Archive for November, 2008
Get Visitors To Come Back
Does your website stand out? Why would ANYONE come BACK to your website? Does your website have anything worthy of coming back to? These are all questions you should ask yourself when looking at the “Direct Visitors” metric in Google Analytics. Return visitors are super important for many reasons.
Here are some great resources about [...]
Does your website stand out? Why would ANYONE come BACK to your website? Does your website have anything worthy of coming back to? These are all questions you should ask yourself when looking at the “Direct Visitors” metric in Google Analytics. Return visitors are super important for many reasons.
Here are some great resources about return visitors:
- Website Goodies talks about getting your visitors to return back to your website
- A Promotion Guide talks about increasing traffic with return visitors
- Search Engine Channel talks about how return visitors gives you prominence in search engines
- Lastly, here are 10 Proven methods to attract and measure return website visitors
Top Internet Marketing Blogs
Winning The Web has compiled a list of the top Internet Marketing blogs. Site categories include affiliate marketing, blogging, copywriting, Internet marketing, link building, make money online, SEO / SEM, and social media. Their data includes the following (all sortable):
RSS Subscribers
Alexa Ranking
Technorati Rankings
Google Pagerank
YAHOO Inbound Links
Stumbleupon Reviews
del.icio.us Saves
Outbound links
Votes
Surprisingly, I didn’t see the number of [...]
Winning The Web has compiled a list of the top Internet Marketing blogs. Site categories include affiliate marketing, blogging, copywriting, Internet marketing, link building, make money online, SEO / SEM, and social media. Their data includes the following (all sortable):
- RSS Subscribers
- Alexa Ranking
- Technorati Rankings
- Google Pagerank
- YAHOO Inbound Links
- Stumbleupon Reviews
- del.icio.us Saves
- Outbound links
- Votes
Surprisingly, I didn’t see the number of outbound links from Google.
Here is a sample of the output:
Top Internet Marketing Blogs. Click for full size.
View Winning The Web’s IM Top Blogs.
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Funny Adwords Ad
I was surfing the web and found an interesting Adwords ad.
You’ll notice that that this person has included an SMS number in the URL field. I tried clicking the ad but no cigar, I get a 404 page. Of course, this persons’ ad was taken down by the end of the day.
For those interested, you [...]
I was surfing the web and found an interesting Adwords ad.
Adwords Ad on Google Philippines
You’ll notice that that this person has included an SMS number in the URL field. I tried clicking the ad but no cigar, I get a 404 page. Of course, this persons’ ad was taken down by the end of the day.
For those interested, you are in fact allowed to include a telephone number in the ad text. It works well for SOME people so it’s definitely worth split testing.
SEO Round Table talks about this in more detail.
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- How to make an Adsense text link ad with clout
- Split Testing Adwords ads - The easy way
- Few Factors are used — by Google to determine which ads to serve ads
- The Google Adsense, Boost Your Payout 250%.
- Google Adsense - How to Improve Your Google Adsense Earnings
- How to Improve Your chances of Making Money Online through Google
- Google AdSense and type of alternativ
Overthrow Wikipedia Results
As most of you may have noticed, WIKIPEDIA is ranked on the first page for almost every term. In most cases, they provide a fairly thorough explanation about a topic. In other cases, it provides a terrible user experience. For example, if someone is search for “accounting sofware,” it is very likely that they are [...]
As most of you may have noticed, WIKIPEDIA is ranked on the first page for almost every term. In most cases, they provide a fairly thorough explanation about a topic. In other cases, it provides a terrible user experience. For example, if someone is search for “accounting sofware,” it is very likely that they are actually looking for accounting software and not a 10 page description about it. Well Blue Hat SEO has created an excellent blog post about overthrowing WIKIPEDIA results
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Improve Your SEO Rankings With These Basic Tips
TopRankBlog goes back to the basics and discusses three basic tips to achieve high SEO rankings. They are as follows:
Research keywords
Apply researched keywords to your website in page titles, meta description, paragraphs, headers and links.
Find sites related to your topic and let them know about your site. Don’t do this artificially. Create content worth talking [...]
TopRankBlog goes back to the basics and discusses three basic tips to achieve high SEO rankings. They are as follows:
- Research keywords
- Apply researched keywords to your website in page titles, meta description, paragraphs, headers and links.
- Find sites related to your topic and let them know about your site. Don’t do this artificially. Create content worth talking about and YOU WILL GET LINKS naturally.
It’s definitely easier said than done. For more information, read the entire TopRankBlog article.
MSN Adcenter Changes
MSN Adcenter has finally introduced some long-awaited features. As most of you know, the interface was previously VERY slow. I logged in and noticed that the interface was a little faster. They’ve also added faster editorial reviews (probably automated most of it).
Here’s what’s new in adCenter.
Pause and resume your ads and keywords. You can now [...]
MSN Adcenter has finally introduced some long-awaited features. As most of you know, the interface was previously VERY slow. I logged in and noticed that the interface was a little faster. They’ve also added faster editorial reviews (probably automated most of it).
Here’s what’s new in adCenter.
- Pause and resume your ads and keywords. You can now pause and resume the delivery of individual ads and keywords, in addition to ad groups and campaigns.
- Faster editorial reviews. We can now review your ads and keywords more quickly, and your approved ads and keywords can go live faster than before.
- Better help with disapproved ads and keywords. Get easier-to-find information about the reasons for the disapproval and how to update the ads and keywords for resubmission.
- Faster adCenter page load times. Save time while managing your campaigns in adCenter, thanks to system enhancements that make page load times faster than before.
- More options to target your customers by location. In selected countries or regions, you can now target your ads to people in more specific locations. Target customers by country, state, province, metro area, or city.
Visit Adcenters blog to view the official news release.
