Five Internet Marketing Rules To Follow

Some misguided marketers think that the “old school” marketing tactics apply to a new, customer-driven business world. The reality is that even if you’re the best, the most convenient or even the cheapest, promoting these virtues on social networks will not get your company the results that you’re seeking. We all know the potential that kindness, honesty, and generosity have online – they’re welcomed and rewarded! So why is it that “conversations” are getting heavy with sales pitching and self...

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Top 10 Internet Marketing Forums

There are several advantages that business stands to gain by creating Web pages or e-commerce system to market their products or services through the Internet. There are millions of other sites similar to yours that promote the same products and services. Therefore, the trick lies in how well you can reposition their website online, to be visible among the leading search engines. As a new startup business, it is important that you join one of the major online marketing forums. In it you’ll be...

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Social Media Marketing Site Research

In a world filled with social media, it's hard to choose which one to focus on to spread the word about a business. Ad-ology surveyed 752 US-small business owners to see which social media sites were the most beneficial for the success of their companies (via eMarketer.com). 9. Foursquare: 4.3% found it very beneficial Everyone else found it:Somewhat beneficial: 9.7%Not very beneficial: 12.8%Do not use it: 73.3% 8. LivingSocial: 6.9% found it very beneficialEveryone else found it:Somewhat...

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Choosing the Right Blogging Platform

So you’ve decided that blogging is for you to make money online. Now, one of the things you need to choose is which blogging platform to use. Selecting the right one will make your blogging days easy. Choose the wrong one, and you could end up never enjoying blogging again. A blogging platform is a program designed to help you in managing your blog. From the first steps of creation, all the way to adding, editing and deleting posts, as well as approving or deleting comments. In addition to these...

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Introducing Twitter Web Analytics

Twitter is a powerful platform for websites to share their content, and drive traffic and engagement. However, people have struggled to accurately measure the amount of traffic Twitter is sending to their websites, in part because web analytics software hasn’t evolved as quickly as online sharing and social signals.    Today we’re announcing Twitter Web Analytics, a tool that helps website owners understand how much traffic they receive from Twitter and the effectiveness of Twitter...

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How to find good ideas and content for your blog

In blogging, content is the lifeline of blogs. It is what makes each blog ticks, come alive or stand out from the rest. So here is currently what I do to find new blog content or ideas for a blog post: Read other blogs in your niche – First of all, find out what kind of competition exists in your niche. Since I write about technology, I’ve searched through blog directories like BlogCatalog or Blogarama, blog communities like MyBlogLog or Technorati, etc to find other blogs that...

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The Importance Of Returning Visitors

More often than I'd like to see, webmasters make the mistake of assuming that the easiest way to increase traffic is to attract as many new visitors as possible.  This belief is partially correct, but a site cannot become truly popular unless it also appeals to these new users so much that they decide to come back again and again. This is very important. There are many simple things that make your website interesting and make your visitors return to your website. 1   High-Quality...

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13 Ways You Can Make Money By Blogging

Heres a list of things you can do to make money using your blog. 1. Ad networksThese are services like AdSense and Chitika but also smaller or more local ones like NuffNang (which operates out of Australia and Asia). They can probably fit in some of the other categories as well, as they use different models to deliver their ads. 2. Cost Per Impression (CMP)This is where you sell space for an ad and get paid based upon how many times it loads. Usually you get paid per 1000 impressions of the ad....

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7 content promotion strategies for healthier website traffic

So how do you go about developing a promotion strategy that makes a difference to your bottom line AND makes a difference to your traffic? This post examines some of the processes that you need to nail to really get your content performing on a global stage. 1) Outreach As it’s name suggests, outreach is the process of ‘reaching out’ to other bloggers, friends and influencers to ask them for their help in promoting your content. If the network of people you reach is large enough, the chances...

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