Internet Marketing Notes

I came across an interesting blog post about getting quality backlinks and high PageRank.
Have you ever added a little chunk of HTML/Javascript code (sometimes called a widget) on your website to add a fun or “live” informational element to your site? e.g. a stock ticker, a weather report, or a graphic depicting the stage […]

So, you created a new web page and visited your new page using a browser installed with Google Toolbar.
You hope that your page will somehow be indexed by the Google search engine…

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Do you know the Google PageRank (PR) of the links on your web page?
There are several ways you can find out the link PRs:

Enter each link URL in a PR checking service, or
Open each link and see the PR in Google Toolbar, or
Use the Website PR Overlay tool by SEO Bench or Visual PageRank tool […]

I just came across an interesting post by Matt Cutts indicating that there is no difference in Google PageRank treatment between a site hosted on virtual hosting (multiple sites on 1 IP address) versus a site hosted on a dedicated IP address.

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Here’s a story of how Chris Pearson apparently increased his search engine traffic by 455% in just one month (from September to October).
He made two simple changes:

He ported his blog from MovableType to Wordpress
He based his design code on the Cutline framework

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Google has added a few new features in to its webmaster tools.
The new features include:
1) Googlebot activity report
It shows you the following:

Number of pages Googlebot has crawled your site per day
Number of kilobytes of data Googlebot has downloaded per day
Average time it took for Googlebot to download pages.

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It’s now official. Google search indexing algorithm has been updated to index URLs containing the “&id” parameter.
Well, does this mean you should ignore using friendly URLs or permalinks?

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If you are using regular affiliate links to promote an affiliate program, chances are you are missing out on traffic and commissions. You might want to use redirection links instead.
Here’s how a direct affiliate link and a redirection link look like:
Direct affiliate link: http://www.example.com?id=123 (where 123 is your affiliate ID)
Redirection link: […]

Wowee! In less than 2 weeks, this blog has been listed as #1 on Google for the search keywords internet marketing notes.
Nothing is permanent on Google. For now, I’ll just savor the moment. (See screenshot below)

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Google has just unveiled the Google Co-op Custom Search Engine. Well, Custom Search Engine allows you to:
Create a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests. Place it on your website and, using our AdSense for Search program, make money from the resulting traffic.
With Google Custom Search Engine, you can restrict […]