Martin Malden

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Here you will find products, services and step-by-step processes that will cut through the jargon and help you to grow a profitable Internet Marketing business.


All in plain, simple English.


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I needed a shopping cart for WordPress but I couldn’t find anything that was easy to implement, didn’t slow down the site and would be easy to teach a client. My client’s requirements were straightforward: an on-line shop that was an integral part of their site, selling a small range of merchandise (rugby shirts, polo [...]

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For those who build websites by hand (rather than on a platform like WordPress or Joomla) one of the hassles is making sure your sites render consistently in different browsers. Internet Explorer is notorious for screwing things up, mostly because in the past they’ve never adhered to the W3C standards. That said, IE8 is better [...]

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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 [...]

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With Google now including site load times in the factors it uses to rank sites for the natural search results, a recent article on the SEOmoz blog giving 7 ways to speed things up caught my attention. Some of them I was already using but one that I wasn’t was Gzip compression, so I dived [...]

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When I first started working online I used the fact that I was a newbie to comfort myself when I wasn’t making any money. And then I saw others coming in, who were newer than me, making their first $100, or getting their first 10 sales, while I still had nothing to show. And panic [...]

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An Interesting SEO Experience

by Martin on 8 June, 2010

in SEO

A while ago I wrote about hitting Google page 1 out of 192,000,000 results for the search term ‘online home business tips’. Having hit that target I confidently waited for my traffic to start kicking up. But it remained pretty much unchanged. Digging a bit further revealed that although there were around 200,000,000 results for [...]

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Someone was asking how to verify a website in Google Webmaster Tools in one of the forums yesterday.This is such a useful tool (I did a video of it here) that I would recommend anyone who’s serious about their website to use it.So here’s a quick video on how to add a site and verify [...]

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Choosing Keywords and META Tags

by Martin on 20 May, 2010

in SEO

Last week I wrote about some key points that came out of a website review I completed recently (see it here) One of the things I delivered as part of that review was a set of META tags for each page on the site, so I figured I’d explain how I went about that. A [...]

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Because of the way they work, blogs are ideally suited for news type sites, where yesterday’s news is old hat and no longer interesting. But if you’re operating an information site, then a blog, while it has many, many advantages, also has a major disadvantage: It’s not long before your older posts are buried deep [...]

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I’ve had two occasions recently to be shocked at what Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) consultants charge versus what they actually deliver. And angry, because (in one case) it was daylight robbery. So here’s a tip if you’re struggling with optimizing your site for the search engines: Get your self a free Google account (if you [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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What do you do if you’re not making any money blogging and you don’t want to go down the cheesy ‘Yellow Highlight Brigade’ Internet Marketing route? If that’s you, you may be a closet Third Triber. And here’s your opportunity to come out. Affiliate Alert..! I’m an affiliate for the Third Tribe, which means that [...]

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How to Not Make Money Blogging…

by Martin on 9 March, 2010

in Blogging

… use an auto-blogging application of some kind. For people new to working online there’s a tremendous attraction in the idea of automated blogging. Everyone wants quick results, with as little effort as possible. It’s human nature. And for people new to working online, the idea of an automated business, earning money on auto-pilot, is [...]

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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 [...]

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OK, here’s the second in my Interesting Interviews series. Today I talked to Eva Vesper, who’s the Editor-in-Chief of WebHostingSearch.com, a site that offers reviews and evaluations of Web Hosting providers. With the plethora of web hosting providers out there, and plenty of horror stories, I can tell you that WebHostingSearch.com is a gold mine [...]

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