A little over a year ago, when I first started doing Pay Per Click Marketing on a serious level I made sure that I was tracking clicks and conversions. That’s all vital intelligence that allows you to dynamically react to and adjust a campaign, but as I gained experience with PPC advertising I realized there was an important proactive question I should have been asking that I wasn’t.
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When I built my house 4 years ago I wanted to have a surveillance camera installed at the entrance. Not for nefarious reasons, but because I just like technology and felt pressing my face up to a peep hole was so two thousand and late. The company I was forced to use wanted to charge me an exorbitant amount for the camera so instead I had them home run the requisite wiring so I could purchase and install a more affordable solution at a later date.
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I manage a lot of internet properties and one of the things I hate the most is having to ftp stuff. Over the years I had used a variety of tools to transfer files between my home PC and my server (like cuteftp and filezilla) but I always wondered why I couldn’t just use Windows Explorer to accomplish this fairly routine task. When I got Windows 7 a couple years back, I revisited this issue to see if the operating system had an intuitive way to accomplish it, and low and behold it did.
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One of the biggest challenges when building backlinks to your site is understanding the effectiveness of your efforts. Without some measurable means to determine if your strategy is working you could be spending way too much time doing things that don’t work, or worse yet, take your rank in the opposite direction you intended. Tracking your page rank is one way to evaluate your progress, but what if I told you it was possible to predict the future? Would you do things differently?
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My wife’s computer has been circling the drain for some time now and finally took a dirt nap two weeks ago. As a result I was forced to purchase a new computer a bit ahead of our normal schedule. In preparations for the new machine I had to do a lot of backing-up and shifting around of hardware throughout the house. As painful as this was, it was a great opportunity for me to take stock of the applications I currently own that are essential for me to perform my online work.
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Bookmarking Demon is a downloadable tool that automates the whole social bookmarking process for thousands of different sites. It automatically creates accounts, validates verification emails, posts links to your social bookmarking accounts, and fills in captchas (for an additional charge). That’s how it is sold, but does it deliver?
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I was reading Pat’s Smart Passive Income blog today where he posted the hardware he uses in his home office. When you work from home as both he and I do, you take for granted the cross pollination of ideas that occurs when people congregate around the water cooler. I’m an introverted tech geek and happily get my information from sites like engadget and lifehacker, but it is nice to see what other people whom you admire are rocking. Here’s what my core setup looks like.
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Facebook is a magnificent traffic source and in March of 2010 became the most popular site on the internet, surpassing both Google and Yahoo. Facebook attracts 540 million unique visitors each month and receives a whopping 570 billion monthly views! Their reach extends to 35.2% of the Internet population. Despite their massive growth and HUGE potential, their ad platform lacks a fundamental feature – the ability for advertisers to upload ads in bulk.
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There are several components to a successful campaign. Keyword research alone, though important, will not get you to rank high in the search engines. To climb to the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) you need to feed your blog a healthy diet of quality backlinks from a variety of sources. We will look at some here. Let’s go!
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Launch Your Own Affiliate Marketing Campaign with Ebates in Five Minutes or Less
You’ve heard about Affiliate Marketing and learned about people making big money online participating in affiliate programs but don’t know where to begin.
In this exercise we will define what Affiliate Marketing is, get our feet wet by becoming an Ebates affiliate and launch our own campaign in under five minutes.
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