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Articles on Internet Marketing
Here’s a series of articles focused on different Internet Marketing techniques.
There are articles on Social Marketing, PPC, affiliate marketing and other tips and techniques on how to market successfully online.
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Renewing an existing subscription should be the simplest possible of online transactions, so it’s amazing how consistently AVG manage to screw this up. I have two PC’s, both currently running AVG Internet Security. I moved to AVG from McAfee because it doesn’t slow down the PC performance as much. But two things where McAfee was [...]
I’ve been lucky enough to pick up a nice new contract, setting up and maintaining websites for a group of 6 restaurant/bars here in Hong Kong. As a result I’ve had a frantic week and I haven’t had time to research and produce my normal second article. So, instead, I’ve spent some time looking back [...]
There’ve been quite a few discussions recently about the use of META tags as part of on-page SEO. Keywords, it seems, are out (at least for Google, and at least for now), but Titles and Descriptions are in. Just to be clear, this is what I mean by Titles and Descriptions: Let me say upfront [...]
I have an interesting problem that I’ve wrestled with for a while: 99% of my search engine traffic on this site comes from Google. While I’m delighted that Google sends me a lot of traffic, there are two problems: I’m missing out on the 40% or so of web search traffic that Yahoo accounts for [...]
Are bumps in the road you send your customers down costing you sales? A while ago I wrote a review of the website I used to book my vacation – see it here. My message was ‘Simple Sites Sell’, and I described the experience: A simple, stable, reliable site that led visitors, step-by-step, through the [...]
I just returned from a week in Boracay (Philippines) which I booked entirely online. And the entire experience was superb – a perfect example of simple but effective web design, and flawlessly executed delivery. If you ever feel the need to visit Boracay (and I do recommend it) then you should take a look at [...]
When you walk into a department store for the first time I’m willing to bet you immediately look for signs telling you where everything is. If you see them you’ll go deeper into the store to find what you’re looking for. If you don’t, you’ll either ask someone or turn round and leave. It’s no [...]
I just spent 3 days workshopping with one of my clients and the eCommerce consulting director of a major eCommerce platform supplier. And it was probably the most valuable 3 days I’ve spent this year. About 2 months ago my client launched an eCommerce site. And to say the results to date have been underwhelming [...]
As an affiliate Marketer I’ve faced two problems in the past, both of which are easily fixed by using 301 permanent redirects. To clarify: a 301 permanent redirect is basically call-forwarding for your web pages or links. Setting a permanent (rather than a temporary) re-direct is better for SEO and also prompts browsers to change [...]
Time for another update on my content marketing experiment. (Here’s the last update). Remember what the experiment’s about: I set up a travel website on 1st February, for the purpose of earning affiliate income through promoting tours to Asia. It’s built with WordPress and configured to look like a static website. The objective is to [...]
There seems to have been some noise recently about balancing Social Media Marketing techniques with traditional Internet Marketing. And just as well. For a while people who were traditional Internet Marketers, writing long sales letters that were full of hype and yellow highlighting, didn’t get blogging, Twitter and the rest. Thought it was all pretty [...]
One of the problems with a blog is that the older an article becomes, the deeper it gets buried in the archives. And that’s a shame because it means that some very good articles are often never seen by newer readers. So I figured I’d do a ‘best of’ series. Once a month or so [...]
A couple of weeks ago I told you about my content marketing experiment and, although it’s extremely early days yet, I thought a quick update would be good. Remember, the experiment was to see whether I could start earning affiliate commissions off a travel site on which I did no paid promotions of any kind, [...]