There are no secrets to internet marketing success. There are no shortcuts. Success in online sales and website promotion requires simply hard work, consistent work and original work. If all you plan on doing is copying what others are publishing on their websites, and then pressing a few buttons everyday, then forget it. Nobody needs another copycat website, another virtual store reselling products that millions of other websites already sell, or another blog that isn’t linked to by anyone and isn’t read by anyone. What then DOES the world need? 1. Another blog full of original, creative writing about topics that millions of people are interested in knowing more about, or interested in commenting on. 2. A blog that is linked-to by hundreds of other POPULAR blogs or authoritative websites that are “about” similar topics to yours, but not containing exactly the same articles or posts. 3. A blog or [Click Title to read more...]

It may be just me and some of my sites, but I’ve noticed some major increases in pay-per-click revenues from different services over the last few days. Clicks that were going for 10 to 15 cents are now going for 80 cents or more on some sites. This is a welcome trend. Let’s hope that it continues, and that it is predictive of better days ahead for the whole economy. Leave a comment below and share with others what’s happening with your own sites’ PPC revenues during the last few days of February.

You may have heard of the infamous and much-dreaded 950 PENALTY. Some call it a BOTTOM OF SEARCH RESULTS PENALTY. What is the Goggle 950 Punishment? This is a penalty, usually only applied to successful websites, that suddenly and without warning pushes all of a site’s pages down below the 950th position for any search result. Think of that! One day after months or even years of promotional work on your site, all of the Google traffic suddenly goes to the bottom of the 1,000 results that Google will display for any search. Wow. When you used to come up #1, #5, #20 or anywhere near the top for any particular search, now each and every search anyone in the world does will show up at the last page of the results. Gosh! What causes this Bottom-of-Results-Pages Google Penalty? Well, of course Google itself doesn’t say… precisely. But they do [Click Title to read more...]

Below we list some of the most important rules to follow in designing your web site pages for the best posible search engine position. Will following these SEO search engine optimization rules guarantee that you’ll get one of the top 10 listings for your most popular keywords? Of course not. Nobody can guarantee that. But it will certainly help. Before we list the SEO rules themselves, here is a short list of things you have to keep in mind in designing your pages. 1. The most important thing to search engines about your site is NOT what you do or say on the pages themselves, but what OTHER SITES say about your pages, and how they make BACK LINKS to your pages. An important feature of a backlink is what the actual linked text says; wheather it includes your main keywords. Another is the actual popularity of the site displaying [Click Title to read more...]