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Check out the new widget at the bottom of the right sdebar. Google Friend Connect (GFC) is a great way of running a small community from your site or blog.
Which, in turn, is a great way of developing a following and some extra traffic – particularly for static sites.
I’m still pretty new to GFC, so [...]
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I saw this question in a Twitter Group on What’s This Web Thing today: How do you use Twitter in your business?
I’m now using Twitter regularly and it’s bringing me new traffic and building up my list of followers very nicely.
So what turned me onto it?
A while ago I read this post from Michael Stelzner [...]
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A while ago I wrote a review about What’s This Web Thing – an excellent source of information and resources for anyone who’s working online. You can find the review here.
In that review I closed off by saying that they were planning a forum, but it wasn’t yet live at the time of writing.
Well now [...]
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I saw a question about keyword research recently where the questioner wanted to know how to find a more targetted keyword on which to base his domain name and articles.
Here’s the response I offered:
Assuming you know what subject you want your blog to cover (weight loss in this example) you should find some high value [...]
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I’ve seen a couple of questions recently about how to combine Aweber and PayPal. The person asking the question wanted to be able to get their buyers to also subscribe to their list, so they could follow up with them effectively.
This is one of the best ways to build a sustainable online business and, since [...]
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I saw this question today in one of the forums: how to market a new business without spending thousands.
If it’s just money you’re talking about then there are quite a few ways, but none of them are truly free. You will always have to invest time and effort.
I’m going to restrict this to marketing online. [...]
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I’m a member of BlogCatalog – if you’re a blogger you should be too – and through BC I’ve found some excellent blogs on just about every (and any) subject you can think of.
One that I found this week is ‘What’s This Web Thing’.
Apart from now having a link to WTWT in my Useful Links [...]
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I saw an interesting comment in one of the forums this week:
“… I’m not really worried about any SEO benefits because I’ll drive traffic with PPC and articles…”
This got me thinking about how easy it is to become too focused on one particular system or channel.
But to do that is like fighting with one hand [...]
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I saw a question in one of the forums this week that asked whether a blog could be used to set up landing pages containing product reviews for a wide range of products.
The review pages (blog) would be promoted through Pay Per Click or article marketing campaigns, and direct visitors on to the actual sales [...]
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One of the ways to improve the conversion rate of a landing page is to improve the amount of trust you establish with your visitors. And, as always, you have about 5 seconds in which to do it.
So how can you develop trust? Here are 6 ways:
1) Place a picture of yourself on your page. [...]
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Today I’m going to look at Traffic Exchanges, another way to promote your site for free.
Traffic exchanges are basically membership sites where members are taken to each other’s web pages.
The basic membership of most traffic exchanges is free, but you have to commit to viewing a certain number of sites each day in order for [...]
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