Friday, March 12, 2010

How Google Determines and Ranks Your Relevancy

February 3, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

Personally, I think this graph, as reassuring and emboldening as it is, is totally bunk, (couple more commas, thrown in, for good measure).

Image via two sites I highly recommend following religiously if you are even remotely involved in web business or like cilantro: http://www.copyblogger.com/seo-copywriting-matter/ and http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-targeting-on-page-optimization
Here’s why:
1. The wedges, “Anchor text” and “Link [...]

How to Get 50 Retweets in Twitter and Maybe Even Start Trending

January 28, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Business Management

I don’t know about you, but I loved it when Oprah joined Twitter. All manner of 30-40 something moms jumped onboard and ReTweeted just about everything that came their way. It was either because they really liked the messages or because they couldn’t come up with anything at the moment and couldn’t stand the [...]

How To Multiply Your Youtube Traffic OR Hit Google Page One

January 17, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

NEW! How to apply this technique to Wordpress too!
I really don’t ever know how to entitle these web strategies. I mean, one simple strategy can kill so many birds that I get confused as to whether you prefer turkey, chicken, quail, or duck. So let’s just serve all four.
The bottom line is that you want [...]

3 Reasons You Must Use Facebook for Business

January 14, 2010 by admin  
Filed under Business Management

I’m a firm believer in Facebook. The reason is simple. I get about 10000% more clicks and reads and comments and participation from facebook than I do in Twitter. I even wrote a detailed post about Facebook vs Twitter.
Facebook is community. Twitter is ticker-tape.
Here’s why you should use Facebook for business:
1. Facebook generates 57 TIMES [...]

#8 New Customers are UBER Hesitant to Buy from You Unless…

December 12, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

You know the feeling. You’ve shopped at Amazon, Zappos, Ebay, or Godaddy enough to where you don’t have a moment’s hesitation whipping out your credit card. But, when you get to a brand new website that you’ve never dealt with, your money goes from your front pocket to your back pocket faster than a … [...]

How to Get Big-Shots to Follow You On Twitter

December 9, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

So why would you want a big-shot to follow you on Twitter?
Simple. I choose to follow people not based on their bio or their profile background picture or even their neat-o twitter name. People tend to follow everybody that the bigshot follows.
This is how you get them to follow you: http://twitter.com/journik/statuses/6510984765
Then to turn up [...]

Google: How to Jump from Page 2 or 3 to Page 1

December 7, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

Lets say you’ve already done everything in your power to get to page one of Google on a given search term. And you failed. If you got even remotely close, I have a master’s Google ranking trade secret for you.
Google not only weighs the quality of the inbound links to your site to determine [...]

Perfect Example of How Twitter Works

November 28, 2009 by admin  
Filed under Marketing and PR

1. So, I sent some product samples out
2. I asked how it went: http://twitter.com/herbholist/statuses/5845110606
3. @dinregina replied: http://twitter.com/dinregina/statuses/5848415061
4. one of HER followers eaves dropped and asked @dinregina for details: Ugh. She must have deleted her twitter account! UPDATE: SEE CACHED: A.Balm Chatter

5. @dinregina evangelized: http://twitter.com/dinregina/statuses/5861173979
6. Din’s follower publically states that she too will now try [...]