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How to learn SEO in 2008

The beginners guide to the art of search optimization It goes without saying that those that write/read books sing their praises and those that blog know that their way is best and forum hounds know that is the way. Each format has it's evangelists...

What’s The Simplest, Fastest Way To Explode Your List Size?

by Martin Wales If you want to sell more of your ‘stuff’ then you need more people to offer it to. Online this means the faster you increase the size of your list of contacts and email addresses the faster you make more money!The one tactic that d...

How to Squeeze Blood from a Copywriter

True story: Not too long ago I was approached by a marketer who had a product idea -- just the idea mind you. And he wanted to hire me to develop it... market it... sell it... and everything in-between. The reason being -- he didn't have the...

Yahoo and Microsoft at it Again?

After publicly claiming that they were through dealing with Yahoo! and had pulled all deals off the table, Microsoft would neither confirm nor deny that they had started talking to them again. This is tantamount to admitting that they are, since the ...

A Call for Topics

One of the hardest things about writing a blog (and one of the reasons that I’m not writing as often as I should) is that the topics themselves sometimes elude me.  Anything that requires too much detail turns into an article, which is longer than ...

Turn Your Traffic Into Buyers For A Lifetime! Part II

Customers for life means "cash for life." Last post (Part I) we visited the Strategy of Consumption. I want to correct myself however. I presented Consumption as mathematically 'adding' it, but upon further thinking, I strongly believe that it's r...

Turn Your Traffic Into Buyers For A Lifetime!

The mantra of many marketing experts online, when you want to get more customers, is: Traffic + Conversion = Customers This is true. BUT... What if you could do more? Sell more, more consistently and for a much longer time? Yes! Sell ...

SEO and the Cobbler's Children

Search engine optimization has been around for over a decade now, and there are scads of new companies claiming to offer the service each day.  The market is large, and the opportunities are there for any firm that can develop a reputation for exce...

How To Use YouTube To Drive Massive Traffic To Your Site

by Dan Lok

Everybody's talking about web 2.0 or how to use new traffic strategies to drive more people-rather, buyers to your web sites. And today, I'm going to show you a very powerful to do just that, without spending a dime (well, maybe a few dollars).

How to Pick Article Topics

by Jennifer Horowitz

I've already written about why it's important to write articles, and it seems a lot of you agree because I keep getting emails saying that you want to write articles but don't know what to write about. It can be hard to decide what to write about, but if you get creative you can always find something.

23 Powerful Marketing and Branding Tips Geared to Drive In More Traffic and Revenue

by Scott C. Margenau

Image works Studio a marketing and graphic design firm specializing in web design and development services provides innovative marketing ideas and presents Article about 23 Powerful Marketing and Branding Tips Geared to Drive In More Traffic and Revenue.

Flash and SEO: Like Oil and Water

by Scott Buresh

While most companies want to revamp their websites with elements of both Flash and SEO, this is unlikely to achieve the desired SEO results. With a site built in Flash, there is only one potential entry page, text is harder for spiders to decipher, and the actual content on pages is lessened. Ultimately, the combination of Flash and SEO can be like oil and water -- individually useful but hard to mix.

Selling With Your Personality

by Mark Hunter

A powerful sales tool that many of us overlook is our personality. It positively and negatively influences far more sales than we will ever admit to...

What are the options for online business???

Hi everyone, I have been exploring the web for quite a while and have been thinking of getting involved in some of the affiliate programs or any other ways that can help me to make some extra cash as I have been doing a job too but the time and situations demand more and more money. So, what are the …

Google's New Wiki

This might well have been posted before, so apologies if it has: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html Roger …

W3 Validation: Good or bad?

So I think that W3 validation is good. I always like to have my site validated in both HTML and CSS. This is because it makes my site look more professional, and also because I find that validation is a good buzzword to use when discussing websites. I managed to talk my sister who is opening her o …

My UK site not showing up on Google "UK only" searches

Hi all, I have a UK based site (subject wise), which isn't currently showing up on google searches when you click the button for "UK only". So my questions is this - when it is a .com domain name, what does google look for to see if it is a UK site? The site in question is www.yorkshire-golf.co …

Meta descriptions

I'm redoing the keywords for the whole of my site. One question I have is should I have a different meta description for each page, just for different sections or a standard one for the whole site??? …

What is the easiest way to get noticed?

There are so many SEO techniques, I was kind of wondering what are the easiest and most important things to get your site recognized? …

SEO at your fingertips

Looking to learn SEO here at Site Reference? Here are some threads to get you going and up to speed on what we’ve covered in the past Basics SEO Learning Link Fest - http://forums.site-reference.com/topic/6435/SEO-Leanring-Link-Fest/ Using Relevance in your SEO - http://forums.site-refer …