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• This is a great tip: Google Translate Gets New Look and Features: One of my fa.. http://bit.ly/3j8BCu
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• Reading Joe Vitale's Hypnotic Writing… Still as good today as it was back in 2004. Wow! Wonder years. I started marketing in 2003. You? #
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• This is a great tip: Google Displays Site Hierarchies in Search Results: If yo.. http://bit.ly/119jLz
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• Blog Post: Does Google Sidewiki Mean Trouble? http://aweber.com/b/dpzc #
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• Chek this out: Behavioral Targeting: Creating A Unique Experience For Each Visitor http://bit.ly/crefq #
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• Chek this out: A Look into Reverse Image Search Tools: I've been already looking at various advan.. http://bit.ly/388vS4 #
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• Chek this out: NAR Changes Its Mind: Google Is Not A Scraper Site http://bit.ly/1OlnGM #
• Ryan Deiss Hates Autoresponders http://aweber.com/b/1UZcM #
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• Chek this out: What’s Your Favorite Bookmarking Tool?: I've always believed that the way we organ.. http://bit.ly/1zmYo3 #
• Chek this out: Google Writes On Mobile Site SEO Concerns & Techniques http://bit.ly/2OfMa6 #
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• Chek this out: Google Removes Offensive Obama Image; Was It Justified? http://bit.ly/1oDWTC #
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• Chek this out: Links for 2009-11-19 [del.icio.us]:
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• This is a great tip: Three Pages from the Same Domain in Google SERPs?: Andy B.. http://bit.ly/1Haw1n
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• Chek this out: Q&A With Avinash Kaushik, Google Analytics Evangelist & Guru http://bit.ly/4VMLDl #
• Chek this out: Reflections On Chrome OS From A Consumer Perspective http://bit.ly/8tucnO #
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Did you realize that your Twitter profile page (the one with all of your own tweets on: http://Twitter.com/username) has page rank? If it doesn’t, you’re not tweeting that often. If it does, and it’s a good PR, you may or may not realize that putting links on that page pass page rank to the sites on it, right?

Yep. I just checked mine out because I heard that Google just did another page rank update (Google Surprise PageRank Update by Navneet Kaushal, SearchNewz.com), and I see that I now have a PR5 on my Twitter page. Hmm… Need to send more links to that page to help my sites.

Check our your Twitter page and see where you stand. If you update Twitter frequently with cool info, you’re probably going to find a good PR punch.

It doesn’t hurt you to show up on other people’s profile pages when they have a high page rank, either. That’s why putting stuff out there that folks enjoy and having it “retweeted” by them really makes a difference.  So, if you’ve been using Twitter only to chit-chat and you’re in business, you’re wasting a valuable SEO tool.

Yes, you should be chatty on Twitter. But, you shouldn’t ONLY be chatty. Plan what you want to write in Twitter that concerns your business everyday. Maybe plan out 10 Tweets. You can go in once an hour and tweet something cool. If you want to set them all up at once, you can use a site called “SocialOOmph.com (was Tweet Later),” which allows you to schedule your tweets throughout the day.

I’m not suggesting that you send out ads all the time, like some losers do. Really, they’re not using Twitter properly, either, and they’re probably pissing a lot of people off and creating bad karma. You totally do not want that. Read the rest of this entry »

As an Internet marketer, you either have to learn to write good copy or you have to hire someone to do it for you.  Tellman and Jodi used to write all the copy for everything we did at Overcome Everything, until Tellman hired Josh Burns. Josh has only been working for the company a little over a year, I think, but he’s learned some wicked cool stuff, and is a natural born copywriter. Even he didn’t know that!

Anyway, here’s a video he made, called simply, “Triggers.” You’ll learn a lot, so sit back, and enjoy watching.

Technorati Tags: internet marketing, copywriting, video

A couple of months ago, Google created a new feature for it’s toolbar called “Sidewiki.” This allows your site users, who may or may not be customers, to create helpful information or insights in connection with individual search results. It also allows people to share these comments on Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, and your Google profile pages.

It’s kind of a cool feature that’s obviously designed to get people participating in a social way with Google’s search function, and also to get people to download and install the Google toolbar. I don’t have it, don’t want it, and rely on other cool Firefox add-ons to give me more information than the toolbar ever did without it clouding my reading pane. But…

What makes it a little scary is that Sidewiki can be a tool that people can use against you, if you’re in business. Imagine your unhappy customers writing their discontent into the wiki, which lasts forever. Imagine furthermore that same unhappy customer creating such a stir that everyone piles on. Makes me think of that Bugs Bunny cartoon refrain, “All pile on the dog pile.”  When someone starts a feeding frenzy, it’s not pretty. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a test.

Seriously. I juts added ScribeFire Blog Editor to Firefox. I’ve been hesitating doing this because I’m right at home with my blog. I use Fast Dial as my homepage, so it’s really easy to get to. One click on my Fast Dial page or one click in my lower toolbar… what’s the diff, eh?

But I’m hearing all kinds of great things about this add-on, and there are times when I’m at a web page and want to blog about it, but think… I’ll get to it later and never do. Maybe this will stop that arrested intent blogging.

Here are some cool features:

• You can preview the post in your blog template or just in the Scribefire template. Kind of cool, but I rarely preview my posts. I hit send very quick and then, am glad that I have MaxBlog Press’s Ping Optimizer installed so that edits don’t matter to the blog directories since they’re only pinged once.
• It shows you the last several posts you have made in the “Entries” tab.
• You can select which category you want the post to fall into.
• It allows you to add TrackBack URLs, which I think is kind of redundant for WordPress, which does that automatically.
• Allows you to add images.
• Has a special button for YouTube video additions
• Will find related articles for you with Zemanta (notice the links at the end of this post leading to other articles), which is kind of cool
• You can make money with in-text links from InLinks.com
• You can bookmark at Propeller, Facebook, Digg, Fark, StumbleUpon, and Newsvine from the “promote” tab.

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Want to know what pisses spiders off? When they come to a website and see the same danged title and description for every page in it. Not every page on your site is identical (if it is, you’re really in trouble because having duplicate content on your own site will make it drop like a stone in the rankings), and each page should have its own unique set of information.

The same goes for blogs. If you’re not adding a unique title and description to every post you make, you’re making a big mistake.

You need to get either All-in-One SEO Pack or HeadSpace 2, either of which allow you to add unique information to every post you make.

HeadSpace 2 makes it really easy. All you have to do is click “Page Title” under the post blank, and your post title will be carried down automatically. It doesn’t work very well with descriptions, so you’ll have to fill in the blank there, but it gives you a good chance to use some keywords for your page, as well.

Remember, the title and description of your page are what show up in the SERPs (search engine results pages), too. So, if you want people to see crappy information about your post, be sure to leave that information out. Read the rest of this entry »

Linking isn’t dead, though some think it’s not as important as it once was. Not true! Search engines consider that links pointing back to your website from other sites are “votes” for your site. They’re links from new content you’re putting out on the Web, they’re links coming from quality directories, and they’re links coming from people just thinking, “Hey, cool blog,” and linking back to you naturally.

Of all the types of links coming back to your site, the last kind is what search engines love best.

The links that aren’t as effective as they once were (though they probably still carry some weight) are reciprocal links, as in “I link to you, you link to me.” Just a couple of short years ago, this was great to do and webmasters were busy sending letters to sites in their niche trying to get all the reciprocal backlinks they could.

So, that’s no longer an option. If you want great search rankings, it’s OK to do some of this, but getting that natural “Oh, WOW!” link is the best.

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I try to read a lot about this business from copywriting to SEO to whatever I can get my hands on. If you’re not doing that, you really should be, and I can steer you to one publication that I look for in my mailbox each and every month: Website Magazine.

The tone is serious business, and I wouldn’t say that it’s a magazine for newbies. If you aren’t really attuned to Internet marketing just yet, it probably won’t help you… yet. But it will. If you’re a seasoned pro, have your own website, and are up on the “what’s happening nows,” then you can get this four-color glossy print magazine for FREE. Yep. All you have to do is subscribe. And I can tell you, that I’ve learned many things from reading the magazine over the past couple of years.

The November 2009 issue has an article by Bryan Eisenberg entitled “Tips to Better Google Analytics,” and it brought up something really cool that I’d like to share with you.

Analytics can be daunting when you first start working with it. It’s been part of my daily routine for the past few years, and I’m pretty familiar with it, but I remember how confusing it was to me when I first started. I used it exclusively for tracking my SEO progress with Overcome Everything and I remember Tellman telling me to find a course on Google Analytics so that I could become an Analytics ninja. At the time, there just wasn’t one to be had. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh, you’ve seen the sites. “Just $49 and we’ll submit your site to a gazillion search engines! It’s great for SEO! It’s amazing! Give us your money!”

PFFFTTT!!!

This is just one of those bullshit services that newbies fall for.

Here’s the deal… DO NOT pay anyone for search engine listings. The robots will find you, even if you have no keywords in your title, even if you have a crappy description, even if you’ve only been online for a week. Robots will find your page and decide whether to rank it or whether to come back at all.

Want to see if the search bots have seen your page and when?

Just type your domain into the search engine and see what comes up. At Google, if you click in the “Cached” link under the description for your site, you can see your page and the date and time that Google last visited. If it was the current day or yesterday, cool! You’re updating often. If it was a month ago, you have problems, brothers and sisters. You need to add some fresh stuff to your site or you’ll never rank in the SERPs (search engine results pages) at all.

Bing also has a “Cached Page” link that you can check out, but they’re still slower than Google. Google had my page from yesterday, while Bing hadn’t been there since 11/5. You know how often I post, so…

Yahoo also has a “Cached” link, but it wasn’t working, so… I can’t comment on its frequency by using this technique.

But there is a foolproof way: You can also go into your hosting account’s c-Panel dashboard to check this out. Most have a feature called “AWStats,” which tells you quite a lot of information, including which search bots visited and how many times they came during the month and even how many times they successfully accessed your “robots.txt” file. Read the rest of this entry »