Do a search on Ebay for “adwords” and you will find hundreds of those coupons Google sends to prospective advertising customers going for around ten cents on the dollar.
I have a couple sitting here right now and don’t even feel like bothering with them.
Google, in their attempt to turn capitalism on it’s ear has disenfranchised the vast majority of website owners who, eventually, take whatever self respect they have left and leave Adwords.
Imagine the worst control freak you could ever hope to deal with and you will have Adwords. Ironically, I like just about everything else about Google.
Marcus Campbell, creator of Simple Sites Big Profit turns web marketing on it’s ear by claiming “traffic is the easy part”.
Or does he? Hasn’t that always been the case. After all, you know what they say. “Find out where people are looking for you and just be there”.
I think “simple” is definitely the key word here. While so many of us the last several years were putting up flypaper, consisting of duplicate content and whatever else we could get our hands on, guys like Marcus and Yaro Starak were typing away at unique content with laser directed niche ads.
Come to find out, they were right all along, whether they planned it or not. Either way, I suppose they attained [...]
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I read in one of the SEO forums the other day that, when Twitter made all outbound links nofollow, he lost something like 100,000 backlinks. Wow, had he been busy or what. Makes me glad I’m happily writing a blog article now in a place where I have total control (for now) of the links. My own blog.
Be aware I’ve certainly done my share of link sculpting and link dropping. I also am a long time system gamer. If there’s a system out there, I want to find it and game it.
I also have to keep reminding myself that, by and large, the web does not exist for web developers, seo experts and the like. Sad to say but the [...]
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As a web programmer I used to have the general idea that where web programmers go, so goes the web. But as time goes by, I realize now that is far from true. Because web programmers are hooked on automation.
I look at any manual operation and wonder how to get that same operation done, many times over, in some automated way that takes little or no effort. What can I say? That always gets me excited.
So when I came across the Twitter API, my first thought was that this sounded like fun. So I started using the API to repost just about everything I posted on my websites to Twitter. I mean, why would Twitter even offer that function if [...]
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Everyone who has a website is pretty much interested in one thing. Traffic. Those with the traffic are happy as clams and those without traffic are forlorn. Perhaps even desperate. There are several good ways to generate traffic, but for now we will stick to search engines.
Let’s say Joe is looking for tennis rackets. Joe opens his favorite web browser to his favorite search engine, Google and types in “tennis rackets”. Google then presents Joe with a collection of websites they have indexed. The index is a huge database of web addresses that is stored and cataloged, based on the title, page content and domain name.
When Joe sends the search phrase “tennis rackets” to Google, the phrase is checked against [...]
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