Nov 152012
 

Kim Roach is one of the few people I pay attention to in this crazy IM world.

I guess it’s the non-hype, straight-to-the-point ideas and recommendations that makes it worthwhile to follow her.

Now Kim has released her Marketing Lab membership site.

If you have a product or service that you want to get traffic to then I’m convinced you’ll find plenty of smart ways to get that through Kim’s site. Kim have had a knack for digging up new traffic sources or crystalizing ways to get more or better quality traffic from already known sources.

Drop by her site and take a look at the video she has prepared about what you’ll find inside the Marketing Lab.

Jun 112012
 

I’ve just finished reading a long case study report on Panda and Penguin and what seems to be the way out of it (if your sites were already affected) or a way to stay clear of the ranking penalties going forward.

The two most important lessons you can get from this report is to get social and diversify your backlink anchor texts.

But rather than try to condense Dori’s entire post I suggest you head over to her site and start reading – plus there’s a ton of graphs that I have no intention (or skills) to try and reproduce ;-)

Jun 072012
 

I just signed up for the paid version of the SocialADR social bookmarking site/service [affiliate link].

I have been looking for a social bookmarking tool for some time, but those I’ve looked at have all involved a huge amount of manual work or went the way of a black hat tool with automated email account creation, service signups and URL submission.

I don’t have a massive amount of time to spend on bookmarking, and black hat tools/services have a tendency to work very well for some time until someone goes overboard and exposes the service (at which point Google starts looking into how to tweak the search algorithms to decrease the impact this tool or strategy has on the SERPS)

SocialADR seems to be an automated social beast where you earn credits for sharing other people’s bookmarks – and the credits earned can then be used as “pasyment” or currency when other people share your bookmarks to their own social bookmarking accounts.

I opted to go the paid route right from the beginning – if it fails miserably then I’ve only lost $40, but they also offer a free service.

Personally I’d rather be researching keywords, setting up new sites and creating new content than micro-managing bookmark submission and bookmark sharing – I find it to be a better use of my time.

It’s literaly just minutes since I signed up, so obviously I have no results or impressions to share yet, so you’ll have to wait for a review of the service.

Jun 062012
 

Flippa – the primary place to make money with domain names –  just added Verified Google Adsense revenue data to their listings.

This is good news for both sellers and buyers.

If you’re a seller then there is proof right there on the Flippa listing for the domain you’re trying to sell – if it’s Adsense monetized.

When you’re buying a domain then the information is right there to look at before you bid for the domain.

Now it would be nice if they followed up on this and added/verified other income sources.

Would be excellent to get revenue details about Amazon, Clickbank, CJ, Linkshare etc. straight from these companies instead of having to trust the seller or spend time getting proof of the income claims.

Jun 052012
 

In less than two hours Lynn Terry and Karon Thackston will be holding a free webinar about 3 common copywriting mistakes – and how to fix them.

The webinar starts at 12:00 noon EASTERN time and you can sign up for it here: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/182830361