Forum: Search Engine Optimization 
18th November 2014, 05:26 PM
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
18th November 2014, 12:06 PM
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Forum: Email Marketing
3rd November 2014, 07:40 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 783  Re: Email Marketing for A Small Site
I completely agree with you, Alan. Adding huge amounts of content, for your purposes, won't correlate at all with increased income.
Absolutely right.
Why would you want to write a...
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Forum: Email Marketing
11th October 2014, 04:03 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 838 Re: Keeping A List Going?
You're going to think I sound "harsh" or "critical" or "uncompromising", none of which is my intention at all, but I think you'd probably be entering article marketing with the deck stacked against...
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Forum: Email Marketing
11th October 2014, 05:13 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 838 Re: Keeping A List Going?
Subscriber acquisition-cost is one of the key metrics, even if (like me) you don't pay for targeted traffic with money: you're still paying with your time, energy, effort and business-building...
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Forum: Email Marketing
10th October 2014, 10:38 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 838 Re: Keeping A List Going?
No; not at all.
I tend to write to or three articles per month, for each niche in which I'm an affiliate. I use the articles as my primary traffic-generation method. I also re-use their content...
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Forum: Email Marketing
10th October 2014, 09:29 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 838 Re: Keeping A List Going?
Are you kidding ? I have been working out with free weights for over 35 years. There is tons of other things you can sell people who initially were looking to just get big biceps.
My gosh, who...
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Forum: Email Marketing
10th October 2014, 09:19 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 838 Re: Keeping A List Going?
1) You don't need to constantly pump out mediocre content for the sole purpose of sending out emails announcing the link. Your instinct is right; you are much better off posting better content less...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
4th October 2014, 03:35 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 779 Re: How To Monetize -- What Would You Do Here?
Apologies for not having seen your post until a moment ago.
When you say "terms", are you looking at it from an "SEO" frame of reference? I'd like to think we both have "bigger fish to fry"...
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Forum: Email Marketing
4th October 2014, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 857 Re: Is Email Lists/Marketing Legit?
The first thing you have to grok is that once you get past the no-thinking-required impulse purchase, most people tend to go through a very similar process, which I've called the "natural buying...
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Forum: Email Marketing
4th October 2014, 08:15 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 857 Re: Is Email Lists/Marketing Legit?
Yup. There's a reason for that: we all know we couldn't ever make a living at all, without doing it.
You make some good observations about search-engine traffic, Alan.
But they're valid...
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Forum: Pay Per Click/Search Engine Marketing (PPC/SEM)
3rd October 2014, 01:47 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 451 Re: PPC Question
Hi Alan,
Budgets, bids, keyword relevance and quality scores determine when, where, and how often your ads will be displayed.
Bidding and traffic estimation - Bing Ads...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
19th June 2014, 02:08 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 964 Re: Ali Baba - Not Money Hungry Enough
The high profits you refer to are the real magnet that draws people to buy from China.
Unfortunately for you it draws a huge number of people who have no idea what they are doing when it comes to...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
18th June 2014, 11:28 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 964 Re: Ali Baba - Not Money Hungry Enough
Factories get contacted by people hundreds of times a week. They sift through the requests and determine on their own who is a going to buy and who is not. If you are serious about buying, I'd...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
18th June 2014, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 964 Re: Ali Baba - Not Money Hungry Enough
Thats pretty much how it is here in China. Sometimes negotiations take weeks, when they could have been done in minutes. It took me a good 6 months to realize that I couldn't just move to China and...
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Forum: eCommerce Sites, Wholesaling & Drop Shipping
18th June 2014, 03:10 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 964 Re: Ali Baba - Not Money Hungry Enough
Hi, In answer to your question No its not typical to wait a month, I have made a lot of contacts through alibaba and all of the good ones reply with in a day, I only deal with gold suppliers.
But...
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Forum: Website Design
22nd May 2014, 06:24 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,581 Re: Blocking Bots is this right?
The first one, except for the lines commented out and last line and a few added bots it's essentially the same as mine. The R=403 tells the bot/browser "forbidden" but the server sees it as a...
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Forum: Website Design
15th May 2014, 04:35 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 1,581 Re: Blocking Bots is this right?
Those will work, I prefer not to create an entry in the Apache error log for each access denied, so here's the approach I use in my htaccess file:RewriteEngine On
#RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR}...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
19th March 2014, 04:11 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 737 Re: Homepage Length=/= Conversion Rates
Dan Kennedy said that longer copy writing tends to out perform shorter copy. The point is to make the best sales presentation possible, if doing so means long copy then that is what has to be done....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd March 2014, 08:55 PM
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Replies: 34
Views: 1,789 |
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
12th February 2014, 03:24 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 5,429 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
6th February 2014, 03:53 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 1,204 Re: $400 Site Gone
Here's the thing about that one link you had, once it was removed you dropped like a brick in the SERPs, which should show you that you ranked by the hair on your chinny chin chin.
It was only a...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
28th January 2014, 09:35 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,658 |
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2014, 02:20 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 449 Re: Initial Protocol for Basic Link Building
Random links from directories won't help you much in SEO.
You need to get real links. Learn how to market your content and forget low quality links.
Just a question: What kind of links are you...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2014, 02:16 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 449 Re: Initial Protocol for Basic Link Building
Its always a good idea to create baclinks for each individual pages and in case of directories you should only focus on submitting the home page as most directories only allows homepage addresses.
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
14th January 2014, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 449 Re: Initial Protocol for Basic Link Building
Ideally you would want to build backlinks to each page, as well as the homepage. You can link to your homepage from within your individual pages to help the homepage rank higher. Unfortunately, it...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
4th January 2014, 12:57 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 719 Re: Ive Hit the Wall
Alan,
So you've hit a wall after a few weeks of learning Internet marketing. I hate to break the news to you . . . but success rarely comes in a few short weeks. In this business, it takes most...
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Forum: Search Engine Optimization
1st January 2014, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 607 Re: Penalized for Someone Elses Domain
You sure can 'take a hit'
Google can black list a site for various forms of spamming - just because the domain has changed hands or some time has passed won't necessarily make everything OK.....
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
31st December 2013, 09:39 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 419 Re: Homepage Stucture
Depending on what you see in your niche, you might want to act accordingly, or better yet improve what's already out there.
You could take the classic approach of laying out the welcome mat...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
31st December 2013, 09:36 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 419 Re: Homepage Stucture
Take a look at some of the most authoritative sites in whatever niche you're working in and see what they've done - might give you some ideas
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
31st December 2013, 09:32 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 419 Re: Homepage Stucture
I would get more content.
Either write some more articles or buy some. Sometimes the best action to take is to wait and be patient.
al
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2013, 09:44 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 377 Re: Mispelled Words Rank High
Yes, used to be good but now Google is smarter so many commonly mispelled words get corrected and directed to the right word!
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
24th December 2013, 09:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 377 Re: Mispelled Words Rank High
Well you might rank #1 for that misspelling but the problem is that anyone who misspells it doesn't get sent to the results for the misspelling, but rather they get automatically redirected to the...
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Forum: Copywriting
21st December 2013, 10:51 PM
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,396 Re: What Is the Better Subject Line of the Two?
Ewen's right. I would avoid the terms "business proposal." That comes later in the sales cycle.
It puts too much pressure on the first stage of the process.
Try to get a dance first before...
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Forum: Copywriting
21st December 2013, 10:03 PM
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Replies: 22
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
8th December 2013, 07:41 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 695 Re: Website Worth?
If this thread were about trademarked domain names and he asked how much could he get for his trademarked domain name website, I would have told him that I wouldn't pay a dime for a trademarked...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
3rd December 2013, 06:59 AM
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Replies: 33
Views: 1,276 Re: Will I get sued for this?
Please correct me if I am wrong but the whole idea of trademark law (I thought) was to stop people from profiting on the back of well known products/brands/celebrities, etc. Trademark law is there to...
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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum
15th January 2011, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 18,062 |