Posted March 16th, 2010 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
Hirosito is an interesting word. Why am I blogging about Hirosito?
Tonight I was searching for niche keywords. I'm a big fan of the tv sitcom heroes, so I put heroes into my webceo, under the 'get suggestions' tab. What I'm looking for are good niches with a high KEI.
Heroes yeilded Nada. After heroes, I tried the word "hero". Still
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Is icecream fattening? Is the iphone a hot ticket item? Does the sun set in the west?
If you answer no to any of these questions then, you're obviously from another world, and social media does not even apply to you.
On the other hand if you're from Earth, and call yourself human then social media or new media is
This is the simplest tip I'll ever write about - it's also the hardest.
How can you guarantee more traffic?
WRITE MORE POSTS!
Did I say it loud enough for you? Fact: There are a million different things you can do to try and optimize your blog, but if you don't have the traffic it doesn't matter. Each blog post I write will bring in at least
Posted April 29th, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
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A landing page can serve many purposes. It is often used in Affiliate marketing and PayPerClick campaigns when trying to get visitors to go to your affiliate campaigns.
It can also be used for Split testing different marketing campaigns for an ebook, or online product.
For instance you can create a special link for
Posted April 21st, 2009 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
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Link building is an essential necessity for all bloggers, unless you don't want to be indexed by google and drive a ton of traffic to your blog, then by all means - skip right past this blog post.
Here is a definitive - simple list of things you can do to get incoming links.
Give away Freebies
Contribute to
This is my input on day two of Problogger's 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge. Day 2 Darren wrote about the benefits of writing list posts.
I have often stated how lists are a great format for pulling content together in a neat, and precise method that will grab the attention of your visitors.
Darren of course being the master
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To Follow or to UnFollow - That is the Question!
Right now Twitter is the most hyped social network on the planet. More people are joining Twitter everyday than any other website.
There's no way to discount that kind of momentum.
Now maybe you've been with Twitter for awhile, or just starting out - but you will
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Does Google PR even matter anymore?
Nobody knows when or how it's decided, save a few select programmers at google. Does it even matter anymore?
I have 0 PR after having my blog up for nearly 2 years. I have many incoming links, I have a google index of 3,180, an alexa rank of 250,000 give or take, daily
I wrote the first part of this series about a month ago, and it's taken me awhile to get back on topic. November has been a busy month for some of my other business ventures.
The rest of the series can be found here:
Set Goals or Die! Part 1: Posting Frequency Goals...
Set Goals or Die! Part 2: Traffic Building Goals..
Set Goals or Die!
Posted November 20th, 2008 by Patrick Curl in category
SEO, SEM, SMM
I'm gonna keep this post short and sweet.
I was thinking about ways to build my list larger, so far it's growing pretty good. Offering a freebie download is always a good start. I'm toying with the idea of writing one free elite PDF e-book weekly, and make it only available to newsletter members.
I believe this technique would work great