How to SEO with an Article and Blog Combo

FAQ: What’s the best way to integrate a blog with 125 article pages? Should I post all of my new articles to the blog, write static html article pages, then post a snippet on the blog, or a combination of both? Answer: To maximize your SEO benefits here’s the perfect way to integrate a combination [...]

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How to Sell Digital Products with Clickbank

FAQ: Do you have any advice for working with Clickbank? Some tips perhaps. Some do’s and don’ts. For example, what does the gravity rating mean? I couldn’t find anything on Clickbank that explains it. Clickbank is one of the premier marketplaces on the web. They make it very easy to sell your digital products and [...]

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Which Markets are Ideal for List Building

FAQ: When building minisites, do you always try to build a email list? When do you say no to building a list? Answer: I can tell you for a fact, there are certain markets that will not respond to followup emails. Here’s how to know which markets will respond and how to target them for [...]

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Why Public URL Shorteners are a Bad Idea

FAQ: How do you feel about url shorteners? When and how should we use them, or should we not use them at all? Answer: Although convenient, there are all sorts of hidden dangers with link shorteners. Here’s when to use them with caution and a couple of alternatives to try instead…

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Do Keywords in URLs Help with SEO

FAQ: I have been following your transition away from static html websites to Semiologic Pro driven blogs. I have been trying to implement a similar strategy with my own sites. I noticed that you integrate static html pages along with a blog. I also noticed that your permalink setting is not what would be considered [...]

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Escaping the Supplemental Index

FAQ: I have a site that was indexed by Google. A search using the site: command shows 66 pages indexed. So Google knows the pages are there, and the cache is up to date, but when searching for text strings found on the page, none of the pages show up in the SERPs. Is this [...]

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A Simple Recipe for SEO

FAQ: Could you give us your recipe for SEO today? I have read a fair amount on how to rank organically, but a lot of the material is dated and not relevant. Google must have changed what they think is important in recent years. I would love to see an itemized checklist of what is [...]

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What’s the Best Way to Learn New Ideas

FAQ: Is the trend for training and learning really toward video without text? I tend to avoid participatory sessions, webinars etc, but I realize that probably puts me in a minority group. My preferred learning mode is reading. While visual material can be high impact, it usually takes a lot longer to internalize. It’s worse [...]

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How to Optimize Your Pages with Keywords

FAQ: How many keywords can my website be known for? In other words, when it comes to organic SEO, how many keyword phrases should I optimize for? Answer: Many people believe that their website gets indexed with only a handful of search terms. That thinking is years behind where the search engines are now.

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Why Directory Submissions are Worthless

Research > SEO Did you notice your PageRank fall over the past few months. Many people have and its nothing they did… or is it? No one else has uncovered the real cause. I did a little digging for the truth. I think that I have discovered – what I believe to be – the [...]

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How to Persuade People to do What You Want

The work of Dr. Robert Cialdini has compiled significant scientific evidence as to what makes people say yes. It’s about getting people to comply, to get them to do what you want, rather than just think about you in a positive way. Getting these concepts in the right order can double or triple your responses [...]

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The Ultimate Niche Market for Affiliates

Imagine if your market had built in urgency, automatic scarcity, and was blog smackin’ newsworthy all at the same time. Now what if you had the equivalent of a make, a model number, and geographically sensitive information. It’s like a marketers dream come true! All of this can be found in…

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What’s the Best Way to Structure a Website

Production > Manufacturing > Websites FAQ: Do you have a recommendation for organizing multiple landing (micro niche) pages within one website or niche? These are the three methods that I know of. 1) Sub Domains (I am told that google allows each subdomain to inherit some of the juice from the primary domain.) keyword1.domain.com keyword2.domain.com [...]

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8 Tips to Maximize Your Email Marketing

When you’ve been using permission based email marketing for 15 years, you pick up a trick or two. Imagine getting a 92% optin confirmation rate and better than 55% open rate on every email you send. You can too, if you follow these simple steps. They will maximize your email deliverability and open rates. You’ll [...]

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How to do Affiliate Marketing with Mini Sites

The websites we use for affiliate marketing have changed over the years. There have been micro sites, mininets, spokes and nodes, scrapers, portals, MFA and authority sites. All have come and gone as the strategy of choice. Now there’s a whole new way to make money online. Find out how a little 10 page site, [...]

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Why Sending HTML via Email is Dangerous

FAQ: I’m trying to get my autoresponder follow ups and newsletter into an HTML template. Do you think that it’s a good idea to send HTML via email? ~ Mark Answer: Newsletters and autoresponders yes… HTML templates no. I’m a little old school when it comes to newsletters and autoresponders that get delivered by email. [...]

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How to do PPC Marketing Like a Ninja

Research > Training > PPC Here’s an hour long interview with the PPC Ninja that I did along with Colin McDougall. You’ll find out how he bid on the president’s name, along with a CPA affiliate offer, and made a mountain of cash. That’s just one gold nugget. The interview has tons of them. I’ve [...]

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Market Research vs Keyword Research

FAQ: I’m going to get a webpage up if I ever figure out this darn keyword research thing. I don’t know what I’m missing here and why I find this so difficult. I just can’t seem to come up with anything in Wordtracker that seems worth pursuing. Maybe I’m overlooking something. If I can just [...]

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How Search Engines Treat Nofollow Links

FAQ: A friend of mine hired an SEO company and in speaking with them, they said that the rel=nofollow tag is not working with Google anymore. Is that a true statement? They are adamant about that fact. Now, the way I understood it, the nofollow was being used to keep the spiders from following a [...]

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