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This is a good observation and we know that once a celebrity buzz winds down on social media, it also indicates shifting interest to another celebrity.

I have heard the term "White Papers" for a long time and businesses create it to: 1. Strengthen readers' recognition that this business knows it stuff 2. Increase the knowledge base of readers 3. For SEO purposes 4. For lead generation.

It depends why you are pursing an online degree in the first place. For example, if you need it to get a state or governmental job, then an online degree fits their college criteria. If it is to work in a top financial firm, an online degree may not get …

Google PPC is as effective as long as you understand and optimize your: 1. keywords and how these relate to your landing page 2. display words 3. landing page

Yes, there are other PPC companies but do remember that Google Adsense has the biggest reach of audience and thus, the more eyeballs, the higher chances people will click to the links.

I have tried a few and WordPress is the best.

It depends how often you often the content of your site. The more often you update the site, the more the spider will crawl.

I really have not noticed much change on SEO - at least for White Hat SEO practices - except the backlinking. Just dont post your links anywhere. So have you noticed any other changes? Please do tell. Thanks!

As the owner of a few blogs, I personally dont approve any comments that is blatantly commenting just to have back links. I wonder how many other blog owners have similar policy.

Using adwords and perhaps Facebook advertising can lead more targeted visitors to your site.

Thanks for the tips but I do wonder if the last tip violates Yahoo's TOS.

Robots and spiders crawl your site. The file is there to give these spiders instructions once they visit your site. [url]http://www.seoconsultants.com/robots-text-file/[/url]

I strongly advise to never, ever include your home number and use Google Voice or retain a local call forwarding service.

I had a conversation with a colleague who insists that Google has a free social media monitoring tool. Is it Caffeine or Buzz? I think its Buzz but the person meant that this tool can be used for business use like Radian6 or BuzzLogic. If you know the answer, please …

It also depends on your niche and target group. For example, I have seen that certain ad groups perform very differently on the 3 search engines. Thus, one ad group on yahoo would outperform the other two. I recommend you to experiment on all 3 for a trial time and …

I just read this article about a company named uSocial which specializes in selling Facebook friends and followers. [url]http://mashable.com/2009/09/02/usocial-facebook-friends/[/url] What do you think?

What are your success story in regards in growing your business using YouTube? Did you create a channel? I know it helps increase reach but did it help increase the type of visitors you wanted?

Hi I am trying to set up an online business and would like to associate a toll free number. Does anyone recommend any vendor/s and/or share any experiences/horror stories? thanks!

First of all, remember with SEO - it may be a slow process. Give it time. Second, you need to take care of your blog if you want its SEO prower to grow - thus, you need to create lots of content, comment on other blogs and put your link, …

i have used Adsense on a blog and though I did not make much, I did learn some lessons like: 1. you need to drive relevant traffic to your site who will click! 2. you need to bring constant traffic to your site.

I never heard of clixsense only adsense.

Just remember that to promote your website, you need to do it in a consistent basis. If you need to create reminders on Outlook - do so. You need to make it a weekly priority - either through social media, strengthening your backlinks, and re-optimizing your relevant content and SEO …

To be honest, I have used it last year for a few items and I did not get any good leads and the leads I received, it was the same exact message from various users so it made me suspicious. Thus, I went back to Craigslist. Maybe FB Marketplace works …

For an e-commerce site, it is important to monitor conversion rates and optimizing it. So what other metrics do you assess/monitor on your website to help increase sales? I found this very interesting slides stating this: [url]http://www.slideshare.net/dennis.mortensen/using-web-analytics-insights-to-sell-more[/url] So have you used web analytics to increase your sales?

Remember that using LinkedIn for site promotion requires you to do the following: 1. Insert URL on your personal profile 2. Create a business page with the business URL 3. Create event with the business URL (only if you have an event - if its only online). 4. Join and …

There will always be pros and cons about any services. Period. I personally have never used tr.im and use mostly bit.ly because it allows for traffic referral tracking.

I personally like cnet.com and toptenreviews.com.

Thanks for sharing the lists. But why are you sharing them?

For real? I did not know this - I did not find this information on the site. Can you include a link for reference?

I also created a few social networks which died off due to lack of members and the valuable lesson I learned is that: 1. There are lurkers and contributors. 2. Remember the value of your community is to increase both. 3. Thus, start creating your promotional plan to increase both …

webmetricsguru.com is one that is good for SEO, social media, and analytics.

It all depends on your niche and target group - are they more of a facebook group or a twitter group? Also, will your content be more appropriate for Facebook or twitter. And most of all, once you put it on Twitter - you have to be sure - it …

It depends if you want free or paid tools. Also, it depends what you are tracking - website traffic or blog visitor flow. In regards to free - there is AWstats, Clicky, Yahoo Analytics (I think limited to e-commerce accounts), snoop, and crazyegg. Some of these links also have paid …

First of all, SEO takes time and it requires constant monitoring and tweaking so your content reflects the search behavior and expectation of your expected visitors. Second, you have to make sure site does not violate any White Hat SEO tips. Third, you need to keep the content fresh and …

I have analyzed performance of many sites and I have not noticed any significant effects in typesetting/format.

It all depends on the type of audience you are trying to target. With some o fhte wbesites I manage their analytics, I was surprise to see that aolsearch.com was the second top referrer.

Your goal with Facebook is that Facebook will drive consistent traffic to your site, thus, you need to constantly engage with your friends and Facebook fans by contributing relevant content that has a high share value.

I agree with you points. I also recommend that website promoters should stay away from any Black Hat SEO tips.

It all depends on the quality of the software and if its a trial use only or the real deal.

It supposed to. Something similar happened with one of my campaigns I was monitoring and that is when you may consider temporarily pausing the low performing group on low peak days (day swhich dont have much CTR) and test it this way and see if it impacted the overall performance.

Language only affects if you are seeking traffic from other countries that many not understand the content on your site. Otherwise, if I am an American searching for content and Google tells me its from a romanian site and it appears on the SERPs, I would use translate. So in …

First of all, social media per se have existed since people have communicated. But I do think you mean Social Media 2.0 (or is 3.0 now). The ROI that corporations have seen and the ways how social media 2.0 have brought people together have cemented its presence and influence in …

Remember that creating backlinks is not an overnight process. It takes time. Thus, I do recommend reading this article as a starting point - [url]http://www.squidoo.com/tocreatebacklinkstogetqualifiedtraffic[/url] You need to establish backlinks on sites with higher PR than yours. I hope this helps. L

I agree that creating right keywords to drive targeted traffic to the site is very important in bringing targeted traffic. I do believe that you need to cater content with the intention of the search's needs and expectation.

In order to increase targeted traffic to your site, I recommend you to: ORGANIC 1. Become familiar with Google.com SEO info - [url]http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291[/url] 2. Re-optimize keywords and topics that your targeted audience will use 3. Conduct a competitor intelligence and your competitors sites and determine which keywords are traffic traffic …

I personally recommend you to view the threads that have many responses and these can be topics you can explore since these are threads that many members felt need to share and comment.

So I wonder if all the porns site need to do a redirect to .xxx sites? Also, if non-porn sites will somehow redirect visitors to xxx and do a switch aroo? I personally would not want a .xxx domain to be seen on my web history. hehe

Backlinks are good as long as these backlinks are from sites with good PageRank, have relevant content related to the link and the site, and it is park in a "good neighborhood".

Make sure your site does not have any broken links/pages.

I am in online advertising and I have not heard of PTC either.