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URL Submission Directory
Internet Marketing Directory: Directories URL submission Directory: This is the best Web directory and Web site directory. You can submit your websites by listing. Website: www.qualityinternetdirectory.com Read More →
The Web Design Process
Source: Sitepoint.com Today’s post is the first in a series of three where we’ll look at how to get started with creating your web design layout. If you’re new to web design, a blank screen or piece of paper can sometimes be a scary thing if you have no idea where to start. So, the idea of these posts is to help you develop a process for creating your designs. So what’s the first step in a... [Read more]
SEOs Ponder
Source: ClickZ If I am ever asked to simplify what it takes to be successful in search engine optimization, I come back to two simple rules…quality, unique and resourceful content, and gaining quality links, pointing to appropriate pages of your website. If I am allowed to go a little deeper in my explanation, I’ll get into proper site architecture, coding, internal linking, and all the other... [Read more]
How Google Will Dominate CPA Affiliate Marketing
Source: ReveNews Affiliates have a lot to worry about these days. Advertisers themselves are busy divying up affiliates’ commissions among themselves. The The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division issued a ruling on the so-called Amazon Tax that wasn’t the most positive for the industry. But there’s another burning issue that the industry should be watching which deserves an update: How... [Read more]
Copywriting For Affiliate Offers
Quality ad copy should support and enhance the graphics that are being used to promote a product. Text and imagery should work synergistically. For example, while at the affiliate network, The Useful, I was tasked with designing and writing the ad copy for a landing page featuring baby products. The domain name was GetMyFreeBabyStuff.com, so the target market was low- to middle-income women. I knew... [Read more]
Google Gives AdSense a New Look
Google has just released a new interface for its AdSense platform and it is being rolled out to all publishers globally. Almost exactly a year ago, Google (Google) started testing its new AdSense interface with a select group of AdSense publishers. The new design is a reflection on both the feedback from that group and requests for features from the existing userbase. Read more about Google AdSense… Read More →
8 Steps to Successful PPC Campaigns
Source: Sitepoint Succeeding in a single PPC campaign is quite an accomplishment, but delivering results time and time again is something else entirely. Being able to consistently produce campaigns that achieve results is the difference between an amateur and a professional search engine marketer. In order to achieve consistent results, you need to follow a systematic process covering the same three... [Read more]
How Merchants are Divying up Your Commissions
Source: ReveNews Let’s take a small scenario. What if I promised you that if you spent 8 hours a day promoting Billy’s Shoes, and I’d pay you a commission for all the shoe sales you sent me? If you did the promoting and I paid the commission in a timely manner, we would theoretically be good partners. Now what if I also owned Billy’s Auctions, Billy’s Games and a dozen other companies –... [Read more]
If I Spend X on SEO
Source: ClickZ Recently, I received an e-mail from a reader who was wondering…”At $2,500 per month budget, is there a rule of thumb for parameters on a dollar return for a retail product site? For example, should the $2,500 generate 10 times that amount on sales? Say, $23,000 to $27,000? Or, 15 times?” Seems like a reasonable question. And, as with many things related to search engine... [Read more]
Learning to Love HTML5
Source: Smashing Magazine It seems that new resources and articles for teaching and promoting HTML5 are popping up almost daily. We’ve been given HTML5 templates in the form of the HTML5 boilerplate and HTML5 Reset (although they both go beyond just HTML5 stuff). We’ve got a plethora of books to choose from that cover HTML5 and its related technologies. We’ve got shivs, galleries, and a physician... [Read more]