Internet Marketing Notes

You might have a beautiful-looking site complemented by compelling content with AdSense ads at the most strategic places; but seriously, it’s all for nothing if you don’t have any traffic to your website.
No traffic means no dollars. Period!

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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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Now you can advertise on AdWords even if you don’t have a website. The landing page for the AdWords ads will be hosted by Google.
At the moment, the service is only available in the US. I suppose it’s only a matter time before the service is made available to the rest of the […]

I’d like to share with you Allan Gardyne’s free report, “77 Ways to Get Traffic“.
This excellent 69-page report is packed with traffic generation tips that you probably wouldn’t have thought of. Most of the traffic generation techniques described in the report can be applied without costing you a single cent.

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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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Early this month, Amazon.com’s subsidiary A9.com, launched Clickriver - a new pay-per-click sponsored links program. Clickriver is currently in beta.
The text ads will appear alongside Amazon.com’s product pages and search results.

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If you’re an AdWords advertiser, there’s an important update that you need to know: 
Google will begin incorporating landing page quality into the Quality Score for your contextually-targeted ads. 

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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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Podcasting is getting serious attention nowadays but relative to blogs, the podcast sphere is still relatively small by comparison. In a recent seminar that I attended, internet marketing guru Derek Gehl did point out that now is a good time to capitalize on the podcast space as it’s still pretty much a new frontier.
Recently, […]