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How to do Keyword Research

August 6, 2009
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Here is a link to a short (less than 5 minutes) video from the HubPages team explaining the basics of how to do keyword research. Although the presenter talks about and uses Hubs as examples, the approach is universally applicable.

Don’t forget to have a look at the page on the main site:  Finding Niche Keywords.

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Refreshing Honesty

August 4, 2009
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I felt I had to post about a really refreshing piece of honesty from one of my hosting providers, DreamHost.
I have a utility that checks every hour that my websites are ‘up’. Today it appeared that my DreamHost sites were down and so I opened a support ticket. By the time I had pressed submit [...]

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Internet Marketing Tools

August 3, 2009

Doing the right things is more important than doing things right. This is an article about trying to save time using internet marketing tools – but actually what you do is save time doing things you shouldn’t be doing in the first place.

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Internet marketing tools are essential if you are going [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Guide Part 2

August 3, 2009

I have just finished a Hub on entitled the Ultimate Affiliate Marketing Guide.
It provides some guidance on finding a niche and best practice principles for landing page design. One of the great things about developing a hub is that you can quite often find some useful resources whilst researching the topic. As I mentioned in [...]

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Affiliate Marketing Guide

August 2, 2009
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Which Affiliate Marketing Guide
If you spend any time researching internet marketing, you will encounter ‘guru’ products. It looks like every man and his dog has written a program, an ebook or some other affiliate marketing guide that ‘guarantees’ to make you millions. As you already know, most of these courses are a complete waste of [...]

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Marketing with Hubs

July 26, 2009
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You may recall my post very recently on First Page of Google Guaranteed. It’s only been a few days since the post but I thought I would check out where it appeared on a search for “first page of Google” (the answer – nowhere – yet!). However I did come across an interesting Hub on [...]

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How to create trackbacks

July 22, 2009

Trackbacks are a great way to build links and bring traffic to your blog, whilst establishing relationships with other bloggers.
What Is a Trackback?
A trackback is simply a method of notifying a blogger that you have published an entry that links to one of their posts. The notification will appear on their website with a [...]

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Focus your Internet Marketing

July 22, 2009

One of the most influential people in marketing is Al Ries. The foundation of Al’s approach is: Focus.
Have a look at this video from the Ries Report:

An analogy that Al Ries has used in the past is comparing the sun, an incredible source of energy, with a laser, a relatively weak but focused beam of [...]

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On Page SEO

July 22, 2009

On Page SEO Tips

Select your primary keyword phrase
Choose one or two secondary phrases that are related to the primary phrase

Header Information
This is the information that the reader doesn’t see but is used by some search engines.

Put the primary phase at the beginning of your keyword metatags
Include the secondary keyword phrases also in the keyword metatag [...]

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First Page of Google Guaranteed

July 20, 2009

Yes this is possible – for any search term.
I explain how on this lens at Squidoo – First Page of Google.
However, if you really want the secret sauce, you will want to return to the first page of Google page on the main website, sign up for the newsletter and find out how to create [...]

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