SEO should be happy about this-Cutts, compared to basically everyone else at Google really did try and answer questions. We can all gripe about their openness, but at least there...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
29th May 2015, 01:10 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,247 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th May 2015, 11:11 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 532 Re: Cost of a review site? $$$$?
Why not get a decent Wordpress theme and then upload what you've written and see if you can rank anything before spending more cash out of pocket? (note, get your own domain for it though)
You can...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
28th May 2015, 10:53 AM
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Replies: 17
Views: 615 Re: Guest Posting is Beneficial ?
It depends.
Look, if you have a chance to write something for a blog in your niche, or a highly respected niche site that's similar to yours (as an example, I own a wine business, so travel is...
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Forum: Social Media
28th May 2015, 10:50 AM
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,327 Re: Youtube Rocks? Nah
You're wrong.
Seriously, if you were my 4 year old....I'd say that's a bad attitude to have. Video's can gain views a number of different ways and without some more information on your niche,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th May 2015, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 2,533 Re: Craigslist Crisis
Flagged is a human action, right? Having your URL, may seem somewhat underhanded if there isn't a clickable link right? Think about the perspective of a regular user!
Given the history of AirBNB,...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
26th May 2015, 01:57 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 515 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th May 2015, 08:40 AM
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Replies: 31
Views: 957 Re: About bounce rate.
Those 2 are mutually exclusive I am afraid.
A bounce rate of 70% is high, perhaps, depending on the nice, incredibly high.
Most likely, your content isn't that good. Have you tried adding a...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
24th May 2015, 08:38 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,292 Re: Keyword Density?
I'm going to call BS on the whole keyword density being important these days. Seen too many pages rank extremely well, with keyword density all over the map.
I think we've moved beyond this type...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th May 2015, 08:34 AM
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Replies: 18
Views: 2,116 Re: My PBN sites are not index?
4 articles? Um, maybe it's just me....but a real blog wouldn't be concerned after 4 articles. Write some more, you know, like a real blog and see if they're indexed at that point.
Are there any...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th May 2015, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 74
Views: 3,087 Re: A Plea For Help.
So that's just the thing about making money online. If you're going to follow exactly what others enjoy doing, you're likely going to hate it. I make a handful of videos, but I write a few thousand...
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Forum: Social Media
23rd May 2015, 07:38 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 813 Re: How I promote my site - Tell me some ideas
Have you tried working with either some of the high traffic sites or blogs in your niche? I'm sure, there are tons of active communities around online gaming. Reach out and see what they say.
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Forum: Social Media
23rd May 2015, 07:36 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,133 Re: How to Syndicate Blog Post to Go Viral?
If you're hoping to "submit" your blog post, to have it go viral....isn't that not exactly the way that something does go viral?
I mean, something going viral means that it's getting shared more...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
23rd May 2015, 07:22 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 826 Re: What's up with the Wikipedia Mafia?
Wikipedia is a big enough site....it's got it's own culture. I don't know much about getting an entire article written, but I can attest that adding a link to something you've written...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
23rd May 2015, 07:18 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 5,595 Re: Must you have a Blog
No reason not to right? I mean, writing is easy enough and the internal linking options can help you rank pretty well by itself.
A few years ago I would think you have gotten away without a blog,...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th May 2015, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,164 Re: Google De-indexing PBNs Again?
Oh yeah-you're going to out smart everyone else trying to set up a PBN. Think about what they're doing, versus what you're going to do.
If you do everything the same way that everyone else...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
13th May 2015, 11:24 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,387 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
13th May 2015, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 492 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
11th May 2015, 08:41 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,666 Re: An awesome place to find backlinks
Well.....doesn't this sound a lot like say, Build My Rank....or any number of other networks? I mean, anything with link building that is described as "simple" is going to be suspect long term.
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
11th May 2015, 08:32 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,455 Re: Personal Branding & Pseudonyms
As others have said, if you're super worried about it, use a business name. My last name is pronounced exactly 0% of the time correctly....but I wouldn't worry about it.
In the age of Google...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th May 2015, 02:43 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 604 Re: Blocking the back button?
It's a terrible idea. Seriously, can you put yourself in the shoes of someone who found your site.....for like a second?
Who cares about what a SEO guy says about the short term....is that any way...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th May 2015, 02:40 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 378 Re: How To Charge?
I wouldn't make the bookeeping that complicated.
If it's really a friend, or a business contact you've had for a while and assuming that you'll make the friend a decent deal compared to a stranger...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th May 2015, 08:05 AM
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Replies: 3
Views: 599 Re: articles on premium news sites
You'll have to look around a bit-there's also job boards where writers are looking for paid gigs.....those are spots to ask, but understand you're pitching in many times, actual, real...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
7th May 2015, 08:03 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 441 Re: Scalable link building
I think most of the "Scalable" talk comes down to how you're building, or earning those links.
Are they from a piece of viral content? I think Google knows damn well that viral content gets...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
7th May 2015, 08:00 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 987 |
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Forum: Social Media
6th May 2015, 07:54 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,429 Re: Do direct messages work on Twitter?
No. I think there's some difference between gaining followers and DM. You cannot DM someone out of the blue, so how exactly does one lead to the other?
Personally, I find it better to stay away...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd May 2015, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 896 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd May 2015, 09:04 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 2,588 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
22nd April 2015, 07:49 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,368 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
22nd April 2015, 07:48 AM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,098 Re: YouTube videos
Well, if you read anything about good old Google in the news, you'll notice that they're being investigated in the EU about giving their own properties too much advantage in search results. Youtube...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
3rd April 2015, 04:09 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 750 Re: Solid Backlink Strategy
A lot, quite honestly depends on your niche. I can gain good mentions for my wine site because people seem to enjoy free wine.
I wouldn't focus on what the best type of link happens to be, instead...
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