Monthly Archives: November 2010

Hot Topics in Affiliate Marketing

My favorite session today was “Hot Topics in Affiliate Marketing” with Janna Lord moderating with speakers Jerry West from SEORevolution, Elisabeth Archambault an independent affiliate marketer and Rae Hoffman from Outspoken media.
Jerry West
Jerry has been one of my personal coaches and mentors since 2001 so I must admit I may be a little biased when I say that his presentation was the best overall I had attended today <grin>
Jerry opened his presentation by saying something that I would agree with 100%, that affiliate marketing is hard and not as easy as some of those SEO gurus would like you ... Read More

WordPress SEO and Plug-ins

Another session that I attended today at Pubcon that I found very interesting was “Wordpress SEO and Plugins” moderated by Sean Jackson and speakers Greg Banse from 7th Pixel, Carolyn Shelby from CSHEL.com, Scott Hendison from Search Commander Inc and Ben Cook from Network Solutions, here are some of my “take aways”:
Carolyn Shelby – WordPress Tricks, Tips and Tweaks

Today people over rely on plug-ins and theme framework to do the work for them. You must understand at least to understand basic HTML and CSS code.
Excessive blog bling is bad and the biggest mistake webmasters make with WordPress is not keeping ... Read More

Why You Should Consider Starting an Affiliate Program.

This week I am at Pubcon Las Vegas which is one of the largest and oldest Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing conferences in the world. Over the next couple weeks I’ll be publishing some of my “take aways”.
The first breakout that I attended this morning was titled “Why You Should Consider Starting an Affiliate Network”  moderated by Chuck Hamrick and chaired by Jamie Burke of JEBCommerce, Griffin Granberg of ClearVision Media, Adam Riemer of Adam Rimer Marketing LLC and Jamie Birch of JEBCommerce.
Four Questions to Ask Yourself if You’re considering starting an Affiliate Program
1.       Your competition  is doing it
2.       ... Read More

Are You Pinging – Part II

Last night I published an article on why it is important to Ping your new pages and I thought it would be fun to show you the actual results of this important tip.
As I use the Pingler Plugin on this site the moment I hit the “Publish” button in my WordPress admin panel the page was published and Pingler sent a notification (PING) about my new post and a few hours later it began showing up in Google’s SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) for the search term “How to Ping Your Website”
Now 24 hours later that post is ranked #1 ... Read More

Are You Pinging???

During last week’s SEO Training event in Las Vegas we had several questions from our students about what pinging your website was all about and the importance.
Basically when you ping a page on your website or your RSS feed, you are telling the search engines that you have just updated the content on your website/blog and since search engines like new and fresh content, they are more likely to come over to your new post to check it out and hopefully index it into their page(s).
This not only means that you will get more traffic to your website, but that ... Read More