Hiding and tracking affiliate links

March 5, 2008 – 6:32 pm
Hey people, I was making affiliate links this morning, checking stats, and though this would be good to share with you! What I am talking about is a lovely site called ClickAudit which I use all the time. I haven't really researched online for other similar sites, as ClickAudit has been great and met all my needs, but if you have any suggestions..... What ClickAudit does, is offer a service where you can shorten (or disguise) your url, just like Tiny Url. So basically instead of letting everyone know your link is an affiliate link, they only see the new streamlined ClickAudit link. Where Click Audit shines brighter than Tiny Url, is that you can login, and keep track of your links, with detailed statistics.

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30 Minute Backlinks

February 14, 2008 – 10:22 am
Just got my email from Michelle MacPhearson about her "30 Minute Backlinks" program that has just been launched! What is "30 Minute Backlinks" I hear you say, well...according to Michelle..... "30 Minute Backlinks is a set of video tutorials thoroughly explaining a previously unpublished method of getting hundreds of one way links to your site. It shows, in step-by-step follow along detail, the 30 minute process of creating software and adding that software to online software directories (some as high as 5, 6 and 7 PR). Those software directories will link back to your site. Everyone is happy - the software directories get additional listings to fill out their archives, and you get valuable backlinks.

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Marketing tricks to increase sales conversions on your website

February 1, 2008 – 6:08 pm
One of the most effective ways to convert a customer is to focus on their emotions. Emotional decisions tend to override logical decision making from time to time. You want to tap into that to increase your sales. Supermarkets do it all the time, and the big companies employ teams of researchers to study human behavior and how to increase sales through ‘mind tricks’.

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Why your website might never be first on google msn or yahoo

January 19, 2008 – 12:25 pm
Some websites really have a tough time getting ranked well on Google / Yahoo / MSN, most of the time its because they are not specific in choosing what keywords they want to be number one for, and then optimizing their site and pages accordingly. Well thats the way I see it anyway. From my experience, I feel each page on a site can and should be optimized for a specific and different target key-phrase, in order to cover a wide range of related key words and phrases. A big mistake that people tend to make is that they concentrate on only optimizing their home page, and also try to cover ever conceivable keyword combination. Unfortunately the website usually then has a problem ranking well for any of the keywords, and doesn't get much search engine traffic.

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Survival of the fittest website

January 10, 2008 – 7:32 am
If you had to take a look at the top website listings in Google, Yahoo and MSN, on average its the 'fittest' that appear at the top. When someone refers to fitness you normally think of gym, regular exercise, health food, well toned bodies, etc. Having a well toned body and being fit normally involves time, energy and a lot of hard work, and the same is with a good ranking website. The problem with a large percentage of people who want a better body, as well as with website owners, is that everyone wants a quick fix. Everyone wants the end result yesterday already, with the least amount of work, at little or no expense, and they want it to last forever! Well thats not likely to happen anytime soon!

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Commenting on blogs to get traffic to your website

January 2, 2008 – 3:59 pm
Getting traffic from other blogs is a great way to get targetted traffic to your site. By visiting blogs that are directly related to your website, your products, or a community of people who would be interested in what you have to say, you can get the right type of visitors to your website. I would suggest joining a blogging community website like MyBlogLog, I wrote an article about it called using mybloglog to get traffic, 'MyBlogLog for networking and blog traffic' which will explain more on that.

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MyBlogLog for networking and blog traffic

December 31, 2007 – 7:36 am
MyBlogLog is a really nice site, and pretty useful when you have a blog. On your profile page you can list the addresses of your profile pages on other social networking websites such as twitter.com and flikr.com, as well as some personal information, birth date, location in the world, etc. Your profile page will also display the avatars of recent viewers of your profile on MyBlogLog , any messages they have sent you, and also list members who are fans of your blog/s. If you have correctly installed your widget to your blog, your profile will also display recent MyBlogLog members who visited your website. By selling yourself effectively in your profile, members may be inspired to visit your blog, become a fan, leave a message, add you as a contact, or join your community, depending of course on what they read about you in your profile.

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Harness the power of Google Alerts for web marketing

December 22, 2007 – 9:03 am
Google alerts is a great service from Google that can be used in a variety of ways to promote your own website. What actually happens with google alerts, is that you input a key phrase that you are interested in, every time google finds new web pages relating to that phrase, you get an email, with the address of the websites. Simply put, Its an email alert that google has found another page related to your key phrase that you chose in the google alerts control panel.

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What the hell is twitter all about?

December 19, 2007 – 11:59 pm
The twitter.com micro-blogging website has taken off in a big way over the last year. At first glance the potential and sheer power of this gem of a website website is deceptively well hidden in its simplistic interface. The twitter website asks the following question to the visitor "what are you doing", and allows for you to type a response into a 140 character limited text field.

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Dont submit your site to thousands of search engines

December 8, 2007 – 11:55 am
Most of our clients are SMME, we deal directly with the owners of the company, and get to know them on a personal level. Unfortunately, every time I talk to clients about website maketing, they all ask about getting listed on so called 'thousands' of search engines. It seems that almost all of them have at some point in time received some spam email promising their site on thousands of search engines within 24 hours or a similar type offer. Worse still are the ones who have been 'educated' by friends and / or family, who think they know what they are talking about. Most of these guys have all been brainwashed by people and companies wanting to make a quick buck.

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My Social footprint on the web

December 6, 2007 – 9:56 am
I have used and am still using various different social networking type websites. Its difficult to keep track of all of them, especially as I get bored quite easily. Below I have compiled a list of all my profile pages on the different websites I am a member of. The scary thing is how long the list has become, while I know I have forgotten some links. I keep finding myself editing this posting and adding another link or two that I have suddenly remembered. Check out the list, and if you feel like it, add me as a contact.

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Ultimate do-follow social bookmarking website list

December 4, 2007 – 7:07 pm
Social bookmarking is a great way to get backlinks to your website, and to share it with the world. Here is a list of great websites that I use regularly to bookmark websites. This list is from a secret group on Facebook called Social Ninja, where the aim is for everyone in the group to bookmark each others websites, every time a member has a new link. Let me know if you would like to be invited to participate in the group.

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Using competive websites to get a better search engine ranking

November 27, 2007 – 12:13 pm
Lets face it, sometimes as much as you do to promote and market your website online, there are STILL websites ranking better than yours! You might ask yourself how could this be, after all the time and energy you have put into website promotion? Well the chances are that as much as what you do online to promote your website, so your competitors are doing the same, if not more than you, especially if they have bigger budgets, more manpower or if they are just plain smarter than you. Why not then stop looking so hard at your own website, and look harder at your competitors. I will assume that you have similar information, services or products on your sites, and that everyones sites are properly 'optimized'. Step 1 - Check the code What I like to do first of all, is look at the source of my main competitors website, so that ...

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Google, more than just search

November 22, 2007 – 11:03 pm
By now you should have a google account, if you dont, for pete's sake, GET ONE NOW! Google is so much more than a search engine, and you can use many of the different facets of Google to make your site better. Instead of just using google to get traffic, why not participate in the Google phenomenon at the same time, take advantage of all the tools Google offers. Once you have a google account, you can access many of their other programs using your same user name and password quickly and easily. Here is a brief overview of some of the google technologies you can take advantage of when you have a google account. For most people, their introduction to getting a google account comes when they sign up for Gmail. Gmail email accounts Get yourself a gmail email account, I would rate it as the best web based email service ...

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What does Google want from a website

November 10, 2007 – 11:18 am
 To cut a long story short, google wants killer content. There is no magic way to instantly get to number 1 on Google's regular results overnight, using a highly competitive or popular key phrase for any length of time. Let me explain why I think this, I may be wrong, but this is how I understand it, and I am open to correction. Google, Yahoo, MSN and other good Search Engines all have a top secret formula that they use to calculate the results for search topics. That formula is constantly being improved upon, changing results from time to time, and differs from engine to engine, as they all try to be better than the other. All these big search engines have one thing in common, they want to deliver RELEVANT RESULTS to your search term. The all compete against each other to deliver the most relevant results, so sometimes you get ...

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