Friday, September 3, 2010

I received my first-ever Google warning letter about two-weeks ago.  I’m posting it and the follow-up conversation. There’s a lot to be learned here.  I consider this required reading. The letter, and how I’ve changed my sites as a result, were discussed in the August 27th webinar.

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This is excerpted from a post on Terry Dean’s Blog – it’s nothing new but even though most people know this they continue to make the same mistake over and over.

You can’t “try” Google Adwords this week, ezine advertising next week, and then joint ventures the week after.

The keyword I use there was “try.”

Currently I have two clients I would consider absolute masters at Adwords. [click to continue…]

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The Downside of Split-Testing?

July 29, 2010

Do you bet on the favorite? Or do you bet on the field? Most of the time the field is going to win that bet. Yet, if you’ve got just one shot you

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Is Affiliate Marketing Dead on Google?

July 27, 2010

Here’s an affiliate having problems with bridge pages. What is a bridge page? Basically, it’s a page in the eyes of Google that stands between the searcher and the searcher getting to what they want.  It’s an unnecessary hoop to jump through, so Google does not like it. In short, it’s a review-style page that [...]

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P.S.

June 16, 2010

I’m swiping this from a post made by Chris Willow: He found, by accident, that adding this line into a post purchase email really helped to start selling higher priced service oriented offers. “P.S Feel free to reply to this email so we can discuss your project in detail.” I’d have to think that the [...]

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Adwords Keyword Wrapping Tool

June 15, 2010

Hi – You may not already have an Adwords Keyword Wrapping Tool – you know, a tool that takes a list of keywords and puts “quotes” and [brackets] around those phrases for you to create exact and phrase match for you. Man, that’s

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The #1 Reason Copywriters Make Great Money$

May 22, 2010

Filed under Bonuses. Let they that have ears… Posted by: Name Removed to Protect the Ignorant I was sitting at home a little bit stressed out because I’m finding life to be somewhat difficulty for me right now in my twenties. As I was sitting down staring at nothing, I asked myself a question. Does [...]

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Google 30th Anniversary Pacman Video Game

May 22, 2010

Just for fun we’ve got the Google Pacman game that everyone is worried about what will happen to it after Google takes their 30th anniversary version of the classic Pacman game down tomorrow. It is not flash based except for the sound so it wasn’t as easy (credit to Underealm) just downloading a flash file. [...]

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Physical Product Fulfillment Woes

May 21, 2010

A while back I made a post about Clickbank’s joke of allowing the selling of physical products through their system (if some of it didn’t make sense – sorry- it was late) Nick Fehlberg was kind enough to take the time to give me a great reply and I thought it deserved to be a [...]

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The Affiliate Cycle of Self-Destruction

April 22, 2010

Has there ever been a shortage of hype, controversy or doom and gloom around affiliate marketing? For at least the past four years I’ve read stories of impending doom coming down upon the heads of affiliates everywhere. And the reality is, the sidelines are

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