Archive for November, 2009
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Sometimes things come along in your business where expenses are difficult to justify, but then once you have purchased them, you realize just how valuable that purchase was.
Such is the case with SEO Moz. At $799 per year, it’s tough for a blogger to justify that cost. Sure, you can understand it if you are [...]
Posted in Linking Tips, SEO Tips, Social Media Marketing | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 27th, 2009
Site speed will soon affect your Google rankings. This is big news for webmasters and surely more of us
will now be paying even more attention to how quickly our site loads.
News of the development of site speed being added as a factor in Google’s ranking algorithm came from Matt Cutts. Google will roll out the [...]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
We’ve all read a lot of stories about link bait and how important it is to publish things to get inbound links to your site. I’ve tried my hand at link bait and some have worked out and quite frankly, others have not worked out very well at all.
I’ve put up pictures of baseball’s hottest [...]
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
by Kit Elliott
I’m here to teach you about how RSS Feeds can boost traffic for your website. You may have heard of it, but I
guarantee you are not harnessing the full power of the tool. RSS Feeds are very hot, and the marketing pros are getting their websites listed in Google within 2 to 3 [...]
Posted in Internet Tips, search engine optimization | 1 Comment »
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
The death of the daily newspaper is not going to happen any time soon.
According to research from Scarborough, 74% of American adults either read the newspaper or visit a newspaper web site at least once per week. That correlates to 171 million Americans.
The higher the income, the more likely that they are to read a [...]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Small business holiday parties seem to be on the rebound from 2008, as more small companies plan to host
them and spend more on their employees than they did last year, according to a study by McCormick and Schmicks.
The average amount most small businesses will spend on employees this year is $36 per person. Only 24% [...]
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
One of the great things about working in internet marketing is that you can really work anywhere so long
as you have an internet connection. So, why not leave the snowy North this winter and enjoy a warmer climate.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations come to mind. Play golf in the morning on [...]
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Worldwide spending on internet advertising for the third quarter, 2009, showed a drop of 1% versus the same quarter last year, according to IDC.
The USA internet ad spending market showed a decrease of 4% versus last year in the same quarters. US internet ad spending totaled $6.4 billion.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
It wasn’t the Super Bowl of advertisements, but the very first time that an advertisement appeared on television was on July 1, 1941. Prior to a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies, Bulova paid a whopping $4 for an ad placement on New York City station WNBT.
The 10 second advertisement showed a [...]
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
If you are a person that moves a lot, then Direct TV is the right choice for you over cable TV. The great thing about Direct TV is that it actually moves with you. Can’t say the same thing about cable.
It’s not like the old days when satellite dishes were as big as the trees [...]
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
Mobile marketing is the most effective marketing medium of all-time. The reason it is so darn effective is that you are actually promoting to people that want to receive your promotional text messages. In fact, they have requested them, unlike other advertising that they’d simply prefer to not receive.
Bob Bentz of Advanced Telecom Services and [...]
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