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Using New Features In Adsense For Search

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Tweet Here’s a short video I came across that explains some of the new features in Adsense for search. Custom search can be a great way to integrate another method of monetization into your site. It’s also a great way to help visitors find what they’re looking for on your website. Personally, I like the fact that Google is moving a direction that lets publishers (that’s... More...

How To Fight Content Theft

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Tweet Recently I came across yet another spam blog trackback in my moderated blog comments. I’ve tried to ignore these as they’ve continued to increase. But enough is enough and now I’m looking at ways to simplify the abuse reporting process. There are two simple steps you can take to hit a splogger where it hurts. You can report them to their web hosting provider, and... More...

Using Twubble To Find Twitter Friends

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Tweet So, who are you following on Twitter? I mean really following? Do you have a list only of people you know or is it mixed between real personal contacts and complete strangers? My guess is you’re like most people using Twitter and you have a mixed list. Maybe your following Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak. Maybe you’re following me. It’s hard not to have one or two... More...

Is Your Internet Business Mobile Ready?

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Tweet Internet Marketing is an ever changing landscape of technology and customer behaviors. Though it can be challenging to successfully match customer behavior with the use of technology, there are a ton of Internet Marketers who will gladly teach you what you need to know to establish an online business. But what will that business look like tomorrow? In a recent article on MarketingVox... More...

Is BlogRush Better Than StumbleUpon

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Tweet Which is better, BlogRush visitor traffic or StumbleUpon? This is a good question and one that has several possible answers. Let’s look at the traffic types for both visitor sources and then compare them both to get a better understanding. BlogRush was launched over the weekend and I signed up as soon as I heard it was open. Immediately I started seeing visitor traffic to my... More...

Using Meetup.com To Build Website Traffic

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Tweet There are a number of recently popularized social media methods of getting website traffic, but many of these methods involve activities that are very technology focused and don’t leave much room for real social connections or direct personal feedback. If you’re looking for a more personally connected way of generating website traffic, then consider starting a group meeting... More...

How To Determine Keyword Traffic Potential

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Tweet Keyword research is an extremely important part of optimizing blogs and understanding what words or phrases to use in blog posts or articles. Today’s post is a quick hit on combining WordTracker’s Keyword Tool and Google Trends to come up with a reasonable estimation for potential keyword search traffic. Here is a video from the guys over at the Thirty Day Challenge that... More...

Top Ten WordPress Plugins You Must Have Or Else

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Tweet Do you ever wonder why some bloggers seem to enjoy greater success while exerting what seems like less effort than other bloggers who work twice as hard and only seem to get half as much done? Well, in this post I’m going to show you how the successful bloggers cheat the daily clock to get more benefit out of their efforts. No matter what you might think, blogging is hard work.... More...

Google Adwords Tips

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Tweet Here are a few quick hitter tips for getting the most out of your Google Adwords campaign. Google rewards for relevancy. If you have an ad that gets a lot of click throughs, it will begin to rise in the ranks without increasing the cost per click to you. So you can get more value or essentially a lower cost per click if you focus on writing good ads that people are interested in... More...






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