Internet Marketing Toolbox

Internet Marketer Rob Toth had a drama with PayPal recently, when they shut him down after using (what they called) some “misleading” wording on one of his sales pages. Basically, they thought he made some income claims which were a bit misleading.

Now I’d seen the page, and the product (Buy Now Wizard), and actually wanted to buy it myself when I had a spare $67. But then he pulled the page to get PayPal off …

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Just a few days ago (April 15) Alexa made an announcement that their “new” ranking system was now available.

If you don’t already know, for years Alexa has had a toolbar that users can download onto their web browser. As these users surfed the web, the toolbar sent data back to Alexa to help determine the “popularity” of web sites across the globe.

The big problem with the Alexa measure of popularity is that it …

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My Christmas present to myself was a Squidoo lens (or two). What on earth is that? Well… it’s a free page which focuses on the keyword of your choice, and allows you to build backlinks to your sites and generate some extra targeted traffic! Check out my first impressions on Squidooing and decide whether you should have a go at it!

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Yeah… I know what you’re thinking… they’re gonna be auto-generated “visits” by bots or something like that… not real people coming to my site! Well guess what! You’d be wrong on that score! I WAS one of the visitors!

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BlogRush is the name of a new free service just launched by John Reese (of income.com fame). The BlogRush widget will help any blogger generate more targeted traffic and readers for their blog without spending a cent!

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There’s one huge question from usability expert Jakob Nielsen if you are using a blogging platform (like WordPress) to publish your web site… Is the material you are posting adding to information pollution, or are you building sustainable value?

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How many times have you purchased something from eBay lately, and what was it that you bought? Do you think eBay is a place where you can only pick up cheap second hand items? Maybe it’s time you looked more closely at the world’s largest on-line marketplace and see what it can do for you!

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Jack’s climbed right up on his soapbox with this rant and rave… and rightly so! Find out what got well and truly up Jack Humphrey’s nose a few days ago!

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If 80%+ of traffic arrives at your site from major search engines, then a sound approach to increasing traffic is to keep building new and relevant content on your web site.

Add extra pages. Update the old ones. Create a blog. Add your own RSS feeds. Use other people’s feeds. Add lots of content that offers even more value to your visitors!

Give your visitors what they want, and you will be rewarded (eventually).

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Without it, you’re knackered!

But what’s “good” traffic?

What can you expect when you get a new web site underway?
What amount of traffic is going to generate “results” that you can be happy with?
How long will it take to get to that level?
And how do ya get it?

And it is NOT the TOTAL number of visitors you get that determines your success! It’s the QUALITY of that visitor (targeted and interested) that counts, along with how successful …

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