I'll Be Gone From WA for 4 Months

That's the whole post. I'll be gone for 4 months. You behave while I'm gone.Dusan

Ethics - When It Comes To Former Clients

Once upon a time, I got a guy's site to be #3 for one keyword, 5-11 for several others, he was making sales, we were moving up and he'd had made tons of sales. But the process was slow, according to him. So, without saying anything to me, he want and bought a few thousand backlinks (using a date as anchor text!). Then Penguin came along, and his site moved to page 6 (or worse).I suggested he get the guy who sold him the backlinks to remove them, then pay me to bring him back up.He though

Warning! Exact Match Domains Going The Dinosaur Way

Don't know if you people keep up with Matt Cutts, Google's SEO mouth piece, but a few days ago he spoke ominous words:"Minor weather report: small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality "exact-match" domains in search results. " (https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/251784203597910016).Well, ominous if you do exact match domains the wrong way. That is to say, if you're ranking only because you have an exact match domain. Presumably, if you have a good site (has good co

"I Have Had It!"

Or so it seems, based on my behavior.Today, I Googled something. Google returned atrocious results (9 pages from the same site on page 1; good site, it turns out, but I'm looking at what my alternatives are, I haven't decided that site is where it's at!). So I Googled Bing, then Binged my keyword. Bing returned 9 sites on the 1st page (2 pages from the same site Google gave me 9, in the 1st and 3rd positions)I was happy with Binging but not with Googling. The 3rd time this week.

When you think it can't be done, Christopher does it

"Attention Marketers Suffering From Article Writing Phobia"If there was a way to produce articles that was easy, would you be interested?Well, Christopher Knight, owner of ezinearticles.com has figured (and he should know) thatlots of people are not good at writing. So, he's put together article templates. Ten of them. You cansee them here: http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2012/09/top-10-article-templates.html?goback=.gde_4446288_member_168326408.He shows you how to put together the followin

Here's a Tool to Help You Stay on Top of Time

Stay on top of time. Man, that has a nice ring to it; I just ache all over because I can't literally make it be so.Anyway, To be successful, you need to know where your time is going to go, where it went. Do you keep a close watch on time? Do you have a schedule, like in school? From 9-10 geometry, I mean article writing. From 10-11 research keywords. And so on. And if you do, do you stick to it? Do you have a little timer that goes off when you're due to move to the next step.If

25% More Buyers from Changing a Couple of Words

The following is a paragraph from an article that's got to do with politics. The part that I'm interested in here is marketing (especially article marketing and writing sales letters):[quote] In a 2003 field experiment, they sent subjects an appeal to contribute to Habitat for Humanity to help build a house for a needy family. Two letters were sent, and they differed by just three words. One said the needy family “has been selected” from an enclosed list. The other said the f

I Found Myself Not Approving Because of Facebook

This week, I've got a bunch of awesome comments on one of my mortgage sites. One was 300 words, on topic... and, I'm ashamed to say, better than anything I've put on that site. They all are for backlinks to facebook profiles. They all had one word consistently misspelled.... credit was creidit... Are they going for a misspelled keyword?I don't know what's in those profiles, so I removed the link. Kept the comments, feel bad about it... there was serious thinking that wen

Pinterest: Study Says 50%+ Businesses Don't Care

Here's the link to the study: http://creativegroup.mediaroom.com/pinterest-for-business. How about you? How many of you use pintetrest and what's your experience with it?

Your Analytics Holds The Key

Ever looked at your analytics closely? Today, I looked at one of my sites... Finding #1: 37% of the visitors came on a mobile device. Finding #2: Average time spent on site, overall was 1 minute and 17 seconds.Finding #3: Average time spent on site if they used a mobile device: 0 minutes and 0 seconds (Some probably stayed longer, but I don't have it set up to track unless they visit another page... don't really see the need, this being an adsense site, formerly a testing site).Finding #